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Colonel Cancer posted:The only way to be magic is not to gently caress and the longer you don't gently caress the more magical you become! aleister crowley invented the ookie cookie
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May 4, 2022 15:24
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Nice Van My Man posted:For however much energy a spell must conjure to be cast it consumes a set amount of blue liquid that must be in the wizard's stomach. You don't need to be smart or anything, just have as much blue liquid in your stomach as possible. Once cast, the blue liquid disappears from your stomach as it is turned to energy. The liquid can be anything as long as it's blue (blueberry juice, anti-freeze etc.) Can you eat a blue dye to turn your normal stomach contents blue?
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May 4, 2022 15:36
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goatface posted:Magic works like submitting a software patch to a major project. they call their wands and staves production branches
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May 4, 2022 19:28
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Every year all over the world a new class of children take turns pulling the Magic Slot Machine's lever. What you get determines your magical powers forever. For example, Lemon Diamond 7 would make you a Pig Wizard, a very strong animal aspect type. There are thousands of combinations and all of them have been mapped out for many years - until one day, a very special child pulls that lever and gets something TOTALLY UNHEARD OF!!!
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May 4, 2022 20:16
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pixies are real half of them are evil though and you can never tell a good pixie from a bad pixie until it s too late
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May 4, 2022 20:22
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Magic is fueled by siphoning power off ley lines, but it works like water management IRL so people "downstream" from the ley line get screwed if too many people upstream drain all the magic.
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May 5, 2022 17:22
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summoning a demon actually involves a lot of paperwork
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May 5, 2022 17:32
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Applewhite posted:Magic is fueled by siphoning power off ley lines, but it works like water management IRL so people "downstream" from the ley line get screwed if too many people upstream drain all the magic. You have to drink the raw magic power to be able to cast spells, but whatever magic you don't use your body expels all of it when you pee it out, however it's more concentrated and more powerful. The most powerful mages have been drinking their own pee for years.
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May 5, 2022 17:34
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precision posted:summoning a demon actually involves a lot of paperwork You're thinking of devils, i want to see your doctorate in fiendology right now
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May 5, 2022 17:54
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ok this system is pretty simple get ready you little TTRPG sluts i put on my robe and my wizard hat
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May 6, 2022 09:04
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Umm I'm gonna put down Umi for a water effect then Pikachu goes in attack position... Then black lotus and Pikachu has trample Your move.
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May 6, 2022 09:13
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Humans spend all their time in the Metaverse (tm) and as such their fay to day to day physical lives are irrelevant. This isn't revealed immediately in the novel though, the novel starts in the Metaverse(tm). As such magic is an ability that is conferred from microtransactions using "crystals"(R) which is a purchasable currency only used for magic, and new spells are unlocked by gaining experience, with those who can afford a "season pass"(R) unlocking additional spells. If you can't afford the season passes you're stuck with basic spells and while it's theoretically possible to get crystals but they are given out in such small amounts it would take years to save up enough to do any decent magic. The main hero of the novel is a guy who saves up for 20 years to disrupt the metaverse and lead a rebellion. The bad guys can't turn his magic off because the guy who designed the metaverse(tm) was kidnapped from his family to make it so he deliberately left this flaw in the system where magic couldn't be turned off. Hes found by a group of weapon wearing dark coats and sunglasses who tell him that he's the One(C) and that they need to rescue someone who has the plans they need. So they break into a prison and rescue the princess who gives them the plans saying magic can't be turned off. At the point the hero has a crisis of confidence and says he just wants to go back to his swamp (he's an ogre in the metaverse by the way) but one of the group in black trench coats is a donkey and he says he's gotta free all the people from corporate tyranny and the princess changes her avatar to an ogre too and VR humps him. She's a princess by the way because her dad owns lots of metaverse land that he bought using his fortune in bitcoin. This is only explained in the sequel though. Either way the main character uses his saved up stash of crystals to pay to win all the way to the person controlling the metaverse(tm) and beats him in a magic sword fight. At that point the main character is assaulted... In real life! This is a shock twist in the novel and the hero realises without his pay to win magic crystals he is doomed. He then feels a single in his fingers and as he outstretched them all the guys in the room turn to ash. The last one on the floor grabs his leg and says "Mr Ogre, I don't feel so good" before he vanishes. The hero looks down at his hands and says "It's all ogre now" How can our hero use magic outside the metaverse(tm)? Is he still in the metaverse(tm)? What is reality??? That's all saved for the next novel. This is all totally original copywrited ideas BTW so if you steal them I WILL sue you. Kitchner fucked around with this message at 10:05 on May 6, 2022 |
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May 6, 2022 10:00
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Magic is real but so insanely offensive that it would even make Hitler feel bad for trying to cast the lowliest of fireballs. Everyone shuns wizards because of this and hate them, you just can't have them around, but no one hates them more than they hate themselves.
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May 6, 2022 10:12
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That's just because of all the cat murder. You'd hate yourself too if you had to do that. Nowadays we have the cards. Nobody can stop my level 6595 Skull Dragon!
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May 6, 2022 12:21
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Treecko posted:Umm I'm gonna put down Umi for a water effect then Pikachu goes in attack position... i tap my dragon for purple energy, and while that effect is on the pile i cast magic missile on your face using the mana from my Legendary Octomamm to make it unblockable
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May 6, 2022 17:26
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Rutibex posted:Can you eat a blue dye to turn your normal stomach contents blue? drat it, don't give away the ending to my WIP fantasy novel!
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May 6, 2022 17:33
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Maybe some sort of magic system that’s not a postmodern deconstruction of magic in any way and is totally dissimilar to the exploitation of non-renewable resources in the real world.
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May 6, 2022 17:45
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Nigmaetcetera posted:Maybe some sort of magic system that’s not a postmodern deconstruction of magic in any way and is totally dissimilar to the exploitation of non-renewable resources in the real world. to do magic you have to drink crude oil
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May 6, 2022 17:51
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Nigmaetcetera posted:Maybe some sort of magic system that’s not a postmodern deconstruction of magic in any way and is totally dissimilar to the exploitation of non-renewable resources in the real world. Do not, and I can't stress this enough, get familiar with your familiar.
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May 6, 2022 17:54
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Nice Van My Man posted:drat it, don't give away the ending to my WIP fantasy novel! Hey, I thought of a WAP based magic system first, and you can’t just take my idea and run with- oh, you said WIP, I don’t know or care what that acronym stands for.
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May 6, 2022 17:57
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Magic powered by solipsism. The more you believe that you are the only real thing in the universe, them more you can change it to your whims, but the less you care to bother because nothing matters.
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May 6, 2022 18:01
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Spells are basically just prayers lifted from the bible and retrofitted to do new things. Find yourself bewitched and lost in the forest? Turn your coat outside in and recite the lord's prayer backwards. Travelling spell casters sell spells they've come up with and scribbled down on notes
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May 6, 2022 18:09
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In my magic system you have to kill and kill as many people as possible, every spell someone had to die or at least get hurt and the more an innocent person gets hurt the more powerful magic you can do My novel is very adult, very gritty and real and isn't mostly just off-putting descriptions of torture, nosir
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May 6, 2022 18:11
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Uncle Enzo posted:In my magic system you have to kill and kill as many people as possible, every spell someone had to die or at least get hurt and the more an innocent person gets hurt the more powerful magic you can do Mine is even more adult, and you can tell because of its super mature title, “Dr. Gorearium’s Torture Terrarium”.
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May 6, 2022 18:16
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In my fanfic magic isn't actually real, it's just the people think it is and magicians do pretty mundane things by the reader's standards but they don't know that so it's all very colorful descriptions of non-magical things seeming magical. Until they do some things that are pretty clearly impossible so maybe it was real after all??!!
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May 6, 2022 18:19
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Magic power is charged by licking door knobs.
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May 6, 2022 18:22
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Magic is actually just guns
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May 6, 2022 19:19
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To cast Charm Person you have to give the target oral to completion.
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May 6, 2022 19:28
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Space Kablooey posted:Magic is actually just guns incorrect - guns are actually just magic
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May 6, 2022 19:30
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Nigmaetcetera posted:To cast Charm Person you have to give the target oral to completion. This one works IRL
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May 6, 2022 19:30
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Applewhite posted:This one works IRL Truth is stranger than fiction
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May 6, 2022 22:38
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Magic is just me getting really high on amphetamines and yelling in a Walmart parking lot.
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May 6, 2022 23:09
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Pie in the Sky posted:Magic is just me getting really high on amphetamines and yelling in a Walmart parking lot. Applewhite posted:This one works IRL
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May 6, 2022 23:14
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Mooey Cow posted:Spells are basically just prayers lifted from the bible and retrofitted to do new things. Find yourself bewitched and lost in the forest? Turn your coat outside in and recite the lord's prayer backwards. this is just Catholicism
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May 7, 2022 07:02
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Colonel Cancer posted:You're thinking of devils, i want to see your doctorate in fiendology right now Buddy, that's D&D, and unless you can show me a paycheck from Wizards of the Coast, we are not using such obvious D&D conventions in our magic system. I'm not saying we can't blatantly steal their poo poo. You bet your rear end we'll steal their poo poo. But we need to repaint it and file off the serial number. All that Devils vs. Demons Blood War poo poo is pure, uncut, obvious D&D and nobody's going to believe us if we come out with that then go all "Aw, shucks, we just based in on the same folklore/mythology that originally inspired it!" We also can't have demons and daemons as different things. We gotta pick a spelling and stick with it.
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May 7, 2022 10:12
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daimons
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May 7, 2022 10:21
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mailer daemons 
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May 7, 2022 11:49
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The only spell is shrinking. Anyone can use it all the time on anything. There's a lotta tiny poo poo around. Please step carefully.
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Rutibex posted:this is just Catholicism It's folk magic from rural northern europe in the 1800s, though how often the spells/prayers reference the virgin Mary and the way they're often repeated seems very catholic
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