Myself as well. I've been fiddling around with some BRP ritual magic rules. It will be interesting to see what you come up with.
Myself as well. I've been fiddling around with some BRP ritual magic rules. It will be interesting to see what you come up with.
Bit of an update for you all. I have just (within the last half hour) finished the first draft. I'll be spending the rest of the day re-drafting it but it won't change substantially. The sections will be as follows:
Intoduction : Witches in society - a description of how witches fit in to their primary setting periods of Dark Ages, High Medieval, High Fantasy, Arabian Nights and Renaissance.
Profession : Witch - the witch's profession skills.
The Source of Witchcraft - an overview of neutral, pagan and infernal as the possible sources of witchcraft.
Witchcraft Organisations - an overview of solitary witches, familial organisations and wider witchcraft organisations.
Witch's Magic - A description of how witches differ from other magicians in their handling of magic, a list of the core book spells available to witches and a host of new spells.
Witch's Sorcery - Though the main focus of the monograph is on magic, there are rules here (and extra sorcery spells) for witches as sorcerers. I wasn't going to add this for a long time but some people may like the sorcery rules better and there's no reason witches can't be sorcerers.
Witch's Potions - An in depth look at the skill 'Craft (Potions)' and a small list of possible potions. Thanks to Threedeesix for his suggestions - this potion system will be compatible with Classic Fantasy. So, yes, you can be a dungeon-crawling witch.
Talismans - Witches can make one-shot magic items with their unique skill 'Craft (Talismans)'. This section explains how. Obviously, both crafting potions and talismans would be useful for other magic users.
Witches' Allegiance - A description of allegiance to Black or White magic. What is required to form the allegiance, what is gained from it and apotheosis in both are gone into.
Mystical Artifacts - Unique Magical Items - The descriptions and powers of some unique artifacts that are associated with witchcraft and GMs might want to include in their game.
Sample Organisations - Three sample witchcraft organisations : a dying dark-age tradition, a Victorian revival and the corrupt wing of a fantasy Inquisition.
Sample Characters - Sample characters from the three sample organisations and one Normal character for each of the main suggested settings, for ideas and readily playable characters if you need one quick.
All that crammed into 30,000 words... well, 31,000 words.
The artist is also nearly done so the in-for-September-to-be-out-for-October deadline seems to be holding up.
A further update. I have just now sent off the completed product to Dustin at Chaosium in both .doc and .pdf format.
Obviously, he hasn't got back to me to OK everything yet because he'd have to have been typing the response before my e-mail even got to him to have replied by now, but assuming it is BRP : Witchcraft should be available soon. :thumb:
Great news! :thumb:
I somehow missed it before and just now discovered those magical words in
your post: Renaissance, dying dark-age tradition.
This looks very much like what I am currently working on for my Malita set-
ting, a local pagan tradition of the island population that centers around
one of the ancient temple ruins, is able to work comparatively weak magic,
and is a pain in the neck for the knightly order, because they cannot tole-
rate such heathen practices, but also must not alienate the locals.
I think I will stop working on that and take a look at your monograph, it could
well save me a lot of time ... :thumb:
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(Charlie Chan)
This is awesome news. :thumb: I can't wait to get my hands on a copy. And the timing is awesome as I am getting ready to detail the witch in the NPC chapter of Classic Fantasy, with optional rules for including them as player characters, I will be able to refer players to specific pages of BRP Witchcraft.Originally Posted by Byron Alexander
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Excellent! I can't wait. Just what I've been waiting for too.
Mr Jealousy has returned to reality!
No response from Dustin yet (man is very busy at the moment) but your responses all make me very happy.
Good news. Glad you got it sent off. :thumb:
Very slowly working towards completing my monograph.
Great news :thumb:
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