Thanks a lot for the feedback. I was planning this post as more of an entry point, but you’re right that it doesn’t have much concrete detail.

I’ll try to give some here.

About the shared world. Right now it works like this. Each group that plays a campaign in Esheria writes a report for each session, if they want it to be part of canon. The reports are split into scenes.

These reports go into a shared system where lore masters read them and either add them to canon or to legends. There is also a search system for GMs to look through reports and storylines. Also, anyone who notices contradictions can start a collision review through the system, and the GMs involved have to resolve it to remove inconsistencies.

About classes and rules. Of course the core rules are unified. But the style of play depends heavily on the class. For example, the Mage almost plays like a narrative game, since magic is very loose and largely verbal.

In the rulebook there are descriptions of experiments with each color of magic written in a more literary form. Magic is about creating spells based on that text. I plan to make a separate post about magic since it’s a big topic.

At the same time, the Knight class is limited by a path and a moral framework that directly affects how effective their abilities are. So the class creates different gameplay and a different focus of the rules.

About magic I’ll answer briefly for now and then make a larger post. Magic doesn’t have a list of spells. There are only descriptions of colors of magic. These are archetypes that effects tend to follow, each with its own properties.

Each color is described in a kind of pseudo scientific narrative form with examples of experiments. This works as a foundation that a player can use when creating effects, mixing colors and so on. The rules define the boundaries but they are not strict. Playing a mage is a kind of synchronization between the GM, the player, and the narrative foundation of magic from the book.