[Adamant Entertainment] Imperial Age Magick and 2007 Subscription

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Adamant Entertainment is proud to announce the latest release in our Imperial Age line -- Imperial Age Magick.

From Victorian literature and actual occult practice to later fiction set in the era, depictions of magic (or magick, to use the spelling proffered by Aleister Crowley) are varied. Imperial Age Magick does not attempt to present a single magic system. Rather, it is meant as a tool kit for GMs to design the magick system that best suits their campaigns by mixing and matching numerous elements, creating a system that is specifically and inherently Victorian in tone.

Imperial Age Magick presents several magical styles for the Game Master to choose from when creating an Imperial Age campaign, whether that involves faerie court intrigues in London, the private wars of occult secret societies, or even Oxford Dons fighting eldritch horrors -- all within the context of the familiar and accessible d20 Magic System. By combining the options offered in this supplement (all based on real-world Victorian occult practices), a GM has a total of nine magick systems from which to choose, each scalable to suit the power level of the campaign.

Including details on actual Victorian occult societies, New feats and skills, and the Hermetic Disciple advanced class, Imperial Age Magick is everything you need to add period-appropriate magick to your Victorian-era d20 campaign.

Requires the use of the d20 Modern Roleplaying Game, published by Wizards of the Coast, Inc. d20 Modern, and Wizards of the Coast are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast, Inc. in the United States and other countries and are used with permission. 'D20 System' and the 'D20 System' logo are Trademarks owned by Wizards of the Coast and are used according to the terms of the D20 System License version 3.0. A copy of this License can be found at www.wizards.com/d20.

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Imperial Age Magick
by Scott Carter & Walt Ciechanowski
ADM4103 $5.95 US
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Adamant is also offering a subscription for the Imperial Age line. As an Imperial Age subscriber, you're entitled to receive each and every Imperial Age product released in 2007...starting January 1st, and arriving by aethergram every month of the year. (If your membership starts after January, you'll be charged a lower rate, and only receive the products released from the date of your membership forward.)

As a special bonus, new subscribers purchasing the Imperial Age Subscription in December 2006 will have their subscriptions start early: You'll receive December's products as well, before your subscription officially starts in January.

Adamant Entertainment will release new Imperial Age material each and every month of 2007: Adventures, location settings, new classes, equipment manuals, genre supplements and more. Join today!

Imperial Age 2007 Subscription
ADM4100 $39.95 US
 

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Gareth,

How adaptable is Imperial Age Magick?. Can it be retrofitted for, say, the 14th century. Or upgraded for the 20th? How far back (or forward) in time could one extend the beast?
 

Eminently adaptable.

You're using the standard d20 magic/FX rules, but modified by choosing 1 of 3 "practices" (how magick works) and 1 of 3 "prices" (the toll magick takes). Add to that the laws of magic (the law of contagion, the law of names, etc.) -- All of it is based on traditional western views of hermetic magick, and given that those views were codified fairly early on, it would be a simple matter to use the system for middle ages, renaissance or even modern occult practice.
 

GMSkarka said:
Eminently adaptable.

You're using the standard d20 magic/FX rules, but modified by choosing 1 of 3 "practices" (how magick works) and 1 of 3 "prices" (the toll magick takes). Add to that the laws of magic (the law of contagion, the law of names, etc.) -- All of it is based on traditional western views of hermetic magick, and given that those views were codified fairly early on, it would be a simple matter to use the system for middle ages, renaissance or even modern occult practice.

I have in mind Col. Pladoh's idiosyncratic laws of magick, first elucidated in Mythus Magick. Those laws being...

  • Sympathy
    Antipathy
    Change
    Ritual
    Emanation
    Conduction
    Obstruction

With each law applying depending on use instead of representation in the matter of Sympathy and Antipathy. So an eagle's talon may represent an eagle, but it is the eagle as a representation of vigilance and honor that serves as a barrier to invasion by scalaways and bounders. Thus in this case the talon invokes the Law of Antipathy in it's application in Repulsion Magick

In any case, I have the feeling your book will work well with my setting. I'm off to see about getting a copy.
 



Shane H said:
I wonder if any of these magic styles would be especially fitting for Middle-earth d20.

To be honest, no. I'm going to let my love of Tolkien win over my desire to sell more copies of our supplement --

The magic in Middle Earth is a very specific feel (mythic, very powerful), and this, being an adaptation of standard d20 magic filtered through real-world occult practices, wouldn't match it at all.
 

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