Modern spells

Optional spells for modern campaigns.

New Spells

Commune with City

5th level divination ritual
Casting Time: 1 minute

Range: Self
Components: V, S
Duration: Instantaneous
You briefly become one with the city and gain knowledge of the surrounding area. Aboveground, this spell gives you knowledge of the area within 1 mile of you. In sewers and other underground settings, you gain knowledge of the area within 600 feet of you.

You instantly gain knowledge of up to three facts of your choice about any of the following subjects as they relate to the area:

• Terrain and bodies of water
• Prevalent buildings, plants, animals, or
  intelligent creatures
• Powerful CR 1 or higher celestials, fey, fiends,
  elementals, or undead
• Influences from other planes of existence
• Electrical currents, wireless signals, and active
  transit lines and tracks

For example, you could determine the location of powerful undead in the area, the location of major sources of electrical power or interference, and the location of any nearby parks.

Conjure Knowbot

4thClevel conjuration technomagic
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Components: V, S
Duration: 10 minutes
You touch a single computerized device or computer system to conjure a knowbot—a partially sentient piece of software imprinted with vestiges of your own skills and computer abilities. For the duration of the spell, you can use a bonus action to have the knowbot execute a computer related task that would normally require an action. The knowbot makes Intelligence ability checks using your ability score and proficiency bonuses including your proficiency with hacking tools, if applicable .

You have a limited telepathic bond with the knowbot, out to a range of 500 feet from the device or system where the knowbot was conjured. If you move beyond this range, the knowbot disappears in 2d4 rounds, as if the duration of the spell had expired. Moving within range again immediately reestablishes the bond.

The knowbot is bound to the system in which it was created, and it stays there until it is dismissed or the spell s duration expires.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th level, the spell s duration increases to 1 hour. Additionally, your telepathic bond with the knowbot is effective out to a range of 1,000 feet, and if you leave the range of the bond, the knowbot continues performing its last directed task until the spell expires.

Dataread

1st-level divination (technomagic)

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: Touch

Components: V, S

Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

You run your finger over any machine-readable data source (a barcode, a computer disk, a USB drive, or any similar record) to understand the content of the data. You experience the data as it would normally be experienced through an appropriate machine. For example, if reading a USB with music, you hear the music in your head. If reading a word processor file, you visualize and read an image of the page. If reading a barcode, you see the serial number, pricing information, or other barcoded data. The amount of time required to experience the data is the same as that required to read it by conventional means. You can normally read 2 pages of documents in 1 minute. This spell does not decode encrypted data. Without the encryption code, an encrypted document or file appears as a seemingly random string of characters. If you know the encryption code, however, you can read encrypted data normally with this spell. At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd or 4th level, you can maintain your concentration on the spell for 10 minutes. When you use a spell slot of 5th level or higher, you can maintain your concentration on the spell for 1 hour.

Degauss

2nd-level transmutation (technomagic)

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: Touch

Components: V, S

Duration: Instantaneous

By touching a single device that contains electronic files, such as a computer, external hard drive, USB flash drive, or magnetic disk, you erase all files on that device. The device is rendered empty of data.

Digital Phantom

2nd level abjuration technomagic

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: Self

Components: V, S, M a small piece of copper wire

Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour
This spell works to actively hide your presence within a computer system. For the spells duration, you and any other users you choose on your local network gain a +10 bonus to Intelligence checks to avoid detection by administrators, knowbots, tracking software, and the like. Whenever you and your chosen users leave any computer system you are working in while this spell is in effect, all trace of your previous presence in that system is erased

DISCHARGE

3rd-level abjuration

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: 150 feet

Components: V,S

Duration: Instantaneous

Discharge dissipates the charges from one device.

If the spell targets an item with charges, the object loses all of its remaining charges. If the object is powered by electrical means other than charges, its functions are suppressed for 1d4 rounds.

If the target is a robot or cybernetically enhanced, the creature must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or it suffers disadvantage on ability checks and attack rolls for 1 minute. An affected creature can make a new Constitution saving throw at the end of each of its turns. On a success, the effect of the spell ends.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th level, you double the number of technology items you affect for each spell slot level over 4th level.

Glitch

Conjuration Cantrip

Components: V, S

Casting Time: 1 Action

Range: 30 ft.

Duration: 6 seconds

This spell allows you to make an electronic device play up in a minor way such as to frustrate the user or disable something for a 6 second period.

Find Vehicle

2nd level conjuration

Casting Time: 10 minutes

Range: 30 feet

Components: V, S

Duration: 8 hours
You summon a spirit that assumes the form of a nonmilitary land vehicle of your choice, appearing in an unoccupied space within range. The vehicle has the statistics of a normal vehicle of its sort, though it is celestial, fey, or fiendish your choice in origin. The physical characteristics of the vehicle reflect its origin to some degree. For example, a fiendish SUV might be jet black in color, with tinted windows and a sinister looking front grille.

You have a supernatural bond with the conjured vehicle that allows you to drive beyond your normal ability. While driving the conjured vehicle, you are considered proficient with vehicles of its type, and you add double your proficiency bonus to ability checks related to driving the vehicle. While driving the vehicle, you can make any spell you cast that targets only you also target the vehicle.

If the vehicle drops to 0 hit points, it disappears, leaving behind no physical form. You can also dismiss the vehicle at any time as an action, causing it to disappear.

You can't have more than one vehicle bonded by this spell at a time. As an action, you can release the vehicle from its bond at any time, causing it to disappear.

Instant Connectivity

5th-level conjuration (technomagic)

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: 10 feet

Components: V, S, M (a device connected to internet worth at least 100 gp)

Duration: Instantaneous

With the aid of instant messaging software, you physically transport the subject or subjects from one place to another. If several willing creatures link hands in a circle, up to eight creatures can be affected by the spell at the same time.

At least one of the creatures affected must be touching a computer with Internet connection. The targets must be sent to a specific computer that is currently active online. Instant connectivity causes the targets to appear in the room from which the receiving device is, automatically gaining surprise on anyone else in that room. You must have seen the receiving device for at least 1 minute from 5 feet or less to be able to target that device. If any of the devices have some kind of security (or if the device is in a secure network), the spell cannot be casted until the security is disabled.

Infallible Relay

1st level divination technomagic

Casting Time: 1 minute

Range: Self Components: V, S, M a mobile phone

Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes

With this spell, you can target any creature with whom you have spoken previously, as long as the two of you are on the same plane of existence. When you cast the spell, the nearest functioning telephone or similar communications device within 100 feet of the target begins to ring. If there is no suitable device close enough to the target, the spell fails. The target must make a successful Charisma saving throw or be compelled to answer your call. Once the connection is established, the call is crystal clear and cannot be dropped until the conversation has ended or the spells duration ends. You can end the conversation at any time, but a target must succeed on a Charisma saving throw to end the conversation.

Invisibility to Cameras

3rd level illusion technomagic

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: 10 feet

Components: V, S, M a scrap of black paper

Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

Four creatures of your choice within range become undetectable to electronic sensors and cameras for the duration of the spell. Anything a target is wearing or carrying is likewise undetectable as long as it is on the targets person. The targets remain visible to vision.

On/Off

Transmutation cantrip technomagic

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: 30 feet

Components: V, S

Duration: Instantaneous

This cantrip allows you to activate or deactivate any electronic device within range, as long as the device has a clearly defined on or off function that can be easily accessed from the outside of the device. Any device that requires a software based shutdown sequence to activate or deactivate cannot be affected by on/off.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 1st level or higher, you can 'restart' a device with a software shutdown sequence that is currently running. If an electronic device within range is used by a creature, that creature must succeed on a Constitution saving throw to prevent the device from being restarted.

Psychic Paper

Illusion cantrip

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: Touch

Components: V, S, M (a small card or slip of paper)

Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

You touch a small card or slip of paper appear to be a valid identification card of your choosing. The card bears your name, likeness, and all other data expected by anyone examining such a card.

However, it is only visually accurate and does not contain any valid machine-readable data or electronic coding. You cannot use this spell to make an electronic passkey.

A creature can see through this illusion with an Intelligence check. (DC 14)

Protection from Ballistics

3rd level abjuration

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: Touch

Components: V, S, M a shell casing

Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes

This spell enchants the flesh of the target against the impact of bullets. Until the spell ends, the target has resistance to nonmagical ballistic damage.

RECHARGE

1st-level evocation

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: Touch

Components: V,S, M (Any electrical source)

Duration: Instantaneous

You restore up to 10 charges to a device or item. If you recharge a battery, there is a 20% chance that the battery is destroyed by the attempt.

If you restore more charges than the item can hold, the creature holding the item must succeed at a Dexterity saving throw or take 1d6 points of lightning damage for each excess charge. This spell provides no knowledge of how many charges an item can safely hold, but you can choose to bestow fewer charges than the maximum allowed to reduce the risk; you must declare how many charges you are restoring before casting this spell.

Remote Access

1st level transmutation technomagic

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: 120 feet

Components: V, S

Duration: 10 minutes

You can use any electronic device within range as if it were in your hands. This is not a telekinesis effect. Rather, this spell allows you to simulate a device s mechanical functions electronically. You are able to access only functions that a person using the device manually would be able to access. You can use remote access with only one device at a time.

Relay Text

2nd-level transmutation (technomagic)

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: Unlimited

Components: V, S

Duration: Instantaneous

You cause a text message of up to 25 words to appear on the screen of an electronic device capable of receiving such messages, such as a smartphone, tablet, or computer. If the device is turned on, the message appears instantly; if not, the message appears as soon as someone turns it on.

The message remains onscreen until read, then disappears, leaving no electronic record of its appearance. You must have seen the device to send a message to it.

Shutdown

5th level transmutation technomagic

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: 120 feet

Components: V, S

Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

This spell shuts down all electronic devices within range that are not wielded by or under the direct control of a creature. If an electronic device within range is used by a creature, that creature must succeed on a Constitution saving throw to prevent the device from being shut down. While the spell remains active, no electronic device within range can be started or restarted.

Synchronicity

3rd level enchantment

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: Touch

Components: V, S

Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour

The creature you touch feels reality subtly shifted to its favor while this spell is in effect. The target isnt inconvenienced by mundane delays of any sort. Traffic lights are always green, theres always a waiting elevator, and a taxi is always around the corner. The target can run at full speed through dense crowds, and attacks of opportunity provoked by the targets movement are made with disadvantage.

Synchronicity grants advantage to Dexterity Stealth checks, since the target always finds a handy piece of cover available. Additionally, the target has advantage on all ability checks made to drive a vehicle. In the event that two or more creatures under the effect of synchronicity are attempting to avoid being inconvenienced by each other, the creatures engage in a contest of Charisma each time the effects of the spells would oppose each other.

System Backdoor

4th level transmutation technomagic

Casting Time: 1 minute

Range: Personal

Components: V, S, M hacking tools

Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour

This spell allows you to bypass system security in order to create a secure login on a foreign system. The login you create allows you administrator level privileges in any computer system not enhanced through technomagic. The login defeats any technomagic spells of 3rd level or lower.

Once the duration of the spell expires, the login and all privileges are wiped from the system. System logs still show the activity of the user, but the user identification cannot be found or traced.

At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, you are able to bypass technomagic spells if the spells level is equal to or less than the level of the spell slot you used.