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<blockquote data-quote="Bilharzia" data-source="post: 8509998" data-attributes="member: 6970322">yes butSuggests that effectively SEs can replace damage... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Special Effects are the big differentiator between Mythras and the other BRP games. IF players and the GM are interested in a more detailed combat system, SEs change the game.Sorcery can work great for NPCs, and Monster Island provides some excellent new spells and traits (the whole campaign is a tribute to Clark Ashton Smith). I find the mechanics of sorcery just horrible to use in play though, despite RQ6/Mythras fixing the problems with RQ3 I still don't think it is worth using.Lower magics, or even non-magical tricks are represented well by Folk Magic. Conan encounters plenty of witches and spirit-magic users that Animism represents very well, and even a few priests make Theism a good fit. All of these work well pretty much out of the book for a S&amp;S game, just not sorcery, unfortunately for a Sword &amp; Sorcery game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bilharzia, post: 8509998, member: 6970322"] yes but Suggests that effectively SEs can replace damage... :) Special Effects are the big differentiator between Mythras and the other BRP games. [I]IF[/I] players and the GM are interested in a more detailed combat system, SEs change the game. Sorcery can work great for NPCs, and Monster Island provides some excellent new spells and traits (the whole campaign is a tribute to Clark Ashton Smith). I find the mechanics of sorcery just horrible to use in play though, despite RQ6/Mythras fixing the problems with RQ3 I still don't think it is worth using. Lower magics, or even non-magical tricks are represented well by Folk Magic. Conan encounters plenty of witches and spirit-magic users that Animism represents very well, and even a few priests make Theism a good fit. All of these work well pretty much out of the book for a S&S game, just not sorcery, unfortunately for a Sword & Sorcery game. [/QUOTE]

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