Cypher Field - Epikrato
Jul 16, 2020 17:48:34 GMT -6
Post by Traskus on Jul 16, 2020 17:48:34 GMT -6
This cypher field requires at least one dot in common lore to enter.
Epikrato 1
Object (implement): Use implements in cyphers that don’t specify an object.
Axiom of Control: You may use your insanity points in place of mental defense and rolls to resist fear or pinning.
Axiom of Control: You may use your insanity points in place of mental defense and rolls to resist fear or pinning.
Epikrato 2
Control Objects
Epikrato 2
Test: Common Lore + Composure
TN: 20
Action: Half Action
Keywords: Combo-OK, Somatic
Duration: Concentration (half action)
You may move inanimate objects without touching them. You may use telekinesis to lift and move objects, but you may not perform complex manipulations (an attack, for example). Attended-to objects such as vehicles being piloted or equipped equipment is exempt from this cypher. The "strength" and "dexterity" of this spell are your intelligence and composure, in that order.
At Epkirato 4 you may treat your intelligence and composure as 1 higher each for reference of this cypher.
Epikrato 2
Test: Common Lore + Composure
TN: 20
Action: Half Action
Keywords: Combo-OK, Somatic
Duration: Concentration (half action)
You may move inanimate objects without touching them. You may use telekinesis to lift and move objects, but you may not perform complex manipulations (an attack, for example). Attended-to objects such as vehicles being piloted or equipped equipment is exempt from this cypher. The "strength" and "dexterity" of this spell are your intelligence and composure, in that order.
At Epkirato 4 you may treat your intelligence and composure as 1 higher each for reference of this cypher.
Epikrato 3
Control Performance
Epikrato 3
Test: Common Lore + Composure
TN: 25
Action: Half Action
Keywords: Combo-OK, Fieldcraft, Language-Dependent, Mind-Affecting, Somatic, Verbal
Duration: One day
The engineer steels the target against the worst the world can throw at them. Reduce the number of checks of a failed fear roll made by the target by your engineer level, to a minimum of 0 checks.
Control Self-Preservation
Epikrato 3
Test: Common Lore + Composure
TN: 25
Action: Full Action
Keywords: Combo-OK, Language-Dependent, Mind-Affecting, Verbal
Duration: One Scene
The target does not have to do the next immediately self-destructive act they are compelled (enchanted, argued into, etc.) (suicide, self-mutilation, refusing to dodge/parry an attack, etc. though they may be compelled to charge headlong into a fight they’re sure to lose), regardless of what rolls they fail or what saving throws they don’t make.
Control Will
Epikrato 3
Test: Common Lore + Composure
TN: 25
Action: Full Action
Keywords: Combo-OK, Fieldcraft, Language-Dependent, Mind-Affecting, Saving Throw, Subtle, Verbal
Duration: Instant
The engineer exhausts a person’s will. The target must pass a TN 20 composure test. If they fail, they lose 1 resolve plus one per check on the failure. If they have run out of or have no resolve, they gain 1 level of fatigue.
Epikrato 3
Test: Common Lore + Composure
TN: 25
Action: Half Action
Keywords: Combo-OK, Fieldcraft, Language-Dependent, Mind-Affecting, Somatic, Verbal
Duration: One day
The engineer steels the target against the worst the world can throw at them. Reduce the number of checks of a failed fear roll made by the target by your engineer level, to a minimum of 0 checks.
Control Self-Preservation
Epikrato 3
Test: Common Lore + Composure
TN: 25
Action: Full Action
Keywords: Combo-OK, Language-Dependent, Mind-Affecting, Verbal
Duration: One Scene
The target does not have to do the next immediately self-destructive act they are compelled (enchanted, argued into, etc.) (suicide, self-mutilation, refusing to dodge/parry an attack, etc. though they may be compelled to charge headlong into a fight they’re sure to lose), regardless of what rolls they fail or what saving throws they don’t make.
Control Will
Epikrato 3
Test: Common Lore + Composure
TN: 25
Action: Full Action
Keywords: Combo-OK, Fieldcraft, Language-Dependent, Mind-Affecting, Saving Throw, Subtle, Verbal
Duration: Instant
The engineer exhausts a person’s will. The target must pass a TN 20 composure test. If they fail, they lose 1 resolve plus one per check on the failure. If they have run out of or have no resolve, they gain 1 level of fatigue.
Epikrato 4
Control Probability
Epikrato 4
Test: Common Lore + Composure
TN: 30
Action: Half Action
Keywords: Verbal
Duration: Five turns
The engineer taps into the meta of reality to force luck to go their way. The engineer can force up to (larceny) dice to be flipped over to their opposite side, not necessarily all in one roll. Dice affected in this way cannot explode. Upon affecting the last die, this cypher ends. You may not activate this cypher while you have an instance of it in effect.
Control Status
Epikrato 4
Test: Common Lore + Composure
TN: 30
Action: Full Action
Keywords: Fieldcraft, Subtle
Duration: One scene
Not a manipulation of reality so much as perception. This cypher takes an hour to activate. Activation can be pushed back up to (politics) days in the future. The target gains or loses (politics/2 + 1) dots in allies, backing, contacts, fame, followers, mentor, status, or wealth for the duration.
If affecting an unwilling target they may resist with a (highest targeted background)+composure k composure roll.
Control Time
Epikrato 4
Test: Common Lore + Composure
TN: 30
Action: Half Action OR Reaction
Keywords: Focus, Material, Saving Throw, Somatic
Duration: One round
Focus: an implement
Material: a D battery
You freeze the target within 5m in time like so many loading screens, becoming invulnerable and immune to all effects including time itself. The target also cannot take any actions (including Free Actions and Reactions) in this state until the cypher ends, after which any ongoing effects (e.g. being on fire, aging) resume as normal afterwards. An unwilling target may resist with a TN 20 composure test. If targeting a vehicle, its driver may make this test to resist.
Control Weather
Epikrato 4
Test: Common Lore + Composure
TN: 30
Action: Full Action
Keywords: Focus, Somatic, Verbal
Duration: One day
Focus: an implement
The engineer dictates the weather in a localized area. An area 1km in diameter centered on the engineer has the weather changed to one of the engineer’s choosing. The engineer may spend resource points to increase the diameter by 1km per resource spent.
This can make the temperature, wind, or precipitation actively hazardous, but the engineer doesn’t control it and is just as much at risk as anyone else.
Epikrato 4
Test: Common Lore + Composure
TN: 30
Action: Half Action
Keywords: Verbal
Duration: Five turns
The engineer taps into the meta of reality to force luck to go their way. The engineer can force up to (larceny) dice to be flipped over to their opposite side, not necessarily all in one roll. Dice affected in this way cannot explode. Upon affecting the last die, this cypher ends. You may not activate this cypher while you have an instance of it in effect.
Control Status
Epikrato 4
Test: Common Lore + Composure
TN: 30
Action: Full Action
Keywords: Fieldcraft, Subtle
Duration: One scene
Not a manipulation of reality so much as perception. This cypher takes an hour to activate. Activation can be pushed back up to (politics) days in the future. The target gains or loses (politics/2 + 1) dots in allies, backing, contacts, fame, followers, mentor, status, or wealth for the duration.
If affecting an unwilling target they may resist with a (highest targeted background)+composure k composure roll.
Control Time
Epikrato 4
Test: Common Lore + Composure
TN: 30
Action: Half Action OR Reaction
Keywords: Focus, Material, Saving Throw, Somatic
Duration: One round
Focus: an implement
Material: a D battery
You freeze the target within 5m in time like so many loading screens, becoming invulnerable and immune to all effects including time itself. The target also cannot take any actions (including Free Actions and Reactions) in this state until the cypher ends, after which any ongoing effects (e.g. being on fire, aging) resume as normal afterwards. An unwilling target may resist with a TN 20 composure test. If targeting a vehicle, its driver may make this test to resist.
Control Weather
Epikrato 4
Test: Common Lore + Composure
TN: 30
Action: Full Action
Keywords: Focus, Somatic, Verbal
Duration: One day
Focus: an implement
The engineer dictates the weather in a localized area. An area 1km in diameter centered on the engineer has the weather changed to one of the engineer’s choosing. The engineer may spend resource points to increase the diameter by 1km per resource spent.
This can make the temperature, wind, or precipitation actively hazardous, but the engineer doesn’t control it and is just as much at risk as anyone else.
Epikrato 5
Control Psyche: When spending resource points to improve skill and characteristic rolls, gain a static bonus to those rolls equal to one tenth your insanity points to a minimum of 1.
Control Destiny
Epikrato 5
Test: Common Lore + Composure
TN: 35
Action: Full Action
Keywords: Combo-OK, Fieldcraft, Focus, Touch, Verbal
Duration: One day
Focus: An impelement OR a mekit
Gentlemen, behold! The target non-exalt becomes a generic exalt for referential purposes and has a resource pool calculated the same way as the engineer’s, using their level in place of a power stat when necessary. If the target or engineer wishes, they may revert to normal.
Control Morality
Epikrato 5
Test: Common Lore + Composure
TN: 35
Action: Full Action
Keywords: Attack, Language-Dependent, Mind-Affecting, Saving Throw, Verbal
Duration: One scene
The engineer can adjust the target’s obligation, and it gets screwy to be sure. The target may resist with a TN 20 composure test. If they fail, the morality of the target is inverted. This is easiest to judge with the alignment track, but the SM may (within reason) dictate the opposite meaning of general guidelines of alignment.
Control Destiny
Epikrato 5
Test: Common Lore + Composure
TN: 35
Action: Full Action
Keywords: Combo-OK, Fieldcraft, Focus, Touch, Verbal
Duration: One day
Focus: An impelement OR a mekit
Gentlemen, behold! The target non-exalt becomes a generic exalt for referential purposes and has a resource pool calculated the same way as the engineer’s, using their level in place of a power stat when necessary. If the target or engineer wishes, they may revert to normal.
Control Morality
Epikrato 5
Test: Common Lore + Composure
TN: 35
Action: Full Action
Keywords: Attack, Language-Dependent, Mind-Affecting, Saving Throw, Verbal
Duration: One scene
The engineer can adjust the target’s obligation, and it gets screwy to be sure. The target may resist with a TN 20 composure test. If they fail, the morality of the target is inverted. This is easiest to judge with the alignment track, but the SM may (within reason) dictate the opposite meaning of general guidelines of alignment.