297 ARCANA BY RARITY For GMs who prefer a more traditional randomization based on rarity, this appendix separates the cyphers, relics, and iron flesh into nine different tables (A through I) arranged by rarity. ANCIENTS ARCANA TABLE A d00 Arcana 01–03 Adhesion gloves 04–06 Antivenom pill 07–08 Arm bifurcator 09–10 Automated bath 11–12 Beast lure 13–14 Calm center 15–16 Catholicon 17–19 Detonation (roll d20) 1–2 Cell disruption 3–6 Corrosion 7–8 Lightning 9–10 Frost 11–15 Flame 16–20 Daggers 20–21 Detonation of webs 22–24 Eagleseye 25–26 Fireproofing spray 27–28 Friction-reducing gel 29–30 Gravity-nullifying spray 31–32 Instant servant 33–35 Intellect boost 36–38 Intellect enhancement patch 39–40 Knowledge enhancement 41–42 Mimetic replicator 43–44 Psychic communique 45–49 Ray emitter (roll d20) 1–10 Heat/concentrated light 11–12 Cell-disrupting radiation 13–16 Force 17 Lightning 18 Molecular bond disruption 19–20 Cold 50–51 Ray emitter of numbing 52–53 Ray emitter of paralysis 54–55 Retriever 56–57 Rodule of branding 58–59 Sleep inducer 60–61 Sound dampener 62–64 Speed boost 65–67 Stealth coating 68–70 Strength boost 71–72 Summoning alarm nodule 73–74 Sustenance implant 75–76 Telepathy implant 77–78 Teleporter of bounding 79–80 Tracer 81–82 Transdimensional lens 83–84 Troglit creche 85–86 Unarmored nodule 87–88 Ventriloquist nodule 89–91 Visual displacement device 92–93 Vocal translator 94–96 Water breather 97–98 Waterproofing spray 99–00 X-ray viewer ARCANA BY RARITY APPENDIX B Chapter 3: Cyphers, Relics, and Iron Flesh, page 38
298 ARCANA OF THE ANCIENTS 53 Instant shelter 54 Instant wall 55 Kaon preserver 56 Leadership bud 57 Lightning wall projector 58–59 Machine control implant 60 Memory goggles 61 Midnight field 62 Null orb 63 Object replicator 64 Otherspace stasis chamber skeleton key 65–66 Personal environment field 67 Personal telekinesis field 68 Phase disrupter 69 Phasing detector 70 Phasing gloves 71 Poison of detonation 72–73 Poison of emotion 74 Poison of mind control 75 Psychic defense nodule 76 Quantium boost 77 Rage thrower 78–79 Reality spike 80–81 Shapemetal 82 Sheen 83 Shocker 84 Sonic hole 85 Spatial warp 86–87 Spider line dispenser 88 Stealth thrower 89 Structural reinforcer 90 Subdual field 91 Teleporter of traveling 92 Time dilator of defense 93 Time dilator of offense 94 Trail blazer 95–96 Visage changer 97 Voicebox graft 98–99 Wasp drone 00 Water spigot ANCIENTS ARCANA TABLE B d00 Arcana 01–02 Alertness stimulant 03 Arm bifurcator 04–05 Banishing nodule 06–07 Blinking nodule 08–09 Catseye 10 Comprehension graft 11 Corpse likeness 12 Crafter’s eyes 13 Deception filter 14–18 Detonation (roll d20) 1–2 Cell disruption 3–6 Corrosion 7–8 Lightning 9–10 Frost 11–15 Flame 16–20 Daggers 19–20 Detonation of blindness 21–22 Detonation of deafness 23 Detonation of decoy sounds 24 Detonation of peace 25 Detonation of soap 26 Detonation of sobriety 27 Detonation of telekinesis 28 Detonation of tracking 29 Device stabilizer 30 Diagnostic graft 31–32 Disrupting nodule 33–34 Emotion smoother 35 Farspeaker 36–37 Fireproofing spray 38–39 Flame-retardant wall 40 Fleshy head disguise 41 Glue emitter 42 Gravity nullifier 43–44 Gravity-nullifying spray 45 Hardening spray 46 Harmony lamp 47 Image projector 48 Immobilizer 49 Infiltrator 50 Infrastructure drill 51–52 Instant item
299 ARCANA BY RARITY 61 Magnetic master 62 Magnetic shield 63 Matter evaporator 64 Mental scrambler 65 Metal death 66 Monoblade 67 Morale trauma 68–69 Motion sensor 70 Nanite resistance 71 Object micronizer 72 Organ factory 73 Otherspace weapon nodule 74 Phase changer 75 Puppeteering sleeves 76 Quantium backtracker 77 Rally beacon 78–79 Rejuvenator 80–81 Remote viewer 82–83 Repair unit 84–85 Retaliation nodule 86 Road builder 87 Rodule of inquisition 88–89 Skill boost (roll d20) 1 Acrobatics (Dex) 2 Animal handling (Wis) 3 Arcana (Int) 4–5 Athletics (Str) 6 Deception (Cha) 7 History (Int) 8 Insight (Wis) 9 Intimidation (Cha) 10 Investigation (Int) 11 Medicine (Wis) 12 Nature (Int) 13 Perception (Wis) 14 Performance (Cha) 15 Persuasion (Cha) 16 Religion (Int) 17 Sleight of Hand (Dex) 18 Stealth (Dex) 19 Survival (Wis) 20 Ancients Arcana (Int) 90–92 Speed boost 93–95 Strength boost 96 Teleportation beacon 97 Temporal viewer 98 Time skipper 99 Travel bubble 00 Visage changer ANCIENTS ARCANA TABLE C d00 Arcana 01 Astute weapon nodule 02 Attractor 03–04 Automaton seed 05 Blinking nodule 06 Body duplicator 07 Bridge builder 08–09 Catseye 10–11 Chemical factory 12 Clean bright 13–14 Controlled blinking nodule 15 Death protector 16 Density nodule 17–20 Detonation (roll d20) 1–2 Cell disruption 3–6 Corrosion 7–8 Lightning 9–10 Frost 11–15 Flame 16–20 Daggers 21–22 Detonation of desiccation 23–24 Detonation of flesh-rotting 25–26 Detonation of matter disruption 27–28 Detonation of spawning 29–30 Detonation of webs 31–32 Detonation, greater (roll d20) 1–2 Cell disruption 3–6 Corrosion 7–8 Lightning 9–10 Frost 11–15 Flame 16–20 Daggers 33 Eclipse projector 34–37 Effort enhancement 38 Extradimensional hand 39 Force cube projector 40–42 Force nodule 43 Force screen projector 44 Frigid wall projector 45 Gas bomb 46 Gravity changer 47 Health resonator 48–49 Heat nodule 50–51 Hunter/seeker 52 Inferno wall projector 53 Instant workshop 54–56 Intellect boost 57 Living solvent 58 Lore siphon 59–60 Magnetic attack drill
300 ARCANA OF THE ANCIENTS 24 Cloak of finery 25–27 Cypher bag 28 Cypher stabilizing suit 29 Detextilizer 30–31 Drill spear 32 Drink distiller 33–34 Ecstasy paralyzer 35 Empath’s lenses 36 Empty field generator 37–40 Exploding arrow 41 Explorer’s gloves 42 Explorer’s lenses 43 Eye of mental contact 44–45 Filtration straw 46 Flesh ink pen 47–48 Food scanner 49–50 Food tube 51 Gauntlet of protection 52 Glowbrand 53 Golden aura cloak 54 Gravitevator 55–56 Healing sword 57 Helm of metal control 58–60 Hover belt 61–62 Hover square 63–65 Imager 66–67 Instant bridge 68–69 Launcher 70 Living conceptualization sheath 71 Mask of machine speaking 72 Mephitic staff 73–74 Mind imager 75–76 Molecular bonder 77 Net arrow 78 Otherwhere torch 79–80 Phasing piton 81–82 Plant jar 83–84 Psychic whistle 85–86 Recorder headband 87–89 Redlight clip 90 Self projector 91 Smoke ink pen 92 Spine of impact 93 Sunfire crown 94–96 Surgeon sphere 97–98 Suspensor belt 99 Toolbox blade 00 Wood ink pen ANCIENTS ARCANA TABLE D d00 Arcana 01–08 Chemical factory 09–18 Detonation of gravity 19–28 Detonation of the black sphere 29–34 Detonation, greater (roll d20) 1–2 Cell disruption 3–6 Corrosion 7–8 Lightning 9–10 Frost 11–15 Flame 16–20 Daggers 35–44 Force shield projector 45–50 Gas bomb 51–55 Inferno wall projector 56 Iron tamer 57–62 Monoblade 63–65 Nanite resistance 66–68 Rampaging form 69–83 Rejuvenator 84–95 Skill boost 96–00 Stim ANCIENTS ARCANA TABLE E d00 Arcana 01–03 City shroud 04–23 Detonation of gravity 24–43 Detonation of the black sphere 44–68 Force shield projector 69–73 Hiding alarm nodule 74–76 Iron tamer 77–82 Rampaging form 83–00 Stim ANCIENTS ARCANA TABLE F d00 Arcana 01 Aggression eye 02–04 Analyzing shield 05–07 Armored flesh 08 Augmentation heptagon 09–10 Automated cook 11–13 Bounding boots 14 Brain fogger 15 Bread sprayer 16 Breathing field spinner 17 Burrowing boots 18–20 Carryall 21–22 Chameleon cloak 23 Clawed extremity
301 ARCANA BY RARITY 52–53 Multi-opener 54 Natalitial 55 Operon reservoir 56 Pacifying needler 57 Portable feast 58 Precognitive hoop staff 59 Prostheticlick 60 Psychic helmet 61 Psychosome 62–63 Remote clamp 64 Repeating blade 65–66 Retaliation implant 67 Sacrilock 68 Salvage pack 69 Second skin 70 Shapestone sprayer 71–72 Shock manacles 73–74 Skin of steel 75 Slugspitter 76 Snipewand 77 Spikes of the zephyr 78 Spine of might 79 Spine of shock 80 Stability spike 81 Stormheart 82 Stunner 83 Telepathic wire 84 Telltale glass 85 Temporal duplicator 86–87 Temporary wing 88 Tentacle injector 89 Trackdarter 90 Transdimensional mixer 91 Twilight skin 92–93 Vigilant eye 94–95 Vision relayer 96–97 Windrider 98–99 Windslice blade 00 Wings of thunder ANCIENTS ARCANA TABLE G d00 Arcana 01–02 Amulet of numenera safety 03 Battle armor 04–05 Brain bud 06–07 Cellular annealer 08 Cohesion stabilizer 09 Detonating scuttler (roll d20) 1–4 Acid 5–6 Cold 7–11 Fire 12–13 Lightning 14–15 Nectrotic 16–20 Piercing 10 Devitilizer 11–12 Disruption blade 13 Empty hand 14 Endless coil 15 Endless stomach 16 Energy nullifier 17 Evolution bud 18–19 External skeleton 20 Eye of mental supremacy 21–22 Eye-eating loop 23 Eyepiece of understanding 24–25 Fearmaker 26 Flame cloak 27 Flame gauntlet 28–29 Flesh disruptor 30–31 Force dome 32–33 Helm of illusion 34 Kinetic shield 35 Lacewing shirt 36 Light spike 37 Liquid armor 38 Liquid sword 39 Liquid transfer orb 40–41 Machine steed 42–43 Memory extractor 44–45 Metabolism bud 46–47 Midnight suit 48–49 Mindspeaking implant 50 Monster repulsor 51 Motion stabilizer
302 ARCANA OF THE ANCIENTS 72–73 Structural extruder 74–75 Sunfire corona 76–77 Synthetic body 78–79 Tendril graft 80–81 Thunder cannon 82–83 Toxic fogger 84–85 Transdimensional ray projector 86 Trigger trap 87–88 Twilight skin 89 Vigilant eye 90 Vision relayer 91–92 Weapon graft 93 Windrider 94–95 Windslice blade 96–97 Wings of thunder 98–99 Winter torque 00 Wondrous pocket ANCIENTS ARCANA TABLE I d00 Arcana 01–07 Amber casement 08–10 Battle armor 11–21 Battlesuit 22–23 Dimensional armor 24 Eye of mental supremacy 25–26 Flame gauntlet 27–28 Flame halo 29–30 Gauntlet of shield brandishing 31 Helm of metal mastery 32–38 Helm of phantasm 39–46 Mask of machine command 47–53 Multidimensional blade 54 Poison brain implant 55–57 Rumbler 58 Second skin 59–61 Shadowpath blade 62–69 Shatter wand 70 Skin of phasing 71–72 Skin of steel 73 Snipewand 74 Spine of gravity 75–76 Spine of might 77–82 Stormheart tempest 83 Sunfire corona 84 Synthetic body 85–86 Thunder cannon 87 Toxic fogger 88–89 Transdimensional ray projector 90 Twilight skin 91–95 Weapon graft 96–98 Windslice blade 99 Wings of thunder 00 Winter torque ANCIENTS ARCANA TABLE H d00 Arcana 01–03 Battle armor 04 Brain bud 05 Cellular annealer 06 Cohesion stabilizer 07 Dimensional armor 08 Disruption blade 09 Extradimensional viewer 10–11 Eye of mental supremacy 12 Fearmaker 13 Fiery hellmaker 14 Flame cloak 15–16 Flame gauntlet 17–18 Flame halo 19 Flesh disruptor 20 Force dome 21–22 Gauntlet of shield brandishing 23 Headroom helmet 24 Helm of illusion 25–26 Helm of metal mastery 27–28 Lacewing shirt 29 Liquid armor 30 Liquid sword 31 Living armor sheath 32–33 Machine stimulator 34–35 Melding projector 36 Metabolism bud 37 Mindspeaking implant 38 Murder globe 39 Nano-needler 40 Perception extender 41–42 Poison brain implant 43 Prevarication exponent 44–45 Psychic eradicator 46 Psychic helmet 47 Reflective shield 48 Remote clamp 49 Repeating blade 50 Safe corridor 51–52 Second skin 53 Shock manacles 54–55 Skin of phasing 56–57 Skin of steel 58 Skull blaster 59 Slugspitter 60–62 Snipewand 63 Spikes of the zephyr 64–65 Spine of gravity 66–67 Spine of might 68 Spine of shock 69–70 Stasis pod 71 Stormheart
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