Rule Book - Fables of Fenorra

English so the victim will know what spell has been
cast. In game, these words are understood by anyone,
but have a “magical effect” associated with them that
makes them different from normal speech. Even
though you can speak the language, you cannot
“fake” a spell incantation or otherwise bluff the
casting of a spell. You also cannot bluff the start of a
spell incantation. If you start the incantation, the spell
is used.
Spell casters expend the power to cast a spell as soon
as the incantation has begun. You cannot start the
incantation for a spell, change your mind, and then
still have that spell. You must wait until the next reset
to restudy and to cast the spell again.
Spell Disruption:
If a person takes body damage while casting a spell,
the spell is disrupted. It does not work and is lost
from memory. A spell can be disrupted by anything
that deals body damage, including weapons, traps, or
other spells. This is known as Disruption or Spell
Disruption and is sometimes applicable to other types
of attacks as noted in their descriptions.
Touch-Casting
Touch-casting is performed by holding a packet and
placing it against the target you wish to affect. The
obvious advantage to this is that there is no chance of
missing and wasting the effect. In such a case, the
effect recipient may choose to “accept” the effect,
thus letting it past their Spell Defenses such as Shield
Magic or Elemental Shield. The recipient must be
conscious to “accept” an effect without triggering
the Spell Defenses. You may never “accept” a
thrown effect. The decision to accept an effect
through touch-casting is made immediately after the
effect is cast. This is to prevent a caster from tricking
an unsuspecting victim.
The recipient of a touch-cast effect can always refuse
the effect by saying “refused.” This will use up the
effect, but have no effect whatsoever on the recipient.
Whenever attempting to touch-cast, you must abide
by all NERO safe conduct rules.
Meditation
Any character may Meditate to regain use of “times
per day” or “expendable” skills that were blocked by
the Return monster ability. To Meditate, the
player must role-play deep concentration for 60
seconds, during which time they may perform no
other actions including speaking, moving, or the use
of any in-game skills, items or abilities. At the end of
the meditation the character regains any skills or
abilities lost to the effect “Return .” Only
character skills and abilities may be regained by
Meditating. (not Magic Items, Scrolls, Alchemy, etc.)
A spell-casting character may also Meditate to regain
spells that missed a legal target. At the end of the
meditation, the character regains the use of any
thrown spells that failed to hit a valid target, as well
as all spells, skills and abilities lost to the Return
effect.
Spell casters should not use the Meditate ability to
intentionally miss their targets in an attempt to cause
confusion for the NPCs. “Decoy” spells that are
intentionally thrown away from the target should not
be regained by Meditate. In effect, you can only get
your spells back from Meditate if you were actually
attempting to hit your target and missed. Spells
negated by defenses (ex. Dodge, Phase, and Resist)
cannot be meditated back.
Spell Defenses
There are a few spells and effects that will defend the
recipient from incoming spells or attacks. Each can
protect against one spell or effect only. They are cast
upon the recipient in advance and stay with the
recipient until “activated” by the effect they are
meant to prevent. The Spell Defenses are
Displacement, Elemental Shield, Magic Armor,
Poison Shield, Reflect Magic, and Shield Magic.
In-game, you are always aware of what Spell
Defenses are active on you. Once a Spell Defense is
active, then it will affect the next applicable incoming
effect, regardless of whether or not you would have
been affected. It will then be used up.
All Spell Defenses must be called correctly, for
example “Reflect Magic” or “Phase,” to be effective
and must be called within three seconds or are lost or
not used respectively.
Spell Durations
Concentration
This spell lasts as long as the caster maintains
concentration. While concentrating, the caster
cannot run or use any game skills.
Indefinite
The effects of this spell are permanent unless the
victim receives the proper counter spell or the
spell’s effect is used up (or the victim dies). The
counter spell will be listed in the spell description.
Line of Sight
This spell lasts as long as the caster could see the
victim from wherever the caster is located. It also
lasts if the victim could see the caster.
Basically, if you can draw a straight line between
the caster and the victim without the line being
obscured by any large, immovable obstacles, then
the Line of Sight is still in effect. The caster
closing their eyes or hiding behind someone else
does not break Line of Sight. If the caster breaks
Line of Sight by imposing a very large object such
as a building or large tree between the caster and
the victim for longer than 10 seconds, the spell is
broken. If view of the character is resumed before
the 10 seconds is up, then the spell continues.
These spells will cease immediately if the caster
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