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The Black Sword of Twilight and the Staff of Spring
The conflict between good and evil is important, if not critical, to fantasy literature in general and fantasy gaming in particular. In this look into the Chest of Enchantment, we see examples of one of each--the Black Sword of Twilight and the Staff of Spring...
Magical Backlash in The Fantasy Trip
I've always been intrigued with the idea of magical backlash--something fantastic when a wizard screws up. Even a wizard with a stupidly high IQ can fail a spell on a roll of 16, 17 or 18. Unfortunately, the canon rules for Advanced Wizard do not take into account when a wizard suffers a critical failure. Here are some suggestions for rectifying that omission.
Basic Healing Spells for Advanced Wizard
As many people have noted, Wizard/Advanced Wizard lack any real healing spells like those that are found in other roleplaying games. There have been a number of attempts to fix this, with example healing spells out there through the years. Here is my attempt at a couple.
The Value of Free Stuff
Last weekend I went on a rampage, scarping up everything I could find for free or Pay What You Want (PWWYW) on DriveThruRPG. I'll be honest--there is a lot of crap out there that is not even worth the download. But there is a lot of great stuff that really is worth the time to download--especially if it is free!
Gothic Magic Items
Some magic items are beacons of light, weapons in the war against evil. On the other hand, some magic items are definitely turned towards the darkness. They are not bright, serving some other form of terrible beacon... Here are a couple magic items that serve that path, following the darkness...
Keeping Things Simple
Why play The Fantasy Trip and not GURPS? Why go... backwards? I don't think that it is backwards, not really. The beauty of TFT is its simplicity.
