Begging the Question; What do we mean by “Magic,” anyhow?

Begging the Question What do we mean by “Magic,” anyhow? Recently Thoth put up a post which more or less pointed out that no, there’s no such thing as reliable magic (and obviously there’s no point in asking how it works unless you have a specific fictional universe in mind). We might have hoped people [...]

Reality Check – Magic into Science

Thanks to some more inquiries as to “how some magic was absorbed into science”, here we have some quick history. It may be relevant to gaming if you happen to using a historical setting. Before you had “science” humans had a great mass of learned behaviors – also known as rituals. Some worked, some did [...]