Magickal Reference Charts

Base Casting Roll

Effect is…	Difficulty
Coincidental	Highest Sphere + 3
Vulgar Without Witnesses	Highest Sphere + 4
Vulgar With Witnesses	Highest Sphere + 5

Paradox Points Generated

On a Success	Points
Coincidental	None
Vulgar	One point

On a Botch
Coincidental	One per dot in highest Sphere
Vulgar Without Witnesses	One + One per dot in highest Sphere
Vulgar With Witnesses	Two + Two per dot in highest Sphere

Magickal Feats

Feat	Suggested Successes
Simple Feat (Enhancing your perceptions, lighting a candle, changing hair color, shielding your mind)	One
Standard Feat (Healing yourself, conjuring a small fire, altering your shape, influencing someone’s mood with Mind magick)	Two
Difficult Feat (Healing aggravated damage, conjuring a fireball, transforming yourself into a radically different shape, reading or affecting someone else’s mind)	Three
Impressive Feat (Growing or regenerating limbs, conjuring a firestorm, transforming someone else into a different shape, controlling someone else’s mind)	Four
Mighty Feat (Creating simple life-forms, blowing down walls, conjuring strange entities, commanding a mob)	Five to Ten
Outlandish Feat (Creating complex life-forms, blowing up buildings, summoning Otherworldly creatures, turning a mob into your personal zombie squad	Ten to Twenty
Godlike Feat (Rewriting your own Pattern permanently, incinerating cities, conjuring monstrous hordes, enslaving hundreds of people)	Twenty and beyond

Notes

• Personal effects generally only require one success.
• Effects that affect someone or something else generally require at least two successes.
• World-altering effects tend to require at least five successes.
• Damage or Duration for these feats (not both at once) are based upon the number of successes rolled, as per the Base Damage and Duration Chart. If you chose Damage, then the Duration is instant. If you choose Duration, then the Damage is zero.
• Additional Damage, Targets, or Duration may be purchased under the Dividing Successes Rule (Optional).
• If you wish to add to the Effect’s Damage, Targets, or Duration before you make the roll, figure out how many additional successes you would need, declare them to the Storyteller, and then roll the total amount (that is, the Base + additional successes)

Magickal Difficulty Modifiers

Using a personalized instrument	Modifier
Using a personalized instrument	-1
Using a unique instrument	-1
Using a unique and specialized instrument	-2
Working with unfamiliar instruments	+1 to +2
Working without usual instruments	+3
Using instruments when you don’t need to	-1
Using personal item from target (sympathetic magick)	-1 to -3
Appropriate Resonance (personal, instrument, ritual, or Tass)	-1
Opposed Resonance (personal, instrument, ritual, or Tass)	+1
Manipulating Mythic Threads/ hypernarrative	-1
Spending Quintessence	-1 per point, max. -3
Spending extra time (per additional turn each roll; max. -3)	-1
Improvised Casting (Creating a magickal effect for the first time)	+1
Turning time backwards	+3
Researches lore about subject before using magick	-1 to -3
Near a Node	-1 to -3
Distant or hidden target or subject	+1
Juggling several Effects at once	+1 per two Effects
Mage distracted	+1 to +3
Mage in conflict with Avatar	+1 to +3
Domino Effect	+1 per two coincidences after first; see p. 539.
Outlandish to godlike feat	+1 to +3

Notes

• Maximum net modifier of -3 or +3.
• Minimum difficulty of 3, maximum of 10. If you employ the Thresholds option, max difficulty is 9; in the latter case, extra modifiers add to threshold, requiring one additional success per +1 difficulty modifier.
• Modifiers that would take the difficulty above 10 add additional successes at a one-to-one ratio; a +3 modifier to difficulty 10, for example, would demand at least three successes
• If you use both the threshold option and modifiers that take the difficulty above 10, then each additional +1 difficulty over 9 demands an extra success. A +3 modifier to difficulty 9 would require at least three successes.

Degrees of Success

Degree	Description
Botch	Character makes a critical mistake, wasting the Effect and all associated efforts. Mage gets Paradox points based upon the Spheres and level of vulgarity involved.
Total Failure	No successes. Effect falls short. Mage can try again at +1 difficulty.
Partial Success	Player scores roughly half of the Suggested Successes, giving imperfect results. Mage can keep going, at +1 difficulty.
Success	Player scores at least 100% of the Suggested Successes. Effect goes as planned.
Extraordinary Success	Player scores at least three successes above the Suggested Successes. Mage enjoys some bonus – extra Damage or Duration, high-quality item, loyal spirit, etc. – to be decided at Storyteller’s option based upon nature of the Effect

Base Damage or Duration

Successes	Damage	Duration
One	None	One turn
Two	Two levels	One scene
Three	Six levels	One day
Four	Eight levels	One story
Five	Ten levels	Six months
Six+	Number of Successes x 2	Storyteller’s option

Notes

• Damage also reflects the number of health levels healed by the Life Sphere, or the points of Quintessence channeled by the Prime sphere.
• To preserve game balance, the Storyteller may choose to cap damage at 20 health levels (10 successes, or 9 successes for Forces Sphere attacks).
• The Forces Sphere adds one automatic success to Damage. This is in addition to the normal successes rolled, so an Effect with 3 successes will deal 8 direct damage, as it’s 3 successes + 1 from Forces.

Magickal Damage

Damage Type	Origin
Bashing	Mind Sphere Effects. Forces effects such as reducing the speed of a bullet.
Lethal	Most other Sphere Effects.
Aggravated	Any sphere when charged with Prime 2 and a point of Quintessence. Fire or electrical Forces Effects. Vulgar Entropy, Life, or Prime-based Effects that directly disrupt the target’s Pattern.

Notes

• Correspondence and Time inflict no damage unless they’re combined with other Spheres.
• The Forces Sphere adds one automatic success to Damage. This is in addition to the normal successes rolled, so an Effect with 3 successes will deal 8 direct damage, as it’s 3 successes + 1 from Forces.
• Entropy inflicts damage only through indirect attacks until Rank 4; after that, damage is Aggravated.

Dividing Successes Rule (Optional)

Under this optional rule, each additional success beyond the Base Successes may be spent on one of the following bonuses:

Bonus	Effect
Targets	One additional target for each success beyond the Base.
Damage	Two additional levels of damage for each success beyond the Base.
Duration	One additional level of duration for each success beyond the Base.

Correspondence Sphere Ranges

Successes	Range	Connection
One	Line of sight (Such as a cloaked technocrat)	Body sample
Two	Very familiar	Close possession or companion
Three	Familiar	Possession or casual friend
Four	Visited once	Casual acquaintance or object used once
Five	Described location	Briefly touched or met object or person
Six+	Anywhere on Earth	No connection

Notes

• When casting Magick without the use of Correspondence, the range of an effect is limited to the mage’s immediate non-magical perception. A sound-based effect, for example, would affect any target that hears it, without the use of Correspondence.

Teleportation Locations

Successes	Range
One	Within immediate perception.
Two	Very familiar place (home, Sanctum, etc.)
Three	Familiar / Just saw it recently.
Four	Visited briefly.
Five	Heard or saw it described.
Six+	Teleporting totally blind.

Forces and Weight

Forces Sphere Level	Weight
One	Nothing
Two	A single human-sized character or roughly equivalent mass, no more than 300 pounds.
Three	Two tons or so.
Four	Small buildings.
Five	A side of a mountain.

”I Disbelieve!”

Only vs. mental illusions. Roll Willpower, five successes or more.

Believability	Difficulty
No fucking way!	3
Hard to swallow	4
Implausible	5
Possible	6
Probable	7
Likely	8
Too damned likely!	9

Feats of Illusion Magick

Successes	Illusion
One	Simple, one sensation (sight, sound, scent, etc.)
Two	Simple and moving, one sensation.
Three	Complex and stationary, or simple and moving (two sensations)
Four	Complex and moving (several sensations)
Five	Complex and reflexive (multiple sensations)
Six+	Complex and interactive (full sensations)

Types of Illusions

• Mental - Mind 2+ (only in target’s mind; usually coincidental)
• “Physical” - Forces 2+ / Prime 2+ visible to all witnesses; manipulate elemental forces to manifest sensory components)
• Immersive - Forces 4+ / Prime 4+ (“holodeck” level of apparent reality)

Damage and Duration

Illusions don’t normally inflict damage unless “damage levels” are purchased as described below. Illusions may indirectly lead witness into dangerous situations, as described under Environmental Hazards.

• Mind - Bashing damage
• Mind 3 / Life 3 - Aggravated damage
• Forces - Bashing or Lethal, depending on elements involved.

Default Duration is one scene. Additional levels of Duration, or “damage levels” of two levels of damage, may be purchased for one additional success, each level, above the Base. One day + two levels of damage, for example, would require two additional successes.

Feats of Time Magick

Successes	Feat
Three	Step out of time / minor aging (Difficult feat)
Four	Take one other character out of time / noticeable aging (Impressive feat)
Five	Take several characters, or a roughly 10’ x 10’ area, out of time/ severe aging (Mighty feat)
Eight	Take larger area (25’ x 25’) out of time/ age to decrepitude (Mighty feat)
10-20	Take an even larger area out of time/ age to brink of destruction (Outlandish feat)
20+	Freeze or isolate very large and dynamic area or event / age out of existence (Godlike feat)

Notes

• Feats that rewind time add 3+ to the difficulty.
• Feats that affect time beyond personal perceptions (viewing through time, for instance) are almost always vulgar magick.

Time Sphere Timelines

Successes	Effect Timespan
One	Within a year
Two	Five years
Three	Twenty years
Four	Fifty years
Five	One hundred years
Six+	Five hundred years
10+	1000 years or more

Notes

• Timespan limits apply only to looking or reaching through time, not to the duration of a given Effect.

Paradox Backlash Roll

The Storyteller rolls one die for each point of Paradox in the character’s current Paradox pool, against difficulty 6.

Successes	Effects of Discharge
Botch	All Paradox points discharge harmlessly.
No successes	No effects, but no Paradox points discharge.
1-5	One point of Paradox discharged per success. Mage also suffers one die’s worth of Bashing damage per success and acquires a trivial Paradox Flaw.
6-10	One point of Paradox discharged per success. Mage also suffers a Burn of one die of bashing damage per success or acquires a minor Paradox Flaw.
11-15	Usual Paradox point-discharge, as well as a Burn of lethal damage or one of the following effects: a significant Paradox Flaw, a Paradox Spirit visitation, or a mild Quiet.
16-20	Usual Paradox point-discharge, as well as a Burn of lethal damage and one point of permanent Paradox or two of the following effects: a severe Paradox Flaw; a Paradox Spirit visitation; a moderate Quiet; or banishment to a Paradox Realm.
21+	Usual Paradox discharge, plus a Burn of aggravated damage either two points of permanent Paradox, one drastic Paradox Flaw, a Paradox Spirit visitation, a severe Quiet, or banishment to a Paradox Realm.

Levels of Quiet

Level	Paradox Discharged	Delusions or Disassociation
1	1-3	Minor quirks or occasional delusions; mage begins to manifest odd behavior and minor disassociation from his baseline reality
2	4-6	Delusions and disconnection become more severe; mage perceives things that no one else can see, starts denying the experiences of other people, and begins to behave irrationally even by Awakened standards.
3	7-10	Mage’s senses backfire, creating blindness (real or conceptual), vivid hallucinations, and erratic – perhaps dangerous – behavior. Hobgoblins might appear, manifesting the mage’s delusions in ways that other people can perceive.
4	11-15	Mage either gets trapped in a mindscape of his own design, or else behaves so irrationally that he becomes a danger to himself and everyone nearby.
5	16-20	Mage either drops into total catatonia or takes on many of the characteristics of a Marauder but without immunity to Paradox.
6	21+	Mage goes Marauder and becomes a Storyteller character.

Types of Quiet

Level	Denial	Madness	Morbidity
1	Stubbornness, minor projection	Minor hallucinations	Attraction to death and decay
2	Selective perceptions, hypocritical behavior	Frequent delusions, mood swings	Fixation with mortality
3	Irrational behavior, literal blindness to denied subjects	Wild hallucinations, sensory overload	Bloodlust and macabre behavior
4	Deadly fanaticism	Mindscape or constant hobgoblins	Violent sociopathy
5	Fanatical drone	Catatonia or dementia	Sadistic killer
6	Marauder	Marauder	Marauder

Mindscape Rolls

Attempted Task	Dice Pool
Meditate into mindscape	Perception + Meditation
Meditate into Demesne	Perception + Demesne
Reduce time in mindscape	Wits + Enigmas or Perception + Demesne
Communicate to outside	Willpower

Notes

• Difficulty for all is Quiet Level + 3

Aura Colors and Textures

Emotional State	Color
Bitterness	Brown
Calm, Devotion	Blue
Change, Transformation	Violet
Compassion, Affection	Pink
Empathy, Sensitivity	Green
Enthusiastic, Idealistic	Yellow
Fear	Orange
Fury	Dark Red
Pain, Hatred	Black
Passion, Anger	Red
Sadness	Silver
Uncertainty, Depression	Gray

Condition	Texture
Arousal	Bright
Corruption	Pulsating
Dementia, Quiet	Flickering
Excitement	Crackling
Faerie	Rainbow highlights
Marauder	Hypnotic, swirling
Fanatical	Intense colors
Ghost	Weak, faded
Magic / Mage	Sparkling
Nephandus	Wouldn’t you like to know?
Sickness, Dying	Fading
Spirituality, Awareness	Gold
Truth, Purity, Faith	White
Vampire	Pale
Werecreature	Bright, vibrant

Quintessence Amounts

Subject	Quintessence / Points
Small animal (bird, cat, fox)	5
Large animal (wolf, horse, human)	10
Powerful animal (tiger, elephant, whale)	15–25
Changeling	20–30
Mage	10–30 (depending on Quintessence Trait)
Spirit	Essence Trait
Vampire	10+ Blood Pool Trait
Werecreature	20+ Gnosis Trait