Vision

{{Infobox_Merit
|Source=Free Council Sourcebook
|Pages=p. 133
|Status=Allowed
|Fixed=Yes
|Type=Mental
|Restriction=All
|Level1=1
|Level2=2
|Level3=3
|Level4=4
|Level5=5
|Prerequisite=[[Prerequisite::Intelligence]] or<br />[[Prerequisite::Wits]] or<br />[[Prerequisite::Resolve]] or<br />[[Prerequisite::Composure]] {{dot4}}
|Image=
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Your character has vision. He is capable of visualizing his wants with great clarity and knows how to use that vision to guide his work. A character with two or three dots in this Merit has vision on a smaller scale — he sees his sculptures, inventions or performances with unusual clarity. A character with four or five dots in this Merit has a uniquely vivid vision of whole worlds. Whether he uses his vision to paint, to govern or to achieve some other aim is up to him.

The character’s vision helps him accomplish his goals. Essentially, this Merit gives a skilled character a chance to gain more than the usual +3 dice when he spends Willpower. 

* By spending a [[Willpower]] point, your character can reflexively rely on his vision to “assist himself” on any extended action he performs, whether it’s drawing the plans for a building, sculpting a statue or speaking in front of an audience (see [[Teamwork]]). The character rolls Vision + an appropriate [[Skills|Skill]], and each success is added as bonus dice to the next roll on the extended action.

* Your character may substitute his dots in Vision for either an [[Attributes|Attribute]] or a [[Skills|Skill]] when rolling to assist another character on an [[extended]] action (see [[Teamwork]]). The Storyteller has final say on whether a given trait can be replaced, however. Vision may be no substitute for [[Strength]] when lifting a boulder.

Willpower points spent to activate this Merit don’t grant any of the usual effects of Willpower points; they simply allow the character to use the Merit. This Merit does not enable a character to spend more than one Willpower point per turn.

Though a character may be said to have gained this Merit through supernatural means, Vision is not in itself a supernatural power. A character’s vision for the future may be the result of some supernatural experience or may simply the product of a profound imagination.

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