The Summoning rules are so cool and a Magic Question

[Judd]

The subject says it all. I just downloaded the Magic Burning preview of Summoning and it absolutely rocks. Could just be that I've been playing too much Sorcerer...not that there's any such thing. :)

I think the summoning rules will set the The Wizard is Dead scenario on FIRE when I get the BIT's tweaked just right.

Question:

Do folks offer Summoning, Abstraction and Sorcery all together or do they offer the players just one?

If all together, what would be the problems to watch for with all of them in the same game or are there any problems to watch for with all forms of magic at the table at once?

[Viper]

:lol: I thought you had a question about summoning rocks... like you know, summoning a boulder to smash your enemies.

[Judd]

:lol: I thought you had a question about summoning rocks... like you know, summoning a boulder to smash your enemies.

Upon seeing the title again it occurred to me even as this screen loaded.

Yeah...

TITLE EDITED: It used to read Summoning Rocks and Magic Question

[luke]

Most GMs (myself included) offer all three to their PC wizards. The resource point cost of all the spells tends to keep things from getting too crazy.

Personally, I want to start a game where "magic" is Summoning. I think if that was the only power available to the arcane situations would get very interesting -- spirits sent and rebuffed, wary wizards never treading the same ground twice... so cool.

Also, there'd be no Sense spell, so the Summoner's would have to use other tricks to spot the spirits.

-L

[Kublai]

I offer all three in my campaigns. There seems to be no conflict as of yet. Some wizards even have all three, such as Thor's sorcerer. Resource points meant that he didn't have much selection in either. This encourages specialists which makes handling them easier, I imagine.

[Blackberry]

In my campaign, summoning is one kind of magic and sorcery is another kind of magic. There are no gods, so Faith doesn't play much of a role.

Also, Abstraction is just ad-hoc sorcery, so it's not a separate magic system per se. It's seen as the same thing. One involves rote formulas and one involves making it up on the fly.

[Judd]

Cool, thanks for the responses.