This reminds me of a magic mechanism I once thought up for fantasy story. The idea was that magic is all around us and we can store it in our bodies and we are then able to utilise the stored magic in our bodies to do extra ordinary things like casting various spells.
The thing is that because magic is very similar to energy, our body treats it similarly to excess energy and stores it in our fat cells. Therefore you have a lot of people walking around who look really overweight because they don't ever want to be without access to casting magic.
However, the more experienced you become, the more dense your "magic fat matter" becomes and so the more you can do with less amounts of fat. Therefore the most powerful mages can actually afford to walk around thin and still achieve amazing things but do to their size a lot of people can mistake them for weak or non spell caster, allowing for some fun story potential.
Haha ya I spend way to much time thinking up potential strange magic systems for stories haha :P
I write all the time and this is a wonderful story prompt! If you like to write, please use it some time and make a post with the results, I would love to read it!
Haha thanks man, This is something I have found myself thinking about a lot over the years. Mainly because it's fun for me, even if I don't write anything about it. :P I enjoy making up stories and the background around them.
I once wrote about 150 pages of a modern day fantasy novel but I didn't back it up (this is where I learnt my lesson :P I now back EVERYTHING up). Our computer crashed and all the data was corrupted and so I lost it all. I tried to re-write it but it came out too mechanical because I was trying to rush through to where I was before. So I left it. This is why I have only really written short stories since.
Sweet. I love the creativity that comes with writing. Yeah, I back up practically everything now. My music, contracts, email, docs, accounts for some services and more are backed/connected to google so I can pick up a new android phone and have it feel like home within 5 minutes
Sho, thank you, that's quite the compliment :) unfortunately I don't have any aspersions to make my own game. It would take me too much time. (I'm assuming you mean make my own gaming system :P)
This reminds me of a magic mechanism I once thought up for fantasy story. The idea was that magic is all around us and we can store it in our bodies and we are then able to utilise the stored magic in our bodies to do extra ordinary things like casting various spells.
The thing is that because magic is very similar to energy, our body treats it similarly to excess energy and stores it in our fat cells. Therefore you have a lot of people walking around who look really overweight because they don't ever want to be without access to casting magic.
However, the more experienced you become, the more dense your "magic fat matter" becomes and so the more you can do with less amounts of fat. Therefore the most powerful mages can actually afford to walk around thin and still achieve amazing things but do to their size a lot of people can mistake them for weak or non spell caster, allowing for some fun story potential.
Haha ya I spend way to much time thinking up potential strange magic systems for stories haha :P
That sounds awesome. Like seriously
I write all the time and this is a wonderful story prompt! If you like to write, please use it some time and make a post with the results, I would love to read it!
If you ever make a game I would love to play test it.
Haha thanks man, This is something I have found myself thinking about a lot over the years. Mainly because it's fun for me, even if I don't write anything about it. :P I enjoy making up stories and the background around them.
I once wrote about 150 pages of a modern day fantasy novel but I didn't back it up (this is where I learnt my lesson :P I now back EVERYTHING up). Our computer crashed and all the data was corrupted and so I lost it all. I tried to re-write it but it came out too mechanical because I was trying to rush through to where I was before. So I left it. This is why I have only really written short stories since.
Sweet. I love the creativity that comes with writing. Yeah, I back up practically everything now. My music, contracts, email, docs, accounts for some services and more are backed/connected to google so I can pick up a new android phone and have it feel like home within 5 minutes
I doubt I will write on this particular. There's a few other ideas I would like to try write before this topic. You are wecome to give it a go :)
Sho, thank you, that's quite the compliment :) unfortunately I don't have any aspersions to make my own game. It would take me too much time. (I'm assuming you mean make my own gaming system :P)
I've been working on one off and on for about a year and a half. It's not too terribly hard, just depends on how much you want to delve into it.