| From: | Stuart M. Willis hbiki@****.geocities.com |
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| Subject: | Psionics 2 (with a little bit of life imitating game |
| Date: | Thu, 18 Feb 1999 21:01:09 +1100 |
>I really enjoyed the bit about the Western mytholgical figures in a
>Mayan calendar slingng totem magic :)
I'm gonna come clean, it wasn't my observation. It was from a
preview-review of Shadowrun Second Edition in Dragon Magazine many years
back.
:-)
[Incidently, the preview was what convinced me to buy SR2 in the first place]
>SR magic should be expanded to allow for other tradtions IMHO. what I
>would like to see are rules for
> designing other traditions or an expansion on same.
Apparently FASA are working on a Aboriginal magick system {1} which
could/should be nice.
In fact, after the release of MitS I plan to write some chaos magick rules
based on the works of Austin Owen Spare (unless, of course, Kenson includes
the ideas of chaos magick into MitS which is a distinct possibility given
his background). Hmm. Finally the phrase 'sigil to the will' will come into
common useage. :-)
I don't think there can be standardised rules for designing other
traditions - because, by nature, the traditions are going to be wholly
different; even if they are working within the one Astral Space, from what
Awakenings implied, Magick is all about belief, and belief/will is going to
manifest itself very differently even within the same space (witness the
hermetic, shamanic, and voudun [sp?] divide].
Best bet is to simply read up lots on a tradition, make modifications to
the existing magic systems based on your knowledge, and experiment until
you get a nice game balance without completly sacrificing the ideology of a
magic system.
IMNSHO [yes, I use it too] a net.book of playtested 'new' magickal
traditions would be a worthy project to do after MitS.
As long as I can do a chapter on the Temple ov Psychick Youth so I can take
the piss...
care,
s.
{1} As in Australian Aboriginals. While Kurri is a preferred term, it is
the name of the Aboriginal people of Sydney [I think?], rather than of
Australia per se.
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