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| | '''Master:''' A Master can turn one plant into another and can summon plants into being where there are none. He can simultaneously enhance and direct plant growth at a rate of a foot of growth per second, allowing him to tear down structures or entangle foes. | | '''Master:''' A Master can turn one plant into another and can summon plants into being where there are none. He can simultaneously enhance and direct plant growth at a rate of a foot of growth per second, allowing him to tear down structures or entangle foes. |
| − | | + | Archmage: A true Green Druid can animate plants and gift them human senses, creating armies of treemen and dryads to assist him. He can also merge into plants, and travel unseen through The Green. He can turn an acorn into an oak tree in less than half a minute. He can even create armour of living wood to shield his body, or express thorns out of his skin to cut and tear his enemies. |
| − | '''Archmage:''' A true Green Druid can animate plants and gift them human senses, creating armies of treemen and dryads to assist him. He can also merge into plants, and travel unseen through The Green. He can turn an acorn into an oak tree in less than half a minute. He can even create armour of living wood to shield his body, or express thorns out of his skin to cut and tear his enemies.
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| | '''Archmage:''' An Archmage can send out invisible tendrils of his own, stretching out as far as he can see, and entangle the silver threads of structure from a distance. He can also create entropic infections which are not limited to a single place, but instead act as epicentres of decay and decrepitude, affecting all around them for miles around. An entire forest could be made to wither and die over a course of months, or a stone castle could be made to fall into ruin. Such large workings are strenuous, however, and contact with Entropy often causes the Archmage to age prematurely. | | '''Archmage:''' An Archmage can send out invisible tendrils of his own, stretching out as far as he can see, and entangle the silver threads of structure from a distance. He can also create entropic infections which are not limited to a single place, but instead act as epicentres of decay and decrepitude, affecting all around them for miles around. An entire forest could be made to wither and die over a course of months, or a stone castle could be made to fall into ruin. Such large workings are strenuous, however, and contact with Entropy often causes the Archmage to age prematurely. |
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| − | These were added to the main rules when we ran into discrepancies in playtesting, or points that needed clarification. These are optional interpretations, and how magic works exactly is up to the GM.
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| − | ===RULES PRECEDENCE===
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| − | ===Direct Damage===
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| − | Direct damage spells combine roll to hit with damage rolls. Targets defend using Agility and a dodging skill (e.g. Acrobatics or Athletics). Typically parrying skills cannot be used (e.g. Sword-fighting).
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| − | An Adept mage deals 1 wound damage maximum with a successful spell.
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| − | A Master mage deals 1 wound damage for each success in excess of defence.
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| − | An Archmage deals 2 wounds damage for each success in excess of defence.
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| − | Direct damage spells can be multi-cast, like a ranged multiple attack, adding +2 to the TN for each extra target or group of targets.
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| − | An Archmage of some spheres can transform into a buffed form, with a +X bonus to spread amongst attributes as he chooses (and as is appropriate to the description). Note that this is +X dice, not +X trait levels. For example a +1 bonus to an Elite (+3) attribute would put the attribute at +4, not +5.
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| − | Summoned allies are '''1st Circle''' for '''Master-level magi''', and '''2nd Circle for Archmage-level magi'''. Special qualities and powers must be bought out of the trait allocation for the ally.
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| − | Buffing and debuffing is limited to master level mages or higher.
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| − | Master-level buffs and debuffs can add or deduct 1 point at most, and last X rounds, where X is successes.
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| − | '''Unbinding''' and '''Banishing''' are depriving another mage of his magical allies. Allies which are summoned into existence can be banished, whereas allies which have been magically befriended or dominated can be unbound. Against a mage of equal power banishing/unbinding removes one ally per success. Against lesser magi, banishing/unbinding removes all the magical allies of one target mage.
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