Recon Schticks (Action)
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Ambush
Focus
At the end of one of your basic Actions, when you see hostiles but they cannot see you, you can focus.
Canary
Inherent
You have developed a wide-band toxic resistance, and can use your Recon skill in place of your Body when resisting poisons and in place of any skill roll to detect them.
Chance Meeting
Limit Break
When you and a creature you seek are moving about in the same area, there is a good chance that you will meet. Make an opposed Recon check to make such a meeting occur. This generally occurs in a crowded place where either of you can easily escape, but if you have an outcome matching the target's Reflexes you surprise them.
Elusive
Trigger Action (Defense)
You get a +3 bonus to your Recon when an enemy attempts to Scan against you. Your Recon checks for Surveillance are Routine.
Fade
Trigger Action (Combo) or Stance
You automatically and unobtrusively position yourself so as not to be noticed. When you end a Basic Action in concealment, you can make use this schtick to make a Sneak stunt. You are also always sneaking in noncombat situations as long as it is in any way credible, which allows you a Recon roll as a stance to start an encounter hidden. You still need normal cover to sneak, this just changes the action required to hide.
Found Ya!
Trigger Action (Combo)
When you successfully Scan and spot someone who is Sneaking, you can use this schtick to immediately take a Basic Action against that creature. If you found several creatures with the same action, you can still only take one action but if that action targets multiple creatures or an area, you can affect all those you just spotted.
Jimmying
Basic Action
You can use Recon for Disable Mechanism.
Observant
Inherent, Trigger Action (Defense)
You get a +3 bonus on Alertness stunts. When a creature tries to Sneak you can take a trigger action to increase your Recon by +3 to set the difficulty of that Sneak stunt.
When you do a Scan stunt the the roll is Confident.
Ranger
Basic Action
You can apply your sneaky ways to wilderness survival. You can use Recon to Pathfinding, Track and Make Camp.
Scout
Inherent
You can Sneak at normal speed under cover and not have to make repeated rolls to stay hidden. If you move at half speed, even the slightest amount of cover (mud, shadows, tall grass, crowds) offers you concealment. When you Shadow your checks are Routine as long as you have cover, but not in situations where you need to cross open areas. In Team Actions to Sneak you do not contribute to the difficulty of the penalty for the number of characters in the team.
Sensitive
Basic Action
When you use this power, you are aware if there are any active powers within Mind meters. You can focus on an area you can see within range and sense powers there instead. Make a check using the total of your Recon and the skill used to create the effect you are scanning for; the difficulty is 20 + range modifiers. The GM can modify the difficulty based on the situation. On a successful roll, you sense there is an power. On an Outcome equal tot he Mind of whoever used the power (use half the Create skill if this figure is unknown) you pinpoint the power and get a general idea of what it does. To pinpoint things that are hidden, your Recon check is opposed, before comparing it to the above difficulty..
Sneak Attack
Inherent
When you are successfully Sneaking and make an attack, the attack roll is Confident.
Target Acquired
Focus
When you spot a Sneaking enemy or an enemy fails to Sneak on you, you can focus.
Trap Sense
Inherent
Whenever you are in danger of triggering a trap or alarm, you can make a Recon against the Create of the trapmaker - on a success you spot the trap just as you are about to blunder into it, and can stop doing whatever would trigger the trap.