Endowment – Release Soul
Playtest 3.2 / 4th Ed Build Cost: 2
Purchase: Once
Tagged: No
Duration: Special
Skill Type: Miscellaneous
Prerequisites: Any 6 Ranks of Endowment Skills
Skill List: Paladin
Skill Rules & Full Description
Learning this skill allows the character to use the Release Soul
Endowment by consuming a specific kind of demon flesh. Once
activated, the endowment allows the character to do two things.
The character can draw out a demon possessing another
character. To do so, the possessed character must be restrained,
unresisting, or unconscious. The character then spends one
minute of roleplay coaxing, cajoling, insulting, and/or tempting
the demon out. Once out, the demon character must initiate
combat with the character using this endowment, but then is
free to act as it wishes. The demon may not repossess the same
character for 5 minutes, but may possess any other character it
wishes, including the character using this endowment!
The character may free another character of the effects of their
Demonic Charm by taking the effect upon themselves. The
target character must be restrained, unresisting, or unconscious.
The character using this skill must touch the target character
for 10 seconds in a manner consistent with the rules. The
character then becomes demonically charmed including any
orders the target character had. The demon that charmed the
target character now has control over the character using this
skill and can issue new commands. Out-of-game, the target
character should inform only the character using this skill what
their commands, if any, are and who the demon that charmed
them was.
If the character using this skill has the Clear Mind Endowment
active or is otherwise immune to the Demonic Charm, then the
Demonic Charm has no effect and both characters are free of
any control. Note that the character using this skill may not use
an Iron Will to resist the Demonic Charm, only being immune
protects them.
The Release Soul Endowment requires the flesh of any arcane demon to
activate.
Once activated this endowment lasts until the character successfully
draws out a possessing demon or frees another character of Demonic
Charm, or the event ends.
The character many not end the effect of the endowment early
Canonical Source: Playtest 3.2 (Page 41)
Prerequisite & Progression Tree: Endowment – Release Soul
Current Skill Skill Node General Requirement
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n_endowment_release_soul["Endowment – Release Soul"]
class n_endowment_release_soul target;
click n_endowment_release_soul "/rules/skills/endowment-release-soul" "View Endowment – Release Soul"
n_any_6_ranks_of_endowment_skills(["Any 6 Ranks of Endowment Skills"])
class n_any_6_ranks_of_endowment_skills reqNode;
n_any_6_ranks_of_endowment_skills --> n_endowment_release_soul
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