Using Sorcery to get Morrowind-like magic

[Moneval]

So I've been going through Sorcery in prep for a game I'm about to run, and it occurred to me that it might be a really good way to get magic that feels kind of like the spell casting system from TES III: Morrowind. While I don't necessarily want to mimic it exactly, this would be of interest to me for a setting I'm working on that's heavily influenced by that game.
The use of afflictions to give spell effects with fixed durations feels very similar to Morrowind, and using alternate rituals with Spend 1 FP, Make Broad Obvious Gestures, and Power Flare (from Pyramid 105) as the options mimics the in-game casting very well. There's even a quote from Morrowind towards the back!
The one part that I'm having trouble with is the different "schools". I want to be able to have different subsets of the Sorcery advantage representing different types of magic, but I'm not sure how to get that using Sorcery.
One thought I had was to have multiple instances of the Sorcerous Empowerment advantage, limited based on the guidelines from Sorcery (probably -30%), but that gets expensive fast. I could also require a skill check, with a skill per college, but the difficulty there is in making the spells within a college have varying difficulties compared to each other (maybe some kind of Power Technique?)

I thought I'd see if anyone here has any experience with sort of dividing Sorcery and adding a skill component to it. Again, I'm not necessarily trying to adapt Morrowind's spell casting directly, but achieve a similar result.

[kirbwarrior]

Originally Posted by Moneval

One thought I had was to have multiple instances of the Sorcerous Empowerment advantage, limited based on the guidelines from Sorcery (probably -30%), but that gets expensive fast.

The huge upside is having multiple instances of spells, which means easily having multiple spells up by having different schools of magic.

[AlexanderHowl]

The problem with using Sorcery is that Morrowind spells do not require XP, only skill and money. They would probably be better represented by RPM, with very large energy pools.

[Anthony]

The easiest way to do Morrowind magic is to just invent your own. Morrowind magic is pretty straightforward.

[kirbwarrior]

Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl

The problem with using Sorcery is that Morrowind spells do not require XP, only skill and money. They would probably be better represented by RPM, with very large energy pools.

Originally Posted by Anthony

The easiest way to do Morrowind magic is to just invent your own. Morrowind magic is pretty straightforward.

If the goal was to mimic exactly, then I'd just use wildcard skills as spell groups and call it a day. I think Sorcery was to get a similar feel by using a system that can mimic certain feels of the magic without being broken like it is in ES games.

[RyanW]

Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl

The problem with using Sorcery is that Morrowind spells do not require XP, only skill and money. They would probably be better represented by RPM, with very large energy pools.

But in Morrowind, all you need to learn any skill is to find a suitable trainer and plonk down a sack of money. Sometimes you have to separate game mechanics and what they are intended to represent.

[kirbwarrior]

Originally Posted by RyanW

But in Morrowind, all you need to learn any skill is to find a suitable trainer and plonk down a sack of money. Sometimes you have to separate game mechanics and what they are intended to represent.

What's odd is how easy it seems to be for the PC in ES games to learn magic. Morrowind you throw money at someone. Skyrim you eat a book. If the intent was to keep a similar feel, then spells could be made as advantages you buy with money (and possibly time) instead of cp.

To TC; I actually did something very similar in a campaign a few years back. Instead of straight Sorcery, I picked a trait that represented each magic school in Skyrim (Modified Healing for Restoration for instance) and let magic default off of those. It worked really nicely for what I wanted out of it, but I wouldn't say it lined up with the feel of Skyrim perfectly. Then again, I also expanded the types of spells that could be done in each collage.

[Anthony]

Well, skills can also be raised by throwing money at someone or w/e. I would probably implement the magic skills as skills, individual spells as perks (or otherwise costing 1 point), and magica as an energy reserve.