Spirit (FiD)

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As a spirit you are an immaterial creature, a spiritual manifestation of power. Powers come very natural to you, but you have a hard time affecting the physical world and understanding its creatures. Your general form is that of your race, but with idealized physical features and borrowing features from your powers. A Fire spirit may have flames for hair and searing hot skin, a Darkness spirit might be all black with eyes like glowing embers. As you learn to use more Forms, your appearance is likely to change and become more exotic.

Spirit is a complex playbook, rewarding knowledge of the rules.

Trauma Condition—Immaterial

Your Powers come easily, triggered by will alone. When Immaterial, they manifest subtly; when Materialized, they are dramatic.

However, interacting with the physical world is difficult. You exist in a parallel spirit world, bound to a small home area (e.g., a glen, pool, or alley) and cannot travel physically. Instead, you Spirit Travel by thinking of places or people you are connected to. Your starting connections include your home, the crew's lair, and your crew and contacts. As you gain more connections, your range expands. Spirit travel shifts you to the spirit world, ending materialization effects.

While immaterial you exist in the spirit world, an aspect of the ether. You cannot touch objects but can whisper or appear as a transparent image. Any action starts at limited effect and controlled position. You can use: Attune, Command, Consort, Prowl, Study, Sway, and Survey. You cannot use: Finesse, Hunt, Skirmish, Tinker, Wreck, or their associated Powers. At the GM’s discretion, certain Advanced Finesse or Hunt effects that alter the environment may be allowed. You can use special abilities to become solid or attempt an Advanced Attune power on yourself to force materialization.

While immaterial, you cannot be harmed unless the attack is Potent. Others can use Survey to notice your presence and Attune to see and interact with you.

You are vulnerable to Powers that target spirits and extradimensional creatures. Some effects force you to Materialize, preventing Spirit Travel. You can be banished or summoned with Attune powers. You are linked to all Powers you know, affecting Command and Sway Powers.

Your first power cannot be: Barrier, Kinesis, Mind, Space, or Time. When gaining further powers, you may select any spirit power.

Special Abilities

1. Alternate Form: Assume a set form—animal, monster, person, or animated object and Materialize (see below). Can be taken multiple times for more forms. Forms may enable new actions or alter effect.
2. Invulnerability: You are highly resistant to damage. When you take physical Harm that is not potent, make an Attune roll. 1-3: No reduction. 4-5: Reduce Harm by 1 level. 6: Reduce Harm by 2 levels. This stacks with the Skirmish ability of many Forms to absorb damage when both are relevant.
3. Judge of Life: You can either add or subtract 2d to healing treatment rolls of those you spend downtime with. A result of 1 on a healing roll you penalize aggravates any harm. You do not need to materialize to use this ability. You can also grant each of your crew an additional downtime action only useable to heal.
4. Materialization: You can materialize in the physical world. This makes you a material creature, able to use all Actions and affect physical reality, reducing the restrictions of Trauma Condition—Immaterial.
5. Possession: Touch a creature (even if Immaterial) and use Attune to enter and control their body, making you Material. Strenuous actions reshape the host to resemble you. Lasts for the score unless ended early. The host reverts when Possession ends. Harm affects you; physical harm also affects the host.
6. Resilience: You may expend your Special Armor to reduce a Resolve-related consequence or to push yourself on a Attune or Survey action.
7. Size Change: You can change size to become either much smaller or much larger, less than half a meter or more than three meters in height. A large creature suffers one less level of physical harm. A small creature gains additional effect on Prowl actions.
8. Powers: Air, Animal, Barrier, Darkness, Death, Earth, Electricity, Fire, Ice, Flux, Illusion, Kinesis, Life, Light, Metal, Mind, Order, Plant, Space, Time, and Water.

Dramatic Encounters

˄ ˅ Adler, an animist

˄ ˅ Ash, a child medium

˄ ˅ Cress, an inquisitor

˄ ˅ Thorne, a lunatic with potent vision

˄ ˅ Wicko, an occultist

Inventory

☐,☐,☐ Natural Object.

☐ Potent Weapon.

☐,☐,☐ Second Sight Potion.

☐ Spirit Clothes.

• Natural Object ☐: An object related to your Powers you create out of nothing, such as a branch for plant or a rock for earth. This can be a rare item like a medicinal herb or rock crystal, but not a manufactured object or one worth coins. Playbook.
• Potent Weapon ☐ or ☐☐: A weapon magically potent against the supernatural. Certain creatures take less or even no damage from mundane weapons. This can be either a hand ☐ or heavy ☐☐ weapon.
• Second Sight Potion ☐: Gives the ability to see spirits and the invisible. Lasts several hours. Alchemical, Consumable, Unreliable/Volatile. You may see things that are not there. Minimum Complexity 1.
• Spirit Clothes ☐: A stylish outfit. Without these, you have only minimal clothing which may scandalize people.

XP

• Every time you roll a desperate action, mark xp in that action's attribute.

At the end of each session, for each item below, mark 1 xp (in your playbook or an attribute) or 2 xp if that item occurred multiple times.

• You addressed a challenge advising others or using powers.
• You expressed your beliefs, drives, heritage, or background.
• You struggled with issues from your vice or traumas during the session.

Starting Actions

Attune 2

Survey 1

4 points by choice, no higher than 2 in any one.