The Old World: Grim and Perilous
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Baleful Gaze
Tier:
Activation: Active (Incidental, Out of Turn)
Ranked: No
Once per round, when your character is targeted
by a combat check from within medium
range, they may spend a Story Point to upgrade
the difficulty of the check a number of
times equal to their ranks in Coercion.
College Wizard
(Supreme)
Tier:
Activation: Active (Incidental)
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the College Wizard
(Improved) talent to benefit from this talent.
When your character causes a Miscast, but
before determining its result, you may spend
a Story Point to count the result as if it were
rolled “”.
Combat Fury
Tier:
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
Each time an adversary or a minion group is
defeated within short range of your character,
your character heals strain.
Concussive Strike
Tier:
Activation: Active (Incidental)
Ranked: No
Once per round, before performing a Melee
(Light) or Melee (Heavy) check, your character
may suffer two strain to use this talent. Increase
the difficulty of the check by one; while
resolving the check the weapon gains the Concussive
quality.
Coordinated Strike
Tier:
Activation: Active (Incidental)
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Coordinated
Assault talent to benefit from this talent..
When your character uses the Coordinated
Assault talent, in addition to the standard effect
of the talent, your character may suffer
strain to use this talent. Allies affected by Coordinated
Assault add damage equal to your
character's ranks in Coordinated Assault to all
combat checks they make until the end of your
character’s next turn.
Deadly Premonition
Tier:
Activation: Active (Incidental)
Ranked: No
Once per session, when your character makes
a Predict magic action with a Cheat Death additional
effect, they may suffer corruption
to use this talent to expand the effect to one
additional character. The character must be in
visual range when incapacitated or killed and
you still need to spend a Story Point for the
effect to trigger.
Dire Animal
Companion
Tier:
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Animal
Companion talent or Small, but Vicious Dog talent to
benefit from this talent.
The animal companion your character has
bonded with through the Animal Companion
talent or Small, but Vicious Dog talent increases
its Brawn by one, to a maximum of , and
its wound threshold by four. If it is a nemesis,
it increases its strain threshold by four. If it is
a minion or rival, it becomes a nemesis and
gains a strain threshold of . If it is silhouette
, it becomes silhouette . Your character
also chooses to increase either its Agility or its
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