{"id":"mage/power/rote/tricking-those-damn-scanners","type":"power","system":"rote","line":"mage","name":"Tricking Those Damn Scanners","sources":[{"source":"HDYDT","page":75}],"entries":["Full-body scans. X-ray machines. Breathalizer tests. Hand-or retinal-scanning technology. We never had to put up with such nonsense in the Old Days, dad-gum it, but now it’s simply everywhere! How, then, can an innocent (or not-so-innocent) mage simply go about his business without interference from those infernal gadgets?","In game-terms…","• {@sphere Entropy|M20} 2, {@sphere Forces|M20} 2, or a combination of both can toss glitches into the equipment. Thus disrupted, the gear gives a false reading which may – with three successes","or more – give the mage the result she wants and let her get through the scan without incident. This won’t wash if the scan leads to a high-security area, but it’s enough to get a person past the average security scanner. A failed roll or inadequate success, however, will lead the guards to check the mage out more closely, while a botched roll sets off every alarm in the place.","• The Data 2/ {@sphere Forces|M20} 2 trick mentioned above will (if successful) give the desired false reading.","• Three successes or more that get rolled with a character’s Arcane Background may screw the scanners up so badly","Such vital locations may have any or all of the following measures:","that the mage gives a false positive reading, or perhaps doesn’t register on the gear at all. That second result, though, might not be a good thing if the security guards take their jobs seriously."],"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/tricking-those-damn-scanners","html":"/records/mage/power/rote/tricking-those-damn-scanners","parent":null,"children":"/api/v1/records/mage/power/rote/tricking-those-damn-scanners/children","sources":[{"abbr":"HDYDT","page":75,"folio":75,"title":"How Do You DO That?"}]},"_db":{"title":"Tricking Those Damn Scanners","props":[],"parent_id":null,"level":null,"category":null,"summary":"Full-body scans. X-ray machines. Breathalizer tests. Hand-or retinal-scanning technology. We never had to put up with such nonsense in the Old Days, dad-gum it, but now it’s simply everywhere! How, then, can an innocent","tags":["feat","hdydt"],"children":[]}}