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Worked examples of how to come up with Expressions for one's Forms didn't make it into the current draft because the list of Forms is still in flux, but I thought I'd toss a few potential examples here in case anyone would find that helpful:

Bottomless Belly

  • Indulgent – You encourage people to try new experiences, culinary or otherwise.
  • Refined – That you can eat literally anything does not oblige you to be indiscriminate; perish forbid!

Firm Flesh

  • Patient – You've got all the time in the world.
  • Stubborn – You're hard-headed in more ways than one.

Hundred-Handed

  • Self-reliant – Who needs a helping hand when you've so many of your own?
  • Absent-minded – Sometimes the left hand really doesn't know what the right hand is doing.

Primordial Power (Fire)

  • Hot-blooded – Your feelings burn as hot as your flesh.
  • Fatalist – The flame that burns brightest burns briefest, and oh, you've burned so very bright.

Prismatic Pelt

  • Forthright – There's no sense being coy about your feelings when you literally wear them on your sleeve.
  • Unassuming – You prefer to fade into the background, both literally and metaphorically.

Superior Sense (Hearing and Touch)

  • Busybody – Oh, you know it's really none of your business, but you couldn't help but overhear...
  • Paranoid – Can anybody else hear that? How can they not hear that?

If anyone would like to offer their own take on examples Expressions, either for these Forms or any of the thirty-ish others in the current draft which I haven't covered here, feel free!

I really like the rebellious arts as a magic system! Their theming is wonderful and if I never have the chance to play this game in particular, I might just introduce them into other games I run.

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Glad you approve! In the interest of full disclosure, the idea of "each player character has dominion over one specific fictional conceit" as a magic system was admittedly cribbed from Tales from the Floating Vagabond (though TftFV's version is themed around 1980s action movie tropes rather than Looney Tunes sight gags).