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Although this is technically SciFi... vandevere Send a noteboard - 03/11/2009 08:23:27 PM
I've always thought Julian May's Pliocene exile, and the Metaconcert books had a really great "Magic System" with it's use of Psychokinesis,Psycocreativity, Redaction, and Farsensing and Farspeaking...

If the human brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't understand it.
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What is the purpose of a "good" magic system in fantasy? - 02/11/2009 05:15:29 PM 992 Views
For me at least, it changes with each story, and each telling. - 02/11/2009 07:47:59 PM 661 Views
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Concequence is certainly interesting. - 03/11/2009 04:02:58 PM 605 Views
Indeed. - 03/11/2009 04:16:41 PM 614 Views
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Heh, yes. - 03/11/2009 04:05:37 PM 630 Views
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That is not without a whole lot of precident in comics. *NM* - 03/11/2009 08:04:48 PM 241 Views
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Although this is technically SciFi... - 03/11/2009 08:23:27 PM 615 Views
Hmmmm. - 05/11/2009 04:34:03 PM 570 Views
needless masturbation? As opposed to "purposeful?" *NM* - 05/11/2009 06:54:27 PM 285 Views
*insert gender joke here* *NM* - 06/11/2009 01:39:47 AM 241 Views
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