Logrus

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Modifications and Changes

What I did: I left Logrus pretty much alone. Like Pattern, I kept the basic ability intact, and only divided up the Advanced powers. Because of the prohibitive cost of Shapeshifting and Logrus, I lowered the requirements of Shapeshifting (in accordance with my partial powers rules). I did remove the physical defense ability from basic Logrus, and the ability to animate Logrus tendrils from the advanced power. In order to justify the cost of Advanced Logrus, in my opinion, Demon Summoning must be a useful ability. If you don't want people to summon demons, add something to Advanced Logrus, because it's practically all there is, at this point.

What I would do if I were doing it over again: Even at 70 points, the Shapeshifting plus Logrus costs are really high. I think I would split up the basic power down into a 30 or 35 points power and a couple of partials on top of that. With the base power, it would probably become impossible to walk towards something which you could not exactly define (ie, it would be possible to walk towards 'A sword,' but not towards, 'The owner of this sword') and to use Logrus Tendrils in combat.

A prerequisite to getting any Logrus abilities whatsoever is the Automatic Shapeshifting power and at least twenty five points in the Shapeshifting power somewhere. After that, like Pattern, the first level is received basically in lump sum after walking the Logrus. As such, it is quite expensive.

Special Note: Ten points off the second power if you get both Pattern and Logrus, because their major abilities (Shadowwalking) are duplicated.

Special Note: I've had some new thoughts on Shadowwalking with the Logrus. Here are details on Black Pathways

Basic Logrus

requires: Nothing
costs: 45 points

This is as printed in the Amber book. I generally make Shadowwalking with Logrus slower than with Pattern.

Summon Demons

requires: Basic Logrus
costs: 3 points

Summon, but not control. It's very dangerous to only have this power.

Control Demons

requires: Summon Demons
costs: 7 points

The ability to control demons. Very useful if you've just summoned them. The book gives fairly good guidelines regarding the time it takes to summon such things, though I would progressively reduce those times with higher Logrus skills. I also did not allow people to use the multipliers (Named & Numbered, etc.) in demon summoning without an additional power.

Edit Shadow

requires: Basic Logrus
costs: 5 points

As described in the book. Includes warding a Shadow against Trump or whatnot.

Summon Primal Chaos

requires: Basic Logrus
costs: 5 points

As described in the book.

Exalted Powers

Some exalted Logrus abilities my PC's and NPC's had:

The ability to use named and numbered and Horde multipliers on Demon Summoning.
Ability to permenantly bind demons to an object or whatnot.
Fill an area with Logrus energy.
Use Logrus Energy to increase Strength, Endurance, and Speed.
360 Degree Logrus Sense.
Create Shadow Pockets

This page is a revision of the Logrus Master powers presented by (and copyrighted to) Phage Press. Original work on this page is © 1998 by Epoch. Permission to copy, but not distribute, this work is granted for privated game purposes only. Questions or comments can be directed to the maintainer at msulliva@wso.williams.edu.