Adept power - Revision history

MJBurrage: /* Counterstrike */

2019-09-03T22:20:05Z

‎Counterstrike

MJBurrage at 12:47, 7 August 2019

2019-08-07T12:47:11Z

MJBurrage: /* Commanding Voice */

2019-08-06T16:52:02Z

‎Commanding Voice

MJBurrage: MJBurrage moved page Adept powers to Adept power

2019-08-06T16:34:51Z

MJBurrage moved page Adept powers to Adept power

MJBurrage: /* Adept Ways */

2019-07-27T07:13:27Z

‎Adept Ways

MJBurrage: /* Adept Ways */

2019-07-27T07:09:45Z

‎Adept Ways

MJBurrage at 17:43, 23 July 2019

2019-07-23T17:43:15Z

MJBurrage: /* Inertia Strike */

2019-07-23T17:23:41Z

‎Inertia Strike

MJBurrage at 00:49, 23 July 2019

2019-07-23T00:49:59Z

MJBurrage: /* Killing Hands */

2019-07-09T18:18:26Z

‎Killing Hands

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 ;Activation: Interrupt Action (&minus;5 from Initiative score)
-;Cost: 1.0 PP per Level
+;Cost: 1 PP per Level
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 Counterstrike is an extremely potent ability that allows an adept in unarmed combat to redirect an attacker’s energy through a combination of skill, intuition, and magical ability. To employ this power, an adept must first use a successful Block action against an incoming attack and spend her next available action to make a melee combat attack. For the adept’s next melee combat attack test, add a number of dice equal to her levels in Counterstrike and the net hits from the Block. Engaging in any other action before attacking, even Dodge or Full Defense, negates the bonuses gained from this power. This power cannot be combined with the Counterstrike and Opposing Force martial arts techniques.{{ref|RG|124,139}}

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 {{hatnote|Core Rulebook, p.310}}
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-;Cost: .25 PP per Level
+;Cost: .25 PP per Sense
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 This power gives you sensory improvements not normally possessed by your character’s metatype. These improvements may include low-light or thermographic vision, high or low frequency hearing, and so on. Any sense enhancement provided by cyberware or bioware can be provided by this power, unless that enhancement either gives you bonus dice to Perception Tests or needs wireless to work (or both).
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 In addition to the sensory enhancements listed for cyberware and bioware, other improvements that can be selected include:
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-'''Direction Sense:''' Add +2 dice to Navigational skill tests when traveling. In addition, with a Perception + Intuition&nbsp;(2) Test, you can identify the direction you’re facing and if you’re above or below the mean sea level.
+;Perfect Pitch: With a Perception + Intuition&nbsp;(2) Test, you can recognize a musical tone either from hearing it or even feeling the vibration frequency. This doesn’t mean that you’re a good singer, just that you can recognize when you’re off key.
+;Direction Sense: Add +2 dice to Navigational skill tests when traveling. In addition, with a Perception + Intuition&nbsp;(2) Test, you can identify the direction you’re facing and if you’re above or below the mean sea level.
-'''Improved Tactile:''' The adept’s fingers are sensitive to imperfections on the surface of an object, allowing you to notice something as subtle the indentation of writing on a piece of paper (even paper on a pad beneath the sheet that was actually written on). Add +2 dice to tactile Perception Tests.
+;Improved Tactile: The adept’s fingers are sensitive to imperfections on the surface of an object, allowing you to notice something as subtle the indentation of writing on a piece of paper (even paper on a pad beneath the sheet that was actually written on). Add +2 dice to tactile Perception Tests.
 ;Human Scale: With a Perception + Intuition&nbsp;(2) Test, the adept can figure out the weight of an object down to the gram if he is able to lift or carry the object. Can be useful for carnival barkers and arcanoarchaeologists trying to figure out how much that statue they’re trying to snatch off a pressure plate weighs.
-'''Perfect Pitch:''' With a Perception + Intuition&nbsp;(2) Test, you can recognize a musical tone either from hearing it or even feeling the vibration frequency. This doesn’t mean that you’re a good singer, just that you can recognize when you’re off key.
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 ===Indomitable Will===

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 Combat Sense provides an instinctive sense of any potential threats nearby. In defending against ranged and melee attacks, you get a +1 dice pool bonus to defense tests per level of this power. Adepts with this power are always allowed a Perception Test before a possible surprise situation, gaining the benefit of being alerted if the test is successful.
-====Commanding Voice====
+===Commanding Voice===
 {{hatnote|27200 ''Stolen Souls'' (2014-05), p.191}}
 {{hatnote|For the ''Street Grimoire'' power, see [[#Authoritative Tone|Authoritative Tone]]}}

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 {{hatnote|27003 ''Street Grimoire'' (2014-06), p.176}}
 Often confused with and thought of as nothing more than magical traditions for adepts, Ways are less a rigid structure system or set of beliefs and more a personal philosophy or code of conduct that physical and mystic adepts adopt or identify with while developing their abilities. The path the adept takes while following a particular Way may differ, but for all adepts there are three basic fundamentals.
 '''An adept cannot follow two Ways simultaneously.''' While there are many paths an adept can take while following her Way, doing so requires a certain amount of focus and commitment necessary to gain the bonuses a Way grants. Therefore, only one Way can be followed at a time.
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 '''Players can amend previously created characters and retroactively purchase a Way.''' This is per the gamemaster’s discretion.{{ref|SR5|103}}
 ===The Artisan’s Way===

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	'''Players can amend previously created characters and retroactively purchase a Way.''' This is per the gamemaster’s discretion.{{ref\|SR5\|103}}		'''Players can amend previously created characters and retroactively purchase a Way.''' This is per the gamemaster’s discretion.{{ref\|SR5\|103}}
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		+	'''Adept Ways are not “Positive Qualities”.''' While Adept Ways, like Martial Arts, are sometimes referred to as qualities, they are not included in the Positive/Negative Quality point limits and do not cost double after character generation.<sup>[https://forums.shadowruntabletop.com/index.php?topic=23294 SRTT]</sup>

	===The Artisan’s Way===		===The Artisan’s Way===

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 ;Cost: .25 PP per Level
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-This power allows an adept to change his appearance by shifting the muscles, bone structure, and cartilage in his face. Each level purchased gives the adept a +1 dice pool modifier for Disguise Tests. The effect can be sustained for (Magic) hours.
+This power allows an adept to change their appearance by shifting the muscles, bone structure, and cartilage in their face. Each level purchased gives the adept a +1 dice pool modifier for Disguise Tests. The effect can be sustained for (Magic) hours.
-Common changes include altering ear shape, changing nose shape, raising/lowering cheekbones, growing tusks, reshaping the forehead, lengthening/shortening facial hair, and so&nbsp;on. Adepts can even change their face to another metatype of they wish, but they can’t change their body shape. The time required to change one feature is approximately one minute. Multiple features can be changed simultaneously with a Body + Magic Test, with each hit resulting in one additional change. The adept needs another full minute to undo the changes and return their features to normal.
+Common changes include altering ear shape, changing nose shape, raising/lowering cheekbones, growing tusks, reshaping the forehead, lengthening/shortening facial hair, and so&nbsp;on. Adepts can even change their face to another metatype if they wish, but they can’t change their body shape. The time required to change one feature is approximately one minute. Multiple features can be changed simultaneously with a Body + Magic Test, with each hit resulting in one additional change. The adept needs another full minute to undo the changes and return their features to normal.
 ===Feign Illness===

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 ;Cost: .5 PP
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-This power allows an adept to generate and channel extra energy into an unarmed or melee strike specifically intended to knock a target down. To use this power, the adept must first declare her intention by spending a Free Action before the actual strike to channel the necessary energy. If the adept is successful with the attack, she adds (Magic&#8239;×&#8239;½) to her <del>Strength</del> <ins>Damage Value solely</ins>{{ref|Errata|4|''Street Grimoire'' Errata (2014-09-24)}} to determine if a knockdown occurs.{{ref|SR5|194}} Inertia Strike does not <del>deal damage</del> <ins>change the actual Damage Value of the attack</ins>.{{ref|Errata|4|''Street Grimoire'' Errata (2014-09-24)}} Using this power is considered a Called Shot.{{ref|SR5|195}} Note: This power cannot be combined with the Imposing Stone Martial Arts Technique.{{ref|RG|138}}
+This power allows an adept to generate and channel extra energy into an unarmed or melee strike specifically intended to knock a target down. To use this power, the adept must first declare their intention by spending a Free Action before the actual strike to channel the necessary energy. If the adept is successful with the attack, they add (Magic&#8239;×&#8239;½) to their <del>Strength</del> <ins title="''Street Grimoire'' Errata (2014-09-24), p. 4">Damage Value solely</ins> to determine if a knockdown occurs.{{ref|SR5|194}} Inertia Strike does not <del>deal damage</del> <ins title="''Street Grimoire'' Errata (2014-09-24), p. 4">change the actual Damage Value of the attack</ins>. Using this power is considered a Called Shot.{{ref|SR5|195}} Note: This power cannot be combined with the Imposing Stone Martial Arts Technique.{{ref|RG|138}}
 ===Iron Gut===

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 An advanced version of Kinesics, this power allows two adepts with this ability to communicate with each other while using solely non-verbal cues, such as body language and minute facial expressions, and natural subconscious cues. While general messages and mental states are easily relayed, those with Kinesics Mastery can relay specific, detailed information such as locations, names, places, or numbers. Communication in this way requires adepts to have direct line of sight and be close enough to read each other’s facial features and body language, whether through natural, augmented, or magical means.
 ===Light Body===
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 To use this power, the adept must first make a Perception + Magic [Mental] test. The threshold for this test is based on the size of whatever the adept is attempting to sense; consult the Motion Sense table for results.
 ===Mystic Armor===
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 Adepts with this ability have exceptional manual dexterity. In game terms, this grants +1 die to Palming Tests, Performance Tests where the adept plays a musical instruments that requires the use of fingers, or any tests where small tools or items are used (gamemaster’s discretion). Additionally, the Simple Actions Change Gun Mode, Insert Clip, Remove Clip, Pick Up/Put Down Object,{{ref|SS|191}} and Use Simple Device are now considered Free Actions.
 ===Pain Relief===
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 Similar to Spirit Claw, Spirit Ram creates a temporary, ram shape—horns, ram’s head, wedge, spikes, and so forth—in front of the adept for charge attacks against spirits in either physical or astral combat. The Reach of this weapon is (Magic&#8239;×&#8239;½) meters, and its DV is (Magic) with AP &minus; (Magic&#8239;×&#8239;½). Spirit Ram moves with the adept and remains active for (Magic&#8239;×&#8239;½) Combat Turns or when the adept deactivates it with a Free Action or strikes with&nbsp;it. To use Spirit Ram again, the energies must be re-channeled by spending another Simple Action.
 ===Stillness===
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 This power allows an adept with Killing Hands to channel any physical damage he has taken into an unarmed attack and transmit it into his target. The attack is resolved using the standard rules for unarmed combat. For each box of unresisted physical damage the adept deals to his opponent, remove one box from his Physical Condition Monitor. The maximum number of boxes that can be transferred in this way is equal to the adept’s level in the power. Stun damage cannot be transmitted.
 ===Voice Control===

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 ;Activation: Free Action
-;Cost: .5 PP per Level
+;Cost: .5 PP
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 This power lets you inflict lethal damage with your unarmed attacks. When inflicting damage on the target of an unarmed attack, you may choose whether to cause Stun or Physical damage. Killing Hands may be combined with other adept powers that increase unarmed damage. Your Killing Hands attacks are magical, so they can bypass a creature’s magical defenses against attack, such as the Immunity to Normal Weapons power, and may be used by adepts with Astral Perception during astral combat.