{"id":"mage/power/rote/pressing-the-ward","type":"power","system":"rote","line":"mage","name":"Pressing the Ward","sources":[{"source":"HDYDT","page":98}],"entries":["A character who “presses” his ward against something it’s supposed to ward against, until there’s no place left for that “something” to go, is voluntarily negating his own ward. If Joshua Minh wards his shirt against metal and then presses a dagger into his chest, then the dagger goes past the ward and stabs him.","If the character “pressing the ward” isn’t the mage who cast the spell, then the ward has its normal effect. If this involves pushing the character and the ward apart, as two opposing magnets push one another away, then that’s what happens."],"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/pressing-the-ward","html":"/records/mage/power/rote/pressing-the-ward","parent":null,"children":"/api/v1/records/mage/power/rote/pressing-the-ward/children","sources":[{"abbr":"HDYDT","page":98,"folio":98,"title":"How Do You DO That?"}]},"_db":{"title":"Pressing the Ward","props":[],"parent_id":null,"level":null,"category":null,"summary":"A character who “presses” his ward against something it’s supposed to ward against, until there’s no place left for that “something” to go, is voluntarily negating his own ward. If Joshua Minh wards his shirt against","tags":["feat","hdydt"],"children":[]}}