[Space/Thaumatology] Stargate: Fantasy - Worldbuilding thread

Prince Charon · 09-06-2022, 07:58 AM

OK, so 2 loses a vote, 1 gains a vote, 6 gains a vote and thus breaks the tie, and ley lines get all YES... which means that we have no equivalent to mana, and ley lines therefore cannot exist (6 clearly says that magic works the same all over; I'd've pointed this out before if I'd been more awake the last couple of times I checked here), but have to exist because even the people who voted for 6 asked for them. Help?

EDIT: I suspect we aren't all using the same concept of what a ley line is. To me, they are linear locations (like rivers or roads, or like mana zones that are especially long and thin) near which magic is easier in some way, or where specific types of magic are easier; this was largely informed by Robert Asprin's MythAdventures books, and by an article in an issue of Roleplayer that I forgot the number of. They may cross each other and make compatible magics even easier than that, or they may be in concentric rings around some important feature (possibly getting more or less intense as you get closer), or both.

09-06-2022, 07:58 AM	#17
Prince Charon Join Date: Dec 2012	Re: [Space/Thaumatology] Stargate: Fantasy - Worldbuilding thread OK, so 2 loses a vote, 1 gains a vote, 6 gains a vote and thus breaks the tie, and ley lines get all YES... which means that we have no equivalent to mana, and ley lines therefore cannot exist (6 clearly says that magic works the same all over; I'd've pointed this out before if I'd been more awake the last couple of times I checked here), but have to exist because even the people who voted for 6 asked for them. Help? EDIT: I suspect we aren't all using the same concept of what a ley line is. To me, they are linear locations (like rivers or roads, or like mana zones that are especially long and thin) near which magic is easier in some way, or where specific types of magic are easier; this was largely informed by Robert Asprin's MythAdventures books, and by an article in an issue of Roleplayer that I forgot the number of. They may cross each other and make compatible magics even easier than that, or they may be in concentric rings around some important feature (possibly getting more or less intense as you get closer), or both. __________________ Warning, I have the Distractible and Imaginative quirks in real life. "The more corrupt a government, the more it legislates." -- Tacitus Five Earths, All in a Row. Updated 12/17/2022: Apocrypha: Bridges out of Time, Part I has been posted. Last edited by Prince Charon; 09-06-2022 at 08:17 AM.