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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 5373157" data-attributes="member: 63">The last campaign I ran followed normal laws of physics, with the difference that there are parallel realities and energy can permeate between this world and those. All energy has to come from somewhere, and magic is the result of people figuring out that how it all works.Fireball is a powerful spell, and so it's complicated, but it works like this. You use thoughts and words to create the local conditions in this world that let energy seep through from another world. You gather the energy you need, and use more thoughts and words to form it into a fiery bead. Then you use yet another element of the incantation to propel the bead where you want it to explode.Bulls**t pseudo-science, but it let me explain why magic worked the way it did, and encouraged the PCs to go find locations where the barrier is weaker, and planar locations they could tap more easily. A very Magic: the Gathering-esque logic to it all.</blockquote>