MRPG Spell List also old

(Note: the PnP game uses the same spell list)

With the exception of the Exo-mage proficiencies, each magical proficiency has its own unique spell list.

Spells learned automatically as the player levels are graduated and fall into two progressions: the Additive and the Subtractive. Additive spells are typically offensive and damage-dealing, while subtractive are about support and protection. There are exceptions to this rule, as healing is part of the Additive progression while some damaging Dark spells are subtractive.

The spell list is currently undergoing major re-tooling. The basic idea is to get rid of most of that "tree" bullshit.

The current plan is that all endo-magics are going to draw from a unified spell-list, however many spells will have different effects depending on which proficiency you use(a spell might do one thing if you use Mind magic and another if you use Life).

Mage Wars PnP: some spells will include special additions, conditions, or addendums for the Mage Wars PnP game.

Master Spell List

Spells are gained according to the following professions:

• Additive Gain: 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 23
• Subtractive Gain: 0, 5, 10, 15, 20

Some spells are also learned. See MRPG Magic for details.

Additive List

The first gained spells do not occur until level 3.

First Progression

(Character Level 3)

• Cleansing Ember Slow Cast, 10
  • Life: Restores 1d6 per level HP
  • Mind: Removes the Blithesome effect
  • Death: Deals 1d4 fire damage to all enemies of evil intent.

Second Progression

(Character Level 6)

• Healing Spell
• Circles Of (Spell)
  • Circle of Air: binds the target in a whirling vortex of air for 9 seconds. Resistance of Wind-9 A successful flourish
    • series of spells that use a different damage-subtype for a resistance-check. If the target doesn't have a high enough resistance the spell holds them in place for X-amount of time.

Third Progression

(Character Level 9)

• Healing Spell
• Circle of Binding: Like the other circles of binding except untyped so it cannot be resisted. Make this one pretty high-level.

Fourth Progression

(Character Level 12)

• Healing Spell
• Reaping of Pawns: I have NO idea what this spell is going to do.

Fifth Progression

(Character Level 15)

• Healing Spell
• Feast of Gluttons: same with this one but they are in the card game and have cool names.

Sixth Progression

(Character Level 18)

• Healing Spell
• Faustian Bargain: give up half your HP to deal some substantial amount of untyped-damage on the target, based on how much HP you give up.

Seventh Progression

(Character Level 21)

• Healing Spell
• Send Away: spell that attempts to just send a single target out of existence. Similar mechanics to the Death spell.

Eighth Progression

(Character Level 23)

• Healing Spell
• Darkness Explode: basically just deals a crapton of Negative-typed damage in an AOE-ark.

• Send Away, Mass: see Send Away.

Subtractive List

Unlike Additive, some subtractive spells are known at game start:

First Progression

(Character Level 0)

• Lesser Divination: gives you the ability to spot hidden doors. Pitfalls count as hidden doors.
• Mind Armor: your mage robes now grant +10 AC per-equipped-item. This AC is only applied to DV and does not aid in damage reduction.

• Dark Magic Ritual: basically a buff-spell for dark magic that makes the targets dark-magic abilities better.

Second Progression

(Character Level 5)

• Armor of Wind

• Cleansing Ember

• Buff-spells for positive and negative resistance go here
• Empty Hand: buff spell that causes the enemy to perceive you as not holding a main-handed weapon. This essentially reduces threat.
• Underworld Swarming: I'm thinking low-level dark spell that makes you think you're covered in bugs and causes an effect?
• Dark Magic Ritual, Level II:

Third Progression

(Character Level 10)

• Armor of Change
• Cleansing Fire
• Empty Hands: same as Empty Hand but makes them see you not holding anything at all, so covers off-hand, dual-wielding, and 2-handers.
• See the Hidden: basically a spell that lets you automatically find things like hidden doors, trigger plates, etc. This should be fairly high-level.
• Dark Magic Ritual, Level III:

Fourth Progression

(Character Level 15)

• Cleansing Inferno
• Four Hands: doubles the amount of threat the target generates from held items.
• Dark Magic Ritual, Level IV:

Fifth Progression

(Character Level 20)

• Armor of Darkness
• Armor of Light

• Dark Magic Ritual, Level V:
• Ritual Breaker: AOE spell distrupts all slow-cast spells currently in progress.
• Ritual of Rejuvenation: some... thing.

Learned List

• Dark Magic Attack: a high-level dark spell that deals damage around multiple sources, designed to bypass different forms of resistance.
• Complex spell that opens two portals to a plain of fire and a plain of water and this somehow produces a mighty thunderclap that knocks everyone down within a given area. Higher-level versions will also add some Mortal damage.

• Ancient Magi Spiral Attack: probably hardest/rarest ever.

• Death: just about exactly what the name implies. The caster will attempt to slay a target with a single word. This spell does not follow typical rules as it is not damage-dealing. Instead, if it passes the resistance-check, the player will then make a role of 1d20-per-rank + buffed-proficiency against the target. If the player roles a higher score, the target is instantly killed. The rules for this spell might change later.

• Mass Grave: similar to the Death spell but targets everything within the immediate area. The spell does not effect party members or friendly NPCs, but the player may not exclude any targets. Mage Wars PnP: this spell effects everyone within the radius, the caster may exclude up to 6 targets.

• Ultimate Offering: allows you to exchange life-points for mana-points(at a loss). Maybe variable levels of this spell to determine how much gets traded and at what cost?

Key Terms

• Caster Level: refers to the player's actual level
• Rank: refers to the player's Rank.
• Progression: refers to the spell's level(E.G. First Progression spells are available at start, Second Progression at Levels 3/5 respectively, etc)

See Also:

• Mage Wars RPG
• MRPG Magic