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<blockquote data-quote="ValhallaGH" data-source="post: 3152233" data-attributes="member: 41187">Depends upon your interpretation of what magic really is.&nbsp; For some people it's fluff, a way of explaining the unexplainable.&nbsp; For others it is crunch, with rules as complex and absolute as the hardest of physical sciences.In all of my games: Magic is the ability to make the universe cry &quot;uncle&quot; and do things it doesn't want to do.Sometimes this ability comes from gods (mortals just convince them that it's worthwhile); other times this ability comes directly from a person's faith, force of will, or understanding of where the cracks in reality are and how to tweak them.&nbsp; I've even got a world where it's the manipulation of the energies of life to trick the universe into doing things the way the mage wants. I've got a couple of games where no one can make the universe cry 'uncle' and others where it's fairly common.For my games, magic is not technology, it is not a hard science with predictable rules.&nbsp; It may have certain predictable trends but it is by definition the violation of natural order, thus it is never fully comprehensible or predictable.I'm quite happy with it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool&nbsp; &nbsp; :cool:"&nbsp; data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="ValhallaGH, post: 3152233, member: 41187"] Depends upon your interpretation of what magic really is. For some people it's fluff, a way of explaining the unexplainable. For others it is crunch, with rules as complex and absolute as the hardest of physical sciences. In all of my games: Magic is the ability to make the universe cry "uncle" and do things it doesn't want to do. Sometimes this ability comes from gods (mortals just convince them that it's worthwhile); other times this ability comes directly from a person's faith, force of will, or understanding of where the cracks in reality are and how to tweak them. I've even got a world where it's the manipulation of the energies of life to trick the universe into doing things the way the mage wants. I've got a couple of games where no one can make the universe cry 'uncle' and others where it's fairly common. For my games, magic is not technology, it is not a hard science with predictable rules. It may have certain predictable trends but it is by definition the violation of natural order, thus it is never fully comprehensible or predictable. I'm quite happy with it. :cool: [/QUOTE]

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