Aspect Mastery Rules

An awakened Witchborn has one active Aspect. A recorded Aspect-changing event, including a supported experiment or transformation, replaces the previous Aspect rather than adding another. Ordinary respecs change node investment, not Aspect identity; replacement preserves shared resources, annual recovery and strain. Replacing it ends old effects, summons and dependent borrowed access; earned points and permanent crystal investments transfer. Former ultimate preparation is forfeited without refund. Replacement is not an at-will ritual or an extra recovery procedure.

Choose an unlocked card and check its target, material and range. Spend its printed action and Charges. Attack means roll d20 + your printed Aspect attack against AC; save means the target rolls the named ability against your Aspect DC. Otherwise no roll is required unless the effect says so. Apply its success/failure result, duration and ending conditions. Invalid targets spend nothing in this trial.

Aspects are magical abilities, not spells. Aspect attacks are magical melee or ranged attacks, neither weapon attacks nor spell attacks. Use normal critical-hit, cover, unseen-target and close-range ranged-attack rules. Standalone Aspect actions are not the Attack action and do not replace attacks from Extra Attack or grant opportunity attacks. Features requiring weapons/spells do not apply; features applying to any attack can apply if their other conditions fit. Class-granted actions still work within their stated limits. A nonspell bonus-action power does not trigger the bonus-action spell restriction.

Counterspell and ordinary Dispel Magic do not end nonspell powers. Magic Resistance and effects applying to magical effects apply when their wording fits. Antimagic suppresses active powers without refunding resources; durations and annual recovery continue. Permanent mundane results of completed transformations persist. These are explicit trial rules; no monster trait package is imported by an Aspect name.

One shared concentration, including class spells. Starting another ends the first. Each damage source requires a Constitution save, DC 10 or half the damage taken (rounded down), whichever is higher. Incapacitation or death ends concentration. You may end it without an action. Track damage saves at the table; the practice Lose concentration button applies the result.

Measure from the user unless a different origin is printed. Use SRD area geometry: a radius burst is a sphere; a cone or line begins at the user. Total cover blocks direct targeting and area spread. Visibility is required when stated. Teleportation/phasing may cross barriers to their expressly permitted destination; Worldstep and known-location sensors bypass clear-path requirements. Known-recipient mental/dream communication also bypasses intervening cover within range. Otherwise no through-wall effects. Range is checked at activation unless a continuing tether is stated. Willing means conscious affirmative consent, except expressly willing sleeping dream participants. Unconscious allies cannot newly consent. Ordinary worn/carried gear within carrying capacity travels with a willing passenger.

A Ward triggers after eligible damage is rolled, before HP changes. Allocate its reduction among eligible damage types, then apply resistance/vulnerability; never reduce below 0. Only one Aspect reduction per target per damage event. Metal/projectile/impact wards cover the bludgeoning, piercing or slashing impact only, not elemental riders. Physical or bodily injury means bludgeoning, piercing or slashing damage. Use full SRD condition definitions: restrained is not automatically grappled or incapacitated. Bleeding, fracture and sensory overload refer only to effects expressly defined by another rule. Blood-bearing and anatomical eligibility are established from the creature description with the DM before activation; the Aspect does not invent organs or blood.

Shape moves eligible material up to 10 feet on activation and with each later action, staying within range for up to one minute with concentration. No free movement between actions. It cannot push creatures, remove occupied supports, obstruct occupied spaces, carry creatures or drop material to deal damage. On ending, material settles on an empty supporting surface immediately beneath it; if unavailable it cannot be lifted there. Heating/cooling changes at most 10 degrees Celsius per action within 0–40 degrees Celsius; no phase change unless expressly permitted. Ordinary objects keep their normal properties, but powers cannot create saleable output. Temporary physical changes cannot trap or crush on reversion; use the nearest empty supported space within 5 feet, or defer expansion until space is free.

A standard Construct is a 5-foot-square panel, 1 inch thick, anchored to a supporting surface, placed in empty space within range. Ultimate 10-foot panels are 10 feet square and 1 inch thick. They are magical objects with their printed AC/HP, immune to poison and psychic damage, no other resistance or damage threshold unless stated. Creature-only effects cannot target them. They automatically fail STR/DEX saves; use +0 for other saves required by an effect explicitly affecting objects. Use ordinary cover based on obstruction; a transparent panel still blocks attacks. It cannot form an enclosure without an exit or intersect a creature. Destruction ends that panel; no debris damage. Ordinary-material constructions require loose available material of at least 10 pounds, unless generated material is explicit. Panels cannot support creatures unless a load limit is printed. Unattended objects in an expressly object-damaging burst take full rolled damage without a save, then apply their ordinary resistance/immunity/threshold.

“Move up to” grants displacement during activation, not a speed increase or extra action. Normal terrain, speed-0 and movement restrictions apply, except teleportation/phasing. Teleportation/phasing does not provoke opportunity attacks. Other movement does unless expressly excluded; moving a willing passenger with your power does not use that passenger’s movement/action/reaction. Aspect fly-speed grants are magical support, not hover; loss of the effect causes falling unless its safe descent says otherwise. Safe descents apply on any ending, for the printed distance only. Rescue passengers must each be no larger than the bearer; these rescue powers carry the listed count plus their equipment without a weight check, but all must fit the destination. Size changes alter space, carrying and grapple eligibility normally, but not printed exceptions such as retained reach/HP. Worn gear adjusts without changing statistics; activation fails if the new body cannot fit, and reversion uses nearest empty space without crushing.

Communicate sends one short message or chosen sensory snapshot per action; it does not grant the recipient a free reply action or extra search. Recipients retain their senses. Lasting links permit normal turn speech both ways unless their card requires an action. Senses add only the stated information/range, never shorten ordinary sight/hearing, bypass cover or give automatic truth. The DM calls ordinary Perception, Investigation or relevant checks for uncertainty. Evidence powers accept player questions and return only supported information; unanswered questions still use the activation. For bodily Foundation Mastery IV handling, the listed cosmetic change can cover the entire skin/surface rather than one feature and persists for the stated minute; it grants no anatomy, disguise success or combat benefit. Rank III study and rank V advantage are alternative concentrations, not a combined mode.

A printed activation time longer than one action requires continuous work and an action each combat turn. Incapacitation, leaving required contact/range or abandoning work interrupts it. Pay Charges or annual readiness only on completion unless explicitly stated; interruption gives no effect. Extended tissue regrowth proceeds after a completed preparation but stops if its supporting node is removed. Imbuing an item is completed immediately and spends its costs even if a later discharge expires unused. Secondary commands/discharges use the printed actor’s normal action, never an extra turn. Practice tracks only the bearer’s actions, Charges, concentration and supported effects; target statistics, saves, movement, cross-character signs, item discharges and preparations are table-resolved, not simulated.

One active Aspect only. A recorded Aspect-changing event replaces it and ends old effects. Respec/replacement never resets Charges outside ordinary rest, annual readiness, strain or emergency limits. All identical benefits use the strongest version, not summed resistance, speed or senses. Generic Assist cannot stack with another Aspect assistance die; Benefic Sign expressly also excludes Guidance and other bonus dice. Existing species physiology and healing eligibility remain unless the card explicitly changes them. No copied vampire, lich or other monster stat block is granted.