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Category: RPG World Building
Time Mages
Time mages don’t use blood, spirit or mana to power their spells. They burn time. In exchange for casting all manner of spells time pauses at a location. With preparation a mage can recite a spell that specifies the location.
The Magic of Age of Legends
The topic of this month’s RPG Blog Carnival is Wizards, as introduced by Harbinger of Doom . They want to know about the magic users in your RPG, in particular their culture. Circe and Medea are perhaps the most famous
Not With a Bang, but With Portents of Dice
This month’s RPG blog carnival, as hosted by Rising Phoenix Games, is about adventures in which the known world is at stake. The nigh has ended and should the characters fail then they and the whole world will suffer. If
Three Long Lost Cultures
The universe is a large and very varied place. There will always be locations and cultures that become isolated from the rest of civilisation. Over time, these places will become increasingly strange and different as they diverge from the norm.
Magical Creature Animal Sanctuary
Not all adventurers are hunters of magical creatures. Not all magical creatures attack you randomly if you encounter them. There are adventurers who care about wildlife beyond the rewards of killing it. The Compassionate Society of Farnsharp set up the
5 Unusual Places to Find Eldritch Horrors
There are so many unknowable eldritch horrors, not all of them get to use a museum or ruined mansion for their schemes. To avoid the waiting list, other potential properties are available. Toy Shop L’ondeki has a fondness for children.
The Order of the Crocodile and Other Knightly Orders
Lions, tigers, dragons. These animals are used so often as the totems of knightly orders they are more cliche than trope. What about orders that embodied traits of other animals? Order of the Crocodile – “Dura et ieiunium” Clad in
Deep Space Post Office
The galactic travel network has a weird and twisted shape. Rather than freely connecting all the stars, there are several key nexuses that funnel traffic to them. Mega-Station-Blue is the service centre for the Blue nexus point. It was built
Four Household Spirits for 6d6 Magic
The fantasy world of 6d6 Magic is infested with all sorts of little magical creatures. The most encountered are the household spirits. Tiny divines, they have no grand power but can be very influential on our daily life. Tely –
The Mural on the Wall of The Temple
In the most ancient city of Bryarham is the oldest known building in the world. The Great Temple of Ceremony is dedicated to Wyr the god of the harvest and is a vast stone structure, a perfect cube of fifteen
The Spherical City
In this far flung part of the world, magic is so strong that even topography can be warped. One such weirdness is the Spherical City Upon Isar. In the middle of a vast flat plain sits a crater that is