Nifty. A good way of doing things for writers as well. Go to Comment

Ran an adventure just last night that (unconsciously) used this post. The players were in a sewer, chasing a thief, but I didn't have it mapped out at all, so I just improvised the important stuff and skimmed over the in-between. It worked great! Try it next time you absolutely HAVE to do some sort of 'crawl' like this. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. Go to Comment

I keep coming back to this article as a solid way to organize and run plots of all kinds, not just dungeon crawls. You want to map out the important plot points, and then connect them with in-between material. This keeps things fast paced and engaging for the players.

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Same thing as Ria. I measure major distances by time traveled, not by actual units of distance. After all, that's honestly what matters to me when making a trip: how long will it take? I'm quite sure it'll be the same way in most fantasy realms. Go to Comment

Wow...Nicely detailed item! We get to hear of lots of holy books, yet rarely are any of them fleshed out. Good job. Go to Comment

Bumpage. You have a religion in your game world (unless you're playing in Kerren). Your religion needs a creed. Polytheism isn't an excuse, you just need to have more than one creed for each of the deities in your campaign, because inevitably there are those who 'only' worship said deity. Go to Comment

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Hmm, got a source for that? Go to Comment

Yes indeed, this is an awesome weapon, one with a history, one that has depth, the perfect thing to add to a campaign to flesh it out. 5/5 Go to Comment

I think this was because we specifically said we didn't want magical books in the "Books" codex. Besides, there's only so much you can do with the magical book idea. Go to Comment

Woo. Gonna work on this one with Tyren as well. Perhaps I'll even come up with a new WWMWBI. Go to Comment

Any sufficiently high level technology is indistinguishable from magic. Likewise, any sufficiently high level of magic is indistinguishable from technology.

To determine the results of magic removal from an entire world, one must think of magic as we would technology. If a heavily technolitized world, such as our own, were to lose all technology, society as we know it would fall apart, and the third world would rise to the fore-front, having been without technology for long enough that they aren't affected.

Similarly, if a heavily magic-based world were to lose all magic, those without magic (the third world of magic) would likely become more powerful than those who had it before, due to knowing how to live life without it. Or, as was the case in the Chrono Trigger video game, the magic users from Zeal were cast to earth to live in the ice ages with the earthborn who couldn't use magic, and were forced to become equals in rebuilding the world with those "lesser" than them. When one loses one's superiority, one quickly realizes how equal the rest of the world is to them.

However, in both cases, if a world/people isn't absolutely dependent on magic/technology, they won't be affected as bad.

It could probably be summed up by the statement: "A world will be affected by it's loss in a direct ratio with how much it relied on that which was lost." Go to Comment

Woo. Need more entries. I'll probably do one for Tyren soon. Go to Comment

I can see this being used rather neatly by more than one of my characters. Simple, elegant, and yet it has a solid grounding in history. Go to Comment

Aside from the nature of this site (a roleplaying community, where the laws of physics generally hold as much water as a bucket with a hole), M*V^2=KE. Considering the metallic nature of the quarrels and the speed at which they're launched, it's not inconceivable that such a weapon would be lethal in the extreme.

Think of it this way: if you hadn't been exposed to the effects of it in modern media, would you really consider a metallic bullet weighing in at a few grams to be something to be feared? Heck no. Only when you see it in action do you understand how dangerous it is. Go to Comment

I am actually using this one in a PbP RP I'm in currently. Makes for a great World Walker character from a setting not his own. Go to Comment

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Updated: Organized and clarified a few issues. Has now gone live. Go to Comment

Update: Added in the Constant Heat subsection, as I was reviewing my notes and realized I forgot to add it. Oops. Go to Comment