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Item Power Set: Reality Gem

The Reality Gem does not bend the rules. It replaces them. Matter, causality, physics, identity, and possibility all become soft clay.

Item Power Set: Reality Gem

Reality Warping d12, Matter Transmutation d12, Illusions d12, Molecular Control d10, Shapeshifting d10, Probability Control d10

SFX: That Was Never True: Spend 1 PP to rewrite a detail in the scene: a door was always open, the weapon was never loaded, the bridge was never broken, the guards remember you as authorized, or the floor has become water.

SFX: Impossible Effect: When creating Assets or Complications through reality alteration, step up the effect die. On an extraordinary success, make the Asset or Complication persistent for the rest of the scene.

SFX: Turn the World Inside Out: Against multiple targets in the same area, add a d6 and keep an additional effect die for each extra target.

SFX: Laws Are Optional: Spend 1 PP to ignore one environmental hazard, physical impossibility, scientific law, or mundane defense for one action.

SFX: Cosmic Mastery: Spend 1 PP to use any Reality Gem power to create a d12 Asset or inflict a d12 Complication if the fiction supports it.

SFX: Godlike Scale: Against ordinary mortals, soldiers, mobs, vehicles, or buildings, step up or double one Reality Gem power die.

Limit: Reality Pushes Back: When you roll an opportunity using Reality Warping, the Watcher may create a paradox, mutation, unstable duplicate, false memory, or cosmic backlash Complication equal to the highest rolling die in the Doom Pool. Gain 1 PP.

Limit: Coveted by the Cosmos: Shut down the Reality Gem power set when the Gem is taken, hidden from the wielder, psychically severed, or placed beyond reach. Gain 1 PP. Activate an opportunity to recover the Gem.

Limit: Unfit Vessel: When you use more than one Reality Gem power in a single roll, step up the lowest die in the Doom Pool or take d10 mental or physical stress, Watcher’s choice.

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This entry was posted on September 10, 2026 by in Item Power Set.

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