My system is basically perfect, and it's a bit annoying.
My magic system is essentially perfect. I've worked on it on and off for like a decade, but most actively in the past two years. The rules are very fleshed out, I've thought through basically ever use possible in war, society, technology, and how it feels and looks like. What people think. The limits, I've even extended it. I've recently felt like expanding it even more because I felt what I had was already so well fleshed out and interesting.
The issue, is that it gets extremely deep. But mostly in a good way. I originally defined my magic system by very simple rules, with only minor additions. This made each new ability or idea an extension of the previous. This makes it very easy to explain in my stories organically. With step by step sensible progression. But it makes it basically impossible to share with others. Writing is fun, but I also want to talk about it with others.
As an example,
in order to go from having no magic to blasting someone with fire, a mage must. Consume dust, a uncommon but obtainable resource. there's many methods, but they don't matter for making fire. Next, draw the heat from your body, focus it into a ball, probably near you palm, aim and direct it. Release at your target. Done. There's obviously more sensory details but that was the rough bits. That could be described in a single paragraph if I wanted, less, or more if I wanted to add details and context to the scene.
But my system has so much more like, knots, bonds, elementals, proxies, dart, mechs, enhancements, and more. I trust myself to be able to naturally depict these and expand form the initial ideas in writing, but it makes it annoying to talk about with others, without writing an entire lore doc just to describe it, that most wouldn't bother reading.
Thoughts?