My Nephilim Occult RPing Blog

In a prior post I recapped the spontaneous magic rules from Nephilim: Revelation  (NR) and mentioned that I wanted to adapt what I could to the enlightened sorcery rules printed in Liber Ka  (LK) and Enlightened Magic  (EM). In this post, I would like to explain how I would use NR as a basis for more robust rules for designing and casting spells on the fly. I use both LK and EM as my resources here, since EM adds additional spells that are useful for illustration, but I use the d20 roll-under task resolution from NR. For reference, EM refers to Ka-vision as "Mystic vision"; the main difference is that the latter has a passive state that mage characters have active at all times to notice vaguely when something magical is happening in their vicinity. As explained in LK and EM, the different circles of Sorcery have different limitations. A rule I'd like to adapt from NR is the generic table , which lists the various parameters that spells can have (range, duration, area, et...

I mentioned in a prior post that in third edition, Sorcery underwent an overhaul. Starting in second edition it was renamed Magic ( Magie in French). In third edition, the fixed spells of prior editions were augmented by a syntactic magic mechanic that allowed players to construct their own spells according to universal guidelines and, in a break with prior editions, to cast these on the fly without needing foci or inscriptions.  Sorcery in Nephilim: Revelation Note: The rulebook has some editing errors, so I’m using  unofficial errata from a fansite  when recapping. That source incorporates the fanzine  Palimpseste  n°1  and  Palimpseste  n°4 . Spells were constructed as sentences with verbs and nouns chosen by the sorcerer to tailor the effect. A typical sentence consisted of the verb , the target(s) , and one or more analogies selected from the " Analogy Table ". Various concepts associated with each of the five Ka-elements were given on thi...