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[crazyabe]

Beastly, Useless, Fragile, Loud, Explosive, Gassius, Toxic, Hungry, Tiny, Dead, Undead, Wall

[AoshimaMichio]

Fan.

[piecewise]

Fan.

Machine or person who enjoys something?

[crazyabe]

Fan.

Machine or person who enjoys something?

My instant thought is that there should be some Questionable ones like that that could be taken either way based off context, or be fucked with randomly by you because you think Definition (B) is the more amusing one at the moment. ""I CAST HUGE WIND FAN!!!" (4) A Guy who is Really interested in Tornadoes appears."

[Egan_BW]

It doesn't really make sense that all the same synonyms that exist in english would also be in the magic language. Really magic should have no synonyms, because the universe can't afford to make those mistakes.

[Devastator]

"I cast Great Cake"

"You get a giant horrifying hellhound, as in the magic language, Cake and Hellhound use the same word."

[AoshimaMichio]

Fan.

Machine or person who enjoys something?

Yes.



Though in context of magic latter doesn't really make much sense. Magic doesn't have to be able to do everything. It's fine if magic is limited. That's one great truth I have realized in my pursue for perfect magic system.

[OceanSoul]

Imagine a Perplexicon where words had double meanings. They don't even have to be equally likely! That word for Wood everyone ignored could be the coveted Transform Self one time out of ten. Orichalcum might make great armor, but it'll probably end up as a non-mechanical vacuum. Even the most knowledgeable and rather powerful players can have spells not work right. There might even be a word with triple meanings that goes under the radar. A word's meanings might even depend on the situation! The Hellhound/cake word might mean Cake more often when there's an organic component to the spell. Dragon might never be a word's meaning while the caster wants to harm someone.

On this topic, why not allow for differing pronounciations of spells? Kelhein, the word for bottle/repeating, could be bottle more often when said as Kelhëin, and repeating more often as Këlhein. Or the new pronounciations could just be nonmagical, removing the component from a spell entirely. And so on.

[piecewise]

I'm running through both Perplexicon and Perplexicon RV's lists and creating new words as well. I'm trying to cut some things that will never be of use to anyone and put some things in that could be.  One thing I'm putting in that wasn't in past incarnations is "machine" type words, such as Pump, Pipe, Fan and Conveyor.

[Glass]

I'd definitely enjoy some magic machinery. Create a Da Vinci-esque flying machine with the power of your mind!

[OceanSoul]

I'd definitely enjoy some magic machinery. Create a Da Vinci-esque flying machine with the power of your mind!

I'd prefer an automated booze-tree planter. Speaking of, will booze trees still be possible in this system?

[Devastator]

What were the words used for that manned turret in the original perplexicon?  The one intended to get people to branch out?

[Whisperling]

What were the words used for that manned turret in the original perplexicon?  The one intended to get people to branch out?

Something something machine arcane energy, I think.

[syvarris]

Correct.

The machine word would allow for the automation of things. Null used it to make a cannon by automating the creation of Arcane beams.

It probably had more to it, because it had a form and material different from the one it produced, and spells generally only resulted in materials used in the spell; "Plant Control Staff" resulted in a tree staff which could control plants, while... I forget the exact words, but I had made a couple rings which controlled materials aside from the one they were made of, and they needed that material specified.

Vehicle would be a good word.  Different varieties of vehicle (Car, motorcycle, tank, helicopter, etc...) might be better, but I think it'd be cool if it worked similarly to clockwork, creating a mechanical form based upon the words used.  A tank would result from "Great Tough Steel Vehicle", while a helicopter would be "Levitating Adamantine Vehicle", a motorcycle from a poor roll with good words...

Other machines are somewhat difficult to apply well.  How much use is a conveyor belt for a wizard?  Why would someone summon a functional one, rather than one made out of lava?  Same for the fan, or pump, when would it be usable?  Maybe someone could create some sort of jury rigged aircraft out of a really big fan, I guess.

[NAV]

Bicycle, motorcycle, car, truck, tank, boat, helicopter, airplane, train...

The vehicles are different enough that they deserve separate words.