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Game mechanics

Game mechanics for casting any cantrip (CtD 204-206) - Hsien see separate section below

  1. Choose an art
  2. Choose a realm: if using any modifier/secondary realms, see below
  3. Determine dice pool: art's attribute + realm level that you have (even if you only need a lower level)
  4. Choose a bunk: above level 1 requires at least one separate action (Changeling Players Guide 157-160 lists some sample bunks, 178-179 for Nunnehi)
  5. Determine base difficulty: target's/caster's Banality (whichever is higher) + 4 - bunk level - Glamour spent, minimum 4, maximum 10
    • -1 difficulty if the realm is your kith's affinity
    • If the target doesn't have a Banality rating at all, then use caster's
  6. Determine Glamour cost: 1 for Wyrd cantrip and/or unenchanted target, 1 for no bunk, up to 5 to lower difficulty
  7. Roll dice
  • Modifier realms (Scene/Time)
    • +1 Glamour cost, +1 difficulty
    • Scene to cast cantrip with physical effect (chimerical or Wyrd): +1 difficulty per extra target
  • Secondary realms
    • -1 difficulty per additional relevant realm
    • Example: Mooching a sidhe's dagger when you have both Fae and Prop

Common arts

Chicanery (attribute: Manipulation)
Dot-filled.png Fuddle
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Veiled Eyes
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Fugue
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Haunted Heart
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Captive Heart
Legerdemain (attribute: Dexterity)
Dot-filled.png Gimmix
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Ensnare
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Effigy
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Mooch
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Phantom Shadows
Primal (attribute: Stamina)
Dot-filled.png Willow Whisper
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Eldritch Prime
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Oakenshield
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Heather Balm, Holly Strike
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Elder-Form
Soothsay (attribute: Intelligence)
Dot-filled.png Omen
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Fair Is Foul and Foul Is Fair
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Tattletale
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Augury
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Fate Fire
Sovereign (attribute: Charisma)
Dot-filled.png Protocol
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Dictum
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Grandeur
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Weaver Ward
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Geas, Ban
Wayfare (attribute: Wits)
Dot-filled.png Hopscotch
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Quicksilver
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Portal Passage
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Wind Runner
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Flicker Flash

Less common arts

More comprehensive list of arts

Chronos (Sidhe) (attribute: Perception)
Dot-filled.png Wyrd
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Backward Glance
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Dream Time
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Permanence
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Reversal of Fortune
Contempt (Shadow Court) (attribute: Wits)
Dot-filled.png Mockery
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Disobedience
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Insolence
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Devil's Advocate
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Condemnation
Delusion (Shadow Court) (attribute: Manipulation)
Dot-filled.png Innocence
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Facade
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png The Mists of Memory
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png The Depths of Will
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png The Darkest Heart
Discord (Adhene) (attribute: Dexterity)
Dot-filled.png House of Mirrors
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Hermes' Fleetness
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Armilustra
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Whirling Dervish
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Life and Limb
Dream-craft (Sidhe) (attribute: Wits)
Dot-filled.png Find the Silver Path
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.png The Merry Dance
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Anchor
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Dream-Riding
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Dream Weaving
Infusion (Nocker) (attribute: Intelligence)
Dot-filled.png Harden
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Toughen
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png FUBAR Generation
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Animantis
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Gilgul
Kryos (Merfolk) (attribute: Strength)
Dot-filled.png Cold Shock
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Gelid Rime
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Frost Facsimile
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Crystal Prison
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Coldheart
Metamorphosis (commoner) (attribute: Stamina)
Dot-filled.png Hidden Form
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Impersonate
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Go Ask Alice
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Merlin's Lessons
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Mythic Transformation
Pyretics (various) (attribute: Dexterity)
Dot-filled.png Will-O-The-Wisp
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Willow Light
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Prometheus' Fist
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Burn and Boil
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Star Body
Skycraft (various) (attribute: Stamina)
Dot-filled.png Thunderclap
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Compass Winds
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Dark Sky
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Stormcraft
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Call Lightning
Tale Craft (Eshu) (attribute: Charisma)
Dot-filled.png Agemo's Blessing
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Flickering Firelight
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Murmur in the Crowd
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Sticks and Stones
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Moment of Truth
Aphrodisia (Merfolk and a few satyrs) (attribute: Charisma)
Dot-filled.png Fancy
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Yearn
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Covet
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Crave
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Need
Aquis (Inanimae) (attribute: Intelligence or Perception)
Dot-filled.png Aura Perception
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Hold
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Tempus Fugit
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Friction
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Healing Waters
Petros (Inanimae) (attribute: Strength or Stamina)
Dot-filled.png Living Rock
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Stoneskin
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Ironarm
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Stasis
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Quake
Pyros (Inanimae) (attribute: Strength or Charisma)
Dot-filled.png Flame
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Tortured Heart
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Ares' Fist
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Strings of the Soul
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Inferno
Stratus (Inanimae) (attribute: Charisma or Dexterity)
Dot-filled.png Marathon
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Conceal/Confuse
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Flight
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Illusion
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Phantasm
Verdage (Inanimae) (attribute: Charisma or Manipulation)
Dot-filled.png Solarium
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Babel
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Coalesce
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Web of Life
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Mold


Hsien

Hsien game mechanics

Hsien: (Land of Eight Million Dreams pages 99, 105-110)

  1. Choose an art
  2. Choose whether the effect is Yin or Yang (page 97)
  • Yin: Dark, passive, cold, moist, decaying, negative, defensive, material, female
  • Yang: Light, active, hot, dry, growing, positive, offensive, male
  1. Determine successes needed
  • Typically 1, sometimes 2*N to modify an attribute / ability / dice pool
  • Modifiers = more successes needed (pages 106-107)
  • Fortune = fewer successes needed (pages 108-110), minimum 1
  • Rituals: see pages 111-112
  1. Spend Yugen (1 unless using a Cohort, pages 110-111)
  2. Roll art + relevant attribute (see below)
  • Difficulty = 11 - (Yin or Yang, whichever is relevant) (page 97)
  • Multiple hsien with the same art can use it together; dice pool includes all their art levels, but only the lead caster's attribute
  • By default, the effect has a single target within about 10 yards and lasts for one turn
    • Things that require more successes: more targets, conditional circumstances, longer duration, longer range, add damage (only to a level 4+ effect), greater magnitude of change and/or form
    • Fortunes that each reduce required successes by 1 (to a minimum of 1): color, direction, Dzi Dzat (folded paper), festivals, kwannon-jin elemental affinity, Mu-jen (wooden men), poetry, season, sense, skills, Wani form

Wu Tan (Hsien arts)

Element Yin Yang
Wood Appearance Strength
Metal Perception Dexterity
Water Stamina Manipulation
Fire Charisma Wits
Earth Intelligence Intelligence
General
Dot-filled.png The Prodigal Tongue
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Command Elemental Vassals
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Raiment of the Elements
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Awaken the Elements
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Master the Elements; Throne of Jade
Di Tan (Earth Alchemy)
Dot-filled.png Entreat the Yellow Mandarins (Commune)
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Command the Vassals of Tu Ti
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Hou Tan (Fire Alchemy)
Dot-filled.png The Flame Bears Witness (Elemental Soul)
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.png
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png The Fiery Claws of Ch'ih Ching-tsu (Elemental Fist)
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png
Tieh Tan (Metal Alchemy)
Dot-filled.png
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.png
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Paths of Iron (Paths of the Elements)
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png The Chisel of P'an Ku (Awaken the Elements)
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png
Shui Tan (Water Alchemy)
Dot-filled.png
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.png
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Entreat the Attendants of the Water Dragon (Nurture Elemental Soul)
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Awaken the Black Tortoise (Awaken Jade)
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png
Lin Tan (Wood Alchemy)
Dot-filled.png
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.png
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Wood Fist (Elemental Fist)
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Summon the Forest of Spears (Summon Element)
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png
Nei Tan (Internal Alchemy)
Dot-filled.png T'ai Su: The Great Primordial
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.png T'ai I: The Great Change; Axis of Time; The Typhoon's Eye
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png T'ai Chi: The Great Pole
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Hu T'un: Chaos
Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Wu Chi: No Limit - The Jade Key

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