Requests for Deep Magic

[open_design]

Ok, now I seriously *AM* going to run out stretch goals before the end of the project. It's a good problem to have, but I ask you Open Design veterans:

Who would you want to come on as a guest designer to do spells or closely related material, and what would you want them to write?

The floor is open.

Comments

[shadowborn]

For a big book of magic, it would seem to make sense to include a section on anti-magic. Unique items, locals, or (ironically) spells that create dead zones or hinder the way magic works.

How about key magic? Spells that deal with the opening, closing, sealing, locking, unlocking, altering of doors, locks, windows, boxes, portals, etc.

[open_design]

I like the anti-magic idea. The key magic is cool, but threatens to just eliminate the rogue skills, and we do have knock already...

[shadowborn]

I was thinking of it as a way to give rogues more challenges to use their skills against.

[thorr_kan]

Ken Hite.
Chad Underkoffler.
Lois Bujold! While not a designer, her magic systems in the Chalion and Sharing Knife series are elegant and woundrous.

[open_design]

All good ideas, or at least Ken and Lois.

I keep hearing Chad's name, but not necessarily for Pathfinder. I'll have to dig into it.

Thanks for the suggestions!

[thorr_kan]

Lois admits to being a slower writer, so I don't know if she'd be interested in something with this quick a turnaround. But her designs for fiction are topnotch. I've done a little fiddling with Chalion and Sharing Knife from a mechanics standpoint, and I think they're gameable. They're examples; I certainly am not suggesting any licensing discussions at this stage!

Chad was a regular contributor to Pyramid Magazine, Vol. 2, when it was an online subscription. He's involved in Fate and his own company right now, so I don't know how much he'd be interested in d20.

[bullonir]

Out of left field...

The writers known as the Kargatane for the Ravenloft 3E line, the ones who did the gazetteers and Van Richten's Arsenal.

The Open Design / Midgard products have such a compatible RL vibe to them. I would love to see what they do with it.

I do not know if any of them still write on a professional level. I don't have their names handy but could find them easily if you want.

Patrick

[open_design]

I would be very interested to hear one or two names of the Kargatane, Patrick.

FWIW, I should caution that Deep Magic is not exclusively a Midgard book. It's just happens to collect a TON of existing Midgard campaign setting spells in one place, and it has a couple of very Midgard-centric sections.

[thorr_kan]

Publicly listed on their website (www.kargatane.com), so I think I can repost here with a clear conscience. But no email addresses.

Andrew Cermak, John W. Mangrum, Ryan Naylor, Chris Nichols, Stuart Turner and Andrew Wyatt.

[terraleon]

Pulling together the other variant systems out of KQ (if they're not in there), like Titvillus' stats revised for PFRPG or that glyph system article that was system neutral

[terraleon]

And yeah, more dream magic. (I personally *love* that spell. Did you realize you can use it to contact *anyone* even if you don't know them, don't know where they are, or what they look like?)

-Ben.