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Game Magic
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Game Magic

by Jeff Howard
April 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
376 pages
10h 41m
English
A K Peters/CRC Press
Content preview from Game Magic
From Exemplary Game Magic Systems to Code Recipes 91
but a coherent system intended to reect a larger ctional lore through
mechanics. e system requires skillful player interaction rather than
relying only on skills possessed by characters, which could be acquired by
grinding and then forgotten about. Moreover, the developers explain that
the magic of Age of Conan is intended to look and feel dierently than the
average MMO:
e traditional reball-tossing magic users in pointy hats, with
pus and multicolored robes, are not part of the Hyborian uni-
verse. In Conan’s age, magic is dangerous, hidden, and dark. Men
who meddle with dark magic may fall to its temptation and pow-
ers, so magic uses you as much as you use it! Naturally, t ...
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ISBN: 9781466567870