OH! I totally forgot I wanted to play that mod. To be honest, I looked hard into Skyrim lore in order to figure out a way to implement some of its magic into this RPG. However, I'm at a loss regarding all the deities that would interfere with the world, or different planes of existence (from which mana comes).
The going mad part would fit though, as I was hoping to make it dark fantasy :D Taking owl's response from above, it could be a result of using up your soul haha
Interesting! I was hoping that the exposure to magic would make the players interact with various cultures. For example, a certain species/race is very good at a certain type of manipulating the magic, so they would be required to travel there in order to learn more.
I was also considering spirit magic! Using up your own spirit power would make an interesting magic limitation. Thanks for the suggestions! :)
I'd love to see a poll option :)
World building: A magic system founded in our reality?
Hello! Lately, I have been thinking a lot about a magic system for a tabletop RPG I would like to host in the future. I am starting from scratch, and I am trying to make it somewhat cryptic in the beginning so that players can slowly understand it over the course of many campaigns.
So far, I've looked through some systems already used in many fantasy worlds: elemental magic, dark and light, gravity, etc. It's cool, but not all of them are really explainable. If a person from our world was randomly transported to that universe, they wouldn't be able to properly handle the magic.
Therefore, I was thinking that the universe in which the action takes place has some form of new particle that is much more reactive to the environment. For example, drawing a rune with a material that attracts this new particle, you could perform various spells. However, this would be somewhat limiting and would suck the fun out of the action (yes, let me draw this huge magic circle during a fight with an ogre).
What magic systems have you read/seen and liked? How do you think those could be improved?
Here are a few I like:
- Jellyfin - a media server software that allows you to organize and stream your personal media collection.
- NextCloud - a self-hosted file sync and sharing platform. Not as good as Google Drive (of course), but it can do the job.
- Bitwarden (with a Rust-written alternative named [vaultwarden] (https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden)) - a password manager for storing and autofilling login credentials.
- Matrix - an open network for secure, decentralized communication. WhatsApp, but in the Fediverse.
- PiHole - a DNS sinkhole that blocks ads and other unwanted content.
- Mycroft - an open-source voice assistant. You can make your own Google Home with it.
- OctoPrint - web interface that allows you to control 3D printers. Pretty handy if you have one!
- Gitea - a lightweight self-hostable GitHub
- Home Assistant - an open-source home automation platform. Can integrate a lot of other things in your house.
- The X-arr initiative - a collection of tools for managing and organizing media libraries. Pretty good if you deploy your own media server:
- Sonarr - Select TV shows and it will automatically download episodes for you.
- Radarr -> movies
- Lidarr -> music
This would be a really good reason to replay the game as well for previous players. I've never got around to do it, as I initially started with P3P, followed by a replay on FES (where it wasn't available). I think they introduced a female protag on P5 in the DLC? So it might be very likely we'll see one here.