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Mind Your Mana's!

Started by Ghost Whistler, May 14, 2011, 03:45:23 AM

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LordVreeg

Quote from: Aos;458156That's exactly what I mean. You need to have an answer to the question, "why can I only cast this spell once?" and "because it's the rules," doesn't cut it.

Right.
There is no right magic system.  There are easisr and harder systems, but that is still secondary.  The System is the 'physics engine' of the setting, but the system has to make sense in terms of the fluff of the setting.  Too many games fail because the rules don't represent the setting, they represent only themselves.
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