So I picked up
Magic World by Chaosium, the latest iteration of fantasy role-playing for the d100 system. Though broadly similar to the other contenders,
RuneQuest 6 by The Design Mechanism and
Legend by Mongoose,
Magic World, not surprisingly, more closely adheres to the
Basic RolePlaying game system. Interestingly, it doesn't use the expanded magic system presented in
The Magic Book, released in 2011, which updated the magic rules from older editions of Chaosium's
RuneQuest for use with BRP. Rather,
Magic World expands the sorcery rules from the basic BRP game. In other words, all magic in
Magic World is sorcery. If
The Magic Book is derived from
RuneQuest,
Magic World seems more influenced by another old Chaosium game,
Stormbringer. Though the darker aspects of
Stormbringer and its later edition
Elric! have been toned down in
Magic World, the rules for summoning demons and elementals are there. If you can get your hands on the excellent
Elric! supplement,
The Bronze Grimoire, to incorporate its more detailed summoning and necromancy rules,
Magic World would make an excellent ruleset to run a dark fantasy campaign.
-Rognar-
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The Bronze Grimoire is still available, in PDF, from Mongoose:
http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/635/The-Bronze-Grimoire?term=bronze+gr&it=1
$7.74 at the moment on DriveThruRPG.
All the sorcery spells in Bronze Grimoire were included in Magic World. Also, all the rest if BG (and more!) will be included in the forthcoming "Advanced Sorcery" supplement for MW.
Awesome! Thanks for the info.
It sounds like the magic system is an expansion of the system in the original Magic World that was in the Worlds of Wonder boxed set circa 1982 or so.
Which is great given I wish that boxed set would come back into print. I'm more interested in Future World than the other two.
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