Fae Spell Lists

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So after making new set of houserules for OSE I decided I wanted to make the elf spell list different from the magic user and more nature oriented. I took some druid spells and some of the spells in gaz 5. I also decided to update the gnome(from the advanced fantasy genre rules, this would be the forest gnome in my campaign) spell list on similar principles.

Elf Spells

Level 1

1. Detect Magic
2. Detect Danger
3. Enchant Missile(as magic missile but on missiles already in hand)
4. Faerie Lights
5. Fellowship
6. Light
7. Longstride
8. Precipitation
9. Shield
10. Sleep
11. Ventriloquism
12. Faerie Fire
13. Locate plant or animal
14. Predict Weather
15. Watcher

Level 2

1. Continual Light
2. Detect Invisible
3. Entangle
4. ESP
5. Heat Metal
6. Invisibility
7. Levitate
8. Locate Object
9. Mirror Image
10. Obscure
11. Phantasmal Force
12. Produce Fire
13. Silence(single target)
14. Warp Wood
15. Web

Level 3

1. Call Lightning
2. Clairvoyance
3. Cure Disease
4. Cure Light Wounds
5. Dispel Magic
6. Fireball
7. Fly
8. Haste
9. Hold(Person or Animal)
10. Infravision
11. Invisibility 10' radius
12. Protection from normal missiles
13. Protection from Poison
14. Speak with Animals
15. Water Breathing

Level 4

1. Charm Monster
2. Confusion
3. Control Temp 10' radius
4. Enchant Weapon
5. Fear
6. Growth of Nature
7. Hallucinatory Terrain
8. Ice Storm/Wall
9. Plant Door
10. Protection from Lightning
11. Remove Curse
12. Speak with Plants
13. Summon Animals
14. Transform(may massmorph, polymorph self, or polymorph others)
15. Wall of Fire

Level 5

1. Anti-Plant Shell
2. Cloudkill
3. Commune with Nature
4. Conjure Elemental
5. Control Winds
6. Dissolve(Transmute Rock to Mud)
7. Feeblemind
8. Hold Monster
9. Insect Plague
10. Neutralize Poison
11. Pass Plant
12. Telekinesis
13. Teleport
14. Wall of Stone
15. Wall of Thorns

Forest Gnome Spells

Level 1

1. Animal Friendship
2. Auditory Illusion
3. Chromatic Orb
4. Color Spray
5. Detect Danger
6. Detect Illusion
7. Entangle
8. Faerie Fire
9. Faerie Lights
10. Glamour
11. Hypnotism
12. Light
13. Phantasmal Force
14. Spook
15. Wall of Fog

Level 2

1. Barkskin
2. Blindness/Deafness
3. Blur
4. Detect Magic
5. False Aura
6. Fascinate
7. Hypnotic Pattern
8. Improved Phantasmal Force
9. Invisibility
10. Magic Mouth
11. Mirror Image
12. Produce Fire
13. Quasimorph
14. Warp Wood
15. Whispering Wind

Level 3

1. Blacklight
2. Dispel Illusion
3. Fear
4. Growth of Nature
5. Hallucinatory Terrain
6. Hold Animal
7. Invisibility 10' radius
8. Nondetection
9. Paralysation
10. Phantom Steed
11. Rope Trick
12. Spectral Force
13. Suggestion
14. Treeshape
15. Wraithfrom

Level 4

1. Charm(Monster, person , or animal)
2. Confusion
3. Dispel Magic
4. Emotion
5. Illusory Stamina
6. Improved Invisibility
7. Massmorph
8. Minor Creation
9. Phantasmal Killer
10. Polymorph(other or self)
11. Rainbow Pattern
12. Shadow Monsters
13. Solid Fog
14. Summon Animals
15. Veil of Abandonment

Rethinking Sorcerers

I'm thinking of changing the rules for both elves and sorcerers. Keep the rules as they are for spells known, but change the spellcasting method. Why can sorcerers only cast so many per day? I'm thinking of changing it from spell 'casting' to more of a spell like ability. Whenever a spell is cast it fatigues the caster in some way, maybe spell level increases the fatigue potential.

Going off of the rules I already have for casting those 'extra' spells; every spell requires a saving throw against spells to be cast with a penalty equal to the spell level. Maybe the INT modifier, or whatever ability score being associated with sorcery, allows the caster to not have to make this check for spell levels equal to the modifier. Also rolls that are equal to the saving throw would result in some wild magic effect, maybe reuse wild magic effects from 3e or 5e. A failure just has the spell fizzle out, and a success has the spell work normally. The hp penalty, or maybe some other fatiguing effect, would apply to every spell cast whether successful or not. So the sorcerer would be limited to spells per day not by an arbitrary number, since they no longer have to 'memorize' them. but by their hp. HP damage could also be tied to spell level.

I'm also thinking making the sorcerer have less spells known than elves. Maybe have sorcerers with an innate number of known spells determined at the beginning of character creation. This could also apply to elves. Elves are naturally born with certain spell like abilities, and some can gain more spells through study and meditation. The standard elf would be more like a ranger, a fighter with a few magic abilities. The standard elf class could still exist following the standard spell progression, but these would be the elves who pursued the study of magic. I also want to update the elven, and sorcerer, spell list to differentiate it more from the wizard. maybe look at some of the spells in the Alfheim gazetteer.

I'm also looking at ways to revamp the spellcasting methods of the standard magic-user to make it more vancian/in line with the fiction. A post about that should be coming soon.

Sorcerous Abilitiies

As mentioned in a previous post, I have been thinking about including sorcerers in my D&D game. The sorcerer gets magic as an innate ability because one of their ancestors was an elf. In Classic D&D there are no half-elves; a child born to a human and an elf parent appear as either an elf or a human with all the accompanying traits. So a human could have some elven blood, but show no outward signs of it. This hidden elven blood will manifest itself as sorcery from time to time.

Any human with elven ancestry may be a sorcerer is if 2d6 are rolled and the resulting sum is a 12. The character may be of any of the normal human classes, fighter, thief, or cleric. If the character is a Magic-User their sorcerous ability is suppressed and they may only use wizardly magic. The Magic of a sorcerer works exactly like that of an elf of equal level. In short, Sorcerers do not need to decide which spells to memorize each day. They have a limited number of spells which are known equal to the number and level of spells they can cast in a day +1 for each intelligence adjustment. An sorcerer may attempt to cast those extra spells known after exhausting their normal repertoire of spells. To do this the sorcerer must first make a saving throw vs spells, and if successful the sorcerer
successfully casts the spell, if not the spell fizzled out, or caused a bizarre and benign effect. In either case the casting of these extra spells costs the sorcerer a number of hp equal to a d6. If a sorcerer were to reach 0hp in this manner they would take the effect of a wound including the chance for death. Sorcerers also have access to the druid spell list. Sorcerers learn their spells by meditating in a natural environment for one week equal to the spell level, at the end of the meditation the spell learned is determined randomly.

XP charts for sorcerers of each class:

Cleric			Fighter			Fighter
Lvl	XP Required		Lvl	XP Required		Lvl	XP Required
1	0		1	0		1	0
2	2,500		2	3,000		2	2,200
3	5,000		3	6,000		3	4,400
4	10,000		4	12,000		4	8,800
5	20,000		5	24,000		5	17,600
6	40,000		6	50,000		6	35,000
7	80,000		7	100,000		7	70,000
8	160,000		8	200,000		8	140,000
9	320,000		9	400,000		9	280,000
10	420,000		10	520,000		10	400,000
11	520,000		11	640,000		11	520,000
12	620,000		12	760,000		12	640,000
13	720,000		13	880,000		13	760,000
14	820,000		14	1,000,000		14	880,000
15	920,000		15	1,120,000		15	1,000,000
16	1,020,000		16	1,240,000		16	1,120,000
17	1,120,000		17	1,360,000		17	1,240,000
18	1,220,000		18	1,480,000		18	1,360,000
19	1,320,000		19	1,600,000		19	1,480,000
20	1,420,000		20	1,720,000		20	1,600,000
21	1,520,000		21	1,840,000		21	1,720,000
22	1,620,000		22	1,960,000		22	1,840,000
23	1,720,000		23	2,080,000		23	1,960,000
24	1,820,000		24	2,200,000		24	2,080,000
25	1,920,000		25	2,320,000		25	2,200,000
26	2,020,000		26	2,440,000		26	2,320,000
27	2,120,000		27	2,560,000		27	2,440,000
28	2,220,000		28	2,680,000		28	2,560,000
29	2,320,000		29	2,800,000		29	2,680,000
30	2,420,000		30	2,920,000		30	2,800,000
31	2,520,000		31	3,040,000		31	2,920,000
32	2,620,000		32	3,160,000		32	3,040,000
33	2,720,000		33	3,280,000		33	3,160,000
34	2,820,000		34	3,400,000		34	3,280,000
35	2,920,000		35	3,520,000		35	3,400,000
36	3,020,000		36	3,640,000		36	3,520,000

The Sorcerer

I haven't posted all week because I just started working at a new job, and have been getting used to my new schedule.

I have been thinking about adding a new class to my games, the sorcerer. They would use magic in a similar way to my houserules for elves. No spellbooks or rituals; magic is simply an innate ability of certain people. The source of their power might be elvish or draconic blood, or they might be 'chosen' by the gods, or made a pact with some otherworldly force. What's important is how they use magic in the game. Sorcerers wouldn't have to memorize spells from books like magic users, but would have a limited number they could know. The spell progression of the sorcerer will be slightly slower than an elf, but also go all the way up to the ninth spell level. I would also make the sorcerer be able to fight better than a magic user, maybe equivalent to the cleric with different weapon allowances. I am thinking of letting the sorcerer have access to the full spell list, magic-user, cleric and druid. It is possible I will limit the spells available to active spells like magic missile, fireball, healing, etc.

I am also envisioning the sorcerer in a similar capacity to the wise men/magi of the east in biblical times. Given that Religion is going to dictate the religious class of certain areas, the sorcerer could fit into one of the religions. I'm not sure which region/religion they would fit into right now. Clerics are associated with Thyatis and Darokin, Druids with Glantri, I know there is variant on the cleric or druid in GAZ 2 for Ylaruam, there is also another variant for the clerics of the northern reaches from the gazetteer(maybe I should have a runic caster as their cleric). So that leaves maybe Atruaghin or Sind or Alphatia as the area where sorcerers reign. It might fit well with Alphatia and their ruling body of 1000 wizards. It might make more sense if they were just sorcerers, and a large percent of Alphatians had an affinity for magic.

Just some thoughts on how I might make sorcerers fit into my current game.