Introduction

You can access bonus powers by pressing 'U' (or 'O' in the roguelike keyset). Bonus powers are not mentioned anywhere in the documentation, except briefly in the Documentation/Game commands; thus some players might be unaware that they started with them.

Bonus powers consume mana, much like bought abilities do. The only classes to start with a bonus power are Priests; they start with the "detect curses" power. (This shows up as "C:Z:detect curses" in the lib/edit/p_info.txt file.) Certain races start with bonus powers. Other than that, you obtain bonus powers by 'w'ielding an object that provides them.

Bonus powers are not bought abilities. See Documentation/Bought abilities and Spoilers/Abilities for those. Unlike bought abilities, you cannot buy bonus powers with skill points and you cannot access them from the 'm' menu.

This spoiler is for ToME 2.3.3.

Table of all bonus powers

For example, to breathe fire, your character would need to have the "fire breath" bonus power, reach experience level 20, have 10 mana, and have a CON of at least 18. If you did not have sufficient mana, the power would draw that number from HP instead.

Name	Level	Mana	Fails below
spit acid	9	9	DEX@15
fire breath	20	10	CON@18
hypnotic gaze	12	12	CHR@18
telekinesis	9	9	WIS@14
teleport	7	7	WIS@15
mind blast	5	3	WIS@15
emit radiation	15	15	CON@14
vampiric drain	4	5	CON@9
smell metal	3	2	INT@12
smell monsters	5	4	INT@15
blink	3	3	WIS@12
eat rock	8	12	CON@18
swap position	15	12	DEX@16
shriek	4	4	CON@6
illuminate	3	2	INT@10
detect curses	7	14	WIS@14
berserk	8	8	STR@14
polymorph	18	20	CON@18
Midas touch	10	5	INT@12
grow mold	1	6	CON@14
resist elements	10	12	CON@12
earthquake	12	12	STR@16
eat magic	17	1	WIS@15
weigh magic	6	6	INT@10
sterilise	20	40	CHR@18
panic hit	10	12	DEX@14
dazzle	7	15	CHR@8
spear of darkness	7	10	WIS@9
recall	17	50	INT@16
banish evil	25	25	WIS@18
cold touch	2	2	CON@11
throw object	1	10	STR@6
find secret passages	15	15	DEX@12
detect doors and traps	5	3	WIS@10
create food	15	10	INT@10
remove fear	3	5	WIS@8
set explosive rune	25	35	INT@15
stone to mud	20	10	STR@12
poison dart	12	8	DEX@14
magic missile	2	2	INT@9
grow trees	2	6	CHR@3
cold breath	20	10	CON@18
chaos breath	20	10	CON@18
elemental breath	20	10	CON@18
change the world	1	30	CHR@6
scare monster	4	3	INT@3
restore life	30	30	WIS@18
summon monsters	0	0	none
necromantic powers	0	0	none
Rohan Knight's Powers	0	0	none
Thunderlord's Powers	0	0	none
Death Mold's Powers	0	0	none
Hypnotise Pet	0	0	none
Awaken Hypnotised Pet	0	0	none
Incarnate	0	0	none
magic map	7	10	WIS@15
lay trap	1	1	DEX@1
Merchant abilities	0	0	none
turn pet into companion	2	10	CHR@10
turn into a bear	2	5	CON@5
sense dodge success	0	0	none
turn into a Balrog	35	80	WIS@25

Descriptions

detect curses

Priests start off with this racial power, but they cannot use it until they reach character level 7. This power simply detects all cursed items in inventory, marking them {cursed}.

grow mold

When you eat a Slime Mold, it has a small chance of granting the "grow mold" power. (Message: You feel a sudden affinity for mold.) This power summons up to 8 pet molds.

Use of this ability may be considered cheating by higher-level players and doubly so for symbiants.

This ability sometimes summons pet mimics; if you use the pet command "disallow pickup items" (you might need to "allow pickup items" then "disallow pickup items"), these pet mimics will drop their items. You might use this to scum for items that mimics might carry, such as Potions of Intelligence.

References

powers.c and tables.c, ToME 2.3.3
Zangband Racial Powers Spoiler, very different from ToME

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