Sorcery Powers

Detect earth terrain and boundaries within medium range.

• Reveals caverns, stone walls, hidden rooms, burrowing creatures, etc.

Detect the precise outline of ferrous metals in a 5 meter area.

• Visualize tumblers and internal mechanisms. Grants advantage to infiltration attempts.

Move 1 block of soft earth per round within short range (~360 blocks / hour).

• Commonly used to build roads, prepare foundations, dig trenches, create difficult terrain, etc.

Move 1 brick of hard earth each round within short range (~3 blocks / hour).

• Hard earth splinters into gravel, slides across the ground, and reforms.
• Commonly used for major excavations, construction, mining, etc.

Sprays a 5 meter area of sand, dust, and loose earth.

• Affected targets must half-save vs. Perception or be blinded for 1 turn.
• Reveals invisible movement through disturbed dust.

Creates a powerful dust storm in a 15 meter area.

• Affected targets must save vs. Perception or be blinded and slowed for 1 turn.

Burrow through soft earth at half speed.

• Gain the benefits of 'Sense Earth' while this power is in use.
• The earth is displaced behind you as you move.

Survive for up to a long scene while submerged in the earth.

Shape, sculpt, or reform up to a block of earth.

• Commonly used for construction, stonework, sculpting, smoothing surfaces, sealing areas, etc.

Condense a natural block of hard earth into half its volume.

• The fortified variant is proportionally heavier and far more resilient.

Shape, sculpt, or reform up to a block of metal.

• Commonly used for metalwork, welding, mechanics, sharpening tools, extracting ore, etc.
• Can be used to copy a metal item, such as a key or lock, if available.

A metal mechanism hardens for a scene; e.g. lock, wheel, hinge, etc.

• The mechanism resists influence, causing disadvantage on attempts to break it.

Magnetize or demagnetize a metal item.

Induce a powerful tremor within short range. Can optionally limit to a cone.

• Victims must pass an Athletics save or be Stunned and Prone. A half save is Slowed.

Negate all unwanted vibrations and tremors.

Cast three stone bullets up to long range.

• Make a separate spellcasting attack for each bullet, dealing 1d6+3 damage to each target hit.

Cast on an earth surface. Stone spikes jettison out to hit a target at its location.

• Make a +5 spellcasting attack that deals 1d6+6 damage.

Gain +2 attack, +2 damage, and +1 range band on a ranged attack.

• This attack ignores penalties from wind, partial cover, and low visibility.
• The projectile can curve lightly around obstacles to hit its mark.

Gain +5 attack, +3 damage, and +2 range band on a ranged attack.

• This attack ignores penalties from wind, partial cover, and low visibility.
• The projectile can curve around obstacles to hit its mark.

Victim is knocked 10 meters in a chosen direction and enters the prone condition.

• Save vs. Athletics to fully resist. Half-save reduces the knockback to 5 meters.
• Can launch targets upward at half strength, such as to assist with a jump.

Victims in a 15 meter cone are knocked 15 meters in a chosen direction.

• Save vs. Athletics to fully resist. A half save reduces the knockback to 8 meters.

Control a 10 meter area of fog, smoke, scents, fumes, and airborne contaminants.

• Can also create vacuums, remove dust, cobwebs, particulates, etc.
• Can cast for free while using Concentration.

Up to three creatures can effortlessly follow your movement.

• Works while using powers; e.g. levitation, enhanced speed, etc.

Sustain light winds through concentration.

• Can increase sailing speed by 50%.

Deflect an incoming projectile within short range of you.

Redirect an incoming projectile within short range.

• Make your own attack for the redirected projectile, up to medium range.

Deflect any number of incoming projectiles within short range of you.

• You can pick and choose which projectiles to affect.

Glide through open air with a slow descent (~2 meters per round). Ignore fall damage.

• Often combined with levitation to glide across longer distances.

You can move in any direction this turn, including vertically.

All sound is silenced within a chosen area up to 5 meters.

• This area can follow a chosen target.

Create sounds or speak within medium range.

• While 'Concentrating', you can mimic voices and accents that you've heard before.

Triple the range you can be heard, such as to address a large crowd.

Conjure a 6 meter area of fire, inflicting the burning condition on victims.

Conjure a campfire (1 meter area). Won't immediately inflict burning.

Increase nearby temperature to a comfortable level, or cook a meal in a single round.

Breathe small gouts of fire, create smoke patterns, control fire color, etc.

See thermal signatures. Adds +10 to detecting hidden creatures.

You can see perfectly through smoke as though it's not present.

Fire spells deal an additional +1d6 fire damage while focusing.

Cause a large, non-magical object to melt as though it has endured hours of superheated flame.

• The object rapidly melts like a viscous liquid, but cools too rapidly to be harmful.

A tiny precision fire torch extends from your finger.

• e.g. weld items, brand inscriptions into surfaces, light tinder, etc.

A 10 meter zone of fire is fully under your control.

• It can be expanded, doused, altered, or bounded to a chosen area of effect.
• This can instantly remove a burning condition from a target.
• You can move the zone of fire up to 4 meters each round.

Radiate heat and light equal to a small campfire.

Create a 10 meter area smoke cloud. Lasts 3 rounds.

• The smoke suppresses visibility. Creatures inside cannot see beyond melee range.

Create and reshape a 25 meter area smoke cloud. Lasts 5 rounds.

Instantly dismiss an area of smoke, or move it up to 10 meters.

Make a spellcasting attack. Deals 1d6+Arcana fire damage and inflicts burning.

Deal 1d6+Arcana fire damage to a 6 meter area. Inflict burning on victims.

• Can alternatively be cast as a 10 meter cone.

Deal 1d6+Arcana fire damage to a 10 meter area. Inflict burning on victims.

• Can alternatively be cast as a 16 meter cone.

Double your movement speed in water.

Move on the surface of water and other liquids.

While underwater, up to three creatures can follow behind you at your swim speed.

Water spells double in size and deal +1d6 underwater while focusing.

Dry any number of persons and objects in a 10 meter area.

Remove silt, salinity, toxins, and impurities from a 10 meter area of water.

Clean a 10 meter area as though it was washed and scrubbed.

Fill a barrel of water by extracting it from humid air. Fails in arid conditions.

Telekinetically move, shape, and control up to 3 barrels of water.

Underwater Creatures in a 15 meter area are slowed and moved 15 meters in a direction of your choice.

• Save vs. Athletics to resist. A half save reduces movement to 8 meters.

Create a 10 meter area of heavy fog. Lasts 3 rounds.

• Fog suppresses visibility to melee range. Creatures inside cannot see beyond melee range.

Create and reshape a 25 meter area of heavy fog. Lasts 5 rounds.

Instantly dismiss an area of fog, or move it up to 10 meters.

Inflict the slowed condition on a target creature.

• This can also end burning or reduce the temperature of a target object or creature.

Inflict the slowed condition on all creatures in a 10 meter cone for 1 round.

Reshape up to 5 barrels of water into sculpted ice; steps, sculptures, etc.

Melt up to 5 barrels of ice into water, or clear a large icy surface.

Make a 10 meter surface icy, snowy, slippery, wet, or dry.

Make a 25 meter surface icy, snowy, slippery, wet, or dry.

Make a spellcasting attack. Deals 1d6+Arcana damage.

Make a spellcasting attack. Deals 2d6+Arcana damage on hit.

• Victim is slowed, and must save vs. Resolve or be Stunned.

Cast a 10 meter cone of ice. Hits ten times, up to 2 hits per victim.

• Each hit deals 1d6+Arcana damage.

Conjure a blizzard in a 10 meter area. Lasts 1 round.

• The blizzard suppresses visibility to melee range. Affected creatures are slowed.

Extend a blizzard you created for 1 round, and move it up to 5 meters.

Gain +5 to Perception and Investigation tests in a wilderness environment.

• Provides intuitive guidance for tracking, scouting, or applying survival skills.

Cause a plant, tree, or patch of nature to heal, grow, shrink, bloom, decay, etc.

Conjure small constructions that can be built from nature.

• Conjure small gardens, vine ropes, huts and lean-tos, etc.
• Can also weed gardens, fertilize soil, reshape young saplings or large branches, etc.

Conjure constructions out of nature using wood and organics.

• Requires 'Concentration' for a short scene as the conjuration grows into place.
• Robust (reliable) constructions cannot exceed the size of a small room (5 meter cube).
• Temporary constructions may degrade after a few days, but can fill a 15 meter cube.
• Enables fast construction of cabins, watchtowers, bridges, palisade walls, etc.

Target opponent must save vs. Athletics or be 'Restrained' by nature.

• Escaping the restraint is a high effort action requiring a DC 15 Athletics test.
• Can be cast for 'Minor' when out in the wilderness; e.g. forest, woods, etc.

Create a 10 meter area of difficult terrain, halving movement speed.

Target is freed from nature-based restraints.

Target creature removes any poison and related effects.

Inflict a Slowing Poison in a 8 meter area. Lasts for 2 rounds.

• Affected creatures are 'Slowed' until the poison ends.

Pass through nature quickly and undisturbed, with several benefits.

• Increase travel speed by 50%, or 5 meters per move in battle.
• Leave no tracks and no scent trail.
• Ignore difficult terrain caused by nature, including brambles, shrubs, and thick brush.
• Ignore snares and restraints caused by nature.
• Can 'Concentrate' to benefit all allies within short range.

Nature flows around you and nearby allies, assembling near-perfect camouflage.

• Gain +10 to stealth tests where camouflage is effective. Must be beyond short range.
• Can 'Concentrate' to benefit all allies within short range.

Living vines flow around you and protect you for a short scene.

• Increases your defense by +2 while the effect is active.
• You cannot be disarmed, grappled, or knocked prone.
• Inflict 2 damage on all melee opponents each round, independent of your actions.
• Effect only lasts for three rounds if you are not present in nature.

Detect a target's wounds, status effects, and mental and emotional stress levels.

Cure a target of all poisons, curses, sickness, fatigue, slowness, coldness, fear, and stuns.

Make a spellcasting attack vs. a dark creature. Deals {5d6 + Arcana} holy damage.

• Victim must save vs. Resolve or be 'Stunned' for 1 round.

Make a spellcasting attack vs. a dark creature. Deals {1d6 + Arcana} holy damage.

• Victim must save vs. Resolve or be 'Stunned' for 1 round.

Apply successful "Darkburn" attacks on all dark creatures within short range.

• Can optionally cast as a 25 meter cone.

Taunt any number of chosen dark creatures within medium range.

• Affected creatures suffer disadvantage to all actions except attacking you.
• Affected creatures must half-save vs. Resolve or they must move toward you and attack.

Target ally within long range cannot be attacked this round, directly or indirectly.

• Opponents cannot include the ally in an AOE effect that would negatively impact them.

Bless a 50 meter zone for a scene. Within the zone, dark creatures have disadvantage.

• Intelligent dark creatures may recognize their disadvantage and avoid the sanctified area.

Two allies gain +2 to all skill tests for the next scene. Cannot be stacked.

Chosen target gains +5 on a single skill test. Cannot be used retroactively.

• Only works for actions that complete in one round. It cannot affect extended tests.

Grant yourself or a companion a special retry on a failed skill test.

• Target rerolls with 1d12+10 instead of a 1d20. Use the better result. Natural 12s crit.
• Only works for actions that complete in one round. It cannot affect extended tests.

Target creature heals 2d6 HP from wounds taken within the last short scene.

Heal all HP on a chosen target.

• This power heals lost limbs, life-threatening medical conditions, fractured spines, etc.

Heal 2d6 HP on up to {Resolve + 1} targets within short range.

Conjure powerful healing energies within a 25 meter area. Lasts a day.

• Anyone taking a long rest in Holy Ground recovers 3 HP.
• The affected area benefits from the same advantages as 'Sanctify' if the power is known.

Create simple lighting effects.

• Includes ambient lighting, spotlights, flares, light beams, hovering lights, etc.
• Can attach a faint glow or marking light to a visible target.
• Can choose the color, focus, intensity, and simple properties of the light.
• The light is not bright enough to blind or distract.

Create a complex lighting environment up to long range.

• Can cast the equivalent of ten 'Create Light' spells.

Conjure a blinding flash within short range, or as a 15 meter cone.

• Affected creatures save vs. Perception or are blinded for 2 rounds. Half-save for 1 round.

Recolor an object, outfit, surface, or willing creature.

• Targeting a creature can recolor their skin, hair, eye color, and similar cosmetics.

Disguise an object or outfit as something of similar size and shape.

• Tactile inspection may reveal the distorted shaping effects.

Disguise yourself and your clothing. Significant changes are allowed.

• Alter apparent age, gender, height, weight, facial features, build, wounds, etc.

Disguise yourself as a familiar target.

• If 'Concentration' is lost or dropped, this reverts to a standard 'Disguise' effect.

Create a static hologram within a {Arcana} meter area.

• Appear as semi-translucent hologram projections. Viewers know they are illusions.
• You can alter the hologram's appearance while 'Concentrating' on it.

Conjure a static illusion up to {Arcana + 1} meters in size.

• The phantasm appears fake to anyone within melee range.
• Can be positioned above ground, such as to paint hardlight designs in the air.
• The Phantasm blocks vision from the outside only; you can hide inside it.

Conjures up to ten 'Phantasm' spells in the area.

• Can optionally be combined into a single illusion up to {Arcana + 5} meters in size.

Create a very small but dynamic, mobile illusion.

• e.g. butterfly, coin, feather, candle, etc.

Create a dynamic, mobile illusion up to {Arcana + 1} meters in size.

• The illusion follows your desired instructions when focused on it, otherwise it idles believably.

Light-based illusions flicker and are revealed as translucent holograms.

• This can affect an area up to medium range, optionally as a cone effect.

A chosen item in your possession is invisible.

• The item being smuggled must be worn, wielded, touched, or otherwise be on your person.

Can make objects within a fixed {Arcana + 2} meter zone invisible.

Create a fixed-position mirror or lens that bends light.

• Can produce reflections, lens effects, or grant up to 5x magnification.
• Can be fixed in mid-air or attached to surfaces; e.g. windows, walls, etc.
• Cannot be moved, but can be reshaped or altered with 'Concentration'.

Create up to a {Arcana + 10} meter area of darkness.

• Creatures within the zone are blinded, and anything outside the zone cannot see into it.
• While focusing, you can ignore all penalties from this darkness.

Telekinetically move an object up to 10 meters.

• Treat the carry capacity and force exerted as equivalent to an average human.
• The object is treated as a single geometric shape; you cannot manipulate its parts.
• This can be used to push, pull, lift, or throw objects, slow a falling creature, etc.
• Treat attacks as rank 0 Combat attacks and 1d6 damage.
• Surprise attacks are often possible, which may provide advantage.

Cast up to three simultaneous uses of Kinetic Grasp.

• This can alternatively be used to affect a single object that is three times as heavy.

All telekinetic skills gain "interact as though using two hands."

• Apply your own skills, but at range; e.g. pick locks or perform surgery at a distance.

Create an invisible barrier that deflects projectiles for a round.

• This barrier can affect up to a 10 meter area, or target a creature within short range.
• This barrier can take any shape you desire within its space.

Release a 15 meter cone of telekinetic force from any angle.

• Victims must save vs. Athletics or be knocked prone, and back 15 meters.
• Effect can also be used to clear obstacles.

Can apply delayed trigger conditions to psionic powers. Lasts 1 week.

• The psychic power only activates once the trigger conditions are met.
• Triggers require the victim's senses to work. It won't activate while unconscious.
• Triggers can be complex; e.g. "when you sit down to eat at the next palace feast."

Target complies with a 2-word, non-violent command; e.g. "leave building."

• The instruction must include a verb, and can optionally include a noun.
• The victim obeys for 1 round if they can physically do it; e.g. "sleep" doesn't work.
• Victim can save vs. Resolve to resist the effect.

Choose how others instinctively read you for a scene. Does not stack.

• Charming: Advantage on persuasion, diplomacy, etiquette, socializing, etc.
• Credible: Advantage when trying to pass yourself off in a particular role.
• Forgettable: Advantage when trying to be inconspicuous in public spaces.
• Harmless: Opponents likely to disregard you in combat unless given a reason to focus on you.
• Innocent: Advantage to resist blame, suspicion, public shaming, or accusations.
• Inspiring: Advantage on receiving, gathering, and holding attention.
• Menacing: Advantage on taunts, threat appeal, intimidation, rallying morale, etc.
• Sincere: Advantage when bluffing, using guile, or trying to appear genuine.

Victim resists vs. Resolve or is devoted to you for a day.

• Must be cast on neutral or friendly parties. They revert to normal when the effect ends.
• Victim becomes deeply loyal, and will go to significant lengths to appease you.
• Victim retains their personality and motivations, but prioritizes your needs highly.
• When the charm ends, the victim can save vs. Wits to recognize they were charmed.

Victim feels a suggestion as though it was given by trusted friends.

• Treat the suggestion as equivalent to a week's worth of peer pressure by close allies.
• It does not guarantee action; results should be realistic to the individual.
• Suggestions must be issued through voice, telepathy, or a medium they can use.
• Victim can save vs. Resolve to resist the effect.
• Victim can save vs. Wits to identify that magical influence was used on them.

Victim feels a natural urge of your choice for up to a scene.

• Can inflict or remove urges: hungry, tired, calm, anger, stress, anxiety, etc.
• The urge doesn't overwhelm their behavior, but may influence their actions.

Target forgets chosen details about a person, place, scene, or item.

• You choose the memories to remove, which requires modest familiarity with it.
• Victim can save vs. Resolve to resist the effect.
• Only a few hours' worth of memories will be lost.

Target saves vs. Resolve or forgets the last short scene.

• A half-save resists if lasting trauma was inflicted; e.g. wounds, threats, etc.
• The victim remembers a benign memory, and won't become aware of a gap in memory.

Target half-saves vs. Resolve or has their memories altered.

• Up to a short scene's worth of memories can be altered, at your discretion.
• The false memories must be believable to take effect and become permanent.

Target forgets a chosen skill or knowledge domain for a scene.

• Target fails all related tests; e.g. how to use a sword, presiding over a court, etc.

Victim saves vs. Wits or believes your bluff for a scene.

• The bluff must be theoretically possible. Victims will not believe the sky is red.
• If the victim becomes aware of conflicts with a bluff, they resist.

Victim complies with a non-violent command they can understand.

• Commands can be full sentences; e.g. "Exit the tavern and don't return."
• Commands must be issued through voice, telepathy, or a medium they can use.
• Victims can save vs. Resolve to resist, or half-save in combat or under duress.
• Victims know they were dominated once the effect ends.

Gain psychic impressions of an item, a scene, or an environment.

• See mental glimpses of previous interactions or details about it.
• Understand recent changes or disturbances such as moved furniture, footprints, disturbed earth, etc.
• Mentally reconstruct a simple scene or event that occurred within the last day.

Clearly perceive past events that took place at the current location.

• Provide a timeline or details about the scene whose history you want to investigate.
• Receive clear, helpful psychic visions and intuitions pertaining to the relevant scene.

Gain advantage on social insight tests.

Add +2 to a social insight test.

Identify a single, persisting detail about a chosen target.

• Can identify: name, profession, hobby, duties, age, gender, race, etc.
• If age, gender, or race appear mismatched or disguised, this reveals an apparent discrepancy.
• Can also reveal current constraints (e.g. awaiting orders).

Send a telepathic message to a target within short range.

Communicate telepathically up to far range.

• Can only communicate with one person at a time, but can switch between any known subject.
• Connected subjects can sense the connection and telepathically respond.

Broadcast a telepathic message across a wide area.

• Affects a familiar area up to {Resolve * 100} meters, located within a few kilometers.

Identify the course of actions a creature intends to make.

• The victim must save vs. Resolve or their physical course of actions are revealed.
• This insight allows you to interrupt the victim's actions on their turn.
• Victims may change their actions if the state of circumstances meaningfully changed.

Extract thoughts that a target would speak to a trusted friend.

• Victim must save vs. Resolve or a sentence or two of thoughts are extracted.
• You must define the thoughts to investigate; e.g. "tell me about your family."
• This power reveals genuine thoughts, but won't expose any guarded secrets.
• This power reveals what the victim believes, regardless of whether or not it is true.
• Repeated use on a target will increase their resistance to your attempts.

Communicate an hour's worth of thoughts, memories, and perceptions to a target.

• The target acquires the information instantly as if they'd spent an hour reviewing it.
• If the target is telepathically connected, ignore range requirements.

Link with a target's mind to sense what they are perceiving.

• Unwilling creatures can RESOLVE once per round, which ends the effect if successful.

Sense the location of a familiar creature or object within 1 kilometer.

Tag a creature or item to sense its distance and direction for a day.

• If the tag is within far range, you can detect its exact outline and spatial presence.
• If cast with 'Major', also receive a general sense of their surroundings and interactions.

Create a telepathic link between {Wits+2} participants. Lasts 1 scene.

• Each participant must be within 10 kilometers from the caster.
• Participants can communicate telepathically with each other, within limits set by caster.

Receive a sentence of insight as though you can sense anything in far range.

• e.g. "What did they take to the treasury?" -> "The governor's Mindshard and some gold."
• e.g. "What's in the room I'm about to enter?" -> "Four well-equipped guards."
• The answer must be as helpful as possible to the player, not just technically true.
• This can also reveal hidden or disguised enemies, traps, hidden rooms, etc.