Lady Seraphina

𝔼𝕒𝕤𝕥𝕨𝕠𝕠𝕕 𝔸𝕔𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕞𝕪

Interested.

I have a couple character ideas but I'll wait to see the more detailed OoC so I can get an idea of which one would fit best.

(Redux) ☽ Salem Witches Institute ☾

@iSuspect Is this still going forward?

(Redux) ☽ Salem Witches Institute ☾

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Well, since this is a bit different from HP, there will no wands. Magic comes from the basic kinesis such as telekinesis, pyrokinesis, and etc. Spellcasting or Voodoo.

If that makes sense. Think of AHS: Coven, if you have ever seen it. c:

@iSuspect

That's not exactly different from HP, wands were optional half the time and magic just tended to do whatever was needed for the plot.

Does that mean each student picks a specialization and whatever spells they cast have to broadly fall into that category or just that available magic is largely elemental and falls into those categories?

I guess I'm just not sure what you mean by "basic" in regards to kinetic powers. The superpowered wiki has hundreds of entries for kinesis abilities. Does basic just mean the ones people have heard of/could identify what they do based on the name?

I just don't want to run into the problem the HP stories tended to have where they'd solve Problem A in Book X through really difficult means and then two books later there's a really simple spell that would have solved Problem A in ten seconds and apparently it is common knowledge. Like how instant transport didn't exist till Book 2 which makes the part in Book 1 where Dumbledore went to visit the Ministry by broom and couldn't get back in time look really silly. Or like how the Fantastic Beasts movies added forensics spells that would have made figuring out the culprit in Book 2 and catching Sirius Black in Book 3 painfully easy.

(Redux) ☽ Salem Witches Institute ☾

I'm interested.

What are the rules and limits on magic? Since Harry Potter basically doesn't have any.

Genesis Ex Machina

@Bell hasn't been online in a week. She hasn't seen the possibility of renewed interest yet. Though you could be right. Maybe she wrote it off, but I'd rather know for sure than just let a great idea like this die before its time.

On the other side of the wall

I'm good with modern day people.

Genesis Ex Machina

@Hellion

Genesis Ex Machina

@Bell@Hellion@Wrathhog At some point this is probably going to become obnoxious. I hope we haven't reached that point yet.

On the other side of the wall

I asked about playing a disabled character and your mind instantly went to "SJW-ism". That's slightly worrying but moving past that.

For clarification, there is a general attitude among able bodied people (not all able bodied people but I run into this regularly on any kind of open forum) that disabled people should be presented as "less" instead of what is more accurate which is "different". When I tried to play a blind character in D&D, I ran into a lot of players who were perfectly alright with the penalties my character would accrue in normal situations but got increasingly angry any time being blind gave me an advantage in a situation. For instance, their character's suffered penalties in the dark. My character who effectively lived in the dark suffered no such penalties and suddenly that was unfair whereas when the roles were reversed they felt it was perfectly justified.

Growing up deprived of one sense means you adapt in ways that hearing people don't have to. It means you often have a skill set that they don't. It is a sentiment I have come across very often that able bodied people don't like the idea that a disabled person can do certain things better than they can. If that's not going to be a problem here that's great. But I'd rather know up front rather than get a few posts in after I've written a character I care about only to have people start yelling at me because my character can read body language better than they can or can eavesdrop on a conversation out of earshot by lip reading despite the fact that by the same token they can't understand a conversation half a foot away if anything is blocking their vision.

On the other side of the wall

@Lady Seraphina Why would that be a problem? You'd be deaf not dumb, I would assume you either read lips or know sign language.

@Dark Cloud

Because lots of people are ablist and I'd rather know up front.