The Naming of a Fictional Science

If you want magical items that feel scientific, you need a branch of science for them to belong to.  You're not going to fool anyone into thinking a weather control device is scientific unless you've got a university degree in physiodetics or a couple of textbooks in geophotodynamics or some other fictional branch of science.

And a fictional branch of science needs a proper name.

Roll for a Prefix and a Suffix.  You might need to add an -o- between them to make it sound right: hydr- + -sophy = hydrosophy.

If you roll a 19 or 20 for the suffix, the name becomes longer.  Roll again for both, but keep the prefix you already rolled at the beginning: geomechanoscopy, phylochemidetics, etc.

New Science (d20)
1	aer- “air”	-(c)ism / -(t)ics
2	aether- “space”	-analysis “investigation”
3	astr- “star”	-detics “categorization”
4	chemi(c)- “substance”	-dynamics “power”
5	erg- “work”	-geny “origin”
6	geo- “earth”	-gnosy “knowledge”
7	helio- “sun”	-history “inquiry”
8	hydr- “water”	-istry “practice”
9	magnet- “magnet”	-logy “science”
10	mechan- “machine”	-mancy “divination”
11	metall- “metal”	-matics “information”
12	morph- “form”	-metry “measure”
13	natur- “nature”	-morphy “form”
14	opt- “sight”	-nomy “rules”
15	phot- “light”	-physics “nature”
16	phyl- “category”	-scopy “viewing”
17	physio- “nature”	-sophy “wisdom”
18	prot- “first”	-urgy “work”
19	rheo- “flow”	Roll again for both and add the prefix you already rolled.
20	tele- “distance”

Some of these are already scientific disciplines, of course: astronomy, metallurgy, telescopy, etc.  But if you stumble across an obscure name that happens to be in use in the real world, feel free to redefine it for your own use.

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