Alpha Dawn - Star Frontiersman

add 10 times his current level to all STR/STA checks
for a duration of one round. At a cost of 1 additional
Mental Endurance per turn, he can continue to keep
the power invoked until he turns it off or runs out of
psychic energy.
ENHANCE SENSES
Success Rate:
60% + skill level
The character concentrates for a full turn, then
attempts this skill. If successful, he is permitted to
add 10 times his current level to all Intuition checks
for a duration of one round. At a cost of 1 additional
Mental Endurance per turn, he can continue to keep
the power invoked until he turns it off or runs out of
psychic energy.
HEAL SELF
Success Rate:
100% + skill level – amount of damage to heal
The character meditates for one full minute then
attempts this skill. If successful, he heals the
amount of damage he set out to heal. This healing
is fairly miraculous – the character will suffer
absolutely no scarring as the fabric of his body knits
itself together at an amazing rate. Characters are
always hungry after performing a Heal Self.
HYPERMOVEMENT
Success Rate:
65% + skill level
The Mentalist concentrates for a full round then
invokes this power. If successful, his movement
rate will increase by a multiple equal to his skill
level. For example, a Vrusk Mentalist (base running
movement rate 35 meters per turn) that invoked a
level 3 Metabolic Control skill could increase his
running speed by (35 x 3 =) 105 meters per turn!
This power can be kept up by spending further
Mental Endurance, but the character can’t keep this
level of activity up for any longer than he could
normally run (a number of minutes equal to his
Stamina score). Note that this same multiple
applies to all leaping and jumping distances. At a
cost of 1 additional Mental Endurance per turn, he
can continue to keep the power invoked until he
turns it off or runs out of psychic energy.
PHEROMONE EMISSION
Success Rate:
25% + skill level
The character invokes this power and emits a
psychic attraction to members of the opposite
gender and the same species. Anyone who picks up
the mental scent becomes enamored with the
character, sees them as an object of sexual desire,
for as long as the Mentalist continues to upkeep the
pheromone emission (by spending one additional
Mental Endurance point per turn). If the target(s)
leave the proximity of the character (2 meters per
skill level) the power begins to fade.
An enamored character will generally do what is
asked, as long as certain promises and favors are
offered or provided. They may act to protect the
character if it is within their nature to do so. The
individual is not in love, they are in lust. They won’t
willingly die for the character.
PSYCHOKINESIS
This skill deals with manipulation of external
energies. It allows for personal sensing,
manipulating, creation and destruction of subtle
energy patterns.
FIRE STARTER
Success Rate:
40% + skill level
This non combative ability allows the character to
keep himself warm in cold elements, and allows him
to invoke fire through sheer will. He can manipulate
the energies of a fire, and cause it to burn brighter
or dimmer, or to change in intensity/color. When
the Mentalist invokes this power (and spends the
invocation cost), he can continue to keep it up for
very long periods of time. Each hour he can spend
another point of Mental Endurance to keep up the
power, thus keeping himself protected from the
elements.
This power can also be invoked in an offensive
manner. He concentrates and makes his skill roll, in
doing so creates a fireball that streaks towards an
intended target. He has to roll to hit his target, just
as if he were hurling a weapon at him. If it hits, it
causes 1d10 damage per skill level. If it misses, the
target was able to get out of the way and therefore
takes half damage. Invoking Fire starter in this
manner doesn’t last an hour, its effects are
immediate. If the Mentalist wanted to hurl another
fireball in the next round he could do so but it would
be another invocation of this power. Note that this
also does 5 points structural damage per skill level.
INERTIA BARRIER
Success Rate:
25% + skill level
The character concentrates one round then invokes
this ability. If successful, he has the equivalent of
an Inertia Screen up. Each turn it is on drains one
Mental Endurance (in addition to the invocation cost,
of course). It protects the character from half of all
ballistic damage. Each time it is struck, regardless
of the amount of damage it absorbs, the character
sustains another point of Mental Endurance damage.
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