A Gods & Monsters Lorebook
Arcane Lore
A Gods & Monsters Lorebook
by Jerry Stratton
Copyright © 2021
“Know then,” the magician said, “that all those exercises that men call arts, and all wisdom and all knowledge, are but humble branches of that worthy study that is justly named the Art.”—Lord Dunsany, The Charwoman’s Shadow
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February 12, 2021
- Arcane Lore: Equipment
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- Fields and skills
- Your characters had some sort of occupation before they became adventurers. Your character may yearn for the simpler life they previously had, or may be glad to be free of its drudgery, but their past life will give them some skills.
- Specialties
- Specialties provide the character with special abilities that further define the character’s role in the story. While the character may not know the justification for receiving the specialty, some justification must be made; there must be some reason that the character has learned, gained, or always had these special abilities. This reason may have to do, for example, with new-found wisdom, ancestral inheritance, or special training. In some…
- Psychic fields
- There are five psychic fields: one science, one craft, and three arts. Psychic fields are available only to the monk archetype. The use of psychic fields is described in the rules for the monk archetype.
- Arcane Lore: Spells
- Many spells, especially the more unique ones, will be known only by a single order or individual researcher. The order or sorceror is likely to jealously guard their personal spells. Trading of spells between orders might occur, but is likely to be the subject of long negotiation. Spells that are known only by their original researcher might be given to the order that the researcher belongs to, or it might be kept private until the researcher’s…
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