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NoizyDragon's avatar

This one the cusp of Trevor Duval releasing the pdf for his Broken Empires system. He is chasing a magic system of similar constraints that you lay out in your final paragraphs of Part 1.

Also, Stravagante! by Penflower Ink has an interesting magic system that builds spells from a pair of d66 tables as spark for discussion with the arbiter. The dynamics are further structured and stratified by the d6 oracle and attributes-as-points systems.

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Whiskey, Blood and Dust's avatar

Nice overview of magical systems. I do like the idea of having failure cause problems. Recently used the Kal Arath magic system. Divine magic based on demon pacts.

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GMaia's avatar

Great reading, i look forward to reading part 2!

If you're curious enough, you can have a look at the magic system I made up... pls note that I have just revised it with some tweaks (the core is unchanged though) and I will publish the new version in the next future!

May the fun be always at your table!

https://viviiix.substack.com/p/core-rules-chapter-vii

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Ivo Ziskra's avatar

Interesting article. Gives some new prescriptive on magic systems.

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Fabian de Kerckhove's avatar

Interesting read! I write on magic from the real medieval historical perspective but I try to keep it fiction-facing. That we tread similar lines is quite cool!

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