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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tales and Chronicles" data-source="post: 8150358" data-attributes="member: 6871653">For the cataclysm, I'd go with something like this:- Ancient Empires use to rise lands into the skies to create floating cities/nations. After a time, the outer shell of the planet became so thin that it fissured and the burning fumes from the core transformed the surface into the desert it is now. The magic called gravity was lessened an most of the floating nations drifted away in the void of space. The planet is now orbited by a great numbers of space-floating necropolis. Some time, some of them fall back to the ground, causing huge destruction, but also a race to gather the remnant of the great empires of yore.- What was once the leylines criscrossing the world, which every caster used to fuel their magic, are now ''ley-crevices'' emanating a huge amount of energy that can shape spell to create horrible effect, but also (secretly) drains slowly the core of the planet. Caster can tap into an ley-source, but its really taxing for the body and the mind. (You can use the ley-lines magic supplement from Kobold Press for that part). Tapping a ley-line weakens the body: the caster has disadvantage on all healing roll received for the next day and their HP max is reduced by the spell-level +1. In exchange, the spell DC or attack rolls increases by + 1/2 prof.- High Dragons are magocrates that fused themselves directly with the core source, warping their former form into huge beast of destruction. Their existence itself drains the core. They greedily guards access to the largest ley-crevices and accessing the ley-lines without the permission of the Dragons or their agents in a punishable crime. Agents are gifted access to the dwindling resources of the world and even share some of the magic of the Dragons (you can use Kobold Press Dragon Magic for that part, and the last UA from WotC).- Other spellcasters that dont have access to a ley-line or do not want to drain the core for moral reasons can fuel their spells using the Spell Emanations from other spellcasters: when a spell is cast, the consumed energy release 1) the spell effect and 2) a fume-like residue that can be used to cast spells with a lessened effect. (Aka No spell casting focus, everybody must use component pouches, and the only components are Emanations). Some time, Emanation can condense into a cloud, which will rains shard-like crystal of Emanation worth a lot more (aka the spell components that have a cost are replaced by an Emanation Shard worth X).</blockquote>

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