[quote=@kalanggam] Maybe it's considered more like a private Ivy League school - difficult admissions process, requiring outstanding extracurricular activities/achievements or strong SAT/ACT/equivalent scores. It's divided a College of Theurgical and Thaumaturgical Arts which has additional requirements to get into (like how one might have to audition to get into a performing arts school, or need an impressive project on their resume to get into a technical institute) and has interdisciplinary studies within other traditional colleges, which were gradually incorporated in the 1800s/1900s as firearms industrialized, becoming more deadly and gaining equal, if not greater, footing against magic. For the magic system, I think it makes sense for nothing to happen if you don't have enough materials - like in chemistry, when you don't have enough reagent for a reaction to continue. If you do something wrong, your magic can backfire, sometimes in improbable or bizarre ways, perhaps with even greater force than what your initial input was. A simple prank hex could become a harsh curse. Maybe magic, like life, is just borrowed energy - as such no spell can last forever, and at some point it must decay and return its energy to nature. A magical contract can fade if it isn't "fed." Everyday enchantments need some kind of fuel to keep going - there are a variety of associated costs or sacrifices with them, but there's [i]always[/i] a price to be paid, even if that price is trivial, silly (perhaps whimsical, even), or embraced with enthusiasm. Edit: Also, if we're going for a 90's setting, I would love to bring in 90's music for character throwback songs. [/quote] [hider=90's][youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwDRyW43T6Y[/youtube][/hider] Blockbuster Video. Trolls. Tamagotchis. Spice Girls. Backstreet Boys. Dialup. AOL. Beanie Babies. Game boy. The Macarena.