Nova Magik.pdf

magik

For the Nova game engine

magik

The power of Witchcraft for Nova

Written by George Chatzipetros

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Rules for sorcery and

magical workings,

character creation for

wizards and other

magic-using characters

and a legion of spells.

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No, this game is not Satanic

No, it does not promote the ritual sacrifice

of siblings or fellow citizens (did I forgot

of siblings or fellow citizens (did I forgot to

mention parents?)

No, you will not burn in hell if you read it

Yes, I do like to role

Yes, I do like to role-play

play

Written by George Chatzipetros

Contact me at neonblue@GameBox.net

Download new sourcebooks and updates at

http://members.xoom.co

No, this game is not Satanic

No, it does not promote the ritual sacrifice

of siblings or fellow citizens (did I forgot

mention parents?)

No, you will not burn in hell if you read it

Yes, I do like to role

play

Contents

The ancient craft………..4

Magick………………………..4

Realms………………………..4

Casting………………………..4

The toll……………………….6

Autonomous…………………7

Powered……………………...7

Awakening……………………7

Experience…………………….8

Gifts…………………………...8

Drawbacks……………………9

Spells…………………….10

Necromancy………………...36

Nethermancy……………….38

Obedience…………………..40

Opthalmomancy…………...42

Prescience…………………...44

Pyromancy………………….46

Rejuvenation………………..48

Theriomancy………………..50

Spells…………………….10

Aeromancy…………………..11

Alchemy……………………...13

Ambience…………………….15

Botanomancy………………..17

Druidism……………………..19

Ethermancy………………….21

Fortification…………………23

Gaiomancy………………….25

Geomancy…………………..27

Haemomancy……………….28

Hydromancy………………..30

Magery………………………32

Morphing……………………34

Contents

The ancient craft………..4

Spells…………………….10

The Ancient Craft

agic is a favorite theme of role-

playing games, appearing in a great

variety of genres, from light fantasy

to far-future games. This is not

strange, since role-playing is a way of

escaping for a brief time from reality

and magic is one of the things our

reality lacks.

When researching literature,

one can see that every author of a

fantasy work handles magic in a dif-

ferent way. Although there are com-

mon points from book to book,

there is no universal prototype.

There shouldn’t be after all, as magic

isn’t a universal principle like gravity

but something completely unreal and

fictitious, therefore diverse.

because magic is so diverse

and different, the game mechanics

need also to be very flexible and ad-

justable. They rules below may seem

complicated but they are made to

suit a wide variety of game settings.

over magic. With greater Magick,

someone can use magic more effi-

ciently or cast more powerful spells.

Magick is determined by a

character’s intelligence and wisdom.

It is the average of the character’s

Intellect and Insight dice. This

amount may be modified by the race

of the character, if you decide that

some races are more magically in-

clined than others. For example, a

common concept in fantasy RPGs is

that elves are good magicians

whereas dwarves prefer to have little

or no dealings at all with magic. You

might award one extra point of

Magick to elven characters and halve

the Magick of dwarven characters.

In general, use the side table

to decide upon racial modifications

to Magick.

Everyone with a Magick rating

greater than zero can learn to cast

magic. This is good if everyone can

work magic in your game. In most

games however, only a special cate-

gory of people can use magic. These

people are said to have their Magick

rating “awakened”

Magick modifier

Description

Members of this race have extraordinary magical power

from the moment they’re born. Magic literally flows in

their veins.

++1

This race is more magically inclined than others and pro-

duces magicians of great talent.

-1

Members of this race have traditionally little talent in

magic, although individuals may break this rule.

x 1/2

This race naturally has very little talent in magic. Magic-

users will be rare and lesser in power than those of other

races.

x 0 (no Magick) Members of this race are born without any natural magical

talent at all. They lack the power and ability to use magic

and can never wield such a power.

fect.

But who has his Magick rating

awakened? In game terms, only

those characters that chose some spe-

cial gifts during character creation.

These gifts are described below and

only one may be taken by a charac-

ter.

Magical knowledge (15 points):

Magical talent (6 points): The charac-

ter possesses some limited magical

ability which spans only a few spells

and sorcerous techniques.

Magick

Magical knowledge (15 points): The

character is a true mage with knowl-

edge that extends to many different

techniques and spells. The cost of this

Realms

Magick is a new secondary attribute,

like Stamina or Defense, that meas-

ures someone’s power and control

“awakened”, ie being able to

use it consciously to invoke some ef-

Magic is a primal force. Its use to ac-

complish something specific is called

a spell. There are lots of possible

Magic

agic

Magick modifier

++2

x 0 (no Magick)

gift may be great but it doesn’t count

against the 10-point limit of gifts.

Magical talent (6 points):

Magical knowledge (15 points):

Magick

Magic is a primal force.

“awakened”

spells but if someone examines them

closely, he’ll discover that many

spells have a similar purpose or prin-

ciple of function. Similar spells are

categorised in divisions called

Realms.

points if he has the magical talent

one. These points aren’t used like

skill dice. Each of them increases the

realm’s rating by one. It is recom-

mended that the GM imposes a 2-

point increase limit during character

creation. Magicians can always learn

more magic later in the game and a

mage with a rating of 3 in a realm

would be too powerful for a starting

character.

For the casting roll to be suc-

cessful, the character must accumu-

late a number of successes at least

equal to the Effort

Realm rating

Target number

Effort rating of the spell.

Extra successes over the Effort may

serve to increase the spell’s potency.

So, the casting successes begin at one

if the sorcerer equals the Effort of the

spell and increase for every extra suc-

cess. This way, Effort determines the

difficulty of the spell. The more pow-

erful a spell is, the greater its Effort.

The Effort of all spells can be

modified to reflect the potency of

magic in your campaign. Is magic an

all-powerful force, the might of gods

in your campaign. Then, you should

lower the Effort of all spells by one

point to make more powerful spells

accessible to more magicians. Would

you like a world in which magic is

less powerful but still present (like in

the works of Tolkien)? Then you

should increase Effort by one or two

points. This will make the casting of

spells much more difficult and can

also deny the magic-users of some of

the most powerful spells.

A character needs to have a

rating in the appropriate realm at

Realms.

Realms are in essence group-

ings of spells. A magician who pos-

sesses knowledge of a realm has ac-

cess to a broad range of spells inside

it. Of course, you may choose not to

use the realm system and decree that

a magician must learn each spell

separately, particularly if your cam-

paign will be a low-magic one. Or

you could have the character know

say, half of a realm’s spells and re-

search the others one by one.

Every realm is a skill in that it

has a rating of one to four. Any simi-

larities stop there however. A realm’s

rating isn’t used as a skill neither is it

increased as a skill. During character

creation, the player doesn’t use skill

generation dice to learn realms of

magic.

During character creation, a

character should get 7 points to dis-

tribute among realms of magic if he

has the magical knowledge gift or 2

least lower by one than a spell’s Ef-

fort to even attempt the casting roll.

A magician with a rating of one in a

realm simply can not cast spells with

Efforts greater than two.

What happens when a magi-

cian scores a critical failure in a cast-

ing roll? A general rule of thumb

would be to reduce his Magick by

one (to a minimum of one [or even

zero, this is an interesting idea which

can spice up your campaign with sor-

cerers that lost their power and seek

a way to get it back]) until he suc-

cessfully casts a spell having the

maximum Effort his realm rating can

handle (eg for a magician with rating

one this will be Effort 2).

Along with this rule or instead

of it you may want to use other bad

effects depending on the flavor you

Casting

ower to take

shape and have a specific effect is

something that requires time and

concentration. As with many things

in life, magic will not always succeed

even when attempted by someone

very proficient in its use.

To succeed in casting a spell, a

character must make a successful cast-

ing roll. This roll uses a number of

dice equal to the Magick rating of

the character. The t#s of the roll are

determined by the character’s rating

in the particular realm, as shown in

the side table. All of the dice have

the same t#.

ower

Effort

Realms.

Forcing your magical p

Forcing your magical power

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