THE MYSTIC
+1 Paradigm and +1 Power per Template.
A - Crown, Focus, Insight
B - Telekinesis
C - Telepathy
D - Manifestation
Paradigms
Paradigms are restrictions, in a sense (as we all know, restrictions create creativity).
You pick your own Paradigms. They are phrased as “I will never…”
Here are some examples:
I will never kill anybody.
I will never behave cruelly.
I will never mistreat the meek and powerless.
I will never speak.
I will never leave the City of Iskadar.
I will never let the sunlight touch my bare skin.
Paradigms are not just things you won’t do, but things you can’t.
Your soul is a tiny star, and all stars naturally dictate what is real, and when you would otherwise - break a Paradigm, that is - reality rewrites so that you don’t.
If you try to game this system, you will probably meet a grim fate due to unintended consequences.
Not being able to die has its disadvantages when you stand on a landmine.
I reserve the right to say “no, that’s not a good paradigm.”
Powers
The reward for being limited by Paradigms, of course, are Powers.
Powers are freely usable abilities which change the world in ways people normally can’t. They don’t cost Spell Points or MD, and they’re not once-per-long rest or whatever dogshit - they’re inherent, and you can use them whenever and as much as you want.
Your powers can be anything, in theory - this is a case of negotiating abilities in a freeform way with Me, the DM, instead of carefully picking them from a huge-ass list.
In practice, they can be anything as long as they obey the restrictions and explanations put out in Crown and Focus.
Your powers do not read as magic, because they aren’t magic. They’re truth.
Crown
Your Powers are limited to an area [templates]x10 metres in size originating from the middle of your forehead, where your soul is. You cannot do anything outside of this area… yet.
[Fun fact! The Solar System is the Sun’s Crown. Isn’t that nice?]
Focus
Your focus is a noun or a verb - your choice!
Your powers are all themed around your focus.
For examples of Powers from Foci -
Cutting - You can cut things as if by knives at a distance.
Painting - You can paint monsters to life with time and supplies.
Doors - You can open any door, no matter how locked, and lock any door in a way that cannot be overcome by normal means.
Equipment - You can summon invisible psychic tools and weapons.
&c.
Insight
You can ask the DM for Insight into a person’s fears, emotional state or obsessions and receive a little tidbit of information, so long as they have a soul.
Telekinesis
You can exert force as if you were standing anywhere you can see.
Telepathy
You can speak directly to someone you’ve met before at up to a mile’s distance, audible only to the chosen target.
Manifestation
You can make your soul appear, a bright flame upon your brow, and shed its light.
This banishes darkness and destroys creatures to which light is inimical.
Your light burns things you don’t want to exist for 1d8 unreducible damage per round, no save (though, blocking your light with an object still works). Things burned up by your light are completely destroyed.
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