Item Property Page for John's Throne War

Personal Artifacts and Creatures

In 100-150 point games, I allow purchase of items with properties up to the four point level without explanation, and up to the 8 point level with explanations in some cases.

In my throne wars, you can buy items with up to 8 point properties freely.

The cost of an item in points is simply the sum of all of its properties. If you want to buy many of a single kind of object, you can use the quantity multipliers to calculate the appropriate cost.

Examples of Item Construction:

Ryo wants a powerful gun. He spends 4 points and buys the 'Deadly Damage' property for it.

Hikaru wants a weapon she can take anywhere, which can change shape to match the shadow she's in and the technology of that shadow. She buys the following properties for her weapon:

Double Damage--2
Limited Shapeshifting--4
Mold Shadow Stuff-1

Her weapon can change shape into many sorts of weapons, and manufacture its own ammunition when it's a gun (mold shadow stuff). It does double damge and only cost her seven points.

Fred spent too many points and can't afford Pattern. He decides he wants a van he can cruise around shadow in. He also wants it to shapeshift so it can take on an appropriate form in shadows where cars don't work--a horse. That works just about everywhere.

Seek in Shadow (conveyed on its weilder, since it hasn't got enough mind to use the power itself): 14
Shapeshift--one form, horse: 1
Engine Speed: 4
Amber Stamina: 2

The total cost is 21 points. Fairly hefty, but now he doesn't have to hitch rides with people.

Quincy decides to create a squad of 12 guardian golems for his fortress.

Amber Vitality: 4
Tireless Stamina: 4
Minor Flight: 3
Combat Mastery: 4
Resistant to Firearms: 2
Deadly Damage: 4
Self-Healing: 1
Speak and Sing: 2
Psychic Barrier: 4

The total cost is 28. He has 12, so that costs *2 on the quantity multiplier table, which means a total cost of 56. If he wanted a horde of them, he could spend 84 points.

Seeking Items in Shadow:

In addition to buying items with points, you can also seek them in shadow using Pattern or Logrus. It takes about one day per point using the Pattern, and about 4 hours per point using Logrus tendrils.

Conjuring Items:

In addition to buying items with points or seeking them in shadow, you can conjure or empower them if you have the Conjuration power. Conjured items are fragile, however.

Normal conjuration can imbue up to 4 point properties, advanced does 8, and exalted does 16.

Basic Conjuration: The object takes one minute per point to build, but it will fade away after a while (several days out in Shadow, less time near Pattern, more time near Chaos). It also instantly vanishes if moved across Shadow. Such items can only be created where Shadow is malleable; this will not work in Amber and is difficult in the Golden Circle. On the other hand, Chaos Shadow is highly magically charged and easy to manipulate.

Conjure Shadow Shape: You can create flimsy items that can't survive leaving the shadow of their creation very easily--1 minute per point.
Empowerment: You can empower a pre-existing item with Qualities and Powers. After thirty minutes preparation, the item can be infused with Qualities (10 minutes per point) and Powers (1 hour per point). Such items are fairly durable, but will lose their powers permanently if taken to null-magic shadows, and may suffer problems in some other shadows.
Complex Conjuration: One hour per point for Qualities and Powers; the item can survive in any shadow until it is actively dispelled, although its powers won't function in null-magic areas. Too much shadow travel will lead to it disintegrating.
True Conjuration: This is a permanent magical effect. If the Conjurer has the potential or ability to mold Shadow, it lasts even through Shadow travel. The effect can either be an Empowerment or a Complex Conjuration, and it takes ten times as long to cast. It is still vulnerable to dispelling.

Qualities

Vitality

[1] Animal Vitality: Gives an object the same strength as a normal animal of the same size.
[2] Chaos Vitality: Enables an animal to lift double it's normal weight allowance, when conferred on a human it grants Chaos level strength.
[4] Amber Vitality: Grants an animal the ability to lift several times it's own body mass, and confers a human with Amber level strength.
[4] Adrenalin Surge: The creature is capable of brief bursts of enhanced strength. While normally only possessing Chaos level strength, the creature can, for a few seconds, scream loudly and boost its strength up into the mid-range of the Strength attribute scale. This isn't sustained enough to be too much use in combat, but is great for breaking things (Up to 1 point armor), lifting heavy things off people, throwing someone you've already grabbed a LONG way, bursting out of bonds, etc.
[8] Stupendous Vitality: Confers a strength beyond that of any natural creature. Humans with Stupendous Vitality have their Strength raised to above Amber Rank, to somewhere in the mid to lower ranges of the Strength Attribute scale. You can break things with ease if they have one point of armor, and given enough time, you can bash through 2 point armor as well.
[8] Hulk Smash!: The creature is capable of brief bursts of enhanced strength. While normally only possessing slightly above Amber level strength, the creature can, for a few seconds, scream loudly and boost its strength up into the high range of the Strength attribute scale. This isn't sustained enough to be too much use in combat, but is great for breaking things (Up to 4 point armor), lifting heavy things off people, throwing someone you've already grabbed a LONG way, bursting out of bonds, etc.
[16] Exalted Vitality: Nearly the level of a Gerard, capable of defeating virtually anyone in a contest of strength. It's strong enough to simply punch through 4 point armor as if it wasn't there. (Something with Exalted Vitality AND enhanced damage may well slice through just about anything...). Given enough time, you can pound a hole in 8 point armor, although probably the target won't be willing to GIVE you that kind of time.

Mobility

[1] Confers Mobility: Allows a normally no-mobile object the ability to move, it will tire quickly unless granted extra stamina. Objects with legs may walk normally, other objects must slither along the ground at a relatively slow pace. Objects with wings can flap them and fly, but not very well or fast.
[1] Feather Fall: This is a defensive measure. If the item is free falling, its rate of falling will be slowed when it gets close to the ground, enabling it to drift safely to the ground and land gently.
[2] Double Speed: Doubles the normal movement rate of a creature, or allows objects which have no limbs to move as fast as a normal creature.
[2] Levitation: Allows an item or creature not normally capable of vertical motion the ability to levitate up and down. Movement rate is about 3 miles per hour up and double that for downward motion.
[3] Minor Flight: Brings flight to a non-winged item or creature. Inanimate objects with this power will be able to fly at a rate of about 20 miles per hour. If bestowed to a creature already capable of flight this works to double their normal speed and increase their maneuverability.
[4] Engine Speed. Allows a creature to keep up with powered vehicles, roughly increasing their movement rate by a factor of four, or two for a slithering object. Actual powered vehicles with this power will triple their speed.
[8] Racing Speed: Raises the speed to far faster than Engine Speed. A creature with racing speed easily outrun any normal vehicle, reaching speeds of over 200 mph for horses and 150 mph for wolves and dogs. Actual land and sea vehicles will rise to five times normal speed. At least Chaos level Endurance and Strength are required to ride a creature with Racing Speed unless in a vehicle form such as a car.
[8] Flight: Increases the level of a non-winged creature or item's flight to the rate of the fastest of birds. This works out to be around 60 miles an hour. For a creature normally able to fly at a good rate, such as falcons, pegasai, griffins, etc. this enables them to keep up with single engine airplanes (around 300-400 miles per hour). Things which fly very quickly, such as jets have their flight speeds increased to triple their normal speed.
[16] Warp Speed Now, Mr. Sulu! :)

Stamina

[1] Double Stamina: Grants a creature the same stamina as that bestowed by Chaos endurance, this does not grant any of the other endurance related abilities, i.e.: no healing or regeneration.
[2] Amber Stamina: Grants the stamina equivalent to someone of Amber rank endurance.
[4] Tireless Stamina: The creature or object will simply never get tired. This does not imply an unlimited source of energy, i.e.: a running horse will never tire but will eventually collapse due to having nothing left to give, up until then however the horse will suffer no ill effects. A perfect example of keeping going until you drop dead in your tracks.
[4] Enhanced Energy Reserves: The creature or object has stamina equivalent to someone placed low in the Endurance Auction.
[8] Outstanding Stamina: Not only will the creature never grow tired, they are no longer hindered by wounds. Only injuries that physically dismember the creature can impair its efficiency.
[8] Superior Energy Reserves: The creature or object has stamina equivalent to someone placed mid-ranked in the Endurance Auction.
[16] Awe-Inspiring Stamina: The item has as much endurance as the most tireless person in creation, and will keep going until obliterated.

Combat/Martial Arts

[1] White Belt: Grants the unarmed combat abilities of someone with Human Strength. Mainly useful for things like ropes which normally couldn't attack under their own power.
[2] Brown Belt: Grants the unarmed combat abilities of someone with Chaos Strength. May have up to Amber in some specialty.
[4] Black Belt: Grants the unarmed combat abilities of someone of Amber Strength, and may have specialties which place them in the lower ranks of the Strength scale in that specialty.
[8] Combat Supremacy: Items or creatures with this level of Martial Arts will be on par with someone in the lower ranks of the Strength Attribute scale, whereas if they specialize in a particular type of combat (punches, kicks, locks, throws) they will be equal to someone in the mid ranks of the Attribute scale.
[16] Iron Fist: Items or creatures with this level of Martial Arts will be on a par with someone in the middle ranks of the Strength Attribute scale, if they specialize in a particular type of combat they may be able to force Gerard to exert himself.

Combat/Tactical Skills

[1] Combat Training: This grants the tactical skills of Human level warfare, and is generally only useful for enabling things which normally have no combat skills (such as toasters) to have some sense of tactics, and thus be able to cooperate at least marginally with other beings in combat.
[2] Noncom: The creature is now qualified to lead small units, and has the tactical skills of someone with Chaos Warfare. They may possess specialties where they reach Amber rank.
[4]Officer: The creature or item can now match the tactical skill of Joe Amberite. It may possess specialties where it operates at a par with those low-ranked in Warfare.
[8] General: Items or creatures with this level of Tactical Skills will be on par with someone in the lower ranks of the Warfare Attribute scale, whereas if they specialize in a particular type of tactics, they will be equal to someone in the mid ranks of the Attribute scale.
[16] Marshal: Items or creatures with this level of Tactical Skills will be on a par with someone in the middle ranks of the Warfare Attribute scale, if they specialize in a particular type of combat they may be able to force Benedict to exert himself.

Combat/Weapon Skills

[1] Combat Training: Grants the same combat skill in all weapons as someone of Human warfare, generally only used on items that would normally not have any combat skill, specializing in a particular weapon may enable the creature to exceed the abilities of Human rank.
[2] Combat Reflexes: Grants the same combat skill in all weapons as someone of Chaos warfare, specializing in a particular weapon may enable the creature to exceed the abilities of Chaos rank.
[4] Combat Mastery: Grants the same combat skill in all weapons as someone of Amber warfare, specializing in a particular weapon may enable the creature to exceed the abilities of Amber rank.
[8] Combat Supremacy: Items or creatures with this level of Combat will be on par with someone in the lower ranks of the Warfare Attribute scale, whereas if they specialize in a particular type of combat (2-handed sword, claws, etc.) they will be equal to someone in the mid ranks of the Attribute scale.
[16] Exalted Combat Mastery: Items or creatures with this level of Combat will be on a par with someone in the middle ranks of the Warfare Attribute scale, if they specialize in a particular type of combat they may be able to force Benedict to exert himself.

Resistance To Damage

These are, it should be noted, enhancement qualities. One can get perfectly mundane, 0 point armor, which will stop non-enhanced weapons, and even slow down 1 and 2 point enhanced damage weapons. Weapon and armor qualities are roughly equivalent, a four point weapon will nullify most to all of the benefit of four point armor...at the same time, the armor is effectively knocking down the amount of damage the four point weapon inflicts to that of a more normal weapon of that type. A weapon one step weaker than the armor it faces will require a serious warfare advantage, a weapon two steps weaker will take a severe one to get through, and if it's three steps weaker, you'll probably never hurt them. [For example, trying to use a mundane, 0 point weapon to get through 4 point armor, you can probably forget about it. Or a 1 point weapon vs 8 point armor.] Weapons higher ranked than armor will simply slice through armor as if it wasn't there.

Offensive magic (fireballs, lightning, etc) will be reduced or stopped entirely by armor, dependent on the psyche of the user and the nature of the attack vs. the nature of the armor (Metal armor won't stop lightning very well, for example)

[1] Resistant To Weapons: Makes the material more resistant to weapons than it would normally be, i.e.: A T-shirt can be made to give some protection vs. knives but little against a sword. Usually applied to armor, making penetration by normal weapons very difficult.
[2] Resistant To Guns: Confers the item with a degree of 'bulletproof-ness', mundane firearms will have a difficult time piercing the armor, unless the opponent has a significant warfare advantage.
[4] Invulnerable To Conventional Weapons: Resistant to all mundane weapons, a high warfare advantage will be needed to penetrate the armor with anything less than a 'deadly damage' weapon, which can penetrate this armor relatively quickly.
[8] Impervious To Damage: Mundane weaponry short of artillery bounces off. So do 1 point weapons. Even two point weapons are unlikely to hurt you, unless Benedict is using them. Four point weapons are seriously slowed down.
[16] Impenetrable: This can ONLY be applied to an item and cannot be transferred. Such an item contains either the Pattern or some other major Power which makes it almost immune to damage by any lesser Power. Two point weapons bounce off. Four point and eight point weapons can't hurt you much. Known Powers, in order of least to greatest are Trump, Logrus, Pattern.

Weapon Damage

[1] Extra Hard: The material of the weapon is hardened to a degree that it will suffer no ill effects on striking hard surfaces, i.e.: Armor. This hardening also allows greater armor penetration.
[2] Double Damage: Capable of inflicting wounds of a significance greater than initially apparent, these types of weapons are also capable of cutting through almost any mundane armor without difficulty.
[4] Deadly Damage: A wound that would be minor when inflicted by a normal weapon, will be much more dangerous when inflicted by a weapon of deadly damage. A simple thrust will has a tendency to tear flesh, causing blood loss and tissue damage mush more significant that would seem appropriate.
[8] Destructive Damage: Rips through opponents, causing massive damage. Ignores all armor less than "Invulnerable To Conventional Weapons" which it will penetrate fairly quickly, and can break through "Impervious To Damage" given sufficient skill behind the weapon.
[16] Primal Damage: This can ONLY be applied to an item and cannot be transferred. Such an item contains either the Pattern or Logrus which makes it the bane of its opposite. Primal Damage weapons literally destroy those they oppose by igniting their blood. Wounds from such a weapon are eventually fatal, unless the victim has some way to shed the flaming blood in time. Against other opponents, it inflicts very hard to heal Destructive Damage. Ignores Armor under Impenetrable. If a Primal Damage weapon strikes an Impenetrable Armor and they are of opposing types then the item with the greater Power will succeed. For example, if someone with a Primal Damage Pattern sword struck someone with Impenetrable Armor of the Logrus, the armor would be destroyed ultimately (since Pattern is a greater Power than Logrus), but the armor would have protected the wearer for that first blow.
[16] Apocalyptic Damage: Penetrates virtually any kind of armor with ease, and produces nasty, nasty wounds. Those of Amber or less Endurance probably die from a nick, let alone a serious blow.

Intelligence / Communication

[1] Able To Speak: The creature or object may speak one language, usually Thari, and understand simple orders. It is generally considered to have the intelligence of a well trained dog, it will not act on it's own initiative unless told to do so, and even then will be unpredictable.
[1] Notable Skill: The Item contains knowledge of some particular skill; this can be conveyed or implanted.
[2] Able To Speak & Sing: May speak one language, and make other noises, i.e.: laughter. Equivalent to the intelligence of a young child, capable of simple problem solving.
[4] Speaks In Tongues And Voices: Equivalent to intelligence found in a adult, capable of acting on its own initiative to complete orders to the best of it's abilities. The creature may speak one language initially, though it may be taught more latter, it can also imitate the voices of others.
[8] Highly Intelligent: The creature is smarter than most people and has a wide array of skills, speaking many languages. It excels at long-range planning and analytical thought.
[16] Super Genius: Brilliant beyond measure.

Psychic Quality

[1] Psychic Sensitivity. The item or creature gains the equivalent of Chaos Psyche for sensory and offensive
[2] Amber Sensitivity. The item or creature gains the equivalent of Amber Psyche for sensory and offensive purposes
[2] Sensitivity To Danger. The item has the ability to sense when danger is imminent. Creatures shielded by Psychic Neutral/Screen/Void may not set off this sense of danger if the item or creature's Psyche is too weak to pierce it. Powers can also be used, with a sufficient Psyche advantage, to avoid setting this off as well.
[2] Detect Lies. The item can attempt to tell if someone is lying. The item needs a Psyche advantage to succeed at this. Psychic Resistances and Barriers can screen against this. Psychic Neutral/Screen/Void is of less use, but still resists with its psychic defense level.
[3] Linked Remote Psychic Sensitivity: This allows any of a number of items to all be in constant Psychic communication despite distances in Shadow. Only a Psychic Barrier or a Shadow Barrier vs. Psyche will sever the contact.
[4] Extraordinary Psychic Sense. In shadows especially attuned to Psychic powers, the item can reach out and contact other minds by pure Psychic force. In other shadows, the item is limited to the normal functioning of Psyche. Still, it possess Psyche equal to someone ranked low in the attribute auction for offensive and sensory purposes.
[8] Psychic Might: Such an item possesses mid-ranked psyche for offensive and sensory purposes.
[8] Augmented Offensive Psychic Force: This allows a sudden boost to the user's Psyche for purposes of Offense. The main difference between this and the Power Word, Burst Of Psyche, is that the effects are more dramatic and continue for a longer period of time.
[16] Immense Psychic Sense: Gives a Psychic equivalent to a very high rank in Psyche. Nearly unbeatable by any Psychic force.

Psychic Defense

Psychic Defense items can be built with a special modifier: Automatic On/Off Switch. This costs 4 extra points, and can be added by anyone who has any level of Conjuration at all. Items with Automatic On/Off Switches click on automatically as soon as a Psychic Attack starts to brush your defenses. However, such items are vulnerable to being hacked by a Psyche expert if he has time to study the defenses, enabling him to suddenly just turn the item off if he succeeds.

[1] Chaos Resistance: Has the same resistance to attack as a creature of Chaos Psyche. It provides a small boost to anyone who possesses naturally greater Psyche, if Conveyed or Implanted. It does not hamper the use of Psyche at all.
[1] Light Psychic Barrier: A light psychic barrier will repel any intrusion by those of Amber Psyche or less, will slow those of slightly higher Psyche down, and will only make those of mid-ranked to high Psyche laugh at you. Any user who does not have above Amber Psyche will find themselves unable to use Psyche-reliant abilities (shadow walking, initiating trump calls, etc), except for those that only affect the self (Calling up Pattern Defense, shapeshifting against self only, etc). Those of Psyche Amber or lower, unless they are themselves Trump Artists, won't even notice that someone is trying to trump them, but the barrier will continue to protect their brain against any forced Trump Contact. Those of higher psyche may find themselves somewhat hampered, depending on Psyche. True-Name backed Power Words will go through it like a hot knife through butter.
[2] Amber Resistance: Has the same resistance to attack as a creature of Amber Psyche. It provides a small boost to anyone who possesses naturally greater Psyche, if Conveyed or Implanted. It does not hamper the use of Psyche at all.
[2] Medium Psychic Barrier: A medium psychic barrier will repel any intrusion by those of fairly low, but ranked Psyche, will slow those of low to medium Psyche down, will slightly slow down those of medium to high psyche, and will only make those of really high Psyche laugh at you. Any user who has under ten points of Psyche will find themselves unable to use Psyche-reliant abilities (shadow walking, initiating trump calls, etc), except for those that only affect the self (Calling up Pattern Defense, shapeshifting against self only, etc). Those of Psyche below 10, unless they are themselves Trump Artists, won't even notice that someone is trying to trump them, but the barrier will continue to protect their brain against any forced Trump Contact. Those of higher psyche may find themselves somewhat hampered, depending on Psyche. True-Name backed Power Words will go through it like a hot knife through butter.
[2] Psychic Neutral: The item's mind is not easily detected, and has the same resistance to attack as a creature of Chaos Psyche. It provides a small boost to anyone who possesses naturally greater Psyche, if Conveyed or Implanted. Any use of Psyche will void this defense for the duration of its use, but it does not hamper such use.
[4] Improved Psychic Resistance: Has the same resistance to attack as someone placed low in the Psyche attribute auction. It provides a small boost to anyone who possesses naturally greater Psyche, if Conveyed or Implanted. It does not hamper the use of Psyche at all.
[4] Strong Psychic Barrier: A strong psychic barrier will repel any intrusion by those of low to medium Psyche, will slow those of medium to high Psyche down, will slightly slow down those of high psyche, and will only make those of extremely high Psyche laugh at you. Any user who has under thirty points of Psyche will find themselves unable to use Psyche-reliant abilities (shadow walking, initiating trump calls, etc), except for those that only affect the self (Calling up Pattern Defense, shapeshifting against self only, etc). Those of Psyche below 30, unless they are themselves Trump Artists, won't even notice that someone is trying to trump them, but the barrier will continue to protect their brain against any forced Trump Contact. Those of higher psyche find themselves somewhat hampered, depending on Psyche. Even True-Name backed Power Words are hampered; the user must have at least 75% of the Defender's Psyche, or the Power word is repelled anyway. True-Name backed Advanced Power Words go right through it.
[4] Psychic Screen: Provides strong defense against your mind being detected, and has the same resistance to attack as a creature of Amber Psyche. It provides a small boost to anyone who possesses naturally greater Psyche, if Conveyed or Implanted. Any use of Psyche will void this defense for the duration of its use, but it does not hamper such use.
[8] Advanced Psychic Resistance: It provides defense equivalent to mid-ranked Psyche. It provides a small boost to anyone who possesses naturally greater Psyche, if Conveyed or Implanted. It does not hamper the use of Psyche at all.
[8] Advanced Psychic Barrier: A advanced psychic barrier will repel any intrusion by those of medium to high Psyche, will slow those of high Psyche down, and will slightly slow down those of very high psyche. Any user who has under fifty-one points of Psyche will find themselves unable to use Psyche-reliant abilities (shadow walking, initiating trump calls, etc), except for those that only affect the self (Calling up Pattern Defense, shapeshifting against self only, etc). Those of Psyche below 51, unless they are themselves Trump Artists, won't even notice that someone is trying to trump them, but the barrier will continue to protect their brain against any forced Trump Contact. Those of higher psyche find themselves somewhat hampered, depending on Psyche. Normal Power Words backed by insufficient Psyche to penetrate the barrier, even if you know the target's True Name, will bounce off. Even Advanced True-Name backed Power Words are hampered; the user must have at least 75% of the Defender's Psyche, or the Power word is repelled anyway. True-Name backed Exalted Power Words go right through it.
[8] Psychic Void: Even the use of powers to detect the mind of the target will tend to fail unless the power user has fairly high Psyche . Also confers psychic resistance equal to that of someone placed low in the Psyche attribute auction. It provides a small boost to anyone who possesses naturally greater Psyche, if Conveyed or Implanted. Any use of Psyche will void this defense for the duration of its use, but it does not hamper such use.
[8] Augmented Defensive Psychic Force: This allows a sudden boost to the user's Psyche for purposes of Defense. The main difference between this and the Power Word, Burst Of Psyche, is that the effects are more dramatic and continue for a longer period of time. It otherwise functions identically to that Power Word.
[16] Exalted Psychic Resistance: The item possesses Psychic Defenses equivalent to those of high ranked Psyche. It provides a small boost to anyone who possesses naturally greater Psyche, if Conveyed or Implanted. It does not hamper the use of Psyche at all.

Senses

[1] Extended Sense--This doubles the 'range' of a single already possessed sense. You can sense things more finely at a further distance. This is most useful for whatever senses the creature or item already specializes in (such as Sight and Hearing for a normal human). [This can be applied to a mechanical sensory device to double its range. For example, X5 binoculars would become X10 binoculars.]
[1] Normal Sense--This gives one of the five normal senses to something which lacks them. (A blind man could be made to see, a rock could hear, etc). Inanimate objects with intelligence need either this or Full Suite of Normal Senses or some form of Psychic sensitivity or mechanical sensors to actually percieve their environment.
[2] Improved Extended Sense--This quadruples the 'range' of a single already possessed sense. You can sense things more finely at a further distance. This is most useful for whatever senses the creature or item already specializes in (such as Sight and Hearing for a normal human) [This can be applied to a mechanical sensory device to increase its range. For example, X5 binoculars would become X20 binoculars.]
[2] Augmented Sense--This heightens some sense already possessed by the object or creature to a great degree (A human, for example, could now use his sense of smell to track people). It does not improve range, but rather allows for finer sensing of detail within that range.
[2] Full Suite of Normal Senses--This gives all five senses to something which lacks one or more of them.
[4] Greatly Extended Sense--This multiplies the 'range' of a single already possessed sense by a factor of 16. You can sense things more finely at a further distance. This is most useful for whatever senses the creature or item already specializes in (such as Sight and Hearing for a normal human) [This can be applied to a mechanical sensory device to increase its range. For example, X5 binoculars would become X80 binoculars.]
[4] Extraordinary Sense--This enables the recipient to sense something beyond the normal capacities of living beings. You might be able to sense motion, or have infrared sight, or see gamma rays, or have x-ray vision. What is sensed must be some sort of object or physical property.
[4] Full Suite of Augmented Senses--This can only be applied to something which already possesses all five normal senses, augmenting them all to superhuman levels.
[8] Extremely Extended Sense--This multiplies the 'range' of a single already possessed sense to the point where the sense could be used from orbit to observe things on the ground. This is most useful for whatever senses the creature or item already specializes in (such as Sight and Hearing for a normal human) [This can be applied to a mechanical sensory device.]
[16] Exalted Extended Sense--This multiplies the 'range' of a single already possessed sense to the point where the sense could be used to cross interstellar distances if you so desired. This is most useful for whatever senses the creature or item already specializes in (such as Sight and Hearing for a normal human) [This can be applied to a mechanical sensory device.]

Recording Capabilities:

[1] Short Term Memory: The item can store up to an hour of sensory data and recall it perfectly as desired. This presumes the item already has some form of senses suitable to the task.
[2] Recorder: The item can perfectly record and store up to a day of sensory data and recall it perfectly as desired. This presumes the item already has some form of senses suitable to the task.
[4] Improved Recorder: The item can perfectly record and store up to a week of sensory data and recall it perfectly as desired. This presumes the item already has some form of senses suitable to the task.
[8] Advanced Recorder: The item can perfectly record and store up to a year of sensory data and recall it perfectly as desired. This presumes the item already has some form of senses suitable to the task.
[16] Exalted Recorder: The item can perfectly record and store almost any amount of sensory data and recall it perfectly as desired. This presumes the item already has some form of senses suitable to the task.

Powers

Item Movement Through Shadow

[1] Sense Shadow Trail--The item is able to identify Unicorn Tracks and Black Roads, and it can sense the trails left through Shadow by shadowtravellers, enabling its bearer to follow those trails if they are fairly fresh (The higher the item's psyche, the older the trails can be). Such beings are also harder to lose if they're following someone through shadow, since they can quickly get onto the trail you left behind. Beings with this level of power can also walk through shadow to their master if seperated from him.
[2] Seek Visited Locations: The item can shadowwalk to any location it's been taken to before, or which its creator has visited and programmed into it.
[4] Seek In Shadow: The item can travel in Shadow towards a specific person, location, or item. Note that this is not the same as being able to move freely through shadow, because the item can only move in the direction of the subject. The item need not have encountered its target before, though obviously it somehow needs to know the thing exists.
[8] Seek Desires in Shadow: The item can now seek abstractions in shadow, such as 'A shadow where I can get a really good curry'.
[8] Forge Shadow Highway: While this property does not of itself convey shadow travelling ability, if this property is used while walking through shadow (this doubles travel time), the item forges a highway through shadow which can be used by anyone to walk through shadow, even complete Human Psyche shadow schmucks. The path allows transit at normal shadow walking speeds.
[16] Shadow Teleportation: With several minutes preparatory time, the item can teleport to any location in shadow it has visited before.
[16] Create Shadow Expressway: While this property does not of itself convey shadow travelling ability, if this property is used while walking through shadow (this doubles travel time), the item forges a highway through shadow which can be used by anyone to walk through shadow, even complete Human Psyche shadow schmucks. The expressway allows transit at hellriding speeds.
[+0] Slow Shadow Movement: The item is slower than a Primal Power User, moving at about 2/3rds the speed of someone with equivalent Psyche.
[+2] Matches Use of Primal Powers for Speed
[+4] Matches Hellriding Speeds
[+8] Matches Shadow Shortcut Speeds

Item Shadow Senses

[1] SPS--Shadow Position Sense: The item always knows where it is in Shadow relative to some fixed point chosen at item creation or when the property is imbued.
[1] Sense Reality--The item is able to detect if someone encountered is Real or a Shadow
[2] Assess Reality--The item is able to tell if someone encountered possesses Pattern or Logrus
[2] Analyze Local Reality--The object is able to examine a shadow and assess what the local laws are, what the local laws of reality are, any flaws in the shadow, Veils if near the Courts, etc.
[4] Reality Search Local Shadow--The object can, given enough time, scan an entire shadow (if it is not a Primal Plane) and eventually locate all beings and objects of Reality in it. This takes hours to days depending on the psyche backing the item up.
[8] Identify Shadow Owner--The object can determine who, if anyone, controls a shadow and how much control they have over it.
[16] Search Shadow--The object can slowly search all of shadow and find where anything you desire is. This takes about 1.5 times as long as Advanced Pattern use by someone of equivalent Psyche.

Item Control Over Shadow

[1] 'Mold' Shadow Stuff: Can alter the stuff of shadow, adjusting clothing, or the face on a coin etc.
[2] 'Mold' Shadow Folk: Can Alter the behavior of shadow folk, emotions or actions can be altered to fit the manipulators whim.
[4] 'Mold' Shadow Reality: May alter the nature of the shadow, i.e.: A sorcerer in a no magic shadow may temporarily alter the 'reality' so that magic works.
[8] Control Shadow Essence: This gives the equivalent control over a Shadow as someone with Advanced Pattern or Advanced Logrus.
[16] Ultimate Shadow Manipulation: Gives ultimate control of many Shadows at once, with the ability to control, shape, and direct Shadow Storms. The Jewel Of Judgement is an example of an item with this great a control over Shadow.

Healing

[1] Self Healing: Allows an inanimate object to heal itself at the same rate as a normal creature, and doubles the healing rate of living creatures.
[2] Quick Healing: Items heal as fast as someone with Amber Endurance. Living creatures heal at four times the normal rate.
[4] Fast Healing: Items heal as fast as someone low ranked in Endurance. Living creatures heal at eight times the normal rate.
[4] Shift Wounds: Items can close up damage to their casing with concentration. Living creatures can concentrate and make their wounds close up fairly quickly. However, this drains your energy reserves proportionally to the number nd size of wounds.
[8] Rapid healing: Items heal as fast as someone midranked in Endurance. Living creatures heal at sixteen times the normal rate.
[8] Regeneration: Items can eventually heal even completely destroyed components. Living creatures can eventually regrow limbs if they lacked the power to do so before, or can do it twice as fast if they already had this ability.
[16] Rapid Regeneration: The item regenerates twice as fast as one with 8 point regeneration. Living creatures regenerate at four times the normal speed.
[16] Limb Reattachment: The item or creature can simply pick up any lost components/body parts and pop them back into place, quickly reattaching them within a few minutes.

Shape Shifting

[1] Alternate Form: The Item / Creature has one alternate form.
[2] Named & Numbered Forms: The item has named and numbered forms, chosen when the object is created.
[4] Limited Shape Shifting: Only knows practiced forms, but can learn new forms. Learning a new form requires 24 hours divided by the number of points spent on the item's intelligence or psyche (48 hours for items with none).
[8] Mimic: The item can shape shift into any form it sees or comes in contact with.
[16] Shape Shift: Item can shape shift freely. Note that this still does not confer healing abilities or other shape shifting powers beyond simply changing shape.

Item Trump Images
These can only be conjured by people possessing both Trump Artistry and Conjuration, although anyone can buy this attribute for an item with character points. Items with Trump images cannot be sought in shadow.

[1] Contains Trump Image: May not be used on a creature or transferred, the object contains / is a trump image.
[2] Trump Deck: A deck of trumps made by the Trump artist.
[2] Sense Trump: The item can sense the usage of trumps in its vicinity.
[2] Trump Caller ID: The item can identify who is trumping it, if it's been trumped before by that person.
[4] Trump Powered: The Item draws it's power from Trump, and so may continue to operate in all shadows.
[8] Multiple Trump Contact: (Note: you need an Advanced Trump Artist's powers to create an artifact with this power.) The artifact can open and maintain up to twelve trump contacts simultaneously for the user if the contacts are made through the object. These calls can be patched together to allow 'conference' calls. The object can contain up to Named and Numbered Trumps as part of its being.
[8] Trump Jammer: The item can attempt to jam the operation of trump in its vicinity.
[8] Trump Memory: The item need only think of a place and it is taken there, provided the item has visited that location at least once before. A creature with this ability has the power Exalted Trump Artistry: True Trump Memory.
[16] Virtual Trump Ability: Gives the ability of a Virtual Trump, where the item need only think of the place and they are taken there. The center of the Pattern, or the Jewel of Judgement are examples of Virtual Trumps. The power may NOT be transferred.

Power Words
One must know the Power Words power to create items that contain Power Words with conjuration. One can only put Power Words known by the creator in an item. One can however, seek such items in shadow, or have such an item at char creation, or use such an item without knowing squat about Power Words.

If sentient, the item uses the Power Word backed by its own psyche and endurance. In non-sentient items, the Power Word is backed by the psyche and endurance of the person using the item, unless the item has its own Endurance pool. (Which means that if you have a repeating crossbow that fires power word bolts, you can exhaust yourself eventually)

[1] Contains A Power Word.
[2] Contains Named & Numbered Power Words.
[4] Contains an Advanced Power Word: Contains a single advanced power word known by the creator.
[4] Contains a Horde of Power Words
[4] Power Word Boost: One can choose to put more OOMPH into one's power words by expending additional life force. It costs five times the normal life force, but it doubles the effectiveness of a power word. This is a good way to knock yourself out quick, but sometimes worth it.
[8] Contains Named & Numbered Advanced Power Words: Contains named and numbered advanced power words known by the creator. Optionally, may also contain named & numbered power words.
[8] Contains hundreds of Power Words.
[8] Advanced Power Word Boost: Double power not enough? Invest 20 times the normal life force and you can have five times the normal effect. This is very flashy, but also very life force costly.
[8] Area Effect Power Words: Power words normally only effect one target, although a few basic ones have some area of effect (Light Strobe, Shade, etc). This enables you to extend the area of effect to about a 1 yard radius for five times the energy expenditure, or 3 yards radius for twenty times the energy. This can be combined with PW Boost or Advanced Power Word Boost if you really need to, though it will knock you out fast and quite possibly kill you very dead.
[8] Contains Exalted Power Word: Contains a single exalted power word known by the creator.
[16] Named and Numbered Exalted Power Words
[16] Horde of Advanced Power Words
[16] Put as many normal Power Words as you like. We'll make more.

Magic Defense

[1] Resistant to Magic: Items resistant to magic take more effort to alter with magic than normal items. This cannot be turned on and off.
[2] Resistant to Magic with Switch: As Resistant to Magic, but with an on/off switch
[4] Spell Breaker: This is most commonly used with weapons--it enables the item to cut through spells as if they weren't there. You can carve holes in magical shields, penetrate magical armor, parry fireballs, etc. Mages with superior Warfare can simply shoot around your item, however.
[4] Infused with Reality: The item can be treated as if it had Logrus/Pattern/Trump Defense with regard to resisting invasive magical effects.
[8] Magic Sink: You don't just resist magic, your mere touch sucks up magical energy, destroying spells by rendering them unable to function for lack of energy. Magic backed by a real power may still get through, though. Someone holding or carrying a magic sink will find themselves unable to cast spells, and any beneficial spells put on them will tend to be eaten by the Magic Sink. Magic Sinks can be made with on/off switches. Keep in mind that such switches are vulnerable to Psyche hacking.
[8] Magic Reflection: Able to reflect magic back on its source. It will always reflect at least part of a spell, but requires a psychic advantage for total reflection.
[16] Magic Null: Utterly, completely immune to magic unless it's backed up by a DemiJewel, the JoJ, or similar artifacts.

Magic Sensing

[1] Detect Magic--Detects magical energies within several hundred feet
[2] Detect and Identify Magic--Detects magical energies within several hundred feet and can tell what sort of magic it is (fire magic, wards, Logrus sorcery, etc)
[4] Magical Analysis--Detects magical energies within visual range, and once within several hundred feet, can tell exactly what they do. Applied to magical wards, it can identify what is needed to pass it (passcodes, a particular spell, etc). This may require a psyche advantage against actively maintained spells. At this level, it also can be used to examine a shadow and determine its laws of magic, enabling a sorceror to adjust his magics to local conditions. This takes minutes to hours, depending on the psyche backing the item up.
[8] Magical Sage--As Magical Analysis, but can perform these functions at any range as long as you have some way to extend its senses to the target area (magical scrying, radio telescopes, trump scrying, etc). It also assists in penetrating efforts to hide magical energies. At close range (a hundred feet or less), it can identify who cast a spell, if it has ever been used to sense magic cast by that person. It can also scan an entire shadow in about a half hour or less to locate all available sources of magic.
[16] Eye of Agamotto--Can scan a hundred mile radius and return a map of all magical energies in the area, identifying who created them, regardless of whether the item or its owner has ever heard of the beings involved. This takes a few seconds. Given enough time, you can scan an entire shadow, although with some shadows, you'd be spending more time than it's worth. Attempts to hide magic from its all seeing eye is futile, unless the person involved is at the very top of the Psyche food chain. Connected to an item with shadow travelling power, one can direct its gaze between Shadows as well, scanning a shadow for magic from an adjacent one.

Magic Use
These items can only be made by Conjurors who know Sorcery, or who are assisted by a Sorceror. They can, however, be sought in shadow, purchased at character creation, turned into point items if found later, etc.

[1] Rack A Spell: Capable of holding a racked spell, implanted in it by a sorcerer.
[2] Rack Named & Numbered Spells.
[2] Magical Specialty: Boosts the power of spells cast from this item in some specialized area, such as 'Fire Magic'.
[4] Rack & Use Spells: Holds named & numbered spells, and may also use them. The item does not know how to actually create any new spells to rack in itself.
[+4] Maintain Spells: The item can maintain spells, refreshing them periodically. This is a modifier to one of the other properties, such as Rack or Rack and Use. It requires Advanced Conjuration to add this modifier to a property.
[+4] Quick Casting: The item, if able to cast spells, casts them at 'Fast Casting Speeds'. It requires Advanced Conjuration to add this modifier to a property. Item creator must know Quick Casting.
[8] Power Magics: The item's spells are automatically boosted by some Power that the item is linked to, such as Pattern or Logrus. If the item is capable of creating its own spells, it possesses 'Power Sorcery' of that type. Item creator must possess the power to be linked to, and possess 'Power Sorcery' of appropriate type if the item will be able to cast spells itself.
[8] Magic Processor: Capable of racking, creating, and using, given enough time and intelligence, sorcery spells. It creates such spells at normal speeds. Items which create spells need to possess some degree of offensive and defensive Psyche, or else they will produce puny Human Psyche level magics if set to work on their own. (Such an item can be rigged to allow the item's owner to cast spells with the item using his own Psyche, which requires adding the ten point cost to Convey the Power.)
[16] High Speed Magical Processor: Blindingly fast, these items can create, rack, and cast spells at Spikard level Speeds. Typically only found IN spikards. (This does not convey any links to shadow sources of power, however, in and of itself). Items which create spells need to possess some degree of offensive and defensive Psyche, or else they will produce puny Human Psyche level magics if set to work on their own. (Such an item can be rigged to allow the item's owner to cast spells with the item using his own Psyche, which requires adding the ten point cost to Convey the Power.)

Quantity Multipliers

Quantity Multipliers can also be applied to shadows if you really desperately need a lot of shadows.

[*1] Unique.

There can be only ONE!

[*2] Named & Numbered.

A Dozen of them

[*3] Horde.

Fifty or so.

[*4] Shadow Wide.

In a single shadow, you have a horde of them wherever you go. Useful for things like your invincible robot army that guards your home base shadow.
Alternatively, several hundred of an item

[*5] Environmental.

In a single shadow, they swarm like mad.
Across named and numbered shadows, there's a horde of them wherever you go
Across a horde of shadows, you have a dozen in each.

[*6] Ubiquitous.

In one shadow, you can't kick a rock without finding one.
Across named and numbered shadows, there's severval hundred of them
Across a horde of Shadows, there's a horde of them.

[*10] Infinite Quantity. Not an accessible Quantity Multiplier normally, this is a couple of steps up from ubiquitous and represents the infinite number of Shadows connected to a Pattern.

Transferrals and Implants:
Anyone with even the most basic of Conjuration can use these tricks. Conferral grants an item's power to its weilder. Implant is used for items which become part of the owner's BODY.

[5] Confer Quality on Wearer/Owner/User
[10] Confer Power on Wearer/Owner/User
[10] Implant Quality in Owner
[15] Implant Power in Owner

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