Wizard

You stretch the spell until the magic goes thin.

Effect: Double one dimension: range, duration, area, or number of targets.

Extended spells look elongated, translucent at their edges, like something pulled past its natural shape. You feel the stretch in your chest until the spell ends. Push too far and the GM may rule the magic frays, covering more ground but landing lighter.

Examples: "I extend the range. I can cast at Sight range." "I extend the targets so two creatures are affected."

You add conditions until the spell cuts like a scalpel.

Effect: Add exceptions, conditions, or targeting refinements. The spell gains surgical accuracy, but you must specify exactly what you mean. Vague precision fails.

Precise spells feel cold and deliberate. They don't splash or spread. They find exactly what you named and ignore everything else. Witnesses describe them as "unnatural" and "too clean." The more conditions you add, the more the GM may narrow the spell's power in exchange for its accuracy.

Examples: "Precise: Only affects creatures who intend me harm." "Precise: The fire only burns objects, not creatures."

You weave a second spell into the first, both emerging as one.

Effect: Add a secondary effect from another spell you have prepared. Both effects combine as one casting. Both spells' limitations apply. The layered spell must be equal or lower tier.

Layered spells shimmer with doubled colors, overlapping auras that observers find unsettling. The magic feels heavier in your hands. The GM determines how the spells interact. Sometimes they harmonize, sometimes they conflict in unexpected ways.

Examples: "I layer Light into the spell so targets become visible." "I layer Sleep into Fireball so survivors fall unconscious."

You set the spell like a trap, waiting for its moment.

Effect: Set a trigger instead of immediate casting. The spell waits until the trigger occurs. Trigger must be specific and observable. Vague triggers fail.

Contingent spells leave a faint shimmer where they wait, invisible to most but obvious to Witch-Sight. You feel a thread connecting you to each waiting spell, a constant low awareness. Too many contingencies and your sleep grows restless. The GM determines if your trigger is specific enough; "when danger approaches" fails, "when a living creature crosses this threshold" succeeds.

Examples: "Contingency: The ward triggers if anyone touches the door." "Contingency: Phase Step activates if I drop below half health."

You twist the spell's nature into something else entirely.

Effect: Change the spell's element, appearance, or fundamental nature. Core mechanical effect stays similar, but all interactions change. Fire becomes cold. Force becomes shadow. Healing becomes draining.

Metamorphosed spells look wrong: fire that doesn't flicker, lightning that moves too slowly, force that casts shadows. Other wizards recognize the technique immediately and find it either impressive or unsettling. The GM determines how the new nature interacts with the world; shadow-fire might travel through darkness but fail in bright light.

Examples: "I metamorphose the fireball into cold for a freezing explosion." "I metamorphose the effect into shadow so it travels through darkness."

You force two spells to exist in the same moment, intertwined.

Effect: Cast two spells as one action. Both happen simultaneously and interact. Both spells are more vulnerable to disruption.

Compound spells arrive with a thunderclap of overlapping magic, too much power in too small a space. The air tastes like metal. Both spells affect each other; the GM rules on how they combine, conflict, or amplify. Failure on the check may mean both spells fail, or worse, that they combine in ways you didn't intend.

Examples: "I compound Shield with Phase Step to arrive already protected." "I compound Command with Hold so they freeze AND obey."

You carve away everything but the spell's core.

Effect: Remove one component (area, duration, secondary effects, or safety) to intensify what remains. What you strip away concentrates into what's left: a Fireball without area becomes a single devastating lance; a Shield without duration becomes one perfect moment of total protection.

Distilled spells look dense, hard-edged, too bright. The air feels heavy where they land. Declare what you're removing and what you want intensified; the GM rules on the exchange. The more you strip, the more brutal the result and the less control you retain.

Examples: "I distill away the area so this blast is just for him." "I distill away the duration so everything happens NOW."

You let the spell exceed its boundaries, spilling past all limits.

Effect: The spell affects more (larger area, more targets, greater range), but you cannot exclude anything. Allies, enemies, yourself, bystanders. The magic goes where it wants.

Overflowed spells feel like releasing a held breath. The magic rushes out of you, eager and hungry, filling every available space. You feel empty afterward, lighter. The GM determines how far the overflow spreads; in enclosed spaces it might fill the room, in open areas it might dissipate quickly.

Examples: "I let the spell overflow so it fills the whole room." "I overflow the healing to affect everyone nearby, friend and foe."

You collapse duration into a single instant of maximum intensity.

Effect: Everything the spell would do over time happens immediately, all at once. A minute of burning in one flash. An hour of protection in one perfect moment. Consequences that would accumulate also arrive immediately.

Burn Bright spells are blinding, deafening, overwhelming. Witnesses remember them for years. The magic leaves scorch-marks in the air that fade over hours. The GM determines what "maximum intensity" means for each spell; sometimes it's devastating, sometimes the compressed duration simply ends faster with no additional power.

Examples: "I burn it bright for all the damage NOW." "I burn the duration for permanent effect, but only this instant to apply it."

You take the spell's cost yourself so others don't have to.

Effect: Accept a consequence willingly (damage, exhaustion, a condition, a loss). In exchange, the spell's benefit is enhanced, guaranteed, or extended for its target. You suffer so they don't.

Sacrifice spells feel like hooks in your chest, pulling something out of you and pushing it into the magic. The more you give, the more the spell delivers. The GM determines fair exchange; sacrificing a minor inconvenience earns minor enhancement, sacrificing something precious earns something powerful.

Examples: "I take the damage myself so they don't get a save." "I sacrifice my sight for a day so the spell pierces all illusions."

You strip away all flavor and form until only force remains.

Effect: Remove elemental type, sensory manifestation, connection to source. What remains is pure magical force, harder to resist with specific defenses but losing all specific interactions. Fire resistance doesn't help against raw force. But raw force doesn't ignite anything either.

Raw Channel spells are invisible, silent, and feel like nothing at all, which makes them terrifying. Targets often don't realize they've been hit by magic. Other wizards recognize the technique by what's missing: no color, no sound, no signature. Just effect.

Examples: "I channel it raw with no fire, just force." "I strip away the lightning for pure energy, no thunder."

You simplify the spell to its barest form, then let that form repeat.

Effect: Reduce the spell to one target, one effect, minimal scope. That simplified spell happens again automatically next round without requiring your action. Costs additional Stamina equal to spell tier.

Echo spells stutter in the air, leaving afterimages that pulse and repeat. The magic feels like a heartbeat (thump, thump, thump), each pulse delivering the same simplified effect. You feel the echo in your bones until it fades. The GM determines what "simplified" means; you're trading power for persistence.

Examples: "I echo the spell with just the core damage, repeating each round." "I echo the ward with minimal protection, but it keeps refreshing."