Forbidden Arcanaby Michael Hammes and Philip Reed

Introduction...........................................5

Magical Diseases...................................6Magical Disease Descriptions ...........................8Prestige Class: Disease Mage..........................14Spells ...............................................................15

Burning Spellbooks.............................18Abjuration........................................................20Conjuration ......................................................21Divination ........................................................23Enchantment ....................................................24Evocation.........................................................25Illusion.............................................................26Necromancy.....................................................27Transmutation ..................................................28Universal..........................................................29

Potion Mixology ..................................30A Closer Look at Potions ................................31Potions and the Campaign...............................32The Art of Brewing Potions ............................33Why Rules for Mixing Potions?......................35Understanding the Table..................................36

Performance Magic.............................42Who are the Performance Mages? ..................43Being a Performance Mage .............................44Performance Mages and the Campaign...........46Spells ...............................................................47Magic Items.....................................................53

Necromantic Feats ..............................54Using Necromantic Feats ................................55Negative Energy Side Effect Descriptions......56Necromantic Feat Descriptions .......................59General and Metamagic Feat Descriptions .....63

Magical Foods.....................................64Why Magical Foods?.......................................66Potion-Infused Foods ......................................66Expanding the Concept ...................................67Cooking Magical Food....................................69Mundane Items ................................................70Magical Foods .................................................71Magic Items.....................................................72Spells ...............................................................74

Eater of the Arcane .............................76Negative Effects of Consumed Magic ............81

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Forbidden Arcanaby Michael Hammes and Philip Reed

Vignettes by James KosubCover by Christopher Shy

Illustrated by Sam Araya, Leanne Buckley, T. Wing, and Christopher ShyCartography courtesy of Ed Bourelle at SkeletonKey Games (www.skeletonkeygames.com)

Production by Philip Reed and Gina FischerProofreading by Leslie Hammes

Wizards’ Spellbooks.............................82The Standard Rules .........................................83The Spellbooks ................................................85Spells ...............................................................90Wondrous Items...............................................92

Thaumamortis .....................................94

Locations .............................................96Demon’s Vents.................................................96God Shadows...................................................96Pits of Despair .................................................98Soul Wells........................................................99

Spelltouched Feats ............................101Varying and Expanding the Concept.............101Spelltouched Feats.........................................103

Librum Antiquus Diablerie ...............110The Spells ......................................................111

Kelust’s Tower....................................112The Tower......................................................112The Tower’s History ......................................113Placing the Tower ..........................................113Inhabitants......................................................114Visiting the Tower .........................................117Tower Description .........................................117Interesting Books...........................................127Magical Treasures..........................................128Mundane Treasures........................................130New Spells.....................................................132Prestige Class: Scholar ..................................133

Lost Spells..........................................136Why Rules for Lost Spells?...........................136Pure Spell Energy..........................................137Caster Specific...............................................138

Magical Pipes and Tobaccos ............136Why Magical Pipes and Tobaccos?...............154Pipe and Tobacco Basics ...............................154Tools of the Trade..........................................155Magical Pipe vs. Magical Tobacco ...............156Mundane Tobacco and Pipes.........................159Magical Pipes and Tobaccos .........................161Spells .............................................................164

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Welcome to Forbidden Arcana, a collection ofarcane rules and options for use with the D20System. In the pages of this book you’ll find severalvariant rules, spells, feats, and ideas that can be eas-ily incorporated into your campaign. Everything inthis book has been designed to use in your next gamesession – if your DM allows it.

The material in this book was originally pub-lished as separate PDFs and short articles on variouswebsites. We have collected that material – andexpanded on it in places – in order to provide youwith a host of special rules all in one place. As iscommon with Ronin Arts collections, those playerswho purchased all of the individual PDFs before thiscollection was released were provided this book – inPDF – free!

Open Game ContentAll of the text of this book is presented as open

game content. While this means absolutely nothingto your campaign it does give other publishers per-mission to use this material as long as they follow theopen game license (see the end of this book).

About the AuthorsMichael Hammes has been freelancing in the

role-playing industry since 2001. Starting small, hehas steadily built his repertoire, and reputation, byworking for such companies as Ronin Arts, AlderacEntertainment Group, Dark Quest Games, and E.N.Publishing. He is currently trying to balance hiswriting schedule with his role as stay-at-home father.To catch the latest from Michael’s Imagination,please visit www.michaelhammes.com.

Philip Reed has been working professionally inthe roleplaying game industry since 1995. In thattime he has worked for such companies as West EndGames, Privateer Press, and Steve Jackson Games.Today Philip spends his days at home running RoninArts, writing and designing new games, and readingwhatever books interest him at the time. To learnmore about Philip Reed – and Ronin Arts – pleasevisit www.creationcrash.com and www.roni-narts.com.

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