Game Notion

[rowyn]

ursulav made a teeny post featuring the painting title from a dream: "Two Ninjas Negotiating With An Earth Elemental To Buy Gravity." (never seen in the dream, sadly).

Now I want to do a magic system based on the premise of magic-users licensing from various elemental beings the right to use, abuse, and violate natural laws.

Comments

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

That kind of reminds me of:
(a) augustforth's maginaria (although it's more paying the elementals to break them on your behalf, and not licensing the rights)
(b) Nobilis, which is the epic struggle to save the universe from the RIAA. Or, well, from beings outside the universe who own the IP used to create it, and are trying to take it back one concept at a time.

[rowyn]

Hee! The Nobilis concept sounds pretty fun.