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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 5482322" data-attributes="member: 63">By contrast, in Harry Potter everyone can fling spells pretty easily, though most of them aren't as dangerous as a simple gun would be. For those willing to be evil, though, there's apparently no drawback to just flinging death spells willy-nilly.In Brandon Sanderson's &quot;Mistborn&quot; series, you get magic basically through internal alchemy -- swallow some tin, and you can 'burn' it to get mana to enhance your senses. Different metals provide different powers. All you're limited by is how much metal you're able to get your hands on, and your skill. (Oh, and you have to have the right bloodline to do any of this.)In a novel I never managed to get published, magic required you to acquire and control magical energy, and it was mentally taxing, but if you had a wild enough power source you could theoretically use magic all day long. It was 'balanced' in that usually manifesting a spell took a few seconds, which would be long enough for a guy to run up to you and chop you in half.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 5482322, member: 63"] By contrast, in Harry Potter everyone can fling spells pretty easily, though most of them aren't as dangerous as a simple gun would be. For those willing to be evil, though, there's apparently no drawback to just flinging death spells willy-nilly. In Brandon Sanderson's "Mistborn" series, you get magic basically through internal alchemy -- swallow some tin, and you can 'burn' it to get mana to enhance your senses. Different metals provide different powers. All you're limited by is how much metal you're able to get your hands on, and your skill. (Oh, and you have to have the right bloodline to do any of this.) In a novel I never managed to get published, magic required you to acquire and control magical energy, and it was mentally taxing, but if you had a wild enough power source you could theoretically use magic all day long. It was 'balanced' in that usually manifesting a spell took a few seconds, which would be long enough for a guy to run up to you and chop you in half. [/QUOTE]

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