======================================================================== First Level Spells ======================================================================== Acid Hands (Evocation) Range: 0 Components: VS Duration: 1 round Casting Time: 1 Area of Effect: Special Saving Throw: None This spell is very similar to the first level mage spell burning hands (q.v.), except that the caster's hands eject a corrosive acid. Damage is one hit point per level of the caster. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ahrvar's Forgery (Alteration) Range: Touch Components: VSM Duration: 1 round per level Casting Time: 1 Area of Effect: Caster Saving Throw: None With this spell, the caster is able to perfectly duplicate the any style of handwriting of which he has a sizable sample. The forgery is good enough to fool even the closest scrutinisation, although it does radiate faint magic. The caster merely casts the spell, and begins writing. His handwriting will perfectly match that of the sample, for the length of the spell's duration. Those watching the caster write will believe that the handwriting on the page is actually that of the caster, unless of course they witness the casting of the spell, which may make them rather suspicious. The caster need not be writing the entire duration of the spell; he is free to stop and resume writing any number of times within the duration. Also, the caster only needs the handwriting sample to be copied during the initial casting of the spell. The material component of this spell is a sample of the handwriting to be copied (containing an example of every letter in the alphabet to be used), and a writing instrument. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alpha's Acid Stream (Conjuration) Range: 30 yards Components: VSM Duration: Instantaneous Casting Time: 1 Area of Effect: One target Saving Throw: Special The spell causes a thin stream of purplish, hissing acid to shoot forth from the caster's outstretched hand, out to the maximum range of the spell. This acid causes 1d4 damage per level of the caster, up to a maximum of 8d4. The intended target may attempt a save vs. petrification to dodge the jet of acid (save at -4 if size G, -2 if size H, -1 if size L, +1 if size S, and +3 if size T), and if successful the jet of acid will have been avoided, and will continue on in a straight line out to the extent of its range. Any creature in the path of the acid must save as above or be struck by the spell. The Acid Stream can affect only one target in any event. The material component is a drop of any acid. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alpha's Electric Arc (Evocation) Range: 10 yards + 10 yards per level Components: VS Duration: Instantaneous Casting Time: 1 Area of Effect: One creature Saving Throw: Special This spell causes an arc of electricity to leap from the caster's extended fingertip. This electricity unerringly strikes one target of the caster's choice, inflicting 1d4 damage, plus one point per level of the caster (up to a maximum of +12), with no saving throw. A target in metal armour or wielding a large, mostly metallic weapon (e.g. any sword, battle axe) must save vs. spells and, if the save is failed, the bonus (i.e. per level) damage inflicted by the spell is doubled. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alpha's Hunting Hound (Conjuration/Summoning) Range: 10 yards Components: VSM Duration: 12 turns + 6 turns per level Casting Time: 1 round Area of Effect: One creature Saving Throw: None This spell calls a canine creature to be a helper and boon companion to the spell caster for the duration of the spell. The type of hound summoned depends upon the caster's level, but the hound will always understand verbal commands given it, so long as they are 12 words or less and relatively simple. The hound will further also be capable of tracking as if a ranger of half the level of the summoner, and can hunt sufficiently well to feed the spell-caster for one day, provided there is game extant in the caster's area. The type of hound summoned is as follows: 1st - 3rd level: jackal 4th - 7th level: wild dog 8th - 12th level: wolf 13th + level: dire wolf If the caster takes a lower-level hound (or a dire wolf when 18th level), it will have maximum hit points, be +1 to hit and on damage, track at +1 level, and can understand even relatively complex commands of up to 50 words in length. The material component is a piece of fresh meat. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alpha's Sparkle Beam (Evocation) Range: 0 Components: VSM Duration: Instantaneous Casting Time: 1 Area of Effect: 1' x 20' x 5' cone Saving Throw: Special This spell draws upon the power of the Positive Material Plane and calls forth a ray of golden light. Anyone in the area of effect of the spell must save vs. petrification or be blinded for 1 round. The true function of this spell, however, is its use against undead, creatures of the Lower Planes, and those drawing power from the Negative Material Plane or the Plane of Shadow. Such creatures suffer 1d4 damage, plus an additional 1d4 at every even level of the caster (e.g. 4d4 at 8th), up to a maximum of 8d4. These creatures may save vs. spells to halve this damage. The material component is a bit of crushed sunstone. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alpha's Starlight (Evocation, Illusion) Range: 5 yards per level Components: VSM Duration: 1 turn per level Casting Time: 1 round Area of Effect: 10' square area per level Saving Throw: None This spell illuminates an area as a cloudless outdoor night sky filled with stars. This light is pale and wan, and dilutes vision mostly to black and white. Full visual acuity is possible only out to a range of 10 yards, but general identification can be made out to 20 yards. Stationary figures can be made out at 40 yards, and movement detected out to 80 yards. Intervening cover will, of course, reduce sighting distances accordingly. This light does not interfere with infravision, and there are ample shadows within the area of effect to hide in. The illusionary component of the spell creates the appearance of an actual starry night sky. The area of effect is stationary. The material component is a piece of black velvet and a few bits of glass. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alpha's Wall of Darkness (Alteration) Range: 60 yards Components: VSM Duration: 1 round per level Casting Time: 2 Area of Effect: 10' x 10' square per level Saving Throw: None This spell brings into being a wall of blackness which cannot be seen through, even with infravision or ultravision. It is dispelled instantly by a light or continual light (q.v.) spell. It has no physical existence, and does not hinder nor harm those passing through it. It does, however, block the passage of sound from one side to the other, assuming that the spell is not cast in such a way (such as in a field of grass) which would otherwise allow sound to move around the edges of the wall. The material component is some pitch and soot, or a lump of coal. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Association (Divination) Range: 0 Components: VS Duration: Instantaneous Casting Time: 5 Area of Effect: Two surfaces Saving Throw: None When casting this spell, the forensic wizard must brings two surfaces into contact with one another. Possibilities include the surface of a jewel and that of a safe, or the surface of an arrow and that of a bow. If the two surfaces were ever before adjacent, the spell so indicates, and if the surfaces were ever directly connected as a single item, an even stronger reading results. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cat Spirit (Alteration) Range: Touch Components: SM Duration: 1 turn per level Casting Time: 5 Area of Effect: Creature touched Saving Throw: Negates The cat form spell grants many of the abilities traditionally associated with cats, though it does not significantly alter the features of the recipient. The spell grants a +2 bonus to stealth, as the recipient's tread will be absolutely quiet for the duration. The spell also halves all damage taken from falls and allows the recipient to land on his or her feet. Finally, it grants the ability to grow claws, allowing each hand to do 1d3 damage. It does not, however, improve singing ability. The material component is whiskers from a cat. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Detect Poison (Divination, Necromancy) Range: 0 Components: VS Duration: 1 turn Casting Time: 1 round Area of Effect: Special Saving Throw: None With this spell, the forensic wizard can determine if a corpse has been poisoned. One corpse can be checked each round. The wizard can determine the means by which the poison was administered and the place at which it entered the body, and he has a 5% chance per level of being able to exactly identify the poison. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Electric Blades (Evocation) Range: Components: VM Duration: Casting Time: 1 Area of Effect: Saving Throw: This spell must be cast with a metal blade of some sort in each hand. Both blades then acquire a flickering blue glow. When a hit by either blade is scored it causes 1-4 more points of damage of electricity. If both blades hit the same target in the same round the victim must save versus petrification or be stunned for one round. Each blade only shocks once and then is normal again. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Find Water (Divination) Range: 1 mile, depth 10 feet per level Components: SM Duration: 2 rounds per level Casting Time: 1 turn Area of Effect: 20 times arc Saving Throw: None When casting this spell, the diviner grasps two ends of a Y-shaped twig. The remaining end twists around to point in the direction of the nearest source of fresh water within the spell range. The branch can twist but twenty degrees, and then the diviner will feel a tug in the direction of the water. The diviner can specify a minimum amount of water to seek (greater than the amount in a human body, for example). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Flash (Evocation) Range: 12" Components: V Duration: 3 rounds Casting Time: 1 Area of Effect: One creature Saving Throw: Negates Victims failing their saving throw are blinded for the next round due to a flash of light that appears in their eyes. All to-hit rolls for the next two rounds are made at -2 due to spots in their eyes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Frost Hands (Evocation) Range: 0 Components: VS Duration: 1 round Casting Time: 1 Area of Effect: Special Saving Throw: None This spell is very similar to the first level mage spell burning hands (q.v.), except that ice is ejected. Damage is one hit point per level of the caster. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Frost Touch (Evocation) Range: Touch Components: VS Duration: 1 round per level Casting Time: 1 Area of Effect: Creature touched Saving Throw: None This spell delivers 1d6 points of damage. In addition to this, you add 1 point of damage for every level above first. Cold based creatures are immune to this, and fire based creatures take double damage. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Guilda's Treacherous Tripwire (Enchantment/Charm) Range: Touch Components: VSM Duration: 1 minute per level Casting Time: 1 Area of Effect: 1 tripwire Saving Throw: Negates One wire (up to 10' long) can be stretched across a hall, or such. The wire becomes camouflaged--undetectable w/o find traps. The first creature tO attempt to pass must save vs. wands (add dexterity defensive adjustment) or be caught when the wire springs free. The wire will twine tightly about the ankles of its victim, tripping him. It must then be tediously untangled (or sawed loose) which will take at least 30 seconds under ideal conditions. If hacked loose in combat, it will take 1 round, and the victim will take 1d4 damage unless an enchanted blade is used (which will cut without effort). Note that the wire is required, but not consumed. The material component is a small spring. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Human Torch (Evocation) Range: Components: Duration: Casting Time: 2 Area of Effect: Saving Throw: This spell causes the caster and all his clothing to become engulfed in flames. These flames do not harm the caster or his equipment but cause 1d4 points of damage to anyone within 5' and an additional 1d6 to anyone who actually touches him. The flames themselves are only about as hot as a torch but the surrounding area will feel like a blast furnace. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Inaudibility (Illusion/Phantasm) Range: Touch Components: VSM Duration: 1 hour per level Casting Time: 2 Area of Effect: Creature touched Saving Throw: Negates This spell completely masks all sounds made by the recipient: bodily functions such as breathing and sleeping as well as sounds made by striking another object (walking, for example). Any object held by the recipient is likewise silenced. Objects thrown, dropped, or knocked over by the recipient are not under the effect of the spell, however, and these may make noise at the ends of their trajectories. An unwilling victim receives a saving throw against this spell. The material component is a bit of cotton. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jamye's Melodramatic Music (Conjuration, Alteration, Enchantment/Charm) Range: 10 yards + 10 yards per level of the caster Components: VSM Duration: 4 rounds + 1 round per level of the caster Casting Time: 1 Area of Effect: 1 intelligent creature Saving Throw: Negates The spell causes the music to be played whenever the victim performs certain actions; such as entering a room, charging into battle, or making an announcement. The type of music is determined by the caster. Material components for this spell are: a miniature golden horn, mustache wax, a short length of rope, and a lace handkerchief. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kazago's Lock Pick (Alteration) Range: 0 Components: SM Duration: 1 day + 1 day per 5 levels of the caster Casting Time: 1 round Area of Effect: The caster Saving Throw: None This spell allows the bard to pick locks. The bard's Pick Pockets percentage roll becomes an Open Locks percentage roll, and the bard is treated as a thief in this respect for the entire duration of the spell. This spell is different from both the second-level Knock spell and the Unlock cantrip in that it can possibly affect much more than one lock, and that its effects are far less certain. It is especially useful on fact-finding missions where the bard is worried about coming across many locked doors along the way. The material components for this spell are a set of thieves' picks and tools, which are not consumed in the casting. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Last Image (Divination, Necromancy) Range: 0 Components: VS Duration: Instantaneous Casting Time: 1 round Area of Effect: One corpse Saving Throw: None When the forensic wizard casts this spell, he sees whatever the recipient corpse saw at the very instant of death, with the intent of learning the identity of the murderer, or at least the location of death. If the recipient was killed by a gaze attack, the wizard suffers this attack as well, but with a +4 bonus to his saving throw. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Little Death (Necromancy) Range: 60' Components: VS Duration: 1d4 + 1 rounds Casting Time: 1 Area of Effect: 1 creature Saving Throw: Negates This spell may be cast on any living (not golem, undead, etc.) creature native to the Prime Material plane and with 6+4 or less hit dice. The victim must save vs. magic at -3 or fall paralysed for 1d4 + 1 rounds. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Minor Annoyance (Illusion) Range: 5 feet per level Components: VS Duration: 1 round per level Casting Time: 1 Area of Effect: 1 creature Saving Throw: Negates This spell creates the illusion (sound and feel) of a mosquito flying into the victim's ear. The victim will then act appropriately, which usually means stopping and trying to get the illusionary mosquito out of his ear, until either a successful saving throw vs. spell is made, or the spell expires. The spell takes effect at the beginning of the round after it is cast. This means that it cannot be used to interrupt a spell, although it can be used to keep spells from being cast in the round(s) afterward. The victim gets a saving throw at the time of the casting, and then at the end of each round thereafter. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Murder Weapon (Divination, Necromancy) Range: Touch Components: VSM Duration: 1 turn Casting Time: 1 round Area of Effect: Special Saving Throw: None The caster of this spell can check one weapon per round to determine if it was used to kill a specific corpse, of whom he has a blood sample. A "murder weapon" is one which reduced the victim to zero hit points, or delivered the poison which did so. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Painting (Illusion/Phantasm) Range: 12" Components: V Duration: Concentration Casting Time: 1 Area of Effect: 2" Saving Throw: Negates By the means of this spell the caster can create an illusion of whatever he wants, as long as he concentrates and the illusion remains in the area of effect. It is usually easy to recognise what the illusion is supposed to be of, but any creature that can do so can also recognise that it is an illusion. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Protection from Chaos (Abjuration) Reversible Range: Touch Components: VSM Duration: 2 rounds per level Casting Time: 1 Area of Effect: Creature touched Saving Throw: None This spell is very similar to protection from evil (q.v.) except in its purpose and intent; it keeps out chaotic, as well as summoned or enchanted creatures. It acts as magical armour on the recipient; the protection encircles the recipient at a one foot distance, thus preventing bodily contact by creatures of an enchanted or summoned or chaotic nature. Summoned animals or monsters are similarly hedged from the protected being. Furthermore, any and all attacks launched by chaotic creatures incur a penalty of -2 from dice rolls to hit the protected creature, and any saving throws caused by such attacks are made at +2 on the protected being's dice. This spell can be reversed to become protection from law, although it still keeps out enchanted or summoned chaotic creatures as well. To complete this spell, the mage must trace a 3 feet diameter circle upon the floor/ground with powdered obsidian for protection from law and powdered glass for protection from chaos; or in the air using burning incense or burning dung with respect to law/chaos. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Protection from Rain (Abjuration) Range: 0 Components: SM Duration: 1 hour per level Casting Time: 1 Area of Effect: Caster Saving Throw: None After casting this spell, the wizard will remain dry even if standing in the midst of a torrent. The caster is protected from splashes and falling drops, but he is not protected from more concentrated bodies such as puddles. The water will simply bead and flow down an invisible field which surrounds the caster and his clothing at a distance of about one inch. An oiled leather rag is the material component of this spell. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Quantas's Target Bow (Enchantment) Range: Touch Components: VSM Duration: 2d4 + 1 round per level Casting Time: 2 Area of Effect: One bow Saving Throw: None While this spell is in effect, any arrows fired from the bow (which may not be a crossbow) are +2 to hit a specific target. The caster must be able to see the target, and call his/her shot. The +2 only affects hits on the target, not on someone/something that gets in the way. If the target is in melee, the target gets a +2 to it's size rating when the DM determines the odds of hitting the target as opposed to those around it. For example, if firing on a size six giant who is in melee with a size two elf, there would normally be a one in three chance to hit the elf. With target bow in effect, the giant would be raised to size eight, giving only a one in four chance to hit the elf. Should the arrow go at the elf anyway, it would not get its +2 to hit (since the giant is the target). Note that the arrow fired from the target bow is in no way magical. The material component is a feather from a bird of prey, rubbed against the bow string. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sand Skin (Conjuration) Range: 0 Components: VSM Duration: Special Casting Time: 1 round Area of Effect: caster Save: None By this spell, the caster will cover himself with sand that will repel damage. The caster will be able to cover himself with enough sand to block 8 + 1 per level points of damage. The type of sand used causes the body to be slightly shaded to that colour. The spell lasts until all the points are used up. Multiple casting only raises you back to the maximum of a single casting. The material components needed are: ground granite, sandstone, or some other type of fine sand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sangfroid (Abjuration) Range: 0 Components: VSM Duration: 1 turn per level Casting Time: 1 Area of Effect: The caster Saving Throw: None This spell confers immunity to all "nuisance" cantrips and first-level spells cast upon the bard. In addition, it gives the bard a +4 bonus to his saving throws vs. nuisance spells of second level or higher. Nuisance spells are those that do no damage, but are designed to adversely affect the bard's concentration, train of thought, or senses. Most Illusion and Charm spells fall into this category, as do Blindness, Deafness, and such spells that otherwise cause blindness or deafness. All three variations of the Annoyance spell (q.v.) are included as well. There are more such spells, but an exhaustive list here is unwarranted. This spell is primarily used while performing, as it keeps outside events such as hecklers and Taunt spells from interrupting the bard's performance. The material component for this spell is a chip of granite. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Skeleton (Necromancy) Range: Touch Components: VSM Duration: Permanent Casting Time: 1 hour Area of Effect: 1 corpse Saving Throw: None With this spell, The necromancer can turn one humanoid corpse into a skeleton. The skeleton may then be controlled as per animate dead. A mage may only have in existence through us of this spell one skeleton per level. The material component of this spell is a salve that requires 50 gp and 24 uninterrupted hours to create. Hit points of the skeleton are determined randomly. Disposing of skeletons with insufficient hit points is possible, if expensive. When a skeleton created by this spell is damaged, the damage cannot be repaired. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Small Fire Ball (Evocation) Range: 5 yards + 5 yards per level Components: VSM Duration: Instantaneous Casting Time: 2 Area of Effect: 1 target Saving Throw: 1/2 This is similar to a normal Fireball spell with the following exceptions: only one target is affected (the caster chooses the target and the Fireball expands until the target is engulfed), damage is 1d4 per caster's level (up to a maximum of 10d4), and exposed items receive a +2 on their saving throws. The material components for this spell are a bit of burning incense, and any gem worth at least 5 GP; both are consumed with the casting. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Snapshot (Invocation/Evocation) Range: Sight Components: VSM Duration: Instantaneous Casting Time: 0 Area of Effect: 1 page Saving Throw: None With this spell, the wizard causes an image of whatever he sees, even thermal images and magical auras, to appear on a sheet of parchment or vellum (the material component of the spell). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Spirit Command (Enchantment/Charm) Range: 30 yards Components: V Duration: 1 round Casting Time: 1 Area of Effect: One creature Saving Throw: None This spell enables the mage to command a spirit or extra-planar creature with a single word. The command can be uttered in a language the creature can understand (or a language the creator could understand if it is a summoned spirit). Spirits and creatures with 6 or more hit dice receive a save; spells save at their caster's level (if the caster is at least of sixth level). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Time of Death (Divination, Necromancy) Range: Touch Components: VS Duration: Instantaneous Casting Time: 9 Area of Effect: One corpse Saving Throw: None This spell allows the forensic wizard to estimate the time of death of the recipient corpse to within 5% if the corpse has been dead no more than one day per level of the caster, to within 20% otherwise. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tree Swipe (Alteration) Range: 3" + 1" per level Components: VSM Duration: 1 round + 1 round per 3 levels Casting Time: 1 Area of Effect: One full grown tree. Save: None By use of this spell, the caster will control a tree branch for the duration of the spell. The caster can make the branch wave, attack, fan a small breeze, etc. If the branch attacks, it does so as a fighter of the same level as the caster and will do 2d6 damage. This spell works only on full size trees. The material components needed are a tree branch, a verbal "SMACK" and a swing of the arm. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wither (Necromancy) Range: 30 yards Components: VSM Duration: Instantaneous Casting Time: 1 Area of Effect: 100 square feet per level Saving Throw: Special This spell kills all normal vegetation within an area of 100 square feet per level of the caster, who determines the shape of that area at the time of casting. Trees receive a saving throw of 11, and special plants such as treants suffer but 1d6 points of damage. The material component is acid, sprinkled over the whole area of effect. Casting time is exclusive of this administration. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wizard Glue (Enchantment) Range: Touch Components: SM Duration: Permanent Casting Time: 1 Area of Effect: 20 square feet per level Saving Throw: None Wizard Glue will hold one relatively flat surface to another, a mirror to a wall for example. The strength of the bond is 20 pounds per level of the wizard, up to 120 pounds. Dispel Magic will end the spell, and a strength of 10 or greater can break a 20-pound bond. A strength of 12 can break a 40-pound bond, a strength of 14 can break a 60-pound bond, and so forth. If the item held by the glue is brittle, it may be shattered in the separation. Honey is the material component of this spell.