Debase Reason
Debase reason: [Minor] by Iczer
'That is it, give in to your rage'
By touching a foe, even combined with a normal HTH attack, the character can destroy a persons reason, replacing it with blind and uncontrolled fury.
Each touch counts as two attacks, and forces the target to make a save vs psionics or lose 2 IQ and one ME and MA. Each successful touch will drop the target's mental attributes again. None of these values will drop below half.
As soon as the target loses any mental attributes, he exhibits savage and antisocial tendencies, and becomes reactionary and violent with the following effects.
- Will fight for no reason at all. He will select obvious targets, but if not actively threatened may attack his own teammates if he has a grudge. Likewise, he will not stick to any plans or tactics.
- Fights without discipline: -2 to strike parry and dodge but +2 to initiative and damage.
- Suffers a -4 to save vs psionics. His mind is easy to direct but not control.
- Submerged self: the target is susceptible to charismatic people, and any attempt at trust/intimidate that succeeds can redirect the fury of the target. [Come on man, you don't want to fight me, I'm just a wimp. Doesn't that big guy over there look like a better target?]
Other benefits: +1D4+1 to MA
Recovery: The target recovers one mental attribute point per minute. and recovers from rage as soon as his IQ is back to normal. If forced to violate his alignment, or attack friends, he may make a save vs psionics (no penalty) to recover from the rage (although his attributes remain reduced)
