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waddles :
I fucking LOVE the realm of the elderlings by Robin Hobb
2025-09-28 02:27:04
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Juggertroll :
I hate soft magic systems because the people in the universe never take advantage of the power they really weirdo. like star wars. the force is insanely overpowered if you think like a normal person. and by normal I don't mean neurotypical. I mean someone in our world who would look for advantages to use in the power system.
2025-09-28 13:51:31
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badgersprite :
D&D is even an example of this. eg Paladins draw power from Oaths, Sorcerers draw power from their bloodline, Wizards gain power from studying and learning spells, Warlocks draw power from making pacts with powerful entities to borrow their power, Bards use art like music or poetry to essentially tug at the invisible fabric of the cosmos, clerics draw power from ideals and beliefs, druids and rangers draw power from nature or primal forces/entities, monks get power from chi/ki.
2025-09-28 04:45:14
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dado :
It is really fun! But one thing that happens a lot in anime that I don't like is how two magic systems, that were understood as completely different things, are revealed to actually be just two branches of the same system. Idk, sounds clever at first but it also makes that world so smaller than before.
2025-09-28 03:56:28
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Jairus Strunk :
best for me for this is the name of the wind by Patrick rothfuss. Sympathy is a hard set system that really any intelligent person can learn and master with measurable and direct power. mathematically precise and exact. then you have the deeper power of naming that is incredibly hard to learn and is REAL magic that gives you control over objects or forces. then you have even deeper magic like gramary and glamoury that the fae use. such cool stuff.
2025-09-28 18:31:39
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October Dad :
That's part of what I liked about the Abhorsen series by Garth Nix with its Free Magic and Charter Magic, where one is more naturalistic and the other is more ritualistic.
2025-09-28 13:06:55
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ShadowrunNerd :
Favorite magic system comes from a series called Lightbringer where light and the color spectrum are the focus. It begins as very hard magic, but as the series goes on it expands. There’s colors that most people cannot see, there’s ways to use certain colors that weren’t taught because “heresy”, colors though to be mythical are being shown, and then you get into these divine/demonic beings that just call this magic system science and have powers non comprehended. It starts interesting but rigid, and then the magic system pulls it’s own walls down.
2025-09-28 14:50:15
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Jaylen | Author ✍️ :
I got it all lol 27 interconnected magic systems with hard and soft elements and multiple ways / sources
2025-09-28 22:25:26
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Tigra :
one of the core parts of my world is that there is this whole academia about magic treating it like a STEM science... and then there are also schools and old mages of the same academia just handwave ir cuz "cmon its magic, calculating all the time means never casting"
2025-09-28 08:07:53
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Chrisevansleftnutsack :
I have three magic systems in my Indian inspired fantasy novel and it all connects to eachother.
2025-09-28 07:51:17
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Sayle :
My WIP has a whole spectrum of magic systems because ✨evolution✨from a few roots led to some really interesting magics coming to be
2025-09-30 08:23:23
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Laz :
I love when the world is like yours expresses itself this way because of your culture and the way it was taught to you. “If I never told you, your power is contained in a box you might find another structure” type thing
2025-09-29 04:29:12
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Akashic Library :
I'm building a MASSIVE soft magic multi system. each race has their own take on magic but it all comes from the same sources.
2025-09-29 20:31:35
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Lena :
I love when books have cultural systems of magic, different groups having different forms of magic
2025-09-28 05:51:52
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MBGdragon🇵🇷🏳️🌈👬 :
mine has "mortal Magic" "supernatural racial magics" and the the Divinity (god racial magic). with mortal magic and Divinity their are entirely different cultures and traditions. making magic very diverse
2025-09-29 19:14:04
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Bunnypuppet🇵🇸 :
I love this in Wheel of Time it had the obe power, the true power, aelfin and eelfin, and ta'veren.
2025-09-28 16:40:37
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TickTickBoom :
I've been reading a lot of Xianxia fantasy books lately and I've really enjoyed that part of it. That the ways that each character interacts with the magic of the world can be so different.
2025-09-28 16:22:03
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My_jonns :
The magicians tv show has this. Humans have a very different type of magic and set of rules for their magic then the other creatures
2025-09-28 09:51:02
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Todd Maranda :
Lawrence Watt Evans has a world in his series of books that has many different types of magic that exist
2025-09-28 14:31:28
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Atom :
"The Sapling Cage" by Margaret Killjoy has this!
2025-09-28 13:52:17
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calamity :
my favorite systems comes from a fanfiction every species seems to have a different form of magic and the ones that seem to have the most bendable magic or fay. but a common saying within this fanfiction was to break the rules you must learn them because magic was about breaking the rules and there was no rule that truly was unbreakable or at least most of the time sometimes they were hard limits but not a lot and those hard limits were extreme
2025-09-28 13:05:00
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The Cartography Cottage 🇦🇺 :
My world has like three, two are just drawing from opposing essence sources but are similar in a way, the third is called Blood Casting and involves glyphs and distilling blood to get the essence within it to use
2025-09-28 11:22:50
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R.J. Toews :
I really love the way Steven Brust uses his systems. the main two, sorcery and witchcraft are so creative and distinct while feeling like they make total sense coexisting in the same world, among a few other systems that happen to exist.
2025-09-30 12:16:19
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stilesbn :
soft magic systems always seem to just be nerfed so the author doesn't have to worry about plot holes. person had god like power? why didn't he fix X? "reasons"
2025-09-29 01:31:54
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Veronica🏳️⚧️ :
The only thing is when they dont make the magic systems equal, and try and pretend that they are. Ik its an anime about boobs but the high school dxd magic systems really intrigued me at first, with humans having a math based system as opposed to the more freeform devil system, but throughout the show its made obvious that the only thing keeping humans relevant is the sacred gear system put in place by god, which is ofc co opted immediately by every other faction in the story. The overall effect presents humanity as barely worth mentioning at best, and actively hindering the real powers at worst, barring a few exceptions, which i feel like is kinda boring i
2025-09-28 16:23:40
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