Specialist Archetypes

Psychic Knowledge

1st Tier Psychic Feature

Your psionic awakening has granted you new insights. Choose one of the following Skills to Learn, Cosmology, Empathy, Focus, Magical Lore, or Medicine. Then choose one of the listed Skills you have Learnt, you become a Master in the chosen Skill.

You gain the Spellcaster and Psionics Class Tags.

Psionic Specialisation

1st Tier Psychic Feature

You have learnt how to channel your psionics into a useable form and power. Your psionic power will ebb and flow with your focus, this power is represented by your Psionic Talent Die, whose starting size of which is equal to the size of your Specialist Attack dice.

Some of your Features require you to use the Psionic Talent Die to use, as specified in an ability’s description, and you can’t use an ability if it requires you to use a die when your dice are unusable as noted in the Changing the Die’s Size section below.

When you complete a Short or Long Rest, your Talent Die resets to its starting size.

Psionics

1st Tier Psychic Feature

Your training builds upon your innate talents in channelling your psionic powers. See the Magic Chapter for the general rules of spellcasting, psionics, and for the Psionic Power List.

Power List: Psionic

Manifesting Trait: Your Knowledge

Power TG: 8 + your SB + your Manifesting Trait

Power Attack Modifier: Your SB + your Manifesting Trait

The following exceptions to the rules presented in the Magic Chapter are as follows:

Preparing Powers

The number of powers you can Prepare equals Manifesting Trait + half your Specialist Level (minimum of 1).

When you gain this Feature choose two Power Tags from the following: Biomancy, Chronurgy, Dynokinesis, Realmurgy, Telekinesis, or Teleapthy.

You Prepare powers from the Psionic Power List, though you treat all powers with your chosen Power Tags, with the exception of Azure Form powers, as being part of the Psionic Power List for you.

Psi Point Generation

You do not start with a fixed number of Psi Points, instead at the start of an Encounter/Scene you can choose to lose your current number of Psi Points to generate a new amount. To generate a new amount, roll your Specialist Attack damage dice. You gain Psi Points equal to half the amount rolled.

Whenever you perform a Specialist Attack, you may choose to reduce your Psi Point pool to 0, to immediately gain Psi Points equal to the damage dealt by the Specialist Attack.

Power Specialisation

If you would gain Degrees of Psychic Bleed from Channelling the Thoughtweb with a power that has at least one of the Power Tags chosen with this Feature, you gain half as many Degrees as normal.

Whenever you manifest a Talent with one or both of your chosen Power Tags you may use their Amplified ability.

Subtle Manifestations

You can manifest powers using the Subtle Psionics rules even though you do not have the Ritual Caster Class Tag.

Psionics Table

Your Psi Limit and Talents Known are as follows:

Psionic Insight

2nd Tier Psychic Feature

You gain the ability to draw knowledge from the Thoughtweb in order to enhance your own abilities. Whenever you complete a Long Rest, you may select one Skill that is not your Specialism Skill. Until you next complete a Long Rest you are a Master in that skill and may use the Specialist Technique associated with that Skill.

If the Technique requires a Skill Roll using its Prerequisite Specialism Skill, you may instead use your Specialism Skill for the Skill Roll.

Whispers From the Web

2nd Tier Psychic Feature

Your uncontrolled abilities leave you open to whispers from the Thoughtweb. Whenever you sleep or perform an equivalent action during a Long Rest, your GG may provide visions. These could be of events from the past that left large psychic imprints on the Thoughtweb, they could be visions alluding to something occurring in the world currently, or maybe they are loose thoughts, ideas, or memories from others around you or random areas of the Thoughtweb.

Be warned however they often are rarely sensical in how they convey their information to such an untrained mind, and some entities in the Thoughtweb may send their own malicious thoughts and whispers into your dreams.

Mental Cloud

3rd Tier Psychic Feature

You know how to create a cloud of psionic energy to hide yourself from others or empower your abilities. Your chosen option from the Psionic Specialisation Feature gain the following modifications:

• Phase Blades. The Phase Blades gain a Magic Bonus to Attack and Damage Rolls equal to half your SB, and on a hit, apply one Degree of the Burned (Psychic) condition, applying an additional Degree on a Critical Hit.

  If you have Degrees of Psychic Bleed, when you hit with these Phase Blades, add your Degrees of Psychic Bleed to the Damage Roll as Psychic damage, and on a Critial Hit, you can either recover one expended Hit Die or increase the size of your Psionic Talent Die by 1 (if you did not currently have a Psionic Talent Die it becomes a d4).

• Rift Psionics. You can add your Walking speed to the distance you can teleport.

  If you have Degrees of Psychic Bleed, you can also add your Degrees of Psychic Bleed to the distance you can teleport, and after teleporting you gain the Incorporeal condition until the start of your next Turn.

• Unstable Manifestations. The use of the Manifest action using these Unstable Psi Points is not counted for determining the increased AP cost for multiple uses of the Manifest action on a Turn.

  If you have Degrees of Psychic Bleed, increase the Psi Points generated by your Degree of Psychic Bleed, and increase your Psi Limit for the power manifested with your Unstable Psi Points by half your SB.

You also gain the Mental Cloud action.

One you have used this action you cannot do so again until you have completed a Short or Long Rest.

Psionic Flood

4th Tier Psychic Feature

You are able to fill your blows with psionic energy. You may choose a option from the Psionic Specialisation Feature to gain the benefits of. Whenever you perform a Specialist Attack you can roll your Psionic Talent Die.

If you roll above the Target’s Knowledge, they gain two Degrees of the Dazed condition until the end of their next Turn.

If you roll double their Knowledge or greater, they gain an additional Degree of the Dazed condition and the Mind Lock condition for the same Duration.

Your Weapon Attacks, Unarmed Strikes, and Talents ignore Damage Reduction for Psychic damage.

If you score a Critical Hit with a Weapon Attacks, Unarmed Strikes, and Talents also ignore Resistances to Psychic damage.

Trained Mind

1st Tier Trickster Feature

You have spent time training your mind. Choose one of the following Skills to Learn, Cosmology, Diplomacy, Deception, Empathy, Intimidation, or Performance. Then choose one of the listed Skills you have Learnt, you become a Master in the chosen Skill.

You can accurately recall anything you have seen or heard within the past month.

Deathly Nature

1st Tier Trickster Feature

You have learnt to use a blade as well as you use your skills. You gain the following benefits:

• You gain the Death-Touched Template. You do not gain the Tithe Feature, ignore Hunger Tests called for by Death-Template Features, and you ignore the Tithe effects on your Undead Entity Type, as you have no pull from the Realms of Death to resist.

• Whenever you complete a Long Rest, you gain 1 Mark of Fate.

  Increase the number of Marks of Fate you can have at any one time by 1.

• You do not age and only require 4 Hours of sleep to gain the benefits of a Long Rest.

• You gain Spiritsight out to 24m, all Undead entities can understand your verbal and sign-based communication, and you likewise can understand all verbal and sign-based communication from Undead entities.

• You require an additional two Degrees of the Wounded condition before Dying, these two additional Degrees occur before the normal Degrees are applied.

• You soul lingers around your body when you Die, when you are the Target of a spell or rite that would return you from death, that spell/rite ignores its required Material Components.

Trickster’s Gift

1st Tier Trickster Feature

Your mind is your sharpest weapon. You gain the following benefits:

• You may add a Technique Bonus equal to your Knowledge to your Initiative Test rolls.

• You may use Knowledge instead of Agility for Attack and Damage Rolls when using a Weapon with the Finesse Weapon Property or a ranged Weapon.

• You may use Knowledge instead of the normal Trait when using the following Skills: Diplomacy, Deception, Empathy, Intimidation, or Performance.

• If you make an attack against a Target, with a melee Weapon with the Finesse Weapon Property or a Ranged Weapon, you automatically meet the requirements of a Specialist Attack if the Target has the Desperation condition.

• Once per an Encounter/Scene when trying to solve a puzzle or a riddle, you can begin to narrate your thought process for how best to solve it, do be sure to inform the GG you are intending to use this Feature.

  Once you have completed the narration, the GG may inform you of one detail to do with what you mentioned, that you either missed, perhaps may need to focus on, something you may need to reconsider, or give a clue to help steer your direction. The GG will not tell you how to use or interpret this new information that you will still need to work out for yourself.

Divinations From Death

2nd Tier Trickster Feature

Your close call with death, enables you to commune with the recently departed as well as the entity your dealt with in the past. You always have the Converse with Dead spell Prepared and can cast it as a ritual spell even without the Ritual Caster and Spellcaster Class Tags.

Whenever you gain the Bloodied or Desperation condition, or each time you gain a Degree of the Wounded condition, you can briefly see and ask your psychopomp or death related entity a question. They will answer “Yes”, “No”, or “Unknown”, based on their Knowledge gained watching the living and dealing with the departed.

In addition, you gain the Death Blast and Steal Defences Specialist Techniques.

Death Blast (2dX). Once the attack has resolved, select a Target entity you can see within 6m (Near) of you. Make a ranged Attack Roll using your Knowledge as the Trait.

Hit: The Target takes Entropic damage equal to the total damage dealt to the initial Target of this attack.

Critical Hit: They also gain two Degrees of the Burned (Entropic) condition.

Steal Defences (3dX/6dX). Choose one Damage Reduction or Resistance the Target has. The Target loses that Reduction/Resistance until the start of your next Turn (including against Damage from this attack) and for the same Duration you gain that Reduction/Resistance.

If you spent 6dX you can instead choose an Immunity for the above effect.

Etheral Step

3rd Tier Trickster Feature

Your deathless state allows you to move between the Realms of the living and the dead. When you use the Disengage or Movement action, you may choose for 1m of Movement to move between the Material Realm and its equivalent point in the Ethereal Realm and vice versa.

While you are at 0HP, for each Degree of the Wounded condition you gain, or when you are Stabilised, you can remove any one Temporary Concept. If you Die you instead remove all Temporary Concepts.

You also gain the Ethereal Step action.

In addition, your Trickster’s Gift Feature allows you to qualify for the Specialist Attack, if the Target has the Bloodied condition.

Freed From Death

4th Tier Trickster Feature

Death cannot take you unwillingly. When you Die, you may appear as a ghost in the space occupied by your body. Your HP equals your Hit Point Maximum, and you have access to all your Features and abilities and can interact with the physical world as normal.

While you are a ghost you have the Incorporeal condition, have a Flying speed equal to your Walking speed and can Hover, and Attack Rolls and Empathy, Investigation, and Perception Skill Rolls are made against you with Disadvantage. If you are reduced to 0HP in this ghost form you immediately Die, and your soul unravels. From here you cannot be revived, until you soul has been remade via the Wish spell, then you can be affected by spells/powers/rites that would return you from death.

During your time as a ghost you can always see your associated entity tied to death encouraging you to pass on and you may converse with them freely.

Trained Thief

1st Tier Thief Feature

You have been trained yourself in additional skills to aid you in your chosen profession. Choose one of the following Skills to Learn, Acrobatics, Deception, Skullduggery, Stealth, or Technology. Then choose one of the listed Skills you have Learnt, you become a Master in the chosen Skill.

You also Learn the Thieves’ Cant Language and gain Training in one Tool of your choice, we recommend either Disguise Kits, or Thieves’ Tools if you have not already been Trained with them.

Quick Fingered

1st Tier Thief Feature

You know how to act fast in the moment. You can use the Use Skill (Skullduggery) action for 1AP.

You can also use the Use Item action for 1AP, with the exceptions of any Magic Item’s action that casts a spell, manifests a psionic power, or makes a Weapon Attack.

When using making a Specialist Attack, you gain a number of additional Specialist Attack Dice equal to half your SB, these dice can only be used to apply Specialist Techniques and may be added to any other Specialist Attack Dice you expended normally to determine the Specialist Technique used and their power.

Second-Story Work

1st Tier Thief Feature

You are a master of scaling the space. You gain a Climbing speed equal to your Walking speed, having Advantage on Trait Tests to climb across the ceiling.

In addition, you can use your Agility instead of Physique to calculate your Jumping distance.

Supreme Sneak

2nd Tier Thief Feature

You are a master of stealth. If you attempt to Hide and meet the condition such that no one sees you while Hiding, you become Invisible for the next Minute. This ends early if you use an action or reaction bar the Movement or Use Skill actions.

In addition, once per Turn, if your attack was a Specialist Attack made while Hidden, the attack does not reveal your location breaking the stealth.

You may use the Uncanny Dodge reaction, multiple times in the same Round, though only once per instance of the Trigger.

Use Magical Device

3rd Tier Thief Feature

You have learned enough about the workings of magic that you can improvise the use of items even when they are not intended for you. You can form one more Soulbond than normal and you can ignore all Class, Ancestry, Template, Entity Type, and Level requirements to form Soulbonds with Magic Items. You ignore all Penalties for using a Spell Scroll and should a Magic Item refer to a Spellcasting Trait use your Intelligence.

If a Magic Item you use would expend Charges, you may make a TG 20 Magical Lore Skill Roll.

On a successful Test, the Charges are not expended.

Thief’s Reflexes

4th Tier Thief Feature

You have become adept at laying ambushes and quickly escaping danger. You can take two Turns during the first Round of any Active Time Encounter. You take your first Turn at your normal Initiative Test’s TTV and your second Turn at your Initiative Test’s TTV minus 10. You can’t use this effect when you are Surprised.

In addition, you may use the effects of the Evasive Step Feature for a different kind of Trait Test, other than an Agility Test, that deals half as much damage on a successful Test.

You can modify your Evasive Step Feature this way a number of times up to your Knowledge (minimum of 1), replenishing expended uses upon completing a Long Rest.

Thief’s Resolve

4th Tier Thief Feature

You know how to stay out of the reach of the law. You can present false thoughts when being the target of a mind reading effect, by succeeding on a Deception Skill Roll contested by the mind reader’s Empathy Skill Roll.

Additionally, no matter what you say, magic that would determine if you were telling the truth indicates you are being truthful if you so choose, and you can’t be compelled to tell the truth by magic.

Trained Dancer

1st Tier Dancer Feature

You have been trained yourself in additional skills to aid you in your chosen profession. Choose one of the following Skills to Learn, Acrobatics, Athletics, Medicine, Performance, or Skullduggery. Then choose one of the listed Skills you have Learnt, you become a Master in the chosen Skill.

You also gain the Fighting Style: Unarmed Fighter Feat, and become Trained in the use of Martial Melee Weapons with the Martial Arts Weapon Property, and one Tool, we recommend Disguise Kits if you have not already been Trained with them.

Agile Dancing

1st Tier Dancer Feature

You know how channel your skills at dancing into aiding you in battle. When using the Performance Skill, you may choose to use Agility instead of Determination. Your Walking speed increases by half your SB.

While not wearing any Armour Pieces or holding a Shield, your HT may equal 10 + your Agility + your Determination.

Cunning Step

1st Tier Dancer Feature

You know how to cunningly dance around your foes. You treat Weapons with the Martial Arts Weapon Property as having the Finesse Weapon Property.

Whenever you perform the Aid, Disengage, Movement, or Skilled Aim action, you can choose to perform the Dodge action or perform an Unarmed Strike or Weapon Attack as part of the listed action.

The Weapon used for the Weapon Attack granted by this Feature, must be a melee Weapon with the Finesse Weapon Property. It may if it also has the Thrown Weapon Property, be used to make a ranged attack.

Dancing Duet

2nd Tier Dancer Feature

You work best with a partner. At the start of your Turn, you can select one willing entity within 6m (Near) of you, so long as you both remain within 12m (At Range) of each other you are considered Dance Partners. While they are within your AoC you qualify for performing Specialist Attacks.

Whenever you perform a Specialist Technique, whilst your Dance Partner is within 6m (Near) of you and can see you, you can select an additional Target for your Specialist Technique as if you were stood in your Dance Partner’s space.

Whenever you perform the Aid, Disengage, Movement, or Skilled Aim action, your Dance Partner so long as they are within 6m (Near) of you and can see you, can use their reaction (1RP) to also perform the selected action including any additional affects you have from the Cunning Step Feature.

You can only have one Dance Partner at a time, if you would use this Feature to choose a new Partner, the previous one loses the benefit.

Evasive Technique

3rd Tier Dancer Feature

You know how to show those around you how to stay safe in the heat of combat. When using the Evasive Step Feature, nonhostile entities of your choosing within your AoC also gain the benefits of the Feature.

Fleet Footed

3rd Tier Dancer Feature

You know how to move with others through a complicated scene with coordination. You gain the ability to move across the surface of liquids without falling through during your movement.

You gain the Coordinated Movement action.

Mastery of the Step

4th Tier Dancer Feature

You are a master dancer. Whilst under the benefits of your Specialism Skill your default Reach increases by 1m.

Your Inspired Event Scope increases by 1, when performing Performance Skill Rolls or for Trait Tests performed while under the benefits of your Specialism Skill. Whilst you and your Dance Partner are within each other’s AoC, you both gain an Inspired Event Scope increase of 1.

If when using the Cunning Step Feature, you choose the Dodge action, you become Immune to Opportunity Attacks until the end of your Turn. If you choose to make an Unarmed Strike or Weapon Attack, you make two attacks instead of one.

Trained Acrobat

1st Tier Acrobat Feature

You have been trained yourself in additional skills to aid you in your chosen profession. Choose one of the following Skills to Learn, Acrobatics, Animal Handling, Athletics, Performance, or Stamina. Then choose one of the listed Skills you have Learnt, you become a Master in the chosen Skill.

You may use environmental and structural features, such as doors, windows, breakable posts, etc as Improvised Weapons if you can describe how you are using it in an offensive manner. This does include environmental features connected together such as a rope connected to a chandelier or a post holding up some scafolding or a ceiling that when attack causes the item to fall on the Target. When using an Improvised Weapon, you are treated as being Trained in its use, treat its Weapon damage die as being equal to your Specialist Attack damage die, it gains the Finesse and Martial Arts Weapon Properties, and its Thrown Weapon Property becomes Thrown (Range 6/18 | Near/At Range).

The Improvised Weapon is also treated as having the Force Weapon Focus Property if wielded with two hands or Rattle Weapon Focus Property if wielded with one hand.

Acrobatic Movement

1st Tier Acrobat Feature

You are a master of acrobatic arts. You gain the following benefits:

• Your Walking speed increases by half your SBm. If you use an action that allows you to move, like the Movement or Disengage actions, whilst an Obstacle is in your AoC increase your Walking speed and Jumping distance for that action by 3m, as you use the Obstacle to help you jump around the field.

• When you Fall, you may reduce any Falling damage you take by an amount equal to five times your Specialist Level.

• You can use your Agility instead of Physique to calculate your Jumping distance.

• If you perform a Jump using a Quarterstaff or other pole to assist you, you can increase the distance Jumped by a number of metres equal to your SB + any Item Bonus/Magic Bonus the Item used has.

• You count as one Size Category smaller for determining the size of spaces you can squeeze through, if you can move through occupied spaces, and for determining if you can Hide behind another entity.

• Whilst Grappled, if there are Obstacles you can use to help give you surfaces to move off of, you have Advantage on Trait Tests to escape a Grapple.

• If you are under the effects of the Forced Move X condition, if X is an even number you only need to take the Movement action once on your Turn, though you may choose to use it twice to hasten the condition ending.

Acrobatic Stunts

1st Tier Acrobat Feature

You utilise your acrobatics to perform seemingly impossible feats as you build momentum to a crucial finish. During an Active Time Encounter, at the start of each of your Turns you gain 1dX Stunt Die, where X equals the size of your Specialist Attack dice, and BP equal to double your number of Stunt Dice after the increase. You may never have more Stunt Dice at one time than your SB.

Once per Turn, if you move at least 6m, if you Trigger an Opportunity Attack, or you succeed on a Trait Test you made with Disadvantage, you may gain an additional Stunt Die and on your next Turn increase the BP bestowed by this Feature by half your Specialist Level.

If at the end of your Turn, you have not moved 3m or more then you decrease the number of Stunt Dice by 1. All unexpended Stunt Dice are lost at the end of the Encounter/Scene.

Your Stunt Dice are a resource used for Acrobatic Stunts (See Appendix C: Stunt Actions), you cannot use an Acrobatic Stunt if you do not have sufficient Stunt Dice.

Should an Acrobatic Stunt require a Trait Test, the TG equals 8 + your Physique/Agility (chosen by you) + your SB.

In Narrative Time, you instead may use the dXs granted by the Mastered Innovations Feature, instead of for its normal effect, to act as Stunt Dice to perform an Acrobatic Stunt after the Skill Roll has resolved.

In addition, you gain a Shield Bonus to your HT equal to half your current number of Stunt Dice. This Shield Bonus is doubled against Attack Rolls made as part of a reaction.

Captivating Performer

2nd Tier Acrobat Feature

You know how to put on a show. You gain a Climbing speed equal to your Walking speed, and when you perform the Uncanny Dodge reaction, you may move a number of metres equal to your Agility after the Triggering attack/effect has resolved. This movement does not provoke Opportunity Attacks.

Your Uncanny Dodge reaction, gains the following alternative Trigger "You are Pushed or would move due to the Forced Move condition", if this Trigger is used when you use the reaction, you can choose the direction you are moved by the Triggering effect. If the Triggering effect with this option also deals damage, the damage recieved is still halved.

You also gain the Captivating Stunt action.

In addition, when a number of your current Stunt Die would be reduced due to insufficient movement or at the end of the Encounter/Scene, you can roll one Stunt Die gaining BP equal to double the rolled result, though if you already have BP you can instead increase it by the rolled result.

Once per Turn, whilst you have a number on unexpended Stunt Die equal to or greater than half your SB, you may expend one unexpended Stunt Die to gain until the end of the current Turn, 2AP if it is currently your Turn or 1RP, this AP/RP may only be spent to perform an Acrobatic Stunt Action.

Aerial Striker

3rd Tier Acrobat Feature

You know how to make the most from striking from above. You gain a Swimming speed equal to your Walking speed, and whilst moving you may run across vertical surfaces.

After you use your movement to Jump, Fall, or move along a vertical surface, the next melee attack made this Turn, occur with Advantage. Should the attack hit it does qualify for activating a Specialist Attack and you gain a Stunt Die.

Improved Evasion

3rd Tier Acrobat Feature

You have trained your body to deal with the pressures applied via your stunts. Whenever you would make a Physique, Agility, or Endurance Test, bar an Attack Roll, you can reduce your number of Stunt Dice by 1 to add your Stunt Die to the Test.

Your Evasive Step Feature, now applies to Physique, Agility, and Endurance Test effects to take only half damage.

Quick Strike

4th Tier Acrobat Feature

You have learnt how to use your agility to aid you in combat. You gain the following benefits:

• Your Walking speed increases by 3m.

• You have Advantage on Initiative Tests. When you roll an Initiative Test you gain two Stunt Dice, gaining a third if you rolled the highest result or an Inspired Event.

• Once per Turn, so long as you have one or more unexpended Stunt Dice, you may as an action (1AP), make a Weapon Attack or Unarmed Strike. When you do so this way, you can after the damage has resolved, Grapple or Shove the Target. This attack can benefit from your Specialist Attack even if you have already used it this Turn.

Trained Killer

1st Tier Precision Killer Feature

You have been trained yourself in additional skills to aid you in your chosen profession. Choose one of the following Skills to Learn, Acrobatics, Deception, Medicine, or Stealth. Then choose one of the listed Skills you have Learnt, you become a Master in the chosen Skill.

You also are Trained in the use Martial Ranged Weapons and with one Tool of your choice, we recommend either Alchemist’s Supplies, Disguise Kits, or Thieves’ Tools if you have not already been Trained with them.

You always have the Disguise Self Spell Prepared, and may cast it at will using Determination as its Spellcasting Trait, without expending a Spell Slot or requiring Material Components.

Isolated Targets

1st Tier Precision Killer Feature

You prefer striking isolated targets. Should you make an attack with a Weapon with the Finesse Weapon Property or a Ranged Weapon, against a Target entity with no entities they consider allies in their AoC, you qualify for you Specialist Attack.

Relish the Fight

1st Tier Precision Killer Feature

When you are about to strike you are filled with a rush. You have Advantage on Initiative Tests. On your first Turn in an Active Time Encounter, you gain +3AP and +1RP until the start of your next Turn.

The next time you would deal Specialist Attack damage, instead you increase the damage dealt by half your Specialist Level. After that whenever you would deal Specialist Attack damage during the current Encounter/Scene, you instead increase the damage dealt by a quarter of your Specialist Level.

If you have the Bloodied condition, the additional damage is always equal to half your Specialist Level for the Duration of that condition.

If you have the Desperation condition, the additional damage is always equal to your Specialist Level for the Duration of that condition.

In addition, you gain the Bloodied Stalker reaction.

Once you have used this reaction, you cannot do so again until the start of the next Encounter/Scene. You replenish a use of this reaction when you first gain the Desperation condition in an Encounter/Scene.

Hide in the Crowd

2nd Tier Precision Killer Feature

You know how to blend in with a crowd before and after a strike. You can Hide using the Stealth Skill in a sufficiently large group of people that you could become lost amongst; GG has final say on if a group/crowd is sufficiently large.

Once you have attacked a Target for the remainder of the Turn, you have Advantage on Trait Tests to Hide amongst a crowd or group of people.

In addition, when you use the Skilled Aim action, your Movement speed is not reduced to 0m.

Lingering Strike

2nd Tier Precision Killer Feature

You know how to aim your strikes to cause lingering damage. If you score an Overwhelming Blow, you can apply a Degree of the Burned (Weapon’s Damage Type) to the Target. If you score a Critical Hit, you instead apply three Degrees of the condition.

Whenever a Weapon Attack or Unarmed Strike would as part of its damaging effect apply a condition to the Target, you can choose to replace a condition that would have been applied with the Silenced condition.

Whilst an entity has Degrees of the Burned condition from this Feature, or you hit with an attack whilst Hidden from the Target, the Target gains the Silenced condition until the start of your next Turn or until Degrees of the Burned condition are removed, whichever occurs last.

Killer’s Technique

3rd Tier Precision Killer Feature

You know how to maximise your techniques to sap your opponent’s life even after you have landed your blow. When using a Specialist Techniques against a Target entity with your Marked condition, you can add a number of d6s to your Damage Roll equal to half your SB whenever the Target fails a Trait Test to resist or avoid your Technique or to remove a condition applied by it. The following Specialist Techniques are modified as follows:

• Aimed Strike. When performing this Technique, you count as having spent an additional 1dX to determine the severity of the effect.

• Intimidating Strike. You gain access to this Technique no matter your Specialism Skill. For you this Technique applies an additional Degree of the Frightened condition.

• Poisonous Strike. You gain access to this Technique no matter your Specialism Skill. For you this Technique ignores Resistances and Reductions to Poison damage. If your Lingering Strike Feature activates while performing this Technique, the Burning condition instead becomes Burned (Poison) condition which also ignores Resistances and Reductions.

In addition, when you make Attack Rolls against Targets with the Frightened or Terror condition and you are the source of their fear, you have Advantage on your Attack Rolls against them.

Deadly Strike

4th Tier Precision Killer Feature

You aim to kill. The first time in an Active Time Encounter, you would hit a Target with an attack, the attack is an automatic Critical Hit and is a Specialist Attack even if you do not meet the normal requirements for such an effect.

When rolling the damage dice for the additional damage of Specialist Attack or for Specialist Techniques, you treat dice rolls of a 1 or a 2 as a 3.

Your Weapon Attacks and Unarmed Strikes ignore Damage Reductions for Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing damage.

If you score a Critical Hit with a Weapon Attack or Unarmed Strike, you replenish a use of the Bloodied Stalker reaction, you double the value of your Trait, SB, and any other non-dice Bonuses for the Damage Roll, and also ignore Resistances to Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing damage.

Trained Investigator

1st Tier Detective Feature

You have been trained yourself in additional skills to aid you in your chosen profession. Choose one of the following Skills to Learn Empathy, Intimidation, Investigation, Medicine, or Skullduggery. Then choose one of the listed Skills you have Learnt, you become a Master in the chosen Skill.

You also Learn an additional two Languages.

Detective’s Monologue

1st Tier Detective Feature

Like all good detectives you know when to step back and discuss the scene to yourself, maybe granting you insight into something you missed. You can perform the Seek action for 1AP.

During an Encounter/Scene, you may begin an internal monologue, do be sure to inform the GG you are intending to use this Feature.

Once you have completed the monologue, the GG may inform you of one detail to do with what you mentioned, that you either missed, perhaps may need to focus on, or something you may need to reconsider. The GG will not tell you how to use or interpret this new information that you will still need to work out for yourself.

Specialist’s Analysis

1st Tier Detective Feature

You find it easier than most to find clues tied to your specialism. When looking for clues in a scene, if a clue would be tied to your Specialism Skill you do not need to make a Skill Roll to find that clue, it is instead automatically considered a successful Investigation Skill Roll revealing the clue.

An example would be a sword strike against the wall may be picked up by a Specialist in the Athletics Skill, a letter with forged handwriting may be picked up by a Character Specialised in the Deception Skill, or an unusual detail in a stab wound may be found by a Character Specialised in the Medicine Skill.

You may also spend a Mark of Fate to choose another Skill or Tool you have Learnt/been Trained with to use to find the associated clue for, or you may invoke a Concept to reveal clues that may be tied to that Concept.

Keen Investigator

2nd Tier Detective Feature

Your experience allows you to glean information from the most unhelpful of sources. Whenever you would succeed on an Investigation, Empathy, Medicine, or Perception Skill Roll to gain information, you gain an additional piece of information. This is unless the Test would have Degrees of Success, in which case on a successful Test you instead treat the result as being one Degree higher than normal.

Eye for Detail

3rd Tier Detective Feature

It is hard to pull the wool over your eyes. You have Advantage on Empathy Skill Rolls, and gain the Keen Sight action.

You may use this action a number of times up to your Skill Bonus, replenishing expended uses upon completing a Long Rest.

I’ve Had Worse

3rd Tier Detective Feature

You have had worse days than this. When you use the Uncanny Dodge reaction, you can choose this use this Feature to reduce the damage to 0 instead of halving it.

Once you have used this Feature, you cannot do so again until you have completed a Short or Long Rest.

In addition, whenever you use the Uncanny Dodge reaction, you may also as part of the reaction expend a number of unexpended Hit Dice up to half your SB. Recovering HP equal to the total roll of the expended Hit Dice + your Endurance.

Analytical Insight

4th Tier Detective Feature

Your experienced has taught you to glean information from the subtlest impressions left on an item or location, often giving you flashes of insight in your mind’s eye. You may as an Activity during a Rest, physically study an Item or location, at the end of the Activity you manifest the Psychometry power Targeting the Item or Location.

In addition, when dealing Specialist Attack damage, you increase the number of dXs your Specialist Attack deals by 3dX, and Damage Rolls from your Specialist Techniques ignore Damage Reductions, Resistances, and Immunities to their Damage Types.