Rulings/Awakened

Banned Awakened Content

Banned Qualities

Positive Qualities

• Apt Pupil (Forbidden Arcana, Page 32)
• Archivist (Forbidden Arcana, Page 32)
• Blood Crystal qualities (Forbidden Arcana, Page 132) are restricted to NPCs only
• Elemental Focus (Hard Targets, Page 191)
• Illusionist (Forbidden Arcana, Page 37)
• Puppet Master (Forbidden Arcana, Page 39)
• Stalwart Ally (Forbidden Arcana, Page 42)

Negative Qualities

• Wildcard Chimera (Dark Terrors, Page 163-164)

Banned Spells

Everything involving Blood, Bug, and Toxic Magic is restricted to NPCs.

The following spells are banned.

• Calling
• Convert Blood to Ichor
• Convince (Page 189, Stolen Souls)
• Dark Ally
• Growth (Page 49, Forbidden Arcana)
• Inflict Disease
• Multiply Food (Page 50, Forbidden Arcana)
• Rot
• Pollution and Radiation spell, adept powers, etc.
• Shape [Material] (Page 118, Street Grimoire)
• Turn to Goo
• Petrify
• False Impression
• Manascape

Banned Alchemical Preps

• Lightning Blade (Page 199, Forbidden Arcana)

Banned Adept Powers for player characters

• Plague Cloud
• Pollution and Radiation spell, adept powers, etc.

Banned Mentor Spirits for player characters

• Planar Entity
• Doom
• Pollution
• Disease
• Mutation

Banned Traditions

• Necro Magic (Page 82, Forbidden Arcana)

• Draconic Tradition (Page 76, Forbidden Arcana) - Draconic Tradition is only permitted for the use by Drakes, which makes it de facto banned on the ShadowHaven.

• Tarot (Page 91, Forbidden Arcana)

• Hybrid Traditions (Page 101, Forbidden Arcana)

• All Custom Traditions

Banned Metamagics

• Paradigm Shift: Insect Shaman (Page 43, Forbidden Arcana)

• Paradigm Shift: Toxic (Page 44, Forbidden Arcana)

• Spirit Expansion: Shedim (Page 44, Forbidden Arcana)

• Predator Feast (Page 131, Forbidden Arcana)

• Soul Tether (Page 131, Forbidden Arcana)

• Spiritual Sacrifice (Page 131, Forbidden Arcana)

• Tarot Summoning (Page 45, Forbidden Arcana)

• Quickening (Page 326, Core Rulebook)

• Sacrifice (Page 90, Street Grimoire)

Banned Arts

• Geomancy (Page 143, Street Grimoire)

Banned Mechanics

• Fettering (Page 192, Street Grimoire)
• Updated Raw Reagents (pg. 188, Forbidden Arcana)
• Refined Reagents Uses (pg. 188, Forbidden Arcana)
  • Street Grimoire uses still allowed
• Radical Reagent Uses (pg. 188, Forbidden Arcana)
  • Street Grimoire uses still allowed
• Spirit Leashing (Page 182, Forbidden Arcana)

Altered Awakened Content and Rulings

Spells

Direct Elemental Spells

• While Direct spells ignore armor for the purposes of how they deal damage, the elemental effects still suffer the full resistance of armor.

Looking Glass

• The Looking Glass spell permits UV light through just the same as regular light, and thus sunlight passing through would trigger Sunlight allergies.
• Laser weapons are capable of firing through Looking Glass-affected material. Incidentally, this is why Firewatch uses lasers.
• The looking glass spell affects things traditionally considered light, so Visible, Infrared, and Ultraviolet light.

=Mindlink/Net

• For the purposes of Mindlink and Mindnet, only metahumans and metasapients (including Shapeshifters) may both be considered willing and be considered subjects.

Summoning

Possession

• Cyberlimbs are considered active for the purposes of Possession.
• Spirits utilizing the Possession power may only move in the ways that their host entity could ordinarily move.

Mentor Spirits

Spider (alt)

• Alternate Spider, as listed on FA 100 will be given one rank of Hang Time (SG 171) and one rank of Spirit Claw (SG 174), instead of the listed benefits.

Critter Powers

Paralyzing Howl

• A select sound filter set up to filter out a Paralyzing Howl provides bonus dice equal to the rating of the select sound filter on your defense test against the power. It does not provide immunity.

Qualities

Dedicated Qualities and Mysads

• Mysads must select sorcery as as an available skill group to take dedicated conjurer.
• Mysads must select conjuring as an available skill group to take dedicated spellslinger.