Glad to hear it! I'm always trying to provide information that can be helpful to novelists, GMs, and developers alike. If you're looking for other resources to help with homebrew dnd, you should definitely check out Undercommon Taste undercommontaste.podbean.com/
Glad you like them! I absolutely want to return as a guest on Exolore. Be sure to let Moiya know this as well and the chances of it happening will only go up :)
i have a very serious question. HOW THE FUK YOU HAVE ONLY 874 (at the time when iam writing the comment) SUBSCRIBERS??? this channel deserves more subs. the content is very high tier.
Would you please go more into detail about the perspective? Like what would an example of a character perspective be in this instance, and how does it differ from a creators perspective
Sure. Here's a quick example. If we were to examine the star magic system from one of the spiders, this chould change a number of things. For one, they might have less information than we do as a creator. They might not understand how the stars influence the magic and assume it is managed by the will of the gods or something, making it feel like a softer system. It's a little tricky with this system, because we built most of it with the assumption that the civilizations would know most, if not more, about the magic than we do as the creator. If you've read the Mistborn trilogy, you can use this as a thought experiment. What does the blueprint look like to the reader, what would it look like to a noble without allomancy, and what would it look like to a Skaa with zero context for the magic. Each person's perspective changes things in this case
I love this approach. I feel like this channel has helped me actually fully realize the magic in my world as an actual force of nature and not just a thing thats there Also what is the name of the other yt channel you recommend in a video?
@@themagicengineer5314 ya as a science nerd, I definitely appreciate it being put into more practical theory. Also, I think so, but the link doesn't work
@@absolutelycitron1580 That is so weird. I copied the link right from the page, but the hyperlink I gave you doesn't work for me either. Google "Exolore Podcast" and it should get you where you need to be. No idea why that didn't work
This isn't really very relevant to the video but I have multiple wip stories that have a magic system. I haven't developed the system for each yet but my idea has always been just make alteration to the magic system I have developed for those stories. Mostly just changing it to be softer or harder to fit the story. I came up with this because I didn't want to make a magic system from scratch for each story. But this has me wondering, is it ok to reuse a magic system? And I'm talking about for stories not set in the same world.
Absolutely! You can reuse a magic system over and over, as long as you continue to make it interesting. That was the main problem I had with the Shannara series. I liked the magic, but after half a dozen books, I really wanted to see something besides the elf stones, the song, and the sword. Or at the very least, something new about them. As for tweaking the hardness and softness, it sounds like you'll want to focus in on the protagonist perspective. At some point, the magic will be harder and better defined for the reader than it is for the character, so focus in on the character experience to create the balance you're looking for.
Good to see a soft magic system, for once. People are too obsessed with the hard/hard-rational magic systems these days. Emphasize on "systems", not "magic".
Yeah. I think Brandon Sanderson is a big reason for that. You can still find a lot of soft systems in the horror genre. Or if you want to see soft-irraitonal magic done well, check out Black Company by Glenn Cook
@@themagicengineer5314 yep, I've read Black Company. I'm alway on a lookout for more soft-rational or soft-irrational magic systems, though. Or even hard-irrational. Magic having a degree of unpredictability, even for the magic users themselves, is alway good for the sense of wonder invokes, I think.
How are you distinguishing infinite vs renewable magic sources? You said that the flux was neutral because while the commonness was increasing that was causing there to be less magic for each individual, but you also said that it was infinite rather than renewable.
The total pool of magic is consistent and is being diluted as more magic-users are born. But as a magic user, your energy reserves never run dry. you can keep performing magic as long as you are alive without having to stop for it to refill, recharge, or otherwise renew itself
It would certainly be a harder system to them than to any reader of the story simply because they know more, but I think it would still be on the soft side of the spectrum There are simply too many stars for them and constellations for a single mage to know them all
Goodness, you are an engineer. Thank you for the example and for guiding us to think through it as you would
My pleasure!
This is great news for homebrew dnd
Glad to hear it! I'm always trying to provide information that can be helpful to novelists, GMs, and developers alike.
If you're looking for other resources to help with homebrew dnd, you should definitely check out Undercommon Taste
undercommontaste.podbean.com/
The ultimate astrology book
lol
I am going to use this habitually from now on holy wowzers!
Glad you found it helpful! If you have questions or suggestions, you know where to find me :)
Just listened to all the episodes! Loved the magic system episodes!!! ♥♥ Hope to listen to you again @exolorepod later on! :)
Glad you like them! I absolutely want to return as a guest on Exolore. Be sure to let Moiya know this as well and the chances of it happening will only go up :)
An excellent video! I ended up backing your project, it seems very interesting :)
Awesome, thank you for the support! Let me know if you have any questions
Very glad I found this channel yesterday! Looking forward to more fantastic content.
Glad you enjoy it!
i have a very serious question. HOW THE FUK YOU HAVE ONLY 874 (at the time when iam writing the comment) SUBSCRIBERS??? this channel deserves more subs. the content is very high tier.
Probably because I miss responding to comments like this one. Lol. Thank you for the support and the subscriber count is climbing :)
Would you please go more into detail about the perspective?
Like what would an example of a character perspective be in this instance, and how does it differ from a creators perspective
Sure. Here's a quick example. If we were to examine the star magic system from one of the spiders, this chould change a number of things.
For one, they might have less information than we do as a creator. They might not understand how the stars influence the magic and assume it is managed by the will of the gods or something, making it feel like a softer system.
It's a little tricky with this system, because we built most of it with the assumption that the civilizations would know most, if not more, about the magic than we do as the creator.
If you've read the Mistborn trilogy, you can use this as a thought experiment. What does the blueprint look like to the reader, what would it look like to a noble without allomancy, and what would it look like to a Skaa with zero context for the magic. Each person's perspective changes things in this case
I love this approach. I feel like this channel has helped me actually fully realize the magic in my world as an actual force of nature and not just a thing thats there
Also what is the name of the other yt channel you recommend in a video?
I'm so glad that you found this helpful!
Is it Exolore you were looking for (www.moiyamctier.com/exolore) or did I mention something else somewhere?
@@themagicengineer5314 ya as a science nerd, I definitely appreciate it being put into more practical theory. Also, I think so, but the link doesn't work
@@absolutelycitron1580 That is so weird. I copied the link right from the page, but the hyperlink I gave you doesn't work for me either.
Google "Exolore Podcast" and it should get you where you need to be. No idea why that didn't work
This isn't really very relevant to the video but I have multiple wip stories that have a magic system. I haven't developed the system for each yet but my idea has always been just make alteration to the magic system I have developed for those stories. Mostly just changing it to be softer or harder to fit the story. I came up with this because I didn't want to make a magic system from scratch for each story. But this has me wondering, is it ok to reuse a magic system? And I'm talking about for stories not set in the same world.
Absolutely! You can reuse a magic system over and over, as long as you continue to make it interesting. That was the main problem I had with the Shannara series. I liked the magic, but after half a dozen books, I really wanted to see something besides the elf stones, the song, and the sword. Or at the very least, something new about them.
As for tweaking the hardness and softness, it sounds like you'll want to focus in on the protagonist perspective. At some point, the magic will be harder and better defined for the reader than it is for the character, so focus in on the character experience to create the balance you're looking for.
Good to see a soft magic system, for once. People are too obsessed with the hard/hard-rational magic systems these days. Emphasize on "systems", not "magic".
Yeah. I think Brandon Sanderson is a big reason for that. You can still find a lot of soft systems in the horror genre. Or if you want to see soft-irraitonal magic done well, check out Black Company by Glenn Cook
@@themagicengineer5314 yep, I've read Black Company. I'm alway on a lookout for more soft-rational or soft-irrational magic systems, though. Or even hard-irrational.
Magic having a degree of unpredictability, even for the magic users themselves, is alway good for the sense of wonder invokes, I think.
@@arcanefeline Definitely check out Uprooted by Naomi Novik / The Abhorsen Trilogy by Garth Nix / Swan Song by Robert McCammon
@@themagicengineer5314 I'll put them on my to-read list, thanks!
@@arcanefeline excellent! I hope you enjoy them
How are you distinguishing infinite vs renewable magic sources? You said that the flux was neutral because while the commonness was increasing that was causing there to be less magic for each individual, but you also said that it was infinite rather than renewable.
The total pool of magic is consistent and is being diluted as more magic-users are born. But as a magic user, your energy reserves never run dry. you can keep performing magic as long as you are alive without having to stop for it to refill, recharge, or otherwise renew itself
So a mage perspective would have it he hard, because they know the stars
It would certainly be a harder system to them than to any reader of the story simply because they know more, but I think it would still be on the soft side of the spectrum
There are simply too many stars for them and constellations for a single mage to know them all
@@themagicengineer5314 is the movement completely random, or is there momentum and acceleration as even a factor in how the stars move