Cypher Field - Metaptropi
Oct 22, 2020 10:59:44 GMT -6
Post by Traskus on Oct 22, 2020 10:59:44 GMT -6
This cypher field requires at least one dot in medicae to enter.
Metaptropi 1
Focus (medkit): Use medkits in cyphers that don’t specify a focus. Using a medkit in a metaptropi cypher negates the free raise medkits give to the test.
Axiom of Transformation: When using the wild shape or improved wild shape feats (or some comparable ability), you may forego changing physical characteristics and instead change your mental or social characteristics in the same manner. Metaptropi cyphers with the ranged touch keyword have a range of 5*metaptropi meters.
Axiom of Transformation: When using the wild shape or improved wild shape feats (or some comparable ability), you may forego changing physical characteristics and instead change your mental or social characteristics in the same manner. Metaptropi cyphers with the ranged touch keyword have a range of 5*metaptropi meters.
Metaptropi 2
Disguise
Metaptropi 2
Test: Medicae + Wisdom
TN: -
Action: Half Action
Keywords: Material, Social, Somatic
Duration: Concentration (reaction)
Material: a pinch of rouge
You may use this spell instead of the Disguise Skill in order to disguise yourself, the result of the Activation Roll being the quality of the disguise. You must spend one reaction per turn to maintain this disguise.
Morph
Metaptropi 2
Test: Medicae + Wisdom
TN: 20
Action: Half Action
Keywords: Combo-OK, Somatic, Touch OR Ranged Touch
Duration: One scene
You may spend a resource point to grant the target one of the traits listed under the wild shape feat. If the target wishes, they may turn into an animal with the relevant trait as per the wild shape feat.
Plant Choir
Metaptropi 2
Test: Medicae + Wisdom
TN: 20
Action: Half Action
Keywords: Somatic, Touch OR Ranged Touch, Verbal
Duration: Instant
You shape living wood into a simple shape, such as what you could form out of clay. You may affect up to 1 cubic meter of wood per resource point you spend as part of this cypher. Whatever shape it is in when finished is permanent.
Metaptropi 2
Test: Medicae + Wisdom
TN: -
Action: Half Action
Keywords: Material, Social, Somatic
Duration: Concentration (reaction)
Material: a pinch of rouge
You may use this spell instead of the Disguise Skill in order to disguise yourself, the result of the Activation Roll being the quality of the disguise. You must spend one reaction per turn to maintain this disguise.
Morph
Metaptropi 2
Test: Medicae + Wisdom
TN: 20
Action: Half Action
Keywords: Combo-OK, Somatic, Touch OR Ranged Touch
Duration: One scene
You may spend a resource point to grant the target one of the traits listed under the wild shape feat. If the target wishes, they may turn into an animal with the relevant trait as per the wild shape feat.
Plant Choir
Metaptropi 2
Test: Medicae + Wisdom
TN: 20
Action: Half Action
Keywords: Somatic, Touch OR Ranged Touch, Verbal
Duration: Instant
You shape living wood into a simple shape, such as what you could form out of clay. You may affect up to 1 cubic meter of wood per resource point you spend as part of this cypher. Whatever shape it is in when finished is permanent.
Metaptropi 3
Change Composition
Metaptropi 3
Test: Medicae + Wisdom
TN: 25
Action: Full Action
Keywords: Somatic, Touch OR Ranged Touch
Duration: Instant
Change an amount of inanimate matter up to size 1 into an equal amount of another substance of equal rarity. You may spend resource points to increase the size and/or rarity of the affected matter by 1 per point spent.
This can be used to hurt people if you add the attack keyword. It deals 1 wound per resource point spent OR per 2 ranks in katastrofi you have. If the target dies (for good) as a result of this cypher they turn into the substance you nominated but not before, though they might briefly look or smell like the nominated substance.
Change Physique
Metaptropi 3
Test: Medicae + Wisdom
TN: 25
Action: Half Action
Keywords: Combo-OK, Somatic, Ranged Touch OR Touch
Duration: One scene
You may take one point from one of the target's physical stats (to a minimum of 1) and put it on a different physical stat. You may spend resource points to move another point in a physical stat in the same way per resource point spent. You may alternatively move a number of points up to your ranks in exelixi.
Change Size
Metaptropi 3
Test: Medicae + Wisdom
TN: 25
Action: Half Action
Keywords: Combo-OK, Ranged Touch OR Touch, Somatic
Duration: One Scene
Get big, get small. You choose. You may increase or decrease the target's size by 1 point per resource point spent as part of this cypher or your ranks in epikrato to a maximum of 30 and a minimum of 0. If the target is an inanimate object that is not being used you may make the cypher last as long as you wish.
This can't be used to hurt people. If someone were to be hurt by the target's change in size, it does not change size. So the idea of putting a shrunk car up someone's rear and letting it return to normal size -while funny and clever- doesn't work.
Metaptropi 3
Test: Medicae + Wisdom
TN: 25
Action: Full Action
Keywords: Somatic, Touch OR Ranged Touch
Duration: Instant
Change an amount of inanimate matter up to size 1 into an equal amount of another substance of equal rarity. You may spend resource points to increase the size and/or rarity of the affected matter by 1 per point spent.
This can be used to hurt people if you add the attack keyword. It deals 1 wound per resource point spent OR per 2 ranks in katastrofi you have. If the target dies (for good) as a result of this cypher they turn into the substance you nominated but not before, though they might briefly look or smell like the nominated substance.
Change Physique
Metaptropi 3
Test: Medicae + Wisdom
TN: 25
Action: Half Action
Keywords: Combo-OK, Somatic, Ranged Touch OR Touch
Duration: One scene
You may take one point from one of the target's physical stats (to a minimum of 1) and put it on a different physical stat. You may spend resource points to move another point in a physical stat in the same way per resource point spent. You may alternatively move a number of points up to your ranks in exelixi.
Change Size
Metaptropi 3
Test: Medicae + Wisdom
TN: 25
Action: Half Action
Keywords: Combo-OK, Ranged Touch OR Touch, Somatic
Duration: One Scene
Get big, get small. You choose. You may increase or decrease the target's size by 1 point per resource point spent as part of this cypher or your ranks in epikrato to a maximum of 30 and a minimum of 0. If the target is an inanimate object that is not being used you may make the cypher last as long as you wish.
This can't be used to hurt people. If someone were to be hurt by the target's change in size, it does not change size. So the idea of putting a shrunk car up someone's rear and letting it return to normal size -while funny and clever- doesn't work.
Metaptropi 4
Improved Morph
Metaptropi 4
Test: Medicae + Wisdom
TN: 30
Action: Reaction
Keywords: Verbal
Duration: Five turns
As Morph, but you may also grant the target one trait from the improved wild shape feat by spending a resource point.
Induce Transformation
Metaptropi 4
Test: Medicae + Wisdom
TN: 30
Action: Half Action
Keywords: Material, Saving Throw, Somatic, Touch OR Ranged Touch
Duration: Instant
Material: a hypodermic needle
The target is changed into an alternate form they have access to (werewolves into one of their forms, dragonblooded into or out of dragon form, kitsune into/out of fox form if they have the feat, etc.) of your choice that you know of. Unwilling targets may resist with a TN 20 constitution test.
Inanimate targets not attended to (rocks, dirt, water, etc.) may be shaped as the engineer desires by spending a resource point per size of the object (or up to their ranks in epikrato) so long as the object maintains the same mass. Inactive vehicles with multiple drive trains can be transformed with this cypher up to size 15.
Physical Reassignment
Metaptropi 4
Test: Medicae + Wisdom
TN: 30
Action: Full Action
Keywords: Fieldcraft, Focus, Material, Somatic, Touch OR Ranged Touch, Verbal
Duration: One day
Focus: Medkit
Material: dna of desired target race. If you don't wish to use this feature, ignore this keyword.
People like this one for some reason. The engineer may either change the target's sex or their race by spending a resource point (or both if you spend two). They take on the relevant physical characteristics of their new form down to the genes for the duration of the cypher.
If the engineer changes the target's race, then the target qualifies as the nominated race for the duration of the cypher (a human could be a vespid, an aasimar could be a tiefling, etc.). Their appearance changes intuitively and according to the chosen race's physical characteristics, and identifying marks such as fingerprints, dna, and retinal scans will still identify them as themselves. This does not change the effectiveness of any racial feats they have, but gene-specific machinery treats them as the new race for the duration of the spell and not their normal self. In addition, mechanics such as feats that reference race treat the target as the new race (ex. the hatred (elves) feat would apply to a human who has been turned into an elf by this cypher).
The target may not take racially specific feats, assets, hindrances, or other such mechanics that specifically mention race in reference to their non-original race.
Metaptropi 4
Test: Medicae + Wisdom
TN: 30
Action: Reaction
Keywords: Verbal
Duration: Five turns
As Morph, but you may also grant the target one trait from the improved wild shape feat by spending a resource point.
Induce Transformation
Metaptropi 4
Test: Medicae + Wisdom
TN: 30
Action: Half Action
Keywords: Material, Saving Throw, Somatic, Touch OR Ranged Touch
Duration: Instant
Material: a hypodermic needle
The target is changed into an alternate form they have access to (werewolves into one of their forms, dragonblooded into or out of dragon form, kitsune into/out of fox form if they have the feat, etc.) of your choice that you know of. Unwilling targets may resist with a TN 20 constitution test.
Inanimate targets not attended to (rocks, dirt, water, etc.) may be shaped as the engineer desires by spending a resource point per size of the object (or up to their ranks in epikrato) so long as the object maintains the same mass. Inactive vehicles with multiple drive trains can be transformed with this cypher up to size 15.
Physical Reassignment
Metaptropi 4
Test: Medicae + Wisdom
TN: 30
Action: Full Action
Keywords: Fieldcraft, Focus, Material, Somatic, Touch OR Ranged Touch, Verbal
Duration: One day
Focus: Medkit
Material: dna of desired target race. If you don't wish to use this feature, ignore this keyword.
People like this one for some reason. The engineer may either change the target's sex or their race by spending a resource point (or both if you spend two). They take on the relevant physical characteristics of their new form down to the genes for the duration of the cypher.
If the engineer changes the target's race, then the target qualifies as the nominated race for the duration of the cypher (a human could be a vespid, an aasimar could be a tiefling, etc.). Their appearance changes intuitively and according to the chosen race's physical characteristics, and identifying marks such as fingerprints, dna, and retinal scans will still identify them as themselves. This does not change the effectiveness of any racial feats they have, but gene-specific machinery treats them as the new race for the duration of the spell and not their normal self. In addition, mechanics such as feats that reference race treat the target as the new race (ex. the hatred (elves) feat would apply to a human who has been turned into an elf by this cypher).
The target may not take racially specific feats, assets, hindrances, or other such mechanics that specifically mention race in reference to their non-original race.
Metaptropi 5
Apex Wild Shape: When using the wild shape or improved wild shape feats (or some equivalent ability), you may forego gaining all traits and instead gain the auto-stabilized, daemonic, fear (1), phasing, or undead trait. Hit points granted by the daemonic trait are temporary hp.
Irrational Transformation
Metaptropi 5
Test: Medicae + Wisdom
TN: 35
Action: Full Action
Keywords: Combo-OK, Focus, Touch OR Ranged Touch
Duration: One scene
Focus: Medkit
Metaptropi is a path to many abilities some consider to be... transgressive. The engineer may transform the target into a living state of matter by spending a resource point. The target may choose to end the cypher early. Choose one of the following:
Solid: The target gains the armor plating (6 + prostasia) trait and treats all non-X forms of damage as I damage. They have a max dex of 3.
Liquid: The target gains the armor plating (prostasia) and regeneration 1 traits. The target cannot jump or climb, but can fit into/through any space capable of sustaining their volume that isn't water-tight.
Gas: The target gains the flyer trait equal to their speed + your ranks in skafoi. They become incorporeal as per the phasing trait.
Pocket Dimension
Metaptropi 5
Test: Medicae + Wisdom
TN: 35
Action: Full Action
Keywords: Fieldcraft, Somatic
Duration: Indefinite
The engineer makes something bigger on the inside. The affected enclosed space (a room, a vehicle, or something similar) increases its internal volume by 50%. The engineer may spend resource points to instead double the internal space per resource point spent. Your maximum resource points are reduced by the number spent until the cypher ends. You don't get them back, you can just go back to the previous maximum.
Irrational Transformation
Metaptropi 5
Test: Medicae + Wisdom
TN: 35
Action: Full Action
Keywords: Combo-OK, Focus, Touch OR Ranged Touch
Duration: One scene
Focus: Medkit
Metaptropi is a path to many abilities some consider to be... transgressive. The engineer may transform the target into a living state of matter by spending a resource point. The target may choose to end the cypher early. Choose one of the following:
Solid: The target gains the armor plating (6 + prostasia) trait and treats all non-X forms of damage as I damage. They have a max dex of 3.
Liquid: The target gains the armor plating (prostasia) and regeneration 1 traits. The target cannot jump or climb, but can fit into/through any space capable of sustaining their volume that isn't water-tight.
Gas: The target gains the flyer trait equal to their speed + your ranks in skafoi. They become incorporeal as per the phasing trait.
Pocket Dimension
Metaptropi 5
Test: Medicae + Wisdom
TN: 35
Action: Full Action
Keywords: Fieldcraft, Somatic
Duration: Indefinite
The engineer makes something bigger on the inside. The affected enclosed space (a room, a vehicle, or something similar) increases its internal volume by 50%. The engineer may spend resource points to instead double the internal space per resource point spent. Your maximum resource points are reduced by the number spent until the cypher ends. You don't get them back, you can just go back to the previous maximum.
