Example Powers 3

Here's an example of how our sample groups would use another power.

Strike: This power allows its user to deal 4D damage to a target in the user's Area. Advantage can be spent to boost the damage or to affect additional targets.

• The Necromancers of Taj Neroth know two spells that use this power. The Western Rite necromancers use an Instant spell they call “Tsathic Flames”, which summons a fan-shaped spray of green flames from the caster's hands. The Eastern Rite necromancers use a Focus spell called the “Chant of Vajra Leng”, which summons a purplish-red streak of lightning that arcs from the caster's forehead and jumps from one target to another in a chain of electrical agony.
• Among the Elemental Mages, this power is known as many different spells. Most of them are Instant powers that take the form of a fan- or cone-shaped spray of damaging energy. Some of the more common spells include “Dragon's Breath”, “Cone of Frost”, and “Acid Spray”. The earth elementalists have two common variations: “Gravel Burst” is an Instant spell that creates a shotgun like blast of jagged gravel; “Scouring Sands” is a Focus spell that can eventually strip flesh from bone or whittle trees to kindling.
• Aetheric Engineers and Hermetic Dynamicists use this power to create plasmathrowers, directed-blast energy mines (labeled “This side toward enemy”), or even an irradiator with a nozzle choke to spread the beam. The effects of these weapons are generally horrific and diplomats are trying to limit their use in warfare by treaties such as the Luna Convention. The Cryobionicists use this power to generate blasts of icy shrapnel or rapid-fire frost needlers that can quickly spray an area with slivers of frozen death. The most hideous weapons to use this power are the close assault weapons of the Invaders from Planet X: they appear to use short range tractor/repulsor beams that alternate hundreds of times a second to shake targets apart. The gruesome effects of these weapons are evident from nicknames like “jelly guns” or “liquifiers”.
• Templars usually use the Bolt power to telekinetically crush or pummel targets, but several Ma Quy have been known to use the Strike power to generate blasts of purplish flame called the “Fires of Hatred”. It is extremely rare for Dai Zha templars to use this power, but very few have been known to use the Astral Source to mimic the effects of “Fires of Hatred” without using negative emotions. The Astral version of this power is called “Luminescent Judgment” and manifests as white lightning.
• The Tyrian Brotherhood use this power when faced with demons or undead. They call it “Glorious Light” because it summons a brightly shining aura that burns such creatures of unnatural evil. It has no damaging effects on living creatures, but the “damage” roll of the power can be used for Advantage on a Command roll (to rally allies) or Duel of Wits roll (to cow enemies).