Advent Magicka Rising Corebook.pdf

Advent: Magicka Rising

A fantasy RPG by Paul Roberts.

Advent: Magicka Rising

The Table of Contents.

Introduction: 3

Rules block: 4

- Character Creation 4

– Example Characters 7

– Race 9

– Skills 13

– Experience and levelling 19

– System 20

– Combat 21

– Advanced Combat 23

– Health and Healing 26

-Magic 27

-Training and Taming 30

Settings Block: 32

– History of the Tyris Empire 32

– Social hierarchy 34

– Geography 37

– - Karsill 37

– - Madoen 39

– - Corassin 41

– - Bakaten 42

– - Abooca 44

Appendixes: 46

– Equipment 46

– Speciality Resources 51

– Ranks 53

– Techniques and Manoeuvres 54

– Spells 56

– Monsters 59

– Character Sheet 73

Introduction.

Advent: Magicka Rising (later referred to as just Advent) is in essence Pokemon with swords,

magic and the ability to beat monsters into a bloody pulp, should they prove to be disobedient.

For a long time (since I was around eight) the idea of running around with a team of monsters that

answer to your beck and call was one that appealed to me greatly, as it would to any little boy, and

Pokemon gave me just that. When I began becoming interested in pen and papers rpgs the desire to

convert the Pokemon game into such a thing arose within me and now, after five years, I am

actually starting to put pen to paper (of finger to key, as it were.)

Of course the happy-go-lucky game play style of Pokemon seemed a little too shallow and far too

light hearted for anything I would want to play. So Advent game along, pokemon's evil twin.

The game, in creation, became something more than this, even still, and I hope that players and

Storytellers will use it to create epic tales.

All you need to play Advent is this manual (though others may help as only 18 monsters are

included in this book) some pens and paper, friends and a set of polyhedral dice

(D4,D6,D8,D10,D12 & D20).

Any future rules, monster or equipment supplements will be found on this website and will, of

course, be of free download.

Rules.

The following pages (up until setting) describe all the rules needed for play. Character creation,

system and combat, magic and the racial rules should all be adhered to for game balance. The

environmental rules and advanced rules are not necessary to game play, but add more options.

Character Creation.

Making a character is simple, easy and quick. The system leaves nothing to random so that all

starting characters can be seen as equal. A in depth and interested character can be made and ready

to play in less than ten steps and half an hour.

1.Name and concept: The first thing your character needs is a name. This can be anything, though

your GM may deny names that denote titles or certain ethnicity if your character does not belong to

this group, or if such groups don't exist in your game. Concept is slightly harder but is important to

giving you direction with the rest of your character's creation. Concept is simply two or three words

that denote your character's abilities, personality and profession. Your concept can range from

combat-shy scholar to veteran mercenary and many ideas in between.

2.You must now assign your priorities. By assigning priorities to different aspects of your character

you are stating how many points you wish to spend in different areas, giving you different attributes

and abilities. You must assign each group to a letter ranging from A-F, only able to assign each

letter once.

The bonuses for priorities in different areas are shown in the table below, with descriptions on the

below that.

Attributes

Skills

Race

Troll/Dracoth

Elf/Orc

Goblin/ Gnome Goblin/Gnome Human Human

Magic

Magician

Warlock

Channeler

Monster

I strong

1 Moderate

1 Weak

Resource

500

300

200

100

Attributes: This is the amount of points you have to spend among the six attributes that govern your

character's capabilities, these are: strength, stamina, agility, intelligence, wisdom and charisma. See

Attributes sub chapter for more information.

Skills: This is the amount of points you have to spend among your skills, your character can have as

many skills as he can afford and there are a multitude to choose from. See Skills chapter for more

information.

Race: All races, except human, have some special abilities, resistances and skill affinities. When

split by a / choose one or other of the races. See Races chapter for more information.

Magic: This is the spell casting abilities that your character has, there is no way to improve this trait

after character creation so carefully decide whether or not you wish to be a spell caster and to what

level. See Magic chapter for more information.

Monster: This is whether or not you start the game with one or more fully tamed monsters.

Characters who do not take this at the beginning of the game will have to catch monsters later and

then train them. A monster gained at the start of the game does not count to your total character's

monster limit. See Monsters chapter for more information.

Resource: This is the amount of Rhunba your character has to spare at the start of the game. It can

be used to buy equipment at the start of the game, hoarded & invested.

3.Element: Your character's element is important, it states which monsters, spells and some items

that you might have affinities for. It is doubly important as it may inhibit the learning or casting of

some spells. There are six elements to choose from; water, fire, air, earth, dark and light odic. Water

is opposite to fire, air is opposite to earth and light odic is opposite to dark odic. The following

bonuses apply once you have chosen your element.

If you can choose starting monster, your monster may not be of opposed element.

● +1 to taming rolls of monster with the same element/ -1 to taming rolls of monsters with

opposed element.

● +1 to hit and damage rolls against opposed element.

● 25% resistance to elemental damage of your element/ 25% weakness to elemental damage

of opposed element

● Can instantly sense any enchantments/curses of an item with the same element attunement.

● -2 to countermagic rolls against opposed element

● Each element also gives you a +1 bonus to two attributes.

Water: Agility and Charisma.

Fire: Stamina and Strength

Air: Agility and Wisdom

Earth: Stamina and Intelligence

Light Odic: Stamina and Wisdom

Dark Odic: Strength and Intelligence

4.Race: Once you have selected your race, record any information about abilities for that race in the

racial abilities column of the character sheet.

5.Monsters: Record the stats of your chosen monster on your Companion sheet.

6. Magic: See the magic chapter for more information. Gives you access to the Arcane skill.

7.Attributes: All attributes start at 0 and you must spend points to raise them. This is done on a 1

attribute point for each level an attributes is raised. No attribute may be raised above 6 in this

manner. Once you have assigned points increase your appropriate attributes for your element and

raise, attributes may go above six at this stage.

8.Skills: Buy skills in the same manner as you do attributes, except that no skill may be raised

above five at this stage.

9.Resources: Final go to the equipment section of this manual and buy and equipment you want

your character to start with. The rest of the money you may keep on your person or you may roll to

invest if you have the Finance skill (see the skills chapter.)

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