Light, dark, balance, luck, Life.

Super easy Example: In Alien 2 there are Explosions and then the extinguishing system is activated and there is a bucket which got very hot in the flames and cracks in half, after it gets cooled down through the water. In the last Act, the Plan is to trap the Alien in some Liquid metal, but the Alien gets out, covered in liquid metal, so the solution is, cool the Alien with Water! and Bingo the Alien Explodes like A Watermelon. And I sat there: "ooh, they hinted at this, so it didnt come out of nowhere"

Great video. I really need to look more into He Who Fights with Monster and Essence. Sounds wicked. I made you a spreadsheet to get your random 3 essence weighted by rarity (info from the HWFWM wiki). I posted earlier with a link, but I don't see it here. If it was spam flagged, let me know if/where I can send you a copy.

I love this book series!! Fun video :)

Ha! Didn't feel like becoming an Inquisitor, sir? Seems like a very expansive system. I was supposed to work today, but now I'll have to research it!

This was so much fun! I don't mind if there is a sequel about your progress as you work your way through this set. I'd happily watch an hour of this kind of super-nerdiness. I love that magic system myself, it is practically infinite. By the way, your description made me think of a Mastermind type I love to play in City of Heroes, namely Beast Mastery (summoning bees, ravens, wolves, and lions) and Nature Affinity (summoning healing and harmful plants and mushrooms). Your description literally caused me to remember playing that combination. Who knows, you might get some ideas from reading up on it if you don't have time to try it yourself.

Waited for a video like this for quite a while.

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god what a letdown i've been following this product for over a year

you should try making a magic system based on real life physics, with its own calculations, laws and stuff, would be really cool!

I thought of an elemental magic system that that has the core 4 elements gotten from the gods of order and 3 sets of powers from the gods of chaos, represented as the God of Life, God of Death and God of Mind. And the way people’s powers manifest and the types of abilities they have come from are based on their individual personality types and experiences. So for example someone who is very crafty and sneaky but is a fire type would be able create things like mines while an introvert fire type may increase their internal temperature to increase their physical capabilities

4:06 is the end of echo and better mic

I got a free rpg starter deck of this. Might have yo give it a try.

How do you introduce a very unique magic system to a reader?

Dope video, really enjoyed it! I plan to get back to writing and I love my current magic system but I want to be more objective so it gets better (it's 3 systems so a lot to go through).

Good vid

This channel has been a godsend right now. I find myself thinking about this stuff these days and I really wanted to find some youtube content to get me inspired, subscribed!

So one thing I absolutely love for when you can't let your character do a thing that they have never done before, but that they absolutely should be able to do in theory is just that it doesn't work and I don't know why. The best part is that if you want them to then be able to do that same thing later it only requires some magical techno-babel to justify that change, it becomes a discernible marker in the power growth arc rather than an inconsistency.

I think you should rename the video to "How to Expand Your Magic System". Encouraging writers to 'future proof' their magic system is a great idea, I'm doing that right now.

What a coincidence, im currently on my third draft of my magic system. You are awsome and i hope you stay so.

About the disability thing I used to like this book called Outlaws of Sherwood st. It's a Robbin Hood type story. I reread it this year and I hated it. There's a group of kids that get magic powers from this magic bracelet. One of the kids have glasses and one has a stutter and can't really speak. The girl with glasses when the power is working has perfect vision. When the power is working the boy has a perfect voice. And it made me really angry when I reread it because I have glasses and used to have speech problems.

I love this approach. I feel like this channel has helped me actually fully realize the magic in my world as an actual force of nature and not just a thing thats there Also what is the name of the other yt channel you recommend in a video?

12:06 I set up a minor antagonist to becomes a god after their complex plan finally comes together. The last remnants of the old generation almost get the most improbable of wins, but due to infighting and old grudges they essentially allow the new villain to kill them all. Now I have my protagonists with no old gen help and against the most difficult foe possible... and I've written myself into a corner. Really sucks to suck. :/

I know I’m late to the party but I have a question. If you used magic to aid in a production process to create mundane items like furniture, (the item does not have magic inherent to it. Just created using magic) where might that fall in the magic-tech spectrum (Edit) Just reached the part in the video talking about firebenders in avatar which answered my question.

Dammit, my mind was somewhere else this time; too bad, there was some nice discussion there. I've been meaning to design a system that only worked through crafting, so the whole of this power would be divided and managed between the crafters and the users.

Finally, something I am thinking about for a long time Awesome! Thank you!

This video helped me have some clarity for how my story will be develope further in editing. Tysm for the free knowledge! Id say the one im writing is soft-rational. There are a lot of cause and effect relationships happening that I know but the characters dont. Its basically the standard mana pool combined with animism. So everything has a mana pool since everything was created with magic or at least a few characters claim. Its mostly basic elemental but also light and darkness magic and a little bit of necromancy. The climax is gonna have some weird shit tho. Idk if it's super original but its gonna be weird

Oh good. My characters are already pretty ignorant, now I just need to amplify it

Thank you. This is so helpful.

Very interesting!!! Thanks for your incisive discussion

Awesome. Are the live streams on a schedule?

Well, that was brilliant and VERY helpful. Thank you. And... I don't always find it easy to watch really long talks so I liked the conciseness of this, packed with great suggestions that I can use in my WIP right now.

So what Im getting from this video and all the comments, is this is basically a SCAM! AVOID at ALL costs! Thanks to you and your viewers!

A Soft-Rational Magic System? I'm now lost 😵‍💫. I'll probably be looking at Sanderson's laws.

I'm a discovery writer and this helped me a lot. Thank you lots!!!😀😀😀

That was helpful and interesting. Thanks!

First?

Thanks for the video

@17:00 Why this creature, not that creature? Easy. Biology. In order to be able to control a creature's body, you have to understand how that body works. It takes time to disect and study a creature to understand how their particular muscles, tendons, etc. move. For me, a magic system must require some level of learning. Simple, brute force magic requires less so, but the more powerful, but defined you want an effect to be, the more learning is required.

Thanks man. I almost went for it but the pre-order turned me off. Glad I hesitated till you could get this review out.

I thought of a magic system where magic used tru focus points in every humanoid creature (aka humans elves ect.) . Both magic and non magic users have focus points (side note the densest concentration of focus points is in the hands mostly in the fingers) and an aura is emanated from all focus points .The aura can be felt better if more basic Mana(or elemental Mana) is released. No one is limited to just one element and can convert the basic Mana into elemental Mana . Beginner Mages are trained to manipulate the Mana inside their body and cast directly a element ball from their hands (fireball, waterball , earth shot, wind spike, etc) and an barrage of smaller element balls from their fingers (fire flares, water drops, stone bullets, wind streams ) the single shot cast type is more intense on the user's body than the barrage , because they have to draw way more basic Mana and then convert it to the desired element. Everyone who uses magic has a drawing limit on their Mana and reaching it usually for the average beginner mage will lead to them exploding the receiver focus points or at least damaging them. Eventually that limit can be broken by concentrating and releasing more extreme amounts of Mana, but still less than the current limit. This exercise is for the extension of the safe drawing limit and the draw limit at a lesser scale . There is also an indirect version of these cast types where the user utilizes their aura to decrease the pressure to the primary focus points ,but it requires a really great skill in energy control. There are also beam casts , laser casts, laser barrages and sub-elements like electricity, ice, metal etc.

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

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.

I got mine a couple of days ago, today I finally could try it and... yeah pretty much what you said, I can't fit the pants, so I decided to check the trackers alone, the left ones straight up don't work at all, and the rest barely do, it has really demotivated me since I bought this on August 3rd 2023, I've been waiting for 9~ months for a total waste of time and money and I'm not sure what to do now, what would you recomend me? Should I talk to my bank and take legal action to try and get the money back?

I have issues with tech being a magic system because tech should obey the laws of physics at least nominally.

I should point out for the record, that I’m a science fiction fan as well as a fantasy fan, but from your description, it sounds like my webcomic project uses a soft-rational system, much like Stargate SG-1.