Sorcery: Buff Spells

Sorcery: Buff Spells

Here we have assorted buff spells converted from D&D/PF. Endure Elements makes the subject more resistant to extreme temperatures. Feather Fall lets the subject glide through the air. Resist Energy protects the subject from any energy. Tongues allows the subject to speak any language.

Endure Elements

Keywords: Buff.

Full Cost: 18 points for level 1 + 2 points/additional level.

Casting Roll: None. Use Innate Attack (Gaze) to aim.

Range: 100 yards.

Duration: 30 minutes.

The subject’s temperature comfort zone (between 35° and 90° for humans) extends by HT degrees in both directions per level of this spell.

Statistics: Affliction 1 (HT; Advantage, Endure Elements 1, +20%; Extended Duration, 10x, +40%; Fixed Duration, +0%; Increased 1/2D, 10x, +15%; No Signature, +20%; Sorcery, -15%) [18]. Additional levels add further Endure Elements to Advantage (+20%) [+2]. Note: Each level of “Endure Elements” is Temperature Tolerance 2 (Magical, -10%) [2].

  

Feather Fall

Keywords: Buff.

Full Cost: 28 points.

Casting Roll: None. Use Innate Attack (Gaze) to aim.

Range: 100 yards.

Duration: 3 minutes.

The subject becomes able to glide through the air. He cannot gain altitude. With a running leap, he can launch himself with an air Move equal to Basic Move. Each turn, he can change velocity by up to 10 yards/second x local gravity in Gs. To accelerate, he must descend by 1 yard for each 1 yard/second added to velocity; top speed is Basic Move x 4 (but he can go faster if towed). To decelerate, he must fly level. If he dors not descend at least 1 yard, he automatically decelerates by 1 yard/second that turn. When working out turning radius, the subject’s basic air Move is 10 x local gravity in Gs.

Statistics: Affliction 1 (HT; Advantage, Feather Fall, +160%; Fixed Duration, +0%; Increased 1/2D, 10x, +15%; No Signature, +20%; Sorcery, ‑15%) [28]. Note: “Feather Fall” is Flight (Gliding, -50%; Magical, -10%) [16].

  

Resist Energy

Keywords: Buff.

Full Cost: 61 points for level 1 + 45 points/additional level.

Casting Roll: None. Use Innate Attack (Gaze) to aim.

Range: 100 yards.

Duration: 30 minutes.

This spell gives the subject and everything he carries an extra DR 10 against any sort of FP or HP damage incurred from energy, whether from a direct attack or an environmental effect.

Statistics: Affliction 1 (HT; Advantage, Resist Energy 1, +450%; Extended Duration, 10x, +40%; Fixed Duration, +0%; Increased 1/2D, 10x, +15%; No Signature, +20%; Sorcery, -15%) [61]. Each additional level adds more levels of Resist Energy to the Advantage (+450%) [+45]. Note: Each level of “Resist Energy” is DR 10 (Force Field, +20%; Limited, Energy, -20%; Magical, -10%) [45].

  

Tongues

Keywords: Buff.

Full Cost: 72 or 128 points.

Casting Roll: None. Use Innate Attack (Gaze) to aim.

Range: 100 yards.

Duration: 30 minutes.

The basic (72-point) version of this spell grants the subject the ability to speak every language at Accented (or Native, if the subject has Language Talent), excluding alien languages. The improved (128-point) version of this spell includes alien languages, though the subject may need special technology (or the Mimicry advantage) to produce the correct sounds.

Statistics: Affliction 1 (HT; Advantage, Tongues, +560%; Extended Duration, 10x, +40%; Fixed Duration, +0%; Increased 1/2D, 10x, +15%; No Signature, +20%; Sorcery, -15%) [72]. Notes: “Tongues” is Omnilingual (Cosmic, Universal Translator, +50%; Magical, -10%) [56]. The improved version improves Omnilingual to Xeno-Omnilingual [+56]. The advantages may be found in Pyramid #3-54, page 29.