[Torg] delphi council

[Dominick Riesland]

Actually, that's explained later on, although the understanding is
based on knowing the spell construction rules. *All* low-magic realms,
not just Core Earth, suffers from a lack of magic skills. In the
Living Land, the Magic Axiom is zero, therefore any magic is a
contradiction. In Nippon, where the only non-contradictory skill is
Divination Magic, any spell constructed with only one of four magic
skills is not likely to be worth casting.

However, Core Earth has three of four magic skills, and therefore
reasonable spells are possible. However, they aren't perfect, as they
are missing conjuration magic. There are two answers to this hole in
spell design. The first is to provide a substitute skill. This is
where Voodoo comes in, replacing conjuration magic with faith. The
other is to accept the hole, and take a zero in the spell design.
Doing this will result in spells that are less effective than those
from places with higher Magic axiom ratings.

Rather than redesign all these spells from the ground up, they decided
to assign a relative net effect of the lack of conjuration magic, and
that is +5 to both difficulty and backlash. This is supposed to apply
to all cosms with a Magic axiom of 7, but the other printed 7s don't
really use magic, so it looks like the rules are picking on Core
Earth.



Dominick Riesland, aka Rabbitball
Creator of the Cosmversal Grimoire
"There are always possibilities, my sergeant told me. But he never had
his possibilities torn away like wings from a fly."



2008/9/29  <Crabshtick at aol.com>:
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>             hi guys.
>                   been looking at the delphi council book and i noticed that
> core earth mages get +5 to difficulty and backlash. why is this? as its not
> a world law. no other low magic realm gets a difficulty increase so why
> should core earth?
>
>                  cheers, mark.
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