• General Effects:

Animal control:

Any effect involving the manipulation of animals and wildlife.

Animation:

This effect covers any effect which provides a semblance of life to something which would otherwise be inanimate, such as animating a skeleton, or making a table move of its own volition. Animation provides the motivation for movement, but not the method. In order to make a rock move of its own volition, it would require some kind of motion or levitation effect to be able to move, as well as animation for it to control its movement. Animative effects physically alter an object to allow it to move, i.e. allowing a table to bend its legs, and ensuring that an animated skeleton does not simply fall apart.

Damaging:

Any effect which causes physical damage.

Detection:

Effects which allow the caster to locate something or someone, or apply their normal senses to a greater degree.

Divination:

Any effect which is used to predict future events (not necessarily precisely, but with a certain degree of accuracy).

Healing:

Any effect which cures wounds, poisons or diseases.

Illumination:

Effects which generate light.

Illusion:

Any magical effect which deludes people's senses, whether visual, aural, tactile or olfactory.

Lock:

Effects which seal an object which can be opened, such as a box or a door.

Levitation:

Any effect involving something being raised upwards without support.

Motion:

It is important to distinguish this effect from animation and levitation. Motion effects are simply those effects which deal with objects moving as if they have been pushed. Such objects do not have control over their movements; this would require an animation effect as well. To make an object fly would require a combination of a motion and a levitation effect.

Object creation:

Any effect which produces an object of some kind, possibly without using material components.

Personality control:

Effects which attempt to manipulate the actions or psychology of an individual.

Protection:

Effects that protect a certain area from harm.

Summoning:

Any effect which brings an entity from another plane into the caster's plane.

Telepathy:

Effects involving communicating without speaking, or reading people's minds.

Teleportation:

Any effect involving movement from one location to another without physically moving between.

Transmogrification:

Effects which turn one object into something different.

Ward:

A form of alarm effect which triggers another effect when anything of a particular clearly defined type, class or group enters a particular area, or passes through a particular opening. For example, a certain town might have a ward placed over it, which triggers when men enter the town. This could be linked to a damaging effect so that any men attempting to enter the town would take damage, or to a motion effect so that any men attempting to enter would be pushed away.

Weather control:

Any effect which alters the prevailing weather conditions. The Gamesmaster should assign an appropriate Difficulty according to the nature and magnitude of the effect.

• Duration of Effect

This indicates how long the effect will remain in force. Most of the categories are self explanatory. Combat duration is taken to be somewhere in the region of minutes, but less than an hour. Permanent effects last indefinitely, but passage through a Dead Zone will strip any residual magical effects, thus destroying any effects with permanent duration.

• Range of Effect

This is the distance between the caster and the target object or objects (including people). If the effect applies to everyone or everything within a certain area, starting at the caster, then the effective Range is contact. This situation is dealt with under Area of Effect: Sphere of Influence, below.

Contact:

Effect occurs at the caster, or affects whatever the caster is directly in contact with.

Melee:

Effect occurs no more than several metres from the caster's position.

Line of sight:

Target or target area is clearly visible to the caster. This Range bracket can be taken to reach its limit at about maximum bow Range (a few hundred metres at most).

City:

Maximum range is no more than the size of a large city, perhaps several kilometres.

Local Area:

Incorporates Ranges up to several tens of leagues away.

Country:

Effect can occur at up to a country length (several hundred leagues) away.

Continent:

Effect can occur at up to a continent's length (several thousand leagues) away.

World:

The effect can occur anywhere in the world.

If the target of the spell is an individual object, and the effect should vary in Difficulty according to that objects size, these modifiers should be used. As an example, a damaging, healing or telepathy effect is going to be unaffected by the target's size, a teleportation, motion or transmogrification effect will be. As ever, the GM is the final arbiter as to what is and what isn't affected by target size.

Fist-sized:

Object would fit into the caster's hands.

Carryable:

Object could reasonably be carried by the caster, without too much hindrance (anything between fist-sized and man-sized can be assumed to be carryable in size).

Man-sized:

Target object is about the size of a human.

Cart sized:

Target is larger than human proportions but not so large as to be considered house sized.

House sized:

Anything of sufficient size as to be comparable to a house in size.

Ship sized:

Almost anything larger than a house, but smaller than a city can be considered to be ship sized.

• Detection effects

This type of effect involves any spell which enhances the senses or detection abilities of the caster, such as a spell to detect how far to the nearest source of water, or whether there are any creatures who are naturally Violent in the area, or a spell which enhanced the casters range of vision. Detection effects are geared to either a particular sense, or to a particular target type (people, water, precious metals and so forth). The base Difficulty of +3 is applied in addition to all other aspects.

Distance:

This effect reveals how far away the nearest member of the target type is. If combined with number, it will reveal how far away each member of the target type within Range is.

Size:

Reveals the size of all members of the target type within the effect's Range

Number:

Discloses how many instances of the target type exist within the effect's Range.

Direction:

Reveals the direction to the nearest member of the target type within Range. If combined with number, it will reveal the direction to each member of the target type within Range.

Intent:

Determines if any of the entities within the effect's Range possess a particular, specific intent, or Demeanour trait. When combined with number, it will reveal how many of them possess that intent or Demeanour trait. Examples include detecting truth, hostile intent or sexual attraction.

Enhanced senses:

This covers use of detection effects to enhance an individual's senses. The actual Difficulty added is related to the degree to which the sense's capabilities have been enhanced. Take the modifier for the Range (take this value from the Range of Effect subtable in Table 48) at which the sense normally operates, and the Range at which the enhanced sense will be able to operate after the effect is cast and determine the difference. Then, multiply this value by two and add the enhanced senses modifier. This determines the Difficulty. For example, a normal human sight Range is Line of Sight (+10). If someone wanted to increase this to Local Area (+20) the difficulty would be +30 (20 -10 multiplied by 2, plus the +10 for enhanced senses) plus the duration of effect.