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A couple of pages from the project I've started. I had this really nice sketchbook lying around and I couldn't bring myself to draw in it. I have gotten into a new habit for scanning/copying my line art before coloring, and the method involves pulling the pages out to run them through the machine, since my books don't fit in the scanner bed. Pulling the pages out of this book would ruin the book, binding and all, so I thought of something else to make it into. A spellbook prop for my LARP character. Eventually, I'll work on the leather cover for it and it'll be awesome.

These are for spells in the system for the LARP. The title writing at the tops of the pages is in 4th edition D&D Draconic runes from the Draconomicon 1. Translaations: Truth (left), Create Unstable Scroll/Potion (right). The symbol in the center of the symbol is a single letter for the spell school, in this case a "U" for "Universal," that being the school any mage can/must cast from.

The writing within the symbol itself is in Dragonscript, from the Dragonology book.

The inner rings signify the level of the spell, in this case level 2 (both). I have other pages with only one ring, and they will go up to as many as 10. The runes around the inner rings read the name of the spell school (innermost ring) and the call for the spell effect (second ring). The exterior ring is the basic description for the spell effect. The three sets of runes on the lines that lead from the center to the circled points of the star read the range of the spell, duration of the spell, and the type of spell (i.e. utility, debuff, buff, etc.). There will always be three of these for the Universal school, and at least four for the other 10 schools (those schools also have focus gems to factor in).

The shapes and lines for the symbol are mostly random after the text formula is considered.

I'll be adding a full spell description to each page under/around the symbol, written in Dragonscript. The goal is to make it look like notes, not rules. I'll be using my sepia inking pen instead of the black one for that, to help recede the writing so the symbol stands out more. In the end, I should have a complete spellbook for my character that looks like she's been hand writing it since youth. No, I will not be distressing the pages. The idea is that the character is careful with her books and has been taking very good care of this one. Any distressing will come from actually carrying it around game.

Description
A couple of pages from the project I've started. I had this really nice sketchbook lying around and I couldn't bring myself to draw in it. I have gotten into a new habit for scanning/copying my line art before coloring, and the method involves pulling the pages out to run them through the machine, since my books don't fit in the scanner bed. Pulling the pages out of this book would ruin the book, binding and all, so I thought of something else to make it into. A spellbook prop for my LARP character. Eventually, I'll work on the leather cover for it and it'll be awesome.

These are for spells in the system for the LARP. The title writing at the tops of the pages is in 4th edition D&D Draconic runes from the Draconomicon 1. Translaations: Truth (left), Create Unstable Scroll/Potion (right). The symbol in the center of the symbol is a single letter for the spell school, in this case a "U" for "Universal," that being the school any mage can/must cast from.

The writing within the symbol itself is in Dragonscript, from the Dragonology book.

The inner rings signify the level of the spell, in this case level 2 (both). I have other pages with only one ring, and they will go up to as many as 10. The runes around the inner rings read the name of the spell school (innermost ring) and the call for the spell effect (second ring). The exterior ring is the basic description for the spell effect. The three sets of runes on the lines that lead from the center to the circled points of the star read the range of the spell, duration of the spell, and the type of spell (i.e. utility, debuff, buff, etc.). There will always be three of these for the Universal school, and at least four for the other 10 schools (those schools also have focus gems to factor in).

The shapes and lines for the symbol are mostly random after the text formula is considered.

I'll be adding a full spell description to each page under/around the symbol, written in Dragonscript. The goal is to make it look like notes, not rules. I'll be using my sepia inking pen instead of the black one for that, to help recede the writing so the symbol stands out more. In the end, I should have a complete spellbook for my character that looks like she's been hand writing it since youth. No, I will not be distressing the pages. The idea is that the character is careful with her books and has been taking very good care of this one. Any distressing will come from actually carrying it around game.