Range

 * self

 * touch XOR eye contact

 * focus (subject is being viewed, using ritual focus, or have thread tied.  Viewing the space you wish to cast an illusion in counts as having a focus to that space)

 * *look at divination spells more closely.  They're odd.*

Duration

 * instant (cannot be maintained, cannot be dispelled after the fact...actually does take a small amount of time, about a second usually)

 * full concentration (caster must be doing 'concentrate' maneuver to maintain, caster must remain in range, caster might be able to do other things at a penatly)

 * active concentration (roll skill (unmodified by unfocus) to maintain concentration if something would disrupt it, caster can do other things (perhaps at penalty), caster must remail in range)

 * passive concentration (maintains current state unless caster is incapacitated or leaves range, caster may change state with roll (unfocus applies))

 * persistant (maintains state even if caster is incapacitated or leaves range, caster may change state with roll (unfocus applies) while in range)

 * perminant (maintains state, caster cannot change save by breaking it or dispelling it)

Effect

 * affects a single subject or point (usually affects a small nimbus about subject)

 * affects subject in range, and subjects in (a range) of subject:

  * *need to work on this group, it's a bit complicated--things like Chain Manabolt and ring-of-hands spells...perhaps just drop, see if the "chainlighnign" spell we suffered fits under some other catergory w/some special effect.*

 * Affects a solid sphere about the subject (still doesn't penetrate things that block LoS.  For spells like illusions, determines the maximum volume of illusion)

 * Affects a shell about the subject (may have open sides/top/bottom/whatever)

 * Affects a plain about the subject (orientation is usually tangent to a sphere about the caster, but could be different)  Plain can either be moving or stationary (affects cost?)

 * Affects a line between two subjects, or a moving point on said line--count the range of both subjects against cost, and also if the effect hits only the first subject or all subjects until it is blocked (i.e. a firedart that flies out and hits one subject, or a lightning bolt that strikes all in a line)


Mana Spells V. Physical Spells V. Dual Spells

 * Mana spells can have any range or duration listed above, and are protected against by magical barriers (including manashields).

 * Physical spells create a material effect, and are resisted by material means only.  They cannot be dispelled. *I actually can't think of any spells in this category.  Can you?*

 * Dual spells can effect both astral and material things, and are resisted by either.  An example would be a magical lighnting bolt--a mages manashield turns it aside, but normal armor also protects, and a mage in normal armor recieves the benefits of both. Many combat spells are dual. *GM?  Is this reasonable?  I'm actually making a bit of a deviation here, and claiming that 1 poin physical tuffness+1 point mystic tuffness = 1 point dual tuffness, so only resists one point of Dual damage, not two.  The odd phrasing here may become a moot point, depending on some base-level mechanic hacking or how manashields work*



This isn't quite what I want, but updating the wiki is hitting technical difficulties.

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Looks good, Jesse.  Have you seen the <em>Shadowrun</em> Grimoire, or Magic in the Shadows?  They have the (1st/2nd and 3rd edition, respectively) spell design systems for Shadowrun, and they fit what you've got here pretty well: they provide a reasonably general metasystem for building sorcery spells.  They don't touch on conjury much at all, but I think you'd find them interesting.  Let me know if you'd like to borrow a copy.  --bts