Old Skulling

The Void can not only be unpredictable, causing strange effects and harmful experiences. It can also deeply corrupt the ones meddling with its energies, changing those individuals forever. When The Gifted rolls a natural 20 on the Willpower to manifest a power, besides other effects described above, he may suffer a Corruption . When this happens, the player needs to decide if he wants to make a Luck Roll to avoid the Corruption . If he doesn’t do it, or he is unlucky, he is corrupted in some sort, as determined by the Overlord , using the same principles as the ones used for creating a Backlash , with the difference that a Corruption is permanent. A power that inspires fear in a target may corrupt the user in the form of a madness (as in Sanity and Madness in Chapter 4: Rules of the Game ). A damage inflicting power might permanently damage a character’s Attribute . A power that lets the character travels through the Void might leave him stuck there. Similarly, we created t...

When The Gifted channels the energy necessary to manifest a power but fails to control it appropriately, it turns against him and his allies. That’s called a Backlash , and it can happen when a character fails the Willpower test to manifest his powers. In game terms, the Overlord has the freedom to determine what exactly happens, and he can base his decision on the power being used, its PL , the character’s Concept , and the situation at hand. Uncontrollably manifesting a fire based power on a rocky wasteland and on a dry field covered with leaves and sticks might have drastically different consequences. Generally, the higher the PL used for the power, the direr the consequences. Powers that damage enemies could damage the sorcerer of his allies for by 1 point per PL . Powers that confuse the senses could fool the user or his allies that something is true while it actually isn’t for half the duration of the intended power. If necessary, the Overlord can roll on the following t...