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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2017 19:18:34 GMT
Now that it has been brought up again, by Kiami, I was reminded that I never asked the reasoning behind the ban on wandless magic.
It goes against canon, so I'm assuming something disruptive happened earlier in the board's lifetime?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2017 21:44:56 GMT
It was for balance.
All other types have limits to their powers .,, this was the wizard's limit.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2017 21:47:08 GMT
That is correct. We put this limit on the Wizards. While sure, it is canon, there are things in canon we have taken out to help balance the game. ^_^
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2017 22:35:15 GMT
Indeed.
Instead of wands, specifically, what would you say to a broader sort of talisman-requirement? A West African mask, through which magic could be done? A magical feather or engraved whale bone or rainstick or other such things? Keeping the necessity of magical tools, but allowing more variety among individual magical cultures.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2017 22:36:59 GMT
Nope. Wands. No wandless magic.
items can be charmed to perform certain tasks, yes, but items that aren't wands cannot be the focus through which wizards cast magic.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2017 22:38:14 GMT
IN HP, other magical artifacts are created to do certain things...but wands are how the wizards do magic. Same way Blood is for vamps to do things, wands for Wizards.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2017 22:38:39 GMT
Why not? What sense does that make? There were mages in the Americas before the arrival of Europeans and their wands.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2017 22:44:45 GMT
Who says natives in North America didn't create their own wands?
If something is the core of how magic works, it works that way for all cultures.
The laws of the universe do not change depending where on Earth you stand.
Wands. Not masks, not talismans, not feathers ... a wand you can point and through which the magic is channeled and directed. This is how it works in this game. EOL.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2017 22:45:28 GMT
That's so... boring. Jeez.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2017 22:49:38 GMT
It is what it is.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2017 22:56:24 GMT
While I'm thinking about magical items and enchantments, I want to ask about cars. Are we just ignoring the Ministry's (enchanted) cars? And the (heavily enchanted) Knight Bus? If a mage owns a car at all, shouldn't the expectation be that it is enchanted, like literally everything else they own?
Or is this a new development in magical society that I never got the memo about?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2017 4:00:27 GMT
The car the Weasley's had was not the norm, and I think it was actually illegal.
I don't know anything about the Ministry having enchanted cars as any sort of normal thing. Do you have a canon source for that?
The bus is a special case.
There is no rule saying that muggle technology need to be enchanted for Mage use. I'd think quite the contrary would be true. Wizards tedn to use their own things instead of muggle technology.
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Post by Keeper of Darkness on Jun 24, 2017 10:18:55 GMT
The guardians have said no. End of Discussion. Do not bring this up again.
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