Arcana
Arcana is the domain of innate and instinctual magic. Those who choose this path tap into the raw, enigmatic forces of the realms to manipulate both their own energy and the elements. Arcana offers wielders a volatile power, but it is incredibly potent when correctly channeled.
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Laura Marie Neal
Rune Ward
You have a deeply personal trinket that can be infused with protective magic and held as a ward by you or an ally. Describe what it is and why it’s important to you. The ward’s holder can spend a Hope to reduce incoming damage by 1d8.
If the Ward Die result is 8, the ward’s power ends after it reduces damage this turn. It can be recharged for free on your next rest.
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Ernanda Souza
Unleash Chaos
At the beginning of a session, place a number of tokens equal to your Spellcast trait on this card.
Make a Spellcast Roll against a target within Far range and spend any number of tokens to channel raw energy from within yourself to unleash against them. On a success, roll a number of d10 s equal to the tokens you spent and deal that much magic damage to the target. Mark a Stress to replenish this card with tokens (up to your Spellcast trait).
At the end of each session, clear all unspent tokens.
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Julia Metzger
Wall Walk
Spend a Hope to allow a creature you can touch to climb on walls and ceilings as easily as walking on the ground. This lasts until the end of the scene or you cast Wall Walk again.
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Jenny Tan
Cinder Grasp
Make a Spellcast Roll against a target within Melee range. On a success, the target instantly bursts into flames, takes 1d20+3 magic damage, and is temporarily lit On Fire.
When a creature acts while On Fire, they must take an extra 2d6 magic damage if they are still On Fire at the end of their action.
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Anthony Jones
Floating Eye
Spend a Hope to create a single, small floating orb that you can move anywhere within Very Far range. While this spell is active, you can see through the orb as though you’re looking out from its position. You can transition between using your own senses and seeing through the orb freely. If the orb takes damage or moves out of range, the spell ends.
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Dominik Mayer
Counterspell
You can interrupt a magical effect taking place by making a reaction roll using your Spellcast trait. On a success, the effect stops and any consequences are avoided, and this card is placed in your vault.
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Samantha Kung
Flight
Make a Spellcast Roll (15). On a success, place a number of tokens equal to your Agility on this card (minimum 1). When you make an action roll while flying, spend a token from this card. After the action that spends the last token is resolved, you descend to the ground directly below you.
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Dominik Mayer
Blink Out
Make a Spellcast Roll (12). On a success, spend a Hope to teleport to another point you can see within Far range. If any willing creatures are within Very Close range, spend an additional Hope for each creature to bring them with you.
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Daarken
Preservation Blast
Make a Spellcast Roll against all targets within Melee range. Targets you succeed against are forced back to Far range and take d8+3 magic damage using your Spellcast trait.
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Bear Frymire
Chain Lightning
Mark 2 Stress to make a Spellcast Roll, unleashing lightning on all targets within Close range. Targets you succeed against must make a reaction roll with a Difficulty equal to the result of your Spellcast Roll. Targets who fail take 2d8+4 magic damage. Additional adversaries not already targeted by Chain Lightning and within Close range of previous targets who took damage must also make the reaction roll. Targets who fail take 2d8+4 magic damage. This chain continues until there are no more adversaries within range.
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Ivan Koltovich
Premonition
You can channel arcane energy to have visions of the future. Once per long rest, immediately after the GM conveys the consequences of a roll you made, you can rescind the move and consequences like they never happened and make another move instead.
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Samantha B. Lucas
Rift Walker
Make a Spellcast Roll (15). On a success, you place an arcane marking on the ground where you currently stand. The next time you successfully cast Rift Walker, a rift in space opens up, providing safe passage back to the exact spot where the marking was placed. This rift stays open until you choose to close it or you cast another spell.
You can drop the spell at any time to cast Rift Walker again and place the marking somewhere new.
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Simon Pape
Telekinesis
Make a Spellcast Roll against a target within Far range. On a success, you can use your mind to move them anywhere within Far range of their original position. You can throw the lifted target as an attack by making an additional Spellcast Roll against the second target you’re trying to attack. On a success, deal d12+4 physical damage to the second target using your Proficiency. This spell then ends.
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Cybercatbug
Arcana-Touched
When 4 or more of the domain cards in your loadout are from the Arcana domain, gain the following benefits:
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Henry Peters
Cloaking Blast
When you make a successful Spellcast Roll to cast a different spell, you can spend a Hope to become Cloaked. While Cloaked, you remain unseen if you are stationary when an adversary moves to where they would normally see you. When you move into or within an adversary’s line of sight or make an attack, you are no longer Cloaked.
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Carlos Cardona
Arcane Reflection
When you would take magic damage, you can spend any number of Hope to roll that many d6s. If any roll a 6, the attack is reflected back to the caster, dealing the damage to them instead.
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Simon Pape
Confusing Aura
Make a Spellcast Roll (14). Once per long rest on a success, you create a layer of illusion over your body that makes it hard to tell exactly where you are. Mark any number of Stress to make that many additional layers. When an adversary makes an attack against you, roll a number of d6s equal to the number of layers currently active. If any roll a 5 or higher, one layer of the aura is destroyed and the attack fails. If all the results are 4 or lower, you take the damage and this spell ends.
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Eliot Baum
Earthquake
Make a Spellcast Roll (16). Once per rest on a success, all targets within Very Far range who aren’t flying must make a Reaction Roll (18). Targets who fail take 3d10+8 physical damage and are temporarily Vulnerable. Targets who succeed take half damage.
Additionally, when you succeed on the Spellcast Roll, all terrain within Very Far range becomes difficult to move through and structures within this range might sustain damage or crumble.
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Anthony Jones
Sensory Projection
Once per rest, make a Spellcast Roll (15). On a success, drop into a vision that lets you clearly see and hear any place you have been before as though you are standing there in this moment. You can move freely in this vision and are not constrained by the physics or impediments of a physical body. This spell cannot be detected by mundane or magical means. You drop out of this vision upon taking damage or casting another spell.
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Geoffrey Ernault
Adjust Reality
After you or a willing ally make any roll, you can spend 5 Hope to change the numerical result of that roll to a result of your choice instead. The result must be plausible within the range of the dice.
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Katya Cyan
Falling Sky
Make a Spellcast Roll against all adversaries within Far range. Mark any number of Stress to make shards of arcana rain down from above. Targets you succeed against take 1d20+2 magic damage for each Stress marked.
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