Celebrating 2020 - The Year of Blackmoor - 50th Anniversary!
One of the best places to go for information about Blackmoor, Dave Arneson and OD&D is the Hidden in Shadows blog authored by DHBoggs who describes himself as a Game Archaeologist/Anthropologist.
Arneson did not use "Vancian" Magic, but had his own system which included a change of spell failure. A recent post titled Spell Failure in Blackmoor addresses this and goes into a dive into the information we have about Arneson's magic system.
One of the best places to go for information about Blackmoor, Dave Arneson and OD&D is the Hidden in Shadows blog authored by DHBoggs who describes himself as a Game Archaeologist/Anthropologist.
Arneson did not use "Vancian" Magic, but had his own system which included a change of spell failure. A recent post titled Spell Failure in Blackmoor addresses this and goes into a dive into the information we have about Arneson's magic system.
Magic in early Blackmoor has often attracted interest, in part because it appears to have been so different from the "Vancian" system Gygax adopted for D&D. When Arneson developed the magical component of his Blackmoor campaign he had little to go on in terms of source material. The first edition CHAINMAIL booklet did list a handful of battlefield spells, but not much else.
In particular, one aspect that has drawn some attention and has attracted a number of fans over the years is the idea of spell failure.It is an interesting read and I highly recommend this blog. I have never used the spell failure option in game, so maybe I should take another look at it and try it out.
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