The Main Powers
Focus: throwing yourself into a desired sort of trance or mystical state. This includes such effects as concentrating all of your resources on a single task, entering suspended animation, or shadow-walking, where you enter a dream-like state and follow it where it leads you.
Projection: manifesting a physical presence somewhere else. The more you want to be able to do there, the harder it is. Bringing an object back is possible, but very dangerous.
Scrying: attempting to divine the past, present or future of a person, place or item. Since precognition is often useless in RPGs, here it's bundled in with post-cognition and a form of clairvoyance.
Sending: projecting a mental presence into someone else's mind. This can range from simple mental communication to emotional influence to an outright psychic attack.
Sixth Sense: sensing subtle dangers and other presences that normal people miss. You can roll it if you're actively sensing your area, but it's often triggered spontaneously by something in your environment.
Minor or "Mixed Blessing" powers:
Empathic Healing: the ability to bolster the minds or bodies of others by sharing their suffering. It generally works on contact, whether you want it to or not.
Empathy: the ability to sense the emotional states of those around you, just like you can feel heat or cold. Unfortunately, this can be very hard to deal with if nearby folks are in immense pain or emotional distress.
Ghostwalking: more than the limited and transistory visions of Scrying, a Ghostwalker can see into the past or spirit world as though it were a physical place. Unfortunately, this often produces terrifying visions of past events when you least expect it. The effect gets stronger the longer you remain in one area, so Ghostwalkers often travel far and wide... or simply go mad.
Illusions: a form of mass-Sending which allows you to make your own hallucinations visible to other people in the area. Unfortunately, you sometimes produce these shared hallucinations in your sleep, or when under stress.
Posted by Kiz at June 1, 2004 11:12 PMCommentsPost a comment