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Making sense of the Vancian System: Pure Chaos
How to change magic flavor without changing the base system.Making sense of the Vancian System: Pure Chaos
Today i read a very interesting piece of idea written by a friend (@The_kernel_in_yellow https://oicn.icu/, telegram channel :https://t.me/oi_cn follow him if you like, so much good stuff)CITAZIONEOk fast arcane magic's refluff
Let’s abolish mages. Away with them! All casters are Sorcerers ( if you don’t have sorcerers in your ruleset use mages without prepared spells, don’t make me lose time).
Then, OSR: Magic is Chaos. Now, what is Chaos? Chaos is Entropy, in the form of metaphysic entity. What is Entropy? Oh come on, is Destruction of Information!
So: Sorcerers don’t have spell slots. They have a list of things they have studied before and that they will forget during the day to launch their spells.
Those strange words they utters everytime? It's Common tongue, or at least it was, before Chaos devoured the meaning.
And scrolls that can be used only one time before disappearing? It's the same thing! Chaos feed on the meaning of the words and the spell is cast.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
This is brilliant in so many ways. First of all: it will be the main reason arcane casters will go all around the world to look for new discoveries or pieces of information. Those heavy books that they keep bringing all around? Great sources of information to consume at the right time. Those grand libraries they keep building in the middle of nowhere or in their majestic towers? More informations to feed to their magic.
But how can we make interesting to play and role play something like that?
Make your spellcaster choose a knowledge area. It could be anything, better if it’s a knowledge skill he already possess. It could be Nature, Local knowledge or History or another kind of knowledge that exist in your game. Anytime the spellcaster will try to remember something he was sure to know in that field, make him throw a percentage die. If the result is lower than his level he forgot that information long ago while casting one of his spell. The number and level of information is equal to his spellcasting slot for his caster level.
What? You want more fluff to it? Well entropy rarely manifest itself without some “collateral effect”. What i’m talking about? Here’s a handy list to choose what happen after Chaos make its entrance into reality for a second.
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