Dr. Reagan Murazik is a Tier 2 Hardy Detective who Solves Mysteries with a Stealth Flavor in a Modern world

Tier

Effort

Might

Defense Trained

Armor 1

Pool

Edge

Speed

Defense Trained

Initiative Inability

+X Armor Penalty

Pool

Edge

Intellect

Pool

Edge

Special Abilities
Almost Unstoppable
While you are impaired on the damage track, you function as if you were hale. While you are debilitated, you function as if you were impaired. In other words, you don't suffer the effects of being impaired until you become debilitated, and you never suffer the effects of being debilitated. You still die if all your stat Pools are 0. Granted from Hardy

Curious
You're always curious about your surroundings, even on a subconscious level. Whenever you use Effort to attempt navigation, perception, or initiative tasks in an area that you've only rarely or never visited before, you can apply an additional free level of Effort. Enabler. Granted from Detective

Fast Healer
You halve the time it takes to make a recovery roll (minimum one action). Granted from Hardy

Investigator
To really shine as an investigator, you must engage your mind and body in your deductions. You can spend points from your Might Pool, Speed Pool, or Intellect Pool to apply levels of Effort to any Intellect-based task. Enabler. Granted from Solves Mysteries

Opportunist
You have an asset on any attack roll you make against a creature that has already been attacked at some point during the round and is within immediate range. Enabler. Granted from Stealth Flavor

Ponderous
When you apply Effort when making a Speed roll, you must spend 1 extra point from your Speed Pool. Granted from Hardy

Practiced In Armor
You can wear armor for long periods of time without tiring and can compensate for slowed reactions from wearing armor. You reduce the Speed cost for wearing armor by 1. You start the game with a type of armor of your choice. Enabler. Granted from Detective

Range Increase
Ranges for you increase by one step. Immediate becomes short, short becomes long, long becomes very long, and very long becomes 1,000 feet (300 m). Enabler. Granted from Detective

Sense Ambush
You are never surprised by an attack. Enabler. Granted from Stealth Flavor

► Skills	Pool	Cost	T	I
Eye For Detail	I	2
When you spend five minutes or so thoroughly exploring an area no larger than a short distance in diameter, you can ask the GM one question about the area. The GM must answer you truthfully. You cannot use this more than one time per area per 24 hours. Action to initiate, five minutes to complete. Granted from Detective
Surging Confidence	M	1
When you use an action to make your first recovery roll of the day, you immediately gain another action. Enabler. Granted from Detective
Danger Sense	S	1
Your initiative task is eased. You pay the cost each time the ability is used. Enabler. Granted from Detective
Out Of Harm's Way			T
No matter how careful, an investigator sometimes ends up in a scrap. Knowing how to survive is more than half the battle. You are trained in Speed defense tasks. Enabler. Granted from Solves Mysteries
Sleuth			T
Finding the clues is the first step in solving a mystery. You are trained in perception. Enabler. Granted from Solves Mysteries
Trained In Might Defense Actions			T
Granted from Hardy
Light Weapons
Light Weapons Granted from Explorer
Medium Weapons
Medium Weapons Granted from Explorer
Heavy Weapons				X
Heavy Weapons Granted from Explorer
Your Big, Strong Body Is Slow To React				X
Any task involving initiative is hindered. Granted from Hardy

► Attacks	Dmg	Skill	Pool	Type
Punch	2	P	M	L
Mod:0 Cost:Free Skill:Practiced Distance:Immediate A right jab. Attacks are eased by 1 for Light weapons
Medium Weapon	4	P	M	M
Mod:0 Cost:Free Skill:Practiced Distance:Immediate A medium weapon of your choice. Granted from Starting Equipment.

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Flagrant Provocation	Level: 6
You mock or anger a creature, who then focuses its attention on you. For the next minute, the creature is hostile to you if it wasn't already, and attacks only you. Even a previously friendly creature will attack until you are debilitated, though they probably won't kill you. To observers, it may appear that they attacked you unprovoked (the GM can require an additional deception task for this effect). Subtle
Inspirit Ally	Level: 2
Choose an ally who can see or hear you. You cheer, encourage, inspire, or approvingly acknowledge them in your own unique way. One task they attempt before the start of your next turn is eased by two steps. Subtle
Limit 2

Equipment
Appropriate clothing and a weapon of your choice, plus two expensive items, two moderately priced items, and up to four inexpensive items. Granted from Starting Equipment.
Armor of your choice. Granted from Practiced In Armor.
Armor 1 Money 0

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► Abilites available at next tier (3)

Choose one Focus ability from below

Skill With Attacks from Solves Mysteries

Choose one type of attack in which you are not already trained: light bashing, light bladed, light ranged, medium bashing, medium bladed, medium ranged, heavy bashing, heavy bladed, or heavy ranged. You are trained in attacks using that type of weapon. You can select this ability multiple times. Each time you select it, you must choose a different type of attack. Enabler.

You Studied from Solves Mysteries

To be able to put two and two together to reach a deduction, you have to know a few things. You are trained in two areas of knowledge of your choosing (as long as they are not physical actions or combat related) or specialized in one area. Enabler.

Choose three additional abilities from below

Controlled Fall from Detective

When you fall while you are able to use actions and within reach of a vertical surface, you can attempt to slow your fall. Make a Speed roll with a difficulty of 1 for every 20 feet (6 m) you fall. On a success, you take half damage from the fall. If you reduce the difficulty to 0, you take no damage. Enabler.

Experienced In Armor from Detective

The cost reduction from your Practiced in Armor ability improves. You now reduce the Speed cost by 2. Enabler.

Expert Cypher Use from Detective

You can bear three cyphers at a time. Enabler.

Ignore The Pain from Detective

You ignore the impaired condition and treat the debilitated condition as impaired. Enabler.

Obstacle Running from Detective

For the next minute, you can ignore obstacles that slow your movement, allowing you to travel at normal speed through areas with rubble, fences, tables, and similar objects that you would have to climb over or move around. This movement might include sliding on a railing, briefly running along a wall, or even stepping on a creature to boost yourself over something. If an obstacle would normally require a Might or Speed task to overcome, such as swinging on a rope, balancing on a rope, or jumping over a hole, you are trained in that task. Enabler.

Resilience from Detective

You have 1 point of Armor against any kind of physical damage, even physical damage that normally ignores Armor. Enabler.

Run And Fight from Detective

You can move a short distance and make a melee attack that inflicts 2 additional points of damage. Action.

Seize The Moment from Detective

If you succeed on a Speed defense roll to resist an attack, you gain an action. You can use the action immediately even if you have already taken a turn in the round. You don't take an action during the next round, unless you apply a level of Effort when you use Seize the Moment. Enabler.

Skill With Attacks from Detective

Stone Breaker from Detective

Your attacks against objects inflict 4 additional points of damage when you use a melee weapon that you wield in two hands. Enabler.

Think Your Way Out from Detective

When you wish it, you can use points from your Intellect Pool rather than your Might Pool or Speed Pool on any noncombat action. Enabler.

Trapfinder from Detective

You find any traps (like a floor that would give way beneath you) or mechanical triggers to a trap or defense system that might pose a threat. You can do this without setting them off and in lieu of making a roll to find them. This ability can find traps of level 4 or below. In addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can choose to use Effort to increase the level of traps that can be found by 2, so using two levels of Effort can find all traps of level 8 or below. Action.

Wrest From Chance from Detective

If you roll a natural 1 on a d20, you can reroll the die. If you reroll, you avoid a GM intrusion-unless you roll a second 1-and might succeed on your task. Once you use this ability, it is not available again until after you make a ten-hour recovery roll. Enabler.

Evanesce from Stealth Flavor

You step into shadows or behind cover, and everyone who was observing you completely loses track of you. Although you're not invisible, you can't be seen until you reveal yourself again by moving out of the shadows or from behind cover (or by making an attack). Action.

From The Shadows from Stealth Flavor

If you successfully attack a creature that was previously unaware of your presence, you deal 3 additional points of damage. Enabler.

Gambler from Stealth Flavor

Each day, choose two different numbers from 2 to 16. One number is your lucky number, and the other is your unlucky number. Whenever you make a roll that day and get a number matching your lucky number, your next task is eased. Whenever you make a roll that day and get a number matching your unlucky number, your next task is hindered. Enabler.

Inner Defense from Stealth Flavor

Life's trials have toughened you and made you hard to read. You are trained in any task to resist another creature's attempt to discern your true feelings, beliefs, or plans. You are likewise trained in resisting torture, telepathic intrusion, and mind control. Enabler.

Misdirect from Stealth Flavor

When an opponent misses you, you can redirect their attack to another target (a creature or object) of your choosing that's within immediate range of you. Make an unmodified attack roll against the new target (do not use any of your or the opponent's modifiers to the attack roll, but you can apply Effort for accuracy). If the attack hits, the target takes damage from your opponent's attack. Enabler.

▽ Background

A Detective is also known as a Explorer

Detective
You are a person of action and physical ability, fearlessly facing the unknown. You travel to strange, exotic, and dangerous places, and discover new things. This means you're physical but also probably knowledgeable. Although Explorers can be academics or well studied, they are first and foremost interested in action. They face grave dangers and terrible obstacles as a routine part of life.

Hardy
Your body was built to take abuse. Whether you're pounding down stiff drinks while holding up a bar in your favorite watering hole or trading blows with a thug in a back alley, you keep going, shrugging off hurts and injuries that might slow or incapacitate a lesser person. Neither hunger nor thirst, cut flesh nor broken bone can stop you. You just press on through the pain and continue.

As fit and healthy as you are, the signs of wear show in the myriad scars crisscrossing your body, your thrice-broken nose, your cauliflower ears, and any number of other disfigurements you wear with pride.

Solves Mysteries
You're a master of deduction, using evidence to find the answer.

Choose how you became involved in the adventure:
- The PCs recruited you after learning about your reputation as a survivor.
- You joined the PCs because you want or need the money.
- The PCs offered you a challenge equal to your physical power.
- You believe the only way the PCs will succeed is if you are along to protect them.

▽ Connections

When you were young, you were addicted to narcotics, and now you are a recovering addict.

Pick one other PC whose focus intertwines with yours. This odd connection affects them in some way. For example, if the character uses a weapon, your focus ability sometimes improves their attack in some fashion.

▽ Notes

Possible player intrusions based on your character type:
Fortuitous Malfunction
A trap or a dangerous device malfunctions before it can affect you.

Serendipitous Landmark
Just when it seems like the path is lost (or you are), a trail marker, a landmark, or simply the way the terrain or corridor bends, rises, or falls away suggests to you the best path forward, at least from this point.

Weak Strain
The poison or disease turns out not to be as debilitating or deadly as it first seemed, and inflicts only half the damage that it would have otherwise.

Mighty
+4 to your Might Pool.
Granted from Hardy

Possible GM intrusion from your focus:
Evidence disappears, red herrings confuse, and witnesses lie. Initial research can be faulty.

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