Music magic system

Magic duels are music duels.

chord vs drum. As two ancinet lich battle each other the living around them trasnfrom, explode, and change so much Tzench would cry from joy.

>>50616972
Different scales = Different schools of magic
Different modes = Different power levels
or something

What instruments would be most used for magic casting?

Already being a well versed and skilled musician before you attempt any of the magical arts is to the musicians benefit... however amateurs of both who have innate talent/natural ear for music have done incredible works that even Masters have had trouble replicating.

>>50618880
For a solo caster probably a guitar (or lute) for its versatility and ease of transportation.
But maybe groups of musicians would want to diversify their instruments. Maybe a string quartet is more powerful combined than a single guitar player.

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So Loom, in other words.

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>>50620457

Or a few other games.

Pic related was far from perfect, but I liked how they handled the interaction of magic-users and society. The social and tech level was sort of early-twentieth-century, with battleships (hovering, land-battleships) and big armies of men in snappy uniforms with rifles. But before you started a war, you had to try to take out the best magic-users in the target country. An archmage is a national resource, and probably has a military rank and a position in an official research institution.

>>50620521
What does that have to do with music, numbnuts?

>>50620565

OP's talking about making a setting with a music-based magic system and a victorian-era society. I mentioned a game setting that has a music-based magic system and a society that's a couple decades further along, and some of the consequences of magic in a society that's more advanced than the standard medieval. It's relevant, numbnuts.