Engineer, musician, warrior… Aelliena became all of these not through inherent talent, but sheer stubborn will to succeed. She is the patroness of all who refuse to give in to failure. She is driven by the need to improve herself, to find elegance (the combination of beauty and utility together), …
I’ve come to quite enjoy the AGE (Adventure Game Engine) System from Green Ronin. For a longer time, I’ve been interested in random encounter tables. This point combines them, after a fashion. When rolling checks in AGE System, you roll 3d6. Two six-sided dice share a color, the third die …
A couple days late, for which I apologize. I hadn’t realized just how much losing three of my senior staff — my two peers to retirement, our (former) director to a reassignment — would take out of me. Regardless, time for the round up. I led the charge with a …
Traps are a classic element of adventure design, but in play are often abstracted away with a couple of skill checks (one to detect the trap, one to disarm it) or outmaneuvered by clever play. Either way, the trap construction system presented in the Pathfinder Core Rulebook is more “mechanically sophisticated’ (i.e. …
The PCs in the AGE of Rediscovery campaign are, at this point, all from Bandisal. Considering that they will likely be discovering lost temples to strange gods, I should probably have some idea of what ‘normal gods’ look like to them. The Bandisal culture came out of the Age of Upheaval, …
The setting of the AGE of Rediscovery campaign is entirely rooted in divine worldbuilding. Literally so, in fact. The gods all got together to build the prime plane as a place to hide from amorphia, the realm of seething chaos that their own haphazardly-built realm was constructed in. An amorphic …
After six and a half years, the RPG Blog Carnival returns. The topic of the January 2019 carnival is ‘Divine Worldbuilding’. Does this mean “how the gods build the world”? Does this mean “how to build the worlds of the gods”? Does this mean “how to gods and world building …
Anyone can attempt a ritual, but knowing how to do it properly really helps. The Ritual Caster unique ability allows a character to cast spells as rituals, typically paying a spell slot as the cost and increasing the casting time three steps in exchange for benefit. This is most often used …
Rituals have several places time matters. First, a ritual takes much longer to perform than a regular spell. Almost all spells can be cast in a single round, the base time for a ritual is an hour. Some rituals might be shorter and take only 10 minutes (1 turn), others …
Rituals grant an ability to work magic without spells. They can be complex, time-consuming, and risky, but can achieve results much greater than spells. There are several types of Ritual of Low Fantasy, but they have some elements in common. Rituals take time, much longer than spells. Rituals all have …
