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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? Ouranid - 02/11/2009 05:15:29 PM 1043 Views
For me at least, it changes with each story, and each telling. unr3stricted - 02/11/2009 07:47:59 PM 724 Views
Well, the Dying Earth genre can do this quite effectively. Ouranid - 03/11/2009 04:08:45 PM 610 Views
Well, sure, magic is by definition unscientific. Ghavrel - 02/11/2009 08:21:38 PM 708 Views
A "good" system can enhance the otherness of the world or characters. Jacob - 02/11/2009 08:34:02 PM 694 Views
Warbreaker felt like it had a lot of untapped potential beetnemesis - 03/11/2009 05:55:23 AM 615 Views
A part of that is planned, and another part is due to a growing author. Jacob - 03/11/2009 03:11:58 PM 786 Views
I think it takes a couple of things to make a good magic system random thoughts - 02/11/2009 09:25:42 PM 605 Views
Concequence is certainly interesting. Ouranid - 03/11/2009 04:02:58 PM 651 Views
Indeed. Jacob - 03/11/2009 04:16:41 PM 656 Views
Sounds interesting. Ouranid - 03/11/2009 04:30:37 PM 609 Views
Have you described this here or at Wotmania before? MightyYT - 04/11/2009 09:25:01 AM 683 Views
I wrote a little about it at wotmania when Danu was having her last big writing contest. Jacob - 04/11/2009 02:34:51 PM 589 Views
Novelty and verisimilitude, for me beetnemesis - 03/11/2009 05:51:22 AM 623 Views
Heh, yes. Ouranid - 03/11/2009 04:05:37 PM 672 Views
I really don't care as long as it is not horribly inconsistent. jh - 03/11/2009 07:47:48 AM 646 Views
The problem with heroes is they are just making it up as the go along random thoughts - 03/11/2009 06:49:25 PM 622 Views
That is not without a whole lot of precident in comics. *NM* Jacob - 03/11/2009 08:04:48 PM 264 Views
It doesn't really make a for an internally consisnt magic system OR plot, though. *NM* Darth_Katie - 03/11/2009 08:14:59 PM 299 Views
yes but comics run for decades *NM* random thoughts - 05/11/2009 09:19:05 PM 267 Views
Although this is technically SciFi... vandevere - 03/11/2009 08:23:27 PM 654 Views
Hmmmm. Camilla - 05/11/2009 04:34:03 PM 631 Views
needless masturbation? As opposed to "purposeful?" *NM* Aeryn - 05/11/2009 06:54:27 PM 307 Views
*insert gender joke here* *NM* Ghavrel - 06/11/2009 01:39:47 AM 259 Views
Yes. I actually believe it can be very purposeful. *NM* Ouranid - 07/11/2009 04:48:27 PM 255 Views
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