Talk:Vow (Action)

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Vow

You have taken an oath, and your power only works while you maintain this oath. Stricter vows are likely to interfere much more with your power, but also to grant many more opportunities to focus.

• Vow against killing
• Vow against violence
• Vow of abstinence (from drugs, eating meat, or similar)
• Vow of celibacy
• Vow of fasting
• Vow of Forthrightness (no sneaking, approach problems head on)
• Vow of poverty (entrust your upkeep to others, handle no valuables)
• Vow of silence
• Vow of truth (no lying or deliberate deception; silence is acceptable)

You can stand by and watch others breaking the vow with no consequences for you, but in this case you cannot use your adherence to the vow to focus (see below) unless there was some personal stake or advantage you gave up.

Limitation

You must not have broken your vow recently to practice power. Willfully breaking the vow negates your power for a week. Breaking it because of coercion or necessity (and this might be frequent in case of such things as fasting) means you cannot use your powers for a scene.

Focus Condition

Trigger Action (Focus)

When you would have gained some advantage by breaking your vow, and still persisted, you can focus. Even minor and role-playing advantages count. If your friends and allies broke the vow and you profited indirectly, you cannot focus unless there was some personal advantage you gave up. You can focus at any time during scene in which this happened, but only once - once you have used up the accumulation of power thus gained, it is gone.