[PnP] Proposed new spell: Purify

[Alex Koponen]

If you want a world with lots of magic items this spell might help.
New spell:
Purify  BMC2   Alignment- varies (All)
    Similar to Purification, this spell is used to prepare an object for 
the casting of further magic upon it. Successful use of this spell 
negates the Permanent Magics requirement that the item must have been 
created by the caster and the item isn't a manufactured good. If 
Dispell/Banish has been successful in removing all magics from the item 
Purify may allow the item to have further spells cast upon/into the 
item.
    Any magic failures of prior spells, Dispell/Banish or Purify will 
(as per Enhancement failures) destroy the item's capacity to hold 
spells, making it magically worthless.
    In addition to allowing an item to have magics to be cast upon/into 
it that the caster could not normally do without having made the item, 
Purify gives a Roll Modifier to the immediate following spell from the 
caster affecting the item.
ROLL MODIFIER -- (EL+2)x2
Note--The spell may also be cast to oppose a certain spell in which case 
the Roll Modifier is added to the success roll. Cast at 10xCost it will 
oppose all spells of a specific alignment.


Note that any one item may only have enchantments upon it from only one 
spellcaster at a time.
                                --   Alex Koponen

Example: Knowing that he would like to reenchant his staff every time he 
went up a level Gorthwhez the Wizard decided that the first spell cast 
and made permanent on his staff would be Purify at 10xCost. Successfully 
casting Purify (at 10xCost) then Ensorcelment to make it permanent 
Gorthwhez has a staff that gives him a bonus (EL=lower EL of Purify and 
Ensorcelment) to his roll every time he casts a further spell (of the 
alignment chosen) on the staff...at least until a spell failure in 
enchanting it destroys the magical usefullness of the staff.

Magically worthless material is not obvious unless one has Mana Sensing 
or Mana Reading. It is readily detectable by such spells as Detection 
and Perception. One may attempt to Enhance, Enchant or Ensorcel the 
material as normal but any success is instead automatically a failure.