Any future failures of Attune rolls would be explained away as 'You idiot, that word is short for TEASPOON not TABLESPOON!' The GM asked what these words of power were and the player ad-libbed a simple cupcake recipe and claimed his character had painstakingly copied it from an ancient tome of dark power. Two party members were wailing, screaming, tearing at their hair and begging on their knees at the foot of this poor intern asking 'why do the good die so young!?' while the third party member gently took the corpse's hand and bent over it to say his final goodbyes and started whispering profane words of power to make his Attune checks.

Fortunately we'd snuck in under the pretense of being the corpse's grieving family so one quick flashback later and our Slide was in full drag pretending to be deceased's wife. The catch was that due to poor planning and rolls we had a Spirit Warden intern literally standing next to the body. Our very first use of Attune was straightforward - to get the name of a killer from one of his victims. I would not allow something akin to magic, walking through walls or mind reading as these are all more suited to Rituals or are inherant in playbook abilities. To me, attuning is always Risky or worse unless the player sets themselves up with a set up action or timely preparation. Perceive beyond sight to survey surroundings. Locate and interact with ghostly objects and structures such as ghost doors or echoes of removed city structures. Watch replays of the past through ghost echoes

With this definition I would allow the following things:įighting the ghosts by channelling or controlling the ghost's electroplasm.Ĭhannelling electroplasmic energy through your body (as a weapon or for other means) using a nearby electroplasm source. You could try to perceive beyond sight in order to better understand your situation (but Surveying might be better)' page 170. You might communicate with a ghost or understand aspects of spectrology. 'When you Attune, you open your mind to the ghost field or channel nearby electroplasmic energy through your body.

Blades in the dark rituals