My Nephilim Occult RPing Blog

The Nephilim have developed several “Grand Rituals” (distinct from the rituals used for casting Ritual Magic) used as aids in their learning and casting of the Occult Sciences. In this post I'll be explaining how I'm adapting those to my campaign setting, based both on the US version, a fan wiki , and the French version's Nephilim: Revelation and Nephilim: Legend . The ideas presented here are tentative. The Ritual of Stasis: Nephilim use this ritual to tap charges from their Stasis item to boost spells and other uses of Ka-energies. Ar-Kaïm who have been bonded to a Stasis item may do the same, but may only charge the five elements available to Nephilim. Selenim require Sarcophagi or other special means to charge and tap Black Moon-Ka. The Ritual of Sacrifice : Nephilim use this ritual in emergences to ensure a spell succeeds. This costs Occult Development Points (my translation of the French version's XP mechanics) and may only be used when performing a Sorcery ritu...

Although the BRP rules don't have experience points, the third edition Nephilim: Revelation switched to an original d20 roll under system that introduced experience points. Mundane Characteristics and Skills were increased through study and training, but occult Characteristics and Skills were increased by spending experience points. As such, these points were named Agartha Points (AP). In third and fourth edition, the Sacrifice Ritual cost 1 bullet/point of Ka to ensure a Spell is cast. In fifth edition, which again changed the system, these points were retained but renamed to Sapience Points (SP). Ka sacrifice to ensure a spell is cast was replaced by spending SP instead. Additionally, no mention of bloodletting is made: the expenditure occurs automatically while casting the spell. I prefer this over the prior editions, as it reduces the already laborious book keeping involved with tracking Ka points. It should be easy enough to retrofit this rule to third edition. A Ka bullet co...