Sorcery: Artillery Spells XI

Sorcery: Artillery Spells XI

This post covers Water artillery spells. And we're done with artillery spells!

   

Arctic Blast

Keywords: Obvious.

Full Cost: 16 points/level.

Casting Roll: None. Use Innate Attack (Beam) to hit.

Range: 10 yards.

Duration: Instantaneous.

You fire a cone of intense cold that does 1d non-incendiary burning damage per level. The spell spreads to affect everyone in a cone-shaped area. Cones use special rules; see Area and Spreading Attacks (p. B413). The cone has a maximum width of 5 yards at the spell’s maximum range. This spell has the 1/2D range of 5 yards. It causes large-area injury (p. B400), on top of which victims must make a HT roll at -1 per full two points of injury or be paralyzed for (HT – 20) seconds: too cold to move, encased in ice, frozen solid, nearly extinguished, etc., as fits the target.

Statistics: Burning Attack 1d (Cone 5, +100%; Increased 1/2D, x5, +10%; No Incendiary Effect, -10%; Reduced Duration on Side Effect, 1/60, -35%; Reduced Range, 1/10, -30%; Side Effect, Paralysis, +200%; Sorcery, -15%) [16/level].

Cone of Corrosion

Keywords: Obvious.

Full Cost: 16 points/level.

Casting Roll: None. Use Innate Attack (Beam) to hit.

Range: 10 yards.

Duration: Instantaneous.

You fire a cone of acid that does 1d corrosion damage per level. The spell spreads to affect everyone in a cone-shaped area. Cones use special rules; see Area and Spreading Attacks (p. B413). The cone has a maximum width of 5 yards at the spell’s maximum range. This spell has the 1/2D range of 2 yards.

Statistics: Corrosion Attack 1d (Cone 5, +100%; Increased 1/2D, x2, +5%; Reduced Range, 1/10, -30%; Sorcery, -15%) [16/level].

Scald

Keywords: Area (Leveled).

Full Cost: 7 points or more (see below).

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

Range: 100 yards.

Duration: Instantaneous.

The area is “cleansed” with a high-pressure steam blast that inflicts large-area injury (p. B400). To place the effect at a distance, use Innate Attack (Gaze), with normal range penalties, but at +4 for affecting an area.

It causes burning damage but cannot set fires; it’s considered heat and water, but not fire, where important (e.g., Vulnerability).

The basic (7-point) version of this spell lets you affect an area up to 2 yards across. Each additional doubling of area adds 2.5 to basic cost; the GM sets the cap on this increase, but 128 yards is the recommended maximum. For an additional +5 to base cost, the damage can be upgraded to 2d or 3d burning. This is summarized in the table below.

Damage	2 yards	4 yards	8 yards	16 yards	32 yards	64 yards	128 yards
1d	7 points	9 points	12 points	14 points	17 points	19 points	22 points
2d	13 points	18 points	23 points	28 points	33 points	38 points	43 points
3d	20 points	27 points	35 points	42 points	50 points	57 points	65 points

Statistics: Burning Attack 1d (Area Effect, 2 yards, +50%; No Incendiary Effect, -10%; Sorcery, -15%; Variable, Area, +5%) [7]. Further levels add Area Effect (+50%) to the advantage [+2.5*].

* Calculate the total cost, then round down.

Wilting

Keywords: Area (Fixed), Resisted (HT).

Full Cost: 25 points.

Casting Roll: Will.

Range: Unlimited.

Duration: Instantaneous.

Dehydrates creatures in a 4-yard-radius area. If a victim fails to resist, he takes 1d-2 fatigue damage and 1d-2 toxic damage, as water is being removed from the tissues of his body. Treat FP lost to the spell identically to FP lost to dehydration (p. B426). Thus, the lost FP can only be recovered after a day of rest with ample water supplies.

Statistics: Fatigue Attack 1d-2 (HT; Area Effect, 4 yards, +100%; Based on HT, +20%; Dehydration, +20%; Link, +10%; Malediction 2, +150%; No Signature, +20%; Sorcery, ‑15%) [17] + Toxic Attack 1d-2 (HT; Accessibility, Only on creatures with water in their tissues, -10%; Area Effect, 4 yards, +100%; Based on HT, +20%; Link, +10%; Magical, -10%; Malediction 2, +150%; No Signature, +20%) [8].