Davey 
a spellbook where each spell has a long personal story with it like recipe blog
Pete Bleackley@sugar A bit like this? (Video, follow links in notes for text, either in the original Khangaþyagon or English translation)
twink with big tits@sugar scrolling through like "ohh my god please just tell me how to cast fireball"
forest 
@sugar "margareths pie spell"... it casts fireball
Sophie Jane@sugar The Book of Ebon Bindings, pretty much
@sugar “Once, when the present writer was no more than a three-score of years of age, he was commanded by the Iron-Glove of the city of Tí-Farazhù to call forth this terrible Prince in order to relieve the city of a geas of despair placed upon it by Those Who Serve the Pearl. The Iron-Glove himself joined in the incantations…”
@sugar “…Of all of this infelicitous tale there was only one good consequence: the plight of Tí-Farazhú so moved the Poet Yetíl that he composed a beauteous ode upon it, and this, when appropriately sung by a choir of little maidens, cannot help but awake nobility and solemnity within the breasts of the hearers.Thus it was in my youth.”
And then we get to the summoning ritual
Lily 
@sugar a proper spellbook, I love it
parenthetical@sugar this is why d&d has all those named spells, they're like recipe cards you've copied from books because the recipe is good but the book is borderline unreadable
Dan 🦺 Deboer@sugar "I swear, if this spellbook doesn't have a skip-to-spell button..."
mamacrow@sugar yup, those exist.
Oh wait, I didn't realise you were talking about DnD 😅
Oh wait, I didn't realise you were talking about DnD 😅
Arcanya 
@sugar I think this exists
hannah 
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Joystick Hero@sugar I just imagine a wizard in the middle of combat with a spell scroll frantically reading trying to find the part where the actual important bits are while everyone else is screaming about how they need that fireball *yesterday*.
Ben Zanin
mhoye@sugar This recipe for a simple light cantrip is easy and fun, a perfect spell for an aspiring young mage and a great way for an experienced warlock to show off the breadth and subtleties of his power. I was in a cave mere miles from Barad Dur, barely sheltered from Sauron’s bale-gaze by the granite walls, when I first saw the Uruk-Hai devour one of their own.
Max@sugar @breakfastgolem I’ve always assumed that’s why spellbooks look so thick
It’s like 90% travelogue and maybe 10% spells and you pray it is well indexed. But also you know there’s going to be some offhand mention of a weird ingredient twist or unanticipated side effect in between the banter of stupid things the rest of the party said and good wizards need to read the whole dumb thing (every time)
(That’s why it takes a long rest to prepare)
toot the bad cone@sugar this was my husbands favourite dick embiggening spell
@finn *wild hand motions* "bottomus growthus!"
yomimono, still on land@sugar this explains that spell book on Kings Quest 3, where you try to read it in-game and it's just meaningless lines. Gwydion's like "I ain't reading all this shit about your supportive husband"
🐚 Undo Influence 🐚For the first time in my life, I know REAL fear... 😬
Goggllio@sugar I'll write the stories if you want
νησσοτροφεῖον 🫘@sugar grimoires are like that because spells themselves are not copyrightable, so the author needs to add original header material
Anime Animals アニメの動物@sugar
This explains why each 'spell' requires one whole book in Frieren and lots of other fantasy
This explains why each 'spell' requires one whole book in Frieren and lots of other fantasy
Tara 🕷️
@sugar but you have to read the whole thing or the spell doesn't work
Neia masks@sugar I've done a bit of work on a generative grammar for spells and I wanted to include something like that. But it wouldn't be terribly long. More like:
𒆬𒌋 𒋢𒍝 𒁍𒍣 𒆪𒍣 𒀝𒈨𒋜 𒆭𒁉 𒇷𒁹an invocation to hide your meds from others
In 1502, the great witch Grendelia was being hunted by the Dutch Inquisition. The Dutch Inquisition nearly breached her lair, but she used this spell to great effect to avoid them.
You will need:
* 2 seeing stones
* what shall remain nameless
* a dream
Let the seeing stones simmer for 9 minutes. Boil what shall remain nameless in a size 10 cauldron. Reduce the dream to a paste. Stir the what shall remain nameless tincture into the dream paste. Stir the seeing stone infusion into the what shall remain nameless tincture.
@neia oh damn that's quite impressive
llewelly@sugar
back when I was a subscriber to Dragon magazine, those articles were literally my favorite kind of article!
back when I was a subscriber to Dragon magazine, those articles were literally my favorite kind of article!
The Beast Must Dog@sugar "Shortly after 9/11..."
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