Ugh. 5e bards have access to 9th-level spells. Not that I’m not happy for the bard, after all my very first PC was a half-elf bard — it’s just that bards don’t need (and shouldn’t have) 9th-level spells. Ninth-level spells[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Over the last week, I watched (most of) the anime series Soul Eater. I skipped large parts of it because the series got super-tedious at several points in the first thirty episodes. This isn’t a review of the show but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve posted revised schools of magic drawing inspiration from 1e, 3e, and 5e (primarily) over the last couple months. Now I’ve covered the eight basic schools of magic, renaming a few, or returning to the older names of one or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yeah well, this is it. Evocation. Sure. I wrote Arc Lightning mostly from scratch, but it takes ideas from a couple other powers and effects. For the most part, my Evocation school deals thunder, lightning, and force damage… and that’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I don’t remember if I stated my intent with this series of magic school revisions. If I have, I guess this will just be review. Or maybe I’ll say something new! Some time in the last year or two, I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Edit: stupid autocorrect thinks it knows everything. “Alliteration” school indeed. The 3e Transmutation school had lots of problems. Technically it didn’t have many more than prior editions. But one of those problems was that it was a go-to school for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For as long as I’ve been working on alternative magic systems for Dungeons & Dragons, I’ve been trying to write a better Divination school. I love prophesies and divination in fiction, and it has always pained me how hard they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Where do I begin with illusion magic? No, it would take too long. I will sum up. I would like for players to choose illusion spells because they are cool. It seems like evocation gets the most play, up there[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Honestly, I was going to wait a while before releasing my revised necromancy spells ’cause one of my players started working on his own idea of a necromancy school over the weekend. But I didn’t have time to finish my[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Conjuration is one of those schools that’s really tough to nail down. Since I started playing 3e, I was there when it got the nonsensical ‘healing’ subschool … WotC didn’t want Necromancy to have healing spells (for some reason). The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
