From 6a7007a732e936c3641e2b2040356c82f0abb584 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Malin Freeborn <malinfreeborn@posteo.net>
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2023 05:42:41 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] update mind spells
---
spells/Mind1.tex | 8 ++++----
spells/Mind2.tex | 7 ++++---
spells/Mind3.tex | 8 +++-----
spells/Mind4.tex | 13 +++++++++++++
4 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/spells/Mind1.tex b/spells/Mind1.tex
index 1b153838..4079bdc6 100644
--- a/spells/Mind1.tex
+++ b/spells/Mind1.tex
@@ -3,21 +3,21 @@
{Wax}% Action
{Fate, Water}% Spheres
{\roll{Wits}{Academics}}% Resist with
- {Target becomes enamoured with their current action, and finds it hard to stop}% Description
+ {The casters gives a compliment, and the target becomes enamoured with their current action, finding it hard to stop}% Description
{
The task always takes the form of a single verb -- `blacksmithing', `walking', `singing' -- never something convoluted like `the mission to kidnap the warden', or `finding the right paints for the colour of a Sunrise'.
\Glspl{npc} targeted by the spell can make a \roll{Wits}{Academics} roll, \tn[8], to break away from the task.
\Glspl{pc} afflicted by the spell cannot gain any further \glspl{xp} for the a full day (four \glspl{interval}), unless they complete the current \gls{interval} without wavering from their task.
- Anyone sleeping almost certainly remains asleep, and rolls to wake up suffer a -4 penalty.}
+ Anyone sleeping almost certainly remains asleep, and any rolls to wake up suffer a -4 penalty.}
\spell{Confusion}% Name
{Fate, Water}% Spheres
{Wane}% Action
{}% Enhancements
{\roll{Wits}{Academics}}% Resist with
- {The target loses their train of thought.
- They take a -1 penalty to all actions using Mental Attributes, and a -1 \gls{ap} penalty during combat}% Description
+ {The caster addresses the target as the wrong name, and they lose their train of thought.
+ They take a -1 penalty to all actions using Mental Attributes}% Description
{}
diff --git a/spells/Mind2.tex b/spells/Mind2.tex
index 51195083..c93bd307 100644
--- a/spells/Mind2.tex
+++ b/spells/Mind2.tex
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
{Wane}% Action
{Water, Fate}% Spheres
{\roll{Wits}{Academics}}% Resist with
- {Targets become confused about what their own plants, and suffer -\arabic{spellCost}~\glspl{ap} each round}% Description
+ {Targets become confused about what their own plans, and suffer a -\arabic{spellCost} to Mind Attributes}% Description
{The spell lasts until the character gains \pgls{xp} for following their Code.}
\spell{Fear}% Name
@@ -12,5 +12,6 @@
{Water, Fate}% Spheres
{\roll{Wits}{Academics}}% Resist with
{The caster explains to the target their imminent death.
- If the target ever finds themselves facing the danger the caster described, they lose \showDam~\glspl{fp}}% Description
- {The situation may be something occurring immediately.}
+ If the target ever finds themselves facing the danger the caster described, they take a -\arabic{spellCost} penalty to Mind Attributes}% Description
+ {The spell lasts until the character gains \pgls{xp} for following their Code.}
+
diff --git a/spells/Mind3.tex b/spells/Mind3.tex
index ab73762f..7a116965 100644
--- a/spells/Mind3.tex
+++ b/spells/Mind3.tex
@@ -6,9 +6,7 @@
{
The caster waves to people in the distance and calls out a confusing greeting.
It makes no sense, and confusion begins to take hold.
- The targets become disoriented, and suffer a -\arabic{spellCost} penalty to all actions based on Mental Attributes.
-
- All valid targets in range feel the effects, so if the spell can only target one enemy, then it will target anyone else until it has affected \arabic{spellTargets} targets.
+ The targets become disoriented, and suffer a -\arabic{spellCost} penalty to all actions based on Mental Attributes}% Description
+ {
The spell lasts until the character gains \pgls{xp} for following their Code.
- }% Description
- {}
+ }
diff --git a/spells/Mind4.tex b/spells/Mind4.tex
index c7d4d5f1..97041e07 100644
--- a/spells/Mind4.tex
+++ b/spells/Mind4.tex
@@ -6,3 +6,16 @@
{The caster shouts to the targets about their imminent death (perhaps mentioning horses, long journeys, or poison slipped into their food).
The target becomes intensely paranoid about that topic, taking a -\arabic{spellCost} penalty to all Mind Attributes when interacting with their new phobia}% Description
{}
+
+\spell{Demonic Doorway}% Name
+ {distant, divergent, duplicated}% Enhancements
+ {Warp}% Action
+ {Water, Fate, Earth, Fire}% Spheres
+ {Nothing}% Resist with
+ {The caster reads a book to an opening (hall, door or hatch), and it opens a portal to any place the caster has described in the reading.
+ This magical portal remains silent, but can think, and will observe the place it makes a portal to, then make a portal to some other place it can see from there, and so on.
+
+ The doorway has Intelligence and Charisma Bonuses at +2, and slowly learns the spheres used to cast it}% Description
+ {
+ While standard magical portals diminish in time, these doorways can store \glspl{mp} once they learn a single spell Sphere, and use it to keep themselves healthy.
+ Of course moving a \gls{weight} of \arabic{spellTargets} or more through them in a single \gls{interval} destroys them as usual.}
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