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The worlds of heroic adventure are places of wonder, and part of that wonder is the supernatural arts or powers, unique magical or psychic powers, found in that world. Powers are primarily the province of adepts, although the Wild Talent feat (see Wild Talent in Chapter 3) allows some other characters to acquire limited supernatural talents.
Powers are the province of the adept. Using the Power feat, adepts learn different powers. Known powers are handled much like skills, and often have ranks like skills. An adept's rank in any known powers is equal to (adept level +3). Mixed-role characters use only their adept level for determining their power ranks; it requires dedication to achieve true mastery of the supernatural arts.
Choose a mental ability score (Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma) as the key ability for your character's powers. A character's power bonus with any known power is (adept level + 3 + key ability score). So a 6th-level adept with Wisdom +3 as the key ability for her powers has a power bonus of (6 + 3 + 3) or +12.
In some settings using the True SRD rules, a particular key ability for powers has a certain meaning. For example, Intelligence-based powers may be arcane or magical, Wisdom-based powers spiritual, divine or holy (or unholy, as the case may be), and Charisma-based powers psychic or psionic in nature. These distinctions (and their game effects, if any) are up to the Narrator as best suits the setting and story.
Whether a power's user is an adept or a character with a Wild Talent, the rules for using powers are the same. In the following sections, a character with a Wild Talent is considered to have an adept level equal to total character level.
Wielding powers is primarily an act of will. Adepts often gesture or speak when using their powers, but this is not required. An adept can use powers with nothing more than intense concentration.
Using a power takes a particular amount of time, given in the power's description. Most powers require a standard or move action in combat.
Others require a full-round action or more. Powers are subject to the normal rules regarding actions (see Action Types in Chapter 6).
Some powers call for a check using the bonus of the power. This is the same as any other sort of check: a die roll plus the power's bonus against a Difficulty. The check result often determines the effectiveness of the power. Some powers do not require checks; they operate automatically.
Some powers require an attack roll to affect a target, particularly in the midst of combat. This is a normal attack roll, except adepts always apply their Dexterity modifier, even for a melee attack roll to touch a target in combat (a successful touch is more a matter of agility and speed than sheer strength). Any ability requiring an attack roll also takes at least a standard action and counts as the adept's attack for that round.
Powers affecting other creatures allow a saving throw. The Difficulty for power saves is 10 + half adept level (round down) + key ability. For example, the base Difficulty for the Will saving throw against the powers of a 9th-level adept is 14 (9 divided by 2, rounded down to 4) plus the adept's key ability score for powers.
Adepts can choose to deliberately lower the save Difficulty of a power by reducing their effective adept level to as low as 1. This generally makes the power less effective (lowering its rank), but makes it easier to resist any fatigue it may cause (see Fatigue later in this section).
Subjects of powers can choose to forego the saving throw, willingly accepting the power's effects. This choice is made before the subject knows what that effect is! Be careful about allowing people to use their powers on you, unless you know and trust them....
Specific limitations on the range of a power are noted in its description.
Some powers transcend space, and even time, as we understand them: they can affect targets anywhere. However, using powers against targets out of sight and unfamiliar to the adept is difficult, effectively limiting the range of most powers to somewhat familiar targets or things in the adept's line of sight. If a power's description doesn't specify a range, assume it is line of sight.
An important factor for some powers is how familiar the subject is to the adept. In power descriptions mentioning a familiarity modifier, determine the relationship between the adept and the target on the Familiarity table and apply the appropriate modifier to the Difficulty of the power check. For example, using the Mind Touch power on a somewhat familiar target increases the Difficulty by +15.
| Familiarity | Difficulty | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Present | +0 | A subject visible to the naked eye or in physical or mental contact with the adept. |
| Very Familiar | +5 | A subject currently seen or sensed through another power, a close friend or relative, an item made by the adept or owned and used for at least a year, a place where the adept spent at least a year's time. |
| Familiar | +10 | A subject the adept has been acquainted with for at least three months, a casual friend. |
| Somewhat Familiar | +15 | A subject the adept has been acquainted with for at least a week, reading someone else's memory of a familiar subject. |
| Casually Familiar | +20 | A subject the adept has been acquainted with only briefly, reading someone else's memory of a somewhat familiar subject. |
| Slightly Familiar | +25 | A subject the adept has only seen briefly or had described in detail. |
| Unfamiliar | -- | A subject totally unfamiliar and unknown to the adept and out of the adept's line of sight or physical contact. Powers cannot be used on unfamiliar subjects. |
Some powers refer to the adept being in mental contact with the subject. This involves the use of the Mind Touch power (see Mind Touch in this chapter), allowing the adept to contact another character's mind. Subjects in mental contact are considered present to the adept in terms of familiarity, regardless of the physical distance between them (no increase in Difficulty). Mental contact does not count as line of sight for powers requiring it.
Although it is easiest to use a power on a single subject at a time, an adept can affect multiple subjects with the same power at once: lifting multiple objects, making mental contact with multiple minds, and so forth. This requires time, skill, and effort to achieve.
A character attempting to use a power on more than one subject at once increases the power and fatigue check Difficulties by +2 for every additional target. So affecting three subjects at once is +4 on the power and fatigue check Difficulties. If the power does not require a check, then reduce the power's saving throw Difficulty by 2 per additional subject. Additionally, the power requires a full-round action to use. If the power normally requires a full-round action or more, then it requires an additional full-round action.
The various subjects must all be within range. If the power requires mental contact, then the user must be in mental contact with all subjects. The Narrator has the final say on whether a power can affect more than one subject at a time and, if so, how many. The Widen Powers feat (see Widen Powers in Chapter 3) also allows an adept to affect more than one target with a power at once.
The use of some powers is fatiguing, putting a strain on the adept's mind and body. When an adept uses a fatiguing power, make a fatigue save. This is a Will saving throw against Difficulty 10 plus half the power's rank (round down).
A successful save results in no ill effect on the adept. A failed save means the adept suffers a level of fatigue (see Fatigue in Chapter 6). A few powers cause more than one level of fatigue on a failed fatigue save.
Rapid use of powers in a short period of time makes it harder and harder to overcome fatigue. Every time an adept uses a fatiguing power within an hour's time, the Difficulty of any successive fatigue save for using powers (of any type) increases by 1. For example, an adept uses a fatiguing power, making a fatigue save against the normal Difficulty. A minute later, the adept uses another fatiguing power. This time the Difficulty of the fatigue save is 1 higher. Use of certain powers in rapid succession can tire out even the most powerful adepts.
To eliminate the cumulative fatigue save modifier, an adept must refrain from using any fatiguing powers for at least an hour. The adept doesn't need to physically rest during that time, just avoid any further uses of fatiguing powers.
Some supernatural powers can be maintained; that is, their effects can continue at the same level achieved by the initial use. This maintenance requires at least a modicum of concentration on the adept's part. Maintaining an effect is a free action each round.
Using another power (or another application of the same power) while maintaining one or more powers increases the Difficulty of the power check and the fatigue save by +2 (regardless of the total number of powers maintained).
An adept distracted while maintaining powers must make a Concentration check with Difficulty 10 + 2 per power the adept is maintaining.
Additional modifiers may apply for damage and other distracting conditions (see the Concentration skill in Chapter 2). A failed Concentration check means the adept stops maintaining all the powers. Optionally, the Narrator may rule that the adept stops maintaining one power for every two points the Concentration check missed the Difficulty (rounding up). An adept unable to take any actions (due to being stunned, for example) cannot maintain powers.
Concentration: Some powers require intense concentration to maintain. The adept must devote a standard action each round to concentrate and maintain the ability rather than a free action. Concentration checks and Difficulties remain the same as maintenance.
The powers in this section follow the format for skill descriptions, with a few modifications. Powers cannot be used untrained. If a power causes fatigue, it's listed as fatiguing after the power name. If it requires maintenance or concentration, this is noted.
A description of what the power does follows, along with the game rules for the power.
Each description ends with the time it takes to use the power. In some cases, this varies depending on the conditions when the power is used.
Fatiguing, Concentration
You forge a mental connection with an animal, allowing you to perceive whatever it perceives, using its senses. Make a Beast Link check with a Difficulty of 10, modified by familiarity. If successful, you can perceive with the animal's senses and communicate with it mentally. The animal is not under your command although, you may be able to convince it, using your other skills and powers, to do certain things for you.
Time: Beast Link is a move action.
Fatiguing
While in mental contact with another creature, you can project blissful feelings of pleasure. The creature must make a Will saving throw or be dazed for 1 round, taking no action, but defending normally. Since Mind Touch is a move action, you can make mental contact and use Bliss in the same round.
Retry: Yes, but the target gets a cumulative +1 bonus to the Will save for each new attempt in the same scene.
Special: You must be in mental contact with the subject.
Time: Bliss is a standard action.
Maintenance
You have great mental control over your body. You can make a Body Control check for a number of different tasks.
| Task | Difficulty |
|---|---|
| Sleep normally despite distractions | 5 |
| Sleep normally despite difficult distractions | 10 |
| Slow breathing to half normal rate | 10 |
| Ignore pain or injury | 15 |
| Body awareness | 15 |
| Resist fear | 15 |
| Speed recovery | 15 |
| Slow breathing to one quarter normal rate | 15 |
| Willpower | 15 |
| Feign death | 20 |
| Overcome disease | Disease's Save Difficulty |
| Overcome poison | Poison's Save Difficulty |
Sleeping: A successful Body Control check allows you to sleep in difficult conditions, including bad weather, noise, buzzing insects, and so forth.
Slow Breathing: You can deliberately slow your rate of breathing so that you consume less air, vital in situations where there is a limited amount of breathable air available.
Ignore Pain or Injury: You can ignore the effects of pain or injury while awake or asleep. If you choose, nothing can wake you, as long as you make a successful Body Control check.
Body Awareness: You can become very aware of your body while asleep or concentrating. This allows you to sense if you are touched or moved in any way while using Scrying, for example. If you are damaged, subtract the attack's damage bonus from the Difficulty of the Body Control check.
Resist Fear: You can override your body's natural response to fear. With a successful Body Control check, you gain a new saving throw against any fear effect, with a +4 bonus.
Speed Recovery: You can speed your natural healing process, gaining a recovery check in half the normal time, so long as you spend that time in a deep, healing trance.
Willpower: With a Difficulty 15 Body Control check, you can continue to act while disabled without your condition worsening to dying. You still suffer additional damage normally.
Feign Death: By exerting supreme control over your body, you can enter a deep trance almost indistinguishable from death. A Notice check with a Difficulty equal to your Body Control check is required to determine whether you are still alive. Effects that detect life still work normally on you. While in this state, you also suspend the effects of any disease or poison in your system for as long as you remain in the trance.
Overcome Disease or Poison: By concentrating for a full round, you can substitute your Body Control check for your Fortitude saving throw against a disease or poison in your system. This usually means you can only use Body Control against the secondary effects of a disease or poison, unless it is slow acting and you are warned soon enough to use Body Control to resist the initial effects (in the Narrator's judgment).
Time: Body Control is a full-round action.
Maintenance
You can drain intense emotion, calming those around you. The target creature must make a Will saving throw or be drained of all extremes of emotion. The creature is calm and incapable of taking violent action (although it can defend itself) or doing anything else destructive. Any aggressive action or damage against the subject breaks the effect. A successful Will save means the creature acts normally. This power suppresses (but does not dispel) powers relying on emotion, such as Heart Shaping. While the Calm effect lasts, the suppressed power has no effect.
Special: You must be in mental contact with the target.
Time: Calm is a standard action. It lasts for 1 round per rank after you stop maintaining it.
Fatiguing
You can freeze things with the power of your mind. With a Difficulty 15 Cold Shaping check, you can lower the temperature of an area about a foot across, enough to deal cold damage. A targeted creature suffers cold damage equal to half your Cold Shaping rank (round down). Protective clothing has no effect.
You can freeze roughly a gallon of water into solid ice in a round. For every 2 points that you exceed the Difficulty, you affect an additional cubic foot (or gallon of liquid).
You can also decrease the size and damage potential of a fire by 1 point (and 1 square foot) for every 2 points your Cold Shaping check exceeds Difficulty 10. A fire reduced to a size or damage potential of 0 or less goes out permanently (this requires a Cold Shaping check with Difficulty 12 for a normal square foot flame). Otherwise, the reduction in the fire requires concentration.
Time: Cold Shaping is a standard action.
Fatiguing
You can improve your ability in combat by sensing the flow of events around you. A Combat Sense check grants you a bonus to your base Combat bonus (see the accompanying table). Each round you can split the bonus between attack and defense as you see fit. You can select a bonus lower than what you get on the table to reduce fatigue Difficulty, which is 10 + the Combat bonus.
| Result | Combat Bonus |
|---|---|
| Up to 4 | +1 |
| 5-14 | +2 |
| 15-24 | +3 |
| 25-34 | +4 |
| 35+ | +5 |
Time: Activating Combat Sense is a move action. The bonus lasts for 10 rounds (1 minute) per use.
Fatiguing
You can heal injuries by touch. With a full-round action, you can grant a subject an immediate recovery check using your Cure check result in place of a Constitution check. If the recovery check fails, you must wait the normal recovery time for that condition or use extra effort before trying again (see Extra Effort in Chapter 6). You can stabilize a dying character with a Difficulty 10 Cure check.
You can use Cure on yourself. You can't cure your own staggered or unconscious conditions or stabilize yourself while dying, since you have to be conscious and able to take a full-round action to use the ability. You can use Cure to cure your own disabled condition, but doing so is a strenuous action. If your recovery check is successful, you suffer no ill effects. If it is not, however, your condition worsens to dying.
Retry: See above. Otherwise you can retry freely.
Time: Cure is a full-round action.
Fatiguing
You can remove blindness or deafness a Difficulty 15 power check. If a subject is both blind and deaf, curing both requires two checks.
Retry: You get one attempt to cure a subject's blindness or deafness. If it fails, you cannot try again until your power rank improves.
Time: Cure Blindness/Deafness is a full-round action.
Fatiguing
You can cure a subject of disease. The Difficulty of the power check is the disease's saving throw Difficulty.
Retry: You get only one attempt to cure any given patient of a particular disease. If you fail, you must use extra effort (suffering a level of fatigue) to try again.
Time: Cure Disease is a full-round action.
Fatiguing
You can cure a subject of poison. The Difficulty of the power check is the poison's saving throw Difficulty.
Retry: You get only one attempt to cure any given patient of a particular poison. If you fail, you must use extra effort (suffering a level of fatigue) to try again.
Time: Cure Poison is a full-round action.
Fatiguing, Concentration
You can mentally control another creature's actions. The target makes a Will saving throw. If the save fails, you control the target's actions. You can force the subject to perform any action you wish, within the limits of his abilities. You're aware of what the subject experiences via your mental link, but you do not receive direct sensory impressions from him. Subjects forced to take actions against their nature receive a new saving throw with a bonus of +1 to +4, depending on the nature of action. A successful save breaks your control.
Special: You must be in mental contact with the subject.
Time: Dominate is a full-round action.
You can drain someone's vital energy by touch. Make a Drain Vitality check against the result of the target's Will save. If you win, the target suffers a level of fatigue, while you regain a level of fatigue. You cannot drain targets once they are unconscious.
Special: You can only take 10 on a Drain Vitality check if the target is helpless.
Time: Drain Vitality is a standard action.
Fatiguing
You can shape and move earth and stone. An Earth Shaping check can have one of the following effects:
Move Earth (Difficulty 10): You move dirt (soil, clay, loam, sand), possibly collapsing embankments, moving hillocks, shifting sand dunes, and so forth. However, in no event can rock formations be collapsed or moved. The area to be affected determines the time required and the Difficulty. Every 150-foot square (up to 10 feet deep), takes 10 minutes and increases the Difficulty by 5. The maximum area, 900 feet by 900 feet, takes an hour and is Difficulty 40.
Earth Shaping does not violently break the surface of the ground. Instead, it creates wavelike crests and troughs, with the earth reacting with glacierlike fluidity until the desired result is achieved. Trees, structures, rock formations, and such are mostly unaffected except for changes in elevation and topography. This effect cannot be used for tunneling and is too slow to trap or bury creatures unless they are helpless for the entire time the earth is moved.
Soften Earth (Difficulty 10): All natural, undressed earth or stone softens. Wet earth becomes thick mud, dry earth becomes loose sand or dirt, and stone becomes soft clay that is easily molded. You affect a 10-foot square area to a depth of 1 to 4 feet, depending on the toughness or resilience of the ground at that spot. Each +5 increase in Difficulty affects another 10- foot square. Dressed or worked stone cannot be affected. Earth and stone creatures are not affected either.
A creature in mud must succeed on a Reflex save or be caught helpless for one round. A creature that succeeds on its save can move through the mud at half speed. Loose dirt is not as troublesome as mud, but all creatures in the area move at only half their normal speed and can't run or charge. Stone softened into clay does not hinder movement, but it does allow characters to cut, shape, or excavate areas they may not have been able to affect before.
While this power does not affect dressed or worked stone, cavern ceilings or vertical surfaces such as cliff faces can be affected. Usually, this causes a moderate collapse or landslide as the loosened material peels away from the face of the wall or roof and falls.
A moderate amount of damage can be dealt to a structure by softening the ground beneath it, causing it to settle. However, most sturdy structures are only damaged by this, and not destroyed.
Stonecrafting (Difficulty 10): You can mold stone into any shape you wish. You can affect 10 cubic feet of stone. Each additional cubic foot increases the Difficulty by 1 (so at Difficulty 30 you can affect 30 cubic feet). The Narrator may require a Craft (sculpting or stonecutting) check to achieve precise results. You perform stone crafts in minutes instead of the hours of normal Craft projects. A complex project, which normally takes 24 hours, would therefore take 24 minutes.
Earthquake (Difficulty 30): An intense but highly localized tremor rips the ground. The shock knocks creatures down, collapses structures, opens cracks in the ground, and more. The effect lasts for 1 round, during which time creatures on the ground can't move or attack. An adept must make a Concentration check (Difficulty 20) to use powers that round. The earthquake affects all terrain, vegetation, structures, and creatures in an area with a radius of adept level times 10 feet. The specific effects depend on the nature of the terrain.
Time: See description.
Your can strike a foe with a focused blast of elemental force. Your Elemental Strike is a normal ranged attack with a range increment of (shaping power rank x 10) feet and a maximum range of ten increments (power rank x 100 feet).
An Elemental Strike inflicts damage equal to half your power rank, rounded down. Water and Wind Shaping strikes inflict non-lethal damage. If you apply the Widen Power feat to an Elemental Strike, it affects all targets within (rank x 2) feet radius of the target point. Targets of a Widened Elemental Strike can make a Reflex saving throw (Difficulty 10 + the strike's damage bonus). If successful, the strike only inflicts half damage on that target.
Fatiguing
This works like Enhance Self, except you can enhance others' abilities by touch, and you cannot enhance your own abilities.
Special: The subject of this power must also make a Fortitude saving throw against fatigue (same Difficulty as the adept) when its duration runs out, to represent the strain placed on the subject's body.
Fatiguing
You can improve your Strength or Dexterity for a short time. An Enhance Self check adds a bonus to either your Strength or Dexterity score for 1 minute (10 rounds). The result of the check indicates the amount of the bonus. If desired, you can split an even bonus equally between Strength and Dexterity.
| Difficulty | Bonus |
|---|---|
| 15 | +1 |
| 20 | +2 |
| 25 | +3 |
| 30 | +4 |
| 35 | +5 |
Time: Enhance Self is a standard action. The bonus lasts for 10 rounds (1 minute). If you take 20 when making this check, you spend 2 minutes and suffer a +20 increase in the fatigue Difficulty.
Wisdom
You can enhance your normal sensory abilities. An Enhance Senses check adds a bonus to your Notice, Search, and Sense Motive checks. It also adds to skill checks made to find or follow tracks. The result of the check indicates the amount of the bonus.
| Difficulty | Bonus |
|---|---|
| 10 | +2 |
| 15 | +4 |
| 20 | +6 |
| 25 | +8 |
| 30 | +10 |
| 35 | +12 |
Time: Enhance Senses is a move action. The bonus lasts for 10 minutes. If you take 20 when making this check, you spend 2 minutes and suffer a +20 increase to the fatigue Difficulty.
Fatiguing
You can mentally start and control fires. You can make a Fire Shaping check to ignite a fire, to increase the size of an existing fire, or to create light but not heat.
Ignite Fire: You can set any flammable object in your line of sight on fire as a standard action with a successful Fire Shaping check (Difficulty 15). Targets must make a Reflex saving throw (Difficulty 15) to avoid taking +2 fire damage. The target must save each round. A successful save means the fire goes out; although, you can reignite it with another standard action and successful Fire Shaping check. A character on fire can automatically extinguish the flames by dousing in water. Spending a full round rolling on the ground grants a +4 bonus on the Reflex saving throw. In addition to using it as an attack, you can use the power to light candles (up to a dozen candles in a 5-foot square with a single skill check), torches, hearth fires, and so forth. At the Narrator's discretion, lighting small fires, like candles, is not fatiguing.
Increase Fire: You can increase the size and intensity of a fire. The Difficulty of the Fire Shaping check is 10 + 1 per square foot of increase. Every two square feet increase the fire's damage potential by +1. The fire maintains its increased size and damage as long as you concentrate, and it can even burn in the absence of fuel; although, smothering still puts it out. While you maintain an increased flame, a victim does not get a Reflex saving throw to put the fire out (although it can still be extinguished by dousing with water), and the fire does additional damage based on your Fire Shaping check. So, an adept who makes a Difficulty 16 Fire Shaping check can spread a fire over an additional 6 square feet and it does +3 damage.
Light: You can create a glowing spot of supernatural fire that sheds light but no heat, illuminating a 20-foot radius. This requires a move action and a Difficulty 5 Fire Shaping check. You can increase the radius of the illumination by increasing the Difficulty of the check; each +5 Difficulty increases the radius of the illumination by 10 feet. The point of light moves where you direct it within your line of sight, as a move action. Creating light is not fatiguing.
Time: Igniting fires and increasing flames are standard actions. Creating or moving light is a move action.
Fatiguing
You can shape and mold flesh as if it were clay in your hands. The subject must be either willing or helpless for the entire duration of your work (you can use Flesh Shaping on yourself). You make Flesh Shaping checks to alter a subject's physical features. You cannot change body mass or size, other than a few feet more or less in height by resizing the subject's bones. You can sculpt physical features largely at will. The Difficulty and time required for Flesh Shaping is shown in the table.
| Difficulty | Time | Task |
|---|---|---|
| 15 | 1 minute | Alter facial features or other minor cosmetic features. |
| 20 | 10 minutes | Alter extensive cosmetic features or overall shape. |
| 30 | 1 hour | Extensive alterations to shape, duplicating exact appearance. |
Treat your Flesh Shaping check result like a Disguise check for purposes of determining if someone notices the change. Among other things, Flesh Shaping can provide alterations in eye, hair, and skin color, even creating tattoo-like patterns of pigmentation. It can greatly enhance or diminish physical appearance. Any alterations are permanent, unless reversed through this power or the Cure power, either of which must exceed the original check result.
Special: Taking 20 increases the fatigue save Difficulty by +20.
Time: See table.
Fatiguing
You can inflict injury with a mere touch, disrupting the body's natural balance. You must touch the target as a standard action. Success means the target must make a Fortitude saving throw against your power save Difficulty, with failure read on the Toughness Saving Throw table for lethal damage. So a failed save results in a hurt condition, failure by 5 or more means the target is wounded, and so forth.
Time: Harm is a standard action.
Wisdom
You can sense the emotions of other creatures. A Heart Reading check allows you to determine the subject's emotional state. The target gets a Will save to resist. Whether you succeed or fail, the subject does not know you are reading his emotions.
If the target's save fails, you get a general idea of his emotions and mood. This grants you a bonus on the next interaction skill check you make against the subject within the next 10 rounds (1 minute). The bonus is based on your Heart Reading check result.
| Result | Interaction Bonus |
|---|---|
| Up to 4 | +1 |
| 5-14 | +2 |
| 15-24 | +3 |
| 25-34 | +4 |
| 35+ | +5 |
Retry: You can only use Heart Reading on a subject once during the same scene.
Time: Heart Reading is a free action. The bonus lasts 10 rounds (1 minute) or until you make an interaction skill check against the target, whichever comes first.
Fatiguing, Concentration
You can impose emotions on others. The target makes a Will saving throw. If the save fails, you can impose any one of the following emotional states:
Despair: The target suffers a -2 penalty on saving throws, attack rolls, checks, and damage. Despair dispels the effects of hope.
Fear: The target flees from the object of its fear (chosen by you). Fear dispels the effects of rage. It also immediately ends a use of the Rage feat.
Friendship: The target's attitude shifts to the next more positive attitude (hostile to unfriendly, unfriendly to indifferent, and so forth). see Social Actions in Chapter 6. Creatures involved in combat continue to fight back normally, however. Friendship dispels the effects of hatred.
Hatred: The target's attitude shifts to the next more negative attitude (indifferent to unfriendly, unfriendly to hostile, and so forth). see Social Actions in Chapter 6. Hatred dispels the effects of friendship.
Hope: The target gains a +2 bonus on saving throws, attack rolls, checks, and damage. Hope dispels the effects of despair.
Rage: The target gains the effects of the Rage feat (see Rage in Chapter 3). They are compelled to fight, heedless of danger. Rage does not stack with the Rage feat or with itself. Rage dispels the effects of fear.
Time: Heart Shaping is a standard action.
Fatiguing, Concentration
You can fool the senses of others. Make an Illusion check with a Difficulty based on the complexity of the illusion, consulting the table. If successful, the illusion appears to the subject. The illusion exists solely in the subject's mind, so it can be of any size; creating the illusion of something small is just as easy as creating the illusion of something huge.
| Complexity | Difficulty |
|---|---|
| Illusion affects a single sense | 10 |
| Illusion affects two senses | 15 |
| Illusion affects all senses | 20 |
| Simple (random noise, static image, and the like) | +0 |
| Complex (coherent sound, moving images, and the like) | +5 |
| Very Complex (multiple overlapping sounds or images) | +10 |
Since the illusion isn't real, it cannot produce any real effects. It cannot cause damage, support weight, provide nutrition, illuminate darkness, or provide protection from the elements. Thus, characters fall through an illusory bridge or floor if they try to walk on it, and although they can appear to eat, and taste, illusory food, it has no nutritional value.
Characters encountering an illusion do not get a saving throw against it until they study it carefully or interact with it in some fashion. For example, if characters encounter a section of illusory floor, they would receive a saving throw if they stopped and examined the floor, poked at it, and so forth. Likewise, if an illusory monster attacks the characters, they get a saving throw because they are interacting with the illusion.
A successful saving throw against an illusion reveals it to be false, but a translucent after-image remains. For example, a character making a successful saving throw against an illusory section of floor knows the floor isn't real and isn't safe to walk on, and can see what lies below it, but he can still note where the illusion is.
A failed Will saving throw means the character fails to notice anything is amiss. A character faced with incontrovertible proof that an illusion isn't real needs no saving throw. Someone who falls through an illusory floor knows something is amiss. A character who communicates this information to others gives them a +4 bonus on saving throws against the illusion.
Retry: No. You can attempt to affect the same character after some time has passed, but not in the same scene.
Special: You must be in mental contact with a target to use Illusion.
Time: Illusion is a full-round action.
Fatiguing
You can restore the dead to life! The subject cannot have been dead for longer than your adept level in minutes, and you must make a Difficulty 25 power check, taking a minute of intense concentration. If the check succeeds, the subject's condition becomes unconscious and disabled (from which the subject may heal normally). An Imbue Life attempt is fatiguing, with Difficulty 20 + half your power rank.
Retry: No.
Fatiguing
The adept lends animation to the dead, creating a mockery of life. Imbue Unlife may create two kinds of undead: mindless or intelligent.
Mindless: You turn the bones or bodies of dead creatures into undead skeletons or zombies, which obey your spoken commands (see Skeleton and Zombie in Chapter 8). They remain animated until destroyed. (A destroyed undead creature can't be imbued with unlife again.)
A skeleton can be created only from a mostly intact corpse or skeleton. The corpse must have bones. If a skeleton is made from a corpse, the flesh falls from its bones when it is created. A zombie can be created only from a mostly intact corpse. The corpse must be that of a creature with a true anatomy.
Regardless of the type you create, you can't make more mindless undead than twice your adept level with a single use of Imbue Unlife.
The skeletons or zombies you create remain under your control indefinitely. No matter how many times you use this power, however, you can control only four times your adept level in mindless undead. If you exceed this, all newly created creatures fall under your control, and any excess from previous castings become uncontrolled. (You choose which creatures are released from your control.)
Intelligent: You transform a corpse into an intelligent undead creature. Unlike the mindless undead, this creature is not under your control; although, you can use other means, including other powers, to command it. You can create a ghost or vampire using this power (see Ghost and Vampire in Chapter 8).
Creating an intelligent undead creature has a Difficulty of 18.
If you fail an Imbue Unlife check to animate a corpse, that corpse is permanently immune to any further attempts by you to imbue it with unlife.
Time: One minute.
Fatiguing
You can mentally control light. With a successful check, you can make your outline blurred and indistinct or even become invisible.
You can create realistic three-dimensional images of light occupying up to a 10-foot cube. Each additional 10-foot cube the image occupies increases the Difficulty by 5. Subjects seeing the image get a Will saving throw to realize it is not real if they have any reason to suspect it, such as the fact that the image makes no noise.
You can also create a point of light illuminating a 20-foot radius, which you can move at will anywhere in your line of sight as a move action. For each 10 feet you add to the radius of illumination, the Difficulty increases by 5.
You can create light effects anywhere in your line of sight, and they last as long as you maintain them. Creating multiple effects at once (such as becoming invisible while also creating the illusion you are elsewhere) count as maintaining multiple powers.
| Task | Difficulty |
|---|---|
| Illuminate | 5 (+5 per additional 10-foot radius) |
| Visual Illusion | 10 (+5 per additional 10-foot cube) |
| Blur (20% miss chance) | 15 |
| Blur (50% miss chance) | 20 |
| Invisibility | 25 |
Special: The basic level of illuminate (Difficulty 5) is not fatiguing.
Time: Light Shaping is a standard action.
Fatiguing, Maintenance
You can manipulate objects at distance as if with a pair of invisible, intangible hands. Your power has the same Dexterity as you, while lifting the object has the same Difficulty as Move Object, except you cannot increase the weight lifted by suffering fatigue (Manipulate Object's fatigue comes from the extra precision required).
You can use your normal skills via Manipulate Object, but you are at a -2 penalty for having to operate remotely, and you can't perform tasks at all if you can't see your target, since your power has no sense of touch.
Remotely Wielding Weapons: An adept can wield a melee weapon using Manipulate Object. Picking up the weapon is a move action. Attacking with it is a standard action. Concealment is determined by the attacker and defender's positions, not the weapon's, while cover is determined by the defender and weapon's positions. The attacker makes a normal attack roll, but with a -4 penalty for the difficulty in controlling the weapon from afar, and adds his Intelligence score to the attack roll, rather than Dexterity. The weapon deals its normal damage with no modification for Strength (as if wielded by a Str 0 attacker). An adept can take the Exotic Weapon Training feat in remotely wielded weapons to eliminate the -4 penalty to hit (see Exotic Weapon Training in Chapter 3).
A remotely wielded weapon can be struck normally by sunder attacks (see Sunder in Chapter 6). Attempts to disarm the adept by knocking the weapon out of his supernatural grasp are resolved by opposed attack rolls as normal or an opposed attack roll and Manipulate Object check, if the adept's Manipulate Object bonus is greater than his attack bonus.
Time: Manipulate Object is a move action. The skill use lasts for 10 rounds (1 minute).
Fatiguing, Concentration
You can mentally probe a subject's mind for information. You must be in mental contact with the subject. Make a Mind Probe check against the result of the target's Will save.
If successful, you can ask any one question and receive the answer from the target's mind. If the target doesn't know the answer, then you know that. Especially personal or guarded information grants the target a +1 to +5 bonus on the Will save, while information the subject doesn't consciously know (because it is subconscious or forgotten due to amnesia, for example) grants a +5 to +10 bonus on the Will save.
You can continue to ask questions, one per round, for as long as you maintain your Mind Probe. Each question requires a new skill check, an additional Will save, and another fatigue save (with an increasing fatigue save Difficulty).
Retry: Yes, but the target gets a cumulative +1 bonus to the Will save for each new attempt in the same scene.
Special: You must be in mental contact with the subject.
Time: Mind Probe is a full-round action.
Maintenance
You can read another creature's thoughts. Make an opposed check against the result of the target's Will save. If successful, you can read the target's surface thoughts (whatever the target is presently thinking). Mind Reading transcends language; you comprehend the target's thoughts whether or not you share a language. If you fail your Mind Reading check, you cannot read the target's mind.
If you can interact with your subject, a successful Bluff check against the target's Sense Motive check causes the subject to think consciously about a particular piece of information you're looking for, such as a password or name, allowing you to pluck it from the subject's surface thoughts.
Retry: Yes, but the target gets a cumulative +1 bonus to the Will save for each new attempt in the same scene, and retries with Mind Reading are fatiguing.
Special: You must be in mental contact with the subject.
Time: Mind Reading is a standard action.
Fatiguing
Mind Shaping allows you to remove psychic influence or to alter memories and behavior. Make a Mind Shaping check, with the Difficulty determined by the task.
Remove Mental Influence: Make a Mind Shaping check with a Difficulty equal to the check result of a mind-affecting power. If you succeed, that power no longer affects the subject. Note this only removes the effects of ongoing powers, not permanent aftereffects. This means you could use Mind Shaping to remove a Dominate or Illusion effect, but not to restore damage caused by a psychic attack (for that, use the Cure power). You can undo the effects of Mind Shaping used to alter the subject's mind by equaling or exceeding the Mind Shaping check used to make the alterations.
Alter Psyche: You can make changes in the subject's mind. The Difficulty is based on the extent of the change you wish to make.
| Difficulty | Alteration | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 15 | Alter a single unimportant fact or brief recollection, about 5 minutes worth of memory. | 1 full round |
| 20 | Alter a single fact or an hour's worth of memory. | 1 minute |
| 25 | Alter a single significant fact, such as the name of the subject's spouse, or a day's worth of memory. | 10 minutes |
| 30 | Alter a deeply personal fact, such as the subject's name or alignment, or a week's worth of memory. | 1 hour |
| 35 | Alter up to a month's worth of memory. | 6 hours |
| 40 | Alter up to a year's worth of memory. Give the subject an entirely new personality, complete with false memories, or erase the subject's entire memory, causing total amnesia. | 10 hours |
False or altered memories can cause dissonance within the subject's mind, depending on how well they fit into the subject's other memories. If the subject notices a conflict between the false and true memories (Narrator's discretion), she gets an additional Will save to shake off the effect and regain her true memory. She gains a bonus of +1 to +4 on the save depending on how strong the dissonance is between the true and false memories.
Special: You must be in mental contact with the subject. Taking 20 requires twenty times the usual time. Generally, this means the subject must be cooperative, unconscious, or restrained in some way. Taking 20 increases the fatigue check Difficulty by +20 as well.
Retry: If you fail a Mind Shaping check, you must wait at least 24 hours before attempting the same task on the same subject.
Time: Removing psychic influence is a full-round action. For altering a person's psyche, see the table.
You can establish contact with another mind. The base Difficulty is 10, modified by familiarity. If the subject has a Psychic Shield, you have to make a separate Mind Touch check to overcome it. An unwilling subject also gets a Will saving throw to avoid contact. If the save is successful, no contact is made.
If you do not want the subject to know you are making mental contact, you can make a separate opposed Mind Touch check against the subject's Sense Motive, Second Sight, or Psychic Shield check (whichever has the highest bonus). If you win, the subject is unaware of your attempt. If the subject wins, she is aware of your attempt (whether you succeed or fail in actually establishing contact).
While you are in mental contact with another being, the two of you can communicate at the rate of normal speech, hearing each other's thoughts. You can also send a single visual image each round instead of speaking. Both you and the subject can choose to lie or omit information; you're "speaking" to each other mentally, not reading each other's thoughts. Mind Touch is two-way, meaning you are in mental contact with the subject for purposes of her powers and vice versa.
If a friendly mental contact turns hostile, the subject can make a Will saving throw or Psychic Shield check to break contact. Once the subject has failed an attempt to eject the intruder from her mind, she can't break the contact.
If your Mind Touch is broken, any other powers you are maintaining requiring mental contact are also broken.
Mentally Aiding Others: While in mental contact with another character, you can use the aid another action (a standard action) to grant that character a +2 bonus on Will saving throws or on any skill check where your skill rank is equal to or greater than the subject's.
Mental Rapport: Two or more characters with the Mind Touch skill can enter a mental rapport with each other, an intense state of mental contact. Each character establishes mental contact with the other, each of whom must be willing. Characters in rapport are like one mind, each instantly aware of everything that the other thinks and experiences and able to share information instantly. Characters in rapport cannot deliberately lie to or deceive each other.
Deathcry: If a creature you are in mental contact with dies, you must make a Will saving throw or Psychic Shield check (Difficulty 20) to avoid being dazed for 1 round by the psychic feedback. Since mental contact is two-way, this applies to any creature in mental contact with another. A creature can deliberately avoid letting out a deathcry when it dies by making a Will saving throw (Difficulty 20).
Retry: You can retry Mind Touch freely, but retries on the same subject within an hour's time are fatiguing.
Time: Mind Touch is a move action. It requires concentration to maintain.
Fatiguing, Maintenance
You can move objects with the power of your thoughts. A Move Object check allows you to move an object in your line of sight. The Difficulty of the Move Object check is based on the mass of the object you want to move and whether or not you choose to risk fatigue. A fatiguing use of Move Object can move ten times the mass listed on the table (so 20 pounds at Difficulty 10, up to 2,000 pounds at Difficulty 40) and doubles the listed damage.
| Difficulty | Mass | Damage |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | 2 lb. | +1 |
| 15 | 5 lb. | +2 |
| 20 | 10 lb. | +3 |
| 25 | 25 lb. | +4 |
| 30 | 50 lb. | +5 |
| 35 | 100 lb. | +6 |
| 40 | 200 lb. | +7 |
You can move the object a distance of 5 feet times your Move Object rank per move action. If two adepts vie for control of an object, use opposed Move Object checks. The winner controls the object for that round. If a creature is holding the object, make a Move Object check opposed by the creature's Strength check.
Grappling Creatures: You can use Move Object to grapple a creature (see Grapple in Chapter 6). If you successfully pin your target, you can treat them as an ordinary object for purposes of moving them with this ability.
Striking with Objects: You can hurl objects at opponents. This requires a ranged attack roll and the object deals damage based on your Move Object skill check, as shown on the table. Since using Move Object is a move action, you can move an object and strike with it (as a standard action) in the same round.
Moving Multiple Objects: As a full-round action, you can attempt to move multiple objects at once. Use the Difficulty of the heaviest object, then add +2 for each additional object and increase the fatigue check Difficulty by +2 for each additional object. You cannot strike a target with multiple objects as part of the same action.
Time: Move Object is a move action. The skill use lasts for 10 rounds (1 minute) and requires concentration to maintain.
Wisdom
You are attuned to the flows of the natural world, able to read certain signs from it. You can learn the following:
Time: See the description.
You can read psychic impressions from places and objects, getting images of their pasts, as if you were actually present at a particular past event.
Active Object Reading: You can attempt to see the past of a particular place or object. You must be able to touch the object. This requires a full-round action and an Object Reading check. Active Object Reading is fatiguing.
Spontaneous Visions: Your ability may also spontaneously activate at the Narrator's discretion when you are in contact with an object with particularly strong psychic impressions. This requires a Object Reading check.
The Narrator should make Object Reading checks secretly so the player doesn't necessarily know if a particular vision was accurate or not.
Consult the table below for the results of a vision, based on the Object Reading check.| Difficulty | Result |
|---|---|
| 10 | A vague vision that may not be accurate. |
| 15 | A brief and accurate vision of the events. |
| 20 | A longer vision of the events, encompassing everything that took place in a particular place and time. |
| 25 | The ability to move the vision backward or forward in time to review the event. |
| 30 | The ability to track the vision backward through time and space to trace an event to its origin. |
| 35 | Near-complete knowledge of a particular past event and everything involving it. |
Impressions read from objects generally count as slightly familiar for the purposes of determining familiarity for other powers, possibly more if the vision was long or extremely accurate (in the Narrator's opinion). see Familiarity in Chapter 4.
Time: Object Reading is a full-round action.
Fatiguing, Concentration
You can inflict terrible pain on a target. You must touch or be in mental contact with the target, who makes a Will saving throw. If the save fails, the target is stunned. So long as you maintain total concentration, the effect continues. The victim gets a new Will save each round to overcome the pain. A successful Will save means your Pain power stops working.
You must use it again to affect the target (with the usual increase in fatigue save Difficulty for successive use). A target gets a +2 Will save bonus for each successive use of Pain in the same scene.
Time: Pain is a standard action.
Fatiguing
You can shape living plants and, to a degree, dead wood and other plant materials.
Plant Healing: You can heal injured or diseased plants. This requires you to touch the plant and make a Difficulty 15 Plant Shaping check. If you succeed, the plant is restored to complete health. Plants must be living and reasonably intact in order for this power to heal them.
Plant Growth: You can promote rapid growth in plants, causing an area to become filled with thick undergrowth (see Hampered Movement in Chapter 6). This affects a radius equal to your adept level times 40 feet. You can also focus the power on a specific area with a 40-foot radius. Plants there become so overgrown they entangle anyone in the area, who must make a Reflex saving throw. A failed save means the target is bound and helpless, needing a Difficulty 20 Strength or Escape Artist check to get free. A successful save means the target isn't trapped, but must still contend with the thick undergrowth created by the tangled plants. Finally, you can use plant growth to enrich an area with a radius equal to your adept level times 400 feet, increasing the yield and growth of crops there by 50 percent for the season.
Woodcrafting: You can use Plant Shaping like a Craft skill to shape objects out of wood. This takes minutes instead of the hours of a normal Craft project. You can therefore complete a simple woodcraft project in a minute and an advanced one in an hour. see Craft in Chapter 2 for details.
Time: Plant healing is a full-round action. Plant growth is a standard action. Woodcrafting requires time based on the project.
Fatiguing
You psychically assault a target's mind. You can affect any target in your line of sight or in mental contact. The target makes a Will saving throw against your power's save Difficulty, with the results read like a Toughness save against non-lethal damage (see Damage and Recovery in Chapter 6). So a failed Will save results in a bruise, failure by 5 or more in a daze, and so forth. Psychic Blast cannot cause damage past unconsciousness.
Time: Psychic Blast is a standard action.
You can shield your mind from psychic influences. When you are the target of any powers granting a Will saving throw, make a Psychic Shield check. The attacker must make a power check using the attacking psychic ability. If your check result is higher, the power fails. If the attacker's result is higher, the power affects you normally, but you still get a normal saving throw. You may choose to voluntarily lower your Psychic Shield as a free action, and can raise it again as a free action. Otherwise, your shield is always active, even if you are unconscious or sleeping.
Shields and Maintained Powers: Once a power has overcome your Psychic Shield, it continues to affect you as long as the other adept maintains it. You're still entitled to your normal saving throws, if any, but your shield no longer protects you from that power. Once the attacker needs to make a new power check, however, your shield comes into play again and must be overcome again. For powers requiring mental contact, so long as the other adept remains in mental contact with you (inside your shield), he can use those powers freely without worrying about your shield.
Overcoming Psychic Shields: An attacker can choose to suffer a fatigue result to automatically overcome your Psychic Shield. This is in addition to any fatigue caused by the power used against you. If you also choose to suffer a fatigue result, then the attacker must still roll normally to overcome your shield. This process takes no actual time; it happens as part of the check to overcome the Psychic Shield. An attacker trying to avoid notice cannot use this option, since it makes it immediately apparent that you are under psychic attack.
Time: Psychic Shield use is a free action.
Fatiguing
You can create a melee weapon out of psychic energy. Take a move action and a Difficulty 15 power check to create the psychic weapon in your hand. The appearance of the weapon is up to you; its effects are the same regardless. You wield a psychic weapon like a normal melee weapon, except you are automatically considered trained with it.
The psychic weapon inflicts +1 damage per 4 ranks in this power. Add your Wisdom modifier rather than your Strength modifier to the weapon's damage. This damage ignores physical armor. You can score a critical hit with your Psychic Weapon on a natural roll of 20, inflicting +3 damage.
A psychic weapon is immaterial and only affects creatures with an Intelligence score. It has no effect on non-intelligent creatures or objects, meaning it cannot sunder or even block a material weapon. Two psychic weapons affect each other normally. If your psychic weapon is somehow knocked from your grasp or sundered by another psychic weapon, you can recreate it by taking a move action and making another power check.
Creating a psychic weapon requires a fatigue save with a Difficulty of 10 + the weapon's damage bonus. The weapon lasts for one minute (10 rounds) after you summon it. To maintain it for another minute, make another fatigue save. Your psychic weapon disappears if you are stunned or unconscious.
Fatiguing
You can wield the power of pure light as a weapon against the forces of evil. This feat allows you to do two things.
Light Strike: First, you can cast a supernatural bolt of light like an Elemental Strike (see Elemental Striek earlier in this chapter), except it only affects supernatural creatures of innate evil or darkness like the undead or demons.
Shining Ward: Second, you can call forth a shining light to fill an area up to 60 feet across. Maintaining the area of pure light requires concentration. Any evil supernatural creature must make a Will save in order to enter the area of light, and another Will save each round to remain there. A failed save means the creature cannot enter the area and must leave immediately if it is already inside it.
Both uses of Purifying Light are fatiguing. You make the fatigue save after each light strike and after you stop maintaining a shining ward.
Fatiguing, Concentration
You can sense distant events as if you were physically present. Make a Scrying check to sense a particular place, creature, or thing known to you. The base Difficulty is 10, modified by familiarity. If successful, you can observe the subject as if you were present. The vision lasts for as long as you maintain it, but your ordinary senses are overridden, so you are unaware of what is happening near you while you are observing events elsewhere. A subject observed via Scrying is considered present in terms of familiarity, but not in your actual line of sight.
Scrying creates a psychic disturbance, which creatures with Intelligence 0 or better can sense. Any such creature under observation can make a Sense Motive or Second Sight check, opposed by your Scrying check.
Creatures with no supernatural abilities get the intense feeling of being watched. Adepts and wild talents see a glowing or shadowy image of you. You also have a present familiarity for any creature that senses you for the purposes of that creature's powers, meaning they may affect you in return.
Time: Scrying is a full-round action.
You can sense the use and lingering effects of supernatural powers. Make a Second Sight check to detect powers in use in your vicinity, to sense an attempt at mental contact, or to detect and read the supernatural "signature" left behind by powers.
Sense Powers: The Narrator makes a Second Sight check for you in secret as a reaction whenever powers are used in your general area. The base Difficulty is 10 or the user's Psychic Shield check result, whichever is greater, and the Difficulty increases by +1 for every 10 feet between you and the user or subject of the power (whichever is closer). A successful result means you sense a power use. You also know the general direction and distance to the source of the power and its target. If you succeed by 5 or more, you know the exact power used. If you succeed by 10 or more, you recognize the user, if known to you.
Sense Mind Touch: You make a Second Sight check against the other adept's Mind Touch check to know when someone is trying to secretly get into mental contact with you. If you win the check, you sense the attempt, but you might not be able to avoid it (depending on your Psychic Shield and Will save).
Sense Supernatural Signature: If you also have the Object Reading power (see Object Reading earlier in this chapter), you can sense old uses of powers in an area. The base Second Sight Difficulty is 15 to detect that powers used in the area in the past and 20 to determine what power was used and roughly when. It is Difficulty 25 to know exactly what or whom the power was used on. Sensing supernatural signatures is fatiguing.
Retry: No.
Special: Taking 20 requires you to concentrate for at least 2 minutes and increases the fatigue save Difficulty by +20.
Time: Sensing power use and mental contact are reactions, taking no time. Sensing signatures requires a full-round action.
You can determine the presence and location of other minds. Make a Difficulty 15 Sense Minds check to sense the presence of any creature with an Intelligence score within 30 feet of you. For every factor of 10 you extend your sensing radius, the Difficulty increases by 5.
| Difficulty | Radius |
|---|---|
| 15 | 30 feet |
| 20 | 300 feet |
| 25 | 3,000 feet |
| 30 | 30,000 feet |
| 35 | 300,000 feet |
| 40 | 3,000,000 feet |
With a successful check, you sense the presence of other minds, their approximate number, their general type (animal, humanoid, and so forth), and their approximate location. The larger the number of minds, the more general the information tends to be. Psychic Shield opposes Sense Minds. A Psychic Shield check greater than your Sense Minds check allows a creature to go unnoticed.
You can focus your attempt to Sense Minds on a particular place you can see, such as a building or island within range, for example.
Time: Sense Minds is a move action.
Fatiguing
You can psychically put a target into a deep sleep. The target gets a Will saving throw. Success negates the effect. If the Will save fails, the creature falls instantly asleep and remains so for 1 minute per rank. Sleeping creatures are helpless. Slapping or any damage awakens them, but normal noise does not. Awakening the creature requires a standard action (an application of the aid another action). Creatures that do not sleep are immune to this power.
Special: You must be in mental contact with the subject.
Time: Sleep is a standard action. It lasts for 10 rounds (1 minute) per rank.
Fatiguing
You can implant suggestions into the minds of others. The suggestion must be worded in such a manner as to make the activity sound reasonable. Asking a creature to stab itself, throw itself onto a spear, immolate itself, or do some other obviously harmful act automatically fails. However, a suggestion that a pool of acid is actually pure water and that a quick dip would be refreshing is another matter.
If the target's Will saving throw fails, the suggested course of action is followed for up to 30 minutes per rank, or until the course of action is complete, whichever comes first. You can also specify conditions that trigger a particular course of action, in which case the duration is counted from when the triggering event occurs. A very reasonable suggestion may impose a saving throw penalty of -1 or -2, at the Narrator's discretion.
Retry: No. You can attempt to affect the same character after some time has passed, but not in the same scene.
Time: Suggestion is a full-round action. It lasts for 30 minutes per rank.
Fatiguing (see below)
You can sense when someone is lying to you. When interacting with a creature of Intelligence -3 or higher, you automatically sense when the creature tells you a deliberate lie. You can do this a number of times equal to your Wisdom score in any given conversation. Detecting further lies in the same conversation is fatiguing (Difficulty 10, +1 per additional statement you verify). You do not detect half-truths, lies of omission, or things the creature believes are true (even if they are not).
You can get visions of the future, as if you were actually present at a particular future event. The visions you receive are by no means assured; the future can be changed by the actions of those in the present.
Spontaneous Visions: At the Narrator's discretion, you may receive a vision when you are in contact with a subject or when there is a momentous event approaching in the future. This vision can occur while you are awake, yet spontaneous visions often take the form of dreams. You know when a dream is actually a vision although, you may not necessarily know what the vision means.
Danger Sense: Whenever you would normally be surprised in combat, you can make a Visions check (Difficulty 15). If successful, you receive a splitsecond warning; you are not surprised and can take an action during the surprise round.
The Narrator should make Visions checks secretly so the player doesn't necessarily know if a particular vision is accurate or not. Consult the table for the results of a vision, based on the Visions check, or choose a suitable result, based on the hero's Visions rank and the requirements of the story.
| Difficulty | Result |
|---|---|
| 10 | A vague vision of the future that may be accurate. |
| 15 | An accurate glimpse of the future. |
| 20 | Awareness of how long before a particular event occurs. |
| 25 | Awareness of the people involved in a particular future event. |
| 30 | Awareness of the time, subjects, and location of a future event. |
| 35 | Near-complete knowledge of a particular future event and everything involving it. |
Things seen in visions count as slightly familiar in terms of familiarity, possibly more if the vision was long or extremely accurate (in the Narrator's opinion).
Time: Visions is a full-round action (at least).
You can create interference with other supernatural powers. You can affect an area around you with a radius equal to your adept level times 5 feet. Alternatively, you can choose to focus your Ward against a single creature in your line of sight.
Anyone affected by your Ward must make an opposed check against the result of your Ward check to successfully use any powers. Powers with results less than yours fail; although, the users of the failed powers still suffer fatigue, if any. Adepts can choose to suffer an automatic fatigue result, in addition to the normal fatigue of the power used, to overcome your Ward. If so, you can choose to suffer a fatigue result to reinforce your ward, forcing the subject to make a normal check to overcome it. This takes no actual time; it happens as part of the check to overcome the Ward.
Time: Ward is a move action. It requires total concentration to maintain.
Fatiguing, Maintenance
You can shape and direct the flow of water.
Splash: You can cause as much as 10 gallons of water per Water Shaping rank to leap in an arc up to 10 feet per adept level. Hitting a creature with this watery arc requires a ranged attack roll. The creature must make a Fortitude save or be dazed for one round (taking no actions but defending normally). The splash also douses flames with a damage bonus less than your Water Shaping rank.
Shape Flow: You can direct the flow of currents, increasing or decreasing the speed of water vessels by 20 percent for every 5 points your check exceeds Difficulty 10 (at Difficulty 35 you can stop water vessels entirely or double their speed).
Lower Water: Waters lower by as much as 2 feet for every 2 points your Water Shaping check exceeds Difficulty 10. The water lowers within an area with a 10-foot radius per your adept level (a 5th-level adept can lower an area of water with a 50-foot radius). In extremely large and deep bodies of water, such as a deep ocean, this power creates a whirlpool that sweeps ships and similar craft downward, putting them at risk and making them unable to leave by normal movement for the duration.
Raise Water: Waters rise by as much as 2 feet for every 2 points your Water Shaping check exceeds Difficulty 10. The water rises within an area with a 10-foot radius per your adept level (a 5th-level adept can raise an area of water with a 50-foot radius). Boats raised in this way slide down the sides of the watery hump created. If the area includes riverbanks, a beach, or other nearby land, the water can spill over onto dry land, causing floods.
Special: Taking 20 increases the fatigue Difficulty by +20.
Time: Water Shaping is a standard action.
Fatiguing
Prerequisite: Water and Wind Shaping
You can shape the complex forces controlling the weather. More than just commanding the winds, you can change the weather to suit your will. A use of Weather Shaping affects an area with a diameter in miles equal to your adept level, centered on you.
It takes (30 - power rank) minutes for the effects of Weather Shaping to manifest. You can call forth weather appropriate to the climate and season of the area you are in.
| Season | Possible Weather |
|---|---|
| Spring | Tornado, thunderstorm, sleet storm, or hot weather |
| Summer | Torrential rain, heat wave, or hailstorm |
| Autumn | Hot or cold weather, fog, or sleet |
| Winter | Frigid cold, blizzard, or thaw |
| Late winter | Hurricane-force winds or early spring (coastal area) |
You control the general tendencies of the weather, such as the direction and intensity of the wind. You cannot control specific effects of the weather -- where lightning strikes, for example, or the exact path of a tornado. When you select a certain weather condition, the weather assumes that condition 10 minutes later (changing gradually over that time). The weather continues as you left it for up to a number of hours equal to your adept level +4, or until you use a standard action to designate a new weather condition (which fully manifests 30 - power rank minutes later). Weather Shaping can do away with weather conditions (naturally occurring or otherwise) as well as create them.
Fatiguing, Maintenance
You can shape and direct the wind. You can make the wind blow in a certain direction and change its speed. The new wind direction and speed last as long as you choose to maintain them. Changing them requires another use of this power. You can affect the winds in a 40-foot radius per adept level. You can create an area of calm air, up to 80 feet in diameter, at the center of the winds, if you wish, and you can limit the winds to an area less than the maximum possible for your level.
Wind Direction: You may choose one of four basic wind patterns to function over the area.
Wind Speed: With a Wind Shaping check, you can increase or decrease the wind's speed by one level for every 5 points you exceed Difficulty 10. Each round on your turn, anyone in the area must make a Fortitude save or suffer the effects of the current wind speed. There are seven wind speed levels:
Special: Taking 20 increases the fatigue Difficulty by +20.
Time: Wind Shaping is a full-round action.