9. Academic Focus
Players will be able to create an academic schedule that is colored according to the vocation they have selected. Each institution offers courses in its day program leading to the acquisition of certification of Vaconic Mastery. The specific nature of the program pursued by the student determines which degree is to be awarded. However, candidates for each of these degrees fulfill the following academic requirements and standards
A minimum of one hundred twenty-four (124) semester credit hours from accredited colleges or universities.
Completion of 24 credit hours in the General Education Curriculum.
Students will have the opportunity to complete 20 credit hours a semester. With each course being 4 credit hours.
If a player commits to an academic focus, they receive a permanent +2 to any rolls that involve that focus.
When taking a class, players receive a temporary +1 to rolls that deal with the subject matter of the class.
Leveling Up in the World of Vala
There are several different ways to level up within the World of Vala.
Maintaining a Good GPA. The most prominent way to level up is through your time attending your school. Due to Academia making up a big component of the World of Vala system, players will level up as it corresponds with their grades within their chosen academic institute. Players are guaranteed a level up with a Semester grade point average (GPA) of 3.1-4.0.
Mission-Based Experience. Players may also level up by taking missions for their vocation. Each tier of mission allots a diffrent number of experience points. To receive a level-up, a player needs to reach 50 Experience Points.
Tier 1 Missions - Allot 1 Experience Point
Tier 2 Missions - Allot 5 Experience Points
Tier 3 Missions - Allot 15 Experience Points
Tier 4 Missions - Allot 25 Experience Points
Tier 5 Missions - Allot 50 Experience Points
Leveling Up Reminder: As you level up, you roll hit-die that permanently increases your HP by the number rolled. The number of hit die you roll grows by 1 for every even level you reach. You start with 1d6 hit die at level 1 and grow to 2d6 at level 2, and then to 3d6 at level 4. This continues in this pattern, you grow in level in the World of Vala.
Academic Grading
In the World of Vala, attending classes is easy. Players can select their courses as they attend their school and earn Magicrafting Components, Spells, Unique Traits, and even Magical Items. While signed up for each class, players will roll a monthly d100 on the Grading Table to determine their performance. If they receive an A for the month, they will roll on the Grade Reward Table to receive a relevant award. If players spent 75% of the maximum time available for a class, they receive a +20 to their d100 roll. At the end of the semester, players can average the score over the 5 months in order to determine their final grade for their semester GPA. If players pass the class with an A they may roll on the Grade Reward Table.
Grading Table:
d100: 100-81: Receive an A in the Class for that Month.
d100: 80-61: Receive a B in the Class for that Month.
d100: 60-41: Receive a C in the Class for that Month.
d100: 40-21: Receive a D in the Class for that Month.
d100: 20-1: Receive a F in the Class for that Month.
Grade Reward Table(1d4) :
1 - Receive a Relevant Magicrafting Component
2 - Receive a Relevant Spell
3 - Receive a Relevant Magical Item
4 - Receive a +1 Bonus to a Relevant Attribute
Academic Focuses
While students can choose several different focuses and could even multi-focus. Not every focus is found at every institution. Ensure that you go through each Focus to pick the perfect one for your character.
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Curriculum Description: The focus of alchemy deals with mixing plants, herbs, and other consumables to make concoctions that simulate, induce, or even produce truly magical effects.
Focus Location: Located at every School.
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Curriculum Description: The focus of artifice deals almost entirely in the imbuing of magical properties into objects. Objects ranging from works of art to weapons and armor.
Focus Location: Located at every School.
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Curriculum Description: The focus of astronomy deals almost entirely on the mysterious and power of the Galaxy outside the World of Vala.
Focus Location: Located at the Arcanum. (Must be Accepted by the Master of Astronomy to take on the focus.)
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Curriculum Description: The focus of conjuration calls materials, creatures, or energy to the caster and can be reversed to send creatures to other places, either over long distances or even to a whole different plane of existence.
Focus Location: Located at every School.
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Curriculum Description: The focus of Divinity follows the studies and understanding of the divines of the World of Vala.
Focus Location: Located at the Gardens of Elysium.
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Curriculum Description: The focus of divination follows the studies and understanding of the divines of the World of Vala.
Focus Location: Located at the Arcanum.
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Curriculum Description: The focus of Hemomancy aims to tap into the inherent power of blood. There is magical energy in the blood of all living things - magic which can be used to fuel any school of magic - and this focus teaches its students to harness that energy, no matter the cost..
Focus Location: Located at every School.
Blood Addiction: The ultimate downside of Hemomancy is its addictive nature. As players delve into blood magic, they must manage their Hemomancy Control. Hemomancy Control starts at 100%, and with every attempt at Hemomancy, the user must roll a d100 saving throw. The DC for this saving throw must be lower than the user’s Hemomancy Control. If not, it is considered a failure. On a failed save, the user loses 5% of their Hemomancy control and gets closer to becoming Addicted to the inherent Mana found in the blood. After Hemomancy control drops below 50%, the user becomes addicted to consuming/utilizing blood. Once addicted the user must roll a d4 to determine the effect of their addiction. To elevate symptoms, the user must consume or utilize blood magic.
1 - The Hemomancy user suffers from constant pain as their body is weakened from it’s constant craving of blood. When the user does not utilize Hemomancy within 8 hours, they gain vulnerability to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage until it uses Hemomancy. This overrides all resistance and immunity the user originally has.
2 - The Hemomancy user develops perpetual bloodshot eyes. When the user does not utilzie Hemomancy within 8 hours, it suffers a serious case of hostility toward all creatures. Until the user utilizes Hemomancy they cannot talk coherently and cannot cast a spell.
3 - The Hemomancy user develops bodily twitching and muscle spasms. When the user does not utilize Hemomancy within 8 hours they gain 1 level of exhaustion that can only be removed by using Hemomancy.
4 - The Hemomancy user becomes extremely claustrophobic. When the user does not utilize Hemomancy within 8 hours they must make an attack against any creature that comes with 5 ft., and must succeed a DC 17 Constiution saving throw or become frightened of tight spaces and take 2d4 when confined.
Once the user’s Hemomancy Control hits 0%, the user becomes a Vampyre, a being that must sustain itself on blood in order to survive. Ultimately, becoming a Vampyre (See Sub-Races)
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Curriculum Description: The focus of illusion includes spells that deceive the senses of others, causing people to see things that are not there, not see things that are there, or remember things that never happened.
Focus Location: Located at every School.
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Curriculum Description: The school of Kosmoturgy enables the caster to manipulate the forces of entropy, gravity, and time. The caster utilizes the esoteric natures of potentiality and actuality, converting lost potentialities into kinetic actualities.
Focus Location: Located at the Organization of Otherworldly Oddities.
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Curriculum Description: The focus aims to bring an understanding of the runic language to students. To study the written building blocks of the world.
Focus Location: Located at every School.
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Curriculum Description: The focus aims to alter the nature of magic itself. It involves the manipulation of magical forces and boundaries to bypass the structures and limitations of the physical world. Requires the dealing of puzzles and paradoxes and abandoning logic to embrace a temporary sort of insanity.
Focus Location: Located at the Wizards Collective.
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Curriculum Description: The focus of prognostication, better known simply as prophecy, is the least common school still in practice. It deals with the creation, discernment, and comprehension of prophecy.
Focus Location: Located at the Gardens of Elysium.
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Curriculum Description: The focus of restoration is a focus dealing exclusively with the preservation and restoration of life via healing.
Focus Location: Located at the Arcanum.
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Curriculum Description: The focus aims to study the nature of existence, knowledge, truth, and ethics. It involves consideration of the most fundamental questions about who we are and examines philosophical thought across the breadth of history right up to the present day.
Focus Location: Located at every School.
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Curriculum Description: The focus of shadowmancy manipulates the powers of death, unlife, and the life force.
Focus Location: Located at the Magisterium.
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Curriculum Description: The focus aims to study the nature of existence, knowledge, truth, and ethics. It involves consideration of the most fundamental questions about who we are and examines philosophical thought across the breadth of history right up to the present day.
Focus Location: Located at South Alexandria Community College of Magic.
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Curriculum Description: The focus aims to study the nature of existence, knowledge, truth, and ethics. It involves consideration of the most fundamental questions about who we are and examines philosophical thought across the breadth of history right up to the present day.
Focus Location: Located at the College of Heroes & Valentina Academy.
