>magic is a substance/energy instead of being a craft I know

>>51769096

The craft is spellcraft.

Magic is the force, the energy.

It's not hard, OP. I can tell you half-realize you're on shaky ground because otherwise you wouldn't have posted that pathetic prememptive damage control.

>>51769096
Depends on the setting

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>>51769226
This.

The way I run it in my setting is:
Mana = the energy required to fuel a spell. Without mana, nothing happens.

Spellcraft = the art of creating and casting spells, as a wizard would.

Channeling = the art of letting divine power through your soul into the world, without dying from the strain, as a priest would.

Augury = the art of reading the shifting conditions of Nature(tm), drawing on ley lines and similar to control the elements, as a druid/witch/shaman would.

Magic = peasant word used for all of the above.

>>51769172
>magic is the force
it's not
that's a misuse of the word. You're just spelling out the mistake I'm addressing.

>>51769226
>>51769284
It depends on the setting insofar as some settings may define "apple juice" as "the art of harvesting fruits".

>>51769416

Magic is the force. :)

>I know you're gonna try to legitimize this because I'm OP so you're supposed to disagree with me, but you know it's still bullshit.
My opinion>your opinion

>>51769483
using words correctly > ur opinion

>>51769496
Then stop misusing them.

>>51769096
Heavens forfend that some people might have different ideas as to how they define a fictional thing in their own fiction.

>>51769416
Here's your (you).

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>>51769096
>Magic, Webster
a : the use of means (as charms or spells) believed to have supernatural power over natural forces
b : magic rites or incantations
2
a : an extraordinary power or influence seemingly from a supernatural source <Both pitchers, although they are older, haven't lost their magic.>
b : something that seems to cast a spell : enchantment <all the mystery, magic and romance which belong to royalty alone — J. E. P. Grigg>
3
: the art of producing illusions by sleight of hand <entertained with acts of jugglery and magic>

>Magic, Oxford
The power of apparently influencing events by using mysterious or supernatural forces.

1.1 Mysterious tricks, such as making things disappear and reappear, performed as entertainment.

1.2 A quality of being beautiful and delightful in a way that seems remote from daily life.

1.3informal Exceptional skill or talent.
The term is vague as fuck and can be applied to many things. There is no reason it has to mean mystical gasoline.

>>51769096
>no Orgone

Why even post