Index Librorum Prohibitorum

By weaver95, in Dark Heresy Gamemasters

found this link the other day:

http://www.aloha.net/~mikesch/ILP-1559.htm

sorry for the non-html linky but i'm to lazy to reconfigure the browser and/or put the proper HTML code into this post. At any rate, the Index is/was a list of banned books and authors put together by the Roman Catholic church waaaaaay back in the day (around the late 1500s or so). If you were looking for cool sounding/authentic sounding/scary latin names you might want to take a gander at this link.

Hope it helps!

and one last thing before I knock it off:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_magic

This link should give you a good starting point for chaos magic cultist books and the like.

Initial link doesn't work.

Not sure how much 'real world' magic(k) you want to put into the system. While it might be interesting to look into hermeticism, thelema, alchemy, the Golden Dawn (unfortunately Regarde's book is quite expensive), OTO, ONA, MLO (TotBL) etc. imo it might become a distraction. All I could see is getting some ideas for various rituals and general materials for what altars and such might look like.

I have found occultism, kind of like the Templars, is much less interesting in real life than compared to the legends.

Rashid ad Din Sinan said:

Initial link doesn't work.

Not sure how much 'real world' magic(k) you want to put into the system. While it might be interesting to look into hermeticism, thelema, alchemy, the Golden Dawn (unfortunately Regarde's book is quite expensive), OTO, ONA, MLO (TotBL) etc. imo it might become a distraction. All I could see is getting some ideas for various rituals and general materials for what altars and such might look like.

I have found occultism, kind of like the Templars, is much less interesting in real life than compared to the legends.

I'll go back and double check the link again later, it's a bit late right now to track it down.

Keep in mind i'm not advocating using any 'real world' stuff at all. I just like stealing names and terminology to lend weight to my games. And since the Catholic church has been banning evil sounding books for centuries (and have all sorts of fun sounding terminology to go along with it) I figure why reinvent the wheel? it sounds so much cooler that way.