The Old World - Grim and Perilous Beta v3

next turn, target character within dog's short
range increases their melee defense by one.
Harass
Tier: 3
Activation: Active (Incidental)
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Small, But
Vicious Dog or Animal Companion talent to benefit
from this talent.
Whenever the character's animal companion
makes a successful combat check against
a target, it may forgo inflicting damage to upgrade
the difficulty of the target's next check
once instead.
Headshot
Tier: 3
Activation: Passive
Ranked: Yes
Your character adds damage equal to one plus
their ranks in Headshot to combat checks aiming
at the head of the target.
Healer
Tier: 3
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
When your character uses a healing potion or a
herbal medicine, the target heals two additional
wounds. The sixth healing potion and beyond
each day still has no effect.
Herbalism
Tier: 3
Activation: Active (Action)
Ranked: No
While in a rural environment, your character
may use this talent to make an Average (kk)
Survival check to attempt to heal themselves
or any engaged character. If successful, for
each uncanceled s target character heals one
wound. If target's current wounds exceeded
their wound threshold, heal one wound per
uncanceled ss instead.
Heroic Resilience
Tier: 3
Activation: Active (Incidental, Out of Turn)
Ranked: No
Once per encounter, when your character suffers
wounds, you may spend one Story Point to use
this talent to reduce wounds suffered by a number
equal to your character's ranks in Resilience.
Improvised Defenses
Tier: 3
Activation: Active (Action)
Ranked: No
Your character may use this talent to make
a Hard (kkk) Engineering check to attempt
to create temporary cover. If the check is successful,
the cover provides ranged defense of
1 and can cover one character for each uncanceled
s. t can be spend to increase defense
provided to 2.
Investigator
Tier: 3
Activation: Active (Action)
Ranked: No
Once per session, your character may use this
talent to make a Hard (kkk) Perception check
while present at a crime scene. If they succeed,
for each s they identify one prominent physical
characteristics of one person who was at
the crime scene when the crime was committed
(as long as the crime was committed in the
past 24 hours). This could include a person’s
height, weight, body type, clothing, and if they
are human or not.
Know the Ropes
Tier: 3
Activation: Active (Incidental, Out of Turn)
Ranked: No
Once per encounter, before one of your character's
allies makes a check, you may spend one
Story Point to use this talent. Your character
adds a number of s equal to their ranks in
Sailing to the results of the check. When your
character uses this talent, you should explain
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