General Notes on Illusions
- The cost of an illusion is based on its maximum size. It can move beyond its starting area, or change size or shape up to its maximum size, but the mage must concentrate to do this. For example, to create an illusion of a 3-hex long horse, the mage would have to create an illusion with a 2-hex radius.Create Object
- Objects can be made permanent for 50 times the cost to create them.Create Servant - If the mage creates a servant which has a skill, the mage does not need to know that skill himself. The only limitation is that the skill must be a non-combat physical skill. Source: Sean Punch.
If the mage also knows the Create Object spell, the servant can start out with clothing and objects. Calculate the cost of the spell as described for the Create Warrior/Create Object option.
Create Warrior - If the mage also knows the Create Object spell, the mage can cast these spells simultaneously to make a dressed, armored, and armed warrior. The mage calculates the total cost of the objects with which the warrior or servant will appear. (Source: Sean Punch)
Optionally, warriors can be created with armor and equipment already in place. The cost is based on the cost of the equipment: 1 point per $100 of equipment or fraction thereof (based on prices in the GURPS Basic rulebook). The mage must be familiar with the weapons and equipment to be created.
Alternately, the GM can rule that the mage can cast the Create Warrior spell simultaneously with Create Armor, Create Shield, and/or Create Weapon. The mage must make two or more success rolls, but he can cast these spells simultaneously, and pool the energy costs. This option is much more expensive.
In any case, if the mage wants a Warrior with armor and equipment, the mage must also know the Create Object spell, or the Create Armor, Create Shield, and/or Create Armor spells below.
Simple Illusion, Complex Illusion and Perfect Illusion - These spells don't have to be cast in the usual circle that area spells are cast in. Instead, they can be made to cover areas in lines, squares, or any other contiguous form the mage can dream up as long as the total number of hexes doesn't exceed the usual hex radius.
Item: Coloring Book. GURPS Magic Items 2, p. 35 Energy Cost to Create: 100 points per page.
Create Mount
- See also Elemental Steed, Magic Mount. For extra cost, the mount can have special abilities.Duplicate - The personality of the person duplicated can either be the person's true personality or else a "morally opposed" opposite. In the latter case, the duplicate will attack the original person. Equipment and possessions of the original are also duplicated, but they will vanish if separated from the duplicate for more than 1 minute. Magic items appear to be magic, and seem to produce magical effects, but these are just Complex Illusions.
Mystic Mark - See also Inscribe, Moon Rune and Wizard Mark.
Complex Illusion
Control Creation
Control Illusion
Create Animal
Create Object (VH)
Create Servant
Create Warrior
Dispel Creation
Dispel Illusion
Illusion Shell
Independence
Perfect Illusion
Simple Illusion
Create Mount
Duplicate (VH)
Initiative
Inscribe
Phantom (VH)
Appearance of Life - Necromantic
Bridge - Plant
Clay of Life - Enchantment
Clothing to Flesh - Body Control
Conceal Secrets - Protection & Warning
Convertible - Enchantment
Create Aquastor (VH) - Communication & Empathy
Create Eidolon (VH) - Communication & Empathy
Create Zombie - Necromantic
Disorganization - Gate
Dress - Gate
False Doom - Mind Control
False Prey - Animal
Gild - Earth (Metal)
Hermit’s Companion - Mind Control
Infinite Material - Making & Breaking
Intimidate - Mind Control
Magic Picture - Light & Darkness
Merciful Weapon - Protection & Warning
Morph (VH) - Animal
Obscure Terrain - Protection & Warning
Owner’s Mark - Communication & Empathy
Place of Desire - Mind Control
Polymorph Other (VH) - Animal
Polymorph (VH) - Animal
Puppet - Body Control
See Illusions - Knowledge
Truthful Image - Knowledge
Variation - Making & Breaking
Vision of Battle - Knowledge
Wardrobe Bands - Enchantment
This spell makes the subject's reflection in any reflective surface move as the mage wishes. To the subject it will appear that the reflection is moving independently.
The reflection can appear to do anything that the original subject is able to do. It can also seem to move around in the reflecting surface.
Likewise, the reflection can use body parts or objects that the subject is carrying that aren't reflected when the spell is first cast. For example, the image could appear to bring its hands to its face even if only the subject's head is reflected in a mirror. It can also appear to partially move out of the reflected area, or vanish entirely.
Objects that aren't present on the subject's body when the spell is cast can't be created in the reflection. For example, unless the subject is bleeding, the image can't appear to be bleeding.
Depending on how this spell is used, the subject might have to make a Reaction Roll or even a Fright Check.
This is also a Light and Darkness spell.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 2 points, 1 to maintain.
Prerequisite: Simple Illusion, Alter Reflection.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 250 points (b) Mirror or similar reflecting device. Anything reflected in this item has the spell cast on it. Energy Cost to Create: 200 points.
This spell allows the mage to animate a dead or unconscious body (or any other similar object), allowing it to walk about or even attack. Unlike Necromantic spells that have similar effects, this spell does not turn the body into an undead creature.
In order to animate the body, the mage must concentrate on the spell and he must be able to see the body by some means. (Wizard Eyes and similar spells count for this purpose.) If the mage is distracted, the spell doesn't automatically end, but the body falls to the ground. In order to regain control, the mage must make a skill roll, and he must spend 2 turns bringing the body back to its feet.
The body retains the ST and HT it had in life, but "dies" (if it is already dead) when it reaches 0 HP. If the spell was cast on an unconscious body, spell ends when the body takes more than its base HP in damage or regains consciousness. The body's Move is equal to half the mage's Move or half the Move it had in life (or consciousness), whichever is less.
The body has no IQ, and its DX and physical skills are those of the mage at DX-4 (or skill -4). However, no skill or attribute can ever be raised above 12. No matter how good the mage is, he can't transmit his skills very well. The body cannot speak nor can it use any mental skill or any physical skill that requires internal concentration.
Unconscious victims get a roll vs. IQ to resist.
Duration: 10 seconds.
Cost: 3, 2 to maintain.
Prerequisite: Create Warrior.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 300 points. (b) Clothing or Jewelry. When placed on a dead or unconscious body the item casts the spell. Unconscious victims get a roll vs. IQ to resist. Energy Cost to Create: 250 points.
This magic will enlarge and animate origami creations.
In order to cast this spell, the mage must have a properly made origami creation (no cutting or pasting allowed) made either by himself or by another person. When the spell is cast, the origami creation will grow to roughly the size of the creature or object it is to represent. It will take on some or all of the abilities of the real object - birds fly, boats float, tigers bite. Origami creations can either fight or serve as transport, but not both.
Constructs used for transport may carry one person who weighs up to 300 lbs. over land or air, or water depending on the nature of the original creation.
Origami creatures used to fight will do 1d-1 Crushing damage with their teeth, paws, beaks or tusks. Regardless of their type, origami creations occupy 2 hexes, have ST 15, DX 10, IQ 0, HT 12, and 20 HP. They have a maximum Move of 5. Flying creatures take up 1 hex, have ST 10, DX 12, IQ 0, HT 10/8, and Move 10. An origami representation of Godzilla wouldn't be able to crush Tokyo!
Origami creations are still made of paper and they take 1 HP of damage per minute from water or heavy rain. They also take double damage from fire and heat. When the origami creation is destroyed by water or damage it sinks or vanishes.
All creations are under the mental command of the person who animates them, however, they can be given a simple general command like "Run north." or "Fight" which they will follow without having to be commanded. When the spell ends, the creations return to their original form and can be reused. However, destroyed or damaged creations vanish when the spell ends.
A limited version allows the mage to animate small origami creations. These creatures can neither bear loads or fight, they just entertain and beautify, though they might be able to distract a foe. These small origami creations do not grow in size, don't do damage, and have ST 2, DX 12, IQ 0, and HT 12/1. They have a maximum Move of 5 (or 15 for flying creatures).
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 1 point, same to maintain for a small creature, 4 points, 2 to maintain for a large creature.
Time to Cast: 5 seconds.
Prerequisite: Magery, Create Object.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 350 points. (b) Origami creation. When a command word is spoken, the figure animates with this spell. One use only. Energy Cost to Create: 50 points.
Not only does this spell animate an inanimate object, it also gives it the ability to see, hear, and speak, and invests it with a degree of intelligence and a "personality" determined by the caster or the GM. If the original object was not flexible, this spell gives it a degree of flexibility or small structures that allow it to move. "Limbs" created are based on the shape of the item. For example, a rock could roll itself along or scuttle along on pseudopods. A teapot could walk along on its legs and use its spout as a "trunk".
The object has a personality appropriate to its original nature, but never a truly malevolent one unless the object was habitually used for evil purposes. The GM should use his imagination to come up with amusing personalities for animated objects. Most objects will have an IQ of 8, but especially old or impressive items and items associated with scholarly pursuits might have higher IQ's. ST is based on the object's HP and mass. HT is based on the object's original HP, for very large or small items, the GM should assign split HT scores for HT and HP. DX ranges from 8 (for clumsy items) to 12 (for extremely mobile items like stools).
An intelligent being that has somehow been transformed into an objector whose soul is trapped in an object can act, speak, see, hear, and move by means of this spell. If that is the case, the object they are bound into takes on their personality.
Animated items cannot learn new skills, but they can carry on reasonable conversations in the language they "heard" most often (with or without outrageous accents). They might talk about things they have "heard" or "seen" but most items will be loyal to their owner unless they have been badly used or have naturally disloyal or mean personalities.
Items strongly associated with one particular craft will have the appropriate skill at level 12. Animated items are not servants of the mage who animated them. Further spells must be used to command items to service or to extract information from them.
Eccentric wizards often use this spell as an enchantment to create sentient companions or guards for their dwellings.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 4, plus 1 point per pound of material, half to maintain. Can be made permanent for 4,000 points plus 100 points per pound of material.
Time to Cast: 10 seconds.
Prerequisite: Magery 2, 10 Creation spells.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 500 points. (b) Jewelry. When attached to an object, the magic item casts this spell on the object and the object remains animated as long as the jewelry remains attached. Energy Cost to Create: 350 points.
This spell creates an insubstantial auditory "image" that has no effect on any sense except hearing. By concentrating, the mage can move the "source" of the illusion at a Move equal to half his skill. For example, a mage could create the "illusion" of a conversation between two people that seems to recede into the distance as the "people" move "away" from the area of effect.
This spell is also a Sound spell and a Mind Control spell.
Duration: 1 minute.
Base Cost: 1 to cast; half that to maintain.
Prerequisite: IQ 11+, Simple Illusion.
Item: Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 250 points.
Author: Adapted from Bruce MacLaren
This spell creates a ball and chain on the subject's ankle. The ball weighs 20 lbs. and reduces the subject's Move to 2, or half-normal Move, whichever is less. If the subject carries the ball, he can move at Move 3 (or 2/3 normal Move, if that is less), but one or both of his hands are full.
This is also a Metal (Earth) spell.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 3, 2 to maintain.
Prerequisite: Create Metal or 3 Creation spells.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 250 points. (b) Clothing or Jewelry. Casts this spell on the wearer. Always On. Most versions are Hexed. Energy Cost to Create: 100 points.
This spell makes the caster's handwriting blurry and illegible to everyone except those who he wishes to see his writings. The mage must specify the people (or type of people) who can view his writings when the spell is cast.
Spells such as Dispel Magic or Dispel Illusion can cancel this spell, but they must win a Contest of Skills to do so.
This is also a Communication and Empathy spell.
Duration: 1 week.
Cost: 1 point per page, 1 to maintain.
Prerequisite: Simple Illusion.
Item: (a) Pen or other writing instrument. Any writing made with will have this spell cast on it. Energy Cost to Create: 100 points. (b) This spell can be made permanent for 25 times the base cost.
The spell fills the area of effect with caltrops (approximately 6 caltrops per hex).
The caltrops are normal devices of their type and do normal damage to creatures that step on them. They vanish when the spell ends or when they are picked up.
This is also a Earth (Metal) spell.
Duration: 1 minute.
Base Cost: 3, same to maintain.
Time to Cast: 3 seconds
Prerequisites: Simple Illusion or Create Metal.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 250 points. (b) This spell can be permanently cast on an area for 25 times the base cost.
This spell alters clothing so that it will change color to blend in with its surroundings. Anyone wearing a full suit of clothes with this spell on it gets +4 to Camouflage rolls while stationary, or +2 while moving. A partial suit of clothing with this spell on them (or a full set of clothing that doesn't completely cover the wearer's body) gives +2 to Camouflage while stationary, or +1 while moving.
This is also a Light and Darkness spell.
Duration: 10 minutes.
Cost: 3, 2 to maintain.
Prerequisite: Dye.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 300 points. (b) Clothing or Jewelry. Works for wearer only. Energy Cost to Create: 250 points. (c) Chameleon Suit, GURPS Magic Items 1, p. 72 Energy Cost to Create: 300 points.
Author: Adapted from GURPS Magic Items 1
This spell alters playing cards so that they appear to have whatever value the user wishes them to have. The spell grants benefits to the user similar to Blank Cards, GURPS Magic Items 1, p. 72
The effect of this spell is to give +5 to Gambling skill in a card game for one hand only. However, the mage must win a contest of Gambling skill every time he uses this spell, or his cheating becomes obvious. Either he plays cards that are known to be out of play, or he plays cards also held by an opponent! Subsequent use of this spell against the same opponents is even more likely to raise suspicions, the mage gets a cumulative -1 to Gambling skill to avoid being caught cheating. If his opponents are suspicious, the GM may treat this as a contest between the mage's (modified) Gambling skill and that of his opponent.
This spell can also be used for card tricks. In this case, the spell gives +5 to Sleight of Hand skill rolls. There is no cumulative penalty to use this spell for card tricks. Observers aren't likely to be suspicious and since any good Sleight of Hand act allows the performer to distract his audience and explain away any discrepancies.
If this spell is used to modify somebody else's cards, the victim is allowed a roll vs. IQ to resist the effects of the spell.
Duration: One "hand" in a card game or one sleight of hand card trick.
Cost: 2 points, can't be maintained
Item: Blank Cards, GURPS Magic Items 1, p. 72 Energy Cost to Create: 500 points.
Author: Adapted from GURPS Magic Items 1
This spell will turn money of a larger denomination into an equivalent amount of money in smaller denominations of the same or lesser value.
Note that the mage can't specify the exact form of the lesser denominations. The coins and bills he gets as "change" will be average in all respects and representative of typical currency of that type in circulation. Note that this means that a rare or numismatically valuable coin is likely to be replaced by coins of far less value.
Note that this spell doesn't actually transform the money. Instead, it works as a very specialized and effective form of the teleport spell. When the spell is cast it seeks out money from the area surrounding the mage and quietly and fairly "makes change" in such a way that the substitutions aren't noticed.
If no "change" of the appropriate type is available in the immediate area, money can still be converted to lower denominations, but 10% of the value is lost, never to return. The money created is indistinguishable from "real" currency to anything but the most scrupulous magical inspection.
If this spell is cast on currency that can't be converted into an currency of a lower denomination the spell fails, the currency disappears or it is replaced by something peculiar and/or worthless, at the GM's whim.
This is also a Movement spell. Permanent.
Cost: 2 points. For double cost money can be changed "from nothing" without a 10% loss in value.
Item: Change Purse, GURPS Magic Items I, p. 32. Energy Cost to Create: 250 points.
Author: Adapted from Bob Traynor (From "Minor Magics for GURPS") and from GURPS Magic Items 1
This spell allows the mage to combine two or more illusion spells of any sort into a single effect. For example, the mage could combine two Simple Illusions and an Auditory Illusion to create the sight (and sound) of two men fighting.
Subjects resist the other spells normally. Duration: 1 minute or the duration of the shortest spell cast, whichever is least.
Cost: 2 to cast; plus 1 point per illusion involved beyond the second, half to maintain. In addition, the base cost and maintenance costs of the illusions to be combined must be included. This spell can be made permanent for 25 times the base cost, plus the cost of any other illusions involved.
Prerequisite: Magery, 3 Illusion spells.
Item: Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 250 points.
Author: Adapted from Bruce MacLaren.
This spell makes an Illusion or Phantom spell immune to Detect Illusion spells, unless that spell can win a Contest of Skills.
Duration: 1 minute (or as long as illusion lasts, whichever is less).
Cost: 2, 1 to maintain.
Prerequisite: Detect Illusion.
Item: Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 100 points.
This limited version of the invisibility spell makes anything grasped on one of the subject's hands invisible.
The object concealed can't weight more than 50 lbs. or be more than one hex in size. It must also be completely supported by the subject's hand (not steadied by the other hand, balanced on the hip, rested on the ground, etc.). The subject must also attempt to conceal the item by covering it with his hand and holding it relatively still.
If the object is brandished or actively used by the subject, the spell automatically ends. This means that small weapons such as knives or pistols can be concealed by this spell, but large weapons such as swords or bows cannot. Any weapon used in a threatening manner will automatically be revealed.
If used to conceal something that another character is actively seeking, they are allowed a roll vs. IQ to see through the spell.
This spell can be used as a prerequisite for the Invisibility spell.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 3, 2 to maintain.
Prerequisite: Blur.
Item: Concealing Glove, GURPS Magic Items 1, p. 72. Energy Cost to Create 250 points.
Author: Adapted from GURPS Magic Items 1.
This spell will convert currency of one nation to specie of another nation with which the mage is familiar at the going exchange rate, less a 1d% "conversion fee."
This spell will not convert valuables such as precious metals or gems into currency.
Duration: Permanent.
Cost: 1 point per $100 of currency to be changed.
Time to Cast: 1 minute.
Prerequisite: Magery, Coins of Change.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 350 points. (b) Wallet, Purse, or Pouch. Casts this spell any money placed in it. Energy Cost to Create: 250 points.
This spell allows the mage to create ammunition of any type with which he is familiar. The ammunition created can't be a munition on its own (like grenades, mines, flame-thrower fuel, or explosives); it must rely on a missile weapon to activate it. In addition, power cells can't be created with this spell.
The cost to create the ammunition depends on its expense (based on the cost in the appropriate GURPS worldbook or the GM's whim) and the amount of damage it does.
Low Tech ammunition appears in lots of 20. High Tech Ammunition appears in lots of 10, 20,50, or 100 depending on the ammunition type. If the GM is willing, the mage can create a smaller amount of ammunition for less cost. For example, a single arrow or small-caliber bullet could be created for 1 point.
Duration: Permanent.
Cost: 1, plus 1 per $100 of cost for a standard clip/case of the ammunition type (round down), plus 1 for every 2d damage (or fraction thereof) that it does.
Low-tech missiles such as arrows cost 3 points per 20.
Time to Cast: 3 seconds.
Prerequisite: Complex Illusion.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 500 points. (b) A weapon can be enchanted with this spell so that it never runs out of ammunition. Energy Cost to Create: 50 times the cost to cost the spell.
On command, this spell causes a suit of armor to materialize around the wearer. The mage can summon any sort of armor with which he is familiar, but the most protective and heaviest armors become very expensive.
The armor can be of any non-magical, unpowered type and style with which the mage is personally familiar, magically sized to perfectly fit the subject. The armor is normal in all other respects.
If any part of the armor is removed from the subject's body, that part will vanish after 10 seconds. However, the rest of the armor will remain for the duration of the spell.
If this spell is cast on an unwilling subject, he can make the armor vanish instantly, so that he is not encumbered by it. Likewise, a willing subject can make the armor vanish at any time.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 1, plus 1/2 point per point of DR, and 1 point per point of PD inherent to the armor (minimum of 2 points), half to maintain.
Prerequisites: Create Shield.
Item: (a) Wand, Staff, or Jewelry. Mage Only. Energy Cost to Create: 350 points. (b) Armor Ring. GURPS Magic Items 1, p. 24 Energy Cost to Create: 300 points.
Author: Self, GURPS Magic Items 1.
This spell creates a number of warriors as per the Create Warrior spell, but the warriors are created one per each hex within the given area.
Once created, the warriors will obey individual or unit commands, if the mage spends the time to command them. Otherwise, they fight on their own. Warriors are under the GM's control unless the mage specifically concentrates to make them function as a unit.
Ambiguous commands will be ignored or will result in the entire unit becoming confused and hesitating until they receive better orders. For example, "Attack the mage." is a legitimate command but "attack" might would leave them puzzled.
When the spell is renewed, the mage has the option of canceling some or all of the spell. However, if he cancels some of the spell, the warriors to be dismissed must be selected by some general criteria, such as "All of the wounded ones." or "All the warriors on the far side of the stream."
In other respects, this spell is identical to the Create Warrior spell.
Duration: 1 minute.
Base Cost: 4 to cast, 2 to maintain. For Brute Warrior, 6 to cast, 4 to maintain. Minimum Area 2 hexes.
Time to Cast: 10 seconds.
Prerequisites: Magery, Create Warrior, 10 Illusion and Creation spells.
Item: Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 1,500 points.
Author: Adapted from Greg Littmann
This spell is similar to the Create Servant spell, but the servant created is capable of doing complex tasks.
The craftsman created has ST 10, DX 12, HT 9, IQ 11 and a Skill level of 12 in one skill known to the mage at level 12 or better. The craftsman will do any non-combat task desired by the mage, but will otherwise behave like a normal Servant.
Craftsmen must be provided with tools and materials suitable for their trade and the job the caster want them to do. If the caster wants them to produce new goods then he must give them detailed instructions as to what he wants. The craftsman is a simple tradesman, not an artist. Any goods made by a Craftsman will be plain and uninspired, but functional.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 4, 2 to maintain.
Prerequisite: Create Servant.
Item: Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 500 points.
This spell creates a golem-like assassin who will relentlessly and unerringly seek the target, battling through all that would stand in its way. The Assassin has ST 16, DX 12, IQ 8, HT 12/18, PD 3, DR 8, Move 6. It can use any melee or ranged weapon with which the mage is familiar at Skill 13.
In addition, the Assassin has the skills Stealth-13, Holdout-13, Climbing-13, Swimming-13, Running-13, Tracking-15, Shadowing-15 and Tactics-15. It has the advantages of Injury Tolerance (Doesn't Bleed, No Neck, No Vitals, No Brain), High Pain Threshold, Combat Reflexes, Night Vision, Silence+2, Magic Resistance+4, Fearless and Alertness+4. It has the disadvantages of Unliving, No Sense of Humor, Callous, Clueless and Obsession (Kill its target).
When the spell is cast, the mage can make the assassin appear to be anything or anyone he is personally familiar with, from a terror from beyond the grave to a trusted friend of the victim.
If the assassin kills the target, it will then attempt to eats the body. If undisturbed, the assassin will do with within 10 minutes making it impossible to resurrect the body.
On critical failure or if prevented from its task (as determined by the GM) the assassin turns on the mage who created it!
Duration: 1 day.
Cost: 15 points, 8 to maintain.
Time to Cast: 1 minute.
Prerequisite: Magery 2, Create Warrior, Golem, Complex Illusion.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Mage Only. Energy Cost to Create: 2,500 points (b) Statue. When a command word is spoken, the statue will turn into an Assassin loyal to the person who spoke the command. Energy Cost to Create: 2,000 points, plus $10,000 in materials and a life-sized statue.
This spell creates about half a pound of various small creatures suitable for use as fish bait. Fish will find them quite tasty, and a bonus of +3 is added to Fishing rolls made using this bait.
This is also an Animal Spell.
Duration: 2 hours.
Cost: 1 point, same to maintain.
Item: Bait Bucket. Energy Cost to Create: 25 points.
Author: Adapted from Bob Traynor (From "Minor Magics for GURPS").
This spell creates the unliving body of any creature with which the mage is personally familiar. If the mage is personally familiar with the condition or can make a roll vs. Pathology, Diagnosis, Thanatology or Professional Skill (Mortician) skill, he can make the body appear to be in any state of preservation or to have died from a given cause.
The body of a specific individual can't be reproduced, though the mage has complete control over the age, sex, height, weight, appearance and race of the body. Spells such as Alter Visage or Illusion Shell can be used to finely sculpt the body's appearance to that of an actual person.
To mundane inspection, the body appears to be real. A successful Diagnosis skill roll will determine that the body is dead. Successful Pathology or Diagnosis rolls will "determine" what the body "died of". Only on a critical success will a mundane medical skill determine that the body was never alive to begin with, and this information will only be revealed if the examiner had reason to suspect such a thing.
Magic spells to detect the identity of the individual or how the person died will reveal nothing. Magic spells to detect magic on the body must win a Contest of Skills to detect anything. On a success they reveal an unspecified magical aura around the body that could be caused by any number of reasons. Only on a critical failure will the true nature of the body be revealed. However, if a mage is specifically casting a spell to determine if the body has been magically created, he need only win a Contest of Skills to reveal the magical nature of the corpse.
The body is unliving and will begin to rot based on the ambient temperature and the condition it was in when it was created. Spells such as Appearance of Life and Prevent Decay can be used to prevent or delay the inevitable.
Despite its obvious uses to adventurers this spell has other uses. It can be used as an "ethical" source for animal products, transplanted organs and grafted limbs, as realistic "dummies" for lethal experiments, military training, or anatomy lessons. If the GM rules that zombies and skeletons do not require the body of a once-living creature, this spell can be used as a handy (if expensive) source for skeletons and zombies.
This is also a Necromantic spell.
Duration: Permanent.
Cost: 2 pointsper 25 pounds of living body weight (or fraction thereof).
Time to Cast: 1 minute per point of energy used to cast the spell..
Prerequisite: Complex Illusion or Create Meat and Create Bone.
Item: Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Mage Only. Energy Cost to Create: 350 points.
(This spell appeared in GURPS Discworld as "Eringyas' Surprising Bouquet".)
In a non-Discworld campaign, any sort of flowers can be created using this spell, and the spell statistics should be changed to the values in the parentheses.
This is also a Plant spell.
Duration: (1 day)
Cost: (Can be made permanent for 3 points.)
Item: (a) Wand, Staff or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 100 points. (b) Vase or other container for holding flowers. Energy Cost to Create: 50 points.
Author: GURPS Discworld.
This is also a Making and Breaking spell.
Author: Lee Gold (GURPS Japan)
This spell creates a melee weapon of the caster's choice that will fight for the caster like a Dancing Weapon would.
In other respects, the weapon behaves like a weapon created using the Create Weapon spell.
If the mage wishes, he can cast this spell multiple times to create multiple dancing weapons. However, each dancing weapon beyond the first has -1 to its effective skill.
This is also a Movement spell.
Duration: 10 seconds.
Cost: 3, 2 to maintain (double cost for a two-handed melee weapon).
Prerequisite: Dancing Weapon, Create Weapon.
Item: Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Mage Only. Energy Cost to Create: 500 points.
This spell creates an entertainer. The entertainer created has ST 10, DX 12, HT 10, and IQ 11, one Art, Performance or Musical skill at skill level 12 and up to 15 points of advantages appropriate to the trade of entertainer, such as Voice, Musical Ability, Good Appearance, Charisma, etc. Extra energy gives more advantages, better statistics, and more or better skills, though the entertainer's skill level can never exceed 16 in any skill, including bonuses from advantages.
Entertainers created in this fashion are non-combatants and will do nothing but entertain. They will run away or vanish if they are attacked or threatened or if they are asked to do work outside their "trade." Other than that, they are under the control of the mage.
Note that entertainers will come with the tools of their trade (i.e., musical instruments, paint brushes) but will require appropriate materials (such as paints or sculpture material) if the mage wishes them to create anything permanent.
Duration: 10 minutes.
Cost: 4 points, 3 to maintain. Every extra point of base cost gives the entertainer an additional 5 points in skills or advantages.
Time to Cast: 10 seconds.
Prerequisite: Create Craftsman.
Item: Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 500 points.
This spell creates a small faerie creature (no more than 200 lbs.), which can be intelligent. It is possible that this spell doesn't actually summon the creature, just transports one that already exists somewhere else.
Each variant of faerie creature created is a different variant of this spell. Cost depends on the creature's mass, attributes, powers, etc.
Note that the creature created (or summoned) it is a free-willed being. It must immediately make a Reaction Roll to the mage, and possibly its new surroundings (and those in it). On anything less than a Good reaction, it will attempt to flee or hide.
The GM is free to limit the number of faerie creatures the mage can create at any given time or to have faeries react negatively if they are (or likely will be) abused. The GM should also feel free to give faeries unexpected powers (such as the Curse or Invisibility spells as an innate magic) and quirky personalities. Faerie should always be strange and unpredictable!
This is also a Gate spell.
Duration: Permanent.
Cost: 1 point per 10 character points possessed by the faerie (minimum 10 points).
Time to Cast: 1 hour.
Prerequisites: Create Faerie Animal, Open Gate, Create Faerie Land.
Item: Altar, Cauldron or similar large heavy object. Energy Cost to Create: 5,000 points. Mage Only.
This spell creates ordinary home furnishings and household goods. Stools, chairs, desks, beds, thrones, tables, lanterns and so forth can all be created.
Each piece of furniture comes with all the accessories typically associated with the item. Beds come with pillows, blankets, and mattresses. Desks come with a drawer full of paper, pens, and ink. Tables come with plates and silverware, stoves come with pots and pans and so forth.
These furnishings are serviceable but plain. They will vanish if damaged or if the caster moves more than 100 yards away from them. They will also vanish at the end of the spell's duration. The furnishings (and their accessories) can be used as components in other spells, but vanish if damaged or when the shorter-lived of the two spells expires.
Items created with materials created with the furniture will remain and can be made permanent if the mage is willing to pay 2 points extra before the spell ends. However, only up to 5 lb. of materials can be made permanent, and they must have been used to repair a real item, or combined into a new item by the mage's own hand. For example, if the mage wrote a letter using the pen and ink supplied with a magically created writing desk, he could make the letter permanent. However, he couldn't merely pocket the pen and ink and make them permanent.
Each type of item created is a different spell. Common types of furniture created are beds, chairs, dressing tables (with cosmetics and toilet kit), kitchen counters (with bowls and utensils), stoves (with pots and pans), tables (with tableware), desks (with abacus, paper, pens, and ink), and workbench (with common woodworking tools). Some mages have version of this spell which will create specialized workbenches (for jewelry, leatherwork, or blacksmithing, for example), barroom fixtures, or large pieces of torture equipment. An extremely common variant of this spell is the Create Privy spell (see below).
Duration: 1 hour.
Cost: 2, plus 1 per 20 pounds of material and furniture created, half to maintain. Materials up to 5 lb. can be made permanent for 2 points.
Time to Cast: 10 seconds.
Prerequisite: Magic Tool.
Item: Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 1,500 points if it will create any sort of furniture, or 250 points if it will create one sort of furniture.
This spell creates a Giant Servant, as per the Servant spell. The Giant Servant has ST 30, DX 9, IQ 9, HT 9/15. Alternately, the caster can create a Brute giant servant with ST 60 or a craftsman giant with one non-combat physical skill 16.
This servant is a non-combatant, in spite of its impressive size. It will flee or vanish if attacked, or if ordered to attack.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 6, 3 to maintain, 12, 6 to maintain for a Brute, 8, 4 to maintain for a Craftsman.
Prerequisite: Create Servant.
Item: Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 500 points.
This spell is identical to the Create Warrior spell, except that it creates a Giant with ST 30, DX 12, IQ 9 HT 12/20 and one weapon skill at 16. Armor and weapons provided for the giant must fit a 9-foot tall humanoid.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 12, 6 to maintain.
Prerequisite: Create Giant Servant, Create Warrior.
Item: Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 750 points.
This spell is similar to the Create Animal spell, but it allows the mage to create multiple animals of the same sort within the area of effect. Created animals appear one per hex (or the closest distance apart that they can be spaced).
Once created, the animals can follow simple commands to the best of their intelligence if the mage spends the time to command each animal (or individual groups of animals). If the mage does not specifically command the animals, they are under the GM's control unless the mage specifically concentrates to make the herd function as a unit.
Alternately, the herd can follow "instinctive" behavior patterns (like a wolf pack sending a few members around behind to "drive" victims towards the pack) without being ordered to do so by the mage. Complex commands will be ignored or will result in the entire herd becoming confused and hesitating until they receive better orders. For example, "Attack the man in the checked shirt" might be a legitimate command to give to a herd of buffalo, but "Attack the mage." would leave them puzzled.
When the spell is renewed, the mage has the option of canceling some or all of the spell. However, if he cancels some of the spell, the animals to be dismissed must be selected by some general criteria, such as "All of the wounded ones." or "All the animals on the far side of the stream."
This is also an Animal spell.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 2 per hex per 100 lb. of animal, half to maintain.
Time to Cast: Equal to cost in seconds.
Prerequisites: Magery, Create Animal, 10 Illusion and Creation spells.
Item: Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 1,000 points.
Author: Adapted from Greg Littmann,
This spell temporarily creates a heroic (or not so heroic) person of the mage's imagining. The "hero" can be of any race, sex or lineage, and have any skill, spell, advantage, or power with which the mage is familiar and which the GM will allow. The mage has free rein to create whatever sort of person he wants.
In game terms, this means that the summoned hero is a full character, designed just like a "real" character. For game balance and continuity, the GM should restrict characters that can be designed with this spell to races and character types encountered in his campaign. Alternately, the GM can restrict the sorts of heroes that can be summoned to a few historical (or fictional!) archetypes or religious avatars. He can also require that each different hero type created be learned as a separate variant of this spell.
The GM should be especially careful to prevent the hero from just being a "min-maxed" single-purpose tool for the convenience of the mage. Specifically, disadvantages that are meaningless in the context of the spell (such as Enemy, Dependent, or Terminally Ill) should be disallowed. The hero should have at least 10% of his advantage and skill points invested in "non-combat" or "non-adventuring" areas that make the character more interesting.
Also, note that the hero is a free-willed entity! There is no guarantee that he will help the caster once he arrives, and he might even attack the mage! Attempts to get the hero to aid the mage must be role-played and the mage might have to roll vs. the appropriate Social skill, such as Fast Talk, Sex Appeal, etc.
The hero appears equipped with the same amount of equipment that a starting character with Average wealth would have in the campaign. If it is an appropriate "special effect," the GM can rule that the hero can appear to have much more wealth in non-combat or non-adventuring equipment. However, valuables and equipment that come with the hero are just part of the spell and vanish when the hero vanishes.
If the mages wishes, he may simultaneously combine one or more of the "Hero's" spells (Hero's Bow, Hero's Sword, Hero's Armor, Hero's Shield) with the Create Hero spell to give the hero magic items. In order to this, the mage must know the appropriate spell, and he must make a skill roll to cast it immediately after he rolls to cast the Create Hero spell. If this roll is successful, the hero appears wearing (or carrying) the appropriate equipment. Note that both spells are cast at the same time and point costs for both spells are pooled.
Duration: 10 minutes.
Cost: 6, plus 1 point for every 25 character points used to build the hero, half to maintain.
Time to Cast: 10 seconds.
Prerequisites: Magery 2, Create Person, Create Warrior.
Item: Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Mage Only. Energy Cost to Create: 2,500 points, or 1,000 points if it only summons one sort of hero.
This spell creates a servant with normal Servant stats, but IQ 13, a skill of 15 in one physical skill (including military skills, but excluding Combat/Weapon skills) and "common knowledge" about the caster, the world, and his surroundings.
When faced with danger or questioned it will react in a levelheaded manner, alerting its master or dealing with the crisis according to its abilities. It will perform hazardous or unpleasant tasks, but will seek to avoid danger or discomfort if possible. It will not willingly enter combat, nor can it be expected to perform feats of heroism.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 4, 2 to maintain.
Prerequisite: Create Servant, Wisdom.
Item: Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 350 points.
This spell creates a vehicle pulled by trained draft animals. The type of vehicle and draft animals is up to caster, and many special abilities are available.
The draft animals can't attack, though they might have other powers.
A chariot can hold the caster and up to three other people (up to 1,000 lbs. of weight). The sides of the chariot provide PD 1, DR 3 from the waist down for a standing man, shorter characters get proportionately greater cover.
Extra space, armor, and speed can be bought as follows:
All-Terrain - Pass over sandy, muddy or even swampy ground without difficulty. (2 points extra).
Better Cover - increase cost of armor by 50% if 75% protection, double cost for complete protection.
Extra capacity - 1 point per extra passenger or 250 lbs.
Extra DR -1 point of energy per 1 DR.
Extra Move - 1 point per 1 point of Move.
Extra PD - 2 points of energy per 1 PD.
Common special abilities are:
Dazzling Appearance - The chariot is so brilliant and shiny that it Dazzles (as per the spell) those who look at it. (Prerequisite: Dazzle) (Cost: 2 points extra).
Fearful Appearance - Those viewing the chariot must make a Fright Check (Prerequisite: Fear) (Cost: 2 points extra).
Flames - Flames surround the chariot, doing no damage to those that the caster specifies, but doing 1 point per turn to objects vulnerable to fire damage and possibly setting flammable items on fire. (Prerequisite: Create Fire) (Cost: 4 points extra).
Flight - The ability to fly at a Move of 24. (Prerequisite: Flight) (Cost: 6 points extra).
Move in Water - The ability to pass over water as if it were firm dry land. (Prerequisite: Walk On Water) or float on water like a boat. (Cost: 3 points extra).
Move through Air - The ability to run on air as if it were firm land. However, the chariot cannot change altitude, so it can only run along a single altitude. (Prerequisite: Walk On Air) (Cost: 4 points extra).
Sealed - The chariot is completely sealed. This protects those inside from gas attacks, and other attacks that depend on seeping through the cracks to do their damage, such as acid or concussion from explosions. As long as the hull is not breached, damage from these sources has no effect. (Prerequisite: Create Air) (Cost: 2 points extra).
Submersible - The ability to submerge underwater. This option includes a globe of breathable air and one level of Pressure Support for all passengers. (Prerequisites: Create Air, Swim) (Cost: 6 points extra).
The type of creatures and the appearance of the chariot are up to the caster and must be specified when the spell is cast. Types of magic chariots found in mythology are boat-like chariots drawn by swans, huge scallop shells drawn by sea horses, and flaming, brilliant, flying chariots drawn by fiery horses. Casters of this spell could create anything from a rickety farm wagon drawn by an old mule to a flaming, flying coach wreathed in eerie blue light drawn by skeletal horses.
Duration: 1 hour.
Cost: 6 points, plus the cost of each special ability, half to maintain.
Prerequisites: Create Animal, Create Object, as listed for each special ability.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 350 points. (b) Statuette or Jewelry. When a command word is spoken, it turns into a set type of Magic Chariot. Energy Cost to Create: 250 points.
Creates 100 marbles that appear in a open container in the caster's hand. The marbles are "standard" modern glass marbles, but are far more resistant to breakage. The uses of the marbles are only limited to the caster's imagination.
If dropped on the ground, they require anyone moving through the hex to make a roll vs. DX+2 to avoid falling.
This is also an Earth spell.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 2, 1 to maintain.
Item: Bag or Box. Energy Cost to Create: 25 points.
Author: Adapted from Bob Traynor (From "Minor Magics for GURPS").
This spell allows the mage to create raw or semi-processed material of a single type with which he is personally familiar. The material must be an element or a relatively homogeneous material that can be described in a simple phrase (e.g. "iron ingots", "two by four pine boards", "wood glue" or "Portland cement").
If the mage wishes to create a processed item, the GM should have the mage make a roll vs. the appropriate Craft, Professional or Scientific skill to properly formulate the material to be created. For example, in order to make glue, the GM might require the mage to make a roll vs. Woodworking or Chemistry skill.
Cost to cast and the amount of material created depends on the inherent rarity and value of the material being created. Each "step" up a given scale doubles the base cost of the spell (so two steps would quadruple the cost, three steps would multiply it by 8, etc.). Each step down the scale halves the cost. The baseline for a given scale is the second entry on each scale, e.g. Common, Bulk, Semi-processed. Round point costs up to the nearest tenth of a point, with a minimum of 1 point.
Precious and Semi-precious materials can't be created.
Rarity: Extremely Common (Dirt), Common (Iron Ore, Timber), Uncommon/Valuable (Iron, Fine Hardwoods), Rare (Ebony, Crystal), Very Rare (Gunpowder, specialized plastics in a modern setting)
Local Value: Worthless, Bulk Commodity (pennies a ton), Commodity (pennies a pound), Valuable (dollars a pound). Precious and Semi-precious materials can't be created.
Processing: Raw (ore, raw timber), Semi-processed (crushed ore, dressed timber), Processed (refined ore, rough boards), Highly Processed (ingots of metal, planed boards).
Examples:
Dressed timber for a palisade: Rarity: Common (in most areas), Local Value: Bulk, Processing: Semi. No steps up, modifier: x1, Energy cost per pound = .1 point.
Lead shot for a sling: Rarity: Uncommon, Value: Commodity, Processing: High. Four steps up, Modifier: x8, Energy cost per pound: .8 points.
Black Powder: Rarity: Very Rare, Value: Valuable. Processing: High. Seven steps up, Modifier: x 128, Energy cost per pound: 12.8. In this example, the mage would have to be familiar with gunpowder and he must make a skill roll vs. Chemistry, Alchemy, and/or Demolitions skill to properly formulate the powder.
Duration: Permanent.
Cost: 1/10 per lb. of material, as modified above.
Time to Cast: 1 minute.
Prerequisite: Magery 2, Create Object.
Item: Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Mage Only. Energy Cost to Create: 1,000 points.
This spell creates one or more darts, darts, javelins, spears, or other thrown weapons that the mage can throw.
The mage specifies the type of weapon to be created, and it instantly appears in his hand, properly readied for throwing. The mage uses his skill with the appropriate Thrown Weapon skill to target and throw the missiles.
The weapons themselves are perfectly normal, but they disappear as soon as they hit their target (or land, if they miss), or 10 seconds after they are created, whichever is less. A mage can use created weapons to strike in melee, but they vanish as soon as they do damage or are Blocked or Parried.
By "maintaining" this spell, the mage can create a new weapon on the turn after he throws the old weapon. No time to ready is required, the new weapon immediately appears in the mage's hand as soon as he is ready for it to appear. However, in order for this to work, the mage must throw the old weapon before it vanishes, otherwise he must recast the spell. This means that the mage must throw one missile per turn, though he can "hold" the first missile in the series for up to 10 seconds.
This is also a Plant spell, but only non-metal weapons can be created with the Plant-based version.
Duration: 10 seconds from time of creation, or until the missile strikes its target, whichever is less.
Cost: 3, 1 for each subsequent missile created (see above).
Prerequisite: Create Weapon.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 1,000 points. (b) Clothing or Jewelry. Works for Wearer Only. Energy Cost to Create: 750 points if it can create any sort of missile weapon, or 350 points if it can just create one type.
When the mage casts this spell, he can summon a specific sort of non-human creature (anything from a kobold, to a griffin, to a dragon) that will do his bidding. In other respects, this spell is like the Create Warrior spell.
Each different monster is a different variant of this spell that must be learned separately. It is up to the GM to decide which variants of this spell he will allow in his campaign. It is also up to the GM to set the energy cost to cast a particular spell variant.
As a rule of thumb, all Create Monster spells have a base cost of 2, plus 1 point for every 25 points of skills, attributes and advantage that are useful in combat.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 2 points, plus 1 point for every 25 points of combat skills, attributes and advantages, same to maintain.
Time to Cast: 1 second per every 3 points of base cost.
Prerequisite: Magery, Create Giant Warrior.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 100 times the cost of the spell. (b) Statuette or Jewelry. When a command word is spoken, it turns into a set type monster. Energy Cost to Create: 50 times the cost of the spell.
This spell is a combination of the Create Warrior and Create Animal spell. The warrior created is identical to an ordinary warrior, but it also has Riding (Appropriate Beast)-12 and Lance-12.
The riding animal will be a trained battle mount that can function normally in combat.
If either the rider or the mount are killed or incapacitated, they both vanish.
Other than that, the appearance and demeanor of both the mount and the rider are up to the mage.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: Cost of Create Warrior, plus cost of Create Mount, combined maintenance cost to maintain.
Time to Cast: 3 seconds.
Prerequisite: Magery 2, Create Mount, Create Warrior.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Mage Only. Energy Cost to Create: 1,500 points. (b) Statuette or Jewelry. When a command word is spoken, it turns into a set type rider and mount. Energy Cost to Create: 50 times the cost of the spell.
This spell creates a servant of extreme beauty who will indulge the mage's every whim.
The sex, species and features of the paramour are determined by mage. The paramour has ST 11, DX 11, IQ 10, and HT 11, and has the Very Beautiful/Handsome advantage, and the Lecherous disadvantage. S/he knows the Sex Appeal and Erotic Art skills at 15.
Some variants of this spell will create paramours with non-human features or Exaggerated Sexual Characteristics. Advantages such as Fit or Double Jointed and skills such as Performance or Acting are also common. Mages with more exotic tastes create paramours with the Whip skill . . .
For mages prosaic enough to want to use the paramour for non-romantic purposes, s/he has no useful skills outside of the bedroom, but can do unskilled labor. The paramour will flee or vanish if attacked or threatened.
Magic items with this spell enchanted into them are extremely popular. They typically sell for many times the actual cost of enchantment, especially if spells that increase sexual performance and desire are also included in the item.
Duration: 1 hour.
Cost: 4, 2 to maintain. Add 1 point to the base cost for every 10 points of additional skills or advantages.
Time to Cast: 10 seconds.
Prerequisite: Magery, Create Intelligent Servant.
Item: (a) Clothing or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 350 points. (b) Bed or other comfortable place of repose. The subject must lie down on/in the bed in order to cast the spell. Energy Cost to Create: 300 points. (c) Statuette or Jewelry. When a command word is spoken, it turns into a set type paramour. Energy Cost to Create: 50 times the cost of the spell.
Author:
GURPS Celtic MythThis unglamorous but handy spell creates a small outhouse that can be used for the obvious purposes.
The exterior of the privy is determined by the caster's whim and can be as unobtrusive or as ostentatious as he wishes. It is furnished with a comfortable seat, a small wad of toilet paper (or the local equivalent), and a counter with a large pitcher of warm water, a basin, a bar of soap and a towel (or the equivalent hygiene features).
Any bodily-wastes left behind when the spell ends vanish, along with all the materials that were brought into the being with the outhouse.
The privy itself is merely a combination of illusions, minor creations, and thin walls of force. The caster can hide in or behind the privy (which will make the first attack effectively blind, -10 to hit) but the walls have no PD or DR. Any attack will pass through the walls and end the spell.
Duration: 10 minutes.
Cost: 2, 1 to maintain.
Time to Cast: 5 seconds.
Prerequisite: Magic Tool.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 100 points (b) Jewelry or Statuette. Turns into a privy when a command word is spoken. Energy Cost to Create: 50 points.
This spell is similar to the Create Servant spell, but it allows the mage to create multiple servants of the same sort within the area of effect. Created servants appear one per hex.
Servants can be commanded to perform individual tasks or they can be commanded to work as a unit or several sub-units. Complex or ambiguous commands will result in them hesitating or misinterpreting their orders.
When the spell is renewed, the mage has the option of canceling some or all of the spell. However, if he cancels some of the spell, the servants to be dismissed must be selected by some general criteria, such as "All the ones to the left side of the hall."
Duration: 1 minute.
Base Cost: 3 to cast, 1 to maintain. For skilled servants the cost is 4 to cast, 2 to maintain. For brute servants, the cost is 6 to cast, 3 to maintain. (Minimum of 2 hexes).
Time to Cast: 1 second per energy point used to cast the spell.
Prerequisites: Magery, Create Servant, 10 Illusion and Creation spells.
Item: Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 1,000 points.
Author: Adapted from Greg Littmann.
This spell creates a real physical shelter that will give protection from the elements. The cost of the spell is based on the size, luxury and amenities of the shelter, though the details are left the mage's imagination. The shelter can have one door, window, or other opening per person to be sheltered.
In addition to providing simple protection, the shelter can have other powers:
Air Supply: This power gives the shelter (and its wearer) an internal, renewable air supply for the duration of the spell. This makes those in the shelter immune to gas attacks from the outside, since the air supply also generates a slight "overpressure" which pushes gas away. If combined with the Sealed enhancement, the shelter becomes a magical space station! If combined with the Pressure Support enhancement, it becomes a diving bell! (Prerequisite: Create Air) Cost: 1 point extra.
Armor: The shelter starts with DR 1, PD 1. Each level of this power gives the shelter 5 DR above its normal DR. For every 20 points of DR, PD is increased by 1, to a maximum PD of 5. Cost: +1 per level.
Climate Control: The shelter normally is about as well insulated as a normal pre-modern house and has no source of heating or cooling (except maybe a fireplace or fire pit). For 1 point, the mage can give the shelter a source of heating or cooling. For 2 points, he can keep it at steady temperature in "earth normal" conditions, set by the mage when the spell is cast. For 6 points, he can make it keep a steady temperature no matter what the surrounding temperature might be! In this latter case, if the building is also sealed and given invulnerability against the appropriate attack forms, it could survive ground zero of a nuclear blast! (Prerequisites: Cool Air, Warm Air) Cost: 1, 2 or 6 points extra, see above.
Doors and Windows: Normally the shelter can have one door, window, or other means of egress per person to be sheltered. If the mage wants more doors or windows for some reason, he can have them. Cost: +1 per opening.
Entertainment: The shelter has some form of entertainment to amuse the mage and his guests. Exactly what this is depends on the whim of the mage. Cost: +1 to 3 points depending on the elaborateness of the entertainment.
Food: The shelter has an inherent supply of food. Each level provides a meal for one person. Food is equivalent to that produced by the Create Food spell, unless the mage wants to pay for something better. (Prerequisite: Create Food). Cost: 1 per meal. This cost can rise if the mage wants better food and/or drink.
Furniture: The shelter has furniture appropriate to the structure's use and the mage's needs. (Prerequisite: Create Furniture). Cost: +1 to 3 points, depending on the amount and quality of the furniture.
Healing: The structure has medicines and hospital facilities. The mage can create any facility that he is familiar with which is appropriate to his Tech Level. Note that the ability to create medical facilities and stock them doesn't allow give the mage expertise in using them! (Prerequisite: Create Drug) Cost: 1 to 10 points, depending on the Tech Level, size and complexity of the medical facilities. For example, a simple TL7 hospital bed would cost 1. A TL 12 Rejuv Chamber would cost 10!
Invulnerability: This power makes the shelter invulnerable to a certain type of attack. This could be one sort of weapon (e.g. swords), or one sort of magic attack (e.g. fire spells), but not broad categories of damage or threat (e.g. "all crushing damage" or "magic"). It is legitimate to use this power to protect against one sort of natural hazard, such as heat, cold, fire, vacuum, radiation, etc. Protection against attacks based off a given hazard (such as fireballs, cold jets, etc.) requires a different application. (Prerequisite: Invulnerability). Cost: 3 per type of protection.
Pressure Support: This power gives the shelter (and those inside it) the Pressure Support advantage for the duration of the spell. (Prerequisite: Pressure Support). Cost: +1 per level (3 levels maximum).
Quarantine: The shelter can be magicked so that people with a disease (or diseases) specified by the mage cannot enter and/or leave the shelter (the conditions are set when the mage casts the spell). Likewise, pathogen bearing creatures and objects, or the pathogens themselves can't get in or out. (Prerequisite: Quarantine). Cost: +2 points.
Sanitary Facilities: The shelter includes toilets, toiletries and bathing facilities appropriate for the mage's culture. (Prerequisite: Create Privy). Cost: 1 point for simple sanitary facilities, 2 for fancier accommodations.
Sealed: This power allows the shelter to be completely sealed. Entrances are fully functional airlocks. Those inside the shelter are invulnerable to gas attacks, but they will eventually suffocate unless the Air Supply enhancement is also present.
Those inside the shelter are immune to concussion from explosions, insects, acid, and other attacks that depend on seeping through the cracks and joints in a defense, unless the skin of the shelter is breached.(Prerequisite: Sealed Armor). Cost: 2 points.
Servants: The shelter has one or more servants who will do the bidding of the mage and his guests. (Prerequisite: Create Servant). Cost: 2 per servant.
Water: The shelter has an inherent source of water. Each level provides enough water for 1 man (generally 5 gallons) per day.(Prerequisite: Create Water) Cost: 1 point.
Weaponry: The shelter has inherent weaponry. This could be anything from a weapon rack to hardpoints with automatic weapons, depending on the mage's TL and culture. The cost to create weaponry depends on the cost to cast the Create Weapon spell. Note that this weaponry is integral to the shelter. It instantly vanishes if removed from the confines of the building. (Prerequisite: Create Weapon, Create Ammunition). Cost: Variable.
Workshops: The shelter has inherent work facilities for one skill. Each different skill requires a different application of this power. The mage can create any facility with which he is familiar.(Prerequisite: Magic Tool). Cost: 1 to 10, depending on the Tech Level, size and complexity of the facilities to be created. (As an example, simple facilities for most low-tech crafts, like sewing or leatherworking would cost 1. Complete repair and maintenance facilities for a TL7 fighter-jet would cost 10.
The shelter occupies a minimum of 4 cubic yards per person and a maximum of 12 cubic yards. Paying the cost to hold extra people can create extra space. The internal space is arranged according the whim of the mage.
Duration: 1 hour.
Cost: 3 per person, plus the cost of any added enhancements, half to maintain.
Prerequisites: Magery, Create Object.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 2, 500 points. (b) Model of a shelter. When this object is set on the ground and a command word is spoken, it instantly expands to become a full-sized shelter. The shape and amenities of the shelter are set when the mage enchants the item. Energy Cost to Create: 25 times the base cost of the spell.
This spell creates a shield or buckler for the duration of the spell.
The shield can be of any non-magical, unpowered type and style with which the mage is personally familiar.
When the mage casts the spell, the shield will appear in his hand or on his arm depending on the type. It can be used on the next turn. The magic of the spell alters the weight and balance of the shield so that the mage doesn't suffer any unfamiliarity penalties for using the shield.
If removed from the mage's arm for more than 10 seconds, or if the he wills it to be so, the shield will vanish.
This spell can also be cast on a willing subject.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 1, plus 1/2 point per point of PD, inherent to the shield (minimum of 2 points), half to maintain.
Prerequisites: Complex Illusion.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 350 points. (b) Clothing or Jewelry. Works for Wearer Only. Energy Cost to Create: 350 points.
A silvery-violet teapot will appear (and float) in midair. The caster may choose to put any kind of tea and sweetener inside the pot; it requires no water. When this is done, the pot will brew away, producing 1 quart of the tea, appropriately sweetened. If no tea is placed into the pot, it will brew a basic pekoe blend. The pot will pour itself, continuing to levitate as it does so, at the caster's command.
This is also a Food spell.
Duration: 5 minutes.
Cost: 1, same to maintain.
Item: Jewelry or Statuette. Energy Cost to Create: 25 points.
Author: Bob Traynor (From "Minor Magics for GURPS" )
This spell allows the mage to create a vehicle of any sort with which he is personally familiar.
This spell is otherwise like the Create Object spell, and the created vehicle will vanish it the mage dies or leaves the vehicle. Note that the mage does not have to crew or pilot the vehicle himself, he need only be present on or in the vehicle for the spell to continue. If no driver is present, the mage can also use a variant of the Create Craftsman or Create Warrior spell to produce a driver.
The mage must know 5 Plant spells to make a vehicle of wood, 5 Metal spells to make a vehicle of relatively pure iron or steel (such as a TL5 railroad engine or a TL6 car). If the vehicle has a significant technological component (such as complex machinery or electronics), the mage must also know at least 5 Technology (Machine) spells. If it is powered by anything other than muscle or wind power, the mage must also know the Create Fuel (Technology (Energy)) spell.
If the vehicle is to be armed, cost is doubled and the vehicle is created without any ammunition. It must be supplied from mundane sources, or via the Cornucopia enchantment, or the Create Ammunition spell.
Duration: 10 minutes.
Cost: 3 per 1,000 lbs. of vehicle to be created, half to maintain. Double cost if the vehicle is to be armed. Ammunition must be created or supplied separately.
Time to Cast: 1 minute.
Prerequisite: Magery 2, Create Object, Create Magic Chariot, other prerequisites as above.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Mage Only. Energy Cost to Create: 1,500 points or 500 points if it will only create one form of vehicle. (b) Statuette or Jewelry. When a command word is spoken, it turns into a set type of Vehicle. Energy Cost to Create: 100 times the cost of the spell.
This spell creates a hand weapon of any style or type with which the mage is familiar. The weapon magically appears in the subject's hand.
Missile weapons with internal ammunition storage (or batteries) appear fully loaded with the ammunition of the mage's choice. Single shot weapons are loaded, but no further ammunition is provided with this spell. If the mage needs to reload, he must use the Create Ammunition spell.
Created weapons are Average quality unless the mage wishes to pay to points to make them better. If a weapon can be of higher quality in more than one way (i.e. accuracy, durability, etc.) then each improvement must be paid for separately.
The weapon behaves normally in all respects once it created. However, if it is out of the user's hand for more than 10 seconds, or if the user wills it so, the weapon will vanish, ending the spell.
This spell can also be cast on a willing subject.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 2 points, plus 1 point per die of damage, or per +2 bonus (or fraction thereof) to base Swing or Thrust damage (if a weapon can be used in more than one way, use the larger bonus). Add 1 point for ranged weapons or cutting weapons. Add 2 points for weapons with an Effective Range of more than 100 yards, or for impaling weapons. Add 4 points for weapons with a damage divisor or an explosive effect. Half costs for "one shot" weapons, like single-shot weapons or grenades. Each increase in weapon quality adds 1 point (to a maximum of Very Fine). Each area of improvement must be paid for separately. Half cost to maintain.
Prerequisite: Complex Illusion, Create Ammunition.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 1,000 points. (b) Clothing or Jewelry. Works for Wearer Only. Energy Cost to Create: 25 times the cost if the item creates just one sort of weapon, or 100 times the cost if the item will create any sort of weapon with which the user is familiar.
This spell creates a Perfect Illusion of the subject that will engage him in debate, taking the opposite point of view on every issue that the subject feels passionately about.
The duplicate is identical to the original in all respects except that it has Bard-12, Fast Talk-12, Diplomacy-12 and Psychology-12. If the subject has those skills at a higher level, the Debating Partner will have the skills at a level equal to the original.
Unless the subject makes a roll vs. IQ to dispel the partner, he will ignore other normal activities to engage his opponent in debate. For the duration of the spell, the debating partner will argue with the subject about any topical issue, never relenting in its opposition. Treat this as a Contest of Skills vs. Bard, Fast-Talk, Diplomacy or some other skill.
If either the partner or the subject is attacked or threatened, or if the subject agrees with what the duplicate says (by losing a Contest of Skills) the spell ends. Note that the debating partner is a complex illusion that draws its knowledge from the subject's mind. It has no other function than to debate its "original" and will vanish if asked to do anything other than that.
However, this spell is usually cast as a way to get a stubborn character to see other points of view on an issue,. It is possible that a mage will wish to cast the spell on himself, either to prepare for a public debate, or to check the logic of his arguments. In this case, the GM might give the character +2 to his skill roll to present an argument, win a debate, make a speech, or otherwise puzzle out a policy where there are many possible points of view.
This is also a Communication and Empathy spell.
Duration: 10 minutes.
Cost: 3 points, 2 to maintain.
Time to Cast: 10 seconds.
Prerequisite: Complex Illusion, Mind Reading, Voices.
Item: Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 350 points.
This spell destroys all animate and inanimate objects within the area of effect, leaving behind only dust.
All creatures and objects within the area of effect take 1d points of damage per turn until they are utterly obliterated, armor does not protect. Animate creature may roll vs. HT each turn to avoid damage.
Duration: 1 second.
Cost: 10 per hex, same to maintain.
Time to Cast: 10 seconds.
Prerequisite: Magery 2, 10 Creation spells.
Item: Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Mage Only. Energy Cost to Create: 5,000 points.
This spell will dispel objects or spells created with the Shadow Magic or Shadow Monsters spells.
In other respects, the spell is identical to the Dispel Illusion spell.
Duration: Permanent.
Cost: 2 per hex of shadow magic to be dispelled.
Prerequisite: Dispel Illusion or Shadow Magic.
Item: Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 350 points.
Things seen through the area of effect seem to be up to ten times farther away or ten times nearer than they really are, as specified by the mage when the spell is cast.
Anyone in the area of effect, or looking through the area of effect must roll vs. IQ or get a distorted view of their surroundings.
This is also a Light and Darkness spell.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 2, 1 to maintain.
Prerequisite: Simple Illusion.
Item: (b) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 250 points. (b) An area can have this spell cast on it permanently for 25 times the base cost.
This spell creates the illusion of a cat, small yapping dog or similar creature that interferes with the subject's actions.
If the subject is sleeping, the illusion wakes him by making noise, stepping on him, creating warm spots, drooling on his pillow etc. Unless the subject can dispel the creature (by making an IQ roll) he is at must roll vs. Will-4 to get a good night's sleep.
If he is awake, the beast tries to get underfoot or in the character's way. This gives him -2 to any task that requires fine movements or concentration, or -1 to skills that require gross movements (like combat). Even if the subject shoos the animal away or attack it, it will always appear again to vex him for as long as the spell lasts.
Duration: 4 hours.
Cost: 3 points, 2 to maintain.
Time to Cast: 10 seconds.
Prerequisite: Complex Illusion.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 350 points (b) Clothing or Jewelry. Casts this spell on the wearer. Always On. Energy Cost to Create: 250 points.
This spell temporarily enchants a small item (such as a hat, scarf, gem or piece of jewelry) to serve as a distraction. When thrown, the item will completely absorb the attention of everyone who can see the object, except for the thrower and those he specifies.
Anyone who sees the Diversion, must roll vs. Will or pay attention to the object for 2d turns, ignoring everything else except immediate threats to their safety or property. Distracted characters automatically come to their senses if an immediate danger appears (such as the caster attacking on of their number) or if there is a commotion. However, they won't notice most quiet "non-combat" actions, such as Pickpocket attempts, or the caster slipping quietly away.
Once the diversion wears off, everyone will realized that they were ensorcelled and will react accordingly (usually negatively) to the mage. Suspicious or hostile groups are harder to distract. The GM should give bonus to Will for characters that are in the grip of some strong emotion, who aren't likely to see the item, or who expect a trick. Anyone who has ever been the victim of this spell before automatically gets +1 to Will to resist it.
At the end of spell, the enchanted item can be retrieved, if the mage is still in the area.
This is also a Mind Control spell.
Duration: 2d turns.
Cost: 3 points, can't be maintained.
Prerequisite: Mass Suggestion, Simple Illusion.
Item: Convenient Diversion, GURPS Magic Items 1, p. 73. Energy Cost to Create: 250 points.
Author: Adapted from GURPS Magic Items 1.
This spell allows the mage to create a temporary "clone" of himself that can move and act independently of the mage, even at a distance. The duplicate can move, use skills, fight or cast spells just like the mage. However, the two images share Hit Points and Fatigue, and wounds taken by the duplicate affect the mage and vice-versa. In addition, only the mage can regain Fatigue.
When the spell ends, any experiences and memories the duplicate might have had are magically transferred back to the mage's memory. This process can be quite jarring. The mage must roll vs. IQ when the spell ends or temporarily go insane for 10 times, as long as the spell lasted.
If the mage fails his IQ rolls, multiply the amount by which he missed his die roll by -10 to determine the points of mental disadvantages that the acquires. These disadvantages last until the mage recovers his senses. It is up to the GM to determine the type of insanity, Split Personality, Delusions, Severe Phobias, Paranoia, and Schizophrenia are typical. On a critical failure, the disadvantages are permanent!
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 10, half to maintain.
Time to Cast: 10 seconds.
Prerequisites: Magery 3, Split Mind, Mirror Image, Effigy, 10 Illusion and Creation Spells.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Mage Only. Energy Cost to Create: 5,000 points. (b) Clothing or Jewelry. Works for wearer only. Energy Cost to Create: 3,500 points.
This spell temporarily creates a duplicate of another person, unless the person can make an IQ roll to resist being copied.
This duplicate can either have a personality identical to that of the original subject or it can have the Compulsive Behavior (Morally Opposed). In the latter case, it will be completely different in personality, likes, dislikes, and mental advantages and disadvantages from the original character. In the latter case, if the mage wishes, it will immediately attack the original person or otherwise seek to harm him.
The duplicate has all the original person's skills, abilities and powers that the he had when the spell was cast, as well as any wounds and fatigue that he had. The non-magical equipment of the original person is duplicated,. magic items are also duplicated, but have no powers. If any object or equipment is removed from the duplicate for more than 10 seconds, it will vanish.
If the original character is slain, the duplicate immediately vanishes.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 5 points, plus 1 point for every 100 character points to be duplicated. Same to maintain.
Time to Cast: 5 seconds.
Prerequisites: Duplicate.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Mage Only. Energy Cost to Create: 5,000 points. (b) Clothing or Jewelry. Works for wearer only. Energy Cost to Create: 3,500 points.
This spell duplicates an item.
In order for the spell to work, the mage must touch the item that he wants to duplicate for the duration of the spell. If cast as an enchantment, the item to be duplicated must be put in a box or other container with the spell cast on it.
Unlike the Create Item spell, items don't have to remain in contact with living flesh, though in other respects this spell is like that one.
Duration: 1 minute
Cost: 5 per pound that item weighs, same to maintain.
Time to Cast: 10 seconds
Prerequisites: Magery 3, Create Item
Item: Box or other sealed container. See GURPS Magic Items 1 Energy Cost to Create: 25,000 points
Author: Adapted from GURPS Magic Items 1.
This spell creates a magic rope that automatically attempts to entangle and bind any person it strikes.
The rope is a Fine quality weapon with the Dancing Weapon (Movement) spells cast on it. Whip skill is used to aim the rope in combat. If the rope hits it does no damage, but will attempt to Entangle the victim, starting with the body location it hit.
Treat the attempt to entangle as a contest between the victim's DX and the rope's Entangling skill of 12. If the rope tangles its initial hit location, it will then magically start to bind the victim. Treat this as another contest of DX (or Escape skill) vs. Entangle, with a -1 cumulative modifier to the victim's roll for each contest the rope wins.
This penalty applies not only to contests of skill, but the victim's Move, Active Defenses, and DX-based skills. When the victim's DX penalty exceeds his DX, he is bound fast. Only if the victim rolls a critical success or wins three consecutive contests of skill does he shake off the rope.
While fighting the rope, the victim can do nothing else. If the victim or an ally attempts to cut or attack the rope, the rope has PD 1, DR 3, HP 10, and is at -4 to target. In addition, the rope has a Dodge of 5 (including PD).
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 3, 2 to maintain.
Time to Cast: 3 seconds.
Prerequisite: 3 Creation spells, Dancing Rope or Dancing Weapon.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 500 points. (b) Magic Rope. Energy Cost to Create: 350 points.
This spell will convert any non-living object into its fair market value in money or other negotiable instruments (such as gems or stocks).
This spell will only work if the mage is the owner of the item, or has permission to cast the spell on the item from its owner. It also won't work on magic items or unique items.
The amount of money the mage gets from converting an item is equal to the local cost of an item, or its price in the appropriate GURPS sourcebook, whichever is less. Note that used items will usually bring far less than they would if they were new. This spell also doesn't recognize the "collectable" or historical value of an item. For example, a rare book would yield the price of an "average" used book of similar type.
Duration: Permanent.
Cost: 3 per every $100 in goods to be converted.
Time to Cast: 1 minute.
Prerequisites: Magery, Coins of Change.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Mage Only. Energy Cost to Create: 1,000 points. (b) Pouch or other Container. Any object placed in it has this spell cast on it. Energy Cost to Create: 2,500.
Author: Adapted from GURPS Magic Items 1.
This spell enchants a shield so that when it blocks a blow, chains (or something similar) fly out of its face and entangle the weapon as if it were a Chainlash Shield (GURPS Magic Items 2, p. 23-24).
While the weapon is stuck to the shield, it is effectively weightless as far as the shield user is concerned.
This is also a Protection and Warning spell.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 4 points, 3 to maintain.
Time to Cast: 3 seconds.
Prerequisite: Block, Enchanted Rope.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 500 points. (b) Chainlash Shield. GURPS Magic Items 2, p. 23-24. Energy Cost to Create: 350 points.
Author: Adapted from GURPS Magic Items 2.
This spell allows the mage to exchange his image with the subject, or to switch the images of two subjects. If either subject is unwilling, he may roll vs. IQ to resist this spell. If any subject makes his roll, the spell automatically fails.
Though both the mage and the subject(s) can see through the illusion once it is cast, to anyone else it appears that the mage is the subject and the subject is the mage (or the two subjects are each other). This illusion extends to speech, scent, mannerisms, and so forth. Unless an observer makes a Resistance roll vs. IQ roll, he will mistake the two.
In order for this spell to work, the mage must have the subject(s) in his sight when he casts the spell.
Duration: 10 minutes.
Cost: 4 points, 3 to maintain.
Time to Cast: 10 seconds.
Prerequisite: Magery, Complex Illusion, and Voices.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 750 points (b) Clothing or Jewelry. Works for wearer only. Energy Cost to Create: 500 points. (c) Pair of matched pieces of Clothing or Jewelry. Allows subjects to switch images between them. Energy Cost to Create: 450 points.
Item:
Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 300 pointsThis spell alters an information sign so that gives incorrect information. For example, a Stop sign could be made to look like a Yield sign or a road sign could be altered to give the incorrect distance and direction to a places listed.
The information given will seem plausible, but will never read exactly the same way the next time the sign is viewed.
Unless the subject is extremely familiar with the area, this spell will force him to make an Area Knowledge (or similar skill) roll to avoid getting lost or to act on the incorrect information.
This is also a Communication and Empathy spell.
Duration: 1 hour.
Cost: 2 points, 1 to maintain.
Prerequisite: Simple Illusion.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 1050 points (b) A Sign or SignPost can have this spell cast on it permanently. Energy Cost to Create: 150 points.
Author: Adapted from GURPS Magic Items 2.
This spell makes the subject's face seem to be horrible and monstrous. Anyone who sees the victim's face must make a Fright Check at -4.
Unwilling subjects resist with IQ. They can also cancel the effects of the spell if they can hide their face before anyone sees them.
Duration: 10 seconds.
Cost: 3, 2 to maintain, each doubling of energy doubles the Fright Check penalty.
Prerequisite: Simple Illusion.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 300 points. (b) Mask, Clothing or Jewelry. Works for Wearer Only. Some versions are Always On. Many are Hexed. Energy Cost to Create: 250 points.
This spell makes the subject's clothes appear to be of the finest cut and quality.
Actual quality, state of repair and cleanliness are not affected, nor is the type of garment. Likewise, protective qualities of the garment are not changed. Observers may roll vs. IQ to see through the Illusion.
Duration: 1 hour.
Cost: 3, 2 to maintain.
Prerequisites: Simple Illusion.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 250 points. (b) Quality Label, GURPS Magic Items I, p. 35 Energy Cost to Create: 150 points.
Author: Adapted from GURPS Magic Items 1.
This spell searches the subject's subconscious to find what he fears most. It then produces a horrifying illusion based on those fears.
When the spell is cast, the subject must roll vs. Will or take a Fright Check at -15. If the Fright Check is failed by 20 points or more, the subject takes 1d points of damage in addition to the other effects of the Fright Check.
If the illusion pursues or attacks the subject, the subject must make another Fright Check every 10 seconds.
This is also a Mind Control spell.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 8, 6 to maintain.
Time to Cast: 10 seconds.
Prerequisite: Magery, Perfect Illusion, Fear, and Mind Reading.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Mage Only. Energy Cost to Create: 500 points. (b) Mirror or other reflective device. Anyone who looks into the object for more than 1d seconds must roll vs. Will or have this spell cast on him. Energy Cost to Create: 350 points.
This odd spell makes a chest or other object grow feet and skitter away from anyone who tries to interfere with it. However, until it is bothered, the item appears to be normal.
The object has Move of 7, and DX 13, -1 per 100 lbs. the object weighs. It will have ST 6 +1 per 100 lbs. of weight. It has its normal HT and HP and 0 IQ.
The item has no combat skills and will not attack. It will, however, maneuver "intelligently" to avoid obstacles and to avoid being cornered. It will also use its DX and ST to break free if anyone attempts to grapple it.
The exact behavior that will animate the chest must be specified by the mage when the spell is cast. The instructions can be fairly complex (e.g., "Run away from anyone except tall black men with one eye who clap their hands three times quickly after taking three steps sideways to the left.") but can't be changed once given.
Duration: 1 hour.
Cost: 2, plus 1 per 50 lbs. of material, half to maintain.
Prerequisite: Create Animal.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 350 points. (b) An object can have this spell cast on it permanently for 25 times the base cost.
This spell produces a large, completely transparent disc, twenty feet across, which lasts throughout the duration of the spell. This disc is immune to physical damage, but very easy to move by magic; it weighs about 50 pounds. Small shapes can be worked into the surface of the disc when the spell is cast, usually so that safety straps and similar can be attached.
(This spell appeared in GURPS Discworld as "Fresnel's Wonderful Concentrator".)
This spell is useless as written. To make the spell attractive in a non-Discworld campaign, GMs should make the following changes. The spell can be cast non-ceremonially by a single mage. It doesn't require any special ingredients (unless all spells in the campaign require material components), and the time or energy to cast the spell can be reduced by high skill level. Also, substitute the information in parentheses for the italicized spell information, below.
This is also a Force spell.
Duration: (8 hours).
Cost:(10 to cast, 2 to maintain (minimum of 1 point).)
Time to Cast: (1 hour)
Prerequisites: (Magery 2, Floating Disc, Apportation, Wall of Force)
Author: Adapted from GURPS Discworld.
This spell makes subject's eyes glow with a dull red, green, yellow or blue light. Though this light doesn't interfere with the subject's vision or improve his night vision, it will make him visible in the dark.
If an observer can see the subject's eyes, he can judge his location, even in complete darkness. This halves any penalties due to darkness to hit the subject in combat, and makes use of skills such as Stealth, Disguise, Camouflage or Shadowing useless.
This spell will also make the subject look eerie when seen in darkness or dim light. Anyone looking at the subject's face must make a Fright Check at +2.
Unwilling subjects resist with IQ. They can also cancel the effects of this spell by covering or closing their eyes. If the subject covers his eyes, he gets -3 to DX rolls and skill rolls based on DX. He also gets -3 to Vision rolls, and can't use the hand that he is using to cover his eyes. If he closes his eyes, he is blind.
This is also a Light and Darkness spell.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 2, 1 to maintain.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 200 points. (b) Mask or Hood. Works for wearer only. Some versions are Always On. Many are Hexed. Energy Cost to Create: 100 points.
This spell covers an area with a powerful glue. Victims who move through the hex must roll vs. DX for each glue hex that they enter. Creatures that touch a Glued object must roll vs. DX or be glued fast to the surface.
Glued creatures must roll vs. ST-2 to break free. They may do this once per turn, but each failed roll costs 1 Fatigue and gives a -1 cumulative penalty to subsequent checks. When the victim's Fatigue reaches 0 or the penalty is equal to his ST, he is so bogged down that he is completely helpless. The glue can be removed with large amounts of oil (+6 to ST to break loose) or with the Clean spell.
Characters who are stuck in a glue hex can't move while they are stuck. This gives them -1 Dodge or other skills that require footwork, such as most combat skills.
Characters who are stuck to a glued item by a hand are affected as they were affected by the Hex enchantment. The GM must determine the effects if a character is Glued to an item or area in an unusual position.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 2 points to cast on an object, same to maintain. If cast as an area spell, the cost is 3 points, same to maintain.
Time to Cast: 3 seconds.
Prerequisite: Simple Illusion or Hex.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 350 points. (b) An area can be permanently glued for 50 times the base cost. Also, see the Hex enchantment.
Allows the caster to throw a sticky blob of goo that sticks to any object it hits and that might glue things together.
The blob has SS 13, Acc 11, 1/2D 15, Max 30 and is thrown using the Spell Throwing (Glue Ball) skill.
If the ball hits a living creature, the target must roll vs. DX to keep from having one or more limbs glued fast to his body. A failure by 1 to 2 means an arm glued to the body. A failure by 3 or 4 means both legs glued together or both arms glued to the body. A critical failure or failure by 5 or more means all the limbs are glued together.
Alternately, the glue can be thrown against a surface like a doorknob or a floor where it will sit until some creature touches it. Any creature that touches the glue must roll vs. DX or be glued fast to the surface as if the Hex enchantment had been cast on him.
In other respects, this spell is identical to the Glue spell.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 3, can't be maintained.
Time to Cast: 3 seconds.
Prerequisite: Glue.
Item: Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 350 points.
A fine rain of gossamer web floats down into the area. While it is easily visible, it neither impedes vision or movement. It vanishes once it reaches the ground.
This is also a Plant spell.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 1/10 (minimum 1), half to maintain.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 50 points. (b) An area can be permanently filled with gossamer for 10 times the base cost.
Author: Adapted from Bob Traynor (From "Minor Magics for GURPS").
This spell coats an object or area with a fatty, greasy substance.
If cast as an Area spell, the effects are the same as the Ice Slick spell. If cast on an object, the grease gives -6 to DX rolls to hold, use or catch the item. If smeared on an object that requires a ST roll to move, turn, etc. the subject's effective ST is halved, due to the slipperiness of the greased surface.
Alternately, the grease can be used as a lubricant for axles, hinges, etc. In this case, it will work as a normal lubricant. If used as a lubricant for an item that requires a ST roll to slide or move, it gives a bonus to 1/4 of the character's ST.
A character that gets grease on his hands, either by falling in a Greased area, or by handling a Greased object, must spend 10 seconds wiping his hands off. If he can't do this, or he is at -2 to DX rolls to hold or use held items.
If ingested, the Grease is harmless, but it might act as a laxative. Some versions of this spell create edible grease that can be used for frying.
If a Greased area is exposed to extreme heat or flames, it will burst into flame. In this case, treat the Greased areas as Flame hexes. If the Create Fire spell is cast on an area affected by the Grease spell, the grease does +1 flame damage. Flaming Grease burns out after 1 minute, ending the spell.
This is also a Food spell.
Duration: 10 minutes.
Cost: 1 for a small object (e.g., a doorknob, or a hinge), 2 for a larger object (e.g., the hinges and lock mechanism of a door, or the axles of a wagon), 3 per hex to grease or lubricate large objects. If cast as an Area spell, the Base Cost is 3 points. Same cost to maintain.
Prerequisites: Create Food or Simple Illusion.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 250 points. (b) An object or area can have this spell cast on it permanently for 25 times the base cost.
Author: Adapted from Keith Bisset (Revenant).
This spell lets the mage shoot a thin jet of grease from one hand. Each turn, the caster rolls versus DX-4 or Magic Jet skill to hit.
The jet counts as an attack; it may be Dodged or Blocked, but not Parried. If the spell strikes, it causes no injury, but coats the subject in grease. The victim must roll vs. DX or suffer the effects of the Grease spell. Until he spends 10 seconds cleaning his hands, he will be at -2 to DX to hold or use any item.
This gives people who are attempting to Grapple the target -4 to their DX or skill rolls. They must also roll vs. DX or they will get Grease on their hands, as described above. The Grease also gives the subject +2 to DX or skill rolls to squeeze through tight spaces or escape from bonds. Unfortunately, the grease will ruin the subject's clothes, and will make it easier to set the victim's clothing on fire. Until the subject removes, or launders his clothing, he is at -1 to all Resistance rolls to avoid Fire spells, and takes +1 damage from normal fire.
If this spell is targeted at the victim's head, it will temporarily blind him unless he makes an HT roll. If the HT roll is failed, each energy point in the spell blinds the target for one second. After the target can see again, he will be at -3 DX for watery eyes for a further 1d seconds.
On a critical failure of the HT roll, the target is blinded for 1d seconds per point in the spell. On a successful HT roll, the victim covers his eyes for one second, and therefore is at -3 DX for one turn. On a critical success, the victim is unaffected.
If this spell is aimed at the ground, or at a non-living item, it affects that item (or area) as if the Grease spell had been cast on it. If the mage uses the Grease Jet spell to make an area slippery, he can cover 1 hex per turn.
Some variants of this spell create edible grease.
This is also a Food spell.
Duration: 1 second.
Cost: 1 to 3 points. The jet's range in hexes is equal to the energy put into it. Cost to maintain is the same.
Prerequisites: Food Jet or Grease.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 350 points. (b) An object or area can have this spell cast on it permanently for 25 times the base cost.
This spell is identical to the Polymorph spell, except that the caster can change himself into any concrete thing - whether animal, vegetable or mineral.
If the caster would be harmed by being changed to something else in that environment, he takes damage. For example, if the mage turns into a fish on land or a block of salt in water, he would take damage.
Duration: 1 hour.
Cost: 10 points, half to maintain.
Time to Cast: 10 seconds.
Prerequisite: Magery, 5 variants of the Polymorph spell.
Item: Jewelry or Clothing. Mage Only. Energy Cost to Create: 5,000 points.
As the Polymorph Other spell, but the caster can cast it on others.
Duration: 1 hour.
Cost: 10 points, half to maintain.
Prerequisite: Great Polymorph, 5 variants of the Polymorph Other spell.
Time to Cast: 10 seconds.
Item: Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Mage Only. Energy Cost to Create: 5,000 points.
When this spell is cast, everything in the area of effect seems to become a strange, constantly shifting alien landscape.
Characters in the area of effect must roll vs. IQ or become confused and disoriented. Affected characters immediately become confused as to their location and orientation. They are at -6 to Navigation or Orienteering rolls to reorient themselves for the duration of the spell.
In addition to the confusing effect of the spell, normal objects in the area of effect become harder to see. Characters must roll vs. IQ in order to find objects that they know exist within the area of effect. Hidden or unknown items are effectively invisible for the duration of the spell.
Animate creatures are essentially normal, though details of coloration, clothing, and equipment appear to be very different.
Due to the surrealistic effects, rigid, unimaginative, or timid creatures might have to make a Fright Check when they encounter this spell.
Duration: 1 minute.
Base Cost: 3, 2 to maintain.
Prerequisite: Complex Illusion.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 350 points. (b) An area can have this spell placed upon it permanently for 25 times the base cost.
This spell encases the subject in a perfectly fitting suit of magical plate armor (PD 3, DR 5) for the duration of the spell.
The armor is effectively weightless and is comfortable to wear in any normal climate, although it doesn't protect against extreme cold unless especially powered to do so. In addition, the armor doesn't interfere with the user's senses or movement in any way.
If any part of the armor is removed from the subject's body for more than 10 seconds, or if the subject wills it to be so, the armor will vanish.
This armor can have one or more of the following powers:
Air Supply: This power gives the armor (and its wearer) an internal, renewable air supply for the duration of the spell. This makes the wearer immune to gas attacks. If combined with the Sealed enhancement, the armor becomes a magical Vacc suit! If combined with the Pressure Support enhancement, it becomes a diving suit! (Prerequisite: Create Air). Cost: 1 point.
Critical Hit Negation: This power allows armor to have a chance to negate critical hits scored to hit locations protected by that armor. Whenever a critical hit is rolled, the attacker must reroll the dice. Any result other than another critical hit results in normal damage. (Prerequisite: Critical Hit Negation). Cost: 3 points.
Damage Resistance: Each level of this power gives the armor +1 to DR above its normal DR. (Prerequisite: Fortify). Cost: 1 per level.
Deflection: Each level of this power gives +1 PD above the armor's normal defenses, up to 3 levels maximum (or PD 8 from all sources of protection). (Prerequisite: Deflect). Cost: 2 per level (3 levels maximum).
Invulnerability: This power makes the wearer invulnerable to a certain type of attack. This could be one sort of weapon (e.g. swords), or one sort of magic attack (e.g. fire spells), but not broad categories of damage or threat (e.g. "all crushing damage" or "magic"). It is legitimate to use this power to protect against one sort of natural hazard, such as heat, cold, fire, vacuum, radiation, etc. Protection against attacks based off a given hazard (such as fireballs, cold jets, etc.) requires a different application. (Prerequisite: Invulnerability). Cost: 3 per type of protection.
Pressure Support: This power gives the armor (and its wearer) the Pressure Support advantage for the duration of the spell. (Prerequisite: Pressure Support).Cost: 1 per level (3 levels maximum).
Sealed: This power allows the armor to seamlessly cover the subject's entire body without any seams, openings or weak spots. The subject can breathe normally and is vulnerable to gas attacks. However, his eyes are protected by the seal and he is immune to concussion, fire, insects, acid, and other attacks that depend on seeping through the cracks and joints in the armor. (Prerequisite: Sealed Armor). Cost: 2 points.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 3, plus the cost of any added enhancements, half to maintain.
Prerequisites: Magery, Create Armor, Lighten, Comfort, plus the Prerequisites listed above.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand, Clothing or Jewelry. Cost: 1, 500 points. (b) Clothing or Jewelry. Works for wearer only. Cost: 1,000 points if the item allows the user to create any variant of this spell or 25 times the base cost to cast the spell if the item creates only one variant.
This spell temporarily creates a magic bow (or other ranged muscle-powered weapon specified by the mage) of Very Fine quality which has one or more of the following powers:
Accuracy: Each level of this power gives the user +1 to hit. (Prerequisite: Accuracy). Cost: 1 per level.
Arrow Fission: This power makes missiles fired from the bow turn into a swarm of arrows. The central arrow is still aimed at it's original target, while the created arrows around it fly at the hexes around the target of the original arrow, landing one per hex in hexes adjacent to the target.
The created arrows will hit whatever is in that hex on a 9 or less, or effective skill of 9 minus any penalties to hit, whichever is worse. They may be blocked or dodged like normal arrows. If they strike, they will have the same velocity and mass as the original missile and do the same basic damage (e.g. 1d). If they hit, roll randomly for where they strike. Once the created arrows do their damage, they vanish. (Prerequisite: Arrow Fission). Cost: 3 points.
Backstabbing: The weapon behaves as if the Backstab spell had been cast on it. (Prerequisite: Backstab). Cost: 3 points.
Bloody: This power gives the weapon the effects of the Bloody Wound spell. (Prerequisite: Bloody Wound). Cost: 2 points.
Cornucopia: Missiles for the weapon automatically appear in the proper spot to be fired - arrows magically appear on the string, sling bullets appear in the pouch. This eliminates the need for ammunition and any time needed to pull ammunition from a storage container. (Prerequisite: Cornucopia). Cost: 3 points.
Damage: Each level of this power gives the user +1 to damage. (Prerequisite: Puissance). Cost: 1 per level.
Fumble Resistance: A weapon with this spell cast upon it helps keep its user from receiving a critical failure. Whenever a critical failure is rolled, this spell allows the user to reroll the dice. Any result other than another critical failure results in a simple miss. (Prerequisite: Fumble Resistance). Cost: 2 points.
Ghost Weapon: The weapon cannot hit normal creatures, but will hit insubstantial creatures normally. (Prerequisite: Ghost Weapon). Cost: 2 points.
Homing: This power makes missiles fired from the bow pursue their target, even if the victim subsequently flees or hides. If the missile misses the first time, it will turn to follow its target and will keep pursuing until it hits the target or accidentally are stuck in some solid object. The missile will target the target designated by the firer and will move to dodge any object between it and its target. If it has to go through a hex occupied by another creature or an object, it must roll vs. its Dodge of 12 to avoid that object. Otherwise, it hits that object instead of its target. (Prerequisite: Homing). Cost: 3 points.
Killing Wound: This power makes the weapon more likely to score a critical hit. The "to hit" roll is normal, but if a hit is scored, the dice are rolled again. On a roll of 7 or less (or 5 less than the score needed to hit the target in the first place), the damage done is critical. (Prerequisite: Killing Wound). Cost: 3 points.
Long Range: This power makes the weapon have 10% extra range per level, though it appears normal in other respects. (Prerequisite: Long-Range). Cost: 1 point per level.
Loyal Weapon: The weapon will fly back to the user's hand if dropped. (Prerequisite: Loyal Weapon). Cost: 1 point.
Penetrating Missile: The weapon's missiles ignore 1 point of DR of any object it hits for each level of this spell. (Prerequisite: Penetrating Blade). Cost: 1 per level.
Quick-Aim: Each level of this power reduces the SS number of the weapon by 1. (Prerequisite: Quick Aim). Cost: 1 per level.
Scope: This spell allows a ranged weapon to function as if it had telescopic sights, though to all outward appearances it looks normal. Each level gives the equivalent of x2 magnification. (Prerequisite: Scope). Cost: 1 per level.
Singing Weapon: This power allows the weapon to "sing" with an unearthly song when used. This gives +1 to the Morale and Fright Checks of any creature friendly to the user that is within 5 hexes, and forces foes to make a Fright Check when they first hear the weapon. (Prerequisite: Singing Weapon). Cost: 2 points
Speed: Each level of this power allows the user to ready the weapon in 1 turn less than it would normally take him (to a minimum of no readying time at all). In addition, the minimum ST needed to wield the weapon is reduced by 2 per level of this enhancement. (Prerequisite: Graceful Weapon). Cost: 1 per level.
The bow will only work for the subject designated by the mage, if another person attempts to use the bow, it will instantly vanish, ending the spell. Likewise, if the bow breaks, or is out of the user's hand for more than a minute, it will vanish and the spell will end.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 3, plus the cost of any added enhancements, half to maintain.
Prerequisites: Magery, Create Weapon, Magic Weapon, plus the Prerequisites listed above.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand, Clothing or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 1, 500 points. (b) Clothing or Jewelry. Works for wearer only. Energy Cost to Create: 1,000 points if the item allows the user to create any variant of this spell or 25 times the base cost to cast the spell if the item creates only one variant.
This spell creates a magical shield that appears in the subject's hand for the duration of the spell.
The shield is of the type and size most familiar to the subject, but has PD 3 and is exceedingly light (1 lb.) which gives the subject +2 to his Block score. It is also invulnerable; objects cannot pass through it nor can it be broken.
If removed from the subject's arm for more than 10 seconds, or if the subject wills it to be so, the shield will vanish.
In addition, the shield can have other powers:
Deflection: This power improves the shield's PD beyond its normal limits. (Prerequisite: Defending Shield). Cost: 1 point per level (up to 2 levels maximum, no more than PD 8 from all sources).
Dancing Shield: This power allows the shield to "dance" defending the subject with a Block score equal to the user's inherent skill or 1/3 the mage's skill with the Dancing Shield enchantment. (Prerequisite: Dancing Shield). Cost: 2 points
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 1, plus 1/2 point per point of PD, inherent to the shield (minimum of 2 points), half to maintain.
Prerequisites: Complex Illusion.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand, Clothing or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 1, 000 points. (b) Clothing or Jewelry. Works for wearer only. Energy Cost to Create: 750 points if the item allows the user to create any variant of this spell or 20 times the base cost to cast the spell if the item creates only one variant.
This spell temporarily creates a magic sword (or other hand melee weapon specified by the mage) of Very Fine quality which has one or more of the following powers:
Accuracy: Each level of this power gives the user +1 to hit. (Prerequisite: Accuracy). Cost: 1 per level.
Backstabbing: The weapon behaves as if the Backstab spell had been cast on it. (Prerequisite: Backstab). Cost: 3 points.
Bloody: This power gives the weapon the effects of the Bloody Wound spell. (Prerequisite: Bloody Wound). Cost: 2 points.
Cleaver: Each level of this power doubles the amount of damage the weapon does to inanimate objects, and gives the weapon +1 to break any weapon that it hits. (Prerequisite: Cleaving). Cost: 2 per level.
Damage: Each level of this power gives the user +1 to damage. (Prerequisite: Puissance). Cost: 1 per level.
Dancing Sword: The sword will dance as per the Dancing Weapon spell. (Prerequisite: Dancing Weapon). Cost: 2 points.
Draining Strike: This power the weapon to do damage as long as it is held in contact with the victim. The blow need not do any physical damage, as long as the weapon touches the victim, the victim must roll vs. HT or 1 HP and 1 ST per turn. (Prerequisite: Draining Strike). Cost: 3 points.
Fumble Resistance: A weapon with this spell cast upon it helps keep its user from receiving a critical failure. Whenever a critical failure is rolled, this spell allows the user to reroll the dice. Any result other than another critical failure results in a simple miss. (Prerequisite: Fumble Resistance). Cost: 2 points.
Ghost Weapon: The weapon cannot hit normal creatures, but will hit insubstantial creatures normally. (Prerequisite: Ghost Weapon). Cost: 2 points.
Killing Wound: This power makes the weapon more likely to score a critical hit. The "to hit" roll is normal, but if a hit is scored, the dice are rolled again. On a roll of 7 or less (or 5 less than the score needed to hit the target in the first place), the damage done is critical. (Prerequisite: Killing Wound). Cost: 3 points.
Long Range: This power makes the weapon have 1 extra hex of reach per level, though it appears normal in other respects. (Prerequisite: Long-Range). Cost: 2 points per level.
Loyal Weapon: The weapon will fly back to the user's hand if dropped. (Prerequisite: Loyal Weapon). Cost: 1 point.
Parry: The user's Parry score with the weapon is increased by 1 per level of this power. (Prerequisite: Defending Weapon). Cost: 1 per level.
Penetrating Blade: The weapon ignores 1 point of DR of any object it hits for each level of this spell. (Prerequisite: Penetrating Blade). Cost: 1 per level.
Singing Weapon: This power allows the weapon to "sing" with an unearthly song when used. This gives +1 to the Morale and Fright Checks of any creature friendly to the user, which is within 5 hexes, and forces foes to make a Fright Check when they first hear the weapon. (Prerequisite: Singing Weapon). Cost: 2 points
Speed: Each level of this power allows the user to ready the weapon in 1 turn less than it would normally take him (to a minimum of no readying time at all). In addition, the minimum ST needed to wield the weapon is reduced by 2 per level of this enhancement. (Prerequisite: Graceful Weapon). Cost: 1 per level.
The sword will only work for the subject designated by the mage, if another person attempts to use the sword, it will instantly vanish, ending the spell. Likewise, if the sword breaks, or is out of the user's hand for more than a minute, it will vanish and the spell will end.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 3, plus the cost of any added enhancements, half to maintain.
Prerequisites: Magery, Create Weapon, Magic Weapon, plus the Prerequisites listed above.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand, Clothing or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 1, 500 points. (b) Clothing or Jewelry. Works for wearer only. Energy Cost to Create: 1,000 points if the item allows the user to create any variant of this spell or 25 times the base cost to cast the spell if the item creates only one variant.
To outside observers, the subject appears to be doing some routine, unremarkable activity. However, this is actually a preprogrammed illusion. While under the cloak of this spell, the mage can do whatever he wishes, but those within the Illusion Cloak are not fooled by it.
For example, to viewers a mage could appear to be talking peaceably with another character, while actually the mage was attacking him! The victim would not be fooled by this, however, and could defend normally.
The mage must pay for each hex that he wishes to cloak. If he, or one of the subjects within the cloak steps outside of the cloaked area, the spell is automatically broken.
Those outside of the Cloak get a roll vs. IQ to resist the spell's effects when it is first cast. They get subsequent roll vs. IQ whenever an object leaves the cloaked area (such as thrown weapons) or whenever there is a loud noise (such as the sounds of combat).
Duration: 30 seconds.
Cost: 3 points, same to maintain.
Time to Cast: 3 seconds.
Prerequisite: Magery, Phantom Terrain.
Item: Wand, Staff, or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 500 points.
This spell allows the mage to write instructions or other information on paper in a script that only the recipient can read, to others the text appears to be some sort of foreign script.
If an unauthorized person looks at the script they must roll vs. IQ or they are affected as by the Suggestion spell. The mage must specify the Suggestion when the spell is cast. Authorized readers are not affected by the Suggestion.
This is also a Communication and Empathy spell and a Mind Control spell.
Duration: 1 day.
Cost: 4 to cast, 2 to maintain.
Prerequisite: Suggestion, Simple Illusion.
Item: Pen or other writing implement. Energy Cost to Create: 250 points.
Author: Adapted from Keith Bisset (Revenant).
This spell allows the mage to create a moving image of an object or creature. Unlike an illusion, the image is just composed of light and shadow and looks rather like a three-dimensional hologram.
Though it might appear to be real, it can't do damage and can't affect its environment in any way. The mage must use other spells (such as Voices or Hallucination) in order to allow the Image to fool other senses besides sight.
Observers may roll vs. their best Sense ability or their IQ, whichever is best, each turn to detect the Image for what it is.
In other respects, this spell is identical to the Simple Illusion spell.
This is also a Light and Darkness spell.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 1 point for a small object or 2 points for a larger object that can fill up to 1 hex, half to maintain. If cast as an Area spell, Base Cost is 2, half to maintain.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 150 points., (b) An image can be made permanent for 25 times the base cost.
This spell will create an object, as described in the Create Object spell, which won't vanish if it doesn't stay near living flesh.
However, in order to create the object, the mage must touch the original object for the entire time that he casts the spell. He must have a mass equivalent to the mass of the original object (rocks or dirt are fine).
When the spell ends, the object reverts to the material that was used to form it, though it retains the general shape of the object. For example, a sword formed from stone would turn into a sword-shaped stone when the spell ended.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 2 per 5 lbs., half to maintain.
Time to Cast: 1 second per point of energy used to cast the spell.
Prerequisites: Create Object.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Mage Only. Energy Cost to Create: 1,500 points. (b) Mocking Box, GURPS Magic Items 1, p. 76 Energy Cost to Create: 1,000 points.
Author: Adapted from GURPS Magic Items 1.
This spell is identical to the Image spell but the mage's creations can leave behind illusionary traces of their passing. They can also fool other senses besides Sight.
For example, an improved image can fool the sense of smell and/or hearing. They can also appear to inflict "real" wounds or leave "real" footprints.
Characters who are "affected" by the image get an immediate roll vs. IQ+2 to see the Improved Image for what it is. Characters who are not personally affected may roll vs. IQ or their best Sense ability each turn to detect the illusion.
In other respects, this spell is identical to the Image spell.
This is also a Light and Darkness spell.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 1 point for a small object or 2 points for a larger object that can fill up to 1 hex, half to maintain. If cast as an Area spell, Base Cost is 2, half to maintain.
Prerequisite: Image, Hallucination.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 250 points., (b) An image can be made permanent for 50 times the base cost.
This spell creates an infinite ladder as described in GURPS Magic Items 2, p. 64.
This is a also a Plant spell.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 4 points, 2 to maintain.
Time to Cast: 3 seconds.
Prerequisite: Complex Illusion.
Item: Infinite Ladder GURPS Magic Items 2, p. 64. Energy Cost to Create: 750 points.
Author: Adapted from GURPS Magic Items 2.
Author:
David Pulver (GURPS Technomancer).This spell will create a whole 6' high x 3' wide bookcase of books (approximately 100 x 2d books). The books appear to be culled at random from used bookshops, libraries, and tag sales from across the metaverse. Consequently, the quality of the books will be wildly variable.
Most will be hopelessly dull (e.g., "Ye amendments of 1402 to ye Incoyme Taxe Code of 1347 for ye Kingdome of Lemuria, Volumes 1-17 inclusive."), incomprehensible (e.g. "The Joy of Volwardish Veeblefrotzing" written in Sumerian cuneiform), peculiar (e.g., "The Proceedings of the 47th Annual Megalan Kobold Abatement Committee" or "Knowe Youre Shuggothe: Iyts Care and Feedeing."), or of dubious literary merit (e.g. "Luste in Vaine", "Debbey Does Caithness", "I was a Halfling Vampyre", "Onlie One Fortnighte to Slimmer Thighes!") but there will be some useful books and possibly some literary gems.
Anyone who takes 1d minutes to shelf-read the contents will find 2d books that are actually worth reading. If the mage makes his skill roll by 4 or more, one of the books is particularly useful (a treatise on a problem immediately at hand). On a critical success, one of the books is extremely useful (e.g., a spell book, a book of occult lore, etc.) Unique, highly valuable, or secret books will never appear via this spell.
On a failure, the spell still produces books but they will all be complete rubbish. On a critical failure, the spell produces books that have negative effects (like a book that summons demons if opened, or a book that eats other books) or takes all the books in the area with it when the spell ends.
When the spell ends all the books vanish. When the spell is cast, again a completely different selection of books appears.
This is also a Knowledge spell.
Duration: 1 day.
Cost: 4 points, 2 to maintain.
Time to Cast: 1 minute.
Prerequisite: Complex Illusion, Copy, and Know Text.
Item: Instant Library. GURPS Magic Items 2, p. 38. Energy Cost to Create: 500 points.
Author: Adapted from GURPS Magic Items 2.
This spell works exactly like the Perfect Illusion, but the illusion created is intelligent, and can converse, and act independently.
The illusion has no skills or abilities, except for any language skills possessed by its creator and Fast-Talk 13+. If pressed for information, the "facts" it gives will be completely bogus, and easily detectable as such by anyone with even minimal knowledge of the situation. In such situations, the illusion will often reply in gibberish, allowing the creator to interpret the illusion's words as he sees fit.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 5, 3 to maintain.
Prerequisites: Magery 2, Perfect Illusion.
Item: Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Mage Only. Energy Cost to Create: 500 points.
Author: Adapted from GURPS Magic Items 1.
This spell turns up to 1 pint of ink into a clear, colorless liquid.
The ink remains clear and colorless until it dries, at which time it reverts to its normal state. Alternately, up to a pint of water can be turned into an inky liquid of any color that evaporates like water, leaving no trace when it dries. The dried ink will come out of cloth and other materials if the Clean spell is used or if the item is soaked in water.
Duration: Permanent.
Cost: 1 point.
Item: Bottle or Pen. Energy Cost to Create: 25 points.
This creates a Jack Box as described in GURPS Magic Items 2, p. 64.
1 hour.
Cost: 4 points, 2 to maintain.
Time to Cast: 3 seconds.
Prerequisite: Infinite Ladder.
Item: Jack Box GURPS Magic Items 2, p. 64. Energy Cost to Create: 350 points.
Author: Adapted from GURPS Magic Items 2.
This spell creates a magical hot tub. It will comfortably seat one person per two hexes of area. The temperature may be set between 95 and 120 degrees F.
Alternately, the mage can create a large bathtub (design of his choosing) which is filled with hot water and all the accessories needed for a hot bath.
This is also a Water spell.
Duration: 1 hour.
Cost: 2 per hex, same to maintain.
Time to Cast: 3 seconds.
Prerequisite: Create Water.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 75 points. (b) Jewelry or Statuette. Energy Cost to Create: 50 points. (c) This spell can be cast permanently on an area for 25 times the base cost.
Author: Adapted from Bob Traynor (From "Minor Magics for GURPS" ).
This spell allows the mage to perform all sorts of minor "stage magic" tricks, but no sleight of hand is involved, all the tricks involve real magic. A real mage can do stage magic with boxing gloves on.
Each trick is a separate spell. Common tricks are Create Silk Handkerchief, Create Coin, Arrange Cards, Mend Cut Cord, Mend Torn Card, Hide Small Object In Subject's Clothing, Make Liquid Change Color, Saw a lady in half and Put her back together, etc.
See also the Create Vermin spell to create small creatures such as rabbits, doves, mice, etc.
Duration: Permanent.
Cost: 1 to 5 points depending on the difficulty and impressiveness of the effect.
Time to Cast: 1 second per point of energy expended.
Item: (a) Wand, Hat, Chest, Deck of Cards or Cabinet. Allows the mage to perform one or more tricks suitable for that object. Energy Cost to Create: 25 times the base cost (b) Wand. Allows mage to cast any version of this spell he can imagine. Energy Cost to Create: 250, or 25 points if it lets the mage cast one variant of the spell.
When this spell is cast on a mural, picture, tapestry, or similar object it enchants the object so that the figures begin to move and will act out a story. The mage can either choose the story when the spell is cast, or he can let the object tell the story that is depicted in a scene depicted on its surface.
Those who observe the painting will see the figures move, hear their speech and appropriate sound effects. If necessary, they will also hear the voice of a narrator, who provides additional information about the scene. The effect is very much like a play or television show, with the exception that the background never changes.
Once the object has been brought to life, those who watch the story must roll vs. Will+2 to pull themselves away. If they are attacked or threatened, they can automatically break free of the spell's effects.
This is also a Sound spell.
Duration: 1 hour.
Cost: 4 points, 2 to maintain..
Time to Cast: 10 seconds.
Prerequisites: Voices, Complex Illusion, Noise, History.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 500 points. (b) A Tapestry, Painting or similar item can be permanently enchanted with this spell for 450 points.
This spell allows the mage to create a spiral staircase 5 feet tall and 1 yard across. Each additional point of energy extends the staircase by 5 feet in height. The staircase "grows" at a rate of 5 feet per turn. At the end of the spell, it "shrinks" at a rate of 5 feet per turn, rapidly returning characters that are on the staircase to earth.
Additional energy can be used to extend the duration of the spell, at 1 point per minute. Additional energy may not be spent to extend the staircase from its original height. The spell must be cancelled and recast.
The staircase is magically anchored. Nothing short of a tornado or a solid blow from a huge creature could knock it over. At least 100 points of crushing damage in a single blow is required to topple it.
The staircase can only be created on firm, dry stone or earth. If cannot lean and will not sway in the wind. The stair will only extend through open space, it will not push through a roof or any other obstruction more solid than leaves, thin branches, fog or clouds.
The stair has no railing. If it is over 300 feet tall (60 energy points) the prevailing wind (if any) becomes a peril. If more than 100 yards in the air, a normal human can be knocked from the staircase on a failed DX or ST roll (whichever is higher). The GM may also require DX or ST rolls at penalties, or even Climbing rolls at higher altitudes and stronger winds. Characters can ignore these effects if there is no wind (or a very light wind) or if they crawl rather than walk. For double cost, the staircase can be built with handrails.
Duration: 1 minute, plus 1 second per 5 feet of height to extend or contract the stair.
Cost: 3 points, plus 1 point per additional 5 feet of height, half to maintain.
Time to Cast: 3 seconds, plus 1 second per 5 feet of height to extend the staircase.
Prerequisites: Magery, Complex Illusion, 5 other Illusion and Creation spells.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 350 points. (b) Grand Ascender. GURPS Magic Items 1, pg. 61. Energy Cost to Create: 500 points.
Author: Adapted from GURPS Magic Items 1.
This spell summons any common unpowered hand tool with which the mage is personally familiar. Common tools that can be created include: chisel, axe, crowbar, plane, adze, hammer, pick, shovel, handsaw, crosscut saw, file, or awl.
Unlike a created object, the tools need not be in continual contact with a living person. They will also hold a perpetual edge and never need to be sharpened.
These tools can be used in battle, but are considered "improvised" weapons. For combat purposes, they are considered Cheap weapons. If a weapon breaks or is dropped, it instantly vanishes.
If the mage is familiar with TL6+, he can create hand-held power tools, such as electric drills, saber saws, grinder or routers for double cost.
This is also a Making and Breaking spell.
Duration: 10 minutes.
Cost: 3, 1 to maintain. For double cost, the mage can create hand-held power tools at TL6+.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 250 points. (b) Clothing or Jewelry. Works for Wearer Only. Energy Cost to Create: 150 points if any tool can be created, 25 points if just one tool can be created.
Author: Adapted from Bob Traynor (From "Minor Magics for GURPS").
This spell creates an unliving, life-sized statue of the subject.
The statue will look lifelike from a distance, and can be posed and make minor movements as the mage sees fit, but it can't move or make broad movements. It will appear to be fake on inspection. Characters get a roll vs. Vision each turn to detect the fake. Any character within 3 hexes gets +2 to their roll.
The body of the mannequin will be soft and vaguely warm, but obviously unliving. If used as a dressmaker's model or as a store mannequin it gives +2 to the appropriate skills.
The mage must make an IQ roll to model the mannequin so that it looks like a specific person. Optionally, Sculptor skill can be used.
Duration: 8 hours.
Cost: 3 points, 2 to maintain.
Time to Cast: 5 seconds.
Prerequisite: Complex Illusion.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 250 points. (b) Stand-In Mannequin. GURPS Magic Items 2 p. 62. Energy Cost to Create: 150 points, or 75 points if it will just mimic one specific person.
Author: Adapted from GURPS Magic Items 2.
This spell is identical to the Improved Create Object spell, except that the mage can create multiple copies of the same object.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 2 points per 5 lbs. of total mass for the objects to be created, half to maintain.
Time to Cast: 1 second per point of energy used to cast the spell.
Prerequisites: Improved Create Object
Item: Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Mage Only. Energy Cost to Create: 1,500 points.
This spell is like the Duplicate spell, except that it affects a group of people. One duplicate is created per person affected by this spell, as specified by the mage when the spell is cast.
The mage cannot cast this spell on himself.
Unwilling victims are allowed a roll vs. IQ to resist.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 5 points per person, same to maintain.
Time to Cast: 5 seconds per person.
Prerequisites: Duplicate.
Item: Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Mage Only. Energy Cost to Create: 2,500 points.
As Polymorph Others spell (q.v.), but this spell affects every possible subject in its area of effect. Each possible "target" form is actually a different spell that must be learned separately.
Victims get a roll vs. IQ to resist. The mage or a successful Remove Curse can reverse this spell.
GMs may restrict this spell to a per hex cost rather than use Area casting formula.
Duration: 1 hour.
Base Cost: Equal to the Underlying Polymorph Others spell, with a minimum radius of 2 hexes.
Time to Cast: 1 second per energy point, minimum 30 seconds.
Prerequisites: Magery 3, Polymorph Others.
Author: Adapted from Phil Masters (GURPS Arabian Nights).
The mage creates a small, mobile illusion that he can move about as he wishes. The image will seem to interact "naturally" with its surroundings, but has no weight or substance (PD 0, DR 1). It will leave no trace of its passing unless the mage creates another illusion or uses the Illusion Shell to add verisimilitude.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 1 point for a small object or 2 points for a larger object that can fill up to 1 hex, same to maintain. For double cost the sense of hearing can be fooled as well as sight. For triple cost all senses but touch can be fooled, and for quadruple cost, all senses can be fooled.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 250 points., (b) An illusion can be made permanent for 50 times the base cost.
The spell causes exact duplicates of the subject to appear in adjacent hexes to his location.
Once created, the duplicates mimic the subject's actions, and both the subject and the duplicates are distorted and blurred so that it is impossible to locate the real person among the illusions. If the subject moves, the subjects move as well, keeping their relative distance from the original. It is up to the mage, or the subject, as to where the duplicate appears, and to which hex they move when the subject moves.
If an image is struck for more than 1 point of damage, it vanishes and the spell must be recast to get that image back. There is no way to determine which image is a duplicate, and which image is the real character without striking it.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 2 per image, half to maintain. (5 images maximum).
Time to Cast: 2 seconds.
Prerequisite: Complex Illusion, Blur, and Hide.
Item: Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 500 points.
Author: Adapted from Rick Hunt (converted from AD&D).
This spell creates Mountaineer's Pole as described on p. 14, GURPS Magic Items 2.
This is also a Making and Breaking spell.
Duration: 10 minutes
Cost: 3 points, 2 to maintain.
Prerequisite: Complex Illusion, Extend.
Item: Mountaineer's Pole. GURPS Magic Items 2, p. 14. Energy Cost to Create: 500 points.
Author: Adapted from GURPS Magic Items 2.
This spell is identical to the Duplicate Other spell, except that the mage can create numerous duplicates of another person. Unwilling subjects get a roll vs. IQ to resist.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 5 points per duplicate, same to maintain.
Time to Cast: 5 seconds per duplicate.
Prerequisites: Multiply Self.
Item: Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Mage Only. Energy Cost to Create: 2,500 points.
This spell is identical to the Duplicate spell, except that the mage can create multiple copies of himself. In other respects, it is identical to the Duplicate spell.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 5 points per duplicate, same to maintain.
Time to Cast: 5 seconds per duplicate.
Prerequisites: Duplicate.
Item: Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Mage Only. Energy Cost to Create: 2,500 points.
This spell creates an insubstantial olfactory "image" that has no effect on any sense except smell and taste. By concentrating, the mage can move the "source" of the illusion at a Move equal to his skill/2.
This spell is also a Mind Control spell.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 1 to cast; half that to maintain. Prerequisite: IQ 11+, Simple Illusion.
Item: Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 250 points.
Author: Adapted from Bruce MacLaren.
This spell creates an illusionary sparring partner for the subject. The opponent has the same attributes, advantages and disadvantages as the subject, but it only has skill in two weapon skills and is "unintelligent" and mute except in combat. The outward appearance of the opponent is up to the caster, although it must always be a roughly man-sized humanoid, unless the subject is something other than a man-sized humanoid.
The opponent will have whatever weapons and armor the subject is wearing, and will attack and defend in an "intelligent" manner, though it will fight to the "death" and will only attack the subject. Any damage done by the partner is Stunning damage though the effects of its damage are "real" for the duration of the spell. For example, if the Opponent cripples the character's arm, the limb is only crippled until the spell ends.
The subject maintains some degree of control over the Opponent. He can stop the foe at any time, (though the foe will attack if sneak attacked), ask it to perform a certain maneuver, or dispel it entirely at Will. If the partner "wins" the fight, it automatically disappears. If the foe vanishes or is dispelled, any "damage" it did is immediately "healed".
Optionally, the caster can improve weapon skill, maneuvers, attributes, PD, DR, advantages or disadvantages by up to 150% of the subject's score or reduce them to 75% of the subject's total. This costs no extra energy but must be specified by the caster before he starts the spell. If the caster wishes to recreate a specific a specific person as a foe, he must have detailed knowledge of that person's combat abilities and fighting style, and make a successful IQ roll to get the effect right.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 3, 2 to maintain.
Prerequisite: Complex Illusion, Create Warrior.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 250 points. (b) Jewelry or Statuette. Works for Wearer/User Only. Energy Cost to Create: 150 points.
This spell is identical to the Create Object spell, but the objects created are permanent.
In order to fabricate the item, the caster must have the raw materials or component parts of the object to be created and must have at least Skill level 12, in the relevant Craft or Artistic skill. The attractiveness and functionality of the item created depends on the caster's skill. Living creatures and magical items can't be created.
No tools are needed to create the item.
Duration: Permanent.
Cost: 20 per lb. of the item to be created. Double cost for complex or rare items.
Time to Cast: 1 hour.
Prerequisite: Create Object.
Item: Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Mage Only. Energy Cost to Create: 5,000 points.
This spell creates rapidly moving images which make the subject think that he is running, flying, swimming or falling through some weird landscape at a high rate of speed.
Any creature who fails a Will roll to resist will react as if the illusion was real. They will become oblivious to their surrounding and will flail and move randomly unless restrained. Victims might also have to make Fright Checks.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 3, 2 to maintain.
Prerequisite: Complex Illusion.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 250 points. (b) Clothing or Jewelry. Casts this spell on the wearer. Some versions are Hexed. Energy Cost to Create: 200 points.
This spell creates the illusion of a carrier pigeon or other small animal that can carry a message spoken to it by the mage.
When it reaches the target, the messenger speaks its message (or presents it in writing) to the person specified by the mage and then vanishes.
The phantasm is immune to damage and Animal spells, although it can be dispelled with magic.
In other respects, the messenger has the same statistics as a normal animal of its type, except that it can't be frightened or distracted from its task and it can't be injured or killed.
This is also a Communication and Empathy spell.
Duration: 1 day.
Cost: 2 points, 1 to maintain.
Time to Cast: 10 seconds.
Prerequisite: Simple Illusion, Voices.
Item: Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 250 points.
This spell allows the mage to create the appearance of any spell with which he is personally familiar, as long as the spell has visual effects that can be duplicated with an illusion.
The Phantom Magic is an Illusion that can be disbelieved, but to sight and to spells that detect and analyze magic it will appear to be the real thing, although it has no real effects.
For example, the mage can "miss" with a Fireball or "dig a pit" with a "Shape Earth" spell. Spells that the mage has heard of but not seen can be mimicked at -4 to skill.
Duration: As the spell's duration.
Cost: 2 points, 1 to maintain, or half the cost of the spell imitated, whichever is less (minimum 1 point to cast and to maintain).
Time to Cast: As spell being mimicked. Prerequisite: Simple Illusion, False Aura.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 350 points, or 150 points if just one (or a few) spells are imitated. (b) Clothing or Jewelry. Works for wearer only. Energy Cost to Create: 250 points, or 100 points if just one (or a few) spells are imitated.
This spell creates a quasi-real horse-like creature. A phantom steed has a black head and body, gray mane and tail and smoke-colored, insubstantial hooves. It will not fight, but all normal animals will shun it. It is identical to a warhorse except that it has a Move of 20.
It may also have the following special abilities if the mage has the appropriate spells (prerequisite spells are listed in parentheses):
All-Terrain - Pass over sandy, muddy or even swampy ground without difficulty.
Water Walking - The ability to pass over water as if it were firm dry land. (Prerequisite: Walk On Water)
Air Walking - The ability to run on air as if it were firm land. However, the steed cannot change altitude, so it can only run along a single altitude. (Prerequisite: Walk On Air)
Flight - The ability to fly at a Move of 24. (Prerequisite: Flight).
Duration: 10 hours.
Cost: 6 plus 2 per special ability. Each ability must be purchased in order (so, for example the ability to run on water couldn't be purchased without the ability to pass over uneven terrain), half to maintain.
Prerequisites: Create Animal, as listed for each special ability.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Mage Only. Energy Cost to Create: 350 points (b) Riding Crop, Horse Tack or Statuette. Energy Cost to Create: 250 points.
Author: Keith Bisset (Revenant)
This spell allows the mage to change the appearance of terrain in the area of effect. Anyone in the area of effect or observing the area must roll vs. IQ to perceive the real, underlying terrain.
Those who fail their resistance roll see the illusionary terrain instead and react to it as if it were real. As much as possible, the illusionary terrain will attempt to sustain the subject's belief. For example, the subject can pick up objects, move them around, and alter the terrain as he sees fit. However, it's possible that the subject will actually manipulate objects in the "real" terrain. For example, if the mage made a tavern appear to be a forest, a character that throws a "rock" might actually be throwing a mug or chair.
Note, that the illusionary terrain won't hold the subject's weight if he tries to climb or move onto an object that "isn't there." For example, if the mage created the illusion of a forest, subjects in the area couldn't "climb" the trees unless they were masking a real object that the subject could climb. Any failure of the illusionary terrain to meet the subject's expectations of it will be explained away somehow. (e.g., the subject might believe that the "trees" are slippery, or have branches that break when grabbed).
Unless the subjects in the area accidentally affect objects in the underlying, real, terrain, illusionary effects won't extend beyond the area of effect. In any case, real objects made to look like something else will regain their true form when they leave the area. For example, a "rock" thrown out of the area would reveal itself to be a mug. A "fire" set in a forest wouldn't really set fire to a tavern unless the subject actually used a real flame source to start a real fire.
Duration: 1 minute.
Base Cost: 1, half to maintain. (Minimum 2 hexes).
Prerequisite: Perfect Illusion.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Mage Only. Energy Cost to Create: 500 points. (b) This spell can be permanently cast on an area for 50 times the base cost..
This spell creates a swirling fog (like the Fog spell) whose vapors temporarily mimic the shapes of people and objects as they move.
Anyone in the mist must roll vs. IQ each turn or "see" the shape of a person or some other object that they expect to see (or hope or fear to see) "through the mist". In reality, this form is just the spell's magic and the form they see is an illusion.
In addition, the fog mutes sound and makes it sound like its coming from a location from other than its actual location. This gives characters in the area of effect -4 to all Hearing rolls.
Because of the disorienting aspects of the fog, it is very easy to get lost. Movement within the fog is random unless characters are specifically trying to get out of the fog and are aware of its disorienting properties. Even then, they are at -4 to IQ or skill rolls to find their way out of the fog.
This is also a Sound spell and Air spell.
Duration: 1 minute.
Base Cost: 4 points, half to maintain.
Time to Cast: 10 seconds.
Prerequisite: Confusing Fog, Simple Illusion.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 350 points (b) Any area can have this spell cast on it for 50 times the base cost.
This spell must be cast on a scabbard or similar container. For the duration of the spell the subject can draw any melee weapon with which he is familiar from a scabbard, as long as the container could normally hold (or sheath) the weapon. For example, if this spell were cast on a dagger scabbard, the subject couldn't command a great sword to appear from it.
To summon the weapon the subject must speak the name of the weapon aloud. On the next turn, the item will appear in the container and can be readied normally. If the weapon is broken or leaves the subject's hand it will vanish, but he can always create another weapon.
Created weapons are Good quality. For double cost, the weapons created can be of Fine quality. For triple cost, they can be Very Fine.
Note that this spell can always be cast on the subject's shirt or pants. Unless the subject is extremely short or is wearing almost no clothing, there will usually be enough space to create a broadsword or shortsword, though drawing a blade created under the shirt or in the pants might be problematic.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 5 points, 3 to maintain.
Time to Cast: 3 seconds.
Prerequisite: Magic Tool.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Mage Only. Energy Cost to Create: 1,500 points. (b) Pocket Arsenal GURPS Magic Items 2, p. 118. Energy Cost to Create: 1,000 points.
Author: Adapted from GURPS Magic Items 2.
This spell allows the caster to create an illusion at a distance, which he can then use to communicate or to cast spells.
The image created can be any creature or object with which the mage is familiar. If the mage creates the Image at a distance, he does not have to be able to see the target hex as long as he is familiar with the location, or has recently seen the area. Long distance modifiers still apply.
By paying extra Fatigue, the mage can use the image to sense his new surroundings, speak, cast spells or move around. The image is still an Illusion. Observers who make an IQ roll to resist are immune to physical attacks from the image. They are still vulnerable to spells cast through it, however. Those who fail their Resistance roll can be affected by physical attacks, though the illusion uses the mage's combat skills for the attacks it does.
By Concentrating, the mage can make the image move or attack, or he can view the world through its senses. These actions counts as the mage's action for the turn. The mage can't cast spells or use Active Defenses while he concentrates.
The image may have any or all of the following abilities:
Motion - The Image can make physical attacks and has a Move score equal to that of the mage. (1 point).
Senses - The caster can see, hear, smell and taste, through the image's eyes (1 point per each sense) (Prerequisite: Wizard Eye, Wizard Ear, etc.)
Speech - The caster can speak through the image. (1 point). (Prerequisite: Wizard Mouth).
Spell Casting - The caster can cast spells through the image. Spells cast through the Image are at -1 to skill, due to the difficulty of "remote" spellcasting. (4 points).
Note that abilities for the image must be purchased in the order in which they are listed.
In other respects, this spell is identical to the Perfect Illusion spell.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 3 points per hex occupied by the illusion, plus cost of special abilities, half to maintain.
Prerequisite: Perfect Illusion, 5 Knowledge spells, as listed.
Item: Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Mage Only. Energy Cost to Create: 500 points.
This spell projects the subject's thoughts as illusions. The illusions created reflect the subject's thoughts, beliefs, or dreams.
The illusions are immediately obvious to anyone in the area. People who can make an IQ roll will understand that the images represent the subject's thoughts and desires. Depending on the nature of the Projected Thoughts and the circumstances, this can be very embarrassing, or even incriminating. In this case, people will react to the subject at -2 or worse.
Neither the subject or mage has any control over what is projected, the images created come from the subject's dreams, daydreams, or subconscious, but will always reflect the target's hopes, fears, or true personality. The victim gets a roll vs. Will to resist.
This is also a Communication and Empathy spell.
Duration: 10 minutes.
Cost: 4 points, 2 to maintain.
Time to Cast: 3 seconds.
Prerequisite: Simple Illusion, Mind Reading.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Mage Only. Energy Cost to Create: 450 points. (b) Clothing or Jewelry. Casts this spell on the Wearer. Always On. Can't be Removed. Energy Cost to Create: 300 points.
This spell makes an illusion, shadow or creation immune to being disbelieved and resistant to spells that dispel magic or illusions.
In order to dispel a creation protected by this spell, the spell caster must win a Contest of Skills, at -4 to skill. Rolls to disbelieve an illusion protected by this spell automatically fail, unless the observer rolls a critical success.
Duration: 1 minute (or until creation vanishes).
Cost: 2 points, 1 to maintain.
Prerequisite: Complex Illusion.
Item: Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Mage Only. Energy Cost to Create: 350 points.
This spell creates a pulley, which will decrease the amount of Strength it takes to move, life, push or pull an object with a rope.
In order to use this spell, the mage must designate a place where a normal pulley could be mounted, even if there isn't an obvious anchor point. The mage must also be able to thread the rope through the "pulley" - either manually, or by using a spell.
For the duration of the spell, any rope appears to pass through a pulley placed in the location specified by the mage. The pulley is actually made of force, and can be affixed to any object that will bear the weight of the rope plus the load to be moved.
This is also a Force spell.
Duration: 1 hour.
Cost: 1 point to double mechanical advantage. For 2 points the advantage is tripled, for 3 points the advantage can be quadrupled, and so on. Half base cost to maintain.
Prerequisite: Complex Illusion or Shape Force.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand, or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 150 points. (b) Jewelry in the shape of a pulley. Works for wearer only. Energy Cost to Create: 100 points. (c) This spell can be permanently cast on a location for 25 times the base cost.
This spell randomly transforms the subject into some sort of small harmless animal or object for the duration of the spell. Typical animal forms are Frogs, Toads, Mice, Rats, Gerbils, Rabbits, Lizards, small Non-Poisonous Snakes, Worms or Beetles. Typical objects are rocks or small plants.
The mage (or the GM) can specify other suitably innocuous forms. Unwilling subjects get a roll vs. IQ to resist.
This is also an Animal spell.
Duration: 1 hour.
Cost: 10, same to maintain.
Prerequisite: 2 Polymorph Other variants.
Item: Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Mage Only. Energy Cost to Create: 500 points.
This spell automatically renews and freshens a poison or other toxin that already exists on or in an object or on a blade.
This spell can't create new poisons or make toxins more potent, but it will cancel bonuses to HT rolls to resist old or partially used poisons.
This spell can't be cast on a living creature to replenish its venom.
This is also a Necromantic spell. Duration: Permanent (until poison wears off or gets old again).
Cost: 3 points, can't be maintained.
Prerequisite: Poison Hands.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 500 points (b) Sheath or other carrying case or container for poisons or poisoned weapons. Casts the spell on anything placed in it. Always On. Energy Cost to Create: 250 points. (c) Any weapon can have this spell cast on it for 150 points.
This spell physically changes the appearance of a page of writing or diagram so that it appears to be something different. The true contents of the page will only be revealed if the reader speaks the correct password. Others see either a blank page or some other text, chosen by the mage when the spell is cast.
If the mage wishes, he can suspend the spell without speaking the password and without canceling the spell.
Unlike the Blurred Script spell, observers don't get a Resistance Roll to see through the illusion. In addition, only spells such as Dispel Magic can cancel this spell. If the Dispel Magic spell loses the Contest of Skills, at the defending mage's option, the Secret Page spell will wipe the protected pages clean or destroy them. This ends the spell, but it also makes it impossible to read the page short of using a Wish spell. Other spells will automatically fail.
This is also a Communication and Empathy spell.
Duration: 1 week.
Cost: 2 points per page, half to maintain.
Time to Cast: 1 minute.
Prerequisites: Blurred Script.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 250 points. (b) Pen or other writing instrument. Any writing made with will have this spell cast on it. Energy Cost to Create: 150 points. (c) This spell can be made permanent for 25 times the base cost.
Author: Adapted from Keith Bisset (Revenant).
This spell causes a small written symbol to appear in the text of any written work. When the text containing the symbol is read, the spell creates a huge, dark brown snake-like creature.
This monster immediately attacks the nearest living creature, except for the mage and those he designates when the spell is cast. The beast strikes with an effective skill of 18, always aiming for the nearest, easiest target. Victims may attempt to Dodge or Block the snake, but they cannot parry its strike.
If the snake successfully strikes its target, the victim must roll vs. Will-6 or he will be is put into Suspended Animation. While in stasis he is engulfed in a shimmering amber field of force (equivalent to a Force Dome) that can only be dispelled by the Dispel Magic spell.
If the sepia snake misses, it immediately dissipates with a flash of brown light, a loud noise and a puff of dun-colored smoke that is 10 feet in diameter. The smoke has the same effects as the Minor Fog spell (-4 to Vision) and lasts for one minute. The other effects are only special effects, though they might alert nearby guardians.
Duration: 1 month or until activated, the effects of the spell last for a minimum of 1 day.
Cost: 6, plus 2 per day of suspended animation, same to maintain.
Prerequisites: Suspended Animation, Complex Illusion, and Blurred Script.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Mage Only. Energy Cost to Create: 500 points. (b) Pen or other writing implement. Energy Cost to Create: 350 points. (c) This spell can be made permanent until triggered for 5 times the base cost.
Author: Adapted from Keith Bisset (Revenant)
This spell allows the mage to duplicate any spell with which he is personally familiar, in a version that is partially illusory and partially real.
In order to be duplicated with Shadow Magic, the original spell must be a Regular or Area spell, and it have an obvious physical effect that directly affects the subject's body.. Spells that have no physical effect, and which only work on the mind or body, such as most Mind Control, Communication and Empathy or Body Control spells, will not work with Shadow Magic. Likewise, Enchantment, Information, Blocking or Summoning (Special) spells will not work with Shadow Magic because they don't produce an obvious physical effect that can be duplicated with an illusion. Additionally, spells that just affect the senses (such as Darkness or Dazzle) can't be cast in a Shadow Magic version, since they have no visible, physical effect on the subject's body. It is up to the GM to determine which spells have a sufficiently strong physical component to be cast as Shadow Magic.
If the spell meets the criteria for be cast as Shadow Magic, the mage can cast the spell, taking the same amount of time that he would take to cast the real version of the spell. The subject gets the same roll to Resist that he would get against the full version of the spell.
If the spell is successfully cast, it is normal in all ways except that it only has 1/4 its physical effect. For example, Shadow Magic fire is only one quarter as warming and Shadow Magic water is only 1/4 as effective at quenching thirst. Shadow Magic armor is only 1/4 as protective, and Shadow Magic creatures are only one quarter as strong as their real-life counterparts. In all cases, the GM should reduce the effect of the real spell by 75% when figuring the effects of its Shadow Magic imitation.
In addition, damage done by Shadow Magic is illusory. Though it appears to be real to the subject, damage from Shadow Magic spells Stuns rather than kills. The target takes the normal Shock, Stun and Cumulative Injury effects due to damage from Shadow Magic, and must roll vs. HT to remain conscious if his HP score is reduced to 0 or less, but he will not die. Once the Shadow Magic spell ends, characters that "took damage" from the spell may roll vs. IQ every 10 minutes to recover a point of illusionary damage. Characters who are knocked out due to Shadow Magic damage may roll vs. HT every hour to regain consciousness.
The duration of a Shadow Magic spell is the same as that of the full version of the spell. Cost to cast the Shadow Magic spell is 1/2 normal for the full version of the cost.
A more powerful version of this spell is "Demi-Shadow Magic." This variant is identical to the Shadow Magic spell, except that it has half the normal effect of the "real" spell and does 50% of the spell's normal damage. It costs 2/3 the cost of the "real" version of the spell to cast.
Duration: As the spell imitated.
Cost: Half the cost of the spell being imitated, half maintenance cost to maintain. For 2/3 the cost of the "real" spell, this spell will have half the normal effect. Half the maintenance cost to maintain.
Prerequisites: Perfect Illusion.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Mage Only. Energy Cost to Create: 500 points. (b) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Creates a Shadow version of one spell. Energy Cost to Create: Half the cost to create the "full" version of the magic item, or 2/3 cost if the item can cast the "demi-shadow" version of the Shadow Magic spell.
Author: Adapted from Keith Bisset (Revenant) as "Demi-Shadow Magic" and "Shadow Magic".
This spell creates semi-real creatures using material from the plane of shadow. The caster can create phantasms of any creature he has studied in detail. This information must be firsthand - secondhand information or drawings are not sufficient.
The phantasms function as per the original creature except they possess only 1/4 of the original's hit points. Against characters that fail their Resistance Roll, the phantasms deal full, real damage!
Those subjects who successfully resist the spell or who are not in the area of effect see the shadow monsters as transparent images superimposed over shadowy figures. To these people the shadow monsters do only 1/4 of normal damage. Special attacks of the creatures emulated (e.g., energy drain, petrifaction etc.) do not actually have any power, but those affected by the spell will believe they do and will react accordingly. Characters affected by these special attacks are affected as if they took damage from a Shadow Magic spell. If they are "killed" or rendered unconscious by a special attack, they get a roll vs. HT every hour to recover once the spell ends or the Shadow Monsters are destroyed.
Cost to cast the Shadow Monster spell is 1/2 normal to create or summon the creature using the Create Animal, Create Warrior, Create Monster, Summon Elemental or Planar Summons spell. (Summon Demon or Summon Minor Demon can't be used as guidelines for this spell since their costs are abnormally low.)
A more powerful version of this spell is "Demi-Shadow Monster." This variant is identical to the Shadow Monsters spell, except that the creatures conjured have half the HP and do half the damage of a real creature of the same type if the spell is resisted. Demi Shadow Monsters cost 2/3 the cost of the cost to summon or create the real creature.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: Half the cost to summon or create a real creature of the same type, half the cost of the original spell to maintain. For 2/3 cost of the original spell, "demi-shadow monsters" can be created, 2/3 cost of the original spell to maintain.
Prerequisites: Perfect Illusion or Phantasmal Warrior.
Item: Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 350 points.
Author: Adapted from Keith Bisset (Revenant) as Shadow Monsters, Demi-Shadow Monsters and Shades spell.
This spell allows phantom objects to be created using the same principles as the Shadow Magic or Shadow Monster spells.
The caster can create phantasms of any simple object with which he is personally familiar. The phantasms function as per the original object, except that they possess only 1/4 of the original's hit points, structural strength, mass, and so forth. The exception to this is that shadow weapons will do full damage against characters that fail to resist the spell.
In addition, if the user of the shadow object is anyone other than the caster, they must roll vs. Will to believe in the reality of the object, otherwise the object vanishes and the spell ends. If this spell is used offensively, victims get an IQ roll to resist. For example, if a fighter uses a sword created with this spell, he would first have to roll vs. Will to "will the object into reality". His foe(s) would then get an IQ roll to "disbelieve" the weapon.
Subjects who successfully resist the spell or who are not in the area of effect see the shadow objects as shadowy shapes. To these people, shadow objects do only 1/4 normal damage.
Shadow objects can't produce special or ranged attacks or appear to cast magic spells. Shadow armor has 1/4 normal PD (minimum 0), and DR (minimum 1), but has 1/4 normal weight as well. Shadow shields have 1/4 PD (minimum 1) and 1/4 HP, but require only 1/4 the normal ST to use. The properties of other shadow objects are up to the GM, with the limit that load-bearing properties, structural strength, etc. is quartered.
Cost to cast the Shadow Object spell is 1/2 normal to create the object using the Create Object spell.
A more powerful version of this spell is "Demi-Shadow Object." This variant is identical to the Shadow Object spell, except that the object conjured has half the properties of the real object, and shadow weapons do half the damage to those who resist the spell. Demi Shadow Objects cost 2/3 the cost of the cost to create the real object.
Shadow objects that are dropped or are separated from their user for more than 10 seconds vanish.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 1 point per 5 lbs., same to maintain. 2 points per 1 point per 3 lb. for demi-shadow objects, same to maintain.
Prerequisites: Perfect Illusion or Shadow Magic.
Item: Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Mage Only. Energy Cost to Create: 350 points.
This spell is identical to the Sidestep spell except that the subject's image can appear in any random hex up to 10 hexes away from his true location.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 6 points, 4 to maintain.
Time to Cast: 5 seconds.
Prerequisites: Magery 2, Sidestep.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 750 points. (b) Clothing or Jewelry. Works for wearer only. Energy Cost to Create: 500 points.
This spell will create any minor special effect that the mage can image, suitable for use as a prop for a stage show.
Among the possible effects that the mage can create are minor sound effects, flashing lights, mini-fireworks, loud spectral applause, background Muzak, small puffs of smoke, thin fog, or anything else that the mage can imagine and the GM will allow.
The special effects created with this spell are not powerful enough to distract or fool a determined foe. At best, they will give a foe -1 to Vision or Hearing rolls for 1 second. In this case, the victim is allowed an IQ roll to resist.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 1 per hex, 1 to maintain.
Item: Staff, Wand, Jewelry or Container. Energy Cost to Create: 25 points if the item can only cast one form of this spell, 100 points if it can cast all forms of this spell.
Author: Adapted from Bob Traynor (From "Minor Magics for GURPS").
This spell makes the subject vanish, while simultaneously creating a perfect illusion of the subject that appears in a random hex adjacent to the subject's true location.
When the subject moves, the image moves as well, always staying within 1 hex of the subject's location, but randomly changing its relative position. If the subject wishes, he can mentally instruct the illusion to not enter certain hexes, both to keep the subject out of the line of fire and to better allow the subject to maneuver. If is not possible for the image to stay 1 hex away, the image will either temporarily vanish (revealing the subject's true location) or will behave in an unrealistic fashion, as the subject chooses.
The image will alter itself to conform with the subject's current behavior and influences from its environment. If the image takes damage, it will appear to bleed. If it gets wet, it will appear to drip water. The image has as many Hit Points as the subject, but will vanish when it is reduced to 0 HP. Though it is not affected by special attacks such as poison, it will appear to react normally to them. If the subject takes damage or is affected by a spell, it is his option as to whether this damage will appear on the image.
Attacks against the illusion will automatically miss the subject unless the attack is an area attack that doesn't need to be aimed. Attackers can attack the hex where they think the subject is hiding. If they guess correctly, they are at -10 to hit and are treated as Wild Swings (maximum chance to hit 9 or less).
All attacks, sensory cues and spells appear to come from the image and are defended against normally. Unlike other Illusions this image can't be dispelled by disbelieving, though observers can roll vs. IQ each turn to detect the character's true location. When the subject moves again, observers must roll vs. IQ again or lose sight of him.
Spells such as See Invisible or Dispel Magic, or Dispel Illusions will counter this spell, if the caster wins a Contest of Skills.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 4 points, 3 to maintain.
Time to Cast: 5 seconds.
Prerequisites: Perfect Illusion, Invisibility.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Mage Only. Energy Cost to Create: 750 points. (b) Clothing or Jewelry. Works for wearer only. Energy Cost to Create: 500 points.
This spell creates a thin taut metal wire that can trip or strangle a foe.
When the spell is cast, anyone moving into a hex occupied by the wire must make a Vision roll to see the wire. If they don't see the wire, or if they are moving too fast to avoid it, they must roll vs. DX or become tangled in the wire. Unintelligent creatures (IQ 7 or less) must also roll vs. Will or panic, possibly doing damage to themselves.
The wire will wrap itself around the victim's legs, reducing Move, DX and DX based skills by -2. If the victim was moving quickly, he must also roll vs. DX stumble. If the victim struggles while entrapped by the wire, he takes 1d-4 points of Cutting damage per minute of struggling.
Alternately, the wire can be stretched at head level. If the victim fails his Vision roll and his DX roll, the snare wraps around his neck and head. Damage is the same, except that if the victim is trapped by the neck. If he struggles or fall, the wire is pulled tight. The victim immediately takes 1d-1 points of Cutting damage and begins to Suffocate.
If the victim was riding on an animal or in a vehicle and the Snare Wire hits him in the head, he takes 1d-2 Cutting damage per 10 hexes of Move (20 MPH) that he was traveling when he hit the wire. If the victim misses his DX roll by 2 points or more, the damage is to the neck rather than to the head.
Trapped victims can free themselves in one of two ways, by using their hands to untangle themselves, or by using brute strength to break the wire. Untangling the wire requires the victim to remain still and calm while he untangles the wire. To remove the wire he must concentrate and roll vs. DX. One attempt to escape by this method is allowed every 5 seconds (or every 30 seconds if the subject doesn't have hands). Creatures may also roll vs. ST every turn to break the wire, however, each attempt to break free does 1 point of damage and costs 1 point of Fatigue. Note that a creature that is struggling has its effective ST halved for rolls to escape.
This is also an Earth (Metal) spell.
Duration: 1 hour.
Cost: 3, plus 1 per each hex the wire occupies, same to maintain. Double cost to string a wire at head height.
Time to Cast: 10 seconds.
Prerequisite: Create Metal or Tightrope.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 200 points. (b) An area can have this spell permanently cast on it for 20 times the base cost.
This spell creates the illusion of a cat, small dog, or similar soft, cuddly creature that will soothe and calm the subject.
For the duration of the spell, the subject gets +2 to IQ, skill or Will rolls to relax, stay calm or to sleep. At the GM's option, this bonus can be reduced depending on the circumstances; for example, "macho" characters might rebel at the thought of holding a stuffed animal to relax before a battle.
This is also a Mind Control spell.
Duration: 4 hours.
Cost: 2 points, 1 to maintain.
Prerequisite: Simple Illusion, Bravery.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 250 points (b) Stuffed Animal or similar toy. Works for user only. Energy Cost to Create: 150 points
This spell creates a Paramour, (as described in the Paramour spell) who is also a skilled assassin.
In addition to her other skills, the Succubus also has IQ 12, Fast Talk 15, Savoir-Faire 15, Stealth 12, and the knows native languages of both the target and the mage at skill level 12. The mage may send the succubus (or incubus for male versions) to a specific person named when the spell is cast.
When the victim sees the Succubus, he must roll vs. Will or be consumed with lust for her as if the Arousal (q.v.) spell. However, if the victim succumbs to the charms of the succubus, he immediately takes 2d damage and 3d Fatigue.
Fatigue loss beyond 1/2 ST is treated as additional HT damage. If the victim dies, it is due to heart failure. If the victim survives, he must roll vs. HT or permanently lose 1 point from ST, DX, IQ and HT! (Roll separately for each attribute.)
If the victim makes his Will roll, he may roll vs. IQ roll to recognize the Succubus for what she is. If he does, then he may dally with the succubus (or ignore her) without taking damage of any sort.
The succubus vanishes immediately after she does her damage (if the victim succumbs) or at the end of the spell if the victim successfully resists. She will also vanish if physically attacked.
The succubus herself has no memories of who created her or and no knowledge of anything besides her desire to serve and pleasure her target. However, if he does so when the spell is first cast, the mage can "program" her with fictional surface thoughts and memories.
In any case, to Aura spells and to magical or psionic mind probing, the succubus will appear to be nothing more than a pleasant, ordinary woman. Only on a critical success will the truth be revealed, and then it will only be revealed if the investigators have reason to be suspicious of her.
This is also a Necromantic spell.
Duration: 1 day.
Cost: 10 points, 5 to maintain.
Time to Cast: 1 minute.
Prerequisite: Magery 2, Create Paramour, Steal Health (Necromantic), Steal Strength (Necromantic).
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Mage Only. Energy Cost to Create: 1,500 points. (b) Statuette. When a command word is spoken, the statue turns into a succubus under the control of the owner. Energy Cost to Create: 1,000 points.
The spell summons a circular bar with six barstools spaced evenly around it. In the middle of the circle, behind the bar, it is a silent barkeep, who will produce and serve any drink that the caster can name.
Only the caster can request drinks, although he can "buy" for other characters. The bartender will pour or mix drinks at the normal rate. The bar is well stocked, although no one can see the actual ingredients since they are kept under the bar except when the barkeep is pouring them.
If the mage wishes, the bar can also be liberally stocked with pretzels and other munchies. He can also specify the appearance of the bar and the stools, and the appearance of the bartender. Balrogs, golems, gorillas dressed in tuxedos, and mustachioed men in bowler hats have all been reported.
It is advisable to tip the barkeep well, though what constitutes a good tip is up to the GM's whim. At the GM's option, an especially good tip (or an amusing one), results in the bartender and his bar "sticking around" after the spell would normally end.
At the end of the spell, or if the bartender is threatened or attacked, or if someone tries to steal liquor from the bartender, the spell ends. The barkeep, any drinks, the stools and the bar (along with any tips) immediately wink out of existence.
The food and beverages produced are permanent and have their normal effects.
This is also a Food spell.
Duration: 10 minutes.
Cost: 3, 1 to maintain.
Casting Time: 2 seconds.
Prerequisites: Create Servant, Create Drink.
Item: Cocktail Shaker, Swizzle Stick or other item related to the consumption of alcohol. Energy Cost to Create: 250 points.
Author: Adapted from Bob Traynor ("Minor Magics for GURPS").
This spell creates an insubstantial tactile "image" that has no effect on any sense except touch. By concentrating, the mage can move the "source" of the illusion at a Move equal to his skill/2.
If the mage wishes, tactile illusions can be distracting. Unless the subject rolls vs. IQ to resist, they are at -1 to IQ, DX and all skills while the spell is in effect. Alternately, the illusion can be disturbing. In this case, if the subject fails to resist, he must make a Fright Check at-2.
This spell can also be used to create the "illusion" of damage. If the victim fails his IQ roll, he will "feel" real damage, that does actual Stun and Shock damage, and might require the victim to roll vs. HT or be knocked out. Though the victim believes that he has taken real damage (to HP), in reality he takes Fatigue damage instead. When Fatigue reaches 0, the victim falls unconscious.
However, any wound or crippling effects that a "real" attack would have caused on the subject have normal effects, even after the subject recovers from unconsciousness. They only end when the subject makes an IQ roll to disbelieve the "damage." Roll vs. IQ every 10 minutes to do this.
The mage can do up to 1d of illusory damage per level with this spell, to a maximum of 3d damage.
This spell is also a Mind Control spell.
Duration: 1 second (effects last longer).
Cost: 1 to cast; half that to maintain for a non-damaging illusion, 2 points, 1 to maintain for a distracting or frightening illusion. If illusory damage is caused, the cost is 1 point per 1d of "damage" up to 3d maximum. This effect can't be maintained.
Time to Cast: 1 second per point of energy used to cast the spell.
Prerequisite: IQ 11+, Simple Illusion.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 350 points. (b) Clothing or Jewelry. Casts this spell on the wearer. Some versions are Always On and are Hexed. Energy Cost to Create: 50 points if one sensation is produced, 200 points if the illusion of physical injury is produced.
Author: Adapted from Bruce MacLaren
This spell temporarily creates a golem that will serve for the mage. Each golem variant is a different spell that must be learned separately.
On a critical failure, the golem will still appear, but it will attack the mage.
This is also an Enchantment spell.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 10 points, 8 to maintain.
Time to Cast: 10 seconds.
Prerequisite: Golem, Create Monster.
Item: Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Mage Only. Energy Cost to Create: 1,500 points.
This spell allows the mage to create a tent of any size. The tent is made of canvas with wood poles, but other than that, it can be of any shape that the mage desires, from a simple pup tent to a medieval-style pavilion or circus marquee.
The walls of the tent have PD 1, DR2. The poles have the same statistics as ordinary 1" (or 3" for large tents) wood poles. The tent as a whole has 10 HP, plus 5 HP per person who can be accommodated in the tent.
At TL7+, the mage can specify that the tent be made out of high-tech materials, such as rip-stop nylon and aluminum poles.
In other respects, the tent is normal, though it does not leak and is unusually resistant to normal winds (+4 to all rolls to keep from being knocked down or damaged by high winds).
Duration: 4 hours.
Cost: 2 points, 1 to maintain for a one or two-man tent. 3 points, 2 to maintain for a tent or pavilion which will sleep up to 6 people in cramped conditions or 2 people in relative comfort. Larger tents can be created for more energy cost, up to 10 points, 6 to maintain for a circus tent which can hold hundreds of people.
Prerequisite: Complex Illusion.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 350 points. (b) Clothing, Jewelry, or Statuette. When a command word is spoken, the item will cast this spell on itself. Energy Cost to Create: 50 times the base cost.
This spell creates a Tent Pack as described in GURPS Magic Items 2, p. 15.
4 hours.
Cost: 2 points, 1 to maintain.
Prerequisite: Tent.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 350 points. (b) Tent-Pack. GURPS Magic Items 2, p. 15. Energy Cost to Create: 250 points.
Author: Adapted from GURPS Magic Items 2.
When this spell is cast, huge suction-cup tipped tentacles erupt from the earth. As they grow, the tentacles will blindly thrash about, grappling and squeezing anything they encounter in the area of effect.
Each hex will grow three tentacles, each with ST 12, DX 10, and a Reach of 2. They have PD 1, DR 1 and 6 HP.
Anyone in the area must roll vs. DX each turn to avoid being grappled by 1d-3 (minimum 1) tentacles. For each tentacle that has already grappled the character, he has a -2 cumulative penalty to DX. Roll randomly for hit location.
Anyone grabbed by a tentacle win a contest of ST to break free. If the victim loses the contest by 5 or more, he is held motionless that turn and takes 1 point of crushing damage for every 5 points that he lost the contest. Rigid armor protects with its full DR. Non-rigid armor (like cloth or mail) protects for the first turn only.
The tentacles can be attacked normally but are impervious to crushing damage. When a tentacle is reduced to 0 HP, it "dies" and releases its hold. It is also possible to neutralize the tentacles by getting them to wrap around an inanimate object of sufficient size, such as a tree trunk.
This is also an Animal spell.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 3, 2 to maintain. Each extra point of energy gives +2 to ST (up to 25), +1 to DX (up to 15), or +1 to HP (up to 16).
Prerequisite: Create Animal.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Mage Only. Energy Cost to Create: 500 points. (b) This spell can be permanently cast on an area for 50 times the base cost. In this case, destroyed or neutralized tentacles regenerate after 1d+2 days.
This spell makes a rope straight and stiff, so that it can be used like a pole or placed over a gap like a board. The rope can support its normal weight, but will not bend as long as the spell is in effect.
This is also a Force spell.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 2 per 50' of rope, 1 to maintain (minimum 2, 1 to maintain).
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 100 points (b) Rope. When a command word is spoken, it casts this spell on itself. Another command word cancels the spell. Energy Cost to Create: 50 points.
For the duration of the spell anything valuable that the subject touches becomes worthless - gems turn to glass, precious metals turn to brass and lead, bank notes turn to scrap paper, and so forth. Valuable items worn by the subject are unaffected unless the subject consciously touches them. Valuable items made of non-precious materials (such as fine armor or weapons) are not affected by this spell.
After the first transformation, the subject gets an IQ roll to realize what is going on, and can limit the damage he does by not touching anything valuable for the duration of the spell.
This is also a Making and Breaking spell.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 5, 4 to maintain.
Time to Cast: 10 seconds.
Prerequisite: Create Material.
Item: (a) Staff, Jewelry or Clothing. Works for wearer only. Always on. Cannot be removed. Energy Cost to Create: 250 points.
This spell allows a quantity of one material to be converted into another material, based on the similarity in nature and quality between the existing material and the desired material.
The caster can transmute matter only between forms with which he is familiar, and both the transmuted material and the material it is to be transmuted to must be relatively homogeneous. (For example, flesh could be turned to iron, but it couldn't be turned into a robot, even if the caster knew how to build a robot.) A good rule of thumb is that the desire material must be describable in a single short phrase, like "black granite", "soft rubber" or "burled maple".
Cost to cast and the amount of material created depends on the inherent rarity and value of the material being created.
Base cost of the spell depends on the difference in rarity, phase change, degree of transformation, local value and processing of the material created between the two materials. Each "step" up a given scale doubles the base cost of the spell (so two steps would quadruple the cost, three steps would multiply it by 8, etc.). Each step down the scale halves the cost. The baseline for a given scale is the second entry on each scale, e.g. Common, Bulk, Semi-processed. Round point costs up to the nearest tenth of a point, with a minimum of 1 point.
Precious and Semi-precious materials can't be created.
Phase Change: Gas, Plasma, Liquid, Solid
Degree of Transformation: Non-Organic, Organic, Living
Rarity: Extremely Common (Dirt), Common (Iron Ore, Timber), Uncommon/Valuable (Iron, Fine Hardwoods), Rare (Ebony, Crystal), Very Rare (Gunpowder, specialized plastics in a modern setting)
Local Value: Worthless, Bulk Commodity (pennies a ton), Commodity (pennies a pound), Valuable (dollars a pound). Precious and Semi-precious materials can't be created.
Processing: Raw (ore, raw timber), Semi-processed (crushed ore, dressed timber), Processed (refined ore, rough boards), Highly Processed (ingots of metal, planed boards).
Examples:
Flesh to Salt: Phase Change: Solid to Solid, Degree: Living to Non-Organic, Rarity: Uncommon to Common, Local Value: Commodity, Processing: Raw to Raw = .1 points per lb.
Wood to Iron: Phase Change: Solid to Solid, Degree: Organic to Non-Organic, Rarity: Common to Uncommon, Local Value: Bulk to Commodity, Processing: Semi-Processed to Processed = .4 points per lb.
Duration: Permanent
Cost: 1/10 per lb. of material, as modified above.
Time to Cast: 1 minute.
Prerequisite: Create Material.
Item: Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Mage Only. Energy Cost to Create: 5,000 points.
This peculiar spell makes the subject transparent, but not invisible. While the spell is in effect, people looking at the character can see through him (seeing things behind him at no penalty) but can't see into him. He looks like an animate statue of glass and might be mistaken for a ghost, golem, or some other transparent creature.
In some situations, the subject is harder to see, viewers get -4 to Vision rolls to see him in dim light or water.
Unwilling subjects resist with IQ.
This is also a Light and Darkness spell.
Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 3, 2 to maintain.
Prerequisite: Shape Light or Simple Illusion.
Item: (a) Wand, Staff, or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 250 points. (b) Clothing or Jewelry. Works for Wearer Only. Some versions are Always On and are Hexed. Energy Cost to Create: 150 points.
This spell creates a large steel leg-hold bear trap.
Anyone walking through the trap hex will step on the trap on a roll of 8 or less if they can't see the trap. The victim will step on the trap on a roll of 9 or less if it is placed in a location where the victim must step, or if it is cleverly placed. Unless there is natural vegetation in the area, or the area where the trap is placed is dark, the mage might have to make Camouflage skill roll, or use an Illusion spell to hide the trap.
If the victim triggers the trap, it does 1d+1 Cutting damage to the victim's leg. If the leg isn't severed immediately, the subject is immobilized in the trap hex for the duration of the spell. They can be rescued from the trap if another character makes a ST-4 roll to free them. On a critical failure, the trap closes on the rescuer's hand, doing 1d-2 points (minimum 1) of cutting damage. If the subject has hands, he may attempt to free himself, but he has an additional -6 to all ST rolls due to pain and due to the difficulty of freeing himself.
Each attempt to escape from the trap costs the character 1 Fatigue. When Fatigue is reduced to 3, the subject starts losing HT instead. Also, note that the trap may cause Bleeding.
A weaker version of this spell creates a wolf trap. This trap is smaller and does 1d-2 points of damage to the subject's foot. Rolls to break out of the trap are vs. ST, rather than ST-4. On a critical failure, the rescuer takes 1 point of damage to his hand. In other respects, this version is identical to the bear trap variant.
This is also a Metal (Earth) spell.
Duration: 1 hour.
Cost: 4, 2 to maintain for a bear trap, or 2, 1 to maintain for a wolf trap.
Time to Cast: 3 seconds.
Prerequisite: Magery, Ball and Chain.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 250 points. (b) An area can have this spell cast on it permanently for 50 times the base cost. In this case, the trap will reset itself when its current victim escapes or dies.
This spell summons an accountant from the Celestial Auditing division of the Infernal Revenue Service. It possesses the Economic, Accounting, and Mathematics skills at level 15, and the Merchant skill at 12. it has ST 9, DX 9, 13 IQ, HT 9 and Move 4. It has no weapons skills and will vanish if threatened or attacked. Within the boundaries of finance and bookkeeping, it will do the caster's bidding. It is otherwise innocuous.
This is also a Knowledge spell.
Duration: 1 hour.
Cost: 2, same to maintain.
Casting Time: 3 seconds.
Prerequisite: Create Intelligent Servant.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 350 points. (b) Pen, Ledger, or Figurine. Works for user/owner only. Energy Cost to Create: 250 points.Author: Adapted from Bob Traynor (From "Minor Magics for GURPS" )
This spell creates a winch that magically turns itself, and which will automatically attach its base to any sturdy object.
The winch has a lifting ST of 90 and does not tire with continual use. Adventurers can use the winch to pry loose doors, pull up buried or partially buried treasure, move logs and tree trunks, and so on.
The cable end has a large hook but no magical properties to assist in attaching it.
For extra cost, the ST of the winch can be increased.
Duration: 10 minutes.
Cost: 5 points, 3 to maintain. Each doubling of cost doubles the effective ST of the winch.
Time to Cast: 30 seconds.
Prerequisite: Pulley.
Item: (a) Staff, Wand or Jewelry. Energy Cost to Create: 400 points. (b) Self-Winding Winch GURPS Magic Items 2, p. 64. Energy Cost to Create: 350 points.
Author: Adapted from GURPS Magic Items 2.
