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…
