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===Disciplines===
A Discipline is a special sort of persistent effect, with its own rules as to action declaration and effect.

If a power is marked as a '''Discipline''', it follows the rules below:

* At the start of your turn, you can select a ''discipline'' you know. Paying the Chi cost puts you in that ''discipline''. This does not take an action.
* You don't have to keep paying the activation cost for a ''discipline'', once you're in that ''discipline'', you stay in it in subsequent turns. 
* Each ''discipline'' has a ''"maintain"'' condition. You must meet this condition at all times while in the ''discipline'' - if you fail to do so the ''discipline'' ends. Note that this maintain condition sometimes has a chi cost which is entirely separate to the activation cost.
* You can only be in one ''discipline'' at a time. If you adopt a new ''discipline'', then the previous one automatically ends.
* Disciplines only ever effect '''Mental Conflict'''. See also ''stances'' and ''postures'', which effect physical and social conflict respectively. You can be in one stance, one posture and one disciplines all at the same time!