Spell #104 Cake Walker

 

 

 Magic user Level 5

 Duration- As long as the caster sings, whistles, hums, or external music plays

Range- The caster and all their actions

 

Cake-Walker- This spell grants every action a difficulty during its duration. Anything not challenging in any way should be given a rating of 0, whereas a very hard task should be a 10. The caster gains twenty free difficulty, to be used on any action or actions over time. Anything else is a standard skill roll as all normal skills, with a d10 instead of a d6.  So a task of challenge 6 would require a roll of 5 or less to succeed, or you could spend six difficulty of your twenty to automatically succeed. 

 

So what is this spell good for? Completely changing the way the magic-user takes actions for its duration. Extremely impossible things are now a roll of the dice or a use of some points, but all this has to be calculated or measured and carefully considered, and all the while they must make music or have it play, which means getting hit might end the spell, someone attacking the musicians might stop the spell, needing to speak becomes a problem unless you can sing what you want to say, and singing or music might attract random encounters. On the other hand, this spell makes tasks measurable and much easier to understand, which can help make otherwise impossible things happen.