Skills

Shoot into a melee engagement without accidentally hitting your allies, compensating for erratic movement and shifting positions.

Stabilize a wounded or dying target immediately after injury, preventing further harm and potentially reviving the recently fallen.

Outposition your opponent in melee with coordinated or deceptive movement, rendering them flanked and vulnerable to your actions.

Craft and maintain arrows, bolts, and similar projectiles, including special ammunition with tactical effects.

The ability to control movements and perform actions while flying by technological or magical means.

Search for food, water, and natural materials in the wild to sustain your group or gather ingredients for crafting traps, poisons, or tools.

Amplify the effectiveness of energy-based shielding systems to better resist fire, electricity, cold, and radiation during combat.

Investigate the cause and time of death, analyze wounds, and reconstruct scenes to uncover what happened and how.

Create believable fake documents, credentials, or small objects to deceive, bypass, or manipulate.

Maintain and adjust team formations during battle to maximize group coordination, allowing quick stance adjustments and tactical communication without spending AP.

A wild offensive whirling attack against three or more opponents aiming to drive them into a defensive stance.

Gather Knowledge is the ability to subconsciously absorb and recognize information that is relevant or useful, even without actively searching for it. This skill represents a keen, passive awareness of details in the environment, allowing a character to pick up on rumors, symbols, patterns, and useful facts without deliberate effort.

Diagnose, treat, and manage a wide range of injuries, illnesses, and environmental conditions, improving both short-term health and long-term vitality.

You twist or shift your posture at the last moment to protect vital areas, avoiding critical hits while still taking full damage.

Charm, distract, or mislead others through smooth and confident speech — ideal for talking your way out of danger or twisting a conversation to your advantage.

Defend an ally's blind spots and prevent flanking, backstab, or surprise bonuses by staying alert and covering their position during battle.

Grapple is the close-quarters skill of grabbing, locking, and physically restraining an opponent. It is a foundational technique for controlling targets without relying on weapons, often leading into throws, holds, or takedowns.

Hack into advanced security systems to disrupt their functioning or plant malware. Not as specialised as Open Locks or Spyware Design, but more universally applicable.

Headshot is a sneak attack with a missile weapon, often aimed at the back of the head, resulting in significant damage or instant incapacitation of the opponent.

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Fully commit to defense, becoming a fortress against melee attacks in the current battle round.

When entering a location you've visited before, you can roll to see if your former self prepared the area - by hiding an item, scouting a blind spot, or setting up a future advantage.

Interpret coats of arms, insignias, and symbols to understand lineage, allegiance, and power structures in noble, military, and historical contexts.

Identify and use natural plants, fungi, and roots to create basic remedies, drugs, poisons, and survival items.

Launch surprise attacks from hidden positions, disrupting the enemy’s response and seizing control of the battlefield from the start.

Conceal yourself from sight using natural or artificial cover in wilderness or rural environments.

Use shadows and cover to conceal your presence in indoor or urban environments, evading detection from observers or enemies.

Gain a superior tactical position in combat that improves control, vision, and effectiveness, allowing enhanced offensive and strategic execution.

Knowledge of past events, civilizations, and cultures, allowing a character to understand historical context, identify important artifacts, and apply lessons from history to present situations.

Prepare and hold a ranged attack to be released the moment a specific trigger occurs—executing the shot as a reaction with enhanced precision.

Hold the Line attempts to keep opponent out of melee range, making it harder for the enemy to use closing maneuvers or straight out attacking them if they move into your melee range.

A broad study of culture, language, literature, and arts, allowing a character to analyze cultural trends, translate ancient texts, and appreciate artistic works.

Track and pursue prey with animal-level intelligence across natural terrain, using stealth, pattern recognition, and survival instincts.

Discern the magical properties, uses, and potential dangers of an item through focused examination and arcane intuition.

Analyze and deduce the purpose, function, and potential weaknesses of any technology - even alien or unknown - by observing its design, behavior, and context.

You have a natural talent for turning everyday objects into makeshift weapons. While these improvised tools may not be the most effective in combat, catching an opponent off guard can grant you a surprise attack.

Detect ongoing attempts to influence, manipulate, or wear down resistance through subtle social or diplomatic pressure.

Grant your team a burst of readiness that lets them act before the enemy can.

Use sudden motion and explosive reflexes at the start of combat to seize the initiative and act before your opponents.

Read subtle cues in tone, posture, emotion, and logic to understand what someone truly means or feels - beyond what’s being said.

Unite your allies with a compelling vision that enhances their cooperative efforts for the rest of the battle.

Use your presence and force of will to unnerve or dominate an opponent through fear.

Use physical presence, combat dominance, or psychological threats to disrupt an opponent's decision-making in battle.

Anticipate and buffer the disruptive energy spikes that follow a critical hit, preserving your Action Points (AP)

Skillful manipulation of objects in midair, useful for distracting opponents, controlling multiple weapons, or demonstrating finesse in non-combat scenarios.

Keep at bay attempts to keep opponent out of melee range, making it harder for the enemy to use closing maneuvers or straight out attacking them if they move into your melee range.

Deliver a precise blow that incapacitates an opponent without causing permanent harm. Must use a melee weapon.

Push wounded allies beyond their limits, granting them a short-lived but vital surge of health.

You throw caution to the wind and inspire others by laughing in the face of overwhelming odds.

Understanding, interpreting, and exploiting legal systems, regulations, and judicial processes for personal or group advantage.

Perform a powerful upward jump to reach higher ground, grab onto ledges, or navigate vertical obstacles.

Discern dishonesty in conversation by interpreting subtle cues in behavior, tone, and timing - spotting falsehoods others might accept at face value.

Optimize, repair and maintain light-technologies like laser defence, holograms and photon shimmer.

Interpret speech by observing the speaker’s mouth and facial movements when sound is unavailable or obscured.

You have studied logic theory and argumentation as well as mathematics. You are adept at applying reasoning, deduction, and structured problem-solving.

Perform a forward horizontal jump to clear distance, obstacles, or gaps - relying on explosive strength and technique.

Fire from long range with calculated precision and deadly intent, applying full focus on damage rather than combat disruption or effects.

Strike an enemy from beyond melee range by lunging forward and immediately retreating, making it harder for the opponent to react or counter.

Expertise in magical theory, spells, rituals, and magical artifacts, enabling a character to identify magic effects, understand magical systems, and uncover ancient or forbidden spells.

Alter how a person or group interprets a situation, event, or relationship—without outright deception.

Deliver fast, precise unarmed attacks using trained martial techniques—focused on control, pressure, and speed rather than brute force.

You are trained in martial arts similar to Judo, Jiu-jitsu or Aikido and can make unarmed attacks at opponents without being considered vulnerable. The attack does not deal damage, but can leave the target vulnerable.

Martial Dance blends combat techniques with artistic movements, creating a graceful yet powerful display of martial prowess.

The skill to evaluate and analyse military strategies as well as large-scale combat situations and events. Used to identify strengths, weaknesses, and optimal strategies to ensure battlefield success.

Traverse areas without making sound, avoiding auditory detection in urban, indoor, or tightly patrolled environments.

You have specialized your defensive movements to counter multiple opponents.

The art of singing, performing on a musical instrument, producing musicial compositions, and expressing emotions, stories, or messages through music.

Control and direct nanotechnological systems to perform tasks such as repair, interference, fabrication, and enhancement—with increased efficiency across all tech modules within the Nanobots category.

Resist or disrupt technological or psionic attempts to control or manipulate the mind - whether defending yourself or helping others under active neural assault.

Strike with a weapon in each hand by replacing the severe penalty on off-hand attacks with a dedicated skill roll, enabling fluid two-weapon combat.

Hack electronic locks with a combination of theoretic knowledge of cryptography and electronics as well as costomized tools.

The skill to keep cybernetics implants in operative order and avoid infections and damages.

Control unfamiliar, complex, or industrial machines - and identify how to safely activate or interact with technological items, devices, and support systems.

Strike quickly and decisively in melee when an opponent exposes themselves, reducing penalties to your follow-up attack by seizing the perfect moment.

Direct teams, streamline operations, and ensure systems run efficiently across organizations.

As an immediate reaction, delay the debilitating effect of a critical hit on an ally, giving them time to act before the injury fully manifests.

The ability to create visual art like painting, drawings, sculptures, and installations.

Your ability to traverse hazardous environments by running, balancing, and adapting quickly to urban or natural obstacles.

Intercept and deflect a melee strike with your weapon or shield instead of your main attack.

Peripheral Awareness is the ability to perceive events and movements outside of one’s direct line of sight allowing to detect attacks from behind, flanks etc.

Use charm, reason, empathy, and a well-timed argument to influence others’ decisions - be it convincing a guard to let you pass or talking down a warlord.

Create the illusion of casting a spell, deceiving your enemies into reacting to magic that doesn't exist.

Prepare, compound, and apply pharmaceuticals, performance enhancers, and medical substances for healing, recovery, or resistance. Spend 1 hour and for the next 24 hours, your BiBs might be more effective.

The study of ethical systems, metaphysics, and logic, allowing a character to debate moral dilemmas, question assumptions, and provide counsel on difficult decisions.

You are trained as a photographer and can produce film, edit videos, and do professional photo shots

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Use scientific principles to solve mechanical and environmental challenges - and amplify the effects of elemental spells through applied force understanding.

Unlock mechanical or electronic locks without using keys or standard access methods, relying on precision, speed, and the right tools.

Stealthily remove items from a target’s person without them noticing, whether on a crowded street or in the chaos of battle.

The art of writing expressive compositions, literary texts, poems, advertisement or any other form of creative texts.

Fire accurately at extremely close range by mastering instinctive aiming and suppressing the body’s natural flinch response.

You recognize the symptoms, sources, and typical use cases of poisons—whether in victims, environments, or enemy tactics.

Understand how to dose, apply, and handle poisons safely and effectively—without causing harm to yourself or wasting the toxin.

Manipulate long-term relationships and social dynamics to build alliances, undermine enemies, and shift power in your favor.

Deliver a slower but devastating melee blow by focusing your full strength into a single, high-impact strike.

Exploit the nervous system with a sudden, targeted strike to disrupt an opponent’s action, forcing them to expend additional effort or abandon their attempt.

A focused strike to a nerve cluster or weak spot, meant to disable or control without inflicting lethal damage.

Use this skill to suppress fear, stabilize psychological trauma, and boost resilience against mental attacks caused by magic, technology, or extreme stress.

The use of psychological tactics to demoralize, confuse, or intimidate opponents, using fear, misinformation, and manipulation to weaken enemy morale and decision-making.

Deliver structured and compelling speeches to inform, inspire, sway, or manipulate an audience - whether it’s a crew, crowd, council, or clan.

Instantly draw and ready a melee weapon to gain a tactical advantage, enabling fast reactions or surprise attacks.

Unleash a fast, unexpected ranged strike before opponents can react - drawing and firing in one smooth motion before they realize the threat.