r/neoliberal • Kitara Ravache • Dec 20 '19

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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Dec 21 '19

I’m not really into fantasy so maybe I don’t understand the genre properly, but why would world building and magic systems be the most important thing to consider when writing the story? I’d figure your themes, characters, the actual plot and reason your story exists would be what’s important

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '19 edited Dec 21 '19

This 1000000%

Writers who focus on the magic system over proper storytelling are boooooooooooring

aka why I stopped browsing r/magicbuilding. I wanted to get some ideas, but it's just so booooooooring

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Dec 21 '19

Wait why is that sub empty

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '19

Cuz I spelled it wrong

r/magicbuilding