Incantations bring ritual magic to your Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Powerful and mysterious, this magic is accessible to any character. But power like this never comes without a price...
Wield great and terrible magic. Or fall before those who do. Discover all new incantations and the rules to create your own.
The intensity of Voodoo, a bridge between the mundane and divine
The wonder of an idyllic Old World folklore, an animistic celebration of nature and Slavic fairy tale
The madness of the Arcanum, a supplication to mind-blasting terror
Rules and guidelines to build your own balanced incantations and incorporate them into your game
Plus all new options, including opposed checks and lesser incantations
Everything you need to build your own unpredictable, living, breathing magic is included!
Incantations from the Other Side: Spirit Magic is a perfect resource for players wanting to add a little danger to their characters or for GMs needing that extra something for their game world. This is 44 pages of high-quality content compatible with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.
Designed by Scott Gable, Uri Kurlianchik, and Clinton Boomer.
Edited by Troy Taylor.
Illustrated by Alice Duke.
This book introduces Incantations. What are incantations? They are basically spells. Not any spell where you have to take a class and gain levels to cast it. Instead you have to spend time, money and make skill checks to perform a ritual to cast the spell. This means anyone can cast it if they do it right and the ritual and spell can get pretty elaborate. The hard copy describes how incantations work and has rules for how to design your own before moving on to sample incantations based on real world faiths.
These aren't the kind of things to just give to your players and let them run wild. This is the kind of thing that can be the center of mystical mysteries, the precedent for campaign ending schemes or weird magic found in dusty books at the bottom of a dungeon.
This product gives a concept and applies a lot of fluff and flavor to it but how much you value the concept is going to make or break it for you. Personally I think this is the kind of magic that can make entire campaigns and it is presented with detail, flavor and solid crunch so I'm giving it five stars and would insist that this is one of those 'must have' books. Even if you have Kobold Press' Deep Magic, which also introduces the exact same rules, this product is still valuable for the sample incantations you can put into your games.
Sure, if there's people interested in color prints, I could set those up as POD. It's likely to be $20 or more, though. But Alice's colors do look wonderful! ;D
@Thorr-kan: I've talked to the wonderful Mistress of the Webstore, and she says this can be done! When I get the color prints in order (see response below), I will set this up, too. :D
@Endzeitgeist: Sure, We'll give a color print option for this a go. Won't have them by Paizocon, though (but I should be able to confirm pre-orders by then). When I have a high enough quality proof in my hand, I'll pull the trigger on it. :D
@Thorr-kan: I've talked to the wonderful Mistress of the Webstore, and she says this can be done! When I get the color prints in order (see response below), I will set this up, too. :D
Scott: now I get to eat crow. I only purchased _Incantations in Theory and Practice_ from Paizo. I got _..from the Other Side_ from another vendor.
So, I'll buy the whole thing, and I'll spring for color too! Let me know when the preorder's available.
Any updates on when print version will be available?
Yes! The b&w copies are at the Paizo warehouse, but I know the staff has been very busy since Paizocon. I expect they should be available for shipment this week.
I'm still waiting on a proof for the color copies.
There's a discount if you already bought both PDFs. Had you alrady bought the PDFs?
Ha, yes actually. I was wondering what was going on. Thanks!
Deletin' the EVERYBODY PANIC post. ;)
Had me sweating for a minute. ;D
Yeah, sorry about that! Just wanted to be sure nothing was wrong, because man that seemed off for a print product. :)
Looking forward to having something to easily hand out. I really like the idea of ritualized magic accessable to a wider range of characters, especially as a way to further flesh out settings and set the mood.
Now that we've discovered the discount works, let me tell you about it! :)
The print edition will be discounted to anyone who has already purchased the two PDFs here at Paizo by the full price of the PDFs. But this discount will only last until next month (August 15). Thanks for all your support!
Yes! The proof came in, and it looks GOOD! God-Queen Liz has seen fit to create a preorder button for it, so anyone that wants one should make with the clicky clicky. :)