Vampire: the Ebony Kingdom - MrGone's Character Sheets

and others, and measures its spiritual strength and “physical” presence;
a high Beast doesn't necessarily indicate wickedness or hostility,
though that's often the case. [Beast + Rank] is used in any
roll for which a Physical Attribute would be used, including attack
rolls. Spirit attacks typically do lethal damage, with exceptions
noted otherwise. While spirits may carry weapons or display fearsome
natural accoutrements, these are reflections of those beings'
natures, and offer no bonus to the Beast roll when an attack is
made – the Beast rating takes such armaments into account.
Rank: Rank is a measure of a spirit's overall power, as
well as its status and station among spirits. Rank is used in place
of Skill in die pools (adding to Aye, Orun or Beast), and it adds to
a variety of rolls and values. It ranges from 1-5, though truly epic
spirits may have even higher ratings.
Size: The “mass” of a spirit. Most abambo are Size 5,
while nature spirits come in a variety of sizes.
Corpus: Corpus is equal to [Beast + Size + Rank], and
serves as the spirit's Health. Corpus is lost as the spirit takes damage,
and recovers as the spirits heals. Spirits take damage as mortals.
A point of Essence can be spent to heal two boxes of bashing
damage or one lethal; restoring a point lost to aggravated damage
takes five points of Essence.
Normally, when a spirit is destroyed by reducing its Corpus
to zero, it's reabsorbed somewhere in the spirit world where it
recovers slowly; during this time, it can't be summoned, attacked,
communicated with or affected in any way. After a number of
hours equal to [30 minus (Orun + Rank)], it reforms in a safe area
with 1 Essence; ghosts always reincorporate at a fetter (an object
of great personal significance while it was living). A spirit taken
to zero Corpus by lethal damage must make an Orun roll; failure
indicates it's destroyed permanently, while success allows it to reincorporate
after double the normal time. A spirit that loses all its
Corpus to aggravated damage is destroyed permanently except in
the case of the most powerful spiritual beings, like orisha, totem
spirits and angels.
Essence: Essence serves the spirit's power reservoir for
charms; Essence is lost as the spirit spends it, and recovers at a
rate equal to (Orun + Rank) per day. The maximum Essence of a
spirit is equal to its [(Rank x 10) + Orun]. Essence may also be
spent to add extra dice to rolls and resistance traits in precisely the
manner Willpower does.
Derived Stats: Defense = Orun or Beast (whichever is
lower); Corpus [Beast + Rank + Size] (no wound penalties); Initiative
= [Aye + Beast]; Speed = [Beast x 2 + Size].
Spirit Combat
Spirits fight much like other characters, though have
simplified traits. Spirits can only be physically engaged when a
vampire is in the spirit world, when the spirit manifests in the material
world, or when special Discipline powers or blood magic allow
interaction. While in the spirit world, Laibon are fully subject
to spirits' attacks and charms, and are very often at a disadvantage
on their opponents' turf. A spirit uses its [Beast + Rank] to attack
and damage other spirits or visitors. The lowest between Orun
and Beast is used for Defense, [Aye + Beast] is used for Initiative,
and [Beast x 2] + Size equals Speed. Physically manifested spirits
use Attributes, Health and some other traits possessed by material
creatures; see the Manifest charm. Laibon destroyed in the spirit
world suffer the Final Death.
Spirits can act once per turn to attack, defend, move, or
use a charm (the Alacrity charm being an exception to this rule).
Charms
Charms are mystical powers that spirits possess, allowing
them to affect one other and their spiritual environment as well
as the physical realm and those that dwell therein. Each charm is
listed with a Essence cost (if any), range and duration (if applicable)
and a brief description of its effects. Any charm with no
listed range affects only the spirit, while no listed duration means
the effect is instantaneous. Using most charms is a standard action,
though any that are reflexive actions are listed as such; in no
case may a spirit activate more than one charm per turn.
Charms that target the physical realm or those in it suffer
a penalty to their rolls equal to the local Shroud. Targets apply
their Defense against any charm that has an immediate physical
effect, assuming they can see the attack coming (Defense would
apply against Lightning Bolt, for example, but not Corruption).
Alacrity (1 Essence): The spirits' answer to Celerity,
this charm grants the spirit unnatural speed. The spirit spends one
Essence, and gains its Rank in Alacrity actions that turn; activating
this charm is a free action. An Alacrity action may be used to
“purchase” any one of the following effects:
• Make an extra attack or action (not including charm activation).
Each action that turn is made at a penalty equal to the
number of extra actions taken; Defense is retained.
• Each Alacrity action devoted to Speed adds [Strength + Dexterity]
to the spirit's Speed.
• Each Alacrity action spent toward Defense increases it by 1.
• Each Alacrity action spent for Initiative adds 2 to the spirit's
Initiative result (meaning the spirit can act at different times
on different turns).
Animate (4 Essence): The spirit can animate and control
an inanimate object or element in the physical realm with a
successful [Orun + Rank] roll. Exactly what the spirit controls reflects
its origins or nature, so a river-spirit might manipulate water,
while an ibambo might animate bone or a fetter. While the spirit
animates the material, he can attack with it using its [Beast +
Rank]; the specifics of the damage are left to the Storyteller, but
should reflect the item or substance – for instance, animated fire
would cause aggravated damage to vampires, while sand blasts
would only inflict bashing but could temporarily blind.
Appear (1 Essence): The spirit can manifest to those in
the physical realm without taking on material form; this requires
an [Aye + Rank] roll, with successes on that roll the number of
turns it can appear. It can't affect the physical world, however, at
least without the use of other charms that would allow it to do so.
Armor (2 Essence per dot of Armor): The spirit may
augment its defenses by granting itself up to three dots of Armor
for the duration of the scene; some abambo manifest wraithly suits
of armor, while other spirits sprout scales, carapaces and stranger
things. This Armor offers protection against all physical attacks
except those causing aggravated damage.
Banishment (2 Essence): As the Majesty 11 power;
roll [Aye + Rank].
Create Flame (5+ Essence): The spirit may attack with
flame – exhaling it, conjuring it and sending it forth, or whatever
is appropriate. Each success on a [Beast + Rank] roll inflicts one
point of lethal damage (agg for Laibon); each additional 2 Essence
spent on an attack increases the attack pool (up to +5). Attacking
enemies on the physical plane from the spirit world costs an extra
Essence point. A less destructive use of this charm is to conjure
simple fires, with the size and heat of the fire depending on the
successes on the [Beast + Rank] roll.