Sorcery: Making & Breaking Spells IV

Sorcery: Making & Breaking Spells IV

Even more making & breaking spells! Explode explodes an object. Reshape lets the caster shape any solid object. Rive pokes a hole in an object. Ruin ages an object 5 years in 1 minute.

   

Explode

Keywords: Resisted (HT).

Full Cost: 29 points/level.

Casting Roll: IQ.

Range: Unlimited.

Duration: Instantaneous.

Deals 2d damage to the subject (works only on inanimate items) per level of the spell. See p. B557, for DR and HP of various items. DR does not protect against this! If the spell destroys the subject, it explodes violently, doing [2d] cutting fragmentation damage.

Statistics: Crushing Attack 2d (Accessibility, Fragmentation only upon destruction, -10%; Accessibility, Only on objects, -10%; Based on HT, +20%; Fragmentation [2d], +30%; Malediction 2, +150%; No Signature, +20%; Sorcery, -15%) [29/level].

Reshape

Keywords: None.

Full Cost: 28.5 points/level*.

Casting Roll: IQ.

Range: 100 yards.

Duration: Indefinite.

You can shape and move any solid unliving substances. The higher your level of Reshape, the larger the quantity you can affect. You can affect up to 10 x (level squared) lbs. of matter in the form of a single object or amorphous mass. For example, Reshape 3 would let you affect a 90-lb. stone slab or even 90 lbs. of pebbles in a heap . . . but against a foe with a 8-lb. metal sword and a 15-lb. stone shield you could only affect one target, even though the total weight is much less than your limit.

If your target is already under someone else’s direct control, roll a Quick Contest. You roll against IQ; they roll against IQ if using Control or Telekinesis, their skill level if using a spell, and so on. You must win to establish control. Likewise, others can overpower your spell by winning a Quick Contest against your IQ.

After establishing control, you can reshape the target. Forming a simple shape (blob, column, sphere, etc.) requires a Concentrate maneuver but no die roll. If the result is meant to be beautiful or functional, though, the GM may deem the effort a long task (see p. B346) and require skill rolls against Armoury, Artist, Machinist, and so on. You can work without tools, but you must know what you’re doing.

You can also cause the target to elongate or flow at a Move equal to your Reshape level. This requires constant concentration. You can make a solid object ooze, roll, or seep along the ground or a surface, and even reshape it in ways that defy gravity.

When you stop concentrating, you immediately give up control. Stable forms become permanent, while unstable ones collapse instantly.

Defensively, Reshape lets you move or shape solid matter to obstruct attacks. This requires a Concentrate maneuver. Such barriers give whatever cover the material normally provides. For instance, it might let you shape a stone slab into armor with the DR of stone by making an Armoury roll.

Offensively, Reshape is more limited. By concentrating, you can move an existing solid object to impede your enemy’s movement, like any object of that weight. In all cases, your foe can dodge.

If a foe is standing in an area where you control solid matter, – or if you can move solid matter onto him – you may inflict combat penalties on him. This requires flexibility on the GM’s part: Reshape 10 might cause a mini-earthquake if your foe is standing on the solid floor good for -10 to attack rolls. Tricks like this require a Concentrate maneuver and an IQ or Tactics roll.

Statistics: Control Solids (Accessibility, Only to shape and move solids, -30%; Ranged, +40%; Sorcery, -15%) [28.5/level*].

* Calculate the total cost then round up.

  

Rive

Keywords: Resisted (HT).

Full Cost: 23.2 points/level.

Casting Roll: IQ.

Range: Unlimited.

Duration: Instantaneous.

Pokes a hole in an object. Does 1d pi++ damage to the subject (works only on inanimate items) per level of the spell. See p. B557, for DR and HP of various items. DR does not protect against this! The caster may deal less damage, if he wishes.

Statistics: Huge Piercing Attack 1d (Accessibility, Only on objects, -10%; Based on HT, +20%; Based on IQ, Own Roll, +20%; Malediction 2, +150%; No Signature, +20%; Sorcery, -15%; Variable, +5%) [23.2/level].

  

Ruin

Keywords: Resisted (HT).

Full Cost: 108 points.

Casting Roll: Will.

Range: 100 yards.

Duration: 1 minute, the effect stays permanently.

This spell accelerates the natural process of decay in unliving materials. It rusts iron and steel, but has little effect on other metals unless maintained for a very long time. It causes organic material – leather, fur, wood, plastics, etc. – to decay to uselessness. Ceramics are unaffected by Ruin. Each 1-minute casting has the general effect of aging the subject 5 years. It will remove 1 DR and 1 HP from most subjects. Weapons simply lose one grade of quality per casting, except for Very Fine weapons, which are unaffected!

Statistics: Affliction 1 (HT; Accessibility, Only on unliving materials, -10%; Advantage, Ruin, +840%; Fixed Duration, +0%; Malediction 2, +150%; No Signature, +20%; Reduced Duration, 1/3, -10%; Sorcery, -15%) [108]. Note: “Ruin” is Unaging (Age Control, Only Forwards, +10%; Magical, -10%; Reduced Time 23, +460%) [84].