- Vitality Creation 1d8 Level Up/Rest 1d6
- Soul Creation 1d20 Level Up/Rest 1d8
- Power Creation 1d6 Level Up/Rest 1d4
- Cannot use heavy weapons, most proficient in Daggers, Rods, and Staffs
- Can only wear light armor, gains +2 to Magical Armor and Armor Spirit for wearing robes.
Runic Mages are masters of the arcane and have foregone physical strength in their training. However, they have all been trained in arcane strike with a staff. Should a Runic Mage strike with a staff, they use their Runic Power instead of Offensive Power. They are unable to make critical hit checks with staff however, unless they have the ability that allows them to crit with magic.
You have spent your whole life focusing on magic. You can cast spells faster than most and with greater effect. You however have a hard time dealing with heavy weapons and armor, but your spells more than make up for it.
The Runic Mage Profession is all about learning and mastering magic as well as any skills and abilities that improve their ability to use magic. They also tend to focus on rune stone creation and elemental creation. It is not a profession that focuses on combat or making money. If you wish to play the all powerful wizard, this is the profession for you.
Effects on Weapon Usage
Runic Mages always deal 25% less melee damage in battle, except for when using the following weapons: daggers, staffs, rods. Therefore these weapons would be the ideal weapon for a runic mage, besides of course his or her magic. They can't use heavy weapons like great swords and battle axes.
Effects on Armor Usage
Runic Mages are unable to wear heavy or medium armor. They must stick with light armor. Runic Mages do get a +2 to Magical Armor and Armor Spirit if wearing robes.
Profession Level Progression
Runic Mages are masters of the arcane arts. They can manipulate and control rune stones and magic better than non runic mages. Their skills are magic skills and their rune stone spells.
Runic Mages progress following the Runic Mage Node Chart.
- In order to progress to the next level you need to meet the required nodes and pay the progression XP cost.
- Each node cost XP to acquire.
- You can only acquire the nodes for your profession.
- You can acquire as many nodes as you want, but you must acquire the minimum required nodes to progress to the next level.
- You get your gen dice rolls for Vitality, Soul, and Power at each new level.
Skills
Runic Mages specialize in casting spells and empowering their magical connection to their runic element.
Runic Mage Skills Progression
Runic Mage Skills
Runic Mage Skills are categorized into Combat Mage Skills, Occultist Skills, and Magic Utility Skills.
Combat Mage Skills
| Skill | Action Type | Skill Types | Stat Cost | Range & Area | Duration | Check Roll | Effects | Requirements |
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| Battle Mage | 🛡️ Defense Action | ✨ Magic Related | N/A | self | instant | Normal Arcana +1 |
You can absorb 10% of the spell damage and use it to restore your Soul. |
N/A |
| Magic Absorb | 🛡️ Defense Action | ✨ Magic Related | 20% of damage as Soul Cost | self | instant | Normal Focus |
You can absorb the damage of the spell that would affect your vitality to be released with Magic Redirect skill. You must release the spell damage before the end of battle or it will fade away. The absorbed damage will not affect your Vitality, instead 20% of it will go against your Soul for each round that you hold on to it. |
Battle Mage |
| Magic Mirror | 🛡️ Defense Action | 🔄 Counter Move | 10 Soul | self | instant | Impossible Arcana |
Reflects 1d100 as a percentage of the spell back at the spell caster. |
Soul Empowerment |
| Skill | Action Type | Skill Types | Stat Cost | Range & Area | Duration | Check Roll | Effects | Requirements |
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| Casting Strike | ✨ Magic Action | 🔗 Chain With Other Skill | 4 Soul | 1 ally | 1d6 rounds | Normal Arcana |
Cast an offensive spell on the weapon of your ally. Whenever your ally makes a critical hit with that weapon, the spell will cast. You will cast a spell with this action and therefore could consider is a skill/spell chain. |
Spell Slinger |
| Skill | Action Type | Skill Types | Stat Cost | Range & Area | Duration | Check Roll | Effects | Requirements |
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| Magic Counter | ↩️ Counter Action | 🔗 Chain With Other Skill | cost of spell | 1 target in spell's range | instant | Normal React |
You can counter attack a target that has attacked you, whether it be by melee, range, or spell, with an attack spell of your own. You must be able to cast that spell instantly. |
Battle Mage |
| Skill | Action Type | Skill Types | Stat Cost | Range & Area | Duration | Check Roll | Effects | Requirements |
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| Magic Redirect | 🔗 Skill Chain Action | ✨ Magic Related | N/A | target of spell | instant | Normal Focus |
You can add all of the absorbed spell damage you gained using Magic Absorb into your one target offensive spell. |
Magic Absorb |
| Skill | Action Type | Skill Types | Stat Cost | Range & Area | Duration | Check Roll | Effects | Requirements |
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| Magical Vampirism | 🔮 Support Action | ✨ Magic Related | 4 Soul | self | 1d6 rounds | Normal Arcana |
With this skill 10% of the spell damage you cause can be used to restore your Vitality. |
Battle Mage |
| Mana Armor | 🔮 Support Action | 💪 Empowerment | 8 Soul | self | 1d6 rounds | Hard Arcana -1 |
This skill coats you with arcana. Your Magical armor is increased by your Arcana while your physical armor is increased by 1d6. You also gain a +1 to armor spirit. |
Mana Shield |
| Mana Shield | 🔮 Support Action | 💪 Empowerment | 6 Soul | self | 1d6 rounds | Hard Arcana |
You create a shield of pure arcana. It has a block value that is your Arcana + 1d4. You can use normal blocking skills with it. |
Mana Weapon |
| Mana Weapon | 🔮 Support Action | 💪 Empowerment | 4 Soul | self | 1d6 rounds | Normal Arcana |
You create a weapon of pure arcana as either a sword or staff. It has an attack range of 1. Its attack value is your runic power + 1d4. You can use any bashing or slashing attack skills with it. You apply your elemental affects to attack when attacking with it. You will also add your offensive power when attacking with it. It has no block or parry value. |
Battle Mage |
| Piercing Spell | 🔮 Support Action | 🔗 Chain With Other Skill | 4 Soul | spell being cast | instant | Normal Arcana |
The spell becomes piercing, ensuring an extra point of spell damage gets past the target's defenses so that the target will experience at least 2 damage to vitality instead of 1. This is used with your spell casting. |
Spell Slinger |
| Spell Bomb | 🔮 Support Action | 🔗 Chain With Other Skill | 8 Soul | spell being cast | instant | Impossible Arcana |
Makes the spell affect a 3x3 area. Any target in the area will get hit by the same spell and receive the same spell damage. |
Splitting Magic |
| Spell Slinger | 🔮 Support Action | 🔗 Chain With Other Skill | 2 Soul | spell being cast | instant | Easy Arcana |
Turns your spell into a fast spell, decreasing the target's evade by 2. |
N/A |
| Splitting Magic | 🔮 Support Action | 🔗 Chain With Other Skill | 4 Soul | self | instant | Hard Arcana |
Changes the single target spell causing it to split to affect 2 targets next to each other. Spell damage is halved among them. |
Piercing Spell |
Occultist Skills
| Skill | Action Type | Skill Types | Stat Cost | Range & Area | Duration | Check Roll | Effects | Requirements |
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| Divination | 🔮 Support Action | 💪 Empowerment | 2 Soul | self | 1d10 hours | Easy Insight |
+2 to Insight when using tools of divination. |
N/A |
| Occult Aid | 🔮 Support Action | 🪬 Occult | 4 Soul | self | 1d10 hours | Hard Insight |
A spirit guide will assist you by giving you a +1d6 to all of your checks. However at the end of the duration you have to make an easy spiritual balance check. If you fail you will be possessed while you sleep and will not know what you did during the night. |
Occult Guidance |
| Occult Empowerment | 🔮 Support Action | 🪬 Occult | 5 Soul | self | 1d10 hours | Hard Insight |
Spirit guides empower your spells increasing your runic power by 1d20. However you must roll a 1d20 with all of your spell castings and if you roll a 1 it will do the opposite effect whereas rolling a 20 will be a spell critical causing you to do max effect with the spell. |
Occult Aid |
| Occult Guidance | 🔮 Support Action | 🪬 Occult | 3 Soul | self | instant | Normal Insight |
Able to use tarot cards to gain answers and predictions. You will use the card whether you fail the skill or succeed, however only a success will grant accurate answers. Still, you must be careful because even when accurate you never know what kind of entity is answering you. |
Divination |
Magic Utility Skills
| Skill | Action Type | Skill Types | Stat Cost | Range & Area | Duration | Check Roll | Effects | Requirements |
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| Elemental Awakening | ✨ Magic Action | ✨ Magic Related | 10 Soul | self | 1 day | depends on level |
Allows you to create and awaken an elemental representative of your element.
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Soul Empowerment |
| Magic Break | ✨ Magic Action | ✨ Magic Related | Soul Spent | 1 target | instant | Normal Arcana |
With this skill you throw Soul at any ongoing magic, be it an enchantment, lock, or door, with the intent to break it. Every 2 Soul decreases the spell's energy by 1. Once it is reduced to 0 it is broken. |
Magic Sense |
| Skill | Action Type | Skill Types | Stat Cost | Range & Area | Duration | Check Roll | Effects | Requirements |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enchanting | 🔮 Support Action | 💪 Empowerment | 6 Soul | 1 ally | 1d10 hours | Hard Arcana |
Enchant your ally with your runic element. Your ally will get a +1 to arcana and a +1d4 to runic power. Your ally will also gain your elemental bonuses to defense and offense, but none of the weaknesses. |
Casting Strike |
| Hexing | 🔮 Support Action | 🧿 Curse | 4 Soul | touch | instant | Normal Arcana |
With this skill you can apply any curse that you have learned to an item, cursing said item. |
Learn Curse |
| Learn Curse | 🔮 Support Action | 🧿 Curse | 2 Soul | self | instant | Easy Arcana |
With this skill you can learn one curse of a cursed object. You must first experience the curse. |
N/A |
| Magic Sense | 🔮 Support Action | ✨ Magic Related | N/A | self | instant | Easy Arcana |
Allows you to sense magic and its element. You can sense the magic in a room or 100x100 square foot area. |
N/A |
| Magical Thought | 🔮 Support Action | ✨ Magic Related | 8 Soul | self | instant | Impossible Insight |
With this skill you can wish for an effect to happen when spell casting. You must voice your wish and the GM could apply different penalties depending upon your wish. |
Soul Empowerment |
| Remove Curse | 🔮 Support Action | 🧿 Curse | 6 Soul | touch | instant | Hard Arcana |
You can remove 1 curse from a cursed item. |
Hexing |
| Soul Empowerment | 🔮 Support Action | 💪 Empowerment | N/A | self | 1d6 rounds | Hard Arcana |
Increase Soul by 1d20. |
Magic Break |
| Spell Aid | 🔮 Support Action | 👥 Support Ally | 2 Soul | 1 ally | instant | Normal React |
If an ally is casting a spell, you can aide that ally in their spell casting. Doing so you increase their Arcana by 1d4 and Runic Power by 1d6 for that cast. |
Battle Mage |
Runic Mage Abilities
These are abilities that are unique to the runic mage profession. Only runic mages can obtain and use these abilities:
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| Arcane Tomes | 🛠️ Utility Ability |
This ability allows you to write spell books. With spell books you can prepare and "slot" spells that you would use often. You can slot spells depending upon your Arcana. With each slotted spell you can prepay its Soul Cost. Then when you use the spell the cost comes from the spell book and not you. This allows you to have spells ready and refill your Soul. Furthermore the spell slot tier can increase or decrease a spell's casting speed as the casting speed will be set at the tier it is slotted for. The spell's casting power depends. If it is slotted in the tier the spell belongs to, it does not change. For every tier level less than the original tier level, the spell's healing/damage power decreases by 20%. For every tier level greater than the original tier level, the spell's healing/damage power increases by 10%
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Magic Ink |
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| Child of Magic | ⚡ Activated Ability |
You are able to extend the duration of your spells that last longer than instant. You simply spend 1/2 of the Soul cost for each additional round you wish the spell to continue. |
Must have at least 4 spells |
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| Create Talisman | 🛠️ Utility Ability |
This ability allows you to create talismans. Talismans can be created for the following:
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Witch Runes |
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| Elemental Blood | 🛡️ Passive Ability |
Soul regenerates by Arcana per hour |
Child of Magic |
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| Elemental Dominance | 🛡️ Passive Ability |
Treat all other elements except the element you are weak against as being weak against you. |
Rune Stone Theory |
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| Elemental Lord | 🛡️ Passive Ability |
Treat the element you are weak against as if you are strong against it. |
Elemental Dominance |
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| Empathy Casting | 🛠️ Utility Ability |
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. |
Empathy talent |
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| Magic Channeling | ⚡ Activated Ability |
You can increase the power of any spell by channeling additional energy into it before casting. Each time you channel a spell you spend the spell's Soul cost again and add the spell's base damage or healing dice one additional time to the final result. You may channel a spell up to 2 times. Runic Power is only applied once to the entire casting regardless of how many times the spell has been channeled. The soul costs of a channeled spell cannot be reduced by Magical Training. Example: Fang costs 2 Soul and deals 4d4 damage. Channeling it twice costs an additional 4 Soul (2 Soul per channel) for a total of 6 Soul, and deals 8d4 damage. Runic Power is added once to the final result. |
N/A |
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| Magic Crit | ⚡ Activated Ability |
This ability allows a runic mage to make a 1d20 roll when casting healing of 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. |
N/A |
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| Magic Grace | 🛡️ Passive Ability |
Causes spells that affect everyone in an area to not harm allies or benefit enemies. |
Elemental Blood |
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| Magic Ink | 🛠️ Utility Ability |
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. |
N/A |
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| Magic Mastery | 🛡️ Passive Ability |
Increase Arcana by 1 and runic power by 1d6. |
Magic Proficiency |
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| Magic Proficiency | 🛡️ Passive Ability |
Decreases target's evade chance against your magical attacks by 1. |
N/A |
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| Magic Theory | 🛡️ Passive Ability |
Increase Runic Power by +2. |
N/A |
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| Magical Training | 🛡️ Passive Ability |
Magic Spells cost half as much Soul to cast. |
N/A |
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| Potion Craft | 🛠️ Utility Ability |
Allows for use of potions in spell casting. The effects of the potion are added to the spell. |
Sorcery |
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| Pre Cast | 🛠️ Utility Ability |
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 the casting of longer to cast spells. |
Spell Necessity |
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| Quick Cast | 🛠️ Utility Ability |
This runic mage ability decreases the casting speed of your spell by 1. If it decreases to less than 1 it becomes a free cast allowing you to cast another spell, however you cannot use quick cast on the following spell. |
Magic Channeling |
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| Rule of Karma | 🛡️ Passive Ability |
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. |
N/A |
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| Rune Stone Theory | 🛡️ Passive Ability |
Allows you to create rune stones of a spell family once you have the spells of that family. |
N/A |
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| Sorcery | 🛠️ Utility Ability |
Allows for use of alchemical ingredients for spell casting. |
N/A |
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| Spell Necessity | ⚡ Activated Ability |
This ability allows you to use vitality to cover Soul if you do not have enough soul to cast the spell. |
Quick Cast |
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| Staggering Spell | ⚡ Activated Ability |
Critical hits with spells daze targets for 1d6 rounds. |
Magic Mastery |
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| Witch Runes | 🛠️ Utility Ability |
This ability allows you to use ylem imbued ink to write magical runes. Each rune must be learned but provides a powerful effect to whatever the rune is written on.
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Magic Ink |