Fighting spirits

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Spirits are hard to fight because, by default, they lack a physical form. Most mundane attacks have no effect and pass right through them. And yet the most dangerous spirits can still attack physical creatures, even without manifesting!

Some spirits (like ghosts) are vulnerable to certain materials. The PCs might also acquire items (like the Twisted Spear) or moves (like the Lightbearer's Purifying Flames) that can directly harm spirits. A spirit reduced to 0 HP this way is destroyed or at least dispersed for the time being.

Many spirits can manifest or possess a physical form. The PCs can hurt such a form, but reducing its HP to 0 simply destroys the form and/or forces the spirit back into its intangible state.

You might find it useful to track a spirit's "manifest" HP separately from its "true" HP. If the PCs attack a manifest spirit with something that could harm its true form, those attacks damage both sets of HP.

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Fighting spirits

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