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Innate Aspect · Playtest
Innate contact with machine interfaces and mechanisms
Start here: Choose an Aspect, set your level and Intelligence score, then open one of its three paths. At level 1, you can spend your 2 points on two rank-I paths. Use Try this Aspect to spend points in the builder; this page previews rules.
2 Mastery Points at this level · Five free basics
1 point total in this path · Earlier ranks required
Convey a message on each activation. Mental links communicate meaning; other methods require a shared language or code. Specific contact, sleep, interface, and sensory requirements override the maximum range. Use an accessible device's actual interface; no invented knowledge or automatic credential bypass. The device must be accessible and compatible, not sentient or unwilling.
Ends: duration expiry, node removal, Aspect replacement, and any specific ending condition in the effect. Permanent mundane results persist.
Send up to 5 words through a visible accessible nonsentient device's existing interface within 60 feet. It must have a compatible input/output path. No invented data, credential bypass, control of a sentient machine or reading offline inaccessible storage.
Ends: duration expiry, node removal, Aspect replacement, and any specific ending condition in the effect. Permanent mundane results persist.
Operate one exposed mundane control by touch. Action; touch or within 5 feet, normally no more than 1 pound. No damage, conditions, saleable material, or replacement for trained tool work.
Ends: Aspect replacement or dormancy ends access.
Divert harm from a contacted mechanism. When you would take damage from a mechanical device you are touching, after damage is rolled but before applying it, use your ordinary reaction and 1 Charge to reduce it by 1d4+3, minimum 1, never below 0. Apply before resistance/vulnerability; only one Aspect reduction per event.
Ends: Aspect replacement or dormancy ends access.
Notice whether a touched device is active. Notice relevant exposed phenomena within 5 feet. Does not automatically reveal hidden creatures, intentions, diagnoses, or facts. A stated touch requirement still applies.
Ends: Aspect replacement or dormancy ends access.
Signal through a touched working device. Action; simple observable signals within 30 feet. No automatic privacy or language comprehension. Explicit willing-touch thought, dream-image, or mood expressions use touch instead of remote signaling.
Ends: Aspect replacement or dormancy ends access.
Machine activity feels like a second sensory language. Descriptive sensory experience only. Grants no immunity, proficiency, compulsory personality, or unstated mechanical benefit.
Ends: Aspect replacement or dormancy ends access.
Proficiency +2; Intelligence modifier +3. Aspect attacks use their sum; saves use 8 + their sum. These are PC level-based examples. NPCs and monsters use their actual proficiency.
3 maximum Charges, restored by a long rest. Pay only the cost printed on the ability. All actions and concentration share your ordinary turn.
System Concordance: 5 points, one rank-V path and rank II in both others. Natural access begins at level 20; paid ultimate acceleration can permit level 17. One shared annual recovery record and bodily strain apply.
Coordinate up to twelve accessible non-sentient devices within 300 feet. They perform only existing noncombat functions; security checks still apply. No autonomous weapon turns.
Ends: Concentration loss; duration expiry, node removal, Aspect replacement, and any specific ending condition in the effect. Permanent mundane results persist.