Kinesis Powers (FiD)

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Main Page is Powers The ability move things, including simple thoughts. Something of a compliment to barrier, kinetics has no actual shape or form, nor are there kinetic creatures.

Kinesis is raw energy manifesting as physical forces. Some see kinesis as the purest kind of power. You can combine kinetics with material powers in order to move those effects around quickly. So if you know fire and kinesis, you can move flames.

Kinetic attacks hurl objects or manipulate weapons at a distance. This has an advantage in that these attacks are physical and real, resistance to powers won't affect them much. You can also throw opponents around, which is a great distraction, but doesn't cause much damage.

Action	Basic No minimum 3 Stress	Advanced Minimum 2 Dice 5 Stress	Master Minimum 4 Dice 7 Stress	Apex Minimum 6 Dice 13 Stress
Attune	Psionic Perception You can detect creatures and kinesis powers. There are no kinetic creatures for attune to affect.	Telekinetic Termination You can end the operation of an power ability and interrupt the movement of anything material, but limited to the personal scale.	Telekinetic Tether You can hinder the movement of large vehicles like busses or trucks.	Psychic Paralysis You can dampen all fast movement in a large area for the duration of a score while not affecting the movement of things you select to avoid.
Command	Vocal Vortex You can amplify your voice to be heard across a wide area, like a football field.	Arena Amplifier Your amplified voice can be heard across a stadium. It is not deafening close by.	Psychic Puppetry Telekinetically manipulate the target's body, much like a puppet on a string. The target retains all senses and can continue to speak.	Telekinetic Tyrant You can use Psychic Puppetry on multiple creatures at once.
Consort	Telekinetic Tack This allows you to attach things to yourself while you concentrate, like glue.	Psychic Portage This allows you to carry more items per load category, +1/+2/+3.	Kinetic Cargo You can apply Psychic Portage to an ally.	Kinetic Coalition This allows a small army to use Psychic Portage.
Finesse	Telekinetic Trek A vehicle of mount you ride is always capable of participating in a chase, even if it would normally be too slow. This does not give access to new environments; to fly or swim you must have an appropriate ride.	Focused Force 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.	Telekinetic Touch You can do fine manipulation of the power, 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.	Telekinetic Tempest Your power manifests like a storm of blades, suppressing the effect of multiple opponents and acting as a fine potent weapon.
Hunt	Mindful Monitor Gives you a vague feeling when other power-users are near and allows you to track them, more so for friends and relatives.	Telekinetic Targeting You can use your power to attack, similar in effect to a fine and potent rifle.	Mindful Mayhem 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.	Telekinetic Thunder 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	Telekinetic Grip You can climb and hide under ceilings where people rarely look and take no damage from falls.	Psychic Stride You can make long jumps, adding 5 meters per tier to your jumping distance.	Team Transport You can toss allies in a way similar to Psychic Stride.	Legion Leap You can toss a host of allies in a way similar to maneuver.
Skirmish	Brawler Blast You can use the power as a close-range attack, similar in effect to a melee weapon or pistol.	Brawler Blitz Same as Skirmish Attack, except the weapon is fine and potent.	Barrier Bash Your power creates distractions and obstructions that prevents the enemy from benefiting from numbers and otherwise works as a fine potent weapon.	Whirlwind Wallop Your power strikes out in all directions, attacking all enemies in a wide area.
Study	Momentum Mapping You can identify speed and direction of movement.	Trajectory Tracking You know the exact weight, speed, acceleration, and projected path of target.	Path Prediction You can learn how something has moved to where it is now and project its future path, but the future is subject to change.	Complete Calculations You gain the same information as Trajectory Tracking for everything in a huge volume.
Survey	Velocity Vision You can sense kinetic powers and things that accelerate.	Detect Detail You can extend your sense of touch and learn an objects shape, feel, mass, speed, and acceleration.	Clairvoyance You can gain a sensor read from a point you choose.	Complete Kinetic Knowledge You gain the information Detect Detail gives, but for all objects in a large volume of space.
Sway	Lip Language You can lip read perfectly.	Vocal Vision You can listen in on a conversation as long as you see the talkers.	Whisperer's Whim You can project your voice and listen to any creature you can see, allowing conversation.	Sound Sage You can project your voice and listen to any creature you know in the same region, allowing distant conversation.
Tinker	Guided Grip You can telekinetically manipulate an object as if by hand.	Artisan Ability You can form any kind of object about as efficiently as a workshop.	Kinetic Crafting You can telekinetically work objects like a machine shop.	Psionic Production 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	Psychic Pummel Works much like a punch, but at range.	Kinetic Crush Works as a fine potent sledgehammer in and out of combat. Noisy and leaves a twisted object in place.	Telekinetic Tremor Similar to Psychic Pummel. When smashing objects you affect hard objects as if they were wood.	Psionic Pulverize Similar to Telekinetic Tremor, but destroyed targets are silently reduced to a fine dust.

Expanded Kinesis Powers

Expanded descriptions of effects that differ significantly from Typical Powers.

Kinesis powers are common with the Psi Power Playbook and the powers are often described in psionic terms, but this is just a matter of wording. Kinetics cannot summon or dismiss creatures, but is strong in that it can dispel effects of any power, not just Kinesis powers.

Attune

Harness the power of Attune to perceive and manipulate supernatural energies, allowing you to detect and interact with beings and phenomena from other planes of existence.

The position is controlled, possibly risky if there are a lot of other dangers around or desperate in a very chaotic situation. This is usually done as a setup action. Limited effect creates an opening that makes the supported action potent. Normal effect improves the position of the supported action. Great effect improves both position and effect of the supported power.

When used directly, the effect is usually limited unless the opponent is relying on powers for their safety.

Telekinetic Termination: You can end the operation of an power ability and interrupt the movement of anything material, but limited to the personal scale.

You can remove the kinetic energy of something that moves, as long as that thing is on the personal scale. This allows you to stop kinetic weapons of all kinds and to slow the movement of more solid things, such as a person or personal vehicle, reducing their speed to a crawl. Faster movement is more heavily reduced, this turns a run into a slow walk, but turns a racing car to that of a running man. This speed loss will not cause trouble for a vehicle has a minimum safe speed, like a winged aircraft

Kinetics is strong in that it can dispel the effects of any power. Dispelling is often used as a setup action to help another character in a situation when the opposition is using powers.

When dramatically appropriate that a power is hard to dispel, often because it is the crux of the situation, this will not negate the power but instead give you a clue to what you need to do to resolve the situation.

Telekinetic Tether: You can hinder the movement of large vehicles like busses or trucks.

Telekinetic Termination on a greater scale.

Psychic Paralysis: You can dampen all fast movement in a large area for the duration of a score while not affecting the movement of things you select to avoid.

You can exclude a small group from this effect, but otherwise everything and everyone in the area is slowed.

Command

Kinetic command effect are mot mental powers. Instead you use physical forces to amplify your voice and later use telekinesis to control the bodies of other creatures.

Vocal Vortex: You can amplify your voice to be heard across a wide area, like a football field.

This is useful because it allows you to intimidate creatures of your power and to command foreign or alien subordinates. Combined with the basic power of Sway allows two-way communication.

Arena Amplifier: Your amplified voice can be heard across a stadium. It is not deafening close by.

Psychic Puppetry: Telekinetically manipulate the target's body, much like a puppet on a string. The target retains all senses and can continue to speak.

Telekinetic Tyrant: You can use Psychic Puppetry on multiple creatures at once.

Consort

Kinetic consort is not about changing shape. Instead it attaches things, first to you, later to others. This increases item capacity.

Telekinetic Tack: This allows you to attach things to yourself while you concentrate, like glue.

Psychic Portage: This allows you to carry more items per load category, +1/+2/+3.

This increases the item capacity of a light load by +1, medium load +2, and heavy load +3. You can only apply this once per score, and lasts for the entire score.

Kinetic Cargo: You can apply Psychic Portage to an ally.

Kinetic Coalition: This allows a small army to use Psychic Portage.

Finesse

Exercise finesse with your power, manipulating and attacking with precision.

Telekinetic Trek: A vehicle of mount you ride can always take part in a chase, even if it would normally be too slow. To fly or swim you must have an appropriate ride.

Focused Force: 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 an ally the Ride ability for the duration of a score.

Besides variety, this only substitutes for equipment, fine and potent finesse weapon is just as effective. In a fight, using this does not take any more time, activating your attack power is equivalent to drawing a weapon, no more, no less.

Telekinetic Touch: You can do fine manipulation of the power, 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.

This allows you to manipulate small amounts of matter governed by your power. This is similar to what you could do by hand, but you can do so at a distance of ten meters or so, allowing you to push buttons, trigger devices, and perform legerdemain at short range. This can substitute for simple Tinker actions, but nothing complicated.

Telekinetic Tempest: Your power manifests like a storm of blades, suppressing the effect of multiple opponents and acting as a fine potent weapon.

You create ans use weapon like Duel above, and also create distractions. The effect is like having a number of trusty but entirely defensive allies in the fight. This negates the advantage an enemy gets for having allies of their own, but is otherwise the same as Duel.

Hunt

Track, attack, and unleash devastating barrages with the power of Hunt. As you advance in power, the scope of your attacks becomes greater, allowing you to control significant areas and cause widespread destruction. At short range, this is dangerous to you and yours.

Track: You can track and pursue based on your power, even if the target does not leave any mundane trail or clues.

Consequences here are mainly to lose the trail, but depending on the environment and targets, it might lead you to get lost, into traps, or even into an ambush.

Potent Snipe: You can use your power to attack, similar in effect to a fine and potent rifle.

The effect of this action varies depending on the nature of your power. For instance, fire will burn, wind can slice, ice might pierce or freeze, and so forth. While some targets may exhibit more or less vulnerability to specific types of attacks, this is the exception rather than the rule. Essentially, this ability serves as a versatile replacement for traditional equipment; a fine and potent finesse weapon would be equally effective in combat. Moreover, using this action in a fight doesn't consume any additional time; activating your attack power is akin to drawing a weapon—neither faster nor slower.

Environmental Control You can alter environments by controlling or introducing the element of your power. You can change the environment of a single room indoors or a city block outdoors.

This is usually used as a setup, but may also change how people act in reaction to the environment—rain, smoke, or snow and the like are likely to make people want to stay indoors or run out as the case may be. Environmental Control does not inflict any direct damage.

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.

An escalation of Potent Snipe, this affects all enemies in a single location. The effect is more powerful but less precise. This means it does more collateral damage, but no more effect on enemies. Targets in trenches, behind walls, or otherwise shielded are not in direct damage, but tend to keep their heads down, which gives your side the initiative.

Prowl

Sneak, move, and perhaps even fly or teleport with the stealth and agility granted by Prowl. Most powers use Prowl in ways that vary from the norm, so this is a more rough sketch than the power abilities of many other actions.

Reconnaissance: You can hide in environments linked to your power. This allows you to hide in impossible places as long as the environment manifests your power. You gain advantage when sneaking on creatures linked to your power.

This provides you cover to hide in places you ordinarily could not. Where you can use this is explained in each specific power. It otherwise works just like any other attempt to use Prowl to avoid notice. Note that only you can use this ability, your friends and allies cannot unless you use Travel, below.

Maneuver: You can move on and through environments composed of your environment. This allows you to climb on air, swim unhindered, walk through walls of the appropriate material and so on, depending on your exact power.

Again, each power will explain how it can use this mobility. Your friends and allies cannot use this unless you employ Travel, which is described later

Travel: You can bring allies along when you use Reconnaissance and Maneuver.

Now you and your allies can Prowl in places where your power is at home. They still use their own Prowl action.

Transport: You and allies can teleport from one location where your power is present 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.

How and where you use this is explained in each power. This takes you to places you are familiar with. Both effect and position is worse unless you know where you are going, which means it is great for escapes but less so for intrusion into an enemy's territory that you are likely to be much less familiar with.

Skirmish

Engage in close combat and create chaos with the power to Skirmish.

Skirmish Attack: You can use the power as a close-range attack, similar in effect to a melee weapon or pistol.

What this actually does depends on the power used. Fire burns, wind slices, ice pieces or freezes, and so on. Certain targets may be more or less vulnerable to certain attacks, but this is the exception. Besides variety, this only substitutes for equipment, mundane weapons are just as effective. In a fight, using this does not take any more time, activating your attack power is equivalent to drawing a weapon, no more, no less.

Fine Skirmish Attack: Same as Skirmish Attack, except the weapon is fine and potent.

Obstruction: Your power creates distractions and obstructions that prevent the enemy from benefiting from numbers and otherwise works as a fine potent weapon.

This creates some kind of hindrance, perhaps spectral allies, perhaps a maze or concealing mist. The effect is to deny your enemies the advantage of numbers. You also gain the benefit of the Fine Skirmish Attack, giving you a fine, potent weapon.

Flurry: Your power strikes out in all directions, attacking all enemies in a wide area.

This turns you into a one-man army. Not only do you negate the advantage your enemy may get from numbers, you also spread your effect to hurt all your enemies in the current skirmish, within 10 meters or so.

Study

Study and analyze objects and creatures imbued with your power to gain insight and knowledge.

Analyze: You can identify objects and creatures that manifest your power and see the use of the abilities of your 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

Survey and perceive manifestations of your power to gain valuable information and insight.

Detect: You can sense manifestations of your power at a distance and understand their general nature. This works even when you can't see the target, but both range and information suffer.

Sensor: Choose an object manifesting your power 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 suitable object, which is often close enough to perceive the target.

Omnipresence: You perceive from all objects manifesting your power 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, mesmerize, and manipulate creatures imbued with your power to achieve your goals. Sway creatures based on your power with persuasion and cajoling. Position and effect is determined normally, depending ion the situation and your relation to listeners. If you know several powers and use a Sway effect but don't know what type of creature you are facing, it works as long as you have the appropriate power. You need not select a specific type of creature in advance. If you try to Sway a type of creature and don't the appropriate power, effect is at best limited—the game master may judge that the Sway action can be used non-verbally, but often you will have no effect at all. This still has the normal stress cost.

Communicate: You can understand creatures linked to your power even if normally couldn't, and gauge their mood and motivations.

This does not allow you to be understood by those whose intentions you read. Used together with the basic Command power, this allows full communication.

Translate: You and allies can communicate with creatures based on your power.

This allows you to use the Sway power to its full effect. You are still wheedling unless you also use Command the advanced Command effect.

In addition, many powers will have the power to inspire a mood or emotion specific to that power.

Mesmerize: You can post suggestions in the mind of a 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.

Essentially this is an attempt to Sway with two advantages. The target will not remember that you swayed them, and if you succeed, you can give them instructions that will activate later, in a situation you specify. A typical use of this would be to sway a servant to leave a window open in a hallway or a guard to forget to load their weapon. Besides the normal challenges of persuasion, suggestions fade depending on your effect. Limited effect lasts in the immediate situation. Normal effect lasts for the duration of the score, and great effect can last past the end of the score, as makes sense in the story.

Inculcate: You change the personality and motivations of creatures that manifest your power. This power is permanent, but blatant. The target remembers their past but regards it as unimportant compared to their new motivations.

This changes the target on a deep level, changing their loyalties and priorities. There are limit to this, particularly for creatures linked to a power - you cannot make a fire creature love the sea or an angel of light do deeds of darkness. Exceptional creatures and exceptional circumstances can break this change. This depends more on role-playing than die rolls.

Tinker

Manipulate, shape, and create objects imbued with your power to suit your needs. When used with long-term projects, powers can often substitute for missing resources such as tools or raw materials, but that is all it does until you can start using Fabricate.

Handle: You can handle materials that manifest your power as if you had the appropriate tools and protective devices.

This mainly substitutes for tools, up to a small workshop. You are also protected from any dangerous effects of working with the elements of your power.

Shape: You can shape materials that manifest your power as if they were of clay, and they will retain their new shape for some time even if they would normally not, such as water, sand, or smoke.

You can now do more than normal craft could do. You can work elements of your power that normally cannot be shaped, and it will remain in the shape you set it in. This has the effect of pipes and containers suited to the materials at hand, without any material containers or conduits. This may allow you to set up traps or devices that would normally require extensive equipment.

The position depends on how quiet your workplace is and how much time you have to work with. The effect determines the effectiveness of your construction, but also how long it will last. Devices that are more powerful are harder to contain, and thus wont last as long. Most shaping will only be good for a single scene, but if your effect surpasses that required for the effect you want, you can stretch the effect until the end of the score.

Create: You can create objects manifesting your power 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.

This is two distinct effects. The first allows you to create matter related to your power out of nothing. This is raw matter (or energy, depending on the power used) and needs to be shaped and refined to be of much use.

The second can only be used if you know multiple powers. You transmute material connected to one of your powers into material connected to another power. The result will maintain its form as if affected by the Shape ability. The advantage of this is that you can transform a complex object and it will retain its form and function as far as its new material allows. This can transform something like a sword from metal to fire, and it would still be a functional sword. A door could be changed from wood to air, you then pass through and the door reverts to wood.

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.

Pretty self-explanatory, this is Create on a larger scale. This is useful for equipping a large band or building something large out of nothing. When doing long-term projects that involve building or crafting, you can use Fabricate to gain great effect, even under what normally be poor conditions, but this has the usual stress cost.

Wreck

Destroy, dismantle, and obliterate objects made of stuff related to your power.

Jimmy: You can jimmy objects manifesting your power much like a sledgehammer. Noisy and leaves a twisted object in place.

Just as crude as it sounds. You destroy things related to your power, and strike with the force of a sledgehammer in combat. As usual, Wreck may be at an advantage or disadvantage compared to Finesse and Skirmish, depending on the situation.

Smash: Similar to jimmy. When smashing objects from your power, such as metallic objects for the metal power, you to affect hard objects as if they were wood. Works as a fine potent sledgehammer in combat.

This reduces the strength of strong materials, allowing you to break even the strongest barrier, as long as it of the proper material and not too thick. You can also use this as a sledgehammer to smash other things, and ads a fine, potent sledgehammer in combat.

Disintegrate: Similar to smash, but destroyed targets silently disappear or are reduced to a fine dust.

The real difference here is that wrecking things is now silent when you have the right power. You also leave less traces, as what you wreck disappears. This can also be used to get rid of evidence, as long as that evidence matches your power.

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.

Rather straightforward, this just scales things up.