A.V.” The chart is visually crisper and easier to read, but the trail of its origins is murkier. Flowchart remastered and remade by Dianna. The credit on this version reads “Original Flowchart by Angelica M. The plot thickens with a second, remastered version of the chart. Searches for Angelus Michaels and Morningstar Studios are equally fruitless, despite the intriguing Luciferian reference in Morningstar. These are not the droids I’m looking for). While they are right at home in this trail of clues, they have nothing to do with the Mage chart. (The Raelians are a religion based on belief in UFO’s.
Liber Noctus appears to have been a fan site for World of Darkness, but its host domain (geniocracy) now directs to a Raelian website. and copies found elsewhere are taken without permission. A credit on the first chart reads, “This chart was created by Angelus Michaels of Morningstar Studios. True to the mysterious universe of World of Darkness, these authors have disappeared in a labyrinth of dead links and untraceable aliases.
The only problem is, I can’t find contact information for the charts’ creators. I would love to reproduce these charts in my book. The two images below are excellent examples of flowcharts that clearly communicate the complex, sophisticated, and flexible logic of spellcasting in the tabletop role-playing game Mage: The Awakening (part of White Wolf’s World of Darkness universe). Does the player need ingredients to cast a spell? Do they perform gestures or recite incantations? Will the spell draw energy from a mana pool? What happens if the player overspends mana? The answers to all of these questions can often be most effectively represented in a flow chart, which displays visually the branching logic, feedback loops, and input-output relationships of a complex system. Developing a magic system requires the designer to be able to express precisely the sequence of processes that a player must perform to cast a spell.
One of the topics at the heart of my forthcoming book, Game Magic, is the underlying logical flow of a magic system.
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