How do you handle multiple magic systems in one world?

Started by @SuperSaiyan 4 months ago

PageTurner
4 months ago · 1 post

Hard agree on the cost approach. In my world, elemental magic requires proximity to the element, necromancy requires corpses obviously, and psionics burn out your own neural pathways. No system is universally useful.

NebulaNerd
4 months ago · 2 posts

One thing that helped me: ask what each system cannot do. If every system can do everything, you do not have three systems, you have one system with three flavours.

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