Magic: Necromantic Spells

Magic: Necromantic Spells

Here are some necromantic D&D spells that do not seem to have analogues in GURPS Magic. I feel like these spells will make necromancy significantly more diverse.

Necromancy

Antilife Shell

Area

As Weather Dome, but the Antilife Shell repels living creatures. No living creature can enter. Likewise, no living creature can leave the Antilife Shell.

Once cast, an Antilife Shell takes a full second to form; anyone inside the Shell’s area at the time it is cast has one turn to leave.

Duration: 10 minutes.

Base cost: 3 to cast. 2 to maintain.

Prerequisites: Magery 1, 8 Necromantic spells.

Circle of Death

Area; Resisted by HT

A circle of death snuffs out the life force of living creatures. This area of faint green light inflicts toxic damage to all living creatures within it. Living creatures in the circle take damage on their own turns. If less than an entire second is spent in the affected area, damage is halved (round down). Armor does not protect. Each instance of damage may be negated with a successful HT roll.

Duration: 10 seconds.

Base cost: 2 to 6; the circle inflicts 1 point of damage per second for every 2 energy points put into the base cost. Same cost to maintain.

Time to cast: 2 to 6 seconds, depending on base cost.

Prerequisites: Magery 1, Pestilence.

Item

Staff, wand, or jewelry. Usable only by mages. Cost to create: 175 energy and a $500 onyx.

Death Knell

Regular

Like Steal Vitality, but can only affect unconscious creatures below -1xHP.

Duration: Instantaneous

                Cost: None to the caster! For every 3 HP taken from the subject, the caster regains 1 HP.

Time to cast: 1 second for every 3 HP drained from the subject.

Prerequisite: Steal Vitality.

Item

Staff, wand, or jewelry. The wearer and item must both touch the victim. Usable only by a mage. Energy cost to create: 1,500.

Death Ward

Regular

The subject is immune to death and draining effects, such as death spells (see GURPS Magic – Death Spells), Steal Vitality, Steal Energy, and similar abilities and spells for the duration of the spell, as per the Immunity to Death and Draining Effects advantage (p. B80).

This is also a Protection and Warning spell.

Duration: 1 hour.

Cost: 4 to cast. 3 to maintain.

Time to cast: 10 seconds.

Prerequisite: Steal Vitality, Vigor.

Item

Jewelry. Always on; the wearer is immune to diseases. A rare and prized item! Energy cost to create: 1,000 for an item that resists one specific death or draining effect, 2,500 for one that resists all death and draining effects.

Disrupt Undead

Missile

Fire a ray of positive energy from one hand. Use Innate Attack (Beam) to hit. This has 1/2D 25, Max 50, Acc 1. When it strikes something, it vanishes in a puff of white sparks. This spell can only affect undead.

Cost: Any amount up to your Magery level per second, for three seconds. The ray does 1d burning

damage per energy point. This damage cannot set anything on fire.

Time to cast: 1 to 3 seconds.

Prerequisites: Magery 1, Minor Healing.

Item

Staff or wand – the ray is fired from the end of the item. Energy cost to create: 800; must include a diamond worth $400. Usable only by mages.

Disrupting Weapon

Regular

Causes any weapon to become charged with positive energy. This does not harm the user or the weapon, but an attack with the weapon will do +2 burning damage to undead creatures if it penetrates DR. Multiply this bonus for any Vulnerability (p. B161) to positive energy. This damage cannot set anything on fire. Add this bonus to the final injury inflicted by the attack – for instance, an “impaling” disrupting attack is still only good for +2 damage, not +4.

Duration: 1 minute.

Cost: 3 to cast. 1 to maintain.

Time to cast: 3 seconds.

Prerequisite: Magery 1, Disrupt Undead.

Item

A weapon that becomes charged with positive energy whenever wielded, at no energy cost to the user. Cost to create: 750 energy, $2,000 spell materials.

Gentle Repose

Regular

This spell preserves the remains of a dead creature so that they do not decay. Doing so effectively extends the time limit on raising that creature from the dead (see Resurrection). Days spent under the influence of this spell don’t count against the time limit. Additionally, this spell makes transporting a fallen comrade more pleasant. The spell also works on severed body parts and the like.

Duration: 1 day.

Cost: 2. Same cost to maintain.

Prerequisite: Final Rest or Slow Healing.

Item

(a) Staff, wand, or jewelry. Energy cost to create: 400. (b) Coffin or container; always on; the contents of the coffin are preserved indefinitely. Energy cost to create: 40 for every pound of corpse’s weight to be held (round up).

Ghoul Touch

Melee; Resisted by HT

Like Total Paralysis (M40), but in addition the victim exudes stench, as if he had the Bad Smell disadvantage, for the duration of the spell.

Duration: 1 minute.

Cost: 5. Cannot be maintained; must be recast.

Prerequisites: Stench, Total Paralysis.

Item

Staff or wand. Usable only by mages; the item must touch the subject. Energy cost to create: 2,000.

Hide from Undead

Regular

Undead cannot see, hear, or smell the subject. Undead creatures simply act as though the warded creatures are not there. Anything the subject picks up becomes invisible to undead creatures, unless he wills it to stay visible. The spell ends instantly if the subject attacks, casts a combat spell, or does anything else more violent than moving, spying, or stealing.

Duration: 10 minutes.

Cost: 4 to cast. 2 to maintain.

Time to cast: 3 seconds.

Prerequisites: Magery 2, Turn Zombie.

Item

(a) Jewelry, wand, or staff; only affects the wearer. Energy cost to create: 1,200. (b) An item can be made permanently invisible to undead at an energy cost of 500 per hex of size or 50 pounds of weight, whichever is greater.

Ray of Enfeeblement

Missile; Resisted by HT

Fire a weakening ray from one hand. Use Innate Attack (Beam) to hit. This has 1/2D -, Max 50, Acc 1. When it strikes a creature, it reduces its ST temporarily, if the subject fails to resist. This will affect basic damage with weapons and basic lift, but will not affect HP.

Duration: 1 minute.

Cost: 1 for every point of ST reduction (maximum 5). Cannot be maintained.

Prerequisites: Magery 1, Debility.

Item

Staff or wand – the ray is fired from the end of the item. Energy cost to create: 1000; must include an onyx worth $400. Usable only by mages.

Ray of Exhaustion

Missile

Fire a ray of negative energy from one hand. Use Innate Attack (Beam) to hit. This has 1/2D 25, Max 50, Acc 1. When it strikes something, it vanishes in a puff of black sparks.

Cost: Any amount up to your Magery level per second, for three seconds. The ray does 1 fatigue

damage per energy point.

Time to cast: 1 to 3 seconds.

Prerequisites: Magery 1, Steal Energy.

Item

Staff or wand – the ray is fired from the end of the item. Energy cost to create: 800; must include an onyx worth $400. Usable only by mages.