Your saliva is a powerful narcotic, leaving a victim insensate in the short term. With just a little more exposure, your victim goes straight from senseless to senselessly addicted. For those poor saps, detoxing is a bitch—it’s easier, and more pleasant, just to play along with whatever you demand of them. Typically, however, this saliva is administered out of combat—usually with an act of intimacy (kissing) or unintentional ingestion (spiking the punch). Victim gets a Willpower save vs. Difficult (16-20) difficulty, otherwise enthralled and addicted.

You’re an underwater creature, with the benefits that come from that. Can’t Drown. Your move is the same in water as on land.

You’re able to spit or otherwise throw some sort of self-generated projectile over a short distance.

Note: You’ll need to lock down this breath weapon to a single type of effect—e.g., acid, fire, lightning, etc.—when you take this ability.

Breath Weapon. You can attack targets up to 6m away from you with your breath weapon. Roll Marksmanship; if you hit, you deal 2D damage. As with any weapon, you might be able to use your breath to perform combat maneuvers if you can justify it.

You have claws, fangs, or other natural weapons that let you add damage when attacking with your “bare” hands.

Note: Unless you have the ability to conceal your nature or change your shape (whether through Flesh Mask, shapeshifting powers, or the application of a Glamour), your claws are always visible.

Natural Weapons: You have claws (or something similar) which act as +2D for your Brawling or Martial Arts attacks. This bonus stacks with strength damage.

Venomous (2D) Your claws are venomous. Brawling Attack; if successful, the target is considered Poisoned. In each subsequent round, the target must roll Stamina or Strength to defend against an attack from the poison. Once the target fails to resist, or is taken out (falling unconscious). However, the damage is already done; without proper medical attention, a taken out victim will die soon (within a few hours, perhaps less), though not immediately. Proper medical attention will end the effect. This is an opposed roll—you can roll the 2D vs. the Medicine roll to set the difficulty to mitigate the poison.

You’re very small, or able to become very small at will if you’re a shapeshifter— at the very largest, you’re dwarfed by even a small human child.

Note: This ability is always in effect unless you have the ability to shapeshift.Hard to Detect. You gain +4 to Stealth attempts to remain hidden.

Small is Big. Being small, you’re much better at picking up on very small details, gaining a +2 to any perception (Alertness, Investigation) rolls needed to spot them.

Wee. While small, your Endurance skill is taken to be no greater than Mediocre for the purpose of determining your health stress capacity. Your ability to manipulate objects and other uses of the Might skill are considered relative to creatures of your small size, rather than human sized. (Since most difficulties are determined for humans, this will usually impose a penalty between –2 and –4, or in some cases, forbid the use of Might at all.)

When your size is a factor in combat, you can only inflict 1 physical stress per attack (but this could be improved by damage bonuses from weapons and the like). Your ability to cross distances (using Athletics) is unaffected, but you gain a +1 to Athletics for dodging.

You’re very large, or able to become very large at will if you’re a shapeshifter—at the very largest, as tall as a house.

Note: This ability is always in effect unless you can shapeshift.

Easy to Hit, Hard to Hurt. You’re a pretty big target, giving any attacker a +1D to hit you when target size is a factor. But that increase in body mass means you can soak up more punishment, adding +2D to 4D to Physique rolls

Everything is Small. You cannot meaningfully interact with any man-sized objects using skills like Security and Repair (but knowledge-related rolls are unaffected), and you’ll have trouble fitting through normal doorways and into rooms But it also means you get a +2D to your Physique rolls to lift or break things—on top of any supernatural Strength bonuses you might have—and a +1D on Running rolls to cover distance with your gigantic stride.

Big is Scary. You get +2D on any Intimidation attempt against a target likely to consider your size an advantage.

Easy to Detect. Your Stealth is automatically considered to be mediocre, and you may never gain more than minimal effectiveness on a Stealth roll.

You’re dead, but you keep walking around. It’s kind of gross.

Musts: You’ve got to be dead.

Corpse Body. Your body is a corpse. This means that you cannot recover from consequences with time, because your body does not regenerate. Any physical consequences you suffer are permanent until you take some kind of effort to remove them (know any good taxidermists?) or seek supernatural assistance to reconstruct your body.

Death is a Nuisance. Unless wholly destroyed or killed by special means, you’re already dead, and that doesn’t seem to have fazed you much. No “death” result is ever permanent unless special means are used (usually as determined by your creature type).

Dude! You’re Dead! And that’s pretty scary to a lot of people. When dealing with folks unaccustomed to the walking dead (and that’s most “regular” people), gain a +1D on Intimidation. The downside? Take a –1D penalty on nearly every other social skill (except Persuasion?). For every level of physical consequence you’ve sustained, increase the penalty/bonus by –1D/+1D. That said, the effect is short-lived with any one target—as they become accustomed to a reality where the dead walk, they eventually become inured to it as an additional reason to be terrified.

You can climb on things the way a spider would.

Like a Spider. While climbing, you may treat any surface, no matter the angle, as no more difficult than climbing up a vertical surface with plenty of handholds. Ceilings? No problem.

You have a supernatural sense of some sort, enabling you to detect something no one could normally detect (e.g., smell hope), or to perceive something normally in situations where you otherwise couldn’t (see in complete darkness).

Musts: With each supernatural sense, you must identify whether this is a purely mystical sense (using Lore) or a more physical sense (using Investigation and Perception as appropriate).

Note: The sense you define can’t be a “gamebreaker” without the GM’s approval—no “hear someone’s True Name in their heartbeat,” probably no “see through walls.” Alternatively, such things might be possible, but they should probably cost something at least. A number of abilities already encompass some portion of supernatural sensory ability. Don’t purchase this ability unless it’s clearly something extra, above and beyond what you already enjoy from your other abilities.

Strange Sense. In situations where you might be penalized or otherwise told that it’s impossible to sense something, you can nevertheless attempt to sense the thing you’ve defined, without penalty.

Strange Senses [1]. You may instead define a small set of up to three thematically related supernatural senses.

Broad Senses [2]. Take this instead of Strange Senses. You have a wide array of supernatural senses, easily up to a dozen.

You have wings of some sort—gossamer as a faerie, leathery and batlike as a demon—enabling you to fly.

Musts: Your wings are always present and visible unless you have an ability (Flesh Mask, shapeshifting powers, or the application of a Glamour) allowing you to hide them. You should define the appearance of the wings when you take this ability.

Flight. You can fly, reaching places that can’t normally be reached. Winged flight is governed by the Flying skill.

You are able to create the basic glamours of the fae—minor veils and “seemings” that make something look like what it isn’t.

Minor Veils. With a moment of concentration, you may draw a veil over something (not particularly large—maybe the size of a small, tight group of people), hiding it from sight and other means of detection. Use your Willpower or Sneak to oppose efforts to discover the veil. If the veil is discovered, it isn’t necessary pierced—but the discoverer can tell that it’s there and that it’s wrong.

Seemings. You are able to cause someone or something to appear to be other than what it is—usually this is personal, but it may be used on other objects and people if they belong to you or have entered a pact with you. You may use your Discipline or Sneak skill to oppose any efforts to discover that the seeming is something other than real.

As a pure fae of considerable power, you are able to create true seemings— actual objects, or near enough as to make no difference in the moment (i.e., ectoplasmic constructs). Your veils are potent and your lesser seemings are flawless.

Musts: Character must be a pure fae. This replaces Glamours, if the character previously had it.

Veils. With a moment of concentration, you may draw a veil over something (not particularly large—maybe the size of a small, tight group of people), hiding it from sight and other means of detection, as with the Minor Veils effect of Glamours. Use your Discipline or Sneak at +2D to oppose any efforts to discover the veil. You may set aside this +2D bonus to draw a veil over a whole area.

Seemings. As with the Glamours effect of the same name (above). You may use your Discipline or Sneak skill at +2D to oppose any efforts to discover the seeming. True Seemings. You may create an object—and with some difficulty, even ephemeral creatures— out of ectoplasm, the stuff of the Nevernever. These are not casually detectable as “unreal,” per se, save through magical means of perception, so they are immune to most efforts to discover the seeming. As far as the effects of the object are concerned, simply give it the same attributes a fully real object of its type would have. You may only have one object at a time via seeming—the act of creating another dismisses the first.

Drawing on the power of the Summer Court, you’re able to cast spells that fit its essential nature: wildness, birth, growth, renewal, fire. These magics are under the sway and watch of the Queens of Summer (Lady, Queen, and Mother), and inevitably making use of them will catch their notice. While some might think the Summer Court is all warmth and light, they should pause to consider that unbridled growth favors an ebola virus just as much as it does a pear tree.

Note: Must have Magic Adept or Wizard or Sorcerer Feat

Summer Spellcasting. You are able to cast spells of a deep and true nature, drawing upon the magics of the Summer Court. Due to the faerie nature of this power source, it is less flexible in some areas than mortal spellcasting and is therefore subject to the limitations described in its entry under “Sponsored Magic” in Spellcasting, page 287.

Drawing on the power of the Winter Court, you’re able to cast spells that fit its essential nature: wildness, death, decay, slumber, ice. These magics are under the sway and watch of the Queens of Winter (Lady, Queen, and Mother), and inevitably making use of them will catch their notice. While some might think the Winter Court is all frozen cruelty, they should remember that without their balance to Summer, the world of man would end, choked off by unbridled nature.

Note: Must have Magic Adept or Wizard or Sorcerer Feat

Winter Spellcasting. You are able to cast spells of a deep and true nature, drawing upon the magics of the Winter Court. Due to the faerie nature of this power source, it is less flexible in some areas than mortal spellcasting and is therefore subject to the limitations described in its entry under “Sponsored Magic” in Spellcasting, page 287.