RE: [OOC] The Metacontinuity and Magic
11-13-2021, 06:38 PM (This post was last modified: 11-13-2021, 06:39 PM by Bob Schroeck.)
11-13-2021, 06:38 PM (This post was last modified: 11-13-2021, 06:39 PM by Bob Schroeck.)
Hm.
Writing this off the top of my head with no planning whatsoever...
Magic is the ability to impose changes on reality through applied willpower. It might serve the story best if, basically, some people are born very good at that -- mages -- and others can bull their way into it despite lacking any inborn talent with sufficient determination or training. But the former will (almost) always have an edge on the latter.
How they impose those changes -- what in Drunkard's Walk I call a school, style or tradition -- would essentially be a "cookbook" of techniques that produce specific desired effects. And things like Harry Potter-style wands would be tools that amplify one's will or aid in focusing one's will power.
Does that sound like a workable start?
Writing this off the top of my head with no planning whatsoever...
Magic is the ability to impose changes on reality through applied willpower. It might serve the story best if, basically, some people are born very good at that -- mages -- and others can bull their way into it despite lacking any inborn talent with sufficient determination or training. But the former will (almost) always have an edge on the latter.
How they impose those changes -- what in Drunkard's Walk I call a school, style or tradition -- would essentially be a "cookbook" of techniques that produce specific desired effects. And things like Harry Potter-style wands would be tools that amplify one's will or aid in focusing one's will power.
Does that sound like a workable start?
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....