Hi, lurker here. I'm part way through my WIP fantasy. The magic in my world is powered by an entity that is slowly consuming the planet. I have...
Ladies, gentlemen, I've been thinking a lot about the cost of casting magic spells. I've been thinking about how crazily one single mage could...
I was born on Halloween so I've always harbored a love for creepy things. Monsters, myths, urban legends, that sort of thing. When I was...
When I first started writing my book, it took place in the real world, but there was magic that was a secret (typical for YA novels, I know)....
It seems like in a lot of fantasy literature that the use of magic comes with a price. But I was wondering, does this have to be the case? Now my...
I've been struggling for a long time with creating a magic system for my book. Every time I've tried to work on it, I just find more flaws, or...
I have a story arc in my series where some of the characters are humanoid dragons. Not for the purpose of making scalies, it's for other story...
The first novel in my new LitRPG Series Monsters, Maces and Magic: Outpost has been published. It is currently available for ebook preorder for a...
This is something I've been tinkering with for a while because magic in fiction can do anything, includes dues ex massacre a plot. For a good...
So I'm building an Epic Fantasy novel on the premise that possessing too much of the wrong type of knowledge can damage the living soul. More...
Help me think of a good magic trick for my character to do. I don't want it to be a card trick or anything too common. The setting is a car garage...
Any magic system needs limits. This I've learned as I have done research. In fact, I subconsciously made a limit to my own magic that I only...
Are there fantasy stories where magic is nothing but a highly-advanced technology? And would this blur the line between fantasy and science fiction?
I've been told by my friend that he cannot make heads or tails of my magic system. I always pictured it having a leveling system, similar to RPGs....
Short version: My setting has magic, but magic that mostly just manipulates physical laws. (So less 'Sword and sorcery' style, where you could...
So, for quite some time I've been working on my magic system. Expanding in size to have a logical rule throughout the story to prevent the -MC...
I’m currently trying to work out cost and limitation of a magic system ... that is t really magic; it’s the idea of technological powers that...
I'm not too familiar with the high fantasy sword-and-sorcery genre outside of video games, so I have a question for all the readers and writers of...
I've got an idea partially birthed and I need help finishing it. Why would a dragon require a rider with the ability to sense and use magic but...
Hello, everyone, I am brand new to writingforums.org. I am totally stuck on figuring the last little bit of my magic system and found this place....
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