#spellscroll

[making-your-fave-in-fr]

Could you do Wikipedia? (The website)

I made Wikipedia from the internet on Flight Rising!

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[dailyadventureprompts]

Adventure: Grasping for Answers

Throughout their early adventures the party come into conflict with the agents of the mysterious mage known only as "The Ravelling Hand", a villain of uncertain identity who seems to have lots of schemes and no qualms using violence, trickery, and unexpected magic to get what they want.

Adventure Hooks:

The party first become entangled with the hand's minions when they're asked by an innocuous travelling merchant to deliver a small wrapped parcel to the wizard living one town over. The wizard isn't open to receiving guests, and after sneaking or charming their way in, the party will find out why: her apprentice has been kidnapped, the parcel contains both of the boy's index fingers as well as a note explaining that she can have the rest of him back in exchange for several dangerous texts in her collection, delivered by the party to the same intermediary who hired them. A brawl is likely to ensue as the wizard suspects the party is in on the blackmail, but if they can talk her down maybe they can figure out a way to work together to get the boy back before any more harm comes to him.

Most thieves know better than to try and rob a magic item shop, but most thieves aren't armed with dispel magic infused salt grenades to neutralize the shop's ubiquitous defences. A rash of these attacks across the duchy has shopkeepers worried, and one hires the party to stake out their store for the night when they suspect someone is casing it. Do the party trail the robbers back to their hideout, or interrupt them mid heist only for combat to delay them long enough for those indiscriminate defences to start turning back on?

Spoiler Alert: The mage is in fact an arcanely gifted lesser kraken by the name of Dlexx who seeks to avail itself of all the magical knowledge amassed on land. Sure the deep has its own mysteries but there's a thriving trade in spellscrolls and arcane tomes that don't make it below the waves. Using an old lighthouse as a disguise for its massive form while on land, it uses telepathy and sendings to direct its minions without ever revealing its true nature. Imagine the party's surprise when they roll up to the villain's lair expecting to bully some crusty nerd with a ratty beard and instead the lair sprouts tentacles that drag them into the crashing surf.

Challenges & Consequences

Finding Dlexx is an adventure in and of itself. When questioned, most of the mage's minions admit to never having met their employer, and those high ranking enough to have been summoned to a place called "saltbite tower" in dreams only to later have their memories muddled. Careful interrogation and study of local maps will have the party realize that the tower is infact an abandoned lighthouse, which will narrow their search as they comb the costline for their enemy's lair.

Actually defeating the Ravelling Hand might prove too much for early level adventurers, as in addition to being a powerful mage the kraken is literally in its element, able to breathe and move while the heroes flounder. Dlexx will toy with them, throwing unconscious foes out of the water the way a fisherman throws back a catch that is too small. When the battle is over and it's proved it's point the kraken will collapse the tower and leave into the wide ocean, telepathically taunting them with their inability to follow.

Though the Ravelling Hand will not resurface for some time, the destruction of the tower and Dlexx's retreat into the deep is partially a bluff. The kraken chose that particular lighthouse because it was a short distance away from the coral reef into which it scribed its arcane learning the way a wizard records spells in a book, coiling arms etching formulae into hundreds of yards of living stone. Dlexx must periodically return to the reef to add spells to it, and sightings by locals (or the occasional fish manifesting with magical talent) might clue the party into the reef's existence.

A pair of merfolk siblings named Crashing-Tide and Arcing-Mirror serve the Ravelling Hand as apprentices and scribes, having promised seven years of utmost loyalty in exchange for the chance to bring the arcane knowledge of the surface back to their community. They tend to the reef, and allow the Kraken to borrow their eyes from afar so that it might study the spells scribed there. Several years into their pledge, Crash (the sister) has come to idolize Dlexx and the power it wields above and below the waves, wishing that the whole of their shoal to come into its service. Mirror (the brother) is skeptical, well aware of the kraken's manipulations and distantly suspicious of the conflict that it invokes. Perhaps if the party can intercede with these two they can learn more about their enemy's plans, though doing so will take some careful diplomacy.

Artist

[lackeyhenchman]

Questions writing BG3 fanfic asks of you:

what's it like reading a spellscroll as a non-wizard. And why haven't they invented ones that don't explode after one use

what does the Weave smell like

[icenineporcupine]

On the casually insane antics of Illusionist!Gale…

I don’t usually wax poetic about the blorbos on main, but I keep thinking about one specific aspect of Gale’s act II romance scene that makes me completely feral.

Sure, it’s impressive that he can project a pretty aurora into the sky, and recreate his rooms in Waterdeep from memory. And maybe somebody with better knowledge of 5e spellcasting rules has a really mundane explanation of this and it’s nbd (if so don’t tell me XD)…

… but purely based on what we’re being shown, Gale just blithely conjures an illusory copy of The Art of the Night — and with enough detail — that he can then use it to simultaneously cast a second spell (when he has Tav place their hand on the diagrams in the book) that transports two souls into the Weave? And is presumably maintaining concentration on both? While also blowing Tav’s mind?

It’s one thing to be able to cast/maintain two spells at once; but that’s not even the whole of it; he’s casting the second spell using materials he imagined into existence with the first…

Maybe my Tav and I are just hopeless smitten nerds (we are), but that’s some Inception, dream-within-a-dream fuckery. Gale mentions he can’t create such elaborate illusions very often, and it’s fair to assume that he was referring to the scale or the grandeur of it; but the multi-channel processing is so much more galaxy-brain, imo? And at that level of detail?? Babygirl’s got photographic memory in that terrifying tadpoled head of his, on top of raw magic talent.

And let’s not even get into the combat implications of being able to just pull entirely functional spellscrolls out of thin air, even if only on occasion. At that point, what’s the actual difference between illusion and reality? God!Gale may not be an emotionally healthy ending for him, but with illusory talent like that, it’s easy to understand how quickly the lines blurred for him—even without a heavy helping of hubris dumped on top…

[Karlach voice, rubbing the back of my neck] Anyway, what were we talking about….?

[saltminerising]

The duality of PWYW shops is crazy because one person writes 29473829 paragraphs over how cool and awesome what you did was and send 6kt via crossroads and the stoic gigachad mfs who probably don't even have pings on PMs you Archivist's Spellscroll and the message is "Thanks."

[wyrdwulf]

Absolute rambling because I got no sleep last night and am in a state of death, but. Thought coming off of marrying linguistics and spellcasting in fantasy. The culture -> language(s) an individual grows up with shapes the way they think/perceive the world/certain concepts they do or don't understand. Perception of vision (colors etc.) perception of time etc. So since any magic casting system with verbal components has language as a requirement for getting magic to work, the language the caster is using to cast the spell should have an effect on how the spell needs to be cast/the outcome of it + the language(s) the caster knows would affect how easily the possibly learn or master a spell or what types of magic they may or may not struggle with. I'd assume on the academia end there's whole arguments of the best point blank language for spells as well as specific languages for specific schools/spells (Mage Cant is the most universal and technically controllable of the lot, it was made for modern human wizards to control magic with, but no, Dragonspeak gives the most POWER/Raw interaction with mana because of the language's inherent ties to magicka, this region of people's language has an insane amount of words and phrases for the concept of time so it's the best for time magic, etc., but time is linear in some views and circular in others so which is 'right' and which works best?)

So depending on where a Mage grew up and what languages they knew/know, they would also have certain interactions with schools of magic that they're equipped to perceive/think academically about. Like, a stereotype that Mages from this one region are better at Destruction magic may have completely solid anthropological basis. And the more languages a Mage learns (masters) the better their mastery of magic can end up being. Mage Cant is a must, yeah, and probably Dragonspeak is universally thought of as a big one to learn, too, then maybe someone insists that on Gods Khajit have the concept of illusions down or something so for your illusion magic you want to master that Ta'agra or whatever it's called. And maybe you grew up with a language where time is NOT really a concept in your speech and culture so you struggle with any type of magic that would manipulate or works with time.

Also on an aesthetic level the way your language describes a thing/concept and it is seen by you may change how your spell looks/specifically works unless you're specifically working to make it a different way. Different base languages may also require slightly different somatic and material components to achieve the desired effect (a spellscroll lists this as This language of a spell, though the Mage Cant version is the most universal and most common example you'll find), maybe they are fundementallyyyy different spells, because the way they manipulate the weave is different, but because they do pretty much the same thing or have the same OUTCOME they're both categorized as 'Fireball'. One man's Detect Thoughts is a pulling of the other beings' consciousnesses towards yourself, while another is you projecting outward into another space, but the effect is the same and thus it's the same spell in academic text. But also on a smaller level, one man's Firebolt is sharp and more of a missile and hostile, while another's may have a different smell, a different feel, a different compound behind it based on their cultural perception or conception of fire. What I'm trying to say is that one Mage can look at another's Fireball and do the equivalent of "Huh, so, you're French?"

[invinciblerodent]

no i didn't just spend a good 2-3 hours organizing my- and my partner's characters' inventories

noooo, I didn't forget to eat lunch because I was so busy sorting imaginary potions into digital pouches and deciding which fictional character gets to carry the pixel-backpack that holds all the pretend-spellscrolls

what are you talking about, that never happened

(that's exactly what happened)

[ask-karlachbear]

Durge walks up to Karlach, an air of curiosity around him. "How exactly does your mechanical heart work? I'm...unexpectedly knowledgeable about humanoid bodies - their insides and all. Is there truly no way we could just perform a surgery on you and give you a new, beating heart?"

@ask-thedarkurge

I think the problem is that Zariel tied my soul to the engine, like a real heart, so we would need a wizard strong enough to disconnect me from the machine and reattach me to the other heart.. plus i think i'd release all the infernal energy i hold in it, kinda like a bomb, so we would need someone that uhhh could survive that.... and not counting that I've been on fire for so long, probably my body would burn that poor heart to a crisp.. mhhh but maybe somewhere we can find a wish spellscroll?...wait.. so if i die, and you all resurrect me, would i come back with my heart or with the engine—

[womanlives]

“AW, FUCK.” Max capacity again? “Here.” Without preamble, Mercy slings off her pack and pulls out — in quick succession — a set of incredibly fine chainmail, a broken lute, a children’s drawing, some suspicious-looking potion aptly labeled "A GOOD TIME", a skull, four different spellscrolls, some salami, aaaand six daggers.

“Hold this shit for me, would ya?”  

8 str sucks dookie

[agentleem]

The Leviathan Company: Session 6

This was an eventful session, to say the least

The party gets to a new city. It's on fire and being attacked by angels. Why are angels attacking? One of them just kept telling people "You are impure, you must be cleansed" so they may just be genocidal.

After killing two of them (with the third one escaping), Dar uses an axe of extinguishing to put out the fires, and planned to meet the rest of the party in the town square afterwards. Once that happens, the rest of the angels peace out, and the party is now in a lifeless city. So, they go searching for ANY signs of life. Then, they did.

They found an aasimar with a shop who is sheltering citizens from the attack. We chatted with him, bought 6 sending stones, and asked if he knew why the attack happened. He had no clue. So, Ivan started communing directly to Emotep in the Grand Brunch Table in the sky, and he had no clue either. Before they hung up on eachother, Emotep gave one last command: "Don't forget to kill some angels for me, those guys are assholes."

Among the survivors they found, there was a cleric of Emotep named Doctor Ned, who had dreams of creating a hospital. They recruited Doc for his healing skills, promising 1/6 of their profits so he could fulfill his dream one day. They also gave him the 6th sending stone.

Later, they set up camp for the night, and Zeta accidentally reads Dar's diary, and think Dar is just an upcoming writer. Anakiir, meanwhile, takes the diary while Dar was completely drunk and reads it.

At the camp, Lily brings up mention of reviving the slave girl she bought, but Doc regretfully informs her that he cannot do that with his current power. So, they give her a proper Emotepean funeral. Afterwards, Lily secretly reburies her with the magic stone that I forgot to mention they got after the Tree Mech fight.

Come morning, Dar confronts Anakiir for reading his diary. They kerfuffle for a bit, but the fight is eventually broken up.

We then continued following the Helm of Commune, reaching a small island in a lake that had a giant pillar on it. The pillar had a slot, perfectly shaped to hold something like the stone (which Lily buried) in it. Luckily, they had another one that was green. I forgot where we got this one, tbh. When they slotted in the stone, a staircase suddenly appeared, which they started descending into they reached a large chamber with 3 corridors.

They made a plan of travel. Lily, as the rogue, would go down the middle hallway. Ivan and Dar go down the left. Anakiir and Zeta go down the right. They would keep their sending stones primed and ready to discuss what they see.

Lily found a map in her room and everyone regrouped, entering a room full of vraks. After surviving that room, they entered the SKELETON ROOM. Dar killed the first skelly, then Lily noticed a Naga lurking around. After a long fight, Anakiir electrocuted the Naga as Zeta finished the skeletons, then Ivan finished the naga with a burst of tri-colored holy light from his smite. Once done, the group pondered about turning the whole dungeon into an emotepean temple after they finish exploring.

Then a few things happened. We got to spell scrolls, solved a puzzle, found 5 magic staves, killed a mimic, then proceeded into a large room. When they got into a side room, there was a gelatinous cube that they fed to Marvin. After picking up a spellscroll, they got to the final room, and touched a lizard pillar. This caused a young green dragon to emerge, and he said "You are impure. you must be cleansed." After a long fight with the dragon (including Zeta using a cool infinite javelin he got and Anakiir using lightning bolt) The dragon was reduced to dust by Dar.

Then the second pillar brought in a monkey. Just a monkey. Its immediate first action was to break Anakiir's nose with a rock. Then he and lily shocked the monkey, Ivan and Dar attacked it, Zeta tried to hit it with his greatsword, got his mother insulted by the monkey, then the monkey accidentally killed itself with the rock.

The party then went to the last pillar, and Dar pressed it. Activating it opened a door, releasing a vampire lady. Then a chest came out and the party got a few magic items, including a Giant Shield and Peace Keeper's gate. We left, hoping the vampire lady wouldn't become a problem. What fools we were.

[tinypixelcat]

Can someone send me a spellscroll for that?

[nightmare-ttrpg]

This large scroll is the height of a man and almost as thick. Its aged vellum is worn and cracked along its edges with strange abstract formulas written over its bulk. Anyone who touches the ancient spellscroll immediately knows what sorcery is recorded on it, what words to say to utilize it, and that after it is used the ancient spellscroll will lose its powers and crumble to dust. The ancient spellscroll when used will release a sorcery that protects the user and his allies against any type of dragon’s breath for one encounter. Artist @sirindoodles

[ittybitty-elf-shelf]

• • • Welcome home! I'm 𝔐𝔞𝔯𝔦, your local friendly fae. Only the bravest of heroes, and my own kin can find this place so come— sit and have some tea with me, tell me what I can help you with today... ✧ Occupation: Cartographer, spell scribe, coat of arms maker, storyteller ✧ Age: 23 (human equivalent) // She/they ✧ Other: Woods keeper and trickster, known to visit villages, aid heroes, travelers, and troublemakers alike, be friendly when you tread my gardens...

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under construction...

Commissioned by a traveler...

comm-map / comm-spellscroll / comm-symbol

Made for fun...

og-map / og-spellscroll / og-symbol

Commission sheet here soon...

[fantastic-mr-corvid]

Working on a refrence sheet for mura. I've drawn her outfit so many times by now it is surprisingly easy! Also I've decided some of the slashes on her trousers contain pockets, or even just another hole to her knives strapped on her leg. Her inv is stored in her trousers! And her shirt is separate from her over trousers, the shirt is tucked under both of the trousers

Its cause the outer one has cuts for the bunched up fabric of the trousers underneath to peak through. Same for her shoulder ones, but those just have the shirt under so they are less puffy, and the fabric onto is tie-on. [The fabric undef the trousers may or may not be some hidden trousers that look like a skirt. Disguise 101.]

Her outfit is a balanced of projecting the image she wants, and given that means no obvious weapons* or storage, she hides it all, there are knives and an abundance of pockets in her trousers, and spellscrolls[and more knives, and p much anything that can be flat] in her boots and the boning channels on her corset also have lockpicks, as well as her tie on sleeves [not pictured but dark and above the shirt sleeves] having slots to store things.

*She often preffers projecting danger and skill but looking like your just a noble on a walk and don't have the storage/tools to do insert crime here is a good skill. She can take out her knives or put on a cloak to look intimidating, but you can't change your baseline outfit from something like thieves leathers or armour to look more innocent. So her base outfit makes her look like just a noble passer by.

[dungeon-duck]

[nerfblat]

Cutest little Christmas Dwarf Bard/Druid RPG set is done! Soon to be available to purchase @chickenlynerd (nerdychicken.ca). This little Christmas/Santa Dwarf comes in a handpainted Druid/Bard themed box with custom cut foam insert lined with an elegant blue fabric. This set includes a handmade Druid staff and three handmade spell scrolls: Heroism, Disguise Self, and Shillelagh. Funnily enough a Hat of Disguise is an item in DnD and this Fella happens to be wearing just such a hat!! Claude strolled through the forest singing carols to help the trees grow and wondered why he always seemed to distress people with his cheerful exuberance and kindness. He didn’t quite understand why it was such a bad thing to want everyone to be happy. He loved nothing more than to help things grow and bring some small measure joy into the world with his music. He was glad he’d decided to take a page from his cousin Nick’s book and wear a hat of disguise at Christmas time. It was the one time in the year he could really and truly be himself and people actually liked it. So everyone thought he was Nick, so what? What did it matter if it made people happy? #christmas #christmasdecor #santa #santaclaus #druid #druidsofinstagram #druids #bard #bards #dwarf #dwarves #thedwarves #spells #spellscroll #scroll #scrolls #handmade #handmadegifts #handmadesaskatchewan #dnd #dndcharacter #rpg #rpgcharacter #larping #tabletop #tabletoprpg #nerfblat #nerdychicken https://www.instagram.com/p/CGA6T3jn9rr/?igshid=v4tfl6m8n0sl