Alicornutopia

Some questions I'd ask: "How many djinn rings do you have, and what will happen to any ones I don't take? Am I right in understanding that you'll give away twice as many rings if I pick claddagh as if I pick anything else? Can a pocket dimension have multiple portals at once? If I have a rainbow ...

Original version of OP: An Earth with magical regions called "Warps" Warps appear and disappear spontaneously, generally lasting centuries. A warp contains the same general sort of terrain as the area did before, but is much larger internally and its internal layout is continuously changing and ...

So, I assume most of us have various proper nouns in our settings which are supposed to be from fictional languages, each presumably with its own phonemics and often no in-universe Latin alphabet orthography. When you write such words, do you use approximate English orthography since the rest of the ...

To cast a spell, a magician needs to construct a spell knot- an arrangement of knotted thread, wire and beads which can be thought of as representing an "instruction to magic" in the "language of magic". … A magician can sense when a spell knot they have made is usable, and can cast it by speaking t ...

So, if warps are a new thing, probably governments would pretty much all have taken possession of them before anyone found out about the powers and kept control of them afterwards, aside from some probably being kept hidden. Also, the first people to get superpowers were probably prisoners sent into ...

A world that stapled forks of your alts onto you as a magic system would be awesome . Although I imagine it would get really crazy really fast, depending on the range of worlds it was drawing from. Yeah. The potential to get crazy fast is one the main things that's been pushing me away from it ...

...hmm, so does that mean that you can constrain a post-pointing wizard's behaviour by saying "if you do X I will assume you mean to communicate Y" where Y is something you expect they probably want to communicate and X is something you don't want them to do? XD No; they can do whatever they like ...

"Blink once for yes"? "If you do X I will assume you agree with what I just said"? Check boxes on checklists? Make significant facial expressions? Start randomly yelling or whispering while riddling in suggestive ways? Speak in outright cipher which can in fact just be decoded if someone cares to ...

I think all four are probably Gryffindor on balance.

So, the original concept for the setting was that the warped entities would be alts from other universes, and I've been going back and forth on whether that should be the case? Also I'm now thinking maybe Warps should have only started in the 50s so that society isn't sure what to do about them. If ...