Best magic system?

[ThisAdamGuy]

What magic system (not made by you) is your favorite?

I like allomancy from Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn. I'm an unashamed Fanderson in general, but I think allomancy strikes the best balance between being versatile enough that there's not much you can't do with it, and limited enough that you still need skill and creativity to use it effectively.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

The one @Bartun uses.

 

[RepresentingPride]

The one from Suprem Magus

 

[Keene]

What magic system (not made by you) is your favorite?

I like allomancy from Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn. I'm an unashamed Fanderson in general, but I think allomancy strikes the best balance between being versatile enough that there's not much you can't do with it, and limited enough that you still need skill and creativity to use it effectively.

Going to be boring but I'm the same. Allomancy was just so cool. I ended up stealing the concept of flaring metals for my own series although it's just flaring aether.

Mistborn is such a great high fantasy novel.

 

[Empress_Omnii]

I'm really not sure... but my favorite from Brandon Sanderson would be from The Rithmatist.

 

[MatchaChocolate69]

I really like the Nen system used in Hunter x Hunter. I find it to be very diverse and with just the right amount of complexity, full of unique powers that are intelligently balanced. Each character develops it in their own way, making it distinctive.

 

[Rezcore]

I like the Wheel of Time system. If you can ignore the blatant incest overtones, Irregular at Magic Highschool has a good system. Naruto technically uses a form of magic, chakra. It requires you to know how to mold your spiritual and physical energy, then apply elemental nature to it. Hand signs aren't actually necessary, and seem to act as guide. So theoretically you could use chakra like Mana and perform the same attacks with spells.

 

[CarburetorThompson]

Ngl lie I‘m a big fan of the Warcraft magic system, and by that I mean the ‘fuck even the devs don’t know what the limits are so we’ll just make whatever seems coolest‘ system

 

[BigBadBoi]

Mother of Learning's magic system is pretty amazing.

 

[LesserCodex]

What magic system (not made by you) is your favorite?

I like allomancy from Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn. I'm an unashamed Fanderson in general, but I think allomancy strikes the best balance between being versatile enough that there's not much you can't do with it, and limited enough that you still need skill and creativity to use it effectively.

Naruto's magic system, I mean early naruto, before Shippuden and Boruto contradicts its self.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Favorite to read was the one in Alan Dean Foster's Spellsinger series (A world of anthropomorphic animals needs a magic-user but can only find enough magic to summon one from another world rather than create their own; for some reason the determine that, on the world they can reach and draw someone from, "Engineer" is the equivalent to "Mage" so they summon John Thomas Merriweather ... a Sanitation Engineer with a love of music; After much mutual frustration, he just sits down and plays "Purple Haze" to calm down ... and summons a purple colored fog, which happens to be exactly what they needed to get away from an enemy; he then discovers that the songs he plays become spells, for good or ill)

 

[Jocelyn_Uasal]

One really cool one is from the D&D podcast "Dungeons and Daddies" where they have to be a better dad to activate and strengthen their "Daddy Magic" and I always thought it was really funny lol

Dad jokes do 1D6 psychic damage, but can be transferred to another player or enemy with a different dad joke