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consideration when making his decision as to what the
ceremony can accomplish.
Unless modified by a target element (see below) a
bolstering or weakening effect can only affect one
target – under no circumstances can a single bolstering
or weakening effect target more than a single concept.
Games Masters, particularly those who have especially
devious players in their group, are cautioned to be very
careful when allowing the creation of rituals which
bolster or weaken concepts and may wish to designate
that option as for the Games Master only (or at the least,
should directly create the ritual for the player).
Death, Destruction, Resurrection and
Reconstruction (DC 50 – 110)
This effect category includes not only the obvious result
of killing a living being or destroying a mountain, but
the killing of vegetation and even the destruction
of concepts like love, hate or passion. The more
spectacular the death or destruction, the higher DC;
the DC to kill a single elf hero, no matter his personal
power, is 50, while the DC to destroy an entire mountain
is 75 and the DC to annihilate the elven reverence for
the forest is 110. The DC to resurrect or reconstitute
beings, objects or concepts are the same as the DC
required to destroy them.
Unless modified by a target element (see below) a death,
destruction, resurrection or reconstruction effect can
only affect one target – under no circumstances can
a single death or destruction effect target more than
a single concept. Games Masters, particularly those
who have especially devious players in their group,
are cautioned to be very careful when allowing the
creation of rituals which destroy concepts and may
wish to designate that option as for the Games Master
only (or at the least, should directly create the ritual
for the player).
Unless otherwise noted, destruction and death effects
are permanent and irrevocable. A living being slain by
a magical ceremony cannot be raised or resurrected by
anything less than direct divine intervention or the use
of a major artefact of legendary power.
Summoning and Dismissal (DC 30 – 120)
This effect category covers not only the summoning
and dismissal of objects and living, and once living
beings, but the summoning or banishment of events and
concepts as well. So a summoning ceremony might
be used to call up the spirits of the dead, or it might be
used to draw in rain to end a crippling drought or even
cause luck to appear where there is none. The base DC
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of the check depends on the strength and abstractness
of the being, object, concept or event to be summoned;
the DC to summon a particular demon lord is 50, the
DC to summon rain to relieve a short term drought
is 30 (40 – 50 to relieve a century long drought) and
the DC to directly summon a god’s avatar is 120. A
dismissed concept is not destroyed, merely removed
from the affected being or area for the duration of the
effect.
Unless modified by a target element (see below) a
summoning or dismissal effect can only affect one
target – under no circumstances can a single summoning
or dismissal effect target more than a single concept.
Games Masters, particularly those who have especially
devious players in their group, are cautioned to be very
careful when allowing the creation of rituals which
summon or dismiss concepts and may wish to designate
that option as for the Games Master only (or at the least,
should directly create the ritual for the player).
Transformation (DC 40 – 100)
This effect category covers evolution, devolution, shape
changing and transformations of all sorts, of the body,
of the mind and intangible spirit. A transformation
effect can change a desert into a tropical rainforest,
utterly transform a drow warrior into a pit fiend or
twist the concept of loyalty so completely as to make
it unrecognisable. The more spectacular and involved
the transformation, the higher the DC. For example,
the base DC of the black ceremony corruption,
which utterly transforms the mind, soul and body of
a surface elf into that of a drow is 50, while the base
DC to transform a desert into rainforest would be 75
and the DC to twist the concept of love to match the
concept of hate would be 100. Unless modified by a
target element (see below) a transformation effect can
only affect one target. Under no circumstances can a
single transformation effect target more than a single
concept. Games Masters, particularly those who have
especially devious players in their group, are cautioned
to be very careful when allowing the creation of rituals
which utterly transform concepts and may wish to
designate that option as for the Games Master only
(or at the least, should directly create the ritual for
the player). Transformation effects are sometimes
coupled with bolstering or weakening effects; while
a drow transformed via a magical ceremony into a pit
fiend automatically gains all the pit fiends powers and
weaknesses, a bolstering effect can make him even
more powerful.
Once the effect, or effects, of the magical ceremony
are chosen and the base DCs assessed by the Games