Anders sent me a PM the other day and asked a pretty simple question: What do skill levels mean for Ritual Path magic casters? You’ve got your shiny copy of GURPS Thaumatology: Ritual Path Magic and you’ve just bought GURPS Template Toolkit 1: Characters…but now what? You’ve got your skill level description from p. 12 […]
Continue readingI wonder, could you combine all the Path skills into a single Wildcard skill like Magic! I think I asked PK this very question a while back and the answer was: You probably shouldn’t. I went ahead and did it anyways and I can tell you for fact…I really shouldn’t’ve. It wasn’t that it was […]
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Look…I like necromancy magic, okay? It’s not a addiction or anything, I can quit whenever I want. I recently got to play Diablo III and after my typical Barbarian run-through I fired up a Witch Doctor…man that was fun. Now, I’ve already created some Ritual Path magic spells for the Necromancer from Diablo II…why not […]
Continue readingInspired by +Peter V. Dell’Orto and +Douglas Cole posts (here, here, and here) on “Longsword Sport” I wonder if the style is portable to less modern settings…and what’s more, what if it were more than just a sport? But a way of two mages to settle a point of contention without spells? The Style I’m totally riffing off of […]
Continue readingNote: In this post I’ll be reiterating a post I made on the Steve Jackson Games Forums (I’m putting it out there for my subscribers and a wider audience in general). It makes use of the rules for Metatronic Generators. The Hand of Glory is a powerful occult artifact. Made from a dismembered human hand […]
Continue readingThis is one of my favorite articles (so far) that I’ve written. I felt a little iffy about it first just because I was more or less taking a idea another author had wrote and expanding it out of proportion of the original scope. But I did it anyways because like everything I write – […]
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So here are some more Ritual Path Magic Mythos-flavored spells – enjoy. More Mythos Spells Here are a couple more Mythos spells for use in other campaigns, see here for more information on designing Mythos spells. If yo’d like to read more, head on over to my Patreon and become a patron yourself!
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Gamemastering Ritual Path magic can be slightly taxing for new users of the system. Despite it’s nuts and bolts approach to magic and its balanced nature it does require one thing to work well: GM knowledge of the system. Considering that the original system was published in eight freaking pages (GURPS Monster Hunters 1: Champions) […]
Continue readingAs I am sure you are aware of, I’m currently playing in +Douglas Cole‘s Alien Menace campaign. So far, it’s been a blast. But after our first mission was completed I asked about how others felt about the Teamwork perk and Doug said (and I’m paraphrasing) “Yeah, every character who completed the mission gets that […]
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I’m a fan of the Mythos (which you probably know), thanks to Chaosium’s license, even though the Mythos is up for grabs to be used (most of H.P.’s stories are public domain) – it’s not for RPGs. Since I tend to use them (or a variation of them) in my games I figured I’d share […]
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