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An interesting idea for this ( which shows up in one form in the Fionnavar Tapestry books ) is that the ability to carry magic is a talent a little like the ability to shape it, so the unobtrusive magical …

Horses are creatures of steppe and plain, they don't really need any housing and they don't need good quality grazing- if anything rough grass is far better for their digestion. Most of what they want …

The important thing for Alice to do is to set up the environment such that there is no way luck can help Rynn. In a direct and unprepared confrontation this would be very difficult to do, but if she c …

I think there would be a role around gambling- minor physical discontinuities are precisely the kind of thing that would allow one to bias the game in favour of the house or in favour of the gambler, …

The spell has two components - it can only be cast by someone who is attuned to a specific form and shape of magic. …

Magic is unnatural, so it interacts unusually with nature - if it's left on grass, perhaps the grass dies back or grows longer. … It actively suppresses any attempts to use magic around it by others. …

Perhaps only some people have the ability to do it, or magic is governed by some kind of sentience that must be bargained with or similar, but you need to have a reason that magic isn't simply a different … As a corollary, it might be interesting to make different things simple with either, so things that are easy with magic are technologically hard and vice versa; maybe magic can create clear three dimensional …

In a world where magic is available, that might well become an alternative to slavery, a way of getting work done without that cost in human life and dignity. … It may result in a fairly enlightened society in some respects, but at the same time the limits of magic would be the limits of technology and without the need to look for something else, it's plausible …

There are a couple of things that spring to mind for me: Unlight is a place Perhaps magic is a way of interacting with other places - possibly consciousness is an intersection of different planes or … For a good take on the magic as parallel places concept you could read the Malazan Book Of The Fallen stories. …

My starting point for thinking about magic in this way would be magnets ( how do they work??? … A magic sword that caused enemies armour or weapons to heat up would confer some advantages. …

If you wanted a magic that was indistinguishable from luck but consistently in your favour, I think the magical ability you would need would be to see alternate outcomes of an event and to pick which outcome … This is quite an interesting idea as a form of magic, guiding the world towards the outcomes you desire by nudging the causal chain of events that would otherwise fall out randomly. …

The awesome solution would be to dig a shallow channel and then tie the rock it to the bottom of a flat raft. Let the water-producing rock produce its own waterway so it can be floated home. Meanwhile …

A question regarding how the guilds might afford large infrastructure projects might be more informative if you were to invert it somewhat- what large infrastructure projects could the guilds not affo …

If you wanted to make your metasilk super effective, rather than simply making it impenetrable, give it a property that makes it highly conductive to force. Imagine that a spider has made a web, the …