Trump (version 2.0)

Trump can be thought of the intuitive counterpart to the rationalist magic. Trump is the power of representation and art, and affects Shadow stuff directly. Since Shadow is a mixture of both Logrus and Pattern, Chaos and Order, there are those that argue that Trump is potentially among the most powerful abilties. Most, on the other hand, say that it is inherently limited by the self-contradictory nature of its purview.

The most common reflections of the Trump abilities are the Trump cards that are hanging around all over the place. However, the power is more diverse than simply painting portraits of important people on playing cards.

Trump, not having a focal powersource like Logrus or Pattern, can be bought entirely piecemeal. There is some native ability (mostly artistic) required, but it can be assumed that any player character who wants it can have it.

Sense Trump

requires: nothing
costs: 5 points

Identify Trump and Trump-like items.

Caller ID

requires: Sense Trump
costs: 10 points

As the book.

Trump Sketch

requires: Sense Trump
costs: 10 points

As per the book. Note that this is really a more useful skill than drawing a full Trump, when you get down to it.

Draw Trump

requires: Trump Sketch and Caller ID costs: 10 points

Draw a normal Trump. As the book.

Trump Gate

requires: Draw Trump
costs: 10 points

As the book. This is an underrated, but highly useful power.

Trump Memory

requires: Draw Trump
costs: 12 points

As the book. I only let people memorize Trumps they, themselves, have made, and I make the memorization process take as long as the drawing itself.

Trump Jamming

requires: Draw Trump
costs: 1 points

As the book. A cute, but useless, power.

Trump Spying

requires: Trump Jamming
costs: 3 points

This power is of surprisingly little utility. As the book.

This is a revision of the Trump Artistry power presented and copyrighted by Phage Press in the Amber DRPG. All original work on this page is © 1998 by Epoch. Permission to copy, but not distribute, is granted for personal game use only. Questions or comments can be directed to the maintainer at msulliva@wso.williams.edu.