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A Magical Person Quest (Working Title)

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Curses or illusions, difficult choice.
Well, this one seems to have a chance:
[x] Girls (Variety)
- [x] Enchantresses : Use their magic to change their appearance, shapeshift, cast illusions, influence the minds of themselves or others.

Will the losing societies exist as well?
 
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[x] Girls (Variety)
- [x] Witches : Cast curses and hexes against their opponents and enchant useful items such as broomsticks and potions.

Tentatively this, though Enchantresses sounds interesting as well. Question: will we run into magical boys (or girls if boys wins) and have a classical anime misunderstanding?
 
[x] Boys
- [x] Magical Knights : Use their magic to enchant magical effects into weapons and armor.
 
[x] Girls (Variety)
- [x] Enchantresses : Use their magic to change their appearance, shapeshift, cast illusions, influence the minds of themselves or others.
 
Unseelie said:
Will the losing societies exist as well?
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warthael said:
Tentatively this, though Enchantresses sounds interesting as well. Question: will we run into magical boys (or girls if boys wins) and have a classical anime misunderstanding?
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We're planning on expanding on the world building and the nature of magical "society" more in the next few updates.

And while it doesn't apply so much to this vote in particular, I will say that for most votes I do consider both how much the leading option won by and what the other options people voted for were when writing. So for most votes, even if your vote loses it will still influence the story.

And it looks like we're currently tied between Enchantresses and Magical Knights (merging PlazmaStryke's vote in). Thank you all for participating. This has been a pretty good turnout for an original setting quest!
Adhoc vote count started by Diomedon on Apr 20, 2017 at 12:23 PM, finished with 27 posts and 23 votes.
  • [x] Girls (Variety)
    - [x] Enchantresses : Use their magic to change their appearance, shapeshift, cast illusions, influence the minds of themselves or others.
    [x] Boys (Specialization)
    - [x] Magical Knights : Use their magic to enchant magical effects into weapons and armor.
    [X] Girls (Variety)
    - [X] Magical Girls : Use their magic to both strengthen their own bodies and to enchant items with powerful offensive and defensive magical effects.
    [x] Boys (Specialization)
    - [x] Magical Martial Artists : Use their magic to enhance their own bodies, making them harder, better, faster, stronger.
    [x] Girls (Variety)
    - [x] Witches : Cast curses and hexes against their opponents and enchant useful items such as broomsticks and potions.
    [x] Boys
    - [x] Magical Knights : Use their magic to enchant magical effects into weapons and armor.
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[x] Boys (Specialization)
- [x] Magical Knights : Use their magic to enchant magical effects into weapons and armor.
Adhoc vote count started by Plasmid on Apr 20, 2017 at 3:32 PM, finished with 36 posts and 30 votes.
  • [x] Girls (Variety)
    - [x] Enchantresses : Use their magic to change their appearance, shapeshift, cast illusions, influence the minds of themselves or others.
    [x] Boys (Specialization)
    - [x] Magical Knights : Use their magic to enchant magical effects into weapons and armor.
    [x] Boys
    - [x] Magical Knights : Use their magic to enchant magical effects into weapons and armor.
    [X] Girls (Variety)
    - [X] Magical Girls : Use their magic to both strengthen their own bodies and to enchant items with powerful offensive and defensive magical effects.
    [x] Boys (Specialization)
    - [x] Magical Martial Artists : Use their magic to enhance their own bodies, making them harder, better, faster, stronger.
    [x] Girls (Variety)
    - [x] Witches : Cast curses and hexes against their opponents and enchant useful items such as broomsticks and potions.
    [x] Boys (Specialization)
    - [x] Wizards : Use their magic to cast spells, such as fireballs, lightning bolts, etc.
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Adhoc vote count started by Plasmid on Apr 20, 2017 at 6:28 PM, finished with 49 posts and 34 votes.
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[x] Boys (Specialization)
- [x] Wizards : Use their magic to cast spells, such as fireballs, lightning bolts, etc.
 
[x] Boys
- [x] Magical Knights : Use their magic to enchant magical effects into weapons and armor.
 
[x] Girls (Variety)
- [x] Enchantresses : Use their magic to change their appearance, shapeshift, cast illusions, influence the minds of themselves or others.
 
[x] Boys (Specialization)
- [x] Magical Knights : Use their magic to enchant magical effects into weapons and armor.
 
[x] Girls (Variety)
- [x] Enchantresses : Use their magic to change their appearance, shapeshift, cast illusions, influence the minds of themselves or others.
 
[x] Girls (Variety)
- [x] Enchantresses : Use their magic to change their appearance, shapeshift, cast illusions, influence the minds of themselves or others.
 
[x] Boys
- [x] Magical Knights : Use their magic to enchant magical effects into weapons and armor.
 
[x] Boys (Specialization)
- [x] Magical Knights : Use their magic to enchant magical effects into weapons and armor.
 
[x] Girls (Variety)
- [x] Enchantresses : Use their magic to change their appearance, shapeshift, cast illusions, influence the minds of themselves or others.
 
Though it does make me wonder why the gift of magic is gender locked! I mean, for magical girl anime, it's because it's literally a metaphor for coming of age as a girl. So I assume it's something like that here?
 
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Though it does make me wonder why the gift of magic is gender locked! I mean, for magical girl anime, it's because it's literally a metaphor for coming of age as a girl. So I assume it's something like that here?
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The three options are pretty similar for each gender, with the difference being tropes associated with males and females. Think Mars versus Venus here.

Magic Knight and Magical Girl are equipment based. The Magic Knight is War and Violence theme, typical male imagery, while Magical Girl is more Pure and Love theme, typical female imagery.

Wizard and Witch are pure magic based with a Wizard studying brute force and a Witch focusing on utility.

Magical Martial Artists and Enchantresses are body based with Magical Martial Artists focusing on the physical body while Enchantresses are more mental based.

They separate into the Fighter/Mage/Thief archetypes pretty well with the gender based tropes being behind them. In DnD class terms I'm seeing it as the males being Fighters, Sorcerers, or Monks while females choosing between Paladins, Wizards, and Rogues. Same type/roles, but females have more flexible classes to the males more combat based ones.
 
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justinkal said:
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Also, is there a category that includes things like "enchant your fist so that things you punch explode"?
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I do believe this would be the Magical Martial Artist, based on my understanding of the different systems. However, if you were willing to have your fist require a gauntlet or something to be the enchanted part to achieve the same relative result, then Magical Knight would probably also work.
 
PlazmaStryke said:
I do believe this would be the Magical Martial Artist, based on my understanding of the different systems. However, if you were willing to have your fist require a gauntlet or something to be the enchanted part to achieve the same relative result, then Magical Knight would probably also work.
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From the description, the martial arts one sounded more like using magic to make yourself supernaturally strong, agile, and resilient, and sounded like it excluded "use your fists as a means of hitting a target with magical effects".
 
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From the description, the martial arts one sounded more like using magic to make yourself supernaturally strong, agile, and resilient, and sounded like it excluded "use your fists as a means of hitting a target with magical effects".
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Okay, based on the short description, you'd be right. I had extrapolated based on previous experience with like martial arts in anime and manga and the like. I had assumed we'd likely be capable of such feats, as any punch we throw would likely have such an effect on accident(or by choice), or would use like Ki and pretty much blast a target apart on hit. Or however it would work.

Now, I'd say that might still be possible, but Magical Girls and Magical Knights both have the highest likelihood of such actions without extrapolation and everything. Take these understands as you will I suppose :)
 
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