Fantasy Polls

This is a series of polls for designing a fantasy world.

• Where does magic come from?
• How common is magic?
• How powerful is the carreer magic user?
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Where does magic come from?

• Magical energy
• Both -
• Divine Only -

How common is magic?

• Ubiquitioues but weak -
• Ubiquitoues and strong -
• Common -
• Uncommon -
• Rare - only a few people can do magic, but it is very powerful
• Rare - only a few people can do magic, and it is very weak or subtle
• Nearly None

How powerful and common is the career magic user

• common and weak
• common, mostly weak (D&D style)
• common, strong
• rare and weak
• rare and strong

who has ability to do magic

• men
• women
• kids
• adults
• both

How permanent is magic and magical items?

• Magic is impermanent - no magical items. rest in power of people or soul to empower it (occult - no magic items without a magical person to use them and keep them charged)
• Magic can be permanent - magical items possible without needing mage to power them (gamer fantasy)
• Only the rarest magic is permanent, magic magical items artifacts only (Swords and Sorcery and most Literary fantasy)

Nature of the gods

• known to exist, known to have created world, single pantheon
• known to exist, all claim to have created world, multiple pantheons
• Openly known to exist - so only one pantheon in the world, if religon varies it only does so by how much the gods do not interfere
• Unknown - like the real world, nobody can prove or disprove them, so religion varies by region / culture (might still have what seems to be divine magic - but it doesn't come with a 'powered by Zeus' sticker).
• Openly known to -NOT- exist - there is no religon (Tolkien and Robert Jordan both seemed to do this without saying it - neither had religions, though Tolkien had semi-divine beings like Gandalf)
• Openly known to exist and contradict their own existance - Gamer fantasy, where two pantheons that both created the world can prove they both did so, even though that is impossible.
• Other?

magical items

• all items rare

contact and relationship with our world

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