>Magicians- finger tuts/hand seals. Magic is a complex system that requires mathematical equations, proper finger positions, special words. Anyone can learn magic but some are just born with more talent to it.
>Doctor Strange- magical items, hand gestures. Anyone can learn it apparently but some are born with it.
>Harry Potter- requires magic wand, waving the wand around and saying latin words. You have to be born magical abilities.
>Sabrina- rhyming words or satanic rituals. Have to be born with it.
>Zatanna- speaking words backwards, have to be born with magic.
>Dresden- sometimes need some magical staff or something, born with it, magic interferes with electronics.
>Supernatural- Speaking special words, hex bags, anyone can learn it.
Which is the best version of magic and which would you like to use yourself?
i would but you're the most boring cunt to ever live
Asher Reed
I feel like having to be born with magic is a cop out. It should be a skill you have to learn. Wizards shouldn't be a separate race from humans.
Blake James
Dresden had a lot of cool details about how it's magic works too.
>Magic words act as a psychic insulator to the wizards mind, they have to be something that conveys what they're doing without defining it for them completely so it helps to not use a language you actually speak to cast spells. >Same with a staff or rod, but in that case the they act as physical insulators to prevent harm from casting evocation spells such as burning yourself when casting fire. >Rituals, potions, & spells components are often things that represent concepts you want to put into them. >Wizard magic fucks with technology, but older stuff gets fucked with less. Dresden has a theory that as things advance, wizards fuckery with it changes. So back in the day, a wizard casting a spell would make milk curdle and candles blow out. Now certain tech from like... The 1920's works ok around it.
That dude created some great world building for his shitty books that I have read almost all of.
Gavin Williams
forgot the most retarded magic system >Eragon- just speak the "true" names of shit in ancient language. Saying "fire" makes fire, you need some concentration or something too. If you learn the true name of someone you can control them somehow.
>Magic words act as a psychic insulator to the wizards mind, they have to be something that conveys what they're doing without defining it for them completely so it helps to not use a language you actually speak to cast spells. can anything be magic words then? Like use chinese because you don't actually know how to speak it?
>Wizard magic fucks with technology, but older stuff gets fucked with less. Dresden has a theory that as things advance, wizards fuckery with it changes. So back in the day, a wizard casting a spell would make milk curdle and candles blow out. Now certain tech from like... The 1920's works ok around it. that's interesting like magic is alive and evolves with time somehow
Jose Baker
Let’s not and say you’re a milquetoast bitch
Asher Reyes
>can anything be magic words then It's been a while since I read it, but from what I recall the words have to still somewhat convey what you're actually invoking, but it's something you don't want to actually fully conceptualize like you would if you speak that language. For example, when he casts fire spells he says "Fuego" because he had a hot Spanish teacher. Presumably if he said "fire" that wouldn't work as well because he fully understands "fire." And different wizards use different casting languages. Latin is popular as is like Egyptian.
Alexander Kelly
Rude and uncalled for... I like the Magicians franchise the best, but you canonically need to have an IQ of like 140 and undergo a bunch of anime-tier hard tests to get good. Supernatural seems like the easiest so I'd choose that. It's an easy way to explain why everyone doesn't know it. Most settings need a reason to explain why the whole population doesn't use magic the way most people in our world can read/write. Settings where the whole population can use magic exist, but they're pretty hard to portray convincingly because a totally magical society would do everything different from our society. Imagining our world but with .03% of the population being magic is easier. Personally I like the Magicians' explanation of 'magic is a system of rules and rituals that anyone can learn, but it's really really really hard so you have to be a supergenius and really motivated.'
Liam Diaz
This magic system worked great in a wizard of earthsea. I guess that's not tv related though
Liam Miller
Pop Magick by Alex Kazemi
Nolan Clark
I like the Magicians style with the finger tuts/hand seals. I don't like magic items. Supernatural isn't too bad, either.
Anthony Reyes
>It's an easy way to explain why everyone doesn't know it. Most settings need a reason to explain why the whole population doesn't use magic the way most people in our world can read/write. well the Magicians explanation that you need to be smarter than a rocket scientist to use magic is usually good enough. Though alot of magicans do act like retards for being supposedly so smart.
Leo Sanders
Same, it always was weird though when the side characters had better tutting skills than the MCs though.
Magic items just feels like someone picked up a gun except magic, doesn't take as much skill to use.
Henry Phillips
I know some people hate it but there is an asmr artist that does some relaxing tuting and it's nice. She's surprisingly talented and fluid. She'd have been good for the show as a "hand replacement" or something. I disliked the mathematical aspect, as said, the characters are meant to be geniuses but don't really act that way.
Tyler Taylor
>I know some people hate it but there is an asmr artist that does some relaxing tuting and it's nice. She's surprisingly talented and fluid who is she?
A lot of rocket scientists act like retards too. Being smart enough to understand a complex subject is wildly massively incomparably different to making good decisions
Jack Howard
I like Constantines magic system. >Spells work because people think they work. >Magic is the power of bullshit and belief melded with millennia of magic systems
Benjamin Reed
I like it when the magic is basically just really really dangerous research, everybody could learn it, but most people dont put the time/effort in. Mix that with ancient texts and legends/mythology and its great.
