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Old 01-23-2014, 02:45 PM   #24
David Johnston2
 
Join Date: Dec 2007
Default Re: No Mana Vs. No Magic

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Originally Posted by malloyd View Post
You can, but there's no particular reason not to assume "normal" physics means magic will never work and the places it will if there is mana are the exceptions.
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Oh I can think of a reason. There are two possibilities.

1. The player characters have magic.

In this case you want the default case to be that magic will work at least a little to avoid disgruntlement after they invested in a generally worthless trait. That's particularly true if they went so far as to invest in Mana Enhancer

2. The player characters do not have magic.

In which the distinction between a place where magic could possibly work at least under some circumstances but you don't ever happen to encounter anything using it and a place where magic could not possibly work at all is purely abstract and not really worth thinking about.
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