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I seem to have offended you, that was not my intent. Your suggestion intrigued me enough to respond, and I was giving the first response that came to mind. I was planning to consider it more and post on it again. D'oh! Yes, of course.

Excellent point, I meant the latter. I've got degrees in chemistry and physics myself, and yeah, there are definitely reams of subtlety here I'm leaving out! I mean, we're defining magic here. :)

The former, I haven't really looked at the latter. Accelerated isn't really my thing. Huh, that particular angle hadn't even occurred to me, good suggestion!

For our purposes here, "beyond what can be explained by physical laws in the material universe." (In a more rigorous setting, I would be more careful to distinguish between 'supernatural' and 'preternatural', but for purposes of defining magic this will do.) So, magic is bringing about effects...

New Scene: The other side. [Not gonna roll, I'm giving the story its head for a bit.] Pete staggered, dropping to hands and knees on a rough stone floor, gasping like a bellows as Invictus clattered away from him. Sweat dripped freely from his face, and he shivered so violently it seemed a...

Uh... huh. I can honestly say that's a setting that had never even occurred to me to game in. I'm having trouble imagining adventures other than dealing with aliens from Planet X. Buckaroo is the sort of omnicompetent hero you wouldn't want anywhere near your PCs, that's for sure!

Yes please!! I wouldn't mind doing something similar to the sorcerer either, making them more tightly thematic. Unfortunately, they seem to be going in exactly the opposite direction. I wouldn't mind seeing this just because it would lure in my favorite GM. He likes many things about 5e, but...

Can you give an example of a genuine change you would see as compatible?

Interesting, but it seems to be missing character creation and advancement details - it's not clear how to generate ability scores, nor how how many skill points characters have. Oh yeah! I remember playing one of those books! (It wasn't that great, sorry to say.) I wouldn't say it counts as a...

Quoted for truth! GURPS is way too heavy-handed for my taste. SJ Games is a unique combination of a system I don't much care for and supplements I love to pieces! You can nearly always mine great ideas out of a GURPS supplement, regardless of the system you plan to use it with.

The thread is about settings, not authors. I could say more, but that's also not relevant to the thread. If you wouldn't enjoy the setting, fine.

The magic system did drift a bit with time... The first book did a lot with ley lines, which were pretty much completely dropped thereafter. But yeah, Skeeve's magic pretty much boils down to telekinesis and wards. Some people seem to be able to do mental magics as well.

On the whole, I'm not very satisfied with Dresden Files magic. Though Evocation might be an OK model to start from.

Interesting, I really know nothing about Cortex, but I'll take a look. Fate is my go-to for just about anything these days! But just an aspect feels a bit weak, at any rate for Lords and guys on that scale. I'd probably require a stunt for Ritual stuff, at minimum. The Atomic Robo system based...

Ultima IV in particular seems like a great choice. I love how it incorporates the virtues into the classes! (I'm not really familiar with anything after that.) Unlike many of the settings on this thread, I think D&D is a great choice to adapt Ultima. (I'm not sure how much fun it would be to...

The odds of rolling exactly three 1's is: C(10,3) (1/20)^3 (19/20)^7 = about 1.05%, or about 1 chance in 95.5. The chance of rolling 3 or more 1's is about 1.15%, or about 1 in 86.9. Now for a couple stories of my own! I was playing a solo superhero game and the GM says, "Make a Notice...

Right there with you! I've never studied French, so I mangle it, but at least I know I'm mangling it. :) And I say "meh-lay".

Thinking about this some more, perhaps anyone with powers should base it off of a few (three?) keywords that describe what they're good at, and things are freeformed a bit off of that. Lords would be something like, Defense, Ritual, and Lordsfire. "Ritual" means you describe what you want, the...

Inspired by the What Licensed RPG Do You Wish Existed But Doesn't? thread. I think this setting has tons of potential, in multiple different eras, but adapting it could be a challenge. One headache is that the actual abilities of Lords, Gravelingases, Hirebrands and so on are kind of murky...

What a fascinating idea! All sorts of Talking Beasts, humans, dwarves, centaurs, dryads, and more! (And some of the humans might be from Earth.) I'd have to go with Fate for adapting this one.