Dungeons and Dragons RPG Runes of Life

Runic Overview

Base Rune of Life - Mystara

Magical Item - Uncommon - Rune of Life
• Standard - This rune signifies life forms who have an intellegence score of less than 4. This is generally regared as animal level or non intelligent creatures.
• Unpowered Rune of Life (DC 12) - The item is considered to have the property of the rune for the purpose of targeting. Once per day you can make the encribed item glow for one minute buy touching the rune and making a check. While concentrating, the next creature of the type touched by the item has their next saving throw at disadvantage. To powers a Rune of Life, you need to touch it with a magical item made of the material, a creature of that type, or use a cyrptologist's abilities. You can then make a secret craft check to activate the rune.
• Powered Rune of Life (Initiate/Tier 1/DC 14) - The rune glows with a dim blue light, does not illuminate. Runes of matter with this property can as a bonus action to control the creature the item with the rune is touching. Affecting creature will follow commands and understand the holder of the item. They can also communicate back which is understood as well. This does not expends the power of the rune. The unpowered options can be used at will instead of daily.
• Powered Rune of Life (1st Circle/Tier 2/DC 16) - The rune glows with a dim blue light, illuminating out to 5ft. As a bonus action you can control creatures of its type out to 30ft radius allow you to control several CR of creatures equal to or less than your character level. The expends the power of the rune. A practitioner of a related secret craft can use the rune assist with the check to activate, gaining a expertise dice to the roll, expending the rune.
• Powered Rune of Life (2nd Circle/Tier 3/DC 18) - The rune glows with a dim blue light, illuminating out to 10ft. As a bonus action, the item can detect a creature of its type within its illumnation range, shining brighter in the direction of the creature and highlighting it if visible. Control radius increases to 45 ft. A practitioner of a related secret craft can use the rune assist with the check to activate, gaining a expertise dice to the roll, expending the rune.
• Powered Rune of Life (3rd Circle/Tier 4/DC 20) - The rune glows with a dim blue light, illuminating out to 15ft. Control radius increases to 60 ft. A practitioner of a related secret craft can use the rune assist with the check to activate, gaining a expertise dice to the roll, expending the rune.
• Powered Rune of Life (4th Circle/Tier 5/DC 22) - The rune glows with a dim blue light, illuminating out to 20ft. Control radius increases to 75 ft. A practitioner of a related secret craft can use the rune assist with the check to activate, gaining a expertise dice to the roll, expending the rune.
• Powered Rune of Life (5th Circle/Tier 6/DC 24) - The rune glows with a dim blue light, illuminating out to 25ft. Control radius increases to 90 ft. A practitioner of a related secret craft can use the rune assist with the check to activate, gaining a expertise dice to the roll, expending the rune.

Ritual - Rune of Life (Must have learnt the rune)
• Scribe Rune of Life (1st Circle/Tier 2/DC 16) - As an action you can scribe this rune on the surface of the creature it can affect. Then while concentrating you can control it.
• Scribe Rune of Life (2nd Circle/Tier 3/DC 18) - Taking ten minutes, you can scribe this rune onto a surface expending 400 gp worth of materials and it becomes a permanent rune.
• Scribe Rune Power (3rd Circle/Tier 4/DC 20) - Taking a week, you can scribe this rune onto a living creature. Taking a Familiar, Mount, Companion or Follower and expending 800 gp worth of materials and they then have the rune as part of them. If you don not have the Familiar, Mount of Companion class feature, you gain it and take 1 Soul Burn per level while you retain them as a feature.
• Scribe Rune of Life (3rd Circle/Tier 4/DC 20) - Taking an hour, you can creature a scroll with this rune, which anyone can use that consumes the scroll upon use.
• Scribe Rune of Life (4th Circle/Tier 5/DC 22) - You can add this rune to an existing spell or spell effect to add its type to the effect. Such as making a wall of force into a fox wall of force that only keeps out fox's.
• Scribe Rune of Life (5th Circle/Tier 6/DC 24) - You can draw the rune of air into the air as if it was a surface, and use it like the magical item or other effect. You can draw it on an item or weapon as a fully powered rune.

Runic Life Items - Mystara