Metal Powers (FiD)

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Main Page is Powers Metals are common in all but the most primitive culture, and metalworkers have often been associated with mystical powers.

Metal is considered an element in some systems of thought, a mix of elements in others. It combines the resilience of earth with the flexibility and destructive potential of fire. It carries the mark of civilization, yet is used in wars of destruction. Metal, especially iron, is essential to technology and thus opposed to the fey and magic in general.

Metal attacks are blades and bullets.

Metal Power Effects

Action	Free	Equipment	Willpower	Trauma
Attune	Perceive You can detect metal creatures and power. Metal elementals are made up of chunks of scrap metal, other metal creatures includes metallic robots, clockwork creatures, and animated armor and weapons.	Dismiss You can force a metal creature that is native to another plane of existence to return to that plane, or to end the operation of a metal power.	Summon You can call a metal creature from a different plane. This is generally an unwilling servant. It will obey one command from you and this can be extended. Learning who to summon may require study or be a a score in itself.	Gate You can create a portal that allows travel to and from the plane of metal for a limited time.
Command	Communicate You can communicate with metal creatures even if normally couldn't, allowing you to use the command action normally on them.	Translate You and allies can communicate with metal creatures.	Authority You can give commands to metal creatures, as if you were their superior. This does not remove existing loyalties, which can lead to conflicts.	Enslave You can permanently bind metal creatures to service. Unless affected by other powers, they will stay in one location and act according to your instructions, like very loyal and literal-minded goons.
Consort	Mask You can change your clothes and accessories by imbuing them with metal. This can mask your identity or create fabulous outfits.	Shapechange You assume the form of a metal creature. Add 1d to one action and subtract 1d from all actions covered by an attribute except if you just raised one of them.	Transform You can shapechange a willing or helpless creatures into a metal creature. This can be a curse, it can be broken but it is not easy. You can easily break the effect.	Wild Hunt You can transform a large number of willing or non-sentient creatures and give them a simple instruction, typically someone for them to hunt.
Finesse	Ride If there is a mount or vehicle of metal, you can ride it as if it was domesticated and you have the keys.	Fine Local Control You can use the power as a fine and potent close-range attack, similar in effect to a fine potent dueling sword or pistol, or you can give your friends the Ride ability for the duration of a score.	Manipulate You can do fine manipulation of metal, allowing you to do small and exact manipulations at range. This allows you to open doors, trigger or hinder mechanisms, or perform other minor manipulations.	Surge Your power manifests like a storm of blades, suppressing the effect of multiple opponents and acting as a fine potent weapon.
Hunt	Track You can track and pursue metal creatures and vehicles, even if the target does not leave any mundane trail or clues. You can hide in areas covered in metal.	Fine Ranged Attack You can use your power to attack, similar in effect to a fine and potent rifle.	Area attack You can use your power to attack similar to a fine and potent grenade. This allows you to fight many creatures in the same area very effectively, but there is a risk of collateral damage.	Barrage You call down the equivalent of a fine potent artillery barrage, attacking everything and everyone in a wide area. Depending on your power, this can raze buildings and create rubble. Usually enough to provide cover for any escape.
Prowl	Reconnaissance You can hide in environments of metal. This allows you to hide in impossible places. You gain advantage when sneaking on metal creatures.	Maneuver You can move on and through metal. This allows you to climb on sheer metal walls, walk through walls of metal, and so on.	Travel You can bring allies along when you use Reconnaissance and Maneuver.	Transport You and allies can teleport from one location dominated by metal to another. This is regional travel, you stay within the same city or region, but it is generally sufficient to enter or escape just about any situation or location.
Skirmish	Skirmish Attack You can use the power as a close-range attack, similar in effect to a melee weapon or pistol.	Fine Skirmish Attack Same as Skirmish Attack, except the weapon is fine and potent.	Obstruction Your power creates distractions and obstructions that prevents the enemy from benefiting from numbers and otherwise works as a fine potent weapon.	Flurry Your power strikes out in all directions, attacking all enemies in a wide area.
Study	Analyze You can identify metal objects and creatures and see the use of the abilities of the metal power.	Research You know the powers and abilities of something you analyze.	Hindsight You can read the past events of something you analyze. This includes previous owners and how the object has been moved around as well as significant scenes.	Omniscience You research everything in a wide area. This is easy to do where you are, more difficult at range. You can then use hindsight on some of these targets.
Survey	Detect You can sense creatures and manifestations of the metal power at a distance and understand their general nature. This works even when you can't see the target, but both range and information suffers.	Sensor Choose a metal object that you have detected; you can perceive as if you were at that spot. You cannot use your Survey action for anything else when doing so.	Scry Choose a location or creature. You gain a sensor at the nearest metal object, which is often close enough to perceive the target.	Omnipresence You perceive from all metal objects at once over a wide area. As long as you concentrate you retain this perception and can report what you see to others.
Sway	Communicate You can communicate with metal creatures even if normally couldn't, allowing you to use the sway action normally on them.	Translate You and allies can communicate with metal creatures. You can make folk more precise, decisive, and confident.	Mesmerize You can post suggestions in the mind of a metal creature manifesting your power, which will be triggered under conditions you specify. Common suggestions are to steal something, attack someone, or ignore some event. This is a subtle power, but easier to spot once triggered.	Inculcate You change the personality and motivations of metal creatures. This power is permanent, but blatant. The target remember their past, but regard it as unimportant compared to their new motivations.
Tinker	Handle You can handle metal as if you had the appropriate tools and protective devices.	Shape You can shape metal objects as if they were of clay.	Create You can create metal objects out of nothing, or transform an object from one material to another as long as you know the power required for both the starting and final form. This can create complex tools, such as fine and potent items appropriate to the power(s) used.	Fabricate This is similar to create, above, but you mass produce objects, even a set of different objects. You can also make something large, such as a vehicle or building.
Wreck	Jimmy You can jimmy metal objects much like a sledgehammer. Noisy and leaves a twisted object in place.	Smash Similar to jimmy. When smashing metal objects, you to affect hard objects as if they were wood. Works as a fine potent sledgehammer in combat.	Disintegrate Similar to smash, but destroyed targets silently disappear or are reduced to a fine dust.	Obliterate Similar to smash, but over a large area. This can level a city block, empty a canal system of water, raze a city wall, and similar massive destruction.