[ SECRET POST #5442 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5442 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Science fiction technology and magic

[iff_and_xor]

3) I love magic approached like science or technology. Characters trying to understand how it works, performing experiments, or innovating spells/potions/etc.

Re: Science fiction technology and magic

[(Anonymous)]

I love it when characters approach magic like that too, but only when all attempts to quantify it go wrong because it is magic and magic doesn't have to obey rules or be consistent. It leaves the scientific method sobbing in the corner of the room about the unfairness of magic just working.

Re: Science fiction technology and magic

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt. Ha, I like it the exact opposite. I like my magic to have rules and be consistent. I hate how hand-wavey authors get over their protagonist's use of magic so I like rules to help keep them honest. And if they break them, there should be consequences.

Re: Science fiction technology and magic

[(Anonymous)]

Where is the magic in that then? Any magic which obeys rules is insufficiently magical. It is technobabble with a fake beard.

Re: Science fiction technology and magic

[(Anonymous)]

DA

But not all magic has to be unknowable and beyond reason to work in fiction. The way you like it is good, but it’s not suddenly “not real magic” if it works in a world the way AYRT likes. Why should it always work one way? It would be boring that way.

Re: Science fiction technology and magic

[iff_and_xor]

What are you reading where magic has no rules at all? I mean, at the most basic level, a spell is a repeatable experiment. Say some words, wave a wand --> thing happens.

Are we talking about fantasy where omnipotent gods just do random miracles?

Edit: To clarify, my original comment wasn't actually in favor of magic systems where everything is figured out. My favourite version is where people are somewhere along the path of uncovering patterns and linking cause and effect. Maybe ultimately not all of it can be fit into a neat theory. But magic with no room for analytical curiosity is just boring to me.