Date: 2006-04-23 03:56 pm (UTC)
I don't do much with "traditional" systems. One reason why I want to find a new name is because I'm trying to approach the concept without all the baggage of the hobby's three decades.

As part of that, I'm trying to move away from a) the idea that Magic Works Like Electricity, with "batteries" and all the rest of that metaphor, and b) that "magic items" are just ways to cast the same spells.

As for "mana", I'd only use the term in a South Seas-based setting. I LOVE the South Seas concept of "Mana", and it really bugs me to see the concept denigrated to "spell points" in almost every gaming system.
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