Rulings/Banned Content
Banned Content
Banned Items
- Foci over F10 (excluding GMs with thematics permission)
- Power and weapon foci over F7 (excluding GMs with thematics permission)
- Crucible (FA 193)
Banned Qualities
Positive Qualities
- Apt Pupil (FA 32)
- Archivist (FA 32)
- Blood Crystal qualities (FA 132) are restricted to NPCs only
- Dark Ally (FA 35)
- Elemental Focus (HT 191)
- Illusionist (FA 37)
- Puppet Master (FA 39)
- Stalwart Ally (FA 42)
Negative Qualities
- Wildcard Chimera (DTR 163-164)
Banned Spells
Everything involving blood, insect, shadow and toxic magic is restricted to NPCs.
The following spells are banned:
- Calling
- Convert Blood to Ichor
- Convince
- Growth
- Inflict Disease
- Multiply Food
- Rot
- Pollution and Radiation spells, adept powers etc.
- Shape [Material]
- Turn to Goo
- Petrify
- False Impression
- Manascape
- Augury and Sortilege
Banned Alchemical Preps
- Lightning Blade (FA 199)
- Drain-Away (FA 195)
- Laminate (FA 196)
Banned Adept Powers for PCs
- Plague Cloud
- Pollution and Radiation spell, adept powers etc.
Banned Mentor Spirits for PCs
- Planar Entity
- Doom
- Pollution
- Disease
- Mutation
Banned Traditions
- Draconic Tradition (FA 76) - it is only permitted for the use by claimed drakes taught by a great dragon and serving them, which makes it de facto banned on ShadowHaven.
- Tarot (FA 91)
- Hybrid traditions (FA 101)
- All custom traditions
Banned Metamagics
- Paradigm Shift: Insect Shaman (FA 43)
- Paradigm Shift: Toxic (FA 44)
- Spirit Expansion: Shedim (FA 44)
- Predator Feast (FA 131)
- Soul Tether (FA 131)
- Spiritual Sacrifice (FA 131)
- Tarot Summoning (FA 45)
- Quickening (CRB 326)
- Sacrifice (SG 90)
Banned Arts
- Geomancy (SG 143)
Banned Mechanics
- Fettering (SG 192)
- Updated raw reagents (FA 188)
- Refined reagents uses (FA 188)
- SG uses still allowed
- Radical reagent uses (FA 188)
- SG uses still allowed
- Spirit leashing (FA 182)