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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mordane76" data-source="post: 771096" data-attributes="member: 7172">I haven't looked at d20 CoC, but I have played some old CoC...I know they kept Sanity in d20, and IIRC spellcasting in CoC always incurred some kind of Sanity cost.  I figure this passed into d20 CoC, so can one truly use the magic from CoC without the accompanying Sanity mechanics?  Some of the spells might be interesting has rituals...So far, this is the basic premise I'm working on.General rituals will be divided into four categories:Minor -- fairly easy rituals that have little or limited use.Moderate -- more complex, but more useful and powerful.Major -- hefty effects, complex, rare components.Great -- resurrect the dead (sorta), bind greater evils, take hours to perform, hefty consequences, rare components... the whole nine yards...Ritual use will be based on Speak/Read Language, Intelligence, and Concentration checks; using a ritual will require the caster to be able to read it and properly understand the text read (languages), possess a minimum intellect to handle the magic involved (intelligence), and maintain proper concentration during the ritual (one or more Concentration checks).Witches and Warlocks will have spell slots, but their spell progressions and spell lists will be limited to select spells.  Their choosing of spells will be slightly different from standard as well.  Here's my present idea --A character attains her first level of Witch/Warlock, and gets to select several spells.  These spells are considered workbook spells; not completely mastered, but still more or less viable spells.  She has no completed spells except those she may find in other tomes, which she can use as normal.  She can use her workbooks spells, but every time she uses one, she has to make a check of some sort (not sure the mechanic yet), or the spell fails -- a bad result on the check means the spell doesn't just fail, but has some horrible repurcussions.</blockquote>

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