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For questions that have to do with magic, as opposed to science/technology. Remember to explain any limits.
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How do you defeat a time-stopping Dark Lord?
Does he spend any time in a castle, tower, or similar high structure with lots of potential energy? Preferably in the upper flors, or at least middle floors.
Target the structure. Standard one-shot c …
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Why would a secret entrance be abandoned?
Security.
They suspected, or found out, that word had got out about their secret entrance. And they feared it would be used against them. So they ordered it completely ruined.
The person set up to d …
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Why would a decision making machine decide to destroy itself?
The machine knows - because it has simulated it - that hostiles have bypassed all security measures and are seconds away from the door, ready to reprogram the machine to serve their evil goals, to the …
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How could a possessed body begin to rot and decay while it is still alive?
The force ghost does not feel any pain
As such, the host effectively catches a non-congenital version of Congenital Insensitivity to Pain, a horrible real-world disease whose sufferers tend not to liv …
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Could you run a CPU at a much higher speed, as a disposable item?
As OnoSendai alluded, cloud computing is the answer. Unlike they implied, stealing it is not necessary.
Amazon, Google, Microsoft, or any number of lesser-known cloud computing providers, will sell yo …
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In a world where magic is common, how can an economy be protected from magical counterfeitin...
More sophisticated magic can trace with high (or high-ish) confidence who did it, analogous to fingerprint analysis or tracing bullets to guns in our real world. …
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Can I use mana as currency if people are constantly generating more mana?
Yes.
The key condition is that demand for free mana is higher than aggregate supply of everyone's "just by existing" production plus other free sources.
It will have a price that makes demand meet sup …
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How can I encourage storming a castle to be more practical/safer/better rather than slowly s...
If it's a one-off, i.e., you need to convice one particular army to storm the walls once rather than to make it common practice across generations, then:
Have a much larger enemy army incoming in a s …
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How could flying soldiers influence medieval battle tactics?
Cast the spell on your best archers, sans armour. Have them attack from the air. Gravity on your side is a huge advantage when taking other archers, you can get really close to infantry for clear shot …
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How can I make humans NOT WANT to investigate how a supernatural ability works in an intelli...
No one will investigate these abilities because the Nazis (or equivalent) did investigate it.
With extreme cruelty, brutality, and quackery.
No one can even argue that it could conceivably be done …
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Permanent Full moon via "Magic"
That's no Moon...
It's not a Moon, it's a big balloon several thousand meters up in the sky. For most people the distinction makes no difference whatsoever.
A single one doesn't work for the entire pl …
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