Sorcery: Bio-Tech Spells I

Sorcery: Bio-Tech Spells I

GURPS Bio-Tech has a small section with several spells. Accelerate Pregnancy is useful when a king needs a heir very fast. Alter Nanovirus is useful when you find a lousy old nanovirus container in ancient ruins, but want to make it better. Analyze Heredity is useful when the father of a child is unknown. Create Chimera is perfect for mad wizards and druids.

Accelerate Pregnancy

Keywords: Buff.

Full Cost: 47 points for level 1 + 20 points/additional level.

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

Range: 100 yards.

Duration: Permanent (until baby is born).

This spell speeds the safe development of an unborn child. At level 1, this spell doubles the rate of development, at level 2 the unborn baby develops thrice as fast, and so on.

Statistics: Affliction 1 (HT; Advantage, Accelerate Pregnancy 1, +200%; Extended Duration, Permanent, +150%; Fixed Duration, +0%; Increased 1/2D, 10x, +15%; No Signature, +20%; Sorcery, -15%) [47]. Additional levels add further Accelerate Pregnancy to the Advantage enhancement (+200%) [+20]. Note: Each level of “Accelerate Pregnancy” is Altered Time Rate 1 (Accessibility, Only to accelerate pregnancy, -80%; Magical, -10%) [20].

Alter Nanovirus

Keywords: Buff.

Full Cost: 89 points or more.

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

Range: 100 yards.

Duration: Permanent.

This spell alters the nature of a particular nanovirus that is either dormant and contained or is within a host but has not yet finished transforming its subject. Each casting of this spell allows the caster to transform a nanovirus into another nanovirus of the same point cost or lower, or add a 0-point feature to the nanovirus. If the caster wants to improve nanoviruses with this spell, he must buy a more powerful version of this spell. For example, if the caster wishes to make the nanovirus grant a +1 bonus to ST in addition to its normal effects, he would have to pay 10 more points to purchase this spell (99 total).

Statistics: Affliction 1 (HT; Accessibility, Only on nanoviruses, -80%; Advantage, Alter Nanovirus, +700%; Extended Duration, Permanent, +150%; Fixed Duration, +0%; Increased 1/2D, 10x, +15%; No Signature, +20%; Sorcery, -15%) [89]. Note: “Alter Nanovirus” is Morph (Accessibility, Only nanoviruses, -100%; Reduced Time 4, +80%; Magical, -10%) [70].

Analyze Heredity

Keywords: Information.

Full Cost: 13 points.

Casting Roll: Per. Use IQ for analysis.

Range: Touch.

Duration: Instantaneous.

The caster can discern the concentration of generic material of the subject with a Per roll. A follow-up IQ roll can determine if some hereditary defects will pass on to the subject’s children, if the subject is a blood relative of another subject the caster has cast this spell upon, or provide information equivalent to genetic profiling on high TLs.

Statistics: Detect (DNA; Analyzing, +100%; Melee Attack, Reach C, -30%; Nondirectional, -25%; Sorcery, -15%) [13].

  

Create Chimera

Keywords: Obvious.

Full Cost: 37 points.

Casting Roll: IQ.

Range: Touch.

Duration: Truly Permanent.

This spell allows the caster to fuse together two or more very early embryos (no more than week-old if human) of different species into a single organism. The subject may be a living host or a growth tank, and all the embryos must be implanted into the subject surgically or magically. The process of fusion is identical to the process of enchanting (see Chapter 3 of GURPS Thaumatology: Sorcery), but the enchanter must imbue the subject with the traits of the mixed racial template instead of spells. The GM may assign a penalty to the IQ rolls, if the embryos are not very close crosses, and if there are many embryos.

Statistics: Affliction 1 (HT; Accessibility, Only to create chimeras, -50%; Based on IQ, Own Roll, +20%; Cumulative, +400%; Extended Duration, Truly Permanent, +300%; Limited Use, 1/day, -40%; Melee Attack, Reach C, -30%; Sorcery, -15%; Special Enhancements, see GURPS Thaumatology: Sorcery, p. 31, +1,080%) [36] + Extra Option (Limited access to meditative study for chimera creation) [1]. Note: The actual cost of 177 points is divided by five due to this ability being character-point powered.