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College Wizard
(Improved)
Tier: 3
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the College
Wizard talent to benefit from this talent.
Your character reduces any Miscast result they
cause by 30 instead of 10, to a minimum of 01.
Combined Attack
Tier: 3
Activation: Active (Incidental)
Ranked: No
Once per round, when your character makes
a melee combat check, they may suffer 3 strain
to use this talent. Upgrade the difficulty of
the check once. While resolving the check, the
weapon gains the Linked item quality with
the rating equal to your character's ranks in
Coordination.
Demolitionist
Tier: 3
Activation: Active (Action)
Ranked: No
Your character may use this talent to make an
Engineering check to attempt to destroy some
sort of cover present in the current encounter
at the expense of a bomb. The difficulty of
the check is Easy (k) plus k for each point of
defense the cover provides, to a maximum of
Formidable (kkkkk). Additional bombs can
be used to add j per bomb used, to a maximum
of jj. If the check is successful, for
each s one enemy benefiting from the cover
loses the benefit until the end of the encounter.
Additionally, aa can be spent to hit one
enemy in the cover. The hit deals the bomb's
base damage, plus any damage from applicable
talents or abilities.
Diplomatic Immunity
Tier: 3
Activation: Active (Incidental)
Ranked: No
When your character is accused of committing
a crime (except for the most serious
ones like murder, worshiping Chaos etc.) you
may spend one Story Point to use this talent.
Your character avoids any possible fines or
jail-time and is released immediately, even
if they were caught red-handed. However, if
your character is, in fact, guilty, your GM may
rule that this talent might only be activated
by them suffering one corruption instead of
spending a Story Point.
Elusive
Tier: 3
Activation: Active (Incidental, Out of Turn)
Ranked: No
When another character makes a check to follow
your character’s trail (whether physical tracks or
a trail of information), your character may use
this talent to add a number of f equal to their
ranks in Streetwise or Survival, as appropriate
to the environment, to the check results.
Note: Originally from the SotC rulebook.
Feint
Tier: 3
Activation: Active (Maneuver)
Ranked: No
Once per encounter, add a number of h equal
to your character's ranks in Coordination to the
results of the next melee combat check targeting
your character this round.
Guard Dog
Tier: 3
Activation: Active (Incidental)
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased Small, But Vicious
Dog talent to benefit from this talent.
Once per round, your character may use this
talent to guide their dog to perform the Guard
Dog maneuver. Until the end of your character's
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