SFS Standard Brainsplain [reaction] Feat 5

Source Galaxy Guide pg. 140 Winter 2025
Prerequisites limited telepathy
Trigger You succeed at a check to Recall Knowledge to identify a foe within range of your limited telepathy.
Upon carefully analyzing a creature, you helpfully send it a telepathic lecture regarding its physiological and psychological inadequacies. For inexplicable reasons, doing so tends to aggravate the creature rather than educate it. The creature must attempt a Will save against your class DC. If you critically succeeded at the triggering check to Recall Knowledge, the target takes a –1 status penalty to its Will save. The creature is then temporarily immune for 24 hours.
Critical SuccessYou accidentally overshare, exposing your own foibles. The creature gains a +1 circumstance bonus to its next attack roll against you, as long as that attack is made within 1 minute.
SuccessThe creature is unaffected.
FailureThe creature is stupefied 1 for 1d4 rounds.
Critical FailureThe creature is stupefied 2 for 1 round, after which it is stupefied 1 for 1d4 rounds.

Traits

Contemplative:A creature with this trait is a member of the contemplative ancestry. An ability with this trait can be used or selected only by contemplatives.
Emotion:This effect alters a creature's emotions. Effects with this trait always have the mental trait as well. Creatures with special training or that have mechanical or artificial intelligence are immune to emotion effects.
Linguistic:An effect with this trait depends on language comprehension. A linguistic effect that targets a creature works only if the target understands the language you are using.
Mental:A mental effect can alter the target's mind. It has no effect on an object or a mindless creature.