Create Schticks (Action)

Heroic Action Role-Play

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 at least Artwork construction without increasing the difficulty (a higher construction level still pays full cost).

Demolitions

Basic Action

This turns the Demolition stunt into a Basic Action, as long as you have per-prepared explosives (a basic satchel charge will do in most cases).

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 basic tools for Create tasks, including Tinkering.

Let Me Work!

Trigger Action (Focus)

Whenever you are about to be attacked, distracted, or disturbed and your allies mannage to keep you safe and unperturbed, you can focus.

Magic Pockets

Basic Action

You have the uncanny ability to always carry the right gear. At any time you can make a Create roll to see if you just happen to find the right thing stashed away. The difficulty depends on the oddity of the gear; everyday gear is automatic, specialized tools and gear you need for your adventuring career is difficulty 12, gear others need for their careers is 15, and out-of context gear that you could possibly have gotten your hands on is difficulty 18. 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 just don't, but you could still have it in your car, or in your workshop, or in your friends workshop over on Westside.

Safecracking

Limit Break

There are some locks that are simply too tough for normal people to crack. No ordinary thief can break into a bank vault without explosives or a giant drill. But you are one of the few, the proud, who can talk to a safe and make it tick.

To stand a chance, you must have safe-cracking equipment of the same technological sophistication as the safe - or some substitute, such as an appropriate power.

Different safes set different difficulties for your Create rolls.

Safe	Difficulty
Basic store safe, security locker	10
Bank safe	15
Bank vault	20

Set Trap

Limit Break

You can set traps given the right equipment and circumstances. Typical traps are weapons, snares, and pitfalls. A weapon trap attacks with its usual damage value. A snare trap steals shots equal to the attack outcome; 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 Spot of the victim. A trap like this can be found with Scan and is automatically found when using Search. Once found, traps are much less effective as their normal attack is based on some degree of surprise; use your Mind instead of your Create for attack rolls.

Security

Basic Action

You are familiar with security measures of all types: locks, alarms and traps. You can search for and identify security installations, and can use your Create skill to bypass or disable them. It is generally fairly easy to bypass security devices once they have been spotted. You need the proper tools for the job; a security kit can be stowed in a utility belt or small bag. If the security was placed there by another character with this schtick, use his Create skill as the difficulty.

Safe	Difficulty
Basic security, typical home or small business	6
Advanced security, good commercial security	9
High-grade security, typical bank office	12
Basic store safe, security locker	15

A failed roll means you need some new method, gear or information to bypass a lock. On an alarm or trap, it means that the situation escalated; you can try again, but a second failure indicates the device triggers.

This schtick does not cover any but the most basic safes; see Safecracking. It is possible to penetrate security without the schtick, but all difficulties are 5 higher and any failure triggers traps and alarms.

Signature Gear

Inherent

You have a piece of equipment that you are closely associated with, to the degree that it has become part f your persona. People associate you with this piece of gear, and you seem somehow naked or incomplete without it. This is a unique item, such as the sword bestowed upon you by your liege, the armor of your sacred order, the shotgun your grandmother bequeathed to you to hunt werewolves with, or the plane inherited from your dead war buddy.

• You can own and operate this item legally even if it would normally be beyond your means, illegal, or require some special license.
• People also tend to not question your right to take it along; unless the GM makes a montage of how it is taken, the item stays with you. It can also pop up in the unlikeliest places seemingly on its own.
• It is harder to steal or disarm you of the item; it takes an Outcome equal to your Create to do so. Even if it is stolen, it always crops up later - it is never permanently lost.
• The item is tougher than normal, having a minimum Toughness score equal to your Create. If the item is naturally tougher than Toughness 10, add the item's normal Toughness to your Create and subtract 10 to get the enhanced value. Even hen seemingly destroyed, the item can always be repaired.

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.

• You can temporarily exchange a subjects Charm and Impress skill, changing the impression they make 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.
• 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.
• 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.