{"id":"mage/power/rote/the-spirit-strike","type":"power","system":"rote","line":"mage","name":"The Spirit-Strike","sources":[{"source":"HDYDT","page":66}],"entries":["Sufficient expertise with the spirit-realm allows a martial artist to strike ghosts and other entities. Story-wise, this feat channels chi through the practitioner’s living body, transcend-ing the limits of physical existence in order to punch out a spirit’s lights.","Game-wise, {@sphere Spirit|M20} 2 lets a mortal touch an ephemeral entity long enough to land a physical blow. {@sphere Spirit|M20} 3 lets a physical mage harm spirits as if he was using {@sphere Life|M20}-Sphere magick, and {@sphere Entropy|M20} 3/ {@sphere Prime|M20} 2 lets a mage affect ghosts (but not other Umbral entities) as if she was using {@sphere Life|M20}-Sphere magick.","Given the element of chi energy involved, these feats require the {@sphere Prime|M20} 2 component, and so the spirit-strike employs either {@sphere Spirit|M20} 2/ {@sphere Prime|M20} 2, {@sphere Spirit|M20} 3/ {@sphere Prime|M20} 2, or {@sphere Entropy|M20} 3/ {@sphere Prime|M20} 2. If you’re using the latter feat, though, don’t forget about the nasty effects that {@sphere Entropy|M20} has upon ghosts… (See {@sphere Spirit|M20} Combatants"],"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/the-spirit-strike","html":"/records/mage/power/rote/the-spirit-strike","parent":null,"children":"/api/v1/records/mage/power/rote/the-spirit-strike/children","sources":[{"abbr":"HDYDT","page":66,"folio":66,"title":"How Do You DO That?"}]},"_db":{"title":"The Spirit-Strike","props":[],"parent_id":null,"level":null,"category":null,"summary":"Sufficient expertise with the spirit-realm allows a martial artist to strike ghosts and other entities. Story-wise, this feat channels chi through the practitioner’s living body, transcend-ing the limits of physical","tags":["feat","hdydt"],"children":[]}}