Vikings D20

[kingpaul]

The biggest change from standard D&D is the runic magic: I've introduced a spellpoints (mana) system for all the spellcasting classes, and a few other tweaks. The playtesters all liked it.

Have you looked at RPG Object's Legends of Sorcery? It has rules to give all classes spell casting abilities.

Their Legends of Excalibur and Legends of the Samurai went with spell points for all casters, instead of spells/day like you see for clerics and wizards.


Regardless, this does look like an interesting book.

 

[Jolly Giant]

Hey folks. Good news. Vidaar is alive!

Apparantly he had a major power surge late last year that fried everything incliding his computer, not to mention entire house.

Lightning struck a transformer right outside my house, just a couple of days before my wedding. I guess something I wrote must've upset Thor!

Just about everything electronic got fried, and according to the missus a new PC was not on top of our list of priorities!

 

[Jolly Giant]

Have you looked at RPG Object's Legends of Sorcery? It has rules to give all classes spell casting abilities.

Their Legends of Excalibur and Legends of the Samurai went with spell points for all casters, instead of spells/day like you see for clerics and wizards.


Regardless, this does look like an interesting book.

While I've been writing Vikings D20, I've made a point of not reading other RPG books. Instead I've been reading up on Vikings and old norse mythology. The idea is to create a system that feels and is as authentically Viking as possible. Many of the written sources from the Viking era give detailed information of how the Vikings worked magic, and these are what I've based my system on.

I wanted Midgard to be a low magic setting though, and the 'X spells per day' system did not fit with how Viking magic "worked". I came up with a spell-point system that I think works very well in both regards.

In Vikings D20, only the spellcasting classes can cast spells, but it is possible for any character to achieve certain spell-like effects if he has the right feats and/or skills...

 

[TheLe]

according to the missus a new PC was not on top of our list of priorities!

You best get used to that. As a matter of fact, you can just replace the word "PC" with pretty much anything you like, since it will be true.

`Le

 

[Voadam]

While I've been writing Vikings D20, I've made a point of not reading other RPG books. Instead I've been reading up on Vikings and old norse mythology. The idea is to create a system that feels and is as authentically Viking as possible. Many of the written sources from the Viking era give detailed information of how the Vikings worked magic, and these are what I've based my system on.

I wanted Midgard to be a low magic setting though, and the 'X spells per day' system did not fit with how Viking magic "worked". I came up with a spell-point system that I think works very well in both regards.

In Vikings D20, only the spellcasting classes can cast spells, but it is possible for any character to achieve certain spell-like effects if he has the right feats and/or skills...

Care to share your bibliography?

 

[Jolly Giant]

Care to share your bibliography?

I haven't got all my books here right now, but here's a few samples off the top of my head:


Original source material in the form of sagas, including (among others) everything written by Snorre Sturlasson.

The Encyclopedia of Norse Mythology* (Idar Lind)

The Battle of Norway* (Torgrim Titlestad)

The Vikings (author's name escapes me at the moment)


*: Original title translated from Norwegian




I've also used web-sites like:

Wikipedia (Mind you, the Norwegian and Danish Wikipedia pages contain more info and fewer errors than the English ones!)

Arild Hauge's Runes

The Viking Network

Encyclopedia Mythica

The Viking Resource Web


...and many others.

 

[Treebore]

The Rune magic alone made sure I was going to buy this. I sure hope you came up with the idea I've been searching for years for! Meaning checking out other peoples ideas and strangling my muse for my own ideas! She keeps trying to talk to me but for some reason words don't come out of her mouth.

 

[Jolly Giant]

The Rune magic alone made sure I was going to buy this. I sure hope you came up with the idea I've been searching for years for! Meaning checking out other peoples ideas and strangling my muse for my own ideas! She keeps trying to talk to me but for some reason words don't come out of her mouth.

I don't know what it your muse is trying to tell you, but I'm quite pleased with how my rune magic system turned out, although it took a load more work than I originally believed. The basic prinsiple is quite simple, but it had greater repurcussions than I first thought. It required me to come up with a number of new ways to use certain skills, for instance.

 

[Treebore]

Can't wait to see where your muse took you. Maybe I should let go of mine?

 

[Jolly Giant]

No, no, hold on to her! You never no what nuggets she might someday provide.