Does runescape 'do' magic well?

[nickeley102]

The new devices techonology has brought us with electricity are the thing what people would've called magic a few hundred years ago. But what is magic today?

 

Thats a good point, every scientific discovery, like Einsteins or Rutherfords, just turns a mystical concept into a scientific fact.

 

 

 

Arthur C. Clarke said that sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from magic.

 

 

 

I think that rs magic is unique and the written history helps explain it, so i think rs does magic relatively well.

[eggzs]

in my opinion, a magician is someone who pulls rabbits out of hats and a mage is someone that uses spells do defeat large beasts etc.

[Lemurian]

85% of all magic is to know things others do not.

 

 

 

SCENARIO!

 

 

 

You have a car. It has started making strange noises and it's hard to start it up. You deliver it at a mechanic and he fixes it for you. You do not know exactly what he does, or how (unless you're a fellow mechanic), but you do know that HE FIXES IT.

 

 

 

Even how logical, mechanical and simple it all is (especially for the mechanic), it seems and feels like a kind of magic.

 

 

 

ANOTHER SCENARIO!

 

 

 

You turn on your radio. Sound happens. Most who have gone to school and the like can explain at a certain length about radiowaves and electronics and circuits and sound being vibration and the like, but that's not what you think when you turn it on. You press On-button and Radio happens.

 

 

 

That's a kind of magic.

 

 

 

ANOTHER SCENARIO SINCE I LIKE WRITING IN CAPS!

 

 

 

A magician (the kind with tophat and nice cape who performs at children's parties, not the other one) does a trick. He pulls a rabbit out of his hat, which is discreetly placed on a cloth-covered table. What he does is reach into the table thanks to hidden trapdoors and pull out a pre-placed rabbit. But for those who doesn't think over the fact with the hat placed on the table, doesn't care.

 

 

 

They've seen a man perform magic. Since it's something they don't understand, is perfectly unlogical and These Thing Do Not Happen it must be magic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just helping the discussion a little.

[Albel]

I think jagex does magic fine and i dont see them ever changing the way we do magic in runescape.

[Lenin64]

You press On-button and Radio happens.

 

"Radio happens" lol. :D

 

 

 

Runescape magic seems alright to me, the only way it could be better: re-usable runes :mrgreen:

[Hajutze]

well they always can make spell book with spells that dont require runes ... for 90-95+

[wurmskin]

well they always can make spell book with spells that dont require runes ... for 90-95+

 

 

 

Nope. Never gonna happen, sorry :wink: .

 

 

 

But yes, I do think Jagex presents magic in a believable way. LOTR did it way better though :) . In RS almost every adventurer out there happens to be a magician who has the knowledge and resources to be able to teleport etc...

 

 

 

In LOTR, magic was only used by a select few who are knowledgeable in alot of things. This of course made them them more powerful than the average warrior (like Gandalf :lol: ).

 

 

 

In my opinion however, magic is only magic when you see it and you don't know how its done. But then again, that's just me :shock: .

[Bruce_Almighty]

of course they do, its way underpowered, the max damage is 30.

 

 

 

melee max can be 99 possibly

 

 

 

range max can be 50+

 

 

 

the runes are ok, MANA/ MAGIC POWER would be horrible because we would have to wait for it to recharge, this way we can cast as many spells as we have runes, i wouldnt change it

[123Yourgone]

The best example of magic i have seen is raymond e fiests representation of it, magic is everything and anyone can work it if only they know how.

[Rebdragon]

The energy comes from the Other Side of the Gate, duh.

 

 

 

You know Runecrafting Altars? They're really timespace-tearing devices (i.e., wormhole generators) which allow connections to the Other Side via being linked directly with The Gate on the level of a newborn child. You as an older human are unable to unlock the Gate within yourself to get to this near limitless supply of energy, but using a medium- such as the Altars- you can gather energy from the Other Side and, with the proper abilities, imbed that energy in a special type of stone. Then, again, with the right abilities, the energy imbedded within a stone can then be released for goal of using what you mortals call "magic". The stones are merely used as a method for storing the energy, as without them one would be unable to properly contain and release the energy without skills far beyond any magicican of the past or present.

 

 

 

Duh.

[SwreeTak]

There are a background story about the runes in RS, which somebody alread yhave post here. Myself I think that this system are okay, but I would have liked the magic system more if you didn't need the runes.

[jemathonical]

Runescape is a game. It doesn't have to make sense.

[tintin113]

Runes are like stones of power, which when combined, lock their powers together and exert a force. This is the magic that runescape uses. To be able to cast these "higher level" spells, you must know which runes to combine, how to combine them, and how to control their power.

[gongusan]

Magic doesn't exist, therefore isn't believable, just like cabbage. :roll:

[nickeley102]

You know Runecrafting Altars? They're really timespace-tearing devices

 

haha, the old time space continuum defence, favoured by wikipedia philosophers and science fiction writers for generations. Would you get some spare philotes while you are there?

 

 

 

there is no room for runescape in the theory of special relativity, which 'worm-holes' barely fit in to.

 

 

 

I still think 'the force' is the best representation of magic, but this wouldnt work in runescape magic (maybe a new skill though).

 

 

 

I agreed with the conservation of energy comment, having something with which to manifest the magic helps, not just saying something or pointing a stick

[shotdown12]

Have you done research on this? I am sure there are many topics on this if u browse the internet. Who knows? u might learn something about magic's history.

[Priviate]

Like anything you need practise, you don't become a sports star instantly it takes practise and training.

 

 

 

I like to see it as when you start out with no experience [ie 0xp] you don't know anything about magic, when you do your first few skills you learn a few things, allowing you to do something more complicated.

 

 

 

This works for practically all other stats. This also explains why theres such an exp gap between lvls, esp high lvls. It perhaps is because you've learned almost everything, and takes you a long time to finally learn a new technique, spell, item etc [ie a new level]