Talents and Advancements

Talents

Ambush

Requirement: Forceful 2+ and Graceful 2+

Effect: Whenever you make an attack roll of any kind against an enemy who has not made a retaliation in this scene, or against an enemy who is not aware of your presence, your attack roll has Advantage and deals an additional 2 damage if it hits.

Arcane Study

Requirement: Arcane Mastery Rank 2+

Effect: Choose a spell type you don’t know. You can learn those spells. You can take this talent multiple times, choosing different spell types each time. Note that this talent does not let you learn any extra spells straight away - these merely become available to learn in future.

Back to Back

Requirement: Champion class

Effect: Whenever you are within Intimate range of an ally, your attacks and that ally’s attacks both have Advantage.

Overhead Shot

Requirement: Back to Back and Skill Mastery Rank 3+

Effect: Whenever you are in Intimate range of an ally, if they successfully hit with an attack you may use your Reaction to make a single ranged attack against any target, or to make a Reload action.

Shieldmate

Requirement: Back to Back and Martial Mastery Rank 3+

Effect: Whenever you are in Intimate range of an ally, they gain 1 armour if you are wielding a shield.

Broad Study

Requirement: Arcane Mastery Rank 2+ and must be able to learn and cast at least one type of spell

Effect: You can learn an extra spell from the type(s) you can cast.

Arcane Library

Requirement: Arcane Mastery Rank 3+, must be able to learn and cast spells from at least two different types, must have the Broad Study talent.

Effect: You can learn another extra spell from the types you can cast.

Conduit of Arcana

Requirement: Arcane Mastery Rank 4+

Effect: You may maintain two spells at once.

Connection

When you take this perk, choose an NPC or faction that you have interacted with in a positive way over the course of the campaign so far, or you may create one from your past to bring into the game. This NPC or faction becomes your connection. Factions you can join include (but are not limited to) The Fellowship of Restoration, Shields Without Banners, the Eyes of the Architect and the Sanguine Lodge.

Your connection will help you out, and can provide intelligence, muscle, resources or anything else useful. However, they will require something in return for these services.

If your connection is an NPC, their services will be limited to whatever they are good at, and what can be achieved by one person. However the favours they may demand of you will, in turn, be less onerous. If your connection is a faction then they can provide a considerably greater degree of support, but their demands will be greater; they may swear you to secrecy, require a membership fee or demand that you go on missions on their behalf.

If you take this quality during character creation, you can create a character or faction that you are already connected to.

Dancing Step

Requirement: Graceful 2+ and Skill Mastery Rank 2+

Effect: When you successfully Back Out from a melee combat, you may move a distance of up to 1 Zone without using an Action.

Death Rage

Requirement: Your Defiant and Ruthless total 6+

Effect: You deal an extra +1 damage for each Wound you are currently suffering.

Duellist

Requirement: Martial Mastery Rank 2+

Effect: When you are Engaged with a single enemy, and there are none of your allies also engaged with that enemy, you deal an extra +1 Martial damage.

Fortunate

Effect: You have an artifact or a small ritual (touching a piece of iron, saying a certain prayer, donning a particular pair of boots) that brings you good luck. At the start of each Chapter when you roll your Lucky, if you have that item on you, or have enough time to perform your ritual, you can roll the d4 twice and choose the highest result.

Intense Focus

Requirement: Astute 3+ and Defiant 3+

Effect: When you fail to maintain one of your spells, you may choose to succeed in maintaining it. If you do, you cannot use this ability again until the next scene.

Inspire

Requirement: Empathetic 3+ and Skill Mastery Rank 3+

Whenever you Catch Your Breath or have Downtime, you can encourage friendly PCs with a tale of their deeds. Each character who you encourage gets a bonus dice equal to your Skill Mastery; they may use this dice at any time to improve the results of any Aspect roll they make. Once they have used this dice, it is lost until you use this ability again. This dice is also lost if it is not used by the next time the character Catches Breath or has Downtime.

Mark for Death

Requirement: Graceful 2+ and Ruthless 3+ and Skill mastery 2+

Effect: As an action, choose a creature within range 3, then roll your Skill die and note its result. This provokes Retaliation from the creature you targeted. Until the end of your next turn, all attacks made against that creature deal bonus damage equal to the result you noted.

Maiming Strike

Requirement: Graceful 2+ and Ruthless 2+

Effect: When you are Critically Successful on a melee or ranged attack, you can choose to maim your target. If you do, a maimed target has its speed halved (to a minimum of 1) and attacks made against it have Advantage. If you do this, the target successfully Retaliates.

Shattering Blow

Requirement: Forceful 3+

Effect: When you are Critically Successful on a melee attack, you can choose to shatter their armour. If you do, their armour is reduced by 1 for the remainder of the scene. If you do this, the target successfully Retaliates.

The GM should tell you if the target has armour to shatter before you use this ability.

Resilient

Effect: Increase your maximum strain by 2.

Resourceful

Requirement: Astute 2+ and Creative 2+

Effect: Whenever you Scavenge for Provisions, you find an additional Provision.

Rush of Adrenaline

Requirement: Breaker or Champion

Effect: As an action, roll your Martial Mastery. You clear that much Strain when you do this, then you must test your Martial Mastery once.

Rush of Defiance

Requirement: Rush of Adrenaline Talent and Rank 3+ Martial Mastery

Effect: When you use your Rush of Adrenaline ability, you gain armour equal to your Defiant until the end of your turn.

Servant of the Lovers

Requirement: Theurge who follows Aera or Sentinel

Effect: The goddesses Sentinel and Aera are known to be lovers, both acting and keepers of fate. A good number of those who follow one goddess or the other may pledge themselves to both, gaining their dual blessings.

If you are a Theurge who follows Aera then you also gain access to the Psychopomp class ability, and you can learn and cast Death spells. If you are a Theurge who follows Sentinel then you also gain access to the Holy Archive class ability, and you can learn and cast Divination spells.

Shove

Requirement: Forceful 2+

Effect: When you are Critically Successful with a melee attack, you can choose to move your target to a position within range 0. If you do this, the target is successful in their Retaliation.

Swift Reload

Requirement: Graceful 2+

Effect: You reduce the number of actions needed to reload a reloading weapon by 1, and you can replace an Energy weapon’s Power Cell without using any of your actions.

Warmage

Effect: Whenever you cast a spell with the [Attack] tag, you can choose to deal damage with it using your Martial or Skill Damage instead of your Arcane Damage.

Spellblade

Requirement: Warmage Talent and Rank 2+ Martial Mastery and Rank 3+ Arcane mastery

Effect: Whenever you cast a spell with the [Attack] tag, you can cast it through a weapon you are carrying. If you do, add any of the weapon’s tags of your choice to the spell.

Windfall

You gain 25 chips. If you take this quality during the course of a campaign, tell the group what stroke of good fortune caused you to come across this money. If you take this during character creation, you can use the chips to buy extra items for your character to start with.