Shadowrun:SITS - Manipulation

Manipulation Spells

Manipulation spells are about shifting reality, bending and twisting it to your will. The world is an untidy, unwieldy place, and this set of spells helps you re-arrange it to something much more amenable to you. Sadly, the world often resists your attempts to make it what it should be. That, of course, just means you have to work harder.

Manipulation spells target either living or non-living things. The resistance rolls for each spell are specified in the spell descriptions. Spells targeting nonliving things are resisted with their Object Resistance (see p. 129).

Net hits on the Spellcasting test determine the duration of the spell, and for nonliving objects, it also determines how much material is affected. Many Manipulation spells have limited durations and last for a number of minutes equal to the net hits on the Spellcasting test. The default amount of nonliving material affected is one-half cubic meter per net hit. See the Volume Reference table for information on how to translate cubic meters of material into common objects

Volume Reference Table

Net Hits Results Example

1 Hit 1/2 Cubic Meter Basic Refrigerator

2 Hits 1 Cubic Meter Full-Sized Couch

3 Hits 1 1/2 Cubic Meter Motorcycle

4 Hits 2 Cubic Meter Dumpster

5 Hits 2 1/2 Cubic Meter Dining Room Table & 8 Chairs

6 Hits 3 Cubic Meter Michelangelo's David

Spell Descriptions

Range

Touch: The target needs to be touched - succeed on an additional unarmed Close Combat attack that deals no damage prior to casting the spell. If the Close Combat test exceeds the target's Defense or meets it with a tie, the spell takes effect.

Line of Sight: The caster needs a physical line of sight to the target - optical lenses such as binoculars count as physical line of sight; magical effects and digitized images such as thermographic goggles do not.

Line of Sight (Area): This means the spell has a line-of-sight range and also has an area effect which starts at a 2 Meter radius sphere.

Special: The range is defined in the write-up for this specific spell.

Duration

Instantaneous: These spells take effect immediately, then dissipate.

Sustained: These spells last as long as the caster keeps it in operation. Dropping a sustained spell requires no use of an action; the magician simply stops holding it. Each Sustained spell incurs a -2 Dice Pool Modifier as long as it is Sustained.

Limited: These spells have set endpoints that they cannot be sustained beyond but can be dropped earlier than that if desired.

Permanent: These effects do not dissipate and stay in place without any effort or focus on the part of the caster. Permanent spells simply become a full part of the world.

Type

Mana: Mana spells interact solely with the astral plane; they may affect living beings, as living beings have an astral component, but they have no effect on nonliving, non-astral entities such as drones, streetlights, or glass.

Physical: Physical spells only affect the physical realm, which means they cannot be used on the Astral, and do not affect anyone astrally projecting or spirits that have not manifested. They do, however, affect anything on the physical plane.

Drain Value

This is the base value that casters must resist to avoid experiencing Drain. It can be increased if casters use Amp Up or Increase Area to adjust their spells.

Animate Metal

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Physical

Duration: Limited

Drain Value: 6

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Object Resistance of the item/material being animated.

Use the Volume Reference Table to determine how much material is animated.

The material can move according to its form, but generally it should not be faster than 5 Meters per combat round unless it is a wheeled vehicle or something else with innate speed.

The object is generally not capable of coordinated movements, so attacks are slow and easily blocked. If striking at a motionless or unwary target, it does 4P.

Commanding the animated substance requires a Minor Action. If someone is trying to keep the object from following your commands, use the spellcasting Net Hits + 4 vs. opponent's Body + Strength to see if the object is impeded from acting on the command.

Description: A chunk of material is a chunk of potential to you - because you can make the affected substance come to life, moving as commanded.

Choosing one of these spells can get tricky in that few objects are made entirely of one material - tables may be wood or plastic but with metal in them. Choose the material that is predominant in the object to be animated - the magic that inhabits the majority of the material is able to carry the other material along for the ride.

Animate Plastic

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Physical

Duration: Limited

Drain Value: 3

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Object Resistance of the item/material being animated.

Use the Volume Reference Table to determine how much material is animated.

The material can move according to its form, but generally it should not be faster than 5 Meters per combat round unless it is a wheeled vehicle or something else with innate speed.

The object is generally not capable of coordinated movements, so attacks are slow and easily blocked. If striking at a motionless or unwary target, it does 1S.

Commanding the animated substance requires a Minor Action. If someone is trying to keep the object from following your commands, use the spellcasting Net Hits + 1 vs. opponent's Body + Strength to see if the object is impeded from acting on the command.

Description: A chunk of material is a chunk of potential to you - because you can make the affected substance come to life, moving as commanded.

Animate Stone

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Physical

Duration: Limited

Drain Value: 5

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Object Resistance of the item/material being animated.

Use the Volume Reference Table to determine how much material is animated.

The material can move according to its form, but generally it should not be faster than 5 Meters per combat round unless it is a wheeled vehicle or something else with innate speed.

The object is generally not capable of coordinated movements, so attacks are slow and easily blocked. If striking at a motionless or unwary target, it does 3P.

Commanding the animated substance requires a Minor Action. If someone is trying to keep the object from following your commands, use the spellcasting Net Hits + 3 vs. opponent's Body + Strength to see if the object is impeded from acting on the command.

Description: A chunk of material is a chunk of potential to you - because you can make the affected substance come to life, moving as commanded.

Animate Wood

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Physical

Duration: Limited

Drain Value: 4

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Object Resistance of the item/material being animated.

Use the Volume Reference Table to determine how much material is animated.

The material can move according to its form, but generally it should not be faster than 5 Meters per combat round unless it is a wheeled vehicle or something else with innate speed.

The object is generally not capable of coordinated movements, so attacks are slow and easily blocked. If striking at a motionless or unwary target, it does 2S.

Commanding the animated substance requires a Minor Action. If someone is trying to keep the object from following your commands, use the spellcasting Net Hits + 2 vs. opponent's Body + Strength to see if the object is impeded from acting on the command.

Description: A chunk of material is a chunk of potential to you - because you can make the affected substance come to life, moving as commanded.

Petrify

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 6

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs Body + Strength.

The results of the test must equal or exceed the target's Body score.

If successful, the target gains the Petrified status effect.

Any damage suffered by the stone-like form affects the target normally. While petrified, the subject has a Structure rating equal to Body + magician's Net Hits on the spellcasting test.

Description: Petrify transforms living tissue into a stone-like calcium carbonate.

Non-living items including clothing, cyberware, gear are all unaffected but if it is installed in a body that has been Petrified. While under the effects of Petrify, targets are not conscious which makes it a favorite among those never wishing to be seen but unwilling to knock out or otherwise harm a target.

Magic Fingers

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 4

Effect: Within a 1 Meter diameter sphere the magician has a pair of invisible hands with which they can perform various actions.

With a Shift Area Minor Action, the sphere can be moved to a location within the magician's line of sight.

When the hands attempt to do something, it uses the relevant Skill that the caster has (or doesn't) except that they do not combine their attribute in the test. Instead, they roll Skill + Net Hits.

Edge and rerolls cannot be used when performing an action through Magic Fingers.

Description: Magic Fingers creates psychokinetic force with enough precision to mimic the fine motor movements of hands! A very handy spell for those hard-to-reach places!

The Magic Fingers spell does not fully replicate fine motor skills. Do not attempt watch repair, surgery, or bomb defusing with Magic Fingers.

Fling

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Physical

Duration: Instantaneous

Drain Value: 5

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Object Resistance. For each Net Hit, you can fling half a kilogram of material into the air.

Net Hits also act as a threshold for a Reaction + Intuition test for targets to avoid the object.

The flung object can be thrown up to the magician's Magic rating in meters and does Stun damage equal to it's kilograms in weight, rounded up.

Description: If you ever thought "If I had magic powers, I definitely would catapult objects into the sky, only without a catapult," then you're our sort of person and this spell is for you!

Catch

Range: Line of Sight

Type:Physical

Duration: Instantaneous

Drain Value: 3

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Object Resistance.

You can catch one individual unattended object weighing up to half a kilogram per Net Hit.

The maximum range of what you can grab is the magician's Magic rating in meters.

Description: "Catch" is a lot like "Fling" but in the other direction. Instead of hurling objects with your mind, you can catch them with your mind!

Known for being exceptionally useful for retrieving a dropped gun or thrown weapon - and winning the egg toss.

Lock

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 4

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Object Resistance.

The caster must beat the item's Object Resistance threshold to hold the blockade in place.

Opening the blockade requires an opposed test of the opponent's Strength vs. the Net Hits on the spellcasting test.

Description: Lock allows a spellcaster to telekinetically hold a door (or portal, hatch, closure, or similar blockage) closed.

Light

Range: Line of Sight (Area)

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 3

Effect: For each Net Hit, you can raise the light level of the surrounding area by one.

Light is an area spell and can be adjusted using Increase Area and Shift Area.

Description: This spell creates a mobile point of light, illuminating an area. It cannot be used to blind a target, but offsets the effects of darkness.

Darkness

Range: Line of Sight (Area)

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 3

Effect: For each Net Hit, you can lower the light level of the surrounding area by one.

Darkness is an area spell and can be adjusted using Increase Area and Shift Area.

Description: Darkness creates a mobile globe of shadow that can dampen an area's light until it is bathed in total darkness.

Reinforce

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 3

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Structure Rating.

Each Net Hit increases both the Armor and the Structure rating of the object by 1 as long as the spell is sustained.

The object must not be larger than a caster's Magic rating in square meters.

Description: Reinforce allows a magician to increase the structural integrity of an item, usually an object larger than a weapon but smaller than a wall or vehicle, to better protect it against ill intent.

Ignore Armor

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 6

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs Object Resistance.

This does 'damage' equivalent to half the sorcerer's Magic rating, with every net hit subtracting an additional point of armor.

Description: Magically cause heavier armor to weaken, soften, or become brittle upon contact with this aerial glob of mana.

Armor

Range: Touch

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 4

Effect: Add Net Hits to a target's Armor for as long as the spell is sustained.

Description: Your magic fills the body of the target, hardening it and making it better able to absorb damage.

Elemental Armor

(Cooling, Grounding, Neutralizing, Warming)

Range: Touch

Type: Mana

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 5

Damage: Add Net Hits to a target's Armor for as long as the spell is sustained.

Depending on the choice of element, the target cannot acquire certain status effects. They still may be damaged by a weapon or spell that does that type of damage - for example if you have Cooling Armor, which protects against Fire, you may still be damaged by a Fireball blast if the initial attack roll is successful and you do not soak all the damage but you do not gain the Burning status effect afterward.

Description: A variant of the Armor spell, Elemental Armor provides an added bonus. When casting the spell, you choose one element to protect the target from.

Mystic Armor

Range: Touch

Type: Mana

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 3

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic.

Add Net Hits to a target's Defense Rating/Armor when in astral combat or against Mana-based Combat spells.

Description: Your magic fills the astral form of the target you choose, hardening their aura and making it better able to absorb damage.

Deflection

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 4

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic.

Add Net Hits to the target's Defense dice pool against ranged physical attacks for as long as the spell is sustained.

Description: Cast a spell of protection over a willing target, making what would be a hit into a near-miss. The effects of this spell are subtle enough to be discounted as a missed shot or even poor aim.

Sealskin

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 4

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic.

Add Net Hits to the target's Defense dice pool against melee physical attacks for as long as the spell is sustained.

Description: If you can see them, you can save them. Make a target all the more slippery in melee combat, with even the most for-sure hit looking like it slides off of the subject in a fluke. At least until they catch on to what you're doing.

Stonefist

Range: Touch

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 5

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic.

Raise the Unarmed Combat damage of the target by 1 per Net Hit.

Description: Casting this spell hardens the target's fists, making their punches feel as if they're made of blocks of solid stone.

Flaming Weapon

Range: Touch

Type: Physical

Duration: Limited

Drain Value: 7

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic.

Activating the power and wreathing your weapon in visible flaming energy requires a Minor Action, after which time it remains active for your Magic rating in Combat Rounds or until deactivated at will.

Upon a failed Defense test, the target also gains the Burning (#) status effect. The number is determined by the number of Net Hits acquired, which are then taken as burning damage each Combat Round on the subject's turn.

Description: This experimental spell is an adaptation of an Adept power, manipulating the chemical composition of a weapon so that when oxygen touches it, it turns into a slow-burning, fuel-like material. This groundbreaking formulae was designed by a Chaos magician and refined in the field by an Italian street shaman in the Seattle Metroplex.

After over a year of testing, the formulae was released to Digital Grimoire with wide acclaim.

Elemental Aura

(Electricity, Chemical, Cold, Fire)

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 5

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic.

Net Hits modify the damage of any melee attacks by the caster, causing the appropriate elemental damage to the chosen spell upon any physical melee attacks.

Any successful physical melee attacks against the subject also means that the attacker must resist similar damage from the aura.

Each spell requires a different spell, such as Flame Aura, Electrical Aura, Freezing Aura, and so on.

Description: Elemental Aura creates a rippling aura of elemental energies around a willing subject's body, granting them some properties of said element.

Elemental Wall

(Electricity, Chemical, Cold, Fire)

Range: Line of Sight (Area)

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 6

Effect: The elemental wall has a base size of a 2 Meter radius, 2 centimeter thick dome or a 4 Meter long, 2 Meter thick wall.

The Increase Area effect can be applied to add up to 2 Meters in Length and Width (or depth, for the long version) for each time the Increase Area effect is chosen.

Anyone coming into contact with the wall suffers elemental damage as appropriate to the element.

Note that some elemental walls are not solid (e.g. chemical, fire) and do not block attacks, though they may inflict visibility modifiers.

Solid walls (e.g. ice) have a Structure rating of the spellcaster's Magic + Hits on the Sorcery test.

Description: Elemental Wall allows for the spellcaster to create a wall composed of the specified element named in the spell.

Napalm Wall

Range: Line of Sight (Area)

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 5

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic

The wall causes both fire and water damage.

An opponent who crosses the wall risks both fire and water damage.

For fire damage, the subject rolls their Reaction + Intuition vs. the hits on the magician's spellcasting test. If unsuccessful, the subject gains the Burning (#) status effect.

The water damage acts like a pressurized hose when characters cross through it, forcing an opposed Strength vs. Net Hits on the spellcasting test. If the opponent fails this test, they are knocked Prone.

Description: Napalm Wall is a variant of Elemental Wall, combining both elements of fire and water to create a rippling wall of burning water.

Physical Barrier

Range: Line of Sight (Area)

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 6

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic.

The Structure rating of the Physical Barrier is the spellcaster's Magic + Hits on the Sorcery test.

The base spell casts a barrier that is 2 Meter radius, 2 Meters tall, and 2 Centimeters thick.

The Increase Area effect can be applied to add up to 2 Meters in Length and Width (but not depth) for each time the Increase Area effect is chosen.

Description: Sometimes you want to keep magic away from you but other times you want to keep absolutely everything away from you if at all possible. Physical Barrier builds a wall where you want it to be and it will keep out living things, non-living things, and if you're an efficacious enough spellcaster, you just might find yourself stopping a moving vehicle in it's tracks - but more likely, you'll see your Physical Barrier shatter like glass. Which is, like, really cool looking, too.

Mana Barrier

Range: Line of Sight (A)

Type: Mana

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 5

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic. Net hits + caster's Magic score is the Structure rating of the astral wall you create.

At the basic level, the spell creates a 2 Meter radius, 2 Meter tall barrier. The Increase Area effect can be added to increase up to 2 meters in length and width (but not depth) for each time the effect is chosen. The barrier can be shaped as desired by the caster.

Description: Want a spirit-free room? Want a way to enforce your bar's "no foci" policy? Then a mana barrier is the way to go. This invisible wall (visible only on the astral) will let people and non-magical objects through with no noticeable effect, but spirits, foci, dual-natured beings, alchemical preparations, reagents, and spells can't get through. Astrally projecting mages can't get through, either. Unless they fight their way through.

Offensive Mana Barrier

Range: Line of Sight (Area)

Type: Mana

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 6

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic. Net hits + caster's Magic score is the Structure rating of the astral wall you create.

At the basic level, the spell creates a 2 Meter radius, 2 Meter barrier. The Increase Area effect can be added to increase up to 2 meters in length and width (but not depth) for each time the effect is chosen. The barrier can be shaped as desired by the caster.

Offensive Mana Barrier inflicts Physical damage equal to the magician's hits on the initial spellcasting test.

Description: Considered to be an amped-up version of the Mana Barrier spell, Offensive Mana Barrier allows a spellcaster to create a mana barrier that will "zap" any spirits, dual natured individuals, or other metaplanar entities that come into contact with it.

Bug Zapper

Range: Line of Sight (Area)

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 6

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic. Net hits + caster's Magic score is the Structure rating of the astral wall you create.

Bug Zapper inflicts Physical damage equal to the magician's hits on the initial spellcasting test. This does not damage any other types of spirits of astral forms.

Description: Bug Zapper is a modified version of the Mana Barrier spell that is designed to work against insect spirit and insect spirit powers. After the fall of Chicago, this spell started to become quite popular as the "Bug Menace" grew in importance, especially in the shadows.

When cast on the physical plane, Bug Zapper impedes materialized insect spirits that come into contact with it.

Spirit Zapper

Range: Line of Sight (Area)

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 6

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic. Net hits + caster's Magic score is the Structure rating of the astral wall you create.

Spirit Zapper inflicts Physical damage equal to the magician's hits on the initial spellcasting test.

It has no effect on spells, foci, or non-spirit dual natured beings and astral forms.

Description: This modified version of the Offensive Mana Barrier spell is designed to work against spirits and spirit powers - pointedly, keeping them inside of a place or outside of a place while giving them a sting of regret if they choose to push the issue at all.

This spell is often deployed against materialized spirits to keep them from entering an area in zones where spirits run amok, and sending materialized spirits back to their metaplane isn't seen as an unsavory practice.

Spirit Barrier

Range: Line of Sight (Area)

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 5

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic. Net hits + caster's Magic score is the Structure rating of the astral wall you create.

It has no effect on spells, foci, or non-spirit dual natured beings and astral forms.

Description: This modified version of the Offensive Mana Barrier spell is designed to work against spirits and spirit powers - pointedly, keeping them out of a place or trapping them inside of one.

When cast on the physical plane, Spirit Zapper impedes materialized spirits and their powers.

Radiation Shield

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 4

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic.

This spell provides radiation protection to the tune of additional Damage Soak dice equivalent to the magician's hits on the initial spellcasting test.

Description: Radiation Shield creates an aura surrounding a target that is intended to reduce the damage caused by a radiation hazard.

This is generally signified by a green-yellow glowing field, although some recent spell formulae have removed the visual component in favor of a more sleek and streamlined, invisible approach.

Radiation Barrier

Range: Line of Sight (Area)

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 6

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic.

This spell provides radiation protection to the tune of additional Damage Soak dice equivalent to the magician's hits on the initial spellcasting test for all targets in the area when the spell is cast.

Radiation Barrier can be increased with an Increase Area effect and moved with a Shift Area effect.

Description: Radiation Barrier creates an aura surrounding an area of target that is intended to reduce the damage caused by a radiation hazard.

This is generally signified by a green-yellow glowing field, although some recent spell formulae have removed the visual component in favor of a more sleek and streamlined, invisible approach.

Fashion

Range: Touch

Type: Physical

Duration: Permanent

Drain Value: 4

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Object Resistance (6, for most clothing), then consult the Fashion Results Table.

The weight and volume of the clothing's material cannot change. A jumpsuit cannot be converted into a bikini or vice versa.

Any armor with a Defense Rating higher than 3 resists the changes to Fashion more than most clothing. When casting the spell on armor, use the armor's (Defense Rating - 3) as a threshold when casting the spell, then consult the Fashion Results Table using Net Hits.

Description: When going from combat to social event, or maybe when you forgot to send your suit to the dry cleaner, this spell is the life-saver you need. Are you wearing the same outfit as a hostess? Fashion it! Is a tie required at a formal event? Fashion it!

This spell can restore fabric to a just-like-new state, removing wrinkles and stains - even blood and sweat! - and mending small rips and tears.

That's not all: a true artist with this spell can adjust the cut, color, pattern, and fit of any outfit to suit their needs. Free up that closet space and rent it out as a small room because one outfit and your imagination is all you'll ever need!

Makeover

Range: Touch

Type: Physical

Duration: Permanent

Drain Value: 4

Effect: After rolling the Sorcery + Magic test, consult the Makeover Results Table.

Makeover can create a coating for certain individual surfaces such as hair and nails that lasts for the magician's Magic rating in hours on a living subject.

Makeover can only be cast once every 24 hours on a particular subject. During this time, the material won't chip, fade, or wash off. After this time, it will then wear off through normal day-to-day routine.

Makeover cannot treat any medical conditions but can cover them up, providing the magician has achieved 2 or more Net Hits.

While this spell is in effect, the subject can gain 1 dice reroll for social tests thanks to the changes in their appearance.

Description: Can't have a new wardrobe without a new do! Makeover can help color-coordinate nails, mascara, and hair with today's chosen outfit. Feel like an autumn this week when you're actually a winter? Makeover can help make the adjustment before you even step out the door.

Compel Truth

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Mana

Duration: Special

Drain Value: 4

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic.

The subject of this spell must only say what they believe is true for the spell's duration.

The spell lasts a number of minutes equal to the hits on the spellcasting test.

Description: Compel Truth is a spell that forces a target to speak only the truth as they know it. The target can say something they believe to be wholly the truth even if it is not, but only if they believe it to be true.

Subjects may choose to withold information but cannot directly lie and some jursidictions (like the UCAS) consider the use of this spell by law enforcement authorities to be a human rights violation and self-incriminating by default.

Other jurisdictions allow the use of this spell (among others) to get the truth and expedite legal proceedings.

Alter Memory

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Mana

Duration: Permanent

Drain Value: 6

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Willpower + Logic

The Net Hits scored by the spellcaster determine the quality and complexity of an implanted or altered memory.

Every Net Hits in months - or anytime the character is presented with evidence that the memory is false, has been removed, or otherwise altered - the subject may attempt another Willpower + Logic test.

Each hit reduces the hits on the magician's spellcasting test.

When the total hits reach 0, the spell no longer has any effect and the original memories are restored and the false or altered memories are revealed.

Description: This spell allows the spellcaster to alter a single, specific memory that the target holds, including the addition or subtraction of a memory entirely.

Control Emotions

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Mana

Duration: Limited

Drain Value: 3

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Willpower + Logic.

If successful, the targets' current feelings are adjusted by a new emotional state (happy, angry, sad, etc.). The more hits, the more intense the new emotional state is.

Generally speaking, a target doing something in keeping with the emotion suffers no penalty. If they do something not relevant to the emotion (trying to drive while sobbing hysterically), a distraction applies and they suffer a -2 Dice Pool Penalty.

If the target attempts to go against the emotion (trying to shoot someone they love, for example) then they can make another Willpower + Logic test against the spellcaster's Net Hits.

Description: The target feels an overwhelming emotion chosen by the spellcaster such as love, hate, joy, sorrow, etc.

Control Thoughts

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Mana

Duration: Limited

Drain Value: 4

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Willpower + Logic.

Net hits give the maximum duration of the spell in minutes.

While the spellcaster plays a powerful role in shaping the individual's thoughts, certain instincts are very difficult to override. Thoughts like "I should jump off this building" or "I should attack my best friend/spouse/partner" are generally going to be resisted. With thoughts such as these, the GM can have the target roll another Willpower + Logic to resist the suggestion, and they may gain an Edge before the test if the thought is too far outside their normal thought process or if it violates their basic instincts.

Unlike Control Actions, the target's awareness of Control Thoughts being used on them is uncertain. The closer the thoughts are to the target's normal thoughts, the less likely they are to notice the intrusion.

At the GM's discretion, they can have the target make a Logic + Intuition test after the spell wears off to recognize the spell's effect on them with a threshold based on how different from normal their thoughts were made to be.

Description: The magician seizes control of the target's mind, directing their thoughts to whatever insidious ends that the magician desires.

Control Actions

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Mana

Duration: Limited

Drain Value: 4

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Willpower + Logic.

Net Hits give the maximum duration of the spell in minutes.

The caster uses the same actions to command the individual as the action they are telling them to take. So having a target move is a Minor Action but having one make an attack is a Major Action.

This spell can be made into an area spell by using the Increase Area adjustment. Once the spell is cast the effect stays with individuals who did not resist the spell, even if they move out of the initial area.

The target of this spell is aware of what is happening to them - even if they can do little about it.

Description: You control the physical actions of your target like a puppeteer pulling strings. The victim's consciousness is unaffected, but you control the victim's body.

Influence

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Mana

Duration: Permanent

Drain Value: 4

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Logic + Willpower

Implant a suggestion in the victim's head which lasts until the thought is either completed (if applicable) or until a number of minutes equal to your Net Hits pass.

If confronted with the wrongness of the suggested command - like when the reality of the flavor of FizzyFluid hits their mouth and contrasts with the idea that it's good when the subject gets a mouth full of under-carbonated artificial drek, the subject can then attempt to overcome the command with a Logic + Willpower vs. the spellcasting test's Net Hits.

The spell ends when the pool of Net Hits is reduced to zero or the spell's duration ends.

Description: With Influence, a magician implants a single suggestion in a victim's mind, not unlike a powerful post-hypnotic command. For example, a magician may command a target to think that FizzyFluid is the best drink on the market, or that they cannot remember their best friend's name, or that they should let someone pass through a locked door.

The target then carries out the suggestion as if it were their own idea!

Disregard

Range: Line of Sight (Area)

Type: Mana

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 5

Effect: When a magician casts Disregard, they select one subject who will not be affected by the spell and will be ignored by those who are. They can select additional subjects to be ignored; each one beyond the first increases the Drain Value by 1.

The spellcaster rolls Sorcery + Magic; every target in the spell area (or who enters the area while the spell is sustained) resists with Willpower + Intuition. Those who fail to resist the spell ignore most things happening around them - nothing seems to matter.

Targets affected by the spell have difficulty remembering details from the time they were under its influence. Net Hits become the threshold for memory tests when trying to remember specific details.

The spell can be broken for targets if:

Someone directly attempts to harm an affected person.
Someone moving through the spell area glitches or critically glitches on a test, doing something weird or noticable enough that it can't be ignored.
A sudden change in enviornment (fire, gunfire, fire and gunfire, alarms) gives the target a 2nd chance to resist the spell, with a dice reroll.
Interference with a target's job allows them to resist the spell again. This could mean runners attempting to open a door that a guard is trying to keep closed or stealing a car from a garage where a valet is watching.

Description: Disregard is a fascinating yet subtle mind-affecting spell. It manipulates and redirects attention, similar to the way people get so hyperfocused on a trideo show that they aren't aware of anything happening around them. It alters both perception and memory, making designated individuals unimportant to those affected by the spell.

A guard on duty, for example, might simply wave at the subjects or even be absent-mindedly friendly toward them as the subjects walk into a restricted area.

Mob Mood

Range: Line of Sight (Area)

Type: Mana

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 5

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Willpower + Logic.

If successful, the targets' current feelings are adjusted by a new emotional state (happy, angry, sad, etc. The more hits, the more intense the new emotional state is.

This can be disruptive to the subjects, applying a -1 Dice Pool Penalty to tests involving active skills for every 2 Net Hits.

The caster has no control over what actions the subjects take with their new mood, and if Mob Mood gains 5+ Net Hits, the caster can make a Con + Charisma vs. Intuition + Willpower test; if successful, the caster has created a grunt group to start a riot, bar fight, protest, witch hunt, etc.

Description: Do you want to spread the joy you feel to other people? How about animosity towards someone? With Mob Mood, you can adjust the general feeling of people in an area.

Mob Mind

Range: Line of Sight (Area)

Type: Mana

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 5

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Willpower + Logic.

If successful, for every 2 Net Hits the targets' minds are adjusted from their current attitude towards a subject chosen by the magician (including themselves) in the direction the magician wants.

There are four basic attitude levels: Hostile, Dislike, Neutral, and Friendly. The caster can adjust the targets' attitude towards a specific subject or more than one if they got enough Net Hits.

The caster has no control over what actions the subjects take with their new mentality.

If Mob Mind gains 5+ Net Hits, the caster can make a Con + Charisma vs. Intuition + Willpower test; if successful, the caster has created a grunt group to start a riot, bar fight, protest, witch hunt, etc.

Description: With Mob Mind, you can give the same general thought to people in an area. So when you're happy and you know it, then wave your hands so everyone can show it with Mob Mind!

Loki's Musical Number

Range: Line of Sight (Area)

Type: Mana

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 5

Effect: Subjects in the area of the spell can be willing or unwilling participants. Unwilling participants can resist the spell with Willpower + Magic.

If successful, subjects have a low-level psychic connection with one another and the magician. Through this link, music can be heard by the subjects, and they gain mystical coordination of physical actions in time with the music.

Unwilling subjects who failed to resist the spell cannot voluntarily leave the spell's area of effect.

The caster or a willing subject must spend a Major Action to make a Con (Performance) test every Combat Round or the spell breaks.

If Net Hits exceed a target's Willpower, the caster can use a Minor Action to direct targets to make a Teamwork test. Their next Major Action must be an Assist action.

The Assist becomes a Minor Action between willing subjects so long as they spend their Major Action with a Con (Performance) test; only 1 Assist action can be performed per person per Teamwork test.

All of this only occurs while the spell is in effect.

Description: Ever get an earworm that you just can't get rid of? Try passing it along to others, along with a singalong vibe and dance moves! Loki's Musical Number brings a party anywhere you are! Instant Bollywood scene!

Calm Animal

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Mana

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 3

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Intuition + Willpower.

On successful cast, Calm Animal turns a previously aggressive, non-sapient creature non-aggressive.

Affected animals still defend themselves if attacked.

Description: Calm Animal allows the spellcaster to attempt to calm any non-sapient creature - either normal or paranormal - from a state of aggression, making it non-aggressive as long as the spell is sustained.

Calm Pack

Range: Line of Sight (Area)

Type: Mana

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 5

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Intuition + Willpower.

On successful cast, Calm Pack turns all previously aggressive, non-sapient creatures in the area of effect non-aggressive.

Affected animals still defend themselves if attacked.

Description: Calm Pack allows the spellcaster to attempt to calm any non-sapient creatures - either normal or paranormal - from a state of aggression, making it non-aggressive as long as the spell is sustained.

Control Animal

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Mana

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 3

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Willpower + Logic.

Net hits give the maximum duration of the spell in minutes.

The target's awareness of Control Thoughts being used on them is uncertain. The closer the thoughts are to the target's normal thoughts - animal thoughts - the less likely they are to notice the intrusion once the spell fades.

To issue a command, the spellcaster must use a Minor Action. The order must be followed to the best of the animal's ability. The intelligence of the animal and the complexity of the command should be taken into account by the spellcaster.

Description: This spell is a variant of Control Thoughts and was designed to work specifically on non-spaient animals, both normal and paranormal.

The spellcaster seizes control of the animal's mind and actions and may easily issue verbal commands to their thrall.

Control Pack

Range: Line of Sight (Area)

Type: Mana

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 5

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Willpower + Logic.

Net hits give the maximum duration of the spell in minutes.

To issue a command, the spellcaster must use a Minor Action. The order must be followed to the best of the pack's ability. The intelligence of the animal and the complexity of the command should be taken into account by the spellcaster.

Description: This spell is a variant of Mob Mind and was designed to work exclusively on non-sapient animals, both normal and paranormal.

The spellcaster seizes control of a group of animal's mind and their actions, easily issuing verbal commands to those charmed by them.

Ice Sheet

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 5

Effect: This spell creates a flat sheet of ice that covers a number of square meters equal to the caster's Magic rating multiplied by Sorcery test hits.

This number of hits also relates to the thickness of the ice. At 5+ hits, the ice is thick enough that if cast upon a set of stairs, they would become a straight incline.

Ice Sheet can also be sued to make walls slick and smooth for the purposes of climbing, or frost over windows to obscure line of sight.

Anyone on the ice gains the Off-Balance status effect. This remains in place every combat round until the subject gets off the ice.

Anyone driving over the ice sheet must make an immediately Handling test or lose control of their vehicle.

Once the spell has stopped being sustained, the ice instantly effervesces into the aether.

Description: Need an exciting way to get around town? Keep it cool and fun with Ice Sheet and slide your way to destiny! Have fun surprising your friends, neighbors, or security officers with Ice Sheet and watch them fall down as you slip and slide away!

Ignite

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Physical

Duration: Permanent

Drain Value: 4

Effect: Sorcery + Magic vs Object Resistance on non-living targets.

Against living targets, it is a Sorcery + Magic vs Body + Reaction test. If successful, the target receives the Burning status effect.

Description: The ignite spell accelerates molecular motion in the target, causing it to catch fire once the spell becomes permanent. Against living targets, the spell wreathes a person in heat in flames, and all flammable surfaces quickly are set ablaze.

Levitate

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 6

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic. For each hit, you can levitate 50 kilograms worth of material or people.

If the material being lifted is a person and they aren't particularly interested in being levitated, they can make a Body + Strength test with each hit reducing the magician's hits by 1.

The target has to stay in sight if you want them to stay in the air: the minute they're out of sight, they'll be earthward bound. That, along with a sense of caution about raising someone too high when spells can be interrupted, tends to put a cap on how high people are sent into the air with this spell.

The target does not have to hover in place. They can be moved by the magician at a rate of the magician's Magic rating in meters per turn.

Moving a levitating target requires a Minor Action.

Description: It may not be exactly the same as flight but, hey, it's defying gravity and that alone is a blast and a half. Levitate allows you to telekinetically lift a person or object and move it around with only the power of your mind!

Catfall

Range: Touch

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 3

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic.

Each Net Hit equals 3 additional meters of safe falling, cumulative with the basic 3 meters of safety anyone gets.

The subject gains 1 situational dice reroll that can be used on Athletics or Damage Resistance tests related to the fall.

Description: Gravity can be a harsh mistress - in fact, she may be the harshest of all. With Catfall, you can dance a little longer without her crashing the party too badly at the end. Catfall reduces acceleration due to gravity, so the subject experiences the force of a much shorter fall.

Digital Grimoire is not liable for any injury or death from the use of Catfall.

Gecko Crawl

Range: Touch

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 4

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic

Subject gains +1 dice reroll when making Climbing tests.

While this spell is sustained, the base threshold for climbing tests is reduced to 0.

The subject may move along a ceiling at their normal climbing rate.

If a surface's Structure rating is less than the Body of the subject, then the surface breaks under the weight of the subject, and Gecko Crawl fails to keep the subject connected.

Description: When you are stuck in a deep hole... what can you do? If flight is not a normal mode of transportation for you, then hopefully you'll have purchased Gecko Crawl! Gecko Crawl empowers the subject's hands and feet with ultra-reliable gecko sticky magic that allows climbing along vertical surfaces. Want more? How about the ability to climb horizontally, but upside down? Try it today!

Digital Grimoire is not liable for any injury or death from the use of Gecko Crawl.

Glue

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: Special

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Object Resistance or Reaction + Intuition.

Drain is 1/2 the Structure rating of the object, rounded up. If there is no Structure rating, substitute Object resistance. If two objects are glued together, the drain is the higher Structure or Object resistance rating of the two.

Individuals glued to a structure gain the Immobilized status effect until freed.

If the spell is successful, pulling two surfaces apart requires an opposed test between the spell's hits + spellcaster's Magic rating versus the separator's Strength + Body.

If the Net Hits exceed the Structure rating or Body of the subject(s), then physical damage occurs when the objects are separated.

The objects must resist Sorcery test Net Hits in damage as if the spell were a Direct Combat spell when they are successfully pulled apart.

Description: Ran out of duct tape and zip ties? No worries! With Glue, any surface will do to keep a subject from escaping. This also works for keeping bumpers on cars, change inside of your pockets, and a hat upon your head.

Glue Strip

Range: Line of Sight (Area)

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: Special

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Object Resistance or Reaction + Intuition.

Drain is 1/2 the Structure rating of the objects, rounded up. If there is no Structure rating, substitute Object resistance. If two objects are glued together, the drain is the higher Structure or Object resistance rating of the two.

Individuals glued to a structure gain the Immobilized status effect until freed.

If the spell is successful, pulling two surfaces apart requires an opposed test between the spell's hits + spellcaster's Magic rating versus the separator's Strength + Body.

If the Net Hits exceed the Structure rating or Body of the subject(s), then physical damage occurs when the objects are separated.

The objects must resist Sorcery test Net Hits in damage as if the spell were a Direct Combat spell when they are successfully pulled apart.

Description: Glue Strip allows the spellcaster to bond multiple objects or targets to any one surface to which they are currently in contact with.

Bind

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 4

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Body + Strength.

All Net Hits reduce the target's Agility by 1. If Agility is reduced to 0, the target is then bound.

While bound by the spell, the target may attempt to crawl or hop a short distance (25% of their normal movement rate).

Bound targets may still defend and dodge against attacks but they suffer a Dice Pool Penalty equal to the spellcaster's Net Hits.

A bound target may attempt to break free of their bindings by making an opposed test, pitting Strength + Body against the spellcaster's Net Hits.

Bind only works on single targets but can be turned into an area of effect spell with the Increase Area effect.

Description: This spell is used by the spellcaster to bind a target in place with invisible bands of magical energy that impede all potential movement.

Mana Bind

Range:

Type:

Duration:

Drain Value: 4

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Willpower + Charisma.

All Net Hits reduce the target's Agility by 1. If Agility is reduced to 0, the target is then bound.

While bound by the spell, the target may attempt to crawl or hop a short distance (25% of their normal movement rate).

Bound targets may still defend and dodge against attacks but they suffer a Dice Pool Penalty equal to the spellcaster's Net Hits.

A bound target may attempt to break free of their bindings by making an opposed test, pitting Strength + Body against the spellcaster's Net Hits.

Mana Bind only works on single targets but can be turned into an area of effect spell with the Increase Area effect.

Mana Bind only works on astral or dual natured entities.

Description: This spell is used by the spellcaster to bind a living creature in place with invisible bands of magical energy that impede all potential movement.

Gravity

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 6

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Strength + Body.

Every Net Hit results in a Dice Pool Penalty of -1 for all actions connected to Physical attributes, including Initiative rolls.

If the Dice Pool Penalty is greater than a target's Strength attribute, the gravity is too strong and they gain the Prone and Immobilized status effect.

Targets may make a Strength + Body test with a threshold of the caster's Net Hits to break free, but they only can make this test after being held motionless for 1 Combat Round.

Description: Gravity alters the fundamental forces of the universe around a chosen target, magically applying gravitational force to them like that of a far larger, far denser object.

Gravity Well

Range: Line of Sight (Area)

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 8

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Strength + Body.

Every Net Hit results in a Dice Pool Penalty of -1 for all actions connected to Physical attributes, including Initiative rolls.

If the Dice Pool Penalty is greater than a target's Strength attribute, the gravity is too strong and they gain the Prone and Immobilized status effect.

Targets may make a Strength + Body test with a threshold of the caster's Net Hits to break free, but they only can make this test after being held motionless for 1 Combat Round.

Even if they succeed this test, the Dice Pool Penalty remains as long as they are in the Gravity Well. Gravity Well affects all targets in a chosen area, including the spellcaster and allies, if applicable.

Description: Gravity Well alters the fundamental forces of the universe in a chosen area, applying a heavy gravitational force to targets inside the area as if they were massively larger than they actually are.

Vine

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Physical

Duration: Permanent

Drain Value: 4

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic.

Each hit accelerates growth on the plant, representing a week of growth or healing boxes of damage done to the plant per hit.

Plants are not animated after the initial casting of the spell. Strength of the plant is equal half the Magic rating of the caster and the plant's strength is used as a threshold for escape tests.

Description: Be the envy of every witch or wizard who ever wanted to have a garden. Got a black thumb? No problem - you don't need problem with the Vine spell.

Must target a living, willing plant - remember that carrots distrust wizards as they remember what happened to bok choy.

Rosebush

Range: Line of Sight (Area)

Type: Physical

Duration: Permanent

Drain Value: 5

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic.

Each hit accelerates growth on the plant, representing a week of growth or healing boxes of damage done to the plant per hit.

Any subjects attempting to move through the area where Rosebush has affected plant life gain the Off-Balance status effect, as a massive burst of vegetation (weeds, vines, branches, etc.) inhibit any movement through the area.

If the Sorcery test hits exceed the subject's Strength, then the subject also receives the Hobbled status effect while moving through the area.

Plants are not animated after the initial casting of the spell. Strength of the plant is equal half the Magic rating of the caster and the plant's strength is used as a threshold for escape tests.

Description: Be the envy of every witch or wizard who ever wanted to have a garden. Got a black thumb? No problem - you don't need problem with the Rosebush spell. Quickly start any seed or spore (results may vary) and when the kids won't get off the lawn, let the lawn give them a lesson with Rosebush!

Must target a living, willing plant - remember that carrots distrust wizards as they remember what happened to bok choy.

Branch

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 5

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic.

Each Net Hit reduces the target's Agility by 1. If Agility is reduced to 0, the target is fully constricted as their limbs are bound by the plants and thus unable to move, gaining the Immobilized status effect.

Bound targets may still defend and dodge against attacks, although they are unable to use their Reaction attribute on that test due to Immobilization.

A bound target may attempt to break free of the plants by making an opposed test, pitting their Strength + Body vs. Net Hits on the initial spellcasting test.

At the end of every Combat Round, including the one where the target was bound, this spell inflicts damage equal to the Net Hits of the spell.

Description: Unlike the friendly neighborhood plant life that Vine and Rosebush offers, Branch is used by a spellcaster to conjure life into a plant and use it violently: coaxing branches or vines souped up on accelerated magical growth and aggressively reacting to a foreign body.

Thorn

Range: Line of Sight (Area)

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 7

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic.

Bound targets may still defend and dodge against attacks, although they are unable to use their Reaction attribute on that test due to Immobilization.

A bound target may attempt to break free of the plants by making an opposed test, pitting their Strength + Body vs. Net Hits on the initial spellcasting test.

At the end of every Combat Round, including the one where the target was bound, this spell inflicts damage equal to the Net Hits of the spell.

Description: Unlike the friendly neighborhood plant life that Vine and Rosebush offers, Thorn is used by a spellcaster to conjure life into an entire area of plants and use it violently: coaxing branches or vines souped up on accelerated magical growth and aggressively reacting to a foreign body, constricting and lacerating in a single fell swoop.

Growth

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 8

Effect: For every 3 Net Hits (minimum 1), the target's Body, Agility, Reaction, and Strength all temporarily increase by 1 for as long as the spell is maintained.

If the caster desire the target to grow physically larger as well, the target grows half a meter for every 3 net hits.

Description: The Growth spell is an obvious means of enhancing a subject. It causes a target's physical attributes to literally grow - and if the caster wills it? The target can literally increase in size.

Incision

Range: Touch

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 4

Effect: The length of the incision is equal to the hits on the Sorcery + Magic test and the incision closes as soon as the spell is no longer sustained.

Use of this spell reduces damage from surgery by 2. In addition, any visual Perception tests to detect implants made with the help of this spell receive a -2 Dice Pool Penalty.

Description: This spell alters the cellular structure of a subject's skin and underlying tissues to create an opening which can be used for surgical procedures or implantation. It has found increasing popularity among Awakened patients and wealthy individuals who widely believe it provides better cosmetic results.

Shapechange

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 5

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic.

The subject's Physical attributes in the critter form are increased by 1 for every Net Hit the spellcaster generates.

The subject of this spell can only transform into a critter whose Body rating is 2 points greater or lower than their own.

This spell does not transform clothing or equipment. Magicians in critter form can still cast spells but cannot perform tasks requiring speech.

Description: Shapechange transforms a voluntary subject into a normal (non-paranormal) critter of similar mass while retaining the subject's consciousness.

[Critter] Form

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 3

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic.

The subject's Physical attributes in the critter form are increased by 1 for every Net Hit the spellcaster generates.

The subject of this spell can only transform into a critter whose Body rating is 2 points greater or lower than their own.

This spell does not transform clothing or equipment. Magicians in critter form can still cast spells but cannot perform tasks requiring speech.

Each critter form is a different spell (Hellhound Form, Devil Rat Form, etc.) and one must be chosen when the spell is purchased.

Description: Critter Form works much like Shapechange, except it only allows the magician to transform into a specific non-paranormal animal.

Alter Temperature

Range: Line of Sight (Area)

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 3

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic.

The temperature can in the selected area can be shifted either up or down by 5 degrees per Net Hit on the spellcasting test.

Description: Alter Temperature changes the ambient temperature in a selected area, sometimes pushing an area into extreme cold or heat or bypassing temperature sensors.

Air Filter

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Mana

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 3

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic.

The subject can breathe normally for 10 minutes per net hit on the spellcasting test.

The duration of this spell is halved if the subject is buried in wet sand or mud.

Description: This spell allows the subject to breathe while underwater or buried under sand, mud, or other substances.

Evaporate

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Mana

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 2

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic.

The spell provides a +1 Dice Pool Modifier to all Survival tests in arctic environments.

Description: This spell removes heat loss due to sweat, reducing the threat of exposure in arctic climates. Popular with many Awakened thrill seekers and spelunkers in the far reaches of the world.

Insulate

Range: Line of Sight (Area)

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 3

Effect: The base spell casts a sphere that is 2 Meters by 2 Meters, and 2 Centimeters thick.

Objects can apss into and out of the spell's effect without being inhibited. The temperature of the object is not changed, only the spellcaster's ability to touch and interact with those objects.

The spell must be cast on an area, not an individual, and the area of effect cannot move.

The ability of the spell to insulate an area is limited to objects within 20 degrees Celsius of metahuman norms.

Description: This spell creates and holds an area of air that can maintain a metahuman's body temperature - typically that of the magician's body temperature.

Snakeblood

Range: Touch

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 4

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic.

Heat-based Perception tests suffer a negative dice pool penalty equal to the Net Hits scored on this spell.

Description: This spell coats the body of a target with a bubble of cool air, concealing the body heat of the subject from detection by thermographic vision or technological sensors.

Conceal Scent

Range: Touch

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 4

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic.

Scent-based Perception tests suffer a negative dice pool penalty equal to the Net Hits scored on this spell.

Description: This spell removes scent traces from an object and is a favorite of smugglers looking to fool man's best friend, or individuals trying to slip explosives past security checkpoints.

Overclock

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 4

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Object Resistance.

For each Net Hit, you can increase an attribute of the device (Device Rating, Attack, Data Processing, Firewall, or Sleaze) by 1.

This use of magic strains the device. After the spell is dropped, the device takes Matrix Damage equal to Net Hits, resisted by Firewall.

The caster can decide not to use some Net Hits if they want to reduce wear and tear on the device.

Description: Magic is not known for getting along well with technology but sometimes a clever magician finds a way to combine the forces of machine and magic in a beneficial manner, in this case by ramping up an electronic device's raw power and making it run both faster and more efficiently.

Increase Noise

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 3

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic

Each Net Hit achieved over a device's Object Resistance threshold increases the noise of the Matrix by 1 for that specific device.

Unusual changes in the noise of a specific area may attract undue attention and increase the Overwatch Score - every Net Hit past 3 adds 1 to a hacker's Overwatch Score every minute.

Description: Noise is the static on the wireless Matrix that saps your signal strength and slows down your ability to access things.

Spellcasters can leverage this by artificially increasing the noise within the range of a standard spell. Of course, the spellcaster is not immune to the alteration of the noise and may indeed be hoisted upon their own petard should they attempt to use the Matrix after they've increased the noise on a device they then use.

But, hey, most magicians basically act like spike babies and barely know how to use their commlink. What would really change?

Decrease Noise

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 5

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic

Each Net Hit achieved over a device's Object Resistance threshold decreases the noise of the Matrix by 1 for that specific device.

Unusual changes in the noise of a specific area may attract undue attention and increase the Overwatch Score - every Net Hit past 3 adds 1 to a hacker's Overwatch Score every minute.

Description: Noise is the static on the wireless Matrix that saps your signal strength and slows down your ability to access things.

Spellcasters can leverage this by artificially decreasing the noise within the range of a standard spell, making communication - and hacking - far easier than it should be in some areas.

Fix

Range: Touch

Type: Physical

Duration: Permanent

Drain Value: 3

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic

The spellcaster must first touch the object, then exceed the Object Resistance threshold of the object.

Fix can then repair any item with a weight equal to the (3 + Net Hits) in kilograms or less.

This spell can only repair broken items when all the pieces are present.

The weight limit applies to the damaged part, not necessarily an entire vehicle.

Each hit scored repairs 1 point of Structure or 1 box of damage.

An object may only be affected by Fix once and thereafter may not be repaired again by this spell.

Description: Most spellcasters have devoted their efforts towards learning spells rather than mechanics. This can leave a magician in a bad situation when there is a need for an emergency repair during a shadowrun.

Fix allows the spellcaster to repair damage to non-living materials, including drones and vehicles!

Interference

Range: Line of Sight (Area)

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 3

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Object Resistance.

Every Net Hit on the spellcasting test then issues 1 point of noise to any affected devices in the area.

All devices in the area of effect must roll against the spell, including gear belonging to allies and the spellcaster themselves.

Any gear passing the threshold into the area after the spell has been cast must roll to resist the interference.

Description: Interference creates a barrage of static in the electromagnetic spectrum that is capable of jamming both radio and wireless signals.

Pulse

Range: Line of Sight (Area)

Type: Physical

Duration: Instantaneous

Drain Value: 3

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Object Resistance.

Each Net Hit is a point of damage given to all unshielded, non-optical devices in the affected area.

Description: Pulse sends a high-power, short duration burst of electromagnetic energy into a targeted area, disrupting wireless and radio communication for a only a moment. The burst also erases standard RFID tags in the affected area and may damage any non-optical based computer systems.

While most systems since 2050 have been optical based, there are still a few throwback, unshielded systems in use.

Affected systems may suffer data loss, power outages, or a complete systems failure depending on the outcome of this spell.

Vehicle Armor

Range: Touch

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 6

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Object Resistance.

Increase the vehicle's Armor by 1 per Net Hit.

Description: Many shadowrunners learn only too late that car doors are not impenetrable shields against bullets, but with this spell they very well can be!

Protect Vehicle

Range: Touch

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 5

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic.

The magician must beat the Object Resistance threshold in order to create a mystical bond between caster and vehicle.

Each Net Hit scored by the caster increases the vehicle's Object Resistance threshold by 1.

In addition, for the duration of the spell, the caster may share their their spell defense with the entire vehicle and its occupants.

Only 1 target within the vehicle, or the vehicle itself, may utilize said spell defense during a single Combat Round.

Description: A wily magician knows how to protect their getaway vehicle from rival spellcasters.

Protect Vehicle creates a protective, mystical barrier between the vehicle and the spellcaster solely for the protection against magic.

Slow Vehicle

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 4

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Object resistance.

Should the spellcaster achieve enough hits to beat the vehicle's Object Resistance, they may physically absorb excess kinetic energy and cause a decrease in relative speed.

For each hit scored, the caster may decrease the Top Speed attribute by 5 for the targeted vehicle.

Description: Slow Vehicle is a dangerous spell that many magicians use as a last resort due to the unpredictable after effects - like when an enemy is getting away and there isn't any other method to stop them.

Sometimes, Slow Vehicle is strong enough to act like a brick wall in the face of a vehicle and in others, it can be like an invisible hand of got tugging on the axle while the body keeps on chugging along. Either way, most vehicles affected by Slow Vehicle typically need a maintenance check-up afterwards.

Digital Grimoire is not liable for any injury or death from the use of Slow Vehicle.

Shape Metal

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 5

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Object Resistance.

The amount of material you can shape is determined by Net Hits on that test.

You can shape 1 Cubic Meter of material per Net Hit (see the Volume Reference Table). In order to use this on an object, the object does not have to be made entirely out of the selected material but it should be predominantly made out of the material.

You can shape the material as long as the spell is sustained and when the spell is dropped, the material retains whatever form you gave it.

Description: This spell gives you the ability to make the selected material malleable - literally a putty in your mental hands.

Shape Plastic

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 2

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Object Resistance.

The amount of material you can shape is determined by Net Hits on that test.

You can shape the material as long as the spell is sustained and when the spell is dropped, the material retains whatever form you gave it.

Description: This spell gives you the ability to make the selected material malleable - literally a putty in your mental hands.

Shape Stone

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 4

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Object Resistance.

The amount of material you can shape is determined by Net Hits on that test.

You can shape the material as long as the spell is sustained and when the spell is dropped, the material retains whatever form you gave it.

Description: This spell gives you the ability to make the selected material malleable - literally a putty in your mental hands.

Shape Wood

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 3

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Object Resistance.

The amount of material you can shape is determined by Net Hits on that test.

You can shape the material as long as the spell is sustained and when the spell is dropped, the material retains whatever form you gave it.

Description: This spell gives you the ability to make the selected material malleable - literally a putty in your mental hands.

Strengthen Wall

Range: Line of Sight (Area)

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 4

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Object Resistance for the wall you are trying to affect.

Net Hits increase the Structure rating of the wall by 1 per Net Hit.

You can affect 4 Square Meters of wall with the base version of this spell; using the Increase Area effect increases this by 4 Square Meters per point of Increase Area added.

The Shift Area effect also can be used for this spell.

Description: Whether you're trying to solidify a wall that your opponents are trying to breach or cut down on the fragging noise from the people that are playing "drop the bowling ball" or something in the apartment just above yours, making an existing wall a little stronger can be as useful tool.

Looking Glass

Range: Line of Sight

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: Special

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Object Resistance.

Drain is 1/2 the Structure rating of the object, rounded up (minimum 2).

Any object affected by Looking Glass allows for line of sight to objects or persons on the other side of the object. Looking Glass doesn't provide any illumination - just transparency.

Description: Transparent aluminum? How about transparent concrete? Yes, folks, this spell changes the opacity of any material to a new, magical translucence! It's so clear, you'd swear it wasn't even there.

Clean [Element]

Range: Line of Sight (Area)

Type: Physical

Duration: Permanent

Drain Value: 2

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic.

The spellcaster's hits determine how thoroughly the element is cleaned: slightly muddy water may require 1 hit to clean while contaminated water runoff could require 4 or more to make it drinkable.

This spell cannot have it's area moved with Shift Area, but it can be embiggened with Increase Area.

Each element requires a different spell (Clean Air, Clean Water, etc.) to be purchased. For example, Clean Air may be used to cleanse a room of toxic fumes while Clean Water could purify a water supply and make it drinkable.

Description: Clean Element is an area spell that clears out all the impurities that your colored crystal quartz could never, no matter how often that white yogi with 'locs and homemade granola made the claim.

Poltergeist

Range: Line of Sight (Area)

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 3

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic.

The spell then picks up all small objects up to a kilogram in mass within the spell's area and whirls them around. This creates the equivalent visibility penalty of Light Fog.

The spell inflicts 2 Stun damage to anyone in the area each Combat Round, whacking them with flying debris.

Poltergeist may do more damage in cluttered environments, or even inflict Physical damage, depending on the area and type of debris (broken glass or a nail factory, for example) available.

Description: Be the ghost, the ghoulie, the wild and crazy witch with Poltergeist! This spell picks up all small objects within the spell's area and whirls them around in random patterns not unlike a swirling vortex or raging tornado.

Of course, if there is no debris lying about then this spell doesn't do much more than make a spooky noise - but sometimes that's all you need with those non-Awakened when they steal your parking spot!

Thunder

Range: Line of Sight (Area)

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained, Limited

Drain Value: 3

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic.

Each Net Hit acts as a negative dice pool modifier on those trying to hear other noises in the area.

For each hit on the Sorcery + Magic test, the noise continues for 1 Combat Round after the spell is dropped by the caster.

The basic area of this spell is a 2 Meter radius sphere, and this can be expanded with the Increase Area effect.

Description: A big, loud distraction can be useful and that's exactly what Thunder offers. By casting it, the magician shapes sound waves into a noise of their own choosing - it might sound like the spell's namesake, or the roar of rush hour traffic, the distant babble of shouted voices or any other such din.

Mist

Range: Line of Sight (Area)

Type: Physical

Duration: Instantaneous

Drain Value: 4

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic.

The mist is dense and difficult to see through, imposing a visibility modifier equal to the Net Hits scored on the spellcasting test.

The mist dissipates quickly based on the surrounding temperature and winds.

Generally speaking, this means the visibility modifier will reduce by 1 per Combat Round, though this may be slower in cool, damp areas and faster in hot, dry areas.

Description: Mist is a simple spell: it creates a mist that is difficult to see through. It blankets the entire area of effect in a heavy mist that reduces possible visibility to many metahumans and sensors.

Mana Static

Range: Line of Sight (Area)

Type: Mana

Duration: Permanent

Drain Value: 5

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic.

For every Net Hit scored by the caster, the background count is increased by 1.

For every point of background count, all magic-related tests suffer a -1 Dice Pool Penalty.

Once the spell is made permanent, the background count from this spell recedes at a rate of 1 point per hour.

Mana Statis affects everyone in the affected area, including the spellcaster.

Description: Sometimes you just love to see the world burn - or maybe that guy slinging spells is way too powerful for you. Either way, Mana Static allows a spellcaster to adjust the measure of mana in a given area - by reducing the available mana in any given area.

Focus Burst

Range: Touch

Type: Mana

Duration: Limited

Drain Value: 7

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Focus' Force x 2.

If you get any net hits, increase the effective rating of the Focus by 1 for Net Hits in minutes.

A critical glitch on the Spellcasting test permanently reduces the Force of the focus by 2.

Description: Foci can be powerful aids for magicians but who hasn't found themselves wanting to eke out a little more power from them every now and then? With Focus Burst, you can get a little more out of your focus or give another person's focus a boost.

Recharge Potency

Range: Touch

Type: Mana

Duration: Permanent

Drain Value: 4

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic vs. Preparation's original Drain.

Each Net Hit restores a point of Potency to the preparation, up to the original potency.

This spell cannot be cast on any preparation more than once.

Description: This spell allows a magician to recharge an alchemical preparation which potency is waning.

Metaplanar Stasis

Range: Line of Sight (Area)

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 4

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic.

While the spell is maintained on an item or person, metaplanar translation does not occur to anything within the Metaplanar Stasis spell’s area of effect.

The point where this effect occurs appears to be inside the passageway, moving from one metaplane to another.

After arriving at a new metaplane, the spell can be dropped, and the affected material will hold whatever form it had when the spell was first cast, regardless of the current reality paradigm.

Description: Occasionally there may be a reason to stop metaplanar translation from occurring. It could be necessary for bringing back some scientific material for study, carrying true elements safely through a passageway, or preventing some particularly unpleasant attunement, such as when visiting the Hive.

Spellblades

Spellblades are a product of a failed line of research by Mitsuhama Computer Technologies. Attempts to create a sustained damaging connection of energy failed to yield the desired results but they did result in a maintained extension of a spell based on the formulas for Manabolt and Powerbolt.

These spells could yield a field of energy roughly the same space as a sword, maintained for as long as the caster could concentrate. The formula was altered to allow the caster to "hold" onto the spell at a point analogous to a grip, though the "blade" portion of the spell remained dangerous.

It was found that these blades could parry one another and could even cause repeated damage, strike after strike. As this did not meet the requirements for the initial project, it was abandoned and the old formulas were sold through back channels to recoup the financial losses.

One formula fell into the hands of wizgangs, where they quickly gained popularity for their showiness and the skill needed to maintain and wield one. Duels and motorcycle jousts with blazing energy have become a new fad among Awakened youths because of this.

Shadowrunners and assassins with a talent for swordplay may appreciate the blades for their traditional damage potential, as well as the ability to summon a blade anywhere without trying to smuggle it into a secure location.

Powerblade

Range: Special

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 5

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic.

Net Hits become the base damage that Powerblade deals.

The damage for the Powerblade created by this spell equals to Net Hits over drain on the initial Sorcery + Magic test at base, and then the Net Hits on each individual Close Combat attack.

Note that weapon foci are able to parry Spellblades of either type due to their magically active nature. Spellblades can only be used by the person who casts them: they cannot be cast for anyone else to use.

Description: Powerblade operates on the same principle as a Powerbolt or Powerball, affecting physical objects and is also capable of parrying and being resisted by armor.

Manablade

Range: Special

Type: Physical

Duration: Sustained

Drain Value: 5

Effect: Roll Sorcery + Magic.

Net Hits become the base damage that Manablade deals.

The damage for the Manablade created by this spell equals to Net Hits over drain on the initial Sorcery + Magic test at base, and then the Net Hits on each individual Close Combat attack.

Description: A Manablade works like a Manabolt or Manaball, bypassing armor and is capable of affecting spirits, but unable to parry physical attacks or damage non-organic objects.