Fascination

Available to: Dwarf, Goblin, Hobgoblin.
Fu: X, Shot: 3, Maximum picks: Any

You are fascinated with a specific craft, task or ability. You spend much time learning the every variation and nuisance of this single ability. It is rare but possible to be fascinated with several things, usually related fields like singing and playing the zither.

Your fascination is a goal in itself, sometimes to your peril. Fascination is much more narrow than the usual T3 skills, examples include gem cutting, gardening, playing the lyre and so on. With this particular art, you can get a one-time action modifier equal to the Fu you spend when using Fascination.

This is especially prized in craftsmen and artists, and objects thus made sometimes even display wondrous magical enchantments, as appropriate to their nature.

Fascination does not generally apply to combat or action scenes. The only exception is hatred: you can be obsessed with hatred of a specific type of foe that has wronged you greatly, and can then apply the fascination bonus towards attacks against such opponents. Examples include the common dwarven hatred of orks.

Dwarfs are fascinated by crafts, and are justly famous for their artistry, their usual taciturn natures channeled entirely into a single pursuit.

Goblins may become fascinated with machinery, flight mechanics or pyrotechnics. It brings great esteem, but low life-expectancy. Goblins fascinated with pyrotechnics can make smoke powder.

Hobgoblins see this gift as a way to channel their violent energies into peaceful, harmony-bringing pursuits, though many hobgoblin craftsmen fall for the joys of overspecialization.