Spell #1 Acumen

 

 

Acumen

Magic User Level 1

Duration: Instantaneous

Range:Self

The caster may make a quick, smart decision as a free action following this spell. The referee weighs the current situation and informs the player of the action they may take, mostly based on anything the referee knows that the player could not.

So how should this spell be used?

Well, when there is a weakness an enemy possesses and the silver or moonlight or vinegar or whatever is in the casters possession, they might use it. Or maybe they will spot the obvious solution, the hidden gap between the floor and wall, or some other detail that the players have seen, but will suddenly use it or put it into context. in essence this spell is meant to be a simulation of magically putting the pieces of detail or knowledge people accumulate in almost any situation that are deemed unimportant, and then magically stitching them to give the caster a brief flash of insight formed by things they saw and knew, but could not combine into an actionable decision. It is like on demand clutch moves, or the gut feeling we acted on that turned out correct.

This is written for LotFP.