[ArM5] 5th Ed spell design help

[Daniel C. Sobral]

Little Valley Green wrote:

> I just realised that I sent this message to the Berklist by mistake. 
> Here goes again.
> 
> I have a magus in design who wants to cast something similar to "Pilum 
> of Fire" in battle, but his strengths are in Muto and Rego. So I am 
> trying to work my way around this limitation by inventing a new spell.
> 
> The magus can cast "Palm of Flame" CrIg 5, and then wants to cast a 
> spell along the lines of either "Hornet Fire" Mu(Re)Ig 10 or "Leap of 
> the Fire" ReIg 10, to cause a jet of fire to fly from the "Palm of Fire" 
> to a target (in Voice Range) and do +15 damage.
> 
> Is boosting the intensity of the flame from "Ignite something very 
> flammable" to "fire doing +15 damage" a Creo or Muto effect?

I'd say Creo, based on my reading of Creo and Muto and, particularly, 
the fact the increasing a person's characteristic is Creo, not Muto.

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