Editing Incarnation of the Black Goat: Magic (section)

== '''Magical Effects''' ==

These are rules for the potency of a particular spell, cribbed from the [Mysticism rules for The Black Void: https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/the-black-void-mysticism-spheres-explained-provided-with-rules.866494/] and based on the level of Difficulty of the casting / number of shifts in the relevant effect.


'''Force'''

{| class="wikitable"
! Area
! Potency
|-
|2m
|1
|-
|4m
|2
|-
|6m
|3
|-
|12m
|4
|-
|25m
|5
|-
|50m
|6
|-
|}

''Forces definitions
''

* Tiny: warm or cool, ice cube, gentle breeze (8-12 mph), no change of wind or gravity
* Small: Tiny fire, large block of ice, moderate breeze (13-18 mph), change wind by 1 shift, trivial change of gravity
* Moderate: Bonfire, fresh breeze (19-24 mph), change wind by 2 shifts, change gravity or fire size by 1 shift
* Significant: Fire, strong breeze (25-31 mph), change wind by 3 shifts, change gravity or fire size by 1 shift
* Considerably: Blaze, moderate gale (32-38 mph), change wind by 4 shifts, change gravity or fire size by 2 shifts
* Substantial: Conflagration/melt metal or glass, fresh gale (39-46 mph), change wind by 5 shifts, change gravity or fire size by 2 shifts
* Massive: Lava, strong gale (47-54 mph), change wind by 6 shifts, change gravity or fire size by 3 shifts



'''Life''' 

{| class="wikitable"
! Duration
! Metamorphosis
! Healing (physical)
! Potency
|-
|15 seconds
|Slight
|1
|1
|-
|1 minute
|Moderate
|2
|2
|-
|5 minutes
|Significant
|3
|3
|-
|15 minutes
|Considerable
|4
|4
|-
|1 hour
|Substantial
|5
|5
|-
|3 hours
|Complete
|6
|6
|-
|}

''Metamorphosis definitions''

* Slight: Change minor features like hair, eye or skin color or face shape.
* Moderate: Alter appearance to look like anyone with the same number of limbs and of the same size, change apparent sex, and alter height by up to 0.25 m
* Significant: Temporarily gain up to 1 point in Skills
* Considerable: Temporarily gain up to 2 points in Skills
* Substantial: Temporarily gain up to 4 points in Skills, with a maximum of 3 in any one Skill
* Complete: Temporarily gain up to 8 points in Skills, with a maximum of 4 in any one Skill


'''Matter'''

{| class="wikitable"
! Duration
! Potency
|-
|15 seconds
|1
|-
|1 minute
|2
|-
|5 minutes
|3
|-
|15 minutes
|4
|-
|1 hour
|5
|-
|3 hours
|6
|-
|}

''Alteration definitions''

* Superficially: Change surface features like color or texture
* Slightly: Reduce the difficulty of breaking by 2, increase weight by 25% or reduce it by 1/4, increase or reduce heat or electrical conductivity.
* Moderately: Reduce the difficulty of breaking by 3, cause buoyant materials to sink and dense material to float, cause ductile materials to become rigid and rigid materials to become ductile, increase weight by 50% or reduce it by 1/3.
* Considerably: Reduce the difficulty of breaking by 4, drastically increase or reduce heat or electrical conductivity. Make warm wax as hard and rigid as iron and iron as soft and malleable as warm wax, halve or double weight.
* Substantially: Reduce the difficulty of breaking by 5, transform any material into a similar material – ceramic into glass, metal into another metal, rock into gemstone. Reduce or increase weight by a factor of 3. Transforms liquids to solids and solids to liquids.
* Completely: Reduce the difficulty of breaking by 6, transform any material into any other material. Reduce or increase weight by a factor of 4.


'''Mind'''

{| class="wikitable"
! Communicate
! Read Thoughts
! Healing (mental)
! Potency
|-
|Single word
|General emotions
|1
|1
|-
|Simple sentence
|Specific emotion
|2
|2
|-
|Normal sentence
|Surface thought
|3
|3
|-
|Complex sentences
|Specific thought
|4
|4
|-
|Rapid exchange
|Thought history
|5
|5
|-
|Full communication
|Memory
|6
|6
|-
|}

''Communicate definitions''

* Complex sentences: In addition to being able to duplicate all normal verbal communication, the caster can also communicate emotions and both still and moving images for full sensory communications.
* Rapid exchange: Not only can the Mystic communicate thoughts and images mentally, they can do so 10 times faster than normal.
* Full communication: As above, and in addition participants can exchange detailed memories. This won’t increase skills, but does allow for the rapid acquisition of knowledge.

''Read Thoughts definitions''

* General emotions: The caster can determine the subject’s dominant emotion – “they are afraid”
* Specific emotion: The caster can determine both the full range of the subject’s emotions as well as details about these emotions – They are both afraid and hopeful, and they are specifically afraid of being disgraced or humiliated, but hopeful that they may gain some reward if they aren’t.
* Surface thought: The caster can tell what the subject is currently thinking
* Specific thought: The caster can also follow these thoughts to closely associated memories. If something is currently thinking about their boss, the caste can follow that to other major thoughts they’ve had about their boss.
* Thought history: The caster can tell what the subject thought about in the last hour
* Memory: The caster can probe memories, regardless of whether the subject is thinking about them or not.