Classless, version Llama

Each level, you get either:

• One Power (new skill at rank 1 or upgrade existing skill 1 rank), and 2 Mana
• One Superpower (bundle of supernatural abilities), and a bundle of stat adds that go with it

Every 4th level, you get a stat add. Cuz 5e.

Powers

Power list (subset):

• Fire
• Life
• Frost
• Drain
• Infernal (invocation)
• Faery (invocation)

Roughly equal to a 5eA Discipline/Sphere

Fire

Rank 1

Choose one:

• Immolate
• Wildfire
• Burning Hands

Choose X:

• Fireball
• Flame Jet
• Wall of Fire
• Conflagrate

Rituals:

• Start a fire
• Control fire

How powers should work

Each power has:

• Description of things you can definitely do easily (cantrips and rituals)
• Description of things you can conceivably do, but with some risk of failure and/or cost (Mana and/or Use Magic)

One way it might work:

• Spell effects are still arranged in 5 ranks, as per system 6
• At rank X, everything of rank <X is "easy", X is "doable", and >X is "big magic or impossible"
  • Thus, at rank 1, rank 0 cantrips are "easy", 1 is "doable with risk", and 2 might be possible with risk, cost, and other sacrifices
• Anything specifically listed, you can do, as long as you spend the Mana and pass any required skill checks (i.e. Use Magic)
• Anything within the bounds of the abilities you can do is also doable with Use Magic / Big Magic

Thus, you don't need to spend skill ranks to learn individual spells, but rather by advancing your skill rank, you can make all spells of a given rank "easy"

Mana costs don't change in this model (though they might not be needed at all with Use Magic).

Skills

Basic skills:

• Investigate
• Perception (read a bad situation)
• Charisma (manipulate someone)
• Fighting
• Marksmanship
• Fortitude
• Willpower
• Use Magic

Kind of a combination of ability score and skill.

Investigate

As Monster of the Week

Perception

Read a bad situation, notice enemies, etc

Charisma

As Monster of the Week

Fighting

Moves:

• Kick some ass
  • Success: you do damage, and either take none in turn, or take damage but establish an advantage of some sort
  • Mixed: do damage, take damage
  • FAilure: do no damage, still take damage

Marksmanship

Like Fighting, but puts you at less risk (unless the enemy is also using ranged weapons)

Fortitude

Moves:

• Take a hit (Soak)
• Tough it out (Fort save)

Willpower

Moves:

• Contest of wills
• Establish dominance

Use Magic

As Monster of the Week, except you can't invest directly in it. Instead, you invest in individual magical sub-skills, such as Fire, Life, Force, Empathy, Undeath, etc. They all obey the same core rules, but deal with specific domains of magical power.