Tag Archives: Magic Monday

Magic Monday – God-eaters – Deity template

I’ve shifted the focus of my RPG-related time allowance, in a serious way, to developing the God-eaters campaign. In the mid to long term this will mean that I’ll need to fill in more mechanics (beyond just magic spells with … Continue reading

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Magic Monday – Uneasy lies the head

Crown of Shadows Shadows are strange, abstract entities that only truly exist in the realm of the Shadow – the psychic mirror of the material world. Many are benign, but the touch of even the best-intentioned can be dangerous to … Continue reading

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Magic Monday – The GP’s bag

Curing Charms Like the Guardian Charms and Traveler’s Charms, this is a family of rituals used by common people, often with the guidance of hedge-wizards, to cure themselves of minor ailments. The practitioner must repeat certain rhymes, carry a special … Continue reading

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Magic Monday – Literally above the law

Miniature Judgment A Miniature Judgment is a set of figurines dressed as clan elders from a long-passed age, carved of dark, highly-polished wood. If arranged on an appropriate dais, altar, or other foundation, they have the ability to impose a … Continue reading

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Magic Monday – A common alternative to “smoke bomb!”

Raise Cloud The magician causes a bank of mist or fog to accumulate in an area. Similar to the Breath of Av-Beleren, this spell has a very simple fundamental form that can be used in training, but clever and skilled … Continue reading

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Magic Monday – Bookworm book

Philliden’s Walking Knowledge This is a heavy book of uncountable vellum pages in a sturdy leather cover. Each page contains a wall of text and illustrations that crowd into the margins, detailing accumulated knowledge in a given field. The Walking … Continue reading

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Magic Monday – Slavery is freedom

Lawless Lock A cylinder of rough cast iron (invulnerable to harm from the mortal plane) with an oddly-shaped keyhole on each end. It comes without any accompanying key, though: the lock is sentient and capable of speaking and understanding any … Continue reading

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Magic Monday – Physical Magic – Goodnight, fall

Foshdani Hahd Physical adepts of the Fells engage in long training missions out in the mountains. Snowstorms in the Fells can strike with little warning during more than half of the year. It should come as no surprise, then, that … Continue reading

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Magic Monday – Draw a line in the sand

Barrier Rod A rod of strange metal with the unusual property that it defines a plane in local psychic space through which certain things – usually sentient beings – may not pass. The rod must be placed against a surface … Continue reading

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Magic Monday – Better than the colors of the wind

Earth Brush This magic item comes to us from the earthenware works of Pertasofolos Lan: a writing-brush as long as a grown man is tall. It can be used like any other brush, for oversize calligraphy, but its true power is … Continue reading

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