Aggravated Damage: Chimera may use this rede in tandem with the Wyrd rede
to cause
aggravated, real damageChimera point cost: 3
Use cost: None
Animate (DN p. 122): The chimera can move, manipulate, and levitate objects at its whim. The type of object depends on the type of chimera: a chimerical nature sprite might move rocks and branches around, while a nightmare creature might animate corpses. Living matter cannot be affected.Chimera point cost: 3
Use cost: 1 Glamour trait moves 20 pounds of material for one Melee round. Additional Glamour traits can be used to double the amount of material (40, 80, 160 etc.) and/or extend the movement for one more round (thus 6 Glamour traits could animate 160 pounds for 3 rounds, and so on).
Appear (LN p. 195): The chimera can cause itself to be seen and heard in the real world by all observers in sensory range, in order to converse or give someone a scare. This does not permit physical interaction or the use of Wyrd effects, nor are the observers considered to be enchanted. Naturally the Mists will cover over anything "impossible."Chimera point cost: 4
Use cost: 1 Glamour trait per minute.
Archetype (DN p. 122): This is, roughly speaking, chimerical "diablerie," and is very rare. A chimera with this rede can, a limited number of times, "absorb" another chimera into itself, gaining its memories, Abilities, Attributes, redes, and Glamour. After successfully grasping its victim, the chimera makes a simple test each round; on a win, the victim loses one Glamour trait and one Health level; on a tie, only one Glamour trait; on a loss, nothing happens. Each round the victim may spend a Willpower trait to enter into a Physical challenge to try to break free. When the victim has no more Glamour remaining, it loses extra Health levels instead. Once it has no more health levels, it disincorporates and is absorbed into the Archetype chimera. The Storyteller grants the Archetype two-thirds (rounded up) of the victim's permanent Glamour, and a number of creation points equal to those of the victim (but no more than the Archetype had to begin with -- so a measly little 20-point Archetype isn't going to get full benefit of absorbing a 50-point victim) using them to "buy" for the Archetype chimera the redes, Attribute traits, and Abilities of the victim, starting with the strongest ones. The resulting chimera is still recognizable as the original Archetype, "modified" by the appearance of the victim.����This is a dangerous rede for the user as well; once it starts, it cannot be stopped until either the Archetype or the victim is destroyed. The Archetype will lose one Glamour trait, then one Health level per turn until the victim is absorbed; if the simple tests aren't going well, or if the victim manages to get away and can't be recaptured, the Archetype risks its own demise. (Note that the only benefit gained by an escaping victim is its escape; it doesn't get to "counter-absorb" the Archetype.) Finally, this rede is easiest to use on victims that are similar to the Archetype; if a nightmare-spawned worm beast tries, for example, to absorb Happy the Candy Bunny, it counts as two uses of the rede (so an Archetype with only one use must stick to its own kind) and the victim gets one "bonus" Willpower trait for resisting.
Chimera point cost: 10 for one use, 15 for two uses, 20 for three uses.
Use cost: 1 Willpower trait to start plus 1 Glamour trait per turn (and then one Health level per turn)
Armor: each trait of Armor can be used as bonus (not bidding) traits when
defending
against a Physical attack (cf. "Cover" in
Laws of the Night). This works differently from Armor for characters because you may as well just buy Health levels.Chimera point cost: 1 per trait
Use cost: None
Befuddle: Mental challenge: if successful, the target is down a number of
traits in
all challenges equal to (chimera's current Glamour minus target's current
Willpower),
minimum 1 trait. This lasts for as long as the target is in the chimera's
presence.Chimera point cost: 3
Use cost: 1 Glamour trait
Breath (adapted loosely from DN p. 122): The chimera has a "breath weapon" and can affect a wider range of targets with another rede (which must be purchased separately) such as Befuddle, Enchantment, Fear, Fester, Flame Bolt, Flash, Dreadful Gaze, Entrancement, Sleep, Transmute, or Venom. This rede can be paired with only one other rede, but it can be purchased more than once. The shape of the breath attack should be determined at creation: a cloud would affect characters within five feet, a cone would work like "Spray" for a firearm, a lightning-bolt-like attack would work in a straight line. (Note: because of overlap with the "Flame Bolt [Breath]" rede below, I've modified this from the description in Dreams and Nightmares.)Chimera point cost: 5
Use cost: 1 (in addition to the cost of the other rede)
Call for Aid (LN p. 196): With a static Glamour challenge (diff. 7), the chimera can summon the aid of allied or like-minded chimerical creatures in the vicinity, who must respond for at least one turn (although it may take a little time for them to get there).Chimera point cost: 3
Use cost: 2
Curse (CSG p. 81): This rede works much like the second level of the Soothsay Art. As long as the target is enchanted, she is vulnerable to this rede; to affect the unenchanted, the chimera needs the Wyrd rede.Chimera point cost: 5
Use cost: 2/level of the curse effect (so a curse equal to a "5-success" or "5-bunk-trait" Soothsay curse would cost 10 Glamour traits)
Difficulty Reduction (DN p. 122): The chimera can specialize in an Ability which must be purchased separately (the usual rules of specialization apply); this specialization is set during creation. For twice the cost, it also has free retests in challenges involving that specialization.Chimera point cost: 3 (or 6 for the specialization and the retest)
Use cost: none
Dreadful Gaze (DN p. 123): The chimera can turn a victim to stone with a glance (and an appropriate Physical or Mental challenge -- choose one at creation -- against the victim's Physical traits, followed by two simple tests). Fae and enchanted mortals are effectively paralyzed for (one hour minus 6 minutes per permanent Banality trait of the victim), after which time they revert to normal -- although this might last considerably longer in the Dreaming; while turned to stone fae and mortal victims are considered to have double their usual Health levels (so some chimera may use this protectively, strange as it may seem). If one of the simple tests fail, the victim merely loses a turn; if both fail, the victim is unaffected. Note that this power relies on the chimera's line of sight, not the victim's; it doesn't matter if the target cannot see the chimera. On the other hand, a clever changeling armed with a suitable reflective surface can turn this power against the user.����Other chimera who are turned to stone by this cantrip immediately lose all of their Health levels and must make the usual tests for chimera who have been killed. Chimera who fail are destroyed and end up as permanent statuary. Those who succeed separate into physical form (the stone) and incorporeal form; as the chimera heals the stone form crumbles away, disintegrating completely when the chimera forms a new physical body.
����Non-living objects and "ordinary" plants (usually chimerical ones, unless the chimera uses the Wyrd rede) are automatically turned permanently to stone, although the Storyteller might require a static challenge or simple test in some cases. Certain Arts, redes, and Treasures, especially those of a healing nature, may be able to return victims of any type to normal earlier than might otherwise be the case.
Chimera point cost: 8
Use cost: 2
Dreamform: the chimera is immune to any form of Physical attack; Arts or
treasures
(or other supernatural abilities or items, at storyteller discretion) must
be used
to affect it. If exposed to high Banality (9+ traits) the chimera must
make a Glamour
test vs. the offending Banality; if it fails, it becomes physical
(although still chimerical) for as long as it is in the presence of the high Banality. Note: the source of the Banality
does not
need to be aware of the chimera at all. -- Generally a chimera with this Rede will not require Physical traits; if a "target number" is necessary for determining its ability to resist Arts or Treasures that rely on Physical challenges, or if the chimera is made corporeal through exposure to Banality, assume it has as many Physical traits as (level of the chimera + current Glamour).Chimera point cost: 5
Use cost: none
Dreamweaving (DN p. 123): This rede is in many ways a lesser form of the Art of Oneiromancy cantrip "Syncope" combined with a variety of Ravaging. A chimera in the Dreaming who encounters the dreams of a sleeping victim in the mortal world may enter those dreams and direct their course for the remainder of the sleep cycle with a successful Glamour challenge against a difficulty equal to twice the victim's current Willpower; the victim may, even if unaware, retest by spending a Willpower trait. At the end of the sleep cycle the chimera makes a simple test; on a win it gains a Glamour trait from the victim. This rede becomes easier with repeated use on the same victim; for each two uses the difficulty reduces by one. Over time, the victim will begin to lose any benefits from sleep, ultimately leading to insanty and possibly even death. As with Sycope, those with fae sight have a chance to detect that their dreams (or those of someone they are observing) are being tampered with.Chimera point cost: 5
Use cost: one Willpower trait
Enchantment: with a Simple test, the chimera can make mortals aware of it
and interact
(in a hostile or civil fashion as circumstances indicate). Any damage is
chimerical,
of course, and the Mists will cloud the mortal's memory of the
encounter.Chimera point cost: 3
Use cost: 1 Glamour trait per minute, or per hour in a freehold or in the Dreaming (the first Glamour trait is spent whether the simple test succeeds or not; only that one test is necessary so long as the chimera has Glamour to burn)
Ensnare: specifics vary widely. A trap may be set, or an appropriate
attack (usually
some sort of Physical challenge) is made. If not a physical extension of the chimera itself (a prehensile tail, for instance), the Ensnare effect has a number of Physical
traits (usually
"Tough" or some such) equal to the Permanent Glamour of the chimera.Chimera point cost: 2
Use cost: 1 Glamour trait to capture one human-sized object
Entrancement (DN p. 123): Social challenge; the target becomes convinced that the chimera is her friend and go to great lengths to help it. Naturally the target must already be aware of the chimera, and must understand the chimera's language. This effect lasts for one hour, although the chimera can add additional hours by spending Glamour at the outset. The chimera must bid an extra trait for each additional casting, as the target begins to get suspicious. Hostile actions toward the target made by the chimera break the spell immediately. Chimera point cost: 4
Use cost: 1 Willpower trait (plus 1 Glamour trait per hour after the first)
Fear: Simple test; victim is affected as with vampiric Presence: Dread
Gaze for 5
minutes per permanent Glamour trait possessed by the chimera (Willpower
may be spent
for a retest).Chimera point cost: 2
Use cost: 1 Glamour trait
Fester: Physical or Mental challenge, as appropriate to the chimera; the
effects of
the disease may vary. At Storyteller discretion, if the victim is aware of
the chimera
he may spend a Willpower to retest. A suggestion (NEW): the disease should probably not cause more total physical damage in Health levels than the Companion trait level of the chimera; beyond this point, the victim could lose a Physical trait periodically. Natural healing of other wounds will probably be difficult as long as the victim is thus afflicted.
Of course Willpower can be spent to replenish lost Physical traits, as
usual, although they may continue to be lost if the disease has not yet run its course. Depending
on the effects of the disease, the victim may suffer some Mental or even
Social penalties as well.Chimera point cost: 5
Use cost: 2 Glamour traits + 1 per additional Health level of damage over the first (determine the maximum and spend the Glamour all at once; there is, of course, always a chance that some cure will be found before the maximum damage has been inflicted)
Find the Path (LN p. 195: Airt Sense):The chimera can detect the nearest useable trod. A Kenning challenge might be necessary for hidden trods.Chimera point cost: 2
Use cost: none
Flame Bolt (adapted from "Flame Breath," CSG p. 81): The chimera makes a Physical or Mental challenge (choose one to use always) against the Physical traits of its target; if successful, the target is hit with a fireball (or lightning bolt, or laser beam, or other distance attack). The maximum damage should be determined at chimera creation (this should be no more than the Companion level of the chimera), although a chimera may elect to cause less damage in a given attack. Damage is chimerical unless the chimera also uses the Wyrd rede, and in addition the Aggravated Damage rede will be necessary if you want to make it really hurt. -- Note: the "Breath" rede above appeared before this one, so I don't know what they were thinking; I've tried to distinguish them.Chimera point cost: 3 per Health level of damage maximum
Use cost: 1 per Health level of damage
Flash (CSG p. 81): The chimera can blind a target (the Wyrd rede is necessary to affect unenchanted Autumn World targets) with a successful Physical challenge (the attack can be Dodged). The target is blinded for 5 turns, or 1 minute in non-combat situations.Chimera point cost: 3
Use cost: 1
Flight: the chimera can fly 10 feet per turn for every Physical trait it
has.Chimera point cost: 3
Use cost: 1 Glamour trait per hour
Gulp: the chimera must win a Physical challenge and two simple tests to swallow its victim
whole;
after that damage (if any) is automatic each attack turn. (A failed Gulp
may still
inflict bite damage.)Chimera point cost: 3
Use cost: 2 Glamour traits
Glamour Pact: any changeling attempting to craft, forge, trap, or control
a chimera
with this rede must bid two extra traits. Otherwise as in tabletop.Chimera point cost: 5
Use cost: 1 permanent Glamour trait
Healing: chimera can heal its own wounds or those of others; the
"Wyrd" rede is necessary
to heal non-chimerical injuries.Chimera point cost: 5
Use cost: 1 Glamour trait per Health Level healed
Hide: the chimera may make itself or others invisible for up to an hour.
Effects as
Veiled Eyes. Changelings
(or Enchanted
Kinain) with Kenning may make a Mental challenge to locate Hiding chimera
if one
is near (even if it has remained perfectly still). The Wyrd rede is
required to Hide
unenchanted subjects or to Hide Enchanted ones from them.Chimera point cost: 5 (or 7 to affect others)
Use cost: 1 Glamour trait (plus 1 per additional creature or item affected)
Illusions (DN p. 123): This rede is similar in some ways to the Chicanery cantrip "Fuddle." The chimera can give any object or sensation a different appearance or sensation, but only one of the same size or sensory input. (Thus a cow could be made to look like a car, but not a mouse or a tank, nor, unlike some of the weirder uses of Fuddle, could the color green be made to sound like a siren, but another sound could.) Only one sense can be affected. No test is necessary. All beings within sensory range, even those scrying the area, are affected by the illusion. Characters with reason to disbelieve in the illusion may spend a Willpower trait and enter into a Mental challenge using the Kenning Ability against the chimera, who gains bonus traits by spending extra Glamour when casting the illusion. Otherwise, the illusion lasts for as long as the chimera wants, or until it takes more than three Health levels of damage. Characters with supernaturally heightened senses of the appropriate type are unaffected. Chimera point cost: 3
Use cost: 1, + 1 or more to increase the impenetrability of the illusion (treat as bonus traits for the chimera in applicable challenges)
Informational Link (LN p. 197): The chimera can access the Dreaming to gain information about virtually any subject. A static Mental challenge of varying difficulty is necessary.Chimera point cost: 5
Use cost: 2
Intangibility (LN p. 197): This is a temporary version of Dreamform (above). Other than duration and cost, it is identical.Chimera point cost: 3
Use cost: 1 Willpower trait per scene
Mindspeak (LN p. 197f.): The chimera can speak directly with the mind of someone nearby, even if he cannot otherwise perceive the chimera or speak its language. Requires a simple test, or a Mental challenge against unenchanted targets (who may feel they are going mad; the power is subject to the Mists).Chimera point cost: 3
Use cost: 1 Glamour trait per scene (fae and enchanted targets) or per minute (unenchanted)
Poof Begone (DN p. 123): The chimera can vanish at one place in the Dreaming and reappear in another, so long as it is in sight. (An exterior room of a house with a window could be entered from outside, but not a windowless interior room.) Certain locations in the Dreaming (trods, for instance) may enhance the distance. This rede cannot be used in the Autumn World, except perhaps in Freeholds.Chimera point cost: 3
Use cost: 1
Possess Animal (LN p. 198): The chimera may possess a mundane or enchanted animal (not a chimerical animal). It works like Possession (immediately below), except that the chimera needs to test only every half hour.Chimera point cost: 5
Use cost: 1 Willpower trait + 1 Glamour trait per additional half hour.
Possession: chimera must touch the target (a Physical challenge may be
necessary).
With a successful Mental challenge the chimera may possess the target for
5 minutes.
Additional Mental challenges are required every five minutes to maintain
control.
The victim may of course resist by spending Willpower. This only works on
kithain and Enchanted
creatures unless the chimera also uses the Wyrd rede.Chimera point cost: 7
Use cost: 1 Willpower + 1 Glamour per additional five minutes
Possess Tech (LN p. 198): The chimera can control one item of mundane technology and operate it as a human might, if it can figure out how (often a static Mental challenge will be necessary). The power need not be a Wyrd effect if no unenchanted observers are present. The chimera must touch the object unless it also uses the Animate rede.Chimera point cost: 5
Use cost: 1 Glamour trait per minute
Riadstradh (DN p. 123-24): Riadstradh, or berserkergang, allows the chimera to enter battle-frenzy before or during combat with a hated foe. The chimera can ignore wound penalties and gains one or more additional temporary "Ferocious" traits, even if this exceeds the usual trait maximum. (If the trait maximum is exceeded, the chimera also gains for the duration of its frenzy the use of "the Bomb.") This frenzied state lasts for as many rounds as the chimera has Stamina-related Physical traits, and may be extended at the outset by spending additional Glamour. The downside is that the berserk chimera will attack all creatures in sight, even friends and allies, and may not withdraw from combat, and when the Riadstradh is over, the chimera takes one Health level of damage for every three turns spent berserk (round up). This damage is brought on by fatigue and heals at the rate of one level per hour; it is almost never fatal, but otherwise works like any other damage. Only the presence on the field of a specific kind of foe will allow the chimera to go berserk; this should be determined during chimera creation and should not be too general ("sidhe" or "people in green" or characters with a certain Legacy, but not "all changelings" or "humans"). -- Note that frenzying chimera may be brought out of frenzy by certain supernatural abilities or soothing words (requiring a Social challenge).Chimera point cost:3 per bonus "Ferocious" trait (determined at creation)
Use cost: 1 + 1 for every two additional rounds of frenzy
Scuttle: extra actions and possible Fair Escape. The number of extra actions may not exceed one third
the chimera's
total current Physical traits. Extra attacks occur at the same time as Quicksilver actions.Chimera point cost: 3
Use cost: 1 Glamour trait per extra action taken
Sense Banality: a Willpower test is required. The chimera can determine
how many Banality
traits a person, object, or place has.Chimera point cost: 2
Use cost: One Glamour if the chimera loses the test.
Shapeshift: effects are illusionary. All five senses can be affected, but
no extra
abilities or damage possible. NEW 6/12/2001: Characters with special sensory abilities, or those with reason to doubt, may make a static Mental challenge against a difficulty equal to the chimera's permanent Glamour traits + Background level to pierce the illusion.Chimera point cost: 5
Use cost: One Glamour trait per shape change
Sleep (inspired by "Breath," DN p. 122): The chimera can cause a victim to fall asleep with a successful Mental challenge. This works only on fae and the enchanted unless the chimera also uses the Wyrd rede.Chimera point cost: 4
Use cost: 1 for every 10 minutes of sleep (but victims can be awakened normally before time's up)
Special Defense (LN p. 194: Affinity Defense): This is a catch-all defense ability. In a manner appropriate to the chimera's nature (force fields, a shield, a parry, elemental blasts that intercept incoming blows, etc.), this rede blocks one health level of damage per turn.Chimera point cost: 5
Use cost: 1 Willpower trait per scene.
Steal Glamour: First requires a successful Physical or Mental challenge (NEW: choose one during chimera creation).
Make a Simple test: on a win the chimera steals a number of temporary
Glamour traits
equal to its permanent Willpower score; on a tie, the chimera gains only
one Glamour. On a loss, of course, it gets none.Chimera point cost: 3
Use cost: 1 Willpower trait
Transmute (DN p. 124): The chimera can change non-living organic substances into something else. Thus, the chimera could mischievously spoil milk, make edible mushrooms poisonous, turn straw into meat, make a cotton shirt as strong as leather or wood or even metal, turn houses into candy, etc. The extent of the change depends on the number of Glamour traits spent (see this rede's description in DN for more details). This rede can even affect the Autumn World (the Wyrd rede is NOT required), although exposure to Banality will undo the change. The chimera must choose one or more "specialties," a certain type of material the chimera is able to transmute, for example, water, vegetables and fruites, wood, meat and animal hides, spices, fungi, natural fabrics, beer and wine, dairy, and other plants.Chimera point cost: 3 per specialty
Use cost: 1-5 Glamour traits
Traverse Dreaming: The chimera may move from the Dreaming to the waking world or vice versa; a trod is required (although not necessarily one
accessible by
kithain).Chimera point cost: 5
Use cost: 1 Glamour trait
Venom: may paralyze or chimerically kill a victim. Some sort of Physical
challenge
is necessary (Wyrd rede is necessary for real damage.)Chimera point cost: 5
Use cost: 1 Glamour trait per extra wound caused or per minute of paralysis
Weaponry: the chimera has, or can create, natural or melee weaponry from its own
substance.
These weapons may inflict additional wounds.Chimera point cost: 1 per bonus trait (+ 3 per additional wound, if desired)
Use cost: none
Wyrd: the chimera can briefly affect the real world and unenchanted
subjects.Chimera point cost: 5
Use cost: 1 Willpower trait per 10 minutes
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