![]() ![]() However, not all wizards use spellbooks of such traditional “book” form. ![]() :-)Ī graduate of the Iron Tower of the Manalishi embarks upon her adventuring life with an impressive-looking spellbook a thick, weighty tome of a hundred or so creamy-yellow vellum pages with a cover of immaculately-stitched and dyed leather, bound with sturdy but delicately-etched polished black iron, and decorated with brilliant silver and gold filigree or other lustrous finery. The end results of which are, of course, taken straight out of the good old AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide. I also added sanity rules to handle situations like encountering hideous and otherworldly monsters, reading forbidden books, speaking the names of Old Ones, suffering from fear (whether a spell or magic item), doing blasphemous things, and generally freaking out and going crazy like Pink from The Wall or GG Allin, or going completely bat shit insane like Jim Jones or Elizabeth Báthory. So I like using costs for adding spells to spellbooks and rules that make casting spells off of scrolls risky. Sometimes players treat the spellbooks and scrolls they find in the hoards of slain evil wizards kind of like how kids collect baseball (or Yu-Gi-Oh!) cards: got it, got it, need it, got it, need it. Cheers!Īs a referee, I have been known to get fussy about spellbooks and scrolls. Today we deal with spellcasting and sanity. This is the seventh and final post detailing the house rules I use for Swords & Wizardy: WhiteBox. ![]()
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