Anon 09/03/2020 (Thu) 23:28:30 No.6500 del
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>This comes in part because when I've tried online to drum up support for an RPG game, the power users (at least once that would have been me) were excluded from playing not by logic of the use of the game rules, but by logic that ponies should be small, and helpless. Yes you can be a unicorn but only if you promise not to learn anything or cast spells like a wizard would.
well, that´s mostly because magic...is quite a complicated case to judge properly. Let me tell you that I am quite hesitant to venture into that territory because there are holes within its logic over the course of the show that I cannot even begin.

Let me tell you that in a way, I understand that complaint completely. If you take magic too seriously in this world, FiM will frustrate you and the levels of power are quite messy for me to analyze with a serious mindset, especially if one points out magical events that happened once and were never shown again. So yeah, I kind of gave up at taking (unicorn/alicorn) magic with a consistent approach except for a few basic features.Magic has been used so conveniently for the stories that it mostly moves the plot forward for each episode.

Even with a basic feature like teleport, I don´t know how much power you need in order to move that X amount of distance when a unicorn casts it. Where is the line for it? I´ve got to admit that if I had to find myself in argument about magic, I would simply give up. It works more like "Show, don´t tell" feature more than anything else.

>I should post this comic I came across ... "the day the magic died"; since it fits in with much of my existing headcanon I thought it was nothing short of amazing.
you delivered it in the other thread. I will have to check it and see where you are coming from with this one.

>I've been extremely unimpressed with everything I've second-hand heard about that show. And also I tried to read the book but halfway through I realized it was a non-magic world following a bunch of savages so superstition they were *convinced* it was a magic world.
wait, GOT doesn´t occur in a magical world? I mean, I did see bits of it but I have never watched a single episode in its entirety. I mean with GOT about the tone of that show in terms of writing and the deep serious tone at going further with its own universe.

But if GoT doesn´t have magic, both franchises cannot be compared in this department.