I have looked at Imbuements but never played them, though that is about to change. I will be playing a Mystic in one game and have been playing a powers based shaman in another for awhile now. Shadow Speaker relies on Afflictions, Totem-Bearer with Horse and Raven, and tokens for Bear, Dove, and Turtle. This gives him a decent mix of abilities which I have used to fine tune a few things.
However, I have been looking at ways to improve the buffing role and with the thought going into the Mystic of Horus I have some ideas on Imbuements to go along with
GURPS Powers: Totem and Nature Spirits.
So here are some ideas on what Imbuements fit specific totems. This list is drawn from
GURPS Power-Ups 1: Imbuements and several Pyramid issues. Remember whats appropriate is up to the setting and the GMs interpretation, some are pretty obvious, while others are more of a stretch. So these are just some ideas.
- All: Dancing Weapon, Ghostly Weapon, Healthful Armor, Nullifying Armor
(Spirit), Returning Weapon, Spiritual Defense, Supreme Control,
- Most Birds: Aerial Operation, Arching Shot, Far Shot, Guided Weapon, Homing Weapon, Stabilizing
Shot.
- Baselisk: Acid Weapon, Corrosive Strike,
- Bear: Crushing Attack, Forceful Blow.
- Beaver: Aquatic Operation,
- Cougar/Puma: Agile Operation,
- Coyote: Arching Shot,
- Deer: Agile Operation, Hasten Vehicle,
- Dolphin: Aquatic Operation, Crushing Attack, Ramming Vehicle,
- Dove: Dazzling Display,
- Eagle: Impaling Strike,
- Electric Eel: Electric Weapon, Fulminating Strike,
- Elemental (Air): Imbue 1 – Deafening Display, Supreme Control,
Thunderous Defense. Imbue 2 – Arching Shot, Far Shot, Guided Weapon, Returning
Weapon. Imbue 3 – Electric Weapon, Insulated Armor.
- Elemental (Earth): Imbue 1 – Crushing Strike, Lighten Armor,
Reinforce Weapon. Imbue 2 – Reinforce Armor, Shattershot. Imbue 3 – Blunting
Armor, Impenetrable Armor, Padded Armor, Penetrating Strike.
- Elemental (Fire): Imbue 1 – Ghostly Weapon, Spiritual Defense.
Imbue 2 –Annihilating Weapon, Burning Strike, Blinding Defense, Dazzling
Display. Imbue 3 –
- Fireproof Armor, Incendiary Weapon.
- Elemental (Water): Imbue 1 – Rigid Armor, Stealthy Attack,
Subtle Defense, Underwater Strike, Imbue 2 – Fatiguing Strike. Imbue 3 –
Binding Shot, Chilling Strike, Impaling Strike, Restorative Armor.
- Elephant: Animate Vehicle, Armored Vehicle, Crushing Attack, Forceful Blow, Lighten Armor, Ramming Vehicle,
- Hippopotamus: Armored Vehicle, Ramming Vehicle,
- Horse: Agile Operation, Animate Vehicle, Efficient Vehicle, Hardy Vehicle, Hasten Vehicle, Tireless Mount,
- Hummingbird: Agile Operation,
- Marten: Bank Shot, Clinging Vehicle, Impaling Strike,
- Mole: Stealthy Attack, Underground Operation,
- Octopus/Squid: Telescoping Blow.
- Otter: Aquatic Operation,
- Owl: Stealthy Attack,
- Peacock: Deafening Display,
- Porcupine: Vengeful Defense,
- Raven:
- Snake: Drugged Weapon, Envenomed Weapon, Sudden Death, Toxic Strike.
- Songbird:
- Spider: Binding Shot, Envenomed Weapon, Sudden Death, Toxic Strike, Vampiric Weapon,
- Turtle: Armored Vehicle, Dancing Shield, Impenetrable Armor, Widen Shield.
- Wolf: Crippling Blow,
- Unicorn:
Working List (Not every published Imbuement is included and several arent used in the lists above)
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Acid Weapon, Aerial Operation, Agile Operation, All-Terrain
Operation, Alluring Vehicle, Animate Vehicle, Annihilating Weapon, Aquatic
Operation, Arching Shot, Armored Vehicle, Bank Shot, Binding Shot, Blinding
Defense, Blunting Armor, Burning Strike, Chameleon Vehicle, Chilling Strike, Clinging
Vehicle, Conic Blast, Continuing Attack, Corrosive Strike, Crippling Blow, Crushing
Attack, Cutting Strike, Dancing Shield, Dancing Weapon, Dazzling Display, Deafening
Display, Drugged Weapon, Efficient Vehicle, Electric Weapon, Energizing
Defense, Envenomed Weapon, Expand Armor, Far Shot, Fatiguing Strike, Fireproof
Armor, Forceful Blow, Fulminating Strike, Ghostly Weapon, Guided Weapon, Hardy
Vehicle, Hasten Vehicle, Healthful Armor, Homing Weapon, Impaling Strike, Impenetrable
Armor, Incendiary Weapon, Insulated Armor, Lighten Armor, Multi-Shot, Multistrike,
Nullifying Armor (Spirit), Padded Armor, Penetrating Strike, Phantom Hold, Phasing
Vehicle, Piercing Strike, Project Blow, Ramming Vehicle, Reinforce Armor, Reinforce
Weapon, Resilient Armor, Restorative Armor, Returning Weapon, Rigid Armor, Self-Repairing
Vehicle, Shattering Shot, Shockwave, Sovereign
Armor, Spiritual Defense, Stabilizing Shot, Stable Vehicle, Stalwart Vehicle, Stealthy
Attack, Strike of Negation, Stupefying Blow, Subtle Defense, Sudden Death, Superior
Life Support, Supreme Control, Telescoping Blow, Thunderous Defense, Tireless
Mount, Toxic Strike, Transform Vehicle, Traumatic Blow, Underground Operation, Vacuum
Operation, Vampiric Weapon, Vengeful Defense, Widen Shield, Withering Strike
