Savant (FiD)

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As a savant, you are a master of potions, poisons, and concoctions. With your vast knowledge of chemicals and herbs, you create powerful elixirs that can heal allies, weaken foes, or enhance physical capabilities. You are also a natural philosopher, with practical knowledge of science and mechanics allowing you to make gadgets useful in almost every situation. Whether brewing in a lab or improvising in the field, you always have something potent up your sleeve.

An adaptation of the Leech playbook from Blades in the Dark.

Special Abilities

1. Craftmaster: Select a craft, such as alchemist, blacksmith, cartographer, ingeniator, jeweler, mechanist, stoneworker, tailor, whitesmith, or woodworker. Gain +1d and additional effect with this craft, making your products fine in quality. You earn 1 extra coin when crafting for income during downtime. You can select this ability several times, each time choosing a different specialty.
2. Deep Pockets: Increase your load capacity by two.
3. Fortitude: You may expend your special armor to resist a consequence of fatigue, weakness, or chemical effects, or to push yourself when working with technical skill.
4. Ghost Ward: You know how to Tinker with an area so it is either anathema or enticing to creatures linked to one power (your choice when using this ability). This takes about one minute to affect an area based on your tier (p 221). You can stack several wards of different types.
5. Inventor: When you invent or craft (p 224) Alchemy, Armaments, and Gadgets, take +1d to your roll. You can make new Formula or Design. You begin with one Design or Formula already known.
6. Physicker: You can treat wounds and stabilize the dying. Everyone in your crew (including you) gets +1d to their healing treatment rolls. Take a few minutes to make a Study roll to reduce an injury suffered in the last hour by one level. Limited outcome treats level 1 harm. Standard outcome level 2 harm. Great outcome level 3 harm. Great outcome and a critical roll for level 4 harm. Only one attempt per harm. Consequences usually give complications to patients rather than to you.
7. Prototype: You can spend 1 stress in a flashback to use Tinker to craft an item (p 224), even one you don't have a formula or design plan for. You can spend multiple stress this way, but you only have access to the item during the current score.
8. Saboteur: You can use Tinker instead of Wreck to destroy things. Pick one: the work is much quieter than it should be—the damage is hidden from casual inspection—increased effect.

Human Resources

˄ ˅ Addison, an savant.

˄ ˅ Cameron, a craftsmaster.

˄ ˅ Emerson, a thief.

˄ ˅ Morgan, a fixer.

˄ ˅ Rowan, a power-user.

Inventory

☐ Bandolier of alchemicals ☐, ☐, ☐, ☐, ☐.

◯ Clockwork Controller.

☐ Fine Disguised Weapon.

☐ Fine Syringe Crossbow.

☐ Fine tinker tools.

◯ Tinker Drone.

• Bandolier of Alchemicals ☐: A strap worn across the body, fitted with specially-padded pouches to hold five flasks of Alchemical agents. When you employ an alchemical from a bandolier, choose one of your custom-made formulas or a Common alchemical with complexity no more than 1 higher than your tier. See page 226 for more on alchemicals.
• Clockwork Controller ◯: A compact device that triggers gadgets or traps based on preset timings or basic sensory inputs (movement or heat). Gadget.
• Fine Disguised Weapon ◯: A weapon that does not appear to be a weapon except under close scrutiny. Examples include cane swords, fighting fans, hair pin daggers, daggers concealed in holy symbols, belt buckles, shoes, and emblems of rank, palm pistols concealed in cutlery, snuff boxes, swagger sticks, or purses. Sashes, belts, or clock chains made to be used as whips or garottes. This is a masterwork weapon of your own design that fits you perfectly, improving your effect.
• Fine Syringe Crossbow ☐: A pistol crossbow that fires a bolt that injects a drug or poison. Effective to about 10 meters. You must supply the drug. Gadget.
• Fine Tinkering Tools ☐: A finely crafted set of tools for detailed mechanist work. A jeweler's loup. Measuring devices. Increases effect on suitable tasks, including work with clockwork and traps.
• Tinker Drone ◯: Tiny creature like a rat, small monkey, or homunculus; often robotic. Can assist you on Tinker rolls. You pay the stress cost. It is too limited to act on its own. Playbook.

XP

• Every time you roll a desperate action, mark xp in that action's attribute.

At the end of each session, for each item below, mark 1 xp (in your playbook or an attribute) or 2 xp if that item occurred multiple times.

• You addressed a challenge using technical skill or mayhem.
• You expressed your beliefs, drives, heritage, or background.
• You struggled with issues from your vice or traumas during the session.

Starting Actions

Study 1

Tinker 2

4 points by choice, no higher than 2 in any one.