The “Man In Black” archetype is older than you thought. If something peculiar happened to you, there’s a chance that you received a Strange Visitor around the same time. They […]
Monthly Archives: June 2012
The Professor
As in, “to profess.” AKA the Magus. Philosophers, Plato said, are seekers of wisdom, because they love wisdom, and because they lack it. (Plato’s teacher, Socrates, was held to be […]
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Auxiliomancy (version 2.0)
For those poor souls who wish they could be adepts. (Inspired by belkal’s Auxilomancy) Nicknames: Toadies, handbags, apostles, satellites. The Aeon Of Horus has begun. All around the world, people […]
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Auxiliomancy (version 2.0)
For those poor souls who wish they could be adepts. (Inspired by belkal’s Auxilomancy) Nicknames: Toadies, handbags, apostles, satellites. The Aeon Of Horus has begun. All around the world, people […]
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Gilligan’s Island
Another Otherspace, from Australia Gilligan’s Island Now I am a great fan of using Otherspaces in UA, especially since I set my games in Australia. Reading through a book called […]
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Homeopathic adeptry (a variant on narco-alchemy)
According to homeopathic principles, one tiny dose is all you need to get back to your normal, healthy baseline. Every junkie already knows this. Nicknames: Homies, Quacks, Placebomancers. Many homeopathic […]
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Emetomancy
Vomit-related magic. Probably the grossest magical school I’ve written. It’s believed that the first adept of this school was trying to learn dipsomancy, but somehow learned something else instead. Since […]
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Duncan Anders-Occult Biographer
Telling the stories of the Occult Underground and the people who live in it. Duncan Anders-Occult Biographer It started with Kerouac. On the Road\ was a revelation to the voracious […]
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Saint Morgellon’s Hospital
An otherspace that turns its occupants into epideromancers. I posted this on the UA mailing list a while ago, when someone brought up the topic of Otherspaces that transform their […]
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The Monster
What does it profit a man to acquire the world and forfeit his soul? –Book of Mark, chapter 8, verse 36 “What does it profit his soul, should one man […]
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