Really productive thing I'm doing today?

I started out trying to understand the GURPS powerstone and staff rules for the standard magic system. Many hours later, I'm now poking around the internet looking for a six foot oak staff, a nice pretty crystal of appropriate value, and the means to stick one to the other.

... actually I'm still baffled, how do you get them to fit together? ( Read more... )

I've been thinking on wizard school, and GURPS rules for intensive training. It says you usually only get intensive training in the military, so basically it's boot camp. Handing out wands and going to wizard school gets you a very different feel of story than going to wizard boot camp and being handed six feet of oak.

After that the rules reckon Magery, the necessary prerequisite advantage to casting any spells, can be acquired in play, but it needs something a bit epic to explain how. Ordeals and quests and suchlike. So, what would they put new proto wizard recruits through, to get them to the point they can see the magic?