Post by Phsycodelic on Apr 5, 2017 20:53:26 GMT
Dowsing
Mystic Sorcerers
Mystic Sorcerers
When dowsing, the magician uses a specific item, or items, made from normal everyday materials, to find something or determine something. The stereotype of the dowser is that of the peasant yokel with a forked stick looking for water, and indeed, that is a common use of the ability. True dowsers know there is much more to this magic, however. Facts may be learned through the judicious asking of questions. Specific items can be found, and at higher levels even hidden emotions (like malice, or hatred, or even love) can be detected in those around you.
Roll: Perception + Alertness (Difficulty 4 + Path Rating used).
Cost: None.
Modifiers: None.
Duration: Instantaneous.
Price Of Failure: If a dowser fails a roll, she may try again, but only after some time passes to reflect further on the matter. This period of reflection starts at six days for a dowser with one dot, and decreases by a day for each dot gained in the Path. It may not drop below one day.
[ 1 - 6 ] Dowsing Levels 1 - 6 ( XXX - Page X )
Level | Ability |
1 | The dowser is able to find a small item (a ring, a key, a specific book) that belongs to her within a proximity of fifty feet. She may also gain a general sense about the answer to yes-or-no questions related directly to herself. |
2 | The dowser can find any personal items within a mile of her, and small items belonging to others within fifty feet. She may also gain a general sense about yes or no questions regarding another individual. |
3 | The dowser can track down any personal item anywhere, though, depending on distance, this may require extended rolls. She may find any item belonging to others within a mile, and may also locate specific accumulations of basic elemental forms (a stream or a layer of stone underground, or a secret room - an accumulation of air behind a wall) within a mile. She may gain an answer to any yes-or-no question about any mundane subject (questions such as “Is there a God?” are beyond the dowser's ken, while “Is this soup poisoned?” would be allowable). |
4 | The dowser can instantly locate any personal item, anywhere, with a single roll (though she will still have to travel the distance to reach the item), and can track down any item belonging to someone else regardless of distance, though extended rolls may be required at longer distances. She may now sense magic, or illness or hidden emotions within fifty feet. |
5 | The dowser can instantly locate any item, anywhere, with a single roll (though the distance will still have to be crossed to reach the item). She may now track down specific substances within a mile, such as deposits of gold or iron underground. |
6 | At the pinnacle of the path, in addition to the previous benefits, the dowser may instantly locate specific substances at any distance, and can do the same with magic, illness, and hidden emotions, although more subtle instances of them may require extended rolls. |
[ 1 ] Dowsing Rituals ( XXX - Page X )
Each dowser must choose an implement-type for her personal focus when using this Path. Using this implement-type is a “ritual”. The implements must be mundane items, such as a forked stick, a pair of wooden wands, an item dangling from a string (a needle, coin, stone, knife, ring, etc.) or any other device. Any new implement-types must be purchased as new rituals (1xp each), though the dowser may use any item of the type already purchased to work the Path (i.e., she's not forced to use a specific forked stick, she can use any forked stick). She must, however, spend at least an hour preparing a previously unused item before dowsing with it.
This path is otherwise a 'No Rituals' path, and you only get the 1 implement type for free, no matter what level you buy, as such.