The TTRPG game Victoriana presents a pretty cool example of what the world would look like if magic, nonhuman races and divine forces existed in...
My system is basically that magic is the manipulation of the elements. It is an art that anyone can do with practice and study, though not...
Or maybe even have mages be used for disaster relief and control, like water mages for floods, earth or fire mages for volcanoes, and air mages...
Magic itself in fantasy is a cliche, but it's done differently enough that no one calls it out these days. Elemental magic is no different, only...
I love magic that people can learn instead of the common "magic gene" that authors use. I like toying with the idea that magic can be commonly...
In my world, magic draws upon mana, life energy present within nature and living beings. Overexerting one's magical capabilities can cause severe...
Yeah, every element has a good side and a bad side. Fire often gets a lo of crap for being naturally destructive, but it's no different from a...
I've recently started taking a shine to elemental magic, especially ones that take it a different step. Avatar is one of the most famous examples...
The first is energy. All magic uses mana as a power source. It works just like stamina. Every act of magic uses mana, and using too much magic can...
I feel like they'd be more attracted to elements of the natural world, like the sun, moon and earth. Or the seasons. You know, I think fairies...
That's a shame. I too had a magic system that uses the elements from both Japanese and Chinese philosophy and running into this thread was a...
So, I think I made a similar thread about this a year or two ago when I first joined this site, but this is something new I wanted to throw out...
You know, you could just make Void that binding element that connects the other elements together. Something that regular people can't harness but...
I've developed an elemental magic system that's basically based on Witchery from the Witchlands book series. In my series, I'm trying to show how...