I wanted to talk a bit more about the magic system in Sisters of the Dawn, since most of the reason behind building this game was the idea of coming up with interesting magic spells.
In most D&D campaigns I've played, I usually like to role a wizard. While I'm the type to sacrifice charisma wholeheartedly to buff intelligence and thus spell power, ultimately the draw of playing a wizard was the ability to use magic.
In Sisters of the Dawn, each witch has a magic type that she naturally excels, and a type that she's naturally untalented in. That said, every witch has access to every magic type, meaning while you can still lean heavily towards a type of magic, just because you've decided to be an ice witch doesn't mean that you can't whip a fireball out when it's necessary.
Additionally, while these types of decisions should be made in discussion with your GM, if you want to specialize in an..off-beat type of magic, if you can explain how it works, I think you should go ahead and go for it.
I had a friend who really wanted to use cheese magic, and thus came up with the idea of blending primal magic to conjure milk and combining it with fire magic to help it make molten cheese that they'd fling at enemies.
So while I encourage you to literally make magic, here's the foundation that you can play with in the game.
There are seven aspects: Earth, Water, Air, Fire, Psychic, Light, and Primal.
Hopefully the first elemental aspects are pretty straight forward (control and conjure the element). Psychic would fall into mind control, fooling perception, and psychic attacks. Light magic controls light, meaning lasers, data transmission, and invisibility are fair game. Finally, Primal is anything having to do with plants and animals, meaning you can grow a giant thorn bush, or summon wasps, or turn your fist into a tiger claw.
So given that, I've got a poll: what magic type are you most excited about using? Leave your justification in the comments!
