Mage Apprentice

As an action, you extend your hand and trace a sigil of warding in the air. Until the start of your next turn, you have resistance against bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage dealt by nonmagical attacks.

As an action, you shoot a beam of magical force at a creature or object that you can touch or see within 5 meters. The target takes 1d6 force damage.

At higher levels

This spell’s damage increases by 1d6 when you reach 9th level (2d6) and 17th level (3d6).

As an action, you form a blade of pure scintillating force. Make a melee spell attack against the target.

On a hit, it takes 1d10 force damage.

On a critical hit, it takes twice as much damage.

On a miss by 4 or less, it takes half as much damage.

At higher levels

This spell’s damage increases by 1d10 when you reach 9th level (2d10) and 17th level (3d10).

As an action, you create one of the following magical effects within 5 meters:

• You create an instantaneous, harmless sensory effect, such as a shower of sparks, a puff of wind, faint musical notes, or an odd odor.
• You instantaneously light or snuff out a candle, a torch, or a small campfire.
• You instantaneously clean or soil an object no larger than half a cubic meter.
• You chill, warm, or flavor up to half a cubic meter of non-living material for 1 hour.
• You make a color, a small mark, or a symbol appear on an object or a surface for 1 hour.
• You create a nonmagical trinket that lasts until the end of your next turn.

This spell is a minor magical trick that novice spellcasters use for practice.

If you cast this spell multiple times, you can have up to three of its non-instantaneous effects active at a time, and you can dismiss such an effect on your turn (no action required).

As you spend 1 minute to cast this spell, you set an alarm against unwanted intrusion. Choose a door, a window, or an area within 5 meters that is no larger than a sphere. Until the spell ends, an alarm alerts you whenever a Tiny or larger creature touches or enters the warded area. When you cast the spell, you can designate creatures that won’t set off the alarm. You also choose whether the alarm is mental or audible.

A mental alarm alerts you with a ping in your mind if you are within 2 kilometers of the warded area. This ping awakens you if you are sleeping.

An audible alarm produces the sound of a hand bell for 10 seconds within 10 meters.

As an action, you sense the presence of magic within 5 meters of you. If you sense magic in this way, you can use an action to see a faint aura around any visible creature or object in the area that bears magic, and you learn its theme, if any.

The spell can penetrate most barriers, but it is blocked by 30 centimeters of stone, 2 centimeters of common metal, a thin sheet of lead, or 1 meter of wood or dirt.

If you touch a creature or object for 5 minutes, you can determine the magic affecting it. If it is a magic item or some other magic-imbued object, you learn its properties and how to use them, whether it requires attunement to use, and how many charges it has, if any. You learn whether any spells are affecting the item and what they are. If the item was created by a spell, you learn which spell created it. If it is a creature, you learn what spells, if any, are currently affecting it.

As an action, a thin green ray springs from your pointing finger to a target that you can touch or see within 10 meters. The target can be a creature, an object that isn’t being worn or carried, or a creation of magical force, such as the wall created by wall of force.

The creature must make a Reflex saving throw.

On a failure, it takes 3d12 force damage.

On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage.

On a success, it takes half as much damage.

On a critical success, it takes no damage.

This spell automatically disintegrates a Tiny or smaller nonmagical object or a creation of magical force. If the target is a Small or larger object or creation of force, this spell disintegrates a 75-centimeter radius sphere portion of it. A magic item is unaffected by this spell.

Augment

You can increase the damage by 3d12 for each additional mana expended.

At 2 mana, this spell automatically disintegrates a Small or smaller nonmagical object or a creation of magical force. If the target is a Medium or larger object or creation of force, this spell disintegrates a 1-meter radius sphere portion of it.

At 3 mana:

• if the damage leaves the creature with 0 health, the creature and everything it is wearing and carrying, except magic items, are reduced to a pile of fine gray dust. The creature can be restored to life only by means of a resurrection spell, a miracle spell, or a wish spell.
• this spell automatically disintegrates a Medium or smaller nonmagical object or a creation of magical force. If the target is a Large or larger object or creation of force, this spell disintegrates a 1-meter radius sphere portion of it.

At 4 mana, this spell automatically disintegrates a Large or smaller nonmagical object or a creation of magical force. If the target is a Huge or larger object or creation of force, this spell disintegrates a 2-meter radius sphere portion of it.

At 5 or more mana, this spell automatically disintegrates a Huge or smaller nonmagical object or a creation of magical force. If the target is a Gargantuan or larger object or creation of force, this spell disintegrates a 3-meter radius sphere portion of it.

As an action, you create a circular, horizontal plane of force, 1 meter in diameter and 2 centimeters thick, that floats 1 meter above the ground in an unoccupied space of your choice that you can see within 5 meters. The disk remains for the duration, and can hold up to 200 kilos. If more weight is placed on it, the spell ends, and everything on the disk falls to the ground.

The disk is immobile while you are within 4 meters of it. If you move more than 4 meters away from it, the disk follows you so that it remains within 4 meters of you. If can move across uneven terrain, up or down stairs, slopes and the like, but it can’t cross an elevation change of 2 meters or more. For example, the disk can’t move across a 2-meter-deep pit, nor could it leave such a pit if it was created at the bottom.

If you move more than 20 meters away from the disk (typically because it can’t move around an obstacle to follow you), the spell ends.

Augment

The weight that the disk can carry increases by 200 kilos for each additional mana expended.

As an action, an invisible field of force appears and surrounds a creature that you can touch or see within 10 meters, granting it a +2 bonus to Defense for the duration.

Augment

You can target one additional creature for each additional mana expended, though the spell then must be cast as two actions. The creatures must be within 5 meters of each other when you target them.

As an action, an invisible field of force forms within a sphere twice as big as normal centered on you that moves with you. For the duration, The bulwark provides half cover from attacks and spells originating outside the bulwark.

As a reaction, which you use when you are hit by an attack or missed by 4 or less that you can see or when you take force damage, an invisible barrier of magical force appears around you. Roll a d4 and add the result to your Defense until the start of your next turn, including against the triggering attack. You can do so after the roll but before any effects of the roll occur.

Additionally, you have resistance to force damage until the start of your next turn.

Augment

You can expend 1 additional mana to trigger the spell when a creature that you can touch or see within 10 meters is attacked. The attacked creature gains the benefits instead.

As an action, a spear of magical force blasts from you. Each creature in a cone or line takes 3d4 + your spellcasting ability force damage.

Augment

You can increase the damage by 2d4 for each additional mana expended.

As an action, a weapon you touch becomes imbued with raw magical energy. For the duration, the weapon deals an extra 1d4 force damage.

Alternatively, you can touch a quiver containing arrows or bolts, granting the ammunition pulled from it the same effect. The spell’s magic ends on a piece of ammunition when it hits or misses.

Augment

• You can increase the damage by 1d4 for each additional mana expended.

• You can expend 1 additional mana to imbue an additional weapon you touch with raw magical energy.

• Magic Weapon. You can expend 1 additional mana so the weapon becomes a magic weapon for the duration.

As an action, you touch a door, a window, a gate, a box, a chest, a set of manacles, a padlock, or another object or entryway that contains a mundane or magical means that prevents access. Choose knock or lock as the spell’s effect.

Knock. A target that is held shut by a mundane lock or that is stuck or barred becomes unlocked, unstuck, or unbarred. If the object has multiple locks, only one of them is unlocked. If you choose a target that is held shut with lock, that spell is suppressed for 10 minutes, during which time the target can be opened and shut normally. When you use knock, a loud knock, audible from as far away as 100 meters, emanates from the target object.

Lock. The object or entryway becomes locked until it is broken or the spell is dispelled or suppressed. You and the creatures you designate when you cast this spell can open the object normally. You can also set a password that, when spoken within 1 meter of the object, suppresses this spell for 1 minute. While affected by this spell, the object is more difficult to break or force open; the Difficulty to break it or pick any locks on it increases by 10.

As an action, you touch a willing creature who isn’t wearing armor, and a protective magical force surrounds it until the spell ends. The target’s Defense becomes 13 + half its Aptitude Bonus (min 1) + its Dexterity (max 4), and it gains resistance to force damage. The spell ends if the target dons armor or if you dismiss the spell on your turn (no action required). The force can be invisible or can appear as a colored glow, at your option.

As an action, you create up to three glowing darts of magical force. Roll 3d6 and add your spellcasting ability; the total is the total amount of damage the darts do. Each dart hits a creature that you can touch or see within 20 meters.

If you create multiple darts, divide the damage evenly among the targets as the darts all strike simultaneously. If the damage does not divide evenly, you can choose which creatures receive the remaining damage.

Augment

You can roll an additional 4d6 and can create an additional dart for each additional mana expended.