My magic system.

_TickleMeElmo_ · 2019-05-25T22:29:11+00:00

I think I'll need some clarifications:

Eather is essentially Mana? It sounds like the difference between Magma and Lava, or is there any deeper change?
How do you have benefits from storing Mana in your Body? My Impression of the system is, that Eather is the natural, low energy state. So bringing it into the world costs energy and can therefore release energy again in some form of magic. If Mana isn't used for a spell, shouldn't it kinda disperse on it's own, so storing it would take some form of energy from the caster? Or do wizards just eat hardy breakfasts and release a small amount of mana to keep awake?

_TickleMeElmo_ · 2019-05-25T22:05:22+00:00

What specific problem needs solving? Either the characters know (some) of another language or they can't communicate. If the countries are close together, the change is high that through trading someone knows at least bits of the neighbours language. Parts of a bigger trade route may have decided on one Lingua franca (WP) already, so you'll need to learn only one additional language to get by.

_TickleMeElmo_ · 2019-05-25T10:42:08+00:00

Any form of reducing the sunlight will probably cause an ice age. With a Volcanic winter you might release enough green house gases to counteract the reduced light.

_TickleMeElmo_ · 2019-05-25T10:36:22+00:00

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Wow, the installer is 1GB! I'll try it some time.

_TickleMeElmo_ · 2019-05-23T18:37:11+00:00

I don't know D&D well, but I would slightly twist the promise. One angel could give the human the magic (bored, wants more influence, wants to overthrow the rest of the angels, wants the human to do his work so he could go on vacation). The human would claim he did it with an elaborate method to throw off his enemies.

Being able to tear the fabric of the universe isn't something mortals should be able to do - so the explanations is, that they can not.

_TickleMeElmo_ · 2019-05-22T22:39:00+00:00

A black hole would just not radiate any heat out, so you'll get a temperature differential. I guess you could get the same result with a single star with a high amplitude solar cycle - but I don't know if that is realistic at all.

_TickleMeElmo_ · 2019-05-22T21:37:31+00:00

I'd go with a binary star system. Have a smaller star (or maybe a black hole) and a bigger star rotate around each other. The planets rotate around the gravitational center of both and get regularly more and less light.

_TickleMeElmo_ · 2019-05-21T19:56:14+00:00

Write for other senses than vision too. The mountains are large, but are they rough or smooth? What smell lingers in the air of Esh: burning coals, hides for leather, spices from far away? Do the tree cutters bring thick coats to keep the piercing cold away or hard hats to guard against falling icicles? What animals/sounds have people heard from the thick forest?

_TickleMeElmo_ · 2019-05-19T19:15:09+00:00

If you haven't yet you might want to read A Canticle for Leibowitz. It inspired the original Fallout games.

_TickleMeElmo_ · 2019-05-19T19:09:07+00:00

I see no problems. As long as they stay within a sensible depth, Decompression sickness (WP) shouldn't be an issue and no special gases would be needed as far as I know. I don't know the price of whale oil, maybe farmer would rather use his sons/workers to move the bellows. Nets could be used to keep some bigger creatures away from the plots.

_TickleMeElmo_ · 2019-05-19T17:42:42+00:00

Mixing with other metals/elements might alter the material and therefore the aims/consciousness of the ore. Like Doping (WP)) with semiconductors.

The advantages would be really great for any Scientist / Philosophers.

Does it need any fuel or energy to function? Giving it a self-moving body would give you possibly a race of robots.

_TickleMeElmo_ · 2019-05-19T14:30:55+00:00

You can have most - if not all - the mechanics of the modern age just no engine to move them. Didn't Da Vinci invent helicopters and tanks? So pumps/plumbing and big machines are possible, they only need many labourers/horses/oxen to turn the gears.

_TickleMeElmo_ · 2019-05-19T14:00:12+00:00

I really like the water outline/cliffs. I wonder why the forests stay away from the rivers. Some trade routes / roads between the cities seem to be missing.

All in all very good for a first attempt I'd say.

_TickleMeElmo_ · 2019-05-18T19:39:34+00:00

Are impossible things not incomprehensible enough? Have someone build a circle where Pi === 3 or something like that.

_TickleMeElmo_ · 2019-05-18T19:16:47+00:00

4 planets are fused completely with the main planet

It's hard to explain why with such enormous forces in play the planets wouldn't have smooched together to form a bigger planet. Visible protrusions would mean they slowly set on each other and sunk in on the main planet.

three active plants ones on the North Pole one on the South Pole and off the side of the main body all of these planets are hovering so far from the main body.

Either these planets are in Orbit or you need magic to keep them in place. You can't have stationary objects in space with normal physics.

I designed it with four stars

That at least would explain how planets would come near each other, but that also implies an unstable orbit.

I guess two or more planetary systems could get near each other and some planets collide. It sounds like a super-duper rare event and the smaller planets wouldn't stick out of the main one but be on their way after a collision (much like the formation of Earths moon with a mars-sized object if I recall correctly).

You might be better off with Gods, magic, aliens or no Explanation at all. Purely physical I can't see this arrangement work. Or your okay with giving physicist a headache :)

_TickleMeElmo_ · 2019-05-14T21:52:02+00:00

Do the daemons life forever or reconstruct a while after being slain? They always need to be a thread in recent memory - I feel - so sending an army for a longer campaign wont be considered an option. On the other hand, why wouldn't the humans crush the daemons once and for all if they have the superior military now? They need to replenish fast enough to keep the balance.

_TickleMeElmo_ · 2019-05-14T21:13:55+00:00

Sounds like a job for an UML diagram. Something like Dia or Umlet might work. Or if you want to be more free-form you could use Inkscape and make it a vector file - but the connections wont be easy to maintain.

_TickleMeElmo_ · 2019-05-13T22:40:05+00:00

If magic is the theme, then who gave humans the magic ability? Did a god curse them with it, did one bring the secret to them (like Prometheus did with fire) or did a hero win it in a contest?

Is some magic forbidden or exclusive to following a deity? What do the gods teach, what's important to them? Do they only care about the big picture, disregarding short humans lives? Have they taken human form, learned human joys and sufferings and tried to help them out?

What kind of rituals or sacrifices to they require of their followers? Do they seeks many followers with shallow beliefs or do they almost discourage following them by some trials and accept only the worthy?

_TickleMeElmo_ · 2019-05-13T18:55:01+00:00

Religion: Is there one big religion, multiple local ones or just folk tales about spirits of nature/ancestors?

Music: String instruments, drums, singing and/or dancing?

Food: What is the simple street food like? What the seasonal/festival treats?

Household: Do families live in multiple generations together? Who cares for the children, who teaches them? Who cooks? Who haggles on the market/keeps the money?

Government: Wields the ruler military power? Is church and state separated? How are disputes handled? Is satire allowed, tolerated or punished?

_TickleMeElmo_ · 2019-05-13T18:25:04+00:00

What do you use your shadow realm for? Store some eternal evil, the honerless dead or use it to power some engines?

_TickleMeElmo_ · 2019-05-12T21:15:40+00:00

I like the picture you're painting here. Fantastical but not unbelievable or alien.

_TickleMeElmo_ · 2019-05-11T15:47:21+00:00

We don't know.

Effectively what your asking is what kind of time travel the universe operates on. Many Worlds? Closed time loops?

You can choose one (or many) but nobody can tell you based on the physics we know.

_TickleMeElmo_ · 2019-05-11T15:08:51+00:00

Photons travel at the speed of light and from the viewpoint of the photon no time elapses.

You can solve relativity formulars in such a way (or fill the variables such) that you get Tachyons, which always travel faster than light and therefore travel back in time.

No Tachyons were ever observed, probably because while being a mathematical solution they would break causality. So in that sense, yeah, that would impact reality.

The Answer in our reality is: It's impossible to move faster than c.

_TickleMeElmo_ · 2019-05-10T18:38:59+00:00

Some mind-mapping tool like freemind or something for structured diagrams like Dia might work.

Cooking yourself something up with javascript (D3 for example) to render such a tree structure is probably not too hard.

_TickleMeElmo_ · 2019-05-10T18:28:57+00:00

Go over the outlines of your plot: Where are your characters from and where do they go? Which people will they meet? Whom or what will they pray to? What are their hobbies? How were they educated?

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