At this moment I only have the rules that I've used to create characters with magic in FUDGE-AD&D, both clerical or scholastic magic (sorcery). I will try to advance a little with spells converted to FUDGE as soon as I have time.

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Fudge is a role-playing game written by Steffan O'Sullivan, with extensive input from the Usenet community of rec.games.design. The basic rules of Fudge are available on the internet at http://www.fudgerpg.com and in book form from Grey Ghost Games, P.O. Box 838, Randolph, MA 02368. They may be used with any gaming genre. While an individual work derived from Fudge may specify certain attributes and skills, many more are possible with Fudge. Every Game Master using Fudge is encouraged to add or ignore any character traits. Anyone who wishes to distribute such material for free may do so - merely include this ABOUT FUDGE notice and disclaimer (complete with Fudge copyright notice). If you wish to charge a fee for such material, other than as an article in a magazine or other periodical, you must first obtain a royalty-free license from the author of Fudge, Steffan O'Sullivan, P.O. Box 465, Plymouth, NH 03264.

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The following materials based on Fudge, entitled Variant of GURPS Magic described in Five Point FUDGE, are created by, made available by, and Copyright (C) 2000 by Jorge Arredondo, and are not necessarily endorsed in any way by Steffan O'Sullivan or any publisher of other Fudge materials. Neither Steffan O'Sullivan nor any publisher of other Fudge materials is in any way responsible for the content of these materials unless specifically credited. Original Fudge materials Copyright (C)1992-1995 by Steffan O'Sullivan, All Rights Reserved.

Variant of GURPS Magic described in Five Point FUDGE

We'll use the schools or spheres of magic of AD&D like their equivalents in GURPS (e.g. Abjuration, Illusion, Alteration, Necromancy).

1. Firstly a character needs to have a gift to be able to use magic, otherwise everybody could learn how to use it without having the "Gift". In each case, the character will have a level of Scholastic Magic or of divine Magic (or both) according to if he wants to make one type of magic, the other one or both at the same time (two gifts in total in this case).
   
   
2. We spend from 1 to 4 character points (of the five of FpF) in magic schools using this table:
   
   

   Character points	Magic points
   1	1
   2	3
   3	6
   4	10

   
   
3. We buy competemce in the schools/spheres we wish spending those points of magic:
   
   

   Magic points	Competence
   1	Fair
   2	Good
   4	Great

   
   
4. The difficulty to cast a spell, without modifiers involved, uses this table:
   
   

   Spell level (AD&D)	Difficulty
   1	Mediocre
   2	Fair
   3	Good
   4, 5	Great
   6, 7	Superb
   8	Legendary
   9	Legendary +1

   
   

   The characters with magic spheres or magic schools will only be able to know at the beginning spells from the immediately superior level to which they are able to cast given their competence in the same ones. For example, at normal Level (level 2), they will be able to cast spells of level 3 with Good difficulty, as maximum.

   In the case of the wizards, it is necessary to learn the incantations; you don't know all the spells of the school, only those that you have learned.

   In the case of the clerics, the spells that they know automatically given the spheres that they dominate will include those of the immediately superior level exclusively. On the contrary any magician will be able to learn spells of any level. Another thing is that if they'll able to cast them given the cost of fatigue that they require origheir high difficulty.

5. We simulate the number of spells a magician can cast (function in AD&D of his level). For that we've added the competences that he has in the schools he knows.
   
   

   Competence	Fatigue points
   Fair	8
   Good	16
   Great	32

   
   

   An X level spell requires X fatigue points to be cast. If the spell is failed the points are lost like if the spell had been succesful. In a critical failure the magician migh even lose more fatigue points than normal...

   The fatigue points are relative to each school or sphere, that is to say, they cannot be passed over from one to another. Those you have in one of them can only be used to cast magic of that school or sphere.

   Every 3 hours, 1 point of fatigue is recovered, automatically.

   As the competence in the spheres/schools increases, so does the reserve of avalaible fatigue points.

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Jorge Arredondo
Last modification: 10/September/2000