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| ======Connection====== | ======Connection====== | ||
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| - | * To those who can perceive it, Connection looks like a thousand threads overlaid over the world streaming between people and things in a thousand different colours. | ||
| - | * With practice they can begin to divine the meaning of these and use them to their purpose. | ||
| ===Class Feature: Touchstones=== | ===Class Feature: Touchstones=== | ||
| - | * You draw power from your connections with others. | + | * You draw power from your connections with others. Of these connections, there are some relationships which are particularly meaningful to you in some way. |
| * You must specify an individual as your touchstone with whom you feel a particularly powerful connection. This connection does not have to be positive (love, friendship, respect) - it can be negative (hatred, envy, fear). Either is equally efficacious. | * You must specify an individual as your touchstone with whom you feel a particularly powerful connection. This connection does not have to be positive (love, friendship, respect) - it can be negative (hatred, envy, fear). Either is equally efficacious. | ||
| * If this connection ever fades you will need to find a new one to continue using your powers. | * If this connection ever fades you will need to find a new one to continue using your powers. | ||
| - | * You start the with 4 spell charges per encounter. | + | * Starting level Connection Weavers begin with one Touchstone and 4 spell charges per encounter. |
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| + | ==Planar Influence== | ||
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| + | * When travelling in Connection, you may, once per encounter, choose to gain spell charges equal to your maximum spell charges. | ||
| + | * When travelling in Conflict, your spell charges are halved (rounded up). | ||
| ===Class Feature: Links=== | ===Class Feature: Links=== | ||
| * Connection mages have access to some unique calls and abilities known as 'links'. | * Connection mages have access to some unique calls and abilities known as 'links'. | ||
| - | * Only a willing target may be linked by one of the link calls (NEARLINK, FARLINK, LIFELINK, DEATHLINK). | + | * Only a willing target may be linked by one of the link calls (MINDLINK, NEARLINK, FARLINK, LIFELINK, DEATHLINK). |
| * As such, players and monsters may always call RESIST to a link call made against them. | * As such, players and monsters may always call RESIST to a link call made against them. | ||
| * Connection weavers may only have one of each type of link active at a time. | * Connection weavers may only have one of each type of link active at a time. | ||
| * Two people can only support one link (i.e. the same two participants cannot be LIFELINKED and DEATHLINKED together). | * Two people can only support one link (i.e. the same two participants cannot be LIFELINKED and DEATHLINKED together). | ||
| - | * Participants may choose to break existing Links between encounters. Otherwise, they do not fade. | + | * Links fade between encounters. |
| + | * Connection Weavers must be within sword reach to make LINK calls. Link calls cannot be broken during an encounter. | ||
| * You must brief these rules and the rules for each link before each adventure. | * You must brief these rules and the rules for each link before each adventure. | ||
| + | * If you attempt to use a LINK call on a Forest Touched, consult a GM. | ||
| ===Rituals=== | ===Rituals=== | ||
| * Rituals give weavers the ability to try more freeform magic to have greater or more long-lasting effects than normal spells. | * Rituals give weavers the ability to try more freeform magic to have greater or more long-lasting effects than normal spells. | ||
| - | * The ritualist will specify an outcome they hope to attain by peforming the ritual. | + | * The ritualist will specify an outcome they hope to attain by performing the ritual. |
| - | * A bead bag is used. By default, the bag contains two white and one black bead. | + | * A standard ritual takes 2 minutes to cast. The ritualist may, if they wish, choose instead to cast the ritual instantaneously. This is not without risk and carries a 50% chance of something going seriously wrong with the ritual. |
| - | * Then, the ritualist must draw beads from the bag until they draw a white or black bead. | + | * Ritual cast times are halved in a complimentary plane and doubled in an opposing plane. |
| - | * A white bead indicates success. | + | |
| - | * A black bead indicates failure. | + | |
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| - | ==Collaboration== | + | |
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| - | * Weavers with the ritual skill can collaborate to bring about a more complex or powerful effect. | + | |
| - | * Each weaver must be performing a ritual of the same level. | + | |
| - | * For each weaver collaborating in this way, add one black bead to the bead bag. | + | |
| - | * Weavers of opposing planes (Conflict <-> Connection; Erosion <-> Perfection) cannot collaborate. | + | |
| ====Spells==== | ====Spells==== | ||
| ===Level 1=== | ===Level 1=== | ||
| - | ==Illusion of Space== | + | ==Knowledge of Trust Broken== |
| - | * For the rest of the encounter you may make any call you could make whilst touching someone or by weapon blow at range. You still need to perform the actions you wound have needed to to deliver the effect. | + | * When you strike a deal with someone you may make two small woven tokens keeping one yourself and giving one to the other party. |
| - | * This can explicitly be used to perform medical roleplay at range. | + | * If either side breaks the terms of the deal both tokens begin to unravel. |
| + | * You may if you wish pre-prepare tokens to carry around with you. | ||
| - | ==Pact of Shared Will== | + | ==Mindlink== |
| - | * If a party member is in a psychic combat which they did not initiate you may join your will to theirs. | + | * You link your mind to another target. |
| - | * You join there psychic combat but must lave if they ask you to. | + | * Call MINDLINK. |
| - | * If you are in a psychic combat at the time, whatever you were fighting comes with you. | + | * Whenever either of you enter a psychic combat, you enter it together. |
| + | * You may communicate with each other telepathically. | ||
| ==We are One== | ==We are One== | ||
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| * Whenever you take a call, you may cast this spell: | * Whenever you take a call, you may cast this spell: | ||
| * You may reflexively make this call back. | * You may reflexively make this call back. | ||
| - | * This will not work on SLAY. | ||
| ==Forge the Connection== | ==Forge the Connection== | ||
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| ==Farlink== | ==Farlink== | ||
| * You may call FARLINK on an ally. | * You may call FARLINK on an ally. | ||
| - | * If you are more than 5m apart either member of the link may concentrate for 3s to call DISAPPEARING, they must then move directly until they are next to the other member and call APPEARING. | + | * If you are more than 5m apart either member of the link may concentrate for 3s to call DISAPPEARING, they must then move directly until they are next to the other member and call APPEARING. They must call FARLINK at the beginning of this period of concentration. |
| * This may be done whilst bleeding out. | * This may be done whilst bleeding out. | ||
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| * You begin to suffer the effects of the [[:supplementary_rules#Afflictions|affliction]] instead. | * You begin to suffer the effects of the [[:supplementary_rules#Afflictions|affliction]] instead. | ||
| * If you are already suffering from the same affliction either its potency is increased or the effect becomes more severe. | * If you are already suffering from the same affliction either its potency is increased or the effect becomes more severe. | ||
| + | * Alternatively, you may use this ability to transfer the CURSE of a willing individual to another willing individual. The same conditions apply. | ||
| ==Nearlink== | ==Nearlink== | ||
| * You may call NEARLINK on an ally. | * You may call NEARLINK on an ally. | ||
| - | * As long as you remain within weapons reach of each other you both HEAL 2 every 10s. | + | * As long as you remain within weapons reach of each other and are both up you both HEAL 1 every 15s. |
| ===Level 4=== | ===Level 4=== | ||
| ==Words Born Aloft== | ==Words Born Aloft== | ||
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| ==Deathlink== | ==Deathlink== | ||
| * You link your death to a chosen ally; call DEATHLINK. | * You link your death to a chosen ally; call DEATHLINK. | ||
| - | * When either of you drop to 0 hits, you must call HEAL 10 against the other. | + | * When either of you drop to 0 hits, you must call HEAL 10 against the other. |
| + | * This ends the DEATHLINK. | ||
| ==Promise Made Manifest== | ==Promise Made Manifest== | ||
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| * The Weaver's vision is overlayed with the plane to which they are aligned. | * The Weaver's vision is overlayed with the plane to which they are aligned. | ||
| * This allows weavers of all types to sense the intrusion of any plane into the waking world. | * This allows weavers of all types to sense the intrusion of any plane into the waking world. | ||
| + | * You can sense other Weavers and what alignment they are. | ||
| + | * You can sense if someone has a connection affliction, its severity, and gain some insight into what it does. | ||
| + | * You can see and interact with familiars from your plane. | ||
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| + | ===Illusion of Space=== | ||
| + | * You may perform medical roleplay at range. | ||
| + | * You must be standing still for this to work. | ||
| + | * You must be able to see the person you are healing in this way. | ||
| ===Familiar=== | ===Familiar=== | ||
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| ===Nascent Ritualist=== | ===Nascent Ritualist=== | ||
| - | * Once per adventure, you can attempt to perform rituals of minor power. | + | * You have become adept at using the powers of the planes for more freeform but minor utility effects. |
| + | * Three times per adventure you may cast rituals to achieve minor effects within the purview of your plane. | ||
| ====Lv2==== | ====Lv2==== | ||
| ===Trade Intangibles (Downtime)=== | ===Trade Intangibles (Downtime)=== | ||
| * Once per adventure: you may trade intangibles with people or allow them to trade such things with others as long as you are sanctifying the deal. | * Once per adventure: you may trade intangibles with people or allow them to trade such things with others as long as you are sanctifying the deal. | ||
| - | * As a Downtime action: may trade intangibles with people or allow them to trade such things with others as long as you are sanctifying the deal. | + | * Intangibles are abstract concepts (Your prowess at chess, your first happy thought) which must be metaphysically within your power to give, and within the target's power to trade. |
| + | * A target cannot ever be metaphysically forced to accept a trade offered in this way. | ||
| + | * As a Downtime action: you may trade intangibles with people or allow them to trade such things with others as long as you are sanctifying the deal. | ||
| ===Switch=== | ===Switch=== | ||
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| * You draw your power from your connection with others. Nominate a new touchstone. As long as you remain connected to that person: | * You draw your power from your connection with others. Nominate a new touchstone. As long as you remain connected to that person: | ||
| * Gain 2 charge. | * Gain 2 charge. | ||
| - | * Gain 2 Pysche hits | + | * Gain 2 psyche. |
| ===Shared Knowledge=== | ===Shared Knowledge=== | ||
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| //Pre-req: Nascent Ritualist// | //Pre-req: Nascent Ritualist// | ||
| * Once per adventure, you can attempt to perform rituals of moderate power. | * Once per adventure, you can attempt to perform rituals of moderate power. | ||
| - | ===Reckless Ritualist=== | ||
| - | //Pre-req: Nascent Ritualist// | ||
| - | * After drawing a white bead during a ritual casting, you may elect to draw from the bead bag again. | ||
| - | * Doing so increases the power of the ritual by one rank (minor->moderate->major) | ||
| - | * Major rituals gain no benefit from this skill. | ||
| ====Lv4==== | ====Lv4==== | ||
| ===Duality of Mind=== | ===Duality of Mind=== | ||
| //Pre-req: Familiar// | //Pre-req: Familiar// | ||
| - | * Gain one MENTAL RESIST per encounter. | + | * Gain one RESIST per encounter. |
| ===Master Weaver=== | ===Master Weaver=== | ||
| * You understand the nature of all of the planes and their interaction with the mundane world. | * You understand the nature of all of the planes and their interaction with the mundane world. | ||
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| * You draw your power from your connection with others. Nominate a new touchstone. As long as you remain connected to that person: | * You draw your power from your connection with others. Nominate a new touchstone. As long as you remain connected to that person: | ||
| * Gain 2 charge. | * Gain 2 charge. | ||
| - | * Gain 2 Pysche hits | + | * Gain 2 psyche. |
| ===Master Ritualist=== | ===Master Ritualist=== | ||
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