Chi Powers

All Chi Abilities have the Chi, -10% Modifier. This is explained as follows: Your power emanates from your life force – a mysterious energy often called chi. To strengthen your chi to the point where you can channel it for superhuman feats, you must engage in exercises and meditation for a few hours each day. This requirement is a -10-point disadvantage (or two -5-point Disadvantages), most often Disciplines of Faith (Monasticism or Mysticism) or a comparable major Vow. Should you neglect this, your power fails you the first time you call upon it under stress. To restore it, you must take 1d days to rebalance your chi. Until you do, you feel ill:

ADD CHI IMBALANCE TABLE

There are also a number of rules that apply to Chi Powers and not to "wild" abilities (those without the Chi Modifier). These can all be found in GURPS Powers:

• Abilities and Exertion (
• Crippled Abilities (p.156)
• Skills for Everyone and Power Techniques (both p.162)

There are a number of chi abilities, known as the Standard Chi Powers, that are considered "common knowledge". Not all styles teach all of them, but students of any style know of them, and it's easy enough to learn them on one's own. In addition, most styles have one or more secret powers. Work with the GM to define these.