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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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02-18-2021, 05:34 PM | #5382 | |
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02-19-2021, 08:15 AM | #5383 |
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Very probably Path/Book Magic, possibly RPM (which is a worked example of PBM).
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02-19-2021, 09:35 AM | #5384 | |
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There's an argument that the States weren't really United until after the Civil War. But there's a clear continuity.
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02-19-2021, 10:20 AM | #5385 | |||
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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... |
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02-19-2021, 11:48 AM | #5386 |
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Given the power level evidenced by Willow (and the permanent nature of enchanted items), it seems too potent for Path/Book magic. After all, Buffy was capable of using a Troll Hammer to beat down a goddess centuries after it had been enchanted.
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02-20-2021, 02:42 PM | #5387 |
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Re: New Reality Seeds
Try this one...
Garamantes In most worlds, the Garamantes were a people who lived in the Sahara and had a nation that Rome couldn't conquer. This was mainly because the well-fortified cities of the Garamantes (the name itself meant "castles".) were far out in the desert. The Garamantes thrived using water from ancient aquifers. It was the failure of these aquifers in the 5th century CE that brought down their culture. However, on this Q6 Low/Normal Manna (90%/!0%) parallel, the aquifers are still going strong in the 16th century CE. Your Renaissance Swashbucklers have heard that there are ancient libraries in the cities of the Garamantes with many Roman, Greek, and Egyptian texts, as well as other obscure ancient languages and peoples. Your patrons have sent you south through lands dominated by the Barbary Pirates on the Coast and wild tribes inland to buy copies of rare texts from the still pagan warriors of the desert wastes. Basically, Swashbucklers in Arabian Nights territory exploring off the edge of their maps.
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02-20-2021, 04:20 PM | #5388 |
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02-20-2021, 04:32 PM | #5389 |
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Manna -2N
On this world, some dews, especially in deserts, leave behind small morsels of bread on the ground. This Manna can be used in place of mana to fuel magic, even for those lacking magery. Manna does not last longer than a day, though that is plenty of time for an ambitious mage to gather it up and perform a great wonder with it.
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02-20-2021, 04:59 PM | #5390 | |
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