World Tree – Ardenharius Sen Thrachten Philosos

   Male Rassimel, 33    Theofin Sen Philosos Machia had heard that his young nephew had started using magic precociously early – by several years – and had stopped by to see what the boy would like for his birthday. After all, once children started using magic – especially precocious children – it was all [...]

World Tree – How to Drown an Orren

   First up for today, it’s something from the files – some World Tree spells. In this case, we have a list designed around a particular special-request theme; “How to drown an Orren”.    In World Tree, Orren are otterlike creatures, and are noted for being extremely good swimmers. Drowning them really isn’t easy, but [...]

Once More Updating Links

   Well, today it’s time to update some links again: I’ll put them all into this entry and start getting the index tabs updated later tonight, but here’s a quick listing of the material from the past few weeks. Legend of the Five Rings: Shigure’s Goals: A few of Shigure’s character goals for the Legend [...]

Advanced Spellbinding

   Today it’s a little something for World Tree: some information from my notes on Advanced Spellbinding.    World Tree Spellbinding is – as befits a branch of Pattern Magic – fairly straightforward: It still has a quirk or two even in its base form (most notably, you can bind spells that you cannot cast otherwise), [...]

Sparky, a resident of the World Tree

   “Sparky” was a character belonging to Clint Thomas Walker (1980-2008). In a world where “dragons” were tiny, delicate, ageless creatures who wielded complex and precise spells, collected lore, and stretched their memories across the centuries, “Sparky” insisted that dragons should be huge, that magic should be pure and spontaneous, and that he couldn’t remember [...]

Adventures in Arborology

   The last World Tree campaign ran for about two years. Most of the group had never heard of the game, but everyone was up for a few sessions of almost anything I recommended. World Tree is a very good game, hence that brief experiment ran for longer than most of them expected. It only [...]

Campaign Logs and Material for Today

   The Legend of the Five Rings campaign log page has been updated to the current session - the Night of a Thousand Knives – and the Champions Campaign Log is already current. The width problem on the various character pages has been corrected, and I’ve added a collection of Arden’s World Tree Spell-Manipulation Effects to [...]

World Tree and other material

   Since there seems to be some interest, I’ve put up four additional Magical Techniques, Advanced Great Enchantment, and Vancian Magic for the World Tree (as a .pdf download) in the “Other” games tab (above) and the download box (for the .pdf files) on the lower right. I’ll try to put up some of the [...]