One-Roll Mass Combat, and Some Other Warfare Rules

I've been wanting to write mass combat/warfare rules for a while, and here they are!

Link to the document

 

They include a mostly one-roll system for resolving battles and various rules for marching, feeding your troops, paying your troops, and attrition. They also include maybe more percentages than would be strictly desirable from a math front, but it's an easy solution.

And She Was a Radiant Blaze Flooding All of the Void (GLOG Classes: Paladin and Thief)

This post steals heavily from Vayra and Vulnavia's paladins.

 

You have been blessed by the valorous Sun or the all-seeing Moon. It was evident from the very moment your eyes first opened and scintillated as radiantly as light pouring through a bright topaz or pale aquamarine. Why, then, being holy to the G-ds who govern us all, are you not perched on a mahogany throne in a cathedral being fed sweetmeats and grapes by silken-robed attendants? Indeed, many Sun-Kissed and Moon-Kissed are doing so at this very moment, but you are stronger than they, and braver. The Church claims to be the source of all moral authority. You know better. Go forth into the world, and shed light where e'er you go.

The Sun-Kissed

Starting Equipment: Two gilded double-action revolvers with 6 rounds each or a gilded greatsword, a brass gorget in the shape of the sun's rays, a vial of laudanum, 3 gauze bandages, and an amber lens through which souls can be seen.

 

Skills: Passionate Heroism and 1d3: 1. Theology, 2. Horsemanship, 3. Wrestling

For every template of Sun-Kissed you have, gain +1 Save.

 

A: Her Chosen Soul

B: Beloved of the Innocent, +1 to-hit

C: Healing Tears, Molten Blood

D: Mantled With Divine Flame, +1 to-hit

Her Chosen Soul: You were selected and marked by the divine Sun, She Whose Light Burns Evil. While you are conscious, your golden eyes glow unless you actively suppress it, providing light in a 10' cone. You can choose to extend this to a 60' cone at the cost of 1 Fatigue per hour. Your Charisma score is 16 if it wasn't already higher. If you truly believe that an action is right and perform it in the coolest, most badass way possible, you can choose to use Charisma for the roll (if any is required) rather than whatever the relevant skill or ability score would have been.

Beloved of the Innocent: Children and animals adore you and will not attack you under any circumstances. The truly pure-hearted will always recognize you, and you can recognize them.

Healing Tears: If you weep on a wound, illness, curse, or other affliction, it will be healed instantly. If you don't think you have the emotional connection to justify natural tears, you can make a Charisma check to cry at will.

Molten Blood: Literal molten gold flows through your veins. If you are wounded in a way that would draw blood, the cause of the wound must Save or be sprayed (1 wound at -1 severity, automatic blindness if it hits the face). If you deliberately draw your own blood, every coin's worth of gold acts as a wound of 1 severity.

Mantled With Divine Flame: You can, at will, summon a crown of flames to grace your brow. This provides light in a 30' radius and gives +2 to reaction rolls, -2 to enemy morale rolls, and +2 to allied morale rolls and Saves.

The Moon-Kissed

Starting Equipment: Three silvered throwing knives or a silvered sword-cane, a two-shot derringer with 4 rounds, a grappling hook and 60' of rope, a pouch of lockpicks, a silver-gray cloak that's only shiny when you want it to be, and a glass orb filled with shadows that will fill a 50' by 50' area when the orb is smashed.

Skills: Thievery and 1d3: 1. Theology, 2. Climbing, 3. Arcana

For every template of Moon-Kissed you have, gain +1 Stealth.

A: His Chosen Soul

B: Hands of a Tinker, +1 to-hit

C: All-Knowing Eye

D: Cloaked in Divine Shadow, +1 to-hit

His Chosen Soul: You were selected and marked by the divine Moon, He Whose Light Reveals Truth. Your silver-blue eyes glow at will, providing light in a 10' cone. You can choose to extend this to a 60' cone at the cost of 1 Fatigue per hour. Your Charisma score is 16 if it wasn't already higher. If you truly believe that an action requiring subterfuge, finesse, or cunning is right, you can choose to use Charisma for the roll (if any is required) rather than whatever the relevant skill or ability score would have been.

 

Hands of a Tinker: Upon touching a mechanical or magical device, you intuitively know how to operate it, render it inoperable, and subvert its functioning to your purposes. You can do any of the above expertly.

 

All-Knowing Eye: When your eyes cast light on an object or person, you know the following: 

• Whether it is magical or not.
  
• The nature, effect, and function of any magic affecting it.
• The meaning of any text on it, regardless of language and script.
• The cultural significance of any relevant symbolism.

Cloaked in Divine Shadow: You can, at will, summon a cloak woven of shadow from the æther. While in this cloak, you are completely invisible except for your shadow, even to effects which detect magic. Anyone other than you who touches this cloak must Save vs Magic. On a failure, if they have less HD than your level, they fall asleep for 1d4 hours or until roused. If they have more HD than your level or HD equal to your level, they instead become drowsy and disorientated for 1d6 rounds.

Magic Weapons as Poems

THREE WORD NAMES for swords have become quite the fashion (the original post, although there have been quite a few since). As people have been experimenting with similar topics, I thought that it might be interesting to try magic weapons as short verses in meter, rather than with pithy names. As the poems aren't the most informative beyond the broad strokes, I've also included prose descriptions. However, in-game, identifying the weapons might only yield the poem, not the full description.

 

Three scores and more
Her long blade cuts;
Of forgéd ore
With gem at butt.

 

A sword-staff with a diamond set at the butt of the haft. She may cut out to a range of 60' or may attack three times, each dealing one half of regular damage on a hit.

 

Revolving barrels spin,
and forth jet bullets bold,
his sights a precise fin,
each shot a bite of cold. 

 

An ebony-handled revolver chambered in .44-40. His precise sights grant a +1 to hit at ranges greater than 50', and the bullets freeze and shatter objects and armor they hit.

Flourishing flashing and whirling bright,
Their cuts will set your wounds all aright.
Confident thrusts are another matter,
They will your foes' chests break and shatter.

 

A gold-chased late medieval arming sword. Their cuts heal 1d8 damage in addition to dealing their regular damage (assuming 1d6 for a one-handed sword), while their thrusts shatter the target on a modified attack roll of 20 or above for an additional 1d8 damage.

NONE SHALL PASS,
So her THREE WORD NAME titles her;
END OF DAYS,
Such doom will her baring confer.

 

Drawing this bronze estoc from her scabbard will begin an apocalypse that destroys the world (1d6):

1. By fire
2. By water
3. By disease
4. By earthquake
5. By cold
6. By jaguars
   

A broad dao flashes below the cold moon,
His silvery sheen should not shine so soon.
For when his blade cleaves foes asunder
They need not be buried six feet under.

 

A plain, undecorated dadao that glows faintly in the moonlight. When he slays a foe, there is a 50% chance the body is finely splattered across all nearby surfaces and a 50% chance they rise as a zombie or other undead (hostile to everyone, including the wielder).

Mothers scream to hear their cursed name,
Fathers wail at the whirring blade.
What causes such dismay? A fame
So dire, their weight in the fray.
The cause is this: there's no reason.
Magic lends a fear sans treason.

 

A butterfly knife of gold with ivory and copper handle scales. Despite being completely useless as an actual weapon, when opened and whirled around, every nearby creature (including the wielder) must Save vs Fear or flee screaming.

GLOG: The Channeler

Some folks on Phlox's GLOG Discord were talking about a wizard who channels their magic through a gun, so I figured I'd give something similar a whirl with less modern weapons. By nature, it doesn't have a great deal of non-combat utility, but I tried to make at least a fair few of the spells useful in creative ways that don't involve murder. Still, though, not great in that respect.

 

Starting Equipment: A leather helmet, a small shield, a wolfskin cloak with a silver brooch, a staff, and either a shortsword or a sling with 20 bullets.

Skills: Occult Lore and 1d3: 1. Poetry, 2. Embroidery, 3. Hunting

 

You gain +1 to-hit for every second template of Channeler you take.

A: Arcane Weapon, Weapon Dice

B: Always to Hand, +1 WD

C: Eldritch Blows, +1 WD

D: Master of Creation, +1 WD

Arcane Weapon: You can weapons out of pure magic: a sword, an axe, a club, a polearm (including spears), a bow, a javelin, or a sling. Manifesting one of these weapons requires an hour, and you take 1d6 damage upon completion. If you create an arcane weapon while you already have another, the first disappears. Whenever you use a ranged arcane weapon (includes javelins), you can manifest the required ammunition instantaneously as you attack. You can also convert an already extant magic weapon into an arcane weapon with the same process, although rather than disappearing when another is created, it will simply no longer be an arcane weapon.

Weapon Dice: You have a pool of d6s, called Weapon Dice. You start with only one WD. When you strike with your arcane weapon (or in another relevant situation), you can roll any number of these WD, which add +[dice] to all attack rolls you make this round and use a spell of your choice, although you may only use a weapon-specific with that weapon, not any other types. Your WD deplete on a roll of 1-3 and are recovered when you sleep for 8 hours. When you roll doubles, you suffer a Mishap, and suffer a Doom on triples. You know one spell from either the melee or ranged list, rolled on a d4, and the signature spell of any one weapon type. When you take more templates of this class, you learn another spell from any list of your choice, rolling a d4 at B and a d6 at C if you choose the melee or ranged lists, and picking completely freely at D.

Always to Hand: No matter how far you are from your arcane weapon, you can always summon it to your open hand at will. It will fly the distance at a speed of 10 feet per second, although it cannot pass through any solid obstacle. Attempting to hit an opponent between you and the weapon is a ranged attack roll (it probably won't do much with a ranged weapon, though, only with melee weapons)

 

Eldritch Blows: Your arcane weapon counts as a magic weapon for purposes of overcoming resistance and immunity to damage.

Master of Creation: Creating an arcane weapon is now instantaneous for you, and you only take 1 damage rather than 1d6.

Melee Spells:

1. Cleave: If you hit an attack, make another attack against another foe within reach. This continues until you miss an attack, run out of enemies you haven't already attacked, or attack [sum] times (if [sum] is 1, you may attack 2 times).
   
2. Mirror Image: For the next [sum] rounds, you are surrounded by [dice] holograms of yourself, which have an AC of 10. Enemies attacking you determine their target from among these and you randomly, and they disappear immediately when hit.
   
3. Freeze: Your target takes [sum] additional damage and must Save vs Magic or be reduced to half speed for [sum] rounds as ice crackles over them.
   
4. Long Blow: The range of your weapon is [dice] * 10 feet longer than usual for this attack.
   
5. Impalement: If you hit with this attack, your target is impaled, taking [dice] additional damage, and your weapon freezes in place for [sum] rounds, during which the enemy is immobilized. They may Save vs Magic to pull themselves off of the weapon, and if they succeed they take 2d6 damage.
   
6. Bouquet of Arms: For the next [dice] rounds, including this round, you grow [dice] additional arms all bearing copies of your arcane weapon, each of which may attack once per round.

Ranged Spells: 

1. Snipe: Gain an additional +[sum] to hit. If you meditate on the shot for a minute before firing, gain another +[dice] to hit, and a further +[dice] at an hour and a day of meditation. You may take a -5 to-hit to declare exactly where you hit the target, if that's in any doubt.
   
2. Thunderclap: Every creature within [dice] * 5 feet of the target takes [dice] damage and must Save vs Magic or get thrown back [dice] * 5 feet. Everyone within the radius is also deafened for [dice] rounds.
   
3. Disarm: The target takes no damage, but has anything they are carrying thrown [dice] * 20 feet away from them in a direction of your choice.
   
4. Cloak of Darkness: This round and the next [dice] rounds, whenever you shoot your ranged weapon, you create a sphere of impenetrable magical darkness with a radius of 10 feet. These spheres last for 1 minute after their creation.
   
5. Chain Lightning: Instead of a regular projectile, you fire a bolt of lightning. Select [dice] + 1 targets, each of whom must be within 60 feet of yourself or at least one other target. Every target must Save vs Magic, taking [sum] + [dice] damage on a failure or [dice] damage on a success.
   
6. Hailstorm: You fire a vast horde of projectiles up into the sky, and next round they begin to come down in a [dice] * 20 feet radius around a point within your weapon's range. All creatures within that area take [dice] damage at the start of every round for the next [sum] rounds. The affected area is difficult terrain until the end of the spell.
   

Signature Spells per Weapon:

• Flaming Brand (Sword): Flames run down your sword for [dice] * 10 minutes, casting light within 30 feet and dealing an additional [dice] damage. 
  
• Animate (Axe): Your axe takes on a life of its own, floating in the air and doing as you tell it for [sum] rounds. It keeps your to-hit bonus.
  
• Pound (Club): If you hit with this mace attack, your target flies back [dice] * 10 feet. If their motion is stopped by anything, both they and the thing they impact take 1d6 damage per 10 feet they moved.
•  Hedge of Steel (Polearm): When at least one creature comes within reach of your polearm, you can summon a row of floating ethereal polearms that either form a line [dice] * 50 feet long or a circle [dice] * 10 feet in radius (or smaller, if you wish it). Any creature that hits this line must Save vs Magic, taking [sum] damage and being repulsed 5 feet from the line on a failure or half that damage on a success. The polearms last for [dice] minutes, and while they are extant you are immovable when you wish to be.
• Quickshot (Bow): You let loose a flurry of [sum] attacks with your bow.
• Pierce (Javelin): This attack with your javelin, once it makes contact with solid or liquid matter, will not stop for 3 feet no matter what it hits. If your target is a creature and you hit their unarmored AC, you hit them regardless of their regular AC, and you deal [sum] + [dice] additional damage.
• Magic Stone (Sling): You touch [sum] small stones and turn them into +1 magic weapons. Rocks are base -2 grapple weapons with -1 thrown 20/60, and the stones can also be used as ammunition for a sling. The enchantment lasts for 1 day. 

Mishaps: 

1. Take 1d6 damage.
2. Take +1 damage from all sources for the next hour.
3. After striking, your arcane weapon disappears.
4. Your hands and eyes appear bloodstained for the next week.
5. All mundane weapons within 20 feet have a 2-in-6 chance of shattering.
6. Your arcane weapon is affected by Animate (the axe's signature spell) with 1 MD, but it will only attack you for the duration. It will not disappear if you create a new arcane weapon until the end of the spell.
   

Dooms:

1. For the next hour, take 1 damage whenever you touch a weapon and a further 1 damage per round while holding a weapon.
2. For the next day, take 1d6 damage for every die of damage you deal to any other creature.
3. For the rest of your life, you are incapable of touching a weapon or deliberately harming another creature. If you even attempt to do so or are forced to do so, you take 1d8 damage and are incapacitated with crippling pain for a minute.
   

GLOG: The Berserker

A Berserker, to go with the Ranger, Druid, and Paladin that I've written recently. In traditional D&D parlance you might call this a Barbarian, but that framing is neither sensible for my setting nor sensible in general. My thought with this new series of classes is that I might add them to Carolingia as "advanced classes", where you get a somewhat stronger and more directly flavorful class at the cost of starting as someone else's retainer (perhaps even another PC's) rather than with your own domain. The obvious role for this class specifically is as a Norse berserker, but there's also certainly a niche for it as a Cu Chulainn-type.

 

Starting Equipment: A bearskin cloak with head, a mail shirt, a bearded axe or sword, a shield, a sack of hallucinogenic mushrooms (3 doses), and a flat river stone bearing the runes ᚦᛚᛘ (thur lögr maðr).

Skills: Wrestling and 1d3: 1. Sailing, 2. Drinking, 3. Scar-Reading

For every template of Berserker you have, gain +1 HP. Every second template, gain +1 to-hit.

A: Berserk Rage, Cunning Forager

B: Indomitable

C: Immovable, Terrifying Onslaught

D: Inexorable

 

Berserk Rage: You may enter a berserk rage at will. When in a rage, you may attack twice per round rather than just once, but you may only act violently, not constructively, creatively, collaboratively, or prudently. This rage lasts 2d3+[template] rounds or until all present enemies are dead, incapacitated, or beyond your ability to pursue. If any of your allies attempt to prevent you from committing violence, they become enemies as well. If you take hallucinogens before entering the rage, you also gain +1 HP per template (subtracted from your current total when the rage ends) and +1 to-hit for the duration.

 

Cunning Forager: Over the course of 6 hours in the wilderness, you can always find and prepare either 1 dose of hallucinogens or 1 ration.

 

Indomitable: When in a rage, if you roll on the Death and Dismemberment table, ignore any result short of instant death until the rage ends. You are also immune to fear, charm, and sleep effects while raging. If you have a steady supply of recreational drugs, wounds heal twice as quickly.

 

Immovable: You cannot be moved against your will under any circumstances while conscious. You take only half damage from poison, and have a 50% chance of ignoring the effects of poisons which do not deal damage.

 

Terrifying Onslaught: The first time you attack a given foe while raging, you can force them to check morale. You cannot use this ability twice on the same foe in the same combat.

 

Inexorable: While raging you may add +7 to Strength checks, skill checks related to physical strength, and grappling rolls. You also gain +1 damage with armed melee attacks and +1d6 with unarmed attacks (assuming unarmed attacks normally deal 1 damage).

GLOG: The Paladin

To follow up on my recent Ranger and Druid classes, here's a Paladin. Mostly I tried to stick to a theme of chivalry, much like the original 12 Peers, also known as Paladins: Charlemagne's semi-mythic companions of the chansons de geste, as well the Knights of the Round Table and similar chivalric romances, while also obeying some of the traditional Paladin tropes. I'm not entirely sure how well I succeeded, because I don't actually think this is a very good class (too many numbers, not enough fictional meat), but I'm just putting it out there now because otherwise I never will. Special thanks to Vayra, deus ex parabola, and SquigBoss for their assistance.

 

Starting Equipment: A mail shirt, a leather helmet, your parent's longsword, three lances, a pair of stirrups, and a shield and tabard both emblazoned with your coat of arms.

Skills: Horsemanship and 1d3: 1. Poetry, 2. Religious Doctrine, 3. Wrestling

For every template of Paladin you have, gain +1 HP and +1 to Save vs Fear and Magic.

A: Faithful Mount, Supernatural Aid

B: Questing Knight

C: Inspiring Leader, Laying On of Hands

D: Glorious Visage

 

Faithful Mount: You have a loyal, brave mount, whose abilities transcend those of a normal horse by far. They are unbreakable (morale 12 in most OSR systems), will come to your side wherever in the world you are with a whistle (takes no more than a day no matter how distant you are), can understand speech and obey your instructions, and will attack your foes even as you do. At A template, this horse has stats as a courser (HD 2+2, Move 80', Atk 1d6 hooves). At B template, they have stats as either a destrier (HD 2+4, Move 60', Atk 1d8 hooves) or a courser as you desire. At C template, they become a unicorn (HD 2+6, Move 80', Atk 1d8 horn/1d6 hooves), and at D template, they become a winged unicorn (HD 3+6, Move 80'/Fly 120', Atk 1d8 horn/1d6 hooves). If your mount dies, a new one will come to your side in 1d4 weeks.

Supernatural Aid: Roll on the following table (1d4): 

1. You have a fairy godmother, who you can contact by speaking into an acorn. She will aid you if you ask, but will hesitate to perform particularly difficult favors or to perform too many favors within a short duration (absolutely not more than 1 per day). She will not put herself in danger.
2. You can speak the tongue of the birds.
3. You have a golden whistle, which you can use to command fire to ignite, move, and go out. The whistle can affect no more than a 1' x 1 'x 1' area of fire at once.
4. Your parent's sword is actually an ancient relic that, unbeknownst to you, marks you as the true heir to a kingdom (either the one you currently inhabit or an adjacent one). Once you discover this fact, showing this sword and stating what it really is will oblige whoever observes to divulge their true loyalty to you.
   

 

Questing Knight: You gain a Questing Die, which is a d4. Whenever you are on a quest for a righteous goal, given by a righteous person (a brave king, an innocent maiden, an unfairly disgraced squire, your chaste and handsome lover), you may add this die to any die roll you make in direct service of that quest - skill checks, attack rolls, and damage rolls, as well as any other relevant rolls. You may also use your Questing Die when performing other chivalrous actions: protecting the weak, defending your honor or the honor of an innocent, acting in loyalty to your liege without considering your own interest, attacking a traitor or evil sorcerer. This die increases to a d6 at D template. If you roll maximum on your Questing Die, you cannot use it again until you rest. If you break the chivalrous code, you lose all Paladin class abilities until you complete an extremely difficult quest of penance.

Inspiring Leader: Your allies get +1 to Save vs Fear when within 20 feet of you and your hirelings have +1 morale.

Laying On of Hands: You have a pool of [template] * 2 hitpoints, which replenish every time you rest. When you touch an injured creature, not including yourself, you may heal them by touching them and transferring any amount of these hitpoints to them. Once your pool runs out, you may still transfer hitpoints subtracted directly from your own. Your touch also has a [template]-in-8 chance of curing disease, infirmity, and minor injuries, which may only be attempted once per affliction.

Glorious Visage: You can mantle a golden halo of light at will, which casts light within 5'. While this halo is active, you have +2 to reaction rolls with the righteous, your enemies have -1 morale and must check morale upon seeing the halo, and your allies have +1 morale.

GLOG: The Druid

I had fun writing a Ranger class earlier this week, so I figured I'd try to give a similar treatment to the Druid. I tried to give it an interesting way of switching out spells, allowing great versatility if you can travel freely between holy sites, as well as the standard Druid stuff of turning into animals, talking to animals, and murdering the Archdruid to take their place. I'm not sure how well the spell preparation will actually work in practice, but it will depend heavily on the campaign. The Druid also gets access to some rather powerful and often incredibly destructive spells if they can find great holy sites - not useful in most games, probably, but it's fun to think about. I did steal a good deal from various of  Ursula Le Guin's young adult novels, but that's pretty much a constant with my stuff.

 

Starting Equipment: A stout staff, a fur cloak, a jar of woad, a small bag of deadly nightshade, and a bone dagger.

Skills: Woodlore and 1d3: 1. Medicine, 2. Astronomy, 3. Stone Carving

A: Land's Warden, Wild's Caller, +1 MD

B: Beast's Form, +1 MD

C: Bird's Flight, +1 MD

D: Archdruid's Challenge, +1 MD

Land's Warden: When you spend the night under the stars at a holy site of druidic significance - a standing stone, a great grove of trees, a high hill, or a pure spring - you may choose to prepare a spell. Roll a d4 on the table for that location type. You may cast the spell selected until you choose to replace it with a different spell. If you roll a spell you already have prepared, you may pick the spell above or below. You may have [template]+1 spells prepared at any given time. When you prepare a spell at a location, you also gain the cantrip and drawback of that location type, and lose your previous cantrip and drawback. If you prepare at an incredibly significant location - an immense henge, an enormous ancient tree, a tall lone mountain, or a deep hidden pool never disturbed by the wind, you roll a d6 instead of a d4.

 

Wild's Caller: You know the intentions, wants, and emotions of any wild animal you can see, smell, and hear, and can communicate your own to them wordlessly. When in an area where a certain species of animal might be found, you may attempt to call an individual to you over the course of 10 minutes, with a [6 - HD]-in-6 chance of success (An HD of less than 1 counts as 1). You may ask the animal a favor, which it will always perform if its motives are not in conflict with your own and if the favor puts it at no personal risk. If the favor does require risk, the animal only has a [template]-in-6 chance of agreeing. You have +3 on reaction rolls with wild animals, and domesticated dogs hate you with a passion.

 

Beast's Form: You may, at will, transform into any non-flying animal of your choice that you have seen that has no more HD than [template]. All of your attributes become those of the animal, except for your mental ability scores and your hitpoints (generally, HD becomes the modifier to attack rolls, grappling rolls, Strength checks, etc., unless your DM decides different penalty or bonus is reasonable). Any injuries and hitpoint loss are reflected between forms. If you spend more than [template] hours in animal form per day, you must Save or disappear in the wilderness to live out your years as a beast as you forget who you once were. If you succeed, you must repeat the Save every subsequent hour.

 

Bird's Flight: Your Beast's Form now applies to flying as well as non-flying animals. Every 10 minutes you spend as a flying animal counts as an hour spent as a non-flying animal. 

Archdruid's Challenge: When you wish, you may challenge the archdruid, who is the leader, although not ruler, of all druids. The archdruid may name the terms of the challenge, which must be equal for you both. This is often, but certainly not always, a fight to the death or the submission. If you defeat the previous archdruid, you take their position. As archdruid, you may gather 1d4 level 1 druids to your cause with a day's notice and 2d6+1 with a month's notice. You may also touch an animal's forehead to command it for 1d6 hours, although doing so means that you take -2 on reaction rolls with all animals of that species for the next week.

Location Types

 

All the spell descriptions not included below can be found here.

Stone

 

Cantrip: You may read any text, regardless of the script and language, if you study it for 10 minutes.

Drawback: If you use any metal implements or wear any metal armor, you take 1 damage per round.

1. Detect Magic
   
2. Illusion
   
3. Mending
   
4. Magic Stone
   
5. Wall of Stone
   
6. Doom of Cities
   Casting Time: [dice] days
   Duration: [sum] decades
   Range: [dice] miles
   The area within range is doomed. Plants will wither and die, drought or floods or plague will blight it, cities will burn and crumble. Nothing here shall prosper for the duration. Casting this spell requires a human sacrifice.

Wood

 

Cantrip: You can set and douse small fires with a touch.

Drawback: You cannot not read or write.

1. Entangle
   
2. Find the Path
   
3. Pass Without Trace
   
4. Commune
5. Wildfire
   Casting Time: 1 action
   Duration: [sum] rounds
   Range: 60 feet
   [dice] creatures, plants, objects, or structures within range catch fire. Creatures may Save vs Magic to avoid catching fire, and take [dice] damage per round for the duration (or until they take a round to roll on the ground) on a failure. Plants, objects, and structures burn at their normal rate. This fire is incredibly virulent and will spread at the slightest touch and with the slightest breeze, easily destroying a whole forest or city if allowed to. Water puts it out as usual.
   
6. Grove
   Casting Time: 1 action
   Duration: 3 rounds
   Range: 60 feet
   The area within [dice] * 10 feet of a point within range sprouts trees of a species of your choice. You can choose for this to be an open, airy grove or a dense, tangled one (halved movement speed within). The trees grow to maturity over the duration. Any structures less solid than a 5 foot thick stone wall in the area will be shattered and rent to pieces, while any as sturdy or stronger than that will be weakened and twisted.
   

 

Earth

 

Cantrip: You do not need to sleep, although you must rest for the duration you would normally sleep.

Drawback: If you bathe or wash with water, you lose all your MD until you rest.

1. Mold Earth
   
2. Insect Swarm
   
3. Charm Animal
   
4. Gust of Wind
5. Blight
6. Earthquake
   Casting Time: 1 hour
   Duration: 10 minutes
   Range: [dice] miles
   An earthquake wracks the area around you. [dice] * 25% of the buildings within range are destroyed, mountainsides collapse in landslides, and [sum] earth elementals of various kinds, each with 1d4+1 HD, rise to cause havoc. Within the area, all creatures that walk other than elementals immediately fall prone and must Save vs Magic in order to walk without falling. Anyone inside a collapsing building must Save vs Magic or take [sum] damage, taking [dice] damage on a success. Casting this spell requires [dice] * 100 d. of gemstones and precious metals, as well as a sacrifice of at least a chicken (1 MD), a pig (2 MD), a cow (3 MD), or a human (4 MD).
   

 

Water

 

Cantrip: You can cause plants to sprout from the earth around your feet and desiccate living plants with a touch.

Drawback: Edged weapons deal 1 extra damage per die to you.

1. Control Water
   
2. Invigorate
   
3. Hoarfrost Hauberk
   
4. Control Rain
   
5. Hurricane
6. Nature's Mantle
   Casting Time: 1 action
   Duration: [dice] minutes
   Range: Self
   For the duration, your head sprouts antlers, your back sprouts a pair of eagles' wings, your fingers and toes claws, your mouth long fangs, and your skin thick hair. You gain a flying speed of 120', a charge attack that deals 4d6 damage if you've moved at least 30', a flurry of 4 claw attacks and 1 bite attack for 1d4 damage each, and +[dice] AC (you cannot charge and use your flurry of attacks in the same round). All enemies that see you transform must check Morale as well as Saving vs Fear, becoming frightened for the duration on a failure. Dogs flee at the sight of you. You automatically roll maximum on reaction rolls with wild animals, and can speak with them freely. They will obey your every command for the duration.