GURPS - Compendium 1..

Light Walk (Mental/Hard)
No default
Prerequisites: Trained By A Master,
and Acrobatics and Stealth, both at 15+
This skill, called Ch'in Rung, allows a character to walk
without leaving visible traces. The training involves walking on
the edge of a large jar without tipping it over; the jar is at first
filled with water, but at the end of the training the character will
be able to walk over an empty jar without moving it. More
intensive training follows, and eventually the student will be
able to walk over snow or mud leaving no trace. Experts were
rumored to be able to walk over thin paper without breaking it.
On a successful Light Walk roll, the user will leave no visible
tracks; no Trac king rolls will succeed unless they rely on
something more than sight. Thus, a human tracker would be
baffled, but bloodhounds would suffer no penalty at all.
A character with Light Walk can also attempt to walk over
thin ice or flimsy surfaces. His Move during these circumstances
is 1/3 normal, modified as the GM sees fit. Thin ice will
require a normal Light Walk roll; attempting to walk over rice
paper strung over a room, on the other hand, requires a roll at -8!
Furthermore, add 1/5 of the Light Walk skill to Stealth skill
when the intention is to move quietly.
Lucid Dreaming (Mental/Easy) Defaults to Will-4
This is the skill of controlling your dreams. When the dream is
caused by an external agency (such as a spell, spirit or deity), a
Quick Contest between the dreamer's skill and the agency's
effective skill (or its IQ) determines who controls the dream.
This is not the same as the Dreaming skill (p. 139), which
includes the ability to analyze your dreams.
Meditation (Mental/Very Hard) No default
Meditation is the skill of calming the emotions, controlling
the mind and relaxing the physical body. It allows one to reach a
state of self-induced trance in which the mind is totally relaxed
but able to react immediately. A concentration period equal to
18-skill turns (minimum 1) is required.
A successful Meditation roll keeps an injured person from
falling unconscious, being shocked or stunned. It also allows
the user to concentrate on the task at hand and ignore outside
disturbances. A successful Meditation roll will give the user a
+2 on any Mental skill (other than magic, psionics and other
metahuman abilities) used in the next turn, and the intense concentration
also gives the user +2 to resist direct mental control
by psionic or magical means; all other IQ rolls on that turn will
be at -2, however.
The art of meditation requires a long course of study and
discipline, and the GM may wish to attach an Unusual
Background to this skill in some campaigns. Note also that the
skill described above is better-suited to cinematic campaigns
than to realistic ones. In realistic games, use the following skill
instead:
Meditation (Mental/Hard)
Defaults to IQ-5
This is the ability to enter a trance-like state which may then
be maintained for several hours. A meditative trance may be
required for certain rituals, as well as being a common prepara
tion for prayer. While in a such a trance, Fatigue is regained at
twice the normal rate.
Mental Strength (Mental/Hard) No default
Prerequisite: Trained By A Master
or Weapon Master
The character has learned to focus his Chi to resist mental
attacks. This skill replaces IQ in any resistance roll against
spells and psionic abilities, as well as Hypnotism, Hypnotic
Hands and Invisibility Art.
Modifiers: Strong and Weak Will. This skill does not replace
most normal Will rolls.
This skill may also be learned by a mage or psionicist character,
at the GM's option.
Mountain Heart (Mental/Very Hard) No default
Prerequisites: Trained By A Master,
Body Control 15+
This (extremely cinematic) skill allows you to actually convince
your body that it has taken less damage than it really has!
To call upon Mountain Heart requires at least three seconds.
You must first make a Breath Control roll, then a Body Control
roll, then the Mountain Heart roll itself. If any of these rolls are
failed, the process must start over again, beginning with the
Breath Control roll.
If the Mountain Heart roll is successful, you take back 1d of
lost hit points. You may never exceed your normal Hit Point
total with Mountain Heart, nor may you use Mountain Heart to
recover more Hit Points than you had after your last successful
use of Mountain Heart.
Example: Shadow Lotus' last successful use of Mountain
Heart brought her to 11 Hit Points; she takes three more points of
damage and uses Mountain Heart again - she may not recover
more than three Hit Points from this use of Mountain Heart.
Once you've successfully used Mountain Heart, you may not
use it again until you take fresh damage.
Characters should keep track of their "real" damage, irrespective
of Mountain Heart rolls, since this damage indicates the
amount of time necessary for a full recovery.
Example: If Leaping Dragon takes 25 points of damage, and
regains 13 of them through Mountain Heart, he'll have to recuperate
long enough to heal all 25 points, not just the 12 he still
felt after Mountain Heart.
Also, a character who takes HTx6 points of "real" damage
dies of massive internal trauma, regardless of Mountain Heart.
Mountain Heart is a very powerful cinematic ability, and
GMs should exercise extreme caution in introducing it into the
campaign.
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