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| Topic | Magic as a weapon is kinda dumb in fiction... |
| ParanoidObsessive 08/13/20 8:30:16 PM #21: | SpeedDemon20 posted... Harry Potter should've just used a gun. A magic gun. That fires wands. Lokarin posted... This is more what I was getting at, the uncreativity. You should play Mage: the Ascension. The entire point of the magic system in the game is to be as imaginative as possible (which admittedly makes it harder for the GM to adjudicate). The limiting factor there is "vulgarity" and "Paradox"- ie, the idea that the reason why we don't have wizards riding dragons and flinging fireballs at each other today is because the universe doesn't like blatant rule breaking. So modern wizards come up with coincidental magical effects that accomplish the same sort of things while seeming almost normal. Why set someone on fire with a fireball you throw at them when you can just stop their heart from halfway across the room and make it look like natural causes? In one Mage game I once used magic to kill off all of the beneficial bacteria in someone's colon so they'd suffer from irritable bowel syndrome. Now that's creative! --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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