Building New Spells with Abstraction and Distillation

[gyakusetsu (Todd Grotenhuis)]

Anybody built new regular-sorcery spells lately? Did you use the Abstraction/Distillation system or eyeball the Ob and Resources cost of a spell by comparing to other published Mannish spells?

I can’t remember what all has changed in Sorcery since Magic Burner.

[wateralmond]

I’d be interested in this as well!

[gyakusetsu (Todd Grotenhuis)]

Here’s some very draft work.

War Never Changes:

Causes the recently fallen to rise again and fight on your side.

Element Anima: Ob 5, 5 Actions

Impeti: Control Ob 5, 16 Actions AND Transmute (Anima to Earth: 1+3, 25 actions)

Origin: Sight: Ob 4, Actions 4

Duration:

• Sustained: Ob 2, Actions 2
• Exchanges: Ob 2, Actions 6

Area of Effect:

• Single Target: Ob 1, Actions 2
• Tens of Paces: Ob 4, Actions 6

Options:

• Single target, sustained: 5 Ob, 14 Actions, 10 Resource Points
• 10 Paces with cap (all in that area, extra successes don’t help), sustained: 7 Ob, 16 Actions, 14 Resource Points
• Exchange(s), 10s of Paces, extras successes go to either, drawback that they will attack you if they can get to you: 7^ Ob, 18 Actions, 28 Resources Points

Fierce Defender:

Leashes a human soul to a beast, creating an intelligent warrior. Requires there to be a beast and restless dead to both be in your presence. This is usually accomplished by bringing the beast to a place of the dead. Use the beast’s physical stats, instincts, and physical skills and the soul’s mental stats and skills. The GM will provide beliefs.

If you don’t already have a restless dead handy (example: one bound via a summoner or circination), roll a Die of Fate to see if any are around. If there are none, the spell automatically fails and Sorcery spell failure rules are invoked.

Restless dead are found on a DoF result of:

• 3+: Places littered with dead (e.g. battlefields, crypts, graveyards)
• 4+: Places with tales of sorrow (e.g. cities, noble courts, dungeons, places of disaster)
• 5+: Places commonly containing people (villages, outposts, farms)
• 6+: The wilds

Elements: Anima: Ob 5, 5 Actions

Impeti: Control Ob 5, 16 AND Enhance Ob 4, 12 Actions

Origin: Presence: Ob 2, 2 Actions

Duration:

• Sustained: Ob 2, 2 Actions
• Hours: Ob 4, 12 Actions
• Days: Ob 5, 24 Actions

Area of Effect: Single Target Ob 1, 2 Actions

Options:

• Sustained, animal attacks when sustain breaks: 4 Ob, 11 Actions, 8 Resource Points
• Sustained: 5 Ob, 11 Actions, 10 Resource Points
• Days^: 6 Ob, 16 Actions, 24 Resource Points
• Months
• Years

Sent Servant:

As “Spirit Servant” (p 220) but can do the commands away from the caster.

• Ob 4
• 500 actions
• Origin: Presence
• Element: Arcana/Earth
• Duration: Sustained
• Area of Effect: Single Target
• Impetus: Control
• Resource Points: 8