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Contents
List of Figures, xiii
List of Tables, xvii
anks, xix
e Author, xxi
Table of Recipes/Code Snippets, xxiii
Proverbs of Game Magic, xxvii
Epigraphs, xxix
Chapter 1 ◾ How to Use This Book 1
1.1 WHO IS THIS BOOK FOR? 2
1.2 A NOTE ON AUDIENCE, AND A SYMBOLIC KEY OF
INTENDED AUDIENCES 2
1.3 TRIANGULATING GAME MAGIC 3
1.3.1 e Controversy of Occult Magic and Role-Playing
Games 6
Chapter 2 ◾ Magic Systems in Theory and Practice 7
2.1 PUTTING THE MAGIC BACK IN MAGIC SYSTEMS 8
2.2 A HISTORY OF GAME MAGIC SYSTEMS 9
2.3 OCCULT MAGIC AND GAME MAGIC 10
2.4 MAGICAL GRAMMARS 10
2.5 RITUAL AND SYMBOLIC CORRESPONDENCES 11
2.6 RITUAL AND MULTIMOD