>>1862238>no magicWell that's because you don't understand science and technology. Molotovs are basic firewall spells and land mines and grenades are modified explosion spells. Mana may as well be knowledge to create and reagents do not change in definition, only in material. "Casting" is where you lose your delusion because in reality the casting of spells are actions used to invoke chemical or other reactionary responses, not a string of "Words of Power" that channel arcane mysticism to do whatever. (even then the words of power can be compared to the knowledge of how the "spell" is "cast")
>no xp pointsOnly because you don't see them physically written down and instead constantly live them. Remember how you couldn't read or write? And then you went to school, raised your intelligence a bit, and presto-literacy-o, you leveled up and can read and write. Not well, but it's a start. Get to 100 and write that best-seller.
>no monstersGo fight a Lion you manly man. Take on the wolves of the Alaskan frontier. And the moose, too. Travel your homeland, Northern Europe, and fight a bear or something. Fight a mother bear with a cub. There's a monster. Go "Join the Fight" and sign up for the military. PVP has always been more popular than PVE.