Know Stunts (Action)
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First Aid
Basic Action
You can stabilize a Critically Hurt character you touch. This takes a Know roll against the damage value of the attack, and must be done soon; in an action scene you can try this again and again, but outside of combat you only get one attempt per victim you try to help. It reduces the lasting effect of such damage, saving lives and helping future recovery. It does nothing for the immediate situation.
Lore
Basic Action
You can make a focused attempt to remember something out of your background and education, such as a particular name, date, or simple fact. The difficulty depends on the obscurity of the fact and how it relates to your background and experiences.
| Roll | Knowledge |
| 5 | Common knowledge |
| 10 | General context and background |
| 15 | Detailed knowledge |
| 20 | Detailed context, background, and motivations |
You get only one chance per scene at recalling something with Lore; if you do not remember it at once, you will have to use Research or wait until later. This is similar to, and in addition to, any Knowledge Element rolls your skills may entitle you to do - you can do one Lore and one Knowledge Element check for each topic, but the difficulty might well be different depening on how scholarly the information is.
Mental Push
Trigger Action
You can use this stunt to focus in order to function at a higher Mind rating for one action. This is useful with a lot of powers whose effect derives from Mind.
This is a trigger action triggered by whatever action you needed greater mental power for. Make a Know roll; for every 4 points you score on this roll, your effective Mind is increased by one. A roll of 4 allows +1 Mind, 8 allows +2 Mind, 12 allows +3, 16 allows +4 and so on.
Power Suppression
Trigger Action (Finisher)
This stunt allows you to capture power-users, preventing them from using their powers. The result is that you can actually keep a powered character as a prisoner instead of having to kill them.
All Traditions have weaknesses and flaws that can be used to suppress power use. But beside those limitations severe enough to become Methods or Power Loss Limitations, all traditions also include smaller flaws, not significant enough to count as one of the above, but which can still be used to temporarily suppress power use. Exactly how this is done depends on the situation, tradition, and the gamemaster's whim.
Make a Trigger Action (Finisher) to actually apply the power suppressor, make an opposed Know roll against the target to see if the method you are trying works. If you succeed, the target suffers from Power Loss. This roll is modified depending on how well you know the target's powers and tradition.
| Condition | Modifier |
| Unknown tradition | -10 |
| Strange tradition, observed but not studied | -5 |
| Strange or foreign tradition you have limited experience with | -2 |
| Common tradition | +0 |
| Well-known tradition | +2 |
| You have successfully power-suppressed this individual before | +5 |
This kind of restrain involves an object; a talisman, plug, or other inhibitor placed on the target. This is fairly easy to remove, which means the target must generally be restrained or kept under watch to make sure the seal is not broken.
Research
Limit Break
You can find information in reference books; from small handbooks like a travel guide or Woodchuck guide to whole libraries. These are limited mainly in the number of attempts you can make in them; a small reference work is exhausted after one attempt, the congressional library is good for years of research on almost any subject. Certain libraries are especially good in some fields, and make research in these fields easier. Make a Know roll to find the actual facts you seek; the difficulty is generally five points lower than the corresponding Lore check.
Sage Advise
Basic Action
Decide upon a task and make a Know roll against the normal difficulty of this task. It doesn't matter if you know the skill that would normally be used. If you succeed, the next attempt to succeed at this task gets a +3 bonus. This lasts until used or until the end of the round. You can use the bonus yourself, or give others advice (and the bonus).
Scientific Debate
Special: 15 minutes per roll
This is a scientific or theological debate about points of fact - not a piece of oratory. It only works if both sides are willing to discuss the issue in a rational manner. But it is also very persuasive - convincing someone in a debate can often change their entire world-view, as well as that of your audience.
A debate is run in rounds of approximately 15 minutes, and each debater is allowed to do social interactions once every 15 minutes, or they can try to wear down the opponent. Generally a debate is 1-2 hours long. To successfully debate, you need to beat your opponent in an opposed Know roll. If you manage to score successes equal to a listener's Mind you have convinced him you are right. If this happens to your opponent, the debate is over. If the opponent scored less than half as many successes as you did in the debate, the result is a lasting one and the listener is permanently swayed; otherwise it is merely a temporary conviction, maybe the permanent ceding of some minor point.
If either side is "in the right" - that is has significantly more proof than the opposition - they get a bonus of +3 or even +5 on their debate rolls.
Spurious Logic
Inherent
You are skilled in debate and can create logical conundrums; tricks that can be simple for normal common sense to see through, but which are at least superficially logical and can fool logical automatons and others lacking common sense. In this way, you can bluff anyone who is immune or resistant to normal Charm, using your Know skill as tough it was Charm and bypassing any Charm resistance the target has. You cannot bluff ordinary people this way, only those with special resistances such as robots or those with Logical Detachment.