Heroic Skills

Adversity

Requirements: you must have mastered the Darkblade Class.

As long as you are suffering from one or more status effects, you gain a +1 bonus on all Checks for every status effect you are suffering from, and you deal 2 extra damage for every status effect you are suffering from (be it with attacks, spells, Arcana, items or any other method).

Ambidextrous

Requirements: None.

You may apply the benefits of two-weapon fighting (Core Rulebook, page 69) to weapons belonging to different categories, even if one is a melee weapon and the other is a ranged weapon (such as a dagger and a firearm, for instance).

Anatomist

Requirements: you must have mastered one or more Classes among Fury, Loremaster, Sharpshooter and Weaponmaster, and have acquired the Knowledge is Power Skill.

Whenever you acquire this Heroic Skill, choose two Species among beast, construct, demon, elemental, monster, plant, and undead. When you deal damage to a creature belonging to the humanoid Species or to a Species you have chosen for this Heroic Skill, you may choose one option: you deal 5 extra damage to that creature; or that creature becomes reeling until the end of the scene. When a reeling creature recovers Hit Points and/or Mind Points, instead that creature recovers half the normal amount of HP and/or MP and is no longer reeling. This Heroic Skill can be acquired up to three times.

Arcane Echoes

Requirements: you must have mastered the Arcanist Class.

When you successfully perform a Check to fill or erase one or more sections of a Clock, if the domains of one or more Arcana you have bound are applicable to the Check in question, you may fill or erase an additional section of that Clock. The Game Master has final say on whether a given domain applies or not.

Arcane Mark

Requirements: you must have mastered one or more Classes among Sharpshooter, Symbolist, and Weaponmaster.

When you hit one or more creatures with an attack using a weapon that belongs to the arcane Category, the attack deals 5 extra damage and you may choose one of those creatures. If the next offensive spell (⚡) you cast during this scene only targets the chosen creature, its Magic Check will trigger a critical success if both dice show the same number (and the Check is not a fumble)

Arcane Sacrifice

Requirements: you must have mastered one or more Classes among Arcanist and Guardian.

Once per scene, when you and/or one or more allies you can see are reduced to 0 Hit Points, if you are merged with an Arcanum, you may instead be reduced to exactly 1 Hit Point. If you do, you must immediately dismiss that Arcanum (without applying any dismiss effect), and cannot summon them again until the end of the scene.

Arcane Soldier

Requirements: you must have mastered one or more Classes out of Elementalist, Sharpshooter and Weaponmaster, and must know at least two offensive (⚡) spells.

You may use an action to perform a free attack with a weapon you have equipped. This attack must target a single enemy. If the attack is successful, treat your High Roll as 0 when determining damage dealt by it. After the attack has been resolved, if it was successful, you may immediately perform the Spell action for free: the spell you cast this way must be an offensive (⚡) spell with a total MP cost equal to or lower than 20, and it may only target the enemy you attacked (you must still spend the appropriate Mind Points and perform the Magic Check). Treat your Magic Check’s High Roll as 0 when determining damage or other effects caused by this spell.

Bimagus

Requirements: you must have mastered two or more Classes among Elementalist, Entropist, and Spiritist, and your character must be level 30 or higher.

Once per turn during a conflict, if you have an arcane weapon equipped, you may use an action and spend 20 to 50 Mind Points to perform the Spell action for free twice, casting two spells without needing to pay their MP costs. If you do, the two spells must have a combined total MP cost equal to or lower than【20 + the amount of MP you spent to use this Skill】, and the second spell must have a total MP cost that is equal to or lower than half the total MP cost of the first spell.

Birth of the Cruel

Requirements: you must have mastered the Necromancer Class.

When a non-Villain NPC you can see that belongs to the beast, humanoid, monster, or plant Species dies, you may spend 2 Grave Points and reduce your maximum Hit Points and Mind Points by an amount equal to that NPC's level. If you do, their corpse becomes a Minion who obeys your telepathic commands:Its Species becomes undead and it receives all Undead rules (Core Rulebook, page 305). The new Affinities to dark, light, and poison damage overwrite any preexisting Affinity, but the original Species' rules are otherwise maintained. Its Rank becomes soldier; if the original creature was an élite or champion, the GM must reduce the Minion's HP and MP accordingly (Skills are maintained). The newly created Minion is a completely new creature and has full HP, full MP, and no status effects. It retains the original creature's equipment. Your Minion takes its own turn during conflicts, and the Game Master must count it as an additional Player Character when designing a conflict. When you rest, your Minion also gains the full benefits of resting. If your Minion is reduced to 0 Hit Points, if you are more than 1 travel day away from it, or if you die or fall unconscious, your Minion is immediately destroyed. You may also destroy your Minion at any time; if you want to create a new Minion, you must first destroy the current one. If your Minion is destroyed, your maximum HP and MP scores return to normal.

Black & White

Requirements: you must have mastered one or more Classes among Ace of Cards, Darkblade, Entropist, and Spiritist, and you must have acquired the Magic Cards Skill.

When you resolve the Double Trouble effect, you may have all of its damage become light or dark (instead of being of a type matching the suits of the resolved cards). Additionally, as long as there is a joker in your discard pile, all damage dealt by your Blinding Flush, Double Trouble, and Magic Flush effects ignores Immunities and Resistances.

Blade Adept

Requirements: you must have mastered one or more Classes among Rogue and Weaponmaster.

While you have one or more melee dagger weapons equipped, you gain a +1 bonus to Defense and Magic Defense, and you treat those weapons as also belonging to the brawling, sword, and thrown Categories for the purpose of Skills and effects. Additionally, your attacks with weapons that belong to the dagger Category may target creatures that cannot normally be targeted by melee attacks.

Brainwave Discharge

Requirements: you must have mastered the Esper Class.

While your Brainwave Clock is full, you may use an action to erase all of its sections. If you do, you may choose one option: you deal 20 physical damage to every enemy that is present on the scene; or you deal 30 physical damage to a single enemy you can see. This amount increases by 10 if you are level 20 or higher, or by 20 if you are level 40 or higher.

Broken Wing Tactic

Requirements: you must have mastered one or more Classes among Commander and Guardian.

After an enemy you can see performs an Accuracy Check or a Magic Check for an offensive spell (⚡) on their turn during a conflict, you may grant them a +3 bonus to the Result of the Check. If you do, choose one option: you and every ally who is able to hear you gain Resistance to all damage types until the end of this turn; or you and every ally who is able to hear you deal 5 extra damage until the end of this turn. Once you use this Skill, you cannot use it again until the start of your next turn.

Bullet Break

Requirements: you must have mastered the Sharpshooter Class.

After you negate a ranged attack with the Crossfire Skill, if the Result of the Accuracy Check was an even number, you may perform a free attack against the attacker with a ranged firearm weapon you have equipped. This attack must have that enemy as its only target; treat your High Roll (HR) as 0 when calculating damage dealt by it.

Bullet Time

Requirements: you must have mastered one or more Classes among Entropist and Rogue, and must have acquired one or more Skills among Dodge and Stolen Time.

You gain a bonus to your Initiative modifier equal to 【your Skill Level in Dodge + your Skill Level in Stolen Time】. As long as you have no shield and no martial armor equipped, all damage you suffer is reduced by an amount equal to 【your SL in Dodge】 (applied before damage Affinities) and you deal extra damage equal to 【your SL in Stolen Time】.

Card Vanguard

Requirements: you must have mastered the Ace of Cards Class, and must have acquired the Magic Cards Skill.

During a conflict, if you have two or fewer vanguard cards in play, you can use an action to choose 1 card from your hand and place it face down as a vanguard card; if you do, draw 1 card from your deck. When you suffer damage, if you have one or more vanguard cards in play, you may reveal one of them and place it on top of your discard pile: if you do and that card is a joker or its suit matches the type of the damage you suffered, you instead suffer no damage and regain an equal amount of Mind Points. At the end of each conflict, if you have one or more vanguard cards in play, shuffle them back into your deck.

Ceaseless Battlefield

Requirements: you must have mastered the Commander Class.

The MP costs for your Bishop's Edict, Charging Cavalry, and King's Castle are halved.

Chimeric Mastery

Requirements: you must have mastered the Chimerist Class.

Choose two creature Species among construct, demon, elemental, and undead. You can now use spell mimic to learn spells from creatures of the chosen Species. This Heroic Skill may be acquired up to twice, each time selecting two Species from the list above. Whenever you acquire this Skill, you also increase your upper limit for memorized Chimerist spells by 2.

Clean Slate

Requirements: you must have mastered the Symbolist Class.

You may use an action and spend up to 30 Mind Points to choose one creature you can see for every 5 MP spent this way. Each creature chosen this way recovers from all status effects and is no longer affected by any spells with a duration of “Scene” that were affecting them.

Comet

Requirements: you must have mastered the Entropist Class.

You learn the ultimate Entropist spell: Comet.

Comet. MP: 50, Target: Special, Duration: Instantaneous.

You rip open a large portal to the Cosmos, calling down astral debris from the gaping void. Choose on option: one creature you can see suffers 60 damage; or you choose any number of creatures you can see, and each of them suffers 40 damage. These amounts increase by 5 if you are level 20 or higher, or by 10 if you are level 40 or higher. Damage dealt by this spell has no type (thus being unaffected by damage Affinities).

Decoy Bait

Requirements: you must have mastered the Sharpshooter Class, and must have acquired the Hawkeye Skill.

When you use your Hawkeye Skill and choose the first option, if no decoy bait is present on the scene, you may spend 10 mp . If you do, you create a decoy bait with Hit Points equal to 【half your level + (your SL in Hawkeye, multiplied by 5)】. When an enemy who can see your decoy bait deals damage to one or more creatures, your decoy bait automatically suffers damage in place of one of those creatures, chosen randomly (your decoy bait is always treated as having neutral Affinity towards all damage types, and cannot gain any other Affinity). When an enemy reduces your decoy bait to 0 Hit Points, your decoy bait is automatically destroyed and you roll 1d10. If the number rolled is equal to or lower than 【3 + your SL in Hawkeye】, you may immediately perform a free attack with a bow or firearm weapon you have equipped. This attack may only target that enemy, gains a bonus equal to 【your SL in Hawkeye】 to its Accuracy Check, and its damage ignores Immunities and Resistances. Your decoy bait cannot recover Hit Points and is automatically destroyed at the end of the scene. Make sure to describe what it looks like!

Deep Pockets

Requirements: you must have mastered the Tinkerer Class.

When you spend Inventory Points, you spend 1 less Inventory Point (minimum 1).

Disarming Rhetoric

Requirements: you must have mastered the Orator Class.

During a conflict scene, you may use an action and choose a soldier-rank creature that can hear and understand you (the Game Master must tell you who is a valid target). If that creature is shaken or in Crisis, you may spend an amount of Mind Points equal to 【20 + half that creature's level】 to have them peacefully leave the conflict. Describe how you convince them to desist.

Double Arrow

Requirements: you must have mastered one or more Classes among Commander and Sharpshooter.

When you perform the Attack action with a ranged weapon that belongs to the bow Category, if you have no other weapon equipped, you may perform two separate attacks instead of one (against the same target or against different targets). If you do, both attacks follow the rules for two-weapon fighting: each attack loses the multi property and cannot gain it, and you treat the High Roll of each Accuracy Check as being equal to 0 when determining damage. Note that this Heroic Skill does not stack with a custom weapon’s quick customization (using Double Arrows with a quick bow doesn’t allow more than two attacks, in short).

Dreamslice

Requirements: you must have mastered one or more Classes among Darkblade and Esper.

When you hit one or more creatures with an attack from your Shadow Strike Skill using a weapon that belongs to the sword Category, each of those creatures loses an amount of Mind Points equal to 【the number you rolled on your Might die for Shadow Strike】. Then, if 【the number you rolled on your Might die for Shadow Strike】 was 8 or higher, you may choose one creature hit by the attack: if that creature is your focus or you have a Bond towards them, that creature will perform one fewer action during their next turn (to a minimum of zero actions).

Duel Master

Requirements: you must have mastered one or more Classes among Ace of Cards, Fury, Rogue, Sharpshooter, and Weaponmaster, and you must have acquired the Magic Cards Skill.

When you resolve the Magic Pair effect, if you attack with a weapon belonging to the arcane or thrown Category, you deal extra damage equal to【the common value of the resolved cards】and regain an amount of Mind Points equal to【twice the common value of the resolved cards】(for instance, resolving a pair of 5s will allow you to deal 5 extra damage and regain 10 Mind Points).

Dynamic Synchronization

Requirements: you must have mastered the Pilot Class.

At the start of your turn during a conflict, if you are driving your personal vehicle, you may choose one option: you synchronize with another Player Character who is present on the scene and driving their own personal vehicle; or you synchronize with another Player Character who is a passenger on your personal vehicle. Describe how you join forces! You and the chosen character both receive the following benefits as long as the synchronization remains active:When you perform a Check, you may use the current Attribute die sizes of the other Player Character in place of yours (for one or both dice). When you deal damage, deal extra damage equal to 【the strength of your Bond towards the other PC, plus the strength of their Bond towards you】. You may use an action to perform a free attack with one enabled or disabled weapon module present on the personal vehicle the other PC is currently on. When your turn ends, if the other PC has yet to take their turn during this round, they may take their turn immediately after yours. This synchronization lasts until the end of the scene, or until you or the other Player Character die, fall unconscious, leave the scene, synchronize with someone else, or are no longer aboard a personal vehicle.

Extra HP

Requirements: None.

Permanently increase your maximum Hit Points by 10. The amount of additional HP increases to 20 if you are level 40 or higher.

Extra IP

Requirements: None.

Permanently increase your maximum Inventory Points by 4.

Extra MP

Requirements: None.

Permanently increase your maximum Mind Points by 10. The amount of additional MP increases to 20 if you are level 40 or higher.

Extra Spells

Requirements: None.

When you acquire this Skill, learn any two spells from one of the following lists: Elementalist, Entropist, or Spiritist. Both spells chosen this way must come from the same list, and they follow the standard rules for casting spells of that Class.

Fast Rituals

Requirements: you must have mastered one or more Classes among Chimerist, Elementalist, Entropist, and Spiritist.

When you initiate a Ritual during a conflict scene, its Ritual Clock is created with two fewer sections than normal, to a minimum of four sections.

Fleeting Moment

Requirements: you must have mastered the Weaponmaster Class, and must have acquired the Counterattack Skill.

When you perform a Counterattack using a melee weapon that belongs to the sword Category, you may add your High Roll to the damage dealt by the attack (you do not have to treat it as being 0).

Flow of Yin and Yang

Requirements: you must have mastered one or more Classes among Dancer, Elementalist, Esper, and Invoker.

When you deal dark, earth, ice, or physical damage for the first time during a turn, you gain 1 Yin Point and, if you have at least 1 Yang Point, you deal 5 extra damage. When you deal air, bolt, fire, or light damage for the first time during a turn, you gain 1 Yang Point and, if you have at least 1 Yin Point, you deal 5 extra damage. At the end of your turn, if you have 3 or more Yin and/or Yang points and have at least 1 point of each type, you lose all Yin and Yang Points and perform one of the following effects based on the points you lost (perform both in case of a tie):

Yin majority: every enemy present on the scene loses an amount of Mind Pointsequal to 【half your level】. Yang majority: one creature you can see that is present on the scene recovers an amount of Mind Points equal to 【your level】.

You may gain and use Yin and Yang Points only during conflicts, and you lose all your Yin and Yang Points at the end of each scene.

Forbidden Rite

Requirements: you must have mastered one or more Classes among Ace of Cards and Arcanist, and you must have acquired 3 Skill Levels in the Magic Cards Skill.

As long as there are one or more cards in your discard pile, you have Resistance to the damage type matching the suit of the card on top of your discard pile (if that card is a joker, you have Resistance to all four damage types: air, earth, fire, and ice). You also add the following effect to your list of sets:EffectSet RequirementsForbidden Monarch4 cards of the same value, none of which is a joker + 1 jokerYou deal damage 777 damage to each enemy present on the scene; the type of this damage is light if【the common value of the 4 cards】is even, or dark if that total is odd. If there is a joker in your discard pile, the damage dealt by this effect ignores Immunities and Resistances.

Grand Summoning

Requirements: you must have mastered the Arcanist Class, and your character must be level 30 or higher.

When you summon an Arcanum, you may decide to spend 1 Fabula Point and spend half of your current Hit Points (rounded down) to shape your lifeforce into a full manifestation of their power. If you do, the Arcanum manifests as a soldier-rank creature of the demon Species under your control (they count as an ally and have their own independent turn during conflicts – if you use this Skill during a conflict scene, the Arcanum joins the scene at the end of the current round). You also do not gain any of the merge benefits you would normally enjoy when summoning that Arcanum. The summoned creature has the following profile: Level is equal to your level (thus gaining the bonuses to Checks and damage listed under steps 8 on page 303 of the Core Rulebook). A d10 in one Attribute of your choice, and a d8 in all other Attributes. Maximum Hit Points equal to 【twice the creature’s base Might die size, plus half of your maximum Hit Points】. The creature has no Mind Points. Resistance to two damage types of your choice. The creature receives all the merge benefits the Arcanum would normally grant you when summoned (damage Affinities, immunity to status effects, increased Attribute sizes, etc.). If a merge benefit would cause the Arcanum to be dismissed, this will cause the summoned creature to vanish unless you spend 20 Mind Points. A melee basic attack whose Accuracy Check relies on two different Attributes of your choice and deals 【HR + 8】 physical damage. Choose two different options: the attack is a ranged attack; OR it deals 4 extra damage; OR it deals damage of a type other than physical; OR the Accuracy Check relies on a single Attribute. The creature may perform the Skill action to produce one of the dismiss effects normally granted by that Arcanum, but doing so will cause the summoned creature to vanish unless you spend 20 Mind Points. The following rules apply when you Grand Summon an Arcanum: The creature is always summoned at full Hit Points, with no status effects. The creature vanishes if it reaches 0 Hit Points, if you die, lose consciousness or leave the scene, or if you summon or Grand Summon an Arcanum again. The creature also vanishes when a scene ends, or if you simply command them to do so (this will not trigger the corresponding Arcanum’s dismiss effect). Take note of all choices made for Attributes and basic attack during the first time Summon a given Arcanum: these choices will remain unchanged whenever you Grand Summon that same Arcanum again in the future.

Great Cauldron's Secret

Requirements: you must have mastered the Tinkerer Class, and have acquired the superior alchemy benefit from the Gadgets Skill.

When you create a potion via alchemy, you may treat the die assigned to target as showing a value of 13 or 17 (even if that die shows a different number).

Greater Akromorphosis

Requirements: you must have mastered the Mutant Class, and must have acquired the Akromorphosis Skill.

You gain the following benefits based on the current Category of your unarmed strikes. Arcane, brawling, dagger, thrown: your attacks with unarmed strikes treat the Defense of each target as being equal to their current Insight die size. Bow, sword: your attacks with unarmed strikes that target two or more creatures deal 5 extra damage. Firearm, heavy: your unarmed strikes deal 5 extra damage to constructs, and deal 5 extra damage to non-construct creatures who have at least one shield and/or martial armor equipped. Flail, spear: you gain a +2 bonus to Defense, and your attacks with unarmed strikes may target flying creatures. If your unarmed strikes are treated as belonging to more than one Category (for instance due to the Blade Adept Heroic Skill; see High Fantasy Atlas, page 154), you gain all the benefits of the corresponding Categories.

Greater Ecdysis

Requirements: you must have mastered the Mutant Class.

When you use the Ecdysis Skill, you may also choose one or both options: you recover from all status effects, and/or if you are affected by one or more spells with a duration of “Scene”, you are no longer affected by any of those spells.

Greater Theriomorphosis

Requirements: you must have mastered the Mutant Class.

When you use the Theriomorphosis Skill on your turn during a conflict, if this did not happen through the Genoclepsis Skill, you may manifest the effects of up to three therioforms from those you have learned (instead of two); then, you may immediately perform an additional action. This additional action cannot be used for the Theriomorphosis Skill.

Harvester of Sorrow

Requirements: you must have mastered one or more Classes among Entropist and Necromancer, and must have learned both the Drain Spirit and Drain Vigor spells.

When you cast the Drain Spirit or Drain Vigor spells, the amount of Mind Points or Hit Points you recover is equal to the MP or HP loss suffered by the target, respectively (instead of being halved). Additionally, your Drain Spirit causes the target to lose【HR + 20】 Mind Points if you are level 20 or higher, or 【HR + 25】 Mind Points if you are level 40 or higher, instead of the normal【HR + 15】.

Heartbreaker

Requirements: you must have mastered the Darkblade Class.

When you hit a creature with an attack, if that attack only targeted that creature and you have a Bond towards them, you may choose to spend half of your current Hit Points, rounded down. If you do, the attack deals extra damage equal to 【10 multiplied by the strength of your Bond towards the target】. You may use this Skill only on your turn during a conflict, and only once per turn.

Heroic Companion

Requirements: you must have mastered the Wayfarer Class, and must have acquired the Faithful Companion Skill.

Your bond with your companion grows stronger. You gain the following benefits:The companion's maximum Hit Points increase by 10. Choose one of the companion's Attributes: Dexterity, Insight, Might, or Willpower. The chosen Attribute is permanently increased by one die size (up to a maximum size of d12). The companion gains an additional Skill. When you reach level 40, or if you have already reached it, the companion gains an additional Skill. Make sure to discuss your Skill choices with the Game Master and the other Players.

Hit the Nerve

Requirements: you must have mastered one or more Classes among Chanter (High Fantasy, page 136) and Orator, and must have acquired the Condemn Skill.

When you successfully use the Condemn Skill against an enemy you know one or more Traits of, you recover an amount of Mind Points equal to half the amount of MP lost by the target, and you may have them suffer enraged instead of the normal status effects. Additionally, when you perform an Opposed Check against an enraged creature, or an Accuracy Check or Magic Check for an attack or offensive spell (⚡) that includes one or more enraged creatures among its targets, you trigger a critical success when both dice show the same number (as long as the Check is not a fumble).

Hope

Requirements: you must have mastered the Spiritist Class.

You learn the ultimate Spiritist spell: Hope.

Hope. MP: 40, Target: Special, Duration: Instantaneous

You rekindle the flames of courage and hope within a defeated hero. Choose a Player Character who surrendered but is still present on the scene: that Player Character immediately regains consciousness and recovers an amount of Hit Points equal to their Crisis score. Note that this spell will not undo the consequences of the character's surrender and is of no use if the character left the scene as part of their surrender — such as if they were captured and dragged away, or if they were trapped in a parallel dimension, and so on. A Player Character may only be affected by this spell once per scene; if a character is brought back into the conflict by this spell and is subsequently reduced to 0 Hit Points again, they must sacrifice themselves or surrender as per the normal rules (including a new consequence and 2 more Fabula Points if they surrender).

Hoplite

Requirements: you must have mastered one or more Classes among Commander and Guardian.

As long as you have a weapon equipped in your main hand slot and a shield equipped in your off-hand slot, your attacks with that weapon deal 5 extra damage and you gain a +1 bonus to Defense. This Skill cannot be combined with custom weapons with the defense boost customization (High Fantasy, page 106), nor with the Dual Shieldbearer Skill (Core Rulebook, page 197).

Hunter's Trick

Requirements: you must have mastered one or more Classes among Sharpshooter and Weaponmaster.

When you transform a transforming custom weapon on your turn, choose one option: if you have not performed any attacks during this turn, the next attack you perform with this weapon during this turn deals 5 extra damage; or if you hit one or more creatures with an attack using this weapon during this turn, you recover 5 Hit Points and 5 Mind Points.

Impaler Dragon

Requirements: you must have mastered one or more Classes among Commander and Darkblade, and have acquired the Charging Cavalry and Shadow Strike Skills.

When you use the Shadow Strike Skill, you may treat your High Roll as being equal to 0 when determining damage dealt by this attack. If you do, after the attack from Shadow Strike is resolved, you may immediately perform the Charging Cavalry Skill for free (paying the appropriate MP cost).

Iron Forest

Requirements: you must have mastered one or more Classes among Commander and Weaponmaster.

After you hit one or more creatures with a melee attack using a weapon that belongs to the spear Category, if you have no other weapon equipped, you may spend 20 mp and choose one of those creatures. If you do so, the attack deals half the normal amount of damage to each of its targets, and you choose one type of action among the following: Attack, Guard, Objective, Spell, or Skill. From now on, the chosen creature must spend 10 mp whenever they wish to perform that type of action. If they can’t, they must perform a different type of action. This effect lasts until the start of your next turn, or until you use this Skill again.

It Lives!

Requirements: you must have mastered one or more Classes among Tinkerer and Wayfarer, and have acquired the Faithful Companion (construct Species) and Visionary Skills.

Your companion's Affinity towards bolt damage becomes Absorption, and their maximum Hit Point score is increased by an amount equal to 【twice your Skill Level in Visionary】. When your companion deals damage, if they have no weapons equipped, they deal extra damage equal to 【your Skill Level in Visionary】

Like an Open Book

Requirements: you must have mastered one or more Classes among Esper, Loremaster and Rogue, and have acquired the Soul Steal Skill.

After you successfully use the Soul Steal Skill against one or more enemies, you may choose one of them. If you do, you immediately perform the Study action for free against that enemy: treat the Result and High Roll of this Open Check as being equal to the Result and High Roll of the Check you performed for Soul Steal (do not roll dice for this Open Check). When you deal damage to an elite or champion-rank enemy, if you stole that enemy's soul treasure during this scene, you deal extra damage equal to 【your Skill Level in Soul Steal】 to that enemy.

Magic Guard

Requirements: you must have mastered one or more Classes among Chimerist, Elementalist, Entropist, and Spiritist.

When you perform the Guard action, if you choose not to provide cover to another creature, you gain the following benefit until the start of your next turn: when a creature you can see casts a spell, after that creature pays for the spell’s MP cost, you may spend an amount of Mind Points equal to 【10 + the spell’s total MP cost】 in order to completely stop the casting of the spell and negate its effects (the spell isn’t cast, but the creature is still considered to have spent their action).

Make it or Break it

Requirements: you must have mastered one or more Classes among Darkblade and Fury.

When you attack with a weapon, you may declare "make it or break it!" before the Accuracy Check. If you do, the Check's High Roll (HR) is doubled when determining damage, and you apply the following penalties if the Result is an even number: If the weapon you used is transforming (see page 113), it immediately changes form and it cannot change form again until the end of the scene. If the weapon you used is not transforming, or if it is a transforming weapon that cannot change form (see above), it is placed inside your backpack and cannot be equipped until the end of the scene; however, you may immediately perform the Equipment action for free. This Heroic Skill does not apply to attacks with unarmed strikes, improvised weapons, weapon modules (see page 161), or Twin Shields (see Core Rulebook, page 197)

Mathemagic

Requirements: you must have mastered the Loremaster Class.

When you cast a spell with a target of "One creature", you may double the spell's total MP cost. If you do, choose an Attribute (Dexterity, Insight, Might, or Willpower) and a die size (d6, d8, d10 or d12). The spell now targets all creatures present on the scene whose current Attribute die size matches your choice, regardless of whether they are friends or foes (you might even end up targeting yourself). The effects of the spell are fully applied to every target. If the spell is an offensive (⚡) spell, it follows the normal rules: you perform a single Magic Check and confront it with the Magic Defense of each target to determine who is hit by the spell.

Mimeoclepsis

Requirements: you must have mastered one or more Classes between Chimerist and Mutant, and have acquired the Genoclepsis and Spell Mimic Skill of the two Classes.

When you use the Genoclepsis Skill on an NPC, if that NPC's Species is among the ones you can learn spells from with the Spell Mimic Skill (Core Rulebook, page 183), the Game Master must reveal all spells known by that NPC. Then, if that NPC knows one or more spell, you may learn one of those spells as a Chimerist spell of your own.

Monkey Grip

Requirements: you must have mastered the Fury Class.

You may equip two-handed weapons belonging to the flail, heavy, spear, or sword Categories in a single hand slot. This allows you, for instance, to enjoy the benefits of two-weapon fighting (Core Rulebook, page 69) while wielding a pair of two-handed weapons, OR to equip a two-handed weapon in your main hand slot and a shield in your off-hand slot.

Nebulization

Requirements: you must have mastered the Tinkerer Class, and must have acquired the advanced Alchemy benefit from the Gadget Skill.

When you create a potion, you gain 1 Nebulization Point, or 2 Nebulization Points if that potion was created via the Alchemy benefit of the Gadget Skill. Potions and elemental shards you create deal extra damage equal to twice your current Nebulization Points. Potions you create that restore Hit Points and/or Mind Points restore additional HP and/or MP equal to 【your current Nebulization Points, multiplied by 5】. You may never have more than 5 Nebulization Points, and you lose all of them at the end of each scene.

Nether Slash

Requirements: you must have mastered one or more Classes among Darkblade, Elementalist and Pilot, and have acquired the Shadow Strike Skill.

When you use the Shadow Strike Skill, you may choose fire or ice. If you do, all damage dealt by this attack becomes of the chosen type instead of dark (its damage type cannot change, as usual), and you gain Resistance to the damage type you did not choose until the start of your next turn. When you perform a free attack with a melee weapon as part of the Shadow Strike Skill, the attack may target enemies that can only be targeted by a ranged attack.

Ofuda Mastery

Requirements: you must have mastered one or more Classes among Arcanist, Merchant, Symbolist and Spiritist, and have acquired the Symbolism Skill.

When you use the Symbolism Skill during a conflict, you may spend 20 Mind Points to ignore the Skill's normal cost in Inventory Points. When you perform a free attack with a melee weapon as part of the Symbolism Skill, the attack may target enemies that can only be targeted by a ranged attack.

Overload Burst

Requirements: you must have mastered the Pilot Class, and must have acquired the Compression Tech Skill.

Choose a damage type among bolt, dark, fire, ice, and light. When you are reduced to 0 Hit Points for the first time during a scene, if you are driving your personal vehicle, you may choose to be reduced to exactly 1 Hit Point instead. If you do, you and any passengers leave your personal vehicle, which disappears from the game world. Then, you may deal an amount of damage equal to your Crisis score to a single creature you can see. This damage is of the type you have chosen from the list above. If your personal vehicle disappears from the game world this way, the next use of your Compression Tech Skill will have an additional cost of 1 Fabula Point.

Paso Doble

Requirements: you must have mastered the Dancer Class, and must have acquired the Follow My Lead Skill.

While you are in Crisis, you ignore the MP cost for your Follow My Lead Skill.

Perfect Aim

Requirements: you must have mastered the Sharpshooter Class, and must have acquired the Warning Shot Skill.

When you hit one or more creatures with a ranged attack and choose to deal no damage in order to gain the benefits of the Warning Shot Skill, you may choose two options instead of one (for instance, you could inflict both shaken and slow on each creature, or inflict a status effect on each creature while also lowering their Mind Points).

Phagomagus

Requirements: you must have mastered one or more Classes among Chimerist, Entropist, Gourmet and Mutant.

When you cast the Dispel spell, its MP cost becomes "10 × T" and its target becomes "Up to three creatures". When you cause one or more enemies to no longer be affected by one or more spells with a duration of "Scene", choose one option: you recover 20 Mind Points for each spell whose effects ended on at least one of those enemies this way; or for each spell whose effects ended on at least one of those enemies this way, apply a copy of that spell on yourself (if a spell allowed for choices upon casting it, you must retain the same choices that were made for this casting of the spell). This copying effect does not require actions, Mind Points, or Checks, and is not treated as "casting a spell".

Pillage

Requirements: you must have mastered the Rogue Class, and must have acquired the Soul Steal Skill.

When you use the Soul Steal Skill, you may target any number of creatures at the same time (you perform a single Check and compare it to the Magic Defense of each creature you are attempting to steal from).

Power Chord

Requirements: you must have mastered the Chanter Class.

When you sing a verse with medium or high volume, you may may double the verse’s cost in Mind Points, OR spend 1 Fabula Point. If you do, you and every ally that is able to hear you gain the following benefit until the start of your next turn: your Accuracy Checks trigger a critical success when both dice show the same number (as long as the Check is not a fumble).

Powerful Shot

Requirements: you must have mastered the Sharpshooter Class.

When you hit one or more creatures with a ranged attack, that attack deals 5 extra damage to each creature. The amount of extra damage increases to 10 if you are level 40 or higher.

Powerful Spell

Requirements: you must have mastered one or more Classes among the following: Chimerist, Elementalist, Entropist, or Spiritist.

When you cast a spell that deals damage to one or more creatures, that spell deals 5 extra damage to each creature. The amount of extra damage increases to 10 if you are level 40 or higher.

Powerful Strike

Requirements: you must have mastered one or more Classes among the following: Fury or Weaponmaster.

When you hit one or more creatures with a melee attack, that attack deals 5 extra damage to each creature. The amount of extra damage increases to 10 if you are level 40 or higher.

Predictable!

Requirements: you must have mastered the Loremaster Class.

During a conflict, you may use an action and spend 20 mp to anticipate the upcoming moves of a creature you can see, as long as you know two or more of that creature's Traits. If you do so, choose one type of action among the following: Attack, Guard, Objective, Spell, or Skill. Until the start of your next turn, the creature must spend 20 mp whenever they wish to perform that action. If they can't, they must perform a different action.

Psychic Field

Requirements: you must have mastered the Esper Class.

Your gifts with event "When you deal damage" can also be used "When an ally who is able to hear you deals damage". Your psychic shield gift, if you have acquired it, has its effect changed to "You and every ally who is able to hear you may treat your Defense and Magic Defense scores as being equal to 【your current Willpower die size + (the number of filled sections in your Brainwave Clock, multiplied by 2)】 against that Check (you may still use your normal scores if better)."

Pulse of the Maggots

Requirements: you must have mastered the Necromancer Class.

As long as you have at least 1 Grave Point, you gain Immunity to dark and poison damage, Resistance to physical damage, and Vulnerability to light damage. These Affinities overwrite any other Affinity for those damage types, and cannot be altered in any way as long as you have at least 1 Grave Point.

Pulverizing Strike

Requirements: you must have mastered one or more Classes among Darkblade, Fury, and Weaponmaster.

After you hit a creature with Breach, if you attacked with a melee weapon that belongs to the heavy Category, you may have the attack deal damage equal to your High Roll (HR) instead of dealing no damage. Any source of extra damage, including the extra damage from the third option of the Breach Skill itself, still applies — ignore the damage dealt by the weapon.

Quantum Magicannon

Requirements: you must have mastered the Tinkerer Class, and must have acquired the advanced Magitech benefit from the Gadget Skill.

Your attacks with the magicannon deal 5 extra damage. When you perform the Attack action with your magicannon, you may choose one option: destroy the magicannon and immediately create and equip a new one for free (ignore the IP cost), using this newly equipped magicannon for your attack; or the attack gains multi (3); or you perform two separate attacks instead of one, following the rules for two-weapon fighting (Core Rulebook, page 69).

Quick Scan

Requirements: you must have mastered the Loremaster Class.

When you perform the Study action during a conflict, you may examine the profiles of all enemies you can see. If you do, you perform a single 【INS + INS】 Open Check and apply the Result separately to each enemy (Core Rulebook, page 319). However, this Check cannot trigger your Flash of Insight Skill (if you have it).

Rampart

Requirements: you must have mastered the Guardian Class.

During the first round of each conflict scene, you have Resistance to all damage types and cannot suffer status effects (you do not recover from preexisting status effects, however). These benefits only last until the end of the first round.

Repetition

Requirements: you must have mastered the Orator Class.

Once per turn during a conflict, after you use the Condemn Skill or the Encourage Skill, you may immediately perform that same Skill again (on the same target or a different one). You must still pay the Mind Point cost for the second use of the Skill.

Revelation

Requirements: you must have mastered the Arcanist Class.

You make contact with an unknown Arcanum and bind it to your soul. This Arcanum must be something you design together with the rest of the group; as long as you live, no one else in your world will be able to bind that Arcanum. Once per scene while you are merged with an Arcanum, you may use an action and spend 2 Fabula Points to trigger that Arcanum's dismiss effect (if any) without dismissing them. Doing so does not trigger the Arcane Circle Skill (Core Rulebook, page 177).

Rising Tide

Requirements: you must have mastered one or more Classes among Fury and Weaponmaster.

When you perform a melee attack using a weapon that belongs to the brawling Category, if you have no martial armor and no shields equipped, you gain 1 Bravery Point. Your melee attacks using weapons that belong to the brawling Category deal extra damage equal to your current Bravery Points. At the end of each scene, OR if you have 5 or more Bravery Points at the end of your turn, you must spend all your accumulated Bravery Points and recover 10 hp and 10 mp.

Ritual Seals

Requirements: you must have mastered the Symbolist Class.

When you perform a Ritual outside a conflict scene, if that Ritual has a total cost equal to or lower than 60 Mind Points, you may stop the process immediately before the Magic Check and store the Ritual’s effect inside a Ritual seal placed on a surface you can touch. If you do, name a condition — this can be anything from “when I enter Crisis” to “as soon as I snap my fingers”. When that condition is met, the seal vanishes and the Ritual is unleashed at the seal’s location: you perform the Magic Check and resolve the effects as normal (even if you are unconscious or not present on the scene). You may only have one Ritual seal active at the same time — if you die or create a new Ritual seal, the one you previously created will vanish.

Showstopper

Requirements: you must have mastered the Dancer Class.

At the start of your turn during a conflict, if you have no martial armor equipped, you may spend 1 Fabula Point to immediately perform up to three different dances among those you know, in the order you prefer and without paying their MP cost. If you do, you cannot perform dances in any way until the end of your next turn.

Spider’s Web

Requirements: you must have mastered one or more classes among Fury and Weaponmaster.

When you perform the Attack action with a melee weapon that belongs to the flail Category, if you have no other weapon equipped, you may perform two separate attacks instead of one (against the same target or against different targets). If you do, both attacks follow the rules for two-weapon fighting: each attack loses the multi property and cannot gain it, and you treat the High Roll of each Accuracy Check as being equal to 0 when determining damage. Note that this Heroic Skill does not stack with a custom weapon’s quick customization (using Spider’s Web with a quick flail doesn’t allow more than two attacks, in short).

Status Immunity

Requirements: you must have mastered the Wayfarer Class.

You become completely immune to a single status effect of your choice.

Steel Witch

Requirements: you must have mastered the Pilot Class.

After you cast the first spell of your turn during a conflict, if you are driving your personal vehicle, you may choose one option (after the spell has been resolved): choose one enabled module and disable it, then choose one disabled module and enable it; or the next spell you cast before the end of this scene that deals damage deals 5 extra damage; or the next spell you cast before the end of this scene that restores Hit Points to one or more creatures restores 10 additional Hit Points to each of those creatures.

Swirling Swarm

Requirements: you must have mastered one or more Classes among Dancer, Fury, and Sharpshooter.

When you perform a ranged attack using a weapon that belongs to the thrown Category, if you have no martial armor and no shields equipped, you gain 1 Momentum Point. You may never have more than 5 Momentum Points. Your ranged attacks using weapons that belong to the thrown Category deal extra damage equal to your current Momentum Points. When a creature hits you with an attack targeting your Defense, you must spend all your accumulated Momentum Points and increase your Defense score by an equal amount against that attack (this may turn the hit into a miss). You also lose all Momentum Points at the end of each scene.

Symbiotic Roots

Requirements: you must have mastered one or more Classes among Chimerist, Floralist, Mutant and Wayfarer, and have acquired the Faithful Companion (construct Species) Skill.

When you recover Hit Points, you may choose to recover only half of that amount; if you do, your companion recovers that many Hit Points. At the end of your turn during a conflict, if your companion's current Hit Points are equal to or higher than their maximum Hit Points and your companion has not performed actions or attacks during this turn, you may have your companion perform a free attack with one of their basic attacks.

Tabula Rasa

Requirements: you must have mastered the Commander Class.

After you use Bishop’s Edict or King’s Castle Skills, if you are in Crisis, you may have every enemy creature present on the scene lose 10 hp. This amount increases to 20 hp if you are level 20 or higher, or 30 hp if you are level 40 or higher.

Tempest Strike

Requirements: you must have mastered the Weaponmaster Class.

When you perform a melee attack with the multi property, if you choose to target only one creature, the attack deals 5 extra damage if the attack had multi (2), or 10 extra damage if the attack had multi (3 or higher).

Theme Song

Requirements: you must have mastered the Chanter Class.

When you acquire this Skill, you obtain a theme song – give it a name and assign it a key from the ones you have learned (you can also choose a real-world song for this). Once per conflict scene after you sing a verse in your theme song’s key, you may start your theme song — if it’s a real song, it’s a great idea to play it in the background!While singing your theme song, you gain the following benefits: You gain Resistance to 【theme song’s key type】 damage. When you deal 【theme song’s key type】 damage, you deal 5 extra damage and the type of that damage cannot be changed. The MP cost for singing verses in the same key as your theme song is halved. This benefit applies to you and to any of your allies who are able to sing verses. The theme song lasts until the end of the scene or until you leave the scene, die, or fall unconscious. The theme song also ends as soon as you sing a verse in a key other than the theme song’s, if your turn ends and you have not sung any verse, or if another character starts their theme song.

Triple Slash

Requirements: you must have mastered one or more Classes among Dancer and Weaponmaster.

As long as you have a one-handed melee weapon that belongs to the dagger or sword Categories equipped in each of your normal hand slots, you may treat your armor slot as if it were a second off-hand slot. You may only use this special slot to equip a one-handed melee weapon that belongs to the dagger or sword Categories — note that the Monkey Grip Skill does not turn two-handed weapons into one-handed weapons, and thus cannot be used in combination with Triple Slash. When you perform the Attack action while you have three daggers and/or swords equipped, you may attack once with each weapon. This follows the normal rules for two-weapon fighting: each of the three attacks loses the multi property and cannot gain it, and you treat the High Roll (HR) of each Accuracy Check as being equal to 0 when determining damage.

Unbreakable

Requirements: you must have mastered the Guardian Class.

Once per scene when you are about to be reduced to 0 Hit Points, you may instead choose to withstand the pain and be reduced to exactly 1 hp.

Upgrade

Requirements: you must have mastered the Tinkerer Class.

Once per rest, you may choose one option: add a Quality to a single weapon, armor, or shield that doesn't have one; OR replace the current Quality of a single weapon, armor, or shield with a different Quality. When you use this Skill, you must select a Quality from the default list for that item type as long as the cost modifier associated with that ability is +1000 zenit or lower. Then, you must spend an amount of zenit equal to twice the cost modifier of the chosen ability. The modified item will be ready at the end of the rest; you may only modify one item per rest. The default list of weapon abilities can be found on page 269 (Core Rulebook), while the default list of armor and shield abilities can be found on page 280 (Core Rulebook).

Vanish

Requirements: you must have mastered the Rogue Class.

When you hit one or more creatures with an attack, you may spend 1 Fabula Point. If you do, each of those creatures will be unable to perform any action that requires them to be able to see you until the start of your next turn.

Volcano

Requirements: you must have mastered the Elementalist Class.

You learn the ultimate Elementalist spell: Volcano.

Volcano. MP: 40, Target: Special, Duration: Instantaneous

You channel the fury of the planet into a powerful wave of fire and magma. Choose one option: one creature you can see suffers 50 fire damage; OR you choose any number of creatures you can see, and each of them suffers 30 fire damage. These amounts increase by 5 if you are level 20 or higher, or by 10 if you are level 40 or higher. Damage dealt by this spell ignores Resistances and Immunities.

Witchvoice

Requirements: you must have mastered one or more Classes among Chanter and Orator.

After one or more enemies suffer one or more status effects due to a verse you sung or due to your Condemn Skill, each of those enemies becomes bewitched (this effect does not apply to creatures that are immune or already suffering from all status effects inflicted this way). A creature you bewitched must include you among the targets of their attacks and offensive spells (⚡), if able, and stops being bewitched at the start of your next turn or as soon as it recovers from one or more status effects.