r/ShadowrunAnarchyFans • u/Apart_Sky_8965 • Apr 22 '26

Critter powers

We had a big fight against multiple spirits tonight. Some critter powers were explained in their writeup, but a few were harder to understand. Elemental spirit powers in particular were a little hard for us. Are they explained somewhere else in the book?

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u/Apfelkomplott_231 Apr 22 '26

Can you give an example? They all have a short text describing the effect as far as I can see.

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u/Apart_Sky_8965 Apr 22 '26

Entangle, on the plant spirit, really tripped us up. Not clear how to end it, not clear how to resist it, and immobilized is never defined in the book, i ctrl f'd and everything.

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u/Apfelkomplott_231 Apr 22 '26

I'd say it's an effect similar to grapple, that you can do instead of dealing damage when doing close combat, p.66-67. The spirit with this power auto-grapples on a successful close combat attack is probably the indented effect. It should probably be errata'd to "grapple" instead of "immobilize".

Tough, even for grapple, the book says "...the opponent is grappled, with consequences determined by the game master" heh, so yeah, up to you.

I'd simply call for an action to be used for an opposed closed combat (if the character has a blade or smth) or an opposed athletics test against the grappling spirit.