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johndallman · 01-04-2017, 03:45 AM

For Path/Book magic, this was clearly the Path of Health, and Estevez should be able to spend points on that skill, and on Ritual Magic skill. The advantages required depend on how you implement Magery for Path/Book, see Thaumatology p123. Given the circumstances, my guess would be that the world normally requires Magery to do magic, which nobody has, but the special circumstances made up for that.

Those circumstances may also provide a bodge for the ritual design problem. Path/Book doesn't have a design system other than eyeballing new rituals to be comparable to existing ones. It started life as the GURPS Voodoo system, and it's still well-suited for spirit-mediated magic. So if there are spirits around that do what the caster wants, which is quite plausible for this variant of Succour, then the ritual is possible. If not, then not.

01-04-2017, 03:45 AM	#2
johndallman Night Watchman Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Cambridge, UK	Re: [Ritual Path Magic or Path/Book] Life-sustaining warmth ritual For Path/Book magic, this was clearly the Path of Health, and Estevez should be able to spend points on that skill, and on Ritual Magic skill. The advantages required depend on how you implement Magery for Path/Book, see Thaumatology p123. Given the circumstances, my guess would be that the world normally requires Magery to do magic, which nobody has, but the special circumstances made up for that. Those circumstances may also provide a bodge for the ritual design problem. Path/Book doesn't have a design system other than eyeballing new rituals to be comparable to existing ones. It started life as the *GURPS Voodoo* system, and it's still well-suited for spirit-mediated magic. So if there are spirits around that do what the caster wants, which is quite plausible for this variant of Succour, then the ritual is possible. If not, then not. __________________ The Path of Cunning. Indexes: DFRPG Characters, Advantage of the Week, Disadvantage of the Week, Skill of the Week, Techniques.