[UA] Alternate UA Magic

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

--- John C <john1x at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> But to return to Gaiman, I found that _American
> Gods_ got me thinking about 
> an alternate magic system for UA.  Anyone out there
> familiar with GURPS 
> Vodoo?  Steal the system from that (long story
> short: Adepts call upon the 
> Loa to "ride" them, and work magic through them),
> make some changes to make 
> it fit into the UA rules, and have the players
> calling upon Gaiman's "New 
> Gods".
> 
> There something about the idea of rituals designed
> to call upon the God of 
> Cars that really amuses me.

Well, it's that "level of abstraction" thing that
Stolze is always going on about, i'nnit? 

I, of course, love the GURPS sourcebooks and am
looking through Phil Master's Arabian Nights right
now.  For instance, if you wanted a game with a sort
of Modern Day Aladdin* feel, you could make demons a
bit more powerful or revenants a bit easier to control
and all of a sudden, you've got Djinn.  Or maybe you
could have a ritual about controlling beings of
smokeless fire (only to find out it's "electricity")
and there you go.

I think you could take the same kind of approach with
Voodoo.  You already have "demons" which can possess
people.  What if a group of ghostly adepts made
themselves out to be Loas and developed a small cult
or contacted a houngan or a boca (waitaminute, that
means "mouth," what's a zombi master sometimes called?
Bouch? No, that means "mouth," too, different
language... Tango?  No, that happens IN the Boca...)

*Of course, I recall something about Aladdin
originally being set in China.

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