Runic Mage

You can increase the power of any spell by channeling additional energy into it before casting. This is the basic level of channeling. To channel at this level you spend 2 additional Soul.  Doing so allows you to add in 1 additional die of the spell's damage or healing power. In the case of a spell that has mixed dice, you will use the larger die size to determine the extra die added. A channeled spell's full Soul cost cannot be reduced by Magical Training. The extra effects a spell might cause are not increased. Channeling can only be performed once per casting. 

Example: Fang costs 2 Soul and deals 4d4 damage. With this basic level of channeling you spend another 2 Soul to add an extra 1d4 damage to the spell, bringing the spell to cost 4 Soul and deal 5d4 damage. If the spell damages or heals for example 3d10, this ability will increase that by 1d10. If a spell deals or heals for 2d10+1d6, you will use the larger die, adding +1d10 to the damage or healing value. 

Your Evade is increased by +2 against Magic Attacks. +4 against magic of an element you are strong against. No bonus evade to magic you are weak against. 

Change one component of a spell you know, following the Spell Crafting rules using spell crafting components. The new version replaces the modified spell.

Treat all other elements except the element you are weak against as being weak against you.

This ability allows for your emotions to fuel your magic damage or healing potential. If you attack an enemy with a magic spell, and are filled with anger, your character's Runic Power will be increased by 1d12 for that attack. Same thing if you use a healing spell with this ability if your character is filled with a feeling of urgency to help that other character. If your character has opposite feelings, such as happiness when using magic against an enemy and this ability, the spell simply won't do any damage.

Spend three times your Soul Gen Dice to add your Soul Gen Dice three times. Replaces Novice Magic Empowerment.

Design new spells up to Tier 5 (up to 50 spell points).

This ability allows a runic mage to make a 1d20 roll when casting healing or offensive magic. If the runic mage rolls 15 or greater, it is counted as a magic crit, allowing you to add the maximum of your runic power to the spell instead of rolling dice. For example, if your runic power is 2d8, you would normally roll 2d8 and add that number to your spell damage. With this ability if you roll 15 or greater on the 1d20 roll, you will instead simply add 16 to your spell healing/damage effect. If you roll a 20 on the 1d20, you will also do maximum spell damage/healing along with maximum runic power. All other rules concerning criticals and critical hits also apply. 

Allows you to create spell scrolls. The spells written on these scrolls are single use items where the writing fades away after use. You can write a spell scroll for any spell that you have to use or give to you ally to use. They can be used as support actions, do not take any stats to cast, and can be used by anyone regardless of element. The casting speed is the amount of rounds it will take for the spell from the scroll to cast. No runic power or critical magic is used with spells cast from scrolls.

Decreases target's evade chance against your magical attacks by 1.

When you craft a spell, its Spell Point total is reduced by 1d10 (rolled once, when you design it).

When you use alchemical ingredients in spell casting, add your Arcana to one value of the spell.

You can strengthen a spell by channeling additional energy into it before casting. This is the masterful level of channeling. To channel at this level you spend 8 additional Soul.  When doing so, you are able to strengthen the spell in four ways. You can only choose one option.

Option 1: You can increase the damage or healing value of your spells. If you choose to increase the spell's damage or healing value, you add in 4 additional dice of the spell's damage or healing power. In the case of a spell that has mixed dice, you will use the larger die size to determine the extra die added. 

Option 2: You can increase the spell's duration. If you choose to increase the spell's duration, you increase it by 3d4. You are only increasing the spell's duration, not the duration of any secondary effects. If the spell lasts 1d4 rounds and causes 1d4 rounds of blindness, this allows the spell to last 4d4 rounds but it still will only cause 1d4 rounds of blindness. If the spell is an instant duration spell or a countdown spell the duration cannot be changed.

Option 3: You can decrease the spell's Cast Speed, making it cast faster. With this option, you decrease the Cast Speed by 2. You cannot decrease the Cast Speed to less than 1. If you are using this option with other abilities and effects that decrease Cast Speed, this is applied first. 

Option 4: This option can only be used with Tier 3 and higher spells. With this option, you can combine your higher tier level spell with a tier level 1 spell. In this case you would spend the 8 Soul plus the Soul costs of the two spells. They will cast as 1 spell, using only the Cast Speed of the higher level spell. Furthermore, succeeding to cast the higher level spell automatically passes the check for the tier 1 spell. You will not need to roll a second check. However, if the higher level spell fails to cast, the lower level spell cannot cast and the magic channeling cannot happen. The Soul cost of the channeling and the lower level spell are not spent, but the Soul cost of the higher level spell will happen. Both spells are cast at the same target or same area. The lower level spell automatically is cast at the same target or area as the higher level spell. If the lower level spell is only 1 target and the higher level spell covers an area, the 1 target of the lower level spell will either be the main target of the higher level spell, or the center of the area of the higher level spell - depending upon the targeting rules of the higher level spell. If the lower level spell covers a greater area, it will be constrained to only the area or target range of the higher level spell. Furthermore, if the lower level spell has a range dice roll but the higher level spell doesn't, and both are 1 target spells, the lower level spell will still hit that one target even if it is out of its normal range.  Both spells must be known by the runic mage to be cast. Neither spell gains any of the channeling bonuses from the other options. 

A channeled spell's full Soul cost cannot be reduced by Magical Training. The extra effects a spell might cause are not increased. Channeling can only be performed once per casting. You can choose to use this ability or one of the other Magic Channeling abilities. You cannot choose to use more than one magic channeling ability per spell cast. 

Example: Fang costs 2 Soul and deals 4d4 damage. With this masterful level of channeling you spend another 8 Soul to add an extra 4d4 damage to the spell, bringing the spell to cost 10 Soul and deal 8d4 damage. If the spell damages or heals for example 3d10, this ability will increase that by 4d10. If a spell deals or heals for 2d10+1d6, you will use the larger die size, adding +4d10 to the damage or healing value. If the duration isn't a rolled duration, for example 3 rounds, or if the duration is a different dice value such as 1d6 rounds, the duration increase is still +3d4 rounds. 

You can increase the power of any spell by channeling additional energy into it before casting. This is the novice level of channeling. To channel at this level you spend 4 additional Soul.  When doing so, you are able to choose between increasing the spell's damage or healing value, or increasing the duration of the spell. If you choose to increase the spell's damage or healing value, you add in 2 additional dice of the spell's damage or healing power. In the case of a spell that has mixed dice, you will use the larger die size to determine the extra die added. If you choose to increase the spell's duration, you increase it by 1d4. You are only increasing the spell's duration, not the duration of any secondary effects. If the spell lasts 1d4 rounds and causes 1d4 rounds of blindness, this allows the spell to last 2d4 rounds but it still will only cause 1d4 rounds of blindness. If the spell is an instant duration spell or a countdown spell the duration cannot be changed. 

A channeled spell's full Soul cost cannot be reduced by Magical Training. The extra effects a spell might cause are not increased. Channeling can only be performed once per casting. You can choose to use this ability or one of the other Magic Channeling abilities. You cannot choose to use more than one magic channeling ability per spell cast. 

Example: Fang costs 2 Soul and deals 4d4 damage. With this novice level of channeling you spend another 4 Soul to add an extra 2d4 damage to the spell, bringing the spell to cost 6 Soul and deal 6d4 damage. If the spell damages or heals for example 3d10, this ability will increase that by 2d10. If a spell deals or heals for 2d10+1d6, you will use the larger die size, adding +2d10 to the damage or healing value. If the duration isn't a rolled duration, for example 3 rounds, or if the duration is a different dice value such as 1d6 rounds, the duration increase is still +1d4 rounds. 

Evade +3 against magic attacks, +6 against magic of an element you are strong against; still no bonus against an element you are weak against. Replaces Basic Magic Evasion.

Change up to two components of any spell you know, of any tier you can cast (not limited by your Spell Crafting tier). You can do it in the field in 10 minutes, without study. Replaces Basic Spell Modification.

With this ability you can begin casting a spell right before the battle begins. What this does is allows you to go ahead and subtract your runic speed from the casting speed of the spell before the beginning of combat. If this means you can cast the spell right away then you will cast it right at the start of your turn and thusly be free to cast another spell during your turn. Otherwise this will speed up spells that take longer to cast. 

Your spells are affected by morality alignment. If they are of an opposing alignment to you, your spells will deal 25% more damage but heal 25% less. 

Give runic tattoos yourself, to yourself or others, without the College's fee: you pay only for the ylem ink. Tattoos you give last twice as many castings.

When active, a runic tattoo increases the bearer's runic power by 1d8 multiplied by the tier level of their most powerful spells and decreases all spell Soul costs by 25%. For runic power increase, if your most powerful spell is a Tier 3 spell, that means the runic tattoo will increase your runic power by 3d8.

The bearer must supply the ylem ink to be used, which can be purchased here. A tattoo uses one bottle of ylem ink. 

Lifespan Of The Tattoo

• Black Ylem: 40 80 spell castings 
• Gray Ylem: 80 160 spell castings
• Silver Ylem: 160 320 spell castings
• Teal Ylem: 320 640 spell castings
• Clear Ylem: 640 1280 spell castings

Allows for use of alchemical ingredients and spell crafting components for spell casting.

Critical hits with spells daze targets for 1d6 rounds.