magical items Archive

  • It’s been a few weeks since I started tweeting the names of fictional steampunk gear – everything from weapons, goggles, and cameras to flying gyrocopters and armored personel carriers. Everything...0November 29, 2011

    #SteampunkGear on Twitter – The Next Steps

    It’s been a few weeks since I started tweeting the names of fictional steampunk gear – everything from weapons, goggles, and cameras to flying gyrocopters and armored personel carriers. Everything…

  • This is the third of what should have been a two part series about including firearms in a fantasy role-playing game. This article covers the design plan that went into...0December 29, 2010

    Gunplay and Powder Weapons III

    This is the third of what should have been a two part series about including firearms in a fantasy role-playing game. This article covers the design plan that went into…

  • This is the second of two articles about including firearms in a fantasy role-playing game. This article covers a shop selling firearms and seven separate firearms using the 4E Dungeons...29December 21, 2010

    Gunplay and Powder Weapons II

    This is the second of two articles about including firearms in a fantasy role-playing game. This article covers a shop selling firearms and seven separate firearms using the 4E Dungeons…

  • In the fair hollows where Winters goes to rest, You can hear the hammers pounding out a wicked winter-fest. All his toy men draw up their tools and let out...0December 16, 2010

    The Winters Hollow Workshop (Winter Times Part 2 of 3)

    In the fair hollows where Winters goes to rest, You can hear the hammers pounding out a wicked winter-fest. All his toy men draw up their tools and let out…

  • [reus id="6967" meta=""] This is the first of two articles about including firearms in a fantasy role-playing game. This article discusses including firearms in terms of game philosophy and game...12December 14, 2010

    Gunplay and Powder Weapons I

    [reus id="6967" meta=""] This is the first of two articles about including firearms in a fantasy role-playing game. This article discusses including firearms in terms of game philosophy and game…

  • Most fantasy settings include something so fundamental that many people miss it and its ramifications. That is that the extraordinary has always been a part of the setting. Therefore, the...2November 23, 2010

    The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Maker: Part III

    Most fantasy settings include something so fundamental that many people miss it and its ramifications. That is that the extraordinary has always been a part of the setting. Therefore, the…

  • Most fantasy settings include something so fundamental that many people miss it and its ramifications. That is that the extraordinary has always been a part of the setting. Therefore, the...5November 17, 2010

    The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Maker: Part II

    Most fantasy settings include something so fundamental that many people miss it and its ramifications. That is that the extraordinary has always been a part of the setting. Therefore, the…

  • Most fantasy settings include something so fundamental that many people miss it and its ramifications. That is that the extraordinary has always been a part of the setting. Therefore, the unusual should influence even the most “ordinary” aspects of a setting. A series of three articles will describe “mundane” shops – the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker – each touched by the fantastic and each shop may add some flavor to your game. This article describes the butcher shop while other articles in this series will describe the baker and candlestick maker shops.7November 8, 2010

    The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Maker: Part I

    Most fantasy settings include something so fundamental that many people miss it and its ramifications. That is that the extraordinary has always been a part of the setting. Therefore, the unusual should influence even the most “ordinary” aspects of a setting. A series of three articles will describe “mundane” shops – the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker – each touched by the fantastic and each shop may add some flavor to your game. This article describes the butcher shop while other articles in this series will describe the baker and candlestick maker shops.

  • his heavy tome is bound in a sturdy - albeit dull - metal binding, the secrets within protected from prying eyes by solid metal clasps held closed with an intricate locking mechanism. The cover is adorned with a gear, on which is depicted a rune-inscribed anvil and hammer. A thin chain trails from the lower spine, ensuring that the book never more than a arm's length away from its owner.0October 7, 2009

    Automated Antagonist Artifacts

    his heavy tome is bound in a sturdy – albeit dull – metal binding, the secrets within protected from prying eyes by solid metal clasps held closed with an intricate locking mechanism. The cover is adorned with a gear, on which is depicted a rune-inscribed anvil and hammer. A thin chain trails from the lower spine, ensuring that the book never more than a arm’s length away from its owner.

  • Magical relics have long been key in the pursuit of, or defense against, undeath. From simple holy symbols fortified with divine blessings to cowls that allow the undead to walk amongst the living, a great number of magic items deal exclusively with those horrid beings that refuse to go gently into the ever-after. Below are a few such items inspired by the Red Monks of Von Brandt.3August 6, 2009

    Items of the Hidden Kingdom

    Magical relics have long been key in the pursuit of, or defense against, undeath. From simple holy symbols fortified with divine blessings to cowls that allow the undead to walk amongst the living, a great number of magic items deal exclusively with those horrid beings that refuse to go gently into the ever-after. Below are a few such items inspired by the Red Monks of Von Brandt.

  • Those with a guilty conscience often seek the aid of gods and spirits of the underworld. Many priests can seek a direct audience with their agents of their deity. A few priests have come to mistrust the deities they serve pushing them to seek answers from other spirits. Those who are not priests and yet seek otherworldly guidance, look to strange devices to make contact. Take a look at several of these divining tools...0July 22, 2009

    The Diviner’s Tools

    Those with a guilty conscience often seek the aid of gods and spirits of the underworld. Many priests can seek a direct audience with their agents of their deity. A few priests have come to mistrust the deities they serve pushing them to seek answers from other spirits. Those who are not priests and yet seek otherworldly guidance, look to strange devices to make contact. Take a look at several of these divining tools…

  • Many devices have been created as protection against the seduction of the demon as well as mortals. Herein are four types of magical creations to aid heroes in their question against The Desire or more demonic opponents.3July 14, 2009

    Objects of Desire

    Many devices have been created as protection against the seduction of the demon as well as mortals. Herein are four types of magical creations to aid heroes in their question against The Desire or more demonic opponents.