>all magic comes out of your skin
>more specifically, your sensory nerves
>It's formed in your brain, and channeled out through them
>You can even develop arcane reflexes if you practice enough
>The truly skilled can cast a spell before they even realize they have to
>It's all a matter of sensory input
>Control of course correlates to the inner homunculus
>That's why most use their hands and their lips (voice) to cast their spells
>But if you want to really go big or go home...
>You have to get naked
>>44123387
>Women statistically have more nerve endings than men
I support this system
>>44123469
>erogenous zones are filled with nerve endings
>High tier spell casting involves whipping tits and cocks out
>>44123469
>>44123539
Explains why sorceresses prefer to wear very little clothing
>>44123387
>Circumcision is used to cripple a Wizard's powers.
>>44123387
>Northern barbarians are actually body augmenters
>It's just so cold they never developed a strong arcane tradition to codify what they were doing
>These fierce-some warriors descend on warmer climates
>They can finally take more clothing off and grow much stronger
Why not go naked but always have an illusion that you're clothed? Then you get the best of both worlds.
Out of curiosity would numbing shots nullify magic?
Would causing yourself pain be the way young students are taught as it stimulates feeling?
Imagine a gut trying to tickle a young mage girl. Her nerves react, she yells stop. He is now frozen in time and space, and can not be unfrozen unless a spell of the same passion is cast.
Sex in rituals is all the rage. The longer that you last, the harder you cast. Precumming is looked down upon even more.
30+year d virgins are extra powerf because the lack of fulfillment causes nerves to become hyper sensetive.
>>44123387
>>44123539
>>44123582
Honestly, based upon >>44123469 I question whether or not men would really be worth training as mages in this case. They'd have a massive starting gap and a lower casting potential overall. Maybe as Mage-knights, but it seems like high-end wizardry would really be the purview of women.
Males sense and explains magical realm stuff, but could quickly go grimdark if you want to go further.
Like a Wizard could slice open their finger tips to release the energy faster, or magic mutations giving the user multiple sensitive nipples to increase power, or eating tons of ecstasy plants for a magical drug burst.
>>44123639
Men might be at a disadvantage, but it might ultimately comes down to "if you can channel magic we're going to train you."
Lets say that magic users are fairly rare but women are more likely to possess the ability and can do more with it. However, Men can harness a significantly greater amount of power than women.
>>44123639
You can go the sexist route and argue that while women have a higher channelling output, they're inferior at crafting the spells in their minds
:^)
>>44123678
>Men can harness a significantly greater amount of power than women.
Why would that make sense? They have more nerve endings in their skin to channel power out of. The same area of bare skin on a woman correlates directly to more magical power than a man.
>>44123695
Or you could just use this to finally give women something to offset the -4 Strength
:^)
>>44123718
Because while women can have more orgasms in a shorter period of time than a man, a man will have stronger ones.
Hold on guys, hands and lips are both highly controlled methods of putting out that magical power. Your dick is not "highly controlled". Your dick is going to be more like a wonder faucet of arcane mishaps.
I mean come on, if the spell has to be formed in your mind, you're obviously not getting off at that moment unless your magic circles look like boobs and even if you are, you'll have a lapse in judgement when you orgasm that will catastrophically fuck up your spell.
You're going to have to be a celebate if you don't want to ejaculate explosions and curses half the time.
>>44123751
>a man will have stronger ones
No? I don't really think that's a thing. I've never heard it said that men have stronger orgasms than women. If anything, I hear the reverse more often.
>>44123801
Well, I've heard it quite often.
>>44123718
What if it's a matter of raw power (or manapool) vs finesse and technique ? Women can weave more complicated spells, but only 5 per days, while a male magus can launch 30 basic fireballs
Slimes were created as an experiment. They were attempting to transmute slaves into quivering masses of nerve endings with rudimentary noncentralized organs, which would act as mana batteries. Unfortunately, with no mind to speak of, their body simply used unpredictable touch-based magic, the most common of which dissolves organic substances into a slurry that they can soak up and eat. Nonlethal contact with a slime often results in horrible mutations and scars, and it often ends up removing a great deal of nerves from the parts that touched it.
When a slime is large enough, it has enough nerve endings to cast a Duplication/Splitting spell, which will occur randomly. It's rare to see extremely large slimes, but not impossible - after all, they aren't GUARANTEED to cast it, they simply have the capability to do it after a certain point.
>>44123808
Well, when you typically think of someone's knees buckling in pleasure after an orgasm, it's going to be a woman rather than a man.
>>44123387
>magic comes out of skin
>landwhale mages are carried on the battlefield like mobile artillery
>>44123810
Why is it such a problem to have women just be better at casting? The magic system is based on the number of nerve endings in the skin. Women have more nerve endings. Simple as that.
>>44123835
I've heard of both.
>>44123616
>implying being naked all the time isn't great
>>44123863
Gotta justify the existence of male casters. Why would you train someone with obviously less potential than another ?
>>44123902
Maybe because they also make better soldiers? Men are also stronger than women on average, so while Women are busy mastering the arcane and being squishy casters, men are learning more basic tricks for their sword-maging.
>>44123639
-mana?
>>44123902
standard distributions mate and besides, you're obviously not going big 24/7, so what if guys have to roll up their sleeves to keep up with women?
>>44123695
How about this and women over-channel magic and lose control for a period of time each month.
>>44123933
I got it.
Using magic is literally forcing energy through your nerve endings, which isn't actually pleasant or safe. Women aren't able to force large amounts of power without damaging their nerves which would lower their overall ability. Therefore, they're limited to spells that don't require huge amount of mana. They have larger reserves and more control but can't use it all at once.
Men are overall weaker casters, but being more resilient allows them to utilize more powerful spells without backlash. They have smaller reserves and not as much control but can use spells that women can't actually cast because they can endure it.
Of course, you have flukes on either side, like a man with greater reserves and control and a woman with resilience, but on average, this is what the difference is.
>>44123975
>so what if guys have to roll up their sleeves to keep up with women?
Because a woman can roll up her sleeves as well? The only area where they'd be able to etch out an advantage in terms of skin coverage would be the chest, and even that's heavily dependent on culture.
>-4 Strength/warrior woman thread
>Tons of justifications of how woman might be able to keep up with men in physical strength
>All excuses shot down as unrealistic
>setting-specific casting system where woman have a large advantage
>everyone starts tripping all over themselves trying to justify reasons why a male wizard wouldn't be hopelessly outclassed
>>44124046
I'm OP and I"m confused as shit
This was supposed to just be hue hue titties
>>44124046
Hey, I came up with a reason why the inequality works out.
Sure, a man can fire a death beam that obliterates a dozen soldiers but he's going to be helpless when a woman literally pulls the air out of his lungs.
>>44124012
If you look at his post it is obvious that it's a metaphor that since men have a higher mean IQ they should work smarter not harder with magic to compensate for the lack of power.
>>44124046
You're only just now realizing /tg/ is sexist as hell?
>>44123387
>Regular steel armor doubles as a defense against the arcane- the heavier the armor, the better the protection
Teach you faggots to run around nude for 'the sake of knowledge'. For the sake of your boner, maybe, but nobody wants to see that.
>>44124046
The Warrior Woman threads are retarded because you can always explain it away as "Humans are different in this setting."
>>44124100
If it's a matter of technique, women are more likely to discover it first, as being better at magical overall means that in the early days when raw power means more, they're more likely to come ahead and found the various magic societies, meaning they'll have a head-start on the knowledge of spell-casting.
Any man who joins is certainly going to have his technique stolen by his classmates or teachers, probably ending up with it getting integrated into the curriculum. He'd get lucky if he got any credit at all.
>>44124194
Yeah, and it's a fairly reasonable explanation. None of them seem to have thought of just saying that and suggesting that men and women should have a similar amount of nerve-endings to balance them out. Instead, they're all trying to find some portion of it to make men better at.
>>44124201
sounds like it would lead to a secret society situation. If you rule out mind reading magic which is generally considered to be in the "setting destroying" class of magic anyways, then they can't steal your techniques, it's all in your head after all.
Come on guys, it was stated right in the OP that the brain is needed to form the magic, it's just that nerves are there to channel it out in a controlled manner. Why do you all assume the maximum channeling output is the limiting factor of wizardry in this setting?
>>44124201
>Any man who joins is certainly going to have his technique stolen
Unless it is to advanced or technical for them.
>>44124221
There was a series I read a long while ago where there actually was an interesting divide between male and female spellcasters.
Men generally had larger reserves and were capable of using more power, but only 1 in 10 were able to heal themselves with magic or sense energy or use fine control or enchant or stuff like that. Comparatively, every woman mage was capable of doing those things, but only 1 out of 10 had the reserves and output to equal a male mage.
It ended up working out pretty well during a war when you had a few hundred female mages who were able to supply an army and move it really fucking fast across swamps and shit.
>>44124248
>Why do you all assume the maximum channeling output is the limiting factor of wizardry in this setting?
Why do you feel the need to endlessly justify why women in this setting shouldn't just be better at magic than men?
>>44123832
Slimes are suddenly a lot less adorable seeming
>>44124285
*tugs braid*
>>44123639
The int difference makes up for it
Honestly, the answer seems pretty fucking straight forward.
Humans all have the same capacity for casting magic. Nothing changes how much 'mana' that a body can hold.
Women can simply cast far bigger spells because they have massive output. But they'd burn out their spells faster because they're pouring more into it. They don't have to at all, they just can.
Men won't be able to burn out faster than a woman can, but only because their upper limit is way lower on how big of a spell they can cast.
The difference is in versatility. Women can spike higher, they can do the BIG spells. Men simply can't unless they work together.
I don't see why anybody should be butt hurt over this. Women casters normally wouldn't be casting giant ass spells because they'd be burning out faster unless they had an external source of mana.
>>44124343
That's pretty much the opposite of what >>44124000 said.
So...
Are Futas the most powerful humans alive, then?
>>44124383
Intersex are. Futa just have a minor boost since their clitoris has been replaced.
>>44123469
Shouldn't this give them a penalty to concentration checks. due to damage/pain.
>>44123718
>They have more nerve endings in their skin to channel power out of.
Source? Note that more erogenous zones != more nerve endings/mechanoreceptors.
>this thread
But wasn't the female orgasm a myth?
>magic is a function of an individual's Faith.
>Faith being the ability to reconcile paradoxes, to hold two conflicting axioms and recognize them both as true
>all humans have the potential for Faith, but actual skill requires absurd willpower and training.
>towards this end, monastic complexes are constructed where human children are raised in complete isolation and trained only in strengthening their Faith
>as these monks grow older and more enlightened, their Faith becomes incredibly strong
>once they reach a certain level of enlightenment, they are instructed to enter a deep meditative trance
>during meditation, they are injected with drugs to put them into a permanent coma
>their bodies are installed into a mechanical life-support system, and the whole machine is installed onto spacecraft
>by manipulating electrical currents leading directly to the monk's brain, the captain of a starship can use this "Faith Engine" to shatter the laws of physics, travel faster than the speed of light, and communicate with other ships instantaneously.
>>44124453
http://listverse.com/2010/08/02/10-cases-of-natural-gender-inequality/
#54 seconds on google.
>>44124487
Retarded.
Just build increasingly powerful AIs that have absolute faith as part of their programming.
>>44124525
>4 seconds on google
That's funny, it didn't show up for me.
>trusting listverse
>no sources provided
I bet you believe all the shit you see on Cracked too. Proper scientific resources or go.
>>44124533
>Build a machine based on logical operations to disregard logic and then put it on your spaceship.
>>44124545
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=women+have+more+nerve+endings+than+men
>>44124533
see: >>44124550
The Lost Fleet Novels go into this. It's why AI always fucks up and goes insane and kills everyone.
>>44124550
Yep. It's an AI, easily manipulated and controlled to do whatever purpose whoever has it wants. You can give it all the faith you want, and as long as you put in safeties and overrides, you're gonna be perfectly fine.
Using comatose monks is batshit retarded, insanely immoral, and just plain stupid. If you're going to use a human for it, they wouldn't even need to have been faithful before, since you're sending signals to the brain that can pretty much force the brain to have faithlike thoughts and shit. For that method, you might as well just take any old brain brain, dump it into something to keep it alive somehow, hook it up to wires, and electrocute faith right into it using a template of a really fucking faithful person and adjusting for differences in this particular brain.
That way, you only need a single ultrafaithful person, for the initial template everyone uses.
>>44124578
>women+have+more+nerve+endings+than+men
You know Google results are tailored to the individual, don't you?
Let's go through my top 4:
Livescience: Says women have 34 nerves/cm^2 on the face comapred to 17, but doesn't cite anything
University of Metaphysical Sciences: Nothing to see here
Scientific American: States that women experience more pain, but nothing about nerve endings
Phys.org: Women experience more pain, nothing about nerve endings
>>44124640
>>44124578
Oh yes, and Google Scholar (the one that gives proper scientific articles) gives absolutely nothing related when I put that string in. First result is about women's porn being different, second is about comparing two different sorts of nerve endings, and third is about herpes.
>>44124533
Well that's part of the galactic community's ultimate objective, but making stable AI is incredibly difficult.
Building an AI is similar to necromancy: you need an empty shell, a data-soul to put inside it, and Faith to interface between them. Faith is necessary because for every "natural" living being, the shell and that data-soul are created simultaneously. Every human is born with a unique shell and data-soul, particular to their exact position in space and time. Without an exact perfect match, the data-soul and shell cannot properly communicate, and the result is Anathema.
Faith fills in these gaps, tricks the universe into believing that the data-soul matches the shell, but it's not a permanent solution. The amount of Faith required to maintain an AI for even a year or two can be astronomical. Thus, while AI is not impossible, it is generally impractical for anything other than planet-sized operations.
To date, only 8 "perfect" AIs are known to exist, and each of them is considered to be one of the most powerful individuals in the galaxy. Together, they are known as the Eight Noble Paths, and are generally seen as ultimate goal for all citizens who seek enlightenment and peace.
All of them are very strange and impossible to replace, however. For instance Rho, the first, not an "AI" at all. She was born a human, and for the past four thousand years has maintained her physical body through her incredible Faith. The de-facto leader of the entire galaxy, her Faith is so large that she telepathically controls an entire planet of machine-shells, and she can maintain her existence through a gradient of space and time. Opposing Rho is like fighting against an ocean of violence that can kill you in both your past and your future simultaneously.
>>44123869
what the what is going on there
>>44123469
And less neurons so it balances.
>>44123861
Pathfinder has them as a prestige class. Bloodmage.
>>44123751
That really isn't true.
People are really threatened by the idea of women being the dominant sex for casting huh.
>>44127296
To be fair, the Lodge of Sorceresses in The Witcher is terrifying.
A bunch of deformed women who fixed their bodies with Magic, turned themselves into super hot babes, can casually rewrite the laws of reality and are secretly pulling the strings for a ton of things.
>>44125242
Spontanous orgasms
>>44127296
Yeah, it sure looks like it.
You know, this thread could have been about muscle wizards
