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Everything Else / Re: Weird and Strange Habits
« on: January 11, 2006, 08:43:59 PM »
How long do you sleep when you do?
"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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I was about ready to pull out my international time zone chart, think about leap year, and the 'leap second' that just took palce, and figure out what was going on.
Thanks, e, for saving me all that work.
Yes, we should definitely fix that because the results of the polls are so freaking important. I mean, what would happen to the world if we let people mess with the poll results?
I am of the opinion that any wholesale change to our rating system would ideally involve dropping numbers altogether and substituting adjectives: Poor, Fair, Good, Excellent, Perfect, etc. (though of course we'd have more than that). That would make it obvious what we mean, without the need to quantify artistic expression.