Forbidden Lands Players Handbook

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DUR ATION: Immediate
INGREDIENT: Severed hand
You can claw your way to your victim’s heart
magically and squeeze the life from him. This
spell inflicts damage to Strength equal to the
Power Level. You can extend the range to SHORT
if you spend an extra Willpower Point (this does
not count towards the Power Level). This spell
can only be used against living humanoids.
RAISE THE DEAD
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RANK 2, RITUAL
RANGE: Near
DUR ATION: Quarter Day
INGREDIENT: Item belonging to the dead
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The main task of Death Magic is awakening the
dead. In its simplest form, this ritual is used to
reanimate one dead humanoid or animal, which
will become a rank 1 undead.
For each Power Level beyond the first, you
can reanimate one more undead, or increase
the rank of all undead raised by the spell by
one. A ritual with Power Level 2 can raise two
undead of rank 1, Power Level 3 can raise two
undead of rank 2, and so on.
A rank 1 undead has little to no mental
capacity, but will obey simple commands and
can use weapons and simple tools. The undead
has the same Strength it did in life, Agility is
decreased by 1 (no lower than 1), and it has no
Wits or Empathy. Skills based on Strength and
Agility are retained.
A rank 2 undead can be enhanced in one of
the following ways:
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STRONGER. The Strength score increases
by 1. This
effect can be
chosen several
times for undead
of higher ranks.
SMARTER. The
undead regains some
of its lost mental capacity,
in the form
of both Wits and
Empathy and skills associated with
these attributes. All the scores are lowered
by 1 (no lower than 1). The undead can
answer questions about its life both before
and after death, but it often has an unclear
sense of time and can be very forgetful. It
obeys its maker and can perform slightly
more advanced tasks.
DURABLE. The Duration of the spell is
doubled. This effect can be chosen several
times for undead of higher levels.
A rank 3 undead gets two of the effects above. A
rank 4 undead gets three effects, a rank 5 gets
four effects, and so on. Note that the Strong
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