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.
Smart
+2 to your Intellect Pool.
Granted from Perceptive
Possible GM intrusion from your focus:
Weapons break or fly from even the strongest grip. Brawlers trip and fall. Even the battlefield can work against you with things falling or collapsing.
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A Master Athlete is also known as a Explorer
Master Athlete
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.
Perceptive
You miss little. You pick out the small details in the world around you and are skilled at making deductions from the information you find. Your talents make you an exceptional sleuth, a formidable scientist, or a talented scout.
As adept as you are at finding clues, you have no skill at picking up on social cues. You overlook an offense that your deductions give or how uncomfortable your scrutiny can make the people around you. You tend to dismiss others as being intellectual dwarfs compared to you, which avails you little when you need a favor.
Looks For Trouble
You're a scrapper and love a good fight.
Choose how you became involved in the adventure:
- You overheard the other PCs discussing their mission and volunteered your services.
- One of the PCs asked you to come along, believing that your talents would be invaluable to the mission.
- You believe that the PCs' mission is somehow related to one of your investigations.
- A third party recruited you to follow the PCs and see what they were up to.
Powers gained from found a device.
Background Connection:
You were kidnapped as a small child under mysterious circumstances, although you were recovered safely. The case still has some notoriety.
Focus Connection:
Pick one other PC. That character knows you have suffered at the hands of robotic entities in the past. Whether you hate robots now is up to you, which may affect your relationship with the character if they are friendly with robots or have robotic parts.
You are trained in any task that involves finding or noticing small details.
Granted from Perceptive
You are trained in any task that involves identifying objects or calling to mind a minor detail or bit of trivia.
Granted from Perceptive
You are trained in any task that involves intimidating another creature.
Granted from Perceptive
Light Weapons
Granted from Explorer
Medium Weapons
Granted from Explorer
Heavy Weapons
Granted from Explorer
Any task involving positive social interactions is hindered.
Granted from Perceptive
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.
Granted from Master Athlete
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 Master Athlete
You inflict 2 additional points of damage with unarmed attacks. Enabler.
Granted from Looks For Trouble
You gain 6 points to divide among your stat Pools however you wish. Enabler.
Granted from Looks For Trouble
This ability provides an asset to any tasks involving manual dexterity, such as pickpocketing, lockpicking, games involving agility, and so on. Each use lasts up to a minute; a new use (to switch tasks) replaces the previous use. Action to initiate.
Granted from Tier 2 Advancement From Master Athlete
You make a melee attack that inflicts no damage. Instead, if the attack hits, make a second Might-based roll. If successful, a foe of level 3 or lower is knocked unconscious for one minute. For each level of Effort used, you can affect one higher level of foe, or you can extend the duration for an additional minute. Action.
Granted from Looks For Trouble
When you make an unarmed attack (such as a punch or kick), it counts as a medium weapon instead of a light weapon. Enabler.
Granted from Master Athlete
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.
Granted from Master Athlete
You are trained in two skills in which you are not already trained. Choose two of the following: balancing, climbing, jumping, running, or swimming. You can select this ability multiple times. Each time you select it, you must choose two different skills. Enabler.
Granted from Tier 1 Advancement From Master Athlete
You designate a single character to be your charge. You can change this freely every round, but you can have only one charge at a time. As long as that charge is within immediate range, they gain an asset for Speed defense tasks because you have their back. Enabler.
Granted from Looks For Trouble
Your second recovery roll (usually requiring ten minutes) is only a single action. Enabler.
Granted from Master Athlete
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 Master Athlete
You can move a short distance and make a melee attack that inflicts 2 additional points of damage. Action.
Granted from Tier 3 Advancement From Master Athlete
Your standard movement increases from short to long. Enabler.
Granted from Master Athlete
Choose one type of defense task in which you are not already trained: Might, Speed, or Intellect. You are trained in defense tasks of that type. Enabler.
Granted from Master Athlete
Your attacks against objects inflict 4 additional points of damage when you use a melee weapon that you wield in two hands. Enabler.
Granted from Master Athlete
You are trained in one of the following tasks (choose one): breaking things, climbing, jumping, or running. Enabler.
Granted from Looks For Trouble
When you move no more than a short distance, you can move without making a sound, regardless of the surface you move across. Enabler.
Granted from Master Athlete
When you use an action to make your first recovery roll of the day, you immediately gain another action. Enabler.
Granted from Master Athlete
You are trained in Speed defense tasks when not wearing armor. Enabler.
Granted from Master Athlete
You are trained in healing. Enabler.
Granted from Looks For Trouble
This cypher boosts an ability that requires a skill roll. The use of the ability is eased (eased by two steps if the cypher is level 5 or higher).
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