[UA] Alternate UA Magic

[Saul Peers]

I have taken this approach to Voodoo in the one game I've run so far.  I 
made the Loa(gods) be powerful sorcerer-demons who mounted(possessed) to 
hougons(priests) for several hours in exchange for magical services 
performed while controlled.  It worked really well, the only part of the 
adventure that did.

Saul


>From: Royal Minister of Stuff <yokeltania at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu
>To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu
>Subject: [UA] Alternate UA Magic
>Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 10:42:31 -0700 (PDT)
>
>
>--- 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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