What are the best magical systems in GURPS?

[SimonAce]

Originally Posted by ravenfish

I'd just like to put in a word for the poor maligned core magic system. SNIP .

Agreed.

I've used the core magic system quite a bit and it works well, is fun to play and lets the players feel like wizards.

[kirbwarrior]

Originally Posted by SimonAce

Agreed.

I've used the core magic system quite a bit and it works well, is fun to play and lets the players feel like wizards.

I used it for well over a decade. While I agree it is fun to play and let's you feel like a wizard, it also generally feels like putting on god mode in video games, both as a player and as a GM.

[Sorenant]

I'm fan of Sorcery, I've used it many times and it always worked nicely.
Currently though I'm quite interested on College Ritual Book Magic by mlangsdorf. It seems like a balanced, fun and flavorful way of doing magic that takes the best of the various magic systems. I'm still pondering about it but I think it meshes very well with the idea presented by this article about making magic users feel more mystical.

I'm not much fan of RPM though. I like some aspects of it like charms that rewards careful preparation and the entire ritual path specialist article from Pyramid, but I find it hard to make work in real play.

Other than that, I've thought about refluffing the Super Gadgeteer by PK into a magic user. Like charms from RPM, I believe it could give the player a powerful tool to deal with challenges they planned for without giving the power to solve every problem that they come across.