Player reference / Techniques and Spells
Description and lore
A harmless request arrives with a persuasive warmth that ordinary words may lack.
Suggestion fits a conversation at its most delicate point, when the speaker hopes an idea will receive a fair hearing.
Its interest is the listener's hesitation: a glance back at the proposed kindness before deciding what to do.
At a glance
A harmless request arrives with a persuasive warmth that ordinary words may lack.
Techniques and Spells · Alpha v44 reference
Requires: Casting Skill: Influence. Affinity: Tact. Requirements: Tact d6; Influence d6. one learned slot.
Use: Action while speaking a brief suggestion · 30 feet · one creature that can understand the caster · Instant with timed consequence · 1 Mana
Effect - Resolution: Influence + Tact versus Composure + Tact.
Effect - Defense: Composure + Tact; defender wins ties; other explicit protection applies as written.
Effect: on success, the target feels receptive to one harmless, plausible request. The caster gains Advantage on one Influence Test about that request before the end of the target’s next turn. This does not force compliance, bypass firm commitments, compel self-harm, override a player character’s choices, or turn a hostile combatant into an ally. A failed contest has no effect.
Duration: through the end of the target’s next turn or until the qualifying Influence Test, whichever comes first.
Ending or recovery: repeated castings against the same target in one scene require a meaningful changed circumstance.
Exception: the target notices the suggestion as an idea, though it may not know magic caused the feeling.
Your words carry a persuasive warmth that lingers in the listener.
The question hangs between you; the listener pauses instead of turning away.