We’ve been having fun in our weekly playtest session of Tattered Magicks. And as my group comes to the end of this first salvo of stories, they have managed to encounter a few magick items along the way. Last week we revealed the Scáth (or “Shadow” in Gaelic) Dagger, which allows its owner to pass…
In any good “magickal” world, there have to be magick items sprinkled around. Perhaps it’s a magick staff, a magick wand, or a magick sword, but in Tattered Magicks, we have room for them all. Creating magick items can be as easy as finding a character with the Craft Items trait and convincing them to…
In honor of Halloween, I thought it was time to reveal a bit about vampires in the Tattered Magicks world. Though my playtesters haven’t encountered any yet, they are definitely out and about causing trouble wherever they choose to go. Like many folks, I had a great time playing White Wolf’s Vampire the Masquerade game…
What *is* Tattered Magicks? It’s our take on urban fantasy using the Inverse20 system we developed for Aliens & Asteroids. Simple, flexible mechanics gave us the room to expand into a modern world with magick and monsters. But what’s it about? The World of Tattered Magicks In our myths and legends, there are many tales…
As we quickly approach Old Hallow’s Eve, I’m left pondering some of the horrors in the dark corners of Tattered Magicks. We’ve already talked about ghosts and I brought up werewolves about a year ago for Aliens & Asteroids. But I recently had an opportunity to ponder tentacled horrors. Now, what is a tentacled horror?…
The world of Tattered Magicks is something that’s grown organically in my mind over the last few months, but I think it started much earlier than that. The idea of magick — true magick — in the modern world is something I have sought in my fiction choices for years. And each, in some small…
Now that we’ve covered a little bit about magick (What is Magick?) and ghosts (Ghosts in an Insubstantial World), let’s talk a little bit about using magick and how a character might go about using magick (and a little practicality) against a ghost with an attitude problem. First, let’s set the stage and say that…
One of the first things I did when I started writing Tattered Magicks was figure out how ghosts would work. As a staple in urban fantasy and science fiction stories, I wanted to make sure I had a good handle on the how’s and why’s of how they would interact with the world — and…
If you ask ten people to define “magic,” you will probably get ten different answers like: Casting a spell like Merlin or Gandalf. Performing illusions and sleight-of-hand tricks. Mesmerizing a crowd with a song or story. A saint performing a miracle of faith. The funny thing is that they’d all be right. Like art, magic…
We began playtesting Tattered Magicks on the first Tuesday in September 2019, which is more than two years since we started playtesting Aliens & Asteroids at the same place — our FLGS Petrie’s Family Games. In that back room we’re going to be playing a brand new adventure featuring ghosts, faeries, and magick in a…
