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White Marble Block: Things That I Like: A Few More Magic Systems for the Taking
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Philosophy, self-awareness, and everything else. Thursday, August 13, 2015. Things That I Like: A Few More Magic Systems for the Taking. We return this week with, well, a few more magic systems. And to round them out, here’s a link to an old story of mine, which is as much overview of a magic system as it is creation myth: A Legend of Creation. Generally, financial astrologers want bigger cities and Icewalkers want smaller ones. Larger cities lend themselves to easier manipulation through ley lines, ...
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White Marble Block: About WMB
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Philosophy, self-awareness, and everything else. This page is under a little bit of renovation. Part of it has been redone in the third-person, but I haven't touched the second half yet.]. If you have any questions or thoughts that you'd like to share, feel free to comment on the blog, message him on Twitter. Or email him at callmebrotherg@gmail.com. To get you started on your journey through WMB. Here are a few Best Hits. A Story Across Years. Is a Lovecraftian action piece. Gory combat, superspeed,...
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White Marble Block: Things That I Like: 3 Ways to Use Dragons
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Philosophy, self-awareness, and everything else. Thursday, May 14, 2015. Things That I Like: 3 Ways to Use Dragons. Dragons built civilization (kind of by accident). Pretend for a moment that you’re a dragon. You have a hoard. You want to keep it protected, but you would like to grow it too and you can’t be. Getting loot, if you’re. Protecting the loot that you’ve got. There are a few ways that this can go, none of them contradictory with any others:. Dragons may be capable of breeding with humans, and t...
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White Marble Block: Generators Directory
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Philosophy, self-awareness, and everything else. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Philosophical or religious themes. Things that i like. Things That I Like: 3 Ways to Use Dragons. Things That I Like: 6 Things to Keep in Mind When Designing Aliens. Applying History #1: The Island Builders. The Idea Emporium #5: The Agloanikoi [1/3]. Brother G's Cyclopedia of Comparative Mythology. Things That I Like: 4 Thoughts on Designing a Wizardly Masquerade. View my complete profile.
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White Marble Block: Applying History #1: The Island Builders
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Philosophy, self-awareness, and everything else. Thursday, May 28, 2015. Applying History #1: The Island Builders. Welcome to Applying History. Some of you may be familiar with The Culture Column. Which provided write-ups of fictional cultures ready to be dropped into a setting with little adaptation necessary. Applying History. Qhas Qut suñi (People of the Lake); Lupihaques (Sons of the Sun); Kappi (Quecha: “Hunter”). Century, which exacted taxes (one cane filled with rice, as the Uros were considered v...
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White Marble Block: Things That I Like: 4 Thoughts on Designing a Wizardly Masquerade
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Philosophy, self-awareness, and everything else. Thursday, January 8, 2015. Things That I Like: 4 Thoughts on Designing a Wizardly Masquerade. Harry Potter, Night Watch, The Dresden Files… There are more than a few worlds with a society of wizards hiding in the shadows. Throw in masquerades of any supernatural sort, not just wizards, and you have most of the urban fantasy genre. Check your math. And then double-check it. For Heaven’s sake, at least. Do the math, just once. Your audience some basic respec...
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White Marble Block: Things That I Like: A Few Systems of Magic for the Taking
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Philosophy, self-awareness, and everything else. Thursday, July 9, 2015. Things That I Like: A Few Systems of Magic for the Taking. Like everything, these ideas are free for the taking. Consider them to be public domain. Just… grab them, and use them, and stuff. That’s what they’re there for. Lyches know how to use preexisting magical patterns easily enough but experimentation is dangerous. The slightest error can give the Power summoned too much free reign or, if the binding is successful, force it ...
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White Marble Block: Things That I Like: 8 Things to Do With Zombies
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Philosophy, self-awareness, and everything else. Thursday, February 5, 2015. Things That I Like: 8 Things to Do With Zombies. Apparently I’ve been on a zombie kick as of late. I haven’t actually written any zombie stories recently, but I just finished writing a three-part series of articles on zombies for. And there’s a zombie section to be written up soon, for a sourcebook that I’m putting together. Here are a few ideas that I haven’t seen often, or at all. The zombie virus only affects children. Oh, th...
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White Marble Block: Applying History #2: Disciples of the Peacock Angel
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Philosophy, self-awareness, and everything else. Thursday, June 25, 2015. Applying History #2: Disciples of the Peacock Angel. The Dawaaseen (singular: Daasin), more commonly known as Yezidis or Yazidis, are an ethnic and religious group based primarily in Iraq but also in Armenia, Turkey, &c. They believe that they are holders of a cultural tradition which was otherwise lost when the Kurdish people converted to Islam. Izidis (worshipers of God); Êzidî/Êzîdî; Yazdani. Agriculture and domesticated animals:.
