Nikk Effingham asked...
> But, let's not get
> started on that debate. Does anyone on the Digest still use the old Sorcery
> system? If so, do you use it extensively, or just for the odd NPC sorceror?
>
I've used it in a recent bit using pre-generated characters, but with
heavy mods as follows.
- Sorcery spells do not take space in INT; Free Int=Int not used to remember
spirit magic spells. I figure that sorcery spells are _skills_ as opposed to
spirit magic spells which are a sort of pattern pressed into the mind.
- There are no sorcery spell matrices. Again, sorcery spells are skills, not
mystic patterns impressed into the mind.
- Form/set (substance) is a touch spell, and to really use it effectively you
have to have the appropriate craft skill; however it is possible (under rare
circumstances) to use it with enchantment skills and spells to produce works
of unique abilities.
- Tap doesn't exist. In the scenario I ran, it was in the Fourth Age and I
decided that there was no more Chaos as far as anyone knows and no Chaotic
spells. I figure Tap is chaotic.
As my scenario was in my perverse and heretical version of the Fourth
Age of Glorantha there was a lot more sorcery around than in the Third Age,
and most educated people used it. Spirit Magic was something you used when
your sorcery skills weren't very high or weren't bright enough to handle
sorcery or had some sort of cultural reason not to use it.
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