Regular Modern World: 2025

This spell allows the caster to suppress pain, fatigue, and hunger, enabling them to function with mechanical precision for an extended duration. However, the more it is used, the more the caster loses touch with their humanity, causing discomfort to those around them.

You tap into your advanced cybernetics and genetic modifications, granting you enhanced cognitive abilities and technological prowess. While you excel in intellectual pursuits, your disdain for baseline humans may hinder your interactions with them.

Throw a massive sum of money at a problem. In conversation, this can turn a hostile into an ally or silence a witness. In combat, it can make underpaid guards "accidentally" miss their shots or convince enemies to just walk away. However, it paints a target on your back for grifters, thieves, and blackmailers.

Your gear is the rarest, most expensive version available. It grants a slight edge in performance but also makes you a prime target for thieves, collectors, and corporate spies. In social settings, it impresses the vain but irritates the practical.

Call in a favor from an elite contact once per session. This can get you into an exclusive event, erase a minor crime, or provide insider intel. However, your contact may demand a return favor—usually at the worst moment.

You spend time obsessing over scattered information, drawing bizarre conclusions. If your theory is correct, you gain an insight others missed; if wrong, you might still convince others through sheer confidence.

You speak in cryptic riddles that seem nonsensical at first but later reveal an uncanny accuracy. Once per session, you can twist a failed roll into an unexpected success, though your bizarre utterances may lead others to view you as a lunatic.

Invoke the influence of a corporate backer to receive immediate aid in the form of gold, equipment, or valuable information. However, be prepared to fulfill a favor for them in the future, as their assistance comes with strings attached.

Unleash a powerful non-lethal blast of energy that disorients and staggers multiple foes within a crowded area. This spell is designed to control the battlefield by incapacitating enemies without causing permanent harm.

You deliver a powerful threat that instills fear and compliance in your target. If they fail to resist, they hesitate and struggle to take effective action against you or your allies.

A powerful grappling maneuver that allows you to incapacitate an enemy if you successfully grapple them and they are weakened. If your grapple is successful and the target has less than 10 HP, they are knocked unconscious; otherwise, you risk a counterattack if you fail the grapple by a significant margin.

You can craft an improvised minion from random junk

This spell creates a localized inversion of gravity within a 10-foot radius, causing all creatures in the area to experience a sudden shift in gravitational pull. Enemies must make an Agility saving throw or be knocked prone as they are thrown off balance by the force of the inversion.

Inject yourself or an ally with a mysterious drug that enhances physical abilities. For the duration, gain +2 to Strength and Speed, but suffer from exhaustion afterward.

A spell that allows the caster to infiltrate and disable electronic systems, cybernetics, or power armor. By rolling Tech + Intelligence against the target's defense, the caster can temporarily disable the system for a short duration, causing chaos in the enemy's ranks.

You pay a small fee to a bot farm that scans your rival's social media feed, dragging their reputation through the mud and causing them actual physical pain as their online persona crumbles. The target suffers from a barrage of negative comments and backlash, manifesting as psychic damage.

Summon echoes of your past and future selves to whisper cryptic warnings, providing insight into potential outcomes. However, this power comes at a cost, as it gradually erases your future memories, risking your identity and experiences.

This spell allows the caster to phase in and out of multiple twisted versions of their current location, each more dangerous than the last. However, prolonged exposure to these alternate realities causes the caster to become less tangible, risking their very existence in the material plane.

You can manipulate nearby organic materials to create temporary weapons or tools. These creations are often bizarre and impractical, such as a fork made of flesh or a club made of twisted vines, lasting for a short duration before disintegrating.