האבולוציה של הקסם
תפס את עיני דיון בפורומים של HERO Games העוסק בשאלה: "מה תחולל האבולוציה בעולם קסום?" להלן הודעת הפתיחה המקורית, ולאחרי דעותי:
תפס את עיני דיון בפורומים של HERO Games העוסק בשאלה: "מה תחולל האבולוציה בעולם קסום?" להלן הודעת הפתיחה המקורית, ולאחרי דעותי:
As a periphery to the whole "Encounters Paradigm" notion... how do you folks handle magical physiology? In a setting where magic has been around a while (for example, my world of Caleon takes place in a universe 12.5 billion years old) natural selection might select for "mage genes" and certain critters would develop spell-casting ability. Or, more likely, abilities would develop that resembled spell casting. Think of it as the difference between a bird's wing and a 747... they do the same thing, but one was a naturally-occuring evolutionary change and the other was purposefully designed. This is also handy for explaining a system where Mages are born, not trained or where magic is an inherited trait. For example, say a latent gene allows wolves to use Lightning Magic of some form... the same mutation causes the fur to crackle and turn blue shortly after birth. Or a predator that cooks its food with a handy fireball before eating it. I think in all cases evolution would provide physiological changes to "warn" the environment... like the wacky colors that poisonous animals adopt. Heck... there could even be genes for elemental affinies, turning ordinary squirrels into Fire Squirrels and normal flightless waterfowl into Infernal Penguins From Hell. I think some fudging might be required to explain why there are still normal, non-magical variations of some animals... if Lightning Wolves are so superior, why are there still Timber Wolves? And do Badgers really need to be improved? I think not. Now, most fantasy worlds are only a few thousand years removed from their Creation Event. I think some really wild beasties arise from using Darwinian Concepts... Even if you do have to break the Fantasy trope of the Thousands-years Young concept. Then again, Theistic Evolution is considered by some to be a realistic viewpoint, perhaps the gods made them that way... and it's genes that do the gods dirty work...
הדבר שהכין אהבתי הוא ההקבלה בין כנפי הציפור למטוס 747. תחשבו על זה- אם יש קסם בטבע, זה יכול להסביר הרבה על איך התרבות התבונית של העולם פתחה את מסורות הטלת הלחשים שלה. אחרי הכל, על כדה"א ניתן לראות שבני האדם כמעט תמיד חיקו את הטבע ביצירותיהם.