[Torg] Occult Magic w/Cyberpapcy

[Alexandre Chessel]

It sounds to me like you guys loose your minds, complicating your game with lots of "how that DN modifier should be applied".
The Low of Heretical Magic and the Law of Corruption bend the magic axiom in different ways. Indeed the second one seems to be more flexible and to absorb the LoHeretical Magic. But both are way a cosm runs.
The LoHeretical Magic States that magic is evil, and, due to the religious context of the realm and cosm, is tighted with demons lurking in the shadows, looking for wizards to threaten. So DN, backlash and effects are increased. Evil strikes heavily, evil is dangerous, evil is the hard way. My thought is that you just have to keep this in mind when running magical events that don't involve a backlash.
The case of the occult magic : lets assume that the DN is increased. As there is no risk for the occultist to get injured, you can consider that there is no obvious reason that the effects are increased. Aside to this, you can add something to the sentence that is painful for the occultist (a confrontation, a sacrifice he does'nt want to do...) and that he didn't choose to put in his sentence. That is fun, that is the claim of evil, that could be invisible just as the +3 backlash is. And thus, the demon 'exist' in game (guiding a foe on the place of the ritual, or claiming the unwanted sacrifice...), and the way for a possession of the occultist is opened. Same with mathematics. I can't remember how it works exactly, but increasing the DN of both the mathematic skill and the magical operation is a clever idea to represent the fact that the attention of a demon is attracted by the nile sorcerer. A demon could easily scramble a mathematic formula to give it a weird meaning. Let's make this alive and smart guys : there is a reason for these score modifiers and in that case, the reason is the world itself threatening magic users with hellish things like demons. Use them ! The increased DN of mathematic skill is too gentle ? Curse the sorcerer ! From now he could get a setback each time a does a mathematic total of exactly 13, wich number became his bad luck number !
This way both world laws are equal and can interract with eachother, and not one of the two including the other making it dominating towards the other.

Alexandre

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