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Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl
Buffy seems to use RPM style magic (heck, it was probably one of the primary influences on the development of RPM)
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The description of
GURPS Thaumatology: Ritual Path Magic even states:
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Designed to emulate the magic of real-world traditions and popular books, movies, and television shows
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Originally Posted by DangerousThing
The show seemed to use some improvisational magic along with ritual magic of some kind.
The less powerful mages used books and deals with spirits/gods/demons/whatever to cast magic.
The more powerful ones sometimes used rituals and sometimes used purely improvisation (I doubt that anybody would have created a "skinning" spell).
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The
Buffy RPG had magicians able to do telekinesis (Willow was lifting pencils early on).
And I think it was that spells would be more powerful, if done from a book. So wizards with less innate magical ability, like Giles, would use books (he was a librarian...), and they would be used for big spells, like bringing Buffy back from the dead.
But yeah, by the end Willow had enough power to make things happen on the fly, especially when she was Dark Willow. Though 'skinning' could be seen as a particularly gruesome form of telekinesis...