Skortched Urf' Studios has released two more Dept. 7 Advanced Class Updates this week. Along with the other big changes hapening in the PDF publishing ring, we decided to switch things up a bit and offer two classes for the D20 Modern Arcana Line. Avaliable now from all the usual places place. ;-)
Up first we have the Soul Collector.
Death comes to all creatures, either as a terror or as a quiet final mercy. Soul Collectors are death’s emissaries and ambassadors, creatures that can walk between the worlds of the living and the dead at will. Soul Collectors are empowered by death, and are able to absorb the souls of the dying into their own bodies. Soul Collectors run the gamut from cruel necromantic serial murderers, who torture their victims to death and than enslave their spirits to kind hearted exorcists who lay unquiet spirits to rest. Others act as mediums, helping the dead sever their ties to the living world, or as ‘forensic necromancers’ who use their supernatural gifts to avenge the dead.
Soul Collectors tend to be lonely souls, with more friends in the realms beyond than among the living. Soul Collectors make no distinction between the living and the dead, and are as apt to laugh at a joke told them by the soul of a child who died of the Black Plague in 1223 as they are a living friend’s comment, and are as likely to take the advice of a merchant who perished in the French Revolution as they are to listen to their living mentor. Some see them as morbid and fatalistic, and many (even mages and other heroes who are used to the supernatural) find the Soul Collector subtly terrifying. After all, the Soul Collector is a constant reminder of the mortality all humans share.
And right behind that we have a new breed of mage; The Digital Sorcorer.
The Digital Sorcerer is a new breed of mage, a modern evolutionary reaction to the return of the supernatural. The Digital Sorcerer approaches magic from a new perspective, blending ancient arcane techniques with modern communications, culture and technology. Digital Sorcerers draw power from the collective unconcisous, wisdom from the emerging AI-biosphere, and potency from fragments of long forgotten scanned into the Internet and shared on P2P sites.
Digital Sorcerers are more open with their discoveries than the cloistered mages of old, having established a loose MySpace fraternity that trades discoveries, shares experiments and pushes the boundries of magic ever forward. Digital Sorcerers do not just cast traditional spells- those limited incantations are a relic of an older time. Instead, they practice a unique, freewheeling style of spellcasting that incorporates elements as diverse as ancient Goetic techniques, Voodoun rituals and hacking techniques familiar to any identity thief.
This new Advanced Class features a host of new abilities; from the USB Whichmark to FlashMemory SpellBooks plus seventeen new spells!
Both Written by Chris A. Field.
Artwork by Anthony Cournoyer.
-Skortched Urf' Studios
www.skortchedurfstudios.com
Up first we have the Soul Collector.
Death comes to all creatures, either as a terror or as a quiet final mercy. Soul Collectors are death’s emissaries and ambassadors, creatures that can walk between the worlds of the living and the dead at will. Soul Collectors are empowered by death, and are able to absorb the souls of the dying into their own bodies. Soul Collectors run the gamut from cruel necromantic serial murderers, who torture their victims to death and than enslave their spirits to kind hearted exorcists who lay unquiet spirits to rest. Others act as mediums, helping the dead sever their ties to the living world, or as ‘forensic necromancers’ who use their supernatural gifts to avenge the dead.
Soul Collectors tend to be lonely souls, with more friends in the realms beyond than among the living. Soul Collectors make no distinction between the living and the dead, and are as apt to laugh at a joke told them by the soul of a child who died of the Black Plague in 1223 as they are a living friend’s comment, and are as likely to take the advice of a merchant who perished in the French Revolution as they are to listen to their living mentor. Some see them as morbid and fatalistic, and many (even mages and other heroes who are used to the supernatural) find the Soul Collector subtly terrifying. After all, the Soul Collector is a constant reminder of the mortality all humans share.
And right behind that we have a new breed of mage; The Digital Sorcorer.
The Digital Sorcerer is a new breed of mage, a modern evolutionary reaction to the return of the supernatural. The Digital Sorcerer approaches magic from a new perspective, blending ancient arcane techniques with modern communications, culture and technology. Digital Sorcerers draw power from the collective unconcisous, wisdom from the emerging AI-biosphere, and potency from fragments of long forgotten scanned into the Internet and shared on P2P sites.
Digital Sorcerers are more open with their discoveries than the cloistered mages of old, having established a loose MySpace fraternity that trades discoveries, shares experiments and pushes the boundries of magic ever forward. Digital Sorcerers do not just cast traditional spells- those limited incantations are a relic of an older time. Instead, they practice a unique, freewheeling style of spellcasting that incorporates elements as diverse as ancient Goetic techniques, Voodoun rituals and hacking techniques familiar to any identity thief.
This new Advanced Class features a host of new abilities; from the USB Whichmark to FlashMemory SpellBooks plus seventeen new spells!
Both Written by Chris A. Field.
Artwork by Anthony Cournoyer.
-Skortched Urf' Studios
www.skortchedurfstudios.com
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I guess we did get off the EDGE site a bit sooner than we both anticipated! Thanks again!!
