{"id":"mage/power/rote/additional-abilities","type":"power","system":"rote","line":"mage","name":"Additional Abilities","sources":[{"source":"HDYDT","page":20}],"entries":["This “building-in” process usually requires at least one more success, per new ability, than the usual amount of successes needed for that transformation. If Jennifer were to transform herself into a fire-breathing tiger, she’d need at least four successes (three for the tiger, one for the fire) in addition to the {@sphere Forces|M20} 3/ {@sphere Prime|M20} 2 Effect that would allow her to breathe fire in the first place. Extremely powerful new abilities – like the ability to radiate an aura of crackling electricity – may require two additional","successes or more, depending upon the Storyteller’s judgment and the power of that Effect. Transformation into a fire-breathing woman-tiger who could teleport around with inhuman levels of speed (high Ranks of {@sphere Correspondence|M20}/ {@sphere Life|M20}/ {@sphere Forces|M20}/ {@sphere Prime|M20}/ {@sphere Time|M20}) would probably take seven or eight successes, maybe even more, to complete. And yeah – that’s vulgar as fuck.","Also as mentioned above, such abilities expend one point of Quintessence per use. A poisonous bite, for example, would cost one Quintessence per venomous injection. This Quintessence typically comes from the mage’s personal supply, or from the innate life-force of a living creature if that creature isn’t a mage."],"tags":["hdydt","feat"],"_qa":{"flags":[],"parser":"headed_entries","confidence":0.9,"extracted":"2026-10-12","job":"hdydt-feats"},"level":null,"_links":{"self":"/api/v1/records/mage/power/rote/additional-abilities","html":"/records/mage/power/rote/additional-abilities","parent":null,"children":"/api/v1/records/mage/power/rote/additional-abilities/children","sources":[{"abbr":"HDYDT","page":20,"folio":20,"title":"How Do You DO That?"}]},"_db":{"title":"Additional Abilities","props":[],"parent_id":null,"level":null,"category":null,"summary":"This “building-in” process usually requires at least one more success, per new ability, than the usual amount of successes needed for that transformation. If Jennifer were to transform herself into a fire-breathing","tags":["feat","hdydt"],"children":[]}}