Playbook: The Vancomancer (Playbook) (PBtA)
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In ages gone a thousand spells were known to sorcery¸ and the wizards effected their wills. Today¸ as Earth dies¸ a hundred spell remain to man's knowledge¸ and these have come to us through the ancient books.
-The Dying Earth¸ Chapter 1
The Vancomancer is a variant of the wizard that is more in line with what you would expect from Jack Vance's The Dying Earth; there is no daily limitation on magic¸ you can cast spells right out of your book (if you have enough time)¸ and the spells do not have levels.
Those are not the only ways in which it differs from the standard wizard¸ though: aside from kind of one¸ the new advanced moves let you do stuff like grow minions in flesh vats¸ improve upon your manse¸ impress people with your magic¸ summon and bind sandestins¸ create magic items¸ and so on.
Finally¸ there are 25 spells--18 simple and 7 complex--to get you started¸ including The Excellent Prismatic Spray¸ The Omnipotent Sphere¸ and Felojun's 2nd Hypnotic Spell.
This product has been updated to be more inline with our later releases. There are now two pdfs¸ a digest-sized book and a letter-sized character sheet. The digest pdf contains a Director's Cut¸ a new bit of dungeon gear¸ and magic items.