Just something to add to reading list

[Lysander_Works]

I'm kind of in the mood for something with a more hardcore magical system. Particularly, when people use magic/spells, it messes with their minds, gradually encouraging some kind of mental insanity as a price. Something along this concept. I feel like it exists already so let me know if you find any. Authors of this concept can self insert here, once.

 

[JayMark]

Who would ever be masochistic enough to ever even attempt to write anything like that?

Nobody, that's who.

 

[Cardon]

I'm kind of in the mood for something with a more hardcore magical system. Particularly, when people use magic/spells, it messes with their minds, gradually encouraging some kind of mental insanity as a price. Something along this concept. I feel like it exists already so let me know if you find any. Authors of this concept can self insert here, once.

sounds like you want Warhammer 40k psykers

 

[CharlesEBrown]

I'm kind of in the mood for something with a more hardcore magical system. Particularly, when people use magic/spells, it messes with their minds, gradually encouraging some kind of mental insanity as a price. Something along this concept. I feel like it exists already so let me know if you find any. Authors of this concept can self insert here, once.

I've seen this more in gaming (as someone mentioned, Warhammer and Warhammer 40K both deal with this; also there is the TSR sub-setting of a sub-setting, Ravenloft: Masque of the Red Death where a force called The Red Death has so entwined itself with magic that to use it is to court disaster), and in classic "Sword and Sorcery" stuff, especially pulp era (Robert E. Howard used this - but then only the bad guys had magic 90% of the time), and, of course, the one that managed to combine fiction and gaming, The Cthulhu Mythos (aside from the bit about the Elder Gods being mostly beneficial that August Derleth added in, and the 'non-malevolent but definitely not benign' Dreamlands, all the "magic" of the setting comes from the extraterrestrial and/or extradimensional Outer Gods and Other Gods and their servitors, and contact with them slowly erodes the mind).
I have not seen anything like that recently, but am sure it is out there.

 

[Lysander_Works]

Who would ever be masochistic enough to ever even attempt to write anything like that?

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Nobody, that's who.

Oh, you must not know me very well then ?