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Description and lore
Matter accepts a new shape while keeping its original substance.
Shape carries the fascination of a craftsperson seeing a useful form inside an awkward piece of material.
A useful handle or simple hollow emerges where the craftsperson has been studying the material.
At a glance
Matter accepts a new shape while keeping its original substance.
Techniques and Spells · Alpha v44 reference
Requires: Casting Skill: Crafting. Affinity: Intellect. Requirements: Intellect d8; Crafting d8. one learned slot.
Use: Action · Touch · one unattended nonliving object of at most 5 cubic feet · Instant with timed consequence · 2 Mana
Effect - Resolution: Crafting Test TN 6 for an intricate shape; simple shape automatic.
Effect - Defense: a held or worn object is illegal.
Effect: Reshape the object without changing material, mass, or total volume. A simple passage, ramp, handle, or container is possible when its material can support it; intricate mechanisms need the Test.
Duration: 10 minutes; then shape returns unless impossible without harm, in which case GM places it safely nearby.
Ending or recovery: one Shape per caster.
Critical: none.
Exception: Cannot create a valuable material, seal a creature into matter, or duplicate a priced item’s special rules.
Solid matter bends toward the form held in your imagination.
The solid piece changes contour beneath your hands without shedding a shaving.