Difference between revisions of "Detect Tech (Action Powers)"
(Amplify Light) |
(→Reverse Engineering: polish) |
||
| Line 18: | Line 18: | ||
By studying the effects of a power, you can understand its principles and replicate it. You learn the power and can use it for the rest of the session, and you can learn it normally later using experience points. | By studying the effects of a power, you can understand its principles and replicate it. You learn the power and can use it for the rest of the session, and you can learn it normally later using experience points. | ||
| − | Note: Some | + | Note: Some [[Power Rules (Action)# Tradition |Traditions]] don't give access to all powers. If you reverse engineer a power not normally available to your [[Power Rules (Action)# Tradition |Tradition]], you are out of luck. |
=== Tactical Overlay === | === Tactical Overlay === | ||
Revision as of 20:13, 16 January 2010
 |
| Templates for Action |
- Main article: Powers (Action)
Amplify Light
Stance
You can amplify trace amounts of light. This lets you see normally in anything but complete darkness. It is still possible to sneak on you; there are still shadows and darker areas, but you are not impaired by lack of ambient light.
Analyze Technology
Basic Action
You can sense the presence of powers of the Technology Origin at a distance. Make a skill roll and multiply the result by 10; this is the range in meters. Normally, you detect any type of power, but by concentrating on a particular type (name, form, or general description) you can eliminate all others.
You can analyze the properties of any power of this origin within reach, even if it is inside a container or otherwise separated from you. You learn what power it is, who used it, when, to what effect, and an approximate power level. Even powers that have ended leave a signature that can be analyzed, though the impressions fade; after the end of the scene, it is no longer possible to determine who used the power and its exact effect. The signature fades completely in a matter of days or weeks, stronger and more dramatic used leaving stronger impressions.
Reverse Engineering
Limit Break
By studying the effects of a power, you can understand its principles and replicate it. You learn the power and can use it for the rest of the session, and you can learn it normally later using experience points.
Note: Some Traditions don't give access to all powers. If you reverse engineer a power not normally available to your Tradition, you are out of luck.
Tactical Overlay
Stance
This power helps you to keep track of the relative position of friends and enemies in combat. As long as you occasionally let your vision sweep across the area, or get information from external sensors or other characters equipped with a tactical overlay, you have an innate spatial awareness of the location of everything and everyone in the vicinity, even when out of your line of sight. You also know your map position.
Two or more friendly characters with Tactical Overlay need never be afraid of hitting one another, and all can attack a target anyone of them can see regardless of visual obstructions, as long as any physical barriers can be penetrated. If anyone connected to your Tactical Overlay is aware of something that is about to surprise you, you are not surprised.
The risk with Tactical Overlay is that an opponent that can read your transmissions and feed them to his own Tactical Overlay; this gives him a +3 bonus on Dodge and Shoot against you.