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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
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Adapting Game Magic from the Literature of the Fantastic 279
made of pure ideas, mountains craed out of symbols, universes based on
alternate versions of reality. In the strongest game systems, magic ultimately
originates out of the planes and allows the magicians to voyage through
them. While on the one hand such a process is shamanic, it more closely
resembles the “lodge-based, hermetic” magic that Aaron Reid alludes to in
Secrets of the Magickal Grimoires. Elric’s rituals resemble what Reid calls
the “gating” rituals of the Golden Dawn Pentagram and Hexagram rituals,
designed to formally open the gateways to other dimensions. At the same
time, Elric’s magic is deeply psychedelic in the 1960s countercultural sense
of the word, in ...
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ISBN: 9781466567870