Cosmic Peril Fantasy: Spells List
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Spells, or Psionic Techniques, are discrete applications of each of the arcane skills in CPF that a player can, in theory, learn and attempt to use.
Acquiring Spells- Each time a player gains a level in any one arcane skill, they automatically receive that level's core power, and may choose one free spell from that new level or lower, selecting from this list.
- Players can also acquire new spells by spenting XP equal to the spell's level. They must still posess that level of the governing skill.
- When you acquire new spells, copy and paste the selected rows from the table on this page onto your character record sheet.
Spell Details
Each spell has a level, a governing skill or "school", a casting cost, a casting TN (targer number for your casting roll), a name, and an effect description, including limitations.
If not otherwise stated, the minimum casting time of each spell is 1 main action (6 seconds).
The usual formula for casting TN is (level*2)+6.
When a spell says "visible target", it means that the caster must be able to see the target with unaided vision. Video feeds and other electronic views do not work. If rather the target's vision is being affected, such as with fog and smoke spells, these affect cameras and robot eyes normally, blocking vision, unless they have infrared or sonar etc.
If a spell has a duration, it generally requires concentration.
D20 Attack Spells are spells intended for personal squad combat use. Rather than rolling versus a target based on level, you roll with a d20 + modifiers to hit the enemy's armor class value or better. Similar to normal spells, if you roll low, you will get at least a miss and potentially also an arcane backfire effect.
This spell list is and will always be incomplete! Want a spell that will drown the earth, blow up a star, summon fiends? Quest for it!
Spell School | Spell Level | Spell Name | TN to Cast | Spell Description |
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Channeling | 0 | Invoke Entity | Varies | Cast to request contact with and/or favors from your patron entity, or another godlike arcane entity that you are aware of. Cast as a main action or as a ritual with a length of your choice. The effects vary wildly depending on the relationship, the casting method, the casting roll, sacrifices or embellishments, ritual time, spell points spent, the entity and the entity's attitude (but it can be cast with 0 spell points spent). You can make a specific request, such as "please smite my enemies" or "please grant us sanctuary". This spell can be cast with your choice of skill level/TN, and the entity's reaction will vary. Note that the patron can contact or reward you anytime via the GM, this spell is used when the player has a specific request for the patron. |
Chronomancy | 1 | Core-1: Visions 1 hour | 8 | Get hints about the potential past or future on a certain topic, within a 1-hour radius in time. |
Chronomancy | 2 | Core-2: Visions 1 day | 10 | Get hints about the potential past or future of a certain topic, within a 1-day radius in time. |
Chronomancy | 2 | Foresight | 10 | Cast this as an instant reaction to auto-win initiative when a combat begins or to act first in any other urgent situation. If someone else also casts then roll with just that person. If the party is ambushed, and you cast, then only you are excepted from surprise. |
Chronomancy | 2 | Portent | 10 | Cast in the morning to gain 1 portent roll. Roll 2d6, then save the results. You keep this portent roll through the day until your next sleep cycle, and may apply it to allies/enemies when needed, before modifiers, thereby expending it. If unused, they expire at end of day. You cannot have or use more than 2 portents between good rests. |
Chronomancy | 2 | Sense the Need | 10 | Cast, retroactively, and prove that you brought along a useful item that you could conceivably have had and brought from earlier. Doesn't work as well with expensive or ultra-powerful items, but might depending on context and roll. |
Chronomancy | 3 | Core-3: Visions 1 week | 12 | Get hints about the potential past or future of a certain topic, within a 1-week radius in time. |
Chronomancy | 3 | Foreboding | 12 | Cast as a reaction when a trap, ambush, or sudden hazard is triggered. If successful, trap remains untripped, hazards remain contained, and the party is not surprised by enemies. |
Chronomancy | 3 | Slow | 12 | As a main action, you commit concentration and attempt to slow a biological person or creature. They drop to -1 initiative and can only take 1 type of action, and have a 25% chance to lose their turn in combat. Works on robots. Lasts up to 4 hours. |
Chronomancy | 3 | Future Shunt | 12 | You touch a target person or object to send them a certain amount of time into the future. Good rolls and upcasting allow more control. |
Chronomancy | 4 | Core-4: Visions 1 month | 14 | Get hints about the potential past or future of a certain topic, within a 1-month radius in time. |
Chronomancy | 4 | Disfavor | 14 | Cast as an instant reaction when you don't like an enemy's roll. It is then re-rolled. You choose which roll to keep. Does not work on friends. |
Chronomancy | 4 | Haste | 14 | As a main action, you commit concentration and increase the global speed of a biological person or creature. This means that they appear to be twice as fast as ordinary people, and for them, ordinary people seem slow. If used in battle, they get +1 additional Main Action per turn in addition to double speed. Upcast for more speed or more targets. |
Chronomancy | 4 | Probability Curse | 14 | Cast on a target to give them +1 disadvantage die on all rolls for 1 minute. Requires concentration. |
Chronomancy | 4 | Probability Blessing | 14 | Cast on a target to give them +1 advantage die on all rolls for 1 minute. Requires concentration. |
Chronomancy | 4 | Timeshaping | 14 | Cast and concentrate. For an hour, you have some minor control over minor random events such as gambling, cosmic radiation, wind, industrial accidents, etc. During this hour, you can make very unlikely concidences happen at will. |
Chronomancy | 5 | Core-5: Visions 1 year | 16 | Get hints about the potential past or future of a certain topic, within a 1-year radius in time. |
Chronomancy | 5 | Fork Timeline | 16 | Cast as a reaction when you don't like anything that happened in the past 30 seconds. You roll back time by 30 seconds. Only you remember what happened. More time with better rolls. |
Chronomancy | 5 | Deathfeint | 16 | You can see the spirit of death approaching you, and dodge him at a cost. Cast as a reaction when you or an ally are about to die or be mortally wounded for any reason. The timeline is rearranged to leave the target with at least 1 hp. This may affect many things in the timeline. |
Chronomancy | 5 | Prophecy | 16 | Cast to make a prediction involving yourself or your environment within the next year. Provided that no active effort is made against the development, and resistance is resisted, it will come to pass. Requires concentration for the full duration, which can be kept while sleeping. |
Chronomancy | 5 | Time Stop | 16 | You stop time for 2 combat rounds for everyone in the universe except the target person (usually yourself). Target can do anything they like. Note that machines do not function while time is stopped. Upcast for more length or different targets. |
Chronomancy | 5 | View Timestreams | 16 | Allows you to step outside of time into the temporal dimension and view several different ways that this situation might have been and might become. You cannot affect these; only view them. Time is stopped during the viewing, but you cannot take actions other than viewing. |
Chronomancy | 5 | Mass Slow | 16 | Cast with concentration to attempt to slow all biological enemies in a 10' circle. They all drop to -1 initiative and can take only 1 type of action, and have a 25% chance to lose their turn. |
Chronomancy | 6 | Core-6: Visions Unlimited | 18 | Get visions of the ancient past or far future of a certain topic, with no limits as long as you can identify what time period you want to view. |
Chronomancy | 6 | Time Travel | 18 | You may rewind time into the past or advance it into the future, up to your maximum time range, involving the party. Be warned that even on a perfect success, this will change the present, permanently. |
Chronomancy | 6 | Timeline Jump | 18 | With this spell, you and your party can jump to the same time position in alternate universes. You cast this spell by phrasing it like this: "A timeline in which ____." The more conditions you add, the higher the difficulty and the more changes that get made. If you don't like the result, you can try to jump back, but reverting perfectly may be impossible. |
Cryomancy | 1 | Core-1: Chill | 8 | As a main action, cast and concentrate to deeply chill an item, liquid, or area that is 1 foot cube or smaller and is within 10 meters to -10 degrees fahrenheit. This can be used to freeze real water into specific shapes, shrink metal, make things brittle, etc. If used to damage a creature, it deals 1 cold damage. Critical hits and high rolls on ice attack spells can freeze enemies, which disables them and makes them vulnerable to shattering for 1 turn. While frozen, creatures that are not dead cannot die until they thaw or are shattered. |
Cryomancy | 2 | Core-2: Ice Bolt | AC | D20 Attack Spell. Cast as a main action to condense and throw a sharp icy projectile, derived from ambient water vapor, at one target within 20 meters. They take 1d6 cold damage. |
Cryomancy | 2 | Protection from Cold | 10 | Cast and concentrate to protect up to 10 creatures from cold hazards and halve cold damage taken for up to 4 hours. The effect depends on the context and level cast, but will always help. They must remain within 10m of you for the duration. |
Cryomancy | 2 | Icy Floor | 10 | Cast and concentrate for up to 2 hours to make an area up to 40x40 meters become covered in frost and extremely slippery. Creatures and vehicles attempting to cross this area must roll well on a dexterity, athletics, animals or piloting check to avoid sliding or falling. |
Cryomancy | 2 | Condense Water | 10 | Cast as a main action to instantly condense and concentrate water in ambient water vapor within 20m of you into liquid water. Available water is deposited in an area you select. Effects vary with the environment. |
Cryomancy | 2 | Chill Area | 10 | Cast and concentrate to chill an area within 20 meters that is up to 20 cubic meters in size to just below the freezing point of water, for up to 4 hours. This effect does not cause direct damage but causes significant discomfort and potentially exhaustion or frostbite. |
Cryomancy | 3 | Core-3: Arctic Blast | AC | D20 Attack Spell. Cast and concentrate to begin spraying icy vapor from your hands dealing 2d6 cold damage in a 1m wide, 5m long area. Enemies hit by this spell will become frozen. You can repeat the spray action without recasting by concentrating for up to 1 minute, but you cannot move until you cease casting. |
Cryomancy | 3 | Ice Wall | 12 | Cast and concentrate to form a wall of ice up to 10m high and 10m long and 1m thick. You can shape it into formations such as a dome as long as the enclosed area is the same or lesser. Lasts up to 2 hours while you concentrate. |
Cryomancy | 3 | Ice Armor | 12 | Cast and concentrate to cover yourself or an ally with flexible plates of arcane ice that act as an armor that increases your armor class to 16 and provides 20 hp of damage absorption. Lasts up to 2 hours or until destroyed. |
Cryomancy | 3 | Frost Mirror | 12 | Cast as an instantaneous reaction when you are about to be hit by one or more projectiles. A large mirror of ice shoots up from the nearest surface to protect you, roughly a 1x2x0.2m square. If the projectiles are magical or energy-based, they are reflected back at your enemy. If they are solid, the mirror will take damage until destroyed. It has 5 AC and 20 HP. |
Cryomancy | 3 | Curse of Shivering | 12 | Cast a main action and concentrate. Targeted enemies in a 10m square within 20m of you will begin to shiver in cold uncontrollably for up to 6 hours. This does not cause damage but severely reduces their ability to do any tasks requiring manual dexterity such as aiming weapons or using computers (disadvantage). |
Cryomancy | 4 | Core-4: Ice Spike | AC | D20 Attack Spell. Cast as one main action to form and throw a large spike of ice up to 15m in distance which will explode with a loud noise in a 1m radius for 3d6 cold damage. |
Cryomancy | 4 | Frost Aura | 14 | Cast and concentrate to create an aura of freezing temperatures in a 5m radius. While active, all nearby creatures will take 2 cold damage per round, liquids will freeze, etc. The aura follows you while you concentrate for up to 4 hours. |
Cryomancy | 4 | Frost Nova | 14 | Cast as a main action. Instantaneously, a ring of arcane frost will shoot out from your position, dealing 3d4 cold damage to all creatures within 10 meters of your current position. |
Cryomancy | 5 | Core-5: Ice Storm | 16 | Cast as a main action and concentrate to target a 30m square you designate in an area you can see. The area will be repeatedly pounded with sharp icy projectiles for 4d8 cold damage per round, for up to 1 minute. |
Cryomancy | 5 | Create Water | 16 | As a 30-minute ritual, you magically create water from nearby hydrogen and oxygen. The amount is roughly equal to a small swimming pool, which pours out in an area you choose within 20m during the ritual. |
Cryomancy | 5 | Blizzard | 16 | As a 30-minute ritual, cast and concentrate. Weather within 5 miles will become extremely snowy and temperatures will fall below freezing for up to 24 hours, leading to blinding conditions for almost anyone and covering the land with snow. |
Cryomancy | 5 | Rime Prison | 16 | Cast as a main action. A hollow cube of ice up to 7x7x7 meters in contained size forms around an area you target within 20m. It can surround enemies or items. The cube has 14 ac and 30 hp. Does not require concentration and lasts until destroyed or melted. This spell cannot cause damage. |
Cryomancy | 5 | Chill Sun | 16 | 1-hour ritual. Cast on a star within 1 light year. For the next 24 hours, the light and heat produced by that star will be significantly reduced. For the duration, the planet's temperature will be decreased by 50 degrees fahrenheit and there will be no more than dim natural light. |
Cryomancy | 6 | Core-6: Comet | 18 | 5-hour ritual. You summon the nearest pure-ice comet to make a direct course to a specified location within 100 miles of your position that you can see during the ritual. Time to impact varies based on roll and context. |
Cryomancy | 6 | Flood | 18 | 2-week ritual. At the start of the ritual, rain begins to fall. At the conclusion of the ritual, you have summoned the elements of water from space in vast quantities, which arrives in a huge downpour. You can fill a canyon, crater, sinkhole or valley with water, up to 1 square km. Causes 2 levels of exhaustion in the caster. |
Cryomancy | 6 | Chill Climate | 18 | 2-week ritual. You magically manipulate the status of your planet relative to its star such that the climate is permanently chilled for all seasons by between 1 to 50 degrees fahrenheit. |
Electromancy | 1 | Core-1: Electroshock | 8 | As a main action, cast to instantly deliver an electric shock to a person, creature or item. You must be adjacent to the target, but do not need to touch them. This can deal 1d4 electric damage, may erase or corrupt data on electronic devices, and may deal more damage to robots. The target will be shocked. Shocked targets are not disabled but are prone to receive double damage from any subsequent hit until discharged. Electric damage from spells can be nonlethal at the caster's choice. |
Electromancy | 2 | Core-2: Spark | AC | D20 Attack Spell. Cast as a main action to throw a small ball of electricity that can bounce around corners towards a (theorized) target for up to 15m total distance. Deals 1d6 electric damage. |
Electromancy | 2 | Sense Electricity | 10 | Cast and concentrate to sense latent electrical currents and charges within 30m of your position. Upcast it for greater range. |
Electromancy | 2 | Protection from Electricity | 10 | Cast and concentrate to protect up to 10 creatures from electric hazards and halve electric damage taken for up to 4 hours. The effect depends on the context and level cast, but will always help. They must remain within 10m of you for the duration. |
Electromancy | 2 | Charge Metal | 10 | Cast as a 1-minute ritual to charge a metallic item you are touching with a powerful electric charge. The next time a creature touches the metal part of the item, they will receive 1d12 nonlethal electric damage and become shocked. Alternatively, you can use this spell to convert your spell points into electric power, given you have a battery or power cell available. |
Electromancy | 2 | Electromagnetic Pulse | AC | D20 Attack Spell. Cast as a main action to fire a wide beam of blue electromagnetic energy that is 4m wide and travels up to 20m from your position. This beam temporarily disables all unprotected constructs and electronic machines, including homunculi, golems and robots, for 1 round. Additionally, affected biological enemies will be unable to cast spells for 1 round, and active spell effects will flicker and be suppressed during that time. This spell does not deal damage. Upcast to increase duration or beam size. |
Electromancy | 3 | Core-3: Lightning Bolt | AC | D20 Attack Spell. Cast as a main action to launch a powerful bolt of lighting from your hands to a target up to 25 meters away. The bolt deals 1d12 damage and will penetrate through creatures and metal but not stone or earth. It will dissipate after 25 meters. High rolls can shock. |
Electromancy | 3 | Static Shock | 12 | Cast as a main action on an area up to 3m radius within 20 meters. All creatures and robots in that area become shocked. This spell does not deal damage. |
Electromancy | 3 | Charge Weapon | 12 | 1-hour ritual. Cast to enchant a targeted weapon to deal an additional 1d6 electric damage to its targets for 24 hours. Does not require concentration. |
Electromancy | 3 | Absorb Energy | 12 | This spell allows you to convert stored or discharged electrical energy in the environment into spell points for you. Cast as a main action while touching contact points of a battery or power cell, or taking electrical damage. You then gain a varying amount of spell points, generally, 6 from a battery and 12 from a power cell or lightning bolt. This spell does not reduce incoming damage and you will generally take some damage while using it. Your character will always be able to assess the amount before committing to the course of action (the GM must tell you). |
Electromancy | 3 | Energy Shield | 12 | 1-minute ritual. This spell costs 0 spell points to cast. Cast as a main action, no concentration required. Your spell points can now be used as hit points, for 24 hours, and while you have positive spell points, all damage taken is halved. Additionally, enemies who hit you in melee will receive 1d6 nonlethal electric damage. The spell ends after 24 hours, when your spell points hit 0, or when you dismiss it. |
Electromancy | 4 | Core-4: Arc Spray | AC | D20 Attack Spell. Cast as one main action to spray many small electric arcs in a 10m long cone. Enemies caught in the area of effect receive 1d20 electric damage and may become shocked. |
Electromancy | 4 | Arcane Tempest | 14 | Cast and concentrate to throw a glowing red projectile at a target creature, object or surface within 20m. On contact, it bursts with a thunderclap to create a miniature storm cloud that occupies an area up to a 20m cube. Inside this area, all creatures take 1d8 damage at the start of their turn from acid rain, and you can select one creature in the area per round to receive a 2d12 lightning bolt. The arcane tempest lasts for 10 minutes or until you dismiss it. |
Electromancy | 4 | Storm Aura | 14 | Cast and concentrate to create a small storm cloud that follows close over your head for up to 4 hours. Once per round, with no action required, you can direct the cloud to automatically hit a target within 15 meters for 1d20 electric damage. |
Electromancy | 5 | Core-5: Chain Lightning | AC | D20 Attack Spell. Cast as a main action. Fire a bolt of lighting at a target up to 30m away for 1d30 damage. If it hits, the bolt will bounce to up to 3 more targets, with a new damage roll each time. It can also bounce between the same targets. |
Electromancy | 5 | Ball Lightning | 16 | Cast as a main action and concentrate for up to 10 minutes. Fire a 1m radius slow-moving ball of lightning. The ball travels 5m per round in a straight line and will damage any targets within 5m of it for 1d20 damage per round, each. You can use your main action to move the ball without needing to make another casting roll. |
Electromancy | 5 | Supercharge | 16 | 1-hour ritual. Cast to vastly increase the speed, power, etc. of any powered vehicle or rideable animal for 24 hours. Does not require concentration, but if the vehicle's supercharged engine is damaged, there will be a large explosion. |
Electromancy | 6 | Core-6: Thunderstorm | 18 | 1-hour ritual. Cast and concentrate. For the next 24 hours, the land within a 25 mile radius will be pounded by a violent rainstorm over which you have some control. Bolts from this storm deal 4d12 damage and hit once per 2 minutes. Rain may cause flooding. |
Electromancy | 6 | Arcane Dynamo | 18 | 1-week ritual. With the assistance of some basic crafting skill and available materials, you craft an arcane vanometric power source that will provide vast amounts of energy for millenia. It will cause a large explosion if damaged, however. |
Illusion | 1 | Core-1: Basic Illusion | 8 | Sight-only - Instantly make an illusion of your choice at a location you can see that is visual-only in up to a 1m cube, up to 1 minute duration. All illusion spells require concentration and do not work as well on more advanced electronic sensors. |
Illusion | 2 | Core-2: Basic Illusion | 10 | Sight & sound - 1m cube, up to 5 minutes. The sound can be up to the volume of a shout or scream. |
Illusion | 2 | Ventriloquism | 10 | As a main action, project your voice to originate from another location within 30m, even if you cannot see that place. You can also make it sound like the voice of another person or animal. |
Illusion | 2 | Deafness | 10 | Cast on a target personally visible to you. Lasts up to 10 minutes. |
Illusion | 2 | Lightball | 10 | Cast and concentrate to summon a sphere of gentle or bright light that floats and follows you within 2 meters. You can choose the color and move it around within 2 meters. Higher results provide more control. Unlimited duration while you concentrate. |
Illusion | 2 | Blindness | 10 | Cast on a target personally visible to you. Lasts up to 10 minutes. |
Illusion | 3 | Core-3: Basic Illusion | 12 | Sight & Sound - 5m cube, up to 10 minutes |
Illusion | 3 | False Wall | 12 | Cast and concentrate for up to 4 hours. You create an illusionary wall up to 10m tall and 30m long. You can make it look exactly like any surface. This wall is infinitely thin and insubstantial, anything passes right through it. |
Illusion | 3 | Silence | 12 | Designate an area you can see. No living thing can hear anything in a 10m sphere without using magic. Lasts 10 minutes. Up-cast for more size. |
Illusion | 3 | Darkness | 12 | Designate an area you can see. No one can see anything in a 10m sphere without using magic. Does not actually turn off any lights. Lasts 10 minutes. Up-cast for more size. |
Illusion | 3 | Invisibility | 12 | Cast on a person, animal or object. The target is invisible to the eyes of living creatures for up to 10 minutes. They can still be heard, smelled, heat-sensed, etc. This counts the ability to hide in plain sight, and as an advantage die on stealth vs. the target's enemies that rely primarily on vision. |
Illusion | 3 | Imaginary Friend/Enemy | 12 | Cast to create an imaginary person that only you and the target can interact with. They are insubstantial and cannot be touched or touch, or else they will immediately tear and disintegrate. Lasts up to 10 minutes. Can look very similar to a real person. Completely dependent on your commands - must use main actions to command it in sight. |
Illusion | 4 | Core-4: Basic Illusion | 14 | Sight, Sound, Touch (10ac,1hp)- 10m cube, 30 minutes. Touchable illusions can be gently touched but obviously tear if leaned on, hurt or stepped on. When torn, they appear to be made of a bright white papery dusty substance that fades after 6 seconds, and likewise progressively collapse in functioning during that time. |
Illusion | 4 | Blackout | 14 | Designate a radius 10m sphere. No living being can hear, see, smell, touch, etc. any sense, for up to 4 hours, in that area, not even you. |
Illusion | 4 | Imaginary Fighter/Lover | 14 | Cast to create an imaginary person that everyone can see and interact with. Is sturdy enough to have 14ac and 4hp. Lasts 2 hours. Can look just like a real person. Still exists out of your sight within 100m. Can attack with any illusionary weapon, +4 to hit and 1d6 nonlethal psychic damage per hit. Doesn't have skills. Behaves rigidly according to your commands unless you commit full focus (continuous action) to guide it, even while out of sight. |
Illusion | 5 | Core-5: Basic Illusion | 16 | All senses - 15m cube, 4 hours. 10ac/1 hp. Cannot attack. |
Illusion | 5 | Weave Matrix | 16 | While a target is asleep, you conduct a 4 hour ritual to establish an imaginary world for them to live in that seems real. After that point, you can go about your business as long as you maintain concentration. They will not wake as long as your concentration lasts and until they cease to believe in the matrix. Can't cause instant harm/death, but may eventually lead there. You will have a general idea of how things are going in their world and be able to modify it, but major modifications will require another ritual. |
Illusion | 5 | Personal Hell | 16 | Cast on a visible target as a main action. You make them believe that some horrible thing is happening to them and they will take up to 3d6+skill nonlethal psychic damage per round, or less as you choose, for up to 1 hour. Causes permanent mental trauma to NPCs. Depending on the context, you may need to roll a concentration check to maintain the illusion. |
Illusion | 5 | Personal Heaven | 16 | Cast on a visible target as a main action. The target experiences full-sensory ilusion of a perfect world, for up to 1 hour. Depending on the context, may need to roll a concentration check to maintain the illusion. May cause permanent ennui in npcs. |
Illusion | 5 | Sophont Illusion | 16 | Cast with a 1-hour ritual to create a fully intelligent artificial being. They will exist for 24 hours and can have up to 18ac and 15hp, and an illusionary copy of some weapon you know. You can program them with an assumed context, but you cannot magically control them once created. Can have up to 4 skills of level 2. Can attack with +6 to hit and 2d6+3 lethal damage per hit. They cannot cast magic. Program them carefully or they might choose their own purpose. If hurt, their blood is white. Robots can detect them but have difficulty identifying them. |
Illusion | 6 | Core-6: Basic Illusion | 18 | All senses - 50m cube, 24 hours. 15ac/10hp. Cannot attack. |
Illusion | 6 | Shroud | 18 | Cast on a living biological target with a 10-minute ritual, potentially yourself. While you concentrate, the target now cannot be detected by the senses of any living creature, including party members, for up to 48 hours. It is even difficult for people other than you to remember that they exist. Robots and divine beings may still be able to find them, with difficulty. |
Illusion | 6 | Perfect Concealment | 18 | Cast on a nonliving object smaller than a 20m cube. This object is now impossible to detect except by advanced technology or by mass dispel in an area, or by bumping into it. Lasts as long as you maintain concentration. Also difficult for people to remember that it ever existed. |
Illusion | 6 | Imaginary Hell | 18 | Cast in a 50m radius area. In that area, every living being will experience excruiating, unending torment, involving all five senses, and nothing of reality. Up to 2d6 lethal or nonlethal psychic damage per round as you choose. Lasts until dispelled and does not require concentration. |
Illusion | 6 | Imaginary Heaven | 18 | Cast in a 50m radius area. In that area, every living being will experience personal bliss, involving all five senses, and nothing of reality. Lasts until dispelled and does not require concentration. |
Metaphysics | 1 | Core-1: Sense Arcane | 8 | Cast and concentrate. While this is running, you can roll your Metaphysics skill like a Notice check to sense any active spells, magical influence, or arcane anomalies nearby. Requires concentration. This can reveal magically invisible and illusionary things to you only. Helping allies target those things will cost your main action. |
Metaphysics | 2 | Core-2: Sense Origins | 8 | This level also allows you to get a hint of who or what originated a certain detected arcane effect, and in what direction they may be found. |
Metaphysics | 2 | Cloak Status | 10 | While you maintain concentration, you may mask your status as a user of magic, as well as any magic items you are wielding or carrying, and active spell effects. Upcast to protect against detection by more powerful enemies. Does not remove your personal sign of casting. |
Metaphysics | 2 | Read Magic | 10 | This spell allows you to read magical scrolls, books, symbols, sigils, and runes of power, regardless of the civilization from which they came. |
Metaphysics | 3 | Core-3: Sense Casters | 12 | This level allows you to sense nearby magic-using beings within 1km. It also lets you conduct a 30-minute ritual to detect if a target consenting person has the potential to be trained in magic. |
Metaphysics | 3 | Triggered Message | 12 | Cast and make a small mark or rune on a surface and designate a conditional trigger and a message. Thereafter, while concentration is maintained, any person who activates that trigger, hears a secret psychic message that you have programmed. |
Metaphysics | 3 | Mental Fortress | 12 | While you maintain concentration, you and allies within 10' have an additional advantage die on saves vs. spells. Lasts up to 1 hour. |
Metaphysics | 3 | Counterspell/Dispel | Varies | This can be cast as a main action or reaction. As a main action, you attempt to end an ongoing spell effect. Cost and TN is based on target spell level. Alternatively, you can cast it as a reaction when you think someone else is casting something on you. Again, cost and TN varies. Range 10 meters. If an enemy counterspells your counterspell, the cost to continue the attempt will continuously increase. Upcast to affect an area. |
Metaphysics | 3 | Thought Parasite | 12 | You can cast this spell as a reaction when you are targeted with any spell, even a simple detection spell. Willingly fail the save, and you send a psionic parasite into the opponent's mind. While active, you will know the other spells they cast, and some of their thoughts. once only as a free action, you can trigger the parasite to explode, stunning them for a round with 3 psychic damage and making them fail one save you choose. |
Metaphysics | 3 | Suspended Spell | 12 | While you maintain concentration, you can prepare another spell to release as an instantaneous free action. Only roll once, using the higher cost and Dc. |
Metaphysics | 4 | Core-4: Sense Spell Echoes | 14 | This level allows you to gain a vision of the history of magic power use on a particular object or place, along with the general timeframes of major events. Better rolls get more info. |
Metaphysics | 4 | UPGRADE: Effortless Detection | UPGRADE to core power | This upgrade means that you cannot fail while using any level of your core Metamagic Senses. You must still pay the point cost, maintain concentration, and roll for more/less information. |
Metaphysics | 4 | Synthetic Adaptation | UPGRADE: +2 Cost & TN | This upgrade means that your other spells, such as healing, illusion, and telepathic spells, will work on robots and electronic sensors. However, to do such things, you must pay an additional 2 points and the difficulty of the spell increases by 2. Repairing bots still requires spare parts. Computer skill may help when you use magic to tamper with A.I. |
Metaphysics | 4 | Inscribe Scroll | 14 | Cast and spend 4 hours to write another spell into a scroll or electronic document. This inscription is infused with power and then can be read by another person, including non-casters, to produce the effect. When used, the inscription vanishes or deletes itself. |
Metaphysics | 4 | Consecrate | 4 | With 3 days of rituals (breaks are allowed), you consecrate a certain room for arcane purposes, in accordance with your casting style. Spells cast in here by you and your allies have one additional advantage die, and enemies casting spells here are disadvantaged. Note that this spell does not protect form hostile spells cast outside it-that's Ward. The area is consecreated until it's destroyed, dispelled or desecrated. |
Metaphysics | 4 | Geas | 14 | Using a 1-hour ritual which requires their cooperation or restraint, you place a logic-triggered spell upon a target person, specifying requirements and restrictions. When that person's actions meet the trigger, they receive 2d6 potentially lethal psychic damage. This happens repeatedly until dispelled or until all requirements are fulfilled. In most cases this spell causes permanent nonmagical psychological trauma. |
Metaphysics | 4 | Glyph | 14 | In a 1-minute ritual, you physically (not psychically) mark a faint or hidden symbol upon a surface. When touched or triggered by conditions you specify, it auto-casts another spell that you imprint on it. Requires concentration. Roll only once, using the higher dc/cost. |
Metaphysics | 4 | Coven | 14 | Spending the points and conducting a 1-hour ritual, you and up to 5 other willing casters may share spell knowledge and points. You must remain within 100m of each other. Must be refreshed after 24 hours. The knowledge disappears when the spell lapses. |
Metaphysics | 5 | Core-5: Sense Portals | 16 | This level allows you to sense and locate holes, tunnels, rips, and weak points in the fabric of spacetime. This can be used to find new dimensions, planes, hyperlanes, wormholes, and stargates. |
Metaphysics | 5 | Enchant Item | 16 | Cast to enchant an item with another spell so that it can be used by a non-caster. Requires 1-7 days of work. Requires rare ingredients, and an engineer friend or personal Crafting skill is a great help. |
Metaphysics | 5 | Psychic Storm | 16 | You attempt to cause a localized psychic storm with a minimum 100m radius. While active, disadvantage on all psychic rolls in the area, and anyone attempting to cast a spell receives 1d6 nonlethal psychic damage (to their hp) that also burns their spell points. Mundane people get headaches and are inexplicably inclined to leave the area. Exactly how this works is unknown. The duration of the storm varies and you do not control its size or movement. |
Metaphysics | 5 | Arcane Training | - | By spending a month in focused teaching with daily 8-hour classes, you can train another person who you have determined has potential, to get the talent Caster-I and level-1 in an arcane skill you know. They will use the same casting style as you. After that point, they can buy skill levels in it as normal when they gain levels. 4 point cost per class per day, but there is no need for either person to roll during the process. |
Metaphysics | 5 | Contingency | 16 | With a 30-minute ritual, you set up a spell and trigger on yourself. The spell must be level 4 or lower. When the trigger is met, the spell is automatically cast. You can have 1 at a time. The object spell must have a casting time of 30 minutes or less. Roll once on the higher of either spell's TN. |
Metaphysics | 5 | Ward & Ward Penetration | 16 | By spending 8 hours in work and concentration, you ward an area of up to 100m radius against enemy casters. Anyone attempting to cast a spell on or in the area that you do not wish to allow receives one disadvantage die when attempting to do so and you will be mentally notified of their attempt. Alternatively, you can use this spell to attempt to penetrate an enemy's ward. |
Metaphysics | 6 | Core-6: Sense Knowledge & Power | 18 | This level allows you to sense where you can go next to learn more magic and gain more power, at any distance. Better rolls give more info. |
Metaphysics | 6 | Absorb Knowledge | 18 | Immediately gain 6 more experience points for magic skills. Additionally, as an active touch ritual that takes 10 minutes, you may absorb any new or higher level increased arcane skills from restrained or consenting targets. Causes exhaustion in both people. |
Metaphysics | 6 | UPGRADE: Sculpt Spells | - | By adding 1-2 spell point cost and no change to TN, you can now cast any spell you know with one or two of the following additional benefits: No sign, double range, half cast time, double numeric effect, double duration, guaranteed safety, bonus action, double number of targets. |
Metaphysics | 6 | Spell Permanency | +2 TN | Choose another spell that does not create a permanent effect. Double the point cost, spend the total point cost in days of ritual time, and increase the difficulty by 2. That spell effect is now permanent until dispelled and does not require concentration. |
Necromancy | 1 | Core-1: Animate Dead I | 8 | Cast as a 1-minute ritual upon the corpse of an animal smaller than a humanoid. The corpse sheds flesh and is now a skeletal servant (5 hp, your speed, mindless). It cannot attack but can perform simple tasks. Does not require concentration, but lapses after 24 hours. You cannot have more than 1 at this level. |
Necromancy | 2 | Core-2: Animate Dead II | 10 | Cast as a 1-minute ritual upon the corpse of up to 2 humanoids or animals of medium size or smaller. The corpse sheds flesh and is now a mindless skeletal servant. It can be equipped, perform tasks and attack with your necromancy + combat skill. Does not require concentration, but Lapses after 24 hours. |
Necromancy | 2 | Arcane Poison | 10 | Cast as a 1-minute ritual upon a melee weapon, ammunition unit, liquid or other item smaller than a 1 foot cube. The poison you infuse will infect targets who are stabbed, touched, or inhale it. They will take 1d4 poison damage per round for at least 5 rounds without proper medical attention. You cannot cast this on a living target. Adding more ingredients can improve the poison and add more effects. |
Necromancy | 2 | Sense Death | 10 | Cast as a main action and concentrate for up to 1 hour. During this time, you can vaguely sense what things have died nearby, when, and how. Also works to sense oncoming death in the near future. |
Necromancy | 2 | Corpse Explosion | 10 | Cast as a main action. The dead corpse of a living creature that you can see unaided within 20m violently explodes, dealing 1d12 damage in a 3m radius and prompting rolls to dodge. |
Necromancy | 2 | Bone Splinters | AC | D20 Attack Spell. Cast as a main action. Enemies in a 3m cone in front of your position take 2d4 damage from a spray of bone splinters. |
Necromancy | 2 | Aura of Death | 10 | Cast as a main action and concentrate. Within 20m of your position, all living creatures receive double damage from hits, fail all rolls to dodge or resist damage, and have +5 critical strike chance. |
Necromancy | 3 | Core-3: Animate Dead III | 12 | Cast as a 1-minute ritual upon the corpse of up to 3 humanoids or animals of medium size or smaller. The corpse is now a skeletal or zombie servant (mindless, 15 hp, 3 speed). It can be equipped, perform tasks and attack with your necromancy + combat skill. Does not require concentration, lasts until dismissed or destroyed. |
Necromancy | 3 | Curse of Weakness | 12 | Cast as a main action and concentrate for up to 12 hours on a target group of living enemies within 10 meters that are in a 5m cube. Their strength is reduced to -1, and they cannot use heavy weapons or armors. If they are, they collapse prone until the spell ends or it's removed. While active, a tattoo-like rune appears on their body. |
Necromancy | 3 | Bone Armor | 12 | You summon body armor made of bones that protects 1 target ally. The armor provides 16 AC and has 7 hp, and lasts up to 8 hours. No concentration required, but it disappears when you dismiss it or select another target. |
Necromancy | 3 | Curse of Vulnerability | 12 | Cast as a main action and concentrate for up to 1 hour on a target group of living enemies within 10 meters that are in a 5m cube. They are twice as easy to hit in combat and receive double damage from all sources. While active, a tattoo-like rune appears on their body. |
Necromancy | 3 | Bone Wall | 12 | Cast as a main action and concentrate for up to 1 hour on an area 1m wide, 1m tall and up to 20m long. A wall of clustered bones is formed instantly there. The wall has 10 AC and 15 HP, and cannot be seen through. The wall crumbles when the spell ends. Cannot be made into other shapes. This spell cannot deal damage. |
Necromancy | 3 | Contact Ghost | 12 | Cast as a 30-minute ritual and concentrate. You attempt to temporarily summon the spirit of a former living creature that has died in the past. They may or may not be willing or able to give information or help. You will most likely get limited information. They will depart after 1 minute. |
Necromancy | 3 | Bone Spear | AC | D20 Attack Spell. Cast as a main action and target an enemy within 20m. A spear of sharp bone flies towards them. It deals 3d4 damage per hit, and will pierce up to 3 enemies, pinning them to a wall if within 20m. |
Necromancy | 4 | Core-4: Animate Dead IV | 14 | Cast as a 1-minute ritual upon the corpse of up to 4 humanoids or animals of Large size or smaller. The corpse is now a skeletal, zombie, or ghoul (10 hp, intelligent, poisonous) servant. It can be equipped, perform skilled tasks with your necro+skill, and attack with your necromancy + combat skill. |
Necromancy | 4 | Poison Spray | AC | D20 Attack Spell. Cast as main action. Poison sprays from your hand in a 10m cone. Infected enemies receive 1d4 damage per round for up to 10 rounds, no concentration required. |
Necromancy | 4 | Toxic Fog | 14 | Cast as main action and concentrate. A thick cloud of toxic green fumes fills an area up to a 20m cube, but you can shape it within that same volume. Normal vision can't penetrate the cloud. The fog can infect unprotected living enemies for 1d6 damage per round for 5 rounds. |
Necromancy | 4 | Bone Cage | 14 | Cast as main action and concentrate. A thick wall of bones forms a ring, dome or sphere around a target person or object you choose. The cage or sphere is 1m thick and can cover an area from 1 to 5m radius. The bone wall is opaque but not airtight and has 10 ac and 20 hp (per section). This spell cannot deal damage. |
Necromancy | 5 | Core-5: Animate Dead V | 16 | Cast as a 1-minute ritual upon the corpse of up to 5 humanoids or animals of Large size or smaller. The corpse is now a skeletal, zombie, ghoul, or vampire spawn (15 hp, 8 speed, wall-crawling, 1/day phasing, intelligent, blood healing) servant. It can be equipped, perform skilled tasks and attack with your necromancy + combat skill. |
Necromancy | 5 | Blood Ascension | 16 | 1-day ritual. One target living creature, consenting or restrained, which can be yourself, is killed by the caster via blood draining and rises again as a full undead vampire, with all that entails. They must drink at least 5L (1 gallon) of intelligent blood per day, gaining 1 blood point for each liter. Drinking blood will also heal their HP. They look normal-ish but cold and pale and are medically dead. They do not eat or breathe, and cease to age. They can spend blood points to climb on walls, transform into or summon bats/rats/wolves, charm a target person, or phase through walls. Unspent blood points are absorbed after 24 hours. They cannot take lethal damage except by a stake through the heart. They cannot enter occupied houses uninvited, they do not show up in mirrors, and they are averse to garlic. If they do not get enough blood in 24 hours, the player loses control of the character (becomes feral) until they do. This spell cannot be reversed by any known means. |
Necromancy | 5 | Contagion | 16 | Cast as a 1-hour ritual upon a liquid of 1 liter or less. This liquid is now the vector for an extremely contagious fever-causing virus that kills within 6 hours. After the spell is cast, the results are nonmagical. |
Necromancy | 5 | Exsanguination | AC | D20 Attack Spell. You magically suck the blood out of a target creature within 15m for 4d4 damage, healing yourself by the same amount. You can 'overheal' by up to 5 hp with this spell, which will remain until you sleep. |
Necromancy | 5 | Curse of Bone Cancer | 16 | Target an area you can see within 20m that is up to 5m in radius. Living creatures in the target area begin to experience rapid bone cancer and will continuously take 1d8 damage per round until death. You can, if you choose, slow the process to once per hour or day. No concentration is required and it cannot be stopped by magical means. |
Necromancy | 6 | Core-6: Animate Dead VI | 16 | Cast as a 1-minute ritual upon the corpse of up to 6 humanoids or animals of Giant size or smaller. The corpse is now a skeletal, zombie, ghoul, vampire, or ghostly (15 hp, resist all damage, unlimited phasing) servant. It can be equipped, perform skilled tasks and attack with your necromancy + combat skill. |
Necromancy | 6 | Wither | 16 | Cast as a 1-day ritual. In an amount of land that you can see unaided, all plant and small animal life withers and dies within 1 minute. Large animals and humanoids receive 2d6 damage (rolled once). Thereafter, no plants can grow in this land and no animals can be born in it for 100 years. |
Necromancy | 6 | Death Sentence | 16 | Cast as a 1-minute ritual and concentrate. All living enemy creatures that you can see unaided that you select are given a set remaining time to live, between 1 minute and 1 week. The ritual must include you loudly shouting this information. At the end of the time limit, they die. |
Necromancy | 6 | Pale Ascension | 16 | 2-week ritual. One target living creature, consenting or restrained, which can be yourself, becomes a powerful undead. The target cannot die or be mortally wounded as long as one of their bones is preserved. They will recover 1 hit point per hour (i.e., they will not be unconscious for more than 1 hour.) Their flesh will shed and they will remain as a skeletal being that is immune to poison and does not need to eat or breathe. This spell cannot be reversed by any known means. |
Pyromancy | 1 | Core-1: Ignite | 8 | Cast to create an arcane flame in a 1 foot cube or smaller. If no flammable materials are available, you can concentrate to keep the flame burning for up to 30 minutes. The flame must be attached to an object. If used to damage a fire-vulnerable target, it deals 1 damage per round. If any fire attack spell is cast on a flammable enemy, this can ignite them. Being ignited deals a continuous 1d6 damage per round until they take an action to extinquish the flames. |
Pyromancy | 2 | Core-2: Fire Bolt | AC | D20 Attack Spell.Cast as a main action to throw a firey projectile at one target within 10 meters. Targets that are hit take 1d6+2 fire damage. |
Pyromancy | 2 | Smokescreen | 10 | Cast and concentrate to produce a large cloud of thick black, hot smoke in an area up to a 40m cube for up to 1 hour. Unaided vision by biological and mechanical beings cannot see through this smoke. It does not directly damage enemies but can cause suffocation and/or heat exhaustion in a confined area. |
Pyromancy | 2 | Protection from Heat | 10 | Cast and concentrate to protect up to 10 creatures from heat hazards and halve fire damage taken for up to 4 hours. The effect depends on the context and level cast, but will always help. They must remain within 10m of you for the duration. |
Pyromancy | 2 | Heat Item | 10 | Cast on a target item within 10 meters. This item becomes hot (500 degrees F) for up to 1 minute while you concentrate and deals 1d6 damage per round to anyone touching it. You can cast this on enemies' clothes, weapons, etc. The item will also be damaged by the heat if vulnerable. |
Pyromancy | 2 | Heat Area | 10 | Cast and concentrate to heat an area within 20 meters that is up to 20 cubic meters in size by up to 25 degrees fahrenheit. This effect does not cause direct damage but causes significant discomfort and potentially heat exhaustion. Duration up to 4 hours. |
Pyromancy | 3 | Core-3: Incinerate | AC | D20 Attack Spell Throw a small, bright projectile at one enemy target within 10 meters. That enemy takes 2d8 fire damage AND is ignited. |
Pyromancy | 3 | Heat Mirage | 12 | Cast and concentrate to create the illusion of a large, generally unmoving object at least 100m away from your position, for 10 minutes. Examples include a lake, a tower, a large ship, or a sleeping dragon. Works on unaided biological and mechanical vision. |
Pyromancy | 3 | Weld Metal | 12 | Cast and concentrate for up to 1 hour to give advantage to your or an ally's crafting checks to build or repair metal objects and machines faster and more efficiently. Note that this spell does not conjure raw metal. |
Pyromancy | 3 | Smelt Metal | 12 | 1-hour ritual to extract raw metal ore from hot rocks and isolate it. Note that this spell does not help in crafting or prospecting, it merely isolates the pure metal from the earth. |
Pyromancy | 3 | Channel Flame | 12 | D20 Attack Spell Cast and concentrate to begin spraying arcane flames from your hands dealing 2d6 damage in a 7m long, 2m wide line. You can continously spray flames in this way without recasting as long as you concentrate and spend your action, but you cannot move until you stop casting. Duration up to 1 minute. |
Pyromancy | 3 | Ring of Fire | 12 | Cast and concentrate to create a 1m wide ring of arcane flames that has an inner radius of between 1 and 20 meters. The origin point must be in your personal view while maintained, and must be touching the ground. The flames deal 2d6 fire damage to anyone who is inside the radius. Duration up to 30 minutes. |
Pyromancy | 3 | Ring of Fire | 12 | Cast and concentrate to create a 1m wide ring of arcane flames that has an inner radius of between 1 and 20 meters. The origin point must be in your personal view while maintained, and must be touching the ground. The flames deal 2d6 fire damage to anyone who is inside the radius. Duration up to 30 minutes. |
Pyromancy | 4 | Core-4: Fireball | 14 | D20 Attack Spell. Cast as one main action to instantly throw a large firey projectile up to 20m in distance which will explode with a loud noise in a 2m radius for 4d4 fire damage. |
Pyromancy | 4 | Fire Wall | 14 | Designate a rectangular area between 1m to 4m wide and 4m to 50m long. Cast and concentrate to create 1-meter-tall arcane flames in this area. Anyone passing in the area of the flames takes 3d6 fire damage. Duration up to 1 hour. |
Pyromancy | 4 | Burning Aura | 14 | Cast and concentrate to create an aura of intense heat in a 5m radius around yourself. While active, all nearby creatures will take 2 fire damage per round, liquids will boil or ignite, and flammable materials will ignite. The aura follows you while you concentrate for up to 2 hours. |
Pyromancy | 5 | Core-5: Fissure | 16 | Cast as a main action to draw magma up from this planet's core in a 10m square you designate in an area you can see. A large crevasse will open up and violent sprays of magma will continuously erupt for 4d8 fire damage per round for up to 5 minutes. You must roll your skill again if you attempt to control the sprays. The effects of this spell are permanent and non magical. May not work on planetoids that are too small or cold. |
Pyromancy | 5 | Burning Glare | 16 | Cast and concentrate. Your eyes glow bright red. Anyone you can see that you choose to affect will take 4d4 fire damage per round as long as you can see them. Duration up to 1 hour. |
Pyromancy | 5 | Solar Flare | 16 | 1-hour ritual. Cast on a visible star within 1 light year. For the next 36 hours, a harsh solar flare from that star will spray towards your location. For the duration, the climate's temperature will be increased by 50 degrees fahrenheit within a 100-mile radius and all electronic devices will become unreliable. |
Pyromancy | 6 | Core-6: Armageddon | 18 | 24-hour ritual requiring a large bonfire. A massive explosion hits a target you can personally see within 100 miles, instantly at the completion of the ritual. All unprotected creatures and objects in a 1km radius of that point receive 6d10 fire damage (rolled once). Thereafter, arcane fire burns at the site for 1 year. |
Pyromancy | 6 | Volcano | 18 | 1-hour ritual. Cast on a target 2-mile-radius area of a planet's surface that you can personally see. In the course of 1 day, a volcano with a 2-mile radius will form and violently spray magma in all directions for 3 weeks. |
Pyromancy | 6 | Heat Climate | 18 | 2-week ritual. You magically manipulate the status of your planet relative to its star such that the climate is permanently heated for all seasons by between 1 to 50 degrees fahrenheit. |
Sanguithurgy | 1 | Core-1: Arcane Healing 1d3+1 | 8 | You use your healing power to (a) heal 1d3+1 hp to a non-mortally-wounded target OR (b) stabilize a mortally wounded target with a main action. Does not heal conditions. Must touch. |
Sanguithurgy | 2 | Core-2: Arcane Healing 1d6+2 | 10 | You stabilize or heal 1d6+2 hp to a living biological target, as one main action. Does not heal conditions. Must touch. |
Sanguithurgy | 2 | Scaleskin | 10 | Spend 1 action and concentrate to improve a nearby target's armor class by +4, by increasing the toughness of their skin. Lasts 4 hours per cast. |
Sanguithurgy | 2 | Yogic Extension | 10 | Choose a target person within 20m. Cast and concentrate for an amount of time up to 1 hour to cause that person's arms or legs (not both) to extend 3 times their normal length, while maintaining the same strength, dexterity and control. |
Sanguithurgy | 2 | UPGRADE: Telekinetic Healing | 10 | Your core healing spells can now optionally be used at a distance of up to 15 meters. The target must be in line of sight. Pay +1 spell point cost when you use this upgrade. TN is the same. |
Sanguithurgy | 2 | UPGRADE: Mastered Healing | 10 | You now cannot fail to use your Core Arcane Healing techniques, and do not need to roll to cast them. They still have a point cost. |
Sanguithurgy | 3 | Core-3: Arcane Healing 1d8+3 | 12 | You stabilize and heal 1d8+3 hit points to a target, as one main action. Does not heal conditions. |
Sanguithurgy | 3 | Plant Growth | 12 | Cast as a main action. Target a square area of existing plants that is 7x7 meters. These plants immediately grow to full height - tall grass, trees, vines etc. Does not work in barren areas unless you upcast. |
Sanguithurgy | 3 | Forced Life | 12 | Cast as an instantaneous reaction, and select a target ally that is taking a hit. Concentrate. You can keep that target alive at 1hp during a combat, preventing mortal wounds and any loss of consciousness as long as you concentrate until the battle or danger is over. Further damage to that target causes more point cost. Heavy weapons and overwhelming force will still instantly kill the target. |
Sanguithurgy | 3 | Facial Distortion | 12 | Cast as 10-minute ritual. Reshape a target's face to appear to be someone else, for up to 4 hours, with good accuracy. Alternatively, increase their CHA by +2. Can add Art skill to the roll. |
Sanguithurgy | 3 | Minor Adaptation | 12 | Reshape a willing target's body to gain one minor environmental adaptation that you are aware of, for up to 4 hours. Claws, climbing pads, Gills, glider wings, rad processing glands, oil-breathing, etc. Causes exhaustion in target after expiration. Can add animals skill. Cannot grant flight due to weight. Takes 10 minutes to cast. |
Sanguithurgy | 3 | UPGRADE: Quick Heal | 12 | Your core healing spells can now be used as a bonus action in combat. Pay +1 spell point cost when you use this upgrade. |
Sanguithurgy | 4 | Core-4: Arcane Healing 1d10+4 | 14 | You stabilize or heal 1d10+4 hit points or statistic points to a target, as one main action. Does not heal conditions. |
Sanguithurgy | 4 | Harm | 14 | Touching a target, you deal 2d6 nonlethal pain damage and severely cripple one of the target's main 6 statistics down to the level of a small child. They will recover their faculties after a full day of good rest. |
Sanguithurgy | 4 | Enlarge Creature | 14 | As main action, concentrate and enlarge a target person or animal by up to twice its normal size. Cannot cast on yourself. |
Sanguithurgy | 4 | Shrink Creature | 14 | As main action, concentrate and shrink a target person or animal by up to half its normal size. Cannot cast on yourself. |
Sanguithurgy | 4 | Viral Inception | 14 | Touching a target, you seed in their flesh a secret virus that will kill them via aneurysm within 4-12 weeks. Requires touch. Better control on higher rolls. |
Sanguithurgy | 4 | UPGRADE: Healing Aura | 14 | Your core healing techniques can now be used to also heal all selected targets within 10 meters of the caster. Pay +3 additional spell point cost when you use this upgrade. |
Sanguithurgy | 4 | Cure Condition | Varies by condition | You attempt to use magic to cure status ailments such as Disease/Poison/Paralysis/Blindness/Deafness. Better rituals significantly improve results. Each affliction has a different TN set by the GM. On fail, magic cannot cure this and an alternative solution must be pursued. Does not work on exhaustion or mortal wounds. |
Sanguithurgy | 4 | Cure Exhaustion | 14 | Cures 1 level of exhaustion that was caused by some effect other than a mortal wound. |
Sanguithurgy | 4 | Cure Mortal Wound | 14 | Heals Mortal Wounds in a careful 3-hour ritual. The target must get a comfortable night's sleep, afterwards, or the wound returns. |
Sanguithurgy | 4 | Shapeshifting | 14 | Cast as a 10-minute ritual and concentrate. For up to 6 hours, you transform yourself or a consenting ally into an animal that you know well that is within one size category of the target's original size. Animal HP and AC varies by type, but pre-existing wounds carry over. The target can then do things that animal can do for the duration, while retaining their mental statistics, memory and personality. The animal is the same gender as you. After the spell ends, target must take 10 minutes of inactivity to de-transform, and gains one exhaustion level. |
Sanguithurgy | 5 | Core-5: Arcane Healing 1d12+5 | 16 | You stabilize or heal 1d12+5 hit points and/or statistic points to a target, as one main action. Does not heal poisons or mortal wounds. |
Sanguithurgy | 5 | Permanent Mutation | 16 | With an 8-hour ritual, add one permanent mutation to an ally, affecting less than 50% of the body. You can add your medicine or animals skill. This includes gender reassignment, or increasing a statistic by +1. Takes 8 hours and, on success, puts subject in mortal wound/stabilized/recovering status. Cannot apply more than 1 to a subject with this spell. Whether it succeeds or fails, the results cannot be dispelled and are real. |
Sanguithurgy | 5 | Hypertrophy | 16 | Cast to set a consenting target person's physical statistics to +3, advantage on all physical rolls including damage, and +10 total hit points. Requires concentration. The target cannot concentrate on spells. Cannot cast on yourself. Lasts 4 hours, target gains +1 exhaustion afterward. |
Sanguithurgy | 5 | Torment | 16 | By touching a target, you immediately add 1 to a target's exhaustion (i.e., give them disadvantge on all rolls), as well as 2d6 nonlethal psychic damage. They are now in extreme unrelenting pain. Concentrate to repeat the effects again each round with no additional rolls needed. This causes permanent mental trauma. |
Sanguithurgy | 5 | Limited Immortality | Passive spell | PASSIVE: While active, you cannot be mortally wounded. If "killed", and if you are still in a hospitable environment, you will regenerate from your largest fragment in 24 hours, during which you can sense your surroundings, and after which you are active and healthy with 1 hit point. This ability is then discharged (re-enabling death) and recharges after 1 full week of good health. |
Sanguithurgy | 6 | Core-6: Arcane Healing 1d20+6 | 18 | You can stabilize AND heal a target of up to 1d20+6 HP AND damaged ability scores with a main action. Does not heal poisons or mortal wounds. |
Sanguithurgy | 6 | Resurrection | 18 | You attempt to revive a corpse. Base TN is 18, but varies based on the corpse's condition, and the status of the soul, in addition to normal casting variables. Even on a successful cast, some temporary or permanent resurrection sickness is likely. On a low result, risk of loading the wrong soul or damage to the body or soul. |
Sanguithurgy | 6 | Lifeshaping | 18 | You attempt to shape new life forms out of suitable amounts of hydrocarbons. Each attempt takes 24 hours, leaving you exhausted for 1 week. Can add your skill in medicine or animals. |
Sanguithurgy | 6 | Transformation | 18 | 24-hour ritual. Completely and permanently transform the bodily features of a willing participant into something else. The results are nonmagical. Leaves them exhausted for 1 week. Can borrow flesh from sacrificial victims if more is needed. |
Sanguithurgy | 6 | True Immortality | 18 | PASSIVE: Requires Limited Immortality. You can never be mortally wounded and you always automatically regenerate as long as any fragment of your body is in an environment appropriate for your species, but even if not, that fragment remains until it is. You cannot die. |
Telekinetics | 1 | Core-1: Manipulation 10kg, 1 obj | 8 | As main action, you can move or "TK Hold" an object you can see at range. Concentrate to continue floating the object indefinitely. Can't damage people, animals, or robots. Cannot perform fine manipulation by telekinesis. If you drop concentration, the objects drop, so be careful. You can levitate the object up to [5m*skill] in height. |
Telekinetics | 2 | Core-2: Manipulation 20kg, 1 obj | 10 | As core-1, but 20kg total and 2 objects. |
Telekinetics | 2 | TK Jump | 10 | Cast to jump up to 10 meters high. Up-cast for more. This does not protect you from fall damage. |
Telekinetics | 2 | Gust of Wind | 10 | Cast to create strong winds within 15m radius while you concentrate. Strong enough to slam doors, but not strong enough by default to knock people over. |
Telekinetics | 2 | Feather Fall | 10 | As a reaction, commit your concentration to slow the fall of 2 people, animals, robots or objects. The fall is slowed to a safe and gentle descent, but you must continue to be able to see the target(s). Maximum duration 1 hour. Upcast for more targets. |
Telekinetics | 3 | Core-3: Manipulation 50kg, 3 obj | 12 | As core-1, but 50kg total and up to 3 objects. |
Telekinetics | 3 | TK Assault | 12 | D20 Attack Spell. As main action, fling all of your floating objects, or nearby qualifying objects, towards one or more enemies. Damage depends on objects. You can add your Shoot skill to this roll, and can make this a special attack. |
Telekinetics | 3 | TK Pull | 12 | D20 Attack Spell. As main action, you try to either disarm your enemy or pull away some other object on their person such as a grenade, belt, or satchel. The stolen item is pulled to your hand. If used out of combat it's 2d6-based. |
Telekinetics | 3 | TK Shove | 12 | D20 Attack Spell. As main action, you project a wave of force in a 3x6m rectangle originating from you. Creatures in that area are shoved prone and pushed back 1m. |
Telekinetics | 3 | Protective Field | 12 | As a main action, you commit concentration and create a telekinetic protection field around a consenting or inanimate target with ONE of the following properties: Radiation protection; breathable air, poisonous gas or liquid filtering, set pressure, set gravity, set temperature, etc. Does not work on enemies. This spell can help when vacuum suits fail. Upcast for more protections or targets. |
Telekinetics | 3 | UPGRADE: TK Expert | 12 | You now can't fail with core unmodified TK power use. |
Telekinetics | 3 | Decelerate Projectile | 12 | As a reaction, cast to decelerate a projectile aimed at you to a dead stop. Can be cast up to your core object limit. When cast, you can choose to replace any one TK Held object with this new object. |
Telekinetics | 3 | TK Shield | 12 | As a reaction, while you have held objects, roll to use them to block an attack against yourself or an ally. If an attack is blocked, one object shatters, perhaps dangerously. |
Telekinetics | 4 | Core-4: Manipulation 100kg, 4 obj | 14 | As core-1, but 100kg total and 4 objects. |
Telekinetics | 4 | TK Grapple | 14 | As a main action, attempt to use your core TK power on an animate npc or enemy entity. Valid operations are restrain, pull, shove, levitate. Better rolls give better result, or more targets. |
Telekinetics | 5 | Core-5: Manipulation 200kg, 5 obj | 14 | As core-1, but 200kg and 5 objects. |
Telekinetics | 5 | Magnetic Rip | 14 | As main action, pull all the least-secured metal objects out of their fixings within 10m. Note that this is a faster way to gather 5 objects than the core method. This is strong enough to pull out screws, bolts and near-surface ore veins. Pulls all such objects that you desire, though still must obey your max held objects - the others fall. You can elect to not pull some objects. Works on robots. |
Telekinetics | 5 | TK Choke | 14 | Cast on a target to concentrate and crush or choke part of their body with telekinetic force. This restrains them and damages them with your choice of 1 damage up to 2d6 damage per round. Can be lethal or nonlethal. |
Telekinetics | 5 | Redirect Projectiles | 16 | As a reaction when you are targeted by one or more projectiles, attempt to redirect them towards another target. Obeys your object limit. This works for physical, energy, and magical projectiles. Must obey your weight limit. |
Telekinetics | 5 | Transmutation | 16 | By spending 1-5 hours, you can reshape one generally homogenous object into another by sculpting the molecules, or separate a homogeneous substance into purified components. Examples include desalination of water, metal ore into swords, carbon into diamond, etc. Difficulty depends on context. This is generally slower than the scientific alternative, but requires no tools. When combined with good mundane skills and tools, results are superior to those achievable by mundane methods. |
Telekinetics | 5 | TK Dexterity | 16 | You can use this spell to "TK Hold" an item that you want to finely manipulate at range. You could operate a computer at range, fire a gun at range, entangle someone in a rope, etc. Doing these activities will use your skill with that item, after the spell is cast. |
Telekinetics | 6 | Core-6: Manipulation 1000kg, 6 obj | 18 | As core-1, but 1000kg and 6 objects. |
Telekinetics | 6 | 18 Earthquake | tn | You cause a violent earthquake, centered on your location, for up to 5 minutes. Concentrating on this spell is not easy. May damage or collapse buildings--very dangerous. |
Telekinetics | 6 | Molecular Assembly | 18 | By spending a long time (1-7+ days) in focus and concentration, and with the appropriate materials, assistance, and understanding (or a scientist and engineer friend), you can fabricate tools, weapons, and machines at the molecular level by telekinetically rearranging atoms, creating ultra-tech products in the way of the ancients. This causes exhaustion for you. Requires a solid understanding of exactly how all the parts work together. |
Telekinetics | 6 | Arcane Knight | UPGRADE | All of your Telekinetics spells that usually cost a Main Action can now be cast as a Bonus Action or Reaction in combat. |
Telepathy | 1 | Core-1: Read Emotions | 8 | Cast on a visible and unaware or consenting target. As an instantaneous effect, you learn the strongest few emotions and a word or image associated with them. When any telepathy spell is used, the targets are not necessarily aware of the intrusion unless trained in telepathy or metaphysics. Aware and nonconsenting targets may resist an otherwise successful cast. All telepathy spells do not work on robots. You still must make your normal casting sign, but the target might not notice if distracted. |
Telepathy | 2 | Core-2: Send Thoughts | 10 | Can cast this to establish contact and send and receive thoughts from one consenting target. Only affects intentionally sent thoughts. No common language is necessary. Lasts up to 10 minutes per cast. Concentration. |
Telepathy | 2 | UPGRADE: Mental Register | - | UPGRADE. When cast for consenting targets, "Send Thoughts" is now a free action, and can't fail. Range is 100m and still requires line of sight. You still must spend spell points, concentrate, and make the sign to initiate. |
Telepathy | 2 | Send Emotion | 10 | Can cast this to send one generic, mild emotion to a target. Fear, anxiety, relaxation, tiredness, etc. Works on animals. Concentrate for up to 10 minutes. |
Telepathy | 2 | Hidden Sensor | 10 | As a main action, concentrate and touch a target person or animal, consenting or nonconsenting, and cast. For 6 hours thereafter, you can choose to close your eyes and sense what that person senses. |
Telepathy | 2 | Mind Meld | 10 | Cast this in a 10-minute ritual while touching a consenting or restrained target to temporarily merge thoughts and memories. This is a more dangerous way to get more information with a low skill level. Roll, relationship and other factors determines results. Even if you get the information you want, you or both parties may receive nonlethal psychic damage, and they will know your memories as well. |
Telepathy | 3 | Core-3: Read Thoughts | 12 | Can cast this to read surface thoughts, but not memories. Target must be visible and within 10 meters. Lasts up to 10 minutes per cast. |
Telepathy | 3 | Sense Hostiles | 16 | Cast to sense hostile living beings within 100m that want to hurt, kill, block or incapacitate you. You get a vague sense of identity, intensity and direction. |
Telepathy | 3 | Distant Thoughts | 12 | Cast to use Send Thoughts, i.e. communicate mentally with a target, at a distance of up to 100 km with no sight requirement. Can't use penetrative techniques. Targets can answer or ignore the call. Need to upcast for more range: 4=1000km, 5=1ly, 6=5ly. |
Telepathy | 3 | Veracity Field | 12 | Cast to make it impossible to lie in a 10m^2 certain space for 4 hours. Concentration. Targets aren't aware of this unless trained in telepathy or Metaphysics. |
Telepathy | 3 | Speak With Dead | 12 | Cast to telepathically communicate with a corpse--specifically, its brain. 10-minute ritual, the brain must be within 1m of you. You get 1 question per cast. The corpse's answers are decayed as their brain and body is decayed. |
Telepathy | 3 | Suppress Thoughts | 12 | Cast to suppress a certain thought in a target for 5 minutes. Concentration. Sudden danger, alarm or physical trauma will break the spell. |
Telepathy | 4 | Core-4: Read One Memory | 14 | Can cast this to read one specific memory, once per cast. Requires concentration for a few seconds while it's working. Suppressed memories may require higher spells. |
Telepathy | 4 | Shared Senses | 14 | Cast to allow all party members to share senses while you maintain concentration. |
Telepathy | 4 | Sudden Reflex | 14 | Cast to cause a sudden and seemingly involuntary reflex in a visible target--i.e., a soldier holding a gun to shoot, a worker to drop a heavy carried object, a driver to swerve |
Telepathy | 4 | Sleep | 14 | Cast to try to put one non-combatant target to sleep. Cannot work in combat or in other extreme risk situations unless the target is exhausted or unless upcasted. |
Telepathy | 4 | Hypnosis | 14 | Cast as part of a long conversation in a calm context with a nonviolent npc. They become extremely vulnerable to suggestion by you and your allies. Lasts up to 1 hour, after which you can make them sleep or wake up without rolling. |
Telepathy | 4 | Send group emotion | 14 | Cast to send a single generic emotion to a group of up to 12 targets. If one target is aware of the spell, can end it for all. |
Telepathy | 4 | Mental Assault | 14 | After making contact with a target using another Telepathy spell, cast to cause 2d6 psychic damage and stun for 1 round. This can kill. |
Telepathy | 5 | Core-5: Read Memory Category | 16 | Read a target and learn up to one whole category of memory before losing the connection. Repressed memories may require "enter dream" instead. |
Telepathy | 5 | Temporary Insanity | 16 | Cast on a group of targets to make them temporarily insane. You cannot control what the result will be, but it will certainly be far from their current state. |
Telepathy | 5 | Enter Dream | 16 | Cast as a 10 minute ritual to allow your party to enter the target's sleeping mind in order to retrieve, change, destroy, or insert all possible memories and thoughts. The main benefit of this spell versus others is that it cannot fail in the casting, it only fails if the dream ends before the objective is complete. |
Telepathy | 5 | Switch Minds | 16 | 4 hour ritual. You completely and permanently switch the complete brain-data of 2 consenting or restrained targets. (result is not considered magical and can't be dispelled.) Exhausts you and them. You can be one of the targets. |
Telepathy | 5 | Copy Mind | 16 | 4 hour ritual. You completely and permanently copy the psyche and memories of one person, and place this new copy into another person, completely overwriting the victim's mind. The target will be exhausted. From that point on, the two minds will diverge. |
Telepathy | 5 | Unified Minds | 16 | Cast to link up to 8 allies for 8 hours with these benefits: Share thoughts, share best initiative, temporarily switch character sheets, get one extra turn in combat for any one player. The caster herself cannot benefit and must concentrate. |
Telepathy | 5 | Paralyze | 16 | Cast as a main action to attempt to totally paralyze a target. Lasts for 1 minute with concentration. |
Telepathy | 6 | Core-6: Read Mind | 18 | Cast to establish a complete connection to know anything the target knows. Lasts as long as they are visible to you. |
Telepathy | 6 | Mind Control | 18 | Cast as a main action to completely dominate a target's mind and control them for 1 hour. Requires concentration. Traumatic effect. |
Telepathy | 6 | Mass Paralyze | 18 | Cast to attempt to paralyze a group of biological enemies in a self-visible 5' radius circle. Concentration for up to 10 minutes. |
Telepathy | 6 | Heal Mental Trauma | 18 | Spend 1 month of daily rituals with a target to heal any kind of psychic trauma and render them immune to that trauma in the future. Requires consent. Failure means more time is needed. |
Telepathy | 6 | Erase Memories | 18 | With a 30-minute ritual, you can browse through a consenting or restrained target's memories and selectively erase them. These memories will be permanently erased and can never be retrieved by any mundane or magic skill. If the target is unwilling, this may cause mental trauma that is inexplicable to them and may eventually lead to suicide. |
Teleportation | 1 | Core-1: Personal 10m | 8 | Teleport yourself and worn/carried objects up to 10m away. Cannot TP into a place you can't personally see, haven't been in the past, can't fit, that would cause instant death/injury, or a moving vehicle. |
Teleportation | 2 | Core-2: Personal 100m | 10 | Range upgraded to 100m. Restrictions same. |
Teleportation | 2 | UPGRADE: Blink | Upgrades core power - same TN | UPGRADE to core power. Core spell can now be a move action. No increase in cost or TN, but if you teleport multiple times per round, only roll once but still pay the cost multiple times. |
Teleportation | 3 | Core-3: Personal 1km | 12 | Range upgraded to 1km, same restrictions. |
Teleportation | 3 | Cargo Jump | +X DC, +X points | You can add +X points and +X DC to take large items OR allies with you. GM determines the number based on amount of cargo. User must be touching the things/people to take. User must go with the items. Casting time is 1 minute. |
Teleportation | 3 | Anchor Mark | 12 | While maintaining concentration, you can take 5 minutes to physically touch an ethereal mark on a person, place, or item within your maximum range. Then, without rolling again, you can TP right to it. This can bypass the core power's restrictions, but for this reason it is very dangerous. |
Teleportation | 4 | Core-4: Personal 10km | 14 | Range upgraded to 10km, same restrictions. |
Teleportation | 4 | Rapid Jump | UPGRADE to core power | You can now use the core power as a bonus action in combat. If you teleport multiple times per round, only roll once, but pay the cost multiple times. |
Teleportation | 4 | Unlimited Apportation | UPGRADE to core power | For core personal TP without upgrades, no spell point cost. Still has roll risk and arrival risk. |
Teleportation | 4 | Flicker | 14 | Cast as a main action and concentrate. For up to 1 hour, your presence flickers in a blur. Enemies have disadvantage to hit you and it is difficult for living things to identify you. If an attack would still hit you, you can use your reaction to teleport away using the core power rules, negating that hit. |
Teleportation | 4 | Scatter | 14 | Cast as main action. Spreads up to 6 targets randomly to safe places within 50m radius. Difficult to control. |
Teleportation | 5 | Core-5: Personal 100km | 16 | Range upgraded to 100km, same restrictions. |
Teleportation | 5 | Offensive Intrusion | 16 | Use this spell to TP yourself and worn/carried items into a moving vehicle or place you can't see or haven't been, within your core range, with safest possible placement, though you do not control exact placement or receive spatial information. |
Teleportation | 5 | Banishment | 16 | By touching a person, you can teleport them to a core-valid target location without needing their consent, and while keeping yourself stationary. Use same roll as normal. You cannot put them into guaranteed harm. |
Teleportation | 5 | Send Item | 16 | You attempt to teleport an item, such as a bomb, to a core-valid location, without your accompaniment. |
Teleportation | 5 | Rift | 16 | You attempt to open a new rift into another dimension (i.e. hyperspace, plane of shadow, etc) where there is none. Even on a perfect success, this is not guaranteed to be safe. This can be used to find new hyperlanes. Lower difficulty if there's a thin barrier in spacetime. |
Teleportation | 5 | Recall | 16 | You attempt to bring allied and consenting people, vehicles and equipment within your max range, to your location, safely. The area of effect is a 50m radius circle. Cannot teleport buildings. The allies must prepare with proper arcane markings which takes about an hour to do for 100 people, but casting the spell is a main action. |
Teleportation | 5 | Summon | 16 | You attempt to teleport a single person or entity within your core range, into your presence without their consent. You must know them and their location in detail. The entity is not guaranteed to be pleased, but will be safe on a success (assuming the destination is a safe environment for them). If the entity is a magic user, they may increase the difficulty, use counterspell, or other methods of resistance. |
Teleportation | 6 | Core-6: Personal 1000km (Orbital Jump) | 18 | Range upgraded to 1000km (orbital). Same restrictions. Can be used to jump from/to allied ships in orbit & orbital stations. |
Teleportation | 6 | Mass Teleport | 18 | You attempt to teleport a massive chunk of earth, buildings, people, vehicles, etc. up to 1 mile radius, up to 6 light years away. Requires a 48-hour ritual, half of which is at origin, and half of which is at destination. Includes you (you teleport at 24:00:01), and drains all spell points, causes exhaustion. You can do nothing else, not even eat or sleep, during the 48 hours. The subjects will be partially phased in a hyper-compressed-dimension until the ritual is entirely complete. Distraction or disruption causes total loss. |
Teleportation | 6 | Activate Stargate | 18 | With a 6-hour ritual, you transform a metal-hyperion-alloy portal frame into a an active stargate. This is an permanent-until-dispelled, noisy, brightly glowing portal that can transport terrestrial beings and vehicles up to 50 light years away or to other dimensions, near-instantly, making use of a hyper-compressed liminal dimension. A good engineer friend is important here for good results. The portal will remain active until dispelled. Maximum portal radius is 15m, enough for elephants and/or battlemechs to pass through. This is a legendary spell that enables the rapid spread of powerful empires. |