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New Spell Mechanics: The Potential for Legacy
I want to explore ways to create spells that persist, become fixtures of the word itself, and outlast even the speaker who casts them.
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Practically Magical: Thinking Through Practices
Practices are extensions of the Focus system in Spell: The RPG. They are tiered Focuses that allow for more benefits the more the character invests. They come with…
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Oeuvre in Review: Part 5 (2016, cont.)
Sunblink The most board gamey of the entries on this list, Sunblink was designed for the Game Chef 2016 design challenge. Game Chef is a now-defunct game design…
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Tutorials, Impulses, and You
Or, The Weird Feeling of Inspirational Progress Meeting Unknown Territory. I’m talking about Spell: The RPG again. The first installment covered the history of it, so I’m just going to…
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Oeuvre in Review: Part 4 (2016, cont.)
Onward, Wee Beenships I adore this game, but I’m not wild about where I was as a designer at the time. The opening line is “Onward, Wee Beenships…
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Oeuvre in Review: Part 3 (2016)
The only game released in 2015 was the beta version of Spell: The RPG. Since I’m currently doing a separate series all about Spell, its history, development, and…
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