Spirit Magic for Legend

[Asyme]

Sounds awesome. No idea what it entails but fingers crossed!

I'd love a magic book to include more rules for worlds without common magic actually - that's always been my one beef with runequest - how closely, even now, it ties into glorantha which is a very very odd setting. Most books people grew up reading? Not so much. As a result players of mine coming from D+D etc tend to dislike the idea of it so... more options the better.

 

[DamonJynx]

Sounds awesome. No idea what it entails but fingers crossed!

I'd love a magic book to include more rules for worlds without common magic actually -

Get the Elric setting. The magic in that, whilst very different, can be freaking awesome.

 

[Asyme]

Have it, love it, stolen stuff like compulsions and pacts for my game

This is a total off topic belief though - but I think common magic is one of those... weird legacy things that makes the system a bit odd. It's minor but looking at blogs, adaptions of all sorts of runequest rules most of them seem to have some 'how to adapt magic' ideas. Whereas D+D, etc don't. Or if they do they're much more minor.

Its a fine system - it just seems to mentally jar with how most people see a fantasy campaign (unless you're running the aforementioned glorantha) but it's in the rules and seems just taken for granted.

Back on topic - spirit magic rules eagerly awaited as well!

 

[RangerDan]

This is a total off topic belief though - but I think common magic is one of those... weird legacy things that makes the system a bit odd. It's minor but looking at blogs, adaptions of all sorts of runequest rules most of them seem to have some 'how to adapt magic' ideas. Whereas D+D, etc don't. Or if they do they're much more minor.

I actually think this speaks to the strength of the system. RQ is quite flexible/modular... People spend time discussing how to customise their RQ simply because they can customise their RQ.

In my particular setting magic is rare, so Common Magic does not exist, except for a very small set tied to certain religious (Divine Magic) cults. It took me a few hours to get it sorted in my head and put the campaign rules on paper. I wouldn't even know where to begin if I wanted to change the balance of magic in my group's Pathfinder game.

And as you say, back on topic! Bring on the Blood Magic!

 

[DamonJynx]

And as you say, back on topic! Bring on the Blood Magic!

Arcania of Legend, to be precise :wink:

 

[MongooseMatt]

Just to let you all know, we have added the S&P article to the Spirit Magic PDF - just re-download!

 

[kurgan84]

It's exactly the same PDF ??

 

[Rikki Tikki Traveller]

What were the issues of S&P that had the original article(s)?

Those of use new to the Game don't have all of your history and the index on the website is a bit unfriendly when it comes to doing searches.

THANKS IN ADVANCE!

[EDIT] = Never Mind! I found the Index STICKIED at the top of this forum! [end EDIT]

 

[MongooseMatt]

It's exactly the same PDF ??

Keep turning pages - it has grown by another 13

 

[PhilHibbs]

Well presumably Mongoose could easily make them OGL if they wished by extracting them as a PDF and adding the OGL on the end. It's probably more likely that at some point there'll be a product which goes into more depth - Spirits of Legend perhaps.

You can't make someone else's material OGL without their permission. Hang on, aren't you one of the authors? Remind me, who wrote those articles? I get confused with forum names.

 

[Deleriad]

Well presumably Mongoose could easily make them OGL if they wished by extracting them as a PDF and adding the OGL on the end. It's probably more likely that at some point there'll be a product which goes into more depth - Spirits of Legend perhaps.

You can't make someone else's material OGL without their permission. Hang on, aren't you one of the authors? Remind me, who wrote those articles? I get confused with forum names.

Copyright on S&P articles rests with Mongoose so they can indeed make them OGL. I was one of the authors of the articles and I think it's quite cool that the material is now OGL. Other authors may vary.

 

[Exubae]

Really cool to see that spirit magic has gone ogl.
Are there any plans for spirit magic to go hard copy, perhaps as part of a larger summoning of Legend?

 

[alex_greene]

It's exactly the same PDF ??

Keep turning pages - it has grown by another 13

Confirmed.

Original - 469 kB, date 2011 12 02, 16 pages.
This version with the S&P article from S&P 89- 648 kB, date 2011 12 10, 29 pages.

 

[Harshlax]

It's good to see the Shamanism article included, but as I recall it was part 1 of a 2 part article. The following month included a bestiary of sorts of spirits. Any chance that could also be converted and included, or at least converted and released for seperate download?

 

[Deleriad]

It's good to see the Shamanism article included, but as I recall it was part 1 of a 2 part article. The following month included a bestiary of sorts of spirits. Any chance that could also be converted and included, or at least converted and released for seperate download?

It is worth pointing out that the example shaman NPC stats used in part 2 aren't copyright to Mongoose so couldn't be made open content.

 

[Harshlax]

It's good to see the Shamanism article included, but as I recall it was part 1 of a 2 part article. The following month included a bestiary of sorts of spirits. Any chance that could also be converted and included, or at least converted and released for seperate download?

It is worth pointing out that the example shaman NPC stats used in part 2 aren't copyright to Mongoose so couldn't be made open content.

Very true, but the rest of the article should be I would think. Perhaps the current design team could design their own example Shamans?

 

[Bifford]

Nice to see an update (even though I've not read any of the Spirit stuff yet lol) - just a small request - the website still gives the original files size rather than the new version size, which might stop people realizing it is an updated version. Further, maybe a small note saying something like "v2 inc S&P content. Updated Dec2011"



Sam / Bifford

 

[Vagni]

Well presumably Mongoose could easily make them OGL if they wished by extracting them as a PDF and adding the OGL on the end. It's probably more likely that at some point there'll be a product which goes into more depth - Spirits of Legend perhaps.

You can't make someone else's material OGL without their permission. Hang on, aren't you one of the authors? Remind me, who wrote those articles? I get confused with forum names.

Copyright on S&P articles rests with Mongoose so they can indeed make them OGL. I was one of the authors of the articles and I think it's quite cool that the material is now OGL. Other authors may vary.

Hello, remember me? :wink:

I think its great too, I'm glad to see the S&P spirit articles are still being used.