Jason “PK” Levine came up with this clever magic system in Pyramid #3/63: Infinite Worlds II. It garnered some attention when it came out, but hasn’t really seen much then. I think it comes as close as you possibly can to a working powers-based magic system that doesn’t feel like comic-book supers magic. It’s ranked as my number two favorite magic system. It’s got a couple of downsides though, mainly the fact that there are so few examples of spells. The GM basically has to do a lot of the work and I think that puts some folks off. To help ease that burden a bit here are a couple of spells for the Air College…
