Billy Chance was called the Hangman in his youth. Not for extensive use of lassos or nooses, but because he was strong enough to crush a man's windpipe one-handed.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are engaged in unarmed combat.
+2 dice to rolls for Attacking, Defending, and Clashing without a weapon. Unarmed attacks do +7 Weapon Damage (instead of -1). The target's Armor is fully effective against this damage.
You also gain the following effects:
Jean's clipboard clicks as he secures a fresh piece of paper at the top. Popping the cap off his pen, the man throws his gaze across the terrain before starting to scribble down notes on the parchment, occasionally closing his eyes and listening in or taking another quick glance across the environemnt. He stays dead silent, slowly moving to inspect the area from different angles, making sure no details are missed.
Exert your Mind and spend a minute. Investigate an area with a radius of up to 100 feet You must actively and obviously use a ledger and a pen to activate this Effect. At the end of your investigation, roll Perception + Alertness at Difficulty 6.
You learn the following information about the area:
Alister has reconfigured the chaise of his body and applied a reactive coating of electronically charged iron shavings. his body is completely black covered in this metallic dust. on impact a portion of the dust is knocked away revealing the shinny vulnerable bronze left underneath. eventually the dust is drawn back to its original place.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You have 4 Armor, which reduces incoming damage from all sources of physical attack except Corrosive substinces. Armor from multiple sources does not stack. This Armor cannot be circumvented with Called Shots.
James secretes mustard gas from his pores when he becomes worried or scared.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Living target within 20 feet. This Effect cannot be used unless James becomes especially worried. Roll Perception + Alertness at Difficulty 6. Your target may resist by rolling Body at Difficulty 8.
If you succeed, the target is afflicted with a Condition that causes any number of the following symptoms:
The affliction can be diagnosed with a Medicine roll, and may be cured by modern medicine through treatment at a fully equipped facility. Treatment outside of a facility may stop the affliction from worsening for a day, but will not cure the underlying Condition.
Any Scars, Traumas, or Injuries caused by your symptoms cannot be healed until the underlying Condition is cured.
This Effect ends if you are stunned, fall asleep, go unconscious, are incapacitated, die, or if your total Stress ever exceeds 5.
As Bryan folds the paper in his hands, so too does any paper surface around him-- sculpting, bending, and morphing in the same way his paper is folded. The creation of a shape requires him to carefully fold the paper into the desired design, which cause strands of the paper to supernaturally extend and weave themselves together to create the surface.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Location within 50 feet. You may choose not to pay this Effect’s activation cost. When you activate this Effect, if it is active from a previous activation where you didn’t pay, that Effect ends. You must actively and obviously use folding paper to activate this Effect.
Select one of the following alterations to create out of paper originating at the target:
The alteration begins to form when you activate this Effect and finishes forming on your initiative in the next Round. Until it finishes forming, it is not guaranteed to function.
This alteration lasts indefinitely but may be prematurely destroyed or altered. Your alterations may be broken through with appropriate tools. Anyone attempting to break through must roll Brawn + a relevant Ability. A cumulative Outcome of 18 across all attempts breaks a hole large enough to move through. See the extended system text for GM guidance on various tools.
You may sculpt your walls, domes, or tunnels as you create them, without any additional activation time or cost.
After activating this Effect, you may maintain Concentration for 3 Rounds to reinforce your alteration. If you do, it becomes as sturdy as concrete and just as difficult to break.
You may end this Effect prematurely as a Free Action.
Being a were-shark, Clara has a big tail and sharp teeth based on the cute yellow lemon shark. Watch out for those bites!!! Can't blame her if the shark in her gets hungry ;P
Big Chomp:
Knife, Brawn + Brawl, +2 damage
Isolophobia
Your pack animal instincts ring true; (You must make a Self Control roll to ever be, or allow yourself to be alone. On a failure, you either shut down or flee until you can find the company of another--or similar at the GM's discretion)
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: Lemon Shark Girl. You are considered to be a Sapient, Living Creature when targeted..
While in Ocean, heat, cold, pressure, and other atmospheric hazards do not affect you, and dangerous local flora and fauna will not bother you unless you give them a reason.
You may make a +2 Weapon Damage Big Chomp attack without additional equipment.
Any creature that consumes or is injected with your bodily fluids receives a Severity-1 Injury. Every minute, they must roll Body Difficulty 9. If they fail, the Injury worsens by 1 Severity. If they succeed, the Injury stops worsening.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Isolophobia.
You cannot ignore or decrease the effects of Stress for any Self-Control rolls you make.
Be amazed as the magician wields a deck of simple playing cards with all the poise and precision of a ninja's shurikens. Fear not, for they will not hit you, unless they want to.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are engaged in combat with playing cards.
+2 dice to all rolls utilizing playing cards.
You also gain the following effects:
The Psychic can speak directly into someone's mind, engaging in an entirely telepathic conversation. While they do, they take on a blank, vacant stare in the direction of their target, and appear to be muttering gibberish to themselves under their breath.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a target any distance away from you. You must have a specific target in mind, but you require only an intuitive understanding of them, such as their name, face, or Location. This Effect cannot be used unless you can see your target.
You open up a line of communication to your target, and may converse with them as long as one of you maintains Concentration
The conversation will only be perceived by the intended recipient. You must share a common language for your target to understand the message.
The time-twister presses a button on one of their wristwatches, and, in a flash of orange light, disappears. They have skipped 12 seconds forward in time. To them, the travel is instantaneous, but everyone else must wait until they reappear.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. You must actively and obviously use a clock or watch to activate this Effect.
You phase out of reality for 4 Rounds. During this time, you cannot perceive or affect the outside world or take any Actions. You cannot move. Nothing can interact with you in any way.
When you phase out, you may bring up to 1 additional target in arm's reach with you.
The magician waves a handkerchief over an item, and it disappears! They may produce the object later by fluttering a scarf.
Spend a Quick Action. You must actively and obviously use a scarf, sheet, or handkerchief to activate this Effect.
You may withdraw an item from your stash, or add an item that is within arm’s reach to your stash. You may only stash targets which are in your possession, grappled, or otherwise controlled by you.
You may store Objects in your stash, each no larger than something which could fit inside a briefcase (15 liters), and you may store up to 3 things at a time.
You may choose to equip any equipment you withdraw at no additional cost.
Through years of practice, the mobster is able to shatter someone's kneecap without much effort.
Spend an Action. Select a Living target within arm's reach. You must actively and obviously use a melee weapon to activate this Effect. Roll Brawn + Melee at Difficulty 6. The target may roll Body, -2 dice at Difficulty 7, as a Free Action to resist.
If you succeed, the target receives a new Battle Scar of your choosing, limited by the contested Outcome:
All alterations you make must damage the target's knees.
This Gift's Cost is capped at 2 and cannot be increased further.