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Sanctaphrax:
It just doesn't do very much. Its damage is unimpressive and its range is really short. You can do better for 2 Refresh.

There's a more specific reason for Ranged Weaponry's upgrade, though. There's a custom Power called Long Reach, which costs 1 Refresh and lets you do everything from a zone away. It's generally regarded as weak, but pairing it with Claws is clearly superior to Breath Weapon. I prefer to avoid bad comparisons like that, so I increased the range of Ranged Weaponry.

PS: Breath Weapon may or may not be able to make spray attacks.
PPS: Here's some discussion that you might find interesting.

vultur:

--- Quote from: Sanctaphrax on May 26, 2013, 10:32:50 PM ---There's a more specific reason for Ranged Weaponry's upgrade, though. There's a custom Power called Long Reach, which costs 1 Refresh and lets you do everything from a zone away. It's generally regarded as weak, but pairing it with Claws is clearly superior to Breath Weapon. I prefer to avoid bad comparisons like that, so I increased the range of Ranged Weaponry.
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Ah, OK.


--- Quote ---PS: Breath Weapon may or may not be able to make spray attacks.
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Good point, a lot of breath weapons will have "some sort of consistency or spread in the shape of the attack", so probably so.

Sanctaphrax:
I'm about to add the list to the wiki, and the easiest way to get the formatting right is to post it here and copy-paste it over. So here goes...

ADJUSTABLE POWERS

Each one of these Powers is basically a template that you can use to create a wide variety of different Powers. Examples have been provided for some of them, because some people find these Powers difficult to use.


INCITE EFFECT [-1]
Description: You can do a thing. A special thing that cannot be done by most people. Maybe you can control clouds of smoke, maybe you can inflict fear by shouting. Or maybe you can summon the aid of two thousand invisible squirrels. Whatever.
Skills Affected: Any.
Effects:
Incite Effect. Pick a type of effect and a skill that's related to that type of effect. You can use that skill plus two to perform maneuvers and blocks related to that type of effect against anything you can touch. At the GM's discretion, this may also enable Declarations.
At Range [-1]. You may use Incite Effect on anything within your line of sight.
Incite Limited Effect [+1]. (Requires At Range) Do not add two to your skill when using Incite Effect. This upgrade is not compatible with Incite Physical Effect or Incite Mental Effect.
Incite Physical Effect [-1]. You may use Incite Effect to perform attacks that inflict physical stress. These attacks have a weapon rating of 2. They use the same skill as your maneuvers and blocks, but without the +2 bonus. If you have the At Range upgrade, then targets must use their Endurance to defend against these attacks. If you do not have the At Range upgrade, then targets may use whatever skill they would use against ordinary Fists attacks instead.
Incite Avoidable Physical Effect [-0]. (Requires Incite Physical Effect At Range) The targets of your Incite Physical Effect attacks defend with Athletics.
Incite Mental Effect [-1]. You may use Incite Effect to perform attacks that inflict mental stress. These attacks have a weapon rating of 2. They use the same skill as your maneuvers and blocks, but without the +2 bonus. If you have the At Range upgrade, then targets must use their Discipline to defend against these attacks. If you do not have the At Range upgrade, then targets may use whatever skill they would use against ordinary Fists attacks instead. This upgrade does not allow mind control; characters taken out with it are generally overwhelmed with emotion or driven insane.
Incite Potent Effect [-1]. (Requires Incite Physical Effect or Incite Mental Effect) Attacks that you make with Incite Effect are weapon 4.
Incite Protective Effect [-1]. You may use your the skill that you use for Incite Effect to defend against physical attacks.
Incite Restrictive Effect [-1]. (Requires Incite Physical Effect or Incite Mental Effect) You may use Incite Effect to grapple targets within the range of this Power, using the skill that you use for Incite Effect. Grappling with a physical effect inflicts physical stress, while grappling with a mental effect inflicts mental stress.
Incite Mass Effect [-1]. (Requires Incite Physical Effect or Incite Mental Effect) You may make spray attacks and zone-wide attacks with Incite Effect. If you attack your own zone, then you are affected normally by the attack. Even if you lack the At Range upgrade, targets defend against your zone attacks as though you had it. This upgrade does not affect your ability to maneuver, and no penalty is incurred when attacking a zone with it.
Incite Explosive Effect [+1]. (Requires Incite Mass Effect) You may not make non-zone-wide attacks with Incite Effect.
Incite Selective Effect [-1]. (Requires Incite Mass Effect) You do not harm yourself when attacking your own zone.
Incite Persistent Effect [-1]. (Requires Incite Mass Effect) When attacking a zone with Incite Effect, you may take an accuracy penalty (before rolling) in order to extend the duration of the attack. For each point of accuracy sacrificed this way, the attack is reapplied at the beginning of another exchange. You may take actions to extend this effect as though you were an evoker extending an evocation.
Incite Additional Effect [-1]. You may select another effect to create with this Power. You may also select another skill to use that effect with. If the other upgrades that you have are appropriate for the new effect, you may use them with it. You may also upgrade the new effect separately.

NATURAL WEAPONRY [-1]
Description: Your body contains or can produce some kind of weapon or attack.
Note: You have to define what your natural weapons are when you take this power. Some of the upgrades for this Power, like Potent, Venomous, and Area Weaponry, may be appropriate as stand-alone Powers that are attached to an Item of Power.
Skills Affected: Fists, Weapons, Guns, Discipline
Effects:
Natural Weaponry. Your body contains a weapon with a rating of 2. This weapon has a no range, is not capable of spray attacks, benefits from Strength powers, and is wielded with the Fists skill.
Potent Weaponry [-1]. Your natural weapon has a rating of 4.
Summoned Weaponry [-0]. You must take a supplemental action to create or draw your natural weapon before you can use it. In addition, you may wield your natural weapon with the Weapons skill.
Ranged Weaponry [-1]. Your natural weapon has a range of three zones and is capable of spray attacks. It may be wielded with the Fists, Weapons, Guns, or Discipline skill. It cannot be used with the defence trapping of Weapons unless you possess the Summoned Weaponry upgrade.
Area Weaponry [-1]. Your natural weapon may be used to make zonewide attacks.
Selective Weaponry [-1]. (Requires Area Weaponry) You do not harm yourself when making a zonewide attack against your own zone with your natural weapon.
Explosive Weaponry [+1]. (Requires Area Weaponry) Your natural weapon may not be used to make attacks that are not zone-wide.
Imprecise Weaponry [+1]. (Requires Selective Weaponry) You suffer a -2 penalty to the accuracy of any zonewide attack that you make with your natural weapon.
Venomous Weaponry [-2]. You may use your natural weapon to perform special maneuvers. These maneuvers may only inflict one specific Aspect; usually it's POISONED, but it can also be something like ON FIRE or ACCELERATED AGEING if that fits your character better. You may not tag that Aspect, but during your turn in each exchange after the one you performed the special maneuver in each character with that Aspect suffers a weapon 0 physical attack against Endurance with an accuracy equal to the roll you created the Aspect with. This effect ends if the Aspect is removed. You may perform these special maneuvers against every character in a zone, possibly including yourself, if you possess the Area Weaponry upgrade. Outside of a conflict, the effects of these maneuvers are adjudicated by the GM. But as a general rule, they're quickly fatal unless countered by another maneuver.

VARIABLE ABILITIES [-varies]
Description: You have some method of changing what Powers are available to you at any given time.
Note: Variable Abilities is not one Power; it's a whole collection, with each list being a different Power. If you don't trust your ability to create new Powers, stick with the lists provided here. If you do feel capable of writing new Powers, feel free to create your own lists using the ones here as a guide. Remember that if the abilities on the list are all useful in different situations it makes the list more powerful.
Skills Affected: Many.
Effects:
Option List. You have a list of Powers and upgrades and Stunts that you can give yourself with this Power. Your list may be of any length, and it may contain conditions like "Power X and Power Y must be taken together" or "Stunt X can only be taken if Power Y has been taken". Each list has a Refresh surcharge. A list's surcharge is proportional to its length, its flexibility, and the amount of variation among the Powers on it.
Form Points. Once you've paid the Refresh surcharge of your list, you may spend as many additional points of Refresh as you want. For each additional point of Refresh you spend, you get a form point.
Function Follows Form. As a full action, you may allocate your form points to abilities on your list. Each form point is worth 1 Refresh worth of abilities. You must abide by the conditions of your list, but you are under no obligation to keep all (or any) of your form points invested at any time.

Sample Lists:

1 Refresh:

Multi-Purpose Robot Minions
-Any configuration of upgrades you want for Incite Effect (Robot Command). You may also change which skill you use Incite Effect with, within reason. Not sure why you'd want to though.

Masks Of The Human And The Divine
-Incite Protective Restrictive Physical Effect (Flesh Control, with Discipline) [-4]
-Incite Mass Mental Effect At Range (Awe, with Discipline) [-4]

Shrink And Grow
-Diminutive Size [-1]
-Hulking Size [-2]
-Titanic Size [-4]
-Unthinkable Size [-6]
-Inhuman, Supernatural, or Mythic Strength (Requires Hulking or larger size)
-Inhuman, Supernatural, or Mythic Toughness (Requires Hulking or larger size)
-Long Reach (Requires Hulking or larger size)
-Inhuman Speed (Requires Diminutive Size)

Fire And Ice
-Channelling (Fire) [-2], Refinement [-1] (staff focus, +2 offensive control and power), Immunity (Fire) [-2].
-Channelling (Ice) [-2], Refinement [-1] (staff focus, +2 defensive control and power), Immunity (Cold) [-2].

Omni-Weapon
-Whatever variant of Natural Weaponry you want, with whatever upgrades you want.

2 Refresh:

Discount Omnipotence
-Any Incite Effect you want, with whatever upgrades you want.

General Shapeshifter
-Up to two levels of Strength.
-Up to two levels of Speed.
-Up to two levels of Toughness.
-Up to two levels of Recovery.
-Natural Weaponry, with or without Potent, Venomous, and Ranged upgrades.
-Diminutive, Hulking or Titanic Size.
-Spider Walk [-1].
-Wings [-1].
-Aquatic [-1].
-Extra Appendages, with or without upgrades.
-Damage Shield, with or without upgrades.
-Feel No Pain [-3].
-Amorphous Form [-1].
-Swarm Body [-3].
-Superhuman Acrobatics [-1].
-Magical Compartment [-1].
-Cloak Of Shadows [-1].
-Superior Hold [-2].
-Any Echoes Of The Beast, within reason [-1].
-Supernatural Sense, possibly with Strange Senses, from a pool of 3 possible senses.

Werebat Werebear
-Beast Change (Bear) [-1], Echoes Of The Beast (Bear) [-1], Limitation (Strength, Toughness, and Claws, only when transformed) [+1], Inhuman Strength [-2], Inhuman Toughness [-2], Claws [-1].
-Beast Change (Bat) [-1], Echoes Of The Beast (Bat) [-1], Limitation (Size, Wings, Cloak and Speed, only when transformed) [+1], Diminutive Size [-1], Inhuman Speed [-2], Wings [-1], Cloak Of Shadows [-1].

3 Refresh:

Wannabe Listens-To-Wind
-True Shapeshifting [-4], Variable Abilities (General Shapeshifter) [-6].
-Evocation [-3], Thaumaturgy [-3], The Sight [-1], Soulgaze [-0], Wizard's Constitution [-0], Refinement [-3], with fixed focus slots and specializations.

Talismans Of Shendu
-Item Limitation (all variable abilities, you need a little rooster trinket) [+1], Telekinesis [-3], Wings [-1].
-Item Limitation (all variable abilities, you need a little ox trinket) [+1], Inhuman Strength [-2], Inhuman Toughness [-2].
-Item Limitation (all variable abilities, you need a little snake trinket) [+1], Cloak Of Shadows [-1], Enhanced Invisibility [-3].
-Item Limitation (all variable abilities, you need a little sheep trinket) [+1], Projected Spirit Form [-4].
-Item Limitation (all variable abilities, you need a little rabbit trinket) [+1], Supernatural Speed [-4].
-Item Limitation (all variable abilities, you need a little dragon trinket) [+1], Potent Ranged Area Natural Weaponry [-4].
-Item Limitation (all variable abilities, you need a little rat trinket) [+1], Incite Restrictive Physical Effect At Range (Object Animation) [-4].
-Item Limitation (all variable abilities, you need a little horse trinket) [+1], Supernatural Recovery [-4].
-Item Limitation (all variable abilities, you need a little pig trinket) [+1], Supernatural Sense (Thermal Vision) [-1], Potent Ranged Natural Weaponry [-3].
-Item Limitation (all variable abilities, you need a little monkey trinket) [+1], Sponsored Magic (Transformation) [-4].
-Item Limitation (all variable abilities, you need a little dog trinket) [+1], Undying [-0], Supernatural Toughness [-4].

LIMITATION [+varies]
Description: Your abilities are limited in some way.
Note: You may take this Power multiple times. The cost of this Power will vary from game to game, and if its importance changes during play it might be necessary to change its cost or compensate with Compels.
Skills Affected: None.
Effects:
Limited Powers. Attach this Power to at least one other Power that you possess. Then select a circumstance. Whenever that circumstance applies, you lose the attached Power(s).
Rebate. This Power reduces the Refresh cost of the attached Powers. The amount the cost is reduced by depends on whether the limitation is mild, moderate, severe, or extreme.

* A mild limitation reduces the cost of the attached Powers by one sixth. A limitation is mild if it makes it mildly inconvenient to use the attached Powers or if it is seriously problematic once every six sessions or so.
* A moderate limitation reduces the cost of the attached Powers by one fourth. A limitation is moderate if it makes using the attached Powers require a significant action or if it is seriously problematic in roughly half of all sessions.
* A severe limitation reduces the cost of the attached Powers by one half. A limitation is severe if it makes the attached Powers significantly less useful and reliable in almost every session.
* An extreme limitation reduces the cost of the attached Powers by three fourths. A limitation is extreme if getting to use the attached Powers is a special occasion.GM's Discretion. Sometimes the formulas given here will give fractional Refresh costs, and sometimes it will be difficult to classify how serious a limitation is. In such cases, all final costs are determined by the GM. If a Power has drawbacks, then it cannot be attached to Limitation unless the GM approves. In some situations it may be appropriate to have Limitation not affect a Power's cost or to have it limit a Power's positive effects without affecting its negative effects.

ITEM LIMITATION [+varies]
Description: Some of your Powers are tied up in a physical object or another thing that can be transferred from person to person.
Note: This Power usually represents a magical object that grants abilities its holder. When it does, the object in question can be indestructible or have whatever other magical effects seem appropriate as long as those effects don't make it mechanically more useful than a mundane item.
Skills Affected: None.
Effects:
Item Limitation. This Power has all of the effects of Limitation. In addition, when this Power causes you to lose your Powers it is possible for another character to take this Power from you. Whoever has this Power also has every Power attached to it. Define the process by which this Power can be borrowed/stolen when you define your Limitation.
Permanent Changes. Whenever a Milestone occurs, the current owner of this Power becomes the permanent owner of this Power. Revise character sheets accordingly. Bear in mind that the seriousness of a Limitation can vary from character to character.
Purpose [-0]. This Power has an Aspect attached to it.

Examples (from the Hypothetical Average Game):

Mild limitations:
-Toughness is ignored by copper weapons soaked in pig's blood
-True Faith Powers only function if you pray five times a day while facing Mecca at the appointed times
-Telekinesis and Strength Powers stop working if you are unable to move your arms

Moderate limitations:
-Toughness is ignored by magical attacks
-Strength, Speed, and Claws are only available while you are using Beast Change
-You need to cast a 5-shift evocation to activate your Natural Weaponry for the scene

Severe limitations:
-Toughness is ignored by cold iron
-Sponsored Sun Magic can only be used in sunlight
-You have to make a virgin human sacrifice in order to activate your Recovery for a session

Extreme limitations:
-Toughness applies only to magical attacks
-You can only use your magic sword against major demons and fallen angels
-It takes you three full days of meditation to use Beast Change, and you can only use your physical powers while transformed

Sanctaphrax:
Actually, it turns out I need to copy everything to Google Sites first to remove the background colour. Man this is convoluted.

Still, it seems to be working.

CREATURE FEATURES

These Powers represent the innate, usually physical, abilities that inhuman beings have due to the ways that their bodies are built. Of course, these Powers can often be re-flavoured to represent abilities that have nothing to do with bodily make-up.


SWARM BODY [-3]
Description: Your body is made from a multitude of lesser creatures, making you more difficult to harm.
Note: This power often has a drastic effect on the range of physical consequences that its user can take, and many characters with it will be unable to use conventional weapons and armour. This is not part of the Power's effects, and should be treated as a Compel if it ever impedes a character. This Power is usually, but not always, taken with the Amorphous Form Power.
Skills Affected: Endurance, other physical skills.
Effects:
Chipping Away. Single-target attacks don't hurt you much, no matter how deadly they are. Whenever you would suffer physical stress from an attack that does not encompass your entire body, you take only a single point of stress.

MINDLESS [-0]
Description: You don't have a mind. Either you mindlessly obey others or you simply execute a complex program or you operate entirely on instinct.
Musts: You must take an aspect to represent the thing that you use instead for a mind. For example, THE MERLIN'S PROPERTY or PROGRAMMED TO KILL.
Skills Affected: Mental and social skills.
Note: This power requires excellent justification if taken by a character with positive refresh. Not for balance reasons, but for logical reasons. As such, this power is mostly unsuitable for player characters.
Effects:
No Mind. As a mindless creature, you cannot be attacked mentally. Duh. You have no mental stress track and never take mental stress. You are not immune to social stress, but you cannot be persuaded or frightened or otherwise influenced mentally. So unless someone wants to ruin your reputation or credibility, there's no point attacking you socially.
Incapable Of Thought. Not being able to think has its downsides. You may never use the listed trappings of the following skills: Burglary (Casing, Infiltration), Contacts (All Trappings), Conviction (All Trappings), Deceit (All Trappings), Discipline (All Trappings), Empathy (All Trappings Except Social Initiative), Intimidation (Provocation, Interrogation, Social Attacks), Investigation (Examination), Lore (Common Ritual, Magical Versions Of Banned Scholarship Trappings), Performance (All Trappings), Presence (Command), Rapport (All Trappings), Resources (All Trappings), Scholarship (Research And Lab Work, Computer Use, Medical Attention), Survival (Animal Handling, Camouflage). In addition, all of your actions are limited by your brainlessness. Your knowledge rolls are simply the regurgitation of stored data, your ability to build things is simply a matter of following memorized procedures, and so on. This has no mechanical effect, though, and should be handled with Compels.
Superior Instincts/Programming [-1]. The complexity of your program or your instincts is impressive. Select one skill trapping. Ignore the effects of Incapable Of Thought on that trapping. This trapping may be purchased multiple times.

SUPERIOR HOLD [-2]
Description: For whatever reason, people you grab stay grabbed without any effort from you.
Skills Affected: Might.
Effects:
Superior Hold. When you hold another character in a grapple, you may take a supplemental action to apply a Superior Hold to them. If you do so, you may continue to grapple them on subsequent turns without taking an action.
Swallow Whole. [+1] Gulp. You may only apply Superior Holds to characters smaller than you.

FEEL NO PAIN [-3]
Description: For some reason, physical injury doesn't even bother you.
Skills Affected: Endurance, Discipline
Effects:
Feel No Pain. You are immune to pain, and suffer no stress from attacks based on upon pain. You automatically succeed at any roll made to endure or ignore your own suffering. More importantly, nobody gets a free tag for inflicting a physical consequence on you.
No Pain, Just Gain. It takes an excessive amount of punishment to put you down for good. You may take an additional mild physical consequence.

NOT AMPHIBIOUS [+1]
Description: You are not able to breathe air.
Musts: You must have the Aquatic power in order to take this one.
Skills Affected: Endurance
Effects:
Not Amphibious. You can't survive outside of the water; if at any time you are not submerged you gain a "Suffocating" aspect. This aspect remains until you are once again able to breathe water. So long as you have that aspect, the enviroment makes a Fantastic (+6) physical attack against your Endurance each exchange. Once you concede or are taken out (falling unconscious), the attacks stop. However, the damage is already done; without medical attention and re-introduction into your necessary environment, you will soon die.

TITANIC SIZE [-4]
Description: You are very very very large. You are at least the size of a house, and at the very largest you stand as tall as a skyscraper.
Musts: You must have an aspect related to your size. Almost all characters with this power also have high levels of Strength and Toughness, but it's not actually required. Same goes for Long Reach.
Note: This ability is always in effect unless you can shapeshift.
Skills Affected: Fists, Weapons, Stealth, others
Effects:
Very Easy To Hit, Very Hard To Hurt. You're a pretty big target, giving any attacker +2 to hit you when target size is a factor. But that increase in body mass means that you can soak up more punishment, adding four boxes to the length of your physical stress track.
Everything Is Tiny. You cannot interact meaningfully with any object of any reasonable size. You also cannot enter buildings or other enclosed spaces, with few exceptions. The GM is free to impose arbitrarily large zone borders on you if you try to pass through openings of limited size. However, you get +4 to all attempts to lift or break stuff on top of the bonus from Strength powers. Also, you get +3 to your Athletics when trying to cover distance with your enormous stride.
Big Is Frightening. You get +4 on any Intimidation attempt against a target likely to consider your size an advantage.
Very Easy To Detect. Your Stealth is automatically considered to be Terrible -1 (-3) and you can never gain any shifts on a Stealth roll.

UNTHINKABLE SIZE [-6]
Description: You are incredibly, unbelievably, unrealistically large. You are at the very least larger than a skyscraper, and you could be up to city-sized.
Musts: You must have an aspect related to your size. Almost all characters with this power also have high levels of Strength and Toughness, but it's not actually required. Same goes for Long Reach, and for Physical Immunity to human-scale weaponry.
Note: This ability is always in effect unless you can shapeshift.
Skills Affected: Fists, Weapons, Stealth, others
Effects:
Nearly Impossible To Miss, Nearly Impossible To Hurt. You're a pretty big target, giving any attacker +5 to hit you when target size is a factor. But that increase in body mass means that you can soak up more punishment, adding ten boxes to the length of your physical stress track.
Everything Is Miniscule. You cannot interact meaningfully with any object of any reasonable size. You also cannot enter buildings or other enclosed spaces, with very few exceptions. The GM is free to impose arbitrarily large zone borders on you if you try to pass through openings of limited size. However, you get +8 to all attempts to lift or break stuff on top of the bonus from Strength powers. Also, you get +6 to your Athletics when trying to cover distance with your enormous stride.
Big Is Terrifying. You get +6 on any Intimidation attempt against a target likely to consider your size an advantage.
Impossible To Ignore. Don't even think about Stealth. You are literally visible from miles away.

UNDYING [-0]
Description: You do not die when you are killed.
Skills Affected: Endurance
Effects:
Deathless. Unless utterly destroyed or killed by special means, you can never suffer a fatal wound. No "death" result is ever permanent unless special means are used (as determined by your creature type).

SEMI-ANIMATE [-1]
Description: You are not fully alive. Maybe you're undead, or maybe you're some kind of robot. Very creepy.
Skills Affected: Endurance, Intimidation, other social skills
Effects:
Unhealing Body. Your body is not, technically speaking, alive. This means that you do not heal naturally, though you can recover normally from physical consequences given repair work or some sort of supernatural effect. (Like a Recovery Power).
What Is Not Alive Cannot Die.  Unless utterly destroyed or killed by special means, you can never suffer a fatal wound. No "death" result is ever permanent unless special means are used (as determined by your creature type).
Very Creepy. When dealing with people not accustomed to things like you, add one to your Intimidation skill and subtract one from your Rapport and Empathy skills. Add one to this bonus/penalty for each level of physical consequence that you are carrying. At the GM's discretion, this bonus/penalty might be ignored in some situations where it would normally apply (like when Reading People) or applied in some situations where it would normally be ignored (like when using Leadership).
No Metabolism. You do not need to eat or sleep or breathe. Furthermore, you do not excrete wastes and you do not age. You are immune to both poison and disease.

NO METABOLISM [-1]
Description: You have no metabolism. It's like your body is frozen in time. Thermodynamics cries itself to sleep.
Skills Affected: Endurance
Effects:
No Metabolism. You do not need to eat or sleep or breathe. Furthermore, you do not excrete wastes and you do not age. You are immune to both poison and disease.

AMORPHOUS FORM [-1]
Description: Your body isn't solid the way one would expect. It's made of either a stretchy, rubberlike substance or an out and out liquid.
Skills Affected: Might
Effects:
No Hole Too Small. You can squeeze underneath a door if need be. You may ignore all barriers that aren't sealed.
Difficult To Grab. Your body isn't easy to hold. You get +2 to all attempts to avoid or escape a grapple.
No Internal Anatomy [-1]. You don't have the easily damaged organs that most people rely on. You have armour 2 against all attacks that rely on precision or piercing damage.
Living Rope [-1]. You can literally wrap your body around someone. It's quite helpful when wrestling. You get +1 to all rolls made to grapple or escape a grapple.

MAGICAL COMPARTMENT [-1]
Description: You possess the ability to contain things within your own body or within an extra-dimensional space. Or perhaps within some other sort of container. Most vehicles, if treated as characters, have this power.
Skills Affected: None
Effects:
Magical Compartment. You may hide objects inside a supernatural container of some kind. Doing so gives you a +4 bonus to any attempt to conceal something.
Living Armour. You may place another character inside your compartment, if they are willing or helpless. Treat the space inside your compartment as a separate zone. When someone inside this zone is attacked by someone outside of it, you may make their physical defence rolls for them. In addition, you must add your physical armour to theirs against such attacks. Obviously, a character who is inside your compartment moves when you do. A character who is inside you may not take any actions that affect anything outside of you without first escaping. Entering or leaving your compartment without your consent requires that an appropriate aspect first be invoked for effect.
Size Limit. A normal-sized character with this power may contain up to one normal-sized human or an equivalent volume  of other matter within their compartment. Diminutive size divides storage capacity by 10, while Hulking Size multiplies it by 10, Titanic Size multiplies it by 100, and Unthinkable Size multiplies it by 1000. A character with this power is impeded normally by the weight of everything inside their compartment, but they add 4 to their Might skill for the purpose of carrying such things.
Sealed Compartment [-1]. The space inside your compartment is effectively a separate world. Anything or anyone inside it cannot interact with anything outside of it at all unless worldwalking magic is used. Entering or leaving the compartment without your consent requires similar magic. This is not compatible with Non-Restrictive Compartment.
Time Stands Still [-1]. (Requires Sealed Compartment) Time does not pass within your compartment. Everything inside of it is held in stasis.
Expanded Compartment [-1]. Multiply your compartment's storage capacity by 10. Add 4 to your Might skill for the purpose of carrying things inside your compartment.
Non-Restrictive Compartment [-1]. Characters inside your compartment may take social actions against you and things outside of you. This allows them to make maneuvers in combat.
Open Compartment [-1]. (Requires Non-Restrictive Compartment) Characters inside your compartment may act normally, with one exception: they may not move outside of you without first escaping.

SUPERHUMAN ACROBATICS [-1]
Description: Gravity doesn't seem to apply to you the way it does to normal people. You can dance on a tightrope and jump like a flea.
Skills Affected: Athletics, Stealth
Effects:
Inhuman Balance. You can move freely and without penalty over any surface sturdier than a spiderweb. You never fall accidentally and you may add four to your Athletics skill when using it to resist an attempt to knock you down.
Impossible Jumps. Add four to your Athletics skill when using it to jump.
Soft Landing. You are immune to falling damage.

DAMAGE SHIELD [-1]
Description: For whatever reason, attacking you isn't safe. Maybe you're covered in spikes, or maybe your body flows with 10 000 volts of electricity, or maybe it's something else along those lines.
Effects:
Damage Shield. Whenever a character makes an unarmed attack against you and misses, they take physical stress equal to the number of shifts by which your defence roll exceeds their attack roll. This might also trigger on some maneuvers, if the GM deems it appropriate.
Do Not Touch. This Power inflicts a -1 penalty on all attempts to grab or hold you. Characters may choose to ignore this penalty, but if they do so then you may roll to inflict stress upon them as though you were defending against an unarmed attack with accuracy 0. At the GM's discretion, Stunts and Powers that provide odd methods of grappling may negate this effect.
Conductive Damage Shield [-1]. This Power works against all melee attacks, not just unarmed ones.
Reflective Damage Shield [-1]. (Requires Conductive Damage Shield) This Power works against all attacks, not just melee ones.
Dangerous Damage Shield [-1]. This Power inflicts two additional stress whenever it triggers.
Lethal Damage Shield [-1]. (Requires Dangerous Damage Shield) This Power inflicts a further two additional stress when it triggers.
Mutual Damage Shield [-1]. (Requires Dangerous Damage Shield) This Power triggers when you are hit as well as when you are missed. Treat the attacker's threshold shifts as negative shifts for the purposes of calculating this power's damage.

Sanctaphrax:
DANGEROUS AURA [-2]
Description: Standing near you is dangerous.
Effects:
Dangerous Aura. Whenever another character spends any part of their action inside your zone, this Power makes a Fair attack against their Endurance at weapon 0. The attack occurs at the end of the target's action. This power can be turned off and does not affect the user.
Can't Touch This. Add two to the weapon rating of this Power's attacks against characters that spend their actions grappling you. At the GM's discretion, Stunts and Powers that provide odd methods of grappling may negate this effect.
Avoidable Aura [-0]. This Power makes attacks against Athletics instead of Endurance. This upgrade is not compatible with Mental Aura.
Extra-Dangerous Aura [-1]. This power makes Great attacks.
Super-Dangerous Aura [-1]. (Requires Extra-Dangerous Aura) This power makes Fantastic attacks.
Hyper-Dangerous Aura [-1]. (Requires Super-Dangerous Aura) This power attacks at weapon 2.
Mental Aura [-1]. This power inflicts mental stress and is resisted with Discipline.
Large Aura [-1]. This power affects everyone within one zone.
Vast Aura [-1]. (Requires Large Aura) This power affects everyone within three zones.

LONG REACH [-1]
Description: You have very long arms or some other advantage that lets you punch someone from the other side of a room.
Skills Affected: Might, Fists, Weapons, other skills
Effects:
Long Reach. If an action requires you to touch something, you can do it from a zone away.
Extended Reach [-1]. If an action requires you to touch something, you can do it from three zones away.
Restricted Reach [+1]. (Requires Extended Reach) Your Extended Reach power applies only to a specific type of action, like swinging swords or picking pockets.

EXTRA APPENDAGES [-2]
Description: You have some extra arms (or other limbs) which make you pretty darn good at multasking in combat.
Skills Affected: Fists, Weapons, Guns, others.
Effects:
Multiple Targets. You may make spray attacks with anything, within reason.
Mix And Match. You may use multiple different actions in a single spray attack. Use the lowest applicable skill. You may also make attack-like (offensive, not navel-gazing) maneuvers and blocks as part of a spray attack. In order to grapple as part of a spray attack, you must invoke an Aspect for each character grappled.
Flurry Of Blows [-1]. You may direct multiple attacks (or maneuvers, or blocks) within a single spray at one character.
Excellent Coordination [-1]. For each purchase of this trapping, add 1 shift to each attack, block, or maneuver within spray attacks that you make. This cannot increase the number of shifts for any action beyond the number of shifts that you had to split up between actions in the first place. This trapping may be purchased up to twice.

DRONES [-2]
Description: You possess a number of small sub-beings that act as extensions of yourself. Perhaps you can send your eyes out ahead of you, or perhaps you're hooked up to a network of little robots. Whatever.
Skills Affected: Alertness, Investigation, Lore.
Effects:
Drones. You have two drones. These drones are small characters, with skills equal to your own. They share none of your Powers, with the exception of Supernatural Senses. They possess the Diminutive Size Power. They also have 1 Refresh of other abilities, generally either a Supernatural Sense or Wings. You share the senses of your drones, and you may speak through them. They do not act independently, and it requires a supplemental action to direct them. If you wish to have a drone take an actual action other than moving, you must use a full action to direct it. If they are damaged, you take the damage in the form of mental stress. 
Power Channel [-1]. Pick one of your other powers. Your drones have access to that power.
More Drones [-1]. You have a lot of drones. If you need an exact number for whatever reason, a dozen is about right.


FAERIE MAGIC

The magic of faeries. Pretty self-explanatory.


Fairy Truth [-0]
Description: You are more believable, but you cannot lie.
Musts: You must be a fairy, changeling, or for some other reason be unable to lie but willing to deceive.
Skills Affected: Deceit, some others.
Effects:
No Lying: Everything you say is considered to be on your power. If say any fact that is not true, or break any promise, you immediately gain an extreme consequence. However...
Aura of Honesty: You have a +1 to convincing anyone of the truth of your words, whether or not they're familiar with fairy lore. This even works as a +1 to deceit in social situations to convince someone of the truth of what you meant but didn't technically say. And of course a lore roll of 1 is enough to know that fairies always tell the truth even if they do so with weasel words.

Geis [-1]
An Oath given is an Oath kept: Instead of taking a mild consequence in social combat, you may take an aspect, representing an oath sworn to that person instead. You may never have more than one of these aspects at any given time, so you would have to fulfil your oath before making a new one. The aspect is permanent, until you have fulfilled your oath or reconciled in another way.
I'll take your word for it: If an opponent is taken out in social conflict from your attack, you can place an aspect on him that represents an oath given to you. You may invoke it to enforce that oath or make the target reconcile in some other way. You may never have more than one person bound to you like that.

Bindings [-1]
Description: You're able to forge metaphysical links to things and people, increasing your magical influence.
Effects:
Link Forged: Whenever you make a pact with an entity, an entity eats food imbued with your power, or you have sexual intercourse with an entity, you place an aspect on that target that reflects the link you share. The pact link lasts until the entity has fulfilled its end of the bargain. The others last until the link is broken, however the GM feels that would be accomplished.
Link Exploited: As long as you have a link to the target, you are considered to be a ritual link to him, and may target him with thaumaturgy without need for any additional links. This also satisfies any requirements that the target belong to you or make a pact with you before using glamours or other fairy powers on him. However, the link goes back to you as well, and the target may use ritual magic against you, or may be used as a ritual component to send ritual magic against you. This may be worth a fate point depending on how badly you had it coming.
Mutual Bond: [-1] Both you and the individual you create the link with need to take this power, though only one of you need purchase Bindings. The two of you are considered to have the ability to exchange compels as per the benefits of sponsored magic. This represents a bond between near equals. Sponsored magic is better for when a powerful entity gives a much less powerful one significant magical power in addition to these benefits.

Glamourous [-1]
Description: Constant illusions enhance your beauty.
Effects:
Sex Appeal: The magic you weave shifts your appearance slightly, making you appear like a person's version of an ideal man/woman. This gives you a +2 to social skills for any situation in which physical attractiveness is a major contributing factor. Anyone trying to describe your physical appearance does so at a -1 penalty for purposes of identifying you.
Not Even Skin Deep: Magical investigation, and especially the Sight quickly pierces this ability. Mirrors, even those found in cameras, reflect your true form.


ITEMS OF POWER

Powers other than Items of Power that have to do with powerful items.


BAG OF TRICKS [-1]
Description: For whatever reason, you have access to a few minor magical trinkets.
Skills affected: Contacts, Resources, Burglary, Lore.
Effects:
Enchanted Items. You have four potions, each with a strength equal to your Contacts, Resources, Burglary, or Lore skill. You may not increase their strength in any way. At the beginning of each session, you must declare which potions you have on hand.
More Trinkets [-1]. You have four additional potions. Furthermore, you may choose to leave potion slots open to be filled later with Declarations.

MANIFESTED ITEM [-varies]
Description: You may summon your Item of Power out of thin air.
Musts: You must attach this Power to an Item of Power.
Skills Affected: None.
Effects:
Manifested Weapon. You may call the attached item to to your hand as a supplemental action. When you're not using it, you may have it disappear until you call it again.
No Rebate. Because this Power negates the drawbacks of Item of Power, it negates the Refresh rebate provided by Item of Power.

SHAPESHIFTING ITEM [-varies]
Description: Your Item of Power can change shape slightly.
Musts: You must attach this Power to an Item of Power.
Skills Affected: None.
Effects:
Shapeshifting Item. You can make the attached item grow, shrink, and change its shape somewhat. This effect is limited; a sword could change into an axe but not into an item that's significantly mechanically different from a sword. The size changes are also limited; as a general rule you can't go smaller than a coin or bigger than a person, but the exact limits will depend on the original size of the item.
Reduced Rebate. Any item with this Power will always be easy to conceal. As such, the Item of Power rebate for any item with this Power is limited to +1.

Life Eater [-2] attache to an Item of Power
Every time you kill someone with this blade the life energy is stored (in the form of complexity) which can be used later in a ritual.


LUCK POWERS

Powers that affect probability. Be warned: these Powers tend to mess with the game’s basic dice mechanics.


CHAOTIC FATE [-0]
Description: For whatever reason, the randomness of your life is much greater than normal. Your personal bell curve is pretty flat.
Skills Affected: All
Effects:
Chaotic Fate. All of your rolls are made with six fudge dice instead of the standard four.
Aura Of Chaos [-1]. All rolls made in your presence are made with six fudge dice instead of the standard four.

ORDERED FATE [-0]
Description: For whatever reason, the randomness of your life is much less than normal. Your personal bell curve is pretty pointy.
Skills Affected: All
Effects:
Ordered Fate. All of your rolls are made with two fudge dice instead of the standard four.
Aura Of Order [-1]. All rolls made in your presence are made with two fudge dice instead of the standard four.

CONTROLLED FATE [-1]
Description: You can control probability to a limited extent, making life more or less predictable through magical power.
Skills Affected: All.
Effects:
Fate Control. Whenever you roll, you may choose to roll any number of fudge dice between two and six.
Aura Of Control [-1]. Whenever someone in your presence rolls, you may choose to have them roll any number of fudge dice between two and six.

PROBABILITY MANIPULATION [-3]
Description: God's dice are loaded in your favour. Your luck is literally supernatural.
Skills Affected: All
Effects:
Weighting The Dice. Whenever anyone in your presence rerolls dice, you may "lock down" one of those dice. Doing so ensures that the result of that die is the same on the reroll as it was on the original roll.
Palming The Cards. Whenever you are involved in an opposed roll, you may cause your opponent to reroll by invoking an aspect.
Fixing The Wheel. You may take a point of sponsor debt instead of spending a Fate Point when invoking an aspect in order to cause a reroll or when making a Declaration that has to do with random chance. Sponsor debt taken this way represents accumulated bad luck, karmic backlash, or the build-up of paradoxes in the structure of reality.
Stacking The Deck [-1]. Whenever anyone in your presence rolls dice, you may cause them to reroll by invoking an aspect.

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