Maneuver Stunts (Action)

Heroic Action Role-Play

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List of specific stunts the skill can be used for, and rules for each using the standard power format.

Block

Trigger Action (Defense)

When another creature attempts to make a roll against your Maneuver, you can make an active defense to increase your defensive Maneuver by +3 for the current shot.

Evasion

Standard Action

You can throw off pursuers by selecting a route they cannot easily follow. You need some terrain you can conceivably shake pursuit in, (check out the Free Runing rules for examples). Make an opposed Maneuver roll against the Ride or Maneuver of the target. If several people are chasing you, you still have to concentrate on shaking one at a time or use the multi-target rules. If you succeed, the target loses three shots or must give up pursuit. It you score an Outcome matching the target's Reflexes, he loses shots equal to the Outcome and has to give up the chase or suffer some Setback.

Schticks or powers can modify this stunt by +5 or even +10, as appropriate for the situation. For example, it is very hard for someone to catch up with you if you fly off and they can't, but in this case it is usually quite easy for them to follow you at a distance unless you are also faster. You can usually avoid vehicles by going for rugged terrain.

Free Running

Inherent

You can move over hindering terrain, run and leap over hazards and difficult ground that would slow or hinder others. The difficulty depends on the situation.

Obstacle	Difficulty
Rubble, gravel, light brush, moderate slope.	8
Barbed wire, broken ground, fence, steep slope.	10
Obstacle course, heavy brush, tightrope, slick surfaces.	12
Moving obstacles, city traffic, slack ropes and swaying supports.	14
Fast traffic, very slick surfaces.	16
Semi-solid surfaces such as viscous liquids.	18
Surfaces that cannot support your weights, like water or thin lines.	20
Smoke, vapors, bursts of automatic fire.	22

Free Running is not an action unless you fail the roll. If you fail by a margin less than your Reflexes, you need to focus on moving to the extent that the move itself counts as a Basic Action - if you planned to do something after the move you cannot, if you acted before moving the movement fails. If the margin matches your Reflexes you suffer a Setback.

Home Ground Advantage: When moving in a well-known area where you've been moving around many times or played as a child, you have home ground advantage. All Free Running rolls are Routine.

Climb

Inherent

This is similar to Free Running, only it involves moving up steeply angled surfaces. A creature without the ability to climb freely is Static when climbing. The difficulty is the same as Free Running, with modifiers for the angle of the wall. On a failed Maneuver roll, you can neither move nor act and your turn is wasted. On a successful roll, you can either move or act, as is normal for being Static. Climbing only applies when you begin your turn on such a surface; you can run or jump on a wall as long as you start on flat ground.

Angle	Difficulty
Less than 60 degrees.	Not a climb
60-80 degrees.	-2
80-110 degrees.	+0
110-140 degrees.	+2
140-170 degrees.	+4
180 degrees.	+6
Sharp corner or opposing walls.	-2

Swim

Inherent

This is similar to Free Running, only it involves water (or other liquid). A creature without the ability to move freely in water moves is Static when in water and can't both move and act on a Basic Action on Limit Break. On a failed Maneuver roll, you can neither move nor act and your turn is wasted. The same applies to aquatic creatures on land. Abilities like Amphibian can overcome this limitation.

Obstacle	Difficulty
Calm water.	6
Swell or small waves, no turbulence.	8
Wavy or choppy water, slight turbulence. Body surfing.	10
Breaking waves, marked turbulence or strong current.	12
Violently choppy water, strong turbulence, undertow.	14
Extreme turbulence, rapids, passing a propeller or other water-churning event.	16
Waterfall, fountain, ignoring a strong current.	18

Fly

Inherent

This is similar to Free Running, only it involves air or space travel. Only creature capable of flight need bother with this.

Obstacle	Difficulty
Breeze.	6
Hard breeze.	8
Strong wind or turbulence. Light flying debris. Narrow areal passage.	10
Severe wind. Storm or narrow passage with a strong air current. Flying debris.	12
Windstorm, lots of flying debris. Tight passage (forcing the flier to bank to pass).	14
Hurricane. Flying through a slow propeller or other periodic hindrance.	16
Tornado, fast propeller.	18

Moving Through an Enemy

Moving through a space occupied by an enemy has a difficulty equal to his Maneuver. See Interference for details.

Interference

Trigger Action

You can use this to replace the difficulty of Free Running stunts when people in your reach are moving. If people are moving into your space, using this stunt has no shot cost. The opponent must either stop moving or do a Free Running stunt against your Maneuver. You have to be standing on the ground to use Interference and the effect applies for the current shot. You cannot interfere with a creature whose Body is 5 higher than yours.

Jump

Basic Action

You can make a running jump equal to your Move in meters as a running jump; A quarter of that is the height of the jump. The difficulty of the stunt is twice the distance or eight times the height in meters, whichever is higher. This is for when you cannot "cheat" somehow. If you can use a pole, trampoline, rope or other aid, you have no upper limit and can make a Maneuver roll with the length (or four times the height) of the jump in meters as the difficulty.

To do a running jump, you need to move 2 meters in the direction of the jump before jumping; this can be something you did on your last previous action. If you don't have a running start, a standing jump is half as long and has a difficulty of 3 per meter.

Free Running is the more common stunt. Use the jump stunt only when there is a distinct hazard to be passed trough, not for difficult ground in general.

Outmaneuver

Basic Action

You use this is combat to get a momentary advantage. It represents such maneuvers as outflanking, getting a height advantage, and causing someone to stumble. The roll will be heavily modified depending on how well you describe your stunt and use available props.

Make an opposed Maneuver roll against your target. If you succeed you gain an Advantage. It you score an Outcome matching the target's Reflexes, you also inflict a Setback; the target suffers some direct penalty, as appropriate to the situation and how you described your outmaneuver. He might drop his weapon, fall over a cliff, temporarily show off his unarmored flank and so on.

Run Push

Trigger Action

You can use this stunt to run at a higher Move rating for one action. This is useful as a temporary speed boost and for keeping up with a chase in open terrain, where your Move would not enough to participate in a chase. If you fail any action to keep up with the case, you fall behind and cannot re-enter the chase unless special circumstances permit it.

This is a trigger action triggered by whatever action you needed greater speed for. Make a Maneuver roll against your Move; for every 3 points you score on this roll, your effective Move is increased by one. An Outcome of 3 allows +1 Move, 6 allows +2 Move, 9 allows +3, 12 allows +4 and so on.

Trip

Basic Action

You try to delay and hinder another character by unbalancing them. This is a buying time stunt. Make an opposed Maneuver check, on a success the target loses three shots from his current shot, or you can move the target three meters and the target loses a single shot (your choice). On an outcome matching the target's Reflexes the target suffers a Setback.