GURPS - Compendium 1..

Combined Limitations
If the familiar has more than one limitation, multiply the cost
reductions. For instance, if it has powers in the Daytime Only
(1/2 cost) and Erratically/Quite Often (3/4 cost), this would
work out to 3/8 cost. However, the final cost modifier may
never be less than 1/4.
Fugue
50 points
This is the ability to send yourself back in time for a few
minutes in order to create a double, specifically for purposes of
combat. It only works under combat stress; an attempt to use
fugue to (for instance) send yourself a message will always
come to naught.
When you enter combat, the GM rolls ld-1 to determine
how many future-duplicates the future you might have sent
back to help. The GM places them on the combat map; they are
then under your control. They don't know any more about the
outcome of the fight than you do - just by returning to the time of
the fight, they are creating an uncertainty about what happens.
If you are killed or knocked out during the fight, all your
fugue-doubles will vanish. If one of the doubles is killed or
knocked out, all the later ones will vanish; the GM assigns
each one a number from 1 to 5, with 1 being the earliest and 5
the latest. However, hits on a fugue double have no effect on
you.
When the immediate fight ends, the doubles, dead and alive,
will wink out of existence - they were closed causal loops of
alternate history. Damage to the doubles, ammunition they
expended, etc., does not affect the real "you" at all.
Harmony with the Tao
20 points
This advantage is only appropriate in a cinematic campaign.
Flexible and spontaneous, one who understands the Way
does not need training or preparation. He can simply do things,
without knowing how. Someone in harmony with the Tao can
attempt any one skill roll at his score in the appropriate attribute
(usually IQ for Mental skills and DX for Physical skills), once
per game session. The character does not incur any default
penalties. Harmony with the Tao does apply to skills which normally
have no default, including cinematic skills, psi skills and
magic spells. It does not, however, allow one to perform a task
without the appropriate tools, to use psi without the appropriate
power or to cast spells without Magery.
Illuminated
60 points
You have undergone a mystical experience which has made
you one of the Illuminati, in the original sense - you are enlightened.
You know what's going on, and you know it intuitively.
Depending on the campaign, you do not necessarily have to
be a member of an Illuminated organization to be Illuminated.
The organizations are a means to make one an Illuminatus - but
they don't have to be the only means. Some individuals might
become Illuminated through close contact with other Illuminati,
even without joining the Conspiracy. Others might gain
Illumination through the traditional Hindu/Buddhist path of
asceticism and meditation, or less traditional paths (by joining
the Church of the SubGenius, perhaps . . .). Still others might
simply be walking down the street one day, and be struck with
Illumination for no reason whatsoever. A few very special individuals
might be bom Illuminated. Such a one might be regarded
as a messiah by any other Illuminati who were aware of his
existence.
As an Illuminated character, you gain the advantages of
Extraordinary Luck and Intuition. In addition, you gain the ability
to mystically discern another Illuminatus on sight, with no
possibility of error. On a successful IQ roll, you can even tell if
the Illuminati are behind a certain event or situation. This perception
has nothing to do with logical deduction; you just read
the morning paper and know that "Dow Drops 50 Points" is part of
an Illuminati plot, while "Four Killed in Belfast Riot" is just
another random tragedy. (Obviously, this distinction doesn't
work in campaigns where the Illuminati are behind everything.) If
you want to know which Illuminati are behind an event, however,
or why they're doing it, you're on your own.
In some campaigns, this advantage will allow you to perceive
and communicate with spiritual beings. You cannot necessarily
control these entities, but they will know you and treat you with a
certain respect - +3 on reaction rolls from such beings.
The drawback to Illumination, of course, is that other
Illuminati and spiritual beings are able to perceive your
Illuminated nature, and there's nothing you can do about it,
except to stay out of sight.
GM's note: This advantage is only suitable for campaigns
with a mystical or fantastic bent, and is not appropriate to more
mundane conspiracy campaigns. Even if it is possible for some
characters in the game world to have this advantage, the GM, as
always, may forbid it to his PCs.
Immortality
See Immortality, p. 58.
Inherent Magic (Knacks)
140 points
Variable
If a magic spell is inherent rather than learned, then each
spell is treated as a separate advantage purchased when the character
is created.
To find the cost of such a magical advantage, or "knack,"
choose the exact effect desired (see pp. B155-164, GURPS
Magic or Grimoire). Then determine the energy cost of a magic
item that would give the user the power to cast that spell. (For
spells for which no item is listed, the GM may either disallow
the knack, or assign a cost based on comparable spells.) The
cost of that spell, as a knack, is 2% of the energy cost for the
item. In other words, if the magic item would cost 1,000 energy
points to create, the cost of the inherent ability is 20 points. The
GM may vary this percentage up or down. If the "standard"
magic item for a spell works for mages only, double the cost. If it
must touch the subject, the user of the knack must touch his
subject, or pay double for it!
The GM does not have to allow any knack, and may modify
the cost of a desired knack to suit campaign balance. Lend ST,
Shapeshifting, and Enchantment spells (except for Power and
Speed, as adjuncts to another spell) may not be taken as knacks.
Knacks produced by this 2% system will not necessarily cost
the same as equivalent psionic or "super" abilities, but they will be
fairly well balanced against most such powers, and they will be
balanced against other knacks.
A knack works automatically if the user is the subject or
touches the subject. Otherwise, treat it as cast with a skill of 15.
Rituals are not required. Time and energy to cast are as
described for the spell (no "reduction for skill"), although Speed
and Power may be bought to reduce them. Resisted spells are
resisted normally if bought as knacks.
Insubstantiality
See Insubstantiality, p. 59.
80 points
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