Ancient Magic

Ancient Magic

Ancient Magic is a collection of classes, archetypes, spells, magic items, and optional rules inspired by historical accounts of magic in the ancient world. Like the rest of the AvV setting, we are skipping the middlemen (modern fantasy fiction) and going straight to the source material. Anything written about magic after 400 AD is considered too recent and too derivative for this project.

Ancient Magic is a book that I have always wanted at my own gaming table, since it explains magic in the way ancient people believed it actually worked. This is is by far the coolest, most useful, and most interesting gaming book I have ever written. It is also the most heavily researched.

The spells in this book are HARD CORE; ripped straight from Norse sagas, Egyptian tombs, and Greek spellbooks. These are all (supposedly) REAL spells that have been adapted to 5e. But this isn’t just a book of spells. This book also includes new magic items, new concepts about magic, and new spellcasting classes all taken straight from ancient sources.

This Title Features:

New Backgrounds for spellcasters: Academies of Study (some are already on DriveThru and Patreon)
The Bard College of the Muses (already available on DriveThru and Patreon)
The Scholar class and two subclasses (historian and engineer)
The Mystic class and two subclasses (Curse Breaker and Wise One)
Priestess class and three domains (Death, Moon and Prophecy)
Three Sorceress subclasses (Fate Bender, Rune Caster, Spirit Binder)
The Witch class and three subclasses (Enchantress, Hag, and Pharmacist).
Two Wizard subclasses (Cosmic Adept and Healer)
Spellcasting Disciplines (Alchemy, Astrology, Daemonology, Orphism, Necromancy, and more!)
More than 160 new spells based on actual spells (some are already on Patreon)
More than 30 new magic items (many are already on Patreon)
New Monsters (shades, cacodaemons, dactyls, and more)
Curse Tablets
Daemons and Spirits
Dreams
Empowering Spells
Fate and Prophecy
History of Magic
Knot Magic (already on Patreon)
The Evil Eye
True Names
Philosophy and Magic
Power Words
Magic and culture in Rome, Persia, Babylon, Egypt, Germania, Carthage, and Greece.
The Undead