All Schticks (Action)

A list of all the schticks of action. This does not include powers.

Inherent

Any four gimmicks from one specific subtype of gimmicks (Alchemic Items, Gadgets, or Gizmos). Every item must be selected when you take the schtick. Your Stock of each gimmick lasts for one scene. The GM may allow substitutions, generally at the start of a session. See Acquiring Gizmos by Xp

Jack of Trades

Inherent

When using a Stunt or using the perception element of a skill, you have a minimum skill value depending on your maximum skill value, see the table. This does not help you when using Powers or Schticks and does not confer contact or knowledge. Jack of Trades and Tag Skill are incompatible schticks, it is only possible to have one of these schticks.

**Jack of All Trades**
Skill Max	11 or lower	12	13	14-15	16	17	18-19	20 or higher
Jack of Trades Skill	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15

You can do an Assist action and also move. You can trigger Mobile Assistance before or after the action you are assisting.

Naming Focus

Focus

You can perform Limit breaks without being focused, but only if you know the individual True Name of all your targets. You can learn the true names of your friends with their cooperation, becoming able to focus power on them but also giving you a potentially devastating weapon against them.

This is a schtick version of the Naming method.

Poetic Justice

Finisher

You do not strive to kill your target when fighting him. You try to save him, perhaps to redeem him, but events conspire to bring him to poetic justice. You cannot use this finisher on a helpless target but only on targets just defeated or when another shctick allows you to use a Finisher on them. Somehow, the target's own actions becomes the reason for their defeat, often in a way that is reminiscent of the crimes they have committed in life. A miser is torn apart by the poor, a poisoner accidentally poisons himself, a strangler suffocates. Despite your best efforts to save them, the target falls victim to this poetic justice. For additional drama, the target has the option to accept your help to escape the situation, but to do so, they must confront and give up the way of life that led them into this situation, which generally involves giving in to your demands. The GM is the final arbiter of what happens to a victim of poetic justice, but they generally die (at least until they reappear in the sequel). Whatever happened, it is clearly not your fault, as you tried not to kill them.

Power Word Focus

Basic Action (Focus)

You can focus by shouting aloud the name of the power you are about to use. You must say what Limit Break you intend to use. You can only use this specific limit break this round. This is a schtick version of the Power Words method.

Rebound

Trigger Action

You have some personal source of power, some action or circumstance that restores you to full vigor. This can be things like making love to a new lover, making a blood sacrifice, succeeding with a heroic rescue, speaking out against evil, taking a drinking binge and so on. It must require roleplaying, and be a challenge to achieve or have some negative consequence. When you successfully activate rebound, you recover all lost Hits and Fortune Points, just as if t was a new play session. All lingering harmful effects that are not Curses end.

Restraint Focus

Focus

You can focus when physically restrained. This involves at least three of the following.

Bound arms prevent physical attacks and most physical manipulation.
Bound legs prevent movement as a part of normal basic actions. On a full move action, you can take a normal move instead of a full move, crawling or rolling over the ground.
Blindfolding restricts your awareness, giving you only a rough estimate of objects and creatures in a diameter equal to your [[Mind (Action)|Mind; you are insensitive to things beyond this range.
Gagging, which prevents mundane speech. Make sure to enforce this strictly.
Leashing, being tied to another person or fixed location by a short leash which prevents movement beyond one or two meters.

Some people are very good at folding paper kites or riding canoes over waterfalls, without having a high rating in the governing skill of Create or Ride. You have a specific and narrow talent, something that would ordinarily be based on a skill or ability you are not less skilled in. When performing in your specialty field, you use your highest Action Value for the task, regardless of your value in the skill normally used. Natural talents must be fairly specific; flying is too broad, but parachuting or hang gliding qualifies. "Maximum skill" in this case cannot be a skill affected by Tag Skill.

Race Schticks

Maneuver Celestial

Endurance Hunter

Inherent or Limit Break

You have trained your endurance to its full potential. Substitute your Maneuver for your Body when using Endurance, Hold Breath and other stamina-related stunts. These uses of Endurance Hunter are all Inherent abilities.

You can use this as a Limit break when pursuing or being pursued to drive your prey past their endurance. Make an opposed Maneuver check. On a success the target suffers one Hit from fatigue. On an outcome matching the target's Move, it suffers 2 Hits.

None Celestial

Hybrid Race

Inherent

Select one Race other than human. You are a hybrid of human and the selected race. The GM might not allow hybrids with all races, check before making your selection. Someone with this feat is often called a half-X, where the X stands for the selected race.

You look like a hybrid between a human and your selected race and might be mistaken for either.
You can purchase the racial schticks of the selected race.
Note which attribute has the highest racial maximum for the selected race; you get to pick one if there is a tie. Your racial maximum for this attribute becomes 11.

Obsession

Inherent

You are obsessed with a specific craft, task or ability. Your obsession is a goal in itself, sometimes to your peril. You spend much time learning every variation and nuisance of this single ability. Obsession is prized in craftsmen and artists, and objects thus made sometimes even display wondrous magical enchantments, as appropriate to their nature.

Chose an area of specialization. This can be a skill, but also an area related to a part of several skills. Examples include gems, gardening, playing the lyre, explosives, rocketry, and so on.

When working in this field, after making a die roll, you can spend a Fortune point and roll 1d6 and add this to your Outcome. This additional die is not open-ended.

Throwback

Inherent

Select one Race Schtick; you learn this schtick. You do not become a halfbreed or otherwise have your looks or physical form changed except as required for the schtick to work.

You cannot take this schtick go learn a schtick you already know a second time, nor can you pick Throwback multiple times.

Know Dwarf

Long Life

Trigger Action (Combo)

You have lived a very long time. For each schtick you take in Long Life, you have lived about about a hundred years more than a typical character. You have great experience and have lived through many things, so whenever you are unsatisfied with a knowledge roll, you may roll again to represent things learnt during your long life. The GM should slant such information based on the time it is from. You can make a number of rerolls equal to your number of Long Life schtick picks.

Long Life has a drawback; you are less energetic and driven, causing you to do less in downtime.

Recon Dwarf

Earth Sense

Inherent

While in contact with the earth, you have a short range tremor sense. You can sense the extent of solid, anchored objects like the ground, floors, and walls within range. This gives you a mental map of the area, including spaces behind walls. You can also sense when anything touching these things moves, tough it is still possible to Sneak, normal obstruction modifiers do not apply. The sense has a range equal to your Mind.

None Dwarf

You look like a hybrid between a human and your selected race and might be mistaken for either.
You can purchase the racial schticks of the selected race.
Note which attribute has the highest racial maximum for the selected race; you get to pick one if there is a tie. Your racial maximum for this attribute becomes 11.

Recon Flan

Sense the Unnatural

Basic Action

You have a sense for the unnatural. You gain premonitions as you approach a creature, thing, or situation that involves Powers. The GM might call for Recon checks to notice this, or you can call for a check as a Basic Action. This does not help you spot a power-user, but helps prevent surprise.

None Flan

Throwback

Inherent

Select one Race Schtick; you learn this schtick. You do not become a halfbreed or otherwise have your looks or physical form changed except as required for the schtick to work.

You cannot take this schtick go learn a schtick you already know a second time, nor can you pick Throwback multiple times.

Charm Hob

Mockery

Trigger Action (Combo)

Use this after you've hit or successfully interacted with someone. The target suffers a -3 penalty on all attacks and interactions directed at a creature that did not use Mockery against him this round.

None Hob

Mystic Form

Inherent

You have an association with a Form of power. Using powers of this form is natural to you. Your use of this power cannot be affected by Metapowers used by others. This means that powers of your Mystic Form can be detected and dispelled based on their Form, but not because they are powers or because of your power origin. You can use powers of this form, even if you lack a power tradition. You never lose these powers as a result of your Methods or Power Loss limitations.

Obsession

Inherent

You are obsessed with a specific craft, task or ability. Your obsession is a goal in itself, sometimes to your peril. You spend much time learning every variation and nuisance of this single ability. Obsession is prized in craftsmen and artists, and objects thus made sometimes even display wondrous magical enchantments, as appropriate to their nature.

Chose an area of specialization. This can be a skill, but also an area related to a part of several skills. Examples include gems, gardening, playing the lyre, explosives, rocketry, and so on.

When working in this field, after making a die roll, you can spend a Fortune point and roll 1d6 and add this to your Outcome. This additional die is not open-ended.

Maneuver Oerdian

Endurance Hunter

Inherent or Limit Break

You have trained your endurance to its full potential. Substitute your Maneuver for your Body when using Endurance, Hold Breath and other stamina-related stunts. These uses of Endurance Hunter are all Inherent abilities.

You can use this as a Limit break when pursuing or being pursued to drive your prey past their endurance. Make an opposed Maneuver check. On a success the target suffers one Hit from fatigue. On an outcome matching the target's Move, it suffers 2 Hits.

None Oerdian

Hybrid Race

Inherent

Select one Race other than human. You are a hybrid of human and the selected race. The GM might not allow hybrids with all races, check before making your selection. Someone with this feat is often called a half-X, where the X stands for the selected race.

You look like a hybrid between a human and your selected race and might be mistaken for either.
You can purchase the racial schticks of the selected race.
Note which attribute has the highest racial maximum for the selected race; you get to pick one if there is a tie. Your racial maximum for this attribute becomes 11.

Push to Glory

Trigger Action (Combo)

Use this when you have spent a Fortune point, after you know the result of the die roll. You can spend another Fortune point and add another d6 to the result of that action. This additional die is not open-ended.

Throwback

Inherent

Select one Race Schtick; you learn this schtick. You do not become a halfbreed or otherwise have your looks or physical form changed except as required for the schtick to work.

You cannot take this schtick go learn a schtick you already know a second time, nor can you pick Throwback multiple times.

Body Ogre

Might

Limit Break

You can perform prodigious feats of strength. Add 5 to your Body for a single task, such as a single attack or a mighty feat like lifting or breaking something. You can take a Basic Action as a part of this Limit Break, and the benefits apply only to that single Basic Action.

None Ogre

Rage

Focus

When you take a Hit, you can focus.

Melee Ogre

Slap

Basic Action

Make a Melee attack with a damage value of Body +4. A creature taking damage from this loses a shot from its shot counter and is thrown one meter per Hit inflicted.

Maneuver Olman

Endurance Hunter

Inherent or Limit Break

You have trained your endurance to its full potential. Substitute your Maneuver for your Body when using Endurance, Hold Breath and other stamina-related stunts. These uses of Endurance Hunter are all Inherent abilities.

You can use this as a Limit break when pursuing or being pursued to drive your prey past their endurance. Make an opposed Maneuver check. On a success the target suffers one Hit from fatigue. On an outcome matching the target's Move, it suffers 2 Hits.

None Olman

Dramatic Moment

Trigger Action (Combo)

Use this when you take an action, before you roll the dice. The result is an automatic Boxcars, making the result very good or very bad. Note that boxcars overrides a Condifent or Stymied roll.

Hybrid Race

Inherent

Select one Race other than human. You are a hybrid of human and the selected race. The GM might not allow hybrids with all races, check before making your selection. Someone with this feat is often called a half-X, where the X stands for the selected race.

You look like a hybrid between a human and your selected race and might be mistaken for either.
You can purchase the racial schticks of the selected race.
Note which attribute has the highest racial maximum for the selected race; you get to pick one if there is a tie. Your racial maximum for this attribute becomes 11.

Throwback

Inherent

Select one Race Schtick; you learn this schtick. You do not become a halfbreed or otherwise have your looks or physical form changed except as required for the schtick to work.

You cannot take this schtick go learn a schtick you already know a second time, nor can you pick Throwback multiple times.

Recon Ork

Howl

Stance

You can use hoots and howls as a means of echolocation. When you use Howl, you do a Scan using Impress. For the rest of the scene you gain a general awareness of the area you are in out to a hundred meters. You can perceive as well as normal sight at a range out to your Mind in meters, but you cannot distinguish color or shade, only shape and texture. While others can hear your howls, they are indistinct and do not tell them where you are, only that someone is howling in the area.

Body Ork

Might

Limit Break

You can perform prodigious feats of strength. Add 5 to your Body for a single task, such as a single attack or a mighty feat like lifting or breaking something. You can take a Basic Action as a part of this Limit Break, and the benefits apply only to that single Basic Action.

None Ork

Rage

Focus

When you take a Hit, you can focus.

Maneuver Rhenne

Endurance Hunter

Inherent or Limit Break

You have trained your endurance to its full potential. Substitute your Maneuver for your Body when using Endurance, Hold Breath and other stamina-related stunts. These uses of Endurance Hunter are all Inherent abilities.

You can use this as a Limit break when pursuing or being pursued to drive your prey past their endurance. Make an opposed Maneuver check. On a success the target suffers one Hit from fatigue. On an outcome matching the target's Move, it suffers 2 Hits.

None Rhenne

Evil Eye

Trigger Action

When you see another creature within Mind meters succeed on an action, you can spend a Fortune point to force them to reroll. This is a Stymied roll.

Hybrid Race

Inherent

Select one Race other than human. You are a hybrid of human and the selected race. The GM might not allow hybrids with all races, check before making your selection. Someone with this feat is often called a half-X, where the X stands for the selected race.

You look like a hybrid between a human and your selected race and might be mistaken for either.
You can purchase the racial schticks of the selected race.
Note which attribute has the highest racial maximum for the selected race; you get to pick one if there is a tie. Your racial maximum for this attribute becomes 11.

Throwback

Inherent

Select one Race Schtick; you learn this schtick. You do not become a halfbreed or otherwise have your looks or physical form changed except as required for the schtick to work.

You cannot take this schtick go learn a schtick you already know a second time, nor can you pick Throwback multiple times.

Body Saurian

Amphibian

Inherent

You are an amphibian, able to move unhindered both on land, in water, and in muddy and marsh conditions such as swamps and bogs. You breathe air, but can hold your breath for ten times your Body in minutes.

Maneuver Saurian

Camouflage

Inherent

You have long lived in harmony with your home terrain, and learned it's way. Your skin is colored to fit the environment. You must choose a home terrain to take this schtick. Typical examples are forest, desert, savanna, or mountains.

While in your home terrain you are able to sneak even without cover. If you take up a hidden position on home terrain before enemies come into view and remain completely still, enemies need an outcome equal to your Reflexes in order to spot you when using Scan, even when right next to you.

Melee Saurian

Tail Might

Trigger Action

You have a powerful tail that can be used as a natural weapon. You can make an attack with your tail when a creature moves into a flanking position or tries to use a Maneuver stunt against you.

Make a Melee attack for Body +2 Blunt damage. If the target takes a Hit he is unbalanced and loses his current action.

Maneuver Suel

Endurance Hunter

Inherent or Limit Break

You have trained your endurance to its full potential. Substitute your Maneuver for your Body when using Endurance, Hold Breath and other stamina-related stunts. These uses of Endurance Hunter are all Inherent abilities.

You can use this as a Limit break when pursuing or being pursued to drive your prey past their endurance. Make an opposed Maneuver check. On a success the target suffers one Hit from fatigue. On an outcome matching the target's Move, it suffers 2 Hits.

None Suel

Hybrid Race

Inherent

Select one Race other than human. You are a hybrid of human and the selected race. The GM might not allow hybrids with all races, check before making your selection. Someone with this feat is often called a half-X, where the X stands for the selected race.

You look like a hybrid between a human and your selected race and might be mistaken for either.
You can purchase the racial schticks of the selected race.
Note which attribute has the highest racial maximum for the selected race; you get to pick one if there is a tie. Your racial maximum for this attribute becomes 11.

Pride of Race

Trigger Action

When you suffer a Setback you can use this schtick and spend a Fortune point to reduce the setback to an ordinary success. Any other result of the action that caused the setback remains; only the setback itself is canceled.

Throwback

Inherent

Select one Race Schtick; you learn this schtick. You do not become a halfbreed or otherwise have your looks or physical form changed except as required for the schtick to work.

You cannot take this schtick go learn a schtick you already know a second time, nor can you pick Throwback multiple times.

Maneuver Tuov

Endurance Hunter

Inherent or Limit Break

You have trained your endurance to its full potential. Substitute your Maneuver for your Body when using Endurance, Hold Breath and other stamina-related stunts. These uses of Endurance Hunter are all Inherent abilities.

You can use this as a Limit break when pursuing or being pursued to drive your prey past their endurance. Make an opposed Maneuver check. On a success the target suffers one Hit from fatigue. On an outcome matching the target's Move, it suffers 2 Hits.

None Tuov

Great Hunter

Trigger Action (Combo)

You can move your Move meters Before each Basic Action you take. This allows you to move-move-act or move-act-move.

You cannot use Great Hunter if the basic Action is one that in itself allows additional movement or when attacking with a Static weapon.

Hybrid Race

Inherent

Select one Race other than human. You are a hybrid of human and the selected race. The GM might not allow hybrids with all races, check before making your selection. Someone with this feat is often called a half-X, where the X stands for the selected race.

You look like a hybrid between a human and your selected race and might be mistaken for either.
You can purchase the racial schticks of the selected race.
Note which attribute has the highest racial maximum for the selected race; you get to pick one if there is a tie. Your racial maximum for this attribute becomes 11.

Throwback

Inherent

Select one Race Schtick; you learn this schtick. You do not become a halfbreed or otherwise have your looks or physical form changed except as required for the schtick to work.

You cannot take this schtick go learn a schtick you already know a second time, nor can you pick Throwback multiple times.

Maneuver Cat

Grace

Basic Action

Grace is a variant of Sneak where you become supernaturally light and can move in places where you normally could not. You do not actually need to Sneak in order to use Grace, but you still move only at normal pace and cannot take other actions. You can walk along any surface, even one that could not carry your weight, a distance equal to your Move. You are not deterred by vertical surfaces, narrow ledges, slack ropes and can even walk along a thin thread, spider web, or on soft snow. You still need to use Free Running, but ignore difficulties based on the narrowness of your path, the weight your path can support, and the inclination of the surface. You cannot walk on inverted or liquid surfaces. This can be used to make you hard to spot because you are in positions where nobody would think to look for you, so you are assumed to have concealment enough to Sneak as long as you can stay above your prey or otherwise in a blind spot they would not normally look. After this action, you can stand still in a position that could not normally support you for the rest of the round, but must use Grace again if you wish to continue moving in such terrain.

Melee Cat

Play

Trigger Action (Combo)

You can mix social and physical interactions. When you succeed on a Charm, Impress, or Melee roll against a single creature you are adjacent to, you can use this schtick to immediately make an opposed roll using another of these three skills: an opposed Charm or Impress roll or Melee roll against Dodge. If you succeed the target loses 3 shots.

Pounce

Basic Action

Make a great leap of up to your Move in meters with an optional Normal Melee Attack at the end. This is in addition to the normal movement for a Basic Action, but you cannot move after the leap.

Recon Briaur

Starsight

Stance

You can see outdoors at night as well as a human does during the day in the same kind of weather but you do not see color in the dark. You see no better indoors.

Maneuver Briaur

Sure Footed

Inherent

The sure-footed are not troubled by uneven ground, cliffs, rock or steep slopes. Maneuver checks to move in terrain are routine.

Move Briaur

Twin Body

Inherent

You have developed an independent ability to act between your upper and lower body, which allows you to move your Move meters before or after each Basic Action you take. This allows you to move-move-act, act-move-move, or move-act-move. You cannot use Twin Body if the basic Action is one that in itself allows additional movement or when attacking with a Static weapon.

Move Centaur

Killing Pace

Basic Action

Move three times your Move. In a long-distance chase or march you gain +1 Move, but if you maintain this pace a number of minutes equal to your Body, you take one Hit. If this is your last hit, you take a Damage Setback.

Twin Body

Inherent

You have developed an independent ability to act between your upper and lower body, which allows you to move your Move meters before or after each Basic Action you take. This allows you to move-move-act, act-move-move, or move-act-move. You cannot use Twin Body if the basic Action is one that in itself allows additional movement or when attacking with a Static weapon.

Body Centaur

Beast of Burden

Inherent

You are able to carry and pull great weights for extended periods of time. Increase your Body by +3 when calculating Encumbrance.

Move Gnoll

Killing Pace

Basic Action

Move three times your Move. In a long-distance chase or march you gain +1 Move, but if you maintain this pace a number of minutes equal to your Body, you take one Hit. If this is your last hit, you take a Damage Setback.

Melee Gnoll

Mob

When you take a Hit, you can focus.

Melee Wolfen

Play

Trigger Action (Combo)

You can mix social and physical interactions. When you succeed on a Charm, Impress, or Melee roll against a single creature you are adjacent to, you can use this schtick to immediately make an opposed roll using another of these three skills: an opposed Charm or Impress roll or Melee roll against Dodge. If you succeed the target loses 3 shots.

None Fox

Copycat

Trigger Action

When someone uses a schtick or power within Mind meters of you, you can use this power to temporarily learn that schtick or power. You use it as if it was a schtick even if it is ordinarily a power and can use it until the end of the session or until you use Copycat again.

Mockery

Trigger Action (Combo)

Use this after you've hit or successfully interacted with someone. The target suffers a -3 penalty on all attacks and interactions directed at a creature that did not use Mockery against him this round.

Dodge Fox

Payback

Trigger Action (Defense)

Use this schtick when attacked. You get a +3 bonus to Dodge against that specific attack only. If the triggering attack misses and there is a plausible target near you or in the line of fire, you can redirect the attack. You can redirect a Melee attack back on the attacker but must otherwise choose a third party as your target. Make a Dodge roll (without the +3 bonus) and treat the result as an attack on your chose target, redirecting the original attack. Damage and effect remains the same.

None Mouse

Copycat

Trigger Action

When someone uses a schtick or power within Mind meters of you, you can use this power to temporarily learn that schtick or power. You use it as if it was a schtick even if it is ordinarily a power and can use it until the end of the session or until you use Copycat again.

Dodge Mouse

Down the Hole

Trigger Action (Defense)

Use this when you are either attacked or someone tries to Scan to find you. You gain a +3 bonus to your defensive Dodge and Recon for the current shot.

Scurry

Trigger Action (Defense)

When you are attacked, you can take a move and get a +3 bonus to Dodge. If you manage to move out of an area effect in this way, you are safe, but you cannot avoid single-target effects this way. If you are not hit and move into concealment, you can try to Sneak as a part of this action.

Charm Rabbit

Lust

Basic Action

You can come on to someone sexually in a very direct manner without being overtly threatening or rude. Those you use this on are overtaken by lust and lost in the moment, but might wonder at their own behavior later.

You can use Seduction as a basic action. If you fail a roll, the target gathers his wits. This can make further seduction impossible and might put you in a awkward situation.

Melee Rabbit

Pounce

Basic Action

Make a great leap of up to your Move in meters with an optional Normal Melee Attack at the end. This is in addition to the normal movement for a Basic Action, but you cannot move after the leap.

Dodge Rabbit

Scurry

Trigger Action (Defense)

When you are attacked, you can take a move and get a +3 bonus to Dodge. If you manage to move out of an area effect in this way, you are safe, but you cannot avoid single-target effects this way. If you are not hit and move into concealment, you can try to Sneak as a part of this action.

None Dog

Alertness

Inherent

You are never surprised by creatures. Traps can still get the drop on you, but you can always act in a surprise round when hostile creatures are involved.

Impress Dog

Loyalty

Trigger Action (Focus)

When an ally within Impress meters or suffers a Setback, you can focus.

Melee Dog

Play

Trigger Action (Combo)

You can mix social and physical interactions. When you succeed on a Charm, Impress, or Melee roll against a single creature you are adjacent to, you can use this schtick to immediately make an opposed roll using another of these three skills: an opposed Charm or Impress roll or Melee roll against Dodge. If you succeed the target loses 3 shots.

Item Schticks

Dedicated Item

A item is especially effective against a certain kind of enemy. Often a "slaying" weapon or "warded" armor, but a dedicated item can potentially aid other values at the GMs discretion. Against the specified kind, the wielder adds +2 to damage or soak value. This is an increase to the items base value. It does not stack with the Enhanced item bonus, but does stack with effects that add additional damage. The targets chosen must be rather rare, such as a specific species. The dominant species of the setting (usually humans) is too broad and you must select a subcategory.

Enhanced Item

The item has been enhanced, which gives +1 to the damage of weapons or the protection value of armors. It can be applied to other gear only with the GMs permission and a similar benefit must be agreed upon. Enhanced Items cannot give a bonus to skill values. The enhancement can be based on some skill, special material, superlative manufacture, or most commonly, a power.

Focus Storage

Inherent

You can store the energy of being Focused and can be used once per session. This has no effect outside action scenes, but in action you can use a Limit Break without first Focusing. A variant of this stores the focus for one particular Limit Break and can only be used with that power/stunt/schtick. This allows that Limit Break to be used outside of combat without spending extra time on it. You can take this item schtick several times, with cumulative benefits.

Gimmick

Choose a Power that is a Limit Break when you take this schtick. You can use this power without being focused. However, it can only be used once and it then expended. You can replace the gimmick or recover the points invested in it, but this is easily done only at the end of the story - replacing it in play takes some effort. You can take this item schtick several times, gaining additional uses.

Intelligent

The item has an intelligence and can activate powers on its own, but unless it is also Sentient it lacks a personality and motivation. Each round, it has 3 shots of its own that it can use to activate its own powers on the user's command. This is not a true initiative roll and does not determine when the item acts; the item can expend shots whenever the owner's shot comes up. It uses its owner's skills and attributes when using its powers. An item is often both Intelligent and Sentient.

Luck Charm

The item holds a Fortune point, that you can use once per Story. You can take this item schtick several times, gaining additional uses.

Power Focus

Select one Power when you make the item; you can use this power while holding the item. This is generally a power related to the function of the item; a melee weapon focuses Melee Powers and so on. You cannot select an Inherent power, but in some cases your GM might allow you to take what is normally an Inherent power as a Stance. A power focus can be used any number of times. You can take this item schtick several times, selecting a different power each time.

Restricted Item

There are restrictions on who can use the item, that makes it hard to use when stolen. Restrictions are generally to a narrow group; the royal family, amazons of Kilkarach, the captain of the royal guard. A variant is an item that must be bestowed or gifted on a new owner to work for that owner. This is a cost because it increases the security of the item; it becomes harder to use the item against you if it is stolen.

Returning Item

A quiet but secure giant, you ignore the antics of smaller creatures. Your huge mass is hard to move or unbalance.

You can use your Body instead of Maneuver as a defense against Interaction Stunts.
You can substitute your Body for your Impress when defending against Interaction Stunts.
You can use Body instead of Reflexes to resist interaction stunts and concussion damage from attacks. You still take damage normally from accidents and falls.
You can use Body instead of Know to resist Analyze Weakness
You are immune to Flank Attack and similar abilities that grant an advantage based on position.

Superstrength

Inherent

You can freely exceed the normal Body limit based on your race and weight. You can choose to not take up more Space on the Map. You must decide how large you are in advance, Superstrength does not allow you to change your mass at will. You still suffer from physical limitations on weapons, armor, and tools. This schtick is considered a Power even tough it lacks a Form. To take it, you have to have a Tradition, and if the Methods of your tradition or a Power Loss Limitation makes you lose your powers, your attribute is reduced to the normal maximum value until your powers return. Note that this is mainly a problem for Folk - other creatures do not have ability maximums. Such creatures are still limited by Mass.

Super Leverage

Inherent

Your strength does not need leverage to work; in true superhero fashion you do not need to be solidly anchored to exert strength, and you can lift impossibly large objects that would ordinarily break if their entire weight was carried by one person. You still suffer from physical limitations on weapons, armor, and tools, but you can use oversized gear sized for your actual Body. This schtick is considered a Power even tough it lacks a Form. To take it, you have to have a Tradition, and if the Methods of your tradition or a Power Loss Limitation makes you lose your powers, your attribute is reduced to the normal maximum value until your powers return.

Mind Schticks

Emergency Power

Limit Break

You can overcome Power Loss. You can immediately (as a part of the Limit Break) do one of these things:

Use a power that is a basic action.
Activate one Stance power and then take a Basic Action that is not itself a power, but that benefits from the stance you just adopted.

Genius

Inherent

You are a mental giant among your kin and have an aura of wisdom and power about you. Your Mind can be up to two points higher than the normal racial maximum.

Implemented Will

Inherent

You can use any power that could normally use an Implement bare-handed for Mind +4 damage.

Super Genius

Inherent

You can freely exceed the normal Mind limit based on your race. This schtick is considered a Power even tough it lacks a Form. To take it, you have to have a Tradition, and if the Methods of your tradition or a Power Loss Limitation makes you lose your powers, your attribute is reduced to the normal maximum value until your powers return. Note that this is mainly a problem for Folk - other creatures do not have ability maximums.

Will to Work

Inherent

You can work much longer hours than normal people, adding your Mind to your effective Body for Endurance. This often means you lead a double life, having a full professional career and an adventuring life on the side.

Reflexes Schticks

Act Now

Trigger Action

Fainting Flower does not help against truly indiscriminate dangers such as a bomb or rockfall, tough it does help against normal area attacks. Nor can you use this schtick to defend against attempts to capture, carry away, or otherwise take possession of you; in fact you are helpless against such attacks; your Dodge is zero against them for the remainder of the round. You cannot use this to escape confinement or whatever nefarious death-traps you might be placed in while in a swoon.

Gambler

Basic Action

You have a knack for gambling. Cinematic gambling has little to do with real-world gambling, and is not about calculating odds and folding at the right time; it is all about absurd luck. This schtick gives you the ability to draw just the right card to fill out your glorious hand or to give your race horse that little extra burst of speed. You can take a Basic Action to learn the difficulty of a certain proposed task. You make Confident Rolls when gambling. Whenever you have a bet hanging on an event you can make a Charm check and substitute the result for whatever skill check would normally determine success. You don't need to be the one performing this action, this is an aspect of your luck.

Help From My Friends

Focus

When surrounded by friends, championing their cause, you gain confidence. When within Charm meters of 8 or more people that support your actions, wish you well, and generally are on your side, you can focus.

Honest Joe

Finisher or Basic Action

You have a way with people, and inspire trust and confidence without really trying to. Any basically good and law-abiding people gladly give you a hand, though there must be a reason if they are to accept discomfort or danger to help you. This lets you charm people without really trying to, and tends to make you a leaders of mobs and posses. You may come into conflict with official authority figures. Sometimes, you can even inspire this trust in goons and villains, but usually only after you have soundly trounced them.

You can make a roll to find Common Ground when you defeat an opponent [Finisher], when you rescue someone from danger, and upon first meeting good-natured, law-abiding people [Basic Actions]. The common ground you find revolves around being decent to people; an enemy will at least consider a decent life if you succeed on this.

Infiltrator

Limit Break

You can convincingly pass yourself off as a nondescript follower. To use this ability, you temporarily stop playing. Your character is presumed to have donned a disguise and gone "off camera". At any subsequent point during play you may choose any nameless, filler character (a villain’s minion, a bellboy in the hotel, the cop who just pulled you over) in a scene and reveal that that character is actually you in disguise. Make an opposed Charm roll against the most skilled opponent on the scene. If this roll succeeds, you get to pick an NPC minion who is really you in disguise. If the roll fails, the opposition chooses who you are replacing, which can often put you in a dangerous position.

You may remain in disguise for as long as you like, but if anyone is tipped off that you might be nearby, an opposed Charm roll can be performed as a Limit Break. If the spotter wins, that player (or GM) gets to decide what nameless character on the scene you infiltrated as - and generally does so when you are alone and vulnerable.

Influential Friend

Sleight of Hand

Basic Action

Your training gives yous several advantages when trying to use Palm Object.

In any situation where you can use Palm Object, the Charm check is routine. You can swipe an object that is larger than your hand, is in use, or that is closely supervised, but then the check is not Routine.

Spin Yarn

Basic Action

By continually speaking, you may keep your audience captive with outrageous tales, distracting them. You can keep this up beyond all reason. You must first engage the victim in conversation, and then make an opposed Charm roll. You can target several people at once with no penalties, but use the highest value in the audience for a difficulty.

For each point of outcome, you keep going for a minute. You can then try again. If the outcome exceeds your victims' Mind, they give you some boon, either out of sympathy or in an effort to get away.

Failing the roll, combat, an alarm, and even a person coming to interrupt will break your hold on people. If the situation is not dire, you can use your Spin Yarn on someone who comes to interrupt to add them to your audience.

Star Stuff

Basic Action & Inherent

You are an expressive performer who can enthrall an audience and inspire a great range of emotion. You are famous in your field, and can easily get into social events or arrange performances. You can take a Basic Action to set the mood for a scene among people who are listening to you. This effect are obvious in the extreme. Interaction rolls that go along with the emotion you set become Routine. This can be done anywhere, tough it is easier and the affected area is larger when you are on stage due to the first ability of this schtick. You can also use a Basic Action to familiarize yourself with any kind of Performance Art to the point where you can perform it on stage.

When on stage performing, you are supremely confident. Any Charm rolls you make while on stage are Confident Rolls. This is an inherent effect.

Steal the Story

Trigger Action

While another individual attempts to give an account of an event or use Charm as a basic action or limit break, you can make an opposed Charm check to deftly interject comments or statements over the course of the storytelling that cause the individual to muddle specific details. This will discredit, insult, and humiliate the speaker. If the check succeeds, the speaker does not succeed at informing listeners about what she was trying to say and the attitude of anyone who heard the altered story becomes suspicious. If your Charm check fails the target realizes that you made deliberate attempts to confuse the story.

The Kiss

Basic Action, Focus

You dramatically kiss someone adjacent to you. This is a romantic kiss, not an inconspicuous peck on the cheek. The kissed creature then has the option to reciprocate your kiss - in which case you both become focused. Otherwise this has no effect.

Create Schticks

Alchemist

Inherent

You have mastered the esoteric art of Alchemy. Any Create check you do in relation to Alchemy is Confident.

Architect

Inherent

Stylist

Limit Break

You have knowledge of fashions of your time and understanding of what can be worn when and to provoke which reaction. This lets you make a dress and toilette for every occasion, and also gives you the savvy to dress oddly without causing a scandal. You have the presence and fame to create fashion trends. You are notorious in fashionable circles. This most commonly applies to dress and toilette, but it can apply to art, architecture, cuisine and other cultural traits as well.

You can take a Limit Break to dress up or spruce up an outfit to gain one of the following effects. The difficulty of the check is the target's Charm. A proper styling studio makes this check Routine.

Mood You temporarily allows subjects to use Dodge instead of either Charm or Impress, changing the impression they have on others. Only the values used for skill rolls change; the subject still uses his normal values as defense. This lasts for a couple of hours or until the target chooses to end the effect.

Occasion A makeup created for a specific social situation makes that situation Routine. This can be dressing up for a date, TV interview, board meeting or other specific social situation, generally no more than a scene in length. This only applies to the situation as it was expected to develop; if the interview turns into a hostage drama this bonus no longer applies.

Role Anyone attempting to use a disguise you helped create treat Charm rolls to maintain the role as Routine, and can impersonate specific persons and other races or genders without wearing bulky clothes.

Trapfinder

Trigger Action

Whenever you or a team member within Reflexes meters of you are about to trigger a trap, you can use this as if it was Examine to find that trap and cancel the action that would have triggered the trap.

Weapon Mods

Limit break

You fiddle with weapons, coaxing new abilities out of them. Choose one of the following weapon abilities when you use this schtick. You can pick this schtick several times to apply multiple benefits with each application. It is a Limit Break and requires a Create check against the damage the weapon does in your hands to apply the modification and the benefit lasts until the end of the session. Some mods have prerequisites, that can be satisfied either in the weapon itself, or because you have installed a Weapon Mod for that ability.

Common Mods Can be applied to any weapon.

Dual Damage and a +2 damage bonus.
Penetrating
Rash and a +2 damage bonus.
Slick
Stun
Change the damage type to another damage type you can convince the GM to allow.

Ranged Mods These can be applied to ranged weapons only

Area
Scatter
Saturation
Increase Range by one category]]

Melee Mods

Disarm
Counter
Entangle
Parry
Returning — Requires Throw.
Stun
Throw — Cannot be used with unarmed/natural attacks.

Limitations As an option, you can instead remove one for the following weapon abilities. You can remove limiting weapon abilities gained from Signature Mods through additional Signature Mods.

Load
Rash
Reload - the weapon instead becomes Slow
Slow
Static
Stowed
Stun
Unreliable

You start each session with a weapon mod of your choice and can use this and any other weapon mods you install until the end of the session. In the hands of others, a modified weapon loses its mods at the end of any scene where they are used.

Basic Action

When you would ordinarily be hit by an attack you can take an active dodge, which increases your Dodge value by +3 for the current shot. You also give the +3 bonus to another when you do the Look Out! stunt. Finally, the difficulty of Analyze Weakness against you is equal to your Dodge at all times.

Signature Armor

Inherent

Select one specific set of armor, like the family ancestral full plate or the titanium flak jacket that saved your life in the Desert War. Your fate is linked to this armor.

Even light Signature Armor gives you some protection. Your Toughness becomes Body +4 if it would normally be less than this.
You can own and operate this armor legally even if it would normally be beyond your means, illegal, or require some special license. People tend to not question your right to take it along; unless the GM makes a montage of how it is taken, the armor stays with you. It can also pop up in the unlikeliest places seemingly on its own.
It is harder to steal or damage this armor. You are Confident on any stunt to hide or interaction check to keep the armor. When others try stunts to disarm or make you lose the armor, they are Stymied. Even if it is stolen, it always crops up later — it is never permanently lost.
The armor is tougher than normal, having a minimum Toughness score equal to your Dodge. Even when seemingly destroyed, the armor can always be repaired.
You become fully proficient with the armor, gaining the effects of Armor Proficiency but only with this specific suit of armor.
Finally, the armor becomes infused with your essence. It is considered a supernatural or magical armor in situations where this matters.

Impress Schticks

Aura

Trigger Action (Defense)

There is something special about you. You are very ugly, majestic, holy, crazed, or otherwise special, and people tend to leave you alone because of it. Perhaps spooky events occur around you, people expect odd tings from you and around you, and will pay no heed to such occurrences unless they cause some kind of direct harm. Use this as a trigger action when someone would bother you; make an opposed Impress roll to make them stay back and desist, losing the action. This works as long as you remain passive (neither attacking nor running away, though using Impress or Charm is OK). Aura only works as long as the situation warrants it; if your goons have been defeated and your Master Plan revealed, you may have to follow the officer escorting you to prison. But he will be polite.

Authority

You have a group of versatile, dedicated, competent, unnamed NPC followers. They are not the best in a fight, but they can perform backup tasks, investigations and the like while you handle the serious threats. They are often supplied by an organization you work for. Construct your experts as a group of Minion Rabble, with 1/2 of your points. Each expert can be different. You can define these beforehand or during play, but you can only call on the services of one expert each scene. If a minion expert is defeated, they or an equivalent replacement are available again for the next story.

Minion Gang

Limit Break

You have a group of dedicated followers, a small group of elite but identical and unnamed NPCs who act as your bodyguards or close assistants. Construct your followers as a group of Minion Rabble with 1/2 of your points. You gain a number of followers equal to your Mind attribute. If they are defeated or lost, you can renew them up to your normal limit at the beginning of each session, tough the GM may not allow this if you are isolated.

Minion Horde

Basic Action

You have a horde of faceless minions, loyal but rather incompetent lackeys that follow your every whim. They follow you when ordered to, and spread out over the neighborhood, making a nuisance of themselves but also ready to come to your aid at a moments notice.

You generally have a number of minions equal to your Mind in play at once. If they are defeated or lost, you can renew them up to your normal limit by using a Basic Action, and they renew themselves at the start of each round in an action scene.

You have a good sense of personal and small unit tactics. You can sense at what shot creatures within Impress meters will act, and you can sense the groups minions and are organized in, who leads who, and creature's typical combat mode and Role. All of these actions are automatic and take no time to use. You cannot read creatures whose Impress is higher than yours.

When the GM has you make a roll to discern enemy tactics or deployments, such rolls are Confident.

Vision

Identifying strange and/or unknown things may require a Know roll, even a poor result will generally give you good clues while a good roll gives odd and disquieting insights into the patient's last hours. If some mastermind is behind the event, this is an opposed Know roll.

Investigator

Limit Break

You are a forensics expert, able to analyze clues and physical remains and create a coherent image of what happened at a scene you are investigating and clues to what kind of people were involved. As more information is added from witnesses and technical reports, you can flesh out your image of what happened. If some mastermind is behind the event, this is an opposed Know roll.

You can put all of this down into reports that other investigators can read and understand, and you can quickly skim such reports to find similar cases which can offer additional insights.

Cosmopolite

Limit Break

You are at home in all cultures, able to understand and adopt to strange manners and customs. Negate any penalties on Charm or Impress rolls related to alien cultures. You know the common languages of your world. Add your Charm to the number of Languages you can learn. You have an amazing ability to piece together bits of other languages, sign language and other means of communication. As a limit Break you can learn to communicate in any one unknown language. At first, this will be at a pidgin level, it takes you a few weeks to become fluent. If you use this ability to learn more Languages than allowed, you need to trim the list down at the end of the Story. You might have to use this schtick again (another Limit Break) to understand arcane subjects, archaic versions, or dialects of the same language.

Logical Detachment

Inherent

You are not easily swayed by emotional arguments. You can use your Know skill in place of both the Charm and Impress skills when defending against stunts; any stunt having one of these skills as a difficulty lets you use Know instead. However, you become sensitive to reasoning and logical arguments; other people can use their Know skill in lieu of the Charm and Impress skills when interacting with you. You can also end up with a knife in your guts if you don't respond appropriately to intimidation; unlike normal interaction skill your learned arguments in no way impress those who fail to sway you. Logical detachment does not work against Spurious Logic.

Loophole

Basic Action

You have a knack for finding the wrinkles and exceptions in formal sets of rules, be it a computer program, the the directive of the metropolitan police, an infernal contract, or a code of honor. Against people and organizations that have a formal code that you know of, you can cause them to hesitate with an opposed Know roll. A successful stunt reduces the opponent's shot counter by three. If the Outcome matches your opponent's Mind they suffer a Setback, often making it impossible for them to achieve their objective honorably.

Material Link

Limit Break

By investigating a place were a creature bled, slept, or performed some significant activity, you can secure a sample of their blood, hair or other tissue sufficient to give you a clue to their True Name (a DNA sample in technological settings), or at least secure an advantage against them.

Make a Know check against their Recon, on a success you gain an Advantage against them that lasts until used or to the end of the session. On an Outcome matching their Reflexes you learn their True Name.

Medic

Basic Action

You can administer medical procedures and generally function as a qualified doctor. You can save lives and help natural recovery. This can be used to do First Aid as a Routine action. You can also substitute the patient's Body with your Know skill, for as long as the patient remains still. This can soak damage and help fight infections, poison, pathogens, and other dangers. You can use this as a prophylactic, but must know what specific problem you are preventing.

Poisoneer

Basic Action/Limit Break

You know and can administer poisons. When applied to a weapon doing Cutting or Piercing damage, a poison does Infection or Neurotoxin Dual Damage.

When used in food or as a contact poison, you must first apply the poison (which might be as stunt on some other skill) and close observers get an opposed Know to discover the poison at the last minute. If the poisoning is successful, you do Infection or Neurotoxin damage equal to your Know.

You can also use this schtick as a Limit Break to design pathogens that affect specific types of creatures, such as insects, mammals, plants, or alien life forms. This requires a blood sample and a Know check against a difficulty depending on your knowledge of these creatures' biology. 12 for everyday creatures, 15 for creatures from an unfamiliar environment like deeps sea or another known planet, and even higher for entirely new forms of life. You need to use this to affect strange creatures at all, and it is also useful to create specific patogens that only affect select targets, for avoiding friendly fire and such.

Popper the Bubble

Basic Action

You can Refute Action as a Basic Action.

Power Domination

Trigger Action

You must use Power Suppression (a Know stunt) on your victim before you can use this schtick. As long as your victim remains power suppressed you can turn on and off his powers at will. This is a Trigger Action you can use anytime, and specifically when he is about to use a power. If you do not change Power Domination his powers remain as they were, either suppressed or not.

Profiling

Limit Break, One attempt per scene

A method of suspect identification which seeks to identify a person's mental, emotional, and personality characteristics. You can analyze the habits and behavioral patterns and find common traits. This lets you construct a profile from very flimsy information; you can make educated guesses about someone's personality, abilities and motivations just by analyzing clues. You do this by analyzing evidence left at a scene where the person you are seeking has been active. You do not need to know who you are looking for, looking instead for the perpetrator of a crime or the instigator of an event.

You can use this once per appearance of the person sough; this is usually one scene in the game. Make a Know roll against the target's highest skill value. On a success, you gain a limited insight about the target; the GM can hand out appropriate clues and people using your profile to investigate the case get a bonus equal to your Insight. You also get a cumulative +3 bonus on later profiling attempts. On an Outcome matching the target's Mind you get a complete profile; if the target is on file you can identify him, and you know his basic personality, skill set, and motivation.

It is possible for the target to interact with you through clues intentionally left for you to find, using normal interaction rules.

Psychology

Finisher

You work with people to modify their mental state; to either cure or create psychological disorders. This requires a cooperative or restrained patient. Such disorders are generally considered Curses, and you can work with any purely mental or behavior-related curse. You can also substitute the patients Mind attribute with your Know skill while under your direct care; this can help against mental trials and assaults.

Sense Lineage

Basic Action and Inherent

You know a lot about lineage and tradition, and you know all the great families. You can use this to roll Know against Charm to tell that persons social standing, family and lineage if it is at all noteworthy. You can only use this once per session against a particular person. A person with Blue Blood is positively radiant to you; you automatically succeed against them. In cases where others try to fool you concerning their lineage or social status, you can use your Know as both the difficulty of the stunt and as your Mind for resisting a Setback.

Speed Reader

Basic Action

You can read at incredible speeds, reading and digesting text much faster than a normal person. You can do Research as a basic action as long as you are checking one particular book.

When doing research in a library, Know rolls are Routine.

Surgeon

Limit Break

You can heal wounds and remove physiological afflictions through surgery. This is powerful in that it can actually remove a physiological Curse. Normally, this requires a complete surgical crew, specialized equipment and so on. In Action, you often have to work under much more primitive circumstances.

After successful surgery, the patient has zero Hits and will need some bed rest, but is cured of physiological ailments. The GM is the final arbiter of whether Surgery can help but is encouraged to be generous; vampirism or a transformation into a mermaid is probably curable, especially in its early stages. Being turned into stone, ghost, or parrot might not be reversible this way, depending on the technology you have access to.

The difficulty of Surgery is the damage value of the attack that caused the damage or the skill value of who or whatever caused the problem. If the surgery is performed with adequate tools and assistance, the roll is Routine, and assistants can also assist.

Torturer

Limit Break

Inflicting pain on others as punishment or to induce cooperation, most commonly to extract information. Torture can be of many kinds, but this schtick is focused on physical torture. The victim must be unable to resist and you must have means of inflicting pain. Each attempt inflicts a [[Hit (Action]|Hit]] on the target. Mage a Know check against the victim's Body + Mind. On a success, the target loses a Fortune point. On an Outcome matching the target's Mind, he loses 2 Fortune points. If the victim has no Fortune remaining, torture is successful and the target cooperates, at least until the end of the scene and potentially longer, as determined by the GM. Extracting information through torture is unreliable, as the victim is likely to say whatever he feels the torturer wants him to say, true or not. For each piece of information make a Mind check against the patient's Body or Mind, on a failure the information is corrupted by your expectations. It is possible to do torture without this schtick, use your Mind instead of Know.

Total Recall

Limit Break

You have perfect recall; years afterwards, you can call up the precise words of a conversation or recall details of a room seen only at a glance. This allows you to analyze as scene from memory as though you were actually present there now. You can retroactively notice things you didn't think of looking for when you were actually there, which in turn might give more information from Know or other skills. The game master can play up a small flashback from the time you learned the information recalled, which will often give some additional insight into your problem or your character's background.

The Limit Break refers to the act of remembering, it is not something you have to do to record the memory in the first place.

Maneuver Schticks

Block

Trigger Action (Defense)

When another creature succeeds at a roll against your Maneuver, you can make an active defense to increase your defensive Maneuver by +3 for the current shot. This bonus also applies when you do an Interference stunt.

Brachiation

Inherent

You can move trough the air as long as there are branches, vines, ropes, curtains, or other accessible handholds for you to use. This is usually the case in dense forests, but occurs in other places as well, such as in construction sites, slaughterhouses, and quaint urban neighborhoods.

Caped Crusader

Stance

Strike a pose while wearing a great billowing cloak. For the rest of the round you can glide using this cape, flying but only horizontally or downwards. The GM may allow you to do stunts to catch updrafts to rise as appropriate to the situation.

Cat Man

Inherent

When you succeed on a Climb check, you are not considered Static. If you fail the Climb you can neither move nor act.

Escape Artist

Basic Action

You have the marvelous ability to contort your limbs and dislocate your bones in order to make efficient Contortions stunts. You use Maneuver instead of Reflexes for such stunts.

Follow Through

Inherent

When you make a successful Maneuver stunt to affect an opponent, add +3 to your Outcome. This works as if you had Advantage which means it stacks with anything else. Outcome is commonly used to determine if you score a Setback.

Formation

Limit Break

Formation is a variant of Swarm and Troop and is a complex and invasive power. It is only available to Folk but not to named characters. Military Formations go out of favor at the Combustion tech level when area weapons become common, but are still used by police and rioters.

A Formation is a group of 10 identical Unnamed Folk acting with cohesion and discipline in a tight formation. Though the members of the Formation are unnamed, the Formation as a whole is usually a Henchman in rank. Assuming Formation is a Limit Break tat even unnamed characters can do and requires no focus. A creature that has both the Troop and Formation schticks can change from Formation to Troop as a Basic Action.

The Formation acts much as a single creature and most normal rules apply with the following exceptions. This represents members of the Formation using Assist to help each other and so stacks with other modifiers.

The space the Formation occupies on the map is twice the space in each dimension occupied by an individual creature.
The Formation's Impress, Melee, and Shoot skills are increased by +3.
Effects that affects only a single creature in the Formation have to be particularly powerful to have effect on the Formation as a whole; Add +3 to the Formation's defense value against such attacks. This adds to the bonuses from § 2.
The Formation cannot take Damage Setbacks from attacks that only affect a single individual; only area attacks can do Damage Setbacks.
Creatures can move away from the Formation and act normally using their own abilities, but each person leaving inflicts a Hit on the Formation.
A Formation is Stymied at Free Running. The GM may require rolls for sudden shifts in direction.

Troop is a variant of Swarm and Formation and is a complex and invasive power. It is only available to Folk and not to named characters.

A Troop is a group of 10 identical Unnamed Folk acting with cohesion and discipline in an open or skirmish formation. Though the members of the Troop are unnamed, the Troop as a whole is usually at least a Henchman in rank. The Troop acts much as a single creature and most normal rules apply. Creatures that move away from the Troop can act normally using their normal abilities, but each person leaving inflicts a Hit on the Troop.

The space the Troop as a whole occupies on the map is three three than the space occupied by an individual creature.
Troops do not fill the space they take up on the map. Creatures be in the space of a Troop, and the Troop can mill around obstacles. This applies as long as the creature or obstacle is about the same size as members of the troop. The troop can pass narrow terrain as if it was a single group member.
The Troop's Dodge (against ranged attacks only), Impress, and Shoot skills are increased by +3. This represents members of the Troop using Assist to help each other.
Things that affects only a single creature in the Troop have to be particularly powerful to have any effect at all on the troop in its entirety; Add +3 to the Formation's defense value against such attacks. This adds to the bonuses from §3.
The Troop cannot take Damage Setbacks from attacks that only affect a single individual; only area attacks can do Damage Setbacks.
Creatures can move away from the Troop and act normally using their own abilities, but each person leaving inflicts a Hit on the Troop.

The normal Troop comprises about 10 individuals, but some Troops are larger. Taking this power several times multiplies the number of creatures in the Troop by 10. This increases space by three additional meters and increases the bonus to Dodge, Impress, and Shoot by +2. If a troop one size smaller (1/10 of the total of men in the troop) leaves such a larger Troop, the parent Troop takes a Hit

Tunnel Rat

Inherent

You are at home in caves, ventilation ducts, and other tight places. You can keep track of direction and distance and move without hesitation. Other people in such situations lose the movement that is part of a normal Basic Action and can only move their normal Move if they dedicate a whole basic action to it.

You automatically pass any Maneuver test to move around in a constricted space, as long as it is wider than your shoulders. Maneuver checks in tighter spaces are routine.

Melee Schticks

All-Out Attack

Basic Action

Make a Melee attack with a +2 bonus. Until your next shot comes up or the end of the round, you cannot take a Trigger Action. You can use All-Out Attack and Rash together.

Blocker

Trigger Action

You can do a Interference stunt using your Melee skill.

Charge

Focus

When your shot comes up and you are not adjacent to any enemy, and you move adjacent to an enemy and make a Melee attack, you can focus.

Clinch

Basic action

When you do a Grab stunt, you gain several advantages.

You gain a +3 defensive bonus against all Dodge and Impress stunts, not just from the person you grabbed.
You can still employ a small or tiny weapon, both when grabbing someone or being grabbed.
You can attack others not involved in your grapple.
When an opponent has a grab on you, and you score an attack on them, you can either can free yourself or grab them.
You can grab a number of creatures at once equal to your number of arms (or similar limbs). Each must be grabbed separately, but you can maintain several grabs at once.

Combat Banter

Trigger Action (Combo)

After you perform a successful Browbeat, Distraction, Scare, or Trick attempt, you can use this to perform a Normal Melee Attack against the same target.

Combat Binding

Basic Action

You are skilled in using ropes or cuffs to restrain an opponent in melee. Make a Melee check against the target's Dodge. On a success the target is partially bound and suffers one of the penalties noted below. On an Outcome matching the target's Reflexes he is more severely bound and suffers three of the conditions, or you can apply one restriction of your choice. Restraints are applied in this order: bound arms, immobilized, bound legs, blindfolding, hogtie. Physical restraint in Action does not completely prevent a hero from action, they impose handicaps to be overcome.

Gagging prevents mundane speech. Stymies all Charm and Impress checks.
Handcuffing is when your hands are tied in front of you, but not so tightly as to make them completely unusable; you can still use one hand effectively, such as using weapons or tools of Small size or smaller.
Hobbling indicates restrained legs, but not fixed to each other. It means you cannot move as part of a normal Basic Action, and can only move your normal move when you do a Full Move action or otherwise do an action that grants extra movement..
Immobilized, stuck to something, alternatively on a short leash which prevents movement beyond one or two meters. If you are stuck to a creature whose Body is greater than yours, you are forced along as it moves, otherwise you are both immobilized unless you two cooperate.
Bound Legs you fall prone and cannot stand unsupported, which prevents and hinders many actions as determined by the situation and stunt description. Your Move is reduced to 1. Swimming and flying creatures are entangled, with similar effects.
Bound Arms prevent most physical manipulation and the use of weapons and implements. You can still use tackles and head butts for (Body +0) damage or a Tiny Ranged Weapon, but limited to Close range.
Blinded restricts your awareness, giving you only a rough estimate of objects and creatures in a diameter equal to your Mind; you are insensitive to things beyond this range. Everyone has enough concealment to Sneak on you, and against creatures beyond your perception range, you have to use Reflexes rather than Recon for defense against Recon stunts.
(or more) Hogtie A hogtied character cannot act physically and can only move one meter as a standard action; no movement is otherwise allowed. This also prevents all Defense actions.

These restraints can be escaped with a Contortions stunt pitting Reflexes against your Melee or destroyed by another person; ropes have a Body of around 12 while metal cuffs have 15 or more. Weapons larger and more unwieldy than a dagger take an attack penalty equal to their damage add when attacking bonds.

You can aim for a specific condition. Threat any roll higher than that condition as that condition. If you are aiming for a specific condition and instead achieve another, you can choose to forgo that effect to get and Advantage that can add a +3 bonus on a later attempt.

Daredevil Stunt

Basic Action

Use your melee weapon (or unarmed attack) to make a Bait, Disarm, Feint, and Wingclip stunt with a +3 bonus. Typical stunts include trips, feints, called shots, disarm, and particularly outrageous and dashing maneuvers such as carving your initials or adjusting your opponent's coiffure in combat. It enables you to do all the fun but somewhat silly things done in pulpy Three Musketeers and pirate movies.

Dauntless Attack

Limit Break

You make a flashy Normal melee Attack that renews your confidence. Hit or miss, you regain 1 Hit. If you damage your opponent you instead regain 3 Hits.

Double Damage Dealing

Trigger Action (Combo)

You can use two one-handed melee weapons together. When using two melee weapons, one in each hand, you can follow up each Melee attack you use to attack with one of these melee weapons with a Normal Melee Attack from your second weapon on the same or a different target within reach.

When armed with a pole weapon without reach, you can make this additional attack with the butt of the weapon, which inflicts Body +3 damage. The simplest example of this is the quarterstaff.

Some prefer special double weapons, that combine two one-handed melee weapons into one, such as the lajatang (a double sword), double mace, mace-spear and so on. These weapons work as if you were wielding these two weapons separately.

Duel

Limit Break

Melee Technique

Inherent

Pick one of the following weapon abilities. Any melee weapon you use, not including natural weapons and unarmed attacks, get these weapon techniques. You can take this schtick several times, selecting different changes each time.

Change the damage type to another damage type you can convince the GM to allow.
Counter
Disarm
Dual Damage and a +2 damage bonus.
Entangle
Parry
Penetrating
Rash and a +2 damage bonus.
Returning — Requires Throw.
Slick
Stun
Throw — Cannot be used with unarmed/natural attacks.

Limitations As an option, you can instead remove one for the following weapon abilities. You can remove limiting weapon abilities gained from Melee Techniques.

Rash
Reload - the weapon instead becomes Slow
Slow
Static
Stowed
Stun
Unreliable

Power Attack

Basic Action

Make a Melee attack that does +2 additional damage.

Rage

Stance

Gain a +2 bonus on Melee and suffer a -2 penalty on Dodge and to Melee used to Guard.

Seven-Sword Strike

Basic Action

Make a Normal Melee Attack against all adjacent enemies. You cannot move as a part of this basic action, nor can you do Trigger Actions until your next shot comes up. See Combination Action for how you can combine this with movement.

Shield Feint

Trigger Action (Combo)

When you are wielding a melee weapon with shield in the name in one hand and another melee weapon that is of a smaller Size than the shield in the other hand, you can use this Combo to improve your attack. Opponents cannot use a Trigger Action (Defense) check against such an attack.

Shield Sacrifice

Trigger Action (Damage)

To use this, you must be using a shield. Add 10 to your Body, Mind, Reflexes, or Toughness to soak one specific attack, after the attack roll and defenses. You cannot benefit from a shield for the rest of the scene. A shield you are using breaks and is destroyed. If the shield has plot immunity, is of superior make, or of a higher tech level than the attacking weapon, you instead drop it.

Signature Melee Weapon

Inherent

Select one specific melee, like the family ancestral sword or the shiv that saved your life in prison. Your fate is linked to this melee weapon.

Even a small signature melee weapon is dangerous in your hands. Increase the weapon's damage by one, to a minimum of Body +4.
You can own and carry this melee weapon even if it would normally be beyond your means, illegal, or require some special license. People tend to not question your right to take it along; unless the GM makes a montage of how it is taken, the melee weapon stays with you. It can also pop up in the unlikeliest places seemingly on its own.
It is harder to steal or disarm you of this weapon. You are Confident on any stunt to hide or interaction check to keep it. When others try stunts to disable or make you lose your item, they are Stymied. Even if it is stolen, it always crops up later — it is never permanently lost.
The melee weapon is tougher than normal, having a minimum Toughness score equal to your Melee. Even when seemingly destroyed, the melee weapon can always be repaired.
Finally, the melee weapon becomes infused with your essence. It is considered a supernatural or magical melee weapon in situations where this matters.

Slayer

Inherent

You are an expert at attacking a particular type of enemy. This is generally a nemesis or ancestral enemy, but might also be focused skill and practice. When you make an attack against such an enemy, the attack roll is Confident. But if you roll snake eyes on such an attack, you suffer a Setback as your zeal backfires.

The kind of targets you can select as favored enemies depend on the campaign and must be approved by the GM. In general, a favored enemy should apply about 10% of all enemies you fight. Ethnicities and organizations work, even clans. Fantasy Races are usually appropriate, except against the dominant race of the setting (usually humans) where only specific ethnicities are applicable. Even more applicable in setting where they exist are different kinds of monsters, such as fairies, dragons, and so on.

Soft Strike

Basic Action

You make an attack when you use an enemy's strength against him. Make a Melee attack against the higher of your target's Dodge or Body, inflicting Concussion Stun damage equal to your Reflexes. Concussion damage is soaked using Reflexes. The target can use Body as Dodge if Body is higher.

Strongman

Inherent

When you make a Strength Push stunt, the Melee roll is Confident.

Takedown Counter

Trigger Action (Combo)

You use the power of an enemy's attack against him. Make a melee attack against a target that just missed you in melee, inflicting Concussion Stun damage equal to your Reflexes. Concussion damage is soaked using Reflexes. If you manage to do any damage, your target loses a shot. If the target moved before attacking you, you can throw him three meters in the direction he was moving before the attack, but then the damage is not stun. The target can use Body as Dodge if Body is higher.

Trample

Trigger Action (Combo)

Inherent

You are a master of the wild. You can trail blaze pathways to cross road less land. You can be a tour guide and help others to avid natural dangers and discomforts. Finding food and shelter is easy for you. You can use the subtle clues of nature to find and avoid natural dangers.

You can predict and avoid natural hazards, like cold, rain, avalanches and so on.
Pathfinding tasks are Routine for you.
Sense of Location stunts are inherent for you; you can make a roll for them whenever you are affected by such a power or effect.

Phat

Inherent

You may not be in the best of shape. Too much drive-in food. But with your car, you dance like a ballerina.

Normally, the effective Reflexes of a driver and his vehicle is the lower of the two Reflex values. You can ignore your own Reflexes when you are behind the wheel, using only the Reflexes of your ride.

Pioneer

Basic Action

You are a master at observing nature and its ways.

You can Track as a part of any movement, even while running.
When you Track the penalty is one per day old the trail is rather than one per hour, as long as there has been no significant precipitation or other manner of trail destruction.
You automatically identify animals, plants, and minerals on sight or from spoor.
You can scrounge medicines and improvise basic gear from nature, using Recon in place of another skill's contact element while in nature.
Make Camp are Routine for you.

Rodeo Riding

Basic Action

You can ride the unwilling, remaining safely on top of them in spite of their bests attempts to throw you. This works against both creatures and vehicles. The target of this maneuver must be considerably larger than you, generally with a Body at least 2 higher than yours. It must also be moving about; this does not work against a stationary object.

Shoot schticks are made for use with ranged weapons. Any mention of particular types of ranged weapons in schtick descriptions, such as guns or bows, is flavor.

Artist's Cross-hairs

Inherent

You are not only an expert shootist, you are an artistic one. You can express moods and convey messages through your shots—generally negative ones. This works with both weapons and image recording devices. You can use Shoot as if it was the Charm or Impress skills, but the effect is not immediate, the result of the shot must be inspected for this to become evident. Besides psychotic slayers, this skill is also highly useful to photographers, Photography stunts are routine to you and the photographs you take can use the Charm and Impress effects above—such Shoot checks are not routine.

Bag Full of Guns

Inherent Weapon

You are carrying way more firearms than sensibly possible. This involves some kind of pack; a violin case, large suitcase, duffer bag, instrument case, bulky trench coat, or a sexy fanny pack are all typical examples.

Any gun you could reasonably have had access too and one of which could fit in the bag is in the bag, even tough it is clearly impossible for them all to fit in there at once. Restricted, futuristic, or military weapons are only in the bag if they make a reasonable part of the story. Weapons not found there in a contemporary civilian setting include flamethrowers, rocket launchers, and lasers.

Both Guns Blazing

Trigger Action (Combo)

When using two ranged weapons, one in each hand, you can follow up each Normal Ranged Attack you use to attack with a ranged weapon with a Normal Ranged Attack from your second weapon on the same or a different target.

Carnival of Carnage

Trigger Action

Whenever an unnamed character is about to make an attack while in your sight, you may use Carnival of Carnage to shoot him.

Clean Shot

Basic Action

You can make clean, damaging shots even with light weapons. If Clean Shot hits and the attack roll was greater than the target's Toughness (or whatever soak attribute is relevant for the attack you are using), it inflicts a Hit. If your damage is more effective than this, use that instead.

Cock

Stance, then Trigger Action

Start this stance by dramatically working the action of a weapon. This produces a dramatic sound, a 'click', 'ka-chak', the sound of a bow being drawn, the warm-up whine of energy weapon or the sizzling runes of a magic spell. You can do this in a surprise round, but not before a fight.

You can now shoot once as a trigger action as a response to any hostile action. Thus, you kind of "save up" an attack for later use. Firing the readied weapon in any manner or for any reason cancels the schtick.

In later rounds you can start this stance again. You cannot restart it in a round in which you used it.

Cool Steel

Basic Action

Draw a cool, fresh gun you have not used in this fight. The weapon can be one you carry or you can pick it up. The next Shoot attack with this weapon this round gets a +3 bonus. You can do other actions in between drawing this weapon and getting the attack bonus, but any firing the weapon ends the bonus.

Dramatic Reload

Bullets	Bonus
1-2	+3
3-6	+2
7+	+1
More	No bonus; can be used to refill your magazines after an earlier Dramatic Reload, but not if you ran out of bullets.

Basic Action

Reload your gun dramatically and deliberately. Depending on how many bullets you reload, you get a bonus to your Shoot attacks until your bullets run out, after which you cannot shoot any more with this weapon until you use this schtick again. All these effects end at the end of the round. You can Reload as a part of a Dramatic Reload, but weapons with the Reload quality can only hold one bullet.

"Bullets" in this case refer to the number of actions you can use to attack, not strictly to individual bullets. Automatic weapons normally fire more than one bullet with each action, but the language of this schtick ignores this.

Eagle Eye

Basic Action

You're particularly adept at firing at armored opponents and hitting the teeny-tiny bits of them that aren't armored. Your Shoot attacks that would normally be soaked by Toughness are instead soaked by Body.

This schtick never works with any kind of area attack, not does it work when attacking objects.

Fast Draw

Inherent

For the first round of any fight, your Initiative is a Closed Confident roll. Your first Basic Action for the round must involve Shoot or you lose 3 shots instead of taking that action.

Fields of Fire

Focus

When you are in combat, but at least 15 meters from the closest enemy, you can focus.

First Salvo

Inherent

Whenever you manage to score surprise, you can perform a Limit Break instead of the normal Basic Action, but the only skill you can use this with is Shoot.

Great Balls of Fire

Limit Break

There is always something in an urban combat scene that is ready to explode. You shot, and it blows up - taking everyone nearby with it. You cause an explosion that attacks everyone in a globe with a diameter equal to your Mind attribute in meters.

Damage is Body +2 impact damage.

Away from a high-tech urban setting, this schtick only works as the GM allows.

Gunnery

Inherent

You can use heavy guns and other artillery with full effect.

People lacking training with such weapons can generally still fire them. They cannot reload or use or take more advanced shots, such as indirect fire. On a snake eyes result the weapon misfires.

Gunsmith

Limit Break

You love to tinker with your guns, selecting ammunition for each target and otherwise using your gear to best effect. This adds +3 to the damage value of your gun against a specific type of target. Examples include unarmored people, people in a particular type of armor, or a particular type of monster. The benefit lasts until you use this schtick again to load a different kind of ammo or the end of the session. This schtick is often used before the action to face an expected enemy.

You are also an expert at making bullets out of unorthodox materials. If you learn what a certain target is vulnerable to, you can quickly make bullets out of that material or using that weakness if you have the materials at hand.

Hail of Bullets

Inherent

You can use fanning, simultaneous multiple arrows on the string, or some other rapid-fire technique to shot a regular weapon as if it was an auto-fire weapon. A ranged weapon in your hands adds +2 damage and gains the Area and Rash abilities.

If you are using a a Reload or Slow weapon, you do not gain the abilities listed above, but can ignore these flaws.

Hold!

Focusing

If you spend a Basic Action Shooting but not moving, you can focus.

Mercykiller

Finisher

You can decide how bad you want to hurt your target, choosing whether to inflict a Mortal Wound, a regular Regular Setback and what kind, or no special effect when you put them down.

Named Bullet

Limit Break

Narrate a brief flashback where you dedicate a specific piece of ammunition against a specific target. You must have known the target at the flashback point. Make an attack against a single target that is a Confident Roll with a +3 bonus to Shoot. Target cannot use Powers to resist this damage.

Piercing Shot

Trigger Action (Combo)

You can over-penetrate and hit two targets with the same shot, attacking a second target along the path of your bullet. Use this any time you inflict damage with a ranged attack. The extra target can stand either in front of or behind your first target. Hitting a target in front as a second target might seem odd, but the main thing is that you were concentrating on someone else and the second target is just a bonus.

Pinning Fire

Trigger Action

When you use Covering Fire the difficulty of your opponent's action is your Shoot +3. You can force a moving target to do a Free Running stunt.

Signature Mods

Inherent

You fiddle with your ranged weapons, coaxing new abilities out of them. Choose one of the following weapon abilities when you take this schtick. You can pick this schtick several times to apply multiple benefits. Any ranged weapon you use that you have had a chance to work on overnight or longer get these weapon techniques. Some have prerequisites, that can be satisfied either in the weapon itself, or because you already have a Signature Mod for that ability.

Area
Dual Damage and a +2 damage bonus.
Penetrating
Rash and a +2 damage bonus.
Saturation - Only works on a weapon with Scatter
Scatter
Stun
Increase Range by one category]]
Change the damage type to another damage type you can convince the GM to allow.

As an option, you can instead remove one for the following weapon abilities. You can remove limiting weapon abilities gained from Signature Mods through additional Signature Mods.

Load
Rash
Reload - the weapon instead becomes Slow
Slow
Static
Stowed
Stun
Unreliable

Signature Gun

Inherent

Select one specific gun, like grandma's shotgun or one you brought home from the war. Your fate is linked to this gun.

Even a light signature gun is dangerous in your hands. Increase the weapon's damage to Body +4 if it is less than this.
You can own and operate this gun legally even if it would normally be beyond your means, illegal, or require some special license. People tend to not question your right to take it along; unless the GM makes a montage of how it is taken, the gun stays with you. It can also pop up in the unlikeliest places seemingly on its own.
It is harder to steal or disarm you of this gun. You are Confident on any stunt to hide or interaction check to keep the weapon. When others try stunts to disable or make you lose your gun, they are Stymied. Even if it is stolen, it always crops up later — it is never permanently lost.
The gun is tougher than normal, having a minimum Toughness score equal to your Shoot. Even when seemingly destroyed, the gun can always be repaired.
Finally, the gun becomes infused with your essence. It is considered a supernatural or magical gun in situations where this matters.

Slow Mo’ Vengeance

Trigger Action

Even as the bullets strike your body, you heedlessly keep going, putting every ounce of power into your gun.

Each time you take a Hit, you can use Slow Mo’ Vengeance to make a normal ranged attack as a Trigger Action.

Sniper

Basic Action

You can make a ranged attack and still Sneak as if you had not attacked, as long as you do not move, remain in cover and are at least 20 meters from all opponents. You ignore all range penalties out to the effective range of the weapon - typically five range increments or more.

Steady Fire

Basic Action

Make a Shoot attack with a +2 bonus. You cannot move as a part of this action. Until your next shot comes up or the end of the round, you cannot take a Trigger Action.

Trick Shot

Basic Action

You are good at hitting small targets and precise locations. Think of this as a kind of limited telekinesis; if a task can be accomplished with a push or knock in the right direction, you can do the task as a gun stunt. Pushing buttons, switching levers, cutting ropes, cutting that trigger wire that disarms the bomb or sending messages by punching them out with bullets in plaster; all are simple tasks for you. Tasks requiring complex manipulation (unscrewing the lid on a barrel) takes you multiple actions and some such actions might be impossible.

You suffer no negative modifiers for stunts that require you to shoot at very small targets; you can shoot a pistol out of the hands of a gunman, or a thrown knife zipping through the air, for example. Whenever the difficulty of the shot is determined by the small size of the target, halve the difficulty.

Like the Environment Interaction stunt, you can combine Trick Shot with other actions, such as an Interaction Stunt, with no additional shot cost. When you use Covering Fire to deflect the attack of a weapon that fires a missile larger than a bullet, such as an arrow or thrown knife, you get to decide where that weapon ricochets to.

Walking Fire

Trigger Action (Combo)

You can "walk" fire from one target to the next, attacking several adjacent targets one after the other.

Pick the closest target within two meters of a target you just fired on and attack the new target with a Normal Ranged Attack. You can continue to use walking fire as long as there are targets. This is an exception to the rule that a trigger action cannot trigger another trigger action. You can do this several times in succession as long as you do not attack any target twice. Walking Fire is prone to friendly fire. If an ally or bystander is adjacent to your target you hit that friend or bystander on a Snakeyes roll, make a confident roll, this becomes the Outcome of an attack against your ally.

Weapon Implement

Inherent

Particularily at high levels of technology, the best tool to focus magic is often a modified firearm.

A Ranged weapon with this ability also works as an Implement. An implement is mainly useful for Shoot powers, but works with other powers that allow the use of Implements. The wielder gains all the weapon's abilities, including damage add, range, and other weapon abilities.


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