Rule Book - Fables of Fenorra

any combination of Power components totaling a
value of 5. One spell, Greater Extension, specifically
requires a Power component of value 2 or 4 in
addition to other components. Components expire no
longer than 2 years after the issue date. If there is no
printed expiration date then the expiration date is
assumed to be one year.
Magic Items
Magic items can be found or made through the
NERO Formal Magic System©. Most give the wearer
the ability to utilize a spell and some items grant the
wearer effects from the Formal Magic system.
Until you have an item Identified, you will not have
the tag for the item and thus will not be able to use it,
even if you are already aware of the item’s power.
You must proceed to the Spirit Tree or monster camp
to receive the tag. If you are given the item and are
told in-game what the item’s powers are and how it is
used, you may use the item but must go to the Spirit
Tree or monster camp immediately thereafter to get
the tag. Make sure that any player that gives you a
Magic Item phys-rep also gives you the Magic Item
Tag.
Activating Magic Items
Spells from a magic item act just like a regular spell.
They provide the character, no matter what class or
level, the ability to use that spell. The correct process
to activate an item is to use the phrase “Activate”
followed by the spell incant. For Example:
“Activate With Mystic Force I Bind You”.
In addition, all the normal rules for casting apply.
You must have your hand free, have a packet, be
conscious, etc. So you cannot activate an item when
in a Web, unconscious, dead, or when tied up.
Activating an item IS NOT a Game Ability, so you
CAN use an item when you cannot otherwise use a
Game Ability or Skill, such as when under the effects
of a Taint Blood spell.
The following Formal Magic Spells will not cease to
work on a magic item when it goes from active to
inactive: Render Indestructible, Extend Formal
Magic, Greater Extension, Spirit Link, Spirit Lock,
and Delimit.
Magic Item Slots
A player may have 5 Magic items active on their
person at a time.
If a character has more items on them than the
allowed limit they must have a clearly delineated
method to separate the active and inactive magic
items tags. In order to switch between an active and
inactive item at least one minute must be spent while
you physically switch your tags between active and
inactive. You may only make one switch at a time. If
you lose possession of a magic item tag that item
becomes inactive for you. During this time you may
use no game skills. Characters must be conscious
with at least one hand free to switch items between
active and inactive states.
Any item can still be used while inactive, but only
with the benefit of the effects listed above.
Spirit as Magic Item
For only the purposes of Magic Item Slots, a
character’s Spirit counts as a single magic item that
can be made active as a whole. Only the following
formal magic spells count for the purposes of this
“item:” Enchant, Cloak (Minor), Bane (Minor), Spell
Store, Protection Aura, Cloak, Bane, Expanded
Enchantment, Spirit Link, Spirit Lock.
All other Spirit targeting formal magic spells fall
outside of the Magic Item Slot rules. Please note that
Spirit Link and Spirit Lock do not cease to work on an
item that has been made inactive.
A PC is always aware of all formal magic spells on
their spirit, including, school, specific type, and
duration as applicable.
Casting Rules
Anyone who possesses the skill Eldritch Formal
Magic or Fenorrian Formal Magic may cast from
formal magic scrolls of the appropriate school.
Formal Magic Scrolls are Indestructible unless
Flawed otherwise.
No Formal Magic may have a duration of longer than
two years.
Casting Time
The standard time to cast any formal magic is five
minutes. However, if a formal magic is directly
harmful to a PC the casting time is one hour, though
the PC may opt to allow the normal five minute
casting time if they inform the marshal at beginning
of the formal. This option does not apply to the
Obliterate formal magic or formal magic that does
not target the PC’s personal items or spirit. The
decision to choose this option is wholly out of game
and is not subject to any in game coercion, review, or
planning.
The hour casting time is automatic upon the desire of
anyone in the Circle or the Marshal. ‘Harmful’
includes destroying a ward or circle, placing a formal
magic circle around a ward, using a formal magic to
escape PC pursuit, etc.) If the formal magic is
directly harmful to an NPC the casting time is
determined by the game staff and may vary between
five minutes and one hour.
Game Day
The game day is defined as 6:00 PM to 5:59 PM the
following day.
Durations measured in game-days are considered to
include the current game-day or portion thereof –
thus an effect with a duration of one game-day will
expire at the beginning of the next game-day, even if
that is only one hour away.
Target Effect Limits
No target may retain more than 5 different formal
magic effects simultaneously. If a target already
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