Hey it's a pagan article of the day, two days in a row!
http://paganbloggers.com/critter/blog/2017/05/09/on-pagan-writing-styles/
This one is actually really relevant to the conversations with @literorrery et all last night!
@indi Yeah, this is exactly the kind of note I want to hit. The word I was looking for when I was trying to think of this before was "case study." Everyone's magical system is a case study in how to apply the theories of metamagic. Not every system will use every example, but here's three reasonably fleshed-out examples and how they do use the theories, as well as a bunch more places to go look for inspiration.
@literorrery Yes. Yesyesyes. 'Case study' nails it perfectly. The most useful books on magic that I ever read, personally, were SPECIFIC. They weren't MY specific, but they showed me how to get to my sort of specific.
I think (I was actually thinking this even before I got to the part of your message that mentioned it) that it'd be fascinating to have one tome that actually went out of its way to line up different specfic ways of doing something.
