Days of Gold Class Reference
Invented spells, arcane authority, impossible solutions, and a place of power.
Staff or dagger (2 Harm), a common scholarly outfit, quill, ink bottle, 10 sheets of paper, and a blank book for your Spellbook. You also own an Arcane Sanctuary.
When you create a new spell, the GM gains 1 Fortune to later turn the world in the characters' favor.
Ruins. You know how to move through and read ruins: collapsed keeps, abandoned temples, buried streets, old tunnels, dead cities, arcane wreckage, sealed vaults, and forgotten roads.
When your Regional Knowledge applies to Journey or Get the Lay of the Land, choose 1 additional option or question, regardless of the result of the roll.
You begin with a secure Arcane Sanctuary: a wizard tower, arcane laboratory, strange townhouse, observatory, hidden cave, or similarly unmistakable place of your own. It provides Common Lifestyle for you and your guests, a library, secure storage, and a suitable workspace for inventing spells. It is safe for magical work and cannot be spied on from outside by mundane or magical means. Describe where it is and one impossible feature it possesses.
The Arcane Sanctuary is a toy, not a leash. It remains yours and continues functioning while you travel. Known spells never require you to return. When invention must happen elsewhere, another genuinely suitable workshop can serve, and perks can improve your reach.
Your Spellbook contains spells you have permanently learned. A known spell is any spell recorded in your Spellbook. At character creation, create 2 spells with the GM at no research cost. Each starting spell must be built as a one- or two-requirement spell. State exactly what each does, its normal casting time, range, duration, and any limit that matters. A spell does what its written entry says; it is not reduced later because it solved a problem decisively.
A lost or destroyed Spellbook can be reconstructed at your Arcane Sanctuary at the beginning of next session. You keep your already learned spells.
When you work in your Arcane Sanctuary or another suitable workspace and tell the GM what you want a new spell to do, the GM gives you 1 to 5 requirements. A spell can contain several effects and may deal up to 5 Harm. Add 1 requirement for each 1 Harm, distinct effect, or meaningful layer of potency. Potency can mean more targets, a larger area, longer duration, greater range, a stronger transformation, or another substantial increase in what the spell accomplishes. A spell is normally limited to 5 total requirements.
Meet every requirement and the finished spell enters your Spellbook permanently. Requirements are the price of invention, not recurring casting costs, unless explicitly written into the spell.
When you cast a known spell from your Spellbook, roll +Wits.
The spell works, but you choose one:
Repeated spellcasting wears you down. Count how many spells you attempt to cast each session.
After your third spellcasting attempt in a session, gain 1 Spell Exhaustion. Gain 1 additional Spell Exhaustion after every 3 further attempts that session.
For each Spell Exhaustion you have, take -1 ongoing to spellcasting rolls.
At the start of each session, reduce your Spell Exhaustion by 1, to a minimum of 0, and reset your spellcasting attempt count to 0.
These examples show how requirement count can translate into scope, Harm, duration, targets, and other effects.
Useful, reliable magic that solves a small problem.
Magic that replaces a useful tool, skill, or modest obstacle.
Magic that can substantially alter a scene or bypass a serious obstacle.
Magic that can dominate a scene, affect groups, or accomplish something normally extremely difficult.
The kind of spell people might know you invented.
At will, create a minor magical effect: create or snuff a small flame, produce a brief sound or illusion, clean or alter a small object, or open or close an ordinary unlocked door or window. Similar harmless effects are allowed. Prestidigitation cannot inflict Harm or overcome serious resistance.
Choose 2 at character creation. Each unchosen Class Perk can later be purchased for 2,000 gp.
After a moment of study, you know whether a visible person, place, object, or effect is magical and its broad nature. Roll only against deliberate concealment or a uniquely obscure working.
When the GM gives you 2 or more invention requirements, ask for one different route to satisfy one of them. Choose which route to pursue.
Gain a named magical familiar at Loyalty 3: 2 Wounds, Armor 0, 1 Harm. It speaks with you, can scout, and you can communicate with it telepathically at any distance while you remain in the same world. Should the familiar die, beginning next session you may return to your Arcane Sanctuary or a similar workshop to gain a new familiar.
A quiet room, one hour, and 50 gp of ordinary supplies are enough to establish a suitable invention workspace until you leave it. The room is safe for magical work and cannot be spied on by mundane or magical means.
You can read and understand any mundane, dead, scholarly, or arcane language without preparation, reference material, or a roll.
Gain an apprentice who can understand and learn some of the magic you teach them. Loyalty 3, 3 Wounds, Armor 0, Harm 2 (dagger). Describe them and how they came into your service. At the start of each session, or when you first acquire them, choose 2 spells from your Spellbook that they know for that session. When your Apprentice attempts to cast one of these spells, roll +your Wits and resolve it using Cast a Spell. Your Apprentice tracks Spell Exhaustion separately from you. After each spellcasting attempt, they gain 1 Spell Exhaustion level. Each level gives -1 ongoing to their spellcasting rolls. Their Spell Exhaustion clears at the start of the next session.
Choose an area of expertise. Whenever something within that field becomes relevant, the GM tells you everything a foremost scholar could reasonably know and truthfully answers your related questions. No roll is required. This does not reveal facts that could not be discovered through study.
Add a great archive, observatory, secure vault, apprentice circle, portal chamber, or another major fictional facility to your Arcane Sanctuary. Define what it makes possible with the GM.
At the start of each session, choose one known spell. When you roll a 6- while casting that spell, resolve it as a 7-9 instead. You may choose a different spell next session.
Repeatable, maximum twice. Increase any one Stat by +1. A Stat cannot exceed +4.
After creating your character, ask the table each question one at a time. Any other player may answer by volunteering their character. Briefly establish what happened and what their relationship looks like. If no player answers, the GM fills the role with an NPC instead. You may reject a GM-created answer and ask for another, but you cannot veto another player's decision to be involved.
