Protection: Focuses on keeping oneself or their allies safe from harm, often through boosting defenses and minimizing damage.

Healing: Gives aid to those who are injured, restoring their aura and energy.

Necromantic: Focuses on the manipulation of life and death, sometimes draining the life of others, and sometimes giving life to the dead.

Combat: Is intended for damaging other creatures or causing destruction. It is the most aggressive of the schools.

Conjuration: Involves the creation and invoking of many things: tools, armor, food, elements, and more. Unless otherwise specified, conjurations occur within the reach of your body and you can’t conjure items through an obstruction or inside solid objects—such conjurations fail.

Alteration: Alters things that already exist, such as telekinetically moving objects or re-shaping the earth. It also encompasses temporal and translocation magic, though these realms usually require special study to master.

Enhancement: Boosts the natural abilities of creatures and grants new powers such as invisibility and flight.

Influence: Is all about a being’s mind and how to affect it. This school specializes in social manipulation as well as illusion magic.

Negation: Contains spells that detect and remove magic.

Ritual: As the most powerful method of casting, rituals require the most amount of time to perform. Most rituals take five to sixty minutes but the most powerful ones can take days. Some rituals require certain components which will be listed in the spell. The most common component is Aura Strength, which may be given by the caster or taken from other creatures.

Most rituals require you to walk in a pattern, position objects, draw on the ground, and/or meditate.

Potion: Making potions takes time and thus, like rituals, is usually done outside of combat. To gain the benefit of a potion, the user must ingest or sometimes inhale the potion. Potions have the advantage of being able to be stockpiled and saved for when they are needed as well as being easily used by anyone. They have special rules (see Potion Rules).

Drinking a potion takes 2 Energy, representing the time it takes to put it to your mouth and fully ingest it. This does not include the time it takes to equip a potion (Only 1 Energy if the potions are kept in a convenient location). While it would require two free hands to quickly drink a typical capped/corked potion, any ways of making the potion quickly accessible with one hand is common. In fact, most potions meant for combat are sold in enchanted bottles which can be easily uncapped using only 1 free hand.

Gesture: Gestures are typically the fastest way to produce a magic effect. That being said, a subgroup of gestures is forms, and these often take longer to perform.

You require control of at least one free hand to cast a gesture spell.

Rune:After a rune is cast, it must later be detonated/activated to release its full effect. Unless otherwise stated, each rune spell may only have one version of itself active at one time and lasts up to 10 minutes.

Rune Conditions: Many rune spells allow you to specify certain circumstances upon which the rune will activate. When they do this, consider that runes can only “sense” so much which limits the possible conditions upon which a Rune can activate. Runes can sense up to 1m around it or up to the effect distance of the rune. When cast on creature, runes can sense many attributes of the creature, such as Aura, Stamina, and movement. Runes cannot have a condition based on abstract or relative concepts such as “hostile creature,” “person named Joe,” “well-dressed,” or “old.” Runes cannot perfectly identify things like race, but can sense things like size and appearance to attempt to differentiate base on race. For instance, you could make orc proximity the condition of a rune, and the rune will activate when anything resembling what you believe an orc looks like gets close.

Summon: The creation and control of magical creatures or objects is the domain of summoning spells. These spells vary widely in time they take to cast and the resources required.

Implement: Implement spells require a magical implement to cast. Some common implements are orbs, rods, staffs, and amulets but just about anything can be an implement. Each implement is restricted to casting certain types of spells (for example, a staff which can only be used to cast fire spells). Implements are known for their ability to focus and enhance magic and most will give special bonuses to spells cast through them.

Music: Distinct from Implement magic, music magic doesn’t use instruments as implements, but uses the flow of music itself to create the magical effects. This means that even singing can create powerful music magic. Oftentimes, music magic has an area of effect based on who can hear the music, but it can also be used to create targeted effects.

You must be able to make music in some way to cast music magic.

Incantation: Usually requiring little time to cast, incantations are commonly the first spells taught to novice mages.

Incantations require full control of the vocal cords to cast.

Reading: For ages, magic has been stored in physical writing, but it takes someone proficient in reading spells to tap into this power. If you are Proficient in reading magic, you can write down the reading spells you know by infusing the text with arcane power and can read from your writing later to cast the spells.

To cast a reading spell, you must read the relevant text out loud while touching its source to activate the spell. This typically means you require at least one free hand to hold the text. Mages will often write their spells on the same paper or in the same book so that they can easily access all their reading spells.

At-Will: The spell has no limit to how many times it can be cast.

#x Short Rest: The spell can only be cast # times per Short Rest. If you fail at casting the spell, it does not count against your number of uses of the spell per Rest.

#x Long Rest: The spell can only be cast # times per Long Rest. If you fail at casting the spell, it does not count against your number of uses of the spell per Rest.

Spell Level: This determines how difficult the spell is to cast. It is the number at the top right of the spell.

Range #/#/#m: Some spells have Range Values (See Range Values). These only apply to the Hit roll, NOT the Cast roll.

Range #: Some spells have just one range value, which means the spell can take affect within this range (the description may give more detail).

Hit: This is found in the spell’s description and the following effects only happen if the target is hit.

Effect: This is found in the spell’s description and the following effects happen regardless of whether or not the target is hit (though the spell must be successfully cast).