Solarian question - using stellar revelations


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Suppose I have a move of 30 feet, the Defy Gravity stellar revelation and the Ray of Light zenith revelation is the following correct?

1. If I'm out-of-combat (or unattuned but in combat) I can use Defy Gravity to fly, provided I make 30 feet "hops" (or 60 feet "hops" after level twelve)

2. If I'm attuned or fully attuned (regardless of which mode) I can fly as above with the hops being 40/80 feet respectively.

3. If I'm fully attuned in photon mode I can use Ray of Light to effectively teleport (400+40/level) feet and at 17th level can take an adjacent person with me.

4. Ray of Light can't ever be used out of combat or if I'm in graviton mode.


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Steve Geddes wrote:

Suppose I have a move of 30 feet, the Defy Gravity stellar revelation and the Ray of Light zenith revelation is the following correct?

1. If I'm out-of-combat (or unattuned but in combat) I can use Defy Gravity to fly, provided I make 30 feet "hops" (or 60 feet "hops" after level twelve)

2. If I'm attuned or fully attuned (regardless of which mode) I can fly as above with the hops being 40/80 feet respectively.

3. If I'm fully attuned in photon mode I can use Ray of Light to effectively teleport (400+40/level) feet and at 17th level can take an adjacent person with me.

4. Ray of Light can't ever be used out of combat or if I'm in graviton mode.

Point 2 depends on which interpretation of "When you are attuned or fully attuned" you go with.

Most people I know assume when they write "When you are attuned or fully attuned" they are referring to the corresponding mode to the power. In this case Graviton mode for Defy Gravity.

The Solarian Iconic for example explicitly calls out Graviton mode for its write up of Dark Matter and Photon Attunement for Plasma Sheath.

Otherwise your points look correct to me.


This is what motivated the question. It seems "obvious" to me that a stellar revelation is more powerful if you're attuned in the appropriate mode than if you're in the opposite mode.

However, one of our group claimed that this wasn't actually spelled out and that the book does explicitly call out when the mode is important (ie in Zenith Revelations, Supernova/Black Hole, etcetera) meaning that we should read it in the broader sense - all your revelations are more powerful if you're in combat, regardless of which mode you choose.


Steve Geddes wrote:

This is what motivated the question. It seems "obvious" to me that a stellar revelation is more powerful if you're attuned in the appropriate mode than if you're in the opposite mode.

However, one of our group claimed that this wasn't actually spelled out and that the book does explicitly call out when the mode is important (ie in Zenith Revelations, Supernova/Black Hole, etcetera) meaning that we should read it in the broader sense - all your revelations are more powerful if you're in combat, regardless of which mode you choose.

To be honest, your group member's reading is how I read it the first time I opened the book. It wasn't until after re-reading and talking to some other people did I come to my current understanding, which I think is what the developers intended (and matches the iconic Solarian phrasing).

Supporting evidence you can point your friend at in the core book is on page 102 under the two mode descriptions:

CRB, page 102 wrote:
Some of your stellar revelations are graviton powers and get stronger if you’re graviton-attuned.
CRB, page 102 wrote:
Some of your stellar revelations are photon powers and get stronger if you’re photon-attuned.

Now consider a revelation like Stellar Rush. The only part that could possibly fill that "get stronger if you're photon-attuned" statement is the "attuned or fully-attuned" section where you deal bull rush and deal fire damage.

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