Let's make some original spellcasters

Let's make some original spellcasters.

How do you like the idea of spellcasters who use physical attributes for casting spells?

>Strength mage
Fortiturgy is a magical art born from the synthesis of ancient yoga and acupuncture techniques. Its adepts flex specific groups of muscles in precise sequences to manipulate the natural flow of cosmic energies through their bodies. By doing so, they can make their bodies hard as iron or light as a feather, or even shoot blasts of cosmic energy from their fists. The strength of the effect depends on the precision of control a fortiturge exerts over his muscles.

>Dexterity mage
A svengali is a stage magician who got so good at his craft that he can make his illusions real. Like an ordinary stage magician, he uses his extraordinary dexterity and sleight of hand to produce his spells, with the important difference that his are not mere tricks. However, his spells still lose their power when anyone perceptive enough notices his concealed preparations.

>Constitution mage
Gastronomages use the latent magic energy trapped in food to power up their spells - for instance, hot chilli allows to cast a fireball. They literally prepare their spells at the beginning of each day by cooking meals that, when consumed, allow them to cast a specific spell. A lot of the spellmeals they cook are either indigestible or outright poisonous to an average person, and a gastronomage must rigorously train his stomach by eating lots of varied food before he's ready to cast his most powerful spells.

>Strength Mage
You could add increase in speed and the ability to create quakes or enhance magic attacks. Strength can also give you telekinesis that enhances your own physical strength or even project your strength from a distance.

>Dexterity Mage
Telekinesis to steal or bestow, flight for acrobatics, steadying magic for aiming, bending time perception to enhance reflexes, projectile control to increase accuracy and "lock-on", and handling things such as knots even with your hands unusable via telekinesis.

>Constitution Mage
Constitution Mage could also have body-toughening and weight-altering abilities. Constitution is also overall healthiness, which means metabolism. Con-Mages could use their lungs or brace themselves to draw in and generate power to perform acts of great endurance, such as surviving hostile temperatures, going underwater for a long time, running for a longer time, pain numbing, and self-healing.

>original spellcasters.
>Strength mage

I don't know any except for Flex Mentallo, but then again, he's not a spellcaster in a traditional sense.

Dark Magic in Dark Souls uses Strength for casting. Manus is a strength mage.

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I love the idea of a food mage. Just a fat chef who uses magic to make food very well.

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The Mystic Pimp.

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Specialises in mind control, which he casts by slapping people.

Luck magic
Its strength is inversely proportional to all of your ability modifiers combined
You have no or very limited control over it

Mechanically speaking, it is a result of a powerful soul failing to fully integrate with its body at birth, forming a very mediocre body and mind but a "cloud" of raw, unintegrated spirit that surrounds the person. The larger this cloud is, the more shitty the body and mind are, but the better the spirit is at enforcing its will through luck magic.

I like both the ideas for the Strength and Costitution mages, but the dexterity mage doesn't make much sense. It'd be cool to use typical classic magical illusions as actual magic, but how can you justify it by "he got so good at performing a mundane act, it became magic"? You could fluff it differently, I suppose, by saying some skilled illusionists get invited to join an order or actual mages which use dexterity and precise motions to enact magic, or perhaps have won the respect of some entity which allows the to perform these spells.

Practice something for so fucking long and get so good at it that you can do it conceptually

I've been toying with this idea for a while

When someone decides in the bottom of their hearts that they deeply, truly have a conviction or passion, a resolution stronger than anything, they may awaken a special ability. Solid, hard spiritual energy emerges from their body and cloalesces into a special shape. Through the sheer force of their will, these individuals can materialize a horde of servants or a weapon in order to do their bidding. Depending on the nature of the wish and emotion they felt, the colour and particular items they summon will be different. Each person will have a signature item they can bring forth, which glows uniquely in a gold light regardless, but other items or servants they phantom up are more varied in appearance. A boy with a strong desire to become a hero might be able to summon a glowing sword and produce magical effects with it, making him a great warrior, but may also be able to summon a hail of arrows, or a team of servants, or a compass. Anything that truly helps them on their goal can be materialized, but they can't fool their heart. In addition, these people can immense charisma, ruling over their spiritual servants and comanding them with their weapons at their side. Everyone feels great awe around them and they may more easily convince others to do things for them.

Now You See Me was a terrible movie though.

Wizard of the Blue Spheres

I disagree

This wouldn't make sense in a world where actual mages exist in the open. I agree that stage magicians who level up to real magicians don't make any sense either, but I can't help liking this idea for how bizarre it is.

It's a cool idea, but I'd like SOME form of explanation, even if it is a bullshit explanation.

>muscle wizard
>original

Can you give at least one example aside from Flex Mentallo?

mostly that it's a meme floated around Veeky Forums. It's certainly where I found it. In popular fiction however, I am not very well versed, so I could not say

This really sounds like a shonen manga.

So the magic is ultimately controlled by the DM?