Category: RPG Ideas and Projects (Page 9 of 42)

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There is a unifying concept behind all the various projects I write about in this RPG development collection.

The entire area is called the Samoora Sea.

Color Coded Magic
The spells broken up by color project deals with Salt Magic, a style based around the region named Camalanth. This region is home to 99.9% of the mines for Five Color Salt. Normally, the colored salts are used for seasoning food, but a few gifted individuals can use the salt to perform magic.

In the project, the colors will help determine spells available in that style.

Chart-based spellcasting
On the island of Porta Nile, live the crabmen. The Crabmen's gleaming metal tower is rises above the dense jungle and is visible from miles. A colony of humans and other friendly species live on the northwest corner of the island. Most are escaped prisoners of the crabmen with a few shipwreck survivors.

To defend themselves from the Crabmen and their alien devices, the survivors have taught themselves a peculiar magic style based on charts and runes.

Playing Card Subsystems
Penfro is considered the last outpost of civilization in Camalanth. East of Penfro lies a barren wilderness that separates the Samoora Sea from the Eastern Kingdoms. Gambling is common, especially during boom times. Dice and card games are the most popular forms.

A strange religion is found here called the Cult of Hot Iron. Ritualized duels and magic based on generating walls and containers are its two main features.

Spelljammer for The Black Hack
In Gaerleon are many gates connecting to far-flung cities and locales. Villefar is more commonly known as The City of Pathways. It is believed that if you can reach Villefar, you can even travel to the stars.

This November, I will be working to put the pieces together.

    I was looking at Beaker Browser this morning. Very cool and absolutely not related to RPGs at all.

As far as my project to translate TFT spells to The Black Hack, I will post here when I finish the Creation spells.

I decided that One Hex, Three Hex, Four Hex, Seven Hex versions of the same spells will use Size categories from the d20 srd. I don't like this solution, but I couldn't come up with another way of translating these spells.

    Illness yesterday, training delivery this morning, and small speaking engagement tonight; real life busy-ness has kept me occupied in good and not-so-good ways.

As a result, no progress on various projects, though I did enjoy staring in bewilderment at my fantasy space engine calculations while I was sick.

I wrote this? What does it mean?

I have the same feeling about my literary theory class' final essay. 🙂