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[submodule "og-csrd"]
path = og-csrd
url = https://github.com/callmepartario/og-csrd.git

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TMPDIR := ./_tmp
CSRD := ./og-csrd/index.html
MD_CSRD := $(TMPDIR)/og-csrd.md
CSRD := ./srd/Cypher-System-Reference-Document-2025-05-05-fixed.docx
MD_CSRD := $(TMPDIR)/csrd.md
CCSRD := $(TMPDIR)/ccsrd.md
STYLESDIR := ./pandoc
WEBDIR := $(TMPDIR)/web
HTML_OUT := $(WEBDIR)/index.html
WEBDIR := ./incorporealcms-instance
PAGESDIR := $(TMPDIR)/$(WEBDIR)/pages
BASE_PATCH_DIR := ./patches/base
BASE_PATCHES := $(wildcard $(BASE_PATCH_DIR)/*.patch)
BASE_PATCHES_OUT := $(subst $(BASE_PATCH_DIR),$(TMPDIR),$(BASE_PATCHES))
WEB_PATCH_DIR := ./patches/web
WEB_PATCHES := $(wildcard $(WEB_PATCH_DIR)/*.patch)
WEB_PATCHES_OUT := $(subst $(WEB_PATCH_DIR),$(TMPDIR),$(WEB_PATCHES))
# DEFAULT BUILD
all: base
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# CCSRD VERSIONS
base: $(CCSRD) $(BASE_PATCHES_OUT)
web: base $(WEB_PATCHES_OUT)
# CLEANUPS
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@patch $(CCSRD) $< --quiet
@touch $@
$(TMPDIR)/%.patch: $(WEB_PATCH_DIR)/%.patch
$(info >>> WEB '$<')
@patch $(CCSRD) $< --quiet
@touch $@
# OUTPUTS
web: $(CCSRD)
mkdir -p $(WEBDIR)
pandoc $(CCSRD) --data-dir=$(STYLESDIR) --template bss -s -o $(HTML_OUT)
http: base web
cp -a $(WEBDIR) $(TMPDIR)/
mkdir -p $(PAGESDIR)
cp $(CCSRD) $(PAGESDIR)/index.md
incorporealcms-build $(TMPDIR)/$(WEBDIR) /var/www/localhost/incorporealcms-testing/root
# BUILD STEPS
# create the build dir
$(TMPDIR):
mkdir -p $(TMPDIR)
# generate the root markdown file
# generate the basic markdown file
$(MD_CSRD): $(CSRD) | $(TMPDIR)
pandoc $(CSRD) -o $(MD_CSRD) --columns 120
pandoc -f docx -t gfm $(CSRD) -o $(MD_CSRD) --columns 120
# create the markdown file to patch
$(CCSRD): $(MD_CSRD)
cp -a $(MD_CSRD) $(CCSRD)
# create the build dir
$(TMPDIR):
mkdir -p $(TMPDIR)

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# bss's Cypher System Reference Document
# The Commons Cypher System Reference Document
This project attempts to create a maintainable, expandable, and simple to deploy version of the Cypher
System Reference Document, using FOSS and the commons to transform the CSRD into custom presentations and
editions. It is based on Old Gus' Cypher System Reference Document (OG-CSRD), available at
<https://github.com/callmepartario/og-csrd>.
This project attempts to create a maintainable, expandable, and simple to deploy community-driven version of the Cypher
System Reference Document, using FOSS and the commons to transform the official CSRD into custom presentations and
editions.
Compatible with the Cypher System.

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# TODO
Stuff to take care of when I'm not doing the stuff I should be doing first.
## Abilities
* Control the Savage is essentially the same thing as Command Beast, where Command Beast is not referenced anywhere but
has an interesting use of Effort tacked on to the end of it. Remove Command Beast but put the Effort usage under
Control the Savage? Note the difference in costs, though.
* similar problem for Bound Magic Creature/Familiar, pretty much identical powers, maybe can just change the references
to one to the other
* looking randomly at the A list, there's probably some stuff that needs to be resorted
## Genres - Superheroes
* Combine the two slightly different versions of power shifts, one has a better description but the other has stuff like
flight, basically splice it
## Genres - Fairytale
* Combine the descriptor sections, the recommended and the new.

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"toc_depth": "2-6"
}
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}

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$if(csl-css)$
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--- _tmp/ccsrd.md 2025-04-03 23:35:35.302917472 -0500
+++ _tmp/ccsrd.new.md 2025-04-03 23:39:04.112026972 -0500
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-CYPHER SYSTEM REFERENCE DOCUMENT 2024-07-02
+COMMONS CYPHER SYSTEM REFERENCE DOCUMENT v0.0.1
+
+Compatible with the Cypher System. Based on the Cypher System Reference Document, 2024-07-02.
How to Play the Cypher System

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--- _tmp/ccsrd.md 2025-07-19 15:35:30.891109726 -0500
+++ _tmp/ccsrd.new.md 2025-07-19 17:36:03.342399560 -0500
@@ -1,66 +1,3 @@
-::: container-xxl
-[OG-CSRD](#top){.navbar-brand}
-
-::: {.form-check .form-switch .ms-auto .mt-2 .me-2 .float-end aria-hidden="true"}
-![Light Mode](images/mode-sun.svg){.og-icon .img-light .d-block} ![Dark Mode](images/mode-moon.svg){.og-icon .img-dark
-.d-block}
-:::
-
-[]{.navbar-toggler-icon}
-
-::: {#navbarNavDarkDropdown .collapse .navbar-collapse}
-- [Characters](#){#og-navbar-characters .nav-link .dropdown-toggle role="button" bs-toggle="dropdown"
- aria-expanded="false"}
- - [Creating Your Character](#choose-characters){.dropdown-item}
- - [Skills](#choose-skills){.dropdown-item}
- - [Type](#choose-type){.dropdown-item}
- - [Flavor](#choose-flavor){.dropdown-item}
- - [Descriptor](#choose-descriptor){.dropdown-item}
- - [Focus](#choose-focus){.dropdown-item}
- - [Abilities](#choose-abilities){.dropdown-item}
- - [Character Arcs](#choose-character-arc){.dropdown-item}
- - [Character Advancement](#character-advancement){.dropdown-item}
-- [Resources](#){#og-navbar-resources .nav-link .dropdown-toggle role="button" bs-toggle="dropdown"
- aria-expanded="false"}
- - [Equipment](#choose-equipment){.dropdown-item}
- - [Experience Points (XP)](#choose-xp){.dropdown-item}
- - [Cyphers](#choose-cyphers){.dropdown-item}
- - [Artifacts](#choose-artifacts){.dropdown-item}
- - [Followers and Factions](#choose-followers){.dropdown-item}
- - [Vehicles](#choose-vehicles){.dropdown-item}
-- [Genres](#){#og-navbar-genres .nav-link .dropdown-toggle role="button" bs-toggle="dropdown" aria-expanded="false"}
- - [Fairy Tale](#choose-fairy-tale){.dropdown-item}
- - [Fantasy](#choose-fantasy){.dropdown-item}
- - [Historical](#choose-historical){.dropdown-item}
- - [Horror](#choose-horror){.dropdown-item}
- - [Modern](#choose-modern){.dropdown-item}
- - [Modern Magic](#choose-modern-magic){.dropdown-item}
- - [Post-Apocalyptic](#choose-post-apocalyptic){.dropdown-item}
- - [Romance](#choose-romance){.dropdown-item}
- - [Science Fiction](#choose-science-fiction){.dropdown-item}
- - [Superheroes](#choose-superheroes){.dropdown-item}
- - [Weird West](#choose-weird-west){.dropdown-item}
-- [Rules](#){#og-navbar-rules .nav-link .dropdown-toggle role="button" bs-toggle="dropdown" aria-expanded="false"}
- - [How to Play](#choose-how-to-play-the-cypher-system){.dropdown-item}
- - [Key Concepts](#key-concepts){.dropdown-item}
- - [Rules of the Game](#choose-rules){.dropdown-item}
- - [Optional Rules](#choose-optional-rules){.dropdown-item}
- - [Running the Cypher System](#choose-running-the-cypher-system){.dropdown-item}
- - [Creatures and NPCs](#choose-creatures){.dropdown-item}
- - [GM Intrusion](#choose-gm-intrusion){.dropdown-item}
- - [Hazards](#choose-hazards){.dropdown-item}
- - [Cypher Shorts](#choose-cypher-shorts){.dropdown-item}
- - [FAQ](#faq){.dropdown-item}
-- [Tools](#){#og-navbar-tools .nav-link .dropdown-toggle role="button" bs-toggle="dropdown" aria-expanded="false"}
- - [Index](#choose-index){.dropdown-item}
- - [Character Sentence Generator](#character-sentence-generator){.dropdown-item}
- - [PDFs](#pdfs){.dropdown-item}
- - [Player\'s Guide](og-cspg.html){.dropdown-item}
- - [Daft Drafts](og-dd.html){.dropdown-item}
- - [What\'s in the Book?](#choose-products){.dropdown-item}
-:::
-:::
-
::: {#og-content .container-xxl .rounded-3 .mt-1 .mb-1 .print-across}
::: {.ps-3 role="main"}
::: {#part0}

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--- _tmp/ccsrd.md 2025-06-18 23:54:34.521487819 -0500
+++ _tmp/ccsrd.new.md 2025-06-18 23:55:16.636732890 -0500
@@ -81356,3 +81356,23 @@
It’s not hard to imagine how you could modify this scenario slightly for the science fiction genre using a space station
rather than a skyscraper. You could also have one of the PCs be an undercover FBI agent on the lookout for the
terrorist, or even an undercover foreign agent working for the terrorist
+
+Legal Information
+
+This tabletop roleplaying game material incorporates material from the Cypher System Reference Document and from the
+community of Cypher System players. The Cypher System Reference Document is made available under the terms of the Cypher
+System Open License, which requires the following disclaimer:
+
+> This product is an independent production and is not affiliated with Monte Cook Games, LLC. It is published under the
+> Cypher System Open License, found at <http://csol.montecookgames.com>.
+>
+> CYPHER SYSTEM and its logo are trademarks of Monte Cook Games, LLC in the U.S.A. and other countries. All Monte Cook
+> Games characters and character names, and the distinctive likenesses thereof, are trademarks of Monte Cook Games, LLC.
+
+The additions, modifications, errata, editoral notes, and the like not present in the CSRD that add to, subtract from,
+or annotate the contents of the CSRD, including formatting and organizational changes, are bound by the restrictions of
+the CSOL but made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. As
+such, this game material is available under *the combination* of the CSOL and the CC BY-SA 4.0 licenses. You must adhere
+to both licenses' terms to share the CCSRD or its derivatives.
+
+Modifications to CSRD content and non-CSRD content remain copyright their author(s).

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--- _tmp/ccsrd.md 2025-06-18 23:59:14.771123436 -0500
+++ _tmp/ccsrd.new.md 2025-06-18 23:59:36.615251031 -0500
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-COMMONS CYPHER SYSTEM REFERENCE DOCUMENT v0.0.1
+# COMMONS CYPHER SYSTEM REFERENCE DOCUMENT v0.0.1
Compatible with the Cypher System. Based on the Cypher System Reference Document, 2024-07-02.
-How to Play the Cypher System
+## How to Play the Cypher System
The rules of the Cypher System are quite straightforward at their heart, as all of gameplay is based around a few core
concepts.
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@
(A d6 is used most often for recovery rolls and to determine the level of cyphers.
-Creating Your Character
+## Creating Your Character
This section explains how to create characters to play in a Cypher System game. This involves a series of decisions that
will shape your character, so the more you understand what kind of character you want to play, the easier character
@@ -648,7 +648,7 @@
In most campaigns, fluency in a language is considered a skill. So if you want to speak French, that’s the same as being
trained in biology or swimming.
-Type
+## Type
Character type is the core of your character. Your type helps determine your character’s place in the world and
relationship with other people in the setting. It’s the noun of the sentence “I am an *adjective noun* who *verbs*.”
@@ -2034,7 +2034,7 @@
unless the additional inability comes from another source (such as a descriptor or a disease or disability arising from
actions or conditions in the game).
-Flavor
+## Flavor
Flavors are groups of special abilities the GM and players can use to alter a character type to make it more to their
liking or more appropriate to the genre or setting. For example, if a player wants to create a magic-using thief
@@ -2411,7 +2411,7 @@
Skill With Defense
-Descriptor
+## Descriptor
Your descriptor defines your character—it flavors everything you do. The differences between a Charming Explorer and a
Vicious Explorer are considerable. The descriptor changes the way those characters go about every action. Your
@@ -4207,7 +4207,7 @@
enough to warrant this treatment. The differences between a Mysterious character and a Virtuous one are probably greater
than those between an Alpha Centauran and an Earthling.
-Focus
+## Focus
Focus is what makes a character unique. No two PCs in a group should have the same focus. A focus gives a character
benefits when they create their character and each time they ascend to the next tier. It’s the verb of the sentence “I
@@ -7891,7 +7891,7 @@
Reactive Field
-Abilities
+## Abilities
This chapter presents a vast catalog of more than a thousand abilities a character can gain from their type, flavor (if
any), and focus. They are sorted alphabetically by the ability’s name.
@@ -15758,7 +15758,7 @@
see in very dim light as though it were bright light. You can see in total darkness as if it were very dim light.
Enabler.
-Equipment
+## Equipment
Equipment in the Cypher System plays only a small role. It’s far more important to focus on what you can do than on what
you have. Still, sometimes it’s important to know if you’ve got enough rope, or what kind of gun your space pilot has at
@@ -16456,7 +16456,7 @@
is far more complex than pushing a button. It can involve manipulating touchscreens, reciting the proper arcane words,
or anything else that fits the setting. The GM sets the difficulty, but it is usually equal to the artifact’s level.
-Rules of the Game
+## Rules of the Game
Cypher System games are played in the joint imagination of all the players, including the GM. The GM sets the scene, the
players state what their characters attempt to do, and the GM determines what happens next. The rules and the dice help
@@ -19349,7 +19349,7 @@
A tricky spy whose intelligence on enemy movements is invaluable.
-Experience Points
+## Experience Points
Experience points (XP) are the currency by which players gain benefits for their characters. The most common ways to
earn XP are through GM intrusions and by accomplishing things the PCs set out to do. Sometimes experience points are
@@ -20335,7 +20335,7 @@
Resolution: You reflect on what you’ve accomplished and think about the future.
-Genres
+## Genres
The Cypher System can be used to play in many settings. This chapter provides additional information and rules for
fantasy, modern, science fiction, horror, romance, superheroes, post-apocalyptic, fairy tale, and historical genres.
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by extension more recent historical periods—contained fascinating and useful objects that were anachronistic for their
period. Most such artifacts were likely the creations of philosophers, lone geniuses, and similar figures.
-Creatures
+## Creatures
This chapter describes many common and uncommon creatures that the characters might meet—and fight—in a Cypher System
game and gives their stats. The variety of creatures that populate the possible settings and genres is so great that
@@ -40538,7 +40538,7 @@
GM intrusion: Just as things seem bleakest for her, Wrath summons a group of assassins waiting in the wings to surround
the PCs and demand their surrender.
-NPCs
+## NPCs
The NPCs in this chapter are generic examples of nonplayer characters that can be used in many genres.
@@ -41112,7 +41112,7 @@
GM intrusion: The wizard casts two spells as a single action instead of just one.
-Cyphers
+## Cyphers
Cyphers are one-use abilities that characters gain over the course of play. They have cool powers that can heal, make
attacks, ease or hinder task rolls, or (in a more supernatural and extreme example) produce effects such as nullifying
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Effect: This cypher boosts an ability that affects a target at a range greater than touch. It can affect a second target
within range (if the ability is an attack, make a separate attack roll for the second creature).
-Running the Cypher System
+## Running the Cypher System
Setting Difficulty Ratings
@@ -81357,7 +81357,7 @@
rather than a skyscraper. You could also have one of the PCs be an undercover FBI agent on the lookout for the
terrorist, or even an undercover foreign agent working for the terrorist
-Legal Information
+## Legal Information
This tabletop roleplaying game material incorporates material from the Cypher System Reference Document and from the
community of Cypher System players. The Cypher System Reference Document is made available under the terms of the Cypher

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Finally, more fundamental options for further customization are provided at the end of this chapter.
-### PLAYER INTRUSION
-
-A player intrusion is the player choosing to alter something in the campaign, making things easier for a player
-character. Conceptually, it is the reverse of a GM intrusion: instead of the GM giving the player XP and introducing an
-unexpected complication for a character, the player spends 1 XP and presents a solution to a problem or complication.
-What a player intrusion can do usually introduces a change to the world or current circumstances rather than directly
-changing the character. For instance, an intrusion indicating that the cypher just used still has an additional use
-would be appropriate, but an intrusion that heals the character would not. If a player has no XP to spend, they can't
-use a player intrusion.
-
-A few player intrusion examples are provided under each type. That said, not every player intrusion listed there is
-appropriate for all situations. The GM may allow players to come up with other player intrusion suggestions, but the GM
-is the final arbiter of whether the suggested intrusion is appropriate for the character's type and suitable for the
-situation. If the GM refuses the intrusion, the player doesn't spend the 1 XP, and the intrusion doesn't occur.
-
-Using an intrusion does not require a character to use an action to trigger it. A player intrusion just happens.
-
-(Player intrusions should be limited to no more than one per player per session.)
-
### WARRIOR
Fantasy/Fairy tale: Warrior, fighter, swordsman, knight, barbarian, soldier, myrmidon, valkyrie
@@ -15946,6 +15927,25 @@
succeed on an action, logic still suggests that some actions are very difficult and taxing, particularly for some PCs
more than others.
+### PLAYER INTRUSION
+
+A player intrusion is the player choosing to alter something in the campaign, making things easier for a player
+character. Conceptually, it is the reverse of a GM intrusion: instead of the GM giving the player XP and introducing an
+unexpected complication for a character, the player spends 1 XP and presents a solution to a problem or complication.
+What a player intrusion can do usually introduces a change to the world or current circumstances rather than directly
+changing the character. For instance, an intrusion indicating that the cypher just used still has an additional use
+would be appropriate, but an intrusion that heals the character would not. If a player has no XP to spend, they can't
+use a player intrusion.
+
+A few player intrusion examples are provided under each type. That said, not every player intrusion listed there is
+appropriate for all situations. The GM may allow players to come up with other player intrusion suggestions, but the GM
+is the final arbiter of whether the suggested intrusion is appropriate for the character's type and suitable for the
+situation. If the GM refuses the intrusion, the player doesn't spend the 1 XP, and the intrusion doesn't occur.
+
+Using an intrusion does not require a character to use an action to trigger it. A player intrusion just happens.
+
+(Player intrusions should be limited to no more than one per player per session.)
+
### DISTANCE
Distance is simplified into four basic categories: immediate, short, long, and very long.

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Explosives like grenades can be thrown a short distance. Otherwise, another launcher weapon is needed to project them a
long distance (or farther).
+### Miscellaneous Items and Services
+
+Although the types of items for sale vary greatly based on the setting, a few things are always present, like food,
+lodging, and clothing. However, these goods and services can span the price categories. For example, you can get an
+inexpensive meal, a moderately priced meal, an expensive meal, and so on. An inexpensive meal is light and probably not
+very nutritious. An expensive meal is available only in nice restaurants in certain locations. An exorbitant meal is
+probably a feast for a crowd, with the finest foods and drink available.
+
+Nightly lodging is similar, although the bottom end starts out worse. An inexpensive night's lodging is probably a
+flea-ridden mat on the floor of a room filled with other lodgers. Typical lodging (a private room with a decent bed) is
+probably in the moderately priced range. Very expensive lodging might be a suite of rooms with delicious meals and
+personal services (such as massages and grooming) included.
+
+Inexpensive clothing is just a step up from rags, but moderately priced clothing is decent enough. For a formal party,
+you'd want expensive clothing. The very rich likely wear very expensive clothing most of the time, and exorbitant
+clothing (and jewelry) when they go to their elite galas.
+
+Other sorts of miscellaneous items can be found in the Genre chapter.
+
### CYPHERS
Cyphers can sometimes be physical items like equipment, but they work very differently. To be entirely accurate, cyphers
@@ -19942,26 +19959,7 @@
| Torch | 1 cp |
| Waterskin | 2 sp |
-### Miscellaneous Items and Services
-
-Although the types of items for sale vary greatly based on the setting, a few things are always present, like food,
-lodging, and clothing. However, these goods and services can span the price categories. For example, you can get an
-inexpensive meal, a moderately priced meal, an expensive meal, and so on. An inexpensive meal is light and probably not
-very nutritious. An expensive meal is available only in nice restaurants in certain locations. An exorbitant meal is
-probably a feast for a crowd, with the finest foods and drink available.
-
-Nightly lodging is similar, although the bottom end starts out worse. An inexpensive night's lodging is probably a
-flea-ridden mat on the floor of a room filled with other lodgers. Typical lodging (a private room with a decent bed) is
-probably in the moderately priced range. Very expensive lodging might be a suite of rooms with delicious meals and
-personal services (such as massages and grooming) included.
-
-Inexpensive clothing is just a step up from rags, but moderately priced clothing is decent enough. For a formal party,
-you'd want expensive clothing. The very rich likely wear very expensive clothing most of the time, and exorbitant
-clothing (and jewelry) when they go to their elite galas.
-
-Other sorts of miscellaneous items can be found in the Genre chapter.
-
Fantasy clothing descriptions
Specific pieces of clothing vary by climate and local custom, but usually include a hat, shirt, belt, pants or skirt,
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System with just this information. The key features here are: character actions, determining task difficulty, and
determining modifications.
-### KEY CONCEPTS
+### TAKING ACTION
+
+Each character gets one turn each round. On a character's turn, they can do one thing—an action. All actions fall into
+one of three categories: Might, Speed, or Intellect (just like the three stats). Many actions require die rolls—rolling
+a d20.
+
+Every action performs a task, and every task has a difficulty that determines what number a character must reach or
+surpass with a die roll to succeed.
+
+Most tasks have a difficulty of 0, which means the character succeeds automatically. For example, walking across a room,
+opening a door, and throwing a stone into a nearby bucket are all actions, but none of them requires a roll. Actions
+that are usually difficult or that become difficult due to the situation (such as shooting at a target in a blizzard)
+have a higher difficulty. These actions usually require a roll.
+
+Some actions require a minimum expenditure of Might, Speed, or Intellect points. If a character cannot spend the minimum
+number of points needed to complete the action, they automatically fail at the task.
+
+#### KEY CONCEPTS
ACTION: Anything a character does that is significant—punch a foe, leap a chasm, activate a device, use a special power,
and so on. Each character can take one action in a round.
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fighting an orc, each round the Warrior takes an action on their turn, the Adept takes an action on their turn, and the
orc takes an action on its turn. Some abilities or effects last only one turn, or end when the next turn is started.
-### TAKING ACTION
-
-Each character gets one turn each round. On a character's turn, they can do one thing—an action. All actions fall into
-one of three categories: Might, Speed, or Intellect (just like the three stats). Many actions require die rolls—rolling
-a d20.
-
-Every action performs a task, and every task has a difficulty that determines what number a character must reach or
-surpass with a die roll to succeed.
-
-Most tasks have a difficulty of 0, which means the character succeeds automatically. For example, walking across a room,
-opening a door, and throwing a stone into a nearby bucket are all actions, but none of them requires a roll. Actions
-that are usually difficult or that become difficult due to the situation (such as shooting at a target in a blizzard)
-have a higher difficulty. These actions usually require a roll.
-
-Some actions require a minimum expenditure of Might, Speed, or Intellect points. If a character cannot spend the minimum
-number of points needed to complete the action, they automatically fail at the task.
-
### DETERMINING TASK STAT
Every task relates to one of a character's three stats: Might, Speed, or Intellect. Physical activities that require

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> course of days or weeks. Generally speaking, Effort cannot be applied to any crafting task or subtask that exceeds one
> day
-### ARTIFACT RULES
-
-Artifacts are more powerful than common equipment or cyphers. Each artifact has a level and a rate of power depletion.
-When an artifact is used or activated, the player rolls the designated die (1d6, 1d10, 1d20, or 1d100). If the die shows
-the depletion number(s), the item works, but that is its last use. A depletion entry of "—" means that the artifact
-never depletes, and an entry of "automatic" means that it can be used only once. Depowered artifacts can sometimes be
-recharged using the repair rules, depending on the item's nature. Other special abilities can also repower an expended
-item, but probably for only one use. Powerful magical creatures might be able to recharge artifacts, at least
-temporarily
-
### CRAFTING ARTIFACTS
Crafting an artifact is similar to choosing a new type or focus ability—the character has many to choose from, they
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| 99 | Wonder onesie |
| 00 | Your mama's biker jacket |
-Artifact Rules
-
-Artifacts are more powerful than common equipment or cyphers.
-
-Each artifact has a level and a rate of power depletion. When an artifact is used or activated, the player rolls the
-designated die (1d6, 1d10, 1d20, or 1d00). If the die shows the depletion number(s), the item works, but that is its
-last use. A depletion entry of "—" means that the artifact never depletes, and an entry of "automatic" means that it can
-be used only once.
-
-Depowered artifacts can sometimes be recharged using the repair rules, depending on the item's nature. Other special
-abilities can also repower an expended item, but probably for only one use. Powerful magical creatures might be able to
-recharge artifacts, at least temporarily.
-
Example Modern Fantasy Artifacts
Accessories Sold Separately

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| Other Items | Notes |
| Sailing ship (small) | |
-### STARTING GOLD PIECES FOR CHARACTERS
-
-Warrior Starting Equipment: Appropriate clothing and two weapons of your choice, plus 6d6 + 100 gp.
-
-Adept Starting Equipment: Appropriate clothing, plus 3d6 + 80 gp.
-
-Explorer Starting Equipment: Appropriate clothing and a weapon of your choice, plus 3d6 + 90 gp.
-
-Speaker Starting Equipment: Appropriate clothing and a light weapon of your choice, plus 3d6 + 90 gp
-
### MEDIEVAL FANTASY EQUIPMENT
| Category | GP Value |
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| Very expensive | 1,000–10,000 gp |
| Exorbitant | 10,000+ gp |
+### STARTING GOLD PIECES FOR CHARACTERS
+
+Warrior Starting Equipment: Appropriate clothing and two weapons of your choice, plus 6d6 + 100 gp.
+
+Adept Starting Equipment: Appropriate clothing, plus 3d6 + 80 gp.
+
+Explorer Starting Equipment: Appropriate clothing and a weapon of your choice, plus 3d6 + 90 gp.
+
+Speaker Starting Equipment: Appropriate clothing and a light weapon of your choice, plus 3d6 + 90 gp
+
#### FANTASY ARMOR DESCRIPTIONS
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GM Intrusions: Invisibility partially fades, revealing the character's presence. A force field is pierced by an unusual
or unexpected attack.
-### NEW ABILITIES
-
-The following are new abilities for the Cypher System, most of which are associated with the new foci in this book.
-
-Advantages of Being Small: You've learned how to leverage your strength and accuracy in proportion to your size. Your
-damage is no longer halved when using Shrink, and climbing and jumping tasks are eased. Enabler.
-
-Ageless: Your body and mind do not age. Unless you are killed by violence (or some outside force such as poison or
-infection), you will never die. Enabler.
-
-Always Tinkering: If you have any tools and materials at all, and you are carrying fewer cyphers than your limit, you
-can create a manifest cypher if you have an hour of time to spend. The new cypher is random and always 2 levels lower
-than normal (minimum 1). It's also temperamental and fragile. These are called temperamental cyphers. If you give one to
-anyone else to use, it falls apart immediately, useless. Action to initiate; one hour to complete.
-
-Amazing Copying: You can use Copy Power to copy more powerful abilities. In addition to the normal options for using
-Effort with Copy Power, if you apply two levels of Effort, the GM chooses a high-tier ability that most closely
-resembles that power (instead of a low-tier ability). Enabler.
-
-Amazing Leap (2 Might points): You leap through the air and land safely some distance away. You can jump up, down, or
-across to anywhere you choose within long range if you have a clear and unobstructed path to that location. If you have
-three or more power shifts in strength, your leaping range increases to very long. If you have five or more power shifts
-in strength, your leaping range increases to 1,000 feet (300 m). Action.
-
-Animal Scrying (4+ Intellect points): If you know the general location of an animal that is friendly toward you and
-within 1 mile (1.5 km) of your location, you can sense through its senses for up to ten minutes. If you are not in
-animal form or not in a form similar to that animal, you must apply a level of Effort to use this ability. Action to
-establish.
-
-Automatic Glow: Hard light objects you create with your type and focus abilities shed light, illuminating everything in
-immediate range. Whenever you want, your body (entirely or just part of it) sheds light, illuminating everything in
-short range. Enabler.
-
-Beneath Notice: Your decreased size makes it difficult to find you. While Shrink is active on you, all stealth tasks you
-attempt are eased. Enabler.
-
-Body Morph (3+ Intellect points): You alter your facial and bodily features and coloration for one hour, hiding your
-identity or impersonating someone. If you apply a level of Effort, you can imitate a specific person accurately enough
-to fool someone who knows them well or has observed them closely (including fingerprints and voice prints, but not their
-retina print or DNA). You have an asset in all tasks involving disguise (this is in addition to the asset from Face
-Morph). You must apply a separate level of Effort to be able to impersonate a different species (such as a human
-morphing into a humanoid alien). Action.
-
- Bolster Illusion (2+ Intellect points): You give one of your visual illusions a limited physical reality that viewers
-can smell, taste, hear, and feel. This effect is bound to that illusion and acts appropriate to the illusion itself. For
-example, it can make the illusion of a brick wall feel like brick, the illusion of a person smell like perfume and able
-to open a door, and the illusion of a fireplace hot to the touch.
-
-The physical reality provided to your illusion is a level 1 effect with 3 health. If the illusion is used to make
-attacks, it inflicts only 1 point of damage (whether this is regular damage like an illusory punch or kick, or ambient
-damage like a falling brick wall or a fireplace's flames). You can increase the level of the created effect by applying
-levels of Effort to this ability, each level of Effort increasing the effect's level by 1.
-
-You can activate this ability as part of the action to create an illusion (using whatever ability it is that you use to
-create illusions, such as Minor Illusion), or use a separate action to apply it to one of your existing illusions. The
-effect ends if the illusion is destroyed, you let the illusion lapse, the effect's health is reduced to 0, or ten
-minutes pass. Enabler.
-
-Boost Manifest Cypher (2 Intellect points): The manifest cypher you activate with your next action functions as if it
-were 2 levels higher. Action.
-
-Boost Manifest Cypher Function (4 Intellect points): Add 3 to the functioning level of a manifest cypher that you
-activate with your next action, or change one aspect of its parameters (range, duration, area, etc.) by up to double or
-down to one tenth. Action.
-
-Charge Weapon (2+ Intellect points): As part of making an attack with your enchanted weapon, you charge it with magical
-power, inflicting 2 additional points of energy damage. If you make more than one attack on your turn, you choose
-whether to spend the cost for this ability before you make each attack. Enabler.
-
-Command Beast (3+ Intellect points): You can command a nonhostile, nonhuman beast (such as one that you've made calm
-with Soothe the Savage) of up to level 3 within short range. If you are successful, for the next minute the beast
-follows your verbal commands to the best of its understanding and ability. The GM has final say over what counts as a
-nonhuman beast, but unless some kind of deception is at work, you should know whether you can affect a creature before
-you attempt to use this ability on it. Aliens, extradimensional entities, very intelligent creatures, and robots never
-count.
-
-In addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can choose to use Effort to increase the maximum level of the
-target. Thus, to command a level 5 beast (two levels above the normal limit), you must apply two levels of Effort.
-Action to initiate.
-
-Copy Power (2+ Intellect points): You can copy someone else's superpower
-
-for an hour, performing it as if it were natural for you. Within the past hour you must have touched the creature whose
-power you want to copy (an attack roll) and must have seen that ability used by them. Choose the power you want to copy,
-and the GM chooses an appropriate low-tier ability that most closely resembles that power. For example, if you're
-battling a supervillain who can create blasts of force, if you copy that ability, you gain a low-tier ability that
-creates a blast of force.
-
-In addition to the point cost of Copy Power, you must pay the Might, Speed, or Intellect cost (if any) of the equivalent
-ability that the GM chose. For example, if you want to copy a supervillain's force blast, the GM will probably decide
-that's equivalent to Onslaught (167), so you'd pay 2 Intellect points to activate Copy Power and 1 Intellect point to
-use Onslaught.
-
-ou can copy only one power at a time; copying another one ends any other power you're copying with this ability.
-
-Copy Power doesn't copy effects of a power that permanently adds points to your Pools, such as Enhanced Body (134).
-
-In addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can choose to use Effort to copy an ability you saw longer than
-one hour ago; each level of Effort used in this way extends the time period by one hour. Action.
-
-Defending Weapon: When using your enchanted weapon, you are trained in Speed defense tasks. Enabler.
-
-Defensive Blinking (4 Intellect points): You enter a heightened reactive state so that when you are struck hard enough
-to take damage, you teleport an immediate distance in a random direction (not up or down) to help evade the brunt of the
-attack. Your Speed defense rolls are eased for one minute. Action.
-
-Dimensional Squeeze (2+ Intellect points): You cram yourself into a transitional dimension, allowing you to
-instantaneously appear anywhere you choose within short range if you have a clear and unobstructed path to that
-location. You can pass through an intervening barrier if it has an open space that you could easily fit your head
-through—about 1 square foot (30 cm by 30 cm square). In addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can choose
-to use Effort to pass through a smaller opening in a barrier; each level of Effort used in this way reduces the minimum
-opening size by one-fourth. You land safely when you use this ability. Action.
-
-> Transitional dimension: A dimension where distances are shorter compared to those in other dimensions, so travel
-> through it is faster than normal movement.
-
-Disguise Other (4+ Intellect points): You apply your shapechanging ability to another creature of your size or smaller,
-giving them a form that you are able to assume. This lasts for about ten minutes.
-
-In addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can choose to use Effort to increase the duration; one level of
-Effort increases it to an hour, two increases it to a day. A creature can revert to its normal form as an action, but it
-cannot then change back into the altered form. Action.
-
-You probably can't use Disguise Other to disguise a kind of creature that is very different from you, such as a human
-disguising a robot, animal, or crystalline alien
-
-Elastic Grip (3 Might points): Your attack with your stretchy limbs or body is eased. If you hit, you can grab the
-target, preventing it from moving on its next turn. While you hold the target, its attacks or attempts to break free are
-hindered. If the target attempts to break free instead of attacking, you must succeed at a Might-based task to maintain
-your grip. If the target fails to break free, you can continue to hold it each round as your subsequent actions,
-automatically inflicting 4 points of damage each round by squeezing. Enabler.
-
-Enchanted Movement (4+ Intellect points): You use your enchanted weapon to move yourself to any location within a long
-distance that you can see, as long as there are no obstacles or barriers in your way. The exact way this happens depends
-on your weapon; you might throw your magical hammer and be pulled along after it, shoot an arrow from your bow that
-pulls you forward like a grapple line, and so on. In addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can choose to
-use Effort to increase the distance traveled; each level of Effort used in this way increases the range by another 100
-feet (30 m). If you have another ability (such as from your type) that allows you to cross a long distance, the range of
-that ability and this one increases to very long. Action.
-
-Enchanted Weapon (1 Intellect point): You attune yourself to a physical weapon, such as a sword, hammer, or bow. You
-know exactly where it is if it is within a short distance of you, and you know its general direction and distance if
-farther away. All of your other focus abilities require you to be holding or wielding this weapon. You can be attuned to
-only one weapon at a time; attuning yourself to a second weapon loses the attunement to the first one. Action to
-initiate; ten minutes to complete. Enabler.
-
-Flex Weapon Skill: At the beginning of each day, choose one type of attack: light bashing, light bladed, light ranged,
-medium bashing, medium bladed, medium ranged, heavy bashing, heavy bladed, or heavy ranged. For the rest of that day,
-you are trained in attacks using that type of weapon. You can't use this ability with an attack skill in which you're
-already trained to become specialized. Enabler.
-
-Flight Exertion (3 Might or 3 Speed points): You can fly up to a short distance as your movement this round. If all you
-do is move on your turn, you can fly up to a long distance. Enabler.
-
-Flying Companion: You gain a level 3 companion creature that can fly at the same speed as you; depending on other
-aspects of your character, this might be a trained bird, a machine drone, or a helpful strange creature such as a
-familiar. This creature accompanies you and acts as you direct. As a level 3 companion, it has a target number of 9 and
-9 health, and it inflicts 3 points of damage. If it's killed or destroyed, it takes you one month to find or create a
-suitable replacement. Enabler.
-
-Harder Light: When you create an object out of hard light, the object is one level higher than normal. Enabler.
-
-Improved Copying: You can use Copy Power to copy more powerful abilities. In addition to the normal options for using
-Effort with Copy Power, if you apply one level of Effort, the GM chooses a mid-tier ability that most closely resembles
-that power (instead of a low-tier ability). Enabler.
-
-When you use Improved Copying, a copied ability must be low, medium, or high tier according to how it is listed in the
-ability categories. It doesn't matter if a type or focus makes it available at a lower or higher tier.
-
-Innate Power: Choose either your Might Pool or your Speed Pool. When spending points to activate your focus abilities,
-you can spend points from this Pool instead of your Intellect Pool (in which case you use your Might Edge or Speed Edge
-instead of your Intellect Edge, as appropriate). Enabler.
-
-Lend Animal Shape (6+ Intellect points): You change into an animal, and one willing creature within immediate range also
-transforms into an animal of that type (bear, tiger, wolf, and so on) for ten minutes, as if they were using your Animal
-Shape ability. For each level of Effort applied,
-
-you can affect one additional creature. All creatures transforming with you must be your size or smaller. A creature can
-revert to its normal form as an action, but it cannot then change back into the animal form. One creature (whether you
-or someone else) changing form does not affect any other creature affected with this ability. Action.
-
-A creature that takes animal form with Lend Animal Shape counts as an animal for the use of Animal Scrying
-
-Medium Teleportation (5+ Intellect points): You instantly teleport yourself to any location within a long distance that
-you can see. In addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can choose to use Effort to increase your range,
-teleport to a location you can't see, or bring other people with you. Each additional long distance costs one level of
-Effort. Teleporting to
-
-a destination you can't see costs one level of Effort. Each additional one or two targets brought with you costs one
-level of Effort (you must touch any additional targets). These levels of Effort are counted separately, so teleporting
-an additional long distance away to a location you can't see with two passengers costs a total of three levels of
-Effort. Action.
-
-If you already have Short Teleportation when you select Medium Teleportation or Teleportation, you may replace Short
-Teleportation with another tier 4 type ability.
-
-Mist Cloud (1+ Intellect points): You create an area of mist an immediate distance across. The cloud lingers for about a
-minute unless conditions (such as wind or freezing temperatures) dictate otherwise. In addition to the normal options
-for using Effort, you can choose to use Effort to increase the area (one level of Effort to fill a short area, two to
-fill a long area, or three to fill a very long area). Action.
-
-Modify Cyphers: You can take any two manifest cyphers and quickly jury-rig a new manifest cypher of the same level as
-the lowest-level cypher. You determine the function of the new cypher, but it must be that of a cypher you have used
-before (but not necessarily one you've ever built). The new cypher is a temperamental cypher, like those created with
-Always Tinkering. The original two cyphers are consumed in this process. This ability does not function if one or more
-of the original cyphers are temperamental cyphers. Action.
-
-Multiple Copying: When you use Copy Power, you can copy two of the creature's abilities at the same time. In addition to
-the normal options for using Effort with Copy Power, you can apply levels of Effort to copy additional abilities, each
-level of Effort copying an additional ability beyond the initial two (three for one level of Effort, four for two
-levels, and so on). Enabler.
-
-Multi-Vanish (4+ Intellect points): You turn up to five human-sized creatures or objects invisible for a short amount of
-time. The targets you choose must be within an immediate area and within short range of you (if you are in the area, you
-can make yourself invisible and don't count toward the limit of five invisible targets). Anything invisible has an asset
-on stealth and Speed defense tasks. Affected creatures can see each other in a limited way, and you can see them
-clearly.
-
-The invisibility ends at the end of your next turn. If one of the affected creatures does something to reveal their
-presence or position—attacking, using an ability, moving a large object, and so on—the invisibility ends early for that
-creature. In addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can choose to use Effort to increase the duration;
-each level of Effort used in this way increases the duration by one round (but creatures can still end it early for
-themselves). Action.
-
-Power Crash (3+ Intellect points): You strike your enchanted weapon against
-
-the ground (or a similar large surface), creating an explosion of energy that affects an area up to immediate range from
-that point. (If your enchanted weapon is a ranged weapon, you can instead target a point within close range to be the
-center of the explosion.) The blast inflicts 2 points of damage to all creatures or objects within the area (except for
-you). Because this is an area attack, adding Effort to increase your damage works differently than it does for
-single-target attacks. If you apply a level of Effort to increase the damage, add 2 points of damage for each target,
-and even if you fail your attack roll, all targets in the area still take 1 point of damage. Action.
-
-Power Memory: When you use Copy Power, you only need to have seen the ability used within the past day (instead of the
-past hour), and using Effort extends how long ago your copying can reach to one day per level of Effort (instead of one
-hour per level). Enabler.
-
-Quick Switch: You can activate Shrink as part of another action (the ability is now an enabler for you instead of an
-action). While the one-minute duration of Shrink is active, on your turn you can change size once before taking an
-action and once after taking an action. For example, on your turn you could change to small size, make an attack, and
-then return to your normal size, or you could change to your normal size, use your action to move a short distance, and
-then return to small size. Enabler.
-
-Short Teleportation (4+ Intellect points): You instantly teleport to any location within a short distance that you can
-see. In addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can choose to use Effort to increase your range, teleport
-to a location you can't see, or bring other people with you. Each additional short distance costs one level of Effort.
-Teleporting to a destination you can't see costs one level of Effort. Each additional target brought with you costs one
-level of Effort (you must touch any additional targets). These levels of Effort are counted separately, so teleporting
-an additional short distance away to a location you can't see with one passenger costs a total of three levels of
-Effort. Action.
-
-> If you already have Short Teleportation when you select Medium Teleportation or Teleportation, you may replace Short
-> Teleportation with another tier 4 type ability.
-
-Shrink (1+ Might points): You (and your clothing or suit) become much smaller than your normal size. You become 6 inches
-(15 cm) tall and stay that way for about a minute. During this time, you add 4 points to your Speed Pool and add +2 to
-your Speed Edge. While you are smaller than normal, your Speed defense rolls are eased, your movement speed is one-tenth
-normal, and your attacks inflict half the normal amount of damage (divide the total damage in half after all bonuses,
-Effort, and other damage modifiers). You can return to your normal size as part of another action.
-
-When the effects of Shrink end, your Speed Edge, movement speed, and damage return to normal, and you subtract a number
-of points from your Speed Pool equal to the number you gained (if this brings the Pool to 0, subtract the overflow first
-from your Might Pool and then, if necessary, from your Intellect Pool). Each additional time you use Shrink before your
-next ten-hour recovery roll, you must apply an additional level of Effort (one level of Effort for the second use, two
-levels of Effort for the third use, and so on).
-
-Action to initiate.
-
-> The increased Effort cost for repeat uses of Shrink between ten-hour recovery rolls only applies to new activations of
-> Shrink, not to multiple size changes within one use of Shrink enabled by Quick Switch.
-
-Shrink Others: You can use Shrink on other willing creatures within an immediate distance. In addition to the normal
-options for using Effort, you can choose to use Effort to affect more targets; each level of Effort affects one
-additional target. Unless these creatures have an ability to change their size, they remain small until the one-minute
-duration of Shrink ends for them. Enabler.
-
-Small Flight (3+ Intellect points): For the next hour, when using Shrink, you can fly through the air. You might
-accomplish this flight by growing wings from your body, extending wings from your suit, calling a tiny creature to carry
-you, or "surfing" air currents. When flying, you can move up to a short distance as part of another action or a long
-distance if all you do on your turn is move. Action to initiate.
-
-Smaller: When you use Shrink, you can choose to shrink down to about half an inch (1 cm) high, and you add 3 more
-temporary points to your Speed Pool. Enabler.
-
-Steal Power: When you use Copy Power to copy an ability, the creature you copied it from loses access to that ability
-for about a minute. While you have their ability, any attempt by the creature to use their ability requires them to
-succeed at a task (Might, Speed, or Intellect, as appropriate to the stolen ability) opposed by your eased Intellect
-task. If they succeed, they regain the use of their ability and you lose it. Enabler.
-
-If you want to make it more difficult for someone to take back their stolen power, become skilled in the Steal Power
-ability, or put a power shift in power for it.
-
-Teleportation Burst (3 Intellect points): You rapidly teleport multiple times in an immediate area, confusing your
-opponents and allowing you to make an additional melee attack this round. You can use this ability once per round.
-Enabler.
-
-Teleportive Wound (7+ Intellect points): You touch a creature and, if your attack succeeds, you teleport away (up to
-your normal maximum teleportation distance) with a significant portion of their body. If the target is level 2 or lower,
-it dies. If the target is level 3 or higher, it takes 6 points of damage and is stunned on its next action. If the
-target is a PC of any tier, they move down one step on the damage track. In addition to the normal options for using
-Effort, you can choose to use Effort to affect a more powerful target (one level of Effort means a target of up to level
-3 dies or a target of level 4 or higher takes damage and is stunned, and so on). Action.
-
-Temporary Light (2 Intellect points): You create an object of solid light in any shape you can imagine that is your size
-or smaller, and it persists for about a minute (or longer, if you concentrate on it after that time). The object appears
-in an area adjacent to you, but afterward you can move it up to a short distance each round as part of another action.
-It is crude and can have no moving parts, so you can make a sword, a shield, a short ladder,
-
-and so on. The object has the approximate mass of the real object and is level 2. Action.
-
-Throw Enchanted Weapon: You can throw your enchanted weapon up to short range as a light ranged weapon. Whether it hits
-or misses, it immediately flies back to your hands, and you can automatically catch it or allow it to land at your feet.
-Enabler.
-
-Tiny: When you use Shrink, you can choose to shrink down to about one-sixteenth of an inch (.2 cm). When you do, you add
-5 more temporary points to your Speed Pool (plus any from Smaller), and because your attacks are concentrated into a
-very small area, you deal an additional 2 points of damage. For each level of Effort you apply to shrink even more, you
-become one-tenth as tall (one one-hundredth for two levels of Effort, one one-thousandth for three, and so on) and you
-add 1 more point to your Speed Pool. Enabler.
-
-In campaigns where characters can travel to parallel dimensions, using Tiny to shrink to
-
-one-thousandth of your normal height may be a means of doing so.
-
-War Flesh: You can instantly transform your hands and feet into claws, and your human teeth into fangs, or revert to
-your normal human appearance. When you make attacks with your claws or fangs, they count as medium weapons instead of
-light weapons. Enabler.
-
-Wildcard Powers: You have a gift with using copied powers in unusual ways. Whenever you try a power stunt and use a
-level of Effort on the special roll to modify the ability, you get a free level of Effort on that roll. Enabler.
-
-Wing Weapons: You can use your wings to make melee attacks (even when flying), leaving your hands and feet free. Your
-wings are medium bashing or bladed weapons (your choice). You are practiced with this attack. Enabler.
-
### POWER SHIFTS
Power shifts are an optional rule in the Cypher System Rulebook that represent many of the exceptional things that
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Tier 6: Deadly Strike or Spin Attack
-#### NEW ABILITIES
-
-Animal Scrying (4+ Intellect points): If you know the general location of an animal that is friendly toward you and
-within 1 mile (1.5 km) of your location, you can sense through its senses for up to ten minutes. If you are not in
-animal form or not in a form similar to that animal, you must apply a level of Effort to use this ability. Action to
-establish.
-
-Charge Weapon (2+ Intellect points): As part of making an attack with your enchanted weapon, you charge it with magical
-power, inflicting 2 additional points of energy damage. If you make more than one attack on your turn, you choose
-whether to spend the cost for this ability before you make each attack. Enabler.
-
-Cypher Casting: You can cast any of your subtle cyphers on another creature instead of yourself. You must touch the
-creature to affect it. Enabler.
-
-Cypher Surge: When you use a subtle cypher spell, as part of that action you can expend one other subtle cypher. Instead
-of the second cypher's normal effect, you add one free level of Effort to the first cypher spell. Enabler.
-
-Defending Weapon: When using your enchanted weapon, you are trained in Speed defense tasks. Enabler.
-
-Dreadwood (6 Intellect points): You manipulate wind, mist, and shadows to embody the primordial fear of mysterious
-woods. For the next minute, you gain an asset on intimidation tasks. Creatures within short range may become frightened;
-make a separate Intellect attack roll for each creature (if you are larger than normal from using Great Tree or another
-source, these rolls are eased). Success means that they are frozen in fear, not moving or taking actions for one minute
-or until they are attacked. Some creatures without minds might be immune to this fear. Action.
-
-Enchanted Movement (4+ Intellect points): You use your enchanted weapon to move yourself to any location within a long
-distance that you can see, as long as there are no obstacles or barriers in your way. The exact way this happens depends
-on your weapon; you might throw your magical hammer and be pulled along after it, shoot an arrow from your bow that
-pulls you forward like a grapple line, and so on. In addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can choose to
-use Effort to increase the distance traveled; each level of Effort used in this way increases the range by another 100
-feet (30 m). If you have another ability (such as from your type) that allows you to cross a long distance, the range of
-that ability and this one increases to very long. Action.
-
-Enchanted Weapon (1 Intellect point): You attune yourself to a physical weapon, such as a sword, hammer, or bow. You
-know exactly where it is if it is within a short distance of you, and you know its general direction and distance if
-farther away. All of your other focus abilities require you to be holding or wielding this weapon. You can be attuned to
-only one weapon at a time; attuning yourself to a second weapon loses the attunement to the first one. Action to
-initiate, ten minutes to complete. Enabler.
-
-If you attune yourself to a different weapon, come up with a story reason for why you are able to do that and why you
-chose this new weapon
-
-Expanded Repertoire: The number of subtle cyphers you can bear at the same time increases by one. Enabler.
-
-Faster Wild Magic: If you spend ten minutes preparing your magic, you can fill any of your open cypher slots with subtle
-cyphers chosen randomly by the GM (this time can be part of a ten-minute, one-hour, or ten-hour recovery action if you
-are awake for the entire time). You can't use this ability again until after you've taken a ten-hour recovery action.
-You can still use Magical Repertoire to fill your cypher slots. Action to initiate, ten minutes to complete.
-
-Great Tree: When you use Wooden Body, you may grow to up to 12 feet (4 m) in height. In this larger form, you add 7
-points to your Might Pool and +2 to your Might Edge. If you chose to grow, when Wooden Body ends you subtract 7 points
-from your Might Pool (if this brings the Pool to 0, subtract the overflow first from your Speed Pool and then, if
-necessary, from your Intellect Pool). When you use Wooden Body, whether or not you choose to grow, instead of looking
-like a wooden version of your normal self, you can take on the full appearance of a humanoid tree creature or an actual
-tree (including growing additional branches, extra foliage, and so on). This does not affect any of your abilities—in
-tree shape, you can use type abilities, other focus abilities, and so on. In tree shape, pretending to be a tree and
-hiding among normal trees are eased by two steps. Enabler.
-
-Innate Power: Choose either your Might Pool or your Speed Pool. When spending points to activate your focus abilities,
-you can spend points from this Pool instead of your Intellect Pool (in which case you use your Might Edge or Speed Edge
-instead of your Intellect Edge, as appropriate). Enabler
-
-Lend Animal Shape (6+ Intellect points): You change into an animal, and one willing creature within immediate range also
-transforms into an animal of that type (bear, tiger, wolf, and so on) for ten minutes, as if they were using your Animal
-Shape ability. For each level of Effort applied, you can affect one additional creature. All creatures transforming with
-you must be your size or smaller. A creature can revert to its normal form as an action, but it cannot then change back
-into the animal form. One creature (whether you or someone else) changing form does not affect any other creature
-affected with this ability. Action.
-
-A creature that takes animal form with Lend Animal Shape counts as an animal for the use of Animal Scrying.
-
-A character might be able to take the shape of a creature that is similar to a common animal, such as a unicorn instead
-of a horse or a basilisk instead of a lizard, but doing so should require applying at least one level of Effort to the
-change, and the character wouldn't gain any of the creature's magical abilities.
-
-Magical Repertoire: The number of subtle cyphers you can bear at the same time increases by two. If you spend one hour
-preparing your magic, you can fill any of your open cypher slots with subtle cyphers chosen randomly by the GM (this
-hour can be part of a one-hour or ten-hour recovery action if you are awake for the entire time). As part of this
-preparation process, you may discard any number of subtle cyphers you carry to make room for more subtle cyphers.
-Enabler.
-
-If a character has Magical Repertoire, the GM should give the PC frequent opportunities to gain new subtle cyphers,
-whether from preparation or by gaining them automatically as explained in the Cyphers chapter
-
-Magical Training: You are trained in all of your spells. As a result, you ease any task involved in the use of your
-spells. Enabler.
-
-Maximize Cypher: Choose one subtle cypher you bear. Its level becomes the maximum level possible for that cypher. For
-example, a meditation aid has a level range of 1d6 + 2, so maximizing that cypher changes its level to 8. You can have
-only one maximized subtle cypher at a time. You can't use this ability again until after you've taken a ten-hour
-recovery action. Enabler.
-
-Patient Recovery: You gain an extra ten-minute recovery roll each day. Enabler.
-
-Power Crash (3 Intellect points): You strike your enchanted weapon against the ground (or a similar large surface),
-creating an explosion of energy that affects an area up to immediate range from that point. (If your enchanted weapon is
-a ranged weapon, you can instead target a point within close range to be the center of the explosion.) The blast
-inflicts 2 points of damage to all creatures or objects within the area (except for you). Because this is an area
-attack, adding Effort to increase your damage works differently than it does for single-target attacks. If you apply a
-level of Effort to increase the damage, add 2 points of damage for each target, and even if you fail your attack roll,
-all targets in the area still take 1 point of damage. Action.
-
-Restorative Bloom (5 Might points): When Wooden Body or Great Tree is in effect, you produce a flower, acorn, fruit, or
-similar plant-based edible item. A creature that eats this food is nourished for a full day and restores their Might
-Pool, Speed Pool, and Intellect Pool to their maximum values, as if they were fully rested. Eating a second food
-produced by this ability in a day has no effect. If the food is not eaten within ten minutes, it spoils. Action to
-produce, action to eat.
-
-Throw Enchanted Weapon: You can throw your enchanted weapon up to short range as a light ranged weapon. Whether it hits
-or misses, it immediately flies back to your hands, and you can automatically catch it or allow it to land at your feet.
-Enabler.
-
-Tree Companion (5+ Intellect points): You animate a tree of approximately your size or smaller, creating a level 3
-creature with 1 Armor. The tree follows your verbal commands for one hour, after which it reverts to a normal tree (and
-roots itself where it stands). Unless the tree is killed by damage, you can animate it again when the ability duration
-expires, but any damage it has carries over to its newly animated state. In addition to the normal options for using
-Effort, you can choose to use Effort to affect more trees; each level of Effort used affects one additional tree.
-Action.
-
-Tree Travel (4+ Intellect points): You enter one tree and instantaneously and safely emerge from another one within long
-distance. You don't need to specify which tree you're exiting from (if you know there are trees in that direction, you
-can decide how far to go and you will step out of a tree in that area). If the starting tree's trunk isn't as large as
-your body, you must apply a level of Effort to enter it. You can choose to use Effort to increase the distance you
-travel; one level of Effort used in this way increases the range to very long, two levels raise it to one mile (1.5 km),
-and each additional level of Effort beyond that increases it by an additional mile. Action.
-
-Wild Insight: You gain a momentary perfect understanding of the flow of magic around you at this moment. When preparing
-your magic, choose one specific subtle cypher and make a magical lore skill roll against level 6. If you succeed, you
-gain that subtle cypher (the cypher's level is 6); if you fail, you get a random subtle cypher. If you aren't sure what
-specific subtle cypher you want, you can ask for a broad category such as "healing," "movement," or "skill"; this eases
-the magical lore task, and if you succeed, the GM chooses a random cypher that fits that category. You can't use this
-ability again until after you've taken a ten-hour recovery action. Enabler.
-
-Wooden Body (1+ Might points): You transform your body into living wood for ten minutes, which grants you several
-benefits. You gain +1 to Armor and you are practiced in using your limbs as medium weapons. You need about one-tenth as
-much air as a human. Hiding among trees or on a tree is eased. However, in your wooden form you move more stiffly than a
-creature of flesh, hindering your Speed defense rolls. Action to change or revert.
-
-Your wooden body might be smooth like a polished board, rough like tree bark, or a mix of both.
-
#### FANTASY SPECIES
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However, clothing with additional benefits can be purchased, stolen, found, or earned by completing favors and
accomplishing tasks.
-Optional Rule: I Have That!
-
-In fairy tales, characters often have exactly the right mundane piece of equipment
-
-that they need to bypass a story-related obstacle hidden away in a pocket or a bag. Rather than having the PCs stock up
-on mundane items like marbles, rope, and breadcrumbs in town, use the I Have That! rule. This means players don't have
-to keep exact track of their characters' mundane equipment; instead, they spend an amount to get an unspecified "Pocket
-Item" in
-
-that category. Then, when they're out in the world and realize they could solve a problem with an item, they can just
-say, "I have that!" and pull it from their pocket. All Pocket Items are one-use only; after using them, the PC marks off
-one of their Pocket Items for the appropriate price category.
-
-Most Pocket Items are inexpensive, but moderate and expensive Pocket Items exist, and are likely more useful than their
-less expensive counterparts.
-
-The GM has veto power over items that they don't think you could have found or carried.
-
-Using the I Have That! rule doesn't preclude PCs from also purchasing these items directly. For example, if a character
-who sews wants to buy a thimble and an inexpensive Pocket Item, they can. However, they cannot later turn the thimble
-into a Pocket Item; it remains a thimble.
-
-Example Pocket Items
-
-Inexpensive
-
-• Apple
-
-• Ashes (handful)
-
-• Breadcrumbs
-
-• Butter
-
-• Candy
-
-• Chalk
-
-• Cricket in a cage
-
-• Cup
-
-• Egg
-
-• Fabric
-
-• Flyswatter
-
-• Glass jar
-
-• Glue
-
-• Honey
-
-• Leather
-
-• Magnets
-
-• Marbles
-
-• Nails
-
-• Needle and thread
-
-• Paper
-
-• Plait of hair
-
-• Pot of fat
-
-• Pot of grease
-
-• Ribbon
-
-• Rice (handful)
-
-• Straw
-
-• Tacks
-
-• Wax
-
-• Wool
-
-Moderate
-
-• Bird in a cage
-
-• Sewing shears
-
-• Thimble
-
### CLOTHING
Inexpensive

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and see that a teleporter (traveler) cypher can transport one character up to 100 miles per cypher level, so
transporting a group of PCs 100 miles is probably within the orb's power
-### OMNI ORB
-
-Level: 1d6 + 4
-
-Form: Glowing, orb-shaped technological device Effect: The user holding the orb imagines
-
-what they want to happen (similar to using a magical wish), and it happens, within limits. The level of the effect
-granted is no greater than the level of the orb, as determined by the GM, who can modify the effect accordingly. (The
-larger the desired effect, the more likely the GM will limit
-
-it.) Activating the omni orb automatically moves the character using it one step down the damage track.
-
-Depletion: 1 in 1d6 (instead of depleting, a roll of 1 means the user experiences a GM intrusion related to the effect
-they created)
-
-A benchmark for setting an omni orb's limits is to compare it to a cypher of the orb's level—if there is a cypher that
-can do what the PC wants, and that cypher is equal to or less than the orb's level, it works. For example, if a team of
-superheroes tries to use a level 5 orb to teleport to their base 100 miles away, the GM can look at the list of cyphers
-and see that a teleporter (traveler) cypher can transport one character up to 100 miles per cypher level, so
-transporting a group of PCs 100 miles is probably within the orb's power
-
-### OMNI ORB
-
-Level: 1d6 + 4
-
-Form: Glowing, orb-shaped technological device Effect: The user holding the orb imagines
-
-what they want to happen (similar to using a magical wish), and it happens, within limits. The level of the effect
-granted is no greater than the level of the orb, as determined by the GM, who can modify the effect accordingly. (The
-larger the desired effect, the more likely the GM will limit
-
-it.) Activating the omni orb automatically moves the character using it one step down the damage track.
-
-Depletion: 1 in 1d6 (instead of depleting, a roll of 1 means the user experiences a GM intrusion related to the effect
-they created)
-
-A benchmark for setting an omni orb's limits is to compare it to a cypher of the orb's level—if there is a cypher that
-can do what the PC wants, and that cypher is equal to or less than the orb's level, it works. For example, if a team of
-superheroes tries to use a level 5 orb to teleport to their base 100 miles away, the GM can look at the list of cyphers
-and see that a teleporter (traveler) cypher can transport one character up to 100 miles per cypher level, so
-transporting a group of PCs 100 miles is probably within the orb's power
-
-### OMNI ORB
-
-Level: 1d6 + 4
-
-Form: Glowing, orb-shaped technological device Effect: The user holding the orb imagines
-
-what they want to happen (similar to using a magical wish), and it happens, within limits. The level of the effect
-granted is no greater than the level of the orb, as determined by the GM, who can modify the effect accordingly. (The
-larger the desired effect, the more likely the GM will limit
-
-it.) Activating the omni orb automatically moves the character using it one step down the damage track.
-
-Depletion: 1 in 1d6 (instead of depleting, a roll of 1 means the user experiences a GM intrusion related to the effect
-they created)
-
-A benchmark for setting an omni orb's limits is to compare it to a cypher of the orb's level—if there is a cypher that
-can do what the PC wants, and that cypher is equal to or less than the orb's level, it works. For example, if a team of
-superheroes tries to use a level 5 orb to teleport to their base 100 miles away, the GM can look at the list of cyphers
-and see that a teleporter (traveler) cypher can transport one character up to 100 miles per cypher level, so
-transporting a group of PCs 100 miles is probably within the orb's power
-
### SERUM X
Level: 1d6 + 2

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Effort affects one additional target. You must speak to additional targets to accelerate them, one target per round.
Action per target to initiate.
+Access the Broadcast (2+ Intellect points): You create a flat rectangular illusory "screen" within immediate range that
+can display any broadcast television signal in your area (similar to using a television with an antenna) or any video
+streams in the area (similar to tapping into a wireless network). The screen is anywhere from 1 to 3 feet (30 cm to 1 m)
+across, includes stereo sound, and lasts for one hour. As an action, you can change the channel, the volume, or both.
+The effect ends if you are more than a short distance away from the screen. For each level of Effort you apply to this
+ability, you can increase the width of the screen by up to 3 feet (1 m). Action.
+
+Wireless networks hosting video streams are usually locked or encrypted, which requires you to succeed on an
+Intellect-based attack roll against the network's level (typically level 4) to watch them.
+
Acrobatic Attack (1+ Speed points): You leap into the attack, twisting or flipping through the air. If you roll a
natural 17 or 18, you can choose to have a minor effect rather than deal extra damage. If you apply Effort to the
attack, you get a free level of Effort on the task. You can't use this ability if your Speed Effort costs are reduced
@@ -10166,6 +10176,13 @@
Animal Senses and Sensibilities: You are trained in listening and spotting things. In addition, most of the time, the GM
should alert you if you're about to walk into an ambush or a trap that is lower than level 5. Enabler.
+Annoy Electronics (1 Intellect point): You interfere with the operations of an electronic device. The device must be
+within short range and you must be able to see it. Your interference is limited to things you could do in a few seconds
+if you were directly using the device. For example, you could make a person's phone start playing a loud video, type one
+or two commands on a computer's keyboard, hit a bunch of buttons in an elevator, or change the station or volume on a
+television screen. You must succeed at an Intellect-based task against the device or its bearer (whichever level is
+higher). If you have never interacted with the particular device before, the task is hindered by two steps. Action.
+
Answering Attack (3 Speed points): If you are struck in melee, you can make an immediate melee attack against that
attacker once per round. The attack is hindered, and you can still take your normal action during the round. Enabler.
@@ -10194,6 +10211,17 @@
rapid-fire weapon, such as a crank crossbow), you can fire your weapon at up to three targets (all next to one another)
at once. Make a separate attack roll against each target. Each attack is hindered. Action.
+Arcanaphone (2 Intellect points): You make use of your cellular service to start a telephone call or use text messaging,
+lasting up to ten minutes. To anyone watching you, you look like you're in "hands free" mode. In all respects, this
+works as if you were carrying your device with you and using it directly (meaning the network notes your current
+location as if you were carrying your phone, and you may not have coverage in some areas). The first time you use this
+ability with your mobile service, you must contact their customer service department to authorize the magic (taking ten
+to sixty minutes), as if it were a new device. You can't use this ability if you don't have a cellular account. Action
+to initiate.
+
+In modern fantasy settings where most people don't know about magic, connecting your spell to your cellular service
+probably requires a lot of strange answers and lies about the "device" you're trying to add to your account.
+
Arcane Flare (1 Intellect point): You enhance the damage of another attack spell with an extra charge of energy so that
it deals 1 additional point of damage. Alternatively, you attack a target within long range by projecting a flare of raw
magic that inflicts 4 points of damage. Enabler for enhancement; action for long-range attack.
@@ -10263,6 +10291,11 @@
to use the language to interact with native speakers, your skills improve rapidly, to the point where you might be
mistaken for a native speaker after just a few hours of speaking the new language. Enabler.
+Background Music (1+ Intellect points): You create quiet background music in a short area, loud enough to be heard in a
+room with normal conversation, but not so loud to be distracting or overwhelming. The music repeats through up to ten
+songs you know, lasting up to an hour. In addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can use Effort to
+increase the duration; each level of Effort adds one hour to the play time and five songs to the playlist. Action.
+
Balance: You are trained in balancing. Enabler.
Band of Desperados: Your reputation draws a band of six level 2 desperado NPC followers who are completely devoted to
@@ -10366,6 +10399,11 @@
body generates) and focus it on a living creature within short range. The target gains a free and immediate one-action
recovery roll. You can't use this ability again on that creature until after its next ten-hour rest. Action.
+Blackout (3 Intellect points): You issue a disruptive ripple of energy within short range, creating an area where the
+electrical power grid fails. All devices relying on being plugged into the grid stop working. Battery‑powered devices
+still work. Any standby generator connected in this area functions normally, activating emergency power within a few
+rounds. The blackout otherwise lasts for one minute. Action.
+
Blameless: You are trained in one of the following: deception, stealth, or disguise. Enabler.
Blend In (4 Intellect points): When you blend in, creatures still see you, but they attach no importance to your
@@ -10435,6 +10473,10 @@
Blood Fever: When you have no points in one or two Pools, you gain an asset to attacks or defense rolls (your choice).
Enabler.
+Blood Magician: When you wish it, you can use points from your Might Pool rather than your Intellect Pool to activate a
+magical ability (including applying Effort to that ability). If you use your Might Pool this way, you use your Might
+Edge instead of your Intellect Edge. Enabler.
+
Bloodlust (3 Might points): If you take down a foe, you can move a short distance, but only if you move toward another
foe. You don't need to spend the points until you know that the first foe is down. Enabler.
@@ -10504,6 +10546,22 @@
If you lose the bound object, you retain a sense of the direction in which it lies. Action to manifest the magic
creature.
+Bound Magic Familiar: You have a magic familiar bound to you through a magical mark on your body (a tattoo, rune, scar,
+or something as mundane as a freckle or mole). Normally, the familiar remains sleeping in its spiritual form. When you
+use an action to manifest them, they appear next to you as a creature with a specific form (such as a cat, hawk,
+homunculus, tiny dragon, or other suitable magical creature) and can communicate with you telepathically. The familiar
+is friendly toward you but has its own personality determined by the GM. The familiar can remain physically manifested
+for up to one hour, after which they return to their sleeping spiritual form and cannot manifest again until after your
+next ten-hour recovery roll. While manifested, they accompany you and follow your instructions. The familiar must remain
+within an immediate distance of you; if they move farther away, they are yanked back into their magical mark at the end
+of your following turn and cannot return until after your next ten-hour recovery roll. The familiar doesn't make
+attacks, but they can use their action to grant you an asset for any one attack you make on your turn. Otherwise, they
+can take actions on their own (though you'll likely roll for them). If the familiar is reduced to 0 health, they
+dissipate into their spiritual form and cannot manifest again until 1d6 + 2 days have passed. Action to manifest the
+familiar.
+
+Magic familiar: level 3, Speed defense as level 5 due to size, one knowledge skill as level 4
+
Brainwashing (6+ Intellect points): You use trickery, well-spoken lies, and mind-affecting chemicals (or other means,
like magic or high technology) to make others temporarily do what you want them to do. You control the actions of
another creature you touch. This effect lasts for one minute. The target must be level 3 or lower. You can allow it to
@@ -10689,6 +10747,21 @@
percent less likely to function if said function would cause you harm. Thus, if a foe attempts to detonate a bomb near
you controlled by a detonator that likes you, there is a 50 percent chance that it won't explode. Action to initiate.
+Check Status (0+ Intellect points): You can telepathically reach out to up to ten creatures known to you, no matter
+where they are. The individual creatures must be willing and able to communicate. You immediately know their current
+status—eating, driving, sleeping, angry, injured, fine, great, frightened, worried, and so on, generally in the form of
+a short sentence or a few words.
+
+These creatures don't have to share anything they don't want to, including acknowledging that you checked on them, but
+they can't lie through this connection. For example, one person might let you know that they're upset, but that doesn't
+mean you know why (they're dealing with a recent breakup) or what they're doing about it (drinking to cope).
+
+You automatically succeed at using this ability; no roll is required. Only you receive the status information. Other
+people affected by the spell do not get a sense of each other's statuses, nor do they know who else you're checking on.
+
+If you spend 5 Intellect points, you can check on twenty creatures at once, and for every 1 Intellect point you spend
+above that, you can check on an additional ten creatures. Action.
+
Cloak of Opportunity (5 Intellect points): You set small objects from the environment (rocks, broken items, clumps of
dirt, and so on) swirling about you for up to ten minutes, which grants you +2 Armor. Action to initiate.
@@ -10726,6 +10799,15 @@
Combat Prowess: You add +1 damage to one type of weapon attack of your choice: melee weapon attacks or ranged weapon
attacks. Enabler.
+Comfort and Encouragement (2+ Intellect points): You speak to a non-hostile creature within short range, telling them
+exactly what they need to hear to have a better day. You don't know what these words are until you say them, but you
+know they will help the creature's attitude. If the creature spends a round or two thinking about what you said, they
+gain an asset on one task of their choosing within one hour. Alternatively, if the creature has an ongoing penalty to
+tasks (such as having a hangover, sadness from a recent fight with their romantic partner, an injury, or a stressful
+situation at work), they can ignore that penalty for the next hour. In addition to the normal options for using Effort,
+you can use Effort to affect more creatures; each level of Effort affects one additional creature. Action to initiate;
+up to one minute to complete.
+
Command (3 Intellect points): Through sheer force of will, you can issue a simple imperative command to a single living
creature, who then attempts to carry out your command as its next action. The creature must be within short range and
able to understand you. The command can't inflict direct harm on the creature or its allies, so "Commit suicide" won't
@@ -10907,6 +10989,15 @@
damage. Its movement is based on its creature type (avian, swimmer, and so on). If your critter companion dies, you can
search an urban or wild environment for 1d6 days to find a new one. Enabler.
+Critter Telekinesis (1 Intellect point): You. telekinetically move a small creature (no larger than a medium dog) an
+immediate distance in any direction you wish. You must be able to see the creature, which must be your size or smaller,
+must not be affixed to anything, and must be within short range. The creature safely arrives at your chosen location
+without any residual force. If the creature knows you and you have a free hand, you can automatically grab the creature
+as part of the action of using this ability. This ability lacks the fine control to move anything with much speed, so in
+most situations, it's used to reposition an animal (such as a pet) out of a dangerous or inconvenient location. For
+example, you could safely pull a scared cat out from under a bed, retrieve a puppy from a storm drain, or relocate a
+wild bird that got inside your house. Action.
+
Crowd Control (6+ Intellect points): You control the actions of up to five creatures in short range. This effect lasts
for one minute. All targets must be level 2 or lower. Your control is limited to simple verbal commands like "Stop,"
"Run away," "Follow that guard," "Look over there," or "Get out of my way." All affected creatures respond to the
@@ -11155,6 +11246,13 @@
are trained in all tasks involving finding, healing, interacting with, and protecting that character. You can have only
one ward at a time. Action to initiate.
+Diagnose Device (2 Intellect points): You ease by two steps the task to diagnose what's wrong with a human-made
+electronic or mechanical device or system (such as a computer, clothes dryer, or toilet) that is damaged,
+malfunctioning, or broken. You must touch the device to diagnose it. Typically a successful roll means that you learn
+the main problem and its cause. For example, you could learn that a bricked phone is infected with malware, a pipe is
+clogged with "flushable" wipes, or a rattling engine needs motor oil. This ability is unreliable at best when used on
+alien, high-technology, or other mysterious devices. Action.
+
Diamagnetism: You magnetize any nonmetallic object within short range so that it can be affected by your other magnetic
powers. Thus, with Move Metal, you can move any object. With Repel Metal, you are trained in all Speed defense tasks,
regardless of whether the incoming attack uses metal. And so on. Enabler.
@@ -11229,6 +11327,11 @@
Disincentivize (1 Intellect point): You hinder all actions attempted by any number of targets within short range who can
understand you. You choose which targets are affected. Affected targets' actions are hindered for one round. Enabler.
+Dispel Magic (2+ Intellect points): Choose one magical effect within long range. An effect of up to level 3 ends if you
+succeed on an Intellect-based attack roll against the level of the effect, or against the level of the creature or
+object the magical effect affects, whichever is higher. In addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can
+apply Effort to increase the level of the effect that can potentially be dispelled. Action.
+
Disrupting Touch (1+ Might points): You can turn your Phase Sprint into a melee attack by purposefully grazing another
creature as you run. When you do, the touch releases a violent blast of energy that inflicts 2 points of damage to the
target (ignores Armor). Whether you hit or miss, your movement (and turn) ends immediately, which puts you within
@@ -11455,6 +11558,18 @@
attacks and effects that rely on light can affect you, and sudden bursts of light can potentially make you lose your
next turn. Action to initiate.
+Emotional Support Pet (3+ Intellect points): You conjure an adorable animal that most people find irresistibly cute,
+such as a puppy, kitten, or bunny, who is outgoing and friendly and otherwise acts according to its nature. Anyone in
+short range who can see the animal eases their defense tasks against negative feelings (such as anger, fear, sadness,
+and worry) for the next hour. Anyone who pets, cuddles, or plays with this animal for at least a round or two (up to
+four people can do so at once) feels happier for the next hour and adds +1 to any recovery rolls they make during that
+time. At the end of the spell, the conjured animal curls up, falls asleep, and disappears in a puff of smoke. If the
+animal is harmed in any way, anyone who saw it happen eases all rolls against the creature responsible for the harm. In
+addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can conjure three additional animals for each level of Effort you
+apply to this ability. Action.
+
+Adorable Animal: level 1, positive social interactions as level 3
+
Enable Others: You can use the helping rules to provide a benefit to another character attempting a physical task.
Unlike the normal helping rules, this doesn't require you to use your action helping the other character with the task.
This requires no action on your part. Enabler.
@@ -11523,6 +11638,11 @@
example, if you have no experience with a certain kind of extradimensional energy, you can't protect against it. You can
select this ability more than once. Each time you select it, you must choose a different kind of energy. Enabler.
+Enhance Athletics (2 Intellect points): You enhance the ability of one creature to perform certain athletic sports
+tasks. The creature must be within long range and visible to you. For the next minute, the creature can apply one free
+level of Effort to any one task to catch, hit, kick, or throw an object, or to any one climbing, jumping, or running
+task. Once this free level of Effort is used, the magic ends. Action.
+
Enhance Strength (3 Intellect points): For the next ten minutes, you gain an asset on tasks that depend on brute force,
such as moving a heavy object, smashing down a door, or hitting someone with a melee weapon. Action to initiate.
@@ -11702,6 +11822,12 @@
tasks involving disguise. You must apply a level of Effort to be able to impersonate a different species (such as a
human morphing into a humanoid alien). Action.
+Facsimile of Life (3 Intellect points): You give an object limited mobility, awareness, and intellect, allowing it to
+move about as if it were a small pet. The object must be within immediate distance and no larger than half your size.
+When animated, the object can perform tasks for you as if it were a level 1 creature, but otherwise is treated as an
+object of its level (for example, it uses the object damage track instead of health). The animation lasts for an hour or
+until you and it are at least a long distance apart, at which time the object becomes inert again. Action.
+
Familiarize: You can familiarize yourself with a new area if you spend at least one hour studying a region up to a long
distance across that you are able to directly access and move about in. Once you've familiarized yourself with an area,
all your tasks related to perception, navigation, salvaging and scavenging, defense, and moving about the area gain an
@@ -12053,6 +12179,21 @@
move through solid barriers (but not energy barriers) at a rate of 1 foot (30 cm) per round, and you can perceive while
phased within a barrier or object, which allows you to peek through walls. Action to initiate.
+Ghost Car (4+ Intellect points): You create a level 3 ghostly-looking car that can carry two people and a small amount
+of luggage. You or a creature you designate can drive the car as normal. For each level of Effort you apply to this
+ability, it can carry two additional passengers and its level increases by 1. The car lasts for an hour, after which it
+vanishes. Action.
+
+Gift of Appeasement (2+ Intellect points): You conjure a trifle that can fit in one hand and will please a creature
+within immediate range. The object is impractical and inexpensive, but delightful to the creature. Examples include
+their favorite kind of cookie, a small crafted coffee beverage, or a paper origami of their favorite animal. You don't
+know what the spell will create, but you know it will please them if you give it as a gift. If the creature spends one
+minute appreciating the object (such as eating the cookie, drinking the coffee, or examining the origami), they gain an
+asset on one task of their choosing within one hour.
+
+In addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can use Effort to affect more creatures; each level of Effort
+affects one additional creature. Action per target to initiate.
+
Go Defensive (1 Intellect point): When you wish, while in combat, you can enter a state of heightened awareness of
threat. While in this state, you can't use points from your Intellect Pool, but you gain +1 to your Speed Edge and gain
two assets to Speed defense tasks. This effect lasts as long as you wish or until you attack a foe or no combat is
@@ -12191,6 +12332,13 @@
Guild Training: Your type abilities that have durations last twice as long. Your type abilities that have short ranges
reach to long range instead. Your type abilities that inflict damage deal 1 additional point of damage. Enabler.
+Gun Jammer (2+ Intellect points): You can interfere with a firearm so the next time it is used, it jams or misfires. The
+weapon must be within short range and you must be able to see it. Make an Intellect-based attack against the weapon or
+its bearer (whichever level is higher). If you succeed, the next attack with the firearm fails, and the weapon won't
+fire until someone uses an action to correct the problem. If you activate this ability when it isn't your turn, your
+attack against the weapon is hindered. In addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can use Effort to affect
+more firearms; each level of Effort affects one additional target. Action or enabler.
+
Gunner: You inflict 1 additional point of damage with guns. Enabler.
### Abilities --- H
@@ -12315,6 +12463,13 @@
Hurl Flame (2 Intellect points): While your Shroud of Flame is active, you can reach into your halo and hurl a handful
of fire at a target. This is a ranged attack with short range that deals 4 points of fire damage. Action.
+Hush (1+ Intellect point): You create a transparent bubble within short range that muffles very loud sounds within it,
+such as alarms, sirens, leaf blowers, and crying babies. The bubble is about 3 feet (1 m) across and any noise from
+within it comes out no louder than a normal speaking voice. The bubble lasts for one minute and moves with the target.
+In addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can use Effort to increase the duration; one level of Effort
+increases the duration to ten minutes, two levels increases it to an hour, and three levels increases it to ten hours.
+Action.
+
### Abilities --- I
Ice Armor (1 Intellect point): When you wish it, your body is covered in a sheen of ice for ten minutes that gives you
@@ -12740,6 +12895,14 @@
and modifiers, except this time you have an asset on the task. If this retry fails, you can't use this ability to retry
it again. Enabler.
+Laundry Day (3+ Intellect points): You select two batches of laundry within immediate range, each large enough for a
+typical washing machine or dryer. The laundry agitates and spins in midair for a minute, becoming clean and dry as it
+does so, after which it sorts and stacks itself into neat piles or, if you know where it belongs and that's within short
+range, putting itself away. Particularly dirty clothes automatically take a few extra minutes to finish cleaning and
+drying. The spell doesn't harm delicate items or clothing that needs special care (such as dry cleaning or low
+temperature). In addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can use Effort to affect more batches of laundry;
+each level of Effort affects two additional batches. Action to initiate; one minute to complete.
+
Lead by Inquiry: You keep your allies on their toes with occasional questions, jokes, and even mock drills for those who
care to join in. After spending 24 hours with you, your allies are treated as if trained in tasks related to perception.
This benefit is ongoing while you remain in your allies' company. It ends if you leave, but it resumes if you return to
@@ -12885,11 +13048,20 @@
Machine Vulnerabilities: You inflict 3 additional points of damage against robots and animate machines of all kinds.
Enabler.
+Mage Clock: You can mentally connect to a universal magical clock, allowing you to know the local time, down to a tenth
+of a second. You can have up to three magical timers at once, each of which sounds a mental alarm after an amount of
+time you specify or at a specific time (such as nine minutes from now, three hours from now, or 8 o'clock in the
+morning). Action.
+
Magic Shield (1 Intellect point): You gain +1 to Armor for an hour. Action to initiate.
Magic Training: You are trained in the basics of magic (including the operation of magic artifacts and cyphers) and can
attempt to understand and identify its properties. Enabler.
+Magical Power Current (2+ Intellect points): You provide electricity to a device that runs on standard house current,
+such as a laptop computer, circular saw, or microwave oven, allowing it to function as if plugged in for one hour. The
+cost is 2 Intellect points plus 1 point per level of the device. Action.
+
Magical Repertoire: The number of subtle cyphers you can bear at the same time increases by two. If you spend one hour
preparing your magic, you can fill any of your open cypher slots with subtle cyphers chosen randomly by the GM (this
hour can be part of a one-hour or ten-hour recovery action if you are awake for the entire time). As part of this
@@ -12906,6 +13078,12 @@
projectile attacks (such as arrows, bullets, a thrown metal knife, and so on) to the ground. You are immune to such
attacks for one round. You must be aware of an attack to foil it. Enabler.
+Magnification (1+ Intellect point): You create a rectangular frame, visible only to you, that doubles the magnification
+of whatever you see through it. The frame defaults to hovering in front of your face about an arm's length away, but you
+can use your action to move it up, down, or to either side. The frame lasts for ten minutes and grants an asset on
+perception tasks at range. For each level of Effort you apply to this ability, you can increase the magnification by
+another increment (×3 for one level of Effort, ×4 for two levels of Effort, and so on). Action.
+
Magnificent Moment: If you make an attack or attempt a task with the immediate action you gain by using Seize the
Moment, the attack or task is eased. Enabler.
@@ -13284,6 +13462,14 @@
either the decision goes your way or, if someone else effectively argues a competing point, any associated persuasion or
deception task is eased by two steps. Action to initiate, one or more rounds to complete.
+Network Dead Zone (3 Intellect points): You interfere with radio signals, such as Bluetooth, wifi, cell phone service,
+AM/FM radio, ham radio, and walkie-talkies. Choose a short area within immediate range; all such transmissions into or
+out of that area are blocked due to a combination of interference and lack of reception. This lasts for one minute.
+Action.
+
+Powerful radio sources, such as a radio station transmitter or a telecommunication satellite, may be able to punch
+through a Network Dead Zone spell.
+
Network Tap (4 Intellect points): You can ask the GM one question and get a very short answer if you succeed on an
Intellect roll against a difficulty assigned by the GM. The more obscure the answer, the more difficult the task. On a
failed roll, feedback or perhaps some defense from the network you're accessing inflicts 4 points of Intellect damage on
@@ -13446,6 +13632,10 @@
### Abilities --- P
+Paralyzing Touch (4+ Intellect points): You gather necromantic energy in your fingertip and touch a creature. A target
+of level 3 or lower is paralyzed and helpless for an hour. Each level of Effort applied increases the level cap of the
+target by 1. Action.
+
Parry (5 Speed points): You can deflect incoming attacks quickly. When you activate this ability, for the next ten
rounds you ease all Speed defense rolls. Enabler.
@@ -13723,6 +13913,16 @@
tasks involving following, understanding, interacting with, or fighting that creature. You can have only one quarry at a
time. Action to initiate.
+Question Past Self (4+ Intellect points): You reach into the past up to a week and mentally ask your past self one or
+two questions about something you knew or observed at the chosen time. For example, if you've forgotten an important
+phone number or can't remember if a particular person was in a meeting, you can ask your past self about it while it's
+still fresh in your past self 's memory. Your past self doesn't perceive this as an intrusive voice—it just seems like
+an unexpected moment of reflection about the questions your present self asks. This doesn't allow you to remember things
+your past self didn't actually know at the time, but it can sometimes help your present self (in the form of an asset)
+learn more about or realize something your past self wasn't really paying attention to at the time (such as seeing part
+of a password or noting whether there was a red delivery truck nearby). For each level of Effort you apply to this
+ability, you can reach an additional week further into the past. Action.
+
Question the Spirits (2 Intellect points): You can call a spirit to you and petition it to answer a few questions
(usually no more than three before the spirit fades).
@@ -13870,6 +14070,13 @@
you roll a total of three successes before rolling a total of two failures. However, all such tasks are hindered by at
least two steps due to hardened spacecraft electronic security.)
+Remote Slap (3 Intellect points): You use an active telephone, cellular, internet, or closed-circuit video connection to
+slap a creature. The target must be actively using a device making use of this connection, such as being on the other
+end of a phone call or text message, browsing the same social media website or app you're using, or monitoring a
+closed-circuit camera that is recording you. Make an Intellect-based attack against the creature; success means the
+creature takes 1 point of damage, as if they had been telekinetically slapped in the face by the device they're using.
+Each additional remote slap against that creature is hindered by an additional step (resetting after one hour). Action.
+
Remote Viewing (6 Intellect points): Distance is an illusion, as all space is one space. With great concentration, you
can see another place. This ability can be used in one of two ways:
@@ -13889,6 +14096,13 @@
the damage track (for example, a debilitated PC becomes impaired, and an impaired one becomes hale). Alternatively, if
you use this ability on a PC during a rest, you grant them a +2 bonus to their recovery roll. Action.
+Repair Machine (3+ Intellect points): You automatically repair one broken device of up to level 4 that you touch,
+restoring it to full working condition. This ability works only if at least 80 percent of the original device is still
+on hand. The device may still need fuel, oil, or other substances that aid its operation but are not part of the
+electronics or mechanism. This ability only reliably works on human-crafted devices and tends to fail when used on
+alien, high-technology, or otherwise mysterious machines. In addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can
+use Effort to increase the target level that can be affected by 1. Action.
+
Repel Metal: By manipulating magnetism, you are trained in Speed defense tasks against any incoming attack that uses
metal. Enabler.
@@ -14054,6 +14268,9 @@
Safe Fall: You reduce the damage from a fall by 5 points. Enabler.
+Safe Sex (2 Intellect points): One creature you touch can have sexual encounters with no chance of causing pregnancy or
+transmitting an STI. This protection lasts for ten hours. Action.
+
Sailor: You are trained in tasks related to sailing and trained in the geography of islands and coastlines. Enabler.
Salvage and Comfort (2 Intellect points): You're familiar with open space. If you spend an hour using your spacecraft's
@@ -14195,6 +14412,12 @@
Share Defense: If your training in a defense task is greater than that of an ally within short range, your advice and
insight allow them to substitute your training for that defense task. Enabler.
+Share Memory (3 Intellect points): You share a memory of your choice with a willing creature you touch. The length of
+the shared memory can be no longer than about five minutes, but you can summarize longer memories (such as how you met,
+courted, and married your partner) with a "montage" that covers the most important details and underlying sentiment. The
+target experiences the memory as an instantaneous vision, and is aware that it is your memory rather than their own
+memory or experience. The memory is as vivid and accurate as you personally remember it. Action.
+
Share the Power: When you use Drain Creature or Drain Machine to drain energy, you can transfer it to another creature,
restoring points to their Might or Speed Pools (or health for an NPC) instead of yourself. You can spend points from
your Siphon Pool (from the Store Energy ability) in the same way. You must touch the creature you want to heal, unless
@@ -14367,6 +14590,45 @@
deception is at work, you should know whether you can affect a creature before you attempt to use this ability on it.
Aliens, extradimensional entities, very intelligent creatures, and robots never count. Action.
+Soul Familiar: You have a soul familiar who accompanies you and follows your instructions. Your soul and their soul are
+interconnected (or the familiar might actually be a physical manifestation of your soul). The familiar loves and cares
+for you like the best combination of a pet and a close friend.
+
+The familiar is no larger than a large cat (about 20 pounds, or 9 kg); a typical soul familiar looks like a bird, cat,
+rat, lizard, snake, or toad, but more unusual forms (such as a tiny demon, dragon, elemental, fey creature, or floating
+skull) are also possible. You and the GM must work out the details of your familiar, and you'll probably make rolls for
+them in combat or when they take actions. The familiar acts on your turn. Their movement is based on their creature type
+(avian, swimmer, and so on).
+
+You and your familiar can communicate telepathically within long range, or empathically within very long range. Beyond
+this range, you can only sense each other's general level of well-being.
+
+Your familiar's presence within short range counts as an asset for magical tasks that require at least one minute to
+activate or maintain.
+
+If your familiar is within an immediate distance of you, you can roll any defense task for them, gaining the benefit of
+your skills, assets, and Effort (the familiar's Speed defense tasks are eased by two steps due to their size). While
+within this distance, your familiar also gains the benefit of any ongoing spell you cast on yourself (for example, if
+you cast a spell on yourself that lets you breathe water, your familiar can breathe water).
+
+Foes can use your soul familiar's connection to you against you. If a foe is holding or restraining your familiar (or
+touching it while it is held or restrained by another creature or a device, such as manacles or a cage), the foe's
+attacks and defenses against you are eased.
+
+If an attack against your familiar would reduce their health to 0, you can magically intervene so their health is
+instead reduced to 1 and you move one step down the damage track. If your familiar dies, you move one step down the
+damage track. If you die, your familiar instantly dies.
+
+You can replace a dead familiar (or revive them, if you have their remains) by performing a magical ritual that takes
+1d6 days.
+
+Enabler.
+
+Soul familiar: level 2, Speed defense as level 4 due to size
+
+A soul familiar with an animal form looks like a normal animal—there's nothing obvious about them to indicate they're
+anything other than what they appear to be.
+
Soul Interrogation (5 Intellect points): You determine the weaknesses, vulnerabilities, qualities, and mannerisms of a
single creature within long range. The GM should reveal the creature's level, basic abilities, and obvious weaknesses
(if any). All actions you attempt that affect that creature—attack, defense, interaction, and so on—are eased for a few
@@ -14404,6 +14666,12 @@
Specialized Throwing: You are specialized in attacks with all weapons that you throw. Enabler.
+Spectral Servant (2 Intellect points): You conjure a spectral servant, a semi-real magical construct that resembles the
+vague nonthreatening outline of a person. It is more of an extension of your will than a separate being, and it
+automatically assists you in simple tasks like bringing drinks to houseguests and dealing with chores. It cannot attack
+or defend, and it vanishes if you are ever more than a short distance from it. The servant lasts for one hour before
+disappearing. Action.
+
Speed Burst (4 Speed points): You can take two separate actions in this round. In the following round, all actions are
hindered. You cannot use this ability two rounds in a row. Enabler.
@@ -14411,6 +14679,16 @@
range who is able to understand you. When they make a recovery roll, they must spend only half the normal amount of time
required to do so (minimum one action). Action.
+Spellpay (1 Intellect point): You initiate a transaction with another person or business cashier within short range,
+giving them an amount of money that you specify. The currency comes from cash in your possession, money in your account,
+or a mix of both; the recipient receives this money in the same form as it came from you. For example, if you send
+someone \$150, \$50 of which is cash in your wallet and \$100 of which comes from your bank account, they suddenly have
+\$50 cash on hand and \$100 in their bank account. Instead of a transaction between two people, you can instead use this
+ability to access your account, withdrawing or depositing cash as if using a teller machine. Action.
+
+Spellpay can access any monetary account you use, such as a checking or savings account through a bank or credit union,
+or a mobile payment service such as Apple Pay, PayPal, or Venmo
+
Spin Attack (5+ Speed points): You stand still and make attacks against up to five foes, all as part of the same action
in one round. All of the attacks have to be the same sort of attack (melee or ranged). Make a separate attack roll for
each foe. You remain limited by the amount of Effort you can apply on one action. Anything that modifies your attack or
@@ -14459,6 +14737,12 @@
Spring Away (5 Speed points): Whenever you succeed on a Speed defense roll, you can immediately move up to a short
distance. You cannot use this ability more than once in a given round. Enabler.
+Spring Cleaning (3+ Intellect points): You choose a short area, such as a typical room in a house, two rooms in a small
+apartment, or two automobiles. Over the next few minutes, the area is thoroughly cleaned—floors are swept, vacuumed, or
+mopped; surfaces like countertops and sinks are wiped down with a gentle soap and disinfectant; and so on. In addition
+to the normal options for using Effort, you can use Effort to increase the area or clean more quickly; each level of
+Effort affects an additional short area or reduces the cleaning time from minutes to rounds. Action.
+
Sprint and Grab (2 Speed points): You can run a short distance and make a melee attack to grab a foe of your size or
smaller. A successful attack means you grab the foe and bring it to a halt if it was moving (this can be treated as a
tackle, if appropriate). Action.
@@ -14480,6 +14764,12 @@
moving or acting for one minute, as if frozen solid. You must be able to see the target, and it must be within short
range. While in stasis, the target is impervious to harm, cannot be moved, and is immune to all effects. Action.
+Statue Stasis (3 Intellect points): You transform into a lifelike bronze or stone statue of yourself for a specific
+period of time (one minute, one hour, ten hours, or twenty-four hours). When in statue form, you are in stasis; you
+don't age, can take no actions (other than making recovery rolls while you "sleep"), and gain +10 to Armor against all
+forms of damage, including damage not normally affected by Armor. If you take enough damage to get through your armor,
+the stasis effect immediately ends. Action.
+
Stay the Course (5 Intellect points): When your companions are flagging, you can help inspire them with a well-timed
word or two. Any ally (except you) within immediate range can make a recovery roll that is not an action and does not
count toward their daily limit. Action.
@@ -15022,6 +15312,11 @@
you can use it only on a willing or helpless creature. If the creature takes enough damage to knock it unconscious or
kill it, it crumbles into ash, dust, or some other inert material. Action to initiate.
+Unstealable Charm (3+ Intellect points): An object you are holding, touching, or wearing becomes more difficult to
+steal; attempts to remove it from your person without your knowledge or permission are hindered. In addition to the
+normal options for using Effort, you can apply Effort to hinder such attempts by an additional step. The charm lasts for
+twenty-four hours. Action.
+
Untouchable (6 Intellect points): You change your phase state for the next minute so that you can't affect or be
affected by normal matter or energy. Only mental attacks and special transdimensional energies, devices, or abilities
can affect you, but likewise you can't attack, touch, or otherwise affect anything. Action to initiate.
@@ -40446,10 +40741,7 @@
Tier 1:
-Background Music (1+ Intellect points): You create quiet background music in a short area, loud enough to be heard in a
-room with normal conversation, but not so loud to be distracting or overwhelming. The music repeats through up to ten
-songs you know, lasting up to an hour. In addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can use Effort to
-increase the duration; each level of Effort adds one hour to the play time and five songs to the playlist. Action.
+Background Music
Fast Talk
@@ -40514,64 +40806,19 @@
Advice From A Friend
-Check Status (0+ Intellect points): You can telepathically reach out to up to ten creatures known to you, no matter
-where they are. The individual creatures must be willing and able to communicate. You immediately know their current
-status—eating, driving, sleeping, angry, injured, fine, great, frightened, worried, and so on, generally in the form of
-a short sentence or a few words.
-
-These creatures don't have to share anything they don't want to, including acknowledging that you checked on them, but
-they can't lie through this connection. For example, one person might let you know that they're upset, but that doesn't
-mean you know why (they're dealing with a recent breakup) or what they're doing about it (drinking to cope).
-
-You automatically succeed at using this ability; no roll is required. Only you receive the status information. Other
-people affected by the spell do not get a sense of each other's statuses, nor do they know who else you're checking on.
-
-If you spend 5 Intellect points, you can check on twenty creatures at once, and for every 1 Intellect point you spend
-above that, you can check on an additional ten creatures. Action.
-
-Comfort and Encouragement (2+ Intellect points): You speak to a non-hostile creature within short range, telling them
-exactly what they need to hear to have a better day. You don't know what these words are until you say them, but you
-know they will help the creature's attitude. If the creature spends a round or two thinking about what you said, they
-gain an asset on one task of their choosing within one hour. Alternatively, if the creature has an ongoing penalty to
-tasks (such as having a hangover, sadness from a recent fight with their romantic partner, an injury, or a stressful
-situation at work), they can ignore that penalty for the next hour. In addition to the normal options for using Effort,
-you can use Effort to affect more creatures; each level of Effort affects one additional creature. Action to initiate;
-up to one minute to complete.
+Check Status
-Gift of Appeasement (2+ Intellect points): You conjure a trifle that can fit in one hand and will please a creature
-within immediate range. The object is impractical and inexpensive, but delightful to the creature. Examples include
-their favorite kind of cookie, a small crafted coffee beverage, or a paper origami of their favorite animal. You don't
-know what the spell will create, but you know it will please them if you give it as a gift. If the creature spends one
-minute appreciating the object (such as eating the cookie, drinking the coffee, or examining the origami), they gain an
-asset on one task of their choosing within one hour.
+Comfort and Encouragement
-In addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can use Effort to affect more creatures; each level of Effort
-affects one additional creature. Action per target to initiate.
+Gift of Appeasment
Tier 2:
-Emotional Support Pet (3+ Intellect points): You conjure an adorable animal that most people find irresistibly cute,
-such as a puppy, kitten, or bunny, who is outgoing and friendly and otherwise acts according to its nature. Anyone in
-short range who can see the animal eases their defense tasks against negative feelings (such as anger, fear, sadness,
-and worry) for the next hour. Anyone who pets, cuddles, or plays with this animal for at least a round or two (up to
-four people can do so at once) feels happier for the next hour and adds +1 to any recovery rolls they make during that
-time. At the end of the spell, the conjured animal curls up, falls asleep, and disappears in a puff of smoke. If the
-animal is harmed in any way, anyone who saw it happen eases all rolls against the creature responsible for the harm. In
-addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can conjure three additional animals for each level of Effort you
-apply to this ability. Action.
-
-Adorable Animal: level 1, positive social interactions as level 3
-
Fetch
-Safe Sex (2 Intellect points): One creature you touch can have sexual encounters with no chance of causing pregnancy or
-transmitting an STI. This protection lasts for ten hours. Action.
+Safe Sex
-Spectral Servant (2 Intellect points): You conjure a spectral servant, a semi-real magical construct that resembles the
-vague nonthreatening outline of a person. It is more of an extension of your will than a separate being, and it
-automatically assists you in simple tasks like bringing drinks to houseguests and dealing with chores. It cannot attack
-or defend, and it vanishes if you are ever more than a short distance from it. The servant lasts for one hour before
-disappearing. Action.
+Spectral Servant
Telepathic
@@ -40579,19 +40826,9 @@
Informer
-Laundry Day (3+ Intellect points): You select two batches of laundry within immediate range, each large enough for a
-typical washing machine or dryer. The laundry agitates and spins in midair for a minute, becoming clean and dry as it
-does so, after which it sorts and stacks itself into neat piles or, if you know where it belongs and that's within short
-range, putting itself away. Particularly dirty clothes automatically take a few extra minutes to finish cleaning and
-drying. The spell doesn't harm delicate items or clothing that needs special care (such as dry cleaning or low
-temperature). In addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can use Effort to affect more batches of laundry;
-each level of Effort affects two additional batches. Action to initiate; one minute to complete.
+Laundry Day
-Spring Cleaning (3+ Intellect points): You choose a short area, such as a typical room in a house, two rooms in a small
-apartment, or two automobiles. Over the next few minutes, the area is thoroughly cleaned—floors are swept, vacuumed, or
-mopped; surfaces like countertops and sinks are wiped down with a gentle soap and disinfectant; and so on. In addition
-to the normal options for using Effort, you can use Effort to increase the area or clean more quickly; each level of
-Effort affects an additional short area or reduces the cleaning time from minutes to rounds. Action.
+Spring Cleaning
Tier 4:
@@ -40630,12 +40867,7 @@
Tier 2:
-Diagnose Device (2 Intellect points): You ease by two steps the task to diagnose what's wrong with a human-made
-electronic or mechanical device or system (such as a computer, clothes dryer, or toilet) that is damaged,
-malfunctioning, or broken. You must touch the device to diagnose it. Typically a successful roll means that you learn
-the main problem and its cause. For example, you could learn that a bricked phone is infected with malware, a pipe is
-clogged with "flushable" wipes, or a rattling engine needs motor oil. This ability is unreliable at best when used on
-alien, high-technology, or other mysterious devices. Action.
+Diagnose Device
Mind Reading
@@ -40651,15 +40883,7 @@
Device Insight
-Question Past Self (4+ Intellect points): You reach into the past up to a week and mentally ask your past self one or
-two questions about something you knew or observed at the chosen time. For example, if you've forgotten an important
-phone number or can't remember if a particular person was in a meeting, you can ask your past self about it while it's
-still fresh in your past self 's memory. Your past self doesn't perceive this as an intrusive voice—it just seems like
-an unexpected moment of reflection about the questions your present self asks. This doesn't allow you to remember things
-your past self didn't actually know at the time, but it can sometimes help your present self (in the form of an asset)
-learn more about or realize something your past self wasn't really paying attention to at the time (such as seeing part
-of a password or noting whether there was a red delivery truck nearby). For each level of Effort you apply to this
-ability, you can reach an additional week further into the past. Action.
+Question Past Self
Retrieve Memories
@@ -40694,43 +40918,15 @@
Cantrips (choose any four)
-Annoy Electronics (1 Intellect point): You interfere with the operations of an electronic device. The device must be
-within short range and you must be able to see it. Your interference is limited to things you could do in a few seconds
-if you were directly using the device. For example, you could make a person's phone start playing a loud video, type one
-or two commands on a computer's keyboard, hit a bunch of buttons in an elevator, or change the station or volume on a
-television screen. You must succeed at an Intellect-based task against the device or its bearer (whichever level is
-higher). If you have never interacted with the particular device before, the task is hindered by two steps. Action.
-
-Arcanaphone (2 Intellect points): You make use of your cellular service to start a telephone call or use text messaging,
-lasting up to ten minutes. To anyone watching you, you look like you're in "hands free" mode. In all respects, this
-works as if you were carrying your device with you and using it directly (meaning the network notes your current
-location as if you were carrying your phone, and you may not have coverage in some areas). The first time you use this
-ability with your mobile service, you must contact their customer service department to authorize the magic (taking ten
-to sixty minutes), as if it were a new device. You can't use this ability if you don't have a cellular account. Action
-to initiate.
-
-In modern fantasy settings where most people don't know about magic, connecting your spell to your cellular service
-probably requires a lot of strange answers and lies about the "device" you're trying to add to your account.
+Annoy Electronics
-Enhance Athletics (2 Intellect points): You enhance the ability of one creature to perform certain athletic sports
-tasks. The creature must be within long range and visible to you. For the next minute, the creature can apply one free
-level of Effort to any one task to catch, hit, kick, or throw an object, or to any one climbing, jumping, or running
-task. Once this free level of Effort is used, the magic ends. Action.
+Arcanaphone
-Mage Clock: You can mentally connect to a universal magical clock, allowing you to know the local time, down to a tenth
-of a second. You can have up to three magical timers at once, each of which sounds a mental alarm after an amount of
-time you specify or at a specific time (such as nine minutes from now, three hours from now, or 8 o'clock in the
-morning). Action.
+Enhance Athletics
-Spellpay (1 Intellect point): You initiate a transaction with another person or business cashier within short range,
-giving them an amount of money that you specify. The currency comes from cash in your possession, money in your account,
-or a mix of both; the recipient receives this money in the same form as it came from you. For example, if you send
-someone \$150, \$50 of which is cash in your wallet and \$100 of which comes from your bank account, they suddenly have
-\$50 cash on hand and \$100 in their bank account. Instead of a transaction between two people, you can instead use this
-ability to access your account, withdrawing or depositing cash as if using a teller machine. Action.
+Mage Clock
-Spellpay can access any monetary account you use, such as a checking or savings account through a bank or credit union,
-or a mobile payment service such as Apple Pay, PayPal, or Venmo
+Spellpay
Ward
@@ -40738,37 +40934,21 @@
Charm Machine
-Dispel Magic (2+ Intellect points): Choose one magical effect within long range. An effect of up to level 3 ends if you
-succeed on an Intellect-based attack roll against the level of the effect, or against the level of the creature or
-object the magical effect affects, whichever is higher. In addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can
-apply Effort to increase the level of the effect that can potentially be dispelled. Action.
+Dispel Magic
-Gun Jammer (2+ Intellect points): You can interfere with a firearm so the next time it is used, it jams or misfires. The
-weapon must be within short range and you must be able to see it. Make an Intellect-based attack against the weapon or
-its bearer (whichever level is higher). If you succeed, the next attack with the firearm fails, and the weapon won't
-fire until someone uses an action to correct the problem. If you activate this ability when it isn't your turn, your
-attack against the weapon is hindered. In addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can use Effort to affect
-more firearms; each level of Effort affects one additional target. Action or enabler.
+Gun Jammer
-Magical Power Current (2+ Intellect points): You provide electricity to a device that runs on standard house current,
-such as a laptop computer, circular saw, or microwave oven, allowing it to function as if plugged in for one hour. The
-cost is 2 Intellect points plus 1 point per level of the device. Action.
+Magical Power Current
Safe Fall
-Safe Sex (2 Intellect points): One creature you touch can have sexual encounters with no chance of causing pregnancy or
-transmitting an STI. This protection lasts for ten hours. Action.
+Safe Sex
Third Eye
Tier 3:
-Diagnose Device (2 Intellect points): You ease by two steps the task to diagnose what's wrong with a human-made
-electronic or mechanical device or system (such as a computer, clothes dryer, or toilet) that is damaged,
-malfunctioning, or broken. You must touch the device to diagnose it. Typically a successful roll means that you learn
-the main problem and its cause. For example, you could learn that a bricked phone is infected with malware, a pipe is
-clogged with "flushable" wipes, or a rattling engine needs motor oil. This ability is unreliable at best when used on
-alien, high-technology, or other mysterious devices. Action.
+Diagnose Device
Network Tap
@@ -40776,12 +40956,7 @@
Tier 4:
-Repair Machine (3+ Intellect points): You automatically repair one broken device of up to level 4 that you touch,
-restoring it to full working condition. This ability works only if at least 80 percent of the original device is still
-on hand. The device may still need fuel, oil, or other substances that aid its operation but are not part of the
-electronics or mechanism. This ability only reliably works on human-crafted devices and tends to fail when used on
-alien, high-technology, or otherwise mysterious machines. In addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can
-use Effort to increase the target level that can be affected by 1. Action.
+Repair Machine
Soothe the Savage
@@ -40812,8 +40987,7 @@
Tier 2:
-Safe Sex (2 Intellect points): One creature you touch can have sexual encounters with no chance of causing pregnancy or
-transmitting an STI. This protection lasts for ten hours. Action.
+Safe Sex
Trained Without Armor
@@ -40825,10 +40999,7 @@
Force Field Barrier
-Unstealable Charm (3+ Intellect points): An object you are holding, touching, or wearing becomes more difficult to
-steal; attempts to remove it from your person without your knowledge or permission are hindered. In addition to the
-normal options for using Effort, you can apply Effort to hinder such attempts by an additional step. The charm lasts for
-twenty-four hours. Action.
+Unstealable Charm
Tier 4:
@@ -43216,12 +43387,7 @@
Tier 2:
-Gun Jammer (2+ Intellect points): You can interfere with a firearm so the next time it is used, it jams or misfires. The
-weapon must be within short range and you must be able to see it. Make an Intellect-based attack against the weapon or
-its bearer (whichever level is higher). If you succeed, the next attack with the firearm fails, and the weapon won't
-fire until someone uses an action to correct the problem. If you activate this ability when it isn't your turn, your
-attack against the weapon is hindered. In addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can use Effort to affect
-more firearms; each level of Effort affects one additional target. Action or enabler.
+Gun Jammer
Tier 3:
@@ -43891,151 +44057,6 @@
Word of Death
-### NEW ABILITIES (MODERN MAGIC)
-
-Access the Broadcast (2+ Intellect points): You create a flat rectangular illusory "screen" within immediate range that
-can display any broadcast television signal in your area (similar to using a television with an antenna) or any video
-streams in the area (similar to tapping into a wireless network). The screen is anywhere from 1 to 3 feet (30 cm to 1 m)
-across, includes stereo sound, and lasts for one hour. As an action, you can change the channel, the volume, or both.
-The effect ends if you are more than a short distance away from the screen. For each level of Effort you apply to this
-ability, you can increase the width of the screen by up to 3 feet (1 m). Action.
-
-Wireless networks hosting video streams are usually locked or encrypted, which requires you to succeed on an
-Intellect-based attack roll against the network's level (typically level 4) to watch them.
-
-Background Music (1+ Intellect points): You create quiet background music in a short area, loud enough to be heard in a
-room with normal conversation, but not so loud to be distracting or overwhelming. The music repeats through up to ten
-songs you know, lasting up to an hour. In addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can use Effort to
-increase the duration; each level of Effort adds one hour to the play time and five songs to the playlist. Action.
-
-Blackout (3 Intellect points): You issue a disruptive ripple of energy within short range, creating an area where the
-electrical power grid fails. All devices relying on being plugged into the grid stop working. Battery‑powered devices
-still work. Any standby generator connected in this area functions normally, activating emergency power within a few
-rounds. The blackout otherwise lasts for one minute. Action.
-
-Blood Magician: When you wish it, you can use points from your Might Pool rather than your Intellect Pool to activate a
-magical ability (including applying Effort to that ability). If you use your Might Pool this way, you use your Might
-Edge instead of your Intellect Edge. Enabler.
-
-Bound Magic Familiar: You have a magic familiar bound to you through a magical mark on your body (a tattoo, rune, scar,
-or something as mundane as a freckle or mole). Normally, the familiar remains sleeping in its spiritual form. When you
-use an action to manifest them, they appear next to you as a creature with a specific form (such as a cat, hawk,
-homunculus, tiny dragon, or other suitable magical creature) and can communicate with you telepathically. The familiar
-is friendly toward you but has its own personality determined by the GM. The familiar can remain physically manifested
-for up to one hour, after which they return to their sleeping spiritual form and cannot manifest again until after your
-next ten-hour recovery roll. While manifested, they accompany you and follow your instructions. The familiar must remain
-within an immediate distance of you; if they move farther away, they are yanked back into their magical mark at the end
-of your following turn and cannot return until after your next ten-hour recovery roll. The familiar doesn't make
-attacks, but they can use their action to grant you an asset for any one attack you make on your turn. Otherwise, they
-can take actions on their own (though you'll likely roll for them). If the familiar is reduced to 0 health, they
-dissipate into their spiritual form and cannot manifest again until 1d6 + 2 days have passed. Action to manifest the
-familiar.
-
-Magic familiar: level 3, Speed defense as level 5 due to size, one knowledge skill as level 4
-
-Critter Telekinesis (1 Intellect point): You. telekinetically move a small creature (no larger than a medium dog) an
-immediate distance in any direction you wish. You must be able to see the creature, which must be your size or smaller,
-must not be affixed to anything, and must be within short range. The creature safely arrives at your chosen location
-without any residual force. If the creature knows you and you have a free hand, you can automatically grab the creature
-as part of the action of using this ability. This ability lacks the fine control to move anything with much speed, so in
-most situations, it's used to reposition an animal (such as a pet) out of a dangerous or inconvenient location. For
-example, you could safely pull a scared cat out from under a bed, retrieve a puppy from a storm drain, or relocate a
-wild bird that got inside your house. Action.
-
-Facsimile of Life (3 Intellect points): You give an object limited mobility, awareness, and intellect, allowing it to
-move about as if it were a small pet. The object must be within immediate distance and no larger than half your size.
-When animated, the object can perform tasks for you as if it were a level 1 creature, but otherwise is treated as an
-object of its level (for example, it uses the object damage track instead of health). The animation lasts for an hour or
-until you and it are at least a long distance apart, at which time the object becomes inert again. Action.
-
-Ghost Car (4+ Intellect points): You create a level 3 ghostly-looking car that can carry two people and a small amount
-of luggage. You or a creature you designate can drive the car as normal. For each level of Effort you apply to this
-ability, it can carry two additional passengers and its level increases by 1. The car lasts for an hour, after which it
-vanishes. Action.
-
-Hush (1+ Intellect point): You create a transparent bubble within short range that muffles very loud sounds within it,
-such as alarms, sirens, leaf blowers, and crying babies. The bubble is about 3 feet (1 m) across and any noise from
-within it comes out no louder than a normal speaking voice. The bubble lasts for one minute and moves with the target.
-In addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can use Effort to increase the duration; one level of Effort
-increases the duration to ten minutes, two levels increases it to an hour, and three levels increases it to ten hours.
-Action.
-
-Magnification (1+ Intellect point): You create a rectangular frame, visible only to you, that doubles the magnification
-of whatever you see through it. The frame defaults to hovering in front of your face about an arm's length away, but you
-can use your action to move it up, down, or to either side. The frame lasts for ten minutes and grants an asset on
-perception tasks at range. For each level of Effort you apply to this ability, you can increase the magnification by
-another increment (×3 for one level of Effort, ×4 for two levels of Effort, and so on). Action.
-
-Network Dead Zone (3 Intellect points): You interfere with radio signals, such as Bluetooth, wifi, cell phone service,
-AM/FM radio, ham radio, and walkie-talkies. Choose a short area within immediate range; all such transmissions into or
-out of that area are blocked due to a combination of interference and lack of reception. This lasts for one minute.
-Action.
-
-Powerful radio sources, such as a radio station transmitter or a telecommunication satellite, may be able to punch
-through a Network Dead Zone spell.
-
-Paralyzing Touch (4+ Intellect points): You gather necromantic energy in your fingertip and touch a creature. A target
-of level 3 or lower is paralyzed and helpless for an hour. Each level of Effort applied increases the level cap of the
-target by 1. Action.
-
-Remote Slap (3 Intellect points): You use an active telephone, cellular, internet, or closed-circuit video connection to
-slap a creature. The target must be actively using a device making use of this connection, such as being on the other
-end of a phone call or text message, browsing the same social media website or app you're using, or monitoring a
-closed-circuit camera that is recording you. Make an Intellect-based attack against the creature; success means the
-creature takes 1 point of damage, as if they had been telekinetically slapped in the face by the device they're using.
-Each additional remote slap against that creature is hindered by an additional step (resetting after one hour). Action.
-
-Share Memory (3 Intellect points): You share a memory of your choice with a willing creature you touch. The length of
-the shared memory can be no longer than about five minutes, but you can summarize longer memories (such as how you met,
-courted, and married your partner) with a "montage" that covers the most important details and underlying sentiment. The
-target experiences the memory as an instantaneous vision, and is aware that it is your memory rather than their own
-memory or experience. The memory is as vivid and accurate as you personally remember it. Action.
-
-Soul Familiar: You have a soul familiar who accompanies you and follows your instructions. Your soul and their soul are
-interconnected (or the familiar might actually be a physical manifestation of your soul). The familiar loves and cares
-for you like the best combination of a pet and a close friend.
-
-The familiar is no larger than a large cat (about 20 pounds, or 9 kg); a typical soul familiar looks like a bird, cat,
-rat, lizard, snake, or toad, but more unusual forms (such as a tiny demon, dragon, elemental, fey creature, or floating
-skull) are also possible. You and the GM must work out the details of your familiar, and you'll probably make rolls for
-them in combat or when they take actions. The familiar acts on your turn. Their movement is based on their creature type
-(avian, swimmer, and so on).
-
-You and your familiar can communicate telepathically within long range, or empathically within very long range. Beyond
-this range, you can only sense each other's general level of well-being.
-
-Your familiar's presence within short range counts as an asset for magical tasks that require at least one minute to
-activate or maintain.
-
-If your familiar is within an immediate distance of you, you can roll any defense task for them, gaining the benefit of
-your skills, assets, and Effort (the familiar's Speed defense tasks are eased by two steps due to their size). While
-within this distance, your familiar also gains the benefit of any ongoing spell you cast on yourself (for example, if
-you cast a spell on yourself that lets you breathe water, your familiar can breathe water).
-
-Foes can use your soul familiar's connection to you against you. If a foe is holding or restraining your familiar (or
-touching it while it is held or restrained by another creature or a device, such as manacles or a cage), the foe's
-attacks and defenses against you are eased.
-
-If an attack against your familiar would reduce their health to 0, you can magically intervene so their health is
-instead reduced to 1 and you move one step down the damage track. If your familiar dies, you move one step down the
-damage track. If you die, your familiar instantly dies.
-
-You can replace a dead familiar (or revive them, if you have their remains) by performing a magical ritual that takes
-1d6 days.
-
-Enabler.
-
-Soul familiar: level 2, Speed defense as level 4 due to size
-
-A soul familiar with an animal form looks like a normal animal—there's nothing obvious about them to indicate they're
-anything other than what they appear to be.
-
-Statue Stasis (3 Intellect points): You transform into a lifelike bronze or stone statue of yourself for a specific
-period of time (one minute, one hour, ten hours, or twenty-four hours). When in statue form, you are in stasis; you
-don't age, can take no actions (other than making recovery rolls while you "sleep"), and gain +10 to Armor against all
-forms of damage, including damage not normally affected by Armor. If you take enough damage to get through your armor,
-the stasis effect immediately ends. Action.
-
## Creatures
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| Warrior mage | Warrior flavored with magic |
| Bard | Speaker |
-#### Basic CREATURES AND NPCs FOR A FANTASY GAME
-
-Bat: level 1
-
-Dog: level 2, perception as level 3
-
-Dog, guard: level 3, attacks and perception as level 4
-
-Hawk: level 2; flies a long distance each round
-
-Horse: level 3; moves a long distance each round
-
-Rat: level 1
-
-Viper: level 2; bite inflicts 3 points of Speed damage (ignores Armor)
-
-Warhorse: level 4; moves a long distance each round
-
-Wolf: level 3, perception as level 4
-
-Blacksmith: level 2, metalworking as level 4; health 8
-
-Farmer: level 2, animal handling as level 3; health 8
-
-Merchant: level 2, haggling and assessment tasks as level 3
-
-Villager: level 2
-
#### CRAFTING MAGIC ITEMS
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immediate range. Whenever you want, your body (entirely or just part of it) sheds light, illuminating everything in
short range. Enabler.
+Apocalyptic Stare: Your demeanor is of someone who shouldn't be trifled with. You are trained in intimidation. Enabler.
+
Applying Your Knowledge: When you help another character undertake any action that you're untrained in, you are treated
as if you are trained in it. Action.
@@ -10256,6 +10258,10 @@
can hear and understand you so forcefully that they are unable to take any action, including attacks, for one round.
Whether you succeed or fail, the next action the target takes is hindered. Action.
+Assisted Sight (3 Intellect points): You can activate a visual overlay that helps you analyze threats and boons in your
+environment. When you trigger this ability, you gain an asset on one attack or defense roll of any type, due to your
+knowledge about the situation. Enabler.
+
Assume Control (6+ Intellect points): You control the actions of another creature you have interacted with or studied
for at least a round. This effect lasts for ten minutes. The target must be level 2 or lower. Once you have assumed
control, the target acts as if it wants to accomplish your desire to the best of its ability, freely using its own best
@@ -10701,6 +10707,8 @@
increase your gun damage. Each level of Effort adds 3 points of damage to a successful attack, and if you spend a turn
lining up your shot, each level of Effort instead adds 5 points of damage to a successful attack. Enabler.
+Careful Tracker: You are trained in stealth and tracking tasks. Enabler.
+
Cast Illusion: You can increase the range at which you create and maintain your
immediate-range illusions (such as from Minor Illusion) to anywhere within short range that you can perceive. Enabler.
@@ -11717,6 +11725,11 @@
Escape Plan: When you kill a foe, you can attempt a stealth task to immediately hide from anyone around, assuming that a
suitable hiding place is nearby. Enabler.
+Escape the Ruins (6 Intellect points): While in any area containing ruins from before the apocalypse, you find or create
+a significant shortcut, secret entrance, or emergency escape route where it looked like none existed. Doing so requires
+that you succeed on an Intellect action whose difficulty is set by the GM based on the situation. You and the GM should
+work out the details. Action.
+
Evanesce (3 Speed points): You step into shadows or behind cover, and everyone who was observing you completely loses
track of you. Although you're not invisible, you can't be seen until you reveal yourself again by moving out of the
shadows or from behind cover (or by making an attack). Action.
@@ -11946,6 +11959,10 @@
Fists of Fury: You inflict 2 additional points of damage with unarmed attacks. Enabler.
+Fixer: You've learned enough of the past that you are trained in tasks to repair and build before‑times equipment, or
+equipment made with before‑times parts. In addition, repairing and building tasks take you about 20% less time to
+complete. Enabler.
+
Flamboyant Boast (1 Intellect point): You boastfully describe an act that you will accomplish, and then as part of the
same action, you attempt it. If an average person would find the action difficult (or impossible) and you succeed on it,
creatures who witnessed it who are not your allies are potentially dazed on their next turn, and all tasks they attempt
@@ -12108,6 +12125,13 @@
of damage. Alternatively, you can use this ability on a weapon, and for ten minutes, it inflicts 1 additional point of
damage from the cold. Action for touch; enabler for weapon.
+Fruitfully Pass the Time (4 Intellect points): You are trained in one performance skill, such as singing; playing a
+fiddle, harmonica, or other instrument; or something else that others would enjoy watching or hearing you do. When you
+perform with the skill gained through this ability for one minute and you succeed on a difficulty 3 performance roll,
+you and all allies within short range who can hear and see you immediately gain a one‑action recovery roll. You can't
+use this on someone again until you use a one‑hour or ten‑hour recovery roll. Action to initiate, one minute to
+complete.
+
Further Mathematics: You are specialized in higher mathematics. If you are already specialized, choose some other sphere
of knowledge to become trained in. Enabler.
@@ -12375,6 +12399,8 @@
Hard-Won Resilience: In your explorations of dark places, you've been exposed to all sorts of terrible things and are
developing a general resistance. You gain +1 to Armor and are trained in Might defense tasks. Enabler.
+Hardened by the End: You're trained in Might defense tasks.
+
Harder Light: When you create an object out of hard light, the object is one level higher than normal. Enabler.
Hardiness: You are trained in Might defense tasks. Enabler.
@@ -12858,6 +12884,11 @@
associated with a roll, but in certain cases the GM may decide that there is a chance for you not to know. In these
cases, you are specialized in knowing creature weaknesses. Enabler.
+Know the Way: You are familiar with before‑times buildings and other structures, which extends to ruins of the same. You
+are trained in tasks related to getting around inside those buildings quickly, finding alternate routes, finding places
+to hide, and other tasks associated with gaining a benefit by being able to picture a likely floor plan of any given
+building. Enabler.
+
Know Where to Look: Whenever the GM obtains a result for you on the Useful Stuff table, you get two results instead of
one. If the GM is using some other method to generate rewards for finding valuables, you should gain double the result
you would otherwise obtain. Enabler.
@@ -13769,6 +13800,10 @@
from wearing armor. You reduce the Speed cost for wearing armor by 1. You start the game with a type of armor of your
choice. Enabler.
+Practiced in Light Armor: You can wear light armor for long periods of time without tiring and can compensate for slowed
+reactions from wearing light armor. You reduce the Speed cost for wearing light armor by 1. You start the game with a
+type of light armor available in the area, such as a leather jacket. Enabler.
+
Practiced With All Weapons: You become practiced with light, medium, and heavy weapons and suffer no penalty when using
any kind of weapon. Enabler.
@@ -13811,6 +13846,22 @@
you designate. Alternatively, you can choose to learn a creature's level; however, if you do so, you cannot learn
anything else about it later with this ability. Action.
+Prepared Caches: You have a prepped secret hideout with shelter and basic supplies capable of seeing you through a year
+or more, or up to six people through about three months. In addition, you have knowledge of three different secret
+supply caches you put together and hid before everything fell apart, chosen from the following. The caches are located
+no closer than about 5 miles (8 km) from each other.
+
+• Food cache (enough food for six people for twelve weeks)
+
+• Water cache (enough clean water for six people for twelve weeks)
+
+• Ammunition cache (400 shells or bullets for four different weapons)
+
+• Firearm cache (six firearms; a mix of light, medium, and heavy weapons, each usually found with about ten bullets or
+shells)
+
+Enabler.
+
Preternatural Senses: While you are conscious and able to use an action, you cannot be surprised. In addition, you are
trained in initiative actions. Enabler.
@@ -13981,6 +14032,11 @@
### Abilities --- R
+Raider Follower: You gain a level 3 follower (initiative, stealth, and defense as level 4). The follower does as you say
+and, generally speaking, isn't someone who makes the other PCs in your group feel uncomfortable because of their
+
+presence. Enabler.
+
Rally to Me (2 Intellect points): You cry out, blow a battle horn, or otherwise signal to everyone within very long
range that you require aid. All allied creatures who respond by moving to within an immediate distance of you within the
next few rounds gain one asset on any one attack or defense task within the next hour that you suggest, such as "Hold
@@ -14147,6 +14203,14 @@
and so on). However, you are dazed for a round afterward yourself, during which time all your tasks are hindered. If you
have the Move Mountains ability, both abilities cost 3 fewer Intellect points to use. Action.
+Resource Seeker (3+ Intellect points): When you are looking for a specific inexpensive item you'd like to scavenge from
+nearby ruins, such as a candle, an aspirin, or a can of preserved chili, you can focus your attention on it so that you
+are more likely to find it. For the next ten minutes, if what you are seeking is within long range, you find it if you
+succeed on a difficulty 2 Intellect roll. Each time you use this ability again in the same area, the difficulty is
+hindered by one additional step. For each level of Effort you apply, you can attempt to find an object of one higher
+expense category, but the base difficulty of the Intellect roll also increases by 1 per higher expense category. Action
+to initiate.
+
Restful Presence: Creatures who make a recovery roll within short range of you add +1 to their roll. Enabler.
Restore Life (9+ Intellect points): You can attempt to restore life to a dead creature of up to level 3, as long as the
@@ -14760,6 +14824,11 @@
Stare Them Down: One doesn't play games of chicken with other maniac drivers without gaining mental strength. You're
trained in Intellect defense tasks. Enabler.
+Stashed Vehicle: You track down where you or a fellow prepper stashed a vehicle, pristinely stored to remain in working
+order with minimal repairs required. The vehicle has a viable power source (such as hundreds of gallons of gasoline
+treated to resist decomposition, or a rechargeable battery with options for solar or wind recharging). The vehicle could
+be an all‑terrain vehicle (ATV), a truck, or something else; work with your GM to figure out the particulars. Enabler
+
Stasis (3 Intellect points): You surround a foe of your size or smaller with scintillating energy, keeping it from
moving or acting for one minute, as if frozen solid. You must be able to see the target, and it must be within short
range. While in stasis, the target is impervious to harm, cannot be moved, and is immune to all effects. Action.
@@ -14905,6 +14974,10 @@
Surprise Attack: If attacking from a hidden vantage, with surprise, or before your opponent has acted, you get an asset
on the attack. On a successful hit, you inflict 2 additional points of damage. Enabler.
+Surviving the Wasteland: Given about half a day of walking and scavenging, you find enough edible food and potable water
+in the ruins or surrounding wasteland for you and up to one other person for one day. The resources might be scavenged
+from before‑times supplies, living flora and fauna, and uncontaminated water sources. Enabler.
+
Swim (1+ Intellect points): You can swim like a fish through water and similar liquid for one hour. For each level of
Effort applied, you can extend the duration by one hour. You swim about 10 miles (16 km) per hour, and you are not
affected by currents in the water. Action to initiate.
@@ -15145,6 +15218,9 @@
one-thousandth of your normal height may be a means of doing so.
+Tolerance: This hard life has built up your resistance over time, so you are trained in resisting the effects of natural
+poisons (such as those from plants or living creatures) and radiation. You're also immune to natural diseases. Enabler.
+
Tool Mastery: When you have an asset from using a tool, the time required to perform the task is cut in half (minimum
one round). Enabler.
@@ -15174,6 +15250,9 @@
Trained Excavator: You are trained in perception, climbing, and salvaging tasks. Enabler.
+Trained for Toughing It: Choose one noncombat skill that would be helpful for surviving after the apocalypse, such as
+hunting, tracking, carpentry, or stealth. You are trained in that skill. Enabler.
+
Trained Gunner: You can choose from one of two benefits. Either you are trained in using guns, or you have the Spray
ability (which costs 2 Speed points): If a weapon has the ability to fire rapid shots without reloading (usually called
a rapid-fire weapon, such as an automatic pistol), you can spray multiple shots around your target to increase the
@@ -15331,6 +15410,13 @@
(about 2,000 feet each round) for up to ten minutes (about 35 miles), after which you must stop and make a recovery
roll. (Move up to 322 kph \[about 600 m each round\] for up to ten minutes \[about 56 km\].) Enabler.
+Use the Network (5 Intellect points): With a few minutes of looking around and preparing, you can access remnants of the
+before‑times internet and satellite network (or an active network on which AIs who are not immediately dangerous
+reside). The GM may decide there is no such connection in the area, but if there is, you can ask one basic question
+about anything happening within 10 miles (16 km) and receive a simple answer. For example, you could ask about the
+location of a specific creature or individual, and if they are within the range of this ability, you'll learn about it
+from a still‑functioning camera feed, satellite feed, or AI interaction. Action to initiate.
+
Use Senses of Others (4 Intellect points): You can see, hear, smell, touch, and taste through the senses of anyone with
whom you have telepathic contact by using Telepathic or similar abilities. You can attempt to use this ability on a
willing or unwilling target within long range; an unwilling target can try to resist. You don't need to see the target,
@@ -15410,6 +15496,14 @@
Warding Shield: You have +1 to Armor while you are using a shield. Enabler.
+Wasteland Camouflage (5+ Speed or Intellect points): By drawing your clothing about you just so and using various tricks
+and your deep knowledge of your surroundings, you become invisible for ten minutes in any landscape that contains ruins
+of the before‑times. (You may also attempt this in a purely wilderness setting, but if you do, you must spend 1
+additional point from Speed or Intellect, whichever Pool you activated this power with.) While you are invisible, this
+asset eases your stealth and Speed defense tasks by two steps. This effect ends if you do something to reveal your
+presence or position—attacking, using an ability, moving a large object, and so on. If this occurs, you can regain the
+remaining invisibility effect by taking an action to focus on hiding your position. Action to initiate or reinitiate.
+
Water Adaptation: You can breathe water as easily as you breathe air. Enabler.
Weapon and Body (5 Speed points): After making a melee weapon or ranged weapon attack, you follow up with a punch or
@@ -15424,6 +15518,9 @@
Weapon Defense: While your chosen weapon is in your hand(s), you are trained in Speed defense rolls. Enabler.
+Weapon at Hand: You're practiced with all weapons. To gain this benefit with a weapon you've never used before, you must
+spend at least ten minutes practicing with it first. Enabler.
+
Weapon Master: You inflict an additional 1 point of damage with your chosen weapon. Enabler.
Weaponization: One light or medium melee weapon of your choice is built into your body, and you are trained in using it.
@@ -39380,9 +39477,7 @@
Ability Choice: Choose either Assisted Sight or Machine Telepathy as your tier 4 ability.
-Assisted Sight (3 Intellect points): You can activate a visual overlay that helps you analyze threats and boons in your
-environment. When you trigger this ability, you gain an asset on one attack or defense roll of any type, due to your
-knowledge about the situation. Enabler.
+Assisted Sight
Machine Telepathy
@@ -39437,28 +39532,11 @@
Tier 1:P
-Practiced in Light Armor: You can wear light armor for long periods of time without tiring and can compensate for slowed
-reactions from wearing light armor. You reduce the Speed cost for wearing light armor by 1. You start the game with a
-type of light armor available in the area, such as a leather jacket. Enabler.
-
-Prepared Caches: You have a prepped secret hideout with shelter and basic supplies capable of seeing you through a year
-or more, or up to six people through about three months. In addition, you have knowledge of three different secret
-supply caches you put together and hid before everything fell apart, chosen from the following. The caches are located
-no closer than about 5 miles (8 km) from each other.
-
-• Food cache (enough food for six people for twelve weeks)
-
-• Water cache (enough clean water for six people for twelve weeks)
-
-• Ammunition cache (400 shells or bullets for four different weapons)
-
-• Firearm cache (six firearms; a mix of light, medium, and heavy weapons, each usually found with about ten bullets or
-shells)
+Practiced in Light Armor
-Enabler.
+Prepared Caches
-Trained for Toughing It: Choose one noncombat skill that would be helpful for surviving after the apocalypse, such as
-hunting, tracking, carpentry, or stealth. You are trained in that skill. Enabler.
+Trained for Toughing It
Tier 2:
@@ -39470,23 +39548,13 @@
Ability Choice: Choose either Fruitfully Pass the Time or Stashed Vehicle as your tier 3 ability.
-Fruitfully Pass the Time (4 Intellect points): You are trained in one performance skill, such as singing; playing a
-fiddle, harmonica, or other instrument; or something else that others would enjoy watching or hearing you do. When you
-perform with the skill gained through this ability for one minute and you succeed on a difficulty 3 performance roll,
-you and all allies within short range who can hear and see you immediately gain a one‑action recovery roll. You can't
-use this on someone again until you use a one‑hour or ten‑hour recovery roll. Action to initiate, one minute to
-complete.
+Fruitfully Pass the Time
-Stashed Vehicle: You track down where you or a fellow prepper stashed a vehicle, pristinely stored to remain in working
-order with minimal repairs required. The vehicle has a viable power source (such as hundreds of gallons of gasoline
-treated to resist decomposition, or a rechargeable battery with options for solar or wind recharging). The vehicle could
-be an all‑terrain vehicle (ATV), a truck, or something else; work with your GM to figure out the particulars. Enabler
+Stashed Vehicle
Tier 4:
-Know Where to Look: Whenever the GM obtains a result for you on the Useful Stuff table, you get two results instead of
-one. If the GM is using some other method to generate rewards for finding valuables, you gain double the result you
-would otherwise obtain. Enabler.
+Know Where to Look
Tier 5:
@@ -39498,10 +39566,7 @@
Discipline of Watchfulness
-Escape the Ruins (6 Intellect points): While in any area containing ruins from before the apocalypse, you find or create
-a significant shortcut, secret entrance, or emergency escape route where it looked like none existed. Doing so requires
-that you succeed on an Intellect action whose difficulty is set by the GM based on the situation. You and the GM should
-work out the details. Action.
+Escape the Ruins
Raids
@@ -39540,7 +39605,7 @@
Tier 2:
-Careful Tracker: You are trained in stealth and tracking tasks. Enabler.
+Careful Tracker
Fearsome Reputation
@@ -39548,10 +39613,7 @@
Ability Choice: Choose either Raider Follower or Grand Deception as your tier 3 ability.
-Raider Follower: You gain a level 3 follower (initiative, stealth, and defense as level 4). The follower does as you say
-and, generally speaking, isn't someone who makes the other PCs in your group feel uncomfortable because of their
-
-presence. Enabler.
+Raider Follower
Grand Deception
@@ -39603,33 +39665,21 @@
Tier 1:
-Ruin Lore: You are trained in scavenging, which means you're more likely to find useful things (and junk that can
-potentially be turned into useful things) in the ruins of what came before. Enabler.
+Ruin Lore
Knowledge Skills
Tier 2:
-Fixer: You've learned enough of the past that you are trained in tasks to repair and build before‑times equipment, or
-equipment made with before‑times parts. In addition, repairing and building tasks take you about 20% less time to
-complete. Enabler.
+Fixer
-Know the Way: You are familiar with before‑times buildings and other structures, which extends to ruins of the same. You
-are trained in tasks related to getting around inside those buildings quickly, finding alternate routes, finding places
-to hide, and other tasks associated with gaining a benefit by being able to picture a likely floor plan of any given
-building. Enabler.
+Know the Way
Tier 3:
Ability Choice: Choose either Disable Mechanisms or Resource Seeker as your tier 3 ability. Disable Mechanisms
-Resource Seeker (3+ Intellect points): When you are looking for a specific inexpensive item you'd like to scavenge from
-nearby ruins, such as a candle, an aspirin, or a can of preserved chili, you can focus your attention on it so that you
-are more likely to find it. For the next ten minutes, if what you are seeking is within long range, you find it if you
-succeed on a difficulty 2 Intellect roll. Each time you use this ability again in the same area, the difficulty is
-hindered by one additional step. For each level of Effort you apply, you can attempt to find an object of one higher
-expense category, but the base difficulty of the Intellect roll also increases by 1 per higher expense category. Action
-to initiate.
+Resource Seeker
Tier 4:
@@ -39647,12 +39697,7 @@
Skill With Defense
-Use the Network (5 Intellect points): With a few minutes of looking around and preparing, you can access remnants of the
-before‑times internet and satellite network (or an active network on which AIs who are not immediately dangerous
-reside). The GM may decide there is no such connection in the area, but if there is, you can ask one basic question
-about anything happening within 10 miles (16 km) and receive a simple answer. For example, you could ask about the
-location of a specific creature or individual, and if they are within the range of this ability, you'll learn about it
-from a still‑functioning camera feed, satellite feed, or AI interaction. Action to initiate.
+Use the Network
Walks the Wasteland
@@ -39693,21 +39738,17 @@
Tier 1:
-Surviving the Wasteland: Given about half a day of walking and scavenging, you find enough edible food and potable water
-in the ruins or surrounding wasteland for you and up to one other person for one day. The resources might be scavenged
-from before‑times supplies, living flora and fauna, and uncontaminated water sources. Enabler.
+Surviving the Wasteland
-Tolerance: This hard life has built up your resistance over time, so you are trained in resisting the effects of natural
-poisons (such as those from plants or living creatures) and radiation. You're also immune to natural diseases. Enabler.
+Tolerance
-Weapon at Hand: You're practiced with all weapons. To gain this benefit with a weapon you've never used before, you must
-spend at least ten minutes practicing with it first. Enabler.
+Weapon at Hand
Tier 2:
Devoted Defender
-Hardened by the End: You're trained in Might defense tasks.
+Hardened by the End
Tier 3:
@@ -39718,7 +39759,7 @@
Rapid Attack
-Apocalyptic Stare: Your demeanor is of someone who shouldn't be trifled with. You are trained in intimidation. Enabler.
+Apocalyptic Stare
Tier 4:
@@ -39736,13 +39777,7 @@
Using What's Available
-Wasteland Camouflage (5+ Speed or Intellect points): By drawing your clothing about you just so and using various tricks
-and your deep knowledge of your surroundings, you become invisible for ten minutes in any landscape that contains ruins
-of the before‑times. (You may also attempt this in a purely wilderness setting, but if you do, you must spend 1
-additional point from Speed or Intellect, whichever Pool you activated this power with.) While you are invisible, this
-asset eases your stealth and Speed defense tasks by two steps. This effect ends if you do something to reveal your
-presence or position—attacking, using an ability, moving a large object, and so on. If this occurs, you can regain the
-remaining invisibility effect by taking an action to focus on hiding your position. Action to initiate or reinitiate.
+Wasteland Camouflage
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Merges Mind With Machine is a focus designed for use with the Radio Quiet setting.
-Prepped for the End
+##### Prepped for the End
You prepared for ultimate disaster, unlike most of the sheeple. Which means you stashed away food, water, and other
survival gear when things were still okay. You trained yourself for harsh conditions, for basic machine and electronic
@@ -39568,7 +39568,7 @@
Escape the Ruins
-Raids
+##### Raids
When civilization fell, you did what you had to do to stay alive. Did you kill innocent people? Probably, insofar as
anyone who survived the end can really be considered "innocent." You figured they'd have done the same to you. But
@@ -39633,7 +39633,7 @@
Twisting the Knife
-Remembers the Past
+##### Remembers the Past
You are a student of the before‑times. Maybe that's because you grew up in the ruins of an old library and read
everything as your hobby, you found a friendly AI archivist who taught you about how things once were, you're long‑lived
@@ -39699,7 +39699,7 @@
Use the Network
-Walks the Wasteland
+##### Walks the Wasteland
Most people want to hide from the devastation or just curl up and die rather than face a hostile world. Not you. You're
determined to see what's out there, to survive, and, more than that, to thrive. It's that or let the radioactive rats—or
@@ -39785,7 +39785,7 @@
ancient Greece or feudal Japan, for example, probably makes it more like fantasy without all the orcs and magic
(although a game set in feudal Japan with orcs and magic could be fascinating).
-### SUGGESTED TYPES FOR A HISTORICAL GAME
+#### SUGGESTED TYPES FOR A HISTORICAL GAME
| | |
|-------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
@@ -39802,7 +39802,7 @@
| Explorer | Explorer |
| Priest | Speaker |
-Basic CREATURES AND NPCs FOR A HISTORICAL GAME
+#### Basic CREATURES AND NPCs FOR A HISTORICAL GAME
Cat: level 1, Speed defense as level 3
@@ -39827,7 +39827,7 @@
Warhorse: level 4; moves a long distance each round
-creating a historical adventure
+#### creating a historical adventure
One of the draws of playing in a historical adventure is the thrill of "being there" when something important happens.
Thus, in many cases, historical adventures in RPGs shouldn't be designed as campaigns, but instead serve as short-term
@@ -39865,7 +39865,7 @@
a skewed version of events and culture. Be willing to go deeper than *Braveheart* or *The Last Samurai*, or maybe choose
a different genre.
-### RUNNING A HISTORICAL GAME
+#### RUNNING A HISTORICAL GAME
Preparation is important in a historical game, and most of that entails choosing a historical period—or a specific
historical event—as the setting. Given that all of history can serve, you won't lack for resources. Below are a few
@@ -39886,7 +39886,7 @@
prehistory, classical antiquity, ancient Egypt, the American revolution, ancient China, World War II, Edo Period Japan,
Medieval Europe, and the American Old West.
-### HISTORICAL ARTIFACTS
+#### HISTORICAL ARTIFACTS
The concept of artifacts is probably inappropriate for a historical setting without some kind of supernatural,
fantastical, or science fiction element. That said, objects of mystery such as the Antikythera mechanism (an ancient

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Effect: A successfully targeted creature or object within short range becomes coated with a clinging film of nanotech
for one minute. While coated, a creature has 2 less Armor than usual (3 less if the cypher is level 5 or 6). While
coated, an object temporarily moves one step down the object damage track (or two steps down if the cypher is level 5 or
-### 6).
+6).
###### DATA WIPE
@@ -38720,7 +38720,7 @@
Depletion: 1 in 1d20
-### ENVIROSCANNER
+##### ENVIROSCANNER
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Apocalyptic Stare: Your demeanor is of someone who shouldn't be trifled with. You are trained in intimidation. Enabler.
+App Tinkerer: If you spend at least one day tinkering with a magical app in your possession, it functions at one level
+higher than normal. This applies to all magical apps in your possession, but they retain this bonus only for you.
+Enabler.
+
Applying Your Knowledge: When you help another character undertake any action that you're untrained in, you are treated
as if you are trained in it. Action.
@@ -10613,6 +10617,12 @@
provides you with inherent weaponry. This allows you to fire a blast of energy up to long range that inflicts 5 points
of damage. There is no cost for you to use this ability. Action.
+Bullet Jaunt (5 Intellect points): Every Spell Bullet you fire leaves a faint path of magic that you can see and follow.
+Choose the path of one Spell Bullet within long range that you fired in the past minute; you instantly teleport to any
+place you want along its path. Alternatively, you can use Spell Bullet to conjure a standard bullet, fire it at a target
+within gun range, and jaunt as part of the action of firing the bullet. Action to teleport along an existing path or to
+fire a bullet and teleport along its path.
+
Burning Light (3 Intellect points): You send a beam of light at a creature within long range and then tighten the beam
until it burns, inflicting 5 points of damage. Action.
@@ -10696,6 +10706,17 @@
Captivate With Starshine: For as long as you speak, you keep the attention of all level 2 or lower NPCs who can hear
you. If you also have the Enthrall ability, you can similarly captivate all level 3 NPCs. Action to initiate.
+Car Magic (3+ Intellect points): You can alter a magical ability you cast so it also affects the vehicle you're driving,
+as if it were a part of you. For example, if you're driving and you cast Hover on yourself, you and the car begin to
+float; if you cast Invisibility on yourself, you and the car turn invisible. Spells cast on a car this way tend to last
+only a few rounds before expiring (although the spell still lasts its full duration on you). The cost of Car Magic is
+added to the cost of the spell you're casting. In addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can use Effort to
+affect other creatures within the car; each level of Effort used in this way affects up to two additional creatures in
+the car. Enabler.
+
+The main reason to cast Hover on a moving car is to make awesome-looking jumps that would be impossible without ramps,
+magic, or Hollywood special effects.
+
Car Surfer: You can stand or move about on a moving vehicle (such as on the hood, on the roof, in the open door well,
etc.) with a reasonable expectation of not falling off. Unless the vehicle veers sharply, stops suddenly, or otherwise
engages in extreme maneuvers, standing or moving about on a moving vehicle is a routine task for you. If the vehicle
@@ -10894,6 +10915,10 @@
of online hackers and regular street criminals. These people are not necessarily your friends and might not be
trustworthy, but they owe you a favor. You and the GM should work out the details of your contacts. Enabler.
+Continuous Transfer: When you use either Drain Creature or Tap Currents to drain energy, you can transfer it to another
+creature within short range, restoring points to their Might or Speed Pools (or health for an NPC). This occurs
+seamlessly, as part of the same action. Enabler.
+
Contortionist (2 Speed points): You can wriggle free from bindings or squeeze through a tight spot. You are trained in
escaping. When you use an action to escape or move through a tight area, you can immediately use another action. You may
use this action only to move. Enabler.
@@ -10962,6 +10987,10 @@
usually a matter of the character applying quick thinking in the face of immediate danger. The ability doesn't rely on
supernatural means, but rather a practical act.)
+Countercharm (5 Intellect points): If you are affected by an unwanted ongoing magical condition or affliction (such as a
+curse, paralysis spell, withering hex, and so on) that gives you additional rolls to end it early, your rolls to end it
+early are eased by two steps until you break free. Enabler.
+
Countermeasures (4 Intellect points): You immediately end one ongoing effect (such as an effect created by a character
ability) within immediate range. Alternatively, you can use this as a defense action to cancel any incoming ability
targeted at you, or you can cancel any device or the effect of any device for 1d6 rounds. You must touch the effect or
@@ -11119,6 +11148,10 @@
duration for an additional minute. If you have the Scramble Machine or Disable Mechanisms ability (or an ability that
works similarly), when you apply a level of Effort to any of them, you gain an additional free level of Effort. Action.
+Deadeye: You inflict an additional 6 points of damage with any single-target attack spell cast through a firearm using
+Spell Bullet. If the attack spell doesn't inflict damage, you instead can modify the spell as if you had applied two
+levels of Intellect Effort to it. If you have the Iron Eye ability, you can exchange it for Trained Guncasting. Enabler.
+
Deadly Aim (3 Speed points): For the next minute, all ranged attacks you make inflict 2 additional points of damage.
Action to initiate.
@@ -11163,6 +11196,9 @@
Deep Water Guide: While underwater, any creature you choose that can see you has an asset on swimming tasks. Enabler.
+Deer in the Headlights: When you cast an attack spell while driving, you can modify the spell as if you had applied two
+levels of Intellect Effort to it. Enabler.
+
Defend All the Innocent: You protect everyone within immediate range whom you have designated as innocent with your
Designation ability. Speed defense rolls made by such creatures gain an asset. Enabler.
@@ -11523,6 +11559,11 @@
Echolocation: You are especially sensitive to sound and vibration, so much so that you can sense your environment within
a short distance regardless of your ability to see. Enabler.
+Eclipse (2 Intellect points): You drain the light from an immediate area within long range. Bright light (like a sunny
+day outdoors) becomes dim light, normal light (like inside a well-lit room) becomes very dim light, and anything darker
+becomes darkness. If you cast this spell on an object, the darkness moves with the object, and can be suppressed if it
+is enclosed in a light-proof container or wrapping. Action.
+
Effective Skill: Choose one noncombat skill when you gain this ability. You get a minor effect with that skill when you
roll a natural 14 or higher (the d20 shows "14" or more). You get a major effect with that skill when you roll a natural
19 or higher (the d20 shows "19" or higher). You can select this ability more than once. Each time you select it, you
@@ -12405,6 +12446,9 @@
Hardiness: You are trained in Might defense tasks. Enabler.
+Hasty Guncasting: You can make two gun attacks as a single action; one is a spell (using Spell Bullet) and the other is
+a normal gunshot. You can make these attacks in either order, but the second one is hindered by two steps. Enabler.
+
Have Spacesuit, Will Travel: Somehow or another, you became the legal owner of a fully functional and advanced
spacesuit. The spacesuit provides +1 Armor and, more important, allows you to survive in the vacuum of space using suit
reserves for up to twelve hours at a time with enough reaction mass to get around in zero gravity on jets of ionized gas
@@ -12454,6 +12498,9 @@
Heroic Monster Bane: When you inflict damage to creatures more than twice as large or massive as you, you inflict 3
additional points of damage. Enabler.
+Heroic Witch Bane: When you inflict damage to witches (or other intelligent creatures who cast spells), you inflict 3
+additional points of damage. Enabler.
+
Hidden Closet: The magic ally from your Bound Magic Creature ability can store items for you within its bound object,
including extra sets of clothing, tools, food, and so on. The interior of the object is, in effect, a 10-foot (3 m)
square pocket dimension that normally only the magic ally can access. Enabler.
@@ -12647,6 +12694,9 @@
points. If you roll a natural 20 and choose to deal damage instead of achieve a special major effect, you deal 5 extra
points of damage. Enabler.
+Improved Witch Bane: When you inflict damage to witches (or other intelligent creatures who cast spells), you inflict 3
+additional points of damage. Enabler.
+
Improvise (3 Intellect points): When you perform a task in which you are not trained, you can improvise to gain an asset
on the task. The asset might be a tool you cobble together, a sudden insight into overcoming a problem, or a rush of
dumb luck. Enabler. (Improvise can be used on a task a character has an inability in, but instead of gaining an asset,
@@ -12657,6 +12707,9 @@
friends would be damaged, you can choose to take up to half the number of points of damage they would otherwise take,
but only if you're not already impaired or debilitated. Enabler.
+Incapacitate (4 Intellect points): You use necromantic magic to make one creature in short range fall prone and be
+unable to take actions for one round. Action.
+
Incomparable Pilot: While on a starcraft you own or have a direct connection with, your Might Edge, Speed Edge, and
Intellect Edge increase by 1. When you make a recovery roll on a starcraft you're familiar with, you recover 5
additional points. Enabler.
@@ -12835,6 +12888,10 @@
round, which means that if you use Scratch Existence or Shred Existence, attacking each target along your path is eased
by two steps. Enabler.
+Iron Eye: You inflict an additional 3 points of damage with any single-target attack spell cast through a firearm using
+Spell Bullet. If the attack spell doesn't inflict damage, you instead can modify the spell as if you had applied a level
+of Intellect Effort to it. Enabler.
+
Iron Fist: Your unarmed attacks deal 4 points of damage. Enabler.
Iron Punch (5+ Intellect points): You magnetically pick up a metallic heavy object within short range and hurl it at
@@ -12970,6 +13027,9 @@
of a horse or a basilisk instead of a lizard, but doing so should require applying at least one level of Effort to the
change, and the character wouldn't gain any of the creature's magical abilities.
+Lend a Hand: If an ally attempts a magical task and fails, they can try again without spending Effort if you help them.
+You provide this advantage to your friend even if you are not trained in the task that they're retrying. Enabler.
+
Lethal Damage: Choose one of your existing attacks that inflicts points of damage (depending on your type and focus,
this might be a specific weapon, a special ability such as a blast of fire, or your unarmed attacks). When you hit with
that attack, you inflict an additional 5 points of damage. Enabler.
@@ -12991,8 +13051,16 @@
coercion or intimidation. During rests, you put friends and comrades at ease so much that they gain +1 to their recovery
rolls. Enabler.
+Library Life: When a problem needs solving, you may not know the solution, but you know where to look. You are trained
+in research. Enabler.
+
Life Lessons: Choose any two noncombat skills. You are trained in those skills. Enabler.
+Lightning Flash (4+ Intellect points): Lightning strikes within long range, filling an immediate area and inflicting 3
+points of damage on all affected creatures. Effort applied to one attack counts for all attacks against targets in the
+area of the flash. Even on an unsuccessful attack, a creature in the area still takes 1 point of damage. Your attack is
+eased against targets wearing, carrying, or made of a significant amount of metal. Action.
+
Like the Back of Your Hand: All tasks directly related to a starcraft that you own or have a direct connection with are
eased. Tasks include repair, refueling, finding a breach in the hull, finding a stowaway, and so on. The same goes for
any attack or defense rolls you make within the starcraft against enemy boarders, as well as any attack or defense rolls
@@ -13089,10 +13157,18 @@
Magic Training: You are trained in the basics of magic (including the operation of magic artifacts and cyphers) and can
attempt to understand and identify its properties. Enabler.
+Magical App Hacker: All magical app cyphers you use function at one level higher than normal. If given a week, you can
+tinker with one of your magical app cyphers, transforming it into another magical app cypher of the same type that you
+had in the past. The GM and player should collaborate to ensure that the transformation is logical—for example, a
+magical app that creates a fiery explosion probably can't be turned into a healing app. Enabler.
+
Magical Power Current (2+ Intellect points): You provide electricity to a device that runs on standard house current,
such as a laptop computer, circular saw, or microwave oven, allowing it to function as if plugged in for one hour. The
cost is 2 Intellect points plus 1 point per level of the device. Action.
+Magical Programmer: You are trained in crafting magical apps and in using (and exploiting) computer software. You know
+one or more computer languages well enough to write basic programs, and you are fluent in internet protocol. Enabler.
+
Magical Repertoire: The number of subtle cyphers you can bear at the same time increases by two. If you spend one hour
preparing your magic, you can fill any of your open cypher slots with subtle cyphers chosen randomly by the GM (this
hour can be part of a one-hour or ten-hour recovery action if you are awake for the entire time). As part of this
@@ -13151,6 +13227,9 @@
machine to create the bond, but afterward, there is no range limitation. This bond lasts for one week. You can bond with
only one machine at a time. Action to initiate.
+Master Magical Programmer: You are specialized in crafting magical apps and in using (and exploiting) computer software.
+Enabler.
+
Master of Unarmed Fighting Style: You are specialized in unarmed attacks. If you are already specialized in unarmed
attacks, you instead deal 2 additional points of damage with unarmed attacks. Enabler.
@@ -13231,6 +13310,9 @@
addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can choose to use Effort to extend the duration by one hour for
each level of Effort applied. Action to initiate.
+Mental Magic: When attempting a magic-based Might or Speed task, you can instead roll as if it were an Intellect action.
+This means that if you apply Effort, you spend points from your Intellect Pool and use your Intellect Edge. Enabler.
+
Mental Projection (6+ Intellect points): Your mind fully leaves your body and manifests anywhere you choose within
immediate range. Your projected mind can remain apart from your body for up to 24 hours. This effect ends early if your
Intellect Pool is reduced to 0 or if your projection touches your resting body.
@@ -13350,6 +13432,14 @@
for using Effort, you can choose to use Effort to increase the area (one level of Effort to fill a short area, two to
fill a long area, or three to fill a very long area). Action.
+Mist Form (4 Intellect points): You change into a cloud of mist for up to ten minutes, filling an immediate area. You
+gain an asset to sneaking tasks and Speed defense tasks, but you lose the benefit of any armor you wear. You can pass
+through any barrier that allows air to move through it (such as a fence, wire screen, cloth, or pipe), moving up to an
+immediate distance each round. You can't affect or be affected by normal matter, but energy attacks (like fire or
+explosions) and mental attacks still affect you. You cannot speak but can still use abilities that don't rely on human
+speech or affecting physical matter (other than yourself). If large portions of the mist are separated (such as behind a
+closed door) when you return to human form, you move one step down the damage track. Action to change or revert.
+
Mobile Fighter (3 Speed points): As part of your attack, you can leap on or over obstacles, swing from ropes, run along
narrow surfaces, or otherwise move around the battlefield at your normal speed as if such tasks were routine (difficulty
0). You can't use this ability if your Speed Effort costs are reduced from wearing armor. Enabler.
@@ -13401,6 +13491,17 @@
Monster Lore: You are trained in the names, habits, suspected lairs, and related topics regarding the monsters of your
world. You can make yourself understood in their languages (if they have one). Enabler.
+Moon Adaptation: You can survive indefinitely in a vacuum environment (such as the moon or space).
+
+Although Moon Adaptation protects you from the airless environment of the moon, people traveling with you aren't so
+lucky—unless you teleport directly to a pressurized location such as a moon base or an abandoned NASA vehicle.
+
+Moon Portal (6+ Intellect points): You instantaneously transmit yourself to any location on Earth, as long as moonlight
+is shining on you and on the spot you want to be. Alternatively, you can instantaneously transport yourself from Earth
+to the moon or back again. In addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can use Effort to bring other people
+with you; each level of Effort used in this way affects up to three additional targets. You must touch any additional
+targets. Action.
+
Moon Shape (4+ Intellect points): You change into a monstrous natural beast, such as a wolf, bear, or other terrestrial
creature, for up to one hour. If you try to change during daylight hours when you are not deep underground (or otherwise
away from the daylight), you must apply a level of Effort. In your new form, you add 8 points to your Might Pool, gain
@@ -13411,6 +13512,21 @@
and eat at least one substantial creature while in beast form, the penalty increases to –2 and affects all your rolls
for the next day. Action to change; action to revert.
+Moonbeam (1+ Intellect point): You emit a cone of pale, cool moonlight from your hand, illuminating up to a short
+distance with dim light, lasting for one minute. As your action or as part of the action of activating this ability, you
+can tighten the beam so it focuses on one creature, inflicting either 4 points of cold damage or 2 points of Intellect
+damage (ignores Armor), which immediately ends the spell. You automatically know if the struck creature is a
+shapechanger (such as a werewolf), although this doesn't tell you what kind of shapechanger they are or what their true
+form is. Action.
+
+Moonlight Barrage (4+ Intellect points): You call down dozens of rays of moonlight into an adjacent short area. All
+within the area take 4 points of damage from mystical cold and glow with faint moonlight equivalent to a candle for one
+minute (a creature can end this glow early as an action or by entering an area that moonlight cannot penetrate, such as
+a deep cave or a room with no windows). You automatically know if any creature in the area is a shapechanger (such as a
+werewolf), although this doesn't tell you what kind of shapechanger they are or what their true form is. If you apply
+Effort to increase the damage rather than to ease the task, you deal 2 additional points of damage per level of Effort
+(instead of 3 points); targets in the area take 1 point of damage even if you fail the attack roll. Action.
+
Mount: A level 3 creature serves you as a mount and follows your instructions. While you're mounted on it, the creature
can move and you can attack on your turn, which provides an asset to your attack. You and the GM must work out the
details of the creature, and you'll probably make rolls for it when it takes noncombat actions. The mount acts on your
@@ -13583,6 +13699,8 @@
a creature to boost yourself over something. If an obstacle would normally require a Might or Speed task to overcome,
such as swinging on a rope, balancing on a rope, or jumping over a hole, you are trained in that task. Enabler.
+One Hand on the Wheel: As an action, you can cast a one-action spell and attempt a driving task. Enabler.
+
One With the Wild (6 Intellect points): For the next hour, natural animals and plants within long range will not
knowingly harm you or those you designate. In addition, your Might Edge, Speed Edge, and Intellect Edge increase by 1,
and if you make any recovery rolls during this period, you recover twice as many points. Action to initiate.
@@ -13680,6 +13798,13 @@
Perfect Control: You no longer need to make a roll to use Beast Form or change into your normal form. You can change
back and forth as your action. When you return to your normal form, you no longer take a penalty to your rolls. Enabler.
+Perfect Parking Space (3 Intellect points): You can send your car into a pocket dimension that moves with you and is
+just large enough to hold it. Nobody other than you can perceive or access this space unless they have the ability to
+interact with transdimensional areas. The space is a part of you, so you can't use it to store the car if you and the
+car have more cyphers than your limit, a detonation cypher activated inside the car while it's in the space harms you,
+and so on. Storing or retrieving the car happens over one minute as it slowly (and visibly) vanishes or reappears; you
+can reduce this time to just one round if you succeed at a level 4 Intellect task. Action to initiate.
+
Perfect Speed Burst (6 Speed points): You can take two separate actions this round. Enabler.
Perfect Stranger (3 Intellect points): You alter your posture and way of speaking and make a small but real alteration
@@ -13698,6 +13823,14 @@
action, but others must expend exceptional ingenuity to prevent the illusion from regenerating even if it has apparently
been dispersed. Enabler.
+Petrify (6+ Intellect points): You slowly transform a creature within short range into lifeless stone. The target must
+be level 2 or lower. If your attack succeeds, the creature takes 6 points of damage and moves one step down the damage
+track as their flesh begins to mineralize. If the transformation is not interrupted by the end of your next turn, the
+creature fully becomes a harmless stone statue. You can cast this spell to restore a petrified target back into their
+living self. In addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can use Effort to increase the maximum level of the
+target. Thus, to petrify a level 6 target (four levels above the normal limit), you must apply four levels of Effort.
+Action.
+
Phase Detonation (2+ Might points): When you use Phase Sprint or Walk Through Walls, you can choose to significantly
damage normal matter around you with a blast of transdimensional energy when you first go into or come out of phase
(your choice). This detonation inflicts 4 points of damage that ignores Armor to all creatures and objects within
@@ -13764,6 +13897,9 @@
or something just as extreme, you are now immune to poisons, toxins, or any kind of particulate threat. You are not
immune to viruses, bacteria, or radiation. Enabler.
+Poison Touch (2 Intellect points): You touch a creature and lines of poison crawl through their skin. They take 3 points
+of Speed damage (ignores Armor) and are hindered on their next turn. Action.
+
Post-Apocalyptic Survivor: You are trained in stealth and Might defense tasks. Enabler.
Power Strike (3+ Might points): If you successfully attack a target, you knock it prone in addition to inflicting
@@ -13875,6 +14011,14 @@
movements, and any sounds you make for the next ten minutes. Anyone present at the location can see and hear you as if
you were there. However, you do not perceive through your projection. Action to initiate.
+Protective Instincts (6+ Might, Speed, or Intellect points): When engaging in combat to defend your coven or home, you
+can attack up to five different foes with a single action as long as they are within immediate range of each other. All
+the attacks must be the same sort of attack (melee, ranged, or spell), and the point cost of this ability is deducted
+from whichever Pool the attack uses. Pay the costs (if any) separately for each attack, and make a separate attack roll
+for each foe. Anything that modifies your attack or damage applies to all attacks. You remain limited by the amount of
+Effort you can apply to one action. In addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can use Effort to increase
+the number of foes you can attack, with one additional foe per level of Effort. Enabler.
+
Protective Wall (6+ Might points): When engaging in combat that directly relates to defending a community you are
associated with, you can attack up to five different foes as a single action as long as they are all within immediate
range. If you hit an attacker, they are pushed back an immediate distance. All of the attacks have to be the same sort
@@ -14071,6 +14215,16 @@
Read the Signs (4 Intellect points): You examine an area and learn precise, useful details about the past (if any
exist). You can ask the GM up to four questions about the immediate area; each requires its own roll. Action.
+Reading Decomposition (3 Intellect points): You gain knowledge about an area by reading energy released by decomposition
+and decay. You can ask the GM a single, matter-of-fact question about the location and get an answer if you succeed on
+the Intellect roll. "What was the last ritual performed in this room?" is a good example of a simple question. "Why was
+this room used for a ritual?" is not an appropriate question, because it has more to do with the mindset of whoever
+performed the ritual than with qualities of the room. Simple questions usually have a difficulty of 2, but technical
+questions or those that involve facts meant to be kept secret can have a much higher difficulty. Action.
+
+Unless an environment is absolutely sterilized, there are enough microbes, fungal spores, and other organic debris in an
+area to allow you to use Reading Decomposition.
+
Reading the Room (3 Intellect points): You gain knowledge about an area by speaking with dead spirits or reading
residual energies from the past. You can ask the GM a single, matter-of-fact question about the location and get an
answer if you succeed on the Intellect roll. "What killed the cattle in this barn?" is a good example of a simple
@@ -14159,6 +14313,9 @@
alien, high-technology, or otherwise mysterious machines. In addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can
use Effort to increase the target level that can be affected by 1. Action.
+Repeated Rituals: If you've successfully completed a ritual in the past, tasks for performing that ritual again are
+eased by two steps. Enabler
+
Repel Metal: By manipulating magnetism, you are trained in Speed defense tasks against any incoming attack that uses
metal. Enabler.
@@ -14261,6 +14418,10 @@
using Effort, you can choose to use Effort to affect more targets; each level of Effort applied affects two additional
targets. You must touch additional targets to affect them. Action to initiate.
+Rewind Rot: Your grasp on life and death energy means that you can heal—even from death—as long as your head, heart, and
+hands remain intact. One minute after descending a step on the damage track, you regain 2 Pool points. However, if you
+return from death, it is with a permanent 2-point reduction in your Intellect Pool. Enabler.
+
Ribbons of Dark Matter (2 Intellect points): For the next minute, dark matter condenses within an area within long range
that is no bigger than an immediate distance in diameter, manifesting as swirling ribbons. All tasks attempted by
creatures in the area are hindered, and leaving the area requires a creature's entire action to move. You can dismiss
@@ -14268,6 +14429,9 @@
Rider: You are trained in riding any kind of creature that serves as a mount, such as a noble warhorse. Enabler.
+Ritual Guidance: When you participate in a magical ritual with two or more members of your coven, ritual tasks for all
+participants are eased by two steps. Enabler.
+
Roaming Third Eye (3 Intellect points): When you use your Third Eye ability, you can place the sensor anywhere within
long range. In addition, until that ability ends, you can use an action to move the sensor anywhere within short range
of its starting position. Enabler.
@@ -14743,6 +14907,19 @@
range who is able to understand you. When they make a recovery roll, they must spend only half the normal amount of time
required to do so (minimum one action). Action.
+Spell Bullet: In your hands, a typical handgun or rifle never needs to be loaded because you can automatically conjure a
+standard bullet for it as part of your attack action with that weapon.
+
+Alternatively, instead of casting a spell in the normal manner, you can channel it through your handgun, firing it like
+a bullet. This is as loud as firing a normal bullet and uses the handgun's range (typically long) if that is longer than
+the spell's normal range. If the spell is an attack spell, instead of making an Intellect-based attack you make a
+Speed-based attack; assets and skill with guns apply to the attack, and you use your Speed Pool if you apply Effort to
+ease the attack. This means you use Intellect to cast the spell (and for applying Effort for additional effects or extra
+damage) and Speed for the attack roll (using Intellect Edge and Speed Edge for their respective Pools). Enabler.
+
+You can use Spell Bullet to cast a spell that affects multiple targets. This might look like you're firing multiple
+times or the one shot is passing through or ricocheting off each target.
+
Spellpay (1 Intellect point): You initiate a transaction with another person or business cashier within short range,
giving them an amount of money that you specify. The currency comes from cash in your possession, money in your account,
or a mix of both; the recipient receives this money in the same form as it came from you. For example, if you send
@@ -14753,6 +14930,15 @@
Spellpay can access any monetary account you use, such as a checking or savings account through a bank or credit union,
or a mobile payment service such as Apple Pay, PayPal, or Venmo
+Spells Have No Speed Limit: Any car you have driven for at least a minute responds to you like a well-trained robot,
+allowing you to mentally give it orders from a long distance away. This control includes any aspect of driving the car
+(such as steering, accelerating, and braking) and any moveable parts on the car (such as opening or closing the doors,
+hood, or trunk). The car takes actions on your turn, and you make rolls for it in combat or when it takes actions. You
+can only control one car at a time with this ability (although you could manually drive one car and magically control
+another car at the same time). If you are driving the car you're controlling with this ability, your driving tasks and
+extreme tricks with the car (such as jumping a ravine or other vehicle, spinning in the air, landing safely on another
+vehicle, and so on) are eased. Enabler.
+
Spin Attack (5+ Speed points): You stand still and make attacks against up to five foes, all as part of the same action
in one round. All of the attacks have to be the same sort of attack (melee or ranged). Make a separate attack roll for
each foe. You remain limited by the amount of Effort you can apply on one action. Anything that modifies your attack or
@@ -14788,6 +14974,11 @@
creature can pass through solid matter without hindrance, but solid energy barriers, such as magical fields of force,
keep it at bay.)
+Spore Cloud (1 Intellect point): You throw a handful of mushrooms that speed toward a target within long range. The
+attack inflicts 3 points of damage and envelops the target in a haze of toxic spores, which inflicts 1 additional point
+of damage per round (ignores Armor) for the next minute or until the target uses an action to wash the spores away.
+Action.
+
Spot Weakness: If a creature that you can see has a special weakness, such as a vulnerability to fire, a negative
modification to perception, or so on, you know what it is. (Ask and the GM will tell you.) Enabler.
@@ -14999,6 +15190,12 @@
witnessed in your life that's so over the top yet so convincing that, if you are successful, the foe is dazed for one
minute, during which time its tasks are hindered. Action.
+Tap Currents: You can draw energy from the earth itself into your body. If you concentrate and don't move from where
+you're standing for one minute, you restore 3 points to your Might or Speed Pool. Once you use this ability, you can't
+use it again until you've made a ten-hour recovery roll. If you have the Store Energy ability, you can instead use Tap
+Currents to add 3 points to your Siphon Pool. (This use of this ability is not limited to one use per ten-hour recovery
+roll.) Action to initiate.
+
Targeting Eye: You are trained in any physical ranged attack that is a character ability or comes from a device. For
example, you are trained when using an Onslaught force blast because it's a physical attack, but not when using an
Onslaught mindslice because it's a mental attack. Enabler.
@@ -15253,6 +15450,8 @@
Trained for Toughing It: Choose one noncombat skill that would be helpful for surviving after the apocalypse, such as
hunting, tracking, carpentry, or stealth. You are trained in that skill. Enabler.
+Trained Guncasting: You are trained in using guns (whether firing normal bullets or Spell Bullets). Enabler.
+
Trained Gunner: You can choose from one of two benefits. Either you are trained in using guns, or you have the Spray
ability (which costs 2 Speed points): If a weapon has the ability to fire rapid shots without reloading (usually called
a rapid-fire weapon, such as an automatic pistol), you can spray multiple shots around your target to increase the
@@ -15655,6 +15854,13 @@
solid surface) and can't move from their location until they use an action to break free. The target can still attack
and defend. Action for touch; enabler for weapon.
+Witch Bane: You inflict 1 additional point of damage with weapons. When you inflict damage to witches (or other
+intelligent creatures who cast spells), you inflict 3 additional points of damage. Enabler.
+
+Witch Lore: You are trained in the traditional names, habits, suspected lairs, and related topics regarding the witches
+of your world. You know enough of at least one quasi-magical language (such as Latin or Ancient Greek) that you can make
+yourself understood to them. Enabler.
+
Wooden Body (1+ Might points): You transform your body into living wood for ten minutes, which grants you several
benefits. You gain +1 to Armor and you are practiced in using your limbs as medium weapons. You need about one-tenth as
much air as a human. Hiding among trees or on a tree is eased. However, in your wooden form you move more stiffly than a
@@ -43304,14 +43510,11 @@
Tier 1:
-Magical Programmer: You are trained in crafting magical apps and in using (and exploiting) computer software. You know
-one or more computer languages well enough to write basic programs, and you are fluent in internet protocol. Enabler.
+Magical Programmer
Tier 2:
-App Tinkerer: If you spend at least one day tinkering with a magical app in your possession, it functions at one level
-higher than normal. This applies to all magical apps in your possession, but they retain this bonus only for you.
-Enabler.
+App Tinkerer
Connected
@@ -43321,15 +43524,11 @@
Confidence Artist
-Master Magical Programmer: You are specialized in crafting magical apps and in using (and exploiting) computer software.
-Enabler.
+Master Magical Programmer
Tier 4:
-Magical App Hacker: All magical app cyphers you use function at one level higher than normal. If given a week, you can
-tinker with one of your magical app cyphers, transforming it into another magical app cypher of the same type that you
-had in the past. The GM and player should collaborate to ensure that the transformation is logical—for example, a
-magical app that creates a fiery explosion probably can't be turned into a healing app. Enabler.
+Magical App Hacker
Tier 5:
@@ -43377,18 +43576,7 @@
Practiced With Guns
-Spell Bullet: In your hands, a typical handgun or rifle never needs to be loaded because you can automatically conjure a
-standard bullet for it as part of your attack action with that weapon.
-
-Alternatively, instead of casting a spell in the normal manner, you can channel it through your handgun, firing it like
-a bullet. This is as loud as firing a normal bullet and uses the handgun's range (typically long) if that is longer than
-the spell's normal range. If the spell is an attack spell, instead of making an Intellect-based attack you make a
-Speed-based attack; assets and skill with guns apply to the attack, and you use your Speed Pool if you apply Effort to
-ease the attack. This means you use Intellect to cast the spell (and for applying Effort for additional effects or extra
-damage) and Speed for the attack roll (using Intellect Edge and Speed Edge for their respective Pools). Enabler.
-
-You can use Spell Bullet to cast a spell that affects multiple targets. This might look like you're firing multiple
-times or the one shot is passing through or ricocheting off each target.
+Spell Bullet
Tier 2:
@@ -43398,36 +43586,27 @@
Ability Choice: Choose either Iron Eye or Trained Guncasting as your tier 3 ability.
-Iron Eye: You inflict an additional 3 points of damage with any single-target attack spell cast through a firearm using
-Spell Bullet. If the attack spell doesn't inflict damage, you instead can modify the spell as if you had applied a level
-of Intellect Effort to it. Enabler.
+Iron Eye
-Trained Guncasting: You are trained in using guns (whether firing normal bullets or Spell Bullets). Enabler.
+Trained Guncasting
Tier 4:
-Hasty Guncasting: You can make two gun attacks as a single action; one is a spell (using Spell Bullet) and the other is
-a normal gunshot. You can make these attacks in either order, but the second one is hindered by two steps. Enabler.
+Hasty Guncasting
Tier 5:
-Bullet Jaunt (5 Intellect points): Every Spell Bullet you fire leaves a faint path of magic that you can see and follow.
-Choose the path of one Spell Bullet within long range that you fired in the past minute; you instantly teleport to any
-place you want along its path. Alternatively, you can use Spell Bullet to conjure a standard bullet, fire it at a target
-within gun range, and jaunt as part of the action of firing the bullet. Action to teleport along an existing path or to
-fire a bullet and teleport along its path.
+Bullet Jaunt
Tier 6:
Ability Choice: Choose either Deadeye or Special Shot as your tier 6 ability.
-Deadeye: You inflict an additional 6 points of damage with any single-target attack spell cast through a firearm using
-Spell Bullet. If the attack spell doesn't inflict damage, you instead can modify the spell as if you had applied two
-levels of Intellect Effort to it. If you have the Iron Eye ability, you can exchange it for Trained Guncasting. Enabler.
+Deadeye
Special Shot
Hunts Witches
You know enough about magic to mistrust anyone who uses it, especially witches—people who study ancient rituals, make
pacts with evil creatures, and use their power for personal gain. Warped by their abilities, they are dangerous threats
@@ -43465,12 +43644,9 @@
Tier 1:
-Witch Bane: You inflict 1 additional point of damage with weapons. When you inflict damage to witches (or other
-intelligent creatures who cast spells), you inflict 3 additional points of damage. Enabler.
+Witch Bane
-Witch Lore: You are trained in the traditional names, habits, suspected lairs, and related topics regarding the witches
-of your world. You know enough of at least one quasi-magical language (such as Latin or Ancient Greek) that you can make
-yourself understood to them. Enabler.
+Witch Lore
Tier 2:
@@ -43480,16 +43656,13 @@
Ability Choice: Choose either Improved Witch Bane or Misdirect as your tier 3 ability.
-Improved Witch Bane: When you inflict damage to witches (or other intelligent creatures who cast spells), you inflict 3
-additional points of damage. Enabler.
+Improved Witch Bane
Misdirect
Tier 4:
-Countercharm (5 Intellect points): If you are affected by an unwanted ongoing magical condition or affliction (such as a
-curse, paralysis spell, withering hex, and so on) that gives you additional rolls to end it early, your rolls to end it
-early are eased by two steps until you break free. Enabler.
+Countercharm
Tier 5:
@@ -43501,10 +43674,9 @@
Hard to Kill
-Heroic Witch Bane: When you inflict damage to witches (or other intelligent creatures who cast spells), you inflict 3
-additional points of damage. Enabler.
+Heroic Witch Bane
Inks Spells on Skin
Your enchanted heritage is etched upon you. Studying strange formulas, mystic runes, and magical glyphs to learn spells
is one thing. Making spells truly a part of you is another, but that's exactly what you do when you apply magical inks
@@ -43547,23 +43719,13 @@
Fleet of Foot
-Poison Touch (2 Intellect points): You touch a creature and lines of poison crawl through their skin. They take 3 points
-of Speed damage (ignores Armor) and are hindered on their next turn. Action.
+Poison Touch
Tier 2:
-Eclipse (2 Intellect points): You drain the light from an immediate area within long range. Bright light (like a sunny
-day outdoors) becomes dim light, normal light (like inside a well-lit room) becomes very dim light, and anything darker
-becomes darkness. If you cast this spell on an object, the darkness moves with the object, and can be suppressed if it
-is enclosed in a light-proof container or wrapping. Action.
+Eclipse
-Mist Form (4 Intellect points): You change into a cloud of mist for up to ten minutes, filling an immediate area. You
-gain an asset to sneaking tasks and Speed defense tasks, but you lose the benefit of any armor you wear. You can pass
-through any barrier that allows air to move through it (such as a fence, wire screen, cloth, or pipe), moving up to an
-immediate distance each round. You can't affect or be affected by normal matter, but energy attacks (like fire or
-explosions) and mental attacks still affect you. You cannot speak but can still use abilities that don't rely on human
-speech or affecting physical matter (other than yourself). If large portions of the mist are separated (such as behind a
-closed door) when you return to human form, you move one step down the damage track. Action to change or revert.
+Mist Form
Tier 3:
@@ -43571,10 +43733,7 @@
Command
-Lightning Flash (4+ Intellect points): Lightning strikes within long range, filling an immediate area and inflicting 3
-points of damage on all affected creatures. Effort applied to one attack counts for all attacks against targets in the
-area of the flash. Even on an unsuccessful attack, a creature in the area still takes 1 point of damage. Your attack is
-eased against targets wearing, carrying, or made of a significant amount of metal. Action.
+Lightning Flash
Outwit
@@ -43582,8 +43741,7 @@
Elemental Protection
-Incapacitate (4 Intellect points): You use necromantic magic to make one creature in short range fall prone and be
-unable to take actions for one round. Action.
+Incapacitate
Tier 5:
@@ -43597,17 +43755,11 @@
Divide Your Mind
-Petrify (6+ Intellect points): You slowly transform a creature within short range into lifeless stone. The target must
-be level 2 or lower. If your attack succeeds, the creature takes 6 points of damage and moves one step down the damage
-track as their flesh begins to mineralize. If the transformation is not interrupted by the end of your next turn, the
-creature fully becomes a harmless stone statue. You can cast this spell to restore a petrified target back into their
-living self. In addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can use Effort to increase the maximum level of the
-target. Thus, to petrify a level 6 target (four levels above the normal limit), you must apply four levels of Effort.
-Action.
+Petrify
Summon Demon
Is A Car Wizard
Your skill behind the wheel is legendary, combining natural talent and specialized magic to perform stunts and tricks
that are impossible for regular people. Nothing beats the feel of wind in your hair, except maybe the intense purr of a
@@ -43643,18 +43795,9 @@
Tier 2:
-One Hand on the Wheel: As an action, you can cast a one-action spell and attempt a driving task. Enabler.
-
-Car Magic (3+ Intellect points): You can alter a magical ability you cast so it also affects the vehicle you're driving,
-as if it were a part of you. For example, if you're driving and you cast Hover on yourself, you and the car begin to
-float; if you cast Invisibility on yourself, you and the car turn invisible. Spells cast on a car this way tend to last
-only a few rounds before expiring (although the spell still lasts its full duration on you). The cost of Car Magic is
-added to the cost of the spell you're casting. In addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can use Effort to
-affect other creatures within the car; each level of Effort used in this way affects up to two additional creatures in
-the car. Enabler.
+One Hand on the Wheel
-The main reason to cast Hover on a moving car is to make awesome-looking jumps that would be impossible without ramps,
-magic, or Hollywood special effects.
+Car Magic
Tier 3:
@@ -43662,14 +43805,7 @@
Expert Driver
-1Perfect Parking Space (3 Intellect points):
-
-You can send your car into a pocket dimension that moves with you and is just large enough to hold it. Nobody other than
-you can perceive or access this space unless they have the ability to interact with transdimensional areas. The space is
-a part of you, so you can't use it to store the car if you and the car have more cyphers than your limit, a detonation
-cypher activated inside the car while it's in the space harms you, and so on. Storing or retrieving the car happens over
-one minute as it slowly (and visibly) vanishes or reappears; you can reduce this time to just one round if you succeed
-at a level 4 Intellect task. Action to initiate.
+Perfect Parking Space
Tier 4:
@@ -43677,28 +43813,17 @@
Tier 5:
-Deer in the Headlights: When you cast an attack spell while driving, you can modify the spell as if you had applied two
-levels of Intellect Effort to it. Enabler.
+Deer in the Headlights
Tier 6:
Ability Choice: Choose either Spells Have No Speed Limit or Trick Driver as your tier 6 ability.
-Spells Have No Speed Limit: Any car you have driven for at least a minute responds to you like a well-trained robot,
-allowing you to mentally give it orders from a long distance away. This control
-
-includes any aspect of driving the car (such as steering, accelerating, and braking) and any moveable parts on the car
-(such as opening or closing the doors, hood, or trunk). The car takes actions on your turn, and you make rolls for it in
-combat or when it takes actions. You can only control one car at a time with this ability (although you could manually
-drive one car and magically
-
-control another car at the same time). If you are driving the car you're controlling with this ability, your driving
-tasks and extreme tricks with the car (such as jumping a ravine or other vehicle, spinning in the air, landing safely on
-another vehicle, and so on) are eased. Enabler.
+Spells Have No Speed Limit
Trick Driver
Learned From the Classics
Magic comes intuitively to some people, but you've always had to work a bit harder. Luckily, you find that research
comes naturally. You know what questions to ask; you know which books, websites, or professionals will have the answers.
@@ -43726,8 +43851,7 @@
Enhanced Intellect
-Library Life: When a problem needs solving, you may not know the solution, but you know where to look. You are trained
-in research. Enabler.
+Library Life
Tier 2:
@@ -43739,8 +43863,7 @@
Enhanced Intellect Edge
-Repeated Rituals: If you've successfully completed a ritual in the past, tasks for performing that ritual again are
-eased by two steps. Enabler
+Repeated Rituals
Tier 4:
@@ -43756,10 +43879,9 @@
Greater Enhanced Intellect
-Mental Magic: When attempting a magic-based Might or Speed task, you can instead roll as if it were an Intellect action.
-This means that if you apply Effort, you spend points from your Intellect Pool and use your Intellect Edge. Enabler.
+Mental Magic
Practices Moon Magic
The moon is a powerful force on the world, in terms of both science and magic. She hangs overhead like a watchful eye,
makes creatures act strangely, represents cycles of time, and causes the ebb and flow of the tides. To you, she is a
@@ -43792,12 +43914,7 @@
Tier 1:
-Moonbeam (1+ Intellect point): You emit a cone of pale, cool moonlight from your hand, illuminating up to a short
-distance with dim light, lasting for one minute. As your action or as part of the action of activating this ability, you
-can tighten the beam so it focuses on one creature, inflicting either 4 points of cold damage or 2 points of Intellect
-damage (ignores Armor), which immediately ends the spell. You automatically know if the struck creature is a
-shapechanger (such as a werewolf), although this doesn't tell you what kind of shapechanger they are or what their true
-form is. Action.
+Moonbeam
Tier 2:
@@ -43814,29 +43931,15 @@
Spur Effort
-Moon Adaptation: You can survive indefinitely in a vacuum environment (such as the moon or space).
-
-Although Moon Adaptation protects you from the airless environment of the moon, people traveling with you aren't so
-lucky—unless you teleport directly to a pressurized location such as a moon base or an abandoned NASA vehicle.
+Moon Adaptation
Tier 4:
-Moonlight Barrage (4+ Intellect points): You call down dozens of rays of moonlight into an adjacent short area. All
-within the area take 4 points of damage from mystical cold and glow with faint moonlight equivalent to a candle for one
-minute (a creature can end this glow early as an action or by entering an area that moonlight cannot penetrate, such as
-a deep cave or a room with no windows). You automatically know if any creature in the area is a shapechanger (such as a
-
-werewolf), although this doesn't tell you what kind of shapechanger they are or what their true form is. If you apply
-Effort to increase the damage rather than to ease the task, you deal 2 additional points of damage per level of Effort
-(instead of 3 points); targets in the area take 1 point of damage even if you fail the attack roll. Action.
+Moonlight Barrage
Tier 5:
-Moon Portal (6+ Intellect points): You instantaneously transmit yourself to any location on Earth, as long as moonlight
-is shining on you and on the spot you want to be. Alternatively, you can instantaneously transport yourself from Earth
-to the moon or back again. In addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can use Effort to bring other people
-with you; each level of Effort used in this way affects up to three additional targets. You must touch any additional
-targets. Action.
+Moon Portal
Tier 6:
@@ -43894,18 +43997,11 @@
Tier 4:
-Ritual Guidance: When you participate in a magical ritual with two or more members of your coven, ritual tasks for all
-participants are eased by two steps. Enabler
+Ritual Guidance
Tier 5:
-Protective Instincts (6+ Might, Speed, or Intellect points): When engaging in combat to defend your coven or home, you
-can attack up to five different foes with a single action as long as they are within immediate range of each other. All
-the attacks must be the same sort of attack (melee, ranged, or spell), and the point cost of this ability is deducted
-from whichever Pool the attack uses. Pay the costs (if any) separately for each attack, and make a separate attack roll
-for each foe. Anything that modifies your attack or damage applies to all attacks. You remain limited by the amount of
-Effort you can apply to one action. In addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can use Effort to increase
-the number of foes you can attack, with one additional foe per level of Effort. Enabler.
+Protective Instincts
Tier 6:
@@ -43942,8 +44038,7 @@
Tier 1:
-Lend a Hand: If an ally attempts a magical task and fails, they can try again without spending Effort if you help them.
-You provide this advantage to your friend even if you are not trained in the task that they're retrying. Enabler.
+Lend a Hand
Tier 2:
@@ -43955,11 +44050,7 @@
Buddy System
-Tap Currents: You can draw energy from the earth itself into your body. If you concentrate and don't move from where
-you're standing for one minute, you restore 3 points to your Might or Speed Pool. Once you use this ability, you can't
-use it again until you've made a ten-hour recovery roll. If you have the Store Energy ability, you can instead use Tap
-Currents to add 3 points to your Siphon Pool. (This use of this ability is not limited to one use per ten-hour recovery
-roll.) Action to initiate.
+Tap Currents
Tier 4:
@@ -43975,13 +44066,11 @@
Explosive Release
-Continuous Transfer: When you use either Drain Creature or Tap Currents to drain energy, you can transfer it to another
-creature within short range, restoring points to their Might or Speed Pools (or health for an NPC). This occurs
-seamlessly, as part of the same action. Enabler.
+Continuous Transfer
Drain at a Distance
Turns Decay to Growth
You're comfortable with decomposition: the bacteria and fungi that break down organic material are living creatures, and
you coax magic from the interplay of life and death. To you, rot isn't cause for revulsion—it's an opportunity to build
@@ -44012,10 +44101,7 @@
Wilderness Lore
-Spore Cloud (1 Intellect point): You throw a handful of mushrooms that speed toward a target within long range. The
-attack inflicts 3 points of damage and envelops the target in a haze of toxic spores, which inflicts 1 additional point
-of damage per round (ignores Armor) for the next minute or until the target uses an action to wash the spores away.
-Action.
+Spore Cloud
Tier 2:
@@ -44025,15 +44111,7 @@
Ability Choice: Choose either Reading Decomposition or both Grasping Foliage and Necromancy at tier 3.
-Reading Decomposition (3 Intellect points): You gain knowledge about an area by reading energy released by decomposition
-and decay. You can ask the GM a single, matter-of-fact question about the location and get an answer if you succeed on
-the Intellect roll. "What was the last ritual performed in this room?" is a good example of a simple question. "Why was
-this room used for a ritual?" is not an appropriate question, because it has more to do with the mindset of whoever
-performed the ritual than with qualities of the room. Simple questions usually have a difficulty of 2, but technical
-questions or those that involve facts meant to be kept secret can have a much higher difficulty. Action.
-
-Unless an environment is absolutely sterilized, there are enough microbes, fungal spores, and other organic debris in an
-area to allow you to use Reading Decomposition.
+Reading Decomposition
Grasping Foliage
@@ -44046,9 +44124,7 @@
Greater Necromancy
-Rewind Rot: Your grasp on life and death energy means that you can heal—even from death—as long as your head, heart, and
-hands remain intact. One minute after descending a step on the damage track, you regain 2 Pool points. However, if you
-return from death, it is with a permanent 2-point reduction in your Intellect Pool. Enabler.
+Rewind Rot
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4\. You volunteered because you knew your inherent resistance to magic would be useful to the group.
-### FOCI AND CHARACTER ABILITIES
+##### FOCI AND CHARACTER ABILITIES
This section presents new foci that can be used as-is in most modern fantasy campaigns. Each of them has an expanded
description with more story details than the foci in the Cypher System Rulebook (which have short, broad descriptions
suitable for other genres). The GM and player should adjust these details to suit the specific campaign they'll be
playing.
-Codes Magic Apps
+###### Codes Magic Apps
You are a maker, a crafter, but you use a unique combination of code and magic instead of wood, steel, or circuit
boards. Like anyone who's spent a lot of time working on a computer, you've learned some strange secrets, not all of
@@ -43542,7 +43542,7 @@
Usurp Cypher
-Conjures Bullets
+###### Conjures Bullets
You blend sorcery and firearms into an amazing mix of magic and technology. Bullets and spells are almost
interchangeable to you; your magic has a firearm motif and you cast using your gun. You might be a trick-shot sorcerer,
@@ -43606,7 +43606,7 @@
Special Shot
-Hunts Witches
+###### Hunts Witches
You know enough about magic to mistrust anyone who uses it, especially witches—people who study ancient rituals, make
pacts with evil creatures, and use their power for personal gain. Warped by their abilities, they are dangerous threats
@@ -43676,7 +43676,7 @@
Heroic Witch Bane
-Inks Spells on Skin
+###### Inks Spells on Skin
Your enchanted heritage is etched upon you. Studying strange formulas, mystic runes, and magical glyphs to learn spells
is one thing. Making spells truly a part of you is another, but that's exactly what you do when you apply magical inks
@@ -43759,7 +43759,7 @@
Summon Demon
-Is A Car Wizard
+###### Is A Car Wizard
Your skill behind the wheel is legendary, combining natural talent and specialized magic to perform stunts and tricks
that are impossible for regular people. Nothing beats the feel of wind in your hair, except maybe the intense purr of a
@@ -43823,7 +43823,7 @@
Trick Driver
-Learned From the Classics
+###### Learned From the Classics
Magic comes intuitively to some people, but you've always had to work a bit harder. Luckily, you find that research
comes naturally. You know what questions to ask; you know which books, websites, or professionals will have the answers.
@@ -43881,7 +43881,7 @@
Mental Magic
-Practices Moon Magic
+###### Practices Moon Magic
The moon is a powerful force on the world, in terms of both science and magic. She hangs overhead like a watchful eye,
makes creatures act strangely, represents cycles of time, and causes the ebb and flow of the tides. To you, she is a
@@ -43949,7 +43949,7 @@
True Senses
-Steers The Coven
+###### Steers The Coven
Magic is strongest when wielded by a community. The strength of a community is derived from the strength of its leader,
and you've taken on the role. Maybe you were chosen, or maybe you volunteered. Maybe you have an official title and
@@ -44011,7 +44011,7 @@
Drawing on Life's Experiences
-Transmits Energy
+###### Transmits Energy
Magic is often compared to electromagnetism: it's an invisible and ubiquitous force that holds everything together.
Magic runs through every living creature, the ground, and even the air around us. You can sense—and influence—the flow
@@ -44070,7 +44070,7 @@
Drain at a Distance
-Turns Decay to Growth
+###### Turns Decay to Growth
You're comfortable with decomposition: the bacteria and fungi that break down organic material are living creatures, and
you coax magic from the interplay of life and death. To you, rot isn't cause for revulsion—it's an opportunity to build

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rather than to ease the task, you deal 2 additional points of damage per level of Effort (instead of 3 points); targets
in the area take 1 point of damage even if you fail the attack roll. Action.
- Bolster Illusion (2+ Intellect points): You give one of your visual illusions a limited physical reality that viewers
+Bolster Illusion (2+ Intellect points): You give one of your visual illusions a limited physical reality that viewers
can smell, taste, hear, and feel. This effect is bound to that illusion and acts appropriate to the illusion itself. For
example, it can make the illusion of a brick wall feel like brick, the illusion of a person smell like perfume and able
to open a door, and the illusion of a fireplace hot to the touch.
@@ -19791,7 +19791,7 @@
falls from a higher position onto the character. Sometimes the falling block is made to exactly fit a trapped corridor
so that triggering the trap makes the area impassible.
- A less lethal variant drops a large amount of sand or dirt, inflicting 3 points of ambient damage (ignores Armor).
+A less lethal variant drops a large amount of sand or dirt, inflicting 3 points of ambient damage (ignores Armor).
Another variant releases oil (perhaps burning) or marbles, inflicting 3 points of ambient damage and making the area
difficult terrain.
@@ -19852,7 +19852,7 @@
A floor variant is a small trapdoor over a closed compartment, which mangles the character's foot when they step on the
trapdoor, reducing their movement speed by half.
- Another variant is a needle trap attached to a small peephole or spyhole in a door or wall. The trap springs when the
+Another variant is a needle trap attached to a small peephole or spyhole in a door or wall. The trap springs when the
character touches the area around the hole (even a slight touch with their face as they look is sufficient), inflicting
lasting damage to the character's eye and partially blinding them. A gentler variant traps the character's limb in glue
instead of inflicting damage. The character's extremity might be glued to the hole, or they may be able to pull free but
@@ -21204,7 +21204,7 @@
These modifiers are cumulative, so trying to view a level 4 target who the user knows only by name (+1 step), is
unwilling (+1 step), and is 20 miles away (+2 steps) is a difficulty 8 task.
- The crystal shows the creature or area for one minute before the image becomes muddled and the artifact must be
+The crystal shows the creature or area for one minute before the image becomes muddled and the artifact must be
activated again.
In addition to the normal options for using Effort, the user can choose to apply a level of Effort to open two-way
@@ -21290,7 +21290,7 @@
Form: Burlap bag containing a handful of large reptilian teeth
- Effect: If a tooth is drawn from the bag and cast upon the earth, a dragontooth warrior appears, ready to fight for the
+Effect: If a tooth is drawn from the bag and cast upon the earth, a dragontooth warrior appears, ready to fight for the
user for up to ten minutes before going their own way. The user can draw several teeth at once from the bag, but each
tooth drawn requires a separate depletion roll.
@@ -24073,7 +24073,7 @@
###### Graser array
- level 5 (15)
+level 5 (15)
Exorbitant
@@ -24512,7 +24512,7 @@
level 4 (12)
- Very Expensive
+Very Expensive
Not armor; belt generates an almost transparent force field to surround the user for up to one hour, providing +1 Armor.
Once used, must be recharged for several hours.
@@ -24598,7 +24598,7 @@
level 1 (3)
- Inexpensive
+Inexpensive
Provides light where pointed within short range for a few hours before requiring new batteries/a charge.
@@ -25112,7 +25112,7 @@
###### Auton
- level 1 (3)
+level 1 (3)
Moderate
@@ -25128,7 +25128,7 @@
level 2 (6)
- Expensive
+Expensive
Treat as a level 2 follower, which allows the auton modifications in up to two tasks, depending on the particular aide.
@@ -25163,7 +25163,7 @@
Exorbitant
- As auton, but one modification is always in attacks, which means when helping a target to make an attack, the target
+As auton, but one modification is always in attacks, which means when helping a target to make an attack, the target
eases the task by two steps. However, warrior autons usually attack autonomously as level 3 entities with a ranged or
melee weapon that inflicts 5 points of damage.
@@ -25523,7 +25523,7 @@
###### Shotgun
- level 3 (9)
+level 3 (9)
Expensive
@@ -25533,7 +25533,7 @@
level 3 (9)
- Very Expensive
+Very Expensive
Heavy weapon (6 damage, both hands), long range.
@@ -25567,7 +25567,7 @@
level 3 (9)
- Very Expensive
+Very Expensive
Handheld device that fires attached probe at target within 9 m (30 feet); medium weapon (4 points of electrical damage
and on a failed Might defense roll, target is stunned for 1 round, losing their next action).
@@ -25594,7 +25594,7 @@
###### Laser/photon pistol
- level 3 (9)
+level 3 (9)
Expensive
@@ -25620,7 +25620,7 @@
###### Vacuum rifle, assault
- level 3 (9)
+level 3 (9)
Very Expensive
@@ -25944,7 +25944,7 @@
##### DRIVERLESS VEHICLES
- If the rider, driver, or pilot activates self-driving as part of another action, riding, driving, and piloting tasks
+If the rider, driver, or pilot activates self-driving as part of another action, riding, driving, and piloting tasks
are automatically completed (or failed) according to the vehicle's level, though all such self-driving tasks are
hindered. However, the pilot is free to engage in other actions as the vehicle maneuvers to the best of its ability.
@@ -25954,7 +25954,7 @@
##### LOOKING FOR MORE VEHICLE OPTIONS
- A representative cross section of vehicles is provided. If you're looking for something that isn't noted, use something
+A representative cross section of vehicles is provided. If you're looking for something that isn't noted, use something
close and adapt the listing.
Also note that unless a particular listing is already indicated as a luxury or sport version, most vehicles can be
@@ -26157,7 +26157,7 @@
level 5 (15)
- Exorbitant
+Exorbitant
Treaded, all-terrain wheels support a completely enclosed interior habitat with five to ten interior chambers arranged
either to house one or more families, support scientific research, exploration, spying, or configured for some other
@@ -26510,7 +26510,7 @@
###### Tank
- level 4 (12)
+level 4 (12)
Exorbitant
@@ -26890,7 +26890,7 @@
level 5 (15)
- Priceless As corvette spacecraft, but four times as large, allowing four times the crew and ten weapon systems
+Priceless As corvette spacecraft, but four times as large, allowing four times the crew and ten weapon systems
(including two superior weapon systems). Possesses superior defenses. Often utilized to escort larger vessels in a space
fleet or battle group and defend them against swarms of smaller attackers. Includes bays for two fireteams of six
microcapsule fighters (darts).
@@ -26962,7 +26962,7 @@
level 2 (6)
- Exorbitant
+Exorbitant
A small double-occupant starship with two weapon systems that fire blasters. Minimum size vehicle capable of FTL
travel.
@@ -27485,12 +27485,12 @@
Immediate Posthuman Upgrades: As part of character creation, PCs are given the options presented hereafter because the
setting demands it. Narrative options include (but are not limited to):
- • PCs are part of a program designed to adapt them to being able to survive and thrive in conditions other than the 1
+• PCs are part of a program designed to adapt them to being able to survive and thrive in conditions other than the 1
G, 1 atmosphere, oxygenated, Goldilocks environment of the Earth.
• PCs begin their career as super-soldiers to fight aliens or to serve as corporate spies.
- • PCs serve as long-lived guardians to watch over a generation ship hurtling at slower-than-light speeds between the
+• PCs serve as long-lived guardians to watch over a generation ship hurtling at slower-than-light speeds between the
stars.
• PCs are children of a far-future civilization that routinely upgrades its citizens.
@@ -27505,7 +27505,7 @@
• PCs are kidnapped by aliens or conglomerate operatives, and upgraded—with some command-andcontrol circuits also
installed—to serve some specific purpose.
- • PCs learn a "new science," allowing them to tap cosmic energies other creatures are unaware of.
+• PCs learn a "new science," allowing them to tap cosmic energies other creatures are unaware of.
##### POSTHUMAN PACKAGES
@@ -29816,7 +29816,7 @@
• Stands Like a Bastion
- • Throws With Deadly Accuracy
+• Throws With Deadly Accuracy
• Travels Through Time
@@ -30406,7 +30406,7 @@
###### Very Expensive
- Elegant cloak or coat
+Elegant cloak or coat
Royal ensemble
@@ -45068,7 +45068,7 @@
A corrupt mage knows many spells, such as the following:
- • Armor: Covers a creature with ugly scales, granting them +3 to Armor for an hour.
+• Armor: Covers a creature with ugly scales, granting them +3 to Armor for an hour.
• Madness: Wracks the brain of one creature within short range for one hour, reducing them to a babbling catatonic state
in which they can't recognize friend or foe. If disturbed or harmed, the creature is likely to lash out with lethal
@@ -45183,7 +45183,7 @@
focuses on a single target, treat the attack as a level 10 attack that inflicts 14 points of damage, or 6 points even on
a successful Speed defense roll.
- Self-repair mechanisms allow the creature to regain 2 points of health per round.
+Self-repair mechanisms allow the creature to regain 2 points of health per round.
Interaction: If communication can be opened up through a cybrid's haze of pain, it might be possible to temporarily wake
the consciousness of the human remnant inside. However, that remnant consciousness might not be happy to discover what
@@ -45505,7 +45505,7 @@
They can also call on a variety of other magical abilities that mimic the effect of any cypher of level 5 or
lower—usually destructive, painful, and transformative effects.
- A demon lord automatically regains 3 points of health per round. They typically have the following abilities:
+A demon lord automatically regains 3 points of health per round. They typically have the following abilities:
• Change Shape: The demon lord can take the form of a human or similar humanoid as its action, or return to its regular
shape. When so changed, its disguise is nearly impenetrable without special knowledge. As a human, the demon lord is a
@@ -47604,7 +47604,7 @@
or make a Might defense roll. On a failure, they take 5 points of ambient damage as their flesh partly mineralizes. If
the character is killed by this damage, they are turned to stone.
- Some gorgons carry a couple of cyphers and perhaps an artifact that they can use in combat.
+Some gorgons carry a couple of cyphers and perhaps an artifact that they can use in combat.
Interaction: Bitterness consumes gorgons. They lead lonely lives, cut off from everyone they have loved. Negotiating
with one would be something of a feat.
@@ -48131,7 +48131,7 @@
through the crumbling structure at a considerable distance, waiting for them to take a rest or become otherwise
distracted before attacking.
- Loot: Hydras sometimes collect cyphers and artifacts in their lair, or failing that, they guard something of value.
+Loot: Hydras sometimes collect cyphers and artifacts in their lair, or failing that, they guard something of value.
GM intrusion: The character reacts poorly to the poison in the air or a bite and goes intonhelpless convulsions for one
round if they fail a Might defense task.
@@ -48688,10 +48688,10 @@
Combat: A lich can shoot blasts of necromantic energy that inflict 8 points of damage on a target and 4 points on any
creature within immediate range of the target. A lich knows many spells, such as the following:
- • Animate guards: Animate ten corpses as skeletons or zombies, which obey the lich for one hour before turning back
+• Animate guards: Animate ten corpses as skeletons or zombies, which obey the lich for one hour before turning back
into corpses.
- • Armor: Gain +5 Armor for one hour.
+• Armor: Gain +5 Armor for one hour.
• Death: Inflict 8 points of damage on a creature within short range; if the creature fails a Might defense roll, it
also moves two steps down the damage track.
@@ -52733,7 +52733,7 @@
of crafty bandits has managed to train a couple of wyverns as mounts and use them as flying cavalry for their troops on
the ground.
- Loot: Wyverns do not collect treasure, but their nest might have a few cyphers from previous victims. If carefully
+Loot: Wyverns do not collect treasure, but their nest might have a few cyphers from previous victims. If carefully
extracted, an intact venom gland from a dead wyvern can be used to poison one weapon (if sold, it is the equivalent of
an expensive item).
@@ -53214,7 +53214,7 @@
relying on strength (such as climbing and jumping) are eased by two steps. However, their Speed defense is hindered. A
raging berserker fights only with melee weapons and won't retreat from battle.
- Interaction: Berserkers are the elites of some warrior cultures and enjoy physical competitions such as wrestling,
+Interaction: Berserkers are the elites of some warrior cultures and enjoy physical competitions such as wrestling,
throwing heavy items, and feasting. They dislike weak and cowardly folk, and do not tolerate insults to their strength
or honor.
@@ -53569,7 +53569,7 @@
Dwarf leaders are usually officers or priests.
- Interaction: Dwarves are proud and hardworking, but they tend to be stubborn, gruff, and unforgiving of offenses to
+Interaction: Dwarves are proud and hardworking, but they tend to be stubborn, gruff, and unforgiving of offenses to
them or their clan. It takes time to gain their trust, but they respect a fair deal, a hard bargain, a sharp axe, and a
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@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
Compatible with the Cypher System. Based on the Cypher System Reference Document, 2024-07-02.
+[TOC]
+
## How to Play the Cypher System
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