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| ====== Death ====== | ====== Death ====== | ||
| - | Used by necromancers, death priests, and powerful undead, this power covers communicating with spirits of the dead, animating dead things, freeing one's own spirit, and causing the living to rot. | + | Used by necromancers, death priests, and powerful undead; this power covers communicating with spirits of the dead, animating dead things, freeing one's own spirit, and causing rot or decay. |
| - | ===== Trappings ===== | + | ===== Actions ===== |
| - | ==== Necrosis ==== | + | ==== Overcome ==== |
| - | You can cause things to rot and decay. This can be used to [[actions#attack|attack]], [[actions#defend|defend]], and cause [[actions#maneuvers|maneuvers]] like "Stench of Death", "Chill of the Grave" and so on. | + | You can use death to Overcome obstacles that you can physically rot or decay. |
| - | ==== Command the Dead ==== | ||
| - | This trapping allows the character to detect undead, call nearby undead, speak to the spirits, command them, and repel them. Sentient undead can resist this power as a composure attack, while mindless undead using either the skill of the summoner as its base difficulty. If the summoner is not known, or no longer capable of command then, use Mediocre(+0) as the difficulty. | ||
| - | ==== Know Death ==== | + | ==== Create an Advantage ==== |
| - | Allows the character to know the approximate time of death and how the body died. | + | You can use this skill to place aspects on yourself to assist in dealing with the undead or weakening the form or spirit of another. |
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| + | ==== Attack ==== | ||
| + | Death is commonly used to attack the living through necrosis or the unliving through decay and rot. | ||
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| + | ==== Defend ==== | ||
| + | In many applications death can be used for defense. Rotting an arrow before it strike or temporarily withering an arm swinging a weapon at you. | ||
| ===== Stunts ===== | ===== Stunts ===== | ||
| - | //See also: [[Power Stunts#Death|Stunts]]// | + | |
| ==== Control Undead ==== | ==== Control Undead ==== | ||
| - | You have a +1 bonus when using Death to control nearby undead for the power’s duration; the undead may resist. You must share a common language. | + | You can use Death to Dominate and control undead in place of [[Domination]]. |
| ==== Destroy Undead ==== | ==== Destroy Undead ==== | ||
| - | //Requires Control Undead// | + | You can spend a Fate Point to cause undead to use consequences instead of stress on your attack. |
| - | You can cause an automatic consequence on undead. | ||
| - | ==== Raise Lesser Undead ==== | + | ==== Raise Undead ==== |
| - | A [[Summoning#Lesser Summoning]] stunt allowing you to raise mindless undead such as skeletons, zombies, ghouls, etc, from bones and corpses. | + | This stunt allows you to raise mindless undead such as skeletons, zombies, ghouls, etc, from bones and corpses. This is done using the Overcome action. The difficulty starts as Fair(+2) opposition. The number and strength of the undead are determined by the number of shifts. Average cost 1 shift, Fair = 2 shifts, Good = 3 shifts - all minions summoned this way must be the same level. The largest minion group you can control is equal to your Lore skill and they only last 1 scene. |
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| + | If you want to control a greater horde of have them last longer then they can be purchased as [[Extras]]. | ||
| ==== Raise Greater Undead ==== | ==== Raise Greater Undead ==== | ||
| - | //Requires Raise Lesser Undead// | + | //Requires Raise Lesser Undead.// You get a +2 to your Overcome and allows you to summon ghosts, mummies, vampires, and other intelligent undead. |
| - | A [[Summoning#Greater Summoning]] stunt allowing you to summon ghosts and create powerful undead such as vampires and mummies, often performed as a ritual and group working. | ||
| ==== Discorporate ==== | ==== Discorporate ==== | ||
| - | //Requires one other Death stunt// | + | Your body falls into a coma, freeing your spirit to fly around and observe, and enter and traverse the [[lore:Shadow Realms]]. You're invisible and intangible while discorporate; you may use power skills, and powers or abilities that sense or affect spirits of the dead can affect you. |
| - | Your body falls into a coma, freeing your spirit to fly around and observe, and enter and traverse the Astral Plane or Otherworld. You’re invisible and intangible while discorporate; you may use power skills, and powers or abilities that sense or affect spirits of the dead can affect you. On a power fumble (see page 176), you’re trapped in discorporate form; see “When Transformations Go Wrong” on page 136 for more. | ||
| ==== Drain Life ==== | ==== Drain Life ==== | ||
| - | //Requires one other Death stunt// | + | You can attack someone's spirit directly, which allows you to use the Death Power Skill to make Mental Attacks against a target. |
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| - | You can attack someone’s spirit directly, causing an automatic consequence. Evil ghosts often have this power. On a power fumble (see page 176), you suffer an automatic consequence yourself. | + | |
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