Heretic - Heresy Is Treason

[Traskus]

Warning! Entering this class track is treason. Treason is punishable by death.

Characteristics:	Constitution, Willpower, Wisdom
Skills:	Academic Lore, Arcana, Ballistics, Command, Deceive, Forbidden Lore, Intimidation, Weaponry
Magic Schools:	Conjuration, Divination, Evocation, Necromancy, Transmutation
Level Completion:	+10 Corruption.

Level	Title	Prerequisites	Class Feats
1	Heathen	Deceive 2, Forbidden Lore 2	Armor Proficiency (Light) Favor of Chaos Hatred (Order) Pure Faith Weapon Proficiency (Basic) *Weapon Proficiency (Ranged 1)
2	Cultist	Deceive 2, Forbidden Lore 3, magic school rank 1, 10 Corruption	Decadence Peer (Chaos Cult) Psychic Siphon Spell Focus (Any) Virgil’s Guidance *Weapon Proficiency (Any)
3	Heretic	Deceive 3, Forbidden Lore 4, magic school rank 2, 20 Corruption	Calm the Winds Channel Energy Spell Focus (Any) Spell Might True Grit
4	Double Heretic	Deceive 4, Forbidden Lore 5, magic school rank 3, 30 Corruption	Delay the Storm Good Reputation (Chaos Cult) Greater Spell Focus Serpent's Tongue Spell Penetration *Skill Focus (Any)
5	Arch Heretic	Deceive 5, Forbidden Lore 5, magic school rank 4, 40 Corruption	Armor of Contempt Fearless Gift of the Gods Greater Spell Focus

NEW Feats!

Favor of Chaos
You have fully devoted yourself to the ways of Chaos, or otherwise brought their attention towards you. You must make a mutation roll every 10 Corruption points instead of every 30. You can use the same characteristic more than once to resist a mutation, but not the same one twice in a row. Finally, whenever you roll for a mutation or degeneration, you can modify the final result by your level unless doing so would cause you to gain a mutation you have already gained.

Psychic Siphon
When others let the Warp into reality, you let the Warp into yourself. Whenever Warp Phenomena is triggered in your presence, you may spend a Reaction to absorb the energy into yourself. This cancels the effect and causes you gain Corruption equal to the Warp Phenomena roll divided by 10 (rounded down).

Serpent's Tongue
You may spend a Hero Point to temporarily gain the Peer and Good Reputation feats (applied to a single group of choice) until the end of the scene.

OLD NEW Feats!

Gift of the Gods
You may spend a resource point to invert the effects of a single Degeneration for one scene, turning all negative modifiers into positive modifiers. Buying Devotion costs double the normal amount of XP.

Optimal post reading time: 70 seconds. Reading in excess of this time is insubordination. Insubordination will accrue a fine and warrant a subsequent investigation.

[Traskus]

Reposted with permission from Weredrago2.

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I feel that Degenerate Boon and Favor of Chaos are excessively powerful.

Degenerate boon is obvious about it. Turning all degenerations that affect your characteristics into positives means you can easily get +1 to most or all characteristics with only minor downsides when risking the other degenerations. It even stacks with everything. Holy shit. Daemonhosts with 7 characteristics, or 8 with a cyberbrain. Madness.

Favor of Chaos is just as or even more broken, but more sinister about it. When rolling a mutation or degeneration you can raise or lower it by level. That's a huge jump when the table isn't super high, but more notably it means most times you pick you get to pick between 3 options. With this if you roll something you don't like, you can move it to something you already have, thus forcing a reroll. This gives an incredible amount of reroll abilities allowing you to almost pick and choose on the entire table for the good ones only. Combined with Degenerate boon makes it even more dangerous since then you only have the good mutations and only have the good degenerations.

Overall, much more powerful than the prior mutant since it removes much of the luck factor, resulting in it to statistically be a sure-fire power up really.

[Traskus]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: that is a fault of the cyberbrain.

Degenerate boon has been exchanged for gift of the gods. It does comparable things at a cost that prevents runaway mutation.

Faavor of chaos has been altered so that you can't use it to spam re-rolls. It's still powerful but I think that's okay.