So despite the fact that I have not one, not two, but THREE D&D 5th Edition games going, I was working out some details of my Magic School game using the D&D Rules Cyclopedia.
So last night I pulled out my GAZ3 The Principalities of Glantri by +Bruce Heard and my Glantri: Kingdom of Magic.
I thought I might run it set in Glantri's past, 800 or so AC. OR even 1000 AC which is close to the present day for the Gazetteer. My current year is 1414-something AC.
But there is so much great stuff here.
This is going to focus 100% on the magic school so the political goings-on will be part of the background noise.
Though I DO want to expand on my whole Ravenloft is from Mystara/Glantri idea some more too and introduce a young professor of Alchemy from Boldavia, Strahd von Zarovich. Gives me an excuse/hook to drop in Ravenloft II.
But back to the school.
There are the Seven Secret Crafts of Magic in the Glantri School of Magic; Alchemy, Dracology, Elementalism, Illusionism, Necromancy, Cryptomancy (rune magic), and Witchcraft.
These were restructured in the 2nd Ed book, notably Witchcraft becoming Wokanism and Illusion dropped in favor of Dream Magic. I am keeping Dream Magic from one and Witchcraft from the other.
I am thinking of adding others. I would love to add a School of Healing; an exception to the normal rule of priests/clerics. And MAYBE Druids. I know they don't fit, but I like them.
Couple things I am considering. Back in the Day I had a wizard character, Phygora, who was a
Glantri trained mage, but he "disappeared". In reality, the mini I used belonged to my old DM. He recently sold them all to me so now I have all these REALLY old lead minis including a recently repainted Phygora. So guess who is now the new Headmaster! Dosen't matter if I set this in the present or the past since in my game Phygora became something of a time-traveler.
I know that this campaign will go from level 1 to 7 (or 0 to 6), after that I want to move it over to my War of the Witch Queens. I was talking with +Brian Isikoff this morning and he is considering doing something with Magic School grads and Bruce Heard's Calidar. I think that is a fantastic idea!
Flying magic ships, flying circuses, I am SO there.
I just need more time to play!
But in the meantime, I can work out all these details.
1 comment:
Incorporating Strahd into Glantri is a stroke of brilliance (considering the old circles of Necromancy)...maybe he was the precursor to the current grandmaster, rather than vice versa?
Well, anyway, I can think of several different directions to go here (and didn't I just lambast Glantri in one of your earlier posts? Sorry). Looking forward to where you take this.
: )
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