RESURRECTION RULES
- The first time in your life that you use the spell, you can cast it with a single standard action. Using the spell removes one of your spell slots until you gain a level. (You get one less spell per full heal-up.) The person you are resurrecting comes back at roughly half strength, e.g. expending half their recoveries, being dazed (save ends), and, for each ability, having a 50% chance that it is expended.
- The second time in your life you cast the spell, it takes at least three or four rounds and costs you roughly half your hit points and spell slots. The person you are resurrecting comes back at something like one-quarter strength.
- The third time you cast the spell it has to be as a ritual. The spell chews you up and leaves you with only a few hit points, then gnaws at the person you have resurrected, who takes days to recover well enough to qualify as an adventurer or combatant.
- The fourth time you cast the spell it nearly kills you. The resurrection succeeds but the person you’ve resurrected is going to be a mess for a month or more, regardless of any other magic you use.
- The fifth time you resurrect someone, that’s the end of your story and you die. There’s only a 50% chance that the resurrection spell works on the target. You’ve used up your quota of resurrection magic. You’re not coming back via this spell, either.
Reincarnate |
5th Level |
1 Day |
Mystic Oils, Royal Diamond x3 |
Resurrection |
7th Level |
10 Days |
Veil Diamond x5 |
True Resurrection |
9th Level |
10 Years |
Carcosan Sand, Veil Diamond x5 |
RESURRECTION SPELLS & COMPONENTS:
QUICK REFERENCE FOR SPELL CASTERS
Veil Burnout
Sometimes, the flow of magic goes against you. It's hard to shape, it's too chaotic, it's too powerful, whatever the reason, some magic energy lashes out during your spell-casting attempt and causes you harm. Magic is a powerful force, one that can rewrite the fundamental laws of reality. Turn ice into fire, restore life to the dead, teleport across great distances, and more. Magic is able to grant unimaginable power to those who use it, but it is never used without great risk.
Triggering Burnout
If you are a spell-caster, you will be rolling a D12 whenever you attempt to cast a spell. Roll the Burnout die, on a 1 or 2, the power is overwhelming and you trigger a burnout event, two things happen to you:
1. Your Burnout Die gets Smaller: 1D12 - 1D10 - 1D8 - 1D6 - 1D4 - Shatter.
2. You suffer a veil burn. Roll a 1D100, the GM will reference a table and tell you what happens.
BURNOUT IS NOT A FAILURE OF CASTING A SPELL - Suffering veil burnout does not mean that your spell has failed to cast. It simply means you were hurt somehow during the attempt.
Safe Magic:
Sometimes, the flow of magic goes against you. It's hard to shape, it's too chaotic, it's too powerful, whatever the reason, some magic energy lashes out during your spell-casting attempt and causes you harm. Magic is a powerful force, one that can rewrite the fundamental laws of reality. Turn ice into fire, restore life to the dead, teleport across great distances, and more. Magic is able to grant unimaginable power to those who use it, but it is never used without great risk.
Triggering Burnout
If you are a spell-caster, you will be rolling a D12 whenever you attempt to cast a spell. Roll the Burnout die, on a 1 or 2, the power is overwhelming and you trigger a burnout event, two things happen to you:
1. Your Burnout Die gets Smaller: 1D12 - 1D10 - 1D8 - 1D6 - 1D4 - Shatter.
2. You suffer a veil burn. Roll a 1D100, the GM will reference a table and tell you what happens.
BURNOUT IS NOT A FAILURE OF CASTING A SPELL - Suffering veil burnout does not mean that your spell has failed to cast. It simply means you were hurt somehow during the attempt.
Safe Magic:
- Class Features - Effects gained through certain class features, such as Channel Divinity, and Lay on Hands do not count as spells. Don't roll for burnout.
- Racial Features - If you are casting a spell gained through a racial ability, don't roll for burnout.
- Magic Items - Magic items have their own power. They do not require a burnout roll.
- Rituals - Rituals help control the flow of what little of the veil remains, do not roll for burnout.
- Cantrips - Weak magics that do not require you to roll a burnout die.
D100 |
CONSEQUENCE |
D100 |
CONSEQUENCE |
1-5 |
Drained: Lose (spell level) hit dice. |
95 |
Regain this spell slot. |
6-15 |
Reduced: Lose (spell level / 2) hit dice. |
96 |
Regain (spell level) hit dice. |
16-30 |
Weakened: Lose (spell level x2) hit points. |
97 |
Gain (spell level x2) hit points. |
31-89 |
Pained: Lose (spell level) hit points. |
98 |
Gain (spell level x2) temporary hit points. |
90-93 |
Burned: Shrink the burnout die by one size. |
99 |
Increase the burnout die by one size. |
94 |
Immolated: Shrink the burnout die to D4. |
100 |
Reset the burnout die to D12. |
MAGIC IN THE WORLD OF OHR
5000 YEARS AGO...
The world is a fragmented, ruined shell of what it once was, and magic is what ensures it stays that way. In Ages past, before the Night of Prophecy -- when humankind and the other races of Ainerth were given a chance to meet a sliver of what it was that they had foolishly called their Gods -- the world followed the rules set out for it at its creation. Arcanery, in a very generous sense of implying it existed at all, was only a theoretical, philosophical exercise, conducted in meeting halls and lounges by societies that simply enjoyed dressing their social circles in a different kind of trapping. It did not exist; not merely as the world sees it now, in this broken age of horrors, but at all, and when it did arrive, it did so on the wings of nightmares.
Magic is not some mystical recipe its practitioners follow on a day-to-day basis to casually manipulate the world around them; while it effects very real results in the world around it, these results are consequences of another reality being imposed upon ours and causing the one we live in to shatter, albeit in -- at least hopefully -- a controlled fashion. As far as scattered records can ascertain, the application of this knowledge came at the hands of the humans of Ainerth first, as most of their peers and the other races struggled not just to rebuild but to survive in the lloigor-wracked wasteland that was once a comparatively peaceful, fertile world. After the Night of Prophecy, rumors of uncovered writings which allowed real magic, real power, to be channeled through a dedicated practitioner and out into the world. These writings were collected in an utterly forbidden grimoire that came to be known as the Black Book, a tome with many speculated origins. Some say the Book is a legitimately living, sentient other, an alien and conscious entity with an unknown and sinister purpose. Others say that it exists simultaneously in other times, other places, other worlds, and exists coterminously to spread its influence in the past, present, and future all.
What is incontrovertible, however, is that the following of parsed and translated rituals found in this book or copies of it has wrought unmistakable horror upon the world and those in it. While the Night of Prophecy was responsible for the destruction of cities, towns, and life, the magic found in the Black Book is responsible for the corruption of what remains and what has been built to try and effect repairs upon those shattered remnants. While there is real power to be found in the practice of these rituals, the overwhelming vast majority that even know of the existence of the Black Book are far from willing to pay the cost of not just their sanity, but that of their friends, loved ones, and fellow men. Every so-called spell cast brings the known world closer to a tremulous reality merged with that of wherever the grimoire truly came from, and even among the universally-loathed practitioners, all but the maddest can recognize that that would bode very, very poorly for our world and those living in it.
Most do not know the intricacies of magic, of course, but they know enough and have heard enough of rumors to wish to stamp it out where it exists. People have been strung up and burned, tied and quartered, even tortured to death over days over the mere mention of witchcraft, and this is the case through almost all of actual civilization. There exist, of course, esoteric societies, occasional outposts, even whole races of people who feel differently, but these people are outside of their own universally reviled as destroyers and corruptors of the highest order, and they are ruthlessly hunted and slain by those who catch wind of them. Only in the vast, far reaches of the untamed world is this viewpoint ever relaxed, and even then it would still be a poor idea to reveal oneself -- fear is the most powerful motivator of violence.
The world is a fragmented, ruined shell of what it once was, and magic is what ensures it stays that way. In Ages past, before the Night of Prophecy -- when humankind and the other races of Ainerth were given a chance to meet a sliver of what it was that they had foolishly called their Gods -- the world followed the rules set out for it at its creation. Arcanery, in a very generous sense of implying it existed at all, was only a theoretical, philosophical exercise, conducted in meeting halls and lounges by societies that simply enjoyed dressing their social circles in a different kind of trapping. It did not exist; not merely as the world sees it now, in this broken age of horrors, but at all, and when it did arrive, it did so on the wings of nightmares.
Magic is not some mystical recipe its practitioners follow on a day-to-day basis to casually manipulate the world around them; while it effects very real results in the world around it, these results are consequences of another reality being imposed upon ours and causing the one we live in to shatter, albeit in -- at least hopefully -- a controlled fashion. As far as scattered records can ascertain, the application of this knowledge came at the hands of the humans of Ainerth first, as most of their peers and the other races struggled not just to rebuild but to survive in the lloigor-wracked wasteland that was once a comparatively peaceful, fertile world. After the Night of Prophecy, rumors of uncovered writings which allowed real magic, real power, to be channeled through a dedicated practitioner and out into the world. These writings were collected in an utterly forbidden grimoire that came to be known as the Black Book, a tome with many speculated origins. Some say the Book is a legitimately living, sentient other, an alien and conscious entity with an unknown and sinister purpose. Others say that it exists simultaneously in other times, other places, other worlds, and exists coterminously to spread its influence in the past, present, and future all.
What is incontrovertible, however, is that the following of parsed and translated rituals found in this book or copies of it has wrought unmistakable horror upon the world and those in it. While the Night of Prophecy was responsible for the destruction of cities, towns, and life, the magic found in the Black Book is responsible for the corruption of what remains and what has been built to try and effect repairs upon those shattered remnants. While there is real power to be found in the practice of these rituals, the overwhelming vast majority that even know of the existence of the Black Book are far from willing to pay the cost of not just their sanity, but that of their friends, loved ones, and fellow men. Every so-called spell cast brings the known world closer to a tremulous reality merged with that of wherever the grimoire truly came from, and even among the universally-loathed practitioners, all but the maddest can recognize that that would bode very, very poorly for our world and those living in it.
Most do not know the intricacies of magic, of course, but they know enough and have heard enough of rumors to wish to stamp it out where it exists. People have been strung up and burned, tied and quartered, even tortured to death over days over the mere mention of witchcraft, and this is the case through almost all of actual civilization. There exist, of course, esoteric societies, occasional outposts, even whole races of people who feel differently, but these people are outside of their own universally reviled as destroyers and corruptors of the highest order, and they are ruthlessly hunted and slain by those who catch wind of them. Only in the vast, far reaches of the untamed world is this viewpoint ever relaxed, and even then it would still be a poor idea to reveal oneself -- fear is the most powerful motivator of violence.
3500 YEARS AGO...
Today magic is a liability in the World of Ohr, dangerous, unpredictable, and always fluctuating from one extreme to the other. The Veil acts as the invisible shielding between the material plane and the terrible alien realms outside of our reality. With the gods secreted away to their plane of existence, the veil is beginning to weaken. The largest of breaks occurred over the continent of Ainerth during the 'Night of Prophecy,' when the Yellow King first made his way onto the material plane. Since then magic has been looked upon as a treacherous source of power that is drawn from the Yellow King himself and as such many of those who wield sorcery are hunted or shunned from society. To use magic in a city is suicide, it must be kept secret, and one must always be careful about who they tell their secrets to, lest they find themselves with a rope around their neck as a crowd cries out for their execution.
Today magic is a liability in the World of Ohr, dangerous, unpredictable, and always fluctuating from one extreme to the other. The Veil acts as the invisible shielding between the material plane and the terrible alien realms outside of our reality. With the gods secreted away to their plane of existence, the veil is beginning to weaken. The largest of breaks occurred over the continent of Ainerth during the 'Night of Prophecy,' when the Yellow King first made his way onto the material plane. Since then magic has been looked upon as a treacherous source of power that is drawn from the Yellow King himself and as such many of those who wield sorcery are hunted or shunned from society. To use magic in a city is suicide, it must be kept secret, and one must always be careful about who they tell their secrets to, lest they find themselves with a rope around their neck as a crowd cries out for their execution.
CURRENT AGE...
The New Pantheon has left Ohr to allow the world to die so that they can return to reshape its lifeless husk in the future. They have stolen away the veil and have taken the gifts of the afterlife and god-realms with them. Now the dreamer's waking thoughts have found Ohr and greater things than even Hastur are reaching out towards the planet. A freezing, dying world offers little in the way of resistance. Magic is now chaotic and even more dangerous than before, those who practice the terrifying art are known as the 'God Gifted'. The histories that have come before are forgotten, magic is believed to be a gift from the gods, when in reality it is a remnant from one of the most terrifying forces to ever grace this dying land.
Mages, witches, heretics, heathens. Those who are capable of magic in any form are considered a threat to the natural order of the world or as a savior of a dying land. It all depends on who you talk to and where you are.
The New Pantheon has left Ohr to allow the world to die so that they can return to reshape its lifeless husk in the future. They have stolen away the veil and have taken the gifts of the afterlife and god-realms with them. Now the dreamer's waking thoughts have found Ohr and greater things than even Hastur are reaching out towards the planet. A freezing, dying world offers little in the way of resistance. Magic is now chaotic and even more dangerous than before, those who practice the terrifying art are known as the 'God Gifted'. The histories that have come before are forgotten, magic is believed to be a gift from the gods, when in reality it is a remnant from one of the most terrifying forces to ever grace this dying land.
Mages, witches, heretics, heathens. Those who are capable of magic in any form are considered a threat to the natural order of the world or as a savior of a dying land. It all depends on who you talk to and where you are.
MAGIC ITEMS IN THE WORLD OF OHR
Over the ages sorcerers, wizards and witches have created items of magic and power. Although some have been created for some benevolent purpose, most were created out of a need for power and dominance. The Ancient Ones of Ohr were capable of creating magical items that aided their peoples in the most mundane of tasks and also items that could shake the very foundation of the earth. The Ancients of old were known to have magical powers of such magnitude that they could travel to other worlds and planes of reality; still keeping their sanity intact. Others believe that the Ancient Ones were not of our world, hence their ability to do and see things that would drive normal men insane. The Atlanteans, the only remnant of a world that existed long before the current incarnation are removed from the Ancient Ones, yet still possess a great knowledge of things arcane. Their great cities and kingdoms once stretched across the known world and were largely held in check by their domination of others through the use of magic.
This age of man still possesses magic and those willing to use it. Items of magic are still created by those that have the power and knowledge to do so, however, those items of magic pale in comparison to the artifacts that were created by sorcerers of long ago. Through the Age of Prophecy and well into the Age of Mists magic also carries a stigma for being dangerous and eldritch in nature, even if there is a difference, at this point it's rarely indistinguishable and virtually all users of magic are met with fear and often times violence in the lands of the Ohr.
This age of man still possesses magic and those willing to use it. Items of magic are still created by those that have the power and knowledge to do so, however, those items of magic pale in comparison to the artifacts that were created by sorcerers of long ago. Through the Age of Prophecy and well into the Age of Mists magic also carries a stigma for being dangerous and eldritch in nature, even if there is a difference, at this point it's rarely indistinguishable and virtually all users of magic are met with fear and often times violence in the lands of the Ohr.
Removed & Edited Spells:
- REMOVED SPELLS:
- Mordenkainen's Faithful Hound.
- Mordenkainen's Private Sanctum.
- Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion.
- Demiplane.
- Plane Shift.
- Create Food and Water.
- Temple of the Gods.
- Leomund's Tiny Hut.
- Find Traps.
- Find the Path.
- Heroes' Feast.
- Lemond's Secret Chest.
- Wish.
- Polymorph.
- True Polymorph.
- Arcane Eye.
- Comprehend Languages.
- CHANGED SPELLS:
- Mending - An item can only be targeted by this spell one time.
- Find Familiar - Summoning a familiar is a difficult process, one that takes roughly an hour. Familiars are fickle and sometimes cruel creatures brought forth by the Dreamer's Realm to serve foolish masters. They are intrinsically linked to their masters, any damage they take their master takes in kind. IE: If a familiar has 8 HP and is struck with an attack, taking 15 damage. They die and their master takes 15 damage as well.
- Polymorph - This spell can only target hostile creatures.
- Remove Curse - Curses are ranked based on tiers (1-5), in order to remove a curse you must burn as many spell slots equal to the tier of the curse.
- Conjure Spells (Animals, Celestial, Elemental, Fey, Minor Elementals, Woodland Beings) - You have a 66% chance of conjuring a hostile version of whatever creature you were attempting to call upon.