Power Reserve (Action)

Heroic Action Role-Play

This is a Method for using Powers in Action. Methods are a part of Traditions and define how Powers are used in each campaign.

Power Reserve

You have a reserve of inner power, called mana for supernatural powers and by some technical term such as battery or capacitors for technology. You can use this reserve to fuel your power, but when you have done so you become weak and need to restore your mana afterward.

Limitation

This limitation only triggers in conjunction with using the focus conditions. When you have used your mana to focus you grow tired at the end of the fight. Once the fight is over, you cannot use powers until you have replenished your mana; a short ritual taking about 15 minutes. Exactly what you do to recover mana depends on your power tradition; eating, meditation, prayer, reading, recharging capacitors or connecting to a power outlet are all examples. If there is a condition placed on your mana recovery that is out of your control, such as sunlight, use of a power outlet, or high wind, your recovery varies - it becomes 5 minutes with access to this recovery aid, 1 hour without the aid.

Focus Condition

Trigger Action (Focus)

You can focus at any time, but this triggers your limitation at the end of the fight. If you use it a second time in a fight, your limitation triggers right away.