Wizard (FiD)

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Wizards approach magic with a methodical, analytical mindset, blending mystical traditions with disciplined research and experimentation. Their knowledge is meticulously recorded in tomes and libraries, forming a magical framework that is versatile, reliable, and endlessly expandable.

Wizardry is eclectic; among its methods are such diverse elements as alchemy, astrology, esotericism, geomancy, herbalism, lithomancy, mysticism, numerology, pyramidology, rune lore, sigils, and a nice embroidered robe.

Your spells require symbolic tools: either material components (powders, herbs, bones, inks, curios) or visible symbols marked on your kit. Embroidered scarves, robes, and hats are popular ways to do this, as are tattoos and body paint. Eastern wizards use ofuda, strips of paper with calligraphic script. These items are inexpensive and easily replaced between scores, but if you lose them during a score you must improvise or scavenge replacements — even scrawling symbols on pebbles will do.

Your spellbook holds the structures, sigils, and patterns that center your magic. Without it, your workings remain unstable and mentally draining until you restore it.

Touchstones: Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV 1997–2003), Harry Potter (Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone 2001), Merlin (Merlin TV 2008–2012), Prospera (The Tempest 2010).

Trauma Condition — Spellbook

Wizardry demands precision and a book to record your spells. Your workings rely on exact words, gestures, and symbols, which tend to draw attention. If your spellbook is lost or destroyed, you cannot recover Stress again until you complete an 8-segment Study project to recreate it.

Special Abilities

Book Casting

With your spellbook in hand, you can spend a few minutes reading loudly from it to use any power, rolling Study instead of the Action that the power would normally use.

Casual Blaster

When you use a power to make an attack that is Fine and/or Potent, you can choose to remove these qualities. If you do so, reduce the category of the power, Apex → Master → Advanced → Basic. This reduces the risk of stress and the number of dice needed to use the power.

Enchanter

When you invent or Craft Alchemicals, Armaments, and Magic Items, take +1d to your roll. You can invent new Designs and Formulas. You begin with one Design or Formula already known.

Ritualist

You gain +1d on actions to perform, research, and resist consequences of using Rituals. You can research Procedures for new rituals. You know by heart the arcane Procedure to perform one Ritual up to Complexity 6.

Studious

When you use Study to gather information about a target, either in the present or in a flashback, you can ask one additional question about their weakness. On a On a 6/critical, you uncover a preparable method (material, sigil, or tactic) that grants Potency against the target.

Ward

You make an area anathema to creatures associated with a specific Form of Power decided when you create the ward. Spend a minute and select a Form to create a ward in an an area based on your tier (p. 221). A ward is obvious and reduces the effective Tier of creatures tied to that Form by 1 for an hour after entering it or when acting against anyone within it. You can create connected wards to cover more ground and overlapping wards to protect against multiple different Forms in the same area.

Wizard Words

You may always use Study for a Set Up action, either in the moment or as a flashback. On a partial success, improve Position. On a full success, choose between improving Position or increasing Effect. On a critical success, improve both Position and Effect. This stacks with Set Up actions others do.

Additional Playbook

Select another playbook. You gain immediate access to its Inventory and XP conditions. From now on, you can choose its Special Abilities. You can take this special ability multiple times, each time selecting a new playbook. Prerequisite: To select a playbook, you need an action rating of one in each of its starting actions.

Powers

You can learn these powers, expending a Special Ability for each. You cannot select powers marked red.

Abyss, Air, Animal, Barrier, Darkness, Death, Earth, Electricity, Fire, Ice, Flux, Illusion, Kinesis, Life, Light, Metal, Mind, Order, Plant, Space, Time, and Water.

Arcane Associates

˄ ˅ Laramir, a mentor.

˄ ˅ Quillon, an artisan of books.

˄ ˅ Rilmo, a librarian.

˄ ˅ Solric, an esoteric specialist.

˄ ˅ Xeltrin, a wizard.

Inventory

☑ Familiar.

☑, ☑, ☑ Scroll.

☐ Spellbook.

☐ Wizard’s Staff.

Familiar ☑: An animal, tiny monster, or object that is Intelligent and capable of speech. This is an expert (pet) (p. 96) that primarily carries messages and offers companionship. If lost, it can be replaced with a downtime action. Playbook.

Scroll ☑: Allows a single use of a power from a Power Form available to your playbook that you do not already know. Playbook.

Spellbook ☐: Required for some Special Abilities and to regain Stress (see Trauma Condition—Spellbook). Playbook.

Wizard’s Staff ☐: An arcane rod or staff that allows the wielder to draw glowing lines on any surface or even in the air, usually to create wards or as a part of a ritual. Improves the casting of spells, you can spend 2 Stress to turn a failure into an opposed success when using powers It also functions as a Potent Emergency Heavy Weapon. Playbook.

XP

• Every time you roll a desperate action, mark xp in that action's attribute.
• At the end of each session, for each item below, mark 1 xp (in your playbook or an attribute) for each item below, or 2 xp if that item occurred multiple times:
• You addressed a challenge using powers or lore.
• You expressed your beliefs, drives, heritage, or background.
• You struggled with issues from your vice or traumas during the session.

Starting Actions

Hunt 1

Study 2

4 points by choice, no higher than 2 in any one.