The Outlands - The Exhaustive Wizard

Options

At some point, the Game Master may feel the need to customize s/his campaign's magickal system - either for campaign "flavor," to avoid the "cookie-cutter syndrome," or - heavens forbid - to control mages who have gotten out of hand. With those thoughts in mind, the following options offer the GM a measure of refinement over magic in his campaign-world.

Affinity Families: Grouping spells into families ruled by the four elements
Specializations: Focusing their abilities on a single class of spells gives Ranked Mages an edge
Spell Points: "Buying" each spell-casting with points
Fatigue: Channelling mystical energies can be quite draining

Other options for tailoring magic:

Game-masters may leave spell selection entirely up to the players or may wish to limit a player's options by providing a spell-list tailored to the learning-environment of the PC mage. GMs may wish to set limits on the number of spells a PC mage can start off knowing by basing it on the number of dice allocated to the mage's spell-casting skill.

example:

Jerry is creating a mage character for use in Mike's game. As groundrules, Mike tells Jerry he may only use First-Rank spells and may select from a list of spells a number of spells equal to three times the number of skill-dice allocated to Cast First-Rank Spells. These spells are now castable by Jerry's character using the dice he's put into Cast First-Rank Spells.

requiring a check against Magery or Knowledge or Thaumatology to determine if a spell or Word is learnable (best done for all available spells or Words when character is first created and kept in the GM's files)

Mages can't have any metal on their bodies when casting spells or the spell effects go bizarrely awry

Any single mass of metal on the wizard's body larger than a given size (such as a small knife) adds +30 to any spell's difficulty

DEX penalties for armor apply to a mage's casting pool

minimum attribute score needed for official training

add Willpower dice to dice-pool for spellcasting

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