Monthly Archives: March 2011

I’ve decided to document a bunch of my house rules related to magic and spellcasters during the month of March. A lot of these have been kicking around in my notebooks and random textfiles for years, but I’ve never brought … Continue reading →

(This post is still seriously in draft, but it’s the final entry in my ‘Magic March’ series and I wanted to get it online it while it was still March. I may clean it up when I get the chance.)

(Earlier in the month, I wrote up the ward mage class based on the Truename rules from the 3e Tome of Magic. In the end I wasn’t really pleased with it, and am making another attempt here. This time I’m … Continue reading →

Summoning is an ancient, nearly extinct, magical art. Summoning circles, in particular, have been abandoned because of the hazards involved. Such rituals create a temporary dimensional gateway calling a random creature from the nether world. The monster will serve its … Continue reading →

(In the end, I wasn’t really pleased with this split class. It has been superseded by the glyph mage, based on the Glyphs of Cerilon article from Dragon #50.) A ward mage is an arcanist dedicated to the study of … Continue reading →