[Meta] [RFC] Fenspace 2022, take 2

[Ace Dreamer]

Depends what flavour of magic we are talking about. There are so many it is difficult to "shake a stick" at them all.

Of course, you might try using a meta system, and seeing what you get out of that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Bonewits

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...ributions_to_Neopaganism

If you are interested in "Real World" magic, I strongly recommend you reading a copy of "Real Magic". I'm pretty sure it is the libraries of quite a few of the more mystically inclined Fen...

If you can't get you hands on a copy of "Real Magic", you could try and see what you learn from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authentic_Thaumaturgy

which is the same theories applied to (tabletop) role-playing games.

A potentially interesting question is "what is the cross-over between magic and psionics?". Some consider magic to be a ritualised way to access psionic powers, others that they are at root the same thing. The dividing point tends to be the question of whether "magic objects" can exist; things which are magic in and of their own selves. It is generally considered that there are no "psionic objects", though there may well be things like amplifier crystals.
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