Spontaneous Magic Casting Totals

[ezzelino]

@LuciusT

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@Cuchulainshound

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... For example, level 3 or 4 spells can:

• allow you to see in the dark or breath water,
• allow you to overhear a conversation behind a wall,
• spice up a meal (including making it inedible!),
• detect poison in a meal,
• keep a nasty dog at bay,
• slightly and temporarily change another's memories ("These are not the drUids you are looking for..."),
• bury an opponent under a pile of sand

Some SG's would disagree that some of these are possible at such a low level, depending exactly what the effect is. Each Troupe should look to the Tech/Form Guidelines and decide for themselves.

Many SGs use house rules. I believe all the effects I listed are available at level 3 or 4 from the corebook guidelines, however. Are you referring to anything in particular?

Actually, most of those are level 5, so you would need a casting total of 25 to cast them as non-fatigueing spontaneous spells.

Not by my book.

• allow you to see in the dark or breath water: Base MuCo2 +1 Conc or +2 Sun
  EDIT: I agree that this may be a point of contention. With "see in the dark" I mean in very, very low light, not absolute pitch black absence of light. As for breathing water ... I really think it's a minor ability, but hey, I can see your point.

• allow you to overhear (overhear, not listen to!D:Mom) a conversation behind a wall: Base InIm1,+1 Touch,+2 Room

• spice up a meal (including making it inedible!): Base MuIn 1, +1 Touch, +1 Conc

• detect poison in a meal: for a vegetarian meal Base InHe 3, +1 Touch

• keep a nasty dog at bay. Base ReAn2 +1 Conc (to protect oneself, or all within a Circle, from the dog's attacks) or Base ReAn 2 +1 Eye +1 Conc to plant the suggestion in the dog's mind that it really should ignore you.

• slightly and temporarily change another's memories: Base MuMe1 +1 Eye, +1 Diam or +2 Sun.

• bury an opponent under a pile of sand: Base CrTe1, +2 Voice, +1 Conc or Diam

The big list of level 3 spells can be found here:

level three spells for you edification and coment

I sat down over the last few weeks and created spells of level three and lower from the guidelines in the rulebook. Level three is a spell level that any magus can cast. It is a level that is practical to get with non-fatiguing spontaneous spells. It is a level that characters can spont when they use no voice and subtle gestures, or when they are fast casting. I chose to create spells that are directly derived from the published guidelines so the derived spells would not be controversial. I di…