About Dragon Age Failguard not having blood mage because "muh is not heroic", I want to play games with powerful blood mages.
VtMB - Tremere clan. Is a lot different than P&P, but is near impossible to implement some P&P stuff in a video game mainly path of creation
Vanguard : Saga of heroes is a great DPS focused in damage over time and healer
Dragon Age Origins : Is very cool, sadly you can use it in front of Templars consequence free.
Salt & Sanctuary : Betrayer creed - It deals colossal damage but also applies a huge debuff to the caster, making him much more vulnerable to damage
WH40k - Inquisitor Martyr - Biomancy has some powers like , sadly OwlCat removed everything offensive from biomancy by no good reason. What is trash about the game is the diablo 3 style everything scales with gear BS.
TES with mods - Morrowind and skyim has blood magic via mods
World of Warcraft: Blood Death Knight is a tank spec that creates bone shields surrounding the player to mitigate incoming damage, casts a disease dot on enemies and uses blood boil to causes all diseased enemies to erupt in blood, and can use the Blood Drinker talent to siphon a line of blood from the target for 2 seconds to restore HP. One of the upcoming Hero Talent Specializations in The War Within expansion includes a San'layn spec, themed after the winged elven vampires from the WotLK expansion, but the San'layn hero talent does not appear to have any identifying visuals (lackluster hero talent visuals seem to be a recurring issue with the upcoming TWW).
The Venthyr Covenant in Shadowlands gave blood themed powers to players with each class getting a different ability, but since the Dragonflight expansion most of these Covenant powers are unfortunately now inaccessible.
Elden Ring has a handful of ashes of war that use blood in different ways such as flat bleed damage and build-up, wounding yourself for empowerment, and my favorite Blood Tax, which steals the enemy's blood to replenish your health.
There are spells and/or incantations that utilize blood magic as well, IIRC.
Blood magic is kind of a niche thing. Older devs wanted to avoid the moral guardians, modern dev are talentless cowards.
Don't need to be this way.
For eg, to try to save his mother/wife/someone important, the blood mage tries a forbidden type of spell, he succeeds and more and more start to gradually use blood magic to solve problems till is caught or something went wrong, got caught or misscasted an spell...
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Other vampire game with blood magic is Few Nights more
The spells are too "4e esque" for my taste but tehre is a demo in steam with act 1
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Not sure if this exactly classifies as blood magic, but "Vampyr" definitely let's you play around with blood. "Dragon Age II" also has blood magic as specialization for mages, similiar to it's prequel. It's a shame that not many RPGs cover it, seems like one of the more interesting types of magic to me.
About Dragon Age Failguard not having blood mage because "muh is not heroic", I want to play games with powerful blood mages.
As if I needed another reason to despise the next Dragon Age. Ugh, to think that I was looking forward to the reveal of this piece of ****...
To answer your question though: There are quite a few games who use a blood magic aesthetic but none that have a focus on it (outside of DA:O) as far as I know.
Cultists in SS13 can scribe runes with their blood to invoke spells and perform rituals. The blood is simulated - as in you'll get woosy and weak if you lose too much, everybody has blood types and you can do transfusions or eat some food and wait for your body to create more.
