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TABLE OF CONTENTS Since the dawn of electronic publishing, the chief complaint by its Spectre Press
What’s not d20 3 detractors was the lack of a physical product. I guess people like books— [www.spectrepress.com]
Adam D. Theriault who knew? The high cost of creating a physical book prevented many
The d20 Multiverse 9 would-be publishers from entering the market place. Some would say this Spectre Press delivers fun and
Chris Johanson entry barrier was good, because it kept out the publishers who were not
affordable games and
d20 Review: 12 serious. Others (many of whom became e-publishers) would be less
Blood & Space accessories for a wide variety of
pleased about the high cost of printing a hard copy book.
World Wrecking for 16 gaming genres. They bring you
Fun & Profit As will usually happen when enough people are involved, a compromise tools you can use to add life to
Greg Porter was created that looks as though it could settle the debate. RPGNow has your games without straining
Whack It Good! Comic 19 been offering Print On Demand (POD) options to publishers for a few your budget.
V. Shane months now, and it is starting to catch on. Currently four RPGNow
Buff, Scry, Teleport 20 products are available via Print On Demand, and there are plans for many
Joe Mucchiello more. Now you can order these products, have them printed and
Model Submission 23 professionally bound, and get them mailed to your home.
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Spectre Press Can POD services truly calm the raging flame wars over PDF publishing?
RPGNow Top10 Charts 25 In all honesty, probably not. As long as there is someone doing something
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What’s not d20
Because of our “Best of 2002” list in last
month’s issue, we’ve got twice as many new
releases scheduled for February. Below, you will
find new releases from the months of January
and December. In addition, I have added a
section called “Adam’s Picks”, where I will tell
you which product(s) from the new releases I
liked best.
With so many new releases for this issue, you
will find quite a large variety. We have westerns,
horror, board games, miniatures, and more for
you this month!
New Releases
Nightside
A novel by Jonathon Nolan. Also available in
print.
Published by Pisces All Media.
(Winner of the Maelstrom Prize for best cover
on a new book in either softcover or paperback.
Second Place winner for best horror short story.)
Nightside is an erotic horror novel intended
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Written by
Adam D. Theriault.
Eilfin Publishing
[www.eilfin.com]
Eilfin Publishing is a Fantasy and
for mature audiences only! The novel is a series FRPG (Fantasy Role Playing
of 15 modern tales of horror and erotica Game) publishing company.
featuring the character Jake Alialta. These stories They are committed to making
are interspersed with interesting and strange a Fantasy Role Playing Game
interludes, which entail actual news items from that can be enjoyed by one and
around the world such as the mysterious all.
Monkey Man of New Delhi, the Vulture-Man of
Australia, the 9,000 year old city discovered Any thoughts? Questions? Do
under the Gulf of Cambay, the reality of the you have a non-d20 product
Men-in-Black, and the Mothman of West that you would like me to
Virginia. Nightside is a unique and unforgettable examine, put to use, and
reading experience. explore? I can be reached at:
Ruby Eyes
A novel by Jonathon Nolan. adamt@eilfin.com.
Published by Pisces All Media.
Ruby Eyes is the erotic horror sequel to ADVERTISEMENT
Nightside. This adult horror is for mature
audiences only! The novel is a highly-charged,
extremely original, and readable Australian story
of horror and erotica. The heroes of Nightside
explore Australia’s underground and battle the
most unusual and convincing vampires ever put
into a book series. An unforgettable reading
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experience. A memento from the world
beyond the fields we know.
She*Wolf
A nonfiction handbook by Jonathon Nolan.
Published by Pisces All Media.
She*Wolf is a handbook of Ancient
Rome and its peoples. This history book is
perfect for wargamers and role-players
alike. It starts with a 26-page timeline of
Roman history, dating from 753 BC to
1453 AD, and then lists the Roman
Emperors in order of their reign. The
simple and short chapters develop
numerous themes. The first chapters
provide overviews of warfare, slavery,
social divisions between the sexes,
sexuality, and religion. The entire history of
Rome from its inception to the fall of
Roman Empire is covered in good detail,
along with information on the status of
women, the sacred position of the
Emperor, Roman philosophy, Legionaries
and Imperial armies, the development (first
century), maturity (second century), decay
(third century), and the fall (fourth
century) of Rome itself. The last chapters of
She*Wolf provide information on the
decline of education, the lack of accuracy
in recording history, the evolution of the
fifth century, Christianity, knights and
serfs, the first Vicars of Rome, the
emergence of the Papacy, and lessons from
Rome for the future. The book provides an
interesting postscript, detailing several
interesting elements of Roman life and
history: modern art and counter-culture,
computers, witchcraft, and more. A
selected bibliography is included for those
interested in further reading.
Ouch! My Eye!
An art book by James Versace.
Published by Pisces All Media.
This 50-page book of art features
insights and commentary from the artist
himself. Ouch! My Eye! contains artwork
for fantasy and science-fiction genres,
including roleplaying art. Each piece comes
with commentary by the artist, discussing
its background and how the piece came
into being. Section One of the book lists 6
projects from the beginning of James’
drawing career. Section Two consists of 19
pictures inspired by James’ current
Dungeons & Dragons campaign. Section
Three contains 15 sets of images ranging
from mini-comics to portraits.
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Big Damn Robots!
Published by Team Frog.
Big Damn Robots is a fast and furious
game of giant robot combat. Rules are
quick and easy to learn, and the carnage is
unbelievable. Includes a 28-page rulebook,
Big Damn Robot Control Sheet, 2 pages of
fold-up robots, and rulers.
‘Twas the Day After Christmas
Published by Team Frog.
A fast-paced and simple card game for 2-
4 players. The premise is simple: rush to
the stores the day after Christmas and get
rid of all the stuff you didn’t want while
searching for all the bargains you can
before the stores run out.
Critter Commandos (3rd Edition)
Published by Team Frog.
Critter Commandos is a fun and
exciting game for fans of miniatures rules
both young and old. This 3rd Edition
includes examples and a more simplified
game for younger players, as well as
additional units, a campaign system,
extensive background material on the
Critter Universe, two sheets of counters, a
sheet of blast templates, and an Internet
coupon for a deal on miniatures.
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Big Time Professional Rasslin -
Steel Cage Deathmatch Edition
Published by Team Frog.
Big Time Professional Rasslin is a fast-
paced wrestling game for 2 or more
players. It includes details on three
wrestling leagues, foldups for rasslers, and
even a fold-up steel cage for your
deathmatch.
Shady Gulch: Roleplaying in the
Old West
Published by Politically Incorrect Games.
Shady Gulch is an old west RPG that
uses PIG’s House Rules, which requires
two (or more) six-sided dice. Following the
town description is a list of the major
events in the old west. The next chapter
lists the basic rules of the game, including
the nature and use of task rolls, advanced
task rolls, and contested task rolls.
Character creation is discussed next. When
creating a character, the player must select
a vocation, at least one virtue (except
outlaws!) and one vice, primary and
secondary traits, and skills. Vocations
include: cowboy, gambler, homesteader,
tradesman, lawman, outlaw, scholar,
soldier, businessman, or drifter. Some
vocations have variants, which must be
selected before continuing. Skills are
categorized by primary traits (based on
strength, dexterity, perception, reasoning,
and willpower). There is a section of
“special rules” provided, covering how to
perform actions that go against your
virtues, what to do when facing one of
your vices, and the effects of wounds,
alcohol, opium, etc. Fighting is broken into
turns of varying length (depending on the
GM), comprised of declaring an action,
determining an order of reaction, and
performing the action. Damage varies
according to the success of the attack.
Another section of the book is devoted
entirely to the GM. This section also
includes information on time and travel, an
extended list of story ideas, a list of
subplots, and optional rules for dramatic
events. The book concludes by providing a
few sample characters, quick reference
charts, and a character sheet.
Delmer Esau’s ‘Cyber-Sea’
Published by TAS Games.
Cyber-Sea is a tactical board game for 2-
4 players set in the colony of Pacifica, deep
down on the ocean floor. The objective is
to infiltrate a Pacifica research facility with
your mercenaries, competing against other
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players to capture the Aguan Fish. The
research facility’s rooms are separated by
hatches, along with 4 sentry guns. Fader
units are able to hack the hatches and the
sentry guns, as well as flood the facility
rooms in their attempt to reach the Aguan
Fish before their opponents. Each
mercenary team includes a fader unit, a
ronin unit, a gun-suit unit, and 3
footsoldiers. Teams can attack each other
to eliminate the competition before they
reach their goal. The game requires two 6-
sided dice but otherwise includes all the
materials needed to play: a map tile that
must be printed four times to create the
map board, 20 Hack counters that must be
printed two times (10 counters for each
player), the Aguan Fish piece, 10 two-sided
flood counters, 4 two-sided sentry guns,
and four sets of player pieces (in four
colors) consisting of a submarine unit, a
ronin unit, a fader unit, a gun-suit unit,
and 3 footsoldier units.
Atomik Add-On Booklet
Published by The Atomik Vortex Studio.
This free 10-page booklet from Atomik
Vortex is an introduction on how to use
the Atomik series of add-ons into any
game system, even your own home-
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brewed systems. It discusses attributes,
skills, special traits, success checks,
margins of success (or failure), modifiers,
damage levels, defense levels, rounds &
turns, and scales & measurements. It also
provides specific information for using
Atomik add-ons with the Fuzion,
Interlock, Gurps, D20, and FUDGE
systems.
Atomik Alienz
Published by The Atomik Vortex Studio.
Atomik Aliens is an Atomik add-on for
any game system. To learn how to get the
most use out of Atomik Alienz, download
the free Atomik Add-On Booklet. Alienz
begins with the stars of the sky, providing
information about our galaxy and Drake’s
Equation which calculates the number of
habitable worlds in the Milky Way. It goes
on to classify star systems, planets, moons,
and orbital dynamics and biozones. The
second chapter of Alienz talks about the
theories and types of alien life forms.
Chapter three continues with alien
civilizations, describing ecology, tools, and
social order factors. Alienz then goes into
the history of a civilization, religion &
philosophy, and political systems, followed
by civilization types. Chapter four delves
into greater detail with the actual creation
of alien races. Lists are provided to allow
for ease of creating your own alien species:
base forms, structure, and physical
properties. Other lists consist of physical
exteriors, skeletal structures, musculature,
circulatory systems, circulatory fluids,
respiratory systems, reproduction, life
cycle, locomotion, feeding methods,
sensory systems, communication systems,
neurological systems, neurological
enhancements, special feataures, and
scaling. Finally, chapter five lists eight alien
species to help you get started.
Atomik CyberTek
Published by The Atomik Vortex Studio.
Atomik CyberTek is an Atomik add-on
for any game system. To learn how to get
the most use out of Atomik CyberTek,
download the free Atomik Add-On
Booklet. Chapter 1 begins by defining the
various types of technology that is
available: Metal Tech, Bio Tech, Noir Tech,
Chic Tech, Steam Tech (aka steampunk),
and Super Tech. Chapter 2 deals with
cosmetic surgery, providing lists for
cosmetic modifications and neoskins. The
next few chapters list a variety of types of
technology. Chapter 3 provides lists of
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cyber-limbs, general cyber-limb options,
cyber-arm options, cyber-hand options,
cyber-finger options, and cyber-leg
options. Chapter 4 provides lists of bionic
modifications, bionic weapons, and super
tech implants. It also describes how to
create full cyborg bodies. Chapter 5
provides lists for optronics (visual
enhancements), optronic options,
audiotronics (hearing enhancements),
auricular options, other senses, and
communications. Chapter 6 provides lists
for neurotronic (cyber-chips wired directly
to the brain) modifications, behavior chips,
skill and data chips, military chips, specialty
chips, and neural interfaces. Chapter 7
details biotechnology, the process of
cloning, mind cloning, genetic engineering
(gengineering), and genetically engineered
humans (genie characters). There are also a
number of genie templates. The book
concludes with lists for cerebral
alterations, neurogenic augmentations,
enhanced organs, symbiotes,
nanotechnology, and viral enhancements.
Atomik Psioniks
Published by The Atomik Vortex Studio.
Atomik Psioniks is an Atomik add-on for
any game system. Chapter 1 begins with
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the origins and nature of psionics, as well
as a number of potential settings that GMs
can use to introduce psionics to their
campaigns. It describes how to use psionic
powers in your games, including several
skills related to psychic phenomenon that
are not psionic powers in and of
themselves. Chapter 2 lists the groups of
psionic powers, starting with Telepathic
Powers. There is a detailed section on
telepathy itself, which is the most common
and also the most complicated psionic
power. Chapters 3 to 11 list the various
groups of powers along with the available
powers for each group. The groups consist
of telekinesis, perceptive cognition, extra-
sensory perception, astral projection,
biokinetic abilities, thermokinetic powers,
electrokinetic powers, psychodynamic
powers, and teleporation powers. Chapter
12 goes into psionic technology, listing
several types of psychic equipment,
amplifiers, and countermeasures. The book
concludes with a bit of psyber-technology,
genetic engineering, and psychotropic
drugs
Mythic Role Playing
Published by Word Mill.
Mythic Role Playing is a game that can
be played several different ways:
• Stand-alone: Mythic can be use as a
complete role-playing game. It is a free-
form and interpreted system. Many
campaign world details will be defined
as the adventure proceeds.
• With other RPGs: The main strength of
Mythic is its use in generating dynamic,
unfolding adventures on-the-fly. Mythic
can be used in place of a GM, even if you
are running a different system, where
any questions that need to be answered
are done so by using Mythic.
• One GM and any number of players: This
is how the normal, run-of-the-mill RPG is
played and Mythic can use this system
just fine. However, Mythic is designed so
that there is very little preparation
needed before running a game.
• No GM, multiple players: Mythic can be
played with nobody in charge. The
players decide on an opening scenario
and Mythic takes it from there. Action is
decided with yes and no questions and
the application of logical principles.
• No GM, one player: Mythic can be
played solo! The system works the same
as group play without the group!
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Cheap Folks Color Vyllagers
Cardstock Figures
Published by Microtactix Games.
Vyllage-on-the-Cheep sets are do-it-
yourself miniature kits. The Cheap Folks set
contains 84 full color cardstock figures of
all types, plus domestic animals and a
bonus vyllage building.
Vyllage-on-the-Cheep Color
Buidlings Sets #1 - #6
Published by Microtactix Games.
Vyllage-on-the-Cheep sets are a series
of do-it-yourself miniature kits. Set #1
centers around the gate and wall sections
with main towers and small tower accesses
for the walltop walkways. Inside is the Orc
and Cleaver Tavern, the vyllage square, the
swineherd’s shack, and a wagon and
coach. Set #2 features the vyllage
blacksmith with his home and a complete
forge, a large barn, the cookhouse, a set of
merchant’s stalls, and a two-story
gentlemen’s club. Set #3 contains the
vyllage jail, a large farmhouse, the local
dwarven miner’s guild, and the vyllage
magic shoppe. Set #4 features the vyllage
church, a two-story inn, a handful of
peasant shacks, and a small house. Set #5
features the wizard’s tower, two multi-
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story taverns, and the Vyllage Apothecary
Shop with herb greenhouse and potter’s
shed. Set #6 contains the elven temple,
the stone manor house, the bakery, the
vyllage butcher shop and house, the
general store, and the pawn shop and
outbuilding.
Cheap Folks Color Stone Bridge &
Towers
Published by Microtactix Games.
Vyllage-on-the-Cheep sets are do-it-
yourself miniature kits. The Stone Bridge &
Towers set features the “bridge over the
river cheep”, a modular stone bridge with
towers, enabling you to create bridges as
long and as wide as you like.
Impulse Game #1: Stock Car
Saturday Night
Published by Microtactix Games.
This slick and compact racing board
game offers components that capture the
fast-action feel and strategy of small-town
stock car racing. Strategy cards held by the
drivers put race tactics and skillful play,
rather than die rolls, in control of the
result. The game includes a 3-page rule
sheet, printable full-color counters, a two-
section mapboard, turn and lap markers,
and 160 strategy cards. In true MicroTactix
style, they have also supplied a cardstock
construct, which you can assemble into a
storage box to hold all the game
components.
Artifacts of the Arcane Volume 2
Published by V Shane.
Just like in Arcane Creations Volume 1,
V Shane has provided a book filled with
pictures for use at your gaming table.
Volume 2 contains 63 illustrations, each
designed to be printed out and used as
cards at the gaming table. They can then
be coloured and handed out to your
players when they find a special or magical
item during their adventures. Whereas
Volume 1 listed a lot of general items,
Volume 2 has a dwarven theme to it. You
will even find four pre-colored dwarven
images that can be cut out and used as
miniatures. Images include: dwarven axes,
hammers, flails, armor, shields, helmets,
swords, boots, hair clasps, and rings. There
are also general items such as pouches, a
deck of cards, wineskins, books, a
complete page of potions, more helmets,
armor, swords, exotic weapons, a wine
cup, a grapple hook, a tool belt, robes,
staves, bows, treasure, and much more.
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Adam’s Picks
This was a tough decision to make this
month, with such a wide variety of
products to choose from. From the 26
products listed here, I can’t help but
recommend more than one product, so
there are two Adam’s Picks this month:
Artifacts of the Arcane, Volume 2
Gotta love dwarf-styled weapons - and V
Shane does it wonderfully. Plus, there are a
lot of artifacts in this book that I can print
out immediately to throw at my players to
really set things off in my games.
Atomik Alienz
Though I am not a great sci-fi fan,
reading through Atomik Alienz was very
enjoyable. The amount of research that
went into this book puts many others to
shame. Even if you do not play science-
fiction games, you’ll want to take a look at
what Mark Chase has written in Atomik
Alienz.

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The d20 Multiverse
Great Minds…
Here I sit looking at my many folders of PDFs,
and browsing through those found on RPGNow.
I know that I’m missing so many, and yet, I look
at what I have and feel blessed. I have really
gotten to see a ‘cross-section’ of the D20
Market, at least I believe, and already things
leap out at me that I feel deserve some special
attention. Where should I begin?
Many publishers have concepts that they feel
belong in their products, even if someone else
has already done them. The “OGL” allows for
this, as writers and publishers can re-use what
others have done or derive from it. In other
cases, two people will come up with the same
notion at about the same time, and will describe
them both separately. While this could present
problems if other rules are based on the similarly
made rules, it can also present great
opportunity.
Revised Editions
In some cases, a new rule will be so profound
or exact that we see revised editions of existing
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Twin Rose Software
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Twin Rose Software is a small
products. One that leaps right out at me is the software and graphics
change in firearm rules in Cyber Style from Dark company.
Quest Games. With the coming of D20 Modern,
they saw a rules set that many, many people
would use, and they rightfully revised their
game to make it appeal to a much broader
cross-section of players. Traveller, T20 is sure to
have had an influence as well and I am looking
forward to see what other products come out in
the next year that derive from these futuristic
Product submissions, questions,
products and bring us something new and
and comments on this article
exciting.
can be sent to:
The PDF format is a really great way for twinrose@twinrose.net.
publishers to “edit” what they have written
when new content becomes available, for them
to expand on what they’ve already created. I
would not be surprised to see various paladin
and cavalier classes modified and revised with ADVERTISEMENT
added content from In the Saddle, and in fact
I’d be excited to see it. Many publishers feel a bit
cautious in using others Open Content, but I
believe that’s what it’s for, and much better to
have everyone using the same rules.
Even the same publisher can come out with
revised editions based on their own content.
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Right in front of me I see Librum Equitis
collection from Ambient, Inc. Here they
have combined the efforts of all the books
in the series, and wrapped them up into
one lovely one. As they have moved along
from the first publication, they have
learned and grown, and with the latest
edition they have applied all that wisdom
and brought new life to existing products.
Expand On What
You Have
Sometimes, even the PDF fan that I am,
I’ll purchase a print book at my local store.
Hard cover, full color, and hundreds of
pages really does have its appeal. Yet, here
too, I can find extra value in the PDFs that
I’ve downloaded.
For example, I am a big fan of Occult
Lore from Atlas Games. It has a great set of
magic systems that I feel fit into the genre
of my personal game perfectly. As I delve
into it, much of it is beautifully detailed.
However, the section on the ill effects of
Power Zones I find are sufficient, but not
as explored as I would like. In comes Wild
Spellcraft from Natural 20 Press. Now I
have a system of saves, tables, and effects
that I can apply in these powerful, but
sometimes chaotic, magical areas across
my world. I also find the Book of Eldritch
Might works really well with the rules
applied, and I really only need to use what
I feel fits well within.
Ambient Incs, Everyone Else has also
helped hugely with my Oathbound
campaign. The city of Penance is larger
than any I’ve seen in any world, and while
Bastion truly explores its depths, the
common folk are largely ignored and the
casual inn or tavern is hardly touched. It’s
good to have statblocks [ital]en masse[end
ital], ranging in levels, because in such a
world as the Forge, it’s hard to imagine
every common person being a first level
commoner. These two products
compliment each other perfectly, in my
opinion.
Bodies and Souls, from Second World
Simulations, and the Book of Templates
from Silverthorne games enhance all of the
products that I have—at least, if the
monsters contain some form of creature. If
it’s an adventure module, from low to high
levels, I can apply templates to keep
players guessing. Creature books,
especially, can be enhanced by template
books. If you have 10 monsters and 20
templates, you can really have 200
completely unique encounters with just 30
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different pages. That for me is value, and I
cannot stress enough the need for keeping
your players guessing.
From the Specific
to the General
I’ve talked a lot about how specific
products can be worked into other
products, but I think it’s important to
discuss and discover why this works, and
what I look for when expanding on what I
have. Sure, lots of publishers will come out
with variants on psionics, magic, or even
combat and weapons - but how do you
decide what you want to use in your
campaign?
The first thing to consider when looking
at two separate, but similar, rules is
balance and fairness. If something seems
very powerful, it may in fact give the
players a disadvantage. Remember, that
the more random something is, the more
likely it is to effect the players as they
engage in countless combats while the
NPCs, usually, only appear in one. If a rule
says that on a natural 20, the target suffers
double damage from a spell, odds are that
the players will feel that sting much more
often than any one NPC. In regards to
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balance, ensure that rules apply equally to
players and NPCs of the same type.
Another thing to ask yourself is if the
two rules in question are complimentary,
or replacements for each other. This can be
broken down and the two systems blended
together, in some cases, but often one will
be the replacement for the other. It is in
the latter case that you will have to
choose, but even then you might be able
to pull bits from one section and put it in
the other, and vice versa.
How do the rules hold up? Don’t be
afraid to find that a rule doesn’t work with
your game, and that another rule might fit
right in instead. When you have two,
three, or even more PDFs with similar rules
to choose from, there is nothing to say you
have to stick with the first one that you
find. The low cost of PDFs lets us examine
them in depth, and decide what is best for
us. As I’ve said before, in many cases we
can blend them together and come up
with exactly what we need - but there will
be times where we find the replacement to
be so perfect that we don’t need to.
There’s nothing wrong with this, and you
shouldn’t feel obligated to use something
even if your players have become used to
it. Let them decide what set of rules they
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prefer, but be sure and watch for signs of way to further expand the D20 Multiverse.
metagaming. Next month, I would like to explore a
Books that expand on a small portion of couple of different races and/or classes and
another book fascinate me. Whether it be look at the various books out there that
books on specific religions, specific classes, can be of great value in doing so. Many
or specific creature types, the depth players and DM’s have a favorite class or
explored gives me a deeper look. Even if I group, and can feel overwhelmed by the
don’t need the expanding product at the number of products available. Hopefully I
table, I’ll have it in mind when the can guide them through what is out there,
Centaurs ambush the party - and the and help them decide what they want, and
encounter will often go from a single what they need.
combat into an entire session of 
negotiation, foreign motivations, and sub-
plots. As time goes on, I expect we’ll see
books that further expand on these - a
book on the entire cult structure of “Set”
from the egyptian pantheon, for example.
Final Thoughts…
As always, I’d like to look back on what
we’ve explored this month and then look
forward to what we can expect next
month. I’ve spent a good deal talking
about rules that compliment each other, as
I feel that is one of the greatest strengths
to the D20 System. I hope many publishers
read what I said about “Revised Editions”
and how it pertains to using other peoples
content—I think that it would be a great
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Blood and Space is all about spaceships. It’s all genres. This works well for me; the supplement adventure gamers.
about building and staffing your spaceship, does all the hard work and I’m left to cherry
about equipping it with the best in computers pick.
and defences and dodging around planets and There’s a big long contents section at the start
gravity wells in a dogfight with rival space of the product and that’s just what you want in
pirates. Blood and Space isn’t a game in its own a PDF. The bookmarks are complete too;
right, although I do feel you could use it to run expanding lists based on chapters. I don’t like
a tactical wargame campaign in space. You can the resize option though; whenever you jump to
run Blood and Space with either the fantasy core a bookmark the page resizes. It moves from Fit Scores range from 1 to 10, 1
rules or D20 Modern and that’s a bonus. Blood to Width to Fit in Window. In my case it takes a being the worst and 10 the
and Space does a lot of things right. Heck, Blood clearly readable page resize to an unreadable best.
and Space does an awful lot of things; there’s a 81% scale. Despite the resizing, [ital]Blood and
whole host of rules in the supplement. Blood Space[end ital] is 118 pages in length and PDFs
and Space also distinguishes between the nitty- this long without bookmarks are a nightmare to
gritty, as scientifically accurate as possible, sci-fi navigate so I’m glad they’re there.
and the go with the flow, high action, space There are seventeen new classes, nine basic ADVERTISEMENT
opera. Many Sci-Fi games give you one, the classes and eight new prestige classes. It’s a little
other or a bad mauling of both but Blood and tricky getting all the usual sci-fi suspects into the
Space gives you both separately. There are two class and prestige class structure. For example,
sets of engines; one hard sci-fi and the other both Hotshot pilots and Pilots are basic classes
space opera and there are two sets of weapons; and Marine Commander, Marine NCO and
one hard sci-fi and the other space opera. You’re Colonial Marine are all prestige classes. It’s
left to pick your favourite from the two sub- almost as if there should be a class in between
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the two, perhaps something similar to
“Character Concepts” seen in other books.
However, Blood and Space makes the point
of not re-inventing the wheel and of trying
to keep things as simple as possible. This is
a good call and probably rules out too
much fiddling with the d20 system to get
it to fit careers in the far future. By and
large these classes are a success; there’s a
reason to play every one of them, nothing
looks broken and there’s no awkward
“really wouldn’t be adventuring” career
either (such as the allegedly Grove
protecting Druid). The most obvious failing
is the lack of academic prestige classes.
There’s no natural progression for
Engineers, Doctors or Scientists. It seems
that if you want to get ahead in space you
need to be a marine or a pilot.
Skills and feats share a chapter together.
There are as nearly as many pages of new
skills (eight) as there are of feats (seven).
The quantity of new skills ensures that
space adventures are possible. You’ll find
more than the predictable sci-fi additions
here like Computer Use, Repair and
Demolitions. Skills like Boarding, Sensor
Operations and Navigation (Hyperspace)
add a bit of spice and flare. We start to see
the first of the genre tagging here;
Navigation (Hyperspace) is marked as
suitable for Space Opera because in Hard
Sci-Fi there is no Hyperspace. There’s also a
nice advantage in setting out a long list of
new skills along side a long list of new
character classes; the class skill lists are
straight from the start. The heroics of
Space Opera lend themselves well to feats
but Hard Sci-Fi grit does not. You’ll see that
in the lack of Hard Sci-Fi feats and the
quantity of Space Opera feats. It isn’t a
problem though as there are enough
General feats that are suitable to both.
There’s a small set of Tactic feats too.
The equipment chapter is far more than
a mere list of equipment. There isn’t a
huge list of different weapons, armour and
gadgets. I think this might disappoint
some of the tech-heads. Blood and Space
takes the approach of listing one of a type
of weapon or armour, or sometimes two in
the form of both a pistol and a rifle. So
rather than inventing different brand
names and nuisances for a whole bunch of
laser rifles there is just an IR Laser Rifle and
an X-Ray Laser Rifle. Later on we find out
we can equip spaceships with UV Lasers.
This is just enough science; it’s not so
much as to make the game a physics
lesson but it is enough to keep the Science
in Sci-Fi. Although there aren’t long lists of
space age stuff there is enough in each
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equipment category to warrant a list
summary. I think there’s enough to keep
shopping interesting. The highlight of the
equipment chapter for me is the attention
given to economics. Attention, yes, but
again not so much as to turn the game
into a school lesson, just enough to keep it
interesting. Credits and the role of
bartering are explained. Extra rules, for the
likes of Charisma bonuses when wheeling
and dealing, are offered and there’s a big
bit on trade too. If you have fond
memories of Elite and are looking to Blood
and Space to revisit them then you’ll be in
luck.
We begin the study on Starships with a
sub-section on how to afford one in the
first place. In fact you can make a whole
campaign out of trying to finance your first
starship and even then the characters
might find themselves with an awkward
lease. Something that all sci-fi games need
to get right is the rules for spaceship
construction. Blood and Space tries to do
this within its straight forward framework
and is largely successful. The complexities
of Starships are reduced down into five key
areas: the hull, the drive, weapons,
computers and facilities. There are lists for
each of these things and as with the
weapons and armour they’re presented by
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type rather than some imaginary name—
with the exception of the drive. For
example, you might pick between hull
design “Military #2” or “Military #3” but
your star drive may be between “Pollux” or
“Vega”. It’s deceptive. At a first glance it
doesn’t look as if there is much choice or
art to spaceship design but there’s more to
it. Weapon ports are the obvious example;
it’s not just a matter of finding a hull with
lots of weapon ports but a hull that can
support the size of weapons you want.
Then there’s cargo space. It seems like an
easy thing to do without at first but when
you add facilities like medical centres,
gymnasiums or gun turrets you’ll need a
hull able to carry a lot. You’ll want medical
centres and gymnasium on a large vessel
too and not just gun turrets. There are two
types of damage a ship’s crew can receive,
physical and morale. Both are bad. The
medical centre heals the first and the
gymnasium (and other similar recreational
perks) heals the second.
I was really pleased to see a whole
section for computers. Computers must be
important in a starship and have played
key roles in sci-fi ever since Orac stole the
show in Blake’s 7, if not before. The
computer rules in Blood and Space are a
stab in the right direction but don’t quite
work for me. In short a computer can run
as many programs as it has an Intelligence
modifier. Programs include viruses, anti-
viruses, targeting, navigation, knowledge
bases, etc. What about life support? Is that
a freebie? Can one program do both anti-
virus and navigation? Surely you’re
doomed unless you build a +2 computer
and spend the first slot on anti-virus
protection. Can you have more than one
computer in a spacecraft: one for
navigation and the other for targeting? I
couldn’t find out. As I started to read the
computer rules I was immediately
inspired—so the ground rules are right;
they just need more work.
Crews are important. Crews have
something to do in Blood and Space. The
masses of unnamed crew that might be
found in the large spacecrafts are broken
down into job categories. You have the
helm, science, medical, engineering,
marines, damage control, flight and
weapons crew. Crew also has different
levels of experience, everything through
raw recruits, to experienced crew and to
legendary crews. You can issue different
sets of orders to the crew and how
successfully they carry their orders out and
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how much babysitting they need from PCs
(or named NPCs) depends on their
experience. You might tell your engineers
to put “emergency powers to shields”—
and that’s a sample order in Blood and
Space that comes with game rules for
doing just that. You might set your marines
off to board and capture an enemy vessel
or have your fighter pilots escort your big
starship through dangerous space. Since
boarding is possible then crew versus crew
combat is possible. The rules for this just
about work; they’re not skirmish rules but
a further abstraction. There’s an example
of crew combat that really does help see
how the authors imagine the system
working. Crew can gain experience (mostly
through beating things up) and demand
wages.
The last chapter describes starship
combat. There’s a little muddle over maps
with squares, hexes or octagons. A square
has four sides and four corners and an
octagon eight. So on page 94 where the
supplement is considering how the rules
for spaceship manoeuvrability are affected
by your choice of map and when we’re
told a ship can come about 360 degrees by
turning through eight points on a square
map—we’re not being lied to. A ship could
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make the turn in four moves as well
though. Really though I shouldn’t start
with that nit-pick. The spacecraft combat
rules do work. Blood and Space sticks with
its goal of not introducing confusing rules.
Space ship combat is modelled on normal
combat and it is really easy to follow. From
this strong base added extras like dodging
mines (or blasting through them), guided
weapons and complexities of combat in
Hyperspace tag on nicely.
Blood and Space concludes with some
sample starships—further proof that there
is flexibility in the design system—which
are nicely presented on special space ship
character sheets. You’ll recognise the
illustrations though as they’ve been used
elsewhere in the supplement. We get a
blank starship character sheet (easy to
print off) of our own too.
Blood and Space works. It’s rules for
designing, staffing and fighting in space
ships of all sizes work. The crew rules add
an important element that seems all too
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often forgotten about and this addition
comes without too much complexity.
Including both Hard Sci-Fi and Space
Opera but keeping them as separate
options throughout the download also
works. The inclusion of basic and prestige
classes along with skills and feats ensures
that Blood and Space is the only added
extra you’ll need on top of one set of d20
rules to play in space.

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World Wrecking
for Fun and Profit
(Well, maybe just for fun.)
One thing I am fond of pointing out as
campaign advice is that any and every role-
playing game should start with a long-term plot
thread already in place. Bits and hints can be
introduced in the very first adventure, even if
they end up being unused for months. Hearing
about a particular villain, a vague omen in the
sky, evidence that something or someone got to
where the adventurers were headed, and got
there first, that sort of thing.
These long term plot threads are generally
meant to be a high-level threat that the
adventurers eventually confront and overcome.
But what if they fail?
A classic example would be Call of Cthulhu.
What if the adventurers don’t stop the
ceremony to awake dread C’thulhu?
Oops.
Long-term plot threads have the advantage
that they are long term. By the time they come
to fruition, the campaign has been running a
while, and the adventurers are fairly experienced
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have started to exhaust the conventional
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remember the “ho hum, yet another dungeon
through word-of-mouth
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Sometimes a campaign needs a change of
focus, and this is where world-wrecking comes
in. If you turn the nature of the world onto its
head, then all the standard rules and means of
being successful no longer apply. Adventurers
may be powerful, but they have to start playing
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Magic
In Larry Niven’s The Magic Goes Away,
we have a world where magic is a non- or
very slowly renewable resource, something
akin to coal and oil reserves, and magic
users end up depleting it. When cities like
Atlantis are kept stable by magic, and
centuries-old wizards are kept alive solely
by their sorceries, a collapse of the old
magic-based power system is a collapse of
civilization itself. In addition, the entire
magic-based ecosystem collapses. No more
unicorns.
You don’t have to go this far. But, if over
a course of months or a year, magic
dropped to perhaps ten percent of its
former strength, then only the most
powerful wizards would retain any ability,
and they would be reduced to the level of
novices. A real pain if your adventurer was
a wizard. There would be severe social
ramifications. Evil sorcerors who held sway
through fear, terror and undead minions
would find themselves out of a job and
surrounded by the traditional mob of
peasants with torches and pitchforks.
Everyone who ever resented the power of
wizards or who was ever slighted by a
magic user would see an opportunity for
payback. Religious leaders opposed to
secular magic would see an opportunity
for purging the opposition, and so on. This
state of affairs could be permanent, and
lead to a new social order. Or, it might be
temporary. Maybe it was caused by a
cataclysmic magic event the adventurers
failed to stop, and the side effects will
eventually wear off and magic will return,
bringing about a new cycle of violence and
repurcussions as magic again becomes
ascendant. Or maybe the magic can be
brought back by means of a quest,
defeating some ancient evil or breaking
some eldritch artifact that is hoarding the
world’s magic to some unknown end. Of
course, the quest has to be completed
without the aid of powerful magic...
On the other side, you can add magic or
paranormal powers to a world that has
none. Perhaps contact with an alien race in
a modern campaign introduces a virus that
mutates human genetics to activate
psionic powers. Imagine the chaos if even
one person in a hundred developed some
ability that could not be countered by
conventional science. Today, that would be
sixty million people with superhuman
powers. How many of those would be
terrorists who had an ability to become
invisible? How many would be sociopaths
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with the ability to take over someone’s
mind? How many would be investigative
reporters with the ability to teleport a
government’s dirtiest secrets out of secret
vaults? There would be absolute chaos.
Martial law, civil war, coups, purges,
atrocities, rioting mobs, lynchings, all that
good stuff. And the adventurers would be
in the middle of it all, either affected
themselves or forced to take sides on a
difficult issue. Eventually, things would
settle down. It might not be any more
peaceful or equitable than the various
systems in place now, but people would
eventually find a way to make it work. It
would still be the same gameworld, but it
would also be quite different.
Science
The idea of magic or paranormal powers
is a familiar one to most gamers, but the
force that drives and holds society
together can be just about anything. If
something thought to be constant and
stable ends up being neither, there are
problems. What if a Traveller campaign
suddenly had a quantum shift that
required twice the jump drive capability to
get anywhere? Places that required a
Jump-3 drive would now require a Jump-6!
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And if there is no Jump-6, then these solar
systems and planets are cut off from the
rest of the universe until the conditions
change. And if such a planet was in the
midst of a war, or was dependent on
outside imports for critical materials or
components, imagine the chaos. If the
failure of conventional jump drives was
intermittent but getting worse, people
might try fleeing these systems while they
can. Merchant ships would gouge
passengers for exorbitant fares,
governments might try confiscating the
ships, there would be spaceport riots, and
the whole “mob crowding the US Embassy
for the last helicopter out of Vietnam”
thing would be going on, on a planetary
scale. Adventurers whose fortune was
made or based on interstellar commerce
might find themselves much less wealthy.
A universe of hundreds of accessible star
systems might become one or two or
three, connected to each other but isolated
from the rest of civilization.
Forces Run Amok
As with the previous example,
sometimes a world can be wrecked
without a failure of the adventurers to
“stop the bad guys”. Sometimes it is just
something that the gamemaster has
destined to happen, and the cosmic alarm
clock finally goes off. Again, you are really
just removing, adding or modifying a force
to the game universe. You can spring this
kind of thing with no warning, or maybe
with vague ones. Or, maybe everyone sees
it coming, is confident it can be averted,
and so most are caught flat-footed when it
isn’t. The movies Armageddon and Deep
Impact would be examples. Asteroid
impacts are something we know happens,
we know we are due for one, and
governments generally ignore the problem
and figure it won’t happen during their
party’s term in power. Then the big rock
lays the smackdown on planet Earth.
Everyone sees it coming, it’s going to be
bad, but no one knows how bad.
Civilization is changed, usually knocked
backwards for a loop. A result might be
that players used to being secret agents
dealing with international intrigue on
behalf of a major government now find
themselves infiltrating bandit groups on
behalf of farming communities.
Or, magic might become unpredictably
powerful and erratic. Demons or other
hostile supernatural entities might start
springing up like weeds. Ancient
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prophecies of impending doom might be
ignored, or past cataclysms so severe that
the warnings might be unintelligible. The
classic Issac Azimov story Nightfall is an
example of an alien culture confronted
with a recurring, unavoidable nightmare. A
world could be wrecked by nanotech,
biowarfare or alien spores that start
creating a hostile alien ecosystem here on
Earth. And never discount the world-
wrecking potential of a hostile alien
invasion. Even seemingly innocuous things
can be a problem if taken to extremes. The
upcoming EABA supplement NeoTerra
deals with a world where the acceleration
of computer power and advances in
technology happen so fast that laws and
morals can no longer keep up, with
catastrophic results.
Last, remember that you can have more
than one world-wrecking plot thread. You
could start a campaign based on one
event, and have the ramifications of it be
your long term plot. You start the
campaign with the alien invasion of Earth
as a past event. The adventurers have to
deal with it in the present, and need to
thwart the alien goals as the long-term
plot thread to avoid some future
catalcylsmic problem. Or, magic is erratic
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and insanely powerful at the start
of a campaign, and adventurers
find out they somehow need to
restore it to normal levels to avoid
magic tearing the fabric of the
universe apart. It’s like any good
television show or comic book.
You have individual isolated
episodes, recurring problems and
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the occasional series “cliffhanger”
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where there is the potential for
everything to change. Sometimes
it will, sometimes it won’t, but
the players and adventurers will
be in the middle of the mess
either way. And that’s usually the
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Buff, Scry, Teleport
At some point, usually around ninth or tenth
level, every party of adventurers hits upon the
idea that they can easily overtake their current
opponent by surprise, once they have gotten
access to the teleport spell. The first step is to
buff up with spells like bull’s strength, aid, and
prayer. Secondly, they use scrying (or similar
magic) to find out where the villain is and to
study the location. Finally, the adventurers join
hands and teleport right to where the villain is,
usually with surprise, and take him out before
he even knows what hit him.
BuSTing, as it is sometimes called, is a great
plan. It is very effective. It can be very annoying
to the DM. It can even become boring for the
players after awhile. Eventually, every villain
owns several amulets of nondetection, given out
as gifts to their underlings. Their lairs are full of
overlapping dimensional anchors, screens, and
permanent illusions. Magic-poor enemies only
sleep within large rooms with fifty of their most
highly paid mercenaries on watch.
This article will look at ways the DM can limit
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company that strives to expand
the rules while maintaining the
this ability without seeming arbitrary. It will also
spirit of old-time gaming.
look at counter-BuST tactics. First, let’s examine
the three stages of the plan in reverse order.
Teleport
When first acquired at ninth or tenth level, the
caster is only able to carry an additional 450-500
pounds of additional weight with him. That
limitation makes it hard to bring more than two
of his favorite barbarians along. For parties of
four characters, it is just about possible to carry
the whole company in a single teleport. Larger
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parties (composed of less than 2 or more
halflings and/or gnomes) will have to wait until
the caster is of higher level for all to be affected
by a single teleport spell.
Although it says scrying can get you to the ADVERTISEMENT
“studied carefully” level of the teleport result
table, DMs would be wise to require 30 minutes
of study to attain this level of familiarity. Shorter
study time would mean the character only has
“seen casually” familiarity. “Viewed once”
familiarity could occur if the scrying attempt is
dispelled within the first two minutes.
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While mishaps can be amusing when
they occur, a better way to surprise the
party is to treat all mishaps as similar
locations. Have the party arrive in the
abode of their target’s master. While they
had a decent chance against the underling,
the master is much harder to fight.
Scrying
The most important thing to remember
about the spell scrying is its casting time. It
takes one hour to cast and only lasts one
minute per level. While this does not
interfere with many buffing spells, it does
preclude spells like aid and prayer. Once
the party mages can cast greater scrying,
this is no longer a problem.
One of the reasons this tactic is so good
is because scrying is very easy. By seventh
level, when scrying first appears, an
intelligent wizard could have 10 ranks in
Scry, plus his Intelligence bonus with which
to overcome the hardest Scry DC of 20-but
this ease of use comes at a price. If the
villain in question is also a spellcaster with
many ranks in Scry, the villain has a DC of
20 to find the scrier.
Changing the way scrying works by just
making it harder (add 10 to all Scry DCs)
only delays the effectiveness of BuSTing.
Making the DC depend upon the level/hit
dice of the target is also not a good
method. One would think that as a
creature gains power (level/hit dice) it
should not become harder to pick that
person out of a crowd. Most assumptions
about magic would say that it is easier to
find King Jermine of Holst than it is to find
Fred the baker of the Hamlet of Backwater.
A better way to make scrying more
difficult, and more dangerous, is to turn it
into an opposed roll. The modifiers listed
under Scry become bonuses to the target’s
Scry check. If the scrier overcomes the base
DC to find his target, but does not beat the
full DC, he gets a fleeting glimpse of the
target before the target dispels the scrying
attempt. (You might give the scrier a better
chance against tough opponents by
granting his Scry check a bonus equal to
the spell level used to Scry with.) This
variant is useful because it gives the villain
notice that the party is after him.
Buffing
This part of the process is the hardest to
overcome without making your villains
seem omniscient. Why do the villains
always dispel magic on the one character
with bull’s strength and cat’s grace?
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Perhaps one of their villains has an item
with a continuous reveal magic effect (see
sidebar).
Another way to deal with buffing spells
is to buff the defender. A contingency spell
can be triggered by the arrival of 2 or more
people via teleport. This triggered spell
could be endurance, haste, teleport, or any
other spell that grants an immediate
advantage.
Surprising the BuSTers
One simple tactic to get your players not
to BuST too often is to BuST them. Perhaps
a paranoid, spellcasting villain takes the
time to find out who is seeking his
destruction. While normally this will reveal
the local constabulary, the one time that it
shows a group of adventurers is the time
he gathers his underlings for a surprise
assault on the heroes.
Another idea is to put an alarm spell in
the room where the villain spends most of
his time. It is set to go off if two or more
people teleport into the room. It sends a
mental notice to the villain’s boss. The boss
probably checks out his underling in a
crystal ball and finds him fighting the
party. Depending on his view of self-
reliance for his lackeys, he may arrive with
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help early in the combat or afterwards, or
he may wait until the party leaves and then
BuST them.
Other Divinations
Most other divinations do not give the
mage casting teleport enough information
to safely teleport. Locate object, locate
creature and discern location all suffer
from the requirement that the caster has
something that belongs to the target or
that the caster has previously seen the
target before. Scrying and greater scrying
do not have this crippling limitation.
This article barely scratches the surface
of the BuST tactic. I hope it was enough to
relate ideas on how to handle a high level
party that starts using this method of
attack.
 effect belongs to-if, and only if, the caster
New Spell ➡ spell level, and school of magic on a single
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Reveal Magic
Divination
Level: Sor/Wiz 2
Components: V, S, M
Range: Touch
Duration: 1 round / level (D)
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: Yes
When this spell is activated by touch, all
magic in the area becomes discernible to all
viewers. The level of visibility is as if the
caster has used a detect magic spell, and then
spent three rounds concentrating on everyone
and every object within the area. Anyone
looking at the auras around the subjects can
tell how strong each spell is (the spell level)
and how many spell effects are active on the
subject. Any character with ranks in
Spellcraft can see the school of magic the
make a successful Spellcraft check to
determine that effect’s school of magic. Once
the spell is cast, determining number of spells,
subject is considered a free action.
Note: Rumors of a 3rd level Cleric (2nd
level Paladin) spell called Reveal
Good/Evil/Law/Chaos are as true as
rumors of a 3rd level Druid (2nd level Ranger)
spell called Reveal Poison.
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Notes:
A. The Disposable Dragon is best constructed from regular paper. Due to the organic nature of the model, parts will need to warp and
bend freely. Thick card stock will be much more difficult to manipulate, and the paper dragon is quite sturdy when completed.
B. Use very small amounts of glue when assembling the dragon. You may find it helpful to use the blade from your craft knife or other
small object to apply glue. Excessive glue will very likely result in an awkward-looking dragon.
C. It is very unlikely that your dragon will come out perfect. The head or tail may twist to one side or the other, and the wings may not
be perfectly straight. This is normal - after all, this is a model of a living (mythical) creature, and a little motion will only serve to make
him look more dynamic.
Assembly Instructions
1. Cut out all parts on exterior lines.
2. Fold all triangular tabs on chest. Apply very small amounts of glue to the
tabs on the left side, then attach to left body. The best place to start gluing is
generally right where the neck meets the torso. Repeat with right body.
3. Do not fold spines on the back of right and left body. Apply small amounts
of glue to the spine plates and glue them to each other to form the dragon's
torso.
4. Glue right tail to outside of right body, and left tail to outside of left body.
Then glue the ends of the tail together.
5. The head folds in half along the top of the snout and is glued to the end of
the neck. Position the head while the glue is wet, and hold it in place until
the glue dries.
6. Attach the arms before the wings. Simply glue them into place wherever they
look good.
7. Fold the tabs on each wing away from the piece. Curl each wing slightly at
the base, then glue the tabs to the dragon's body. The tabs should be hidden
behind the wings once attached, and the wings should stick out and back.
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