Tag: magic systems
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A Plain Brown Wren: or, In Defense of Small Magics – GUEST POST by Alexandra Rowland
A Plain Brown Wren: or, In Defense of Small Magics by Alexandra Rowland You know what I love? Wizards. Or mages, or magic-users—whatever you want ... -
How to take your Magic System to the Next Level – GUEST POST by Astrid Knight
Today, we’re super excited to welcome Astrid Knight to the Hive! Astrid is here to talk all things magic systems. Before we hand you over to ... -
A Guide to Writing Magic Systems: GUEST POST by Mike Alwill
If you were to grab a stranger off the street and ask them what magic was, well… first they’d probably mention someone like Penn and Teller, ... -
Martial Arts and Magic, Part 4: Qigong and Inner Power
Part 4, all right! If you haven’t read the previous installments, here are the links: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. I’m going to start ... -
Martial Arts and Magic, Part 3: Internal VS. External Styles
All right, here we go again–talking about martial arts, movement, and magic systems! If you haven’t read the previous articles in this series, Part 1 is ... -
Martial Arts as Magic, Part 2: Baguazhang and the Basics
Welcome to Part 2 of my mini-series on creating magic systems based on movement and martial arts! If you didn’t read Part 1, start here, you ... -
Vancian Magic and D&D
My very first introduction to D&D and its magic system came from the Dead Alewives’ parody “Dark Dungeons,” which can be summed up with the following ... -
True Names, Binary, and Mathematics as Magic
A while ago, I decided to sit down and flesh out the notation and structure of magic in my world. One of the key problems I ... -
Hidden Layers: Spell Maps, Illusions, and Neural Networks
Anyone who’s ever watched Serial Experiments Lain remembers the scene when Lain goes to greet her friends at school, but instead a doppelganger emerges from her and goes in her ...
