Difference between revisions of "Psychic Numina"
| Line 21: | Line 21: | ||
<br> | <br> | ||
---- | ---- | ||
| − | == ''''' | + | == '''''Anti-Psychic''''' == |
Anti-psychic is the rarest psychic talent yet observed. The psychics' very presence makes even reliable psychic talents weaken or fail. Sensitives, before their powers fail them, describe the anti-psychic as generating a "static" in the mental plane. An anti-psychic cannot purchase additional psychic powers. Due to the subtle nature of their powers, most anti-psychics remain unaware of their talent until approached or even attacked by other psychics. Anti-Psychic is useful against all psychic abilities, as well as the Mind Sphere (though it provides only a single level of defense against the latter, regardless of the anti-psychic's power). | Anti-psychic is the rarest psychic talent yet observed. The psychics' very presence makes even reliable psychic talents weaken or fail. Sensitives, before their powers fail them, describe the anti-psychic as generating a "static" in the mental plane. An anti-psychic cannot purchase additional psychic powers. Due to the subtle nature of their powers, most anti-psychics remain unaware of their talent until approached or even attacked by other psychics. Anti-Psychic is useful against all psychic abilities, as well as the Mind Sphere (though it provides only a single level of defense against the latter, regardless of the anti-psychic's power). | ||
| Line 35: | Line 35: | ||
<br> | <br> | ||
---- | ---- | ||
| − | == ''''' | + | == '''''Astral Projection''''' == |
| + | The power of Astral Projection allows the psychic to split his spirit off from his body. The discarnate spirit can travel very quickly in this form. The spirit intangibly travels across planes of thought while still able to look in on the physical world. While in astral form, the psychic cannot physically affect the real world, though he may use other psychic abilities (the difficilty numbers for doing so are increased by two). However, while away from his body, he cannot perceive what is happening to it. Many out-of-body travelers have nightmares about someone moving or harming their physical self while their spirit is roaming free. Two astrally projecting characters may affect each other, though for purposes of astral combat, they substitute their Wits for Dexterity, their Intelligence for Strength and their Perception for Stamina. Some astrally projecting psychics could once perceive ghosts and certain spirits, but most such spirits now appear as blurry forms, barely in the realm of perception. In general, an astral spirit can see the material world or other abstract spirits in the realm of thought; ghosts of the dead and the like usually remain imperceptible except to those psychics who also have some mediumship abilities. | ||
| − | + | To release the astral form, the player spends one point of Willpower and rolls for the power. Should the player botch while attempting to have his characters step outside his body, the psychic is unable to leave his body for 24 hours. Psychics who frequent the astral plane whisper that other entities sometimes intrude there, human or otherwise, and on some occasions find their souls drawn to strange spirits worlds far removed from the mortal plane. A few never find their way back. Caution is the rule when exploring planes unknown to humans. | |
| − | :<span style="font-size:large">●</span> | + | '''Roll:''' Perception + Meditation (difficulty 8) |
| + | |||
| + | :<span style="font-size:large">●</span> -- With only rudimentary awareness of astral existence, the psychic can shift her senses to feel the astral realm but cannot quite enter it. The psychic sees the astral realm overlaid upon the normal physical world. There are psychics who prefer to close their eyes and visualize the astral plane, while others have no difficulty watching both. A psychic may view the astral realm for so long as she maintains her concentration upon it. | ||
:---- | :---- | ||
| − | :<span style="font-size:large">●●</span> | + | :<span style="font-size:large">●●</span> -- The psychic practitioner can leave her body for one minute per point of Stamina. While in astral form, she can only perceive things by sight. She is also limited to traveling approximately one mile away from her body. |
:---- | :---- | ||
| − | :<span style="font-size:large">●●●</span> | + | :<span style="font-size:large">●●●</span> -- The character can leave her body for up to ten minutes per point of Stamina. She gains the ability to hear in astral form and can travel up to 100 miles from her body. |
:---- | :---- | ||
| − | :<span style="font-size:large">●●●●</span> | + | :<span style="font-size:large">●●●●</span> -- The psychic can now leave her body for up to an hour per point of Stamina and travel up to 1,000 miles away. Each additional hour out of her body after the first requires the expenditure of a point of Willpower. If the player succeeds on a Charisma + Occult roll (difficulty 8), the psychic can manifest visually to observers as a translucent, ghostly apparition, though the projector cannot communicate verbally with observers. |
:---- | :---- | ||
| − | :<span style="font-size:large">●●●●●</span> '' | + | :<span style="font-size:large">●●●●●</span> -- The psychic may astrally travel anywhere in the world, so long as her body remains healthy, and she may use all of her senses normally. The psychic's form (should the character choose to manifest, using the same roll as previously noted) appears as a blurry and translucent version of her usual physical form but somewhat idealized. While manifest, the projection can speak, though only in a soft whisper. Like her visual appearance, the psychic's speech does not appear on recordings. |
---- | ---- | ||
<br> | <br> | ||
Revision as of 12:16, 20 January 2019
- Hedge Magic -PN- Gypsies -PN- Secret Societies
Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Animal Telepathy
- 1.2 Anti-Psychic
- 1.3 Astral Projection
- 1.4 Psychic Title Here
- 1.5 Psychic Title Here
- 1.6 Psychic Title Here
- 1.7 Psychic Title Here
- 1.8 Psychic Title Here
- 1.9 Psychic Title Here
- 1.10 Psychic Title Here
- 1.11 Psychic Title Here
- 1.12 Psychic Title Here
- 1.13 Psychic Title Here
- 1.14 Psychic Title Here
- 1.15 Psychic Title Here
- 1.16 Psychic Title Here
- 1.17 Psychic Title Here
- 1.18 Psychic Title Here
- 1.19 Psychic Title Here
- 1.20 Psychic Title Here
- 1.21 Psychic Title Here
- 1.22 Psychic Title Here
- 1.23 Psychic Title Here
- 1.24 Psychic Title Here
- 1.25 Psychic Title Here
- 1.26 Psychic Title Here
Introduction
Animal Telepathy
While most psychic abilities affect other humans, some psychics use their talents on the "lower" animals. The actual method of communication may vary. Some psychics bark or growl at the animal. Others use dressage gestures, even if the animal has never even seen a trainer before. A few simply speak their native language (or even an imaginary one) and hear the animal speak it back to them. Animals may communicate with the psychic, though the information they relate should be limited by their intelligence and perceptions.
Animal psychics may use their power on any mammal, lizard or bird with no change in the difficulty. In fact, highly intelligent animals (chimpanzees, dolphins, gorillas) or well trained animals (dogs, horses, circus or show animals) are more susceptible to Animal Psychics. The difficulty is reduced by one. Fish are harder to control; increase the difficulty by two. Insect minds are too simple (or perhaps too different) for the psychic to affect.
Roll: Charisma + Animal Ken
- ● Communication -- The psychic may "speak" with a single animal, allowing two-way communication with the beast. The communication does not give the psychic control over the animal, though misunderstandings may be explained away. Roll at difficulty 6.
- ----
- ●● Command -- The psychic can command the animal to perform for him. The animal will not endanger itself for the psychic. However, it can do any trick the psychic can adequately describe to it. Under some circumstances, an animal will attack for the psychic, though it would be under circumstances where the animal had some proclivity toward attacking in the first place. A police dog might bring someone to the ground, or a hungry tiger might go after a hunter. Roll at dif. 7, with modifiers depending upon the complexity of the command (plus 1 for a rather complex command or one to which the animal is ambivalent; minus one for something it would do anyway).
- ----
- ●●● Mass Communication -- This power works like the Communication power, though it now works on all animals within earshot. Additionally, the psychic may communicate with multiple types of animals simultaneously. Roll at difficulty 6, plus one for each additional species of animal in the area of communication.
- ----
- ●●●● Mind Link -- With this power, the psychic joins his mind with that of a single animal. Once the link is established, the psychic's and the animal's minds are linked until the psychic drops the connection. While linked, the psychic can perceive whatever the animal perceives. She can also communicate with the animal using any of the lesser Animal Psychic powers, with the difficulty reduced by 1. The drawback to this power is that if the animal is injured, the mental feedback injures the psychic. For every lethal wound level the animal takes, the psychic takes one bashing wound level (soakable normally). Difficulty is 8.
- ----
- ●●●●● Domination -- This ability gives total control of an animal's mind. It will do whatever the psychic wishes, even at the cost of it's own life. Roll at difficulty 8 and spend 1 Willpower. The animal will explicitly follow 1 command. The command may be conditional ("if somebody attacks me, then kill him") but it cannot be conjunctional ("follow the scent of this shirt and attack him").
Anti-Psychic
Anti-psychic is the rarest psychic talent yet observed. The psychics' very presence makes even reliable psychic talents weaken or fail. Sensitives, before their powers fail them, describe the anti-psychic as generating a "static" in the mental plane. An anti-psychic cannot purchase additional psychic powers. Due to the subtle nature of their powers, most anti-psychics remain unaware of their talent until approached or even attacked by other psychics. Anti-Psychic is useful against all psychic abilities, as well as the Mind Sphere (though it provides only a single level of defense against the latter, regardless of the anti-psychic's power).
The stronger the anti-psychic, the larger the radius affected. Anti-Psychic isn't "activated" in the fashion of other powers; rather, it always clouds those around the anti-psychic, adding its level to the difficulty of all psychic powers in the area. (As usual, pushing a difficulty past 9 generates a threshold for successes.) With a roll of Intelligence + Meditation (difficulty 7) an anti-psychic may dampen this aura down one level per success rolled; this allows the anti-psychic some attempt at controlling the power.
Level 1 5-yard radius
Level 2 10-yard radius
Level 3 15-yard radius
Level 4 20-yard radius
Level 5 25-yard radius
Astral Projection
The power of Astral Projection allows the psychic to split his spirit off from his body. The discarnate spirit can travel very quickly in this form. The spirit intangibly travels across planes of thought while still able to look in on the physical world. While in astral form, the psychic cannot physically affect the real world, though he may use other psychic abilities (the difficilty numbers for doing so are increased by two). However, while away from his body, he cannot perceive what is happening to it. Many out-of-body travelers have nightmares about someone moving or harming their physical self while their spirit is roaming free. Two astrally projecting characters may affect each other, though for purposes of astral combat, they substitute their Wits for Dexterity, their Intelligence for Strength and their Perception for Stamina. Some astrally projecting psychics could once perceive ghosts and certain spirits, but most such spirits now appear as blurry forms, barely in the realm of perception. In general, an astral spirit can see the material world or other abstract spirits in the realm of thought; ghosts of the dead and the like usually remain imperceptible except to those psychics who also have some mediumship abilities.
To release the astral form, the player spends one point of Willpower and rolls for the power. Should the player botch while attempting to have his characters step outside his body, the psychic is unable to leave his body for 24 hours. Psychics who frequent the astral plane whisper that other entities sometimes intrude there, human or otherwise, and on some occasions find their souls drawn to strange spirits worlds far removed from the mortal plane. A few never find their way back. Caution is the rule when exploring planes unknown to humans.
Roll: Perception + Meditation (difficulty 8)
- ● -- With only rudimentary awareness of astral existence, the psychic can shift her senses to feel the astral realm but cannot quite enter it. The psychic sees the astral realm overlaid upon the normal physical world. There are psychics who prefer to close their eyes and visualize the astral plane, while others have no difficulty watching both. A psychic may view the astral realm for so long as she maintains her concentration upon it.
- ----
- ●● -- The psychic practitioner can leave her body for one minute per point of Stamina. While in astral form, she can only perceive things by sight. She is also limited to traveling approximately one mile away from her body.
- ----
- ●●● -- The character can leave her body for up to ten minutes per point of Stamina. She gains the ability to hear in astral form and can travel up to 100 miles from her body.
- ----
- ●●●● -- The psychic can now leave her body for up to an hour per point of Stamina and travel up to 1,000 miles away. Each additional hour out of her body after the first requires the expenditure of a point of Willpower. If the player succeeds on a Charisma + Occult roll (difficulty 8), the psychic can manifest visually to observers as a translucent, ghostly apparition, though the projector cannot communicate verbally with observers.
- ----
- ●●●●● -- The psychic may astrally travel anywhere in the world, so long as her body remains healthy, and she may use all of her senses normally. The psychic's form (should the character choose to manifest, using the same roll as previously noted) appears as a blurry and translucent version of her usual physical form but somewhat idealized. While manifest, the projection can speak, though only in a soft whisper. Like her visual appearance, the psychic's speech does not appear on recordings.
Psychic Title Here
Roll:
- ● Level 1 --
- ----
- ●● Level 2 --
- ----
- ●●● Level 3 --
- ----
- ●●●● Level 4 --
- ----
- ●●●●● Level 5 --
Psychic Title Here
Roll:
- ● Level 1 --
- ----
- ●● Level 2 --
- ----
- ●●● Level 3 --
- ----
- ●●●● Level 4 --
- ----
- ●●●●● Level 5 --
Psychic Title Here
Roll:
- ● Level 1 --
- ----
- ●● Level 2 --
- ----
- ●●● Level 3 --
- ----
- ●●●● Level 4 --
- ----
- ●●●●● Level 5 --
Psychic Title Here
Roll:
- ● Level 1 --
- ----
- ●● Level 2 --
- ----
- ●●● Level 3 --
- ----
- ●●●● Level 4 --
- ----
- ●●●●● Level 5 --
Psychic Title Here
Roll:
- ● Level 1 --
- ----
- ●● Level 2 --
- ----
- ●●● Level 3 --
- ----
- ●●●● Level 4 --
- ----
- ●●●●● Level 5 --
Psychic Title Here
Roll:
- ● Level 1 --
- ----
- ●● Level 2 --
- ----
- ●●● Level 3 --
- ----
- ●●●● Level 4 --
- ----
- ●●●●● Level 5 --
Psychic Title Here
Roll:
- ● Level 1 --
- ----
- ●● Level 2 --
- ----
- ●●● Level 3 --
- ----
- ●●●● Level 4 --
- ----
- ●●●●● Level 5 --
Psychic Title Here
Roll:
- ● Level 1 --
- ----
- ●● Level 2 --
- ----
- ●●● Level 3 --
- ----
- ●●●● Level 4 --
- ----
- ●●●●● Level 5 --
Psychic Title Here
Roll:
- ● Level 1 --
- ----
- ●● Level 2 --
- ----
- ●●● Level 3 --
- ----
- ●●●● Level 4 --
- ----
- ●●●●● Level 5 --
Psychic Title Here
Roll:
- ● Level 1 --
- ----
- ●● Level 2 --
- ----
- ●●● Level 3 --
- ----
- ●●●● Level 4 --
- ----
- ●●●●● Level 5 --
Psychic Title Here
Roll:
- ● Level 1 --
- ----
- ●● Level 2 --
- ----
- ●●● Level 3 --
- ----
- ●●●● Level 4 --
- ----
- ●●●●● Level 5 --
Psychic Title Here
Roll:
- ● Level 1 --
- ----
- ●● Level 2 --
- ----
- ●●● Level 3 --
- ----
- ●●●● Level 4 --
- ----
- ●●●●● Level 5 --
Psychic Title Here
Roll:
- ● Level 1 --
- ----
- ●● Level 2 --
- ----
- ●●● Level 3 --
- ----
- ●●●● Level 4 --
- ----
- ●●●●● Level 5 --
Psychic Title Here
Roll:
- ● Level 1 --
- ----
- ●● Level 2 --
- ----
- ●●● Level 3 --
- ----
- ●●●● Level 4 --
- ----
- ●●●●● Level 5 --
Psychic Title Here
Roll:
- ● Level 1 --
- ----
- ●● Level 2 --
- ----
- ●●● Level 3 --
- ----
- ●●●● Level 4 --
- ----
- ●●●●● Level 5 --
Psychic Title Here
Roll:
- ● Level 1 --
- ----
- ●● Level 2 --
- ----
- ●●● Level 3 --
- ----
- ●●●● Level 4 --
- ----
- ●●●●● Level 5 --
Psychic Title Here
Roll:
- ● Level 1 --
- ----
- ●● Level 2 --
- ----
- ●●● Level 3 --
- ----
- ●●●● Level 4 --
- ----
- ●●●●● Level 5 --
Psychic Title Here
Roll:
- ● Level 1 --
- ----
- ●● Level 2 --
- ----
- ●●● Level 3 --
- ----
- ●●●● Level 4 --
- ----
- ●●●●● Level 5 --
Psychic Title Here
Roll:
- ● Level 1 --
- ----
- ●● Level 2 --
- ----
- ●●● Level 3 --
- ----
- ●●●● Level 4 --
- ----
- ●●●●● Level 5 --
Psychic Title Here
Roll:
- ● Level 1 --
- ----
- ●● Level 2 --
- ----
- ●●● Level 3 --
- ----
- ●●●● Level 4 --
- ----
- ●●●●● Level 5 --
Psychic Title Here
Roll:
- ● Level 1 --
- ----
- ●● Level 2 --
- ----
- ●●● Level 3 --
- ----
- ●●●● Level 4 --
- ----
- ●●●●● Level 5 --
Psychic Title Here
Roll:
- ● Level 1 --
- ----
- ●● Level 2 --
- ----
- ●●● Level 3 --
- ----
- ●●●● Level 4 --
- ----
- ●●●●● Level 5 --
Psychic Title Here
Roll:
- ● Level 1 --
- ----
- ●● Level 2 --
- ----
- ●●● Level 3 --
- ----
- ●●●● Level 4 --
- ----
- ●●●●● Level 5 --
