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Subject: Re: What to call a female wizard?
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Date: Thu, 14-May-87 10:59:02 EDT
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Summary: magic basis can of worms opened


line eater food

	Well now, someone just had to go and ask what is the "rationale" behind
my magic system.....

	I decided to put together a system that made for some sort of consistency when confronted with oddball questions. So I decided to use the Clarkian defi-
nition of magic as the technology so advanced as to appear as supernatural.
	A spacefaring race gets a ship lost and makes a forced landing at a
planet hitherto avoided for sociological reasons (it is inhabited by primitives
who are not to be "spoiled"). In order to make repairs, they set up a small
civilization on one area to mine metals, etc, etc. Later, off they go, leaving
behind a fair amount of little understood knowledge (ability of biological
modification included, a great way to justify all the monsters ;-).)
	So time goes by, empires rise and fall on the application and misappli-cation of all the "magic". Whereupon the original types return, bent upon
using the whole planet (it's contaminated anyhow, let's really mess it up!) as
a vast sociological lab. on the Clarkian principle. So new magic starts appearing, and away we go....
	Weak, but you asked.....