Magic: Bardic Arcana

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Bardic Arcana

This school of magic revolves around the performance of specific music laced with arcane power. This may be accompanied or empowered by a dance or a group of bards, but the staple of this magic is that it varies from song to song, and it's rumored that some songs may have roots in forbidden, godless magics and will have some terrifying results... such as raising lake trolls.
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Arcane Intuition
Cost: 10 SP
Required Skill Level: 1
Untrained: No.
Type: Action
Effect: Gives the ability to recognize the discipline of a Bardic Arcana spell.

Arcane Defense
Cost: 10 SP
Required Skill Level: 1
Untrained: No.
Type: Action
Effect: Enables you to defend against magic by adding this skill bonus to your will roll.

Mezzo Forte
Cost: 30 SP
Required Skill Level: 3
Untrained: No.
Type: Bonus
Effect: You gain the ability to boost spell damage by +250 with no change in mp cost.

Arcane Identification
Cost: 30 SP
Required Skill Level: 3, 'Arcane Intuition' Advanced Skill
Untrained: No.
Type: Action
Effect: Recognize a spell cast in the Bardic Arcana discipline.

Mezzo Piano
Cost: 60 SP
Required Skill Level: 4
Untrained: No.
Type: Action
Effect: By using this ability, your spells can be declared intentionally non lethal damage. This has no effect on the mp cost of the spell.

Arcane Performer
Cost: 90 SP
Required Skill Level: 5
Untrained: No.
Type: Bonus
Effect: Receive a +1 bonus to spellcasting rolls for every level of 'perform' skill you possess.

Forte
Cost: 120 SP
Required Skill Level: 6, Mezzo Forte
Untrained: No.
Type: Bonus
Effect: Improves upon Mezzo Forte by further boosting the damage modifier to +500.

Piano
Cost: 160 SP
Required Skill Level: 7, Mezzo Piano
Untrained: No.
Type: Action
Effect: You may halve the damage of a spell you cast by singing in a quiet voice. This has no effect on mp cost.

Pianissimo
Cost: 200 SP
Required Skill Level: 8
Untrained: No.
Type: Action
Effect: Obscure a spell casting, racing its identification DC by 30 to anyone with a less arcane arts level than you. Obscured spells can not be countered, but cost *3 as much mp.

Fortissimo
Cost: 275 SP
Required Skill Level: 9
Untrained: No.
Type: Bonus
Effect: Spread the effects of a spell -- and its song -- across a greater area. Any spell effects which target a set area or 1dx number of people effect double that area or +3 people. This has no effect on mp cost.

Cut Time
Cost: 400 SP
Required Skill Level: 10
Untrained: No.
Type: Action
Effect: Allows 1 song per action, as opposed to one song per round

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