Bob, Thanks for clearing up some of my confusion. I am wondering however what the publishers of the WEG would be able to leglly get away with. For public safety if nothing else, I would imagine it would be limited to "good" spells as "evil" or violent magic would, I would assume, be heavily regulated due to the danger inherent in magic. Magic is easily as dangerous as a gun (more so in that there are fewer methods for detecting a would-be garage wizard with a pocket full of flame spells than noticing that someone is holding a gun. I imagine it might be full of "useful" spells rather than potentially (or outright) dangerous ones. I realize that it is less dramatic for players than a book chock full of ice knives, fireballs and demon summoning XIII. Alternatively, it could be that the powers that be suppressed much of the original work and replaced it with a version with the more dangerous spells being "flawed", unworkable or simply more dangerous to the dumbass garage wizard trying to cast it than the general public.
For my own campaign I had the final book be the brainchild of a few doctoral students who were trying to codify magic and who succeeded in their doctoral theses which became the basis for what would become the WEG. Copies of the original theses and the first boutique print run eventually led to the collaborative efforts of theoretical thaumaturgists from all over the world. I was planning to simply use the Book Magic rules from Thaumatology. The workings witin the WEG have been subtly altered by agents of the Warehouse to keep the dangerous spells from being dangerous to anyone but themselves.
Cheers and thanks for taking the time to answer,
M
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For my own campaign I had the final book be the brainchild of a few doctoral students who were trying to codify magic and who succeeded in their doctoral theses which became the basis for what would become the WEG. Copies of the original theses and the first boutique print run eventually led to the collaborative efforts of theoretical thaumaturgists from all over the world. I was planning to simply use the Book Magic rules from Thaumatology. The workings witin the WEG have been subtly altered by agents of the Warehouse to keep the dangerous spells from being dangerous to anyone but themselves.
Cheers and thanks for taking the time to answer,
M
Michael R. Smith (lastfreehuman@gmail.com)
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