• @Freefall@lemmy.world
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    12 months ago

    Yeah…teleportation rings as a “well, let’s give them a way to get loot and stuff home” turned into "but what if we put one on the Dearven Defender’s shield and the other in front of a ballista back at the keep…ffs…

    • @sheogorath@lemmy.world
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      22 months ago

      That’s basically what happened when Brandon Sanderson took over Wheel of Time. He made some creative usage of the portaling magic some people complained.

      • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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        12 months ago

        That tracks but also it’s one of my favorite things about his books. He creates a small well defined magic system and then has his characters attempt to break it in creative ways. All of his long running series are starting to have magic engineers