Elf Tricks: Mundane Magic for Elves

A while ago I wrote a post about Mundane Magics. I wanted to do something similar for elves. I am starting a project for a game that I ought to have more information about soon and I intend to use these as cantrip type things for elves.

Elves are a magical people. It is something most elves spend their lives around and most elves can pull off these sorts of tricks with ease, at least in an age of high magic. In an age of low magic, when elves huddle around the small lights of civilization, few elves can perform these simple spells and look on with wonder at those who have remembered these ancestral arts.


1d12 Elf Tricks:
  1. Elf Shot: There is a level in 6 chance that when you would run out or arrows, there turn out to be more in your quiver. Instead of depleting a supply of arrows, it instead remains in its penultimate state (2 Xs or 1d4 Supply Die).
  2. Light Step: Your body becomes virtually weightless, your steps will not mark snow nor set off pressure plates. You also gain Advantage on all checks related to speed, jumping, climbing, and stealth. This lasts for 1 Turn. It can be used times per day equal to your level. 
  3. Shadow Step: You can teleport to a location you can see within 30ft. This can be used times per day equal to your level.
  4. Speak to Beast: You speak the language of an animal. Mind you, it is only that animal. So if you were to cast it on a squirrel, you would only be able to understand squirrels. This spell can only be cast once per day but lasts for the entire day.
  5. Heal: You cause a creature you can touch to regain 1 HP and give them Advantage on their next save against a physical malady. This spell requires use of herbs that you have prepared. Each dose takes an hour to prepare and 1 sp in reagents. A target of this spell can only be effected once per day.
  6. Clean: You make a thing or person clean. Each target can only be affected by this spell once per day.
  7. Ropework: When you spend 5sp on special supplies and spend a day of work, you can craft 50ft of special rope. Each elf may only craft their level x 50ft of special rope. This rope is light but incredibly sturdy. It also obeys your commands. At your desire, it will tie or untie a knot and all checks made with this rope are at Advantage. Your level times per day, you can command the rope to entangle a target and it must Save Versus Paralysis or be wrapped in rope until someone releases it.
  8. Glimpse: You can see what has transpired in the past day in a location using clear water or a reflective surface. You can use this a number of times per day equal to your level.
  9. Glamor: You create a minor illusion that makes you appear to perfectly match your surroundings. This lasts for a Turn or until you move or take damage. You can use this a number of times per day equal to your level.
  10. Woodshape: A small patch of wood (Around 5x5ft) that you touch bends and morphs to your desire. You can create a mark or write words in wood. You can create a hole or divet. You can create a handhold where there was not one before. You may use this a number of times per day equal to your level.
  11. Far Whisper: You can whisper a message to an intended target within level x 100ft and no one will hear it but them.
  12. Mark Friend: A target you touch becomes marked as your friend. Elves and magic users will be able to see that an elf has vouched for the individual. This is not a thing to be taken lightly and it is a grave offense it the person you have vouched for turns out to be untrustworthy.

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  1. Nice! I might be basic, but I think Elf Shot is my favorite. I like the way that your chances of using the ability depend on your level. Great stuff!

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    1. I think it makes sense that higher level elves simply shouldn't have to worry about ammo. I was going to go into more detail about the arrows: how their tips are only made from stone and their rods curl about the stone as if they grew that way rather than being shaped by hands. There is some mystery as to who creates these arrows, and even most elves don't know. The old elves chuckle and only say "It is a gift from our cousins!"

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