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High Elven Magic

Deep Magic: High Elven Magic for 5th Edition with the Kobold Press| Review

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Over on the Nerdarchy YouTube Channel we’ve been reviewing the Deep Magic series from Kobold Press. Elven High Magic is our tenth one in the series. We have a handful left to go complete the Deep Magic series. Quite few have been also reviewed here on the website by various Nerdarchy staff writers.

Kobold Press

What’s in Deep Magic High Elven Magic?

You can check out the whole Deep Magic series over on Drive-Thru-RPG. [NERDITOR’S NOTE: And use our exclusive coupon code DTRPG-Nerdarchy for a one-time 10 percent discount on digital orders $10 or more while you’re at it!] You can also find the playlist over on the Nerdrarchy YouTube channel.

What can you expect to find in this PDF? Unlike other Deep Magic products this one has far more ritual spells than regular spells. Deep Magic: Elven High Magic brings the secrets of high elven magic into your 5E campaign, featuring an Elven High Magic Arcane Tradition for wizards with new abilities including Ritual Focus, Bound Magic, Ritual Mastery, and High Magic. There’s 17 new spells, including black swan storm, song of the forest, afflict line, cosmic alignment, and more.

From the Nerditor’s desk

“But Nerdarchy,” you’re thinking, “my character is a warlock so what good is a new wizard Arcane Tradition going to do for me?”

D&D fey

The Feywild and fey realms are places of beauty and magic. Elven High Magic would fit right into a fantastic setting like this. [Image courtesy Wizards of the Coast]

One of the best things about 5E is the modular nature of content and the design philosophy behind it, something illustrated wonderfully on Mike Mearls’ Happy Fun Hour. On this weekly stream the D&D franchise creative director builds new content like subclasses each week and explains the intricacies of the process. And here at Nerdarchy we’re no strangers to the design lab either, whether it’s stuff in our store like From Hit Dice to Heroics, any of the hundreds of posts with unique new content or in our huge video archive.

What does any of that have to do with Deep Magic: Elven High Magic? If I’ve learned anything from reading material from folks like Kobold Press, playing and running D&D games and designing my own content it’s this — experimenting with adapting mechanics from one place to another in 5E is a fun and not terribly difficult. My first foray into third party 5E stuff was Deep Magic: Void Magic, another Kobold Press gem with a new Arcane Tradition. At the time I was running a Spelljammer campaign (shocking, I know) and I adapted the wizard class features into the warlock Void Patron, with a counterpart Star Patron, for a player in the game. In my weekly live stream Spelljammer 5E campaign going on right now, there’s a Void Patron warlock as well. Any of the Deep Magic series — or whatever your favorite content is — doesn’t need to remain limited to whatever it’s intended for.

I’m sure it wouldn’t be very difficult to adapt Elven High Magic into a new cleric Domain, bard College or druid Circle if you wanted to explore the possibility. Or maybe you want to really lean into the elven connection and come up with a fey bloodline Sorcerous Origin to play the ultimate elven magic-user.

This series isn’t only for players either, as you’ll hear Nerdarchists Dave and Ted in the video below talk about using some of the elements in this book as Dungeon Masters for their shared Gryphongaffe campaigns.

Perhaps the most appealing thing about the Deep Magic series is the price. At $3-4 each, they’re well worth it even if you only use a couple of things from them like a spell or two, a feat, or a flavor text section to inspire your own characters and adventures.

And if you like the Deep Magic series, consider giving the Midgard Heroes Handbook a look too. Several of the Deep Magic books are included there, along with a ton of other cool stuff to use whether you’re adventuring in Kobold Press’s Midgard setting, the Forgotten Realms, or your own homebrew world.

Deep Magic: High Elven Magic for 5th Edition with the Kobold Press Review

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My name is Dave Friant I've been gaming off and on for over 27 years. But here is the thing it's always been a part of my life I've kept secret and hidden away. I've always been ashamed of the stigma that gaming and my other nerdy and geeky pursuits summon forth. Recently I decided screw it! This is who I am the world be damned. From now on I'm gonna be a geek, nerd, or however folks want to judge me and just enjoy life. Currently one of my greatest joys is introducing my 13 yr old son to table top RPG's.

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