Horror Magic in Dungeon Fantasy

[b-dog]

I really liked to cult magic in the Magical Styles Horror Magic. Is there a way that Ritual Magic can be added to Dungeon Fantasy so that evil cults have really creepy and terrifying spells and invocations? If so I would love to buy a book with rules for it...

[arcanus]

Originally Posted by b-dog

I really liked to cult magic in the Magical Styles Horror Magic. Is there a way that Ritual Magic can be added to Dungeon Fantasy so that evil cults have really creepy and terrifying spells and invocations? If so I would love to buy a book with rules for it...

I’m not sure it would get its own book, although possibly as a Dark Gods & Elder Things sourcebook.

It wouldn’t be hard to incorporate this yourself, this Thread
gives some good ideas on using RPM in DF.

If you keep standard magic as well you would need to make RPM more powerful (as why would cultists use it), but that can be tied to Corruption enhancing Energy Collection or Effect Shaping and Converting Horror Magics spells.

[Anders]

Originally Posted by b-dog

I really liked to cult magic in the Magical Styles Horror Magic. Is there a way that Ritual Magic can be added to Dungeon Fantasy so that evil cults have really creepy and terrifying spells and invocations? If so I would love to buy a book with rules for it...

Thaumatology has a lot of rules on modifiers, material magic, etc.

[Balor Patch]

Isn't that what DF 19: Incantation Magic is?

[Diomedes]

Originally Posted by Balor Patch

Isn't that what DF 19: Incantation Magic is?

I don’t think so. Incantation Magic is a version of Ritual Path Magic written for Dungeon Fantasy, but as written I don’t think it really has the horror flavor b-dog wants.

Ritual Magic, on the other hand, is just a variant of Standard Spell Magic, replacing the spells-as-skills with spells-as-techniques. It’s no more or less horror-flavored than the standard system.

I think b-dog is using “Ritual Magic” in a more colloquial sense, given that he wants to apply the flavor of Magical Styles: Horror Magic to Dungeon Fantasy. The “Cultists of the Elder Gods” article in Pyramid #3/43 might be helpful in this regard.

[Kromm]

Nothing prevents anybody from just throwing the supplement into DF and saying, "If you learn magic this way, you can get Magery in play whether or not you're a wizard." I'm not sure what more you'd need.

[b-dog]

Originally Posted by Kromm

Nothing prevents anybody from just throwing the supplement into DF and saying, "If you learn magic this way, you can get Magery in play whether or not you're a wizard." I'm not sure what more you'd need.

I am just hoping for more cool summoning spells like possibly summoning a demon lord for some time or an Elder God. The evil cult needs to be dungeon fantasied up IMO.