How to Improvise? Magic

What is Magic For?
Why Should you use it?
How Should you use it?
And at which Occasion?

Why use Magic? Novelty

  • Novelty
  • Which opportunities does Magic create?
  • How does it change the World?
  • How can it change the World?
  • Which Innovations are required?
  • Which Innovations are possible?
  • How does Magic renew itself?
  • Which New Rules does it bring to the World?
  • Through which New Characters does it express itself?
  • Which Possibilities are available thanks to it?
  • What would be Impossible to do without it?
  • What would be more Difficult to do without it?
  • Who are your Characters?
  • Who’s the Main Character?
  • Does she invent new products?
  • What’s her definition of Innovation?
  • What’s her definition of Creativity?
  • What’s her definition of Novelty?
  • What’s her definition of Diversity?
  • Is she here to Travel?
  • Is she here to watch a Play?
  • Is she here to enjoy a Performance?
  • Is she here for Novelty?
  • Expansion
  • What is Fantasy?
  • What defines Fantasy?
  • Is Magic a definitive component of Fantasy?
  • What is Adventure?
  • Why do we Adventure ourselves?
  • Why do we want to discover?
  • Why do we take risk?
  • How do we Progress?
  • How is this Progression displayed?
  • Where are we Progressing?
  • How is this World represented?
  • How is it Growing?
  • How large is it?
  • How is this Enlargement displayed?
  • What is Horror?
  • What is the Unknown?
  • Why is it Sought?
  • Why is it Looked after?
  • What are the Depths?
  • How do we enter them?
  • What’s Amplification?
  • What’s Intensity?
  • Why do we need to exaggerate?
  • Balance
  • What’s the Balance of Power in your World?
  • Who defines the Equilibrium?
  • Through which means?
  • Using which Scale?
  • Why should we use Magic in such a World?
  • What are the advantages?
  • What are the potential troubles?
  • Who has access to Magic?
  • Who can use it?
  • Who can learn it?
  • What’s the availability of Spells?
  • What’s the availability of Artifacts?
  • What’s the availability of Accessories?
  • What’s the availability of Catalysts?

How to use Magic? Uniqueness

  • Unique
  • Can you make your Own Spells?
  • Should you make your Own Spells?
  • What’s Magic’s Personality?
  • How does it Manifest?
  • How do Spells embody the Will of their owners?
  • How do the Spells react to their Users State?
  • How do they behave?
  • To whom to they respond?
  • Through whom do they channel?
  • Are Spells User-specific?
  • Are there Levels of Spells?
  • Are there Species-specific?
  • Why do Spells exist?
  • What allows them to manifest?
  • Appearance & Manifestation
  • What’s its Color?
  • How Brilliant is it?
  • Which Contrast does it create?
  • What are its visible Effects?
  • What are its non-visible Effects?
  • How do they manifest?
  • Are there Trails?
  • Are there Textures?
  • Are there Particles?
  • How do Spells affect their Environment’s appearance?
  • How do they degrade?
  • How do they vanish?
  • When do their effects end?
  • Rare & Useful
  • How Unusual is Magic?
  • How is it Used?
  • Is it used for Entertainment?
  • Is it used to Amuse?
  • Is it used to produce Resources?
  • Which kind of Resources?
  • Which Professions use it the most?
  • To which end?
  • Following which Procedures?
  • Is it Taught?
  • Which Teachings are spread?
  • Who is authorized to teach it?
  • Which Studies should you go through to learn it?
  • How is it Monetized?
  • How is this Monetization controlled?
  • Are there Tutoring processes?
  • How is Spellcasting monitored?
  • Rituals
  • Which Rites are organized?
  • What are the different kind of Rites?
  • Are there Wild Rites?
  • Rites performed by Animals?
  • Rites performed by non-Humanoids?
  • Are there Civilized Rites?
  • Regulated Rites?
  • By which Cults?
  • Which of these Cults are legitimate?
  • Who defines this Legitimacy?
  • Who controls this Legitimacy?
  • When do Rites occur?
  • Who are the Participants?
  • Which Rites are Forbidden?
  • Which Rites are Limited?
  • What Regulations are related to Rituals?
  • Which Organizations take part on the promotion of Rites?
  • Which Weapons are used during these Rites?
  • Are Rituals used in War?
  • Are they used in Trade?
  • Which Trades?
  • How are they Monetized?

When to use Magic? Evolution

  • Sensations & Relationships
  • How do you develop New Relationships through Magic?
  • What are the possible Developments?
  • Which Emotions can Magic develop?
  • Which Sensations?
  • How does it convey a sense of Sharing?
  • How does it nurture Relationships?
  • How does it create Alliances?
  • How do the Characters find Allies?
  • Which kind of Allies?
  • How can spells be Soothing?
  • How can they be Healing?
  • How do they create Pleasure?
  • How do they create Enemyship?
  • How do they them turn people against 1 another?
  • Which kind of Enemies does magic bring?
  • How does it create Pain?
  • How does it create Destruction?
  • Transformation
  • Which Transformation does Magic cause?
  • Does it cause Bodily transformations?
  • Does it cause definitive alterations?
  • How does it disturb the Character?
  • How does it enhance the Character?
  • Does it Inhibit the Character’s Evolution?
  • Does it Catalyse the Character’s Evolution?
  • Which use does she make of it?
  • Does she make a Progressive use of it?
  • Does she make a Brutal use of it?
  • Which  Relationship does she have to Magic?
  • How often does she use it?
  • To which occasions?
  • Does she use it only when she is in Trouble?
  • Does she use it for all things?
  • Even minor ones?
  • Does she Alter her Own body?
  • Does she Alter others bodies?
  • How qualified is she in Alteration?
  • Is it True Alteration?
  • Is it an Illusion?
  • Does the Character Understand her own spells?
  • Does she know their extent?
  • Does she know who she can use them on?
  • Crisis & Change
  • What are the limits of Fantasy?
  • How is the characters’ imagination formed?
  • What’s its Shape?
  • How does it manifest?
  • Through which crisis?
  • How would you use Magic in Adventure?
  • How is it Transforming Environments?
  • Which Changes does it cause?
  • Are they unexpected?
  • Are they forced?
  • How is Magic used in Explorations?
  • Which kind of Explorations?
  • How is it used in Travel?
  • How is it used in Transportation?
  • How would you use Magic in Horror?
  • Is it used to Control Luminosity?
  • Is it used to Alter Perception?
  • Is it used to create Artificial Emotions?
  • Which Emotions can be manufactured?
  • How much do they look like true emotions?
  • Is it used to cause Local modifications of Temperature?
  • Is it used to Reduce Comfort?
  • Is it used to Inflict Illness?
  • How do your Characters define Pain?
  • What constitute an effort for them?
  • Do the Characters feel Threatened?
  • When do they feel this Threat?


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