- Origin Humans
- Class Mage
- Kit Battle Mage
- Culture Arcanese
- Faction The Retainers
- Ethos Esurient
Mighty +5
Deft +5
Smart +4
Hit Points
Armor Points
Magic Points
Fate Points
Abilities
The Apt Pupil
You had a taste of the knowledge growing up, but the power gained thereby merely whet your appetite. You seek greater and greater secrets, at greater and greater peril.
Autochthonous
Sea legs? Waif in the desert? Mosquito bait? You grew up in an extreme climate, and prolonged exposure to the opposite environment could mean certain death for you.
Adaptable
Talent
You may distribute 11 points to your attributes upon character creation, but if you do, you start with 1 fewer skill.
Arcane Adept
Technique
You may cast the spells Dispel Magic and Counterspell. As long as you have MP (and at the GM's discretion), you can create minor, illusory cantrips related to your maleficence. Such cantrips are instantaneous and harmless, and cannot duplicate the effects of any other spells.
Battle Mage
kit
You've trained to cast spells under great duress and in the battlefield. Your concentration when casting spells in combat cannot be broken, and you may reduce the magic penalty conferred by armor or shields by 2. Once per turn, you may make an attack as a bonus action with disadvantage on the same turn that you cast a spell.
Equipment
Weapons
Bare Fists or Feet +5
Hand-to-Hand
You have no weapons equipped.
Armor
You have no armor equipped.
Shield
You have no shield equipped.
- Defense +5
- Initiative +0
- Soak 0
Wounds
Skills
Deeds
Heroic deeds of valor are not your forte.
Languages
Supply
Magic
Maleficence
Chaos
Sorcery +6
Roll a d12 twice on the maleficence table to determine which two maleficences (excluding Chaos) you may choose from. The maleficence you choose deals zero damage and applies its peril and secondary effects to the target. (You may use a d6 if you wish, by dividing the lists in half excluding Chaos, and rolling on each list separately.)
Spells
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Alternate Reality
Probability +5
You sort through the multiverse of infinite probabilities and phase shift yourself or your target into one that suits your purposes. For any action within the round this spell is cast, you may roll twice and take the result of your choosing. For each roll you alter in this way, you may spend MP equal to the difference between the dice rolled (if you are choosing between a 6 and a 3, the MP cost is 3) to replace a roll in this way. You may cast this spell as a reaction once during the round, in addition to any other action you take.
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Dimensional Blade
Dimension +5
You charge an object of your choosing with psychical energy, flattening it into two dimensions—the object has height and length, but no width. For the duration of the spell, attacks made with that weapon ignore armor and deal damage to HP. Every successful attack you make with the weapon consumes 1 MP. If you release the object, the spell ends.
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Duo-Dimension
Dimension +5
You alter yours or your target's physical reality such that you and the objects on your person become two-dimensional. You have height and length, but no width. If you are observed from the side, you are effectively invisible. You can also slip between the thinnest cracks or openings. While flattened in this way, you take double damage from physical attacks.
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Fly
Force +6
You may fly at your normal movement rate for the duration of the spell. Your ability to carry others is limited by your strength.
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Stasis
Time +5
You put a single target into stasis by touch. Time stands still for the target; they cannot move, attack, or be harmed for the duration of the spell, though any interaction with the target will bring it out of stasis.
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Summoning
Conjuration +6
You summon an otherworldly entity to your aid imbued of your maleficence. The entity abides by your command and its HP are equal to 1d6, +1 per MP spent. Generally the creature has 3 in all attributes, and always enough MP to use its maleficence. Alternatively, the GM may choose a corresponding creature to determine its attributes, but all its attacks will have the peril of your maleficence. Your summon acts independently of you. It is returned to its plane of existence when the spell ends.
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Time Stop
Time +6
You step out of the flow of time for the duration of the spell. For you, everything in the area of effect is frozen in time. Anything and anyone you interact with enters your time stream for the duration of the spell. (An attack against an opponent is immediately canceled, but they enter your timestream the moment of the interaction.) From the perspective of those outside the area of effect, it appears you have acted faster than can be perceived.
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Timewarp
Time +6
You alter the flow of time around yourself or your target to rebound into the immediate past. For each MP you spend, you may rebound 1 round into the past. Once there, you may take an extra action in that round before you are returned to your present. You cannot take actions that contradict the GM’s past resolutions, and they must be resolved by the GM such that they do not contradict any actions that have been taken in the past.
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Transfer Health
Necromancy +5
You act as a conduit for the transfer of lifeforce between a target and someone you touch. For each MP you spend, you may transfer any amount of HP or wounds between targets. The subjects of the transfer must be willing, and the transfer must be symmetrical (1 HP for 1 HP or 1 wound for 1 wound, for example).
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Turtle Soup
Alchemy +6
You create a bowl of nourishing soup at a temperature of your choosing, no greater than scalding (such that it would cause no mechanical harm) and no lower than above freezing. The volume of the soup is equal to the area of effect. The soup persists after the spell ends.
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Ultravision
Dimension +5
You or your targets are able to see the full spectrum of light and are immune to blindness for the duration of the spell. This includes the ability to perceive radio waves, microwaves, infrared, ultraviolet, x-rays, and gamma rays.
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Zone of Entanglement
Illusion +5
You fill the area of effect with shadowy tendrils that seek to entangle your opponents. You may spend 1 MP to entangle any target that enters the area of effect for the duration of the spell. Those entangled are subject to the peril of your maleficence.
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Zone of Secrets
Abjuration +5
By sheer force of will, you shield yourself and all those in the area of effect from all forms of scrying and psychic intrusion. Anyone scrying upon the area effect will notice nothing out of the ordinary, nor detect the magic concealing you unless the magic is dispelled or disrupted. This spell lasts 1 hour per MP spent.
Maleficence
Chaos
Sorcery +6
Roll a d12 twice on the maleficence table to determine which two maleficences (excluding Chaos) you may choose from. The maleficence you choose deals zero damage and applies its peril and secondary effects to the target. (You may use a d6 if you wish, by dividing the lists in half excluding Chaos, and rolling on each list separately.)
Stances
Focus
Free Running
Survival
For you, gravity is a suggestion, not a law: you fear no freefall. As a reaction, you may negate 1d6 points of falling damage for every 1 MP you spend; as an action, you may leap a distance equal to 1 melee space per MP you spend by parkouring, tumbling, or using gymnastics to springboard between nearby surfaces. (If you are an Acrobat, you may immediately move after you fall in lieu of negating falling damage.)
Known Stances
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Focused Research
Active
You're a practiced academic with a voracity for knowledge. When you consult the relevant texts (such as might be found in a library, psychic codex, or other font of knowledge), you may create a research tag that you may later invoke to create narrative advantage; consult with the GM regarding how long it takes to complete your research.
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Fork Maleficence
Active
You've mastered the destructive flow of your magic made manifest. You may affect two targets when you use your maleficence, applying the damage, peril, and secondary effect to both targets with a single attack roll, but the attack is made with disadvantage.
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Fortified Stance
Active
You hunker down against the hordes, mustering all your might to become a shield against all harm. When you use this stance, you may attempt an unlimited number of parries (one per attack) in the round from the start until its end, but you cannot move or take any other actions.
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Free Running
Passive
For you, gravity is a suggestion, not a law: you fear no freefall. As a reaction, you may negate 1d6 points of falling damage for every 1 MP you spend; as an action, you may leap a distance equal to 1 melee space per MP you spend by parkouring, tumbling, or using gymnastics to springboard between nearby surfaces. (If you are an Acrobat, you may immediately move after you fall in lieu of negating falling damage.)
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Furtive Spell
Active
You've sharpened your spellcraft as a thief hones her dagger for the dark. As an action, you may cast a single spell you know surreptitiously. The casting of this spell does not compromise your stealth status, and it is not apparent to the untrained eye.
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Keen Senses: Touch
Passive
You've honed your natural sense of touch beyond its natural limits. When you use this stance, any check you make which relies principally on touch (feeling for a hidden switch) has its TN reduced one level of difficulty (a Hard task becomes Tricky), and on a success check, the outcome of the check is improved one tier (Good becomes Exceptional).
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Paralysis Immunity
Passive
The powers of your lineage awaken within you as you adventure farther into your quest. When you learn this stance, you are immune to paralysis and the held status effect.
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Weather Sense
Active
You've developed an almost preternatural ability to predict weather conditions. You can predict prevailing conditions (droughts, earthquakes, blizzards, tornadoes, etc) even if you're unfamiliar with the region, up to a number of weeks in the future equal to your level. As an action, you may create a narrative advantage related to your advance knowledge, such as the exact positioning of an oncoming flash flood that could be used to strategic advantage.
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Zenlike Trance
Active
Clear thinking is a serene lake in the vista of your mind; take a swim. As an action, you enter a meditative trance that cures spell-like or mundane effects that cause madness, rage, sleep, or feeblemindedness. (You may enter this trance even if you are subject to any of these status effects.) When you use this stance, you must close your eyes to meditate for 1 round, and you may take no other action while meditating. If conscious, you may join hands with others to guide them through the meditation for 1 MP per mind you wish to clear, but they too must enter the trance.
Focus
Free Running
Survival
For you, gravity is a suggestion, not a law: you fear no freefall. As a reaction, you may negate 1d6 points of falling damage for every 1 MP you spend; as an action, you may leap a distance equal to 1 melee space per MP you spend by parkouring, tumbling, or using gymnastics to springboard between nearby surfaces. (If you are an Acrobat, you may immediately move after you fall in lieu of negating falling damage.)
Armament
Weapons
Armors
Shields
Supply
The Great Crystal
Person
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Notes
Quest Log
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The Monstrous
Living Effigy
If you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you. Take 1 stress: When you look into a mirror, you may adopt the face and mien of anyone you have personally met. This transformation lasts 1 hour. While stressed, you are immune to any effects, mundane or magical, that would transform your body or change your appearance against your will.
Experience
- 2+2 Hit Points
- 3+2 Hit Points
- 4+2 Hit Points
- 5+3 Magic Points
- 6+1 Mighty
- 7+1 Deft
- 8+1 Deft
- 9+1 Bonus Spell
- 10+2 Hit Points