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Secret Crafts - Reference - Mystara

Secret Crafts - Soul Burn - Mystara

What is the Soul Burn drawback of the Secret Crafts?

Each use of the secret craft circle options will earn your Soul Burn points. This represents how much immortal energy you have channelled through your body damaging it.

Soul Burn is a limitation risk and is shared across all the crafts you have. If you take Soul Burn than you reduce your maximum hit points, and if you reduce this to zero you risk your characters body turning to ash and your spirit is consumed making you impossible to bring back.

You can spend downtime to reduce the amount of Soul Burn you have received, and this is not increase by the number of secret crafts you have learnt. Spells can’t restore soul burn damage to your maximum hit points.

You increase your Soul Burn by activating the special abilities, manifestations, powers or downtime activities of the Secret Craft and have a Skill Check to handle the use. A failure can have the character pay the price without the benefit, or even become penalise on a critical failure whereas a success activates the power normally, but a critical success can provide further aid.

Activation Costs - 1 point per circle for Manifestation, Enhancement, Power and Downtime Activity unless otherwise specified.

Downtime Ritual - These secret crafts downtime activities are rituals that the character can perform for the stated benefits.
• Recovery for Craft - target the secret crafts specifically.
• Recovery for Sponsor - target the characters sponsor which while working with the Secret Crafts, also applies to Paladins, Cleric, Druids, Rangers, Warlocks and Bards who displease their source of magic, or any other character who upsets one of the powers of the setting and wants to clear it outside of roleplay.