• Death Sense: You know when someone isn't going to live through the night and can sense when someone is hiding an Animate bite. The GM tells you when and why the sense is triggered. This is a pretty useless ability on a mechanical level. It's not bad for role-play, but eh.
  
• Fame: You can reroll Charm for people who are fans of your work and get one free reroll on Acting and Performance rolls while performing.
  
• Influential Circle: The Medium meets weekly with seven other people as part of a circle of spiritualists. There's no mechanical benefit, it's mostly just a way to give the Medium allies or leads as long as they keep up a good reputation.
  
• Latent Psychic: You're a latent empath or telepath. You can get one level of Empathy or Telepathy for 5 points and then develop the ability further, but you can't access bonus features of the Psychic class or develop any other types of Devotions.
  
• Living Conduit: You get one free reroll on Will rolls when using a Second Sight power.
  
• Mortuary Scientist: Like Theologian, but instead this lets your Thanatology skill exceed your Intellect stat by 2 and you get one free reroll per roll. You're also well known as being a smart cookie when it comes to death stuff. You may be noticing that I'm not clamoring for you to take this skill like Theologian. Well...keep reading.
  
• Powerful Medium: Add your Thanatology stat to Will to determine the range of your powers.
  
• Primacy of Will: One free reroll per roll for Will contests when you're being ridden by a ghost you're manifesting or being possessed by.
  
• Spirit Guide: Free ghost buddy that has Will 3. It can't actively hurt you, but it can be a cheeky fucker. It may also help you or defend you against your wishes. Talk to the GM about your ghost buddy.
  
• Spirit Photography: You don't need special material to photograph ghosts.

• Death Speaker (Self/Self/Passive): Talk to/hear ghosts while in a trance. This doesn't defy the language barrier and using it in haunted locations may overwhelm you. Nobody else can hear the ghosts.
  
• Ghost Sight (Self/Line of Sight/Passive or Maintained): See the dead and see who's possessed or not. If it's maintained, you can see the Spirit World and get -3 to all Wit and Vision rolls to navigate the real world while seeing the Spirit World.
  
• Impression (Group/Radius Willx10/Maintained): Feel the presence of ghosts. Make a Will roll and all ghosts (active or dormant) in the area make separate contesting rolls to see if you notice their presence. The Medium can also tell the relative strength of each ghost.

• Ectoplasmic Mist (Self/Radius Willx10/Maintained): Summon an ectoplasmic mist and you determine how strong it is. It only lasts as long as it's maintained. Attackers gain a -2 to hit with ranged attacks, the Medium gets +2 to Intimidation and anyone other than the Medium touched by the mists gets a -2 to all Vitality rolls involving poison, illness and infection for the next day.
  
• Shroud (Self/Radius Willx10/Maintained): Charge an area with spiritual energy to help weaken the barrier between worlds, or charge with aetheric interference to make it harder for spirits to manifest. Spirits get +1 to Will when it's weaker, -1 when it's stronger.
  
• Spirit Channeling (Self/Self/Maintained): Trance out and summon a ghost into your body. You can pick a spirit in your presence to bring into you (apparitions don't work out so well, poltergeists can't be channeled). If it's a willing channel, no rolls needed. If not, Will contest. Ghost successes reduce the Medium's Will by 1, KOing them at 0. If the Medium wins, the ghost gets into their body. Ghosts can really only talk to people and are trapped until they're released by the Medium, but a willing channel gets +3 to trying to possess the Medium. There's some more rules, but I think you get the point.

• Aetheric Disruption (Single target/Willx10 feet+LOS/Thought): Contested Will rolls to use aetheric static to disrupt or dissipate a ghost. Works the same as struggling with a channeled spirit: either the ghost is cowed and loses will until it's gone or the medium passes out for 1d5 hours. Using it on a possessing spirit doesn't eject it, but it gives the host an attempt to get control again.
  
• Compel (Single target/Willx5 feet+LOS/Maintained) Will rolls to make spirits do poo poo for you. Same rules as above, repeated again. You need to do this every time you tell the spirit to do something.
  
• Summoning (Single target/Limitless/Maintained): Call a ghost into your presence. You need a tether to call them. If it doesn't want to be called, Will contest like above. If it does, it shows up. Note two things: first, it doesn't have to manifest and it can stay hidden from everyone and second it sure as hell doesn't have to be friendly. Hit it with Compel the moment it shows up before everyone gets attacked by a ghost or it just fucks off. You have to be in a spirit's haunt if it's dormant, and summoning forbidden/quarantined spirits is a crime that carries a penalty of 10 years hard labor.

• Expel (Single target/Willx5 feet+LOS/Thought): Will contest to end possessions for anyone in line of sight.
  
• Manifest (Single target/Willx10 feet+LOS/Maintained): Use spiritual energy to make a ghost manifest and become both audible and visible. For every minute maintained, the Medium must beat a DR 16 Will roll or lose 1 Will every failure. At 0, the Medium naps for 1d10 minutes and regains 1 Will per hour of rest.
  
• Soul Well (Single target/Willx10 feet+LOS/Thought): Buff/hinder a spirit, increasing/decreasing their Will by 1. Hit 0 Will and you nap again.

• Deadlock (Self/Willx25 feet/Maintained): Will contests to prevent the ghosts from manifesting.
  
• Oubliette (Single target/Willx5 feet+LOS/Thought): Lets the Medium cause people who die in their presence to live on as ghosts. They can roll to resist unless they want to be a ghost. This is a bad power unless you're going to get info from someone but don't need them alive.
  
• Shepherd (Single target/Willx10 feet+LOS/Thought): Put ghosts to rest with Will contests or nap trying.

• Mourners are the dual-wielding melee badass types, good at combat and they can now be a good asset against ghosts.
  
• Psychics are psychics and can now treat interacting with ghosts like the rest of their powers and they're already Will-focused.
  
• The Exorcist even gets the heavy lifting abilities of the Second Sight even if they can't see ghosts, accessing the ability to banish and exorcise from the word go rather than pumping points into a quality. They also have absolutely nothing to lose by losing against a spirit in a Will roll to get rid of them, the sole downside is that it just takes a few minutes to channel up some mojo.
  
• Parapsychologists just need physical equipment to do some of what a Medium can do but also get to play with wonderful Galvanic toys in the process and don't have to worry about naptime.

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• Aethertech Engineer: The Parapsychologist gets their gear for half the price if they can craft it themselves or salvage it from broken tech. You also get one free reroll for Galvanics rolls that deal with building, repairing or maintaining Aethertech. This should not be an optional class ability. This should be a mandatory addition because good god your toys aren't cheap.
  
• Credentials: You've got a good name like every other time someone takes this type of skill. Add your Parapsychologist stat to your Credibility rolls.
  
• Ghost Hunter: One free reroll per Parapsychology roll when it comes to manipulating an Aetheric field.
  
• Historian: One free reroll for every Intellect or Skill roll that has to do with history or finding history or plumbing archives.
  
• Interns: The Parapsychologist has 3-10 assistants that can help them or come and go as long as you're not a dick to them. You should make up their back stories too.
  
• Keen Eyed: One free reroll for every Perception roll.
  
• Mental Bastion: Can't be affected by any supernatural attempts to get possessed or mind controlled.
  
• Psychical Researcher: The Parapsychologist automatically senses the presence of an enemy Stand when it's used on them, successfully or not. They also get one free reroll for Parapsychology and Psychology rolls that have to do with psychic investigations.
  
• Spectral Eliminations Agency: You've got your own firm. Business 3 and you have an Aether vault to hold spirits.
  
• Spectral Investigator: One free reroll for each Parapsychology roll pertaining to spirits and knowledge of them.
  
• Spirit Finder: Automatically detect the presence of ghosts in a Willx10 foot radius around you and their relative strength but nothing past that.
  
• Spirit Photographer: No special materials needed to photograph ghosts.

• Dead Eye: One free reroll per missed ranged psychic attack.
  
• Force of Will: One free reroll on failed psychic control checks.
  
• Fortified Mind: Treat Chronic Mental Disorders as Minor Mental Disorders. If you start with this one, you can't start with a Chronic Disorder to game points.
  
• Gifted Mind: Free Savant quality, creation choice only.
  
• Latent Medium: Upgrade to Large for 50 cents more.
  
• Mass Perceptions: Automatically succeed checks to split your perceptions while using your powers to view.
  
• Meditations: Enter trances to use certain powers without needing to make a Will roll. When meditating, you can only hear things around and reply to questions. It's a free action to end the trance without a dice roll and if you're knocked out of a trance, it doesn't grant Instability Points.
  
• Mind Shield: Reduce damage taken from Electrokinetic, Pyrokinetic and Telekinetic powers by 1. If you have one rank in the devotion attacking you, reduce it by 2.
  
• Nexus: Extend the range of your powers by adding your Concentration stat to your Will for determining range.
  
• Self Control: One free reroll per each failed Mental Disorder control checks.
  
• Silence: Never suffer Empathic Backlash from Empathy powers, tune out the outside world while using your powers.
  
• Sound Mind: Temporary Insanity from losing control only lasts one day. You can also remove two Instability Points instead of the normal one for eight hours of sleep/relaxation without powers.
  
• Waking Mind: Use trance powers without totally trancing. -3 to Wit, Skill and Charm rolls and only take actions to activate powers or move but you can speak normally and just look very distracted instead of in a full trance.
  
• Wrathful: If you have a wound, if you are attacking a hated foe or if a loved one is in danger, +2 to Electrokinesis, Pyrokinesis and Telekinesis damage rolls.

• Church of England Clergy: Be a priest, a canon, a cathedral dean, a suffragan bishop or a diocesan bishop. PCs can't be higher in the church than diocesan bishop. Variable costs and each gives you various bonuses to call on.
  
• Priest: Ordained by any other order than the Anglican church. Only one level. If you're not in your community, people will think you're a little off base with your beliefs and you're not necessarily in a good political position being a Buddhist or Taoist or Protestant or anything not Anglican. This isn't actually stated to give you anything besides the position of priest in an organization, there's no real ally hooks to call on or changes to wealth or benefits but I dunno, figure something out.
  
• Psi Branch Investigator: Can only be taken by anyone with psychic powers with at least one level in Telepathy, ESP or Prescience. Also requires not having Wanted or Criminal Record impediments and must have 2 in Forensic Science, Streetwise and Law. What does this give you? You start with Wealth 4, a gun, handcuffs, whistle and the ability to arrest/detain people and be a cop.
  
• Secret Government Agent: Exactly what it sounds like. +1 Wealth, gain a handler that gives you mission and access to safe houses.
  
• Secret Occult Society Membership: Also what it sounds like. This can be as benign as pagan worship or exploring sexuality with erotic rituals (not my example, this is in the book) or as dangerous as the exploration of dark arts and other esoteric, dangerous things. You can call on the society for help or things, but don't be a dick and pay back what you owe. Requires Parapsychology 2 to take and talk it over with the GM.

• Escaped Mental Patient: Ayup. And they want you back. This is much more dangerous if you're playing a psychic because they're willing to tell the cops about you.
  
• Monthly Evaluation: Psychics only, can't have Escaped Mental Patient or Unlicensed Psychic. You had a meltdown somewhere and need to meet monthly to see if it's okay for you to still be out in the world. -1 Charm to talking to people who know about your evaluations and if you fail, chances are good you'll lose your license and get committed.
  
• Quick Temper: EAT poo poo. DC 16 Will rolls to resist getting mad at being ignored or insulted.
  
• Unlicensed Psychic: It got revoked or you never registered. You can't legally make money off your powers and worse: you don't start with Concentration 2 as a class skill. -2 to Credibility rolls with psychics and employers who know you're a psychic.

• Cipher (Telepath only): Your mind reading/telepathic sending comes with translate.
  
• Dream Sight (Clairvoyant only): You can use ESP in your sleep instead of a trance. DC 14 Will check to remember your dream when you wake up, otherwise it's fleeting snippets.
  
• Infectious Personality (Empath only): One free reroll on contested Will rolls using your Empathy because, well, you're just that forceful.
  
• Psi-Null: Never become a psychic ever. Grants complete immunity to Empathy and Telepathy, automatically wins Will contests when targeted by a psychic power, causes all psychics within Willx10 feet of the psi-null to gain 1 Instability Point whenever they use a power.
  
• Sensitive: lovely Second Sight. Sort of see/hear spirits depending on how much Will they have, but it's vague and requires Will rolls to understand them. Mediums can't take this.
  
• Spirit-Touched: Higher Sensitivity/a near death experience/being born near a shitload of ghosts makes the PC a spirit-touched half lifer. Gives the Half Lifer benefits, +2 to Will to resist spiritual powers and the ability to see ghosts/hear them like a medium but depending on Will like Sensitivity. Also you can never be a psychic so psychics and other half-lifers can't take this.

• Altered States: Can only use Second Sight/psychic powers when under the influence of a drug or substance. It can be specific or it can just be whatever is at hand, but it can't be a little or a sip; you have to have the effects of the substance to use your powers. Smoke a blunt, shoot lightning from your fingers.
  
• Blinded Sight (Clairvoyant only): Can only use ESP powers when blindfolded, in the dark, your eyes are shut, etc. If you open your eyes, your powers shut off and you gain 1 Instability Point. If you're blinded this impediment no longer matters, but you can't pick both Blinded and Blinded Sight, you would have to be Blinded over the course of play.
  
• Blood Work (Precog only): Can only use Prescience powers when you have an open wound on your body and can possibly only enter a trance if there's a blood focus to concentrate on. This is the same level of Impediment as "can only read minds when high on opium" and yet is much, much worse.
  
• Burns (Pyrokinetic/Electrokinetic only): Failing a control check related to those two powers causes the psychic damage. Fail an Electrokinesis check, roll for damage with a modifier equal to the level of the power you failed to use. Fail a Pyrokinesis check, catch fire.
  
• Combustible Dreams (Pyro only): The PC has nightmares that cause them to set fires in their sleep to try and protect themselves. Every night, the PC must beat a DC 14 Will save to wake up without setting everything around them on fire. Sedating the psychic means that they will automatically be unable to wake up before they start a fire, ensuring damage and danger. Psi-inhibitors are the way to go to sleep without worrying.
  
• Delirium Tremens (Empath/Telepath): Your powers can't affect the awake, the sober or the sane. They have to be groggy, asleep, sedated or mad for you to affect them. This is a pretty big downside.
  
• Dream Bound (Precog): Can only use Prescience while asleep. Like Dream Sight for Clairvoyants but it's the only way to use your powers. DC 14 Will to remember your dreams.
  
• Ghost Lover: The PC is obsessed with a dead lover who is a ghost. Nothing living is as romantically satisfying as the ghost and the ghost is not guaranteed to give a poo poo anymore. On the other hand, the ghost may haunt their past lover.
  
• Hands On (Empathy/Telepathy): You have to touch someone to use your powers on them.
  
• Haunted: You're the focus of a ghost's attentions, severity depends on the level.
  
• Heat Wave (Pyro): Everything within Willx3 feet of the psychic catches fire when they use their powers unless they make a control check. This includes the psychic's clothes, which won't hurt them, but will leave them naked every time.
  
• Hellbent (Precog): Your visions are always tainted with doom, gloom and apocalyptic vision. This is only a 1 point Impediment but...why? This even applies to GOOD visions. Why would you make limiting yourself to depressing/gloomy visions less severe than "can only use your powers when sustaining an open wound"?
  
• Inconsolable (Empathy/ESP/Prescience/Telepathy): Gain 1 Instability Point whenever someone living/half living dies within Willx10 feet of you. Never take this. Everyone's dropping like flies in London.
  
• Mental Strain: If the psychic uses a thought/focus triggered power, they must make a control check to not go catatonic for 2d10+10 minutes.
  
• Phantom Signal (Electrokinetic): Your thoughts are broadcasted as electrical signals over Willx1 mile, including your dreams. Anyone using a radio can hear you.
  
• Psychospasm (Telekinetic): Extra poo poo breaks around you when you use your powers. It's not dangerous, but it's destructive.
  
• Psychotrope (Empathy/Telepathy): Your mental disorders end up in the heads of the people you use your powers on if they fail a DC 11+Psychic's will Will roll. It lasts for 2d10 hours. You will most likely be pumping your Will up as a psychic so this is a terrible drawback to take. It also only gives you 2 points back.
  
• Sandman (Empathy/Telepathy): Anyone you use your powers on will remember your mind the next time they sleep and will learn a secret of yours they can remember with a DC 14 Will roll.
  
• Spirit Beacon: Ghosts dig you. They get +2 to Will rolls when around you.
  
• Visible Manifestation (Telekinesis): People can see the strings when you use your powers.
  
• Waking Dream: Taking this is a terrible idea. Every time you use your powers, make a DC 14 Will roll to not hallucinate for a hour. While hallucinating, -2 to all Charm, Wit, Will, Intellect and Skill rolls.
  
• Weird (Clairvoyant): People can feel your presence like they're being watched when you use ESP.

• Living Furnace (Pyro): You're always warm and don't have to worry about blankets/the cold except for near freezing conditions. Also people can snuggle with you for warmth. This is it. This is the sole Physical Quality this book introduces.

• Ashen Breath (Pyro): Breath mints, dude. -1 to Guile and Seduction rolls.
  
• Draw Lightning (Electrokinetic): Every time the psychic uses their electric powers, there's a chance they will be struck by lightning. Indoors it's not a problem, but there's always a chance it will happen outdoors and during a storm they're guaranteed to be hit at least once. This never hurts the psychic (except for bruises from being thrown from the impact) but everyone around them has to make a damage roll with a +5 modifier, including allies.
  
• Eidolon (Precog/Clairvoyant): Having a body suuuuuucks, not being in a trance suuuuuucks, gently caress eating, gently caress bathing, it's tiring being in a body goddddd I just wanna trance out and use my powers. The psychic can never have a Vitality more than 4 and can't have Gigantism or Light Sleeper.
  
• Entropic Presence (Half-Lifer/Electrokinetic): You kind of just suck the life and heat out of the room. -1 to all Vitality rolls for people around you, -1 to all Medicine rolls around you.
  
• Haywire: Galvanic and aetheric tech breaks or goes bananas around you within 10 feet. In times of high emotions, this increases to Willx3 feet.
  
• Internal Lights (Electrokinetic): You glow! It ebbs and flows depending on your emotions and even your wounds spark/glow. It's easier to hit you in the dark and doctors operating on you have -2 to Medicine because of distracting lights and mild shocks.
  
• Void Marked (Electrokinetic): You've been marked by your powers. You're either bald or have Bride of Frankenstein hair (but pure white) and it's hard for you to be expressive, so -1 to Charm rolls.
  
• Waking Fits: When waking up from sleep or a trance, spend 2d10 minutes in a epileptic fit. If not restrained or helped, make a 2d10-Vitality roll to determine how you hurt yourself from the seizure. NEVER TAKE THIS.

• Dream Recall: Never have to make a roll to remember them. Yep.
  
• Emotionally Dead: YEP. Free reroll per failed Fear rolls, +2 to Will contest rolls, Empaths never suffer Empathic backlash.

• Catalyst of Despair: Requires a Chronic Mental Disorder. Nobody around you can add Concentration to their roll for a Mental Disorder check and any psychics with Empathy, Prescience or Telepathy around you gain 1 Instability Point every time they use their powers.
  
• Delamayn (Empath/Telepath): You're bored with people and with social stuff. gently caress all that noise and gently caress being polite. -2 to Charm unless using a power to manipulate someone. When you're done using the power, DC 14 Will roll to not be overcome with disgust and revulsion at the people around you and possibly undo what you just did.
  
• Reversion: Act like a child in times of stress. Fail a DC 14 Will roll and this is the pain in the rear end the other players will have to put up with for 6d10 minutes.
  
• Sexual Dysfunction: The equipment works but you can't get no satisfaction. DC 14 Will to not be disgusted in romantic/sexual situations, DC 11 if they're courting you already and you dig them.
  
• Timeless (Precog): What if Doctor Manhattan had dementia? The Precog has no sense of time anymore and accidentally lives out the past/future without meaning to. This is a really lovely impediment to take, but they explicitly say it's not dementia, just the psychic's mind is unable to sort through the continuous visions they have. -2 to Credibility rolls, -2 to General Knowledge rolls.

• Agrypnia: Minor or chronic insomnia, depending on severity. If you haven't slept the five hours out of the last day, -2 to Wit, Intellect and Initiative. Sleep requires a sedative and control check to enter a light slumber and if awoken you must make another control check to go back to sleep.
  
• Multiple Personality Disorder: Ohhhh boy. Comes in Minor or Chronic. Control checks to resist switching personalities in times of stress or duress. Fail and you have to wait d10 hours to try and take control again. Fail again and you have to wait d10 hours to try again. Fail again and yeah. Vicious cycle.
  
• Pyromania: Yup. Comes in Minor or Chronic. No sleep and -2 Intellect, Wit, Will, Charm and Skill not pertaining to starting a fire if you fail a control check. You can hold off with small fires, but it inflicts a cumulative -1 to the penalty for every day without a blaze to satisfy.

• Temporary Insanity: Your Latent Insanity returns for 1d10 days (rolled by the GM and the GM is not supposed to tell the player how long they're going to be out of their gourd which is a dick move). When this period is up, the character is back to normal. You can't pick this if you're already undergoing Temporary Insanity.
  
• Degeneration: Your Latent Insanity becomes permanent and you have to pick a new Latent Insanity.
  
• Chronic Madness: One of your active Mental Disorders becomes permanently chronic.

• Compress Sleep: Get the equivalent of a good night's sleep with four hours of meditation.
  
• Dull Pain: Reduce the penalties caused by wounds to skills and such by 1.
  
• Focused Healing: Recover from wounds a week faster than normal with the help of trances.
  
• Suppression: No physical side effects to going without sleep or food but you can still starve to death or go crazy, you just don't feel the distraction of the detrimental effects.
  
• Thought Mask: One free reroll per failed Will rolls to resist external mental influence.
  
• Willpower: One free reroll per failed Will roll to resist addiction.

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• Empathic Bond (self, self range, passive): the Empath can feel when a loved one/acquaintance is experiencing high emotion or dies. They can instinctively feel this regardless of range but can't tell anything else. Death gives the Empathy 1 IP, emotion makes them make a control check. You're supposed to figure out who falls under this with the GM before play and make more as you play but why would you take this? This is just here to punish the Empath or make life harder for them because it can only tell you emotion or death, there's no practical use for this power at all. Never develop this, ever.
  
• Ingratiate (single target, touch, maintained): Light charm, helps put people at ease around the Empath but does not change what they know about them, only how they feel at the moment. Will contest to initiate: if the defender wins the Empath gets +1 IP but if the Empath wins they get +2 to all Charm rolls as long as they're within arm's reach of the Empath. It doesn't need to be maintained if they're within that distance either. This power affects animals to boot.
  
• Read Emotion (single, Willx10 feet+LOS, maintained): The Empath can read emotions of people or animals and know what they're feeling but not necessarily why they're feeling it. Will contest: nothing happens if the Empath loses but if they win they get one free reroll per failed Charm or Psychology rolls against the subject as long as they're in range. Plus, this power can be used to tell if someone is possessed or not. Don't use this power on people with a Chronic Mental Illness or Corruption 4+in any track or ghosts because that leads to a control check.

• Empathic Scan (group, radius Willx10 feet, maintained): Group Read Emotions, carries all the same restriction and rules of Read Emotions. This also has another benefit, though: you can pick up people you can't see and get a vague sense of where they are which is super handy for trying to find hidden people.
  
• Lie Detector (single, Willx10 feet+LOS, maintained): Will contest with the stakes being +1 IP on a failure or automatically knowing if a subject is lying. The power lasts as long as the Empath wants as long as they can hear the subject's voice and the Empath is within the proper range.
  
• Subtle Manipulations (single, Willx5 feet+LOS, maintained): Will contest, +1 IP vs. being able to influence the subject's emotions. The Empath can make the subject automatically fail a second Fear roll if it's a reroll, make the subject beat a Will DC of 11+Empath's Will to not fly off the handle and attack something they designate or just plain change the magnitude and direction of their emotions. As long as the Empath is within the range of the power, the subject has -1 to Will and Charm rolls. This also works on animals.

• Bedroom Eyes (single, LOS, maintained): Seduction through direct eye contact and a Will contest (the subject gets +2 to their Will roll if they would find the Empath gross under normal circumstances). Failure means +1 IP and success means that the subject is romantically infatuated with you. The power lasts as long as it's maintained or if the Empath hurts the subject physically/mentally, at which point the subject can break free on a Charm vs. Will roll.
  
• Heart Strings (Single, thought): The long-term equivalent of Bedrooms Eyes, Heart Strings requires the Empath to spend significant time with the subject AND for the subject to be sexually compatible with the Empath. After a hour with the subject, the Empath can make a Will contest roll: 1 IP vs. 1 point of fondness. The Empathy must accumulate fondness points equal to the subject's will, but can only do this once per day and any interruptions before it's complete sets the process back to zero. When completed, the subject is completely infatuated with the Empath and wants to be around them at all times, giving the Empath +2 to Will and Charm rolls against them. This will last as long as the Empath is around the subject and pretty much nothing can break the spell. To be freed, the subject has to be away from the Empath for a number of months equal to the Empath's Charm stat. Even then, they will be fond of the Empath unless it's abundantly clear that they were taken advantage of.
  
• Provocation (single, Willx10 feet+LOS, maintained): Will roll with stakes of +1 IP vs. the subject becoming violently unstable. If it succeeds, the Empath just needs to maintain it and be around the subject. Once a minute, the subject has to make a Will DC of 11+Empath's Will with a failure resulting in the subject going on a violent rampage, especially if someone is provoking their ire. This works on animals too and will last until the Empath shuts it off or the subject is restrained.

• Grip of Fear (single, Willx10 feet+LOS, maintained): Works on animals, 1 IP vs. the subject being absolutely paralyzed with fear until released or they take damage.
  
• Mass Hysteria (group, radius Willx15 feet, maintained): Pick an emotion and hit a group with it, causing separate Will contests with everyone in the group. As long as the emotion isn't too complicated, it can affect animals too.
  
• True Emotion (single, Willx10 feet+LOS, thought): Like Heart Strings but with a true emotion that will last a lifetime without therapy: fear of bacon on salads, love of interpretive jazz, anger towards horses, lust for Prussian Sky Pirates.

• Dominion (group, radius of Willx200 feet, maintained): Mass Mass Hysteria. You know what's a really, really lovely design choice? Individual Will rolls per subject and you can only choose to not affect people you can see with a control check. The Empath gains +1 IP every time they intentionally use this ability, it causes animals to flee the area in a panic and there's no way the cops aren't going to show up and investigate why poo poo just got weird.
  
• Heart Stopper (single, Willx10 feet+LOS, thought): Will contest, save or die. If the Empath wins, the subject dies from heart failure or aneurysm. If the subject wins, the Empath gains +1 IP but the subject has to make a DC 11+Empath Will fear roll and is permanently afraid of the Empath for the rest of their life, installing a +2 to Intimidation against the subject.
  
• Soul Searcher (single, LOS, passive): Will roll for anyone you see to get one free reroll per failed Torture, Charm or Psychology because the Empath can read how anyone will react to any emotion or stimulus and how they're feeling.

• Psi-Senses (self/self/passive): Plot/Detective Vision. The psychic's vision is augmented with plot important things, lost items, clues and hidden objects glowing faintly. One free reroll per failed Perception roll. Not bad, all things considered.
  
• Sense Presence (single, Willx10 feet radius, thought): You can sense if a subject has been in the area recently. You either have to know them or be able to accurately visualize them. There's a variable DC, but failure means 1 IP and it automatically fails if the subject has not been there. Also using this on someone with 4+ Corruption or Chronic Mental Disorders forces a Control check because you're tracking people by lingering thought patterns.
  
• Teleperception (self, Willx10 feet, maintained): Throw one of your senses by projecting it to a specific point. Blind psychics can see, deaf psychics can hear, hungry psychics can try that chocolate cake without buying any. Maintaining more than one sense in one area or in general requires splitting perception.

• Aura Sight (single, LOS, maintained): Aura Sight doesn't need a dice roll and can just be used whenever. You can use it on as many people as you want to at once and using it gives +1 on Charm, Interrogation, Perception, Torture, Medicine, Parapsychology and Psychology rolls against the subject. It can also be used to see the auras of animals, tell the psychic if the subject is using a psychic power (but not which) and can be used by blind psychics to see aura outlines and use powers that would require line of sight.
  
• Darklight (self, LOS, maintained): See in the dark. The world may still be dark but everything item in it is defined by a grey-gold glow. You can't tell color, but you can read in the dark or a blind psychic could maintain it to "see" again.
  
• Psychometry (single object, touch, maintained): Read psychic impressions left on items. Beat a Will DC (variable, failure inflicts 1 IP but can be tried again) to get a clear picture of the last person to handle the item. While Psychometry is being maintained, other powers can be used to read the person in the vision (like Aura Sight or Read Emotion). The more powerful the psychic stain left on an item, the easier it is to view the wielder and sometimes the psychic might have to make a Control check.

• Minor Clairvoyance (self, Willx150 feet, maintained): Trance out and throw your senses into a place within that effective radius. The psychic perceives the area as if they're standing there and can use further powers to read people or the world around them. This can be used on multiple locations at once but again: make sure you have Split Perception.
  
• Psi Tracker (single, variable, maintained): Use Sense Presence to find a subject then use Psi Tracker to retrace your steps. If the target has gone through a populated area, it'll take a Wits roll to keep the trail.
  
• Telelocation (single object/animal, Willx5 miles, maintained): Find specific objects by focusing on them. The power won't tell you the precise location, but it will tell you the direction and roughly how close you are to the object. The power works best on items the psychic has touched, has a photo of or has seen in the mind of someone. First, the psychic must trance out and beat a Will DC (easier if you've touched the object) to discern if the object is within the radius and figure out its direction. Failure results in 1 IP and a headache. If you want a specific location, you can grab a map and make another Will roll to pin-point the location. Telelocation will also tell the psychic if the item is moving, how fast it's moving and in which direction it's moving.

• Aura Scan (group, LOS, maintained): Like Aura Scan but on a group of people automatically.
  
• Major Clairvoyance (self, Willx10 miles, maintained): See further as per Minor Clairvoyance.
  
• Photospheres (group, LOS, passive): Photospheres are literal thought bubbles that appear when a psychic reads someone's aura. They give insight into a subject's thoughts, beliefs and soul. Seeing a subject's photospheres gives the psychic one free reroll per failed Charm, Psychology, Parapsychology, Torture or Interrogation rolls.

• Astral Projection (self, limitless, maintained): Eject your spirit from your body in a trance and explore the world. Clairvoyants of this magnitude are endlessly useful to London by watching important areas or carrying messages. The psychic can travel hundreds of miles in minutes, but it helps to want to view someplace you've been before. However, there are some pretty heavy rules. First: the astral body can be acted on or detected by Telepathy, ESP, Empathy and Prescience. You can also be seen with Second Sight and you can be treated like a spirit. Third, you gain 1 IP per use of power. Fourth, and most importantly, there are some places you can't view:
  
  See the world, except when you can't because GM fiat/developer fiat.
  
• Revelation (self, Willx500 foot radius, maintained): Sense people as they come and go around you, and by people I mean everyone. This can be used in lieu of line of sight for certain powers.
  
• Seeker (single, limitless, maintained): Improved Telelocation. Seeker can be used on people now, but it's harder to use on people and it can't be used with a map to pinpoint people. The best it can do is point you in the direction and give you a sense of how close you are.

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• Flashes (single, touch, passive): The precog has no control over this power. Poke someone, get a premonition in the form of a flash, an emotion or a few words. Touching people with high Corruption forces a control check.
  
• Premonition (self, self, passive): Get one or two premonitions per session whenever the GM feels like. The precog has no control over this and really bad premonitions force a control check.
  
• Sixth Sense (self, self, passive): +1 to Initiative, any surprise attacks against you automatically miss before proper combat, any attacks against you while you're asleep will wake you or make you toss to make it miss.

• Awareness (self, self, passive): On its own, you always know when you're being watched. Alternately, the precog can focus for a minute and beat a Will 16 DC to pinpoint where the watcher is within Willx50 feet. This can also be used to detect undead.
  
• Portent (one topic, self, thought): Trance for five minutes after picking a subject then make a control check. If you succeed, you get a good or bad feeling about the topic. The precog can then make a DC 16 Wit roll to try and glean a little more information.
  
• Uncontrolled Vision (one topic, self, passive): The GM can force you to view visions without warning. They are generally vague and distracting and the precog may see something completely unrelated to what they're currently doing. The precog can make a control check to try and shut down the vision if they don't want to see it (or if the GM is a dick and hit them with a vision in the middle of combat).

• Augury (self, self, maintained): Trance for a hour and make a control check to gain a vision on a topic of choice. It's like Uncontrolled Vision but you're actually seeking the vision.
  
• Future Sight (self, self, thought): Make a control check. If it succeeds, the GM will narrate the most likely events of the next five minutes. This can be changed or altered by the precog's actions or the info might be wrong or misleading.
  
• Guided Hand (self, self, maintained): Turn the power on a pick a skill then get one free reroll per failed roll for that skill as long as it's maintained. I don't see anything saying you can't pick a combat skill.

• Pathfinder (self, self, maintained): The precog can enter a waking trance that will allow them to fulfill something the player describes to the GM. This can be something like "find a secret exit", "pick the right wire to cut" or "walk me through the slums without getting mugged". The precog moves like a sleepwalker while it's active, gains +3 to Leaping and Climbing , is immune from outright harm due to GM fiat and will sidestep or wait out hazards like Mr. Magoo. The trance automatically ends when the goal is achieved or they can try to roll out of it.
  
• Preternatural Reflexes (self, self, maintained): While the power is active, the precog can dodge and parry BOTH melee and ranged attacks, reroll their Initiative or get one free reroll per failed Coordination roll. How do you parry a ranged attack? I imagine you grab something with a flick of the wrist like Jackie Chan would.
  
• Retrocognition (self, self, maintained): Focus on a person, place or thing to gain information. This works better if you've touched it/them, met them or been there or if they're present/you're at them. The info is vague or incomplete and there's a lot to sort through, but you will get urgent/immediate/powerful info quickly. Also don't use this power on someone with a high Corruption unless you want to witness their personal history of atrocities.

• Dreamshaper (group, Willx3 mile radius, thought): The precog mass-broadcast a psychic vision to people around them in that radius. The normal version only targets other precogs but you can eat 1 IP to target EVERYONE. The precog also automatically passes down any huge visions they receive to every lesser precog around them, but only in facets or broken pieces.
  
• Fate Weaver (self/self/thought): The precog can use their own Second Chances and Devil's Luck for any dice roll or any situation or for another character's benefit. This is a reference to a mechanic I don't like from the whole game: you get Second Chances for certain rerolls equal to your highest Corruption rating, and you can use Devil's Luck to increase your Corruption by 1 if you're out of chances and you're up poo poo creek. It's a badly implemented knock-off of Warhammer's Fate Points and they exist because your characters are all inherently corrupt and Byronic hero etc. etc. I sincerely apologize that the description for this power ended up becoming a rehashing of the mechanics because I sincerely didn't remember how they worked.
  
• Prophecy (one topic, self, thought): Visions forever whenever without needing to trance. The precog's visions are still incapacitating but if you keep using the power on the same topic, you'll get pretty much the same vision to allow yourself to get more details and a more clear image. Using this power costs 1 IP point.

• Distraction (single, Willx5 feet+LOS, maintained): Contested Will roll where failure is 1 IP and a success lets you distract the subject with some kind of phantom stimuli. This can be something out of the corner of their eye, the urge to go to the bathroom or a whisper in their ear but nothing that shuts down a sense completely. The victim can't add Concentration to Will rolls and gets -1 to Perception rolls; the telepath can maintain this as long as they want without line of sight once it's on.
  
• Silent Voice (single, Willx5 feet+LOS, thought): Broadcast ten words or a simple image to someone's head. The words can be heard aloud in their head. The subject can resist the message, which forces a Will roll where success gets it across and failure gives the telepath 1 IP.
  
• Thought Reader (single, Willx5 feet+LOS, maintained): Skim the mind of a target but you can't go any deeper than that. Requires a Will contest, 1 IP vs. success. This can also be used on ghosts but the telepath always gets 1 IP. As long as it's maintained it doesn't need to be line of sight and the telepath gets +1 to Charm and Psychology against the target. Should the target attack, the telepath gets +2 to dodging or parrying their attacks. That's a nice little bonus.
  

• Mind Scan (group, Willx10 feet radius, maintained): Mass Thought Reader, has most of the same rules. However, should the telepath not have Silence, they will gain 1 IP for every minute it's active. They can only focus on one mind's thoughts at a time but switch to another mind for free, plus the telepath can feel where people are if they can't see them. Will contest of the telepath vs. everyone where failure just means the telepath can't read that person.
  
• Pain Induction (single, Willx10 feet+LOS, maintained): Wrack the target with excruciating pain that does no lasting damage. Will contest, success vs. 1 IP. Success inflicts -2 to Attribute, Initiative and Skill rolls as long as the telepath maintains it.
  
• Thought Transfer (single, Willx10 feet+LOS, maintained): Speak/send messages remotely back and forth between the telepath and the subject. Doesn't allow mind reading or thought viewing, just whatever is sent. It can be used on ghosts at the cost of 1 IP. Should the subject move out of range, the link is broken.
  

• Conduit (group, Willx15 foot radius+LOS, maintained): Group Thought Transfer with maximum participants equal to the telepath's Will.
  
• Memory Suppression (single, Willx10 feet+LOS, thought): First, the telepath must contact the target's mind (use Thought Reader at the very least, Mind Scan, Cognivore, Omniscience or Thought Reader work too). The telepath can then make a contested Will roll, success vs. 1 IP. If successful, the telepath can edit or remove the details of up to one minute of their memory. This can be hella illegal and abused so don't do that, I guess.
  
• Psychosomnia (single, Willx15+LOS, maintained): Will contest, success or 1 IP. A success means the target is put into a deep sleep and can't be woken until the power is no longer maintained. If the power is cut off, the target sleeps normally for 1d10 minutes and will then awaken. The book notes that Psychosomnia can be used instead of anesthesia for medicine which I would imagine would be really handy for gutter surgery.
  

• Cognivore (single, Willx5 feet+LOS, maintained): Will contest, success vs. 1 IP. On a success, the telepath can dig through the mind of the target to bring up specific memories. If the target resists, the experience is painful and terrifying and causes -2 to Wit, Intellect and Skill rolls while it's active and for a hour after. The experience will often cause the target to try to fight back or escape, so restrain them first. If the target allows it to happen, the experience feels weird but there's no pain or downsides. The power lasts as long as it's maintained, and it may take a while to find the memory you're looking for depending on how old it is.
  
• Overmind (single, Willx10 feet+LOS, maintained): Will contest, save vs. 1 IP. If successful, the telepath will forcibly take control of the target and control their body. The target can be forced to take the actions the telepath wants (double their Will for the resistance if the actions are suicidal/dangerous), the telepath can shut off the target's senses, the telepath can make the target experience vivid/realistic hallucinations or they can make the target do something the target knows how to do. The target has -3 to all Attribute and Will rolls while controlled, so they can't do everything.
  
• Psychogenesis (single, Willx10 feet+LOS, maintained): Hooboy. Psychogenesis requires the telepath to fully map out the mind of a subject for no less than 8 hours using Cognivore. Everything this power does will most likely be permanent and depends on what the telepath wants to do and requires a Will contest (success vs. 1 IP) when it begins. Psychogenesis can be used to: cloud/bury memories (in the form of lost time/amnesiac episodes), manipulate/create new/delete memories (which can be linked to a trigger to make them remember/forget but deleted memories are gone), implant commands, mental stabilization/destabilization (which can also be linked to triggers) or implant a secret message (requires a trigger for them to get it). This power has the potential for abuse or it can be used to get people back into a safe state of mind.
  

• Mind Slave (single, touch, maintained): Will contest, where no matter what the telepath gets 1 IP. Mind Slave shunts the personality and consciousness into the target's body and leaves the telepath's body in a coma. While in the body of the target, they are suppressed and can't stop themselves from following the telepath's commands. When ridden, the body uses the telepath's Wit, Intellect and Will, the body's Vitality and Coordination and an average of their Charm. People may notice the body is acting odd and Clairvoyants can see two auras in the same body. If the telepath loses concentration, sleeps, is made unconscious or if either body dies, the target regains control.
  
• Omniscience (group, Willx200 feet, passive): The telepath starts to influence people who spend long periods of time around them, knowing when people leave or enter the radius. They will pick up small traits of the telepath and the telepath can use Thought Reader on them at will or borrow their senses or use other powers on them as if they could see them.
  
• Puppet Master (group, Willx50 feet, maintained): The telepath can use Mass Pain Induction, Psychosomnia or Overmind. This targets everyone around them, including allies, unless the telepath can see them and makes a control check.
  

• Bio-charger (multiple items, touch, maintained): While maintained, the psychic can use their own energy to power galvanic devices (completely bypassing their batteries and power sources) or the psychic can recharge batteries by touch over the span of a minute or longer.
  
• Electromagnetism (self, Willx3 foot radius, maintained): The psychic can generate an electromagnetic field that can repel or attract metal objects. Be careful of small objects rocketing towards you at rapid speeds. When the field attracts, the psychic gains +3 to climbing metal surfaces. When repelling, everyone in the area risks being pelted by small metal objects with a +1 damage roll and any attacks by a metal weapon/projectile give the psychic +1 armor for the whole body for resisting the attack.
  
• Power Vacuum (multiple objects, Willx5 foot radius, maintained): The psychic can directly adjust the flow of energy in the area. They can cut off objects from drawing from the aetheric grid (so when they run out, they run out), overload them (rendering them inoperable until repaired) or simply drain their batteries. The first and third sound similar but in the case of the first, they can still be used until they run out of juice.
  

• Electrical Discharge (single, touch, maintained): Shocking Grasp. The psychic builds a charge with this power that lasts until it's released or stops being maintained. Make a normal attack roll, then add the psychic's Will to the damage result using the electrical shock table. The power can either be an unarmed touch (which will automatically hit and hurt the opponent if the psychic is being grappled) or they can choose to inflict electrical damage through a weapon (which deals two rolls: normal weapon attack and electrical damage). The power can also be used to attack galvanic machines. Once it's released, it has to be recharged with an action.
  
• Galvanic Manipulation (single, Willx5 feet+LOS, maintained): The psychic can use their electrokinesis to make a machine function or stop functioning as long as it's maintained. It only lasts as long as you can see it. So, for example, you can stop a galvanic rifle from firing as long as you tell it to, or you can make it spontaneously fire, but you can't control it or aim it. Using this power forces a control check but regardless of result it succeeds; it's just making you flip a coin over whether or not you gain IP.
  
• Static Emitter (self, Willx150 foot radius, maintained): Scramble radios in the area. Helpful but not fancy.
  

• Electrical Blast: Lightning Bolts! Point, click and boom with a ranged attack and a +Will damage modifier on the shock table. This can be used on machines as well and can blind people with the flash in dark places. Make a control check after using the power.
  
• Galvanic Field (self, Willx10 feet radius, maintained): Bio-Charger+. It powers everything in the radius and the psychic gets +1 to intimidation while it's active.
  
• Radio Transception (self, Willx1 mile radius, maintained): The psychic turns their brain into a radio to broadcast, receive and decode radio waves over one or many frequencies. You need the Silence ability, and I mean you sincerely need it or otherwise you just get 1 IP and a headache.
  

• Electrical Storm (self, Willx10 feet radius, thought): The psychic can call down a point-blank AoE bonanza of lightning that automatically deals +Will shock damage rolls. This is, again, for EVERYONE in the area, including allies unless the psychic can see them and make a control check to exclude them. This also damages machines and the psychic automatically gains +1 IP.
  
• Machine Mind (multiple objects, Willx15 foot radius, maintained): Galvanic Manipulation+. The psychic still needs to make a control check (the power works regardless) and the psychic can tell the items what to do individually: this is off, this is on, etc. The same limitations of control apply.
  
• Synaptic Overload (single, Willx10 feet+LOS, maintained): Here we start getting into very dangerous toys: psychic's Will vs. double the subject's Vitality. If the subject wins, the psychic gets 1 IP. If the psychic wins, they get to pick one of the following: complete bodily paralysis (no actions, even speaking), seizures (that will last as long as the power does and then 1d5 minutes after it's ended, the subject makes a damage roll if not restrained from the seizures) or out and out death. This doesn't work on the undead but it does work on animals. There are many more Save Or Die powers to come.
  

• Electrocutioner (group, Willx15 feet radius, maintained): Mass Synaptic Overload for the price of 1 IP, where the psychic picks one result (seizure, paralysis, death) and makes one Will roll, the targets making their own individual rolls. This also targets allies in the area unless the psychic can make a control check and see them. Yes, a sufficiently powerful Electrokinetic can accidentally cause a partial/full party kill if a series of bad rolls are made and they pick death.
  
• Entropy (self, Willx30 foot radius, maintained): The psychic can actively devour power: aetheric energy, radiation, heat. First the power goes out and any fires snuff. After two minutes, everyone living/half-living in the area (including the psychic) take -2 to all Skill and Attribute rolls in the area. After five more, everyone takes a +Will damage roll and then every minute after as everyone freezes. Padded/insulated clothing doubles the time between rolls. The power deals 1 IP to use.
  
• Ion Blast (single, Willx15 feet+LOS, thought): The psychic can launch a ball of energy with the force of a nuke (or a Van Haller Death Ray) with a ranged attack. This is by far the most dangerous weapon in the Electrokinetic arsenal. First, the psychic must make a control check to make the ranged attack; if you fail, the psychic is the epicenter of the blast and is instantly atomized. If the ranged attack misses, it hits 2d10 feet away. If it hits, the target is atomized and the blast has a diameter of Willx3 feet. Anything in the blast takes +Willx2 on a damage roll, anything that takes less than a Fatal Wound is thrown clear and set on fire. If the damage is Fatal, the target is vaporized. Finally, everyone who witnesses the blast is blinded temporarily, the psychic gains +1 IP and there's a giant, empty crater left from the blast.
  

• Fanning the Flames (single, Willx10 feet+LOS, maintained): The psychic can control an existing fire by causing it to flare, burn out or lower to a smolder. If it flares, it triples in size and anyone around the fire catches fire.
  
• Ignite (single, Willx5 feet+LOS, maintained): Set something on fire with your mind or perform that old chestnut where you superheat something in a guy's hand and it hurts them until they let go. Make a control check after using.
  
• Radiance (self, self, maintained): Let the world see how grossly incandescent you are. The psychic creates a five foot sphere of warmth around their body that keeps people warm and they will glow bright enough to illuminate a room. You also give enemies +2 to attacks to shoot you because you're a big glowing target.
  

• Fire Charmer (single, Willx10 feet+LOS, maintained): The psychic needs to make a control check at the start but can still use the power. The psychic can sculpt, control and move fire as long as it has a fuel source and can use it as a weapon with an attack roll.
  
• Firewalker (single, self, maintained): Anything on the psychic's person or held in their arms can't be harmed by natural fire. This doesn't protect against smoke or debris, just fire. If you're attacked by another psychic with Pyrokinesis, subtract your Will from their damage roll.
  
• Torch (self, self+LOS, maintained): Ignite a limb or end of a weapon with harmless fire as long as it's maintained. The fire acts as a light source and can be used for an unarmed attack or put a fire damage roll (plus igniting the target, +Will for damage) on top of a weapon damage roll.
  

• Burning Man(self, self, maintained): Set your entire body on fire and become a walking flame. It will burn off anything flammable on your body so I hope you like fighting people naked. People get +2 to hit you, but being on fire makes animates not want to attack you, all unarmed attacks against you set the attacker on fire and any of your melee attacks set people on fire. This is also tremendously useful if you're tied up or being grappled. Each use costs 1 IP.
  
• Eruption of Flame (single, Willx10 feet+LOS, thought): Make a control check where success ignites the air around the target to create a fireball. Anyone in the epicenter is knocked down and set on fire with +Will damage, the damage reduced by 1 for every three feet. This can also burn people's clothes off and the blast will affect the psychic if they're caught in range.
  
• Flame Jet (group, Willx5 feet, thought): Projects an AoE cone with a Willx8 inch circumference. Make a ranged attack against everyone in range of the fire that deals 2xWill+ damage and sets them on fire.
  

• Blazing Aura (self, Willx3 feet radius, maintained): The psychic creates a superhot zone that ignites everything but themselves and their clothes. The aura melts bullets, sets anyone in the area on fire and wards away Animates. You can also use a Control Check to render people/things immune to the power's ability. The aura costs 1 IP to use.
  
• Psychic Crucible (single, Willx10 feet+LOS, thought): Fill a Willx2 foot radius area with enough heat to melt steel (in two minutes) or crumble stone (in three). Anyone in the area catches fire and if they can't escape will die in ten seconds and turn to ash in 30. The psychic must make a control check when the power is resolved.
  
• Spontaneous Combustion (single, Willx15 feet+LOS, thought): Save or die against living/half-living subjects. Will vs. 2xVitality for the target, 1 IP vs. setting the target on fire to the bone and setting everything around them in a three foot radius ablaze.
  

• Conflagration (self, Willx50 foot radius, maintained): Control and manipulate all fires in the area around the psychic. This power requires a control check to start. This can be used to devastating effect.
  
• Firestorm (self, Willx50 foot radius, thought): Explode and ignite the air around the psychic in a PBAoE. The psychic must make a control check to be immune from the effects of their own power which automatically inflicts a Willx2+ damage roll, concusses and sets on fire. Anyone who sustains a Fatal wound is turned to ash. The firestorm lasts for three rounds and everyone in the area has to make a Vitality roll to hold their breath or choke on fire and ash. Unlike most of these powers, the psychic can't choose to exclude people or things.
  
• Spontaneous Devastation (group, Willx30 foot radius, thought): Group Spontaneous Combustion that is capable of hitting allies too. Costs 1 IP to use.
  

• Force Blow (single, Willx5 feet+LOS, thought): Force Blow is a simple telekinetic punch but doesn't hold up well to armor but it can knock people out with a blow to the head. It requires a control check after use.
  
• Strong Arm (self, self, maintained): Replace the psychic's Vitality with their Will for melee attacks, lifting carrying (or get +1 Vitality if they're equal). The psychic also doesn't have to deal with Coordination penalties for armor.
  
• Telekinetic Manipulation (single, Willx3 feet+LOS, maintained): You can only manipulate one object at a time, you can't squeeze a throat until it chokes, but you can repeatedly use the power to manipulate more than one thing at once or trip people.
  

• Force Hammer (single, Willx10 feet+LOS, thought): Improved Force Blow, all the same requirements but with better range and double the Will damage bonus.
  
• Pin (single, Willx5 feet+LOS, maintained): Force Grapple. It requires a control check but works regardless of the check. The grappled subject can be choked, used as a human shield or pressed up against something.
  
• Telekinetic Shield (self, self, maintained): Control check, 1 IP vs. the shield. The shield gives you full body armor depending on Will: 1 for 1/2, 2 for 3/4, 3 for 5+. This stacks on top of other armor and can also deflect rain and smog.
  

• Bone Snapper (single, Willx10 feet+LOS, thought): If the psychic succeeds a Will vs. 2xVitality roll (losing gains 1 IP), the psychic can inflict a Complication as they see fit on the subject. Complications are bad and range from broken fingers, severed limbs, disemboweling or organ damage. They can also pick a Complication that will leave the subject near death if not attended to within the minute. A psychic with Medicine 4 can do things in a more subtle way: constrict blood vessels, stop the heart, shut down an organ. If this power is used on the undead, the psychic can simply crush their skull (or heart if a vampire) to kill them instantly.
  
• Greater Manipulation (single, Willx10+LOS, maintained): Better telekinesis. Drop people to their deaths, choke them, propel heavy things or glass/nails/knives at them with the force of a shotgun blast. Fun stuff.
  
  
• Levitation (self, self, maintained): Fly Willx3 feet per turn or hover. Wind is your enemy.
  

• Force Barrier (single, Willx10 feet+LOS, maintained): The barrier can be up to Willx3 feet in diameter and conforms to the space it's placed in. It can't keep out air, sound or elements so you're still vulnerable to galvanic attacks or other psychic powers, but it can keep out bullets and any other objects or spirits. The psychic needs to make a control check to use this power but will use it regardless.
  
• Mass Manipulation (group, Willx15 foot radius+LOS, maintained): Even more better telekinesis, but you can just manipulate things in a group and don't need to maintain multiple uses of the power.
  
  
• Wrecking Ball (single, Willx15 feet+LOS, thought): The psychic can send a big ol' ball of telekinesis at a target with a double Will modifier for damage on the explosion table. The attack is on par with a grenade but the psychic isn't immune to their own power, so be careful or attack from behind a force wall.
  

• Massacre (group, Willx30 feet+LOS, thought): Mass Bone Snapper but can't be used subtly. Yes, your friends are not immune to this unless you want them to be. Hits the psychic with 1 IP to use and is quite good for killing a giant mass of undead.
  
• Total Control (group, Willx150 feet+LOS, maintained): Hurt people and add a Willx3 damage bonus, do anything you could by hand with a -3 penalty for skills. This too requires a control check before use but won't stop you from using it.
  
  
• Tremor (self, Willx150 foot radius, maintained): Create a localized earthquake. Anyone in this area automatically takes +Will damage, is concussed and can't stand. This power costs 1 IP to use, cannot protect your friends from it, can easily destroy buildings and even the psychic isn't safe unless they Levitate off the ground. Also the cops will come after you for gross property damage. The big danger of this power comes from the collapsing building and debris landing on people in the zone of effect and there's no way to use it in London without killing a bunch of people.
  

• 2: The patient accidentally becomes psychic and gains a Latent Insanity and one power at level one.
  
• 3: Permanent vegetative state.
  
• 4: Reduce the patient's Will by 1.
  
• 5: Neurological damage: roll 1d10 where 1-4 means the patient goes blind, 5-7 means they go deaf and 8-10 means they become mute. Wonderful. Great.
  
• 6: The patient gains epilepsy and seizures. If this is rolled again/they already had that, nothing happens.
  
• 7: Amnesia.
  
• 8: Patient gains a weird vacant stare and monotone and -1 to all non-Intimidation Charm rolls when speaking to someone without a mental disorder.
  
• 9: Gives the patient a new mental disorder or exacerbates the one being treated into becoming chronic.
  
• 10: Partial success with a complication. Mental impediments/minor disorders are removed, chronic become minor, the lobotomy didn't work and just gave the patient a black eye. Roll again but reroll any results of Death, Partial Success or Partial with complications.
  
• 11: Partial success: same as above but without needing to roll again.
  
• 12: Partial success with complication.
  
• 13: Patient becomes sickened and loses certain physical qualities.
  
• 14: Patient becomes illiterate.
  
• 15: Patient becomes melancholic.
  
• 16: Patient loses muscle control and gains -2 to Prowess.
  
• 17: Patient gains Uncontrollable Temper.
  
• 18: -1 to Coordination; if lowered to 0, patient becomes a paraplegic.
  
• 19: Brain damage reduces the patient's Intellect to 1; previous Academic skills aren't lowered/lost but new ones are limited. Intellect can never recover past 3.
  
• 20: Death from brain damage.
  

• 8 or less: patient dies.
  
• 9-10: Total failure, roll three times on the Psychic Induction Side Effect Table. Patient can be used again after recovery is complete but you did just break their minds and those effects might be permanent so good job there.
  
• 11-14: Failure, roll once on the table. Can be used again after they recover.
  
• 15-16: The patient is instead made Psi-Null.
  
• 17-18: The patient gains one power at level one and a latent insanity at the cost of tremendous damage done (three rolls on the side effects table).
  
• 19-20: Partial success; one roll on the side effects, one power at level one and one latent insanity.
  
• 21-22: Flawed apotheosis; the patient gains one power at level three, a latent insanity and three rolls on the side effects table. Considering what most psychics can do at level three, most of them turn on their tormentors immediately.
  
• 23-24: Success; one power at level 3, one roll on the side effects table, one latent insanity.
  
• 25+: True apotheosis: the patient gets one power at level four, one side effect and latent insanity.
  

• 2: Patient gains Photographic Memory, Savant and Synaesthesia qualities from the sundering of their mind. No effects if this is rolled again.
  
• 3: -1 to Vitality and Coordination from treatment of procedure, is cumulative if rolled repeatedly. Death at 0 of either.
  
• 4: Amnesia, a blessing of sorts. No effects if rolled again.
  
• 5: Patient gains the Fits Impediment and becomes prone to seizures/epilepsy. No effects if rolled again.
  
• 6: The pain suffered is reflected through the patient's eyes, giving them the Evil Eye impediment and a creepy look. No effects if rolled again.
  
• 7: Psychological scars in the form of Night Terrors. No effects if rolled again.
  
• 8: Hypersensitivity impediment. No effects if rolled again.
  
• 9: Melancholy impediment. No effects if rolled again.
  
• 10: Mental damage, reducing Wit/Intellect by 1. Cumulative, lowers skills too, 0 in either is coma/vegetative state.
  
• 11: -1 to Will, cumulative, 0 means the patient just can't respond to any stimulus anymore and will live the rest of their life in a fugue.
  
• 12: Uncontrollable Temper. No effects if rolled again.
  
• 13: -1 to Charm, same as Will if reduced to 0, cumulative.
  
• 14: Patient goes blind. No effects if rolled again.
  
• 15: Patient becomes mute. No effects if rolled again.
  
• 16: Patient goes deaf. No effects if rolled again.
  
• 17: Patient becomes Lame. No effects if rolled again.
  
• 18: Permanent -2 on all Mental Disorder control checks.
  
• 19: Patient gains Accelerated Decrepitude. No effects if rolled again.
  
• 20: Eye of the Abyss: the patient undergoes a mental transformation that renders them completely immune to Telepathy or Empathy, can never develop either and forces control checks of those powers around them.
  

Vox Valentine fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Mar 21, 2016

• Spirits don't have Vitality or Coordination; Will is their health stat and they also have Wit, Charm and Intellect. If a spirit's Will hits 0, they're laid to rest or destroyed.
  
• For every month of existence, a spirit must make a DC 11 Will roll where failure reduces Will by 1 until permadeath.
  
• Spirits cause Fear rolls unless you are friends with an Exorcist. Be friends with an Exorcist.
  
• Spirits spawn with a secondary manifestation and it's not uncommon for them to spawn with more than one of the following: Aetheric Disruptions, Darkness, Ectoplasm, Hallucinations, Mists, Noises, Smells, Spectral Glows, Strange Feelings, Temperature Changes.
  

• Audibility: ghost can become audible at will. Their noises can deafen people for a while but who can hear them depends on their Will.
  
• Corporeality: ghost can temporarily make a body for itself out of ectoplasm to touch people. Does not last long at all, really not worth it.
  
• Dread: ghost forces a fear roll. If the living/half living fail, the ghost regains Will or loses Will if nobody is scared.
  
• Dread Communication: spy on the living, talk to them politely or force them to experience dreadful nightmares (but you can't kill them in their sleep).
  
• Fetch: if someone dies in the ghost's presence, they become a ghost too and that ghost gets the Fetch manifestation as well. Quite a vicious cycle.
  
• Ghost in the Machine: ghost can broadcast over radio frequencies and control machines like an Electrokinetic can.
  
• Harbinger: the ghost can curse an object to break or malfunction or work how it shouldn't or curse a person to befall an accident ranging from "inconvenient" to "possibly fatal". Kayako from The Grudge would have this power.
  
• Madness Induction: ghost can force madness in people around them.
  
• Nature Manipulation: control vines, trees, animals, build a body for yourself out of a swarm of angry bees, etch swear words into a lawn by commanding grass to die.
  
• Pestilence: carry the disease that killed you, making it harder to avoid disease or making a contested Will roll to make someone catch the disease. Fortunately for the "no undead" rule, I don't think you can carry the zombie plague.
  
• Possession
  
• Psychical Powers
  
• Spectral Vampirism: devour the Vitality of the living to regain Will but can only be used if your Will is lower than your starting Will.
  
• Spectrivore: the same as above but with eating other ghosts. In this world, it's kill or be killed. Except we're both ghosts.
  
• Tempus Fugit: ghost can accelerate time and aging in organic/nonorganic targets. It can attack people and age them 1d10 years or can use their powers on non-living material and age everything in Willx10 feet around them one year per minute.
  
• Visibility: become visible to people without Second Sight.
  
• Weather Control: bad news, the ghost's new body is made out of angry bees and it's shooting hailstones and lightning at us.
  

• Death, as in they are terrified of death and don't believe they're dead (convinced a person they were alive/were treated like they're alive).
  
• Desire (indulging in its appetite).
  
• Devotion (helped/protected their object of devotion).
  
• Duty (regain info on self, perform task or gain insight).
  
• Love (share a moment of real affection).
  
• Madness (inspire fear/cause pain).
  
• Sin (make amends/help someone in need).
  
• Vengeance (REVEEEEEEEENGE!).
  

Vox Valentine fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Mar 28, 2016

• Ghosts don't gotta be evil, man, but if the whole campaign revolves around one ghost you shouldn't be too frustrating for the players.
  
• Alienist NPCs/bad guys should be the ones abusing their authority while the PCs should be more investigative or supportive of the other PCs.
  
• The developers flat out admit that the Exorcist is the most versatile of all classes and should just be used however but synergy with the other player's ideas works best.
  
• Mediums have two jobs: see ghosts, be theatrical. Or just...don't pick a Medium and get Latent Medium as a Psychic or Mourner.
  
• Parapsychologists should have technology that matches the group composition and general enemy spread. They also point out that their friendship with secret society or cults of knowledge are good for plot hooks. Evil parapsychologists are pretty much super scientist villains or ghost-obsessed nut jobs.
  
• Try not to be a dick with your psychic powers but the GM should use the game's mechanics as leverage to keep your rear end in line. Actually this has the longest bit of chatter in the whole section, taking into account how powerful they can be, and amounts to "yeah there's psychics but they're not omniscient if they're NPCs". Also the psychics shouldn't overshadow the normal classes which is a fair point but hard to execute well.
  

• Chasing the Dragon: a Desire-Bound ghost hangs out at an opium den and likes to possess the owners/patrons to indulge in their hungers and run criminal affairs from beyond the grave. Unfortunately, the ghost has the Fetch power and it tends to party too hard to the point where people it possess die, and ghosts made from Fetch HAVE Fetch and the opium den is rapidly approaching Critical Ghost Mass.
  
• Psychic Gone Amuck: A psychic has gone insane from pushing too hard and what's worse is that they're powerful. Comes in three different flavors. First, a catatonic level five empath is unintentionally broadcasting their nightmares into the brains of everyone around them and Deathwatch will raze the area if the PCs can't stop the riots and wake up/kill the empath. Second, a telepathic spiritualist cult leader with second sight has gone paranoid and is kidnapping people to make poltergeists the hard way to build an army. Finally, an electrokinetic precog with paranoia and an urge to kill is broadcasting their thoughts all over London before threatening someone at random and killing them within a week. I kinda like this seed a lot because it's got some creative use of the powers and it has three different types of psychic antagonists.
  
• Tangled Webs: Mediums are being kidnapped/disappearing all around London, all of them famous/charismatic. They're being taken by a gang of criminals who killed one of their own and then realized too late that the dead man was the only one with knowledge of a giant haul of cash. The ghost doesn't want to talk to the others and so far all of the mediums have been shysters or not strong enough to convince the ghost otherwise, leading to a bad fate and another kidnapping.
  
• Dollhouse: This one is...a piece of work. This is, tonally and content-wise, the worst one. A reclusive aristocrat ("long considered to be asexual and emotionless") can't cope with the death of her childhood friend and lover, a girl named Annie. However, the aristocrat is Annie's haunt, and Annie is bound by desire, so her lover has been hiring girls to let Annie possess them. What started off as sweet and loving has become sinister and sadistic, the aristocrat's desires turning dark and violent and the possessions becoming less and less consensual. The aristocrat needs to be stopped. I wouldn't run this type of scenario, period, because while it's an interesting idea (to say the least) it would require a special touch to handle appropriately and would most likely make the players very uncomfortable. I'm reading the thing and I'm uncomfortable.
  

• Undertakers should have Survival 2.
  
• Forgot to include the skills Trade, Torture and Tracking.
  
• You can't take both Poor and Wealth at the same time.
  
• Mental Disorders: the rules for Catatonia were accidentally reprinted under Delirium, Delirium was printed under Dementia, Dementia didn't get any rules at all.
  
• Characters with Vitality 7 can lift up to 3460 pounds.
  

Vox Valentine fucked around with this message at 23:13 on Mar 29, 2016

Vox Valentine fucked around with this message at 05:45 on Apr 3, 2016

• Chanari: The Chanari live outside of the caste system, roaming the deserts in a nomadic lifestyle. The arrival of the Earthlings hasn't changed their lives much, now they just have new strangers to deal with.
  
• Julandri: The Julandri have two main sub-castes, the Laborers and the Courtesans. As a whole, Julandri fill niche roles in Martian society. The Laborers lift, carry and work long hours doing repetitive things. The Courtesans fill the same roles as Geisha, being intelligent and beautiful men and women trained to entertain and converse.
  
• Kastari: The Kastari are the priests of Mars, tied to minor sects, important sects or big sects like the Orthodox Fellowship or Order of the Sacred Hamaxe. Kastari generally live well (especially if they're in a good sect) and are the only caste that allows promotion between the sub-castes/sects.
  
• Maduri: The Maduri are the warrior castes, known for being brave and ferocious. They live nicer lives and are counted as an upper caste because the upper castes know if the Maduri were to be mistreated, they would turn on Mars and wreck things for everyone. In practice, they just enjoy the privileges of being upper caste without any of the niceties because they don't want to go soft.
  
  _{A Maduri Martian.}
  
• Pilthuri: On paper, the Pilthuri are the merchant class. In execution, they're the diplomats, the salesmen, the administrators that travel Mars to get things done.
  
• Silthuri: The Silthuri are the noble caste with the upper sub-castes acting as princes and rulers and the lower sub-castes being relegated to bureaucracy and making sure Mars keeps running. In theory, they're princes and nobles. In execution, they're generally tyrants.
  
  _{A Silthuri Martian.}
  
• Talandri: The Talandri are craftsmen and the nature of Mars' focus on tradition means they've been confined to making the same things for centuries. The arrival of Earthlings might be the best thing to ever happen to them.
  
  _{A Talandri Martian.}

Vox Valentine fucked around with this message at 23:31 on Apr 5, 2016

Vox Valentine fucked around with this message at 08:59 on Apr 7, 2016

• Craftsmen don't dance but they sing and they play percussion. When working, the songs are nonsense vocalizations and percussion, all of it freeform. When at home, they sing songs of home life, of food and love and family. Craftsmen enjoy jazz and identify a lot with it and in free states their home songs are used to hide rebellious messages.
  
• Laborers chant/sing to coordinate their efforts and drown out the boring nature of their work. When off duty or celebrating, they stick to ritual dances and happy chants.
  
• Warriors drill when they dance, they sing to march and coordinate. Dance is an important part of exercise and practice and it's not uncommon for cavalry riders to dance with their mounts. They also divide their songs and dances by gender.
  
• Priests have religious hymns and choir songs for public. In private, there are forbidden/heretical songs they sing in whispers to give themselves breaks from being devoted to religion, these hidden songs wrapped up in metaphor and innuendo.
  
• Wild Martians (the Chanari) do whatever they want, but they perform an art that no other Martian castes have: drama and plays. Chanari plays are generally one-person shows with pantomime and second person narration.

• While each principality holds symbolic parades of their Warriors, Merchants are dispatch to the courts of the other participants with a jar of water and a jar of sand. If they can successfully negotiate out of a war or conflict, the Prince will accept the jar of sand as a symbolic gift. If they can't, the jar of water is poured out onto the ground in public.
  
• When the Merchants return home and war is certain, more Merchants will be dispatched to each Prince's court for a ritual of insults and hostage taking. Hostages should defend themselves or be taken by force but if any Priest or Noble blood is spilled, the war gets worse from that faux pas.
  
• If that goes off successfully, each side picks a symbolic base/canal/hill/etc. (not too far away from each other) to defend. The point of the war is simple: if you lose your point of defense, you have lost the war. Kills don't matter, only giving the victors what they're owed.