Occult Lore Goodies on d20Weekly

[JohnNephew]

Hey folks -- I just wanted to call attention to a couple of articles in this week's d20weekly.com, which amount to enhancements for Occult Lore.

Keith Baker offers a bunch of new sympathetic magic rituals at http://www.d20weekly.com/login/article.cgi?33, while Chris Jones provides yet more herbal goodness from the fragments of Baird's Botanical at http://www.d20weekly.com/login/article.cgi?26.

Even if you haven't picked up Occult Lore yet, those should be good reading -- and we're still in the "free trial subscription" period (though you need to be registered in order to get in).

Check 'em out! (And look at the Nyambe article in last week's issue, too!)

 

[johncolossus]

questions about occult lore

Well done! Good book!
I love about 80% of it........(does the Onieromancer influence from Neo in the Matrix perchance?)
Anyway I was wondering if there were any sites where questions about it could be asked so confusions could be cleared up?

For example I am confused about the astrologer (would like to use this class) and the spells. I like the idea of preparing the spells plenty in advance and I see the advantage of not having to prepare them on an adventure,etc. However, does the table of spell formulae per day not only relate to how many formulae you can create per day if you needed to chnage your selection but also relate to how many spell invocations you can cast per day? It does not make this clear.......it does say a spell can be invoked as long as the formulae is active......surely not spells at will? This would really help if you could answer or know where questions like this can be answered.

Cheers

 

[JohnNephew]

Re: questions about occult lore

Well done! Good book!
I love about 80% of it........(does the Onieromancer influence from Neo in the Matrix perchance?)
Anyway I was wondering if there were any sites where questions about it could be asked so confusions could be cleared up?

Check out http://forums.delphiforums.com/atlasgames -- I think many or most of the contributors to Occult Lore have been stopping in, and would be happy to answer questions and discuss the book.

For example I am confused about the astrologer (would like to use this class) and the spells. I like the idea of preparing the spells plenty in advance and I see the advantage of not having to prepare them on an adventure,etc. However, does the table of spell formulae per day not only relate to how many formulae you can create per day if you needed to chnage your selection but also relate to how many spell invocations you can cast per day? It does not make this clear.......it does say a spell can be invoked as long as the formulae is active......surely not spells at will? This would really help if you could answer or know where questions like this can be answered.

My understanding is that the limitation is on the number of spells of different levels you can prepare in a day, regardless of when you cast them (or when they expire). This means, for a high level astrologer, you don't have hours enough in the day to prepare all the spells, yes! Conversely, it means that you could spend weeks prepping a bunch of really complex, high-level spells that would then be "on hand" until their expiration. Just note how much longer and more complex and expensive (when a fetish is involved), and likely to fail, the preparation is when you are talking about high-level spells with long durations for the preparation and vague specificity for the target/subject.

 

[CaptainCalico]

good work

I FINALLY got my copy (bit of a saga w/ my game store) and it was worth the wait. Lots of material to enrich the world I'm building. Keep going!

 

[AdamBank]

Re: questions about occult lore

However, does the table of spell formulae per day not only relate to how many formulae you can create per day if you needed to chnage your selection but also relate to how many spell invocations you can cast per day? It does not make this clear.......it does say a spell can be invoked as long as the formulae is active......surely not spells at will?

Hello! I'm an Occult Lore contributing author. I am eagerly checking Atlas' HQ on Delphi (and generally scouring the web via Google) for feedback.

Astrollogers separate spell preparation from spell casting. To prepare a spell, an astrologer creates a spell formula. To cast a spell, the astrologer "invokes" the formula. The preparation of spell formulae are limited by time (lots of time) and spell slots, but casting is not.

The spell formulae per day chart limits how many spell formulae the astrologer can try to create per day. There is no limit to the number of spell formulae an astrologer can invoke per day!

 

[Lizard]

Occult Lore r00lz.

Any suggestions for converting ritual magic to D20 Modern? I'm not sure I'd use it in D&D or similar, but it would totally fit a Buffy-esque campaign.