Reach for the Stars: Space Magic
Is your D&D game sailing the astral seas? This installment contains new spells to keep you ready for the Void!
Posts by Greg Marks
Reach for the Stars: Rare Materials
Is your D&D game sailing the astral seas? This installment contains rare materials you might find out there, their stories, and rules for using them in your game!
Reach for the Stars: Quick Space Adventures
Are you taking your D&D game into the great beyond, sailing the astral seas? Reach for the Stars explores rules to augment a game with options beyond your campaign’s home world. Start with an adventure generator!
Arcane Adventures: Land’s Labors
Let’s look at spells that can be used to build up a village and enhance, or curse, the production of a landlord’s fields. Bountiful Lands 5th-Level Transmutation | Bard, Cleric, Druid, Ranger, WizardCasting Time: 1 hourRange: TouchComponents: V, S, M (an apple covered in honey)Duration: 1 year You enhance a patch of land up to …
Arcane Adventures: A Curse Upon Your House
In this installment of Arcane Adventures,we look at spells that bless or curse a family line, affecting them for many generations until some condition is met. Fruit of the Twisted Line 8th-Level Conjuration (Bard, Cleric, Druid, Wizard)Casting Time: 10 hoursRange: 5 milesComponents: V, S, M (a drop of blood, hair, or fingernail from the target)Duration: …
Arcane Adventures: Spirit of the Wild
In this chapter,we look at spells that summon a nature spirit to infuse a natural feature with aspects of its being, either aiding those that travel its borders or driving them away. Spirit of the Comforting Vista 5th-level conjuration (bard, cleric, druid, ranger, warlock)Casting Time: 1 hourRange: TouchComponents: V, S, M (a seed from a …
Arcane Adventures: Behind These Walls
In this installment of Arcane Adventures,we look as four spells that target a fortification like a castle or keep. Bickering Whispers 5th-level enchantment (bard, warlock, sorcerer wizard)Casting Time: 10 minutesRange: TouchComponents: V, S, M (a rose dipped in blood that is burned during the casting)Duration: 1 day You enchant a fortification such that those humanoids …
Arcane Adventures: Winds of Magic
Here we look as three related spells that affect the ability to use magic within a large area. With them, magic might become more frequent, harder to call upon, or even draw other planes closer. Eldritch Abundance 7th-level transmutation (bard, druid, wizard)Casting Time: 8 hoursRange: TouchComponents: V, S, M (a wondrous item of uncommon rarity …
Arcane Adventures: City Life
In this section, we look as two related spells that affect settlements (a village, town, or city). Useful if your characters want to improve life in the village that has sprung up around their keep—or if their rival wants to make the populace suffer. City of Gold 7th-level enchantment (bard, cleric, wizard)Casting Time: 1 hourRange: …
Trapmaster: Beating Traps, the Kobold Way
Step one is finding the trap. We’re going to assume that you have either done that or at least suspect the presence of a trap—otherwise you’d be dead and not reading this advice. So let’s just skip past that part and assume you think you know there is danger ahead, and we can focus on …
Trapmaster: Traps That Aren’t
So how do you convince PCs to follow specific paths in your dungeon or during an encounter or to bunch closely for those few big spells or for an ambush by making the characters think there is a trap when there isn’t? In particular, how can your monsters create the appearance of a trap quickly …
Trapmaster: Location, Location, Location
So instead, what if we look at traps that move the victim instead of trying to keep them in the same place. It’s a lot harder to predict where you don’t want to be if the danger itself, or the victim, are on the move. There is also something inherently more exciting—and often more comedic …
Trapmaster: Incremental Traps
Incremental traps are reminiscent of the death traps from horror movies or superhero comics, where each logical avenue of escape adds another dangerous obstacle to be conquered. Like a normal complex trap, they get worse with time, but unlike most other complex traps, their dangers are not obvious and often act in response to characters’ …
Trapmaster: Ups and Downs
Pits with Friends Simple Trap (level 1–4, dangerous threat) This 10-foot-deep pit is covered in branches and dirt, making it appear the same as the rest of the ground. The branches are embedded in the dirt sides of the pit, such that when they fall away, so does a significant amount of the support for …
Trapmaster: Hidden Distractions
Below are three traps that include apparent solutions or bypasses to the trap that exist only to eat up adventurers’ valuable time and resources while hopefully keeping them in danger without their realizing it. Good Timing Complex trap (level 5–10, moderate threat) Passing through a doorway, the room explodes in fire and continues to do …
