My “final” Schools of Magic for spells-without-level Lamentations. This is it. I “promise.” This spell list comes from Dungeon Crawl Classics. One great thing about spells in DCC is their built-in success and Misfire tables, one per spell. You can just go with them as is and for successes — as a short hand… Read more »
Those Eagles, Man!
Unearthed Arcana, plus Miscasts!
Another School of Magic for spells-without-level Lamentations. Unearthed Arcana This lists the Magic-User spells recorded within the final First Age tome written by Mordenkainen. and … I Make Miscasting FUN! Here are some semi-generic miscast tables by type of magic for use with spells-without-level Lamentations. They’re adapted from a list posted to… Read more »
White Dwarf’s Treasure Chest
Here’s another School of Magic for spells-without-level Lamentations. White Dwarf’s Treasure Chest This school is named after the source of its secrets, a box of sheafs and scrolls stolen from the White Dwarf of the Isles. Some say he wants them back; others call bollocks to that. When determining a 1st Level… Read more »
Zulu Hack, Back-to-Back!
In case you’ve never done it, you owe it to yourself to watch Zulu Dawn and Zulu back-to-back. Double-feature length: 115 mins for Zulu Dawn + 139 mins for Zulu = 254 mins That’s four and a quarter hours of “Stand-to!” “Usuthu!”
Remember, Remember the 5th of Moldvember!
Today is November 5th. It’s Tom Moldvay‘s birthday. He’d have turned 70. Sadly we lost him when he was only 58. That’s him there, seated in the middle. [I was directed to this pic by my friend James Maliszewski (of Grognardia, Dwimmermount and The Excellent Travelling Volume).] Note the moustache. I’m celebrating mister Moldvay’s birthday… Read more »
Younger Sindbad
For those of you who like your Giants in the Earth a bit leaner, here’s a younger Sindbad the Seaman. This version’s timed to possibly his second, but probably his third, voyage. Sindbad the Seaman-young01 If you really want to jazz him up you can give him a flying carpet or dancing scimitar or something…. Read more »
There Were Giants In The Earth
or, Happy Birthday Mister Moldvay! I’d like to see the interwebs celebrate the life of Tom Moldvay for his birthday upcoming on Monday, 5 November 2018. Let’s raise up a host of heroic Giants in the Earth! Tom Moldvay’s (and Lawrence Schick’s) Giants in the Earth is one of my favourite article series… Read more »
More Schools of Magic for Lamentations
The second part. You can find the first part here. Magic Vaj, Eldritch Cock I decided to take the original idea (at the end of the Author’s Notes in Vaginas Are Magic) at its word, mostly. This is a coed school that only accepts female/male fraternal twins. The sisters and brothers are taught by Witches and… Read more »
Schools of Magic for Lamentations
A while ago I had the idea that there are now enough book-, blog-, pdf- and zine-published lists of spells for The Game that it’s easy to think of each as its own School of Magic separate and distinct. And now that Lamentations has published both Vaginas Are Magic and Eldritch Cock — with their… Read more »
