Full Version: Magical Tradition Percentages
| QUOTE (SL James) |
| How do religions that have been around for hundreds or thousands of years with millions of followers not count as "mainstream?" |
Obviously it doesn't, but he said that most major religions were on the decline while Islam and Budhism continued to rise - which puts them as exceptions to the statment that mainstream religions were on the decline, rather than exceptions to being major religions.
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Buddhism, for example, reports a growth rate of 79% over 5 years in places like Australia, where it went from ~200,000 to over 350,000 between 1996 and 2001. Still, that's small cheese compared to the overall number of Buddhists in the world (~362 million as of the year 2000), and I would guess that a lot of those numbers come from Chinese people moving to Australia.
-Frank
Remember, also, that the first, biggest manifestation of magic anyone really saw was the great ghost dance. This may have won over a huge number of people, now following the shamanic traditions.
Magic, it seems, is based mostly on believing that it works, and so long as you believe you understand it, then you do understand it. This way the Hermetic who sees magic as simply as he sees physics, and the shaman who sees magic as an extension of emotion and spirit, are both right, and why one great hindrance to a magician is the "crisis of confidence" when they suddenly find themselves not so sure of their abilities.
Magic, it seems, is based mostly on believing that it works, and so long as you believe you understand it, then you do understand it. This way the Hermetic who sees magic as simply as he sees physics, and the shaman who sees magic as an extension of emotion and spirit, are both right, and why one great hindrance to a magician is the "crisis of confidence" when they suddenly find themselves not so sure of their abilities.
| QUOTE (Kyrn) |
Now, how about statting out a Scientology magical tradition.  Is there a spirit of crazy? And what the hell would they use for a drain attribute? |
Nuyen.
| QUOTE (knasser) | ||
Nuyen. |
Yep. You cast a spell, and 15,000 nuyen just disappear from your accounts.
| QUOTE (Pyritefoolsgold) | ||||
Yep. You cast a spell, and 15,000 nuyen just disappear from your accounts. |
It doesn't disappear; it goes to the estate of L. Ron Hubbard...
| QUOTE (Pyritefoolsgold) | ||||
Yep. You cast a spell, and 15,000 nuyen just disappear from your accounts. |
Hehehe.
Well, it would certainly solve the cash/karma split between magic types and mundanes.
Getting back to the point, I'd have thought that magic users were rare enough that practioners of any particular tradition would principally make contact with followers of the same tradition, and on the rare occasions when they encounter followers of other traditions can't really work it out at all. From a GMing point of view, stick in whatever tradition you feel like as NPCs, it should all be as unusual as anything else to the PC magicians.
Discrete numbers of any particular traditions, from a canon point of view, will probably not be forthcoming. Best just to keep things simple.
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