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Codex Agrippa adapts Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’s Three Books of Occult Philosophy, a sixteenth century synthesis of magic and cosmology, into practical narrative tools. It converts correspondences and forces into procedures that guide scene framing, conflict setup, and ritual consequence. Tables gain clearer pacing and reliable occult pressure that moves stories through visible shifts and confirmable outcomes.
Disclaimer
This series uses historical occult texts as creative fuel and treats every element as fiction. Readers can enjoy the mood and symbolism, but none of it’s meant as instruction or encouragement of belief. The work isn’t a guide to real practice, and anyone who treats it as such accepts full responsibility for that choice.
This Book Contains
This book is broken into practical elements. Each point names a specific tool or concept and shows how it sharpens scene direction, clarifies motive, or defines the boundaries of tone and situation that shape play.
Codex Agrippa: An overview of Agrippa’s Three Books of Occult Philosophy and its adaptation into scenarios. This section explains how correspondences, planetary virtues, and causal chains become tools for framing investigation, regulating tension, and guiding story movement in an occult world.
Dramatis Personae: Ready-to-play characters translated into Principia format. These profiles highlight anima states, ritual pressure, and cultural obligation as narrative engines, giving storytellers figures who reveal how Codex Agrippa expresses motive, inquiry, and consequence.
Stock Characters: Character types suited to an expanded Codex Agrippa setting. Each type reflects recognizable roles shaped by omen-law, sympathetic links, or institutional authority and provides a consistent foundation for play across varied regions and situations.
Creating Characters: A guide to forming Codex Agrippa player characters and supporting figures. This section presents trait examples that help you express intention, moral stance, and environmental pressure through structured personality and history. These traits can inspire original creations or serve as ready components.
Notable Settings: Locations and setting types drawn from Agrippan cosmology and Renaissance esoteric culture. These entries explain how elemental spheres, planetary intelligences, and collective memory shape the physical and symbolic environment.
Stock Settings: Common locations adapted for broader worldbuilding. These settings show how circles of operation, vessels of influence, and sites of conjunction provide stable anchors for scene framing and escalating tension.
Creating Settings: A practical guide to constructing new environments. This section outlines how omen-law, materia conditions, and cultural hierarchy shape setting traits that define tone, risk, and interpretive expectations.
Notable Factions: Groups and orders present’s conceptual lineage. These factions express competing readings of correspondences, ritual authority, and theurgic aspiration. Each receives Principia traits that support scenario structure.
Stock Factions: Additional faction types suited to an expanded occult world. They reflect institutional control, contested knowledge, and divergent methods of managing influence, allowing storytellers to scale political tension.
Creating Factions: A framework for designing organizations that regulate, contest, or transmit occult knowledge. This section provides ready-to-use faction traits that express authority, secrecy, and pressure across narrative contexts.
Creating Stories: Tools for constructing new Codex Agrippa adventures. You gain plot hooks, antagonistic behaviors, and situational traits that highlight conjunction, ritual interference, and contested interpretation.
Genre Tools: System-adaptable guidance for expressing occult tropes within any rules engine. This section shows how to integrate correspondences, ritual sequence, and symbolic hierarchy as consistent narrative structures.
Techniques: Narrative methods for shaping tone, pacing, and consequence. These tools apply to any system and support clear framing, measured escalation, and evidence-based interpretation grounded in Agrippan thought.
Glossary: Essential terms that define the conceptual language. These entries clarify how symbolic structure, environmental response, and cultural practice shape the genre’s worldview.
Bibliography: A curated list of academic, literary, and cinematic works that inform the setting's tone, history, and conceptual logic. This section supports deeper study and consistent worldbuilding.