Cool and Collected #
You can control your emotions and keep your calm without being surprised by some minor thing or other. You also recover more quickly from confusion, agitation, or any other state in which you’ve become emotional and act irrationally. Spells that have an effect on the mind also have a harder time affecting you.
When you use Cool and Collected to control your emotions and quell your agitation, the standard score is your psyche or intelligence + a secondary ability score decided by the GM + your adventurer level or dragon priest level, to which you then add the bonus from Cool and Collected. When using psyche, this check is called a psyche resistance check (a type of resistance check) (p. 144), and when using intelligence, this check is called a intelligence resistance check (a type of resistance check) (p. 144).
Effects of Cool and Collected #
| Mastery Grade | Effect |
|---|---|
| Beginner | Gain a +1 bonus to psyche resistance checks and intelligence resistance checks. |
| Intermediate | Gain a +2 bonus to psyche resistance checks and intelligence resistance checks. In addition, gain a +1 bonus to spell resistance checks against spells with mental attributes. |
| Expert | Gain a +4 bonus to psyche resistance checks and intelligence resistance checks. In addition, gain a +2 bonus to spell resistance checks against spells with mental attributes. |