Dungeon Fantasy(DF) and regular GURPS 4/e questions (Yrth too)

[Kromm]

Originally Posted by Bruno

Why would you need two magic systems?

No idea. I used just one. The difference wasn't "new magic vs. old magic"; the difference was "seriously mature, millennia-old magic vs. rediscovered, a-few-years-old magic." The mages in the previous age knew all the spells, all the methods and tricks for using them, and all the exploits, and were so numerous that they could rally enough power to bother the gods. The tiny handful of emergent mages in the campaign knew mere snippets of that knowledge that were gathered haphazardly from mostly destroyed writings. But they used the same magic system (which was kind-of, sort-of Path/Book).

I'd compare it to mature 2017 tech vs. post-apocalypse Mad Max clones using whatever tech they can rebuild from junk: same tech, but nowhere near as many options or as much availability.