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Catalog / Spells / Mind Reading

Mind Reading

Spells · Divination

School Divination
Complexity 1
Strain 2
Casting Invocation, 2 AP
Duration Instant
Save Charisma
Delivery Touch, Remote, Imbue
  • Communication
  • Control
  • Mental

You force your awareness into another creature's mind. It makes a Charisma save opposed by your Channeling result.

  • Success: the spell fails, and it knows someone tried to probe its mind.
  • Failure: you get one truthful answer to one question you ask.
  • Critical failure: two truthful answers, or one answer plus a clear, related memory fragment (GM's call).

The target is aware of the intrusion unless you critically succeed. The GM may apply modifiers for the target's state of mind, trauma and similar factors.

Delivery restriction (single target): you can read only one mind at a time and can't use deliveries that affect more than one creature.

Optional Modifiers

  • Mind Walk (+2): You reach deeper memories: a whole scene or a chain of related memories (GM's call).