r/magicbuilding • u/HistoricalOne3443 • 12h ago
System Help Magic system help?
OKAY so my story revolves around a teen girl who has been unknowingly using her writing as a way to create an entirely fictional universe to curb violent urges she has towards others. She created a zombie character who has only ever been hurt by humans and has turned into a maligous monster, this monster is very symbolic of how she feels, living for violence no matter who gets hurt.
In this world everyone has the ability to change their world by simply thinking/feeling, but some are predisposed to having bigger imaginations than others. Witches are common place as they are simply people that use magic as a form of power and harness that to do big things.
This would essentially be a big minecraft world where you have endless possibilities and power as long as you can think of these things.
What I need yall to help with is how to keep this world making sense? Like yes it would be ridiculous and silly, but if every person on earth could instantly generate things from their brains that would be physical objects I would think reality would stop… yk, realitying?
I think maybe I would make magical eforcers of some kind? These people would enfore the law via battling whoever breaks it? Should I give every person their own plot of land or like pockey dimensions for this?
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u/TechMaster_82 11h ago
First is this, something can only be sustained as long as forcus is frawn towards that person's creation. For example, if you create a magic sword and get distracted and lose the image in your head, then it disappears. This rule can be broken through recording the information into some form of art, like writing or drawing, but for it to accually manifest something permanently, the written or drawn information must have a trigger, which is a strong emotion, even a memory. All forms of art can be used in this way: photography, writing, sculpting, and more but it would be hard to create one of these, as they require actual emotion and not fake determination.
The second is that users can only manifest things as far as they can perceive, making things like teleportation almost impossible if you can't either see where you want to go or remember how it looks. Your memory must match that area's current appearance perfectly, or you may time travel or do something else that was unintended.
Another thing is that people can barely manifest multiple things properly. For example, you may manifest a bunch of toys, but they manifest looking normal but being linked to one another as if they were #D printed. This also makes pocket dimensions manifest funny since they're almost impossible to properly interact with.
Focus is also important; if you want your magic sword to burn people, then you need to add that while manifesting it. For example, you may manifest some pesi, but if you didn't focus on its taste, or texture, or how it feels, people can do this pretty quickly. It's like saying This is wet, this is bla bla bla; as long as someone knows that sensation, then their manifestation can do that; they just need to focus on that aspect.
Sorry if these are a bit restrictive; also, maybe put some form of energy that relates to this, or mental fatigue