But sometimes I wish more of it would dip into the substance as well as the set dressing of its roots. Not everything has to be realistic, nor does everything have to be explained.
Echoing other here. I want that sense of the numinous. I don't want my magic to be indistinguishable from even a sufficiently advanced technology. I do want it to be distinguishable from a set of rpg rules.
Hmm ... a wonder if it's the same crowd complaining we don't read enough science fiction and insisting magic needs the same sort of rules as science -- wanting the things they value in science fiction to be the things we value in all stories.
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Date: 2010-03-03 08:48 pm (UTC)Echoing other here. I want that sense of the numinous. I don't want my magic to be indistinguishable from even a sufficiently advanced technology. I do want it to be distinguishable from a set of rpg rules.
Hmm ... a wonder if it's the same crowd complaining we don't read enough science fiction and insisting magic needs the same sort of rules as science -- wanting the things they value in science fiction to be the things we value in all stories.