One of the fun parts of world-building is creating a magic system. This is true for both novels and tabletop role-playing games. Why do we need magic system diagrams? Magic systems are often at their most interesting when it is clear what they cannot do rather than what they can …
The mending spell would be insanely useful in the real world. The mending spell repairs a single break or tear in an object you touch. For example, a broken chain link, two halves of a broken key, a torn shirt, or a leaking wineskin. As long as the break or …
What if you could have three DnD (5e) spells that you could use in the real world? Which would you choose?
I have been having fun imagining my setting as an affectionate parody of “Magic: The Gathering” realised as “Mad Science: The Get-together”. As combat card games go it would have a large army of creatures that were mostly 0/1 with occasional 2/2 (such as Normal). This is the thing with the …
