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Power Sources and Paths

Rules

Power Sources (PS) and Power Paths (PP) replace P2e's Background and Class

Power Sources

The PS presented in this document are Elemental Conduit and Quest for Knowledge.

Elemental Conduit

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Choose 2 Power options. You can choose the same option twice, which only increases your resource pool:

  • Magical Focus (Focus): After you cast your elemental Cantrip, you gain Focus on you or one target of the spell as a free action.
  • Absorbtion (Focus): When you take damage of your element or caused by a creature with your elemental trait, you can spend a reaction to gain Focus on you or the target.
  • Magical Recharge (Energy): Once per minute, after you cast your elemental Cantrip, you recharge 1 Energy as a reaction. You can Empower yourself until the end of your next round with an action that deals 1d4 elemental damage per half level rounded up with a basic reflex save.
  • Basic Shaping (Material): If you damage  or get damaged by a creature with your elemental trait in your reach or take your elemental damage from a source in your reach and you have a free hand, you can create 1 Material as a reaction. You can Transmute simple elemental motes that make a creature "wear" by succeeding with a unarmed melee Strike or a Grapple.

Sympathic Element: You ignore restistance eqal to half your level (min 1) to your element on any target for 1 minute after you Spend a resource (lose Focus or spend Energy). You also do that on any target under the Ongoing effect of your power (that you have Focus or that is affected by your object of power).

Feats

Mixed ConnectionFeat 1

You have an additional elemental connection. Choose another element. You gain the Lore skill and Cantrip of that element and can use all your features also with the Channelsecond Elementselement. action.You

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Aura ConnectionFeature 1

Attention Source

 

You gain an Elemental Aura feat. Wheneverytime you Channel Elements, you gain Attention on you oruse a target of a used elemental blast. Your Attention pool increases by 1. Your Attention pool increases by 1 again if you choose this option a second time.feature.
  • Sheltering ElementFeat 1
    You gainlearned anto Elementalcontrol Aurayour feat.element When you Channel Elements, you gain Attention on you or a target of a used elemental blast. Your Attention pool increases by 1. Your Attention pool increases by 1 again if you choose this option a second time.
  • You gain the Extract Element action (1d4 at 1st level). when you gain bonuses fromso that action,it youcan also gain a Focus point that is usable as long as you have these bonuses.  Your Focus Pool increases by 1. Your Focus pool increases by 1 again if you choose this option a second time.
  • You gain the Base Kinesis feature.protect. When you use BaseSympathic Kinesis,Element you refillcan replace its effect with giving the target a Ingredient point. Your Item Pool increases by 1. Your Item pool increases by +1 againstatus ifbonus youto chooseAC thisagainst optionattacks aand secondattckers time.
    • with your elemental trait and resistance to that element equal to half your level (min 1).

    Quest for Knowledge

    Your Power Path choices choose 2 of the following options:

    Close Inspection Feature 1

    Attention Source

     

    When you successfully Seek a creature or attempt to Recall Knowledge about a target, you can gain Attention on that target or yourself. You gain the Ranger's Monster Hunter feat.

     

    Your Attention pool increases by 1. Your Attention pool increases by 1 again if you choose this option a second time.
    Knowledge is Power Feature 1

    Focus Source

     

    Once per day, when you successfully Track a creature or Gather Information about a creature or location, you gain an additional Focus Point (may exceed your pool size) that lasts for 8 hours. You can only use this focus point in a situation where the creature is present or you are at the researched location.

     

    If you succeed at Track or Gather Information for additional creatures later, you do not gain more focus points but you get more situations in which you can spend the gained focus point.

     

    You refocus by reading or chatting up on current topics or otherwise investigating them.

     

    Your Focus pool increases by 1. Your Focus pool increases by 1 again if you choose this option a second time.
    Field Samples Feature 1

    Ingredient Source

     

    Your Ingredients are catalogued samples of creatures and objects. Up to 1 minute after you successfully Recall Knowledge about a creature, you can spend an Interact on that creature action to take a sample and refill 1 Ingredient Point.

     

    During your daily preparations, you can create up to you pool size of documented sample collections as a Stable Ingredients.

     

    Your Ingredient pool increases by 1. Your Ingredient pool increases by 1 again if you choose this option a second time.

    Power Paths

    Brawler

    You fight close up and personal. Either with bare hands or melee weapons.

    You gain the monk's Powerful Fists feature.

    Select 2:

    Flurry of Blows Feature 1

    Attention

     

    You gain the monk's Flurry of Blows feature with the following changes:

    • You can also use a weapon that is Agile or Finesse
    • If you have Attention on a target, you can use it against that target
    • If you have attention on yourself, you can use it against any target but lose Attention

    Select an Attention Source of your power source.

    [A] Into the Fray Feature 1

    Attention Flourish

     

    Stride twice towards the target of your Attention. If you end up adjacent to your target you can lose Attention to Strike your target with a one-handed weapon or an unarmed strike.

    [AA] Vicious Blow Feature 1

    Focus

     

    You gain the fighter's Vicious Blow feat.

    When you use it you can chose to spend one Focus Point to add an additional weapon die.

    Trick Maneuver Feature 1

    Ingredient

     

    You can process an Ingredient to add it to your maneuvers. You gain a +2 circumstance bonus to your next Trip, Shove, Disarm, Grapple or Reposition attempt.

    If you use a Stable Ingredient you can choose one of those maneuver types. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus on all checks for that maneuver for the day.

    Mage

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