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Anaraxes · 11-08-2019, 09:33 AM

Those sacrifice rules are in the "minor spell variants" section, so they're assuming the rest of the magic system is the same. That is, the Advantage would be Magery.

If you want "regular" magic and sacrifice magic both to exist in the campaign, have two types of Magery. You might or might not want to declare that they're mutually exclusive -- that is, a character can have only one of the two types of Magery.

If you want even more of a split, you can declare that the details of the magic-working that are hidden in those spell-skills mean that there are two different, parallel schools of magic. Sacrifice spells aren't the same as the non-sacrifice kind, even if they have the same names and stats (for convenience or balance). If you want to be able to cast a spell both ways, you'd have to buy it twice, and if the spell had a Magery prereq, you'd need both Advantages.

11-08-2019, 09:33 AM	#2
Anaraxes Join Date: Sep 2007	Re: Thaumatology sacrifice advantage Those sacrifice rules are in the "minor spell variants" section, so they're assuming the rest of the magic system is the same. That is, the Advantage would be Magery. If you want "regular" magic and sacrifice magic both to exist in the campaign, have two types of Magery. You might or might not want to declare that they're mutually exclusive -- that is, a character can have only one of the two types of Magery. If you want even more of a split, you can declare that the details of the magic-working that are hidden in those spell-skills mean that there are two different, parallel schools of magic. Sacrifice spells aren't the same as the non-sacrifice kind, even if they have the same names and stats (for convenience or balance). If you want to be able to cast a spell both ways, you'd have to buy it twice, and if the spell had a Magery prereq, you'd need both Advantages.