Basilisk, Asterisk

20/04/2021

Three Least Relics: The Smudged Thumbprint of the Missing One, The Amber-held Parasite of St. Dorma, and the Teratoma of St. Tulip.

06/04/2021

Even Munga feel sad some days.

26/08/2020

A Spell: The Immanent Illusion

Technology and publishing for zero+ levels of simulation of interactive worlds—virtual, fictional, otherwise—in print and around the game table.

19/08/2020

A Spell: Eidoloni‘s Manual Duality, via Basilisk* (Basilisk Asterisk) https://ift.tt/2FGj1WP

08/07/2020

Do you have no idea what basilisk* is about yet also want to play a game? Then you should fill out this google form. Everyone loves those. And you can play a game with me!

https://forms.gle/556zeYrhEn5m4UqX6

Basilisk* will be running groups of different tabletop RPG exposure levels through the same 'adventures' in short sessions to see how they compare.

Basilisk* Is running weekly 'virtual' tabletop role playing game sessions for people who have never player a tabletop RPG before. If you have no idea what a tabletop RPG is—exactly the kind of people I'm looking for to sign up for this—it's whatever you think of when you hear 'Dungeons and Drago...

03/07/2020

Thanks for the likes during the soft launch, everyone. Pythagoras praise you.

03/07/2020

Two new spells today as blog outrages begin to melt away. The Encystment of Episode as teased yesterday and the Personal Hermitage.

https://basiliskasterisk.com/blog/encystment-of-episode
https://basiliskasterisk.com/blog/a-personal-hermitage

Encystment of EpisodePosted 02.07.20203rd level clerical spell Summary: Converts an action and its consequences into a physical object meant to be hidden. All actions, intentful or unthinking, have a primary sentient Actor associated with them. This entity is bound to its actions by guilt and pride....

03/07/2020

Since the blog is being a real, real pain in the butt today, here's a preview of today's post: the 3rd level clerical spell, the Encystment of Episode.

All actions, intentful or unthinking, have a primary sentient Actor associated with them. This entity is bound to its actions by guilt and pride here in mundanity. In stranger places the bonds between are of silver cords. This magic pulls those cords together and hides the web of what they touch.

All conscious knowledge and evidence of an act is removed from experiential reality and replaced within one object thematically related to the act. This object must be no larger nor heavier than the caster of the spell can manipulate with one grasping appendage. If the primary actor of the act to be hidden is not the caster, this requirement applies to them as well.

As long as the object is hidden by the primary actor, the episode remains outside of reality. If the object is stolen from them by a sentient creature, carefully examined by a sentient creature, or destroyed by anything: the caster, the primary actor, all others who were directly affected,all within the immediate area of the object, and all within the settlements of sentient creatures nearest those already named immediately know all about the episode, even if they did not know of it prior to the spell being cast. All physical evidence of the act returns to material reality. Any intervening time did not pass for this physical evidence: if the spell held for a million years, the material evidence exists now as it did a million years ago.

If the action to hide took place longer than a season ago, it requires increasing time and materials to cast. (Seasons are delineated by solstices and equinoxes. The actor's lifetime is used for other measurements, not the caster's.)

within a season: 1 hour / 1sp
within a year: 1 day /1 gp
within a generation: 1 week/ 100gp
within a lifetime: 1 month, 10000gp

These are costs incurred by the caster; they may decide to charge whatever they wish for this spell to be cast.

01/07/2020

Basilisk* posted an introductory blog. Praise to Pythagoras.

http://basiliskasterisk.com