Combat Skills and Support Skills

OUTDOORSMAN / SURVIVAL


Flora Recognition That plant there could be poison...or it could be tasty as hell. Do you want to chance it? If the one you're listening to has this skill, you're safe. Extensive knowledge of plant like in all areas makes for a simple distinction between safe...and dead. 600
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<Flora Sense>
Description:
Effect: You can sense and track all plants/plant-monsters. Additionally, your expert knowledge on plants lets you know all there is to know about their effects. Only one Sense may be active at a time.


Fauna Recognition Know when that bear might attack, if that's a badger, a wolverine, or just a skunk. Know the other living, breathing, moving things around your environment...or you might become their next meal. With this skill, it's simple to detect hostilities, to know territorial habits, to recognize when it's safe, and when you're screwed. 600
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<Fauna Sense>
Description:
Effect: You can sense and track all animal/monster lifeforms in your vicinity. Only one Sense may be active at a time.


King of the Hill Rope? check. Pick? check. Okay, up you go! With the proper equipment, climbing anything is no problem. Be it a mountain or the side of the building, once you're set up there's no stopping you. (Climbing rolls nulled when using climbing equipment [rope, grappling hook, etc.] takes 3 turns to climb) 600
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<King of the Hill>


Tracking - Footprints...dung...scent...trails of all sorts are easy to pick up to the skilled outdoorsman. The knowledge and ability to spot these and recognize them makes for tracking anything a piece of cake...as long as steps haven't been taken to make sure they're not easily traced. 700
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<Sense Humanoids>
Description:
Effect: You can sense and track all humanoids/mutants. Only one Sense may be active at a time.

Being Prometheus Prometheus once brought fire to mankind. Now it's pretty damn simple for you to bring fire to your local area. Even with little to no timber, using various elements about (or hey, even a lighter if you have one on you), building the fire is easy, and you know exactly what to do. Not enough timber? You know what will burn. No flint? Use the sun's refraction. 700
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<Prometheus>
Description:
Effect: Enables you to create fires for light and warmth, using little to zero resources. These bonfires ward away all Cold effects.


Map to the Stars Lost? Up the creak without a boat? No worries. Look to the sky. Day light, moon light, my light, Israelites, no light, doesn't matter. If you can see the sky (i.e. if it's clear) then you know your directions like the back of your hand. 800
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<Map to the Stars>
Description:
Effect: As long as you can see the sky or the stars, you are never lost. You automatically know all nautical directions.


Locate Water By listening for a river, watching where plant life thrives, and various other techniques known only to the frontier life, with this skill it's easy to locate clean water in the wilderness. Not only is it easy to find, it's simple to tell if the water is suitable to drink, or if it's just plain toxic. 800
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<Locate Water>
Description: By listening for a river, watching where plant life thrives, and various other techniques known only to the Survivalist, you can easily locate water in the wild.
Effect: Allows you to locate water and create wells from those sources. You will always know if the water is clean, dirty or irradiated.


Blade Skills Stuck in the woods? Got your knife? It's all you need. With this skill, nothing is impossible with one's blade. Throwing can be rolled with either perception or strength, carving, killing, anything necessary for living off the land is all attainable through the knife. 1000
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Shelter Construction Aw shit. It's cold, rainy, and no sign of civilization in sight. What to do? Easy. Make a house. Using simple construction methods, the character utilizes the ability to make a shelter from sticks, limbs, rocks, anything and everything you can find. From a simple lean-to to a luxurious hut, it's no sweat. 1000
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<Shelter Construction>
Description:
Effect: Enables you to build a shelter from your contextual environment. Forest shelters will incorporate trees and vines; Industrial shelters will incorporate sheets of metal and cables, etc. Shelters will protect occupants from most local environmental effects.


Tactical Nature Using the elements to his or her advantage, a character can dodge any attack thrown their way. Hiding behind trees, rocks, or simply climbing a tree quickly. (Auto-dodge) (Quest only) (Can be used twice per quest) (No roll required) 1000
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<Wild Movement>
Description: Using the environment to your advantage, enter a primal state of speed and reaction to evade all enemy attacks and reposition yourself.
Effect: Upon invoking this defensive perk, you evade all incoming enemy attacks, and may immediately make an extended movement action. You may auto-pass all Acrobatic or Athletic checks, such as climbing, swimming, flying, etc.


Tame Animal You have a way with the wild, an understanding of animals that would put Dr. Doolittle to shame. You can calm down any hostile animals and avoid any nasty confrontations with teeth and claws. 1000


Bow Proficiency This skill shows the user's extreme skill with a bow and arrow. +1 to hit for all bows. 1000


Broken Arrow With this skill, a character can apply the 'Headshot' or 'Decapitate' skill with bows and crossbows. The character must have one of the skills to use this. 1000


Elemental Attack Something about the land, isn't there? There's just something about the land...that helps you dish out the extra damage. Getting in tune with mother nature has never been so powerful. (500 DMG if hit, counts as an action) (Quest Only, once per quest) (Regular Attack roll required) 1400
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<Environmental Attack>
Description: Use your surroundings as elemental attacks! Rupture a pipeline and deal Cold damage! Throw your enemy into a fire to deal Heat damage! Kick them into a toxic pit for Radiation or Poison! Try all the possibilities!
Effect: A super attack that uses your contextual environment to inflict 500 damage and determine element type.


Everest You know climbing. You can look at anything and pick out a handhold or a foothold. You know which surfaces will hold under your wieght, which will crumble, where the fastest routes up are and that's only from a glance. And when you start climbing, boy howdy, those mountains are nothing to you. (nulls ALL climbing restrictions) (no equipment required) (required King of the Hill) 1500
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<Everest>
Description:
Effect: Nullifies all climbing restrictions and rolls. You require no equipment.


Set Traps You have to eat somehow, right? Be it in the wasteland, in the city, underground, on the shore, in the forest, wherever, you can still set up a simple trap using basic tools. What the trap is used for... is up to you. (GM Discretion) (No roll required) 1500
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<Set Traps>
Description: Enables you to use several different kinds of traps to your advantage.
Effect: Setting up a trap takes a standard action. You can only have 1 trap of each type active at once.
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[Noise Trap] From a simple chain with cans, an electronic alarm, or a silent alert to a pip-boy. Alerts the trap-setter and possibly the area when tripped.
[Snare Trap] Spring-loaded cables ensnare and immobilizes the target for 1d3 rounds.
[Slow Trap] A burst of natural adhesives slow the target's movement speed for 1d3 rounds.
[Explosive Trap] A powerful trip mine deals Explosive damage to anything caught in the blast zone.
[Bleeding Trap] A steel trap with sharp teeth makes the target Bleed for 1d3 rounds.


Detect Traps You've seen and set enough traps out in the wild to know what one looks like. Using your vast knowledge of traps, you can pinpoint the telltale signs of a set trap. (GM Discretion)(perception/luck/lvl roll)(+5 to spot a trap) 1500
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<Trap Master>
Description: You've mastered the applications of traps for survival and utility, as well as fighting indirectly against a hostile foe, making your traps more powerful.
Effect: Doubles the limit of set traps you can have active from 1 to 2. You gain full duration on all set trap effects. You recognize all traps on sight, whether yours or someone else's, and will always be alerted when your traps activate or are disabled. Your traps can now incorporate IFF tags and will no longer threaten allies.


<Scare Animal>
Description: Whether you're using the loud sound of a gun, electric horns on power armor, or your own powerful voice, you can terrify a single animal/monster target.
Effect: A ranged attack that deals no damage, but forces a single animal or monster target to flee from you for 1d3 rounds.

Sic 'em You have the ability to ally with any tamed animal and use them to attack your enemies for one full fight. After the fight, the animal runs away (required Tame Animal) (Requires 21 intel) 1500
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<Command Animal>
Description:
Effect: A tamed animal may be named and used in combat.


Shiver Me Quivvers! The basic quivver holds arrows ready for the archer. This skill reflects the speed and agility one has when reaching to reload their bow, giving the archer an extra attack for every three made. (Example: Bobby can attack with his bow four times in one round. He has the Shiver Me Quivvers! skill. Therefore, he gets five attacks total). 1500
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<Rapid Arrows>
Description:
Effect: Upgrades your attack action combo from 2 to 3, allowing you to attack a total of 6 times per round (when using two attack actions), for all weapons under the Bow, Crossbow, Wristbow or Harpoon-gun category.


Legolas On Crack With a regular bow, a character with this skill can dish out a world of hurt with a set of arrows. Twice during any quest or duel, the character can pull out all the stops - allowing them to fire multiple arrows at once, which effectively adds another 1/2 of the total damage into the damage dealt. (Example, Rob uses the skill Legolas On Crack. He usually does 50 damamge. The skill gives him half his damage, which is 25, to add into his regular damage. His total is 75 damage for that round.) (Can be used twice per quest/duel) 1500
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<Power Arrow>
Description


Spear Chucker Tribal peoples of the wasteland are well known for their accuracy with spears and other polearms. This skill gives a +2 to hit when throwing a spear or other polearm. 1750
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<Tranquilizing Shot>
Description: Whether it's a gun with sleeping darts, an arrow tipped with sleeping poison, or a spiked quill from your mutated body, you can fire a shot to put an organic target to sleep.
Effect: A ranged attack that deals no damage, but puts a single target to sleep for 1d3 rounds. This also removes any enrage/berserk effects.


John Dandee Your bow is not just a weapon out here, it's a companion. Need to use a zip line? Check. Garrote? Check. And so much more. Even in combat the John Dandee comes in handy! Use this skill as a stun with a nat 16 or higher, nat 14 if using a Queen Susan. Your enemy could be decapitated with a nat 20, without Self Control. 1,825
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<Burrow>
Description: Using claws, digging tools, or anything at your disposal, you can dig through soft ground.
Effect: Enables you to dig underground for travel and combat.


Nature's Healing So, it sounds very herbal medicine and new age healing, but that shit works. By drawing in the natural energy of one's surrounding, they can heal themselves a nifty ammount of damage. (Full heal, base HP only) (Quest only, once per quest) (No roll required) 2000
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<Power of Nature>
Description: Once per diem/mission, draw on your environmental surroundings to fill yourself with nature's power. Depending on the type of environment you're in, this will charge you with that element.
Effect: Heals you to 100% HP and makes you immune to all damage/effects matching the absorbed element for 3 rounds, as well as adding that element type to all Unarmed/Melee attacks. The element type is determined by your current surroundings at the time of activating this self-heal.
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Heat: Burns enemy on contact, dealing 50% of your attack's damage as extra heat-damage.
Cold: Freezes enemy on contact, slowing their movement speed by 50% and reducing their maximum attack number by 2.
Electric: Stuns an enemy on contact, paralyzing them for 1d3 rounds. Deals double damage to robots.
Poison: Poisons the enemy on contact, inflicting 10% of their maximum HP for 1d10 rounds.
Radiation: Irradiates the enemy on contact, reducing their rolls and maximum HP.


Combat Archer For use with the Queen Susan Bow, this skill allows you to really dominate the field as an archer. Four shots with a bow, and 2 melee strikes with the same bow, per round (Cannot use with Shiver Me Quivers in the same round) (Requires 15 agility and 30 strength) 2,500
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