An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Incapacitation
An ability with this trait can take a character completely out of the fight or even kill them, and it’s harder to use on a more powerful character. If a spell has the incapacitation trait, any creature of more than twice the spell’s rank treats the result of their check to prevent being incapacitated by the spell as one degree of success better, or the result of any check the spellcaster made to incapacitate them as one degree of success worse. If any other effect has the incapacitation trait, a creature of higher level than the item, creature, or hazard generating the effect gains the same benefits.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Mental
A mental effect can alter the target’s mind. It has no effect on an object or a mindless creature.
range: 100
saving_throw: Will
source: Player Core pg. 330
spell_type: Spell
target: up to 5 creatures
tradition: Occult
type: Spell
Choose a single statement you want the targets to believe. The fact could be narrow, such as “a dragon is circling overhead and wants to kill me”; wide-reaching, such as “all humanoids are disguised abominations”; or conceptual, such as “if I don’t live a kinder life, I’ll be punished in the afterlife.” The targets’ experiences color how they react to this “truth” and how their behavior changes. If the statement changes what they perceive, they treat the change as a sudden revelation.
The effect of the spell depends on the targets’ Will saves. If a target is already affected by fabricated truth, your spell tries to counteract it. If the counteract check fails, the outcome of the target’s saving throw can’t be worse than a success.
Critical Success The target doesn’t believe the statement, and it knows you tried to trick it. Success The target doesn’t believe the statement or realize you tried to trick it. Failure The target believes the statement for 1 week. Critical Failure The target believes the statement with unlimited duration.
