Practical Magic Words

Inspiration and power scaling examples for what is possible with casting Practical Magic.
Numbers indicate the amount of Mana invested for the resulting effect.

Adapt

1. Acts as a warm coat in cold weather.
2. Allows you to breathe underwater.
3. Creates an arcane cocoon, granting the person inside invulnerability to everything outside (but also prohibiting any form of interaction).
4. Completely transforms your body to thrive in any environment, such as growing wings for flight, scales for extreme heat, or complete invulnerability to environmental hazards.

Charm

1. The target acts as if you’ve bought them a drink.
2. The target suddenly vaguely remembers you as a long-lost friend.
3. Completely overwrites any negative impression the target might have of you.
4. The target becomes utterly devoted to you, willing to follow your commands and defend you against others.

Cloak

1. Summons a pile of dead leaves to dive into.
2. You become a shimmer, a suggestion of a shape.
3. You become virtually invisible.
4. You phase out of the physical realm entirely, becoming undetectable by all means, including magical ones.

Detect

1. Allows you to focus on your surroundings, as if you’re using a magnifying glass or set of binoculars.
2. Allows you to vaguely detect the aura of nearby beings.
3. You can pinpoint every being in a city-block radius.
4. You can see through all illusions, enchantments, and physical barriers within a large area, revealing hidden or disguised entities and objects.

Dispel

1. As if you prod and poke at a ward with a stick, pliers, or rock salt. Like throwing a pebble on a landmine.
2. Dispel a simple enchantment or minor curse.
3. Completely dissect a complicated ward or curse.
4. Fundamentally undo magic for a while, restoring the natural order of reality.

Fly

1. Like using a really big sheet to slow your fall.
2. Controlled hovering, with a slight upwards motion.
3. Sprouting wings or transforming into a flying creature.
4. Achieve high-speed, long-distance flight, unaffected by environmental conditions, with perfect maneuverability and endurance.

Haste

1. Like drinking an invigorating beverage, shaking off the effects of exhaustion for a while.
2. Greatly increased agility and speed, allowing running for an hour without fatigue; things take half as long as they normally would.
3. Time briefly loses its grip on you; it’s as if you manifest effect without perceivable cause.
4. You move so quickly that you can perform several actions in the blink of an eye, appearing to teleport short distances and completing complex tasks instantaneously.

Knock

1. Causes an unlocked door to swing open, a lock to click and rattle until it is unlocked.
2. A heavy stone door is thrown open; a lock crumples into dust.
3. Castle gates are blasted open; all locks nearby cease to exist.
4. Open long-gone portals; reveal passages that aren't even there.

Light

1. A good alternative for a torch.
2. A handy, supernatural hovering light.
3. The entire area gets perfectly, evenly lit.
4. As if you’ve summoned the sun.

Move

1. Prodding or pulling small objects nearby, as if affected by an invisible pole with a hook.
2. Effortlessly move an object with your mind, up to human-sized to a Far range.
3. As if you have manifested an invisible tornado.
4. Manipulate and rearrange large areas of terrain, moving massive objects and structures with ease, as if shifting the landscape itself.

Protect

1. Impair a specific type of damage towards yourself.
2. Protect your party from a certain element, impairing it.
3. Completely dispel a lingering hazard, such as poison or a dark aura.
4. Create a powerful barrier that makes you and your allies invulnerable to all harm for a limited time, deflecting even the most potent attacks and spells.

Read

1. Just like keeping a common dictionary handy.
2. Like a mental tome of long-lost languages.
3. You can read anything expressions, lies, languages, feelings.
4. Instantly comprehend the entire history and future of any object or being you focus on, uncovering all hidden knowledge and secrets.

Send Message

1. Like sending a letter; it takes a while and might get lost.
2. Instant mental communication between a small group of individuals over a short range.
3. Directly implant your thoughts into the mind of another being, anywhere.
4. Establish a permanent mental link with another being, allowing for continuous, untraceable communication across any distance or plane of existence.