Create Schticks (Action)

Heroic Action Role-Play

Alchemist

Inherent

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

Architect

Inherent

You can plan and lead the construction of buildings, from hovels to palaces and dungeons. You have an intuitive understanding of such projects, and can make educated guesses about where to find hidden chambers, where corridors lead and where to find rooms of a certain description. You can deduce where traps and defensive works should be placed, based on the use of different chambers.

When examining the plans of a building, you can deduce the location of such things as if you were actually there, looking for them. Any tasks related to building you could do without this schtick are Routine to you.

Artisan

Inherent

You have mastered one particular craft. This can be swordsmithing, woodcarving, painting, or any one pretty specific profession. In this you are a true master, able to craft extraordinary items of grace and quality; Tinkering rolls in your area of specialty are Routine, and anything you create is of Artwork construction without increasing the difficulty (a higher construction level still pays full cost).

Demolitionist

Basic Action

You can use the Break Object and Demolish stunts as a Basic Action.

Engineer

Inherent

You are a master at finding technical solutions to practical problems. There is no practical problem that cannot be solved by building a device - tough it can sometimes take 10 years and a ten thousand workers to finish the project.

Create tasks that involve building or using machinery or devices to solve immediate practical problems are Routine to you. This can involve some Tinkering and Power Experiment projects. Engineer does not apply to asks governed by other Create Schticks, such as Security.

Focused Creation

Inherent

You can perform a Limit Break with a Create stunt, schtick, or power as if you were focused.

Forgery

Inherent

You improve your Fakes to the point where it takes a Limit Break inspection to spot the forgery.

Hacking

Limit Break

You can gain unauthorized access to a computer or computerized machine with an opposed Create roll against the operator of the device or the Breaking And Entering difficulty, whichever is higher. If the device is being monitored, the operator can make an active defense against hacking.

On a success, you can either access a set of data, or you can gain authorization to control a computer-controlled device, such as a door, alarm, ventilation system, elevator, vehicle, or mechanical gun for the rest of the scene.

Jury Rig

Inherent

You are a master of scrounging and improvising tools and parts. Hair pins and chewing gum work as well as tweeters and soldering in your hands. Tin foil, burned out light bulbs, and cans serve you as spare parts. As long as you can make entertaining technobabble about it, are effectively never without a toolkit or parts for Create tasks, including Tinkering.

Magic Pockets

Inherent

Deep Pockets checks are routine. You must also have some plausible way to fit the gear; you can take larger items out of your pickup than out of your pockets, and you can only try once in a particular situation. If a roll indicates you don't have it in your pocket, you could still have it in your car, or in your workshop, or in your friends workshop over on Westside - allowing new checks as you get to each of these locations

Safecracking

Limit Break

You can break into the most advanced safes if you just have enough time. All Breaking & Entering difficulties are halved.

Security

Basic Action

You are familiar with security measures of all types: locks, alarms and traps. You no longer break a device when you try a Breaking & Entering stunt. This means you can try again. You can Disable Mechanism as a Basic Action. Failing the check by a margin greater than your own Reflexes destroys a lock or triggers a trap.

Set Trap

Limit Break

You can set traps and alarms given the right equipment and circumstances. Alarms are fairly straightforward; they can be local loud alarms or remote, silent alarms depending on resources. Typical traps are weapons, snares, and pitfalls but they can also be built around powers you can use. A trap does damage equal to your Create. A snare trap steals shots equal to the attack outcome (this can carry over from a surprise round into the next round); on an outcome equal to the targets Reflexes he is rendered helpless. A pitfall causes a normal fall.

When the trap attacks, make a Create roll against the Dodge of the victim, with the usual +3 bonus for being hidden. A trap can be found with Scan and is automatically found when using Examine. Once found, traps are much less effective as there is no surprise bonus and targets can take trigger action defenses. Knowing what triggers the trap means it can often be circumvented.

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 can temporarily exchange a subjects Charm and Impress skill, changing the effect they have on others. Only the values used for skill rolls change; the subject still uses his normal values as defense against stunts. 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.

Vogue 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
• Extra Damage (Armor Defeating)
• Extra Damage (Armor Exploiting)
• Great Blow
• Stun

Ranged Mods These can be applied to ranged weapons only

• Autofire - Does not work with a Slow weapon
• Scatter
• Saturation - Only works on a weapon with Scatter

Melee Mods These can be applied to ranged weapons only

• Block
• Deflect - Only works on a weapon with Block
• Charge
• Disarm
• Intercept
• Parry
• Second Strike (Offhand strike)
• Second Strike (Double strike)
• Throw - Cannot be used on unarmed/natural attacks
• Returning - Only works on a weapon with Throw

Limitation Mods You can instead remove one for the following limiting weapon abilities. You can remove limiting weapon abilities gained from Weapon Mods through additional Weapon Mods.

• Load
• Reload - the weapon instead becomes Slow
• Slow
• Static - the weapon instead becomes Unreliable
• Stowed
• Unreliable

You can freely use any of your own Weapon Mods. In the hands of others, a modified weapon can only use its modification once.