Subject: Re: timeline & magic questions
From: Jonathan Koehn (dgkoehn@gbasin.net)
Date: Fri Oct 08 1999 - 23:33:06 EEST
will there be any magic is not rare? like small spells or is all rare and hard to learn? eleril@majik3d.org ----- Original Message ----- From: Beregar <beregar@majik3d.org> To: <majik-design@majik3d.org> Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 12:30 PM Subject: timeline & magic questions > -- about timeline -- > > So, what's the timeline. Will we use Hooks creation suggestion? > I'd like to know these so I have something concrete where to > build my race histories. > > -- about magic -- > > What is role of the magic again? We are getting veery many races > which use magic, is their magic religious or based on symbolic > magic. It must be either of those unless it's some sort of innate > ability. > > How magic works? We agreed that non-religious magic uses > symbols, but what affects to the spellcasting itself? Will spells > consume sp? If they do, what's sp (stats or something else)? > Does it regenerate? If it does, how it regenerates? Will spells > have affecting stats, if they have will there be spells which are > dependant on multiple stats? > > Spells are formed by combining symbols. These symbols have > each three different manifestations: somatic, verbal and compo > nent. Can these manifestations compined when spell is cast? > Will caster automatically know all manifestations when he > knows the symbol? > > Since symbolic magic is difficult to learn and very powerful, > only scholars or other who are willing to spend years learning > new symbols should posses them and closely guard their > knowledge from other. However, I get feeling that current > races are very magic emphasized which is not good if symbol > magic was supposed to be rare. Should this be changed? > > You all should ask more questions and also answer to these > questions, so we can now finally get working, and lasting, > base for our magic system. > > If this mail is in disorder, blame Netscape... > > - Beregar (Beregar@majik3d.org) > >
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