FFC Magic System vs. D20 Blackmoor Magic

[aldarron]

The spellshard idea is from Moorcock, IIRC, so it's probably Arnesonian.

Sounds like a classic fantasy trope. Do you have anything more specific? My google-fu is too weak

I never put anything on paper, but I've noticead a number of similar stuff - spell effects and so forth. Hard to remember off the top of me knoggin.

Very interesting. Might be worth investigating further.

While the "spell focus" was Dustins idea, I think he was probably inspired by Dave's stories. There is a kind of gem of spell storing in Dave's D&D draft, for ex.

This is what I am thinking too. The Gem of Spell Storing is an interesting thing here. Dave's D&D draft?

-Havard

Yeah, it's listed as a level 5 "glittering Eye" spell. Basically it requres a gem to hold up to a half dozen (IIRC) other spell that triger automatically if the MU is attacked, etc.


Another example I just recalled is that in Daves Ms. he has Horn of Panic instead of OD&D's drums of panic - which in principle is an awful lot like the d20 BM Horn of Despair.

Even though a great deal of the BM d20 line of products was obviously the brainchild of Dustin and other writers, I think he was being accurate when he said Daves "fingerprints" were all over the stuff.