Well, yeah, and I have a PhD in Astrophysics. So, sci-fi is an area where I really do tend to notice the flaws in physics....
Oh definitely. Especially since you have such a heavy background in it.
Yeah, exactly.
But this particular thing has bothered me since high school. And yet other people really don't catch that despite it being high school level Biology, I'm not sure why. At least Pokemon Adventures gets it right.
Fair enough. And, honestly, I doubt most people
care so ok, do you guys want hard occult or high fantasy magic? the first is like hard to use harder to learn three hour plus spells and the second is the stuff you see in typical fantasy, healing mortal wounds, fire balls etcetera. and alternate history or new world from the ground up?
Well, the second sounds more generally useful, but it's also possibly less
interesting. I also do want the magic to make sense and the science of the world to
also make sense.
And, AU doesn't make sense if we're including magic, because this world doesn't have magic....
well the difference between a bland new world and an alternate history is in one case rather then say steam power and electricity found as in science in alt history magic would replace those inventions where as an alternate world can be any mash up we like, and I like high fantasy magic myself.
the genre i assume would be, as far as everyone who has spoken up, some mix of fantasy, scifi and urban
Well, if we're doing sci-fi then we can't have magitech be
too prevalent, otherwise the "science" aspect of it falls out. Magic is almost by
definition something that fits outside of science.