Quote from: Kaerli_Stronwylle on June 13, 2015, 07:28:33 pm

To a more general point, though -- how far should the effects of spells go in obeying physics? Should a magical lightning bolt behave like a real-world arc, complete with the ability to create arc flashes upon contact with the target, its current required to find some path back to the caster?  Or should it be treated as a wholly magical creation, capable of being stopped cold in its tracks and with effects that are totally defined by the spell?

Magic is something mysterious and something even the greatest of mage will hardly be able to fully understand... that's what makes magic magical to me
My point of view is making magic too much tied to "science" can make it become just another piece of technology and usually that's what one may want to avoid in a fantasy setting because its mood would be more like a science fiction mood.

What I find is really charming about the magical way of thinking is if magic "just work" (like you can assume it does in PS settings) you can develop different magical philosophies and they can all be valid explanations assuming these theories are not in contrast with real magical facts (e.g. you can have many different explanations why glyph A and glyph B can create the spell X, but if magic with no glyph is something unseen then it can be assumed theories around this magical topic are just speculations; likewise if a spell is able to freeze the ground it's safe to assume it can also freeze the water surface in order to create more RP uses etc.).

• The scientific method and its probative powers are not nearly as new as your view of the PS setting implies -- there has been some evidence that a minor branch of Greek philosophy foreshadowed it, and it was quite clearly developed in near-modern form around the turn of the first millenium AD.
  
• Even if the effects don't behave as real-world physics predicts, they still can be described in terms of a rational set of world-rules -- but they should be enumerated all the same, otherwise you'll get a source of OOC conflict when people make different inferences from the same underspecification.
  
  • Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence -- just because an effect isn't observed under X conditions doesn't mean it can't exist.
    
    • Generalization is OK when it comes to spells -- but where does it stop?
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      Or, to sum it up: It is OK if cast lightning in PS works differently than RL lightning bolts do, or more generally, if Yliakum doesn't obey RL scientific laws -- however, if you want people to reason, and not just speculate, about how the world does behave, you need to describe that behavior in a scientific, data-driven manner, as if Yliakum were an alternate reality.

tbh what I really want to see is a GM-like position which allows a person to act as a game master, but in a more roleplaying sense. Ability to move and spawn objects, teleport players, lock items. But no kick/ban permissions. Someone to act as a dungeon master, lead events, and help players with their own. Essentially someone who is still a player, but is trusted enough by the developers, GM team, and players to be given extra permissions for the purpose of enhancing roleplay.

From my understanding of psychology, someone who may be great at dealing with players' crises and rooting out bots might not be the right choice for roleplay. Same for someone who may be great at formulating stories and catching players' interests may not be right for dealing with bad behavior/hackers.

Honestly, I mostly have it off. But thats cause its annoying me, cause it spams all my In Character roleplays in main. I don't know if there is a possibility to have it like a normal seperated chat like guild, group, alliance, main... Perhaps I didn't find it yet. So if I was to stupid to find it I appologize, if not this would be an actual improvement 

Quote from: Kaerli_Stronwylle on March 21, 2015, 02:33:41 pm

Quote from: iridia on March 20, 2015, 02:10:22 pm

Aren't Diaboli the only ones known to do magic without the need for glyphs?

Kaerli's seen it before, from people with no discernible Diaboli blood in their veins...

Like from Kaerli herself.