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Your favourite magic system ?

#101 User is offline   Zanth13 

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Posted 12 May 2008 - 04:04 AM

Xander;306114 said:

Haha, thanks for clarifying Cause :p

Although GRRM's series doesn't have any known "systems", I like how magic is very discreet and in the background of the books.

I just wish I had materia slots in my weapons :D


What weapons?? :p
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Posted 12 May 2008 - 04:06 AM

Zanth13;306456 said:

What weapons?? :D


Why my ninja sword and gauntlets of course, silly goose :p
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Posted 12 May 2008 - 04:51 AM

Xander;306459 said:

Why my ninja sword and gauntlets of course, silly goose :D


of course :p

which reminds me Piers Anthonies Kelvin of Rudd series had some interesting magic

also his Through the Ice book... now that just had some cool Ideas... (he actually just finished the book of a fan who died as a charity thing, but awesome book)

the group of heroes were each from different worlds/dimensions
You had a chic with psy powers...
a Satyr with magic powers (inlcluding a flute that could store and or replicate stuff it had stored),
a man with Super-man level strength
and a guy from our world, with knowledge of science...

guess who was outclassed to start with:D
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Posted 07 June 2008 - 07:18 PM

Zanth13;305829 said:

Early Xanth novels also explored the idea of a land where every one had magic... I really liked the first 5 books too (until the series became a big punish cartoon)


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Posted 07 June 2008 - 10:47 PM

Some systems not yet mentioned are the ESP powers in the Darkover* books (the good ones MZB wrote before she hit it big with Mists of Avalon) and Katherine Kurtz' Deryni magic. What interests me in those is the impact they have on society: the development from the uncontrolled powers to circles that in the end become so restrictive they no longer work; or the problem of magic versus Church.

* Yeah, I know they're considered SciFi, but it's basically Fantasy in space, imho.

I'm also interested to see where Brian Ruckley, another so far unmentioned author, is taking his Shared (have read Winterbirth so far, and Bloodheir on my shelf).

I like different sorts of magic, including the worlds that have little of it, like GRRM or Guy Gavriel Kay.
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Posted 08 June 2008 - 12:37 AM

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