The situation you found with banking infected blood to make larger portals reminds me of the doping scandal that hit the cycling world several years back. One of the main things that a lot of them we’re doing was called blood doping, where in the weeks preceding a race, they’d pull a bunch of blood out of themselves, spin it down to concentrate the red blood cells, then inject those right before the race. It was a nightmare to detect b/c it’s just the person’s natural blood, no other chemicals involved, so something like what you described absolutely would happen in a world where that was possible.

Just as a fun pastime, I had loosely designed a elemental magic system where you start to gain negative personality traits associated with an element the better you got at using it, but when I finished the loose overview I made of the system it seemed oddly familiar. And then I realized I accidentally fleshed out the very vague magic system I created with my brother when I used to play pretend with him as kid, I even assigned the same negative traits to the respective elements our characters used to have.

This was good. I’ll try applying this to my preexisting system.

Seed crystals seem like a cool idea to base a magic system around

Keeping it simple makes it, simple. From my experience having a simple core consept, then go deeper is a good method. When making a big magic system with a lot of stuff, it could end up feeling very unconected and random. When building on that core consept things usualy feel more conected and a progression of what's established. Having a broad system of course can work but I find it harder to do.

I love what you said about harvesting the blood of someone infected to, almost industrially, create huge portals because that's actually the first thing I thought of when you mentioned this part of your magic system. Personally I love leaving these kinds of things in on purpose because I am very convinced humans will abuse whichever advantages they can find and this can make for such interesting worldbuilding... or an interesting villain's motivation. Or an interesting class system.

It's rare to stumble across something this interesting, then to scroll down and see under 1k subs. I can safely say you've earned more and that this creative topic is surely something I would wanna play around with myself down the line. I can already imagine some kind of reality-warping magic system powered and harnessed by the very desire to escape from reality. Keep up the good work dude, and I'll keep tabs, this is hella cool and inspiring

Brandon did more work on "Silence Divine" during covid, so there is no shame when something inspires you.The title is a desiase, that makes you deaf, but lets you control gravity. It is used to keep cities afloat above a destroyed world.

I struggle with testing my system. I try to think through the pros/cons/problems of my system and then one day weeks into the project realize a new angle that undermines what I've created. Any advice on how to test my system? Questions to ask myself?

I am currently making a card game based on a magic system and this is actually helpful in creating the lore of the game. I have 3 types of spells in this game: a sign - a fast simple spell that is very limited and is mostly used for small effects and interfering with Runes. a rune - a slower spell that takes up a bit more time to use and has more utility and the final one a channeled spell - an extremely slow spell that takes WAY longer to cast and has a ton of room for interference but yields significantly more power than possible using the other types of spells. the power is harvested from spirits that can be converted into familiars that assist or augment your spells with different effects. and I would probably add potions or artifacts to give the game a bit more flexibility in the next test run. I used Magic: The Gathering as inspiration for the game mechanics but reimagined the game in a sorcerer vs sorcerer fight like in Slay the Spire rather than planeswalkers summoning creatures or shifting the lands.

My favourite part was that he didn’t remove the loophole entirely so it could still happen in universe but is impractical for the story. I want it to be possible to gain omnipresence but with the draw back of your concentration being so segmented you practically don’t exist

I once created my own magic system for fun. The idea was that you took raw mana and "shape" it with certain "qualities" that belong to certain "catagories". There were a few ways to go about it each with their own limitations. You could shape th magic yourself, but every person poseses a quality for each catagory and how compatible you are with a certain magic is determined by how well the qualities match. Alternatively one could use a catalyst to shape the magic for you, but this was more diifficult and carried the risk of catastrophic backfire if you made a mistake. Finally their were spirits who inherently are very strong with a specific form of mana, some of them being unique to spirits, but could only exist in the world under certain conditions, one could form a pact with them to borrow their strength and allowing the spirit to exist in the world, the catch being the bond was permanent and you it's not possible to form more than one.

I already have a solid magic system, but I never stop coming up with new ideas for it. My stuff constantly evolves. Also, there are things that I've moved away from, but returned to after a while and finding better ways to utilize those ideas. Always good to revisit old ideas.

I'm working on a science fiction series, but fundamentally I'm building a magic system. There is technology/magic that follows rules and affects the characters, so I found your video very useful. Thank you!

Thank you Algorithm, I was looking for a video about magic systems

This is a great video! I didn't realize it wasn't about d&d until I was about a third of the way through but the advice completely applies whether you're writing a novel or a campaign!

I love this process for creating magic systems. I'll definately be using it.

I like how your brain thinks. Because the moment you mentioned the blood portal thingy, I immediately thought of how you can essentially harvest someone for portal magic juice and you also mentioned it after. Probably because I had a similar idea.. Y'know, now that my own work leads to *a* similar conclusion to someone who has honed their craft, I'm very much happy with my magic system.

Whenever I have my thoughts about something like a "Magic System", and have that core idea, my next step is mostly after Idea-Generating to do something, which I assume is similar to that Alignment Step: to ask Questions! In your example: Where did the Virus come from? How fast and how impactful did the public, communities or just anybody received that phenomenon? I could imagine, that the source was found decades ago on an expedition to a very remote place, maybe subterranean, which had been since then secured by military. They found something very old or from another world (classic). They took it to their Labs for highly classified stuff to analyze its properties and the cause for them (SCP/Area 51 Vibes again). It had a lot of useful abilities, which could be utilized for strategic pourpose, if someone could just produce the neccesary amount. It was found, that these attributes of that thing is being naturally inherent in their tissue, and if you could find the genetic sequence for these "metaproteins" to be build in living cells, you eventually could genetically engineer it into any lifeform. So they decided to use a virus as a vector for implementation on human subjects after experimenting on Goats, Chimps and what not. [insert many wild ideas here about many failed and several successful side-projects]. With that background, it is possible to have some hidden antagonist, who already does some crazy shit with it. Someone who found out all the stuff before the protagonist or the public got aware of that and already made Portals and had build up a network. But with increasing reach and logistical effort, it became harder to "contain" from the public. It went out of control, spread among the global sphere, lead to disruption in the social and political fabric... and if that would not be enough, it lured the attention of something else, tingeling with portals...sending stuff through and all the infected begin to have disturbing dreams and act strange! From creeping Terrors, eldritch Horror, Hellish Doomsday Invasion, Terrible Mutations with Zombieapocalypse Vibe, or just having less friendly looking misunderstood, benevolent Entities welcoming Earth to the Pancosmic Portal Network. Hmm... I think I should really considering to get at writing again.

Thanks for this; I love your focus on storytelling. As a writer, it's helpful to be reminded to consider the story implications of a magic system, especially since my magic system will probably exist across many different stories, each with its own needs. This was supremely helpful for getting my brain exited, again, and reminding me that I can explore the implications of what I already have rather than needing to add more to it.

A big point is that every power system still requires balance on the fly, every use of magic requires a mini revision to make sure its not an unbalanced exploit as compared with other abilities

I wish this was more popular, you really know your stuff. This will be incredibly useful if I ever make a story involving a magic system.

what i rly like and find cool is, how detailed, interconnected and deep thought of the magic system of your´s is!! - this is mopre than cool, i kind of love that!!! rly rllyyy coool!!!!

Towards the end i was expecting you to say that you had characters whose blood was transfused into other people, thus allowing the characters to teleport into the other peoples bodies 🤣 diabolical . Great video and channel. Very excited to watch more. Thank you for your work

This video is so pleasant. You are such a calming and grounding presence. Everything was really helpful and gave me lots of inspiration for creating my first magic system. Thanks for the lovely work!

I had a silly little idea of a simple enough system, it's the typical elemental with healing magic in it's own category, but you can create variations/ subtypes of elements, like, water can become= snow and ice, acid, etc. But the catch is that you slowly change physically and emotionally, like someone who uses fire magic starts breathing out smoke and becomes irritable easily, i think that's a good reason as to why not everybody would learn Magic, since that could worsen your life and potencially distance others fron you

This video is great help, but it’s too underappreciated, keep up the great work!

Very interesting and a helpful start at creating my 1st idea of a magic system. So to give you some background info I'm currently brainstorming my own sci-fi story idea. Since i was very young (Currently 20) I've been interested in Science, especially in Astronomy. I'm thinking about implementing a lot of Astronomy concepts, like gravity, dark matter & dark energy, the fundamental forces of our universe in my parallel setting, and the particles that make up the universe. I.E the building blocks of atoms to life itself. However I'm thinking or trying to sorta spicing things up by maybe trying to do it where my Emperor character, for example, through his high-tech technostaff can manipulate space-time itself through the help of his master The Singularly, a being made out of dark energy and is a cosmic parasite to my cosmic mythical gods that are out of some sort of horror movie or smth. Basically I really enjoyed this video and wondered if you had a vid about sci-fi and fantasy with magic concepts?

Found this video after starting my own project and trying to make my magic system work and be different enough. Crazy thing is, it just so happens to also be a viral-based magic system!

Just started the series, and your videos are incredibly helpful and well done. Subscribed with notifications. Totally agree that testing is the most fun stage. A magic system can potentially lead to plot holes when it has been revealed to the reader/player and then it's underutilized in the narrative, but also I think it can lead to a sense of deus ex machina when it hasn't been sufficiently introduced or explained, yet it comes, apparently, out of nowhere to get characters out of a sticky situation.

Been binging your videos and I've always felt like it's only a matter of time before you mention Sanderson

I'll try doing this myself and see how it goes, the 2nd iteration will be with more people involved!! Best of luck!!

Thank you!

Thank you, this was very informative!

This is amazingly well done and is going to help me a lot organizing the development of magic systems I’ve been working on for years thank youuu!

Been working on a story for a while and I've basically made science/nature the same thing as magic. From the point of the Big Bang till the end of the story magic was natural but misunderstood due to it's use by intelligent beings. Light and Dark were the first entities known to exist and when they met all was created starting with Chaos. It was through Chaos that Life was born, through Light that Life grew and prospered, and through Dark that Life struggled to be better when given Choice. Light is seen as Divine, Chaos is Elemental on a cosmic level, and Dark is all that breaks Natural Order and Corruption. The Alpha Trinity is the magic system formed and mastering all three is near impossible due to the necessary steps to use them being rather different and at times conflicting. Light thrives off of Will, positivity, and purity. Chaos thrives off of Intelligence, Instinct, and focus. Dark thrives off of Negativity, Blood, and Sacrifices. Some specific spells for each even have chants needed in Light and Dark where Light usually requires biblical verses and positive phrases Dark is not only opposite but some actually require the spell to be said backwards for Dark is parallel to Light in all aspects and thus stronger the more it differs.

My god, I love your setup behind you! Thanks for the video!!

Very helpful. Thank you!

Wuxia Super Origin Ephemeral Grandmaster: "Dont worry child, I too can build a magic system." *Proceeds to change the word Magic to Qi*

I discover your channel and i think you will realy help me with my current project. Thank you!

Thank You Very Much Sir.

Great vid, thanks!

Cool background! I love the finely worked wood with these cravings. :0

It's so useful and inspiring, just what I needed! I'm your new subscriber btw❤

For me, iteration was the 2nd step. I had this seed crystal of a Cultivation-like affinity system, but the actual affinities as well as possible other magical system were what I wanted to refine. I took basic Elements, like Fire Water Air, split them up into components, like Light and Heat for Fire and recombined them in new ways. Adding and removing small parts helped refine the system to a point where i had a reasonable system, however then, the story inspiration is what allowed me to finalize these affinities and build the rest of rhe magic system as well as other things around this core.

GREAT WORK

I enjoyed the video and it did bring some things to my attention.... or, more so it gave me a different perspective on things I'd already thought that I had considered. Greatly appreciate the content. If I could build upon this... I feel like the Alignment stage should actually be the first stage. More accurately, combined with the Inspiration stage as they really feel like the same thing. Know the goal of the magic system extends both to what is actually possible and the emotions you mean to provoke from the reader. The Alignment section was really the section that I think got my brain working the most. There is a huge difference in what Gandalf's magic evokes compared to Nen from Hunter x Hunter, or comparing your generic anime magic system to something like the super limited and mysterious unnatural happenings in, say, A Song of Ice and Fire. Do you want your audience to be struck with youthful wonder at the amazing potential your magic system might bring? Or do you want them to feel the existential nightmare of what it actually means for one individual who is just as flawed as any other human being to be able to not only withstand a nuclear warhead to face but punch with the force of one? This, I feel, is the most important step. Not to say that it is the most difficult or time consuming, if you know that you want honest to goodness super heroes who each have individualized powers then great, move on to the next step. But you have to consider this in the earliest stages and keep it in mind the whole way through, I think.

So watched the video and immediately came up with an idea for a sort of elemental Alchemancy. First the practitioner drinks a tonic to infuse the "spell" or "power" into their bloodstream (a little alcohol is the "solvent" - Ever heard the term "drunk with power"? lol), and then repeats an incantation while holding a wand/staff as the channeling device (wood is the conduit, a crystal tip is the aperture). Power is based on tonic purity which is regulated by law, duration is based on amount ingested with diminishing returns not to mention the side effects of impurities building up (which could make you mad and addicted with power unless you detox for a while). If you are not touching wood or holding a wand/staff when you say the incantation, then your FLESH becomes a feedback conduit and your HEART becomes the aperture i.e. you will die a most agonizing death and everyone around you will be in for one hell of a show. Just though I'd share my preliminary idea :)

i like this. subbed

I had a problem with a magic system that I wanted to be extremely logical and understandable, requiring only the right knowledge and enough power, akin to something like computer programming- it simply wasn't usable for more abstract magical things that can inject more interesting aspects and twists into a story, unless I were to just include a bunch of new extremely specific rules to the system every time I wanted to do something it wouldn't easily cover, which would just come off as random asspulls that would only damage the stories I could tell with it, not to mention the universe that would have to operate on this system The solution ended up being relatively straightforward, I just kept fleshing out how it worked, where it came from, and what you could use it for, until I had other usable systems that would exist as a consequence of the first one, a universe full of gods, demons, and other such things that could do wackier and more arbitrary stuff while still being on some level understandable and having built-in limitations

I actually really liked your system

I created a magic system based on colors, where you get the power based in wich color you use(but you have to "activate" them before). After I ran out of colors, I started to use the materials(like different types of metal, gemstones and some others); I also created creatures and even lore around the powers. Your videos will help me a lot to organize it all

Super cool video

Man You are underrated this stuff is so much better than other videos I've seen. Edit: a few spelling mistakes.

Nice video. Really struggleing to get my magic to do what I want it to. It mostly works, it's just my brain wants to turn it into a science that fits like it was real. Like why does this stuff work this way if that dosn't work. I don't know how to explain it. I like the way final fantasy does their's, never really "got" dnd's, liked the charm of battleon's. Just not getting mine done.

"Anything can be a seed crystal, a picture, a character concept, your plot, anything." Me: "I'll just take the word 'seed crystal,' thank you." Seriously though, the idea of a seed crystal might actually help my system. Just needs some mulling over. Great video.

I am a writer as a hobby, and I want to have more anime elements in my stories as I don't really like or enjoy them. I may be at stage two or three, and I am unsure about whether I am done with two of the abilities, as for one of those two and one other, they are connected to a planned story as extremely plot significant or lore significant. When it comes to the other, I'm not sure about, it has already been used in a story in such a way that it impacts the story, and it does fit with what the protags job is. They deal with zombies. I also have one that I'm not sure about as I don't have many ideas for this one. It's a time manipulation ability, and the only way I could balance it so far is by making it very common. I specialize in cosmic horror, and I plan on having a character completely op because of wanting them to be the cosmic horror and be seemingly unstoppable. I am a discovery writer, and to be honest, I would have potentially used that unintended use of harvesting the blood to make an antagonist more intimidating and only possible out of how many resources they have. I think I may be at something besides the first iteration ( I hate the idea of discarding everything and starting over) it is a bit different than it used to be, but not significantly however the part about the abilities being nullified by an enemy just being more powerful is gone now. I also have one more that isn't important to the plot so far, but it is one of the two most developed ones I have, and I would prefer to make it important or at least fit than discard it. I want some monsters to remain possible to fight while with others, not so much.

Weirdly enough, I actually came up with the restrictions for my magic system before anything else, even idea generation. The world that uses it is a post-post-apocalyptic future that essentially reverted back to medieval days because all forms of technology were outlawed. Thematically, the magic is meant to represent the status quo we’re made to just accept, while technology represents rebellion and justice for those who can’t live in that status quo (like the protagonist, who’s literally disabled and can’t use magic). With all that in mind, the first thing I had to figure out was “how do I make magic equal to, or even *worse* than technology?”. The answer was pretty simple when I realized how similar magic and technology actually are. They can do a lot of the same things, and we often see stories about primitive civilizations coming across technology and calling it magic. They only really have one difference, and that’s where the energy comes from. Magic is always fueled by the users themselves or the gods who created it, while technology is fueled by external resources. So basically, the main restriction for magic is that it’s impractical to use it to replace technology, because you would get tired very quickly (and if you pushed yourself too hard, you could even black out or die). And even if there’s no limits to the human imagination, there is a limit to every human’s energy, so some things are just flat out impossible even if you could theoretically craft a spell for it. Like creating entire pocket dimensions, for example. You could achieve a similar result by making a video game though. Technology on the other hand is only limited by having to actually follow the laws of science and physics.

first couple minutes in and im actually entertained and getting ideas

I've been working on stage 1 of a magic system inspired by programming in Ruby and Basic. And programming in general. In it, magicians use wands, which are similar to interpreters, and scrolls, tablets, books, and metal plates, which are similar to programs. The most powerful magicians have mastered the universes equivalent to Assembly language, taking months to write the most efficient spells to do simple things. The main problem I have is limitations. The control side is extremely limited, as everything needs to be specified, as humans have no inherent control over magic. Using magic creates heat in the wand and a bit in the program, but I don't know what it's initial source of energy is, or if it should be relevant at all. The heat would already encourage making wands out of metal, and giving them cooling fins like an RTG or machine gun, and means that powerful spells need large, underwater wands.

your video is definitely helpful. i can now define where my problemes with my magic systems started. i had two that got ages to get right, or at least without major inconsistences. the first being a mostly standard fantasy world magic system with elemental attributes, well technically its four similar magic systems but those details are irrelevant here. the hard limits i imposed where no time travel, no travel to other worlds, no permanent brainwashing/mindcontrol and no messing with souls on a fundamental level. souls could be reshaped, temporarily captured and even put into artificial bodies but not permanently since that would interfere with the reincarnation system i needed to be in place for a main plot mechanic. the problem was that i planned to have the MC be a dungeon core for a good part of the story and they needed to have the ability to save the souls of their monsters to get bossmonsters to grow and not loose interesting characters whenever a strong adventurer sweeps through. but that ability directly interferes with my soul hard limits. after thinking for a long time i figured out that i had to put extra restrictions on when the reincarnation system is activated and define more detailed how dungeons bind those souls to them. the second magic system i call the constellation rune system. if you look long enough into the nightsky at certain times a year while being in certain geografic areas and if your look through certain crystal lenses, then you can learn a spell rune. and the lenses also decide whether you learn a minor or major spell rune or an attribute rune that can add a certain effect to your spells. and certain constellations are only active once every few centuries and bring chaos into the existing power balance. the problem i ran into for this system was mostly on the story/world building side. i wanted to give the MC a slight advantage by having him have an unheard of attribute rune early in the story and had to think how the world would react to that, as the magic system was controlled by a religion and they hunted down any troublesome figures before they could pose a problem. and i had planned to later on make the MC figure out that lenses could be stacked which opens up a whole new layer ontop and how to not get him hunted down after the first use. now that i think about it, i also had a different rune system in the works. in that system everyone could make their own runes by filling shapes with intentions and rules. it would take at least a week of deep concentration to empower a new rune to the point where it stabilises and gains permanence. it is possible to learn other peoples runes easier than it is to make your own. and because of that, the world i had in mind would stick to three different rune systems that have different rules and are only somewhat compatable. as a hard rule i impose that runes become vastly most efficient if you base them on actual physical processes but with enough magic power and sufficiently empowered runes you could do pretty much anything. as a result, the first system focusses on simple spells that create things from nothing and are therefore inefficient, the second focusses on more complex spell effects based on physics which brings greater power but has the drawback of being harder to control unless you are very familiar with the underlaying process, and the third system is a pretty incomplete symbolic programming language system. all three systems work well enough on their own but when combined, there are lots of problems and the world struggles with it. for example system one has things like 'create water' and 'telekinesis' as spell runes, the second system has 'flame tornado' and 'repair weapon' as spell runes, while the third has 'create'+'fire'+'ball shape'+'from hand'+'projectile' runes to create a fireball spell. if anyone wants to use these ideas, go ahead, i don't mind at all. just tell me when and where you post a story with them, so i can read it too. thanks in advance~

I’m here because I’m stuck in making a side project to prepare myself for the project I really want to do xD. I’ve spent so long world building for my old project and fleshing out plot idea but I want some practice drawing by making a different interesting simple comic of the same genre, before I get started on drawing out my original project. The problem is I keep circling back and unconsciously making too similar concepts to my original project. It’s so annoying T^T)

I have finally stumbled upon the answers I seek. Thank you Algorithm.

I once made up a magic system when i was bored based on the 4 elements and these magic Crystals that could hold elemental energy. The crystals could be found over the entire world in their respective environment (so like fire Crystals in hot places, water crystals in seas, air crystals in the high mountains, and earth deep in the caves) People could use the crystals and become able to control the element of the crystal. If someone were to stab themselves with a crystal and allow it to stay in, they could gain the magic, but at a risk. The crystal would drip its energy into your veins, and could travel with the blood to places it shouldn't, causing a high chance of death. If you were strong enough to survive, you would be able to control your new power. At first, in Early stages of humanity, before technology even existed, the crystals were seen as artifacts, and those who had their power were like gods, ordering those who did not have it to do whatever they wished, forming a religion that traveled all the way to present day. I feel like i might add more lore to this, but idk yet

I only wish renown Magickians was willing to have this dialogue.

First time on your channel and i just have to say that other than amazing content, your face expressions are very... expressive. Caught myself staring at you like i myself was under the spell just watching your face move and mold after every thought. Its kinda cool bro Sorry for intruding

I want to play this game!

I feel like I've stumbled onto a gem

one of the ideas I've been playing with for a few of my game ideas it to have the source of magic be a finite resource, so that over the course of this world's history, gaining magic transforms from a tool to make people's lives easier as a way of interacting with or manipulating natural aspects of the world in area around you, to more of a power bargaining chip in wars and political issues. I think it would be cool to use this and the in universe religion to loosely tie all of my games together. could probably do with more iterating though

I just subscribed based on the video titles alone. I'm getting ready to write my first novel so I'm hoping some of the advice here is going to be useful. That said it's 4 in the morning and I need to sleep ha I'll watch the videos tomorrow, or later today I guess

Im gonna need direction to whatever book/game/show this viral blood magic thing was used for :D

Awesome little videos here, dude. I gotta say, though, I’m using this info to flesh out a video game… Have you ever tried applying these to a game(tabletop, virtual, etc) setting?

Am I the only one who's thoughts instantly turned to magic crystals and how something like that would affect the world the moment he started talking about crystals(I mean talk about inspiration coming from anywhere I literally got this inspiration from you talking about how to start with something specific and small for inspiration)

Thank you for this. This really helped me design the magic system for the main character of a book I'm writing. She lives in a world where technology and magic are both present. Her specific type of magic is genetic and allows her to control and manipulate technology but is tied to her emotions specifically anger. With the magic she can transform one piece of technology into any other piece of technology of the same tech level, aka she can transform a sniper rifle into a machine gun, but she can't transform a pogo stick into a machine gun. Her magic pretty much allows her to control the atoms that make up the technology. But any byproduct energy created by the moving of the atoms is absorb by the mage acting like a drug effect, causing a release of dopamine. So extremely powerful technomancers are rare because they tend to blow themselves up chasing that high. Yes, she can cause technology to explode by "setting the atoms free", but she can only do this when extremely pissed off which is limited due to the drug effects.

Man just created a magic system that creates magic systems

Hey this is helpful thanks and you look like thor and the science guy kyle hill

This video is great help, I'm currently trying to define my magic system the inspiration was nen from hunter x hunter. I plan to explain the magic system as a manifestation of the users will and currently have 3 expressions of this that people can use with those being your will manifesting as a result of your personality forexample one character has an ability called T.A.G (touch and go) and it basically allows the user to switch places with things hes touched as well all teleport back to places hes already marked and summom items that are marked. Another character has a wind based ability that comes as a manifestation of his own will but he also has a hereditary ability passed on by his father that was with him at his birth essentially giving him two expressions of will his will. I have plans for other characts to have abilities that have similar mechanics to lycanism but I'm not sure if that should be an expression of an hereditary will power or something on its own. The third form happens when you inherit somome else's will, kind of like a teacher passing a mission or philosophy to a student, right now the only cases of those I've considered was the main character who has the wind ability learning how to cretate artificial voids to mimic the ability of one of his mentors who had a void based will power, he does this by removing the air in an area to pull opponents into his attacks by making a vaccum. Another idea I had for inherited will powers were for certain nations to have warriors who can have shared inherited abilities as well the skilled combatants or higher ranked soilders to have their own unique will power as well as using some inherited skills from their culture.

Thanks for the process, I will definitely apply this. But have a question. In my world I want variety, for instance a medium who connects with the dead via life force, a martial artists that uses life force to enhance their fighting and a spirtualist who learned to shape life force into constructs. How can I still have that variety while implementing your and others advice concerning these niche magic systems. My niche isn’t blood, or seed crystals, or bones, but “mentalism” and the accessing and manipulating of this ubiquitous life force.

This is going to help my worldbuilding skills too I think

Seed crystal huh I like 👍

Those who go out to harvest the portal strain infected blood could be call Floaters or maybe Poppers, playing off that phrase "Once they pop (start harvesting) they don't stop!"

Im working on a magic system based on runes. But rather than the runes themselves causing magic itself, they're a means to communicate with a force of existence that everything living has a connection to. Runes are magic's language, and magic types are merely expressions of the fundimental force's influence over other things. Though Sorcerers have a VERY limited influence on said force when compared what it can do, which grows slowly as they become more experienced. I'd detail everything but its a huge W.I.P and currently VERY LARGE

This has some interesting points, though I disagree with stage 3 since it forcefully defines story elements instead of being an aid to the story.

How do you go with Idea generation? Any techniques to recommend?

Ummmm is mine ok?: This Magic system is about the energy types which is: Kinetic Energy -natural Potential Energy. -natural Gravitational Potential Energy Elastic Potential Energy Thermal Energy. -paradoxal Chemical Energy. -paradoxal Electrical Energy. -paradoxal Radiant Energy (Light Energy)-paradoxal Nuclear Energy. -artifficial Mechanical Energy. -artifficial Sound Energy. -paradoxal Magnetic Energy. -artifficial This Magic system came from nature and knowledge explaining the origins on each energy.(Paradoxal means both artifficial and natural) But there are limitations to Magic such as: -with modern Magic you can create simulations but if you try to get NPCs out of it, it'll have serious consequences as well as your energy draining and getting weaker and when that happens there won't be enough energy to keep the simulation alive but if you have lots of energy you can keep it alive for a short Time. -if your Magic type's the target type you Can access to a bunch of unique abilities but you cannot control weither you want to use it or not unless if you're chill in danger. -You cannot use any other Magic types that doesn't contain your energy type -You can gain another Magic type by just finding an extremely super rare ribbon And rules: -You can only use Magic if your energy isn't below 30% -you have to find a energy source to charge yourself And there are some other things that you need to watch out like paradoxal(Real) évents for exemple: -people going missing -static appears as a wall -mysterious Doors with the number "666" written on it -corrupted people that has a watery looking like black silhouette and that has multiple eyes all over their body.

The magic virus reminded me of the Pokérus.

Interesting little fact: I actually created a homebrewed D&D enemy A warforged Wizard that looks like that bacteria picture on the thumbnail (without eyes) It’s called: S.C.U (Synthetic Caster Unit)“Casters” The mostly specialize in utility spells, and worst of all if they’re used in ambush scenarios they’ll have the Leomund’s tiny hut prepared, so while enemy units just start walking out of protective bubbles that weren’t there a moment ago they can stay in and cast all they need since they don’t fight directly they just work at keeping concentration type spells going. And they have Featherfall for drop troops.

what is magic system and why do I need it would be a good way to start this video

How would you define the difference between a hard-irrational system and a soft-rational system?

What's the magic system you used to get rid of your pupils.

Hello guys and authors. If mistborn is a progression fantasy. How would you make allomancy progressive? Thanks

Very cool. Hope you take off. I will drink extra dairy for this.

I have many characters anad story ideas. I am trying to think of a unififed magic system and world where they can all coexist. Istead of coming up with like 5 different worlds and magic systems.

My mermaid world is figured betwen magical and non-magical merfolk, but even within the magical society, there is division between each subdivision. Im currently trying to think of a way to build a magical system

I've always assumed a limited energy supply (like a mana bar in a video game) is a good default restriction for any magic system.

Do the viruses respond to medicine, particularly specific antivirals? I could people slipping drugs into someone's food to reduce their magic. Given the side-effects of some antivirals this could be very unpleasant, although side effects might be mistaken for viral symptoms.

god this was so useful for my power system addiction

10:25 Sooo, with some engeniering, could you make a blood flueled portal gun?

4:05 idea generation

Id advise that before you seek inspiration, define intent. At least if you are creating as part of a larger project. Identify what the porpouse of the whole story/setting/game/whatever is. Is it meant to luzzle? To evoke? To educate? To inflame? How can you best achieve it? Should the story element be allegorical? Should jt rationally extrapolate? Shouldt it serve a larger theme? Is it meant to be understood? If so how easily? If it is a question, what is the answer? What sort of feeling or mood in specific is it meant to achieve through the chosen means? Once you know what are the 'rrquired specifications' so to speak, of a story element to serve your story, you can start looking for inspiration in your past experience, or specifocally seek out new ones, to creat ad nihilo, the core from which you can then sculpt your story. Of course if one worldbuilds for its own sake the above is unnecesseary, but if it doesnt stand on its own, it is a good way to ensure coherence in the whole project.