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

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.