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Category: Spells

2012-05-23Anima, HAD, Heroes Against Darkness, Spells

Remaking Magic: Scaling Spells

In previous posts in this series I’ve listed a few examples of spells with X costs in Heroes Against Darkness, but costed […]

2012-05-22Anima, HAD, Heroes Against Darkness, Mechanics, Spells

Remaking Magic: No Redundant Spells

In this entry in the Remaking Magic series, we take a look at the steps taken to ensure that no spell gets […]

2012-05-21Anima, DnD, Dungeons and Dragons, HAD, Heroes Against Darkness, Magic, Mechanics, Spells

Remaking Magic: Balance

Heroes Against Darkness employs a number of techniques to keep magi relatively balanced against the martial classes. First, the combination of the […]

2012-05-18Anima, DnD, Dungeons and Dragons, HAD, Heroes Against Darkness, Magic, Mechanics, Spells

Remaking Magic

Let’s get this out of the way: I strongly dislike Vancian magic. When I started work on Heroes Against Darkness we’d just […]

2012-05-15Art, Classes, Combat, HAD, Heroes Against Darkness, Mechanics, Spells

+2 Is Easy

One of the goals for the classes in Heroes Against Darkness was that each of them should be easily able to gain […]

2012-04-30Anima, Art, Classes, Combat, HAD, Heroes Against Darkness, Magic, Mechanics, Monsters, Powers, Rules, Spells

Heroes Against Darkness Version 1.0 Released!

Well, editing has taken several weeks longer than I anticipated but it’s done now, so v1.0 of Heroes Against Darkness is released: […]

2012-03-30Anima, Classes, Combat, HAD, Heroes Against Darkness, Magic, Mechanics, Powers, Spells

Alpha Rules Updated to v0.244

I’ve updated the downloadable Heroes Against Darkness Alpha rules to v0.244. This is a huge revision of the rules, and incorporates many […]

2012-03-28Anima, Combat, HAD, Heroes Against Darkness, Magic, Monsters, Role-Playing, Spells

Heroes Against Darkness: Session Report

Some readers might be wondering how Heroes Against Darkness works in play, rather than on paper. So here’s a quick recap of […]

2012-03-23HAD, Heroes Against Darkness, Powers, Spells

Heroes Against Darkness: Beta Update

Almost two months ago I posted about what I was working on for Beta: • More monsters from the extended list on […]

2012-03-16Combat, HAD, Heroes Against Darkness, Mechanics, Powers, Spells

20 Quick Questions for Heroes Against Darkness

20 Questions about my Heroes Against Darkness campaign from Brandon at Untimately: 1. Ability scores generation method?The system supports 3d6, 4d6 drop […]

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