Magic System Monday

The concept of time traveling is a common one in fiction, giving rise and prominence to the concept of the butterfly effect. But is the butterfly effect accurate? And how much of a place must it hold in the case of writing time travel?

Steins;Gate has entered the chat to put a lid on the matter with its clever time mechanic called "The once percent barrier" which limits the degree of the butterfly effect's reach. Join us as we talk about the interact of the one percent barrier and what we can draw from it conceptually to enrich the way we execute time travel in our work.

On today's episode of magic system Monday, we have an odd change of pace. We'll be discussing not the magic system as a whole, but a specific spell in dnd as well as an odd player made workaround surrounding it. The invisibility spell seems to have some clever players coming up with ideas that may ruin it's respective place in the meta, so today we expirament with how to solve this issue with the addition of a few small qualities with the purpose of demonstrating how ironing out some finer details or phenomenon in a magic system can effect the overall result.

TLDR: we defeat flour,GG-no-Re. We'll, except the trail. But with what we have in this episode, I'm sure we've drop enough hints for you to figure that out.

People often say that a good magic system needs to have a cost, but what really is a cost? And is it true? Well that depends on your definition,which varies far more than reasonable. But perhaps another interesting question to ask would be wether or not your cost is too dramatic, as I've seen a trend of making magic dramatic to raise the stakes seem almost mandatory to some. So join me as we take a look at these two questions and the implications on the community due to even having to ask them.

In this episode we will discuss the Earth elemental as well as it's expression within the series as a demonstration of the benefits of a hard magic system

This is part two in the series on ATLA which covers water

The first in the series of episodes covering A:TLA. Firstly we have an explanation for the the basics of how the bending works, what the Avatar is, as well as the the principles and origin of Airbending.

To day we start with some basic info: what a magic system is, why it is useful, and how I go about grading one.