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Jeff Rowland calls today "First Person I Hear Talk Like a Pirate I Punch" Day
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"Magic is what makes fantasy fantastic," someone says, "you can't apply rules to them or else it loses wonder!" I respond, "Sure, but if you want to write them you will certainly want to know how they work." Writing is all about execution, and I find applying some basic laws of physics to magic systems make them more understandable and realistic. Here, I'm going to outline my basic method for developing a magic system.
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Jeff Rowland calls today "First Person I Hear Talk Like a Pirate I Punch" Day
If you wanted to show this mathematically, you could say that the percentage of numbers with a 3 in them can be expressed as 1 - (.9)^n where n equals the number of digits. When you hit about 42 digits, 99 percent of the numbers have a three in them.
So, if you have 1-(.9)^(infinity), then you would have 1, or one hundred percent.