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<blockquote data-quote="Mark Hope" data-source="post: 2702855" data-attributes="member: 27051">In my homebrew games, teleport spells are referred to as &quot;The Grey Walk&quot;, due to the momentary lapse of connection with the real world that takes place when the spell is cast (the caster experiences a brief sensation of sickening greyness before appearing at the destination point).Magic weapons and armour are referred to as having different kinds of charms or runes placed on them (&quot;This armour has a charm of warding placed upon it&quot; or &quot;this blade is charmed to guide the wielder's hand when hewing at the foe&quot; or &quot;each link of this chainmail has been inscribed with runes of warding against flame&quot;).&nbsp; I stole this idea from Michael Scot Rohans &quot;Winter of the World&quot; series, iirc.&nbsp; Excellent books.Rather than use valences (a neat idea, btw), in some cases we used names for arcane spell levels, subdivided into lesser and greater categories, which also applied to the caster of the spells.&nbsp; O-level spells were just cantrips or orisons.&nbsp; 1st and 2nd-level spells were Apprentice level, 3rd and 4th-level spells were Journeyman, 5th and 6th-level spells were Master level, 7th and 8th-level spells were Grandmaster level and 9th-level spells were Archmage level.&nbsp; So a 9th level wizard would be said to be a lesser master, a 7th level wizard would be a greater journeyman, a fireball was a lesser journeyman spell etc etc.&nbsp; Another group of casters instead divided their spells into Circles (&quot;I am a mage of the Fifth Circle.&nbsp; Phear my leetness!&quot;)For divine casters, the terminology differs from church to church.&nbsp; The church of the death god might refers to the prayers and abilities of a Reaver Optant or a Reaver Agitant, for example.There are also different terms for different types of magic, rather than just &quot;arcane&quot;, &quot;divine&quot;, &quot;psionics&quot; etc.&nbsp; In my &quot;magic and psionics are the same&quot; game, psionics is referred to as Magecraft, divine magics are called Theurgy, the magics from Arcana Evolved (which feature heavily in the game) are called Weavecraft and the Core Rules arcane magics are divided into Wizardry and Sorcery (imaginatively enough) and are seen as being completely unrelated to each other.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mark Hope, post: 2702855, member: 27051"] In my homebrew games, teleport spells are referred to as "The Grey Walk", due to the momentary lapse of connection with the real world that takes place when the spell is cast (the caster experiences a brief sensation of sickening greyness before appearing at the destination point). Magic weapons and armour are referred to as having different kinds of charms or runes placed on them ("This armour has a charm of warding placed upon it" or "this blade is charmed to guide the wielder's hand when hewing at the foe" or "each link of this chainmail has been inscribed with runes of warding against flame"). I stole this idea from Michael Scot Rohans "Winter of the World" series, iirc. Excellent books. Rather than use valences (a neat idea, btw), in some cases we used names for arcane spell levels, subdivided into lesser and greater categories, which also applied to the caster of the spells. O-level spells were just cantrips or orisons. 1st and 2nd-level spells were Apprentice level, 3rd and 4th-level spells were Journeyman, 5th and 6th-level spells were Master level, 7th and 8th-level spells were Grandmaster level and 9th-level spells were Archmage level. So a 9th level wizard would be said to be a lesser master, a 7th level wizard would be a greater journeyman, a [I]fireball[/I] was a lesser journeyman spell etc etc. Another group of casters instead divided their spells into Circles ("I am a mage of the Fifth Circle. Phear my leetness!") For divine casters, the terminology differs from church to church. The church of the death god might refers to the prayers and abilities of a Reaver Optant or a Reaver Agitant, for example. There are also different terms for different types of magic, rather than just "arcane", "divine", "psionics" etc. In my "magic and psionics are the same" game, psionics is referred to as Magecraft, divine magics are called Theurgy, the magics from Arcana Evolved (which feature heavily in the game) are called Weavecraft and the Core Rules arcane magics are divided into Wizardry and Sorcery (imaginatively enough) and are seen as being completely unrelated to each other. [/QUOTE]

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