A few weeks ago I realized that the Fortune Mastery rules said nothing about the range at which effects could be generated or targeted. After some consultation with members of Everway-L, I came up with the following chart of ranges:

Single bond Fortunes

Range: An arrow's flight

Double-bond Fortunes

Range: To the horizon

Triple-bond Fortunes

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Just a short entry to let folks know that Walker's Crown is still a going concern. Most of August was devoted to preparing my Fall 2007 courses, and most of September was devoted to getting those courses underway as well as to writing the epilogue to my book. I hope to have some game-related entries up soon.

These are mechanical guidelines for handling Fortune Mastery in play:

Establishing Fortune BondsAt the start of play, Fortune Masters may bond to one of the cards from the Fortune Deck for each point of Magic they purchase during Hero Creation. (Alternately they may choose to use a point to strengthen a bond already purchased-see the next section ( Read more... )

Exceeding all other magics in puissance is Fortune Mastery, the ability to harness the supernatural might of the Fortune Deck's Thirty-Five Fortunes. This control is not absolute: even the greatest of Fortune Masters can only bind and invoke a fraction of the Deck's powers. But even a few Fortunes in the right hands can change the Fate of entire ( Read more... )

In the Thousand Worlds of Walker's Crown, High Magic is the direct invocation of the 36 Fortunes, the supernatural forces depicted in the Fortune Deck. The Eight Great Gods established these cosmic constants at the moment of creation, and they have only changed once in the history of the spheres (when the Traitor God's card was occulted in the ( Read more... )

Everyone in the Thousand Worlds is born under the sign of one of the Twelve Tokens. Select a Token to be your Hero's astrological sign. (I recommend picking the sign/animal you feel bears the most resemblance to your concept of your Hero.) This choice has two effects, one in-character and one out-of-character. The in-character effect is the ( Read more... )

Because of the changes I've made to the standard Everway cosmology, I've produced a Walker's Crown "guide" to the Fortune Deck:

https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/rwb/www/gaming/everweb/walkers-crown-fortune-deck.pdfThe cards and their meanings are all the same, but the correspondences have now been updated to include the Eight Great Gods, the Seven ( Read more... )

Beyond Morven's Wheel lies the circle of the fixed stars. Among the stars are the Twelve Tokens, a dozen animal-shaped constellations offering knowledgable interpreters clues to the future. The Sun (Jiq's Beacon) passes through each of the Tokens in turn, marking off the months and seasons of the year.

SpringThese three Tokens are affiliated ( Read more... )

When the Dragons fought the Gods at the dawn of time, the force of their battle splintered Primal Delight into the countless Earths that make up the spheres. However, Heaven survived the war intact. As a result, the night skies are identical in each of the Thousand Worlds.

The greatest of the celestial bodies are the Seven Wanderers, the homes ( Read more... )

Legends state that the Eight Great Gods were once nine in number. But in the War against Alurax and the Dragons, one of the gods betrayed its fellow deities for reasons never revealed to mortal souls. This treachery led to the shattering of Delight, the primal sphere, into the myriad lesser spheres that became the Thousand Worlds. After the ( Read more... )