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Catalog / Spells / Puppet

Puppet

Spells · Enchantment

Complexity 5
Strain 3
Casting Invocation, 2 AP
Duration 5 rounds
Save Charisma
Delivery Touch, Remote, Imbue
  • Control

One target makes a Charisma save opposed by your Channeling result. On a success the spell fails and it knows it was targeted. On a failure you control its actions for the duration. It obeys commands that don't directly harm itself or those it cares about (inaction included), and it won't stand idle if it believes its allies are in danger.

Delivery restriction: one creature only; you can't add targets or use an area.

Optional Modifiers

  • ★ Strong (+2): The initial save has 1 level of Disadvantage. If you also have an active Mind Link to the target, you can keep control at any distance on the same plane. [School Mastery, 6+ ranks]
  • ★ Master of Puppets (+3): You can affect additional targets, each costing triple the normal extra-target Strain. Each target rolls its initial save twice and uses the better. [School Mastery, 11+ ranks]

Critical Success

You can give orders that would harm the target or others (including by inaction), but each such order lets it make an immediate Charisma save opposed by your result to refuse that order; it stays controlled otherwise.