Elements of magic

[Stephen Mann]

Bob Schroeck wrote:

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Back in the eighties I worked up the outline of something I called "magian assembly", which was basically a programming language for magic. I'd do it very differently now, but for what it was at the time, I was rather proud of it. Its solution to the fireball problem was to remotely grab piece of solar core material the size of a dust speck and teleport it to the target. Somewhat around the barn for the goal, but I thought it was a cool idea.

Back in the late '90s Robert Reimann posted his "Mage 2 Mage Combat System" that followed a pseudo-programming language syntax. The part that was posted was only the first step in what was to be a complete magic system with biological and magic/psychic effects added to the elemental magic in the first installment. Unfortunately, the elemental version only went to version 0.89 and the other two parts were never posted.