Spontaneous Magic Costs

The following costs for Spontaneous Magic are used for Wards, Wizardry, and Star Magic. Alchemy and Ritual magic use a slightly altered form of these costs, as noted in the descriptions of those skills.

General Spell Modifiers

The modifiers on the potency of a magical potency are: Area, Dice, Duration, Effect, and Range.

Area

The area that the spell effects modifies its base potency.

Dice

The kind and number of dice that the character chooses to use for an effect affect the effect's Potency.

Duration

An effect that happens instantly does not have duration Potency modifier. Examples of such effects include a blast of heat, a healing spell, or a magical shield that appears then disappears.

Effect

There are three levels of effect: minor, medium, and major.

• Minor - effects are obviously magical but draw on other modifiers for their usefulness. Cost 1.Examples: A force bubble, destroying a wall, or healing.
• Medium - effects are magical effects that make changes in the world that are not accounted for with other modifiers. Cost 5. Examples include: turning something invisible, opening a lock, or excluding yourself from the area of effect of a spell.
• Major - effects are incredible effects that make radical changes in the world that are not accounted for by other modifiers. Cost 10. Examples: turning water into acid, making a wall disappear for a short time.
• Elemental - effects are effects that create an elemental force without a specific power supporting the attempt. Cost 40. Examples: creating fire, attempting to vanish clouds, or calling up a wind without using the Star of Winds.

Range

The distance at which the effect occurs from the center of the spell effects Potency requirements of the spell.

Summoning

Spells that are used to summon creatures have a base Potency equal to 3x the summoned creature's Potency. Thus, a spell to summon a Potency 80 Faery would have a base Potency of 240.

Enhancement and Reduction

Spells that enhance or reduce an attribute have a base Potency equal to the total modification inflicted. For example, a spell that raised the casters PS by 12 and his PE by 8 would have a base Potency of 30, modified by range and duration modifiers. Similarly, a ward that gave everyone in a range a +10 bonus to their save vs. Magic would have a base Potency of 10.