Questions tagged [magic]
For questions that have to do with magic, as opposed to science/technology. Remember to explain any limits.
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Chemical Coin Flipping as Divination
Let me explain what the odd title means. In the I Ching, a book of ancient Chinese divination, there is a process of using 50 rods to produce what is essentially a binary outcome. The details aren't ...
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How could double damage be explained in-universe? [closed]
I'm creating a tabletop role-playing steampunk fantasy game. Within the game are elemental weapons and spells similar to the ones in Borderlands. One of the elements is Slag. An organism or structure ...
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Leftover fallen world technologies [closed]
My fantasy novels are set in a world that reached WWI era technology in the distant past, but used magic in place of electricity and combustions. For complicated reasons, the magic stopped working, ...
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Can my necromancer have this bridge built with those constraints?
Long story short I got a very powerful necromancer living on an island that is 33 kilometers from the nearest land mass. He wants to create a mega bridge to connect his island to the continent.
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Air magic only used to decrease humidity and improve living conditions?
I'm writing a world with an overall warm and very humid climate (Eocene-adjacent, although it does not have to be 100% realistic). Population is very low compared to Earth. Humans generally live in ...
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How to Communicate Something Secret to Many People in an Urban Fantasy World? [closed]
(Hi, this is my 1st question on here, so feel free to LMK if you need more info to help answer...)
In my story, the world is like ours, with the exception that there are some aliens who telepathically ...
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Practical Combat Pipe
One of my worlds has a magic system in which people smoke an expensive substance called "salt" to temporarily gain increased strength, agility, and durability. Depending on the amount smoked,...
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What type of climate or geography would allow for a large mountain (10000m+) that glows when the sunlight hits the rockface?
The idea behind this is that there is a large mountain in my world that can be seen from the capital city over 500 km away. I took inspiration from Denali in Alaska, and how it can be seen from ...
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How could ear plugs resistant to extremely loud sounds function?
In my story I have a character with the ability to emit powerful electric blasts. These electric blasts as you can imagine emit extremely large amounts of sound, heat, light, and obviously current. I ...
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Looking to shape a magic system based as much as possible in actual science [closed]
I am looking to create a magic system that is grounded in science. My initial thought was the ability to manipulate electrons on the atomic level. Since I do not want the magic users to be walking ...
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designing an elven magic system that blends with a WW1-esque world [closed]
I'm having issues designing a balanced magic system.
let me elaborate.
a handful of nations have allied against a big empire, and the fighting has regressed into trench warfare. Tech level is early ...
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what types for guns and magic would be suited, for a arabian-style steampunk 5e setting? [closed]
I am in the process of doing a homebrew setting for 5e. That is based around a steampunk arabian aesthetic. My setting will include guns alongside magic, though both won't be common nor rare but ...
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Super speed based on magnetism
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In my story there are several types of magic like wind magic, gravity magic, etc. My main character possesses magnetism magic which includes the ability to create strong magnetic fields on ...
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Opposite 'Fire Magic'?
Not 'Ice Magic'. Ice is just frozen water and fire magic goes beyond water. But, for the sake of explaining in this question, let's go with "Ice Magic".
In a world where these two magics are ...
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Advice on designing an inconsistent magic system [closed]
I'm working on a story (see here) where the way magic works is ... difficult, to say the least. Most magic occurs naturally, either through ley lines (naturally occuring lines of magical energy that ...
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