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'''[[Mage#Arcane Weaving Track|Arcane Weaving.]]''' Some spells are especially mutable, capable of being sculpted into something new. You might master this ability, allowing you a diverse repertoire of effects.

'''[[Mage#Archmage Track|Archmage.]]''' By focusing on a single function of magic – alchemy, illusory magic, or perhaps necromancy to name a few – you can become an unparalleled master of customizing the capabilities of your magic.

'''[[Mage#Sorcery Track|Sorcery.]]''' By manipulating chance, you mitigate the danger of arcane magic or can cause the magic to become even more unstable, with explosive results.

'''[[Mage#Tome Wizard Track|Tome Wizard.]]''' If you enchant a tome or scroll you can learn far more magic than you might otherwise, as the tome gradually comes to life and helps you learn and cast more spells.

'''[[Mage#Occultism Track|Occultism.]]''' ''Harker's Guide to Vampire Hunting.'' With your corrupt spellbook and sacrificial dagger in hand, you carve your way through flesh and magic alike. Weaving sinew and magic to your own dark purposes, your versatility both in and out of combat is nigh unparalleled.

 

 

=== Mage Entry Talent ===

|When you take this entry talent, you gain the following benefits.

 

 

'''Arcane Power.''' Each time you level up and spend your Talent Point on a Mage talent, gain +5 SP and +1 Arcane Power.

'''Focus.''' Choose one of the nine functions of magic. This choice grants you a special bonus when you cast magic of that function.

|You can spend 10 minutes changing and simply shaping raw materials to your needs. Your creation cannot exceed 1 ft x 1 ft x 2 ft. This could be making a branch into a crowbar, or a crowbar into a long wire, or a long wire into a bundle of tinder, but cannot create complex objects or machines. The material can be refined (such as smelted ore or cut timber), but cannot be crafted (such as a sword or a door).

Even the most talented alchemists have not discovered how to transmute silver, gold, or diamond, and thus those materials are unavailable for this ability.

|Altering spells cost you 1 fewer AP (min 1).  

|Gain the Signature Scry ability.

 

* '''Signature Scry.''' Spend 10 minutes meditating, after which you can see, hear, and smell from one of your arcane Signatures as if you were present in a vacant space within 5 ft of its location for 1 minute. This magic consumes and dispels the Signature after it is used.

|When you cast an enchanting spell that Charms or Frightens a creature, multiply the duration of the effects by x1.5.

|Gain the Devastating Blast ability.

 

* '''Devastating Blast (END/Rest).''' When you deal damage with evoking magic, add damage equal to 1⁄2 your character level.

|Creatures attempting to identify your illusions have a -2 to their checks.

|Gain the Lifetime Warranty ability.

 

* '''Lifetime Warranty.''' When you would be reduced to 0 HP, you can sacrifice a creature with the undead tag under your control for 0 Reactive AP to immediately gain 1 HP. The undead in question is destroyed.

|Creatures that you summon gain additional max HP equal to your Arcane Power level.  

|When you cast warding magic that increases any of a creature’s defenses, that creature’s AR increases by +1.

=== Arcane Weaving Track ===

[[File:ArcaneWeavingTrack.png|center|frameless|450x450px|Arcane Weaving Track Progression]]

|Spells with the metamagic tag cost you 4 fewer SP to cast (min 0).

|The Sculpt Spell arcane spell costs you 1⁄2 the SPC to cast.

|Sculpt Spell costs you no SP to upcharge.

|Sculpt Spell now costs you 1 SP to cast.

|The Extend Spell arcane spell costs you 1⁄2 the SPC to cast.

|Upcharging Extend Spell becomes +15 ft range for the primary spell per +2 SP.

|The Delay Spell arcane spell costs you 1⁄2 the SP to cast.

|The Empower Spell arcane spell’s APC is lowered by 2.

|Arcane Weaving 5

|Gain Metamagic Points equal to your INT. You may spend 2 Metamagic points to cast an arcane spell or cantrip with the metamagic tag for 0 SP. You regain all expended Metamagic points when you Take a Rest.

When you spend Metamagic Points, you must declare the expenditure before you cast your arcane spell or cantrip.

|You may spend Metamagic Points to reduce an arcane spell’s SPC by 2 SP per Metamagic Point.

|You may spend 1 Metamagic Point to change an arcane spell or cantrip’s damage type from cold, corrosive, fire, or necrotic to a different damage type out of those options.

|You may spend Metamagic Points to reduce an arcane spell or cantrip’s APC at a rate of 1 Metamagic Point per AP (min 1).

|You may spend 1 Metamagic Point to halve the SPC of upcharging an arcane spell or cantrip. You may not combine this with other Metamagic expenditures, but you may halve the cost (min 1) multiple times.

|You may spend 6 Metamagic Points to maximize the damage of an arcane spell or cantrip.

|You may spend 1 Metamagic Point to ignore a creature’s Resist with an arcane spell or cantrip.

|You may spend 1 Metamagic Point to modify an arcane spell or cantrip to deal psychic damage and become nonlethal.

|When you cast an arcane spell or cantrip that deals necrotic damage, you may spend 1 Metamagic Point to regain HP equal to 1⁄2 the necrotic damage you deal, or 2 Metamagic Points to heal for all the necrotic damage.

|You may extend an arcane spell or cantrip with a duration of 1 minute or longer. It lasts for +1 minute per Metamagic Point you expend.

|You may spend 2 Metamagic Points to delay conjuring an arcane spell for one turn. If you do not resume conjuring at the start of your next turn, you lose the spell as if your conjuring were interrupted.

|Gain the Metamagic Expert ability.

 

* '''Metamagic Expert (1/Rest).''' You may regain all expended Metamagic Points when you Recoup.

|Your Metamagic Expert ability now lets you regain all expended uses when you Catch your Breath.  

|You may trade SP for Metamagic Points at a rate of 10 SP per 1 Metamagic Point, or Metamagic Points for SP at a rate of 1 Metamagic Point for 5 SP.

|You weave magic in ways most cannot even comprehend, manipulating the leylines of the Fundamental Wellspring and bending them to your will, even altering reality itself. Your total Metamagic Points is now equal to your INT+6.

Gain the Strand of Metamagic ability.

* '''Strand of Metamagic.''' You may spend X Metamagic Points to increase your d20 roll by X. You may spend 1 Reactive AP to spend X Metamagic Points and decrease the d20 roll of a hostile creature within 40 ft of you by X.

* '''''Level 30:''''' The final cap for your INT increases from 12 to 14.

=== Archmage Track ===

[[File:ArchmageTrack.png|center|frameless|1028x1028px|Archmage Track Progression]]

|You dedicate yourself to scholarly pursuits, the study of arcane magics, and the mastery of the Fundamental Wellspring.

You may now only take talents from the Mage and Arcane Magic stacks.

 

You immediately learn all arcane cantrips and add your INT to damage dealt by cantrips.

|Gain the Alchemy Focus. If you already had the Alchemy Focus, you gain +6 Skill Points that you can spend on any skills with the INT tag.

|Alchemy Focus can now be up to 5 ft x 5 ft x 15 ft They can also be crafted objects that do not feature moving parts (such as a ladder or sword). You must have at least 4 Skill Points in the associated skill to create crafted objects in this way (Such as Carpentry for a ladder or Smithing for a sword). The value of crafted creations can be no higher than the value of the materials.

|Alchemy Focus can now be 15 ft x 15 ft x 15 ft.

|Alchemy Focus can now create objects featuring moving parts such as doors or windows.

|Choose one cantrip, chant, or prayer, and one spell from any magic source. Each of these choices must have the alchemy tag. These count as arcane, if they were not already.

|Gain the Altering Focus. If you already had the Altering Focus, you gain +6 Skill Points that you can spend on any skills with the INT tag.

|With you [[Arcane Swap]] arcane spell, if you target a willing creature, you may swap them with another willing creature in range that is within one Size category of the original target, instead of swapping yourself.

|Arcane Swap now has no minimum size, and can target objects that are no larger than one Size larger than you, or twice your weight.

|Choose one cantrip, chant, or prayer, and one spell from any magic source. Each of these choices must have the altering tag. These count as arcane, if they were not already.

|Gain the Divining Focus. If you already had the Divining Focus, you gain +6 Skill Points that you can spend on any skills with the INT tag.

|You can use your Signature Scry ability on a Signature twice before it is dispelled.

|Your Signatures are no longer dispelled by your Signature Scry ability.

|Gain the Homing Beacon ability.

 

* '''Homing Beacon (2/Rest).''' You may teleport yourself to a Signature by meditating on one of your Signatures for 10 minutes. This dispels the Signature.

|Choose one cantrip, chant, or prayer, and one spell from any magic source. Each of these choices must have the divining tag. These count as arcane, if they were not already.

|Gain the Enchanting Focus. If you already had the Enchanting Focus, you gain +6 Skill Points that you can spend on any skills with the INT tag.

|An object that has your Signature costs 0 SP to possess with the [[Possess Object]] arcane spell.

|Your [[Unravel Magic]] arcane spell costs 1⁄2 the SPC of the spell you are targeting if it is a spell with the enchanting tag.

|If you discover enchanting magic using the [[Sense Magic]] arcane spell, you learn who the caster is, provided that you already know their true name and they are within 1 mile of you.

|Choose one cantrip, chant, or prayer, and one spell from any magic source. Each of these choices must have the enchanting tag. These count as arcane, if they were not already.

|Gain the Evoking Focus. If you already had the Evoking Focus, you gain +6 Skill Points that you can spend on any skills with the INT tag.

|Devastating Blast becomes damage equal to your character level.  

|When you use Devastating Blast on an evoking spell the additional damage is equal to your character level + INT.

|Gain the Overchannel ability.

 

* '''Overchannel.''' When you cast an evoking spell, you may gain additional SP by gaining Death Points. For each Death Point you gain, you gain 10 SP. You lose any excess SP that you gained from this feature.

|Choose one cantrip, chant, or prayer, and one spell from any magic source. Each of these choices must have the evoking tag. These count as arcane, if they were not already.

|Gain the Illusory Focus. If you already had the Illusory Focus, you gain +6 Skill Points that you can spend on any skills with the INT tag.

|Gain the Illusory Duplicate ability.

 

* '''Illusory Duplicate (1/Rest).''' You may create one Illusory Duplicate of yourself when you cast your first illusory spell after Taking a Rest. When you are subject to physical damage, the attacker must roll an even number to hit you. If they roll an odd number, they hit and destroy one of your duplicates instead.

|Choose one cantrip, chant, or prayer, and one spell from any magic source. Each of these choices must have the illusory tag. These count as arcane, if they were not already.

|Gain the Necromancy Focus. If you already had the Necromancy Focus, you gain +6 Skill Points that you can spend on any skills with the INT tag.

|The duration of the [[Raise Skeleton]] arcane spell is now Indefinite, but your max SP are reduced by 16 for each active skeleton under your control. You can no longer upcharge Raise Skeleton.

|Your max SP are now reduced by only 8 for each active skeleton under your control.

|Your max SP are now reduced by only 4 for each active skeleton under your control.

|Choose one cantrip, chant, or prayer, and one spell from any magic source. Each of these choices must have the necromancy tag. These count as arcane, if they were not already.

|Gain the Summoning Focus. If you already had the Summoning Focus, you gain +6 Skill Points that you can spend on any skills with the INT tag.

|Creatures you create using a summoning spell add 1⁄2 your INT to their attack rolls.

|Creatures you create using a summoning spell add 1⁄2 your INT to their damage rolls.

|Summoning II and III become: Creatures you create using a summoning spell add your INT to their attack and damage rolls.

|Choose one cantrip, chant, or prayer, and one spell from any magic source. Each of these choices must have the summoning tag. These count as arcane, if they were not already.

|Gain the Warding Focus. If you already had the Warding Focus, you gain +6 Skill Points that you can spend on any skills with the INT tag.

|When you cast the [[Mage Armor]] arcane spell on yourself, and would be the victim of [[Actions#Massive Damage|Massive Damage]] you can reduce that damage by 1⁄2. If you do, your Mage Armor is dispelled.

|Your Mage Armor can no longer be dispelled by others, and now increases all defenses by +5.

|Choose one cantrip, chant, or prayer, and one spell from any magic source. Each of these choices must have the warding tag. These count as arcane, if they were not already.

|Archmage 14

|You are renowned as a highly skilled arcane caster, and many hopefuls will seek you out to try to earn your favor as an instructor. Gain the High Mage ability.

 

* '''High Mage (1/Rest).''' You may regain half your SP when you Recoup.

|Your spells can no longer be dispelled, identified, detected, scried on, or targeted in any way by a caster with a character level or ML below your character level. Even then, a creature can only target your spells if they spend at least 90 SP or expend the equivalent of 90 SP through innate casting.

=== Sorcery Track ===

[[File:SorceryTrack.png|center|frameless|535x535px|Sorcery Track Progression]]

|You can no longer take backlash damage that is higher than your current character level while you have your focus on your person. You take damage equal to the arcane spell or cantrip’s SPC (min 1) or equal to your character level, whichever is lower.

|By acting more carefully, you trigger backlash less frequently with spells. When you would trigger backlash, you can now roll a 1d20, and on a 10 or higher, the backlash does not occur. However, your critical casts now only reduce the SPC by 5, instead of 10.

|You can no longer trigger backlash with spells, and your critical casts cannot reduce SPC or restore SP.

|You may now choose if you are carefully casting spells or not. When you use Careful Cast on spells, you cannot trigger backlash and your critical casts cannot reduce SPC. You must declare this before rolling.

|Wellspring Tap now applies to spells that cost 10 SP or fewer.

|When you are the victim of a critical hit or critical cast, you regain 1d10 SP.

|When you are carefully casting a cantrip, you gain +1 TA.

|Cantrip Focus becomes +2 TA.

|Cantrip Focus becomes +3 TA.

|You can now add your 1⁄2 your INT to your cantrip damage.

|You can now critically cast on cantrip and you can no longer trigger backlash on cantrips.

|When casting, you may now declare if you are casting the spell normally or using Unstable Casingt. If you are casting normally, you crit on a 20 and backlash on a 1, unless you are carefully casting.

|Cantrip Focus V or Unstable Casting V

|Your cantrip crits deal critical damage as if they were a weapon attack.

|When you crit on a cantrip, you may also apply the damage to one additional target that is within 5 ft of your target.

|Your cantrip crits cause your damage dice to explode. When you crit and roll max damage on a damage die, set that die aside and roll another die of the same type. Repeat this process until there are no new maximum dice, then add the sum of all of those damage dice together.

|When you are the victim of a critical hit, you explode with your choice of fire, cold, or necrotic damage. Deal 1d10+INT damage of that type to all creatures within 5 ft of you.

|Explosive Critical III or Inertia III

|You are a battle hardened sorcerer of great renown, capable of harnessing the destructive power of the Fundamental Wellspring to turn the tide of a battle. Generals and monarchs would pay high sums or large favors to earn your support in a conflict.

* '''''Level 30:''''' You can spend 1 Luck Point to reroll all of your damage dice.

=== Tome Wizard Track ===

[[File:TomeWizardTrack.png|center|frameless|573x573px|Tome Wizard Track Progression]]

!PreReq

|Learn a new spell with the arcane ritual tag whose SPC does not exceed your total SP.

You can no longer be separated from your Spellbook as it becomes partially ethereal, gains limited sentience, and has the ability to hover nearby. In this form, the Awakened Spellbook cannot be targeted and occupies the same space as you.

 

Gain +1 to your mental defenses.

|Gain the Spell Scribe ability.

 

* '''Spell Scribe (1/Rest).''' Your Spellbook can produce an enchanted vellum. You can cast a spell you know on this vellum, which causes it to become a spell scroll. While there is an active scroll, you can not cast that spell normally. Any creature can use this spell scroll to cast the spell using the required AP without expending SP. They use their own spellcasting attribute when applicable. If they do not have one, they use INT. When cast, the spell scroll dissolves and you can cast the spell normally again. If the SPC of the spell is over 16, the user of the scroll must make an INT/Arcana check after spending the required AP. The creature must beat a DC of 10+(1⁄2 the spell’s SPC). On a failure, the spell fizzles and the spell scroll dissolves. You may only produce one spell scroll at a time in this way. If you would create a new one and your previous one is unused, the previous one disintegrates.

|Learn a new spell with the arcane ritual tag whose SPC does not exceed your total SP.

Your Awakened Spellbook can now occupy any space within 15 ft of you, and any spells that you cast can originate from you or the Awakened Spellbook. If you move more than 15 ft away, the book hovers back to occupy the same space as you automatically. It can move 15 ft per turn and moves at the end of your turn if you so desire.

 

Gain +1 to your mental defenses.

|'''Spell Scribe II'''

|You can now maintain two spell scrolls at a time using your Spell Scribe ability. If you would create a new one and your previous scrolls are unused, choose one to disintegrate. Your Spellbook still only produces one enchanted vellum per day.

|Your Awakened Spellbook can now be 30 ft from you without being recalled to the space you occupy. It can now fulfill Visual, Line of Sight and Line of Effect requirements for spells that originate from it. You must still perform any Gesture or Verbal requirements.

|Learn a new spell with the arcane ritual tag whose SPC does not exceed your total SP.

You can imbue the mote of a spell that you captured through the Steal Spell arcane spell into a slot in your spellbook, instead of casting it. When imbued in this way, that spell becomes an arcane spell for you until you replace it with another stolen spell. You have one slot for Stolen Spells.

* '''Joint Cast (3/Rest).''' When you are casting a cantrip, your Awakened Spellbook can also cast that cantrip on a target of its own, or the same target, assuming all other conditions of the cantrip are met.

|Gain +1 slot in your spellbook for stolen spells.

|Gain +5 to your Steal Spell rolls.

|Learn a new spell with the arcane ritual tag whose SPC does not exceed your total SP.

Gain +1 to your mental defenses.

 

You can now cast two arcane rituals per Rest.

|Gain +1 slot in your spellbook for stolen spells.

|The DC of the INT/Arcana check for others to use your spell scroll is 10+(1⁄2 the spell’s SPC) or 15, whichever is lower.

|You learn one of the following of your choice:

* Occult ritual

If your choice has a tier or power requirement, roll an INT/Arcana check, the DC of which is 10+ double the Tier if Primal or Psionic, or 10+ the Divine or Occult Power requirement if Divine or Occult. If you fail this check, you may never attempt to cast it again, and must make a new selection in its place.

|'''Awakened Spellbook V'''

|Learn a new spell with the arcane ritual tag whose SPC does not exceed your total SP.

Gain +1 to your mental defenses.

 

You can now cast three arcane rituals per Rest.

|Your spellbook fully awakens, gaining its own personality. It is intensely loyal to you while you treat it well. You can use your Grimoire arcane spell on it freely for the purposes of storing information, targeting a single page rather than the whole book, and you can choose whether or not you forget the information stored inside.

Additionally, you gain +1 slot in your spellbook for stolen spells.

* '''''Level 30:''''' If you die, your book will live on and pass the knowledge scribed inside to whomever it deems worthy.