Charms

The day to day spells used by many wizards are taught in Profressor Flitwick’s charms class. Charms can have a variety of effects, ranging from hexes like Densuago, which makes your teeth grow out of control, to levitation and conjuring objects. This class is required at Hogwarts, and rightly so, since it’s uses are so widespread and dramatic.

1. Lumos(Easy Spell, Will Based, 5 or greater to succeed) This spell creates a light of variable intensity, ranging from a 10′ radius to a 50′ radius.
2. Wingardium Leviosa(Easy Spell, Will Based, 6 or greater to succeed) This spell allows the wizard to lift a heavy object from a long distance, and move it at will.
3. Alohomora(Easy Spell, Will Based, 7 or greater to succeed) This spell unlocks doors that are not otherwise protected from the spell by a ward or magical lock.
4. Scour(Easy Spell, Social based, 8 or greater to succeed) Scour is a universal spell for cleaning an object or area.
5. Conjure(Medium Spell,  Intelligence Based, 9 or greater to succeed) This spell creates a temporary item or effect to aid the wizard. It can create flowers, small amounts of gold, shoot up colored flares, and small amounts of mundane craft materials, that exist for up to 3 minutes.
6. Immobulus(Medium Spell, Will Based, 10 or greater to succeed) This spell causes the target to become entangled with conjured ropes.
7. Accio(Medium Spell, Will Based, 11 or greater to succeed) This spell causes an object that the wizard is familiar with or knows the location of to spring immediately to his hand.
8. Tarantella(Medium Spell, Will Based, 12 or greater to succeed) This spell causes the target to wiggle and dance wildly and uncontrollably.
9. Priori Incantatem(Hard Spell, Social Based, 13 or greater to succeed) When aimed at a wand, this causes the wand to reveal the spell it last cast.
10. Duplicate(Hard Spell, Intelligence Based, 14 or greater to succeed) This spell creates a new object identical to an object already posessed by the wizard, and it’s effects are permanent.
11. Obliviate(Hard Spell, Will Based, 15 or greater to succeed) This spell erases the memory of it’s target. If the roll is failed critically(i.e. 2 or 3 on 2d6) the spell has a 50% chance to backfire on the caster, and a 50% chance to be too effective and cause permanent damage.

Man, I just need to keep reading Vulcan Stev’s back posts. All kinds of good stuff there.

So, in my junior year of high school I wrote a game that formed the basis of all the other games on this site, in one way or another. It was an RPG focused on the Harry Potter Universe and designed to be played almost entirely upon the grounds of Hogwarts without being limited by relatively small material expanse. It never managed to get played, and is mostly lost to the endless crap I do to my computer, but I have found a few handwritten pages that survived and remember enough(and have a much more thorough grounding in system design) so I’m remaking it to serialize here, and eventually release as a PDF. On a less happy note, I’d like to remind the Intellectual Property Nazis that I am not using this fan created work for commercial purposes and it was created purely out of love for the novels. Please make your decisions about this game as such and do not sue the crap out of me. Please.

Dedication:

To Allison Moore, for convincing me to read them in the first place, and to J.K. Rowling for making it one of my better decisions at that point in my life.

1. Welcome to Hogwarts!

2. Characters: Students, Houses, Teams and Classes

3. The Grounds: The Chamber of Secrets and other Dangerous Places

4. The Drama: Professors, Politics and Prominent Players

5. Spells and Potions: From Levitation to Veritaserum

6. Magical Artifacts: Erised Stra Ehru Oyt Ube Cafru Oyt On Wohsi

7. Playing the Game

Chapter One: Welcome to Hogwarts

Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts

Teach us something PLEASE,

Whether we be old and bald or young with scabby knees

Who, after reading the Harry Potter series, didn’t want to live a life of adventure at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry? The thought of learning to make potions or cast spells made Algebra a little less bearable, to be sure, but did you ever aspire to be a Professor of Potions or vanquish terrifying villains like Lord Voldemort with your magical abilities? Did you ever think of what you would do if embroiled in conspiracy at the ministry of magic? If you did, I think this is the game for you.

Every roleplaying book begins by asking the question “What is Roleplaying?” Roleplaying is a compound word consisting of the noun(abs) role and the verb playing. What that means is that you will be taking on the role of a character in the Harry Potter universe. This book serves the purpose of defining loose rules for how the game will handle your involvement, but in the end, the experience of Hogwarts is up to you. This game is set up to provide you with some basic ways to account for your interaction with the Harry Potter setting and encourage you to play the part of a student or adult resident of Hogwarts School.

If you have ever played popular RPG’s like Wizards of the Coast’s Dungeons and Dragons or White Wolf’s World of Darkness, you might be surprised or pleased by what you see here. This game is rules-lite, with simple math and a fast pace, and very customizable, but designed specifically to play at Hogwarts and it feels like a faithful Harry Potter RPG should. It uses only d6(standard six sided die, to the gaming laypeople in the audience) and there are no complicated and messy tables to figure out. Levels are defined in terms of semesters and years as a student. Your house, what classes you take, what friends you make, what campus organizations you belong to, all have a profound effect on your character and how he or shee makes his way in the wizarding world. I hope you will find joy in playing this game.