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[Cloverfieldo]

world where magic exists, but many groups understood it differently, some think it is god's blessing, a natural ability, something learned, some kind of bloodline, etc..
main character is working for the government trying to categorize each group, and how each interacts with magic

 

[Basic_human]

I had other world building idea

Revisiting the sorcerer being born to be magic, I like to imagine not all of them want to be adventurer, some might have their own passion and hobby.

Like the idea of son of gnome spirit instead of being warrior earth bending, he become a pottery artisan. Lighting sorcerer tired or electricuting people and went into become brain surgeon. A very passionate cook dragonborn. Goods merchant sylph's daughter who travel through the sky to minimize danger and faster travel.

world where magic exists, but many groups understood it differently, some think it is god's blessing, a natural ability, something learned, some kind of bloodline, etc..
main character is working for the government trying to categorize each group, and how each interacts with magic

Lmao the mind fuck of trying to categorize warlock. Like if you make pact of power with your arcane wizard friend, are you a warlock?

Or if Bard fuck and monster into submission and able to command it's magic does he considered a summoner or warlock?

 

[Angry_Panda]

There's a father-daughter duo who run the bar.

Spoiler time!

Spoiler

The family duo is dragon.

There's one user on the forum who already hates this.

 

[Basic_human]

There's one user on the forum who already hates this.

Don't make the mc too op like God or dragon...

It'll become isekai generic op fantasy

 

[Edo4169]

There's one user on the forum who already hates this.

Please don't tell me who, because I'll hate them.

 

[Edo4169]

Don't make the mc too op like God or dragon...

It'll become isekai generic op fantasy

The story just about the adventure. The other just a watcher.

 

[Angry_Panda]

Please don't tell me who, because I'll hate them.

That would be fine - everyone else already hates them for having a very specific concept of what dragons should be like.

 

[undeed]

world where magic exists, but many groups understood it differently, some think it is god's blessing, a natural ability, something learned, some kind of bloodline, etc..
main character is working for the government trying to categorize each group, and how each interacts with magic

Ooh...
I wrote a story incorporating technical mechanics of this concept long time ago
You made me remember it
That was a good time as a delusional little teenager

 

[Doedoel]

Remind me to drop my draft here, thankies

 

[Mangamoz]

John Carpenter's The Thing monster gets isekaid into a typical fantasy world, hijinks ensues with it trying to do its freaky body horror whodonit shenanigans in a world where magic and super powers exist.

Maybe even with the creature trying badly to fit in a fantasy harem scenario, but it just keeps killing the harem girls instead.

 

[Basic_human]

if you think about it backroom is just non fantasy version of dungeon huh

less fantasy more of "realism" horror and emptiness

 

[Madologist]

John Carpenter's The Thing monster gets isekaid into a typical fantasy world, hijinks ensues with it trying to do its freaky body horror whodonit shenanigans in a world where magic and super powers exist.

Maybe even with the creature trying badly to fit in a fantasy harem scenario, but it just keeps killing the harem girls instead.

While not exactly it, but Isekai'd Shoggoth is quite close.

I think the Thing would consume most fantasy worlds in a few years. Since its mimicry can be presumed to allow it to use any abilities of the creature it has consumed, it could easily mimic the powerful heroes and wizards of the world, not to mention the superfauna. A flying magic dragon creature that summons storms wherever it moves, but the water is actually just pieces of the parasitic organism. I call that "game over". Additionally, since I presume it is the actual Thing creature, I'd presume it would still retain all of its consumed knowledge, which would allow it to build interstellar level technology as it does in both the film and the original story.
Pretty much an end of the world scenario, there.

if you think about it backroom is just non fantasy version of dungeon huh

less fantasy more of "realism" horror and emptiness

Most fantasy really doesn't do that much with dungeons. Dungeon Meshi is the only one I can think of off the top of my head that really does interesting things with the concept.

Fantasy Backrooms would be an interesting concept. A weird rip in reality to some weird unfinished dimension left behind by the creator god(s) and radiating with the raw energy of creation - still occasionally spawning new horrendous abominations into existence that prey upon anyone that wonders into them and occasionally escape into the world proper. Then you could have every and all monster be a distant descendant of those outside creatures that have adapted into the world or alternatively they could be creatures that have wondered into the BackDungeon, mutated and then dumped randomly back into the world.

I once toyed around with adding Mystery Flesh Pit like creatures as dungeons in my trpg campaign. Living giant creatures made by ancient mad wizards that now roam the world and host entire ecosystems inside them. A neat and quite grotesque take on the dungeon concept, especially when some make them "alive" with the "core" being its heart. Why not make that concept literal? Want to go dungeon delving, better prepare to cut through veins and arteries and a fuckton of gore!

 

[Sahkuh]

To hell with original ideas, just give me an adaption of Darkest Dungeon 1

 

[Basic_human]

Fantasy Backrooms would be an interesting concept. A weird rip in reality to some weird unfinished dimension left behind by the creator god(s) and radiating with the raw energy of creation

this is exactly one of the story i want to create

since backroom can be access by no clip or falling out of the world that mean this place is something akin to rift between universe. a mesh of jumbled up place where time and logic followed differently

Darkest Dungeon 1

give it the director or studio that make hellsing and itll be an orgasimic experience to watch. Hell event the people that make first season of catlevania, just removed the reddit writer

 

[Madologist]

To hell with original ideas, just give me an adaption of Darkest Dungeon 1

give it the director or studio that make hellsing and itll be an orgasimic experience to watch. Hell event the people that make first season of catlevania, just removed the reddit writer

Finger on the monkey's paw curls
Netflix adaption with all that entails: writing is very modern and filled with whedonistic quirks, the team wants to subvert your expectations in every possible way you can imagine and the character design is pure cal-arts.

 

[Sahkuh]

Finger on the monkey's paw curls
Netflix adaption with all that entails: writing is very modern and filled with whedonistic quirks, the team wants to subvert your expectations in every possible way you can imagine and the character design is pure cal-arts.

You are pure evil

 

[Basic_human]

Finger on the monkey's paw curls
Netflix adaption with all that entails: writing is very modern and filled with whedonistic quirks, the team wants to subvert your expectations in every possible way you can imagine and the character design is pure cal-arts.

Netflix adaptation is Suck very bad at sticking to the source material it's so sad. A case of good artist or crew in this case meet with mediocre to bad writer

 

[undeed]

I wrote a story incorporating technical mechanics of this concept long time ago

Okay, now I have the time, so let's dump this idea I mentioned yesterday.
It's of no use to me at my age now anyway. Might as well dump it here if anyone wants to use it.
For the record, I haven't checked to see if anyone else has had this same idea. So, who knows, this idea might actually be old news.
Okay, then. Pull up a chair, because this is going to be a long one. I'll write everything I can remember.

Spoiler: First, a préambule

This idea came to me around 2003ish, around the time Kakashi was explaining chakra and hand seals to Naruto.
Y'know, back when Naruto was still about ninjas and not magic.
Ninja hand seals(HS) are cool and edgy, right? I've always loved it like from movies/tv/anime, even before Naruto.
But I always have a question as to "WHY?". Why would you even need that? Can't you just do a kamehameha like Goku?
And if you can't tell, I like things to be logical to some extend.

Spoiler: The idea

So when Kakashi explained about this chakra usage efficiency between Naruto and Sakura, it got me thinking.
What if, these HS are actually doing mathemathical calculation of expensing chackra.
For example, HS-A gives 10 chakra point , HS-B gives 20 (add to the pool), HS-C multiplies the pool by 2, or something like that.

So, these HS are actually a form of Mnemonic used to help calculate the mathematical sequence of chakra amount to achieve the chakra needed for the jutsu.
It's meant to help beginners, which is why the elites don't use it often.
Because if you're experienced or have a large amount of chakra, you can just open the tap and flood the chakra to the required amount, like Naruto, without caring about the excess.

And that is the basis of the power mechanics that I designed.
to be continued

Spoiler: slight intermezzo

At the time, I saved my stories on 3.5-inch floppy disks, because we only had one PC in the living room, and I didn't want my sister or my dad seeing my "novels".
And if you knew anything about those "diskettes", you so much as accidentally drop that "physical save button" from waist height, you can kiss your files goodbye.
And that's why I stopped writing.
Still creating delusional stories in my mind, tho. But none about expanding this chakra/magic mechanic.

 

[Angry_Panda]

Spoiler: The idea

So, these HS are actually a form of Mnemonic used to help calculate the mathematical sequence of chakra amount to achieve the chakra needed for the jutsu.
It's meant to help beginners, which is why the elites don't use it often.
Because if you're experienced or have a large amount of chakra, you can just open the tap and flood the chakra to the required amount, like Naruto, without caring about the excess.

Spoiler: Hmmm.

This is more or less how I generally view various non-material spell components (verbal, somatic, etc.) - it's just a means of helping get 'in the groove', similar to how various pitchers and hitters in baseball have motions they go through that have nothing to do with the pitch or swing. And similarly this explains why some more experienced/powerful casters can deliver some spells without them - they've learned the spell well enough to not need to rely on them.

 

[undeed]

so, into magic

Spoiler: Life moves on,

been busy, and it wasn't until I watched the Akashic Records anime in 2017 that I revived this idea.
Man, I have a love-hate relationship with this anime.
On one side, I'm grateful it helped me revive, expand, and develop my idea.
But on the other side, I think that a school that, for some reason, designs uniforms that reveal their students' belly button is SO FUCKING DUMB AND I HATE IT. LIKE WTF.

Ahem, so, back to the Mnemonic idea. So, expanding it to magic, basically chakra is MP, and everything is the same. Easy.
Magic chants are actually just Mnemonic forms used to help beginners spend their MP to execute magic.

Spoiler: combo mechanic

And by this time, I'd been reading a lot of fantasy manga with this "magic without spoken incantations is weaker" trope. And it got me thinking.
What if, you CAN'T actually just flood the MP to cast magic.
What if, you actually still need to follow those sequence calculation step-by-step.
Because otherwise, then what's the difference between a 100MP fire spell and a 100MP water spell?

Okay, so the idea is that each spell requires its own specific math sequence. For example, 30+30+40 for fire, and 30+40+30 for water, or something like that.
And then, what if this worked like a rhythm game? Like, if you could perfectly spend the required amount of MP on each step, you'd get a combo bonus.
So, if you could get all the perfect combos, you'd get extra damage or something like that.
And the Mnemonics help you achieve those combos more easily.

Spoiler: training wheel

Doing it without Mnemonics and relying solely on mental calculations is much less accurate in using your MP.
Like, you might instead spend 33 + 27 + 41 = 101. You'll still meet the 100 MP required for a fire spell, but you won't get the bonus damage.
That's why there's a misconception that silence casting are weaker. But in reality, it's because less experienced silence casters are less accurate in doing it.

Using Mnemonics is indeed easier to get combo bonuses, but it's obviously slower because you need to do some form of physical activity.
It's like doing math on paper versus mental math.
This way, you can introduce characters who surprised everyone because they can cast powerful silent spells.
Because they're that precise with their MP usage.

Spoiler: what I hate

What I hate most in fantasy stories is when a character is introduced as having a power that only they and they alone can wield.
That's not how that works, in my opinion.
The power system should operate within certain rules. And those rules should apply to everyone within the world. There should be a reason why.
Yeah, you can have some "oh, it's a booldline limit" kind of thing like in Naruto Or "oh, it's a new uniqe spell" or something.
But it should be limited to a very specific quirk of the already existing power rules, and there should be an equivalent form of it someway or another used by other people.

Spoiler: Meanwhile

someone like Naruto just pours 40+40+50 to cast a fire spell, wasting 30MP for less damage.
Tho, he can also basically pours 300+300+400 to cast a measly 100MP fire spell with low damage, accompanied by a 900MP raw excess chakra blast damage,
which is why it seems more powerful to the uninitiated.

to be continued