All mage spells have a charge effect and a release effect. Charge effects are either passive auras or abilities that may be used at will until the spell is released in its natural form, and may be either beneficial or a hindrance. Once the mage has used a spell’s release effect, he may not use that spell again (charge or release) until he has rested for one night and restored the energies to his person. Restoring the energies thusly requires an intelligence check minus the spell’s level. The mage may attempt to restore the energies of a number of spells per night equal to his intelligence modifier, with a minimum of 1.
Release: The caster may painlessly remove his eye and have it float about independently. He can see what the eye sees. The eye lasts for a number of hours equal to his caster level. If it has not been returned by that point, it falls lifeless and cannot be replaced until the caster restores the spell’s energy.
Release: An object or person falls to the ground as lightly as a feather. This spell may be cast without expending any movement points or taking any time, but the caster must succeed at a dexterity check to do so (failure indicates the spell is lost).
Release: A given fire suddenly explodes or immediately goes out. Explosions spread outward 10 feet, and deal 1d6 damage, or 2d6 in the case of particularly large fires. The caster may put out any fire up to the size of a large campfire, or significantly dampen a bonfire. Large areas of a burning building may be made safe in this way as well.
Release: The mage can produce a perfect visual illusion of 10 sq ft per caster level, of anything he desires. The form can be as specific as desired, though the caster must know what the illusion actually looks like. A will save negates, observers to see faintly see the illusion, and also that concealed beneath. The illusion lasts for 1 minutes per caster level.
Release: The mage may throw an object in an uncoordinated fashion weighing up to his level x 100 lbs in weight. The object can be moved or thrown 5 feet in a given direction. This distance can be modified proportionally by fractions of the weight attempted (A first level caster attempting to move a 500 lb object could move it 1 foot, or a 50 lb object 10 feet). The maximum distance is 100 feet, the minimum is half a foot (therefore, a first level mage cannot move any object weighing more than 1000 lbs any distances at all). The object must begin within 20 feet of the caster.
Release: The mage specifies a field of interconnected hexes equal to his caster level. Any beings moving through this field must expend 2 movement points to move one hex, as their legs muscles spasm and weaken in the field. The field lasts for 2d6 rounds.
Release: The mage leaps, 1d6 + intelligence modifier in hexes. An exchange of one hex for 5 vertical feet is permitted. The number of feet leapt is not rolled until the leap occurs.
Release: A touched object is infused with daylight. Everything in a 15 foot radius appears to have a sourceless light shining on it. The line between illuminated and dark is sharp; on one side, daylight, on the other, no illumination. Beings outside the sphere can also see the daylight shining on the objects within the sphere. This effect lasts for 1 hour per caster level. The caster may split hours between different objects as he pleases (1 hour minimum).
Release: The movement of two touched, non-living objects is permanently linked. Both objects may weigh no more than 1 pound each. The two attempt to follow the movement of the other with a strength of 3. If they cannot follow one another’s movements, they press against barriers until they have enough free space to act as their partners.
Release: The caster can transmit whispered messages into the ears a being within sight. The communication is one-way. The ability lasts for one minute per caster level, though the caster must be able to see the target the whole time for the effect to work.
Release: The caster releases small streaking meteors of condensed entropy at his foes. These missiles strike unerringly, as long as the caster could see his target when he cast the spell. Each deals 1d6 damage and automatically wounds if it deals any damage at all (a strike that would have been a wound is still just a single wound). At every level divisible by 4 the caster gains another missile, which may strike another target or the same.
Release: The caster may repair a small item (could fit within the caster’s torso) that was broken in the last number of days equal to caster level.
Release: The caster may choose one person within 20 feet to be shielded. If the target is struck by a ranged weapon, roll a d6. On a 4 or higher, the shot is entirely deflected. On a 3 or less, the caster takes damage as normal. On a 1, the shield is broken and the spell ends. This effect lasts for 2 rounds per caster level.
Release: A target of 6 HD or less within 20 feet must succeed at a fortitude save or be swept with terrible nausea, retching and becoming disoriented for 1d4 rounds. During this time, they must succeed a dexterity check or drop any items held, and can take no action but movement. They may still dodge, but doing so deals them 1 damage from staggering during the attempt.
Release: The caster may choose up to 6 HD of creatures, distributed as he pleases, within 30 feet. All those affected must succeed at a will save or immediately fall asleep. The sleep is very deep and peaceful, and only pain or extraordinarily loud noises will wake them. The sleep lasts for 1 hour if uninterrupted.
Release: The caster may perfectly imitate a known sound of a volume up to a shout. The sound may last up to 1 minute, and can come from a desired point within 40 feet. A successful will save reveals the illusion.
Release: The caster may speak and understand a chosen language for 5 minutes per caster level. This spell also allows limited communication with birds and beasts. The caster is not able to read the chosen language, however.
A mage may attempt to use a known spell without its energies being present. When attempting this, roll a d6. For first or second level spells, a 2-6 indicates success. For third or fourth level spells, a 3-6 indicates success, and for fifth and sixth level spells, a 4-6 indicates success. Wound penalties apply to this roll. On a failure, the spell has backfired. Roll on the backfire table and apply the results.
If a save is relevant, the target receives a penalty on their save equal to the level of the spell.
All spells require 2 movement points to cast unless otherwise noted (this applies to both charge and release). Spells cast during a round are only activated at the end of the round (after everyone has acted). During the intervening time, the caster is subject to their spell being disrupted. Any damage the caster takes requires a will saving throw with a penalty equal to the damage or else the spell is lost.
Spells require arcane hand motions and arcane speech of at least normal speaking volume. It will be obvious to all present that a spell is being cast, though they will have no idea which spell. This has a tendency to make people nervous at the very least, and occasionally violent.
Casters with intelligence of at least 13 gain an additional first level spell at first level (chosen). Casters with intelligence of at least 16 gain an additional second level spell at third level (chosen). Casters with intelligences of at least 18 gain an additional third level spell upon reaching 5th level.
First Level
Affix
Charge: Objects adhere to the caster’s skin. It grips with a strength of 2.
Release: The mage can bind together two objects with magical force. The two act as though held together by a strength equal to the mage’s strength plus his caster level. This lasts a number of minutes equal to caster level. At 8th level and higher, the mage may choose to have the effect be permanent.
Charm
Charge: The mage gets a +1 bonus to persuasion attempts.
Release: A single target considers the mage to be a close friend, and interprets all actions in the most favorable way possible. This lasts a number of hours equal to the mage’s level, or until the mage or his allies directly harm the target. A successful will save negates.
Enlarge
Charge: The caster’s height increases by 1d6 inches (afterwards, this is constant until the spell is released). His weight is unchanged, and he thus looked stretched and unnatural if examined too closely.
Release: The caster may make an object or being larger by up to 25% per caster level. If cast on an unwilling being, a will saving throw negates. Weapon damages increase by 1 step every 50% increase, though they require larger and larger beings to wield them.
Eye
Charge: The caster may see twice as far and clearly as he is normally able.
Release: The caster may painlessly remove his eye and have it float about independently. He can see what the eye sees. The eye lasts for a number of hours equal to his caster level. If it has not been returned by that point, it falls lifeless and cannot be replaced until the caster restores the spell’s energy.
Feather
Charge: Birds do not fear the mage, though abusing this trust may lead to a general spitefulness from all birds.
Release: An object or person falls to the ground as lightly as a feather. This spell may be cast without expending any movement points or taking any time, but the caster must succeed at a dexterity check to do so (failure indicates the spell is lost).
Pyrotechnics
Charge: The caster has minor control over fires, making them form strange shapes and quelling or feeding them to a limited extent (candles can be put out, torches go out 1 in 4, fires grow faster, etc).
Release: A given fire suddenly explodes or immediately goes out. Explosions spread outward 10 feet, and deal 1d6 damage, or 2d6 in the case of particularly large fires. The caster may put out any fire up to the size of a large campfire, or significantly dampen a bonfire. Large areas of a burning building may be made safe in this way as well.
Glamor
Charge: The mage unconsciously draws the visual attention of all those around him, through no describable mechanism.
Release: The mage can produce a perfect visual illusion of 10 sq ft per caster level, of anything he desires. The form can be as specific as desired, though the caster must know what the illusion actually looks like. A will save negates, observers to see faintly see the illusion, and also that concealed beneath. The illusion lasts for 1 minutes per caster level.
Heave
Charge: The mage may move any object within sight that weighs less than a pound as he desires, as though it were a minor form of telekinesis. Particularly coordinated actions may require a dexterity check at -4. Only one object may be moved at a time.
Release: The mage may throw an object in an uncoordinated fashion weighing up to his level x 100 lbs in weight. The object can be moved or thrown 5 feet in a given direction. This distance can be modified proportionally by fractions of the weight attempted (A first level caster attempting to move a 500 lb object could move it 1 foot, or a 50 lb object 10 feet). The maximum distance is 100 feet, the minimum is half a foot (therefore, a first level mage cannot move any object weighing more than 1000 lbs any distances at all). The object must begin within 20 feet of the caster.
Hinder
Charge: The mage is surprised more often, from 2 in 6 to 3 in 6. The same applies to ambushing.
Release: The mage specifies a field of interconnected hexes equal to his caster level. Any beings moving through this field must expend 2 movement points to move one hex, as their legs muscles spasm and weaken in the field. The field lasts for 2d6 rounds.
Leap
Charge: The mage deals 1 additional damage when throwing items.
Release: The mage leaps, 1d6 + intelligence modifier in hexes. An exchange of one hex for 5 vertical feet is permitted. The number of feet leapt is not rolled until the leap occurs.
Light
Charge: The caster’s hair and nails glow slightly, and are apparent in the darkness.
Release: A touched object is infused with daylight. Everything in a 15 foot radius appears to have a sourceless light shining on it. The line between illuminated and dark is sharp; on one side, daylight, on the other, no illumination. Beings outside the sphere can also see the daylight shining on the objects within the sphere. This effect lasts for 1 hour per caster level. The caster may split hours between different objects as he pleases (1 hour minimum).
Link
Charge: The mage is functionally ambidextrous.
Release: The movement of two touched, non-living objects is permanently linked. Both objects may weigh no more than 1 pound each. The two attempt to follow the movement of the other with a strength of 3. If they cannot follow one another’s movements, they press against barriers until they have enough free space to act as their partners.
Message
Charge: The caster can write in ink with mere hand gestures, no materials required.
Release: The caster can transmit whispered messages into the ears a being within sight. The communication is one-way. The ability lasts for one minute per caster level, though the caster must be able to see the target the whole time for the effect to work.
Missile
Charge: Objects on the caster’s person have a tendency to fall apart. Every time the caster does anything that could in any conceivable way cause an item on their body to break, roll a d6. On a 1, a random item breaks.
Release: The caster releases small streaking meteors of condensed entropy at his foes. These missiles strike unerringly, as long as the caster could see his target when he cast the spell. Each deals 1d6 damage and automatically wounds if it deals any damage at all (a strike that would have been a wound is still just a single wound). At every level divisible by 4 the caster gains another missile, which may strike another target or the same.
Renew
Charge: The caster may polish items to a nice sheen with a simple hand gesture.
Release: The caster may repair a small item (could fit within the caster’s torso) that was broken in the last number of days equal to caster level.
Shield
Charge: The caster does not get wet from regular rainfall, though torrents still affect him.
Release: The caster may choose one person within 20 feet to be shielded. If the target is struck by a ranged weapon, roll a d6. On a 4 or higher, the shot is entirely deflected. On a 3 or less, the caster takes damage as normal. On a 1, the shield is broken and the spell ends. This effect lasts for 2 rounds per caster level.
Sicken
Charge: The caster gains a +2 bonus to resisting poisons.
Release: A target of 6 HD or less within 20 feet must succeed at a fortitude save or be swept with terrible nausea, retching and becoming disoriented for 1d4 rounds. During this time, they must succeed a dexterity check or drop any items held, and can take no action but movement. They may still dodge, but doing so deals them 1 damage from staggering during the attempt.
Sleep
Charge: The caster needs only sleep for 3 hours a night, instead of the usual 6.
Release: The caster may choose up to 6 HD of creatures, distributed as he pleases, within 30 feet. All those affected must succeed at a will save or immediately fall asleep. The sleep is very deep and peaceful, and only pain or extraordinarily loud noises will wake them. The sleep lasts for 1 hour if uninterrupted.
Sound
Charge: The caster’s shouts are magnified in volume.
Release: The caster may perfectly imitate a known sound of a volume up to a shout. The sound may last up to 1 minute, and can come from a desired point within 40 feet. A successful will save reveals the illusion.
Speak
Charge: The caster’s voice is soothing and pleasant to listen to.
Release: The caster may speak and understand a chosen language for 5 minutes per caster level. This spell also allows limited communication with birds and beasts. The caster is not able to read the chosen language, however.
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