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"Do you know how many spells are just recycled incantations?" (media.kbin.social)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

And in both real world and that world, you have arch users/wizards

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Jack Vance, Dying Earth series has similar ideas.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As a wizard, I agree to this.

Never trust any spell except the most simple and basic ones.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

So, you're a warlock without the background story?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Or "if every engineering field was like IT".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Boeing leaves the chat

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

How was it going? "Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from science (and tech)".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Which is probably why I have a soft spot both for the "lost technologies" scifi trope, and fantasy universes where magic is studied just like any other science

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Arthur C. Clark.

My own: science is the scrutiny of magic.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Archwizard btw

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

By the time the archwizard has finished the incantation, the rest of the party has finished the dungeon

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