Over the weekend I had the opportunity to outline my favorite magic discipline. Warping space. I forget when I wrote about this exactly, but I see teleportation as a school of magic unto itself — I think this is pretty […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Evocation was arguably one of the weakest 3e schools of magic. All Evocation could really do was blow stuff up in different ways. Or control fire or water sometimes. Using the “power” system from 4e, and reorganizing a bunch of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
3e D&D did some really weird stuff to its magic schools. Cure spells were moved out of Necromancy and into Conjuration (Healing). The Healing subschool is incredibly small — basically just the restore health/remove affliction and raise dead spells. There […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In a fit of productivity, I worked out magic item prices by level. For all magic/mundane items from levels 1st to 30th. This is pretty huge. I mean, it’s something I’ve studied about D&D (and other RPGs) off and on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Divination is probably the hardest school to write, develop, and use. It’s your “spot the plot” magic tradition. Players will inevitably (see what I did there?) ask questions about future events that you can’t possibly know or predict. And so […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So it has come to this. After working around the edges of the system in various stages — races, classes, powers, skills, equipment, dungeons, monsters, settlements, economy, deities, planes, cosmology, and so on — I’m officially starting into spells and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
May 2013 Reviewing Archetype System Apr 2012 Introducing the Archetype System Jul 2011 Classes, Roles, and States I’ve been developing the Archetype system for three years now — check out the links for a few milestones — and it’s nice […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Have I mentioned the Rumors of War Relaunch Project FUNDED? See for yourself! — Sometimes the best ideas come from the oddest places. Like when making a casual threat about what horrible fate awaits the love interest of a good […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sunday morning I finished the magic system I’ve been developing for the last seven years. That’s huge, right? It’s the culmination of seven years of research and design and wow! It’s hard enough to hit that exclamation point because I’m […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Obviously, this will need some work, and I have only a vague idea of what level it should be available at — being based roughly on the 3e “Sending” spell — and it will definitely need its rules text cleaned […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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