Class Abilities

Life of the Mind: (prologue) A mind of your caliber does not lack for lucrative opportunities …Or distractions. You gain +1 Wealth and make a list of 7 Interests. Once per session as a free action, you may reveal the depths of your curiosity, gaining your choice of one of these Interests until the end of the current session. You may spend a Twist to exchange this Interest for another Interest from your list at any time.

If you later gain any of these Interests permanently, you may choose a new Interest to replace it.

Perception:
At Level 1, You gain formidable Vigilance and may make Acting & Tactics checks using your Awareness modifier. (Whenever you roll a 1-9 on a Vigilance check, turn the die to ‘10’. If you gain the same formidable skill a second time, you gain a Skill Talent instead.)

Sherlock:
You are almost painfully good at reading the details of a person’s life from their belongings. At Level 2, once per adventure per character, you may spend 1 Turn studying that character (alive or dead) for insights into their past. Choose two of the following pieces of information.

• Their Backstory
• Their Faction (If their faction is unknown to you at this time you may choose a different piece of information to replace this one.)
• Their Attribute scores and Lifestyle
• All of their Class Levels (or Class Abilities if an NPC)
• Their Presence and up to 3 Allies or Communities they have standing with (Game Runner’s choice)
• Their state of health (or state immediately before death, if deceased)
• All of their Interests
• Up to 3 locations they’ve visited in the last 24 hours (Game Runner’s choice)
• A single hint (Game Runner’s choice)

At Level 11, you may choose four of these pieces of information.

Just the Facts:(plot twist)
You put two and two together and regularly come up with five! At Levels 3, 6, 9, 12, and 15, once per session, you may spend a Twist to set the result of one of your Acting, Analysis, Tactics, or Vigilance skill checks to a natural 20 instead of rolling. You may use Just the Facts with Clash skill checks, but only once per Clash. If the check requires more than a single turn and is not part of a Clash, the time required for the check is reduced to one-half of normal, rounded up to the neared whole turn.

(You cannot be forced to reroll a natural 20.)

Past Clients I:
The gratitude of those you have helped can be quite tangible. At Level 4, you create a new Contact with the ability to pull Delivery 4, Diversion 4, Event 4, Rumors 4, or Support 4 Strings. At the beginning of each adventure, you gain a pool of 4 Twists which may only be spent pulling the Strings of your Contacts or Allies.

Past Clients II:
At Level 8, you create a second Contact with the Delivery 4, Diversion 4, Event 4, Rumors 4, or Support 4 Strings and your pool of Twists for Pulling Strings increases to 7 Twists..

Past Clients III:
At Level 12, you create a third Contact with the Delivery 4, Diversion 4, Event 4, Rumors 4, or Support 4 Strings and your pool of Twists for Pulling Strings increases to 10 Twists..

Detective Talent:
At Levels 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, and 15 you gain an additional Investigation or Skill Talent.

The Criminal Mind:
You must often master the tactics of your prey to outwit them. At Level 10, you gain either formidable Acting or formidable Tactics.

(Whenever you roll a 1-9 on a formidable skill check, turn the die to ‘10’. If you gain the same formidable skill a second time, you gain a Skill Talent instead.)

Accusation:
Once you’ve unraveled someone’s schemes, they’re rarely at their best anymore. At level 14, Once per scene as a full action, you may accuse one character that can see or hear you, laying out your reasoning for their guilt. That character suffers a –4 Dread penalty to damage rolls and is baffled until the end of the scene. During dramatic scenes, this increases to a –10 fear penalty to damage rolls and 2 grades of baffled.