Magical Conditions

The cost of each advantage is twice that for a corresponding mundane advantage. The return for a disadvantage is double the nreturn for a corresponding mundae disadvantage.

Basic Conditions

Advantages

Astral Awareness

You have a heightened sensitivity to the astral plane. This is a passive ability and contributes no detriment. Here are some ideas for speciqaqls:

• Duplicate Magic Senses.
• Sense what is happening in The Realm of Undead.
• Sense what is happening in The Astral Sea.
• +1 when using Magical Senses as a modifier (this is a researched special).
• +1 to Magical Senses when used as a modifier (this is a researched special).
• Sense what is happening in a specific region of the higher astral plane (may be acquired more than once, each time specifying a reggion of the higher astral, this is a level-of-five-special).
• Improve the difficulty class (this is a level-of-five-special).

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Limited Magic Item

You have acquired a limited magic item, that is an item that activates only under specific conditions (often these are tools used in rituals). The cost determines the level of the item.

Magical Blood

This advantage indicates that your character has an ancestor who was a powerful spell-caster. Choose a benefit and a detriment. Such combinations also account for specials at higher levels.

Benefits:

• Attractive (you gain two pips of attractive)
• Attuned (Specific Environment) (you gain a pip where you are aware of the sense of the environment and can travel safely through it as if you grew up there).
• Constitution (you gain two pips of Constitution).
• Danger Sense (you gain two pips of Danger Sense).
• Keen (Sense) (you gain two pips of some specific sense).
• Longevity (for each pip you lose a year off of your age).
• Magical Senses (you gain a pip of Magical Senses).
• Presence (you gain a pip of this condition where others are struck by your presence, either they view you as strong and supportive, or powerful and fearful).
• Swimming (you gain two pips of Swimming).
• Toughness (the equivalent of armor).

Detriments:

• Allergy (specific) (you gain a pip in this a difficult disadvantage where the level is your detriment when encountering the allergy source).
• Cold (you gain a pip in this disadvantage where you will never form true friendships or love).

Talisman

You own a talisman, created through talismanic magic. The cost determines the level of the item.

Minor Magical Focus

You own a magical focus of +1.

Disadvantages

Crisis of Faith

Difficult Conditions

Advantages

Enchanted Magical Item

You have acquired a magic item created by an enchantment or construction magic. The cost determines the level of the item.

Magical Connections

This advantage allows thwe character to call upon magicians and/or magical creatures for goods and services.

• The connections can be from another specific environment.
• +1 when using Attractive as a modifier (this is a researched special).
• +1 when using Charming as a modifier (this is a researched special).
• Gain entry to a special profession (only when achieving a multiple of 5).
• Gain a specific magical ally, if such are available (this is a level of five special).

Magical Heritage

This advantage makes the character a descendant of a magically powerful family that is noiw gone, perhaps lost in history. Specifically, the character has been steeped in the lore of the family tradition and has the equivalent of Knowledge (Magic). Here are some examples of specials:

• Gain a basic power based on the type of magic the family performed.
• Gain a new intention for an existing magical power from the family heritage.
• Gain the equivalent of Magical Senses.
• Gain the equivalent of Imagination.
• Gain thje equivalent of Power.
• Gain a special for any duplicated power that you already have.
• +1 to Magical Senses when using this heritage as a modifier (this is a researched special).
• +1 to Imagination when using this heritage as a modifier (this is a researched special).
• +1 to Power when using this heritage as a modifier (this is a researched special).
• Gain a difficult power based on the type of magic the family performed (this is a level five special).
• Imporove the difficulty level on a task by one (this is a level five special).
• Gain an extreme power based on the type of magic the family performed (this is a level ten special).
• Combine two specials into one.

Spiritual Blood

This advantage indicates that your character has an ancestor who coupled with the physical manifestation of a spirit, and shares the blood of that manifestation. Choose a benefit and a detriment. Such combinations also account for specials at higher levels.

Benefits:

• Attractive (you gain four pips of attractive).
• Attuned (Specific Environment) (you gain two pips where you are aware of the sense of the environment and can travel safely through it as if you grew up there).
• Charming Voice (the ability to sway others by speaking).
• Constitution (you gain four pips of Constitution).
• Danger Sense (you gain four pips of Danger Sense).
• Keen (Sense) (you gain four pips of some specific sense).
• Longevity (for each pip you lose 5 years off of your age).
• Magical Senses (you gain two pips of Magical Senses).
• Magical Toughness (the equivalent of magical armor).
• Presence (you gain two pips of this condition where others are struck by your presence, either they view you as strong and supportive, or powerful and fearful).
• Respected (you gain two pips of this condition).
• Spiritual Affinity (you gain a pip of this condition allowing you to feel the presence of any manifestation of the power of the spirit).
• Spiritual Friend (this is a level of five special and allows you to call upon a spiritual friends who can visit you to provide support).
• Stealth and Concealment (you gain 2 pips in this difficult skill).
• Swimming (you gain four pips of Swimming).

Detriments:

• Allergy (specific) (you gain two pips in this a difficult disadvantage where the level is your detriment when encountering the allergy source).
• Cold (you gain two pips in this disadvantage where you will never form true friendships or love).
• Crave the Dark (you gain a pip in this difficult disadvatage, where your level is the detriment to all activities performed in the presence of light).
• Crave the Light (you gain a pip in this difficult disadvatage, where your level is the detriment to all activities performed away from sunlight).
• Crave the Moon (you gain a pip in this difficult disadvatage, where your level is the detriment to all activities performed away from moonlight).
• Fearful Aura (gain two pips in this difficult disadvantage).

Visions of Significance from an Entity

The character gains visions in return for some act related to the entity, such visions require a significqant passage of time. For example, a water-nased entity might cause you to stare into a small bowl of water. Here are some examples of specials:

• Gain visions of the past.
• Gain visions of the present.
• Gain visions of the future (level of five special).
• Gain visions of spells, you learn a new sperll for an existing magical power (level of five special).
• Gain visions of powers, you learn a new power (level of five special).

Disadvantages

Feared by Animal

Fearful Aura

Extreme Conditions

Advantages

Call the Spirit of Your Ancenstors

This advantage allows you, in times of great need, top call upon your blood ancestors to aid your cause. The spirits will decide best how to aid you.

Divine Blood

This advantage indicates that your character has an ancestor who coupled with the physical manifestation of a divine being, and shares the blood of that manifestation. Choose a benefit and a detriment. Such combinations also account for specials at higher levels.

Benefits:

• Attractive (you gain six pips of attractive).
• Attuned (Specific Environment) (you gain three pips where you are aware of the sense of the environment and can travel safely through it as if you grew up there).
• Immune to Mundane Disease.
• Immune to Mundane Poisons.
• Keen (Sense) (you gain six pips of some specific sense).
• Longevity (for each pip you lose 10 years off of your age).
• Magical Senses (you gain three pips of Magical Senses).
• Presence (you gain three pips of this condition where others are struck by your presence, either they view you as strong and supportive, or powerful and fearful).
• Spiritual Toughness (the equivalent of spiritual armor).

Detriments:

• Allergy (specific) (you gain three pips in this a difficult disadvantage where the level is your detriment when encountering the allergy source).
• Cold (you gain three pips in this disadvantage where you will never form true friendships or love).

Guardian Spirit

This advantage establishes that a lesser spirit guards the character, the chance of intervention is determined by the level of the advatnage.

Immunity

Yoiu are immune to the adverse effect from one specific threat. A successful roll will prevent that threat will have no effect.

Jack-of-all-Trades (Magic)

This is a modifier which can be applied to any MP based power. This skill can be acquired at any time by spending the HP. Here are some specials:

• Duplicate any MP-based power.
• Duplicate a special for any duplicated power.
• Duplicate a researched special for any duplicated power (this is a researched special).
• Improve the difficulty classification by one (this is a level-of-five special).
• Duplicate any magical effect for a duplicated power (this is a level-of-five special and the character must have an MP of 1 or more).

Power Source

This advantage makes the character into a supernatural source of power. All power detriments are reduced as they occur by the amount of this condition.

True Enchanted Item

You have acquired a magic item created by the power of true enchantment. The cost determines the level of the item.

Disadvantages

Crisis of Faith

This detriment prevents any religious magic from working fo4r the character, resulting in a detriment.

Cursed

This detriment is the result of a spell placed upon the character. The curse must be specified along with any means of escaping the curse (every curse has a way out, but the character may not know it).

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