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Delayed magic

Video game concept

Use of magic requires incantation, gestures, or some other thing that takes time to perform, at the end of which the magic is activated.

37
games
8
platforms

Alternate names: Incantations, Charged magic
Name variations: channeled magic

Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition (Windows)
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition
WIN 2013-01-16
Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition (Windows)
Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition
WIN 2013-11-15
spellcast (Linux)
spellcast
LIN ? *
Icewind Dale II (Windows)
Icewind Dale II
WIN 2002-08-27
Baldur's Gate (Windows)
Baldur's Gate
WIN 1998-12-21
Icewind Dale - Heart of Winter: Trials of the Luremaster (Windows)
Icewind Dale - Heart of Winter: Trials of the Luremaster
WIN 2001
The Witcher (Windows)
The Witcher
WIN 2007-10-26
Baldur's Gate (Macintosh OS Classic)
Baldur's Gate
MAC 2000
The Witcher (Mac OS X)
The Witcher
OSX 2012-04-12
Icewind Dale (Macintosh OS Classic)
Icewind Dale
MAC 2002-03-27
Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal (Windows)
Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal
WIN 2001-06-21
Avencast: Rise of the Mage (Windows)
Avencast: Rise of the Mage
WIN 2007-10-16
Does not imply anything about the power of the magic, only that casting it requires some undefined length of time to "prepare".
[ Sorcery ]
Manner: Instant - Delayed - Held
Safety: Safe - Hazardous
Variants: Ingredients - Pre-casting

Parent:
* Magic > Sorcery

Related:
* Interrupting

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Parent group

Magic

Games by year

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The first Delayed magic video game was released in 1998.

Beamdog, MacPlay and Bethesda Softworks published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows 16
Linux 8
Mac OS X 5
Mac OS Classic 4
PS 1
X360 1
PS3 1
MS-DOS 1