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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clueless" data-source="post: 2302330" data-attributes="member: 11802">Technique. Location of casting. Required materials. Length of time to cast. Legality. On a mechanical level in all of the above you're looking at the idea of a person building up a lot of energy over time for a big pay off.For differences specific to the type of caster? Kabbalists require and bind things to act on their behalf. 'Witches' or pagans - depending on the approach, will *ask* a greater power to do something for them (simular to prayer) - or focus personal energy to do it without involving anyone else. Hougan, will involve inviting spirits to help or to manifest through them. So mechanically I'd suggest something like:Kabbalists have to beat a save dc, or the spirit called on has to make one, or some other such numerical system to obtain the services of the spirit called.Prayer based effects would be a will save, modified by how much it matches the diety being called to, and any other contextural modifiers. (Never ask a Goddess of Darkness to light a candle.)Playing on the idea of  'three fold returns' form Wicca beliefs you may want to keep track of a 'karma' score for pagan casters as well, where karma affects the critical successes/failures of spells.Personal energy being used to channel a spell could be reflected by the character taking HP damage, or stat damage (see the system Call of Cthulhu d20 uses).Systems that require the spirit manifesting in the body - play it like a temporary split personality for the character maybe? A will save to avoid doing the things the spirit wants to do, a length of time afterwards of feeling drained. Maybe even lingering effects - if someone commonly calls on a cat goddess they start having a fondness for sushi. Karma may be a good stat to track with this as well.In all cases modifiers to the successfulness of the casting would include things such as: how much time was taken: too little, too muchwhere the spell was cast: in the alley in back of the local bar, in a church, consecrated ground, stonehenge?what materials were used: a cheap penknife, consectrated silver blade, great granddaddy's personal hunting blade, a 300 yr old broadswordif there were sacrifices of animals or sentient blood or life: accounting for a difference between personal sacrifice and sacrifice of others and what spell/spirit/god is involvedThere's a LOT of variables you can play with on that end of things. To look at a system that translated that pretty well take a look at GURPS Voodoo suppliement if you can find it.</blockquote>

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