Empowered Reagents
Mystical capabilities can be empowered through the use of material reagents. Individual features, rituals, ceremonies, spells, and powers will note what materials are required, and if extended reagents can be used to improve the potency of the effects. Empowered items and places, as well as thematic knowledge and practices can have similar effects. General Reagents is the most accessible to practitioners of the mystical arts as a means of improving their potency, though it can be expensive and is limited by normal availability guidelines. Various technological practices can make the gathering, refinement, and packaging of such reagents easier to acquire and use. Reagents are often used in the service of Mystical Discernment.
Limits: Improving the potency of effects this way is limited by the guidelines for stacking empowered effects.
Using General Empowered Reagents
Requirements: Generally speaking, use of mystic reagents requires the user to be Unfettered when employing them in a spell, etc. A minimum related Aptitude of 1, Uses a portion of the activity for the round, completely consumes the reagent components. The character may apply a ritualized treatment of their reagent use if they possesses a measure of Ritual Phenomenology lore and/or know the Ritual of Reagent Amplification.
iCore™i20™ Employing Reagents Details
i20 [specific] Requirements:
Uses a Reaction to prepare the components from their container (unless 'readied' previously).
The adjustment is a bonus to the DC of the Spell Save and Attack.
Simple General Empowered Reagents
These are mundane materials that are generally available to all characters and institutions within a setting. These are prepared and applied to a specific spell/effect using an associated aptitude. Each successive level of empowerment is typically more difficult to find.
Example: A packet of materials for Occult users to empower the ‘Fiery Explosion’ spell with +2.
Complex General Empowered Reagents
Although mundane, these materials are generally more difficult to find and acquire as they can apply to any use of a spell, power or effect of a specific level or measure (any by default).
Example: A packet of materials for Occult users to empower any spell with +2.
General Empowered Reagent Cost
| Bonus | Simple Costs | Complex Costs |
|---|---|---|
| +1 | 10% Cost Portion | 25% Cost Portion |
| +2 | 25% Cost Portion | 50% Cost Portion |
| +3 | 50% Cost Portion | 100% Cost Portion |
| +4 | 100% Cost Portion | 200% Cost Portion |
| +5 | 200% Cost Portion | 400% Cost Portion |
Making General Reagents: A character can make and assemble the materials for a reduced cost with the right tool, kit, or workstation and materials.
i20™ General Reagent Requirements Details
i20 [specific] Requirements: Alchemist Kit (1 use per measure of the bonus) and a DC 10 proficiency check halves the cost