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Since we just released Magic Rules! (which you can download absolutely free), this week’s table is full of non-traditional magical traditions that you can use in your modern fantasy game.
Hipstermancy (magic based on being an insufferable jagoff)- Elvismancy (the pursuit of perfect peace and harmony through Elvisness)
- Palahniukism (seeking mystical enlightenment by getting the shit beaten out of you (and beating the shit out of others))
- Literamancy (magic based on characters, tropes, and situations from fiction)
- Automancy (magic based on car culture)
- Discordianism (the worship of Eris)
- Gangamancy (weed-based magic)
- Gonzomancy (chaos magic powered by subjective mystical associations based on personal history, political beliefs, pop culture trivia, and drug-induced hallucinations)
- Guitar Wizardry (changing the world through the power of rock)
- Jungian Magic (summoning archetypes to do your bidding, astral traveling through the collective unconscious, and creating your own synchronicities)
- Urban Shamanism (calling upon the spirits of the city to do your magical bidding)
- Ecomancy (magic for dirty hippie tree-huggers)
- Webomancy (sending curses through email, casting spells via web browser, divination through CAPTCHA images, etc)
- Cinemancy (creating (usually short, usually experimental) films that magically affect the audience)
- Culiniurgy (food magic)
- Jestomancy (magic based on jokes, gags, and pranks)
- Pornomancy (Tantric magic for the modern exhibitionist)
- Santamancy (magic that uses toys to focus spells)
- Hobomancy (hobo magic)
- Morrisonism (the mystical quest to be come a comic book super-hero)
