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Originally Posted by Bzro
Also, broke down and bought GURPS: Thaumatology, and I'm having quite a bit of fun piecing together a magic system.
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There might not be enough to justify your buying it, but GURPS Thaumatology: Urban Magics has systems for large-scale, high-powered mana-based magic: either tapping into the ambient mana of a city's ongoing life, or conducting really large rituals with far more people than the 100 maximum for ceremonial magic. The latter might be a good fit to the Nazis, who seemed to love huge public ceremonies.
As to sacrifice, by traditional magical theory, an unconsenting sacrifice isn't any good; the sacrifice has to be willing. Of course the Romans had elaborate measures to ensure that sacrificed animals didn't do the things that were taken to show they were "unconsenting." (That's part of the subtext of
The Hunger Games: Katniss is unusual for her district in that she's actually a consenting sacrifice.) Concentration camp deaths would be worth much, but all those soldiers dying in Russia might be another story. Or maybe they were all being taken to Valhalla and somehow supporting their Germanic kin?