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Magic Monday – Thaumaturgic Tuesday? – They’re the faces of the stranger, but we love to try them on
Animal Mask “Animal Mask” is a generic term used in Order record-books for innumerable spells in which the caster takes the form of… a wild animal. To prepare for this spell, the caster must first venture into the Dreamlands (in … Continue reading
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Tagged Animal Mask, Magic Monday, polymorph, shapeshifting, YAOSC
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Magic Monday – Mother’s Day Version
Birthing Charm A ritual beloved by midwives. When a woman is pregnant, the father creates a small stylized human figure and performs ritual actions over it for ten days. After it is complete, the man ceremonially presents it to the … Continue reading
Magic Monday: Double illumination
– Two for the price of one this week! Variations on the basic “light spell” theme. The second owes a pretty obvious debt to Gandalf’s staff in Lord of the Rings. Werelight The caster summons a small ball of light … Continue reading
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Tagged light, Magic Monday, spell, torch of the magi, werelight, YAOSC
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Magic Monday: Finally, a spell!
Sight from Darkness Three hundred and nine number the words of Ekarmadedgon’s Whisper. Eleven of them, recited slowly, will bend the caster’s eyes: they will catch the light, not of this world, but of its Shadow, and see all things in … Continue reading
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Tagged Magic Monday, see invisible, sight from darkness, spell, YAOSC
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Magic Monday: Introduction to YAOSC
+What is YAOSC? YAOSC is Yet Another Old School Clone. The name is a joke; the important thing to know is that this is an adventure game of wilderness exploration, dungeon bashing, and perhaps a little social climbing in a … Continue reading
Magic Monday: Undoing, part 2ing
So last week we talked about counterspelling and dispelling rotes (normal “spells” in the D&D magic paradigm). This week we’re talking about the same for rituals and gnosis. Rituals This is magic-as-natural-philosophy. Like a chemical reaction or a Rube Goldberg … Continue reading
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Tagged counterspell, dispel, gnosis, magic, Magic Monday, ritual, YAOSC
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Magic Monday: Undoing
Unlike Necropraxis, I’m not building this system on a base of Vancian magic, in which (even without spell levels) each bit of magic is like a bullet that you load, fire, and are left without. So while the post linked … Continue reading
Magic Monday: governed by skills
One of the funkiest tasks in making a fantasy game has got to be the magic system. Rules for travel, combat, and any number of other mundane tasks can be modeled on real-world data, as in Justin Alexander’s famed breakdown … Continue reading
Why call it “ten questions and a bonus” instead of “eleven questions”? Is our number of fingers really that important? Also, to be honest, I’d switch #s 10 and 11.
So I recently ran across a list of questions for DMs to answer about their RPG settings and/or house rules. By “ran across” I mean “read here;” please note also the link to his source. I kind of feel like … Continue reading
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