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Gambits & Spells

Gambits

Aim

Mana Cost 1
Required Weapon Ranged or Thrown
Execution Time 1 action or bonus action
Duration Concentration, up to 1 minute

You gain advantage on all ranged weapon attack rolls for the duration.

Ambush

Mana Cost 1
Required Weapon Any
Execution Time 1 action

Target one surprised creature, and make one weapon attack against them. If the attack hits, ignore the target's Defense.
Additional Mana

You gain an additional +1 bonus on the attack roll for each extra mana spent on executing this gambit.

Chi Blocking

Mana Cost 1
Required Weapon Fist-load Weapon or Unarmed
Execution Time 1 action
Duration 1 round

Make a weapon attack against one creature within your reach. On a hit, the target can't cast spells or execute gambits for the duration.
Additional Mana

You gain an additional +1 bonus on the attack roll for each extra mana spent on executing this gambit.

Cleave

Mana Cost 1
Required Weapon Any melee weapon
Execution Time 1 action

Make a weapon attack against one creature within your reach. If an attack hits, you may make another attack against a different creature within your reach you have not already attacked as part of this gambit.

Defensive Stance

Mana Cost 1
Required Weapon Any
Execution Time 1 bonus action

You gain two advantage on all Evasion checks until the beginning of your next turn.

Deflect Missiles

Mana Cost 1
Required Weapon Any melee weapon
Execution Time 1 reaction, which you take when you are hit with a ranged weapon attack

You immediately gain 1d6 Defense against the triggering damage. If you reduce the damage below 0, you deflect the missile towards a creature of your choice. That creature is the new target of the original attack.
Additional Mana

You gain an additional +1 Defense against the triggering damage for each extra mana spent on executing this gambit.

Disarm

Mana Cost 1
Required Weapon Any
Execution Time 1 action

Make one weapon attack. On a hit, the target must drop one item it is holding of your choice.

Flurry

Mana Cost 1
Required Weapon Any
Execution Time 1 action or bonus action

Make two weapon attacks. They can target one or different creatures.

Forceful Attack

Mana Cost 1
Required Weapon Any melee weapon
Execution Time 1 action

Make one weapon attack. If the attack hits, the target is moved up to 15 feet in a direction you choose. Fall damage may apply. If the target is moved through the space of another creature, that creature must make a Reflex check with difficulty equal to the damage of the attack or both the creature and the target fall Prone.

Great Cleave

Mana Cost 2
Required Weapon Greataxe, greatsword, sword, or whip
Execution Time 1 action

Make one weapon attack against each creature within your reach.

Lunging Strike

Mana Cost 1
Required Weapon Any melee weapon
Execution Time 1 action

Move up to half your movement speed towards one creature you can see. If that creature is within your reach after this movement, make one attack against them.
Additional Mana

You can move an additional 5 feet for each extra mana spent on executing this gambit.

Parry

Mana Cost 1
Required Weapon Any melee weapon
Execution Time 1 reaction, which you take when you are hit with a melee attack

You immediately gain +1d10 Defense against the triggering damage.
Additional Mana

You gain an additional +1 Defense for each extra mana spent on executing this gambit.

Preemptive Strike

Mana Cost 1
Required Weapon Any
Execution Time 1 reaction, which you take when a hostile creature moves within your reach

Make one attack against the triggering creature.

Riposte

Mana Cost 1
Required Weapon Any melee weapon
Execution Time 1 reaction, which you take when a hostile creature misses a melee attack against you

Make one attack against the triggering creature.

Smite

Mana Cost 1
Required Weapon Any
Execution Time 1 action

Make one weapon attack. The attack's damage type is spiritual instead of its usual damage type.
Additional Mana

You gain an additional +1 bonus on the attack roll for each extra mana spent on executing this gambit.

Spells

Animate Dead

Mana Cost 3
Components Verbal, Somatic, Material (a corpse or pile of bones, a black onyx stone†)
Casting Time 1 minute (10 minutes ritual)

Touch a pile of bones or a corpse of a medium or small creature within range. The target becomes a skeleton if you used bones or a zombie if you used a corpse in the casting of this spell (The storyteller has the creature's game statistics). On each of your turns, you can use a bonus action to mentally command any creature you made with this spell if the creature is within 60 feet of you (if you control multiple creatures, you can command any or all of them at the same time, issuing the same command to each one). Once given an order, the creature continues to follow it until its task is complete. The creature is under your control for 24 hours, after which it stops obeying any command you’ve given it. To maintain control of the creature for another 24 hours, you must cast this spell on the creature again before the current 24-hour period ends. This use of the spell reasserts your control over up to four creatures you have animated with this spell, rather than animating a new one.
Additional Mana

You may animate or reassert control over one additional undead creature for each extra mana spent on casting this spell.

Barrier

Mana Cost 1
Components Somatic
Casting Time 1 reaction, which you take when you are hit by an attack

You immediately gain +1d6 Defense against the triggering attack.
Additional Mana

You gain an additional +1 Defense for each extra mana spent on casting this spell.

Bless

Mana Cost 1
Components Somatic
Casting Time 1 action
Duration 1 round

You touch a creature, bestowing upon it a blessing. That creature gains two advantage on all checks until the beginning of your next turn.
Additional Mana

The target gains an additional +1 bonus for each extra mana spent on casting this spell.

Mana Cost 1
Components Verbal, Somatic, Material (an empty phial)
Casting Time 1 action or bonus action

You teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space that you can see.
Additional Mana

The maximum distance you can teleport increases by 30 feet for each extra mana spent on casting this spell.

Blizzard

Mana Cost 1
Components Verbal, Somatic
Casting Time 1 action
Range 80 feet
Duration Concentration, up to 1 minute
Area of Effect 15-foot radius cylinder

You shape the clouds above you, creating a small but blinding storm of snow and ice. For the duration, the space within the area of effect becomes difficult terrain. When a creature begins or ends their turn within the area of effect, make a spell attack against them, inflicting elemental damage on a hit.

Additional Mana

The maximum distance you can teleport increases by 30 feet for each extra mana spent on casting this spell.

Spell Restrictions

This spell can only be cast outside.

Mana Cost 1
Components Verbal, Somatic
Casting Time 1 action
Range Touch
Duration Concentration, up to 10 minutes

You entangle the life-force of two creatures you touch. An unwilling creature must succeed on an Instinct check or become affected by this spell. For the duration, whenever either of the targets takes damage, the other also takes the same amount of damage. In addition, whenever either of the targets recover from wounds, the other also recovers from the same amount of wounds.

Chain Lightning

Mana Cost 2
Components Verbal, Somatic, Material (a glass rod)
Casting Time 1 action
Range 30 feet

You make a spell attack, hurling an arc of electricity towards one target within range, inflicting elemental damage on a hit.

If you wound the target, you may target an additional creature who hasn't already been wounded by this spell within 30 feet of the previous target. You may repeat this until the spell fails to wound a target or there are no more eligible targets left in range.

Additional Mana

You may retry one missed spell attack for each extra mana spent on casting this spell.

Counterspell

Mana Cost 3
Components Verbal, Somatic, Material (a pinch of ashes)
Casting Time 1 reaction, which you take when you see a creature within range casting a spell
Range 60 feet

You attempt to interrupt a creature in the process of casting a spell. You must be able to see the creature and must be aware that it is casting a spell. The target must succeed on a Willpower check or their spell fails and has no effect. Depending on your familiarity with the target's spell, you gain bonuses or penalties to your spell check:
  • If you do not know the target's spell, you automatically fail the check.
  • If you are a novice with the target's spell, you suffer disadvantage on the check.
  • If you are an expert with the target's spell, you gain advantage on the check.

Cure Wounds

Mana Cost 1
Components Verbal, Somatic, Material (a tiny gemstone†)
Casting Time 1 action (1 minute ritual)
Range Touch

A creature you touch recovers from 1d4 wounds. This spell has no effect on undead or constructs.
Additional Mana

The target recovers from one additional wound for each extra mana spent on casting this spell.

Spell Restrictions

You cannot target yourself when casting this spell sacrificially.

Detect Magic

Mana Cost 1
Components Material (an adder stone)
Casting Time 1 action (10 minutes ritual)
Duration Concentration, up to 10 minutes
Area of Effect 30-foot radius sphere

You open your awareness to sense the presence of magic. For the duration, you see a faint glow around all creatures (including Invisible creatures) except undead and constructs, as well as around any object that has been magically enchanted. In addition, you become aware of the casting of spells within 30 feet even if that spell doesn't require noticeable components, such as verbal or somatic components.

This faint glow only tells you whether or not magic is present; however, you recognize a spell being cast or an enchantment if it is a spell you know.
Additional Mana

The radius of the spell's area of effect increases by 10 feet for each extra mana spent on casting this spell.

Fireball

Mana Cost 2
Components Verbal, Somatic, Material (a piece of sulphur, a flint)
Casting Time 1 action
Range 120 feet
Area of Effect 10-foot radius sphere

You create a furious bead of fire at a point within range, which then erupts into an inferno. Make a spell attack against all creatures within the area of effect, inflicting elemental damage on a hit.

The explosion spreads around corners. It ignites flammable objects in the area that aren't being worn or carried.

Additional Mana

The radius of the spell's area of effect increases by 5 feet for each extra mana spent on casting this spell.

Flameburst

Mana Cost 3
Components Somatic
Casting Time 1 action
Area of Effect 60-foot cone

You snap your fingers and a torrent of flame explodes from your fingertips. Make a spell attack against all creatures within the area of effect, inflicting elemental damage on a hit.

The flame ignites flammable objects in the area of effect that aren't being worn or carried.

Additional Mana

The spell's area of effect increases by 5 feet for each extra mana spent on casting this spell.

Flare

Mana Cost 1
Components Somatic
Casting Time 1 action
Range 15 feet

You make a spell attack, summoning a mote of a star to smite one creature within range, inflicting elemental damage on a hit. This attack ignores half of the target's Defense.

When you roll triumph on an attack using this spell, the attack ignores all of the target's Defense instead.

Additional Mana

The spell's range increases by 15 feet for each extra mana spent on casting this spell.

Identify

Mana Cost 2
Components Somatic, Material (an adder stone)
Casting Time 1 action (10 minutes ritual)
Range Touch

You choose one object or creature that you must touch throughout the casting of the spell. If the target is an object with magical properties, you learn those properties and the object's basic use. If the target is a creature, you learn the creature's type: either Abberation, Celestial, Construct, Fey, Fiend, Humanoid, Monster, or Undead.

Icicle

Mana Cost 3
Components Verbal, Somatic
Casting Time 1 action
Duration 1 minute
Area of Effect 15-foot line

You raise a row of razor-sharp icicles from the ground, piercing any who stand in their path. Make a spell attack against all creatures within the area of effect, inflicting elemental damage on a hit. Creatures wounded by this spell are also Restrained for the duration, which can be escaped by succeeding on a Stamina check.

Additional Mana

The spell's area of effect increases by 5 feet for each extra mana spent on casting this spell.

Imbalance

Mana Cost 1
Components Verbal, Somatic
Casting Time 1 action
Range 30 feet
Duration Concentration, up to 1 hour

You choose one creature within range, shifting around their strengths and weaknesses. The target must succeed on an Instinct check or for the duration, one of their ability scores of your choice is reduced by 2 while another of their ability scores of your choice increases by 2.

Additional Mana

The amount an ability score is affected increases by 1 for each extra mana spent on casting this spell.

Magic Missile

Mana Cost 1
Components Somatic, Material (a vial containing only vacuum)
Casting Time 1 action
Range 60 feet

You create three magical projectiles. You may direct each of these projectiles to a target of your choice within range. For each projectile, make a spell attack, inflicting physical damage on a hit.

Additional Mana

You create one additional projectile for each extra mana spent on casting this spell.

Thunderbolt

Mana Cost 1
Components Verbal, Somatic
Casting Time 1 action
Range 60 feet
Area of Effect 5-foot radius cylinder

You call upon the clouds, which rumble with anticipation. Make a spell attack, directing a lightning bolt from the sky towards one target within range, inflicting elemental damage on a hit. A creature wearing metal armor suffers disadvantage on their check to avoid the spell attack. In addition, make a spell attack against all creatures within the area of effect, inflicting physical damage on a hit.

Additional Mana

The radius of the spell's area of effect increases by 5 feet for each extra mana spent on casting this spell.

Spell Restrictions

This spell can only be cast outside.

Time Stop

Mana Cost 12
Components Verbal
Casting Time 1 action

Time ceases for all creatures but you for a moment. You immediately take 1d4 turns in a row while time is frozen in this way. Existing hazards and magical effects can still harm you. Creatures other than you are frozen in time, and the result of any check they must make while frozen in this way is considered to be 1, unless they also know this spell, in which case they make all checks with five disadvantage.

Torpefy

Mana Cost 2
Components Somatic, Material (A bit of twine)
Casting Time 1 action
Range 60 feet
Duration Concentration, up to 10 minutes

Choose a creature you can see within range. The target must succeed on an Athletics check or become Paralyzed for the duration. At the end of each of its turns, it can repeat this check, ending the spell's effect on it on a success.

Additional Mana

You may target one additional creature within range for each extra mana spent on casting this spell. The creatures must be within 30 feet of each other when you target them.

Wish

Mana Cost 30
Components Verbal
Casting Time 1 action

You speak aloud a wish, and reality reshapes to accommodate. Describe your wish using one sentence. The storyteller decides the details of how your wish is fulfilled.
No Guarantees

Your wish will be fulfilled in a way that satisfies the requirements you provide, but it may have unforseen and unintended side effects or consequences.