
242 ◾ Game Magic
In a section insightfully titled “Creating a World-View of Magic,”
Player’s Option: Spells and Magic describes the relative rarity, mystery,
power, and required sacrice of magic in various settings (10). is sec-
tion title is meaningful because it acknowledges that magic is part of a
ctional worldview (a term coined by sociologists to describe a given cul-
ture’s framework for organizing beliefs and ideas about the structure of
existence). Player’s Option: Spells and Magic also has an interesting set
of alternate magic systems, which constitute ways of using a system of
spell points to simulate various alternative wo