Editing Ogre:CharacterCodex:Skills:Self-Discipline (section)

==Meditation==
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!Ability
|Charisma
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!Action
|One initiative category slower
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!Armor Penalty
|None
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!Untrained
|No
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!Concentration
|Yes
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'''Description:''' You can focus on your inner energy. This allows you to clear your mind of everything except the task at hand. You can gain a bonus to a skill that asks for Intelligence, Wisdom or Charisma. You need to meditate before doing an action.

'''Check:''' Make a Meditation check against the ranks of the skill you want to improved. If your check is successful, you receive a +2 circumstance bonus to your action.

There are two type of using feats for this skill: Focus and trance. Focusing on a feat is a short action and the effect of the feat will last as long as you can keep a light concentration. Trance gets you into a deeper level and asks for total concentration and you most focus for a standard action before receiving the benefits of the feat.

'''Total Success:''' The bonus is doubled for each rank of total success.

'''Total Failure:''' You receive a penalty to your next action equal to your rank of total failure.

===Feats===

====Alert Mind Focus====
: By using meditation, you can make you mind more alert to its surrounding. You gain a +1 bonus on Wits resistance as long as you focus. 
: '''Specialist:''' You gain a +2 bonus.
: '''Expert:''' You gain a +4 bonus.
: '''Master:''' You gain a +8 bonus.

====Meditation, Improved====
: Your bonus is increased to a +4 circumstance bonus.
: '''Specialist:''' Your bonus is increased to a +8 circumstance bonus.
: '''Expert:''' Your bonus is increased to a +16 circumstance bonus.
: '''Master:''' Your bonus is increased to a +32 circumstance bonus.

====Regenerative Trance====
: You can refocus your energy so your mental ability damage will heal faster. For each 8 hours of meditation, you heal of 1 point of mental ability damage.
: '''Specialist:''' For each 8 hours of meditation, you heal of 2 point of mental ability damage.
: '''Expert:''' For each 8 hours of meditation, you heal of 4 point of mental ability damage.
: '''Master:''' For each 8 hours of meditation, you heal of 8 point of mental ability damage.

====Still Mind Focus====
: By using meditation, you can keep your mind clear of influences and doubt. You gain a +1 bonus on Judgment resistance as long as you focus. 
: '''Specialist:''' You gain a +2 bonus.
: '''Expert:''' You gain a +4 bonus.
: '''Master:''' You gain a +8 bonus.

====Strong Mind Focus====
: By using meditation, you can keep your mind clear of influences and doubt. You gain a +1 bonus on Will resistance as long as you focus. 
: '''Specialist:''' You gain a +2 bonus.
: '''Expert:''' You gain a +4 bonus.
: '''Master:''' You gain a +8 bonus.