Recent content by Greg Szulgit

The only two cents that I want to add is that you consider having it be a world in which technology (which might include your magic) evolves. If someone creates a powerful magic sword 1000 years ago, why hasn't the magic / tech moved on so that, when that sword is recovered from a tomb (or...

I think that making it "sciency" is fine but, by doing so, the reader might expect it to follow our current categories of physics/chemistry. If they do so, then they start to ask questions like why are light and spectrum and shadow separate (aren't they just permutations of each other), why is...

I am looking for a way to search members by location. Perhaps it si easy, and I am just missing it? The goal is to start a local monthly meetup in a pub so that we can share ideas, art, etc. in person as well as on-line.

I find myself strangely attratced to the concept that life makes mana. I say "strangley" because I usually look for energy transfers wherein energy is never created oir destroyed, but there is something truthi about life being able to create. Does life make mana from nothing or is it created...

I have to admit that it is bitter-sweet to find this forum site. I thought I was soooo special! :LOL: Now I know that there are others who have done seriously hard magic systems, so I am less-special but, at least, I have found my tribe.

Wow! That's a serious response! As it stands, your system is already more solid than 98% of any readers will ever care to question. But those on this forum, who search for "hard magic systems", are the other 2% I think your biological ideas are awesome (I'm a biologist much more than a chemist...

Boring!!??? Far from it! I think the idea of Faustian bargains has been played out a bit, and your take on it is more fresh and interesting. Especially from a Humanist perspective (I like the idea of 'evil' not coming from an external source as many religions would traditionally explain, but...

It seems like a really 'truthi' system! I think readers or RPG players would find it intuitive and, therefore, buy into it. You should be proud of it! Parhaps a challenge for you as the next step: your "magic" seems to be a branch of physics that can over-ride Newton's laws (perhaps just a...

I love that you not only explain the "fantastical", but also expalin the everyday fantastical that we all take for granted (e.g. incorporating autotrophs and the basic idea brains as "rifts" to a dimention as an explnation of consciousness). I am guessing that you put a lot of thought into...