Advanced Magic Rules
For more detailed magical play, these advanced rules provide additional depth.
Ritual Magic:
- Complex spells that require preparation and materials
- Can affect large areas or many targets
- Often require multiple participants
- Risk of corruption increases with power
- Summoning Rituals: Call spirits or creatures
- Divination Rituals: See the future or distant places
- Enchantment Rituals: Create magical items
- Curse/Blessing Rituals: Long-term effects
Magical Research:
- Discover new spells and rituals
- Modify existing magical effects
- Create unique magical items
- Study ancient magical knowledge
- Experimental Magic: Try new approaches
- Theoretical Research: Understand magical principles
- Practical Applications: Develop useful spells
Corruption Management:
- Techniques to reduce corruption risk
- Ways to temporarily resist corruption
- Methods to cleanse corruption (rare and dangerous)
- Consequences of high corruption levels
- Meditation: Temporary corruption resistance
- Purification Rituals: Remove corruption
- Familiar Spirits: Share corruption burden
Magical Traditions Interaction:
- Combining powers from different traditions
- Learning powers from other traditions
- Creating hybrid magical approaches
- Risks and benefits of cross-tradition magic
Advanced Spellcasting:
- Ritual Casting: More powerful but slower
- Quick Casting: Fast but less powerful
- Silent Casting: Cast without verbal components
- Area Effects: Spells that affect multiple targets