Conjuration

Conjuration is the magic of bringing things here, sending things away, and crossing the distance between. It calls creatures, objects and forces from elsewhere, opens brief paths through space, and moves people and hazards in an instant. It supplies tools, allies and obstacles as needed, or removes a danger by banishing it from the scene. Its effects are immediate and tangible: something arrives, vanishes or shifts, as if reality opened a door and shut it again.

Conjuration Spells at a Glance

Spells

Conjure Tool

Cantrip · Strain 0 · Chant (1 minute) · Duration 1 stretch
Utility, Tool

You conjure one simple, mundane tool you could hold in one hand: lockpicks, a hammer, a shovel, a lantern and so on. It lasts 1 stretch (10 minutes).

Push: take 1 Strain to cast for 1 AP instead of 2.

Critical Success: The tool is unusually well made: the first check made with it gains 1 level of Advantage.

Optional Modifiers

• Kit (+1): Conjure a small kit instead of a single tool: up to three tiny items that fit in a pouch.
• Emergency (+2): The spell loses Chant and gains Invocation and Concentration; casting takes 1 round. The tools last while you concentrate, up to 5 rounds, and you can sustain the spell normally.

Flicker Step

Cantrip · Strain 0 · Invocation, 2 AP · Duration Instant
Movement, Teleport

You teleport to an unoccupied space you can see within 10 feet. You need a clear line of effect to it, through space you could fit through; if the gap along the way is smaller than you, the spell costs +1 Strain per size category of difference.

If you (or a passenger) are grabbed, restrained or otherwise held by a creature or object, your Mysticism result must beat 1d20 + the level of the restraint, or you stay where you are.

Push: take 1 Strain to cast for 1 AP instead of 2.

Critical Success: Double the distance you can cover.

Optional Modifiers

• ★ Passenger (+1): Bring one willing creature adjacent to you along, to a space adjacent to your destination. If your path is squeezed by a gap smaller than you, this doubles the spell's total cost. [School Mastery, 2+ ranks]
• ★ Extended Range (+1*): Add 5 feet to the range per purchase, up to a number of purchases equal to half your Mysticism ranks; each costs +1 Strain. [School Mastery, 4+ ranks]

Kinetic Nudge

Cantrip · Strain 0 · Invocation, 2 AP · Duration Instant · Save: Might
Shove, Force

You shove one creature or unattended object you can affect.

• Creature: it is pushed 5 feet unless it succeeds at a Might save opposed by your Channeling result.
• Unattended object: it is pushed 10 feet unless it succeeds at a Might save opposed by your Channeling result. Its Bulk must be less than your Intellect or your Charisma (your choice). An object saves with its level as its modifier (level 0 if it has none).

Critical failure: a creature is also knocked Prone; an object instead takes nonmagical bludgeoning damage as if it fell the distance it was pushed.

Area deliveries cost double Strain for this spell.

Push: take 1 Strain to cast for 1 AP instead of 2.

Critical Success: The target is pushed twice as far.

Ability Restoration

Complexity 1 · Strain 3 · Invocation, 2 AP · Duration Instant
Brewable, Healing

You bless or anoint the target with restorative energy, restoring 1d4 points of ability score damage.

Area deliveries cost double Strain for this spell.

Critical Success: Restore 1d4 + 2 points instead.

Burrow

Complexity 1 · Strain 2 · Invocation, 2 AP · Duration 5 rounds
Brewable, Movement, Buff

You let the target meld through earth: for the duration it has a Burrow Speed equal to half its land Speed.

Area deliveries cost double Strain for this spell.

Critical Success: Its Burrow Speed equals its land Speed instead.

Optional Modifiers

• ★ Stone-Burrow (+3): The target can burrow through stone and similar solid material as well as earth (the GM rules on materials). [School Mastery, 5+ ranks]

Cleanse Condition

Complexity 1 · Strain 1 · Invocation, 2 AP · Duration Instant
Brewable, Healing

You draw a harmful effect out of the target, removing one negative condition. You can't remove a condition that an ongoing source keeps applying (such as Bound, Entangled or Stunned from a lasting effect) until that source is removed.

Area deliveries cost double Strain for this spell.

Critical Success: Remove two negative conditions instead.

Conjure Item

Complexity 1 · Strain 2 · Ritual (10 minutes) · Duration 1 stretch
Creation

You create a simple, mundane object made from common materials (GM's call). The Strain cost is 2 per Bulk of the item (minimum 2). It appears in your hands or on the ground nearby and fades when the duration ends, unless you make it durable.

Critical Success: The item is masterwork: the first relevant check made with it gains +1 (as if it had Potency 1).

Optional Modifiers

• Complete Set (+1): Conjure a complete set within the same Bulk limit (a quiver of arrows, a chess set and so on).
• Temporary Item (-1, +1 Complexity): +1 Complexity but −1 Strain. The item lasts 5 rounds instead of 1 stretch and vanishes if you lose Concentration: the spell is cast as an Invocation and gains Concentration. Can't be combined with Durable.
• ★ Durable (+1*): The item is permanent until dispelled, dismissed or destroyed. This costs +1 Strain per 2 Bulk of the item, and that Strain can't be recovered while the item exists. [School Mastery, 6+ ranks]
• Create Food (+2*): +2 Strain for each: enough nourishing food for one Medium creature for 1 day. It spoils after 24 hours if not eaten.
• Create Water (+2*): +2 Strain for each: enough clean water (like rainwater) for one Medium creature for 1 day.

Ease Exhaustion

Complexity 1 · Strain 1 · Ritual (10 minutes) · Duration 1 hour
Brewable, Buff

You fill the target with false motivation and borrowed vigor. For the duration it acts as though it had 1 fewer level of Exhaustion. This only suppresses the penalties; it removes nothing, and if its Exhaustion would incapacitate it, it is still incapacitated.

Area deliveries cost double Strain for this spell.

Critical Success: It acts as though it had 2 fewer levels instead.

Heal

Complexity 1 · Strain 1 · Invocation, 2 AP · Duration Instant
Brewable, Healing

You mend wounds and restore vitality: the target regains 1d8 + your Mysticism ranks in HP.

Area deliveries cost double Strain for this spell.

Critical Success: The target regains double your result instead.

Optional Modifiers

• Greater Healing (+2): The target regains 2d8 + double your Mysticism ranks (doubled on your critical success).
• Major Healing (+4): The target regains 3d8 + triple your Mysticism ranks (doubled on your critical success).
• Supreme Healing (+6): The target regains 4d8 + quadruple your Mysticism ranks (doubled on your critical success).
• Neutralize Affliction (+2): The target immediately attempts another save against one poison or disease affecting it, with 1 level of Advantage (2 on your critical success). If your Channeling result beats the affliction's DC, the save succeeds automatically; beat it by 15 or more and it's a critical success.
• Restoration I (+2): Reduce the target's Exhaustion by 1 level (2 on your critical success). A creature can benefit from this only once per 24 hours.
• Restoration II (+5): Reduce the target's Exhaustion by 2 levels (3 on your critical success). A creature can benefit from this only once per 24 hours.

Numb Pain

Complexity 1 · Strain 1 · Invocation, 2 AP · Duration 5 rounds
Brewable, Buff

You dull the target's pain. For the duration, the conditions its wounds impose are reduced by one step: conditions from Light Wounds are suppressed, and each Heavy Wound imposes the Light Wound condition for its location instead (head: Dazed; torso: Chest Trauma 1; arm: Weakened Grip 1; leg: Slowed 10). This covers wounds the target already has and any it takes while the spell lasts. When the spell ends, the wounds' full conditions apply again. Numb Pain doesn't heal wounds, and it doesn't stop the target from becoming Downed, Dying or Unconscious.

Critical Success: Reduce them by two steps instead: conditions from both Light and Heavy Wounds are suppressed.

Optional Modifiers

• Lingering Numbness (+1): Cast it as a Ritual instead; the duration becomes 1 hour.

Soothe Strain

Complexity 1 · Strain 1 · Invocation, 2 AP · Duration Instant
Brewable, Healing

You restore the target's vigor, healing 1d4 Strain damage. A creature can benefit from this spell at most once per 24 hours.

Critical Success: Double the Strain healed.

Barrier

Complexity 3 · Strain 2 · Invocation, 2 AP · Duration 5 rounds
Creation

You raise a solid, immobile wall 30 feet long and 5 feet high that conforms to the surface it is cast on, lasting for the duration. Each 5-foot section has Hardness 5, Durability 10 and the Fortified trait (half damage from anything that isn't Heavy). When the spell ends, or a section breaks, it crumbles or dissipates and leaves nothing behind but its trappings.

Optional Modifiers

• Damage (+1): A creature that touches the barrier takes 1d6 damage.
• Deadly (+2): A creature that touches the barrier takes 2d6 damage.
• Tough (+2): Double the barrier's Hardness and Durability.
• Shaped (+1): Shape the barrier as a circle, square or rectangle (no roof or floor). It can't be used to trap or bind creatures.
• Size (+2): Double the barrier's length and height.

Warrior's Gift

Complexity 3 · Strain 4 · Invocation, 2 AP · Duration 5 rounds
Buff, Mental, Concentration, Concentration

You project a vivid echo of your training into the target's mind. Choose one talent you know with the Combat or Attack trait: while you maintain Concentration, up to the duration, the target has that talent's benefits. When the spell ends for any reason, it loses them at once.

Critical Success: You may instead grant a Combat or Attack talent you don't know but meet the prerequisites for (GM approval). If you do, you can pay +2 Strain to gain that talent yourself for the duration too.

Optional Modifiers

• Dual Gift (+4): Grant two talents at once.

Planar Binding

Complexity 5 · Strain 8 · Ritual (10 minutes) · Duration Instant · Save: Charisma
Control, Invested, Invested

During the ritual you prepare a binding trap (a circle, casket, chains, wards and so on), then name or describe the extraplanar creature you seek, or speak its true name if you know it. It makes a Charisma save opposed by your Channeling result.

• If the creature wins, the spell fails and it knows who tried to bind it.
• If you win, it is summoned into the trap and held there until it agrees to a service or breaks free.

Invested: your maximum Strain is reduced by this spell's Strain until the creature is released or escapes.

Breaking free: if no agreement is reached within 24 hours, repeat the opposed check every 24 hours until you agree or it escapes.

Your critical failure: the creature may arrive unbound and act freely (the GM decides).

Optional Modifiers

• Stronger Circle (+1*): Each point of extra Strain you put into this modifier adds 1 to your Channeling result for opposing the creature's save.

Planar Travel

Complexity 5 · Strain 5 · Invocation, 2 AP · Duration Instant · Save: Charisma
Planar, Teleportation

You tear a hole in space and time, opening a gateway to another plane.

• A destination you know: on a success the gateway opens within 2d10 miles of it; on a critical success, exactly where you intended.
• Only a general locale: failure puts you somewhere random on that plane; success, in the general vicinity; critical success, close to where you wanted.

Optional Modifiers

• Pocket Refuge (+1): Create or enter a small extradimensional shelter with basic necessities for up to five people. It persists and can be revisited.
• ★ Planar Exile (+3): Try to send an unwilling creature through the gateway. It makes a Charisma save opposed by your Channeling result (with 1 level of Disadvantage on your critical success). On a failure it is exiled for 5 rounds, then returns to the nearest open space. [School Mastery, 7+ ranks]

Resurrection

Complexity 8 · Strain 20 · Séance (1 hour) · Duration Instant
Healing, Resurrection

Requires a reasonably complete corpse, dead no more than 1 year.

Through a séance you reach across the Aether and pull a soul back into the living world. On a success the target returns to life at 1 HP with 2 levels of Exhaustion and is Unconscious for 4 hours.

Critical Success: The target returns at 1 HP with 1 level of Exhaustion and is Unconscious for 1 hour.

Optional Modifiers

• Raise Decade (+5): You can raise a creature dead up to 10 years.
• ★ Greater Resurrection (+10): You can raise a creature no matter how long it has been dead, even without a corpse. The séance takes 12 hours, and you gain 2 levels of Exhaustion when it ends. [School Mastery, 8+ ranks]

Conjuration Wild Surges

Roll on Wild Surge — Conjuration: 1d30 on a failed Channeling check; 2d8 on a critical failure (negative entry 2 × roll − 3) or critical success (positive entry 2 × roll − 2). Use the severity for the triggering spell's Total Strain: Minor 0–4, Moderate 5–9, Major 10+.

− negative (odd), + positive (even).