Thank you. I have been trying to figure out to have phones in a post apocalyptic magic earth. This has been very helpful. Been watching videos for a week.

@DCFergerson

6 жыл бұрын

So glad to hear it! Communication with magic has to be its oldest form, right? Like writing, cave paintings, and even computers, the goal of communication is the earliest form of mastery. I'd imagine magic would be the same. All the best!

Watched some of your Worldbuilding Videos and I must say, some points you make did actually help me to take a more determined route of setting my systems in stone. I struggled alot before and was very insecure about my systems and had to adjust them not because they were not well developed , thought through or simple enough. More that I had a full book to write and I wanted to create a freshly unique system was the crux and it hindered me to finally say "That's it!". Now I even drifted off to an old hobby of mine: short stories, to convey my system a portion at a time! It's like a mosaic picture that fills out blanks with every story you read... very Lovecraft-esque and I dig that kind of storytelling, because I use much of mystery for my magic. You only grasp a brief amount of what's really going on with the magic, but it is enough to satisfy my friends and to make sense for them. I dare to say it's about 70% hard and propells alot of the plot... trying not to rely on Deux Ex Machina but I do not always want to explain the whole concept for the sake of mystery. For the better part my friends now drove me to the point were I am adapting now my fantasy world into a working Pen&Paper RPG and THERE you find alot of devils, I can tell you because it has to be fuild and picked up fast by the players and feel good at the same time. So anybody who came here for P&P purposes is damn right I say, it really helps. Keep your videos coming, they are very helpful, atleast to me!

@DCFergerson

5 жыл бұрын

So glad to hear you enjoyed them. Keep writing!

Could make bracelets magically linked that vibrate a gem in sync with each other making two wearers able to use morse code with it. Of course it would make communication take a while. So using it in the middle of a fight would be difficult. The code might not even be as uniform as morse code making the item only useful to those who know the code.

@DCFergerson

5 жыл бұрын

That's definitely the kind of historically-minded thinking that makes things believable, for sure.

@DrakithReiter

5 жыл бұрын

Just thought of a logical improvement someone might think of with magic such as what I described before. Generals can have collars on unit commanders in the field that can give them orders via the morse code esque thing so the general with a vantage point can better control the forces in the field or the collar can be put on lower rank men so if their unit commander is taken out they can still get big picture orders from the general. It has it's flaws but would essentially work similar to how old drumming/trumpet/or flag commanding worked. The first military who thinks to use them in such a manner would likely have a bit of an advantage on the battle field till other nation's adopted the idea.

Fantastic video man, easily up there with the big guys like Matt Coville. No clue how you're not more well known.

@DCFergerson

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! Gotta start somewhere, but maybe someday!

Also- virtuosity!! Nice.

I sort of stumbled upon your videos and really enjoy these series. You being an author, must have heard of Saderson's laws of magic, when it comes to magic systems & storytelling. How do you feel about those laws and his implementation of them in his books? I wonder what video will be next. I'd personally like to see something about races and cultures and how to make them 'feel' unique, interesting and fit within a world so that it still makes sense.

@DCFergerson

6 жыл бұрын

I feel he pretty much nails it. I do think that the four laws are a good guideline, but there is room to still make missteps while still following the rules. There is a such thing as too much wonder, just as much as there is too much technical jargon and/or too much utility. Also a system, whether it be technical or magical, should never be as important as the story it serves.

15:04 You could make it work if it's the antagonist that has that power

@DCFergerson

5 жыл бұрын

I think genie wishes are too dangerous in general, protagonist and antagonist alike, for the same reasons. But, I would say there's more story possibility in the antagonist having it, if the writer could find both a clever and believable way to beat the antagonist despite that power.

Repetition legitimizes. Repetition legitimizes. Repetition legitimizes.

@DCFergerson

5 жыл бұрын

True story.

I have the basis for a magic system, which includes a pseudo-scientific basis for why magic exists in my world in the first place. I'm thinking about the interdependency between magic and technology and all that. More than that, I have a place in science (mostly astrophysics) for magic and thus the origin of my world. I would love to have a moment of your free time to share my ideas with you and get them revised by you.

@DCFergerson

4 жыл бұрын

That'd be dcfergerson at gmail.

Its so hard being a pantser writing magic systems because i have awesome ideas while writing that make sense to me in that moment. when im not writing i just cant come up with anything or i feel too lazy to go around making mind maps of my magic systems.

@DCFergerson

4 жыл бұрын

The new episode coming out this Sunday is specifically for my pantsers out there.

I don't think I've ever seen a Far Cry Primal reference until now.

@DCFergerson

5 жыл бұрын

I love the deep cuts. :)

Nice bro. Put add music effects. This was very close to ASMR

@DCFergerson

4 жыл бұрын

It has background music?

I am creating an Isekai series I want to create magic and tech in my world because there's a conflict that magic can't solve because I was planning an epic battle in the final book with 'A futuristic armor', I need to make the book one in series first of course, but it's hard because it seems in my world build the Dwarfs are the only technology being. The problem with worldbuilding things gets cut out the story so you could fit the story of how you wanted or not. I have been drafting and worldbuilding for a month now so how I fix this problem? I might cut out some races and keep some that are relevant to the plot or there isn't room for them in my world.

@DCFergerson

4 жыл бұрын

Well, I don't fully understand the problem, however I would strongly recommend taking a look at the latest video on the channel to address some of your worries.

@thegremlinduke2190

4 жыл бұрын

@@DCFergerson Thanks dude, I might cut that idea anyways write what works am I right but also keep the story how you want.

@DCFergerson

4 жыл бұрын

@@thegremlinduke2190 well, never write it how anyone wants, except how you want. But if your concept needs work oh, there are several videos on here to help with the planning stages.

@thegremlinduke2190

4 жыл бұрын

@@DCFergerson okay, I trying to big my channel first once the book is out I will post on my channel but I need people to know I exist first. thank you.

And Captain Planet!?!? How do you misrepresent goth kids and by calling them emo kids when you were clearly alive for this era?

@DCFergerson

5 жыл бұрын

Must have transposed my dark-and-moody crew there.