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Originally Posted by tshiggins
I've tried to run a couple of campaigns with this as the premise, because it always seemed pretty cool, to me. I like the Emberverse books, quite a bit, as well as Ariel, by Steven R. Boyett.
That said, this would probably move up to slot 2, if it used GURPS.
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I understand that a lot of people are averse to the OWoD system. Aside from my not sharing that aversion, it seems to me that GURPS doesn't really have a ready-made magic system that quite suits the feel I was looking for, whereas the "static magic" paths in Sorcerer just felt right to me as a way to suggest "the return of folk beliefs and folk superstitions."
In a way this is akin to Stross's Laundry novels, but this isn't Case Nightmare Green or Red or anything like that; magic is not coming back as daikaiju or Elder Gods or invading elven armies or anything splashy, but as glimpses out of the corners of people's eyes as twilight descends. With maybe a hint of
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle