Reverend Mothers

Last changed: 2010/08/11 21:59 

Becoming a Reverend Mother(Edit)

Once a female character has spent sufficient time training (GM's discretion), she may attempt to take the Water of Life. First, roll vs Health to survive the poison long enough to take the second roll. On failure, the character starts to die. Death will take 10 minutes for every point the roll was failed by. During this time, the character will be in extreme agony, and will be unable to take any conscious actions. On success, the character may make a roll against Bene Gesserit Insight. On a successful roll, the character falls into a trance for a number of minutes equal to the number rolled, before awakening as a Reverend Mother. If the roll is unsuccessful, the character may make successive attempts (rolling vs Health then Bene Gesserit Insight), with a cumulative -1 modifier to both rolls for each successive attempt, as per the rules on page 92 of the v3 Basic Rules.

Default Rolls(Edit)

Reverend mothers (whether Bene Gesserit or Fremen) have many lifetimes of experience and knowledge to draw upon. As such, they may make a default roll for any test that they do not have the relevant skill for. If the skill normally has a default roll, they get a default roll at 2 points better than anyone else (eg if the default roll is normally DX-6, it would be DX-4). If the skill has no default, a reverend mother may make a default roll at DX-6 or IQ-6.

Other Rules(Edit)

Reverend mothers are immune to all poisons.