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L OOKING FOR FANTASY ?

Fantasy – from ancient myths to popular films, sto-

ries of heroes and magic have captured the human

imagination. Now GURPS offers roleplayers a com-

prehensive guide to the entire Fantasy genre. Building

on the flexible, streamlined Fourth Edition rules, it

helps you develop a campaign to explore the world of

your favorite book or film – or create a new one from

your own dreams. The main emphasis is on historical

fantasy, in settings from the Bronze Age to the

Renaissance, but the principles apply to any fantasy

setting, from the prehistoric past to the remote future.

A complete campaign setting, Roma Arcana, is

ready to use in your own campaign. It can stand on its

own, or fit into the Infinite Worlds campaign frame-

work from GURPS Fourth Edition. Send a band of

adventurers on impossible missions in a magical

Roman Empire, as they struggle to hold back the

darkness from their native city and win honor.

You’ll find help in running your campaign in Roma

Arcana or any other setting – advice on creating bal-

anced parties, devising scenarios to challenge them,

and using the game systems to achieve dramatic

effects.

Take the most flexible, most consistent game rules

system available, and use it to run the campaign of

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C ONTENTS

Using Magical Objects in

Campaigns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

M AGICAL B EINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Spirits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Spirits in the Material World . . . . 30

Gods, Spirits, and Mana . . . . . . . . 30

Gods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Angels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Demons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Evil Gods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Half-Mortals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Using Spirits in Campaigns . . . . . 33

Being a God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

M AGICAL R EALMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Dreamlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Faerie Realms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Afterworlds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Spirit Worlds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Heavens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Hells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Archetypical Realms . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Pocket Universes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

T HE D EAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Ghosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Ancestor Worship . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Afterworlds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Reincarnation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Resurrection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Ascension and Deification . . . . . . 38

Revenants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Mana and Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Magical Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Spirits of Place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

P LANTS AND A NIMALS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Plant and Animal Legends . . . . . . 46

Imaginary Species . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Magical Species and

Mana Organs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Plant and Animal Spirits . . . . . . . . 49

M ONSTERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Giants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Behind the Curtain:

How Strong Is a Giant? . . . . . . 51

Hybrids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

The Chimera’s Pedigree . . . . . . . . . 52

Possessed Creatures . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Unnatural Swarms . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Magical Creations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Victims of Curses . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Offspring of Gods . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Primordial Entities . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

R ACES AND C ULTURES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Exotic Customs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Races . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Interfertility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Wugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Alternative Lycanthropies . . . . . . . 60

Unique Beings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Cultures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

The Place of Humanity . . . . . . . . 63

Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

M AGIC AND T ECHNOLOGY . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Alternative Technologies . . . . . . . 65

Magically Enhanced

Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Variant Natural Laws . . . . . . . . . . 65

Technomagic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

When Magic Becomes

Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Technologically

Enhanced Magic . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Exotic Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

C IVILIZATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

True Kings and

Sacred Covenants . . . . . . . . . . 68

Supernatural Elites . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Pirate Commonwealths . . . . . . . . . 69

Fantastic Customs . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Everyday Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

1. P LANNING THE

C AMPAIGN . . . . . . 5

G ENRES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

High Fantasy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Low Fantasy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Myths and Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Dark Fantasy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Light Fantasy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Sword and Sorcery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

On the Borders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Crossovers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

S ETTINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Fantasy Worlds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Motifs, Part 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Fantasy in the Real World . . . . . . 13

Motifs, Part 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

S COPE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Point Campaigns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Area Campaigns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Arc Campaigns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Base and Mission Campaigns . . . 15

Campaign Style:

Aspects of Realism . . . . . . . . . . 16

2. T HE S UPERNATURAL

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Behind the Curtain: Point Costs . . 18

M AGIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Intrinsic Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Subjective Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

The Three Laws of Magic . . . . . . . 19

Nature and Supernature . . . . . . . . 20

Knowing Good and Evil . . . . . . . . 21

Using Magic in Campaigns . . . . . 21

M AGICAL O BJECTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Natural Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Alchemy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Enchantment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Runic Enchantment . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Familiars and Fetishes . . . . . . . . . 26

Named Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Holy Relics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Foci . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

3. W ORLDS . . . . . . . 39

F RAMES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Planets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Places . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Many Worlds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Above and Below . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

P LAYING W ITH M APS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Altering the Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Creating the Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

M AGICAL L ANDSCAPES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

The Living Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Enhanced Environments . . . . . . . 42

Impossible Environments . . . . . . 42

Unevenly Distributed Magic . . . . . 43

Aspected Mana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Mana Basins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

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C REDITS

I NTRODUCTION . . . . . . 4

About GURPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Managing Editor

GURPS System Design

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The Genius of a People . . . . . . . . . 70

Magic as a Resource . . . . . . . . . . . 71

The Control of Magic . . . . . . . . . . 71

Religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Foreign Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Multispecies Empires . . . . . . . . . . 73

4. H ISTORIES . . . . . 74

F RAMES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Historical Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Mythic Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Prophecy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Mythology, Part 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

P LAYING W ITH T IMELINES . . . . . . . . . . 77

Real History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Mythology, Part 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Divergent History . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Zeitgeists: Spirits of Time . . . . . . . 78

Invented History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

H ISTORICAL E RAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Dawn Ages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

City-States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Empires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Decadence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Exhaustion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Catastrophe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Dark Ages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

New Beginnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

D ISTURBANCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Natural Disasters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Plagues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Magical Disasters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Divine Punishments . . . . . . . . . . . 89

S HADOWS OF THE P AST . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Genealogies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Ruins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Relics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Alternative Wizards . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Why Are These

People Together? . . . . . . . . . . . 127

A DVANTAGES , D ISADVANTAGES ,

AND S KILLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Advantages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Behind the Curtain: Cost of Divided

and Restructurable Magery . . 130

Ally or Asset? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

New Perks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Disadvantages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Magical Afflictions . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

New Meta-Traits . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

New Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Skills and Size Modifiers . . . . . . . 137

W EALTH AND S TATUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Currency and Prices . . . . . . . . . . 137

Status and Cost of Living . . . . . . 137

Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

E QUIPMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Exotic Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Vehicles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Petards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Vehicular Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . 144

7. M AGICAL A RTS . . 146

U SES OF M AGIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Low Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Formulaic Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Man Proposes,

God Disposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Naming the Arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

High Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Through a Glass, Darkly . . . . . . 181

Learning Experiences . . . . . . . . . 182

The Responsibility of Power . . . 184

Shore Leave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

S UBPLOTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

W AR IN F ANTASY S ETTINGS . . . . . . . . . 186

Varieties of Forces . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Strategic Positions . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Battles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Player Characters in Battle . . . . . 190

Magic and Warfare . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Mythical Beasts in Combat . . . . . 193

The Armies of Darkness . . . . . . . 194

9. R OMA A RCANA . . 195

Roma Arcana in the

Multiverse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

A T IME OF T ROUBLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Foes and Menaces . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Imperial Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

M AP : T HE R OMAN E MPIRE . . . . . . . . 199

Order of Battle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Men of Destiny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Reunion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

R OMAN F AITH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Gods and Spirits . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Ancestors and

Household Cults . . . . . . . . . . 202

The Imperial Genius . . . . . . . . . . 202

Sacrifices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Prayer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Divination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Priesthoods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Sacred Grounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

R IVAL B ELIEFS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Mystery Cults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Sorcery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Black Arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Skin-Turner Animal Forms . . . . . 209

Astrology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

The Anger of the Gods . . . . . . . . 210

Christianity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

B ESTIARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Empedocles’ Quest . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

C HARACTERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Racial Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Ethnic Traits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Occupational Templates . . . . . . .214

Advantages, Disadvantages,

and Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Wealth and Status . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

B URDIGALA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Who’s in Charge? . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

M AP : B URDIGALA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Temples and Cults . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Adventurers Wanted! . . . . . . . . . 226

Sponsors of the Arcani . . . . . . . . 226

T HREATS AND S TORYLINES . . . . . . . . . 226

Human Foes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Zoroastrian Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Nonhuman Foes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Adventure Seeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

R OMA A RCANA B IBLIOGRAPHY . . . . . . 232

5. L OCALITIES . . . . . 92

S ETTLEMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Isolates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Villages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Towns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Agrarian Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Temporary Settlements . . . . . . . . . 95

Imperial Capitals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

City of Wonders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

S ERVICES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Medical Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Transportations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Inns and Taverns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Information Sources . . . . . . . . . . 99

Courts and Castles . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Holy Places . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Sanctity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Magical Capabilities . . . . . . . . . . 102

Schools for Sorcerers . . . . . . . . . . 102

Behind the Curtain:

How Many Mages? . . . . . . . . . 103

T HE S TRUCTURE OF M AGIC . . . . . . . . . 153

Levels of Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Levels of Skill and

Skill Hierarchies . . . . . . . . . . 153

Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Duration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

How Much Detail? . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Ritualization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

S YSTEMS OF M AGIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Custom-Built Magic . . . . . . . . . . 155

Alternative Magic Systems . . . . . 155

Behind the Curtain:

Making Gold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Modified Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Magical Lenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

True Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Nonhuman Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

E XPANDED S PELL L ISTS . . . . . . . . . . . 168

M AGICAL P LURALISM : H OW TO

U SE T HIS C HAPTER . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

8. S TORYLINES . . . 173

A DVENTURES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Into the Labyrinth . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Perilous Journeys . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Hunting Parties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Warfare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Treasons, Stratagems,

and Spoils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Diplomacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Investigations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Confrontations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

6. C HARACTERS . . . 104

C AMPAIGN S TYLES AND

P OINT V ALUES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

R ACIAL T EMPLATES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

From Creature to Character . . . . . 106

Cold Iron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Behind the Curtain:

Selkie Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Undead Lenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Player-Designed Races . . . . . . . . . 113

O CCUPATIONAL T EMPLATES . . . . . . . . . 114

B IBLIOGRAPHY . . . 233

I NDEX . . . . . . . . . . 238

C ONTENTS

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