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So for a while now I've been wanting to do an political rp with magic. With espionage, sabotage, and assassination. Or perhaps a csi based roleplays, but with magic. Yes these things can be done without,but it's always been something that I've wanted to do in an roleplay,but never had the chance. However, the use of magic has always been a limiting factor. In other roleplays I've seen people straight up use dice and custom narrative to explain magic, while others have been a mish mash of randomness. In all these instances the use of magic in the rp took a backseat and had little to no impact on the actual roleplay.
So I was wondering, does magic need to be based on relatable concepts or a more realistic sci-fi to successfully be implemented?
Here's my example: Naruto used chakra. Chakra itself is not a new concept that kishimoto made,but it was the name of the inner energy he implemented in his series. Chakra itself was in the early days used to explain the super human feats in the series.
At its core chakra is life energy,but it isn't. Despite kakashi's early warning about overusing chakra turning to dire consequences and death, no one has ever died from over using chakra. So it's more of a separate energy from the rest of the normal human calories people consume. Your heart won't stop beating if you pass out from spamming fireballs. But the unique or rather what seemed to be unique back then was chakra is also something you train like a muscle. It's not exactly confirmed to atroph from disuse like muscles,but certainly becomes more potent as a character physically trains.
This leads me into the next point, natural limits. Before kishi introduced people like tsunade and before people didn't die when they were killed, there was a concept of natural limits. The hidden lotus was for breaking this natural limiter, which might have something to do with people not dying from over use of their super powers. Chakra is tied to this in that a fair chunk of a person's potential is actually locked away by biological limiters that trained ninja can break. Which while it's not the most sound medical science, it makes sense in making chakra and the magic system in naruto feel more grounded.
Then we have the use of special powers that come from actual genetics. While it's not the best science, it's a lot better at explaining the exclusivity of the sharingan and why its passed down to certain people. The use of its also being a recessive gene that doesn't even show up all too often even in their own clan, was also cool.
All these things in my opinion did two things:
1. It subjectively made the show better.
2. It objectively explained how ninja became super humans. In the context of an rp, would help not only limit "opness", but also make the process of character creation feel more meaningful and the lore richer.
However I could be wrong. So I wanted to ask people for their opinions in general before crafting my rp. Should I just sort of coombayah wing it and let magic exist as a matter of fact thing. Or should actual work be put into a system which explains how magic works? Would such a thing benefit an rp or does such a thing only work because said exposition is accompanied by visuals? Which in turn take priority over the info dumps?
So I was wondering, does magic need to be based on relatable concepts or a more realistic sci-fi to successfully be implemented?
Here's my example: Naruto used chakra. Chakra itself is not a new concept that kishimoto made,but it was the name of the inner energy he implemented in his series. Chakra itself was in the early days used to explain the super human feats in the series.
At its core chakra is life energy,but it isn't. Despite kakashi's early warning about overusing chakra turning to dire consequences and death, no one has ever died from over using chakra. So it's more of a separate energy from the rest of the normal human calories people consume. Your heart won't stop beating if you pass out from spamming fireballs. But the unique or rather what seemed to be unique back then was chakra is also something you train like a muscle. It's not exactly confirmed to atroph from disuse like muscles,but certainly becomes more potent as a character physically trains.
This leads me into the next point, natural limits. Before kishi introduced people like tsunade and before people didn't die when they were killed, there was a concept of natural limits. The hidden lotus was for breaking this natural limiter, which might have something to do with people not dying from over use of their super powers. Chakra is tied to this in that a fair chunk of a person's potential is actually locked away by biological limiters that trained ninja can break. Which while it's not the most sound medical science, it makes sense in making chakra and the magic system in naruto feel more grounded.
Then we have the use of special powers that come from actual genetics. While it's not the best science, it's a lot better at explaining the exclusivity of the sharingan and why its passed down to certain people. The use of its also being a recessive gene that doesn't even show up all too often even in their own clan, was also cool.
All these things in my opinion did two things:
1. It subjectively made the show better.
2. It objectively explained how ninja became super humans. In the context of an rp, would help not only limit "opness", but also make the process of character creation feel more meaningful and the lore richer.
However I could be wrong. So I wanted to ask people for their opinions in general before crafting my rp. Should I just sort of coombayah wing it and let magic exist as a matter of fact thing. Or should actual work be put into a system which explains how magic works? Would such a thing benefit an rp or does such a thing only work because said exposition is accompanied by visuals? Which in turn take priority over the info dumps?
