Romerac Elerion Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 Chaosium have annouced that they are publishing Enlightened Magic, a Western Tradition Sorcery & Alchemy Sourcebook for Basic Roleplaying. Enlightened Magic combined with the newest, long awaited, edition Cthulhu by Gaslight looks like it would make for a great Victorian occult game. I get tired of the Cthulhu mythos being the only "occult" background for BRP and would like to see more. Nephilim didn't work for me as there wasn't an option to play the nephilim as the bad guys. Maybe Enlightened Magic will kickstart a small diversion from the path of the Cthulhu mythos? Quote Jewelled, the multiverse spread around him, awash with life, rich with pulsating energy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BMonroe Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 Chaosium have annouced that they are publishing Enlightened Magic, a Western Tradition Sorcery & Alchemy Sourcebook for Basic Roleplaying. Enlightened Magic combined with the newest, long awaited, edition Cthulhu by Gaslight looks like it would make for a great Victorian occult game. I get tired of the Cthulhu mythos being the only "occult" background for BRP and would like to see more. Nephilim didn't work for me as there wasn't an option to play the nephilim as the bad guys. Maybe Enlightened Magic will kickstart a small diversion from the path of the Cthulhu mythos? You never know... Quote Please don't contact me with Chaosium questions. I'm no longer associated with the company, and have no idea what the new management is doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conrad Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 (edited) Interestingly, John "Mr Magick Man" Snead wrote the unpublished supplement for CoC, Unhallowed Wizardry - CthulhuWiki, along with a whole chunk of White Wolf supplements (John Snead's Resum) and Liber Ka for Nephilim. So magick rules seems to be his forte. I was wondering if Enlightened Magic was a republishing of Nephilim or Unhallowed Wizardry rules, like the latest Magic World is for SB5e? Does anyone know? Edited April 29, 2012 by Conrad Quote http://www.basicrps.com/core/BRP_quick_start.pdf A sense of humour and an imagination go a long way in roleplaying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrippyHippy Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 Interestingly, John "Mr Magick Man" Snead wrote the unpublished supplement for CoC, Unhallowed Wizardry - CthulhuWiki, along with a whole chunk of White Wolf supplements (John Snead's Resum) and Liber Ka for Nephilim. So magick rules seems to be his forte. I was wondering if Enlightened Magic was a republishing of Nephilim or Unhallowed Wizardry rules, like the latest Magic World is for SB5e? Does anyone know? It's based on Liber Ka, the Nephilim supplement which actually rewrote the magic rules from ground up. Snead is a very good rpg writer for this sort of thing - he also did the computational sorcery for The Laundry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robsbot Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 Has this been basically thrown into limbo? I'm extremely interested in this system of magic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaot Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 I think it just takes a long while to publish through Chaosium. I'm not really in the know but I haven't heard anything about the project being sidetracked. Quote 70/420 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nclarke Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 When I hear complaints about the length of time taken to publish things I have to wonder if the people asking don't realise how small Chaosium actually is. Most jobs are subcontracted out - proofing, editing, layout, writing etc. and the few people actually full time have to deal with all the admin plus the website (although the design and coding is contracted out). For a long time cash flow was, AFAIK, primarily used to pay off huge debts still around from the days of the CCG fiasco leaving little to go towards buying art and paying writers and printers. Now that they have used kickstarter to get themselves a cushion of cash from Horror and 7e they can produce good material and return to putting out more frequent product. They just hired someone to partly replace the late Lynn Willis as Cthulhu product Line Manager but he's AFAIK only part time rather than full-time and in the UK rather then California making for less than easy co-ordination. This is a lot of mostly speculation but based on what I see mentioned in a bunch of places so take it with a hefty pinch of salt but it does explain why product is slow to market for Chaosium. Quote Nigel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BMonroe Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 It should be soonish. I'm actually heading down to Chaosium tomorrow to pick up printouts of Enlightened Magic, Advanced Sorcery and (another book I'm not sure has been announced...) to give them a last look. All three are essentially done with layout, barring any changes based on error-trapping. Quote Please don't contact me with Chaosium questions. I'm no longer associated with the company, and have no idea what the new management is doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Lemur Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 Is Enlightened Magic available as a PDF? I do not see it on Drive Through RPG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BMonroe Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 It's not out yet in any format. Quote Please don't contact me with Chaosium questions. I'm no longer associated with the company, and have no idea what the new management is doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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