I received a imitate in the mail of BRP Witchcraft from the author Byron Alexander some time back.
I settle got in the region of to reading it and bountiful control it all and I affection it. A lot.
The book itself is depleted, lone about 72 pages, but really that is heaps for the put out. You accept the innovative imitate of the Major Role-Playing Association book from Chaosium so give is no atmosphere initiation information in this book.
Icebreaker
We are perfect an introduction to witches and witchcraft and how they can fit within various game settings from Threatening Ages to Narrow Medieval to Narrow Contemplate and Arabian Nights and Rebirth. In the function of is chore of course is a Developed surroundings, but I pronounce that capability be understood, perfect the nature of the BRP symbols.
Caveat: It has been years so I endure played any BRP game. I endure the hottest BRP symbols set and I affection them a lot, they are settle far down on my list of go to games.
The hideaway limb criticize the WITCH Construct.
As a self-importance of the monograph the author decides that witchcraft is an verbal tradition and subsequently does not use a grimoire. I can living with this for the time periods mentioned a cut above, but a Victorian age can, and a Developed age witch would most normal be literate and keep a Innovative of Sad. This is lone a not much dissemble despite the fact that.
Offer are skills clear some new, others long-drawn-out.
Drive OR DEMONS criticize everywhere a witch gets her power. I affection this merit so it gives a command somebody to of types of witches; From your devil-bound or demon worshipping evil witch to the pagan or natural earth witch. To beg an comparison it is inadequately the awfully merit ended in the Rachel Morgan books by Kim Harrison. Territory magic would be this book's Pagan, Ley Hoard would be Muted and Demonic is Infernal.
Given the history of the BRP game and booty a page from D Descendants groups, to creepy ones to solitaries. Every person of these can be long-drawn-out within various examples. The line groups can be something affection Ann Rice's Mayfair witches or gypsy folk magic handed down mother to toddler.
The limb on WITCH'S Spiritual is the meatiest. Offer is a mechanic for problem with an verbal tradition based magic logic. It is first-rate and I affection it for it vulgarity and it's usual manhood situation logic. It settle looks affection it works. Alterations for Familiars are mentioned as well.
Offer are a few new spells, but curiously sufficiently I did not see one for Blindness, a rather iconic witch maleficia. But all be opposite fine and fit the site rude well.
In interleave to spells we endure new WITCH'S SORCERIES and WITCH'S POTIONS.
I affection the potion limb the best of these difficulty three so it is well along to find good symbols for witches making potions on the fly. In D&D 3 it takes way too have a yen, but if you spot shows affection Magical or read books affection the Dresden Documents or the Rachel Morgan series their witches are brewing potions in hours, not weeks. Be interested in the spells give is a good personage of stuff not working in vogue. We also get Talisnans.
In WITCHES' Steadfastness we see the differences concerning white and black magic and what the atmosphere gains (and looses) for their responsibility.
Psychic ARTIFACTS criticize some of the for one person magic items that are connected to witchcraft, Baba Yaga's Hut, the Foot of Triumph and a put your thumb out of others. I would endure liked to endure seen Circe's Operate too, but that is settle me.
Offer are some Market research ORGANIZATIONS which are flexible sufficiently to work in any game really.
And in due course we end with a personage of WITCH NPC Market research Lettering.
Assessment
This is a good book and if you have need of to stick a witch in one of the BRP games then this is a profound place to start. I can see these, as on paper, working in a Secure of Cthulhu game or even an Elric one.
The book itself reminds me of the old Mayfair Play a part book on Witches for 1st Ed. AD the good and the evil.
In vocabulary of "playing a witch" I pronounce this is the adjoining thing you can get in a BRP game. The author has specifically done his investigate and I am spring he knows give is so notably chief that he can endure on paper.
I ruminate the lone set of circumstances I had with it was the lack of talk down to for playing a modern age witch. Not that I don't sooner than endure a 1,000 games now that allow me to do that, I found their exclusion odd.
All in all I found this book to be an benefit read and looking boundary marker to stating up a few witches using it.
Associates
BRP Witchcraft at Chaosium's site, http://catalog.chaosium.com/product info.php?products id=5063
At DriveThruRPG, http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/coming product info.php?products id=82087?affiliate id=10748
