Martial Traditions & Combat Sphere Drawbacks

Whenever this sphere uses or grants ranks in Craft (alchemy) or calls for a Craft (alchemy) check, you instead gain ranks in a Craft or Profession or attempt a Craft or Profession check. The particular skill used is determined by the GM when you first gain this drawback. You use your ranks in the chosen skill instead of Craft (alchemy) when determining saving throws and Alchemy sphere effects. It is also substituted for all checks made to craft the items in question. This drawback does not grant a bonus talent; removing this drawback does not require spending a talent, but requires GM permission. You use ranks in the chosen skill in place of Craft (alchemy) for prerequisites for feats and talents that require the Alchemy sphere.

^{Source: Spheres Apocrypha: Alchemical Formulae}

You gain the Shaped Chemistry talent as the bonus talent with this drawback. All your formulae must be created either as a line or a cone using the Shaped Chemistry talent. Once selected, this choice cannot be changed.

^{Source: Diamond Spheres: Erudition & Esoterica}

You can only benefit from a single mutagen at one time, with any attempts to imbibe a second mutagen causing you to suffer its toxicity effect and gain no benefits from it. Also, you automatically fail the saving throw associated with a mutagen’s toxicity effect.

You gain Pill Popper as a bonus talent.

^{Source: Diamond Spheres: Erudition & Esoterica}

Only you can benefit from your mutagens. If another creature is subject to your mutagen, they gain no benefits from the mutagen and must attempt a save against its toxicity effect immediately.

You gain a (mutagen) talent as a bonus talent.

The materials gathered over the day and the alchemy kit are not enough to produce your formulae and poisons. Each poison or formulae you make requires a cost of 1 silver piece per rank in Craft (alchemy) used to produce it. They still go inert as normal and count towards the maximum you may maintain at once.

You can only make mutagens with your poisons, and your poisons no longer cause fatigue. You gain a (mutagen) talent as a bonus talent.

Your formulae and poisons use magical elements as part of their designs. This makes the effects your formulae and poisons create magical in nature and subject to spell resistance. In addition their effects may be dispelled by dispel magic (and other such similar effects) and your formulae and poisons are treated as magic items for the purposes of dispelling effects.

^{Source: Spheres Apocrypha: Alchemical Poisons}
Choose one of contact, ingested, inhaled, or injury. You can only make poisons of the chosen type. You must choose a (toxin) talent as the bonus talent granted by this drawback.

^{Source: Spheres Apocrypha: Alchemical Poisons}
Whenever you try to make toxic gases, you never quite get it right. Maybe the poison’s too light, and it spreads too thin to be of any harm, or maybe it is too heavy and it falls too low to harm anyone. Luckily, you have learned a special technique to get as much poison as you want, wherever you want. You must choose the Noxious Breath talent with the bonus talent granted by this drawback. You cannot throw inhaled poisons as a splash weapon, but can still use the Noxious Breath talent when you would normally be able to.

^{Source: Spheres Apocrypha: Alchemical Formulae}

You gain the Chemical Coating talent as the bonus talent with this drawback. You can only use formulae as part of the Chemical Coating talent. You may only select formulae talents that can be used with the Chemical Coating talent.

You do not gain the coordinated movement ability. You gain Strong Lungs with this drawback.

You do not gain skill ranks or any other bonuses from your Athletics sphere packages, though you still count as possessing them for the purpose of selecting and using the talents of the packages you possess. You gain the Ace Pilot talent as the bonus talent for this drawback.

You do not gain a package. You gain Close Quarters Training with this drawback. You cannot gain packages via talents, and (motion) talents can only be used with 1 movement mode you possess, chosen when the talent is gained.

^{Source: Arcforge Players Compendium}

You only benefit from your Athletics packages while moving along a metal or otherwise magnetic surface. You gain either Sure Grip or Tumbling Recovery with this drawback.

You do not gain the coordinated movement ability. You gain Reflexive Twist with this drawback.

Incompatible: Always Forward.

You do not gain the coordinated movement ability. You gain Fitness Instructor as a bonus talent.

You do not gain skill ranks from your Athletics sphere packages. You gain Mighty Conditioning with this drawback.

Incompatible: Driver, Limited Athleticism.

You do not gain the barrage ability and cannot select (blitz) talents or other talents that rely on barrage. You gain Close Combat Specialist with this drawback.

You do not gain the barrage ability and cannot select (blitz) talents or other talents that rely on barrage. You gain Intercepting Shot with this drawback.

Incompatible: Cautious Fire.

You do not gain the melee archer ability. You do not treat Point Blank Shot as an associated feat, and cannot select this drawback if you gained the Barrage sphere instead of gaining Point Blank Shot. You gain Battlefield Scavenger with this drawback.

Incompatible: Wild Shooter.

You do not gain melee archer, and instead suffer a -1 penalty to all ranged attack rolls. You gain Suppressing Fire with this drawback.

You do not gain the brutal breaker ability. You cannot possess both this and the Teetotaler drawback. You gain Double Chug with this drawback.

You do not gain the brutal breaker ability. You gain one of Boozehound, Charming Drunk, or Drunken Insight as a bonus talent.

You do not gain the hard drinker ability, and cannot gain the drunk status or select (drunk) talents. You gain Perfect Break with this drawback.

Incompatible: Alcoholic, Gourmand, Perpetual Drunk, Teetotaler.

You do not gain the brutal breaker ability. You cannot possess this drawback if you have already traded away your brutal breaker or hard drinker abilities with other sphere-specific drawbacks. You gain Postprandial Maudlin with this drawback.

You do not gain the hard drinker ability, and cannot gain the drunk status or select (drunk) talents. You gain Improvised Shield with this drawback.

Incompatible: Alcoholic, Broken Arms, Gourmand, Perpetual Drunk, Teetotaler.

^{Source: Arcforge Players Compendium}

You do not gain the drunk status from conventional alcoholic drinks but only from a specific drug of your choice (or other drugs at GM discretion). You gain Chasing the Dragon as a talent from this drawback.

You do not gain the brutal breaker ability. You gain High On Fumes with this drawback.

Incompatible: Alcoholic, Broken Arms, Gourmand, Teetotaler.

You do not gain the hard drinker ability, and cannot gain the drunk status nor select (drunk) talents. You cannot possess both this and the Alcoholic drawback. You gain Barroom Expert with this drawback.

You do not gain the defensive rider ability. You gain Wild Rider with this drawback.

Incompatible: Offensive Rider, Selfish Rider.

You do not gain the tame ability. You gain Animal Empathy with this drawback.

You do not get to select a Beastmastery package. You gain either the Animal Companion or Pet talent with this drawback.

You may not use your trainer ability on creatures of the animal type. Choose one creature type other than the animal type. If a (beastmastery) talent specifies a creature of the animal type, it instead applies to your chosen type. You must take Broad Skills with the bonus talent from this drawback, though you may not affect creatures of a type other than your chosen type unless this drawback is bought off.

You do not gain the defensive rider ability. You gain Skirmish Rider with this drawback.

You do not gain the defensive rider ability. You gain Meat Shield with this drawback.

Incompatible: Offensive Rider.

You do not gain the brutal strike ability. You must take an (adrenaline) talent with this drawback.

Incompatible: Unbattered, Weakling.

You do not gain the brutal strike ability and cannot select (exertion) talents or other talents that rely on brutal strike. You gain Decapitate with this drawback.

Incompatible: Adrenaline Junkie, Unbattered, Weakling.

You do not gain the brutal strike ability and cannot select (exertion) talents or other talents that rely on brutal strike. You gain Greater Sunder with this drawback.

Incompatible: Adrenaline Junkie, Fatal Strike, Unbattered, Weakling.

You do not gain the berserking ability and cannot select (adrenaline) talents or other talents that rely on berserk. You gain Savage with this drawback.

Incompatible: Adrenaline Junkie, Undying.

Your brutal strikes do not inflict the battered conditions on foes. You gain Sanguine Invigoration with this drawback.

You do not gain the berserking ability and cannot select (adrenaline) talents or other talents that rely on berserking. You gain Deathless with this drawback.

Incompatible: Adrenaline Junkie.

You cannot expend focus to increase the damage of your brutal strikes. You gain Extended Exertion with this drawback.

You do not gain the counter punch ability from the Boxing sphere and cannot select (counter) talents. You must take Tight Guard with the bonus talent gained from this drawback.

You do not gain the counter punch ability and cannot select (counter) talents or other talents that rely on counter punch. You gain Read The Rhythm with this drawback.

Incompatible: Defensive Pugilist, Wily Dodger.

You do not gain Improved Unarmed Strike from this sphere, nor do boxing talents count as unarmed sphere talents for the purpose of improving your unarmed strike dice damage. You cannot take this drawback if you gained the Boxing sphere through associated feat with Improved Unarmed Strike. You must take either Heavy Counter or Hair Trigger as your bonus talent with this drawback.

Incompatible: Defensive Pugilist.

You do not gain the counter punch ability and cannot select (counter) talents or other talents that rely on counter punch. You gain Shadowboxing with this talent.

Incompatible: Defensive Pugilist.

You do not gain the counter punch ability and cannot select (counter) talents or other talents that rely on counter punch. You gain Headfake with this drawback.

Incompatible: Observant Fighter, Defensive Pugilist.

The Brute sphere does not grant increased unarmed damage, confer the benefits of Improved Unarmed Strike, or count as a sphere focused on unarmed combat. You do not treat Improved Unarmed Strike as an associated feat, and cannot select this drawback if you gained the Brute sphere instead of gaining Improved Unarmed Strike. In addition, you may not perform a shove without a shield or a weapon. You gain Brace Weapon with this drawback.

Incompatible: Burly.

You do not gain the shove ability. You must take the Muscular Surge talent with the bonus talent granted by this drawback.

You do not gain the shove ability. You gain Unstoppable with this drawback.

Incompatible: Armed Combatant, Burly.

You do not gain the dual attack ability and cannot select talents that rely on it. You gain Impossible Reload with this drawback.

Incompatible: Guarded Shooter, Versatile Weapon Wielder.

You do not gain the dual attack ability and cannot select talents that rely on it. You gain Dancing Display with this drawback.

Incompatible: Arrow Juggle, Guarded Shooter, Versatile Weapon-Wielder.

You do not gain the dual attack ability. You gain Mixed Assault with this drawback.

You do not gain the dual attack ability. You gain Paired Proficiency with this drawback.

You do not gain the ability to perform disarm maneuvers without provoking attacks of opportunity against bleeding targets. You may not take (disarm) talents. You must take Long Cuts as the bonus talent gained from taking this drawback. You cannot have both this and the Disarming Duelist drawback.

You do not gain the ability to deal bleed damage with attacks and disarm attempts from the Duelist base sphere. You cannot take talents with the (bleed) descriptor. You must take Bind Weapon as the bonus talent gained from taking this drawback.

You do not gain the blooded strike ability. You cannot select (bleed) talents. You gain Scar Tissue with this drawback.

Incompatible: Bloody Slasher, Disarming Duelist.

You do not gain the ability to perform disarm maneuvers without provoking attacks of opportunity against bleeding targets. You cannot select (disarm) talents. You gain Blooded Skeptic with this drawback.

Incompatible: Bloody Slasher, Disarming Duelist, Scarred Duelist.

You do not gain the fatal thrust ability and cannot select (exploit) talents or talents that rely on the sphere’s precision damage. You gain Impassable Defense with this drawback.

Incompatible: Distracting, Defensive Style.

You do not gain the fatal thrust ability and cannot select (exploit) talents or talents that rely on the sphere’s precision damage. You gain Masterful Defense with this drawback.

Incompatible: Active Defense, Distracting.

You do not gain the bonus precision damage from the Fencing sphere. You may not take (exploit) talents, and must take Expert Feint with the bonus talent you receive from this drawback.

You do not gain the fatal thrust ability. You gain Isolating Repartee as a bonus talent.

You do not gain the fatal thrust ability and cannot select (exploit) talents or talents that rely on the sphere’s precision damage. You gain Open Guard with this drawback.

Incompatible: Active Defense, Distracting, Defensive Style.

^{Source: Spheres Apocrypha: Swashbucklers}

You do not gain any ranks in Bluff from the base sphere. You gain Read Foe with this drawback.

You do not gain ranks in Intimidate from the base sphere, do not gain the demoralization ability nor the Strike Fear demoralization and cannot select (demoralization) talents. You gain Self Confidence with this drawback. You may not possess both this and the Humble Combatant drawback.

You do not gain the demoralization ability nor the Strike Fear demoralization and cannot select (demoralization) talents. You gain Distracting Display with this drawback.

Incompatible: Braggart, Focused Menace, Humble Combatant.

You do not gain the demoralization ability nor the Strike Fear demoralization and cannot select (demoralization) talents. You gain Theatrical Boast with this drawback.

Incompatible: Braggart, Dazzling Icon, Focused Menace, Humble Combatant.

Whenever this sphere uses or grants ranks in Intimidate or calls for an Intimidate check, you instead gain or use ranks in Perform or attempt a Perform check, with the specific Perform skill chosen at the time of gaining this drawback. This drawback does not grant a bonus talent; removing this drawback does not require spending a talent, but requires GM permission. You use Perform ranks in place of Intimidate ranks for prerequisites for feats and talents that require the Gladiator sphere.

You do not gain the Strike Fear demoralization. You gain Duel Of Wills with this drawback. Incompatible: Braggart

You do not gain the Prowess (boast) and cannot use the boast ability if you have no (boast) talents. You gain Awesome Impression as a bonus talent.

You do not gain the boast ability nor the Prowess boast and cannot select (boast) talents. You gain Uncowed with this drawback. You may not possess both this and the Braggart drawback.

You do not gain the ability to perform a boast after confirming a critical hit, reducing an enemy to 0 or fewer hit points, or succeeding on a combat maneuver. You gain Fan Favorite with this drawback.

Incompatible: Humble Combatant.

You do not gain the strike fear ability. You gain either Distracting Display or Performance Fighter as a bonus talent. If you also select the Huge Personality drawback, you can take the Gladiator sphere using a [utility] talent slot as if both drawbacks had the [utility start] tag.

You do not gain a delayed damage pool and may not select any talent which relies on the delayed damage pool. You gain Assist with this drawback.

Incompatible: Indifferent Defender, Victorious Challenger, Without Delay.

You do not gain a Guardian package. You gain Defend Other with this drawback.

Incompatible: Indifferent Defender.

You do not get to select a Guardian package. You gain Greater Delayed Damage with this drawback. You may not possess both this and the Without Delay drawback.

You do not gain a Guardian package. You gain Swift Reflexes with this drawback.

Incompatible: Bodyguard, Indifferent Defender.

You do not gain a delayed damage pool and may not select any talent which relies on the delayed damage pool. You gain Flush Of Victory with this drawback.

Incompatible: Indifferent Defender, Without Delay.

You do not gain a delayed damage pool and may not select any talent which relies on the delayed damage pool. You must take Swift Guardian with this drawback. You may not possess both this and the Indifferent Defender drawback.

You do not gain the impale ability and cannot select (impale) talents or talents that rely on impale. You gain Adamant Stalker with this drawback.

Incompatible: Clumsy Stabber.

You do not gain the ability to impale a creature. You may not take talents with the (impale) descriptor. You gain Whirlwind Knockdown with this drawback.

Requires (cohort) package.

You cannot recruit living cohorts. You must choose the Constructor talent with the bonus talent gained from this drawback and may only recruit cohorts with the construct type. Whenever this sphere uses or grants ranks in Diplomacy or calls for a Diplomacy check, you instead gain ranks in Knowledge (engineering) or make a Knowledge (engineering) check. You use Knowledge (engineering) ranks in place of Diplomacy ranks for prerequisites for feats and talents that require the Leadership sphere.

If you possess the (followers) package, your followers are constructs. They require no supplies, but also do not gather supplies for you.

Whenever this sphere uses or grants ranks in Diplomacy or calls for a Diplomacy check, you instead gain ranks in Bluff or make a Bluff check. This drawback does not grant a bonus talent; removing this drawback does not require spending a talent, but requires GM permission. You use Bluff ranks in place of Diplomacy ranks for prerequisites for feats and talents that require the Leadership sphere. If you possess both the Leadership and Fencing spheres, you gain a competence bonus on Bluff checks equal to half your base attack bonus instead of retraining the ranks a second time.

Whenever this sphere uses or grants ranks in Diplomacy or calls for a Diplomacy check, you instead gain ranks in Intimidate or make an Intimidate check. This drawback does not grant a bonus talent; removing this drawback does not require spending a talent, but requires GM permission.

You use Intimidate ranks in place of Diplomacy ranks for prerequisites for feats and talents that require the Leadership sphere.

If you possess both the Leadership and Gladiator spheres, you gain a competence bonus on Intimidate checks equal to half your base attack bonus instead of retraining the ranks a second time.

Requires (cohort) package.

Your recruit ability relies on subconsciously mystical mental manipulation. Your cohorts are considered to be under a magical (charm) effect with a caster level equal to your Hit Dice and a magic skill defense equal to 11 + your ranks in Diplomacy. Any effect that would suppress or dispel such an effect releases a cohort from your influence. Creatures so released are hostile toward you. You must choose the Brainwash talent with the bonus talent gained from this drawback and must apply it to all creatures you recruit.

Requires (followers) package.

You gain the Base of Operations talent as the bonus talent for this drawback. You do not gain a group of followers other than via that talent, so your followers cannot form a caravan.

Requires (cohort) package.

You may only recruit troops, not individual cohorts. You must choose the Squad talent as the bonus talent gained from this drawback.

^{Source: Spheres Apocrypha: Cohorts & Companions}

Requires (cohort) package.

You cannot recruit cohorts native to the plane you are on and must instead recruit them from outer planes. You must choose the Friends in High Places talent with the bonus talent gained from this drawback and may only recruit cohorts with the outsider type. Your cohorts are considered to be summoned creatures with the effect having a caster level equal to your Hit Dice and a magic skill defense equal to 11 + your ranks in Diplomacy. Any effect that would suppress or dispel such an effect dismisses your cohort as well (you are free to try to reach them again later when you have the opportunity).

Requires (cohort) package.

You cannot recruit living cohorts. You must choose the Master of the Dead as the bonus talent gained from this drawback and may only recruit cohorts of the undead type.

Whenever this sphere uses or grants ranks in Diplomacy or calls for a Diplomacy check, you instead gain ranks in Knowledge (religion) or make a Knowledge (religion) check. You use Knowledge (religion) ranks in place of Diplomacy ranks for prerequisites for feats and talents that require the Leadership sphere.

If you possess the (followers) package, your followers are undead. They require no supplies, but also do not gather supplies for you. Your followers will be unwelcome in many settlements.

You do not gain the sweep ability. You gain Shattering Palm with this drawback.

Incompatible: Enlightened Focus, Hardened Palm, Savage Combatant, Soft Style.

You do not gain the sweep ability. You gain Mystic Fists with this drawback.

Incompatible: Hardened Palm, Savage Combatant.

You do not gain the sweep ability. You gain Iron Fist with this drawback.

Incompatible: Enlightened Focus, Savage Combatant.

You do not gain the sweep ability. You must take Tear Flesh as the bonus talent gained from taking this drawback.

The Open Hand sphere does not grant increased unarmed damage, confer the benefits of Improved Unarmed Strike, or count as a sphere focused on unarmed combat. You do not treat Improved Unarmed Strike as an associated feat, and cannot select this drawback if you gained the Open Hand sphere instead of gaining Improved Unarmed Strike. You gain Greater Trip with this drawback.

Incompatible: Closed Hand, Enlightened Focus, Hardened Palm, Savage Combatant

You do not gain the swift hands or marked target abilities. You gain Misdirected Attack with this drawback.

Incompatible: Hidden Scoundrel, Natural Rogue, Thuggish Theft.

You do not gain the swift hands or marked target abilities. You gain Bob And Weave with this drawback.

Incompatible: Natural Rogue, Opportunist

You do not gain the swift hands ability. You gain Master Thief with this drawback.

You do not gain the marked target ability. You gain Filthy Distraction with this drawback.

Incompatible: Hidden Scoundrel.

Your marked target ability does not cause the battered condition. You gain Meddling Mark as a bonus talent.

You do not gain the swift hands ability. You gain Counter Theft with this drawback.

Incompatible: Clever Dodge, Hidden Scoundrel, Natural Rogue.

You do not gain the swift hands ability. You gain Brazen Snatcher as a bonus talent.

You do not gain the scout ability and cannot select talents that rely on the scout ability. You gain one of Identify Structural Hazards, Sense And Resist Scrying, or Track The Scene with this drawback.

You do not gain the scout ability of the Scout sphere. You cannot take talents which rely on the Scout ability. You must take Active Camouflage as the bonus talent gained from taking this drawback.

Your scout ability cannot be used to identify a creature’s weaknesses, though you may still use it to activate any talents that rely on it. You gain Discern Condition with this drawback.

Incompatible: Hidden Eyes.

You do not gain ranks in Stealth from the base sphere and cannot select talents that rely on or improve the Stealth skill. You gain Discern Tells with this drawback.

You do not gain ranks in Stealth from the base sphere and cannot select talents that rely on or improve the Stealth skill. You gain Somnambulance with this drawback.

Incompatible: Hidden Eyes, Veteran Warrior.

You do not gain ranks in Stealth from the base sphere and cannot select talents that rely on or improve the Stealth skill. You gain Track The Scene with this drawback.

Incompatible: Sentry, Veiled, Veteran Warrior.

You do not gain the scout ability and cannot select talents that rely on the scout ability. You gain Hidden Appearance with this drawback.

Incompatible: Hidden Eyes, Hunter’s Eye, Sentry, Tracker

You do not gain ranks in Stealth from the base sphere and cannot select talents that rely on or improve the Stealth skill. You gain Study Technique with this drawback. Incompatible: Hidden Eyes

You do not increase your shield bonus to AC when using active defense. You gain Punch Block with this drawback, and must apply its effects whenever you use active defense.

Incompatible: Hostile Shield, Mobile Bulwark, Passive Blocker.

You do not gain the active defense ability and cannot select (deflect) talents or other talents that rely on active defense. You gain Bashing Shield with this drawback.

Incompatible: Passive Blocker.

You do not gain the active defense ability and cannot select (deflect) talents or other talents that rely on active defense. You gain Flexible Cover with this drawback.

Incompatible: Hostile Shield, Passive Blocker.

You do not gain the active defense ability and cannot take (deflect) talents or other talents that require the use of active defense. You gain Deflecting Shield with this drawback.

You do not gain the deadly shot ability and cannot select (snipe) talents or other talents that rely on deadly shot. You gain Targeted Assault with this drawback.

Incompatible: Close Quarters Shooter

You may only perform a deadly shot within the first range increment of your ranged weapons, and treat the range increment of any ranged weapon used when making a deadly shot as 30 ft., unless it would normally be lower. You must take Push Shot with the bonus talent granted by this drawback.

You do not ignore the usual -4 penalty to shoot or throw ranged weapons at a creature engaged in melee. You do not treat Precise Shot as an associated feat, and cannot select this drawback if you gained the Sniper sphere instead of gaining Precise Shot. You gain Breaking Blast with this drawback.

You do not ignore the usual -4 penalty to shoot or throw ranged weapons at a creature engaged in melee. You do not treat Precise Shot as an associated feat, and cannot select this drawback if you gained the Sniper sphere instead of gaining Precise Shot. You gain Trap Technician with this drawback.

Incompatible: Collateral Damage.

Whenever this sphere uses or grants ranks in Craft (mechanical) or calls for a Craft (mechanical) check, you instead gain ranks in a Craft or Profession or attempt a Craft or Profession check. It is also substituted for all checks made to craft the items in question. The particular skill used is determined by the GM when you first gain this drawback. You use your ranks in the chosen skill instead of Craft (mechanical) when determining saving throws and Tech sphere effects. This drawback does not grant a bonus talent; removing this drawback does not require spending a talent, but requires GM permission. You use ranks in the chosen skill in place of Craft (mechanical) for prerequisites for feats and talents that require the Tech sphere.

You cannot create charges without some outside source determined by the GM, such as requiring a moving river to push a wheel, or tapping into a magical leyline.

You cannot create charges from nothing and require specific material as determined by the GM (such as miniature batteries or refined oil). Whatever the exact nature of the fuel source it should cost 1 silver piece per charge at a minimum. While this means you could carry around more of your fuel source at once, it still must be processed into charges using the normal recharge time.

The materials gathered over the day and the engineering kit are not enough to produce your inventions. Each gadget you make requires a cost of 1 sp per rank in Craft (mechanical) used to produce it, and if a gadget requires the gathering of expensive material components (such as drones) you do not have the option to spend time to gather the materials and must spend the cost in full to create them.

Your creations use an explosive fuel source as their source of energy. Gain the Self Destructive Device talent with this drawback. Whenever any of your gadgets are damaged they must attempt a check using your Craft (mechanical) modifier with a DC equal to the damage taken.

On a failure the gadget explodes as if instructed to self destruct. A gadget will automatically fail this check if it is destroyed.

Adding charges to your charge pool requires 2 hours of work, or 1 hour if you have access to an engineering kit. Incompatible: Generated Power

Gain the Generator legendary talent from this drawback. You lose the ability to innately add charges to your charge pool and can only charge gadgets using generators. Incompatible: Extended Charge

With this drawback you gain the Vigorous Gadgets legendary talent. Your drones and gadgets are harmed by the energy type you did not select.

You do not automatically succeed on activation checks for gadgets you create and must succeed on a Craft (mechanical) check as normal.

Your gadgets use magical elements as part of their designs. This makes the effects your gadgets create magical in nature and subject to spell resistance. In addition their effects may be dispelled by dispel magic and other such similar effects and your gadgets and drones are treated as magic items for the purposes of dispelling effects (drones with their magical properties suppressed are stunned, ignoring any immunities).

Your gadgets generate a tell-tale sign when activated; for example, they make a loud noise, spew smoke, or generate loud singing noises. An activated gadget automatically breaks stealth, and whenever you activate a gadget all creatures within 60 feet who are observing you know which gadget you used, and qualities it possesses.

When you first gain the Tech sphere, you must choose the Drone talent as your starting gadget. You gain the Alchemical Drone, Clockwork Drone, Robot Drone or Steampowered Drone legendary talent with this drawback. All the drones you create must be of that type.

Your creations are vulnerable to certain environments. Choose one of the following conditions or speak with your GM about finding another appropriate one: being doused in water, being exposed to magnets, being exposed to sand particles. Whenever your gadgets are exposed to such an environment they must succeed at a Fortitude save against your Tech sphere DC or become nonfunctional and immediately deactivate. A gadget can be made functional after 30 minutes of cleaning up the exposed part (15 minutes with an engineering kit).

Your creations are sloppily designed making them vulnerable to being controlled. You must select the Remote Control talent as your first (gadget) talent. Your gadgets (including drones) receive a -2 penalty to all saves to oppose any effects that explicitly control or effect technology (such as Technomancy sphere sprites). In place of a bonus talent, you gain the Remote Hacking feat as a bonus feat. You cannot gain the Improved User Interface talent while you possess this drawback.

Gain the Signal Cable talent with this drawback. Your gadgets lose their innate signal and require a signal cable to connect to one another.

You and gizmos you craft cannot deplete batteries or benefit from battery use abilities (or similar resources that behave like batteries, such as the Biofuel feat’s biofuel charges).

You do not gain a Tinker package. You gain any Tinker sphere talent that does not require a package.

Note: You may not take the Expanded Tinkering talent while you possess this drawback, you must “buy back” this drawback to gain your first Tinker package.

When you first gain the (transportation) Tinker package, choose one of the templates offered by the Advanced Transportation legendary talent. All mechanoids you craft must have that template, and if you selected the biological construct template, you must choose a single creature type for all of your mechanoids to possess with that template.

This drawback does not grant a bonus talent.

Note: This Tinker sphere drawback grants the benefits of a legendary talent to enable certain thematic options. GMs should approve this drawback the same as they would individually approve a legendary talent.

You gain a Tinker tradition (see Section 4.4: Gamemaster’s Toolkit, Tinker Traditions for more).

Special: Unlike a normal sphere drawback, gaining a Tinker tradition grants you 1 bonus Tinker talent per 2 Tinker tradition drawbacks your Tinker tradition possesses.

You gain the Trap Door talent as the bonus talent gained from this drawback and cannot create (dart) traps. You can create (snare) traps but they do not have any effect outside of triggering your trap doors (as per the triggered trait). If you have the Slow Worker drawback you must always take 10 minutes to craft your doors.

Incompatible: Battle Trapper, Dismantler, Focused Trapper.

Whenever this sphere uses or grants ranks in Craft (traps) or calls for a Craft (traps) check, you instead gain ranks in a Craft or Profession or attempt a Craft or Profession check. The particular skill used is determined by the GM when you first gain this drawback. You use your ranks in the chosen skill instead of Craft (traps) when determining saving throws and Trap sphere effects. It is also substituted for all checks made to craft the items in question. This drawback does not grant a bonus talent; removing this drawback does not require spending a talent, but requires GM permission. You use ranks in the chosen skill in place of Craft (traps) for prerequisites for feats and talents that require the Trap sphere.

You may not set traps. You must select the Trap Wielder talent with the bonus talent gained from this drawback. You may not have both this and the Slow Worker drawback.

You do not gain the ability to set traps, including the darts trap and the tripwire snare. You must choose Trap Finder with the bonus talent gained from this drawback.

Incompatible: Battle Trapper, Expensive Traps, Focused Trapper, Mana Traps, Slow Worker.

The materials gathered over the day and the trap bag are not enough to create your traps. Each trap you make requires a cost of 1 silver piece per rank in Craft (traps) used to produce it. They still degrade naturally as normal.

Choose either dart or snare traps. You may not place or otherwise use traps of the chosen type. You must take Trapper’s Recovery with this drawback.

Your traps use magical elements as part of their designs. This makes the effects your traps create magical in nature and subject to spell resistance. In addition their effects may be dispelled by dispel magic and other such similar effects and your traps are treated as magic items for the purposes of dispelling effects.

You must take at least one minute to set up a trap. You must take Persistent Trap with the bonus talent gained from this drawback, and suffer the limitations of that talent whenever you set a trap. You may not have both this and the Battle Trapper drawback.

You do not gain the tactic ability and cannot take (tactics) talents. You gain Breath Support with this drawback.

Whenever this sphere uses or grants ranks in Diplomacy or calls for a Diplomacy check, you instead gain ranks in Perform or attempt a Perform check. You use your ranks in Perform instead of Diplomacy when determining saving throws. This drawback does not grant a bonus talent; removing this drawback does not require spending a talent, but requires GM permission. You use Perform ranks in place of Diplomacy ranks for prerequisites for feats and talents that require the Warleader sphere.

Author's Note: If you possess multiple spheres that grant ranks in the same Perform subskill, you gain a competence bonus on those Perform checks equal to half your base attack bonus instead of retraining the ranks multiple times. This is only applied once.

You do not gain the shout ability and cannot select (shout) talents or other talents that rely on shout. You gain Verbal Commands with this drawback.

Incompatible: Barbaric Shout, Lead By Example, Meek Leader.

You do not gain the shouts ability. You gain Verbal Counter as a bonus talent.

You may only use a shout while threatening an enemy. You must take Triumph with the bonus talent gained through this drawback.

Incompatible: Meek Leader.

You do not gain the shout ability. You cannot take (shout) talents. You must take Courier’s Dash with the bonus talent gained through this drawback.

You do not gain the shout ability and cannot select (shout) talents or other talents that rely on shout. You gain Preparation with this drawback.

Incompatible: Barbaric Shout, Impeccable Command, Lead By Example, Meek Leader.

You do not gain the tactics ability. You gain Rallying Beseechment as a bonus talent. If you also select the Interjector drawback, you can take the Warleader sphere using a [utility] talent slot as if both drawbacks had the [utility start] tag.

You do not gain the tactics ability and cannot select (tactics) talents or other talents that rely on tactics. You gain Verbal Counter with this drawback.

Incompatible: Barbaric Shout, Impeccable Command.

You do not gain the tactics ability nor Fierce Shout. You gain Rallying Beseechment and Inspiring Speech instead.

The Wrestling sphere does not grant increased unarmed damage, confer the benefits of Improved Unarmed Strike, or count as a sphere focused on unarmed combat. You do not treat Improved Unarmed Strike as an associated feat, and cannot select this drawback if you gained the Wrestling sphere instead of gaining Improved Unarmed Strike. You gain Hammerlock with this drawback.

You do not gain the snag ability of the Wrestling sphere and must take Last Chance Grapple with the bonus talent granted by taking this drawback.

You do not gain the snag ability. You gain Worked Match with this drawback.

Incompatible: Jobber.