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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The thing is new magic is flashier but fundamentally does the same you did with old magic 10 winters ago. Our crystal balls and wands have gotten more capable but to the point where the average spellcaster won't even get to make full use of them. Good thing there are independent wizards around who craft old magic style spells to this day so you can still get some use out of your old equipment. I'm using Arch Mage on an ancient ThinkOrb btw.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

There's really a archmage distro. And there i thougt you meant Source Mage.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 days ago (1 children)

yes, newb questions will get you slammed with "read the fucking artes magicae", but at least there is a grimoire of information to refer to

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago

Putting the "scroll" in "scrolling desperately through a Discord server for a post that should be pinned"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The old magic is also likely efficient because it had to be to work with the orbs at the time.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

you don't enjoy getting a spellbook and having to summon 250 gigarunes on top of it so you can even start reading it?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I miss getting a scroll from a fellow wizard which had all the runes you needed on it and it was also small enough it could fit in a pocket and if you had bad taste in music it even playered a bit of a dong as you were reading.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

it even playered a bit of a dong

This was the best part about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

The modding screne was crazier than I thought. https://youtu.be/yHJOz_y9rZE (Two drive Imperial March).

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago

God, I love this so much.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Honestly annoying if the Akashic records just ignore a word of your query instead of just stating that there's no match.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Also, how yhe hell does the Akashic record have no matches? Shouldn't it at least return the query itself?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I just switched to a different record after they started including that egregorian nonsense on every tablet they had, not like they were useful anyways considering all the temple advertising.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I tried to get some spellcasters to switch to a different orb mage for their spells, but they're all at the same three temples of טיקטוק ,אינסטגרם, and יוטיוב to even learn how to summon the line scripture.

The commoners don't even use their crystal balls or look at the compendiums because they're all stuck on their genie lamps nowadays to know how to use a wand.