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 …
What’s that? You say being a spell caster in Low Fantasy Gaming isn’t dangerous enough? Maybe this will help. Before there were true spells, there was raw sorcery, forcing the universe to bend to your will. It… sometimes worked as hoped. At least, often enough to make it worth trying….
This ritual takes only a single day but must be performed during the three days of the full moon. The ritualist takes a steel amulet formed in the shape of a shield, suspended from a chain made of links taken from a suit of chainmail, and bathes it in his …
During a full-day ritual, place a prepared wand (oak shaft, copper mount, amber tip) point-up in a place likely to be struck by lightning, such as the top of a barren hill, a field well away from trees. In the city, placing it at the top of a lightning rod …
