Sorcery Spell List for Magonomia®

Sorcery is Magonomia’s term for the Ars Goëtia, the art of conjuring spirits (and binding them to service). Such spirits include faeries, elemental spirits, ghosts and ghosts, as well as the mysterious, invisible spirits that classical magicians called daemones. Conjuring such spirits is dangerous and widely feared, but many a magician is willing to resort to sorcery for the overt power it provides. Sorcery offers powerful spells such as glamours (a form of illusion), curses, invisibility, even calling down bolts of lightning from the sky! Sorcery is usually neither subtle nor very safe, but it is definitely effective.

The updated Magonomia spell lists now include all the Sorcery spells that will be in the core book.

Image (c) 2011 Dover Publications, Inc. Used with permission.

Image (c) 2011 Dover Publications, Inc. Used with permission.

New Magonomia® spell: Cloak of Shadows

With Halloween approaching, I thought I’d share a spooky new Magonomia® spell I revised today.

Cloak of Shadows

1st Degree. Sorcery

An enchanted cloak lets the wearer Create an Advantage on Stealth Tests

Aspects: Fetish, Requires Shadows

Components: A dark colored cloak embroidered with sigils on the inside

Preparation: Offstage; bind a spirit into the cloak

Activation: At will; speak the spirit's name; Create an Advantage vs. 1

Duration: One scene

Augmentation: None

The wizard enchants a dark-colored cloak by binding a Spirit of Shadow into it. The cloak permanently becomes a Fetish. In shadowy places like a dark alley or a forest, anyone wearing the cloak can call the spirit’s name and it will bend shadows, which enfold and caress the wearer. (They feel like cold feathers brushing against their skin). This allows the wearer to Create an Advantage on Stealth tests.

This week's Magonomia poll: Witchcraft archetypes

For our final poll on what character archetypes people want to see in the limited space of the core book, we have the perfect Science as Halloween approaches: witchcraft! Cast your vote for your favorite Witchcraft archetypes today through next Sunday, Oct. 26. (You’ll have to register at the Shewstone Forum to vote; this is to keep away the spammers, not to track you.)

The Magic Circle by John William Waterhouse, 1886

The Magic Circle by John William Waterhouse, 1886

Actual play video of Magonomia: A Night in the Graveyard

With Halloween approaching, we have a spooky new actual play video of Magnomonia! This is a complete play session of our sporadic weekend game, which grew out of our internal playtests. Four of our wizards venture into a graveyard in search of a missing person. We realize the audio isn’t perfect and we have ideas for how to get it better next time. Notice how the GM makes a simple plot and we, the players, embellish it with our crackpot ideas! Enjoy!