This makes me want to implement a programming language as an alternate tabletop magic system. Maybe give my players runes to experiment with and let them figure out it’s a programming language.
“Ahhh shit, they opened the XOR gate! Quick, someone check the blood sacrifice box and find out if the cat is dead or alive!”
Already have a Minecraft mod like that based off an anime with that premise. You program magic spells into a gun.
Link for those that are interested: https://modrinth.com/mod/psi
Someone was posting a week or two ago having done something kinda like that. Something to do with magic circles or similar, looked rad.
Give them Noita programmable spells and wait for them to TPK
I think Ra has a magic casting system that is a programming language.
“… [it] isn’t actually necessary… the whole spell falls apart without it for some reason.”
That’s peak cargo cult
programmingspellcasting right there.I had some commented out test methods. I deleted them. The program failed to compile. I put the test methods back, still commented out. Worked fine.
I don’t question the machine spirits.
Vibe Casting
I think vibe casting would be when you summon an imp for a few minutes with instructions to work on the big spell, summon another imp and tell it to do the same.
Likely to produce a much more literal development hell.
What would be the equivalent of this in magic?
A potential ley line blockage that’s cleared by a ritual performed every winter solstice by a hobbyist spellcaster who lives on a farm in the middle of nowhere?
Reminds me of the Spell-checker machine in the X-Men Inferno story.
