GURPS Magic: A Tome of Mystic Secrets for Fantasy Roleplaying (1994 Steve Jackson Games edition)
GURPS Magic: A Tome of Mystic Secrets for Fantasy Roleplaying details the spell-point system and extensive list of spells that compose the default magical system for
GURPS, Third Edition. The system is an expanded version of the one that appeared in the
First Edition of GURPS Fantasy, minus all the Yrth-specific background and a few of the standard races. From the publisher's website:
The World of Magic
Sorcery, Thaumaturgy, The Black Art, Necromancer, Alchemy or the Great Art. By any name, arcane knowledge brings great power to its possessor . . . for good or for evil. This book is the complete guide to magic for the Generic Universal RolePlaying System.
GURPS Magic presents a colorful, detailed magic system. But it's much more. It is designed for easy modification . . . for the GM who wants to create his own background, or set adventures in the world of his favorite fantasy author. And it's flexible. Players can create any sort of wizard character they choose, from eager apprentice to mad hermit, from saintly healer to sinister necromancer.
This book is completely compatible with the magic rules in the GURPS Basic Set Third Edition. It amplifies the material there, as well as adding more than 300 new spells! Also included are a complete system for improvisational magic, optional rules for "inherent" magic abilities, special advantages and disadvantages for mages, and a system to let the GM create his own unique types of clerical magic.
If you're ready for a world of magic, it's in your hands
The
Third Edition includes all the material from
GURPS Grimore, and is listed as a separate entry.
Notes on This Edition
128 pages. An expansion of the original GURPS magic system presented in GURPS Fantasy, 1st Edition and GURPS Magic, 1st Edition. Written by Steve Jackson with additional material (collected from other GURPS titles) by Marc Janssen, Walter Milliken, Steffan O'Sullivan, W. Dow Rieder, S. John Ross, Brett Slocum, and Daniel U. Thibault. Cover by Kirk Reinert. Subtitled
A Tome of Mystic Secrets for Fantasy Roleplaying.