This skill represents your inner strength of will needed to defend against mental stress and attacks, stick to your own morals and convictions, and avoid pressure or temptation.
You resist attempts to control your mind and action. Resolve is usually used as a reaction, to measure how well you can resist trauma, fear, panic, madness, insanity, and attempts and mind control. When you are confronted with an emotional or mental trauma that has debilitating effects, you make a Resolve Check to set the trauma aside and act without hinderance.
SPECIAL: You can actively use Resolve as a 1 action skill to prepare to dodge an attack over the upcoming turn. You gain a +1 to your active Resolve check for every 4 ranks in Resolve you possess.
Critical Success Your mental resolve withstands the triggering ability. You take no damage, and suffer no other ill effects from that ability.Success You successfully resist the triggering ability. You take half damage, and ignore other abilities as noted in that ability's description. Failure You suffer the full effects of the ability.Critical Failure You take double damage from the triggering ability, and other negative effects likewise have their duration doubled against you.