Power Cipher

Cipher, varies

A power cipher is an item that contains the machinations of a single power, imbued by the Force or built of technology. If your class is able to learn this power, you can activate the cipher and cast its power. Otherwise, the cipher is unusable. Casting the power by activating the cipher requires the power’s normal casting time.

If your class is able to learn the power but at a higher level than you can normally cast, you must make an ability check using your powercasting ability to determine whether you cast it successfully. The DC equals 10 + the power's level. On a failed check, the cipher is rendered permanently unusable with no other effect.

Once the power is cast, it is spent from the cipher, and the cipher itself disintegrates.

The level of the power in the cipher determines the power's saving throw DC and attack bonus, as well as the cipher's rarity, as shown in the Power Cipher table.

Power Cipher

A cipher can take many forms. For a tech power such as explosion, a tech cipher containing it could be a simple grenade, or a small, one-use rocket launcher. Just as there are many ways to describe the form a tech power takes, there are just as many ways to describe their ciphers. A force cipher is likely more complicated to describe, but some options include it being an ancient scroll, a strange holocron, a Sith amulet, a brittle kyber crystal (unsuited for a lightsaber) that releases a stored power when crushed, and so on.