Skills

Use your leadership and battlefield awareness to grant allies movement options during tense or shifting situations.

Accelerate your magical tempo to unleash multiple attack spells in a single round with reduced penalties.

Shout or inspire your team to rally with strength, precision, or courage during critical moments of combat.

Use ranged attacks as immediate responses when enemies expose themselves during specific actions that makes them an easy target - such as moving into your field of vision, stepping out of cover to attack, run straight at you- by seizing the moment to strike with precise shooting.

Disarm a foe from a distance by firing at their weapon, wrist, or other vulnerable grip point - without inflicting injury. A difficult but spectacular skill.

Execute multiple ranged attacks in rapid succession, reducing the accuracy penalty normally applied to follow-up shots.

Instantly assess social tension, mood shifts and power dynamics. It allows a character to pick up on unspoken cues, hidden agendas, and interpersonal relationships,

Prepare a specific skill in advance to trigger when a chosen condition occurs, gaining a bonus based on timing and focus.

Recall facts, patterns, or details from earlier encounters, studies, or observations—instantly or under pressure.

Identify the magical category of a spell, caster, creature, or item to make informed tactical or defensive decisions.

Pause the chaos. This skill allows the team to momentarily halt combat actions to reassess tactics and reposition mentally and strategically.

Interpret, debate, and apply religious teachings and traditions. Useful for diplomacy, gaining favor, mediating disputes, or influencing faith-based communities.

Channel a second wind mid-battle to recover vital energy and stay in the fight.

Restore functionality to damaged or malfunctioning machines, systems, and integrated tech - ranging from utility bots and panels to compact components and modules.

Channel inner strength and psychological resolve to grant an ally temporary boosts to their Resilience—ideal for resisting mental, magical, or internal attacks.

Withstand harmful magical effects that attempt to drain Action Points, Health, or other personal resources.

Expertly manage and optimize the consumption of magical or technological energy, reducing Action Point (AP) loss from spell or module fumbles.

Allows you to produce an item or know exactly where to find it - whether hidden in your gear, stashed elsewhere, or located within the city.

Organize a strategic withdrawal under pressure, ensuring allies retreat safely while maintaining defensive cohesion.

Control, maneuver, and fight while mounted—on animal, creature, or personal vehicle—across varied terrain and in combat situations.

Strike back the moment your opponent finishes their attack.

You analyze a high-risk situation and provide a critical bonus to an extremely difficult skill check—yours or an ally’s.

Prepare empowering rituals that raise the stamina of your allies. Once battle begins, you can channel the ritual’s lingering energy to keep the effect active.

Sabotage involves covertly undermining or destroying resources, equipment, or structures, often requiring cunning strategies and stealthy execution.

Inspect an area to find hidden, small, or well-placed objects.

Tap into deep reserves of energy to regain lost Action Points.

Cast a spell without letting your surroundings know what you are doing. This skill allows spellcasters to use magic unnoticed, whether in the presence of enemies, skeptical authorities, or situations where open spellcasting would be dangerous.

Fire a well-placed shot that bends timing, angle, and awareness to partially bypass cover—creating an opening where there shouldn’t be one.

Bend and refine your spells so they track, pursue, or home in on a moving or obscured target—even around partial cover or concealment.

Reshape spells and area spells to avoid harming your allies, allowing for surgical precision when casting in crowded or chaotic combat situations.

Interpret another person’s intentions, emotions, or hidden agenda - even when they attempt to mask it.

Gain a preemptive advantage by sensing magical or physical vulnerabilities in your opponent before the first spell is cast.

Use your dexterity and technical knowledge to place or deactivate traps - mechanical or electronic - without triggering them.

Absorb damage meant for an ally by stepping into the path of harm.

Strike with the edge of your shield or weapon pommel to disorient and stagger your opponent.

Deliver a life-jolting intervention to temporarily revive a fallen or clinically dead ally for a few precious seconds, buying time to stabilize or heal them.

Fire ranged weapons accurately while moving, allowing repositioning without sacrificing offensive capability.

Shift your body just out of reach to disrupt an enemy’s carefully sequenced move, breaking the flow and reducing its effectiveness.

You move rapidly and silently across short distances, covering a few meters without making a sound - ideal for striking, repositioning, or escaping before you're noticed.

Special training improves your general perception when you are actively scanning for specific threats. You must clearly state what you're looking for - an item, concealed weapons etc.

Manipulate or transfer small objects without being noticed, whether to impress, deceive, or commit theft in plain sight.

Execute a sliding maneuver into melee range, striking from an unexpected angle while repositioning within your opponent’s guard.

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.

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

Understanding and applying social customs, cultural protocols, and formal behavior to create goodwill, avoid offense, and gain privileged access.

Manipulate individuals or groups over time through carefully planned influence and indirect psychological tactics.

Expertise in sociology, psychology, and human behavior, aiding in understanding group dynamics, predicting social trends, and assessing motivations in diplomatic or political situations.

Move silently and without trace through wilderness terrain, using subtle weight shifts and environmental awareness to avoid detection.

Use attack spells as immediate responses when enemies expose themselves during specific actions that makes them an easy target - such as moving into your field of vision, stepping out of cover to attack, run straight at you- by seizing the moment to strike with precise magical force.

Channel your own life force into spellcasting by sacrificing health to gain Action Points (AP), enabling critical magic in desperate situations.

Mislead opponents about your spell's nature or target, making it harder for them to react, counter, or defend effectively.

Cast spells with deadly accuracy from a distance, making them almost impossible to dodge or counter once they hit their mark.

Spell Touch is a skill that allows a character to cast spells requiring physical contact. This would normally put caster at large risk, but this is mitigated by this skill.

Understand the nuances of spellcasting, enabling you to identify spells as they are being cast.

Spot Habit involves noticing behavioral patterns or signals that reveal a person's true intentions, particularly in situations involving deception or negotiation. Classically known from poker, but very useful in other stressing situations.

Strike from outside an opponent’s reach and retreat before they can react.

Push your body beyond standard combat pace to cover more ground quickly—at the cost of mounting fatigue if sustained.

Design and utilise - or counter - hostile surveillance and tracking software, infecting both computers, gadgets and even tech modules.

Interrupt a target's movement by striking with precise force or timing, reducing how far they can advance during their next turn.

Strike with precise force to shake your opponent’s balance and defensive posture, leaving them exposed.

Use pure willpower to shield your mind from magical intrusion, gaining temporary resilience against mental effects.

Storytelling is the skill of weaving narratives, often with a moral or cultural significance, using vivid language and engaging delivery.

Transform a successful weapon hit into a stunning impact that drains momentum and disrupts the opponent’s next action.

Master deception, misdirection, and secrecy to achieve goals without direct confrontation or detection.

Weaken the power of a hostile spell by intercepting and dampening its magical force as it strikes.

Lay down sustained ranged fire to control the battlefield—forcing enemies to hesitate, duck, and falter under pressure.

Maintain speed and balance through unstable, uneven, or hazardous terrain - even during combat - without loss of mobility or composure.

Use advanced medical procedures to reverse permanent damage to a target’s skills caused by critical injuries.

Endure, adapt, and guide others through extreme conditions - on hostile planets, space wrecks, or in chaotic environments (even in some combat situations).

Switch places with an ally during combat without provoking attacks or disrupting movement flow. Useful for tactical positioning, rescuing allies, or bringing the right person to the frontline.

The ability to move efficiently through water, helping you survive, navigate, and act under aquatic conditions.

Illegally gain access to secured systems, bypassing firewalls, locks, alarms, surveillance, and other protective protocols without leaving a trace.

You issue rapid-fire, precise battlefield commands that enhance your allies’ flanking, repositioning, and joint maneuvers.

Use coordinated misdirection to disrupt enemy expectations and enable your allies to shift tempo - carrying momentum into the next round for a sudden surge of tactical advantage.

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

Use battlefield awareness and instinct to alert nearby allies just in time, granting them enhanced reactions to enemy actions.

You provoke a chosen opponent into targeting you - disrupting tactics and drawing aggression your way.

Intellectual skill focusing on the study, analysis, and debate of religious and ethical ideas. It involves interpreting sacred texts, comparing different belief systems, and exploring metaphysical questions about existence, morality, and the divine.

Use subtle gestures, slang, and body language to convey secret messages understood only by those in the know - without alerting outsiders.

Gauge an opponent’s general combat effectiveness, stance, and condition compared to your own.

Mastery in throwing objects or weapons with power and precision—useful for combat, trick shots, or improvised ranged tactics.

Touch Spell is a skill that allows a character to cast spells requiring physical contact. This would normally put caster at large risk, but this is mitigated by this skill.

The study and field-use of poisons and toxins: how to create, recognize, manipulate, and exploit them for tactical, investigative, or scientific purposes.

Follow the trail of creatures, people, or vehicles - or cover your own - to manage pursuit, predict movement, or avoid being tracked.

Identify and interpret the signs of hidden traps through a blend of instinct, experience, and focused scanning—especially those concealed with magic, tech, or clever camouflage.

Sense the presence of mechanical, magical, or technological traps before triggering them.

Perform precise and unconventional shots to achieve non-damaging but impressive or useful results—like cutting a rope, hitting a trigger, or splitting an arrow.

A mostly defensive skill that allows the character to move unpredictably, making them difficult to hit by opponents.

A defensive skill that allows the character to move unpredictably, making them difficult to hit by opponents.

Engage in melee without weapons while avoiding the usual defensive penalties.

Remain alert and aware of all nearby threats, allowing you to avoid being caught off-guard, flanked, or surprised by attacks from multiple directions.

Use darkness and environmental cover to avoid being seen.

Fluidly change your combat stance mid-attack to adapt to the flow of battle, seamlessly shifting between offensive and defensive approaches.

You excell in setting up AR and VR software. You create specialised testing environments and models to enhance effects of both tech modules and spells relying on artificial realism.

Trigger a short-lived surge of vitality in an ally, helping them push through pain - but the effect is strongest if applied before injuries are sustained.

Identify vulnerabilities (and strengths) in enemies to exploit in combat or spellcasting.

Repair and maintenance of guns, rifles and modern projectile weapons used with the Kinetic Solutions tech module.

Hold your attack and unleash a flurry of reactive strikes the moment enemies enter your melee range - forcing them to either stay back or get hit.

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

When the going gets tough, the tough gets going. You have learned to keep fighting even if the odds are against you.