Darkworm Colt — an Epic Fantasy of Sword & Magic

I’ve been looking for a name for my new fantasy game. Didn’t find it, at first, but it was right there in front of my eyes, the whole time.

Darkworm Colt — an epic fantasy of swords & magic

This is not only the name of my blog, but also appropriately weird, hitting all the right notes. Darkworm Colt takes its inspiration from Bakshi films, Heavy Metal 1 and 2, and other 60s/70s/80s fantasy movies. It will will contain:

• a system based on Into the Odd/Electric Bastionland, i.e., super quick and easy to handle 
• 30 weird character classes 
• 4 traditional old school character classes, with 
• clerics coming in two flavors: traditional clerics and holy men/women/hermaphrodites. Clerics use clerical insignia (item-bound spells) to do magic, holy people use guru prayer beads that bestow a new temporary power upon their wearer every day. 
• 300 spells (colluted from Chris’s list and Ben Milton’s knave) 
• simple level-less magic system with magic dice a la GLOG 
• probably tables to generate mood and appropriate descriptions

I’m pretty happy with how it’s developing at the moment.