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There are dreamlike worlds where magic does, basically, whatever the caster can imagine, and/or their ability to command it depends on how much mana their body contains. Which is fine, but once your mind is infected with the idea of cultivation, keeping your characters from cultivating their...

Magic is supposed to be easy, what makes it possible is mana. Special particles that fill the world, or a parallel world connected to it. They are optimized for working with one's consciousness, your consciousness just perceives them as a part of your nervous system. Interacting with mana is as...

You only need to make your consciousness think its favorite brain is somewhere else now. Bending space with gravity might work. When going FTL, time stops for the traveler, not for the observer. Quantum teleportation doesn't involve teleportation; after you close your eyes and put 2 balls into 2...

A god can use any ability. A human can only use human abilities. So when you move from a human to a god, methodically unlocking every range, step after step, from the easiest to the hardest, makes perfect sense. And, like I said, it is perfectly possible for 2 cultivators in the same realm to...

In a good cultivation system, each realm grants the ability to learn a new type of skill, not skills themselves. Like, one realm gives you the ability to spend the energy you've gathered to temporarily grant your body certain properties, another realm gives you the ability to create and...

When a colorblind person looks at a point of an image, they experience knowing something. They look at one point and know "light", they look at another and know "dark". And every time, before they experience "knowing", they also experience "seeing". And like how they experience seeing "light"...

In a xianxia, there is technology left behind by an ascended ancestor god and technology invented by fellow humans. Improving techniques invented by humans is perfectly possible. But to compete with gods, your civilization would need to be extremely advanced. A situation where ancient god-level...

Advanced cultivators should be capable of creating their own system, if they want. And simplifying cultivation to the level all stages you just gather Qi to level up makes this genre much less enjoyable.

For job level up rewards, you can replace bonus stats with stat and skill exp, to keep them from getting out of control. Then, if the cost of leveling up stats and skills depends on one's biology and becomes progressively harder after reaching a certain level, all types of creatures get a soft...