100867_RAA_Quill & Codex_R1_PROOF

Quill & Codex

• Rebuke Undead/Demons – For each Faith Point spent, you may rebuke a demon or an undead creature. A rebuked creature must withdraw, usually hiss ing and screaming, from your presence. If a demon or undead creature has Villainy Points, they may use a point to resist this abil ity. Once this has been resisted, the creature cannot be affected by this gift during the encounter. GMs have the final say on which creatures can be rebuked.

CULLEN SAYS – In some campaigns, it might be appro priate to test a Priest’s faith. This, I’ve found, is a particu larly effective technique in hor ror–themed games. “You have to have faith for that to work, Mr. Vincent!” If that is some thing you would like to explore, you could institute a D10 Will Challenge every time Faith is used. On a successful roll, Faith my be used as normal. On a failed roll, the Priest’s Faith simply does not work.

SpEllCrAFT

Bending the forces of nature to your will requires the following steps: •Tell the Game Master what you are trying to accomplish.

Conjuring an otherworldly tentacle to capture and crush a victim might be a Rank 4 spell. M agicians are in touch with the primal forces of the elements and they can channel them into amazing feats of wizardry. But you will not find pages and pages of spell descriptions herein. We’re keeping our printing costs down… which is a feat of magic in and of itself. Wizardry is about using your imagination to bend reality to your will. This is reflected in these simple rules for Spellcraft.

CULLEN SAYS – Originally, I had a much, much more com plicated system for Spellcraft. It was a little more formalized and orderly… and it didn’t feel like magic. So, I altered it to be a lit tle more loose.

At the beginning of each session, a Magician rolls 1D10+4. The result is the number of Spellcraft Points you have for a session. At the end of a session, unused/unspent points are lost. You roll again at the begin ning of the next session. are lost. You roll again at the begin -

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