tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-422181426312081107.post4036136584792227069..comments2024-03-23T05:46:31.832-07:00Comments on Power Score: The Coolest D&D Monster That Nobody Uses - The SpellweaverSeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07263753821685936593noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-422181426312081107.post-8900340839766766372020-08-16T07:05:55.861-07:002020-08-16T07:05:55.861-07:00There is a playable Spellweaver option for 5e in t...There is a playable Spellweaver option for 5e in the Epic Legacy Campaign Codex by 2CGaming.Dakinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-422181426312081107.post-56955103503697308792020-07-15T16:27:11.530-07:002020-07-15T16:27:11.530-07:00@Peter K.
Thank you for sharing! The spellweaver ...@Peter K.<br /><br />Thank you for sharing! The spellweaver has evolved far more than I ever realized. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18326981601782301815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-422181426312081107.post-43790473099726906292019-06-26T16:03:41.966-07:002019-06-26T16:03:41.966-07:00Sorry. Bad link. This is the picture:
https://driv...Sorry. Bad link. This is the picture:<br />https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e9nqUBHiitc7iVbI38o71U9dcsQ09Gfy/view?usp=drivesdkPeter K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17181421723646836427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-422181426312081107.post-35875392972669860202019-06-26T12:10:18.215-07:002019-06-26T12:10:18.215-07:00Tony's version is good, though honestly I am a...Tony's version is good, though honestly I am a bit more partial to Edward's original illustration from Dragon Magazine:<br />https://photos.app.goo.gl/nXscgG5SE4mamy4SPeter K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17181421723646836427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-422181426312081107.post-17828560972327432902019-04-07T11:04:35.676-07:002019-04-07T11:04:35.676-07:00Edward, I’d love to pick your brain on spellweaver...Edward, I’d love to pick your brain on spellweavers and some of your other contributions sometime if you’re willing. I love learning about those seminal years of the game and it’s influences. LagrangianDensitynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-422181426312081107.post-61311311496084109122019-03-05T08:46:27.478-08:002019-03-05T08:46:27.478-08:00I created the spell weaver in the 70s, in highscho...I created the spell weaver in the 70s, in highschool, and sold it to TSRs The Dragon Magazine in the 80s.<br /><br />I drew the thing when I was 17... or 18 years old... TSR bought the drawing years later after I graduated from college and was trying ro figure out what I wanted to do with my life, with my fine art degree, but they needed the write up, and the back and forth on that took a few years. During which I learned the market value of creative work. <br /><br />Heh.<br /><br />I made 120 dollars, and it was my first magazine sale, but they were interested in my other hundred monsters or so; they had a h ge backlog of bought stuff they said. Of course I'd sold all rights into perpetuity. Which was fine. I just wish I could have sold them more. <br /><br />It is wonderful to think people, some people, got something out of it, even though, as the article says, 'nobody ever uses' the thing. Edwardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17691910345694356205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-422181426312081107.post-52689229759813976462018-09-12T11:20:42.415-07:002018-09-12T11:20:42.415-07:00Forgot about this fantastic post, reread to my gre...Forgot about this fantastic post, reread to my great joy, thanx for thismaohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07547379412488246692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-422181426312081107.post-30568463740909345792018-02-17T04:56:54.362-08:002018-02-17T04:56:54.362-08:00Yet another wonderful compilation of sources on a ...Yet another wonderful compilation of sources on a great creature. I'm here long after you posted these, but I really appreciate you keeping them up for posterity.<br /><br />I agree, Spellweavers are underused in the background, and I too have a place for them in mine like Jason R has above.<br /><br />In my campaign, the Battle of the Fields of Pesh (ultimate battle of the War Against Chaos, Mishka the Wolf Spider and the Queen of Chaos vs. the Wind Dukes of Aaqa etc.) was fought on many planes and even timelines at once. The goal of the forces of chaos was to collapse the planar divisions, placing everything on top of everything else at once, resulting in a breakdown of all sense and logic in the multiverse. it would be a bit like what happens in the Cloverfield Effect, if you've seen that. Anyways, they didn't succeed but the conflict left a lot of healing/standing rents in between the planes.<br /><br />The Spellweavers came along and capitalized on that, building their network of planar nodes and energetic engines through those rents/wormholes/whatever. Their goal was something like building a new structural lattice for the multiverse, that they could control to empower themselves. They messed it up, of course.<br /><br />I'll be dropping that bit in as background fluff in some of the GH adventures I run, like the Seeds of Sehan arc (partially set in Exag, which I make into a Spellweaver engine ruin). And I may pull some of those Shackled City adventures with Spellweavers out, and use them as elements as I restructure the Scales of War for a 3.5 build with more roleplaying and a wee bit less crawling.<br /><br />Anyways: your writeup helped me find more sources and see them from a slightly different perspective. Thanks!OhOnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14805027285047113565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-422181426312081107.post-84131323022639860412017-02-11T15:09:20.791-08:002017-02-11T15:09:20.791-08:00Thanks for the references-- I hadnt discovered som...Thanks for the references-- I hadnt discovered some of them yet. My thoughts about using spellweavers has been as a mysterious and "alien" race who pre-dates everything known in the prime material plane. I like the lore about the planes being a single entity at one time and so on. I'm also using them as the "Juna" race that's mentioned in spelljammer lore, and will tie them to the Spelljammer itself. I don't like sci-if mixed with my fantasy, but they come close to that alien concept while still maintaining the fantasy genre. Thanks again for the write-up!Jason Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10308752560098089761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-422181426312081107.post-46882454543666115682016-12-04T10:53:07.461-08:002016-12-04T10:53:07.461-08:00Oops, sorry; I thought I could edit my first comme...Oops, sorry; I thought I could edit my first comment, instead I deleted it :-(<br /><br />I don't know, I kind of like the 'new' version of their looks over the original.<br /><br />I have personally been thinking about making the Tu’narath, the stronghold of the Githyanki in the Astral Sea, the actual body of the 'God' of the Spellweavers (got to admit, the appearance is similar). Chup@Cabrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07251437260952396688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-422181426312081107.post-16218971034597042562016-12-04T07:42:08.456-08:002016-12-04T07:42:08.456-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Chup@Cabrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07251437260952396688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-422181426312081107.post-43464754856744265392016-04-08T07:16:13.468-07:002016-04-08T07:16:13.468-07:00Found bthis w/ google search, Loved Spellweavers a...Found bthis w/ google search, Loved Spellweavers and am using them (again) as the big baddy in my multi planer game. Thanx for the overview,very nice!!!!!!<br />maohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07547379412488246692noreply@blogger.com