07-01-2020, 10:47 AM | #1 |
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Has anyone tried Spirit Magic from Thaumatology?
Thaumatology gives an option in which you strike a deal with a spirit and the spirit casts the spell for you... even paying the energy... and all it will cost you is your soul.
Has anyone tried it out?
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07-01-2020, 10:49 AM | #2 |
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Re: Has anyone tried Spirit Magic from Thaumatology?
Do you mean Assisting Spirits on pg 90? I have not tried it, but I like the idea. I like the idea of power having a price.
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07-01-2020, 11:14 AM | #3 |
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Re: Has anyone tried Spirit Magic from Thaumatology?
Yep, that's the one. If I ever do a Dark Sun conversion I will probably use that mechanic to simulate Defiler corruption. (Yeah, I know there's one already, but where's the fun in using that?) :)
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07-01-2020, 12:26 PM | #4 |
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Re: Has anyone tried Spirit Magic from Thaumatology?
Spirit-Assisted magic can be applied to any situation where energy fuels magic (and any situation that could benefit from the Corruption rules in Horror). I generally reduce the effective energy borrowed from a spirit patron per ritual/spell for distortion purposes only by the character's alignment with their spirit patron (-1 effective energy per full -5 CP of aligned mental disadvantages). For example, a character that calls upon Aphrodite for power who possesses Lecherousness (6-) and Xenophilia (6-) would reduce the effective energy borrowed by 10 per ritual/spell for the purpose of calculating distortion only.
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07-01-2020, 01:10 PM | #5 | |
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Re: Has anyone tried Spirit Magic from Thaumatology?
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07-01-2020, 01:17 PM | #6 |
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Re: Has anyone tried Spirit Magic from Thaumatology?
I don't think you need to use Corruption with Assisting Spirit magic; I think the Spiritual Distortion takes care of that.
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07-01-2020, 07:23 PM | #7 | |
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Re: Has anyone tried Spirit Magic from Thaumatology?
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In terms of summoning a demon, I always wondered how you would stat a demon to reflect their ability to make contracts and supply FP to wizards... Maybe that's like Share Energy somehow except it can be imparted across dimensions? |
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07-01-2020, 11:28 PM | #8 |
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Re: Has anyone tried Spirit Magic from Thaumatology?
According to the Power Corrupts section of GURPS Horror, Spiritual Distortion is one kind of Corruption (so are the power tally used by the Threshold-Limited Magic system, and the point debt option for Meditative Magic; but this thread isn't about them). If you wanted to, you could define powers and abilities with the Corrupting Limitation, and declare that the resulting Corruption takes the form of Spiritual Distortion. You could, for example, take the Totem-Bearer Advantage from GURPS Totems and Nature Spirits and apply Corrupting (Spiritual Distortion) to it so that every time you call upon the power of your Totem you build up some Spiritual Distortion.
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07-01-2020, 11:44 PM | #9 |
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Re: Has anyone tried Spirit Magic from Thaumatology?
Buy Energy Reserve with the Drains Familiar (DF5:20) [-50%] limitation. Basically, drawing from the ER also costs the familiar FP and the ER recovers as the familar does.
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07-02-2020, 02:21 AM | #10 |
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Re: Has anyone tried Spirit Magic from Thaumatology?
All this is very good, but has anyone actually played using it?
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