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The Sourcerer

by Kris Kowal.

The Sourcerer has moved! Please visit askawizard.blogspot.com.

Wed, 24 Jan 2007

Hexforce

I'm beginning to regret having not blogged my daily progress for the last seven years. There are a lot of undocumented discussions and ideas for Tale. One of the more recent ones is the notion of shards of hexforce. I've enlisted the aid of Geoff Kriston (previously mentioned by his mmearth.net character name, Toronsire Elenath) and he's distilled this description of the shards:

    The Hexforce is the mystical mover of magic, the essence "mana", in Tale. Shattered into six shards, these pieces and their shadows are both mana dipoles and tomes of instruction, inscribed with instruction in the fundamental mechanics of the Tale world.

this entry was posted on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 at 23:37 in program/tale

Samsoit

So, Ryan Paul and I are still in touch with a few of the people who played the old MUD, Magic of Middle Earth back in the day. "Toronsire Elenath", from Chicago, drafted up the concept of a new monster for Tale, the Samsoit. Here's the art:

this entry was posted on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 at 21:12 in program/tale