Rulings/Awakened
Banned Awakened Content
Banned Items
Banned Qualities
Positive Qualities
- Apt Pupil (Forbidden Arcana, Page 32)
- Archivist (Forbidden Arcana, Page 32)
- Elemental Focus (Hard Targets, Page 191)
- Illusionist (Forbidden Arcana, Page 37)
- Puppet Master (Forbidden Arcana, Page 39)
- Stalwart Ally (Forbidden Arcana, Page 42)
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
Alchemy
Summoning
Adepts
Traditions
Mentor Spirits
Meta Magics
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.