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Re: [RPM] Ritual Path Magic Styles?
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04-29-2014, 09:02 PM | #33 |
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Re: [RPM] Ritual Path Magic Styles?
I've found it to work pretty well for Clerical stuff to use Clerical Investment instead of Magery 0, and use RPM PI instead of RPM Magery and Theology (My Favorite Religion) in place of Thaumatology and leave the paths the same
What I have done is use 'Higher Purpose - Cast Things Zeus Likes' (or insert deity here) to more specialize clerics Theology is a H instead of a VH like Thaumatology, but, I usually don't see it as the 'awesome knowledge skill everyone loves' like Thaumatology is, so it seems balanced enough I haven't myself used it, but, starslayer and godogma have both had 'Deity Aspected Places of Power' show up (for Zeus and for Santa Claus), so 'this place is a +2 place of power, +3 (or more) for stuff Zeus likes (or really likes), with +0 (or less) for stuff that Zeus actively dislikes)' in Godogma's case starslayer with Santa Claus instead had it be '+X to stuff associated with Santa Claus's powers (transportation, telling naughty or nice, creating presents) and such, rather than 'would Santa like this?' as the guiding criterion |
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04-29-2014, 09:35 PM | #36 |
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Actually, I straight up used the Tradition guidelines for RPM Specialists.
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04-29-2014, 10:35 PM | #37 | |
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*head-smack* Well, duh! I’m so used to thinking of Books as being associated with Grimoires and/or representing esoteric secrets reserved for inner-circle members that I completely missed this. |
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04-29-2014, 10:38 PM | #38 | |
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To be fair - I do put all sorts of ester eggs in my articles. To date...many of them are unnoticed.
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04-29-2014, 10:45 PM | #39 |
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Re: [RPM] Ritual Path Magic Styles?
Updated the Reality Hackers write-up.
Yeah; you include easter eggs. But that doesn’t excuse me from not noticing that a Book is a cross-Path skill. As a major proponent of the Path/Book Magic system, I ought to have recognized that point. |
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Re: [RPM] Ritual Path Magic Styles?
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Bureaucratic RPM This style of magic presupposes a setting that features a theocracy in the truest sense of the word: rule by the gods. Gods and spirits in this setting are known quantities, existing side by side with mortals in an elaborate hierarchy of both temporal and spiritual authority. “Angel” is synonymous with “a spirit who is an agent of the Divine Bureaucracy” (think “Law Enforcement”, “Espionage”, or “Military”), while “demon” is synonymous with “a spirit who opposes the Divine Bureaucracy” (think “Organized Crime”). Priests double as civil servants, regulating mortal activities on behalf of the spirits and serving as the representatives of their mortal charges in the courts of the spirits; this grants them authority over spirits where their mortal charges are concerned, and that authority in turn allows them to work magic. In effect, I’m starting with GURPS Powers: Divine Favor and GURPS Thaumatology: Ritual Path Magic for this; but I’m applying GURPS Social Engineering: Pulling Rank to it, as well as the “Divine Favor”, “Clerical Path Magic”, and “Path Realms” sections of Ghostdancer’s Alternative Ritual Path Magic Pyramid article. Pulling Rank means that there isn’t a separate Divine Favor Advantage; that’s folded into the priest’s Religious Rank, with Assistance Rolls acting as the basis for Specific and General Prayers. “Clerical Path Magic” retools RPM’s skills and advantages to reflect the priestly nature of this magic; “Divine Favor” explains how rituals and prayers interact; and “Path Realms” explains how Religious Rank interacts with rituals: that is, Religious Rank doubles as a “Path Realm”. Elaborating on that last point: Religious Rank doesn’t align with the Paths; that is, you don’t specialize Religious Rank by Path (indeed, “Book Magic”, representing the religion’s sacred scriptures, would be appropriate here, with the scope of a Book’s effects conforming to the authority granted by the Religious Rank). However, Religious Rank works like a Path Realm in all other ways: when a given RPM Ritual falls under the Religious Rank’s jurisdiction, the Rank waives the need for Power Investiture; and your level of Religious Rank helps determine whether a given Effect counts as Greater or Lesser, per the “Path Realms” guidelines. Actually, Religious Rank does come in several types: the default type, assumed above, is indistinguishable from Administrative Rank; but there are special Orders of Monks who serve different functions in the theocratic hierarchy. Their Ranks function more like Police Rank or Military Rank. “Priests” who have aligned themselves with demons might base their magic on something akin to Criminal Rank. And gods who patronize certain arts and crafts might lead to RPM empowered by what is effectively Guild Rank. |
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