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Old 11-06-2016, 02:10 PM   #37
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Default Re: My Blog -- The Phantom's Belch

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Originally Posted by Emerald Cat View Post
Yeah, the flaws of D&D's Vancian magic system wouldn't bug me as much if there were alternatives. Pathfinder did publish a syntactic magic system. But that just had you building your own spells to slot into the vanilla Vancian magic system. I might have used it if the system weren't so convoluted.

What do you think about RPM?
RPM is a wonderful system; I'm rewording part of my chapter on magic in Ranoc to permit the setting's sorcerers to use it as a complement to or replacement for the Path/Book magic they usually use. I just haven't had the opportunity to use it in a game as yet.
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