Battle Meditation - Consular - Force Power

Battle Meditation (Force Power)

◊Descriptors – the Force, mental, telepathy
◊Effect – Enhanced Trait • 10 points per rank +2

Battle Meditation (Enhanced Trait)

◊Modifiers – affects only others: +0/rank, area 10: +10/rank, concentration: -1/rank, distracting: -1/rank, increased range: +2/rank, insidious: +1 flat point, limited: -1/rank, selective: +1/rank, side effect: -2/rank, subtle: +1 flat point

◊Action – standard

◊Range – perception

◊Area – shapeable: force(s) of up to 1,000 individuals

◊Duration – concentration

◊Results – +1/rank to target force(s) morale checks

◊Resist – Will (harmless)

Description

You can use the Force to improve the morale of allied forces (see Mass Combat; Gamemaster’s Guide pg. 194) you are able to perceive with an accurate sense. Your Battle Meditation must have area ranks sufficient to encompass the subject(s). You can affect forces with a Force Rank less than or equal to your area rank*; forces of up to 1,000 individuals by default.  

Battle Meditation requires a standard action to activate and maintain. While using Battle Meditation, you are dazed, hindered (-1 to speed) and vulnerable, and all of your traits except Battle Meditation, Awareness, Expertise, Insight, Intellect, Presence, Perception, Stamina, Fortitude and Will are weakened to a rank of -5. Weakened traits recover at a rate 1 per round at the end of your turns after you stop concentrating on Battle Meditation.

In addition, while concentrating on Battle Meditation your visual and exotic senses are impaired (-2 to checks) while your other senses are disabled (-5 to checks).

The subject(s) receive a +1 bonus on all morale checks per effect rank.

It is common for Consulars to improve the area rank (increasing the power’s cost per rank by 1 point each time) rather than the effect rank as they become more accomplished with Battle Meditation. Consulars may add an alternate effect version of Battle Meditation to weaken the morale of enemy forces. The base cost of this is 2 points plus a number of points per rank equal to the area rank + 4 (selective weaken at perception range). Very powerful Consulars use a Battle Meditation with both the enhance and weaken effects linked.

*The number given in the volume column of the measurements table is the total number of individuals the selected force(s) can be composed of.

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