Option - Magic Equivalency

[Traskus]

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If you create an alternate magic school, please post in this thread its name, its parent school, and what characteristic it uses if you want it listed in this post.

Bonuses or mechanical reference to core magic schools also apply to their alternates unless the SM or author of the alternate school say otherwise.

Equivalency

The following tables have a header and two columns. The header will list a "core" magic school, found in Lawful Nice's books as well as the characteristic/s used in casting its spells. Below the headers are two columns. The left column lists a new equivalent schools found in these forums. The right column lists the characteristic used in casting that school. When playing with this optional rule, a character taking his first level in a class with magic schools, they may forego taking ranks a magic school from the header may instead take an "equivalent" school from the table below. This choice is permanent. If you enter the Magic User class and choose to take Fulmination instead of Evocation, you can never take Evocation as a Magic User! You will have to get Evocation somewhere else.

This also works in reverse. If a class offers a homebrew spell school, you may take the "core" school associated with it instead following the same rules. Class progression, prerequisites, and interactions with other mechanics treat equivalent schools as their core counterpart and vice-versa (ex. the wizard tradition "emerald frost" applies to telekinesis and spell focus (telekinesis) applies to evocation).

Schools being worked on presently: None!

Rites and Rituals: The ability to cast spells without being a spellcaster.

Abjuration (Willpower)
Name	Characteristic
Cakrazakti	Willpower
Ferrokinesis	Willpower
Nihilikinesis	Composure
Reinforcement	Willpower

Conjuration (Willpower)
Name	Characteristic
Chronomancy	Intelligence
Geokinesis	Composure
Gladiotheurgy	Willpower
Wyrding	Composure

Divination (Intelligence/Wisdom)
Name	Characteristic
Astronavigation	Wisdom
Hydromancy	Composure
Luxotheurgy	Intelligence
Ubicokinesis	Willpower

Enchantment (Charisma)
Name	Characteristic
Inspiration	Fellowship
Enuncia	Intelligence

Evocation (Charisma)
Name	Characteristic
Ammomancy	Composure
Dracosophy	Charisma
Fulmination	Charisma
Pyrokinesis	Charisma
Pyromancy	Charisma
Telekinesis	Charisma

Healing (Wisdom)
Name	Characteristic
Botanopathy	Fellowship
Sangromancy	Wisdom
Theosophy	Wisdom
Toxigenesis	Intelligence

Illusion (Intelligence)
Name	Characteristic
Canormagia	Fellowship
Cryokinesis	Fellowship
Photokinesis	Charisma
Umbratheurgy	Fellowship

Necromancy (Intelligence)
Name	Characteristic
Daemonology	Willpower
Gastromancy	Willpower
Hypnothaumy	Composure
Kheimotheurgy	Composure
Technomancy	Intelligence

Transmutation (Wisdom)
Name	Characteristic
Aerokinesis	Wisdom
Biomancy	Wisdom
Chronokinesis	Intelligence
Entomancy	Composure
Epulaturgy	Willpower
Aeritheurgy	Fellowship

[Traskus]

First, I want to get something out of the way about Khorne.

Khorne does not hate spell casting because he wants you "kill with your own power." If he did, then he'd also disallow weapons, vehicles, etc. No, there's a deeper reason. There's a reason far more primal than hating magic in all its forms. You see, when you cast a spell, you are stealing fire from the gods themselves. Khorne thinks magic is under the purview of himself, the other gods, and no one else. When a mortal casts a spell, it is a vicious mockery of everything Khorne is. What all gods are, really. It is going into his world and taking a piece of it for your own use. Most deities are okay with that because doing so expands their power base and don't share Khorne's opinion. Not Khorne; Khorne is a god of principles.

With that randomness out of the way, let's get started:

So, you're a Khorne worshiper, non-spell caster, or otherwise are unable to cast a spell? Fret not! There's a simple workaround for this problem.

Rites and rituals (as I am writing them out) are essentially the same as casting spells, with a few changes. The effects are the same, the materials and keywords are the same, even the spell levels are the same. There is one major difference, though: you aren't the one casting the spell.

When performing a rite or ritual, follow the spell as it works in its description and the standard spell casting rules. The changes to the spell casting process are as follows:

1. You are not the spell caster. You must have a spell caster trained in the spell school you wish to use. They don't need to know the spell or even be of sufficient level to cast it.

2. Do not make a focus power test. Instead of performing a focus power test using Spell School + Characteristic, perform an Intelligence + Forbidden Lore test against the TN to cast. Otherwise, treat the forbidden lore roll as though it were a focus power test. If the person performing the ritual has some sort of book or document containing the information to cast the spell, they can forgo rolling and the test is automatically passed with the bare minimum to succeed.

3. The spell caster must die at the end of the spell's casting. If a spell requires or allows concentration, it only lasts as long as a single instance of its effects. Hero points cannot and will not save the spell caster, and said hero points are wasted.

When performing a ritual, you may only cast one spell with the ritual. Spell combinations are allowed, however.

New Ritual:

Spell Permanency
Forbidden Lore + Intelligence
Keywords: Combo-OK, Subtle, Verbal
Duration: Indefinite

Spell Permanency can be made into a combo with any individual spell that does not directly deal damage or summon a creature, regardless of its keywords. The spell's effects last forever, or at least until dispelled.

[Traskus]

Guys, please slow down.

[Traskus]

Ubicokinesis added. Conjuration is now tied with transmutation for most alts.

[GuardianTempest]

Not for long, for I made a mistake. I already have a Wisdom-based magic school on the backburner, which means Ubicokinesis was meant to be using Willpower (which does track with Fujino being an inspiration). And since I want to make schools using characteristics that hasn't been used before in the same "range", Ubicokinesis would be a Divination alt (no schools have used Willpower in that section).

[Traskus]

It is done.

Time magic isn't in divination.
Space magic isn't in conjuration.

Reality is worthless and meaning has no meaning.

[Amanojyaku]

If you want to be really annoyed, consider that Nihilikinesis was originally going to be in Conjuration.

[Traskus]

Not annoyed, just intrigued. Nihilikinesis has a broad application so abjuration's as good as any and iirc that has plurality on core spells present in it.

[Traskus]

Pyrokinesis added.

[Traskus]

Ammomancy, cakrazakti, kheimotheurgy added.