The possibility also exists that the character was normally possessed by other entities, but little by little was able to overcome the Resistance Checks, thus being able to correct his initial debility. Illustrated by Wen Yu Li The same justification that allows someone to obtain the advantage of Exceptional Magic Resistance could be used by someone wanting to eliminate this disadvantage. In this case, the most recommended thing to do would be for the character be affected equally by spells and mystical effects but, thanks to good luck, was able to pass the majority of the checks.
This way, it would be understandable that his spirit has become fortified against the supernatural. It is said that which does not kill a person makes him stronger, so if an individual finds himself forced to live for an extended period of time in certain climatic or elemental conditions that he is not attuned to and is able to survive, he could overcome his vulnerability. That would be the case of someone vulnerable to cold that finds himself obligated to live for years in an arctic zone.
Similar to Exceptional Physical Resistance, in order to overcome this disadvantage, a character must survive a situation in which his body passed through extreme circumstances or he must have received some intensive training. Unlike obtaining Regeneration, the mere possibility of receiving wounds frequently does not hold enough reason to overcome this disadvantage.
In order to do so, the character could receive a blood transfusion from a supernatural being and instead of rejecting it, adapt to it. As a general rule, only a small percentage of people are able to accomplish this. Without including supernatural methods, it is extremely difficult for a character to overcome an allergy as severe as that inherent in this disadvantage. In any case, and only if the Game Master deems it appropriate, when a character finds himself so greatly exposed to the element that it puts his life in danger, he can pass an a Difficult or Very Difficult Physical Resistance Check in order to overcome his allergy.
He should only have one chance and, for his body to truly accomplish it, he should not receive any external help, be that from spells or abilities that increase Physical Resistance. The same reasons for a character to have access to Light Sleeper could allow him to get rid of the disadvantage Deep Sleeper. It is difficult to eliminate this disadvantage. Even so, it is always possible that a character can overcome his fear if, throughout game sessions, his actions proceed in a manner that could facilitate him overcoming his fear the decision as to which actions apply, of course, is left to the Game Master.
Just like the previous disadvantage, except, in this case, the character must overcome his extreme vice. The nature of these disadvantages is similar to Good Luck and Fortunate; therefore, the way to eliminate them has a similar method.
When a character demonstrates a disproportionate amount of luck to his character or is able to normally turn unfortunate situations into positive ones, the Game Master could allow him to use one of his bonus points to undo these disadvantages.
When a character has lost his weapon and during the course of months or years is forced to use a different one, little by little he could manage to overcome his restriction and become accustomed to the use of new weapons.
As in the case of Quick Reflexes, an intensive training regimen could eliminate or reduce the effects of this disadvantage. The same circumstances that allow a character to obtain an Immunity to Pain and Fatigue could eliminate this disadvantage, although logic would indicate that it would be much more arduous for the character to survive. Again, intensive training to increase ones endurance and resistance to fatigue should be sufficient to justify the elimination of this disadvantage.
In the same way, it is also possible to get rid of some supernatural disadvantages. The disadvantages that cannot be eliminated this way are: Action Requirement, Magical Ties. Once again, a spellcaster can discover somehow a new means to develop his spells. Perhaps it could be justified by the appearance of a strange manuscript that makes the caster understand his studies from a new perspective, or if an archmage with knowledge vastly superior to his own reveals some secret that is not known to the caster.
Naturally, it should not be an immediate change in any way, given that he needs to practice over a long period of time. Just like the previous disadvantage, but focused on the requirement of using hands instead of the requirement of incantations. This does not require an exhaustive justification, since in the same way that he increases his powers, a spellcaster could find a way to increase his magic recovery.
Logically, it is not difficult to apply such principles that were previously explained to allow a spellcaster to choose the advantage of Superior Magic Recovery. In order to get rid of this terrible disadvantage, the spellcaster would have to find the source of the obstruction to his power, be it in an internal aspect, like an obstacle in his own soul, or external, because a part of his vital force finds itself removed from him.
Depending on the Game Master, there can be many ways to overcome this disadvantage, but due to the enormous repercussions that they entail, it would have to be something incredibly difficult.
One of the best recommendations would be that the spellcaster found one of the primordial magical nodes of Gaa and entered it. If he is able to survive something that should be far from easy , the brutal overload of supernatural power that would flood him should be enough to cleanse his essence, allowing him to be free of this disadvantage. The only way that a spellcaster has to rid himself of this disadvantage is to continuously use magic of a high level, forcing his limits beyond his normal level and trying to resist the enormous pressure that it entails.
As with Oral and Gestural Requirements, the character would have to find a method with which to redefine the basis of his magical knowledge. It would not be a bad idea to force him to redevelop all his path levels although the period of learning should be considerably less.
Here are the possible ways of getting rid of some disadvantages for characters with psychic powers. The disadvantages that are impossible to eliminate by these means are: One Power at a Time, Psychic Consumption. It is possible that the character did not have any type of psychic training at the time of using his powers. Therefore, if he received the appropriate training, he could learn to develop his disciplines better, and with it learn the advantages that concentrating entails.
Once again, the continued use of his powers at a high level could prepare the character to bear the weight of psychic failure, allowing him to overcome this disadvantage. Naturally, it would require that the character have obtained a considerable level of power. Extreme Resistance to Death Dukzarist : Instead of the general rule, the All Action Penalty that the Dukzarist receives for being in negative Life Points is reduced to half, as well as applying the special bonus listed under Resistance to Death above.
Undead: The undead cannot become unconscious for being at negative Life Points. They either fail their roll by a difference that destroys them, or remain conscious.
In either case, they continue to apply a negative to their actions, because of the terrible state in which their bodies are in. Damage Resistance: Creatures with Damage Resistance reduce the value of the penalties to actions that they suffer for having negative Life Points in half. However, the fact that a defined limit does not exist at the time of developing a Secondary Ability sometimes can lead to situations that are not very logical or are inconvenient to the development of the game: first level characters with in Acrobatics or Stealth as their only ability cannot be appropriate.
For that reason, if the Game Master prefers, he can limit the maximum ability of a character using the values indicated in Table 1. Keep in mind that these are only approximate values, and that the Game Master can increase or reduce them according to what he considers appropriate. Without a doubt, it adds a certain level of realism and greater playability to the critical states, although it also carries a certain difficulty. When a character receives damage that pushes his life points into the negatives, he neither dies at the quintuple of the value of his Constitution nor falls unconscious automatically.
In place of this, he must make a Physical Resistance Check to determine his state. The difficulty is 40 to stay alive, and to manage to remain conscious, although these numbers are increased by an amount equal to the negative Life Points of the character. Therefore, the worse the state one is in, the more difficult the Check. If the character does not manage to pass the first difficulty value 40 plus modifiers , he dies because of his critical state. If, on the other hand, he does not pass the second value plus modifiers , he loses consciousness, remaining between life and death in the normal way.
If he is able to maintain consciousness, he can continue to act normally, but must apply an All Action Penalty equal to the Life Points he currently has. The Physical Resistance Check repeats every minute that the character remains active or whenever he loses Life Points for any reason. Pazusu receives an attack that reduces his Life Points to After easily passing the critical roll, he must make a Physical Resistance Check to know what state he is in.
Since he is at 20 LP, he must pass a difficulty of 60 a base of 40 plus the 20 points that are in the negative to stay alive, and to remain conscious plus 20 negative points. Luckily, he rolls , which means he is able to remain conscious awhile longer, although now applying a 20 All Action Penalty.
A minute later, in which he still has not rested nor received medical attention, he repeats the Check with less luck, rolling only an 85 this time. Although he has managed to avoid death, Pazusu is unconscious and is between life and death. If you use this rule, you must apply the following modifications to certain rules. What is the magical knowledge that a spellcaster should have on his first travels? Or how many Ki Abilities or Techniques?
Following are some general rules that can serve as guidelines, depending on the preferences and tastes of each Game Master. A spellcaster with 10 Intelligence and the advantage Natural Knowledge of a Path that consequently would have a magic level of 90 50 from its Characteristic and 40 from the advantage , is in a medium supernatural level campaign. Initially the spellcasters player wants to increase the characters dark knowledge, but given that the maximum initial knowledge is 50, he can only invest 10 more points there.
Nonetheless, he could spend the 15 points left over on another Path, like Illusion, to complete his supernatural abilities. A just created character with the advantage the Gift normally has access to the ability to use spells.
However, sometimes it can be difficult to determine the amount of spells that he should know as a start. So for that, it is necessary to consider various factors, like the archetype that he belongs to it would not be logical or correct to give the same magical knowledge to a thief as to a spellcaster and the level of mystical power that the Game Master cares to grant to the players within the game.
Campaigns with a low power level are those in which supernatural things are so rare and scarce that they end up being little more than myths. The characters have great difficulty gaining access to such capabilities, and it should always be a true challenge for them to obtain them. A medium level campaign is one in which the characters, without it mattering if magic is or is not known, possess high mystical abilities that allow them to face any type of threat as equals.
The recommended option usually is to use this second one. Finally, in games of high supernatural level, the characters are gifted with abilities without comparison, in which each character has access to incomparable power. Maximum Initial Knowledge: This indicates the maximum Path level that a newly created character should have, regardless of what natural knowledge or advantages that he might possess.
Path Level: This indicates what percentage of the characters level of magic he should have access to. Similar to what happens with magic, it is advisable to limit the access for new characters to the Ki Dominions. Logically, not everyone has ample knowledge of what Ki is. In fact, the majority of the time, fighters do not have any idea of the existence of these abilities.
Again, the fundamental factor that determines how much Martial Knowledge one must have as a basis is indicated by the supernatural level of the game and which archetype a character belongs to. If the starting MK points are enough for the character to obtain the ability Use of Ki, he is perfectly aware of what the Dominions are, and can freely increase his abilities or Techniques at a later time. On the other hand, if the points are not enough, it means that the fighter does not have sufficient knowledge, and requires that somebody, at some later time, teach it to him.
The MK points obtained by the advantage Martial Mastery are also within this limitation. Finally, it is advisable to know if Summoners are able to begin the game with some creature in their service, or with some sealed pact of invocation. Initially, it is not advisable that the Summoner have a familiar; that is something that should be gained through adventuring and roleplaying during the game. However, it is logical to think that he could have a servant or access to a low level invocation, so as to even out his abilities compared to those of other mystics.
If the Summoner character wishes to have a creature bound and controlled to his service, he must have developed a minimum of 40 in his abilities of Summon, Control, and Binding abilities. In the same way, if he wants to establish some pact with an Invocation, he would need a minimum base of 60 in Summoning.
Even so, as convenient as a certain Invocation could be, the signed pact must be in accord with the condition and personality of the character. Like in the previous sections, what a character starts with depends on the supernatural level that the game is going to have.
Servants: This indicates how many creatures are initially bound and controlled by the character. One of first level that has servants of inferior power level to his own has elementals of level 0. Invocations: The degree of the invocation indicates the maximum degree of The Arcana or equivalent to which the character can have access to.
If, for example, it indicates that its maximum level is 2, that means he can begin with a pact signed with the Fool 0 , the Magician 1 or the High Priestess 2 , in its pure or inverse aspect. The first thing a player has to do it is to calculate the Mental Health MH points that his character has.
This measures the characters level of sanity. To do so, he get the sum value of the characters Intelligence, Willpower, and Power characteristics and consults Table 5. The first column indicates the maximum value of Mental Health that the character has, which will be the initial value except if, considering background, the player and the Game Master decide on a smaller value.
The second column indicates the characters Threshold to Madness that, as shall soon be seen, is the value at which a character finds himself with a serious psychic disorder. While a characters Mental Health points are equal to or above the Threshold to Madness, he can be considered sane. When, be it going up a level or by supernatural means, a character raises his Intelligence, Willpower, or Power, he can increase the maximum value of his Mental Health, although he does not gain or recover points.
Celia has Power 6, Willpower 4, and Intelligence 8, which between the three characteristics adds up to the sum of 20 points. When consulting Table 5, we discover that it corresponds to 80 points of Mental Health and that the characters Threshold to Madness is set to MENTAL HEALTH Even in a fantasy world where magic and the supernatural coexist with the mundane, often the characters can face situations that take them to the limits of their sanity when defying extreme or horrific situations.
Because of this, it is very convenient to have a way to measure a characters mental health and to know, thus, how he is able to overcome those moments in which all his world seems to split. With the following rules, players will be able to know if a character is perfectly sane or if, gradually, he is sinking into madness.
This optional rule is very convenient for games based on investigation and mystery, where the characters must fight for their lives against the unknown forces that live in the shadows. Without a doubt, mental health is as essential to a game with great doses of tension and fear, as it is unnecessary in those games based on pure action.
Now we know how many Mental Health points a character has, but how does he lose them? What is it that can make him fall into madness? Normally, a sane person can become disturbed after undergoing various traumatic situations, be it because of stress, fear, or tension.
Each cause can be completely different; perhaps he has seen all of his family assassinated in front of him, or he has gone completely crazy after being locked up for ten years in total solitude. By all means, no reason should be circumscribed; however, not everyone who sees his family die or remains imprisoned during a long period of time will necessarily become crazy. When any situation occurs that puts the sanity of a character in danger, he must make a Shock Check to know if his Mental Health is affected or not.
This Check is performed by making a Willpower Check and applying pertinent modifiers for each situation. If the character manages to pass it, he does not suffer any consequences, but if he fails, he must consult Table 6 to know what are the effects and the consequent loss of Mental Health Points. Some advantages and disadvantages also have a certain influence on the Mental Health of the character.
If the character has the disadvantage Serious Addiction, he subtracts a Mental Health point for every day that goes by without his satisfying his vice. Once a week has passed, the loss will increase to two points per day. Another factor that can be fundamental is based on the characters Composure.
Naturally, those that can remain impassive before the most terrifying situations are less likely to lose their sanity. Therefore, each situation is assigned a level of difficulty in Composure; if the character manages to overcome it, he can ignore the Shock Check. In some cases, this ability does not have any effect. There are other factors that exist that can gradually decrease the Mental Health of a character that are not necessarily defined within the Shock Check, for example addictions, toxic substances, or supernatural means.
It is up to the Game Master to subtract the points that he considers appropriate in each circumstance. But the loss of Mental Health is not the only negative consequence that a character can have when he fails a Shock Check. Sometimes, the situation is so terrible or so impressive that fear can have repercussions on a physical level; at certain moments, it is even possible to lose consciousness or to die because of cardiac failure.
If when consulting the column of Physical Effects on Table 6 the words Physical Shock appear, it means that the impression has been so great that, to avoid becoming unconscious, the character will have to pass a Physical Resistance Check against the indicated difficulty. In the case that he fails said Check by more than 40 points, the shock has been so great that the character dies from a heart attack.
Next, there is a small list with some situations that can force a character to make a Shock Check. Keep in mind that these are only generic situations, and that they can be different after the passage of time or from one person to another.
For example, it is possible that someone feels terrified the first time that he sees a zombie walk in front of him, but after seeing animated corpses several times, its possible that the impression is not as great or who knows, maybe it is. Similarly, it is possible that a magician is surprised the first time he casts a spell successfully or is present when one is cast , but that once he is able to cast spells frequently, the supernatural does not produce the same effect in him although he could still be scared when seeing a monstrous creature.
The character receives a scare of considerable intensity, although without reaching great extremes. For example, someone entering a dark room when, suddenly, a corpse hanging by its feet falls from the ceiling onto him, or a frightful masked assassin appears before him with a machete in hand and a loud shout.
Normally it implies a frightful surprise for the character, much like if an apparently inanimate corpse grabs him by the throat when he goes to examine it. The passage of a prolonged period of time without rest or sleep can lead to a serious psychosis. Therefore, this Check must be made after the character has been without sleep for three or four days as long as he is an individual with a need for natural rest.
Later on, it can be repeated once per week, applying a cumulative penalty of 1 to Checks on each occasion. This is used when the character is in a tense state during a prolonged period of time. It could be that he is walking through an abandoned house while knowing that there is something chasing him that he does not see, or that he must lock himself within a closet while a creature snoops through the room, looking to devour him.
Depending on the danger and fear that it represents, the value of the modifier will vary. It could be that a character sees someone dear to him fall off a horse and break their neck, or the character could enter a room and discover that it is decorated with hundreds of human bodies sewn together. It could be that somebody forced him to watch his family be murdered in front of him, while asking him to choose the order in which they must die.
Check Modifier: -6 Composure: Almost Impossible If somebody is accustomed to daily life and suddenly finds himself before some supernatural event, it could cause all of his values and beliefs to become conflicted.
Whereas some can accept it with greater ease, others will have serious problems in comprehending it. For example, if he is present at the casting of a spell or that finds himself, for first time, with a nonhuman entity that is not especially monstrous. With time, this Shock Check could go away completely, but there always exists situations that are sufficiently strange to force a character to repeat it.
It would be like coming face to face with a putrid zombie, or a frightful Lagor that is looking for prey. Composure: Very Difficult Check Modifier: -2 Similar to the previous one, but the entity or entities which the character finds himself with are much more impressive. Extraordinary dark dragons, living nightmares in their true form, or primal horrors that escape all understanding are good examples.
It is the equivalent to being present at such a frightful and indescribable spectacle that normal people would be dragged, inescapably, towards desperation and madness. It is used for those most extreme situations in which to remain fearless or to keep ones sanity is unthinkable. An example of this would be seeing how reality cracks while from the skies babies the size of castles begin to emerge and, with their eyes sewn, begin to devour everything, or how the Filisnogos makes a formal appearance with all its obscene glory in the middle of the city in which the character lives and begins its macabre ceremony of destruction.
Check Modifier: Composure: Impossible. Celia enters an old abandoned mansion looking for Lemures, who decided to venture into the interior hours before without saying anything to his companion.
The young girl, worried about her friend, begins to investigate all the nooks of the house, and everything that she finds begins to leave her more and more uneasy: strange symbols on the walls, spots of blood everywhere, and a drumming that no matter how hard she tries she is not able to locate. Then, inexplicably, she begins to hear her name, like a tenuous whisper in the wind. Terrified with the sensation that something bad is going to happen and that Lemures is in serious danger, Celia begins to become more and more nervous, and the Game Master decides she must make a Shock Check because of a Tense Situation.
Luckily, since she has a high Composure 60 , she makes the first Check and is able to avoid losing her nerves. However, when she begins to cross a long corridor full of curtains, she hears the strange drumming just behind her, and when she turns she finds a skeletal spectral figure floating in the air, covered completely in blood. Although she has seen supernatural things before, the Game Master decides she needs to make a Check equal to Before Something Terrifying. Unfortunately, she is unable to rely on her high Composure to maintain her composure, so she must make the Shock Check.
Since she has a Willpower of 4 and the modifier is 2, she is left with a 2. She rolls the dice and obtains a 9; her level of failure is a 7. After consulting Table 6, the Game Master sees that she has lost 15 points of Mental Health luckily, she has not yet entered her Threshold to Madness and has to pass an Physical Resistance Check against Her bad luck continues, as she rolls a 55 and loses consciousness.
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