(TFT) New Spells for Old

[ErolB1@aol.com]

I've been mucking around with modifications to the Control Elemental and 
Create/Destroy Elemental spells for a long while now, and I haven't been able 
to get them tuned to my satisfaction. (One problem is that my Etan campaign 
has *6* elemental types, with the Ice and Lightning elementals being more 
powerful than the standard four.)

So I've decided to drop the spells entirely from the standard spell list for 
Etan, and to add a new pair of nature-ish or elemental-ish spells to replace 
them. This is what I've come up with: 

IQ 13
Predict Weather (S): This spell gives the wizard knowledge of the forthcoming 
weather for his current location. For each point of St put into the spell, 
the wizard can forecast one additional day's weather, e.g. 7 St to forecast 
the weather for the next seven days. 

Casting this spell doesn't require the usual Dx roll, but does require a 
3-die roll against IQ. If the roll fails, the St put into the spell is lost, 
and the wizard learns nothing. If the roll succeeds, the wizard's forecast 
will have 100% accuracy, barring changes in the weather by, e.g. another 
wizard casting the Control Weather spell. 

IQ 18
Control Weather (S): This spell allows the wizard to control the weather. For 
2 St, the wizard may reschedule various phenomena of the weather forecast for 
the next 24 hours, causing a thunderstorm to strike early, for example, or 
delaying a thaw until the next day. The wizard may not create new weather, 
however, nor may he eliminate weather phenomena completely. If a thunderstorm 
is forecast for sometime in the next 24 hours, then the wizard may have it 
come early or late, but must allow it to strike sometime. Likewise, if no 
rain is forecast for the next 24 hours, the wizard may not create rain out of 
nothing. 

However, a wizard may increase the time he has to work with, by casting the 
spell with extra Strength. By casting the spell with 4 St, the wizard can 
delay weather for 2 days instead of one, or bring weather forward from two 
days in the future. Each additional day doubles the St cost: 8 St for 3 days, 
16 St for 4 days, 32 St for 5 days, etc. 

Thus it is plausible for a wizard to bring the first frost a week early (St 
cost 128), but not to bring it a month early (St cost one trillion). On the 
other hand, a wizard can delay weather with clever planning and multiple 
castings of this spell, e.g. to save a rainy day for whatever he needs to 
save a rainy day for. On the third hand, the Gods of Weather (or another 
wizard who knows the Control Weather spell) may act to counter this. 

Casting the Control Weather spell does not require any die rolls. Control 
Weather includes the Predict Weather spell. 

Erol K. Bayburt
Evil Genius for a Better Tomorrow
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