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Old 05-31-2018, 07:40 AM   #7
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Default Re: Card-game Caster?

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Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl View Post
Well, there are a few other ways that you could do it, depending on your preferences. First, you could use a card-based form of ritual magic, where each card corresponds to a specific spell. Second, you could use a form of card-based symbolic magic, where each card represents a word. Third, you could use a form of card-based syntactic magic, where each card represents a noun or a verb.
This could work a lot like the worked examples of rune-magic given in Thaumatology which specifically involve drawing tokens ... swap that for a deck of cards and you have it. Also, given that the worked examples include an incomplete set of runes, you could add the collectability aspect...
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