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<blockquote data-quote="Tsyr" data-source="post: 222579" data-attributes="member: 354"><p>Several of the Mongoose Publishing magic encylopedias have nasty side effects of prolonged use... three that I can think of, Chaos Magic, Demonology, and Necromancy...</p><p></p><p>Chaos Magic slowly infuses your body with chaos, making you less and less human, going down one of many paths of decay, until eventualy you succumb to pure chaos, either turning into something inhuman, or being sucked into a pocket of demi-reality and left in agonizing pain for all eternity, or something equaly nasty...</p><p></p><p>Demonology has such lovely things as possession, stat loss, demonic features...</p><p></p><p>Necromancy you can slowly gain aspects of the undead, most of them Not Good Things... such as having to eat flesh of the sentient to survive, things like that.</p><p></p><p>Lets see... outside mongoose... Elemental Magic in Sov Stone does... but not normaly permanent effects, it more just does damage when you try to cast things that are difficult for you. </p><p></p><p>Call of Cthullu, as mentioned...</p><p></p><p>In Wheel of Time, if your a male caster (And it could be easily adapted to females if you wanted to use the system outside WoT), you slowly go insane...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tsyr, post: 222579, member: 354"] Several of the Mongoose Publishing magic encylopedias have nasty side effects of prolonged use... three that I can think of, Chaos Magic, Demonology, and Necromancy... Chaos Magic slowly infuses your body with chaos, making you less and less human, going down one of many paths of decay, until eventualy you succumb to pure chaos, either turning into something inhuman, or being sucked into a pocket of demi-reality and left in agonizing pain for all eternity, or something equaly nasty... Demonology has such lovely things as possession, stat loss, demonic features... Necromancy you can slowly gain aspects of the undead, most of them Not Good Things... such as having to eat flesh of the sentient to survive, things like that. Lets see... outside mongoose... Elemental Magic in Sov Stone does... but not normaly permanent effects, it more just does damage when you try to cast things that are difficult for you. Call of Cthullu, as mentioned... In Wheel of Time, if your a male caster (And it could be easily adapted to females if you wanted to use the system outside WoT), you slowly go insane... [/QUOTE]
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