[Tom B]

I'm involved in a PBP Artesia game, and it's very interesting. It does take awhile to get through character creation, but you certainly end up with a well-realized character. It's a much crunchier system than I would choose to run myself, but as a player I like it so far.

As to the magic system, you learn a few Principles that can be used to cast a wide variety of spells as needed that are based on the Principle. You devise individual spells as needed from the general Principle. In addition you can learn any number of Charms and the like...these are very specific spells, unlike Principles.