277 index index.xml Home Welcome! About me Coffee trap solution Game of Life on a sphere Blood Mage class for DnD Magic for Bastionland Related 278 me me.xml Kirill Golubev 2025 3 1 utu github Doctoral Researcher I am a PhD student at Turku University. Supervised by Jaakko Järvi and Mikhail Barash. 279 bastoinland_magic bastoinland_magic.xml Bastionland Magic There is a unique feel to the Bastionland system of combat. Let's try to get the same feeling from casting spells. 246 spellcasting spellcasting.xml Spellcasting There is no level-up system in Bastionland, so it is natural to give some resources that will represent spellcaster ability. Resource is a set of d6 dice equal to the value of Clarity. Each time you restore Spirit via indulging a Passion, you can regain up to two missing dice from this set. To cast a spell, a caster rolls any number of dice as an Action from that set and then decides what to cast. Only one spell can be cast per roll. Here are some examples of purely combat spells: Heat metal: intricate ladder of arcane pulses rapidly heats metal until it glows red hot. Pulses should be chained together carefully, pick no less than three dice with consecutive values. If it is a piece of armour, the wearer takes damage equal to the sum of chosen dice. If it is a weapon, the bearer chooses to drop it or persevere through pain, taking half of the sum of the chosen dice. Any damage from this spell ignores GD. Magic missile: identical glowing bolts launch towards chosen targets, piercing bone and muscle. Pick any number of dice with the same value rolled. You can pick a different target for each bolt; it deals damage equal to the rolled value. Hex: curse of misfortune impairs defense and makes the target more vulnerable. Pick three dice that have a value of one. For the remaining combat, anyone who attacks the bearer of this curse can add a die from picked ones to the dice that represent an attack before rolling them. The same die can be used by multiple attacks, but only a single hex can be cast upon any one creature. True Strike: Pick any number of dice, then perform an Attack as usual. You can replace any die of the attack with any die from those you picked. Thunderclap: Pick any number of dice, treat them as if it was a single ranged Attack with Blast property. Shield: Pick two dice and add the smaller rolled value among them to your GD. If the guard value exceeds it's maximum surplus persists until next time you would restore guard to full. This system becomes unwieldy very fast, as the time to check the combination for a lot of spells grows in an unpleasant way. Mythic Bastionland is suited for that, as it is very easy to have a small number of spells, as majority of them are lost and forgotten. Also, to add even more agency, caster can roll any number of dice and then choose half(rounded down) and discard the rest. These picked dice can be used to cast spells as if you rolled them. They persist until chosen to be spent, but the total amount of dice can't exceed the value of Clarity. If it is the case at any time, discard until it is no longer the case. 247 witchcraft witchcraft.xml Witchcraft Witches cast spell as a manifestation of favors granted them by their patrons. So, logically, there should be different patrons with different sets of spells and different ways to please them. 248 Thaliat Thaliat.xml Thaliat, a laughing spirit Craves stories and tales. Can consume old bones to recover knowledge about their bone owner's past. Enjoys theater and performances that are done out of pure heart. Treasures celebrations that bring sincere joy for those who participate. Cantrips(does not spent favor, but stops working when you have none) Prestidigitation Mending Spells(1 favor) Last call bell: you start a dance, a trick or any other performance. As long as you are doing it all doors to the room you are it, except maybe one, close and lock themselves. Curtain drop: you bow down as if you just ended your performance. Smoke or water mist envelopes you for a few seconds giving you and up to one other person that stands near you an opportunity to escape combat. Invisible helper: You summon an invisible almost immaterial creature that obeys your mental commands. It can move and carry objects that determined child can, it is easily scared of violence and likes sweets. Disappears when you fall unconsciousness. Failed Rehearsal: When you fail a Spi or Cla check, you can immediately retry it. You can do it no more than one time for any single check. Disguise Voice: Make your voice appear as somebody else's who you heard within at least one conversation. Spells(2 favor) Am I here, am I there: Suddenly it is very hard to understand where you are and what are you doing. Anybody who looks at you feels confused and puzzled unable to understand your intentions. In combat it means that for remainder of it when you are attacked the die of your choice is discarded. Let me try one more time: When you fail a check targeted by Failed Rehearsal you can retry one more time. Cursed Joke: You tell your vilest joke and sprinkle enough magic to take it inside target's head. Upon hearing it, target retracts themself from any conversation they were having or any activity they were doing. Goes to the corner or seeks solitude if the corner is unavailable and sits their in increasingly catatonic state. Target falls unconscious after 10 minutes, when woken up effect ends. Their memory preserves feeling of unpleasantness, but the content of the joke vanishes. If the target is in combat their weapons are impaired until effect ends. Spells(3 favor) All doors are open for me: opens any non-magically locked door Let me try one more time: When you fail a check targeted by Failed Rehearsal you can retry one more time. You are an actor too: For an hour or until harmed target thinks that they are somebody else they have strong impression of. The target acts according to their own understanding of that entity. Upon recovery they remember vaguely what happened during the effect of this spell. 249 Vesna Vesna.xml Vesna, the passage guardian Deep forest is her domain, where she guards gates between our world and world of the dead. Seeks to help those who are stuck in between. Gives her blessings if you help scared soul to complete their journey. Cares both for people and animals alike. 3 favor for leading dying person to the other side 3 favor for supervising birth of a person, 1 for animal. Knows about improper burials and rewards those who make peace with the dead 1 favor for proper burial of a person 4 favor for reburial of a tormented soul Cantrips(does not spent favor, but stops working when you have none) You travel through forests as fast as a horse rider would travel on road. I help, you provide: You sense local distress of the wilderness. When you resolve it, you can ask for something in return. If it could be found here it gonna be provided to you. Spells(1 favor) Be not afraid: Talk with animals Tell me your story: Talk with dead, provided you have something they owned Forest, obscure me: As long as there is enough foliage around, it shifts to provide cover, making you and maybe those with you almost impossible to find. Spells(2 favor) They are within reach: When you search for somebody you know, you can determine if this person is dead or alive and peek into their thoughts and emotions. Tell me your story: You put a new life into dead vegetation with your touch. It grows very fast and obeys your commands. Branches can grapple your enemies, fix objects and obstruct passage. Without water and soil dies soon after you leave expending all its resources. For example, it takes 10 minutes to make wooden door frame impassible, but only several seconds to make a wooden door impossible to open. In combat immobilizes enemies on the round of casting and impairs weapons until escape on later turns. Spells(3 favor) There is only a single path: When you go through a door you envision another door that you have traversed in the past. As long as you hold the door open it leads to the place with that other door you envisioned. 280 mythic_bastionland mythic_bastionland.xml Recap of Mythic Bastionland Specifics of Combat of the wonderful system of "Mythic Bastionland" A turn is enough time to Move and then perform an Action, always in that order. Players normally take the first turn of combat, discussing their plan and acting in any order they wish. Characters who were not readied for combat must pass a CLA Save or miss the first turn. Non-player characters react in a way that feels appropriate for current context. When uncertain, a character makes a SPI to avoid an unfavourable reaction. Feats are special actions known by Knights can be performed as described. Using Feats risks the Knight becoming Fatigued which prevents them from using further Feats until they rest. Take the Action dice noted on your weapon(s), shield, and granted by bonuses. Go through the following steps in order: All combatants attacking the same target roll their dice at the ame time. If the target or their nearby allies can Deny the may use it. Attackers amy perform Gambits. Take the hightest die remaining. Add extra Damage from attackers who are Bolstering the Attack. Subtract the target's total Armour score. The Attack causes that much Damage. The attack's Damage is deducted from the target's GD. If the have at least 1GD remaining then they Evade the Attack. If it leaves them with exactly 0GD then they gain a Scar. If exceeds the target's GD, the excess is deducted from VIG and they are wounded. If they lose half or more of their remaining VIG it is a Mortal Wound. Mortally Wounded targets are down and dying. They die if left untended for an hour, but can be patched up in a few moments. If Damage reduces the target's VIG to 0, the are Slain.