How do you like your magic circles, /tg/?

>>55083488
Noncircular.

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Absurdly complicated.

>>55083488
Nonexistent, just like magic itself

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I like em like magical code where I can make any magical effect that I want.

I usually have them repel outsiders.

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>>55083780
Did somebody say magic circles

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>>55085015
Because I think I heard somebody say magic circles

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>>55085020
MAGIC

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>>55085034
Here's a spell for moving goalposts

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>>55085042
I can't remember what this one does

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>>55085015

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Simple enough that I won't be killed in the middle of drawing it.

>>55085063

But anon, these are /a/-style magic circles. They exist purely for decoration and have no actual functionality. You won't ever have to actually make the circle, it just pops up when you do magic, because lord help a character that actually needs to work for something.

>>55085188
stop watching anime

>>55085047
Looks like an illusion where you make the target percieve his surroundings different so you can distract him.

>>55083488
Simple.

>>55083488
That's actually the magic version of Google Maps, telling the summoned one how to get to you.

>>55085015
What do you use to create these circles and how do you read them?

>>55086796
Its the magic system from "The runed age", an rpg.

>>55086870
Thanks

>>55083488
I think I see Loss somewhere in there.

>>55085188
The circles exist to direct the flow of magic and as a mental focus. If you are good enough, you can create them purely mentally, but the magic current will generate light, making the circle visible

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The foundation of a barrier against the world outside the circle. Deadly as hell.

>>55083488
I save .jpgs on my phone in a specific order so I can cast my spells on the fly.

>>55085063
Thanks for the template.

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They don't count if there are no candles.

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Mushrooms are good, too!

>>55085047
ZA WARUDO!

>>55087338

>if you are good enough
>if you are the main character or a player character

>think that /a/ style magic circles look rad as fuck
>hate how they are never actually drawn and just appear.

In what RPG do casters have to take the time to make complex inscriptions, /tg/?

>>55090170
Barbarians of Lemuria. There are several ways to make your spell work. One of them is performing a long ritual - that may be drawing of one of these.

>>55085047
Movement, distance, space and removal of gravity - All without time.

It's either teleportation or some kind of za warudo

>>55090170
3.5 had the binder class, which had to draw seals to summon the things they bound.

At a certain point in the timeline of my setting most magic related stuff is under the control of a few organizations who make their money supplying the means of doing magic from mining/growing/refining magical components to creating things like easy made molds for certain magic circles. They are actually responsible for standardizing how magic works in setting because it made it easier to mass produce products with the holdouts being various religious groups/organizations, hedge witches, and the occasional rebel wizard here or there.

>>55090170

Shadowrun has Ritual Casting. iirc it lets you cast bigger versions of certain spells.

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A "Ring" with runes inside it, then in the "Center" tonnes of geometric shapes

>>55087338
This is literally Perumov's magic system, except the circles are math and don't become visible.

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In terms of aesthetics, I unironically thought the ones from Dr. Strange were pretty cool looking.

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>>55091706
Probably because all the lines and angles kind of reminded me of islamic geometric designs like pic related.

>>55091706
Are those just random dots and lines or are some parts of constellations?

>>55090170
To state the obvious, GURPS has an option for that kind of thing. Runic casting is (unless you're absurdly skilled) slow and expensive, but lets you craft spells on the fly to do whatever you need.

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>>55083488
considerably more compact than that.

>>55090157
Yes, main characters are often more powerful than average
>>55090717
I haven't actually heard of that

>>55093847

>Yes, main characters are often more powerful than average
>/a/v/erage poster

>>55093886
I'm not making a judgement, only stating something that common

>>55093950

>I'm not committing to any statement, because both my protagonists and I hate working

>>55094560
>Projecting

>>55094640

>lazy

>>55091924
First guess was that they were going for John Dee's Enochian alphabet, but google says that's not what it looked like.
Seems familiar, though; might be somebody else's angelic language or something along those lines.

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>>55083540
The more complex a sigil the less you have to do to activate it, the less you have to do to preform whatever spell you wish to cast.
>>55085063
As much as I like the idea that a simple circle can be used to cast just about anything. Activating it is a challenge, and a precise mental and physical model must be adhered to.

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>>55083531

>>55090170
ARS MAGICA

Shit yeah runic circles are my fetish.

>>55090170
The Runed Age is built around runic magic circles.

>Transparent background PNGs
Yes, more of those please

>>55083488
Spannung multiple continents for World changing magic

>>55101550
is that one of those "we don't know why Lord Murdermor is building these structures around the world but it can't be good" deals?

>>55086870
could you tell us more? I'm interested

>>55101768
Yeah just like these serial killer movies where everyone is hunched over a map with little red pins marking where they found the victims. And suddenly the rookie that just entered the room after bringing pizza takes one look at the map and is all like "guys did you realize there's a pattern? If you connect all the dots, you get a dick"

>>55101986
Of course, the murderer is going to go after Dick Richardson!

>>55101877
Honestly the only thing I found interesting from that rpg was the magic system. I just took some ideas and improved on it for personal use.
U can find tons of free stuff, just google the runed age.

>>55090170
Symbolist tradition in Symbaroum has to spend an hour crafting a spell into a symbol to be used later. Higher levels of Symbolist can just draw in the air though.

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>>55102956
does it have anything to do with this pdf?

>>55103976
Yeah, the guy who made the rpg made a couple of threads on /tg/ and asked for advice.
That pdf is how far he got in the threads. It has alot more stuff in it now.

>>55105206
so the runed age rpg has stuff like that in it? how does it works for a tabletop?

>>55103976
Yeah, that's what the system started as before it got turned into a full fledged RPG

>>55101877
Think Shadowrun but in early modern age, pirate-esque, Netherlands with runic magic.

>>55090170
Kult

>>55102956
What stuff needs improving?

>>55105206
I will need some pdfs if that's true

>>55109458
see>>55103976

>>55101616
For a second I thought that was a install port from AT

>>55103976
I came here to make sure this was mentioned.

>>55083780
Then I saw this.

Party on and know that when my setting with Dwarven Runemasters is shared, these will be their runes.

Has someone made a loss circle?

>>55111248
No, but I made a found circle.

>>55111248
Somebody made an ebola circle

>>55111323
And suddenly, no more ebola. Coincidence? I think not.

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>>55111379
Actually, the ebola died off when the meme stopped being propogated

I suspect censorship started happening when people realised what /pol/ was doing.

>>55111561
I wonder how far /pol/ got with their ebola magic.

>>55085051
>>55085047
>>55085042
>>55085034
>>55085020
>>55085015
You know you can buy the entire game on drivethrough rpg right now, it has a couple books and is pretty good.

Its called Rune.

>>55111737
You mean "The Runed Age".

>>55087003
>>55111248
Can you please get the fuck out, Mr. Reddit memespouter?

>>55111737
>>55111770
I need a link

>>55115709
I don't have a download link to the pdf, but I think Da Archive thread has one. I can get you the DriveThru link if you wanna drop 10 bucks.

>>55116243
if it's really what I think it is I don't mind dropping 10 bucks on it, but I will check in Da Archive first