You must find a tutor of that Working who is willing to teach you. Both student and teacher must spend an out-of-game downtime action on instruction for you to learn the new Greater Working. The tutor may be a player or NPC and does not have to be capable of casting it in order to [...]
You must find a tutor of that school who is also an Occult Adept, and who is willing to teach you. Both student and teacher must spend an out-of-game downtime action on instruction for you to learn the new style of magic, and you can learn only one style per downtime session. The tutor may [...]
Mastery is a measure of a character’s magical power, which governs the potency of each and every spell a character knows. Every spell incorporates Mastery in some manner, either through duration, scope, number of uses, or damage. Whenever a character casts a spell, the character’s Mastery dictates how powerful the spell will be. For instance, [...]
This means they can be used with any arcane school. Regardless of the type or source, the number of Perfect charges a character may bear is equal to their Artifice level. Characters without Artifice may not hold Perfect charges at all. Artifice allows an occultist to draw Perfect Charges out of magical items or places [...]
Charges are what fuel magic, and each and every spell costs but a single Charge to cast. Most commonly, magicians get their charges through performing rituals, which are learned (like spells) as they increase in skill. All rituals take a certain amount of time to perform (1-15 minutes, most commonly), with the general rule that [...]
Rituals are an important part of the game and gaining Charges from Rituals without actually doing them is considered cheating. If you don’t wish to actually do your Rituals, chances are you don’t really want to play a magic user in Fractured. If you don’t want to play a magic user in Fractured, there are [...]
No. Rituals can be performed back to back or in ways that easily flow into one another, but they cannot be performed concurrently. I’ve spent a Charge I obtained from a Ritual. How do I get that Charge back? First, you must have no Charges of that School of Magic at all, either by spending [...]
Spells last as long as their description indicates. If the spell does not indicate a duration, then the spell lasts for the entire event. Readied Spells can be maintained indefinitely as long as the caster maintains the requirements for the spell and is not rendered unconscious (either through in game effects or actually sleeping). Characters [...]
Place some bird seed in the middle of a 6 inch square of cloth. The color of the cloth relates to the type of magic the packet will be used for (see the section on Magic for more details on colors, near the end of part 1). Draw up the corners so that all the [...]