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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jürgen Hubert" data-source="post: 1139517" data-attributes="member: 7177">Ah, GURPS Cabal - one of my favorite world backgrounds ever. I don't have the book with me, but let me try...I'd say that spells like Etherealness allow you to reach the "Border Astral". Astral Projection allows you to reach most places in Yetzirah, except for those warded against this, or which are home to powerful entities. I'd also reduce the spell level of this spell if you want to encourage planar travel - 9th is way too high IMO. Once you reach Yetzirah, you should also be able to find other places if you find the right portals and pathways (and if you can dodge Yigothu slavers - which, from their description, suspiciously sound like Mind Flayers...).Plane shift can reach most sub-layers of Yetzirah, Briah, and the Planetary Spheres, though you will rarely reach the exact spot where you want to go. Prepare for some travel time. Oh, and it will probably require some research to find the right material component for these locations. Fortunately, the "Hermetic Magic" chapter in GURPS Cabal provides more than enough samples.If you want to reach the Abyss, or, God Forbid, Atziluth (pardon the pun), you have to walk from Briah. No shortcuts, and have fun climbing the Sword Bridge (or the head of that really big devil whatshisname).The Gods worshipped by clerics should be powerful beings of Briah, not the Archangels and the Most Holy One in Atziluth, who are above such matters as granting daily spell alottments.You might want to deempathize alignment, and alignment-detecting spells. It might be possible to come up with spells for demonic or quipplothic corruption, but more appropriate for humans would be some sort of "aura-reading" spells which can detect emotions and associations with mystical energies (a career mercenary might always have a faint aura of death around him, for example). The classical alignment setup doesn't really fit into Cabal cosmology - most powerful mages seem to be fairly amoral...Apart from that, just use the descriptions from GURPS Cabal and wing the details.Any further questions?</blockquote>

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