I don't know about you guys, but I like the magic system from the game Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. It's a game on GameCube and it has an original magic system and altogether is a good game.

 

I would go with D&D style magic.

 

Oooo, I know, programming magic from the WizBiz. Awesome book(s), very unique magic system (eventually). I suggest it to all who like magic and programming (computers not involved).

 

I still say Discworld magic is brilliant, just looking at the possibilities in Sourcery makes you wonder just what happened during the Mage Wars... And it would make coin tossing that much more interesting.

Imagine the bets you could make: heads, tails, edge, turn into an animal, disappear, spontaneously combust, etc. So much fun .

It also helps that I like books , though it could be annoying walking through the university library and ending up in Sydney, it'd be a much easier way to go on holiday... Just make sure you're prepared for anything on the other side .

Aekiel

 

I like the magic from the Dresden Universe, its strong but it has limits. I like that I can still kick ass but I don't have to fear people flat out apparating into my house an eating/killing me. Harry Potter magic is probably the most flexible with what you can do, but if I can do it, so can any jackass who doesn't like me, and I would not like to spend the remainder of my days as a gerbil.

 

I prefer Naruto.

 

You do get to walk up trees and on water with Naruto. Hell, if you had their abilities, you could be the next coming of Jesus!

That said, I'm not sure which I would go by. I haven't read many of these series you've mentioned (though, they're on my list of things to read eventually), so it's really a toss-up between Harry Potter Magic's general usefulness, and the awesome that is the Naruto series' Chakra-based abilities, despite the heavy, tiring training involved in using it.

 

Yeah, I'd prefer Chakra skills too...it'd give me a reason to exercise anyway. Plus, some pretty easy ways to win bets.

If I can't have that, the magic in Eragon isn't too shabby either.

 

I would take the magic system from the Witcher Saga. Not for the magical powers. They are quite alright. Typical fantasy spell casting, with a lot of power. But the real benefit of it is that you are almost immortal. And you don't age. The mages usually stop aging at the age of 30 or 40 and the sorceress usually have the bodies of 25 years-old girls.

 

Yea I have to say the magic in Eragon open a whole new world of possibilities. All one needs is to know the words of the Ancient Language in order to perform whatever they wish. This flexibility is sort of like in the Harry Potter world but you don't need a wand to do it. That being said I would still choose the Harry Potter world since there is a more unlikely chance of you dying from it as opposed to Eragon where if you bite more than you can chew you're as good as dead.

 

Absolutely.

I'd choose Jedi over Wizard any day of the week.

 

Paloni done nothing. That book is passable as a good fanfiction of various fantasy author's, not as a published novel. He's taken good stuff, meshed it together, and made it pathetic.

The moment you open that book and see that ruddy map, the first thing that comes to your mind is: Tolkien's going to be pissed.

The only good this book did was to introduce me to various fantasy authors as I googled critiques to find out where else this guy had ripped his shit from.

As of magic systems, I really like the one in Bartemius Trilogy. Discoworld comes a close second.

 

Meh. The magic (One Power) system of "The Wheel of Time" series by Robert Jordan, I think, trumps all.

Very flexible, very powerful, and very logical.

 

i would say either chakra from naruto or runemagic from the deaths gate series. you got to love that intead of casting spells the runemages bends reality so the effect they like happen^^

 

War Wizard magic from Terry Goodkind. (Lol Deus ex machina yet utterly useless at the same time.)

I don't mind the D&D system though revising the spell book every night would become annoying.

The Will and the Word is also pretty cool from David Eddings. Much better then what is used in the Elenium and the Tamuli.

I don't know much about Warhammer Fantasy but I have always liked the psyker concept in 40k. (The Inquisition is utterly awesome in that setting)

Runemagic (Death Gate) is nothing special if I recall..they tended to fade once in contact with water? I remember Haplo having problems in the fourth book anyway.

Quite like the way Gandalf uses his magic in the Lotr movies. Doesn't use it much which is a good take over the D&D magician.

Overall I think the Warhammer Psykers are the coolest even though they are at risk with the warp and such things.

 

Bible Magic!



No wait, that would make me God.




If I can't have that, then I'd like to have Harry Potter magic. There are so many ways to abuse that system...

Of course, being a Jedi would be pretty cool too. But doesn't that make you a selfless philanthropist-celibate?