When you direct a focused magical attack, roll +Strange.

• 10+: Deal 3 harm and choose one additional effect: knock them prone / disarm them / stun them for one action / push them up to 20ft.
• 7–9: Deal 2 harm with no additional effect.

When you raise a magical barrier against incoming harm, roll +Strange.

• 10+: Take half harm. The barrier holds, you can use this move again this scene.
• 7–9: Take half harm but the barrier shatters, you can't raise it again until you have a quiet moment to recover.

When you have time to prepare, at least one scene of uninterrupted focus, materials, and concentration, you can attempt magic significantly beyond what you can do in combat. Describe what you're attempting. Roll +Strange.

• 10+: It works as intended.
• 7–9: It works, but with a complication, a cost, or an unintended side effect.

When another magic user or strange entity uses a power near you, you may attempt to negate it. Roll +Strange.

• 10+: Fully negated. It doesn't happen.
• 7–9: Partially negated, the effect is halved or redirected.

You have a magical companion, small, strange, and bound to you. It has 5 harm before it dissipates and returns to wherever it came from. Between missions it recovers fully. It can scout, carry small objects, and act as a focus for your magic, when it's physically close to a target, your spells against that target deal +1 harm.

When you change the properties of a nonliving object, turn wood to stone, freeze water, harden air, roll +Strange.

• 10+: The change is complete, stable, and lasts as long as you need.
• 7–9: The change holds for one scene before reverting.

Your study of the occult, magical traditions, and strange entities is extensive. You auto-pass all knowledge rolls about magic, supernatural creatures, cursed objects, and arcane history. For rarer or more obscure knowledge, roll +Smarts with +1.

When you summon an object from elsewhere, not creating it, pulling it from another place, roll +Strange.

• 10+: The object arrives intact and usable.
• 7–9: It arrives, but damaged, incomplete, or with something attached to it.

You passively sense magical presences, enchanted objects, and supernatural activity within your immediate area (passive). For precision, exact location, strength, or type, roll +Strange.

When you imbue an object with temporary magical properties, roll +Strange.

• 10+: The enchantment holds for the full mission. Choose the effect with the GM.
• 7–9: The enchantment is unstable, it works for one scene, then fades.

When you create a sustained magical barrier around yourself or a location, roll +Strange.

• 10+: The field holds and provides 2 armor to anyone inside it. Maintaining it requires your focus, you can't make other Strange rolls while holding it.
• 7–9: The field provides 1 armor and is already straining.

(1/session)

You push your magic beyond what you should be able to do. Describe what you're attempting, it should be significantly beyond your normal capability. Roll +Strange.

• 10+: It works. Take 2 harm from the strain.
• 7–9: It partially works, the GM decides how. Take 2 harm.

Teleport up to 30ft in a single instant. Roll +Strange.

• 10+: Arrive exactly where intended, immediately.
• 7–9: Arrive but land prone or disoriented, take -1 forward.

When you place a curse on a target, roll +Strange.

• 10+: They take -1 ongoing on all rolls for the rest of the scene AND take 1 harm each time they act against you or your allies.
• 7–9: They take -1 ongoing for the scene only.

Remove an active magical or supernatural effect in the scene. Roll +Strange.

• 10+: Completely removed.
• 7–9: Suppressed for one scene, then it returns.

When you fire multiple rapid magical projectiles at a group of targets, roll +Strange.

• 10+: Deal 2 harm to up to 3 targets.
• 7–9: Deal 2 harm to 2 targets, or 1 harm to 3.

Your magical awareness is always active. You automatically detect magical traps, wards, and enchantments before triggering them (passive). For identifying exactly what they do, roll +Strange.

When you attempt to magically restrain a target, roll +Strange.

• 10+: They cannot move or act until they break the binding (Tough roll vs your Strange).
• 7–9: They're slowed, -2 ongoing to all physical actions until they spend an action breaking free.

When you create illusory duplicates of yourself, roll +Strange.

• 10+: Three copies surround you. Each absorbs one attack before vanishing, attackers must destroy all copies to reach you.
• 7–9: Two copies. Same rules.

(1/session)

When a powered or magical opponent uses an ability near you, attempt to copy it. Roll +Strange.

• 10+: You can use that ability once this session.
• 7–9: You gain a weakened version, half effect, GM describes it.

### Improvements, At 5 XP, Choose One

• Take a new Wizard move
• Take a move from another playbook
• Add +1 to Strange (max +3)
• Add +1 to Smarts (max +3)
• Add +1 to Intuition (max +3)
• Add 1 to your harm track maximum
• Your ARCANE KNOWLEDGE extends: you auto-pass all knowledge rolls about one additional domain, describe it
• Your Familiar upgrades: it now has 10 harm and can act independently in combat dealing 2 harm

### Advanced Improvements, After 5 Improvements, Choose One

• Master Caster: Your spell rolls cannot come up 6 or lower. Partial successes still carry complications but you never fully miss.
• The Art Perfected: Choose one spell or magical effect you use regularly. It now works automatically on 7+ with no complications.
• Change playbook: You have grown into someone different.
• Retire: You closed the book. Tell the table whether you burned it.