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Magic System

Pressure-test the rules, costs, and limits of magic in your world.

  1. What is the source of magic, and who or what controls access to it?

  2. What is the cost of using magic — physical, mental, social, economic?

  3. Who cannot use magic, and how does the world treat them?

  4. What is the most common misuse of magic, and how is it punished?

  5. What was the last major shift in how magic worked, and why did it change?

  6. What does magic make trivially easy that breaks normal economic logic?

  7. What is the magical equivalent of a power plant — and who owns it?

  8. What kind of magical knowledge is forbidden, lost, or sealed?

  9. How do children learn the limits of magic before they hurt themselves or others?

  10. What does the world's strongest mage fear, and what stops them from doing it?

  11. What does the average non-magical person believe about magic that is wrong?

  12. What is the most boring practical use of magic in a household?

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