Anyone know of websites or suppliments for ritual magic?

[Denaes]

I don't want spell flingers in a modern game I'm going to run - just ritual magic that anyone with the proper knowledge can perform.

Sounds like the magic from Angel for Unisystem Lite. I'll look that over tomorrow... but is there anything for d20/OGL like this already?

 

[Vigilance]

Blood and Relics uses ritual based magic (using feats and skills).

More information can be found here: http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=3107&

 

[Michael Tree]

There's a system of ritual magic called Incantations in the d20 modern book Urban Arcana, which was reprinted with less examples in Unearthed Arcana. It focuses almost entirely on very powerful effects, but it could be adapted to lower level rituals as well.

 

[Red Spire Press]

Anyone in Dark Legacies can use magic as long as they have ranks in the Spellcraft skill. That being said, magic is demonic, rare, and very very hard to master. There are very few combat-oriented spells, with most magic being long ritual affairs cast from a spell reference in the security of an abandoned boiler room or cult chamber. There is a single spellcasting class, the arcanist, that gains bonuses to his Spellcraft skill, resistance against spellcasting straing that can otherwise be debilitating, and the ability to memorize spells. Cheers.

 

[Roudi]

Urban Arcana's incantations can be found in the Modern System Reference Document these days, so you don't even have to get the book.

I'll second the recommendation for Blood & Relics' ritual magic, however. It's the right kind of stuff.

 

[Masada]

The Game Mechanics have a lot of expanded magic in Modern Magic volumes I and II. But it mostly expands the spell list. Blood & Relics is good alternate low magic system.

 

[DnDChick]

Mongooese's OGL Horror has a system of ritual magic as well. It's simple to use and is easy to write new rituals for.

Its Open Content, so I'll see if I can scan it and post it to my website ...

 

[Denaes]

Thanks for your input.

Blood and Relics seems like it may be a bit too exclusive in it's magic if it requires Skills & Feats to use.

I'm talking about someone picking up a book and following the directions: Reading the words, drawing the circle, killing something or putting ingredients in a circle, etc.

Most rituals would require little to no skill to perform, but other would require skills to get certain things right or know specific things in complicated magic. But the magic would be 100% external from the caster(s).

Really I don't need a terribly complete system... just ideas and concepts. Mostly NPC magic that the players might pick up a few rituals... but gotta keep them grim and dark. It's not PC magic for the most part.

I'll be checking out these links and seeing what measures up to what extent

 

[DnDChick]

Sounds like the ritual rules in OGL Horror are what you're looking for.

I am off tomorrow ... I will post them to my website for all to see and enjoy. (With a copy of the OGL included, of course! )

 

[Committed Hero]

I use the "real world" zodiacal and material modifiers which appear in GURPS Cabal to make rituals seem more realistic.