Spells

Many spells, especially the more unique ones, will be known only by a single order or individual researcher. The order or individual sorceror is likely to jealously guard their personal spells. Trading of spells between orders might occur, but is likely to be the subject of long negotiation and treaty ceremonies. Spells that are known only by their original researcher might be given to the order that the researcher belongs to, or it might be kept private until the researcher’s death, when the order searches their lost member’s spell books. In the case of unaffiliated sorcerors who die, original spells might be lost for years until an adventurer recovers the lost spell books. Such lost spellbooks are likely to be the stuff of legend among sorcerors.

Of course, any individual sorceror may choose to share their private spells with any other sorceror. Orders and guilds are unlikely to condone such actions with respect to spells that are unique to the order. Depending on the importance of the spell, sharing may be forbidden on penalty of death--or worse. Sorcerors have strange imaginations. Orders might consider private spells of members which have not yet been shared with the order to still be subject to their rules on sharing or trading spells.

Formulas: words, gestures, and ingredients

Spells require the recitation or performance of a specific spell formula on the part of the caster. These formulae can generally be constructed from words, gestures, and ingredients.

When a formula requires words, the words must be pronounced clearly and said firmly and at a conversational loudness. They may not be whispered, for example.

When a formula requires gestures, the gestures will require freedom of movement of arms, hands, and fingers. Some spells will specify gestures that require further freedom of movement.

Spells which require ingredients usually result in the destruction of those ingredients. Unless otherwise noted, ingredients may only be used once for any spell which requires them.

Reverse spells

Some spells can be cast in two forms: a normal form, and a “reversed” form. For example, Light may also be cast as Darkness. Often, the reversed form will require different ingredients than the normal form.

Spells that have a “reverse” may be cast as either form, assuming that the sorcerer has the appropriate spell components at the time of casting.

Duration

Some spells are instant. They act immediately and are done. Other spells are permanent. The magic acts immediately, but the non-magical effect remains behind. Some spells have a duration of “concentration”. These spells remain in effect for as long as the caster maintains concentration on it. See the main rules for what it means to be concentrating.

Most spells have a limited duration that varies according to the level the spell is cast at. The sorceror need not concentrate to keep these spells going: once cast, the spell lasts for whatever its duration is, and the sorceror can go on to other things.

Some spells are instead dependent on a verve binding. The sorceror must “promise” a certain amount of verve to the spell’s effects. If an effect is dispelled, or its necessary ingredient(s) destroyed, the sorceror loses that verve. A sorceror cannot bind more verve than they have; however, the verve remains available for normal use. If the verve binding comes due and the sorceror doesn’t have enough verve left, the points are lost to survival instead and one of every ten points are added to injuries (if the sorceror doesn’t have enough survival, of course, then more will be added to injuries). Verve (or survival or injuries) are restored as normal once lost. Non-player characters (that don’t have verve) have a verve-binding limit equal to their survival.

Any spell with a non-permanent duration may be ended at any time by the caster.

Range

Spells with a range of “self” may only be cast upon the caster or the caster’s familiar. Spells with a range of “touch” require that the caster touch the spell recipient. In combat, a successful attack roll is required, and the target is allowed an Evasion roll.

Reactions

For most spells with a reaction listed, the target is allowed a reaction as long as the target is conscious. The target can choose to forego the reaction. If the reaction is listed with “active”, this means that the recipient must choose to attempt to resist, or no reaction is allowed.

Physical reactions are generally at a severe penalty if the target is unconscious. Any reactions against physical effects are at a penalty of six when the target is sleeping, or ten when the character is unconscious.

If the spell’s target is an item another creature is carrying, that creature is generally allowed an Evasion roll to keep the item safe.

Levels of Magic

There are up to eighteen levels of spells, possibly more in some campaigns. Spells in games like Dungeons & Dragons, that run from levels one to nine, may often be used with Gods & Monsters by doubling their spell level and then possibly subtracting one.

First Level

Angular Reformation

Aura of Confidence/Desperation

Charisma

Clean Slate

Control Mist

Enlarge/Shrink

Eternal Flame

Eyetrick

Fan of Flame

Farseeing

Fire Darts

Flash

Fool’s Magic

Ghost Lights

Ghost Walkers

Guardian

Hair

Indestructible Object

Inscription

Leaping

Light/Darkness

Mage Bolt

Rainbow Fan

Secret Message

See Whole

Sense Magical Aura

Shield

Slow Fall/Quickfall

Suggestion

Understand/Confuse Languages

Ventriloquism

Second Level

Animal Undead

Armor

Cleanse/Soil

Crawl

Dancing Wood

Dead Night

Delay Passage

Dreams

Drowsiness

Ephemeral Backdrop

Fan Flames/Dampen Flames

Fan of Frost

Fast Friend

Illusory Self

Last Sight

Magic Table

Minor Phantasm

Sand Blast

Sensory Assurance

Shadows

Sleep

Slipknot

Slippery Surface

Smoky Stairs

Strength/Weakness

Sulfuric Spray

Third Level

Aura of Innocence/Guilt

Bar Passage

Dark Bubble

Dream Omen

Dust Wand

Fire Blast

Group Suggestion

Hide Item

Immovable Object

Intelligence/Stupidity

Lesser Ball of Fire

Levitate

Locate Origin

Mend Wounds

Mnemonic Transferal

Mutual Understanding/Confusion

Open

Secret Conference

See Parasite

Silence

Sleepfall

Sleepwalking

Spell Shade

Unravel Bonds

Wizard Mark

Fourth Level

Agility/Clumsiness

Animate Corpses

Diagnose Disease

Elemental Ward

Ephemeral Stage

Find Item

Glue

Invisibility

Lost Corner

Magic Box

Personal Alteration

Riddleshield

Stinging Guardian

Sulfuric Burst

Wave Action

Web

Fifth Level

Aura of Nobility/Depravity

Bottle of Dreams

Dispel Magic

Endurance/Sickly

Ephemeral Reflection

Fighting Prowess

Find Location

Flame Ward/Inflame

Great Ball of Fire

Illusory Transport

Lasting Suggestion

Magic Door

Seek Item

Shade Effects

Snap Trick

Veil

Sixth Level

Angular Path

Clear Portal

Cold Flame

Demonic Clarity

Dreamwalk

Find Magic

Raise Undead

Tracer

Wraithshape

Seventh Level

Aura of Invincibility/Weakness

Dampen Magic

Dweomerburst

Enchanted Weapon

Ephemeral Play

Illusory Terrain

Magic Halls

Magic Transport

Protection from Dispel

Eighth Level

Delay Spell

Dreamhold

Ghostshape

Magic Hole

Reverse Spell

Spell Key

Ninth Level

Escape

Ethereal Wall

Magic Portal

Spell Loop

Tenth Level

Great Balls of Fire

Teleport

Undead Guardians

Eleventh Level

Astral Wall

Bestow Spell

Duality

Twelfth Level

Contingency

Ghost Ship

Promise

Fourteenth Level

Target Contingency

Sixteenth Level

Area Contingency

Permanent Enchantment

Teleportal

Schools of Magic

Conjuration

Angular Reformation

Cold Flame

Dark Bubble

Ephemeral Backdrop

Ephemeral Play

Ephemeral Reflection

Ephemeral Stage

Eternal Flame

Fan of Flame

Fan of Frost

Fire Darts

Flash

Great Ball of Fire

Great Balls of Fire

Lesser Ball of Fire

Light/Darkness

Mage Bolt

Sand Blast

Shadows

Sulfuric Burst

Sulfuric Spray

Web

Divination

Clear Portal

Diagnose Disease

Dream Omen

Find Item

Find Location

Find Magic

Guardian

Hide Item

Last Sight

Locate Origin

See Parasite

See Whole

Seek Item

Sense Magical Aura

Tracer

Understand/Confuse Languages

Mental

Aura of Confidence/Desperation

Aura of Innocence/Guilt

Aura of Invincibility/Weakness

Aura of Nobility/Depravity

Charisma

Demonic Clarity

Dreams

Drowsiness

Eyetrick

Fast Friend

Illusory Self

Illusory Terrain

Illusory Transport

Intelligence/Stupidity

Minor Phantasm

Mutual Understanding/Confusion

Promise

Rainbow Fan

Riddleshield

Secret Conference

Sensory Assurance

Sleep

Sleepfall

Sleepwalking

Suggestion

Understand/Confuse Languages

Wave Action

Metamagic

Area Contingency

Bestow Spell

Contingency

Dampen Magic

Delay Spell

Dispel Magic

Dweomerburst

Fool’s Magic

Inscription

Mnemonic Transferal

Permanent Enchantment

Protection from Dispel

Reverse Spell

Sense Magical Aura

Shade Effects

Spell Key

Spell Loop

Spell Shade

Target Contingency

Wizard Mark

Summoning

Angular Path

Animal Undead

Animate Corpses

Armor

Astral Wall

Bar Passage

Bottle of Dreams

Cleanse/Soil

Dancing Wood

Delay Passage

Dreamhold

Dreamwalk

Duality

Dust Wand

Elemental Ward

Enchanted Weapon

Escape

Ethereal Wall

Flame Ward/Inflame

Ghost Lights

Ghost Walkers

Guardian

Last Sight

Lost Corner

Magic Box

Magic Door

Magic Halls

Magic Hole

Magic Portal

Magic Table

Magic Transport

Raise Undead

Secret Message

Shield

Snap Trick

Stinging Guardian

Teleport

Teleportal

Undead Guardians

Veil

Ventriloquism

Transmutation

Agility/Clumsiness

Clean Slate

Crawl

Control Mist

Dancing Wood

Dead Night

Endurance/Sickly

Enlarge/Shrink

Fan Flames/Dampen Flames

Farseeing

Fighting Prowess

Fire Blast

Ghostshape

Ghost Ship

Glue

Hair

Immovable Object

Indestructible Object

Invisibility

Leaping

Levitate

Mend Wounds

Open

Personal Alteration

Silence

Slipknot

Slippery Surface

Slow Fall/Quickfall

Smoky Stairs

Spell Shade

Strength/Weakness

Unravel Bonds

Wraithshape

First Level

Angular Reformation

Angular Reformation modifies shadows and corners to make an area or distance appear larger or smaller. Within the area of effect, any line can be modified upwards by 50% per level, or downwards by one plus .25 per level.

A fourth level sorceror could make a 10 by 10 by 10 room appear to be 40 by 40 by 40, or could make it appear 5 by 5 by 5 (ten divided by 2).

If targets wander around the room, a Perception roll at a bonus of six will tell them that something is wrong. If they specifically try to measure things out, they will realize that the visible dimensions are incorrect.

Aura of Confidence

The target exudes confidence, as if they could do anything. Those under the spell’s effect (a Willpower roll is allowed) are likely to let the character take control of whatever enterprise is at hand. Anyone (other than the target) attempting a skill while within the area of effect is at a penalty of one; there isn’t much point in their trying hard when an expert is available.

The reverse, Aura of Desperation, makes those under the spell’s effect feel the target is floundering, desperate, not capable of much of anything at all. Any success the target does have is luck at best, and probably not reliable. The target will have a penalty of 1 to any skill roll for the spell’s duration. The ingredients for the reverse is a tarnished brass ring.

Unwilling targets are allowed an Evasion roll to avoid the effects of the spell.

Charisma

The target’s charisma will increase by 1 per casting level.

The reverse, Antisocial will reduce the target’s charisma by 1 per level. Charisma cannot be reduced to zero. Charismas lower than 3 are non-sentient and will find it difficult to perceive any social cues or have any self-will.

Clean Slate

Clean Slate completely erases text, writings, or drawings from the target paper. Up to level normal-sized pages may be erased. If the target is not paper, only a single glyph or sigil may be erased. If the document is an inscribed spell or magical sign, the caster must make a Perception roll to successfully clean the target.

Control Mist

The sorceror may control the movement of mist or vapor within the area of effect. If the sorceror chooses to disperse mist, it will take one round to completely disperse. If the sorceror chooses to move the mist, it can move six yards per round. The spell can affect fog, water mist, cloud, visible gases, and any other visible, vaporous, otherwise uncontrolled manifestation.

Enlarge

Enlarge or Shrink multiplies or divides the size of the target by one plus an additional 25% (.25) per level. At fourth level, the target’s size and mass will double (or half). The target’s mass before casting cannot exceed one hundred pounds per level. All of the target must be within range.

At a 50% increase in size, targets gain a bonus of 1 to damage; at a 100% increase (a doubling), targets gain a bonus of +2. At 200%, 400%, and each doubling of size thereafter, another damage bonus is gained. Movement increases by 1 per level of effect.

When the target’s size is divided by 2, the target is considered one size lower (medium-sized creatures will be considered small). When divided by 4, the target is considered two sizes smaller; divided by 8 means three sizes smaller, and so on for each doubling of the reduction. Movement is reduced by 1 per level of effect.

Eternal Flame

Eternal Flame creates a tiny, non-consuming flame (about the size of a small, modern match) which cannot be extinguished. It may be completely encased and will continue burning for the spell’s duration. The spell must be cast on the point of a pointed object made of a flammable material. The object does not burn, however, and is not consumed by the spell.

Eyetrick

The Eyetrick causes the victim to “see”, for a split second, an obstacle, attack, or other surprising thing that requires immediate action. The split-second illusion can be anything that could occur out of the corner of the victim’s eyes. Overly complex illusions will simply not register, and thus will have no effect. The illusion will cause no damage directly. It can distract the victim, or cause the victim to trip while avoiding imaginary dangers. The illusion can cause a defense penalty of up to 2 vs. a single attack (depending on the distraction) as well as a penalty of 2 to hit on whatever attack, action, or attempt is in progress, or require an Evasion roll to avoid tripping (for an obstacle). Distractions or obstacles might include a surprise attack, a child, a spider, a hole in the ground, a rope, a small animal, a large stone, something rolling by or flying by, for example.

Fan of Flame

The Fan of Flame fans out from the caster’s outstretched fingers, and causes a point of damage per level to anyone who is in the spell’s area of effect.

Flammable items will need to make reactions or catch fire.

Farseeing

Farseeing gives the target keen vision. Things are seen as if they were only one third the distance, and the target receives a bonus of 2 to ranged combat rolls, though this bonus cannot be greater than the penalty due to range.

The target also receives a bonus of 2 to Perception rolls.

Fire Darts

Fire Darts shoots a single fire dart for each level of the sorceror from the sorceror’s fingers.

The dart causes one survival point loss and will ignite any flammable object it hits. It will hit any object it is aimed at.

Flash

Flash creates a bright flash of light that blinds the target for one round. The target’s vision is degraded for another two rounds afterwards, giving them a penalty of 2 to attack rolls and other rolls requiring sight.

The penalty only applies to creatures that use sight for seeing and attacking.

Fool’s Magic

Fool’s Magic places a magical aura on an object or creature (creatures are allowed an Evasion roll). Anything that detects magic will detect the Fool’s Magic spell.

The target may not exceed level cubic feet in volume.

Ghost Lights

Ghost Lights creates a vaguely man-sized blob of white, gauzy light, which can be formed by the caster into very simple shapes. Ghost lights give off light as a torch, and may be broken into one piece for every three points of the caster’s intelligence.

Ghost Walkers

Ghost Walkers creates the noise of something moving, either walking, crawling, slithering, running, or otherwise moving. The sound is as if up to four medium creatures per level of the sorceror are moving. The caster can choose how they sound, whether the creatures are hooved, booted, slippered, barefoot, etc., and whether they are running, walking, flying, or crawling, or something else.

If a hearer chooses to “disbelieve” the sound, a successful reaction roll means that they recognize that there is something not quite right about the sound.

Guardian

Guardian gives out a loud noise of the sorceror’s choice when any creature enters the warded area or touches the warded location. The sorceror may create a password for the guardian, and any creature which speaks the password may pass without incurring the guard noise.

The noise can be heard for up to twenty yards in open area, less if there are intervening walls or other obstacles. It lasts for one minute, then stops making the noise but continues guarding the location.

Hair

Hair increases or decreases the length of the target’s facial hair to any natural length. The caster may control whether beard, head, mustache, or any combination grow or fall. The spell may be cast on any Medium sized or smaller creature at first level, on any Large sized or smaller creature at third level, and any Huge sized or smaller creature at seventh level.

Indestructible Object

The Indestructible Object gains a bonus of the casting level to reactions against breaking or other destruction, as well as a bonus of level to defense. The effects of age are reduced by a factor of level times 10 for the duration of the spell (though this will likely only be useful for permanent durations). The object may be up to level feet in diameter and weight up to level times five pounds.

The reverse, Brittle Object, applies a penalty of level to reactions for breakage or destruction.

Inscription

Inscription prepares a spell for impression on the sorceror’s mind. Usually, this takes the form of writing the spell in a spellbook, but different cultures may use different forms of inscribed spells. The precious metal is used in the construction of the inscription (for example, inlaid into the pages of the spellbook). It takes 30 minutes per level of the spell being inscribed to inscribe a spell, and the precious metal or other material must be worth 10 silver coins per level of the spell.

Inscribed spells may only be used by the sorceror who inscribed it. However, other sorcerors may, if they gain access to the inscription, copy it to their own “spellbook” through use of “Inscription” if they understand the spell.

Leaping

Leaping allows the target to leap great distances, even in confined spaces. The creature may leap ten yards plus one yard per level of the caster, horizontally, and one third that vertically. When jumping horizontally, the target requires vertical clearance of only a yard plus a tenth the distance jumped.

Light

Light and Darkness may be cast on a location or on a target creature or object. Creatures are allowed an Evasion roll. If the light or darkness is attached to something that moves, the spell’s effect moves also. If the sorceror attempts to attach this spell to a creature and that creature makes its reaction roll, the spell takes effect just beyond the target creature.

Light is reasonably bright and uniform within the area of effect, as of a very good lantern. It extends evenly in all directions from the center of effect. Light falls off as quickly as a normal lantern outside of the area of effect, creating a sort of light “bubble” on that area. Darkness is near pitch black in the area of effect. Creatures within the darkness cannot see out of the darkness. The darkness affects normal sight only.

Mage Bolt

Mage Bolt creates a bolt of energy that causes a d4+1 survival point loss in the target creature. The caster gains an extra bolt at third level and every two levels thereafter. The bolts may be sent out all at once to any targets in the area of effect, or may be sent out one at a time. The caster can “hold” the bolts for as long as the spell’s duration, and may even cast other spells in rounds when they are not sending out bolts. Mage bolts are diffuse attacks and cannot be used as called shots.

Rainbow Fan

Rainbow Fan creates a brilliant, rainbow-like fan of intense color that causes affected creatures to become stunned for a short period of time. The caster can affect up to one target, plus one target at third level and every odd level thereafter. The area of effect is a cone a half yard wide at the caster, and half level yards wide, level yards away from the caster. Those within the cone (up to the maximum) are allowed a Perception roll to avoid the stunning effects of the rainbow. Targets whose level is lower than the casting level are not allowed a Perception roll: they are automatically affected.

Affected targets are stunned for 2d4 rounds if their levels are less than or equal to the caster’s; for 1d4 rounds if their level is within one or two of the caster’s; and for one round if they are three or more levels higher than the caster.

If there are more than the maximum number of targets in the cone of effect, the first targets, up to the maximum, are affected. Blind or otherwise unseeing targets are unaffected by the Rainbow Fan.

Secret Message

Secret Message gives the caster and target the ability to converse in whispers; there must be an unobstructed line-of-sight path between the caster and target. Only the intended recipient may hear the message on the recipient’s end. Whether anyone hears it on the speaker’s end depends on how loudly the message was spoken.

See Whole

See Whole shows the caster a fleeting image of the entirety of a piece of a broken object, as it appeared when it was last whole. The object, when whole, must be containable in a sphere of less than 1 yard radius per casting level. The object’s pieces must, for the most part, be contained in a sphere of less than 2 yards radius per casting level. The state of degradation does not matter; all that matters is that at least three quarters of the object must be available and some small amount must be identifiable by the caster as part of the whole.

Sense Magical Aura

This allows the caster to detect if an object or person in range is magical. The caster is allowed a Perception roll to determine the school of magic if they concentrate for a minute on any one item.

Shield

The “shield” provides full frontal protection from spell level 1 magicks such as mage bolt or fire dart. It provides a bonus of 1 to all reactions from frontal attacks, a bonus of six to defense against hand-thrown weapons, a bonus of five against propelled weapons, and a bonus of four to defense against melee or other weapons. All shield benefits apply only to attacks that arrive from the front of the spell’s recipient.

Slow Fall

Slow Fall reduces the speed of falling to one yard per second, and no survival points are lost on impact. The spell’s duration lasts for up to one round per level; it does not affect the target’s movement on the ground. If the spell’s duration runs out before the target hits ground, the distance fallen is measured from the point that the spell ran out.

Quickfall increases the speed that the target falls during the duration of the spell. Damage from falling is as if the height were twice what it would have been at the point the spell was cast, and maximum damage is doubled.

Suggestion

Suggestion causes the victim to internalize a suggestion of the caster. Suggestions may not have a reasonable chance of death or harm to the target; such suggestions always fail. Suggestions must be basically reasonable, something that the target might remotely consider doing. The suggestion must be able to be made in ten seconds.

The suggestion must be spoken by the caster in a language that the target understands. The victim must be able to hear the suggestion. If the victim falls prey to the suggestion, they do not remember the caster making the suggestion.

Hostile creatures gain a bonus of up to three on their reaction. Extremely reasonable suggestions result in a penalty of up to two on the reaction.

Understand Languages

Understand Languages gives the sorceror the ability to understand the target’s speech or one piece of writing.

Confuse Languages makes the target creature or piece of writing incomprehensible to anyone. Speaking sounds like babble, and writing looks like random scratchings.

Ventriloquism

Ventriloquism makes the caster’s voice come from the target. Ventriloquists can also make their voice sound like the other creature, to the extent that the caster knows the correct language and at a volume and kind of sound the caster could speak. Listeners are allowed a Perception roll to recognize that the voice has been faked.

Second Level

Animal Undead

The sorceror may animate a single kind of animal corpse, up to twice level corpses for small creatures, four times level corpses of tiny creatures, level corpses of medium-sized creatures, and nothing larger than that. Tiny undead animals have one level and d4 survival points, small undead one level and d6 survival points, and medium undead two levels and 2d6 survival points. The undead creatures have the same claw and bite attacks that they had when alive, but none of their organic abilities such as poison. Flying creatures may fly, even if they have no skin.

Prophets who can turn undead gain a bonus of two to rolls to turn these undead.

Armor

The “armor” provides all-round protection from physical attack, or magical attacks that do physical damage and require an attack roll. It is not cumulative with existing armor, normal or magical, but otherwise provides a bonus of five to defense, including to reactions.

When defensible attacks get past the armor, this hastens the armor’s demise. After more than three plus twice level points of damage get past the armor, the magic is destroyed.

Cleanse

Cleanse cleans the surface of the target of all dirt, grime, or other dirty, unliving material, or tiny creatures embedded in such unliving material. The caster may cleanse one target if that target fits into a sphere of up to one foot diameter per level.

Soil mucks up the surface of the target with a thin layer of smelly, grimy, vaguely organic slime and dirt. Victims will be unable to surprise any creature with a sense of smell until cleansing themselves or otherwise neutralizing the odor.

Crawl

Crawl allows the target to crawl up and down walls like an insect. The target may even crawl upside down on ceilings. Movement while crawling is halved, but in any case cannot be greater than twice casting level. Also, the target’s carry and lift ratings are halved while crawling.

While crawling, the target’s hands and feet must actually touch the surface to be crawled. No gloves, shoes, or armor may be worn, for example.

Dancing Wood

Through this spell, the sorceror grants suppleness to any item made of wood. The item can bend jerkily under the control of the caster. If the form of the wooden item allows it, the item can grab, attack, or even walk.

Items can attack as a sorceror of half the casting level. They do damage according to their form. An arrow does damage as an arrow, a club-like form as a club, a quarterstaff as a staff. The item’s defense is the same as its inanimate form, with a bonus of two.

The sorceror may animate up to level minus one targets. The sorceror may animate either living wood or unliving wood, but not both. Living wood (such as trees) must be less than level yards tall and less than level yards in radius. Unliving wood must be less than level times ten pounds each, and must each fit within a box half level yards to a side.

Rooted plants may not uproot themselves, and items may not change their basic shape. An arrow could not walk, but could move like a snake.

Dead Night

Dead Night may be cast on a location or on a target creature or object. Creatures are allowed an Evasion roll. If the Night is attached to something that moves, the darkness moves also. If the sorceror attempts to attach this spell to a creature and that creature makes its reaction roll, the spell takes effect just beyond the target creature.

The darkness of Dead Night is pitch black, and blocks all forms of vision: normal, underground, and night vision.

Delay Passage

Delay Passage magically locks doors, chests, windows, anything that can be opened. Such items will be openable or passable only through breaking the item or through magical means, such as dispelling the magic.

The door cannot be larger than two yards radius per level.

Dreams

The caster can cause a specific description to enter an already sleeping creature’s dreams. The caster may use one word per level to describe the thing that will be a part of their dream. The creatures must know what the words mean for it to enter their dream. A first level caster might say “Jessup”, and if the target knows either a person or thing named “Jessup”, this “Jessup” will become in some way a part of their dreams for that night. A third level caster might have three targets dream of a blond female elf, or a giant war machine. In the latter case, the targets might all dream of different kinds of giant war machines, but (as long as they understand the caster’s language) they will all dream of something that could be a giant war machine.

Drowsiness

For the duration of the spell, the target is drowsy and feels the need to sleep. Even during combat the target is likely to nod off, although there will be a bonus of 2 to reactions. Each minute of the spell’s duration, the target is allowed a Willpower roll to avoid falling asleep. Once asleep, the target is unlikely to awaken during the spell’s duration, although loud noises or rough motion may allow the target a Perception roll, at a penalty of from one to five. After the spell’s duration ends, sleep is as normal.

Ephemeral Backdrop

Ephemeral Backdrop creates a flat but extremely realistic “painting of light”. The “painting” does not respond in any way to surrounding events, such as light sources. It is, however, otherwise extremely convincing, and may portray any scene that the caster remembers or could reasonably imagine. The scene will be completely static: no motion is allowed.

The backdrop is extremely thin. If viewed from behind, the image is reversed.

Fan Flames

Fan Flames causes all fires within the radius of the spell to drastically increase in intensity, providing double the light and heat without causing the fuel to burn any quicker. Fires burn brighter and hotter, and coals or embers burst into flame.

Dampen Fire reduces the intensity of any fires in the radius to mere coals or embers. Dampen Fire can also, after one round, put out all fires in the area of effect, although since that removes the spell’s ingredient it also ends the spell’s duration.

The sorceror may control the intensity of effect in either version of the spell.

Fan of Frost

The Fan of Frost fans bitter white cold from the caster’s outstretched fingers. The Frost causes a point of damage per level of the caster to anyone who is in the spell’s area of effect.

Items affected by the frost may break more easily for the next round: any reactions against breaking, fracturing, or otherwise cracking are made at a penalty of half the level of the Fan of Frost.

The Frost can also freeze over the top of water, creating an 8^th inch of ice for every level of the Frost.

Fast Friend

Fast Friend causes the target to believe that the caster is their best friend, someone they would do anything for. Additional reactions are allowed if the caster asks them to do something really stupid that makes it plain they are not really friends. They are also allowed another roll after a number of days equal to the caster’s level, plus the number their reaction roll was missed by. This latter roll may be repeated. The victim of this spell must be an intelligent person, such as a human, an elf, a goblin, a dwarf, etc.

Illusory Self

Illusory Self alters the appearance of the caster. The caster’s basic form remains the same, but the caster can make themselves appear shorter or taller by up to six inches plus one inch per level. They can appear fatter or thinner in a similar manner. They can alter their own appearance considerably, within the constraints of a human-like creature: a human sorceror could appear as an armored Orc or a green-clad Elf, for example.

The spell alters only appearance. The caster gains no special abilities, and it is the caster’s responsibility to mimic any mannerisms. Failure on those points may grant reaction rolls to see through the illusion. If the caster’s gear and clothing do not match the illusory gear and clothing, touching the caster may also grant a reaction roll.

Last Sight

Last Sight shows the sorceror what the corpse saw in the level seconds before dying.

Sight attacks that affected the victim, such as a gorgon’s gaze, may affect the sorceror. A reaction roll is required, at a bonus of 4.

Magic Table

Magic Table creates a magical, moving table anywhere within the area of effect. The Table will follow the caster anywhere. It is one yard in diameter and will carry 100 pounds per level. The table is slightly concave; if items roll, they will roll to the center of the table. The table always remains horizontal, and can move along with the caster at a movement rate of up to level plus 5. It will move with the caster automatically at the distance at which it was created, but can be commanded to move anywhere the caster desires in the area of effect. The table’s surface will remain at about mid-level to the caster at all times.

When the spell’s duration expires, the table lowers itself to the ground (over a round) and disappears. If the caster moves too fast for the table and the table thus leaves the area of effect, the table disappears immediately, tumbling everything it carried to the ground.

Minor Phantasm

A Minor Phantasm attacks the victims’ minds through visual illusions. It relies on the victims’ minds for the other senses. The sorceror will be most successful at creating illusions of things they have studied extensively. The sorcerer must make a Reason roll to create a well-designed illusion; on a failed Reason roll, the victims automatically receive an initial reaction to see the illusory nature of the phantasm. The sorcerer receives a bonus of 4 to this roll if they have studied the proposed illusion extensively; a bonus of 2 if they have studied it generally or have seen it recently, and a penalty of 2 if they have never seen the thing they’re creating.

If any of the victims strike the illusion they receive an automatic reaction roll at a bonus of 4, unless the sorceror successfully has the illusion react believably. This requires an Evasion roll by the caster. Merely touching the phantasm does not generate a reaction roll, as the victim’s mind creates the appropriate tactile feel.

All victims must be within the area of effect of the spell. The spell affects any number of victims, as long as they are within the spell’s area of effect. The phantasm can cause damage as normal for phantasms.

Victims who “see through” the illusion still see the visual effects, but the illusion then has no audible, tactile, or other sensory effects. The phantasm does not throw off light: light must already be present for the potential victims to see it and trigger the rest of the sensory effects.

Sand Blast

Sand Blast creates a blast of sand that reduces visibility to nil for the spell’s duration. Anyone in the area of effect must make an Evasion roll or be blinded for d4 rounds after the spell ends.

Sensory Assurance

The character under the influence of Sensory Assurance will take at face value that whatever they perceive is how they perceive it. They will believe that sleight of hand tricks are real, and that ventriloquist’s dummies really are speaking. The character will ignore less direct evidence to the contrary.

Sensory Assurance is also useful when used along with visual spells such as Angular Reformation and Ephemeral Backdrop.

When someone under the power of sensory assurance tries to physically test their perceptions, another reaction roll is allowed to realize something is wrong.

The reverse, Sensory Uncertainty, causes victims to mistrust everything they see. Distances are uncertain, familiar faces might well be someone else, and everything must be taken cautiously and with care.

Shadows

Shadows causes natural shadows to form in such a way as to hide the target creature. The shadowed creature gains a bonus of the casting level to any attempts at hiding or sneaking; chances of seeing the shadowed creature are penalized by the same amount.

There must already be a reasonable amount of shadows in the area for this spell to be effective. If there are only a small number of shadows, the bonus is halved, and if there are no shadows, the spell has no effect on perception or hiding.

Sleep

Sleep causes a number of creatures in the area of effect to go to a magical sleep for the duration of the spell. (They may remain asleep afterwards, depending on conditions.) The player rolls 3d6. This is the number of levels of creatures, starting with the lowest levels, that are affected. Each potential creature is allowed a Willpower roll.

The player may (before rolling the dice) reduce the number of levels affected and apply this as a penalty to all remaining reactions against the Sleep spell. If the reduction is 3 or more, it is possible for zero levels (and thus zero creatures) to be affected.

The spell cannot affect any targets of higher level than the spell was cast at. Sleep must be targeted on a creature, though it can affect other creatures that the sorceror cannot see and does not know about.

Slipknot

Slipknot unravels the target knot. The knot must be constructed of rope, thread, or string and be as flexible as normal rope.

The knot must be contained in an area half level inches in diameter.

Slippery Surface

Slippery Surface causes the surface of a solid, somewhat uniform object or area to become as slippery, frictionless, and nearly impossible to grip. Those trying to grip a slippery object must make an evasion roll to do so successfully. Anyone caught in a slippery area must make an Evasion roll each round to move, and even then movement is halved.

Slippery Surface is ineffective against grainy, non-solid surfaces such as dirt.

The reverse, Traction makes gripping or moving on an already slippery surface (such as ice) as easy as walking on dry stone.

Smoky Stairs

Smoky Stairs creates a walkway or ladder from smoke. The spell requires smoke from a fire, and the smoke must reach the height desired for the ladder or stairs. The sorceror may create a ladder or stair of height equal to three yards per level. The stair or ladder is steady and requires no support, and the endpoint may be moved as desired by the sorceror. The stairs may hold only one creature at a time, plus one creature per level of the sorceror.

Strength

The target’s strength will increase by 1 for every two casting levels.

Weakness will decrease the target’s strength by 1 for every two casting levels. The target’s strength may not be reduced to zero. Strengths below three make it difficult to carry anything, or to move normally.

Sulfuric Spray

Sulfuric Spray spews corrosive acid from the sorceror’s hands, which must be held so that the thumbs touch each other and the fingers are spread. Creatures in the area of effect which are susceptible to acid suffer one survival point loss for each level of the sorceror.

Third Level

Aura of Innocence

The target just doesn’t seem capable of committing any crime, at least not for a culpable reason. Anyone within the area of effect who would, under normal circumstances, think the target was not innocent must make a Willpower roll to so believe. If the person making the roll actually saw the target commit the crime or misdeed in question, there is a bonus of three to the roll, six if the crime was particularly heinous.

Aura of Guilt causes the target to seem the most likely culprit for any misdeeds that come to light while the target is around. Potential accusers must make a Willpower roll to avoid assuming that the target is the guilty party. The silver ring must be tarnished for the reverse.

Unwilling targets are allowed an Evasion roll to avoid the effects of the spell.

Bar Passage

Bar Passage magically locks doors, chests, windows, anything that can be opened. Barred items will be openable or passable only through breaking the item or through magical means, such as dispelling the magic.

The caster may open the item at any time, without dispelling the magic. The door cannot be larger than two yards radius per level.

Dark Bubble

Dark Bubble creates a bubble of darkness that cannot be seen into or out of. Within the radius of the bubble, things can be seen assuming light sources are available. But creatures inside the bubble cannot see outside, and creatures outside the bubble cannot see inside. It appears as a grayish black bubble that moves with the target.

Dream Omen

Dream Omen causes the target to receive a glimpse of the future in a dream. It must be cast on the target as the target falls asleep. Sometime during the night, the target will dream in some allegorical way of the future. If there is a special problem facing the target, the dream is likely to involve that problem. A Perception roll is required to recall the dream.

Dust Wand

Dust Wand sucks dust, light dirt, and grime off of any surface that the caster points their wand or staff towards. The cleansing cone is three yards wide at its end. It will clean dirt and grime off of things and creatures, but will not “clean” dirt that is part of the ground or thicker than a normally dirty person. When dusting hard surfaces, this will be enough to clear tracks from the dust--there won’t be any dust left to have tracks.

The sorceror must maintain concentration on the task of cleaning but can otherwise dust large areas by moving as normal for concentrating.

Fire Blast

Fire Blast causes an existing fire to explode in a fiery blast. The fire must be at least the size of a small campfire. The burst will cause 1d4 damage for each casting level, up to a maximum of 6d4, to anyone within the area of effect. A successful Evasion roll halves this damage.

Group Suggestion

Group Suggestion is much like Suggestion but it applies to all creatures within the area of effect, up to level creatures.

As with Suggestion, the suggestion must be reasonable, understandable, and brief. Hostile creatures gain a bonus of up to three on their reaction. Extremely reasonable suggestions result in a penalty of up to two on the reaction.

Hide Item

Hide Item makes the target more difficult to find through magical means. Any attempts to find the item while the spell is in effect are at a penalty of level to Perception or similar success rolls.

Immovable Object

Immovable Object makes it very difficult to move the affected object.

When attempting to move or lift the affected object, it is as if the weight of the object were increased by level times 100 pounds.

Intelligence

The target’s intelligence will increase by 1 for every three levels of the caster.

The gold-lined hat, gold crown, or gold-threaded band must be worn on the head of the target. The gold (which is used up) must be worth at least twenty silver coins.

The reverse decreases the target’s intelligence. Intelligence may not be reduced to zero. Intelligences below three are non-sentient, and cannot follow even the most basic logic.

Lesser Ball of Fire

The Lesser Ball of Fire is an explosive flame that does one point of damage per casting level. Targets may make a reaction roll for half damage. Flammable items within the area of effect (and not carried by an individual who made their reaction) are likely to catch fire: a fortitude roll is required. Highly flammable items will catch fire.

There must be a clear line between the caster and the center of effect. Anything that blocks that line will cause the ball to explode early.

Levitate

The target, up to level times fifty pounds, will levitate upwards or downwards four yards per round at the sorceror’s command. The sorceror must concentrate to command such movement, but otherwise the levitation lasts to the duration of the spell. The sorceror cannot command levitation beyond the range of the spell.

Combat while levitated is difficult, and is at a penalty of three to attack and two to defense.

Locate Origin

The caster may make a Perception roll each round to delve into the object’s origin. On the first successful roll, the caster will know where the target was most previously (either a location or, if carried by an individual, something about that individual). On the second successful roll, the caster will know something about the next most previous “location”, etc.

Mend Wounds

The main purpose of this spell is to stop bleeding and death. It grants the target a bonus of half casting level to death rolls, up to a maximum of the target’s injury point total at the time of casting. If the target is dying (but not yet dead), the caster may make a Reason roll at a penalty of the target’s injury point total to remove that ailment. The target’s injury point total remains the same, but is no longer dying. A character may only be under the influence of one Mend Wounds.

Mnemonic Transferal

This spell takes a spell that is currently memorized and copies it to empty ‘spell slots’ in the caster’s mind. The transferred spell remains in its original place also. The caster could, for example, use Mnemonic Transferal on a memorized Fireball spell. If the caster has five free ‘slots’, the caster then has two memorized Fireball spells. Mnemonic Transferal is only of use to mnemonic sorcerors.

The casting time for the Mnemonic Transferal is the level of the spell being transferred.

The components of this spell are a quill from a gryphon, inscribed with special runes, and a green emerald worth at least 200 silver coins. The quill can be re-used. The emerald can only be used for 9 spell levels.

Mutual Understanding

Mutual Understanding allows the caster and the target to converse in speech (assuming the target has a vocal speech form) and understand each other. Mutual Confusion causes the target to not understand anything the caster says, and for the caster to not understand anything the target says.

Open

Open causes bars to jump from their resting places blocking doors, locks to unlock, latches to snap open, simple blocks (such as a chair against a door) to fail, and even heavily blocked doors to shift slightly. Open causes the doors to open slightly as well.

If Open is cast on a magically barred item, the caster must make a Reason roll at a penalty equal to the casting level of the magic bar. The door must be no larger than 2 yards radius per level.

Secret Conference

Secret Conference grants the targets a private conversation with the sorceror and each other. Those outside of the conference hear as if it were another, incomprehensible language. The sorceror must have known each companion for at least one week before casting the spell, and each companion must be in range.

See Parasite

See Parasite gives the recipient a “second sight” that allows them to see spiritual or mental parasites controlling any victims within sight. The target need not concentrate, but must be able to see the parasite’s host. If the target can see the host and the host is in the area of effect, the target of the spell will see both the host and the parasite as a sort of double-exposure image. If the parasite has a physical form, the after-image will have that form. Otherwise the image will in some way reflect the parasite’s nature.

Silence

Silence causes all actions by the target to make no noise. Intentionally attempting to make noise (such as speaking to another character, clapping hands, or stamping on the ground) temporarily negates the spell’s effects for that action and reduces the spell’s duration by one minute.

Sleepfall

Sleepfall causes the victim to feel as though they just fell, as if the earth opened up below them, much like the sensation of falling that can occur in light sleep. Sleepfall causes a penalty of 3 to any action in progress or that round (such as attack and defense, or any other action). A Willpower roll is required to hold onto held items, including weapons.

Sleepwalking

Sleepwalking causes the target to act out its current dream, whatever it might be. The target will sleepwalk “with eyes open.” Though it will ignore anything that does not fit with the dream, anything that does fit the dream will be treated as it is in the dream.

Once under the effects of the spell, the target will not awaken, unless rough attempts to awaken the target are made and the target makes a successful Perception roll at a penalty of half the caster’s level (round down).

Spell Shade

Spell Shade allows the caster to temporarily “shade” any of their cast spells as if the spell has ended. Spell Shade does not extend the duration of the spell; the “clock is still ticking” even while the spell is shaded. The caster may turn spells on and off as many times as desired for the duration of Spell Shade, as long as the spell’s target or center of effect is within the Spell Shade’s area of effect.

Unravel Bonds

Unravel Bonds unravels the target rope or other tied bond. The bonds must be generally as flexible as normal rope, the bonds must be fully contained in an area level feet in diameter, and the knotted portion must be fully contained in an area level inches in radius.

Unraveled bonds may fall or dangle once unraveled.

Wizard Mark

Wizard Mark places a magical marking on any stone, wood, or metal surface as long as it has a flat area seven by seven inches square. The sigil is unique to the sorceror who inscribes it and recognizable once seen. Wizard marks are visible to any who can detect magic.

The mark cannot be placed on living creatures or things. The sigil can be accompanied by up to level words.

If a sorceror “marks” a surface, the place that surface resides--even if it moves--counts as “extremely familiar” for purposes of spells such as teleport.

Fourth Level

Agility

The target’s agility will increase by 1 for every four levels of the caster.

The reverse, Clumsiness, decreases the target’s agility. Agility may not be decreased to zero. Agilities below three lack all coordination, and an inability to perform even the simplest tasks.

Animate Corpses

Animate Corpses temporarily animates human corpses, under the direct control of the sorceror. If they go out of range or if the sorceror’s concentration fails, the spell is broken. The sorceror may animate up to half level walking corpses for which actual corpses must be available. The walking corpses are second level.

Diagnose Disease

Diagnose Disease tells the sorceror if the target is diseased, and where the target is diseased. The sorceror may make a perception roll to gain general information about the disease.

Elemental Ward

Elemental Ward creates a zone of danger around a protected area. The caster may specify a pass phrase or an item which, if carried, bypasses the ward. If a pass phrase is specified, speaking the phrase allows the speaker only to bypass the ward for one minute.

The elemental ward may be a lightning ward, a fire ward, or a cold ward. In each case, the ward will cause 1d6 points damage for every three levels of effect. A successful fortitude or evasion roll will result in half damage.

The caster may specify that one or more of the following actions will cause the ward to discharge: entering the protected zone, leaving the protected zone, or the taking or removal from the zone of any item placed within the zone before the spell was cast or while the spell was temporarily disabled with a pass phrase or key.

Once discharged, the ward ends.

Ephemeral Stage

Ephemeral Stage creates an extremely realistic scene much like the Ephemeral Backdrop’s “painting of light” except that the ephemeral stage consists of three-dimensional “objects” anywhere within the area of effect.

The “stage” does not respond in any way to surrounding events, including light sources. It is, however, otherwise extremely convincing, and may portray any scene that the caster remembers or could reasonably imagine. The scene will be completely static: no motion is allowed.

Find Item

Find Item helps the sorceror find a specific, known item. If the item is within the area of effect, and the sorceror makes a Perception roll, the sorceror is drawn towards the item.

The sorceror must be familiar with the item: they must be able to picture the actual item in their mind.

Glue

Glue causes the target items or creatures to stick together when joined. The “glue” can hold up to ten pounds per level before failing.

Rolls to pull the stuck items apart are at a penalty of twice level. Fragile items are likely to break or tear rather than pull apart.

Invisibility

Invisibility affects normal vision, night vision, and underground vision. It does not affect sound, smell, or other senses. Invisibility is a precarious state: any attack made by the character (including targeting a spell) ends the invisibility. Unconsciousness due to attack also causes the spell to end (as does destruction of invisible objects). The target, if intelligent, may choose to end the invisibility at any time with a Fortitude roll.

The caster may target any creature or object less than level times 40 pounds in mass. Invisibility affects the target and any items (within the mass limit) the target is carrying. Items that are not worn by the character when the spell is cast do not become invisible; food or drink will become invisible as it becomes part of the character, but the character runs the risk of becoming visible: each mouthful swallowed necessitates a Fortitude roll, with a special bonus based on the level of the sorceror who cast the Invisibility.

Lost Corner

A Lost Corner draws normally invisible and inconsequential extra angles to a corner and forms them into a temporary refuge separate from the world. The Lost Corner is its own tiny pocket universe, formed into a small rectangular room.

The rectangular room can be up to level feet wide, level feet tall, and level yards deep. (The entrance itself is always infinitely thin, and only allows one person to enter at a time.) The appearance of the interior walls and floor may be chosen by the caster. Just about any interior may be specified: rock, leather, wood, or cloth, for example. Regardless of the appearance, the walls and floor are slightly yielding but indestructible. They are the edge of the tiny universe. They can’t be broken through because there is nothing to break through to.

The sorceror can allow anyone to enter the Lost Corner, or may specify conditions that must be met to enter. There can be one simple condition (such as holding a sigil, making a sign, or saying a word) for every three levels of effect.

If the sorceror wants there to be a condition to exit the Lost Corner, these conditions count separately from the entrance conditions, even if they are the same conditions.

The spell must be cast on a true corner: the horizontal angle (between the two walls) must be between 60 and 120 degrees. The angle from the vertical (between floor and walls or ceiling and walls) must be between 85 and 95 degrees.

When the spell’s duration ends, any contents reappear at the entrance location in the real world.

Magic Box

The Magic Box can hold ten times as much as it normally could. A five by five by five inch box, for example, could hold as much stuff as if it were fifty by fifty by fifty inches. Each individual item must still fit through the box’s opening. The Magic Box need not be a box: it could be a bag, a pocket, a jar, or any normal container.

The Magic Box will weigh its own weight plus one tenth the weight of everything in it. It cannot hold more than level times 30 pounds. If the container itself contains more than one container, each container divides the storage capacity evenly. If a fourth level sorceror casts Magic Box on a sash with five pockets, for example, each pocket will hold up to 24 pounds as if it were 2.4 pounds.

The container must be no more than twice level inches diameter.

When the spell ends, if any items remain in the Magic Box they are expelled through the openings.

Personal Alteration

Personal Alteration changes the sorceror’s appearance and shape. The shape must be basically human in form, but may be up to half again as large as the caster in any direction or half the size of the caster.

The new form may also include physical additions such as wings and claws. These are not as effective as the original form, however. Physical movement in the new form, other than bipedally, is at half the movement it would be if the form were real. Attacks and advantage rolls while using the new form’s non-leg-based movements are at a penalty of two. Claw attacks are at a penalty of two to attack and one to damage, and do not afford the caster more attacks than the caster would normally receive.

The new form cannot give the caster any special abilities, or bonuses to defense or attack.

The alteration includes any clothing and non-magical equipment the caster is carrying.

Taking on the form of a specific individual is difficult and most likely will require a Perception roll on the caster’s part to successfully imitate the desired individual’s facial and other features.

Riddleshield

When casting Riddleshield the sorceror presents a riddle to the target. Until the target solves the riddle, they may not attack or in any way attempt to harm the caster. For all other actions and reactions they are at a penalty of 1.

Targets must be able to understand the caster’s language and reasonably be able to hear the riddle. The spell ends once any target solves the riddle or when the duration ends.

Guides must decide how likely a non-player opponent is to solve any particular riddle; but the Guide must solve the riddle for NPCs. Player characters and NPCs are allowed a reason roll; if successful the riddling player must provide the other player with a hint. If more than one target makes their reason roll, each must be given a different hint.

Stinging Guardian

The Stinging Guardian can be in the form of any small poisonous creature, such as an asp, a spider, a scorpion, or a scarab.

The Stinging Guardian may be wood, stone, iron, or glass. The caster has a number of “points” equal to the level the spell is cast at. Each wood guardian costs four points, each stone guardian five points, each iron guardian six points, and each glass guardian seven points.

Stinging Guardians appear simply as tiny statues or miniatures of the appropriate form. Without regard to their magic, they appear to be worth between the cost of the model and twice that. They “come to life” on a special trigger, specified by the caster. The trigger can be any simple event such as something being opened, something being crossed, or an attack on the guardian. Once triggered, the Stinging Guardian attacks immediately, usually gaining surprise. Victims successfully hit by a guardian must make an Evasion roll or be poisoned.

Attacks on an inert guardian can cause damage to it and shatter it. If the guardian is triggered by the attack, however, the guardian comes to life unharmed by the attack, and the attacker has a penalty of two to their surprise roll. Triggered guardians attack anything that moves except for the caster, starting with the closest target.

Wood Guardian: The wood guardian has an advantage, attack, and defense bonus of 2. It does d2 points damage, and has twice level survival points. It moves at 10. Its poison has an action time of 1 round, a strength of 1, and does d3 points of damage per round. Wood guardian models cost 5 silver coins.

Stone Guardian: The stone guardian has a defense bonus of 4. It does d4 points damage and has three times level survival points. It moves at eight. Its poison has an action time of 1 minute, a strength of 3, and does d6 points per minute. Stone guardian models cost 25 silver coins.

Iron Guardian: The iron guardian has a defense bonus of 6, and an advantage and attack bonus of 3. It does d6 points damage and has four times level survival points. It moves at 12. Its poison has an action time of 1 round, a strength of 3, and reduces endurance by 1 point per round. Iron guardian models cost 50 silver coins.

Glass Guardian: The glass guardian has a defense bonus of 3, and an advantage and attack bonus of 6. It does d4 points damage and has twice level survival points. It moves at 16. Its poison has an action time of 1 round, a strength of 5, and reduces intelligence by 1 point per round. Glass guardian models cost 100 silver coins.

The ingredients are a model of the appropriate material for each guardian. The caster must also sacrifice one creature of the form being created, for every guardian being created: snake, scarab, spider, scorpion, etc.

Sulfuric Burst

Sulfuric Burst sends a ball of bubbling, burning, goo towards the target. The target is allowed an Evasion roll. On a successful Evasion roll, the target takes d8 damage. On an unsuccessful Evasion roll, the target takes 2d4 points damage and the burst has stuck to the victim. The goo sticks for one extra round for every three levels the spell is cast at. It lasts for one extra round if the spell is cast at fourth or fifth level. It lasts for two extra rounds if the spell is cast at sixth to eighth level, etc.

The goo causes 2d4 points of damage each round that it sticks.

Wave Action

Wave Action causes the victim to feel as if the world were rolling up and down in waves. There is a penalty of 2 to any physical actions (including defense, attack, and any other physical skill or attempt) for the duration of the spell. Furthermore, the victim must make an Evasion roll each round to avoid falling. Each successive round the victim gains a bonus of 1 to the reaction roll.

Web

Web conjures a spiral net of tough, sticky, grey strands much like a spider’s web. The web is twice level inches thick, and very strong. Creatures may tear through the webbing if they make a strength contest against ten plus the level of the spell; each attempt takes a full round.

The strands must be cast between two or more points (like a spider’s web), The width or height (or depth if horizontal) of the web can be increased by up to 50%, with a corresponding reduction in the other dimension. A strand can maintain a weight of up to level times thirty pounds; the entire mass can maintain a weight of level times one hundred pounds. When the spell ends, the strands disappear.

Fifth Level

Aura of Nobility

The target exudes nobility and honor, as if they could tell no lie and do no wrong. Those under the spell’s effect (a Willpower roll is allowed) are likely to trust the target implicitly.

The reverse, Aura of Depravity, makes those under the spell’s effect feel the target is a depraved, lying, untrustworthy scoundrel. The ingredient for the reverse is a tarnished gold ring.

Unwilling targets are allowed an Evasion roll to avoid the effects of the spell.

Bottle of Dreams

Bottle of Dreams will capture a dream or nightmare into a specially-prepared bottle of smoky quartz. The caster and the bottle must be within level minus four yards of the dreamer to capture the dreamer’s current dream. The casting time of the spell is one round, but dreams will take d6 minutes to fully capture, though the caster will not know how many minutes are necessary unless a Perception roll is made.

When opened or destroyed, the dream is released, and everyone within level yards radius of the release must make a Willpower roll or be affected by the dream. Dreams that are not fully captured will be indistinct and hazy, and easily escaped with another Willpower roll. Those caught in a dream will feel and act as if the dream were actually occurring, much like an illusion. The dream-illusion lasts for as many rounds as the d6 roll for capturing the dream. A dream which required five minutes to capture will last five rounds.

Dreams may be bottled for up to level days. After level days, the dream dissipates harmlessly.

Despite the title, bottles may only hold one dream. The bottle is not normally destroyed in the casting, and may be re-used if thoroughly cleaned. The birch stopper is not destroyed but may not be re-used. Bottles, if purchased, will generally cost about ten silver coins.

Dispel Magic

Dispel Magic may automatically dispel any of the caster’s own permanent spells. Dispelling other spells requires a Reason roll at a penalty equal to the other caster’s level.

Permanent ritually enchanted items such as magic weapons, magic rings, etc., will not be permanently dispelled, but may, depending on the level they were ritualized at, be temporarily dispelled for as long as the wizard concentrates. Non-permanent ritually enchanted items, such as potions or permanent spells, will be permanently dispelled if the caster is successful at dispelling.

Endurance

The target’s endurance will increase by 1 for every five levels of the caster.

The reverse, sickly, decreases endurance. Endurance may not be reduced to zero. Endurance of less than three is so low that even the easiest tasks can cause exhaustion and lasting weariness.

Ephemeral Reflection

Ephemeral Reflection creates a dynamic scene much like the Ephemeral Backdrop’s “painting of light” except that the ephemeral reflection can “play back” a moving scene.

The Ephemeral Reflection must be cast on a reflecting surface, such as clear water or a mirror, that is up to half level feet diameter.

The “reflection” does not respond in any way to surrounding events, including light sources. It is, however, otherwise extremely realistic, and may portray any scene that the caster remembers or could reasonably imagine.

If the scene has a shorter duration than the spell, it is the caster’s choice whether the scene replays from the beginning or simply ends when the scene runs out.

Fighting Prowess

The target gains an attack bonus of 1, a defense bonus of 1, and an additional temporary pool of 2d6 survival points. Survival point loss will reduce the temporary pool before affecting the character’s true survival.

The reverse gives an attack and defense penalty, but does not reduce survival.

Find Location

Find Location helps the sorceror find a specific, known location. If the location is within the area of effect, and the sorceror makes a Perception roll, the sorceror is drawn towards the location.

The sorceror must be familiar with the location: they must be able to picture the actual location in their mind.

Flame Ward

Flame Ward makes it impossible to start fires within the area of effect of the spell. Fires that are already burning will not spread for the duration; they may or may not go out.

The reverse of the spell, Inflame, causes flames to start much more easily. Reaction rolls or skill rolls to start fires are at a bonus of four, and rolls to avoid starting fires are at a penalty of four. Jostled or shaken gunpowder will go off unless the carrier makes an Evasion roll for each round of movement.

Great Ball of Fire

The Great Ball of Fire creates a huge, fiery explosion. It does 1d6 damage for each casting level, up to a maximum of 10d6. Those within the area of effect may make a reaction roll for half damage. The ball of fire will, if constrained, generally expand in whatever direction(s) it can to fit its volume (you can usually guesstimate, but it is approximately 1,400 cubic yards, or a cube 11 yards to a side).

The flame will ignite any flammable ingredients and melt soft metals. Any object on a target that fails its reaction, will itself have to undergo a Fortitude roll to survive.

There must be a clear line between the caster and the center of effect. Anything that blocks that line will cause the ball to explode early.

Illusory Transport

Illusory Transport alters the appearance of a vehicle or device of transport. The vehicle’s basic size and rough dimensions remain the same, but the vehicle can be made to appear as any similarly-sized vehicle in roughly the same space. A large cart could be made to appear as a petite coach, for example. A sailing vessel could become a barge. The vehicle must be no more than half level yards in diameter.

The spell alters only appearance. The vehicle gains no special abilities. Odd illusions, such as making a land-transport appear as a moving sailing ship (or vice versa) will often grant bonuses to reaction rolls to recognize the illusory transport as an illusion.

Lasting Suggestion

Lasting Suggestion is much like Suggestion except that it lasts for hours.

As with Suggestion, the suggestion must be reasonable, understandable, and brief. Hostile creatures gain a bonus of up to three on their rection. Extremely reasonable suggestions result in a penalty of up to two on the reaction roll.

Magic Door

Magic Door connects two “doors” so that walking through one exits the other. Each particular door is one way, in that the “teleport” only applies to one side of the door. The spell, however, is a two-way spell in that items and creatures can enter either door (from the correct side) to be transported to the other door. From the “incorrect” side, the door remains a normal door.

Light and sound traverse the doors as if they were normal doors to their magical destinations.

While the doors need not be actual doors, they must be pre-existing entrances/exits used for entry and egress. They must be approximately the same size. If the two doors are of the same basic type and shape, opening one opens the other. Otherwise (as for a door to a window), each must be opened separately, and from the correct side.

The near door must be within the range of the spell. The far door must be within 10 yards per level. The doors must be larger enough for the caster to use, and must fit completely within spell range.

Seek Item

Seek Item is much like Find Item except that it may be cast on others. It draws the spell recipient to any specific item that is familiar to the recipient, if that item is within the area of effect.

The recipient must make a Perception roll. The sorceror may benefit that roll using their own Charisma as a major contributor.

Shade Effects

Shade Effects allows the caster to retain control over effects that normally can't be changed after casting. A Light, for example, can be varied in brightness to the caster’s whim. Wind walls can be moved about.

Common effects include range, target, area, and special effects. A wizard could move an Enchant a Weapon from weapon to weapon, for example (but would still have to touch each weapon). If a reaction roll is allowed against the spell, a successful reaction cancels the Shade Effects. If the affected spell’s center of effect ever leaves the radius of effect of the Shade Effects, Shade Effects is cancelled, and the affected spell is stuck in whatever state it was at, at that time. Otherwise, the duration of Shade Effects is the same as the affected spell.

Shade Effects must be cast immediately following the spell to be affected. Casting Time is the number of effects the caster desires control over.

Snap Trick

The sorceror encloses the item in their hand, casts the spell, and can then “call” the item to hand as long as the item remains in the area of effect. If the item is held by another creature, that creature is allowed a Willpower roll, at a penalty of 3, to keep the item from snapping. If the sorceror leaves the area of effect but returns before the spell’s duration ends, the item may be snapped.

The reverse of the spell snaps the target item back to the location it was at when the spell was cast. Casting is otherwise the same, but the item must be kept by the sorceror after the spell is completed. The destination must remain within the area of effect, and the object must remain in the sorceror’s possession.

Veil

A veil cast on an area or item makes it more difficult to magically find or seek or otherwise divine the location of things, locations, and creatures within the area of effect. Attempts at using such spells to find things covered by the veil are at a penalty of the casting level to Perception or other success rolls.

Veil may be cast on objects or locations, but not creatures.

Sixth Level

Angular Path

Angular Path sends the target into an ethereal dimension above our normal three dimensions. The target is not visible through normal senses. They can see the normal world, but they cannot affect it. They can hear things said in the normal world if they make a perception roll. They can also move “through” solid objects such as walls and floors, by finding an extra-dimensional path around the obstruction. A perception roll is required to find such a path, and it is a path. It must be traversed; it cannot be reached through or pried at.

The target can return to normal space at any time, ending the spell. It takes one round to return to normal space. The target is immune to any effects taking place in the normal world for the duration of the spell.

Clear Portal

Clear Portal makes the other side of any egress or entryway (up to level feet in diameter) visible through the portal. The spell can work on doorways, permanent dimensional portals, or long hallways--any portal which is normally a means of entry or exit.

Cold Flame

Cold Flame creates a jet of blue and white cold flame that damages any organic creatures in its cone. The cone is level inches wide at its base, and half level feet wide at its end. It causes half level d6 damage. Victims may make an Evasion roll to take half damage. The Cold Flame does not damage any items the victims are carrying.

Demonic Clarity

Demonic Clarity brings a possessed creature’s true mind temporarily back into control of their body. It can affect demonic, magical, psychic, and similar possessions. The sorceror must make a Perception roll, at a bonus of casting level, to be successful. If the victim is possessed by a demon, that demon’s level is applied as a penalty to the roll. If by a spell, the spell’s level of effect is a penalty. And if by a psychic, the level of effect applied to reaction penalties is a penalty to the sorceror’s roll.

If the victim cares about their possession, their wisdom is applied as a major contributor to the sorceror’s roll. It can be applied either for or against the roll, depending on whether the victim wants to be free or wants to be possessed. A victim with low wisdom will be at cross-purposes: if they want to be possessed, their low wisdom ends up making it easier for the sorceror to free them from possession, and vice versa.

Dreamwalk

Dreamwalk allows the caster or a chosen creature within range to enter the dreamworld of a sleeping creature also within range. The dreamer must already be dreaming. The dreamwalker will also sleep for the duration of the spell. The dreamwalker may take any form in the dream, but the form will somehow bear resemblance to the dreamwalker’s waking appearance.

If the dreamwalker merely observes, the victim will remain unaware of the intruder’s status (although the dreamwalker may well appear in the dream and be remembered on awakening). If the dreamwalker takes action in the dream, the target is allowed a Perception roll, depending on the nature of the actions, to recognize the dreamwalker as an external presence.

Dreamers who detect the presence of the dreamwalker may attempt to either expel the intruder or trap the intruder with an opposed willpower roll. The spell is ended if the dreamwalker is expelled, and may be ended at any time by an untrapped dreamwalker (though dreamwalkers who are unfamiliar with the spell may not know this).

Find Magic

Find Magic helps the sorceror detect the presence and direction of magical auras anywhere within the area of effect.

If there is more than one magical aura within the area of effect, the sorceror will detect as many extra ones as the Perception roll succeeded by.

Raise Undead

Raise Undead temporarily reanimates human skeletons or corpses. The undead retain none of their experience in life, nor any intelligence at all. They may be controlled only when within range, or may be given a single simple command (such as “guard area” or “chase” a visible entity).

Skeletons raised are first level. Walking corpses are second level. The sorceror may raise up to level skeletons or half level corpses, and there must be skeletons or corpses available to raise.

Tracer

This spell creates a magical link between the caster and the spell recipient. As long as the caster and recipient are on the same plane and in the same sphere, the caster will know the direction the recipient is and the approximate distance. If the recipient leaves the plane/sphere/dimension of the caster, but returns before the duration is up, or the caster arrives in the same plane/sphere/dimension as the target, the caster is allowed a Perception roll. If made, the caster knows that the recipient is somewhere there, but only distance is known--not direction.

Living creatures are allowed a Willpower roll, at a penalty of 2, to avoid becoming the target of Tracer.

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