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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8424426" data-attributes="member: 6704184">OTOH, magic is much better at some things than mundane skill or tech, I want to make that clear, not that this thread is primarily about my own game system. But transmutation doesn't require an extremely expensive particle accelerator if you're using magic to it. It does still require a solid understanding of physics and chemistry, and is a thing where in the world lore, reliable transmutation of unalike elements into eachother is an extremely young discipline, having been nearly impossible even amongst cultures like those of the Djinn and Gnomes who have natural gifts for alchemy, until a modern understanding of physics was acquired. But it's also worth noting that making lightning with your mind is rad as hell, regardless of whether an engineer could do it just as well with a bunch of equipment and power from the grid. You did it with your mind. Then you start looking at the ability to connect a mind to electronics in a way that the mind cannot be hijacked because it is fully in control, or to constantly charge a device from background energy gathered from the movements and processes of the user and everything around them, and to create electrical arcs that can ignore paths of least resistence to arc to a specific target, etc. anyway, that's enough rambling about how magic works in my game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 8424426, member: 6704184"] OTOH, magic is much better at some things than mundane skill or tech, I want to make that clear, not that this thread is primarily about my own game system. But transmutation doesn't require an extremely expensive particle accelerator if you're using magic to it. It does still require a solid understanding of physics and chemistry, and is a thing where in the world lore, reliable transmutation of unalike elements into eachother is an extremely young discipline, having been nearly impossible even amongst cultures like those of the Djinn and Gnomes who have natural gifts for alchemy, until a modern understanding of physics was acquired. But it's also worth noting that making lightning with your mind is rad as hell, regardless of whether an engineer could do it just as well with a bunch of equipment and power from the grid. You did it with your mind. Then you start looking at the ability to connect a mind to electronics in a way that the mind cannot be hijacked because it is fully in control, or to constantly charge a device from background energy gathered from the movements and processes of the user and everything around them, and to create electrical arcs that can ignore paths of least resistence to arc to a specific target, etc. anyway, that's enough rambling about how magic works in my game. [/QUOTE]

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