The Loom
A mana bar that runs dry.
Mana & Spellcasting spends mana each time you cast and makes the spell sputter when the well is empty. Rest, sleep, or meditate and it fills again.
Arrive for your first term, duel a rival in the courtyard, or find out why the east tower stays locked. Every teacher and classmate is a character with plans of their own, and LoreWeaver remembers the spells you have learned and the rivals you have made, term after term.

The Lantern Bridge · Dusk
Proctor Elsabet Rhine
“Lanterns out by the ninth bell. If yours is still lit when you cross tonight, I’ll assume you’re headed for the east tower, and I’ll follow.”
The short answer
For a magic school story that runs term after term, LoreWeaver is a good choice. The storyteller plays every teacher and student as their own character, lore cards hold your school’s rules and spells, and memories keep each duel and grudge from one session to the next. Loom templates add a mana bar, stat checks on a d20, and a mystery with a culprit picked in secret. It is free to start: 20 replies in any community world without an account, then 25 premium replies a day on the free plan.
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Magic academy on LoreWeaver
The Loom
Mana & Spellcasting spends mana each time you cast and makes the spell sputter when the well is empty. Rest, sleep, or meditate and it fills again.
Lore cards
Add a Spells category and give each spell its own card, with what it does and what it costs. A card joins the scene when its name comes up, and pinning the school’s rules keeps them in view every turn.
The Loom
Attribute Checks rolls your Strength, Agility, and Wits once per story, then adds the right one to a d20 whenever you try something risky, from climbing the tower wall to talking your way past a proctor.
Mystery
The Whodunit template picks a culprit in secret, so each playthrough is different. Searching turns up clues that point their way, and once you have enough, you can name someone and the story tells you whether you were right.
Lorekeeper
When the story introduces a new teacher, a rival, or a hidden room, Lorekeeper suggests a lore card for it and sorts it into your categories, so the academy builds a record of itself as you play.
Coming back
Away from a story for a few days? A short card under the last passage says where you are, who is with you, and what is still unresolved, so the next lesson picks up where you left it.
Openings
“You failed the entrance exam, but the academy’s gate opened for you anyway. Nobody on the faculty will say who let you in.”
Build this world: You failed the entrance exam, but the academy’s gate opened for you anyway. Nobody on the faculty will say who let you in.“Every student is bound to a familiar on the first night. Yours is a stray cat who insists it used to be the headmaster.”
Build this world: Every student is bound to a familiar on the first night. Yours is a stray cat who insists it used to be the headmaster.“You are the academy’s new librarian, and the last three left letters for whoever came next. None of them agree on which shelves are safe.”
Build this world: You are the academy’s new librarian, and the last three left letters for whoever came next. None of them agree on which shelves are safe.“The academy floats over the sea and drifts somewhere new each spring. This year it has stopped above the ruins of your hometown.”
Build this world: The academy floats over the sea and drifts somewhere new each spring. This year it has stopped above the ruins of your hometown.“You can only cast spells backwards, undoing what has already happened. The faculty wants you expelled, and one professor badly wants you to undo something.”
Build this world: You can only cast spells backwards, undoing what has already happened. The faculty wants you expelled, and one professor badly wants you to undo something.“The library has a door that only opens during exams. This year you found it, and every book inside is written in your handwriting.”
Build this world: The library has a door that only opens during exams. This year you found it, and every book inside is written in your handwriting.Kindred stories
FAQ
Yes, or a teacher, or the librarian who knows too much. Start at enrollment or partway through a term, and the storyteller plays everyone else at the academy.
Yes. Write how magic works on a pinned lore card, including what it costs and what it can never do, and the storyteller reads it every turn. Add Mana & Spellcasting if you want the cost counted on a meter.
Yes. Memories note who was there and what happened, so a duel from your first term shapes how a rival treats you terms later. A lore card for each classmate keeps their voice and habits steady.
Yes. Build it with Whodunit or Clue Tracker, hide the threads that hold the answer, and publish the world to the Hub. Players who download it can’t see hidden threads, but the threads still run during play.
Yes. The Hub has community academy worlds to try, free for 20 replies with no account. Or describe your school in a sentence, and the world builder writes its teachers, its rules, and your first day.
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The ninth bell is ringing
Try a community academy world free, or build your own school of magic from one sentence.