Minor Abilities

Minor Abilities

The minor supernatural abilities that exist in the world are too numerous to be categorized easily. All the same, you’ll find some in the “Psychic Abilities” , and a few more are listed here. Usually these abilities offer some small advantage, but in many cases they also come with a disadvantage or a price.



Cloak of Shadows  [ –1 ] 

Description: You and the shadows are as one. You’re able to melt into the shadows with ease; the cover of night offers easy concealment.

Skills Affected: <span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-Regular","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-Regular">Stealth, perception skills.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;margin-left:24px;">'<span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-BoldIt","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-BoldIt">See in the Dark. '<span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-Regular","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-Regular">Perception skill rolls are not penalized by darkness.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;margin-left:24px;">'<span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-BoldIt","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-BoldIt">Melt into the Shadows. '<span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-Regular","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-Regular">You’re more effective than most at hiding in a reasonably sized area of darkness or shadow. Under the cover of darkness, you get a +2 bonus to your Stealth rolls.

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<h3 class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"NewcomenBlack","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:NewcomenBlack">Ghost Speaker <span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"NewcomenBlack","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:NewcomenBlack">   [ <span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "NewcomenBlack","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:NewcomenBlack">–1 ] 

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-Bold","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-Bold">Description: <span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-Regular","serif";mso-bidi-font-family: AJensonPro-Regular">You see dead people. All the time ''<span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-It","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-It">. <span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-Regular","serif";mso-bidi-font-family: AJensonPro-Regular">Some people mistakenly refer to you as an <span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-It","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-It">ectomancer ''<span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-Regular","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-Regular">, but your ability is more instinctual and you are not technically a spellcaster (although this ability can be added on top of an existing spellcaster if the character template allows for it).

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-Bold","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-Bold">Skills Affected: <span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-Regular","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-Regular">Social and perception skills.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;margin-left:24px;">'<span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-BoldIt","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-BoldIt">See the Dead. '<span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-Regular","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-Regular">You have no problems perceiving the presence of spirits and ghosts, unless they are deliberately trying to conceal themselves— in which case it’s Investigation (or Alertness ) vs. Stealth.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;margin-left:24px;">'<span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-BoldIt","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-BoldIt">Seen by the Dead. '<span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-Regular","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-Regular">Spirits and ghosts have no problem perceiving <span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-It","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-It">you <span style="font-family: "AJensonPro-Regular","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-Regular">as well, regardless of how tenuous their manifestation is —they recognize you as a conduit to the mortal world and will readily come forward to contact you. This means such creatures will see and find you more easily than other people, when all other factors are equal. Spirits get a +2 when trying to perceive or locate you.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;margin-left:24px;">'<span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-BoldIt","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-BoldIt">Speak to the Dead. '<span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-Regular","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-Regular">You can speak and otherwise communicate directly with ghosts and other invisible or incorporeal spirits, without any need to perform thaumaturgy.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;margin-left:24px;">'<span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-BoldIt","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-BoldIt">Seek the Dead. '<span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-Regular","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-Regular">The dead seek you out, and it goes the other way as well—enough so that you may use Contacts to seek out information and specific individuals among the dead.

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<h3 class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"NewcomenBlack","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:NewcomenBlack">Marked by Power <span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"NewcomenBlack","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:NewcomenBlack">   [ <span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "NewcomenBlack","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:NewcomenBlack">–1 ] 

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-Bold","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-Bold">Description: <span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-Regular","serif";mso-bidi-font-family: AJensonPro-Regular">You’ve been marked by something powerful, in a way recognizable to those with a magical affinity. Such people and creatures will think twice about acting against you, but they’ll also see you as a representative of the thing that’s marked you.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-Bold","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-Bold">Musts: <span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-Regular","serif";mso-bidi-font-family: AJensonPro-Regular">Your high concept must reflect the creature or person who has marked you.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-Bold","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-Bold">Skills Affected: <span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-Regular","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-Regular">Varies.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-Bold","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-Bold">Effects: 

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;margin-left:24px;">'<span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-BoldIt","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-BoldIt">Aegis of Respect. '<span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-Regular","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-Regular">A magical mark is upon you, placed by a creature or person of significant power. It’s not that the mark provides any <span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-It","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-It">actual <span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-Regular","serif";mso-bidi-font-family: AJensonPro-Regular">protection, but magically aware people and creatures can perceive this mark upon you and word tends to get around that you’ve been “claimed.” Whenever dealing with someone in the magical community, <span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-It","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-It">all <span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-Regular","serif";mso-bidi-font-family: AJensonPro-Regular">of your social skill rolls operate at a +1 bonus. The downside, of course, is that people tend to see you as a representative of the thing that marked you, which can lead to some uncomfortable entanglements and assumptions. If you absolutely must conceal this mark, you can, but it takes some concentration— use any appropriate skill (Stealth  or Deceit, usually) restricted by Discipline to do so, but you can’t do anything stressful (like combat ) without dropping the concealment.

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<h3 class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"NewcomenBlack","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:NewcomenBlack">Wizard’s Constitution  <span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"NewcomenBlack","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:NewcomenBlack">   [ 0  ] 

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-Bold","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-Bold">Description: <span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-Regular","serif";mso-bidi-font-family: AJensonPro-Regular">You are a wizard, or are like a wizard—incredibly long lived for a human, able to recover from injuries just a little better than the next guy.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-Bold","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-Bold">Note: <span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-Regular","serif";mso-bidi-font-family: AJensonPro-Regular">This ability is replaced by any Inhuman or better Recovery or Toughness ability, if any such abilities are taken. In terms of game effects, the uses of this ability are so minor that they’re really almost cosmetic; hence the zero cost.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-Bold","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-Bold">Skills Affected: <span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-Regular","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-Regular">Endurance. <span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-Regular","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-Regular"> 

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-Bold","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-Bold">Effects: 

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;margin-left:24px;">'<span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-BoldIt","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-BoldIt">Total Recovery. '<span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-Regular","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-Regular">You’re able to recover from physical harm that would leave a normal person permanently damaged. You can recover totally from any consequence—excluding extreme physical ones—with no other excuse besides time; simply waiting long enough will eventually heal you completely. (Many wizards use this ability to avoid hospitals, where their tendency to disrupt technology can put others in serious danger.)

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;margin-left:24px;">'<span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-BoldIt","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-BoldIt">Long Life. '<span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-Regular","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-Regular">As a side-effect of your improved ability to recover from injury, your lifespan is significantly extended. In game terms this will rarely have relevance, but it’s why the Senior Council of the White Council of wizards can talk at length about the events of the American Civil War (many of them were <span style="font-family:"AJensonPro-It","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-It">there <span style="font-family: "AJensonPro-Regular","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:AJensonPro-Regular">) and several can go back even further than that.