Pyrokinesis

Key Attributes: Focus

Pyrokinesis is the much-beloved (and often feared) ability to set things on fire with one’s mind. Using this ability in a public place is highly illegal without a special permit or sufficient rank in a police or military organization. Generally speaking, the more public the place, the higher your rank needs to be to use this ability without alerting authorities.

Examples of ladder results for pyrokinesis:

• Abysmal (-3): Your attempt fails and you take one Very Hurt physical wound.
• Poor (-2): Your attempt fails and you take one Hurt physical wound.
• Mediocre (-1): Your attempt fails and you take one Scratched physical wound.
• Fair (0): You may produce a flame roughly the size of a lit match at a range of up to 5 feet.
• Good (+1): You may produce a flame the size of a bonfire at a range of up to 10 feet.
• Great (+2): You may produce a flame with a radius of about 10 feet at a range of up to 30 feet.
• Superb (+3): You may produce a flame with a 30-foot radius at a range of up to 100 feet.
• Wonderful (+4): You may produce a flame with a 45-foot radius at a range of up to 500 feet.
• Phenomenal (+5): You may produce a flame with a 60-foot radius at a range of up to 1,000 feet.
• Extraordinary (+6): You may produce a flame with a 75-foot radius at a range of up to 1,000 feet.
• Astonishing (+7): You may produce a flame with a 100-foot radius at a range of up to 1,000 feet.

When using pyrokinesis you may opt to simply increase the overall temperature of an area. You may increase the atmospheric temperature by up to 20 degrees Fahrenheit for each degree of success above Good, out to 30 feet per degree of success.

Pyrokinesis can be used as a projectile attack in the form of a hurled burst of fire, otherwise known as fire bolts. As with other psionic attacks, use your degree of success as an Offensive Damage Factor when using pyrokinesis in this way.

Example Fault: Only Has Control: Your character can only control pre-existing flames, not create them. Use the ladder results listed above to get an idea of how much of a flame you can control at once, but remember that you have to have a source of flame before you can do anything with this power.