Talents

Lets a character push through exhaustion in a crisis by drawing on a sudden reserve of Stamina.

Makes a character more effective when badly outnumbered, helping them endure pressure from several enemies at once.

Lets a wounded character keep functioning by temporarily ignoring some of the penalties caused by injury.

Reduces the impact of fear, shock, and other battlefield conditions that can disrupt a character’s actions.

Allows a strong character to handle oversized weapons and heavy equipment more effectively.

Represents broad physical conditioning that improves the character’s overall toughness and ability to withstand punishment.

Develops raw muscular power, improving feats of strength and the force behind physical attacks.

Allows a character to remain without air longer and function better during dives, smoke exposure, or similar hazards.

Improves sustained physical effort, helping the character keep moving and recover from strenuous activity.

Helps a character control fatigue and recover Stamina through deliberate breathing during stressful situations.

Builds balanced strength and endurance for characters who need to perform several kinds of demanding physical activity.

Gives a badly injured character a chance to remain alive when an attack should finish them.

Allows a character to travel for longer periods and carry on through the fatigue caused by extended movement.

Helps a character resist physical conditions and remain functional after taking serious punishment.

Allows a battered character to regain momentum and return to the fight when the situation turns desperate.

Conditions a character for repeated bursts of strenuous tactical movement and combat activity.

Helps a character remain alert and effective while going without sleep during long watches or emergencies.

Increases the distance and effectiveness of jumps made through raw strength.

Improves resistance to disease, environmental hardship, and other threats to physical health.

Makes the character harder to disarm and better able to hold, carry, or control objects through grip strength.

Helps a character withstand pain and physical trauma without losing control of their actions.

Combines momentum and elevation into an aggressive melee maneuver.

Rewards a character for standing their ground instead of retreating from an immediate threat.

Lets a strong character throw weapons and objects farther and with greater force.

Uses a planted stance to make the character harder to knock down, move, or physically overwhelm.

Represents regular combat practice that improves conditioning and readiness for physical confrontation.

Allows a character to recover a sudden reserve of Stamina when they need to keep acting.

Lets a character briefly push beyond their normal strength for an especially demanding feat or attack.

Trades some precision for a heavier melee blow with greater damage potential.

Makes a character better able to absorb wounds and remain effective after being hurt.

Helps a character resist becoming Poisoned and gives them a chance to purge poison already affecting their system.

Represents conditioning for sustained running, swimming, and other endurance-heavy activity.

Makes the character harder to shove, knock prone, or otherwise move against their will.

Helps a character endure extreme weather and environmental exposure without suffering as quickly.

Improves attempts to smash doors, barriers, vehicles, and other objects through raw strength.

A precise stabbing attack that leaves the victim bleeding after the initial wound.

Attempts to knock or wrench a weapon away from an opponent.

Turns ordinary objects and tools into practical close-combat weapons.

Uses speed and practiced weapon handling to deliver additional melee attacks.

Uses leverage and positioning to throw an opponent to the ground.

Uses acrobatic movement to improve defense, at the cost of making attacks harder during the maneuver.

Allows a fast character to rush an opponent and turn that movement into a stronger melee attack.

Improves a rerolled Reaction, Speed, or Stunt Test when a quick change of plan is needed.

Allows a character to Dive for Cover without ending prone and can help them roll through an enemy’s reach safely.

A sudden defensive movement that gets a character out of an attack's path and into nearby protection.

Extends a Dive for Cover through an athletic leap, especially while Running or Sprinting.

Improves Evasion Defense Rolls against attacks the character can dodge.

Allows an additional melee attack during the character’s turn, though early versions make that extra strike less accurate.

Reduces falling damage and offers a chance to turn a dangerous fall into a controlled landing.

Improves the character’s ability to draw, aim, and fire quickly when combat begins.

Uses deceptive movement to make an opponent easier to hit in melee, with a defensive risk if the feint fails.

Reduces the difficulty of making melee attacks while prone.

Allows an unarmed fighter or light-weapon user to make a rapid series of strikes as a Burst Attack.

Allows a trained mover to slip through danger and avoid detection at a critical moment.

Lets a character spend a Craze! Point to rescue a failed Reaction, Speed, or Stunt Test.

Makes it easier to catch thrown objects, including dangerous objects that most characters could not safely intercept.

Improves the character’s chance to react to explosions and avoid Blast damage.

Improves combat readiness and reactions while using a light one-handed melee weapon.

Improves Reaction and Initiative while fighting unarmed or with melee weapons.

Provides a limited opportunity to reroll a failed Reaction, Speed, or Stunt Test.

Improves attacks made against enemies who move through the character’s threatened area.

Allows an additional Out of Turn melee attack against enemies moving through the character’s reach.

Improves fast movement and stunts while helping the character Run and Sprint farther.

Improves defense against melee attacks while the character is prone.

Allows the character to withdraw from melee without provoking an Out of Turn Attack.

Allows non-heavy weapons to be drawn or stowed freely and improves readiness when Initiative is rolled.

Reduces the time needed to reload weapons, including weapons that normally reload slowly.

Allows the character to chase and re-engage an opponent who tries to disengage from melee.

Combines a combat slide with an attack, improving defense while accepting an initial accuracy tradeoff.

Lets a character spend Stamina or a Craze! Point for a chance at extra movement or an additional attack.

Improves Speed Tests and increases Run and Sprint movement.

Allows a fast character to use Speed instead of Strength to power melee damage.

Improves reactions and stunts performed while riding animals or vehicles.

Develops coordinated movement, speed, and reactions through team-based athletic training.

Improves Initiative and attempts to Seize the Initiative, and helps the character act first when results are tied.

Uses a sniper rifle and Tracking Tokens to inflict greater damage on armor, equipment, and hardened targets.

Uses Tracking Tokens and anti-materiel ammunition to inflict additional Durability damage on vehicles.

Improves the destructive effect of anti-tank weapons against vehicle Durability.

Makes armor-piercing rifle ammunition more reliable against Armor Points.

Improves damage with the heaviest weapons and artillery pieces.

Allows a point-blank handgun attack followed by movement away without provoking an Out of Turn Attack.

Improves a follow-up rifle attack against the same target after the first shot misses.

Turns bows or crossbows into precision weapons that can use sniper techniques and make accurate follow-up attacks.

Specializes in shotguns, special ammunition, armor-breaking blasts, and forceful knockback.

Uses a shotgun at close range to punish armored targets and force openings.

Focuses rifle fire on the torso for dependable stopping power.

Turns short automatic bursts into controlled, effective attacks.

Uses disciplined fire from cover to improve a combatant's control of an engagement.

Creates a custom ranged-weapon specialty with improved attacks, damage, and related Talent effects.

Allows a sniper to spend Tracking Tokens to increase the chance that an Aimed Shot becomes a Critical Hit.

Allows a character to fire a handgun while using a shield to protect someone else.

Uses a sniper’s Tracking Tokens and an arm shot to hinder the target’s later actions.

Uses a precise shot and Tracking Tokens to knock an item from a target’s grasp without destroying it.

Makes SMG suppressive fire interfere with the attacks of enemies caught in its firing arc.

Allows a character to fire a second time with a semi-automatic weapon at a penalty to the hit roll.

Specializes in SMG attacks, controlled bursts, automatic fire, and seizing the initiative during suppression.

Allows an immediate handgun counterattack after a successful Evasion Defense.

Uses a point-blank handgun Called Shot to attack gaps in armor that is not fully enclosed.

Spends additional SMG ammunition to make a Burst Attack more damaging.

Uses the threat of a support weapon to make enemies less accurate against the gunner and nearby allies.

Specializes in flamethrowers and incendiaries, improving attacks, damage, and sweeping flame techniques.

Protects a flamethrower and its fuel tank from Called Shots while making its attacks more likely to ignite targets.

Improves damage dealt with grenade launchers.

Specializes in grenades, grenade launchers, and accurate throwing attacks.

Specializes in handgun accuracy, damage, and advanced rapid-fire techniques.

Specializes in missile launchers, artillery, and anti-tank attacks against vehicles.

Trades some throwing accuracy for greater damage and increased throwing distance.

Refines aimed and called shots, helping a marksman place accurate fire where it matters.

Generates additional Tracking when a sniper is already prone and emplaced before attacking.

Improves the chance to Seize the Initiative for an automatic attack while maintaining SMG suppressive fire.

Improves the accuracy, distance, and damage potential of thrown objects and throwing weapons.

Allows a sniper to field-tune an ordinary rifle so it can support precision and Tracking techniques.

Makes suppressive fire reduce the protection enemies receive from cover.

Adopts a supported rifle stance that improves ranged attacks and defense while kneeling.

Uses a point-blank shotgun blast to knock a target backward and potentially leave them prone.

Allows a Downed character to keep firing a handgun at a cost in accuracy and Stamina.

Adds additional Burning to rifle attacks that deal Thermal damage.

Gives grenade-launcher blasts Indirect Fire, allowing shots to arc over barriers and cover.

Reduces rifle penalties for firing beyond the weapon’s most effective range.

Improves LRAD attacks and makes their disruptive effects harder to resist.

Improves the automatic-fire capability and damage of machine guns, miniguns, and laser repeaters.

Specializes in machine-gun attacks, automatic fire, and intimidating enemy shooters.

Improves missile-launcher damage and makes its Blast Attacks harder to evade.

Makes point-blank SMG Automatic Bursts deliver their maximum number of hits.

Allows a sniper to spend Tracking Tokens to increase a successful shot’s damage.

Allows a sniper to spend Tracking Tokens to improve the accuracy of a shot before firing.

Represents patient sniper discipline and decisive long-range fire.

Turns an Aimed rifle shot into an armor-penetrating attack that can also be upgraded to a Called Shot.

Uses a prone rifle position to improve ranged accuracy.

Combines two Double Tap sequences into one rapid semi-automatic attack.

Bounces a handgun shot off a hard surface to reduce the protection provided by cover.

Removes the normal accuracy problems caused by firing while operating or riding in a moving vehicle.

Develops the sustained-fire techniques of a dedicated machine gunner.

Reduces or removes firing penalties while moving and allows advanced attacks during movement.

Specializes in sniper-rifle accuracy, Aimed Shot damage, and control over hit location.

Specializes in accurate handgun fire and precise Aimed Shots.

Improves damage against Surprised targets and when using weapons designed for silent attacks.

Improves the ability to eliminate a target quietly with suitable weapons.

Allows the second shotgun attack from Double Tap to engage a different target across a wider angle.

Allows a semi-automatic handgun to perform limited Focus Fire and Spray Attacks by rapidly expending ammunition.

Specializes in rifle attacks and improves the damage of Center Mass fire.

Makes bean-bag rounds more effective at safely knocking a target unconscious without converting the impact into serious torso injury.

Improves the use of birdshot for hunting and finding food in the wilderness.

Improves ranged trip attacks made with bola rounds.

Increases EMP-round damage and keeps affected machines Deactivated longer.

Makes flashbang rounds harder to resist and intensifies their blinding, deafening, and stunning effects.

Improves the armor-piercing and wounding potential of flechette shotgun rounds.

Improves the damage of high-explosive shotgun rounds.

Increases the Burning inflicted by incendiary shotgun rounds.

Improves the placement and effect of injector rounds fired at allies.

Makes pepper-shot rounds harder to resist and extends their disorienting effect.

Improves the damage of shock shotgun rounds.

Uses Tracking Tokens and a precise leg shot to leave a target Staggered.

Uses a piercing thrown weapon to pin a target to a nearby wall or similar surface.

Allows a sniper to spend Tracking Tokens to adjust where a successful shot lands.

Sweeps a flamethrower across an arc to attack several characters instead of following a narrow Torrent chain.

Improves a waiting sniper’s chance to Seize the Initiative and fire at a Tracked target.

Allows a successful first rifle shot to guide the second Double Tap shot into the same Hit Location.

Unlocks sniper techniques and lets a character build and spend Tracking Tokens for precision attacks.

Combines simultaneous attacks from two ranged weapons into one more damaging strike.

Reduces the attack penalties for firing two one-handed ranged weapons during the same turn.

Allows a sniper to spend Tracking Tokens to reduce the protection a target receives from cover.

Uses extra flamethrower fuel to create a damaging fire that remains on the battlefield.

Expands an SMG Spray Attack across a much wider firing arc.