Magic Rules!

by Steve Johnson

Has the magic in your games gotten stale? Do you wish you could spice up spell casting? Maybe you need Magic Rules! This supplement details the 5x5 Ritual Magic System, an optional system for spell casting using the QAGS Second Edition rules. The 5x5 Ritual Magic System provides a way to handle magic in games that more closely models real-world magical traditions, folklore, and fiction, rather than the “flash-bang” style of magic found in many RPGs. Although designed with a contemporary Earth setting in mind, it can be adapted to most settings that include magic.

Magic Rules! includes explanations of Magic Levels and Spell Requirements, rules for creating magical items, difficulty numbers and ritual modifiers, and sample spells ranging from Burning Love to the War Song of Thule.

Magic Rules! is written by QAGS co-creator Steve Johnson, with a beautiful cover by Hobomancer artist Jeffrey Johnson.

16 pages, ebook

First published October 3, 2012

About the author

Steve Johnson is the co-creator of the QAGS Second Edition role-playing game system and the ENnie-award-winning Hobomancer RPG setting and author of Obscure Early Bluesmen Who Never Existed as well as numerous RPG sourcebooks from Hex Games. He blogs about gaming at The Death Cookie and about other things at Goat Head Gumbo.