Nimsim fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Nov 1, 2015

• ARROW OF [ELEMENT]: For an arcane archer vibe and naturally most popular with elves. It simply lets you charge up an arrow with any of the six elements as long as you have some of that element around to dip the arrow tip into.
  
• FULMINICTUS THUNDERBOLT: The magic missile of TDE, known to pretty much every fullcaster class and a few lesser spellcasters. Its name sounds way flashier than it actually is, though. The spellcaster just points their fist at someone to be hurt by invisible magic. Damage is straight up 2d6 + your MoS in Damage Points as opposed to Hit Points (aka the spell ignores armor), which is a pretty sweet deal that scales quite nicely while staying relatively affordable. The only downside is that the spell can't cause wounds. A handy modification deals AoE Stamina-only damage, while a pure utility modification causes it to kill every vermin in the vicinity for lice-less nights.
  
• IGNIFAXIUS FLAMEBEAM: The other quintessential TDE damage spell, used by mages, druids and crystallomancers. It lets them shoot out a beam of concentrated fire (or another element if they've learned any of the less common variations) dealing between 1 to the caster's spell rank in d6s, allowing him to adjust the damage and cost as the situation demands. The writers went pretty wild with the amount of modifications for this spell: You can shoot out a narrower beam to make wounds more likely, and there are three different ways to give this AoE capabilities (give the beam a cone-shape, just split the damage between multiple targets, or cast two different beams at the same time).
  
• IGNISPHAERO FIREBALL: Made famous by the secluded mages of Drakonia who bragged with this spell after it has been tought being lost forever. It's a rather straight-forward AoE spell aside from the fact that the fireball has movement speed and can be mentally controlled by the spellcaster. Unless you use a modification to speed it up, it is about as fast as a slow dwarf, so anyone who didn't put on too much armor can outrun it. It's a like a very slow bazooka or something.
  
• KULMINATIO BALL LIGHTNING: A rare spell that is strangely like a Borbaradian spell in that the damage deal and the astral points are two different rolls, though it isn's really one of those forbidden Borbarad spells. What it is is a ball of lightning moving at random speeds towards a foe, dealing a rather swingy amount of damage (d20 + 5 or so). Pretty nifty against guys in metal armor, as their Armor Protection does not only do nothing, but is also added to the damage in question. A modification of this spell turns it into chain lightning.
  
• REST, HEARTBEAT!: A very, very nasty spell invented by Borbarad and used by his brand of blood magic practicioners. The spell causes a massive heart attack that kills very quickly (1d20 in the first turn, 2d20 in the next and so on; and no, they just have to pay once). Just never let a Borbaradian spellcaster touch you.
  
• WRATH OF THE ELEMENTS: A druid-only spell (but probably still the most common AoE damage spell outside of IGNIFAXIUS modifications) that has the spellcaster grab some of the desired element, throw it at his foes and have it turn into an elemental inferno. Damage his however split between the targets, which is a bit unfortunate.
  

• BANNBALADIN: A mind control spell that makes the target think of the caster as a friend, giving you an instant temporary BFF if the MoS is high enough. Useful to confuse enemy ranks and make diplomatic and investigative adventures much easier.
  
• BLACK AND RED: A Borbaradian spell causing steady damage and reducing physical stats, essentially a magical disease.
  
• BLACK TERROR: Another Borbaradian spell that makes its victims freak out at the color black.
  
• CORPOFESSO LIMB PAIN: Instant fatigue (aka a general debuff to physical stuff) plus a pretty big drop in Strength (making fighter dudes a bit useless). Nice.
  
• CORPOFRIGO COLD SHOCK: A general debuff spell that is a bit overshadowed by one further down.
  
• CURSE OF PESTILENCE: Lets you get just about any nasty disease you want on a target. Fun times.
  
• DESINTEGRATUS POWDERDUST: Disintegrates inorganic matter in its path. Handy to disarm people and getting in and out of buildings.
  
• DYSPNOEA: Cuts the victim's maximum Stamina in half and raises the caster's maximum by around half of that for a day. Not terribly useful unless you plan a career as a wrestler. Sure, there are a couple spells that mainly deal Stamina damage, but any spellcaster who knows those probably also knows at least the FULMINICTUS.
  
• EYE OF THE LIMBUS: The ultimate dick move. This spell creates a hole into the Limbus (the space between Spheres aka dimensions), sucking anything in within range, including people if they fail one or more Strength checks (depending on distance). The caster can pay additional Astral Points to add as a penalty ot these checks (which can quickly make succeeding at these checks impossible short of a natural 1) and increase the damage the vicitms suffer when they get sucked into the hole. This damage is probably not enough to kill them, but being stranded in the Limbus is pretty much a death sentence unless a spellcaster with the right dimension-travelling spells got sucked in as well or you just happen to run into a Limbus inhabitant who isn't an Eldritch demon (and the place is pretty darn big, so that's quite unlikely). And if the caster used a certain modification with a pretty high penalty, the hole instead sucks people directly into the Netherhells. Sweet. Oh, and using EYE OF THE LIMBUS while inside the Limbus adds a random penalty to the check and opens a hole that can lead into any random place in all of existance.
  
• GRANITE AND MARBLE: Slowly turns the target into the nearest type of rock for a couple weeks, or even permanently with a modification.
  
• HORRIPHOBUS DREAD: It's like BANNBALADIN, except the target becomes more afraid of you instead of more BBFish.
  
• IMPERAVI COMPULSION: A very powerful mind control, though limited to a single action. Suicidal stuff or things that go way too far against the target's ethics allow additional attempts to break free, though I guess stuff like "Jump out of the window!" rarely leave more time for a single attempt.
  
• MAGIC COMPULSION: A geas, basically.
  
• MAGICAL HEIST: Cast from your target's Astral pool.
  
• MAY AGONY TEAR YOU APART!: This one causes Stamina damage and enough pain to prevent the target from doing anything of use, essentially denying him actions for several rounds.
  
• MAY LIGHTNING FIND YOU: The fastest spell around at just 1 action (aka half round; even other spells meant for combat require 2-4 actions). It's a mental flashbang only the target can perceive, adding a penalty to just about everything he does for a number of rounds equal to the MoS. Said penalty used to be equal to the spellcaster's rank, but that got changed into the MoS for less brokenness. In both cases, Attack and Parry count as a single pool and are both only penalized by half. It is also not possible to target multiple people with this. Still, a very fast and rather cheap debuff for everything the target does? There's really no reason to not have this spell in your list, especially since pretty much ever spellcaster class has access to it.
  
• MAY MEMORY LEAVE YOU!: Causes a memory loss of recent events. Probably a fun way to troll people.
  
• MAY PANIC OVERCOME YOU!: A rather tame Borbaradian spell that causes the vicitms to flee in terror. Unlike every other multi-target spell, this one isn't penalized by the highest Magic Resistance + number of targets, but instead just affects anyone whose Magic Resistance is lower than the MoS. Why isn't this the norm?
  
• MEMORABIA FALSIFIR: A bit like the above memory loss spell, but it can erase any single specific memory.
  
• NIGHTMARE SHAPE: A druid-only spell that fools the target into seeing the druid as the thing he fears the most, which will just freeze him in terror for a couple rounds before he has to make a Courage check to avoid fainting. As this can be used against multiple targets, it would be a neat encounter-ending spell on par with old edition D&DSleep. Unfortunately, the spell takes around 5 turns to cast, so it takes a bit of preparation.
  
• PARALYSIS STIFF AS ROCK: Paralyzes someone for a few turns, though they become immune to damage for the entire duration because they get encased in some kind of crystal rock stuff.
  
• PLUMBUMBARUM HEAVY BREATHING: A nice debuff to Attack and Initiative. A modification also makes casting spells with somatic components (aka most of them) harder.
  
• RESPONDAMI TRUTH COMPULSION: Forces the target to answer a yes-or-no question truthfully. There goes your murder mystery adventure.
  
• SALANDER MUTANDER: Polymorph something into a useless tiny animal or something.
  
• STRAP AND CORD: An interesting movement debuff preventing the target from leaving the area the caster has walked around during the casting.
  
• YOUR OWN FEARS TORMENT YOU!: This rather descriptive spell effectively shuts down the target for hours, and it's fast enough to be useful in combat.

• COME KOBOLD COME: Summons a Kobold if one is nearby. As they are omnipotent pranksters, he will probably be pretty useful unless he decides to be a dick.
  
• FIDDLESTICKS: Anyone in the area starts speaking in a random gibberish (or more specifically: everyone rolls a d20 and you can only understand and talk to people who rolled the same number). This also affects written words.
  
• FOUND!: Gives the away the location of any object the Knave knows himself or has been told enough about it by someone who does know it. There goes a couple investigative adventures.
  
• KOBOLD GIFT: Allows the Knave to mask one object as something else in the eyes of the target, like a frog for a bag of gold. For some reason, masking coins as a more valuable coin or a different currency requires a modification.
  
• INFLATED [AND] LIFTED: Makes the target inflate like a balloon, slowly lifting off for a few turns before landing just as slowly. The latter part is probably there because knaves aren't allowed to kill, though I suppose the rest of the party can still use the human balloon as target practice. As this prevents the target from casting any kind of spell (or really doing anything), it is the perfect way to shut down an enemy caster. Sure, the mental flashbang is faster (1 action as opposed to 7), but non-Knave spells have to deal with the enemy caster's full Magic Resistance, which tends to be much higher than other targets.
  
• KLUDGE AND BLOOPER: Now this is a fun one. Makes it so that nobody in the current combat can actually make normal attacks. Everything is either a fantastical crit if it hits or a hilariously embarassing fumble if it doesn't. None of the crits and fumbles deal actual damage however, so the combatants will eventually stop fighting, wondering wtf is going on.
  
• LAUGH YOURSELF HEALTHY: Restores Life Points through laughter. Might just be usable as a debuff in combat, though I'm not sure.
  
• NUDIE: The victim becomes nacked, naturally dropping whatever armor and weapons he was packing.
  
• POETS AND THINKERS: Essentially turns the target into a character from Goethe's Faust, for he is only able to speak in rhymes. This isn't one of those "Automaticaly speaks in rhymes whether he wants to or not"-curses you usually see, however. If he can't come up with a rhyme for the things he wants to say, he can't speak anything at all. Not sure how that interferes with spellcasting, seeing how spell names used to be actual rhymes that have most likely been chanted by the casters.

• ATTRIBUTO: A 1 hour buff to a specific stat. Used to be a buch of separate spells for each stat until 4th edition streamlined this (now here's a first). This spell is interesting in that the third stat involved in the spell check is always the stat to be buffed. Not sure how this affects the maximum possible rank for this spell (which depends on the highest of the three stats).
  
• ARMATRUTZ: Mage Armor. No spellcaster should be without it. You can theoretically reach Armor Protection equal to a set of full plate armor (aka 12), though that's highly unlikely as that the spell's cost is equal to the desired Armor Protection squared (minus the MoS, with a minimum of 4). Naturally, good ol' Galotta had no problem paying the 120-144 Astral Points required for his ARMATRUTZ he was packing in his final stand. For some reason, that adventure also noted how the spell doesn't work if you stab the mage very slowly, which isn't anywhere in the actual description. Guess the writer of that adventure was a fan of Dune?
  
• AXXELERATUS LIGHTNING FORM: The haste spell. Like modern D&D iterations of it, it doesn't give you additional actions (which would probably break the wizard action economy even worse than in D&D), it just grants improved speed, combat stats (including damage) and a penalty to an enemy's Parry, making it a pretty good buff to have on your main fighter dude. There's a modification that let's you talk faster, which is the only way to speak the Kobold tongue unless you're a Kobold or Knave.
  
• DUPLICATUS DOUBLE IMAGE: Creates one or more after-images of the target. The more he has, the less likely others are to hit the real one.
  
• EAGLE EYE LYNX EAR: Your general perception buff.
  
• FACLON EYE MASTER SHOT: Just adds a juicy bonus to yur next shot or throw.
  
• FORTIFEX ARCANE WALL: Creates an invisible wall that blocks anything aside from spells.
  
• FROSTINESS WARRIOR HEART: Adds some slight Armor Protection, but its mostly there to ignore wound effects.
  
• GARDIANUM MAGIC SHIELD: A force field that absorbs magical damage effects. A modification also turns it into an actual shield.
  
• KARNIFILIO RAGE: Makes the target go magically berserk, which can have its drawbacks.
  
• INVERCANO MIRROR TRICK: Try to reflec some spells (mostly damage and transformation stuff) back at the caster. Metaplot NPCs love this one.
  
• SENSATTACCO MASTER STROKE: Imrpoves your crit chance. AFAIK the only way to do that in this game.

• ABEVENUM PURE FOOD: Not only makes food edible to a point it removes any poison and even reverses rot, but modifications also led you make stuff edible that is not immediately deadly or dangerous (like making sea water drinkable), but it can also prevent any poison from working on the food for a coupple hours (making it useful at court). The exact effect can vary depending on the caster: Stuff that is edible for a lizardman is not necessarily healthy for anyone else, and elves apparently also despise alcohol because their spell turns wine into grape juice.
  
• ACCURATUM MAGIC NEEDLE: Changes the appearance of a piece of clothing till the next winter solstice. Modifications let you create a piece of clothing out of raw materials, or make the change permanent - which combos nicely with the modifcation that lets you change the fabric itself. D&D wizards become rich through salt. TDE mages buy cheap line and make silk dresses out of it.
  
• ADAMANTIUM ORE STRUCTURE: Triples an object's durability for a couple minutes, after which it will drop to half of of the original durability. Modifications let you prevent the durability drop, change the surface of the object to look like a completely different material, or boost a weapon. Crystallomancers can make this permanent.
  
• ANALYS ARCANE STRUCTURE: The Read Magic spell. The higher your MoS, the more infos you get from the magical object/creature you're analyzing.
  
• ANIMATIO MUTE SERVANT: A very neat spell with an interesting way of casting it: You take the object to animate, repeat the same action with it 7 times and come up with a trigger (like finger snapping). After all this is done, the object will repeat the action every time you do the trigger. You can "record" multiple different commands with different triggers, and the spell lasts months, so it's pretty handy overall. There is sadly nothing about using this in combat by teaching a weapon multiple kinds of attacks and parries.
  
• APPLICATUS MAGIC STORAGE: Stores a single spell inside an object and link it to a trigger. The base version without modifications is of mild usage, as the spell is only stored for a day and will go off regardless of the actual trigger if anyone picks up the object.
  
• ARCANOVI ARTEFACT: The spell by which all magic items are created. In short: Your typical magic item in TDE is essentially a D&D wand, allowing you to cast one or more different spells around half a dozen times, after which you might be able to recharge it if the creator of the item didn't go the cheap route.
  
• AUREOLUS GOLDEN LUSTER: Makes an object shine like gold. That's it.
  
• AURIS NASUS OCULUS: The go-to illusion spell, covering any combination of fake images, smells or sounds, you need a modification to have the images move, and adding either a taste or touch compononent adds a monstrous penalty to the check.
  
• BALSAM SALABUNDE: The bread-and-butter healing spell. In fact the only healing spell aside from that knave one that makes you laugh and WITCH SALIVA (which is exactly what it says on the tin, so it's pretty gross). Like all healling effects in this game (aside from a reversed FULMINICTUS), this one spreads its healing effect over a period of time (a few minutes, to be exact). So if you don't put enough Astral Points into this one, your patient my just die before he is healed enough. A modification lets you shortly heal beyond the target's maximum Life Points, while another one with a very hefty penalty turns this into a regeneration effect that heals a lot faster. Both are pretty handy to beef up before combat.
  
• BEAR REST HIBERNATION: This is an odd one. The caster falls into a deep magical sleep (lasting days, or even months with a modification) during which he is immune to cold, starvation and even a lack of air. As the caster is unconcious during all of this, he can't wake up before the spell ends. Mostly used by elves who hate winter.
  
• CALDIOFRIGO HOT AND COLD: Messes around with the temperature of an object, or an entire area with modifications.
  
• CHAMAELOINI MIMICRY: The predator cloaking device spell. Only really works when standing still or moving very slowly.
  
• EAGLE WINGS WOLF FORM: Wildshape. You keep your mental stats and take over all the physical stuff from the animal you turn into (including Life Points and combat stats, making this not really a good combat buff in the long run because animals aren't the best fighters around, though being a bear is always helpful). Spellcasting doesn't work as an animal, nor does talking unless you've turned into a raven or parrot or something. Your clothes and equipment also doesn't fuse into your animal body like it does in D&D, so your left completely naked if the spell ends. This spell is most commonly used by elves, who like turning into their "soul animal" (*cough* otherkin *cough*).[
  
• GLIMPSE INTO THE BEING: Gives you general informations about the targeted create, like something out of Final Fantasy.
  
• GLIMPSE INTO THE THOUGHTS: Mind probe. There goes your murder mystery adventure again.
  
• FLIM FLAM SPARKLE: Your magical light spell, which also doubles as dancing lights.
  
• FORAMEN FORAMINOR: That one spell any fantasy game needs that makes the lockpicking spell superfluous.
  
• IMPERSONA MASK IMAGE: Change your face.
  
• INCORPOREAL TRAVEL: Your astral projection spell.
  
• INVISIBLE HUNTER: Makes it very hard to notice the caster, but any kind of concentrated action ends the spell immediately.
  
• KLARUM PURUM: Get rid of poison.
  
• MOTORICUS: It's telekinesis.
  
• OBJECTOFIXO: Turn any object into an Unmoving Rod.
  
• PENETRITZEL DEPTH GAZE: Look through walls.
  
• PERCEIVE SOUL ANIMAL: Uncover the target's inner fursona.
  
• PLANASTRALE OTHERWORLD: Opens a portal to the limbus and out again. Pretty handy to have just an case someone sucks you into there.
  
• SOLIDIRID WAY OF LIGHT: Allows you to create your very own Bifröst.
  
• SOUL TREK: Switch bodies with someone else. Can be a pretty dick move to force on others.
  
• TRANSVERSALIS TELEPORT: Your typical teleport spell that allows you to take others with you.
  
• UNION OF SUFFERING: Allows you and your target to share the pain.
  
• VISIBILI VANITAR: A straight up invisibility spell without any Predator cloak drawbacks. Though like the wildshape spell, it only affects your naked body, so it is not nearly as useful as the D&D counterpart.
  
• WEATHER MASTERY: Your general "mess around with the weather" spell.
  
• WISDOM OF TREES: A druid favorite that lets you turn into a tree.

• BURDEN OF AGE: Makes the target instantly age depending on the amount of Astral Points spend.
  
• CHRONOKLASSIS URFOSSIL: Temporarily janks something (or someone) from the past. One modification resets the target's state back to from before it got janked (so you can kill your rival multiple times if you want to), the other makes it stay in the present permanently. This is not only the only kinda sorta resurrection spell, but it technically allows you to circumvent the "Can't go into the future" rule by teaching this spell to your elf buddy and having him jank you to his present in a hundred years or so.
  
• CHRONONAUTOS TIME TRAVEL: Your straight-forward time travel spell.
  
• GLIMPSE INTO THE PAST: Get information of an object or area shown in fast motion.
  
• IMMORTALIS LIFETIME: Not only causes instant aging, but also rejuvenates the caster.
  
• VESSEL OF YEARS: This lets you re-enact The Picture of Dorian Gray.

• ACT, DEAD!: Your go-to spell to create an undead permanently. Requies a check to see whether you can actually control your creation.
  
• ACT, STONE!: The golem creation spell. This one and the above undead creation spell used to be one and the same in older editions, probably because the cost is similar (a handful of d20s, making this very swingy and annoying) and because the German names created the rhyme "Stein wandle, Totes handle".
  
• CHIMAEROFORM HYBRID FORM: For all your chimera creation needs.
  
• ELEMENTAL SERVANT: Summons an elemental ghost.
  
• GENIE CALL: Summons an elemental genie. Has a built-in penalty because genies can do a lot of different things.
  
• GHOST CALL: Summon a ghost.
  
• HELPFUL PAW, BAILING WINGS: Attract a nearby animal and ask for its help. The game suggest to speak in a very whimsical manner to the animal for some reason.
  
• INVOCATIO MAIOR/MINOR: The two demon summon spells. the MINOR version is your fast summoning spell that can only summon lesser demons, while the other one is actually your big summoning ritual that can take weeks or even months to perform to get just the right conditions for summoning.
  
• LORD OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM: Summon Nature's Ally.
  
• MASTER OF ELEMENTS: Summon an elemental master. Has a pretty monstrous built-in penalty.
  
• NATURES' MAGICAL BEINGS: Summon nearby fey to hopefully be of help.
  
• PANDAEMONIUM: Creates a zone full of tentacles, claws and hungry jaws to damage anyone who dares to enter. This is like something out of Warhammer.
  
• RAVEN CALL: A typical witch spell that summons a bunch of crows (or other critters with modifications) to help you in battle. None of the summonable critters have particularly good stats, though.
  
• SHINDY: A witch spell that makes the witch's broomstick go apeshit, attacking any enemy within range.
  
• SKELETTARIUS: Your spell for creating all kinds of undead that only last for a while. Except for the ones not associated with Targunithoth (like a water corpse or ice mummy). Those require a variant spell.
  
• WALK, DUST!: Lets you create an awesome elemental quicksand golemite. Not sure why they bother listing this spell though. The only one who knows it is a Tulamidian nobleman (or at least his personal mages).
  
• WHITE MAIN AND GOLDEN HOOF: This is like the phantom steed spell, only the horse appears to always be a bit whimsical.

Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 18:41 on Nov 2, 2015