tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239577512598038009.post2536412558729948433..comments2024-02-27T01:17:39.925-08:00Comments on The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms: The Way Scrolls LookTalysmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02162328521343832412noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239577512598038009.post-64852006183178777192012-04-16T04:11:37.045-07:002012-04-16T04:11:37.045-07:00I feel a Dungeon Dozen style table coming on. The ...I feel a Dungeon Dozen style table coming on. The cigarette scroll you mention sounds like a mezuzah, the bigger end could be Moses' Tablets of the Law - in which case they come in a special chest. Other scrolls I have actually put in games:<br />- tattoo. Required live lizardman to carry around. Could be extra exciting if tattooed on Carcosan bone man...<br />- carpet. not of flying but of passwall. <br />- building blocks. First you have to arrange them in the right order, then read em off. For summoning, of course. <br /><br />I really liked the magic painting in Susan Cooper's Greenwitch: summoned a storm + ghosts, and was a great riff on impressionist/fauve paiting en plein air - the idea that the canvas captures the scene or reveals what is latent in it. MUs tend to be thought of as philologists, chemists or stage magicians (illusionists), but I think the artist is a great MU archetype.richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13517340075234811323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239577512598038009.post-2864889006521738222012-04-15T17:00:06.637-07:002012-04-15T17:00:06.637-07:00Totally agree, for fluff that isn't worthless....Totally agree, for fluff that isn't worthless. I think that's a great way to re-phrase what I was getting at in the fluff-vs.-useless-fluff post a couple days back: when people complain about fluff, it's almost always fluff they can't use as crunch, either because it doesn't affect situations the characters encounter or because the players are new school players who dislike so-called "GM fiat" (or they are GMs trained in a system that discourages "fiat" who feel lost without hard numbers attached to the fluff.)Talysmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02162328521343832412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239577512598038009.post-38466714186787866372012-04-15T13:15:32.367-07:002012-04-15T13:15:32.367-07:00I like the idea of scrolls being small and sealed,...I like the idea of scrolls being small and sealed, adds a lot of flavour to them, and makes them more interesting; as well as more portable. I think I'll use that idea for my games. Thank you. This is what I love about all these blogs, there's always something that makes you go 'Ah, perfect'.Simon Forsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01243845335993440168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239577512598038009.post-14531387497657862172012-04-15T13:04:48.117-07:002012-04-15T13:04:48.117-07:00Fluff, sir, is crunch ;)Fluff, sir, is crunch ;)Roger G-Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08594440701279968693noreply@blogger.com