Personaly, I've always had an interest in knowing how and why things work, whether you call it magic, tech, or psi...
Otherwise, [nod], [nod].
(I set out to find out how computers worked from the bottom up... I _mostly_ understand them! And, I had the soldering iron burns to prove it! [grin])
People may have heard of a rule book "Authentic Thaumateurgy", which was an attempt to write up "real world" magic, as it has been described in history, for RPGs. Interesting, but finding your initial casting time was an hour or so, and you only got faster by practice in combat situations...
The book it was based on, "Real Magic", by Philip Bonewits (ISBN 0 7221 1770 1), which tries to take a scientific look at the occult, is pretty interesting to!
Occult literature is something that I found had rather more than Sturgeon's Law "90% of everything is crud!" when I read it, when I was considerably younger. [grin]
"Stoke up the Orgone Accumulator! Fire up the Od Rays! Turn on the Kirlian Cameras! Bring up the Tachistoscope to full speed! We're going for broke!" [grin]
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind
Otherwise, [nod], [nod].
(I set out to find out how computers worked from the bottom up... I _mostly_ understand them! And, I had the soldering iron burns to prove it! [grin])
People may have heard of a rule book "Authentic Thaumateurgy", which was an attempt to write up "real world" magic, as it has been described in history, for RPGs. Interesting, but finding your initial casting time was an hour or so, and you only got faster by practice in combat situations...
The book it was based on, "Real Magic", by Philip Bonewits (ISBN 0 7221 1770 1), which tries to take a scientific look at the occult, is pretty interesting to!
Occult literature is something that I found had rather more than Sturgeon's Law "90% of everything is crud!" when I read it, when I was considerably younger. [grin]
"Stoke up the Orgone Accumulator! Fire up the Od Rays! Turn on the Kirlian Cameras! Bring up the Tachistoscope to full speed! We're going for broke!" [grin]
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind