1.

THE CUSTOM HERO

The following system is designed to allow the Gamemaster to A character is limited to a number of feats equal to his level.
dispense with classes in his modern d20 games, allowing players This does not include bonus feats.
instead to pick and choose their abilities as they rise in levels.
Hit Dice (2/4/6/8/10 points)
The goal is to give players more flexibility while maintaining
The character point cost of hit dice depends on the die. 2 points
balance as much as possible, including balance with the standard
for d4, 4 points for d6, 6 points for d8, 8 points for d10 and 10
rules.
points for d12. A character cannot have more Hit Dice than his
character level.
Character Points Characters with a Constitution bonus no longer gain that
Central to the concept of custom heroes is character points. At
bonus to their hit dice. Instead, they gain their Constitution
first level a character has 26 character points to purchase their
bonus in hit points for every level they advance, whether they
traits. Each time they advance a level they gain 26 more
gain a hit die or not. Characters with a Constitution penalty add
character points. Characters starting out at higher levels receive
their penalty to any hit dice they roll (minimum of 1 hit point
the appropriate number of points (level x 26 points).
gained), but dont lose points every level they advance.
Characters can save character points between levels; they
need not spend all of them at once. But, a character can only Powers (Varies)
spend character points when they advance a level, before or Powers are a catchall category for any character ability that does
after a session of play, or during downtime, as determined by not fit into another trait. See the section on powers, below.
the Gamemaster.
Reputation Bonus (4 points per +1)
All characters gain a base Reputation bonus as they advance, as
Traits shown on Table 2. If they wish they can increase their base
A trait is any of the numerous mechanical aspects of a character
Reputation bonus with character points. The maximum total
in the modern d20 system that are bought with character points.
base Reputation bonus a character can have is shown on Table 1.
The traits are: Base Attack Bonus, Defense Bonus, Feats, Hit
Dice, Powers, Reputation Bonus, Saving Throws and Skills.
Note that ability scores are not handled using character points, Table 1: Maximum Traits
and are thus not traits. Starting characters determined their Base Hit Rep. Saving Skill
ability scores using Gamemaster-determined rules, and gain a +1 Lvl Attack Defense Feats Dice Bonus Throws Ranks
bonus to ability scores every four levels, as normal. 1 +1 +3 1 1 +2 +1 4
Each trait has a character point cost, as well as a maximum 2 +2 +4 2 2 +3 +2 5
rating based on level. For example, the maximum Base Attack 3 +3 +4 3 3 +3 +3 6
Bonus a character can have is equal to their character level. The 4 +4 +5 4 4 +4 +4 7
trait maximums are shown on Table 1. 5 +5 +5 5 5 +4 +4 8
6 +6 +6 6 6 +5 +5 9
Base Attack Bonus (8 points per +1) 7 +7 +6 7 7 +5 +6 10
A characters base attack bonus cannot exceed his character level. 8 +8 +7 8 8 +6 +6 11
9 +9 +7 9 9 +6 +7 12
Defense Bonus (4 points per +1)
10 +10 +8 10 10 +7 +8 13
A characters Defense bonus cannot exceed one-half his
11 +11 +8 11 11 +7 +8 14
character level + 3. 12 +12 +9 12 12 +8 +9 15
Feats (4 points per feat) 13 +13 +9 13 13 +8 +10 16
Feats are bought for 4 points each, but characters also receive the 14 +14 +10 14 14 +9 +10 17
normal feats for their level. At first level all characters gain the 15 +15 +10 15 15 +9 +11 18
16 +16 +11 16 16 +10 +12 19
feat Simple Weapons Proficiency, plus one other feat. Humans
17 +17 +11 17 17 +10 +12 20
gain a second feat at first level. Then, all characters gain one feat
18 +18 +12 18 18 +11 +13 21
at every level divisible by three (3rd, 6th, 9th, etc.) These are 19 +19 +12 19 19 +11 +14 22
bonus feats and do not require character points. 20 +20 +13 20 20 +12 +14 23

An Alternate Character Creation System for Modern d20 Games

By Leroy Van Camp III (malacoda@cableone.net)
Base Saving Throw Bonus (4 points per +1) Action Points
Each of the three saving throwsFortitude, Reflex and Will Characters gain a number of action points equal to 5 + one-half
is increased separately. The maximum base saving throw a their level, rounded down, at 1st level and every time they
character can have is shown on Table 1. attain a new level. Action Points are not traits and cannot be
Skills (1 points per 1 rank) bought with character points.
There are no class or exclusive skills, though the GM may
prohibit some skills from being gained without approval, based Advanced Classes
on the campaign setting. For example, in a campaign where There are two ways of handling advanced classes when using the
players could potentially learn magic, the GM might not allow Custom Hero rules. First, you can convert all class special
the skill Spellcraft without proper study first. Skills can be abilities to feats and powers, giving
created that require prerequisites much like a feat. them prerequisites as required to Table 2: Base
closely match the progression of the Reputation Bonus
Skill ranks are bought for 1 character point, except at first
level, where 1 character point grants 4 skill points. A character class. This allows a character to follow Base
the concept of the advanced class Reputation
can never put more than 2 points into a skill at any one level, Lvl Bonus
unless they have no ranks in the skill, in which case they can put while still maintaining a classless
system. 1 +0
up to 4 points into it. They also cannot have more ranks than 2 +0
their character level + 3, as shown on Table 1. The second option is to allow
3 +1
At each level, characters with an Intelligence bonus gain skill characters to take advanced classes as
4 +1
points equal to their bonus. Characters with an Intelligence normal. They must meet the
5 +1
penalty must pay a number of points equal to their Intelligence prerequisites to join the class, and if 6 +2
penalty + 1 for their first skill rank bought at each level; all they choose to follow the class they 7 +2
subsequent ranks are bought normally. For example, a character gain all the listed traits, but do not 8 +2
with an Intelligence of 9 (-1 penalty) advances a level and wants gain the standard 26 character points. 9 +3
to increase his Hide and Spot skills by two ranks each. Because This may result in abilities or traits 10 +3
he has a penalty of -1, his first rank in Hide will cost one point more impressive than they could have 11 +3
gained via character points, but at the 12 +4
extra, or 3 character points. His penalty is now paid and so his
loss of control over how they gain 13 +4
ranks in Spot cost the normal 1 point per rank, or 2 character
them. As they progress in levels they 14 +5
points total. 15 +5
Humans gain 4 bonus skill points at first level, and 1 bonus can choose additional levels of the
16 +5
skill point each level thereafter. advanced class or can take the 26
17 +6
character points as normal.
18 +6
Talents When using this method it is 19 +7
All of the talents have been converted over to feats. See the New possible that one or more traits will 20 +7
Feats section below for these new feats. The exception is the exceed the level-based trait maximum.
talent Robust, which does not work well in a classless system. If This is acceptable, but the character cannot use character points
the GM wants to have a method for characters to gain to increase it further. For example, a 4th level character has a
additional hit points using character points, see the optional rule Fortitude save of +4, which is the max for his level. When he
Removing Hit Dice, below. advances to 5th level he takes his first level of an advanced class
which boosts his Fortitude save by +2, to +6. This exceeds his
Occupations maximum, which for 5th level is still +4. At 6th level he chooses
The GM has two options when it comes to handling character points over a second level in the advanced class. He
occupations. First, they can remove the concept completely, cannot spend points on his Fortitude save, though, as it is
letting players use their points to model the occupations they already at +6, which is above his maximum for 6th level.
desire. The benefit of this is consistency and simplicity. The The abilities of the advanced classes from the core modern
downside is that it removes the wealth bonus from the picture, d20 rulebook have been converted to feats and can be found in
plus it may require the character to distribute his character the New Feats section below.
points a bit more thin during creation.
The second option is to allow players to choose an Ordinaries
occupation as normal. Consider any skill the character has In most cases ordinaries follow the standard modern d20 rules,
ranks in to be a class skill. Because there are no longer class and need not be created via character points. For most ordinary
skills, choosing occupation skills you do not have ranks in characters, fine-tuning them with points is overkill. If the GM
becomes useless. wishes to create an ordinary with points rather than the basic
classes, he should do it with 22 points rather than 26, reflecting
the fact that they do not get bonus feats or talents from their class.
Powers valuable saving throw, with Reflex coming in second. Will
Power is a catchall term for any character ability that does not fit comes in third, but is so far behind the other two in usefulness
into the other traits. They might give bonuses to other traits, that there is a good chance no one will bother spending points
behave similar to a feat but have non-standard costs, or may to improve it. When no one is going to put you to sleep with
simply work in a non-standard way. They are often supernatural, magic or control your mind with psionicsfor examplethe
but that is not a requirement. Some examples of powers include Will save becomes nearly useless.
psionics, magic or superpowers. The GM will need to decide Because of this, the GM should take a look at the kind of
what powers are available in his campaign, if any. Powers are an game he is going to run and adjust the point cost of saving
ideal way to integrate special powers and abilities from other throws accordingly. In an FX-laden campaign, no adjustments
roleplaying games into your d20 campaigns. should be necessary. In a game with no FX at all, but plenty of
All powers cost character points, plus some powers have action, Fortitude should remain the same, but you might want
prerequisites that must be met before the character can have the to drop Reflex to 3 character points per +1 (depending on the
power, much like feats. Some powers have a single cost, while amount of autofire and grenades you expect to have in your
some are bought in ranks, like skills, with a cost per rank. game), and drop Will saves to 2 point character points per +1,
A quick, simple example of a power is given: arcane making it more of a color trait, or used to qualify for feats. It
spellcasting. This example is designed to be demonstrative, not will be more useful to NPCs who may have to face feats and
necessarily thorough or even completely usable without abilities the player characters wield that require Will saves.
expansion. If you do this, you will also want to reduce the character
points per level to 24, as the Custom Hero system assumes
Arcane Spellcasting (12 points per rank) characters will occasionally be raising all saves. If one or more of
You can learn, prepare and cast arcane spells. the saving throws is less vital, they will raise it less often, or not
Prerequisite: Knowledge (occult) 4 ranks, Spellcraft 4 at all, and players will use those points to achieve levels of power
ranks, access to one or more books on the magical arts. or flexibility core characters never could.
Benefit: When you acquire the first rank of this power you
gain a caster level of 1 and learn the cantrip read magic, an Effective Levels
additional number of cantrips equal to 10 + Intelligence The Custom Hero rules are based on the standard d20 system
modifier, plus a number of 1st level spells equal to your of experience points and level. The GM hands out XP as normal
Intelligence modifier + 1, all of which are inscribed in your and when characters have enough
spellbook. Each additional rank adds +1 to your caster level, their level increases and they receive Table 3: Effective
26 character points. This approach is Level
plus allows you to learn two additional spells and add them to
simple and easy, and supported by Total
your spellbook.
numerous other systems in the game, Effective Character
The number of spells you can prepare per day is shown on Level Points
Table 3 (this being the normal spell table for a standard d20 such as encounter balancing and
1 26
wizard, and not actually replicated here). monetary reward guidelines. The
2 52
Special: You cannot gain more than 1 rank of Arcane downside of that approach is that it
3 78
Spellcasting each time you gain a level. results in periodic but extensive leaps
4 104
in character power and ability. But 5 130
Optional Rules what if you want more gradual 6 156
These rules are designed to be create characters that closely increases in character power? The 7 182
match the power levels of characters created with the standard answer is to use effective levels. 8 208
classes, while still following the standard d20 approach to All characters have an effective 9 234
characters. Below are several alternate approaches to handling level, which is equal to the number of 10 260
characters. character points they havewhether 11 286
or not they have been spentdivided 12 312
Saving Throws and Genre by 26. This effective level is used to 13 338
The Custom Hero system makes two assumptions about saving determine all level-based effects, such 14 364
throws. First, it assumes that the three saving throws 15 390
as action points, bonus feats, hit
Fortitude, Reflex and Willare of equal value, and will be of 16 416
points and skill points, ability score
equal importance in a campaign. Second, it assumes most 17 442
increases, balancing encounters and 18 468
players will want to improve all three saves to one degree or handing out rewards. At character 19 494
another. The cost of savesand character points handed out at creation, this effective level is used to 20 520
each level (26)are grounded in these two assumptions. determine trait maximums. After that,
The genre of the campaign the Gamemaster is running can trait maximums are determined by effective level + 1. So, if a
invalidate these assumptions. Campaigns with no magic, character has enough points to make his effective level 4, then
psionics or similar FX can reduce the value of individual saves. his trait maximums are based on a 5th level character.
In an FX-free action game, Fortitude will very likely be the most
 Table 3 shows a characters effective level based on his total
character points.
When using effective levels, the GM hands out character
points directly, rather than XP. These points can be spent
normally. Each time a character gets enough character points to
total another increment of 26, they advance in effective level.
The number of character points a GM gives out per session of
play will depend on a number of factors, including length of
time played, how the players worked together, how well they
met their goals and how well they roleplayed. The easiest way to
determine this is to estimate how many average-length sessions
it should take to advance one effective level, then divide 26 by
that number, which gives the average character point reward.
For example, a GM decides he wants characters to gain an
effective level every four sessions of average length, which comes
to 7 character points per session.
Example: A character has a total of 310 character points,
making him 11th effective level. He gains 6 character points
after an adventure, for a total of 316 character points, which
carries him to 12th effective level. He gains hit points equal to
his Constitution modifier and one skill point for being human.
Several of his trait maximums increase, as if his effective level
was 13th. 12th level is divisible by three, so he gains a bonus
feat. 12th level is also divisible by four, so he gains a +1 ability
score boost.
The benefits of using effective levels is that it allows for
more organic character progression, while still retaining the the
concept of level and allows the GM to use the majority of the
systems that are based on level. The drawback is that it prevents
the use of any system that depends on spending XP, such as
the fantasy d20 rules for creating magic items.
Discarding Levels
For Gamemasters who find levels of any kind too restrictive,
they can be discarded completely. This works in a manner
similar to the effective level option, but without any levels at all.
There are no trait maximums, and characters do not receive any
of the normal benefits for level advancement, such as bonus
feats and skill points, bonus hit points from Constitution, or
ability score increases. Characters receive only character points
after each session, and they can spend them as they please.
In order to discard levels the GM will have to make some
decisions on how certain aspects of character advancement are
handled, most notably ability scores. Without levels there is no
mechanic for ability score increases. The GM can give ability
scores character point values and let players increase them
normally.
The benefit of this approach is increased flexibility. The
downside is it makes it harder for the GM to use the d20 tools
for balancing encounters and judging challenges and rewards. At
lower point totals the GM can divide character points by 26 to
find an equivalent character level, but as characters advance
there is a good possibility this will become less indicative of
actual power and ability.
Removing Trait Maximums
The trait maximums are in place to prevent characters from
going beyond the boundaries of the normal modern d20 classes.
A character using classes can never have a base attack bonus
higher than their level, and so the Custom Hero has the same
restriction. This helps insure that characters using the Custom
Hero rules should be of comparable power and ability as a
standard, class-based character of a similar level.
For some campaigns the GM may want to waive these
maximums, allowing players to spend character points as they
please. In theory, this should not be too problematic, as the
limited number of character points a character receives at each
level should prevent them from focusing on one trait to an
unbalancing extreme without hindering other important traits.
For example, a combat-oriented character could pump up his
base attack bonus by +2 every level, but their Defense bonus,
Fortitude save, hit dice and feats would all suffer, all of which are
also important to combat characters. Keep in mind, though,
that by removing trait maximums characters could potentially
acquire feats and powers at lower levels than normal. This is the
most prominent downside of removing trait maximums.
Gamemasters may want to pick and choose which traits are
excluded from the trait maximums. A good candidate is feats,
allowing characters to have as many as they want. Considering
the cost of feats, this should not be too problematic.
Removing Hit Dice
A character that uses character points to buy a d4 hit die could
roll a 4, while his stalwart companion could buy a d10 and roll
a 1, which for some people may not seem quite fair in a point-
based system. To even the playing field, and tie hit points more
closely to character points, the GM might wish to alter the rules
so hit points are bough directly with character points.
How this is done is up to the GM, but the easiest method
is to rule that the listed character point cost buys the average of
the corresponding die, rounded up. This results in 2 points for
3 hit points, 4 points for 4 hit points, 6 points for 5 hit points,
8 points for 6 hit points, and 10 points for 7 hit points.
Characters with a Constitution penalty would add it to these
numbers.
Another option is to allow hit points to be bought on a 1-
for-1 basis; 1 character point buys 1 hit point. Characters with
a Constitution penalty must spend a number of character points
equal to their penalty + 1 for their first hit point at each level.
For example, a character with a penalty of -2 wants to buy some
hit points. His first hit point will cost 3 points, then 1 character
point per hit point thereafter.
The advantage of the 1-for-1 method is that it is
straightforward. The downside is that combat-oriented
characters will likely have more hit points. Note that using this
alternate rule makes the Toughness feat rather useless.
Alternate Character Points Per Level
The number of character points handed out per level (26) is
designed to approximate the power level of the modern d20
classes. This number can be altered to reflect the needs of the
campaign. In some campaigns it makes sense to give characters
more per level, or even less per level. More per level can be used
for more rapid acceleration of power, give all characters a
broader range of knowledge, or allow characters to buy powers
and feats that are a core part of the setting, in addition to the
normal traits. Fewer points can be handed out to represent a
more gritty game.
Example: a GM wants to run a game where all the players
are scheming vampires who are part of an ancient society. These
vampires all have different supernatural vampiric powers. The
GM wants players to be able to increase these powers as they
advance in level, but he wants the characters to be able to do so
without sacrificing the other traits. So, the GM decides that
once a character is turned into a vampire it gains 32 character
points per level rather than 26.
Alternate character points per level is an excellent means to
control power levels in a game, but the downside is that it
reduces the usefulness of levels. With the shift in points, it
becomes harder and harder to use level as a basis for determining
challenges and rewards.
New Feats
The following feats are based on the talents of the core character
classes and the abilities of the advanced classes. Most work the
same as the talent or ability, or at least come close. Some have
been split into multiple feats, and some have had their specific
mechanics altered to balance them. The feat Robust was not
converted, nor was the Field Scientists Smart Defense ability.
Some class abilities were combined into one if they were very
similar.
Action Boost
You can push yourself farther than most.
Prerequisites: Endurance, Concentration 10 ranks.
Benefits: You can spend 2 action points in a round. You can
spend 1 action point, see the result of the roll, and then decide
to spend a second point, as long as you do so before the
Gamemaster reveals the result of the action.
Adrenaline Rush
You can temporarily increase one of your physical ability scores
(Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution).
Prerequisites: Action Boost, Concentration 11 ranks, base
Fortitude save +6.
Benefits: You can spend 1 action point to increase the
selected ability score by 1d4+1 points. The increase lasts for one
round per 3 ranks of Concentration you have. At the end of the
duration, you are fatigued for 1d4+1 rounds.
Advanced Damage Reduction
You can shrug off a surprising amount of damage.
Prerequisite: Constitution 17, Improved Damage
Reduction, base Fortitude save +5 and 7 or more hit dice.
Benefit: Your Damage Reduction increases to DR 3/.
Advanced Empathy
You have unsurpassed insight into human thoughts and
emotions.
Prerequisite: Wisdom 17 and Improved Empathy.
Benefit: Your bonus from Empathy improves to +6.
Advanced Fast-Talk
You are a master of cons and deception.
Prerequisite: Charisma 15, Fast Talk, Bluff 8 ranks.
Benefit: Your Fast Talk Bonus improves to +6.
Advanced Ignore Hardness
Your ability to find weakness in a target greatly improves.
Prerequisite: Improved Ignore Hardness, base attack
bonus +5.
Benefit: You can ignore 4 points of an objects hardness
when making a melee attack against it. This does not stack with
Ignore Hardness or Improved Ignore Hardness.
Advanced Increased Speed
You move incredibly fast.
Prerequisite: Dexterity 17, base Reflex save +3.
Benefit: Your base speed increases by 5 feet, stacking with
Increased Speed and Improved Increased Speed for a total of
+15 feet.
Advanced Living Weapon
You know how to hit very hard with unarmed strikes.
Prerequisites: Advanced Combat Martial Arts, Improved
Living Weapon, base attack bonus +11.
Benefits: Your unarmed strikes deal 1d10 damage.
Advanced Mastercraft
Your mastercraft items are of unsurpassed quality.
Prerequisites: Improved Mastercraft, 16 or more ranks in
your chosen Craft skill.
Benefits: You can create mastercraft items that have up to a
+3 bonus. The XP cost of items with a +3 bonus is 750 XP.
The Craft DC for a mastercraft object is the same as for a
normal object of the same type, as described in the Craft skill,
with the following modification: For a +3 object, add +10 to the
Craft DC.
Advanced Melee Smash
Your melee attacks strike incredibly fast and hard, doing much
more damage.
Prerequisites: Improved Melee Smash, base attack bonus +5
Benefit: You receive a +3 bonus on melee damage.
Special: This bonus replaces, and does not stack with, the
bonus from Melee Smash or Improved Melee Smash.
Advanced Talk Down
You can talk many people into a more peaceful situation.
Prerequisites: Improved Talk Down, Bluff 16 ranks,
Diplomacy 16 ranks.
Benefits: When using Talk Down you can talk down any
number of opponents within 30 feet of your position or within
30 feet of a television, radio, or telephone broadcasting the your
message.
Advanced Unlimited Access
Your reputation as an internationally known personality can get
you into places others cant go.
Prerequisites: Improved Unlimited Access, Diplomacy 15
ranks, Perform (select one) 15 ranks, base Reputation bonus +8.
Benefits: Your bonus from Unlimited Access improves by
+3, for a total of +9.
Special: The GM may allow some characters to use a skill
other than Perform to qualify for this skill, to cover famous
authors, scientists or politicians. A good background and story
should be a prerequisite.
Aware
You are intuitively aware of your surroundings.
Prerequisite: Alertness.
Benefit: You add your base Will saving throw bonus to
Listen or Spot checks to avoid surprise.
Blanket Protection
You can assist allies in defending themselves.
Prerequisites: Harms Way, Defense bonus +5, base attack
bonus +9.
Benefits: You can use your expertise to provide protection
for up to six allies (not including yourself ). You spend 1 action
point and take a full-round action to issue orders and directions.
Doing this provides your allies with a +1 insight bonus to
Defense for 3 rounds.
Build Robot
You can build remote-controlled robots that are Tiny or
Diminutive in size.
Prerequisites: Extreme Machine, Computer Use 10 ranks,
Craft (electronic) 10 ranks and Craft (mechanical) 10 ranks.
Benefits: The robots you build serve as the your eyes, ears,
or hands out to a predetermined distance away from you when
you want to use one of the following skills: Computer Use,
Demolitions, Disable Device, Listen, Repair, or Spot.
You must have at least 1 rank in the skill that you want to
program into the robot. You can only control one robot at a
time, and only one of your robots can be active at any time.
Follow these steps to build a robot.
Wealth Check: The purchase DC for the components needed
to construct a robot is based on the robots size. Diminutive
robots are DC 18 and Tiny are DC 15. Make the Wealth check
to purchase and gather the necessary components prior to
starting construction.
Construct Frame: The robots body determines its size, shape,
locomotion, and hit points. The DC of the Craft (mechanical)
check is set by the robots size and modified by the form of
locomotion selected.
Craft
Size DC
Diminutive 15
Tiny 12
DC
Components Modifier
Frame Shape and Locomotion1
Bipedal +4
Quadruped +3
Treads +2
Wheels +1
External Components2
Manipulators3 +3
Audio/visual sensor +2
Remote Range1
Remote control link, 100 feet +1
Remote control link, 200 feet +3
Remote control link, 300 feet +5
1
Select only one of the options in this category.
2
Select one or more of the options in this category.
3
Necessary for a robot built to use any skill except
Listen or Spot.
Select a frame size and form, add manipulators and sensors
as necessary, and choose a type of remote control link. Add all
the modifiers to determine the checks DC. Make the Craft
(mechanical) check to construct the robots frame.
It takes 30 hours to construct a Diminutive robot frame or
12 hours to construct a Tiny robot frame.
A Diminutive robot can be 6 to 12 inches long or tall and
weighs about 1 pound. A Tiny robot can be 13 to 24 inches long
or tall and weighs up to 3 pounds. Statistics for these robots can
be found in the Creature listings.
Construct the Electronics: The next step is to build the internal
electronics for the robot and install them in the frame. The DC
is based on the size of the robot and modified by the number of
components that need to be wired together. For a Diminutive
robot, the DC is 20. For a Tiny robot, the DC is 15. Add +1 to
the DC for each external component and +2 for the remote link.
Make the Craft (electronic) check.
It takes 12 hours to wire a Diminutive robot or 6 hours to
wire a Tiny robot.
For example, wiring the electronics for the Tiny robot
described above requires a check against DC 19 after 6 hours of
work.
Program the Robot: You program the robot as the final step.
Decide how many ranks of the appropriate skill to program into
the robot, up to the number of ranks your have in the skill. A
robot can only contain programming for one skill. Make the
Computer Use check to program the robot.
The DC for the Computer Use check is 20, modified by the
number of ranks the Techie wants to program into the robot (+1
to the DC for each rank). It takes 1 hour to program the robot.
Reprogramming: A robot can be reprogrammed at any time.
Doing this requires 1 hour of work and a Computer Use check
(DC 20 + the number of ranks programmed into the robot).
Bullseye
With a chosen weapon you can focus your concentration to fire
devastating shots.
Prerequisites: Greater Weapon Focus with your chosen
personal firearm, Lightning Shot, Sharp-Shooting, base attack
bonus +9.
Benefits: With a successful attack, before damage is rolled,
you can spend 1 action point to deal +3d6 points of damage.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Its effects do
not stack; each time you take this feat it applies to a different
firearm.
Captivate
You have the ability to temporarily beguile a target (a GM
character) through the use of words and bearing.
Prerequisites: Charisma 15, Charm, Bluff or Diplomacy 8
ranks.
Benefit: The target must have an Intelligence score of 3 or
higher to be susceptible to a captivate attempt, must be within
30 feet of the hero, and must be able to see, hear, and
understand the hero. To captivate a target, you must use an
attack action and make a Charisma check (DC 10). If the
Charisma check succeeds, the target can try to resist.
The target resists the captivation attempt by making a Will
saving throw (DC 15 + your Charisma bonus). If the saving
throw fails, the hero becomes the targets sole focus. The target
pays no attention to anyone else for 1 round. This focusing of
the targets attention allows other characters to take actions of
which the captivated target is unaware. The effect ends
immediately if the target is attacked or threatened.
You can concentrate to keep a target captivated for
additional rounds. You concentrate all your effort on the task,
and the target gets to make a new Will save each round. The
effect ends when you stop concentrating, or when the target
succeeds on the save.
Charm
You know how to charm those of your chosen gender (some
characters are charming to members of the opposite gender,
others to members of the same gender).
Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on all Charisma-based skill
checks made to influence members your chosen gender. You can
only charm Gamemaster characters with attitudes of indifferent
or better. The charm bonus cant be used against characters who
are unfriendly or hostile.
Close Combat Shot
You can avoid being attacked when shooting up close.
Prerequisites: Personal Firearms Proficiency, Sleight of
Hand 6 ranks, Tumble 6 ranks, Base Attack Bonus +2.
Benefits: You gain the ability to make a ranged attack with
a Medium-size or smaller firearm while in a threatened area
without provoking an attack of opportunity.
Combat Sense
When you focus on an opponent you can read his defenses.
Prerequisites: Base attack bonus +3, Wisdom 13+.
Benefits: This ability allows you to designate a single
opponent during your action and receive a +1 competence
bonus on attacks against that opponent. You can select a new
opponent on any action.
Compelling Performance
Your performance skills and force of personal magnetism
increases to the point that you can arouse a single emotion of
your choicedespair, hope, or ragein a target with a
performance.
Prerequisites: Perform 16 ranks.
Benefits: To use this ability, you must spend 1 action point.
The emotion you arouse affects one target (a GM character)
within 15 feet of you (or within 15 feet of a television, radio, or
telephone that broadcasts your performance). The performance
requires a full-round action, and its effects on the target last for
1d4+1 rounds.
The target makes a Will saving throw. The DC is 10 + 1 per
3 ranks of Perform you use + your Charisma bonus. If the target
succeeds at the saving throw, he or she is immune to the
compulsion of this performance. If the target fails, he or she
reacts to the emotion as described below.
Despair: The target takes a 2 morale penalty on saving
throws, attack rolls, ability checks, skill checks, and weapon
damage rolls.
Hope: The target gains a +2 morale bonus on saving throws,
attack rolls, ability checks, skill checks, and weapon damage
rolls.
Rage: The target gains a +2 morale bonus to Strength and
Constitution, a +1 morale bonus on Will saves, and a 1 penalty
to Defense. In a dramatic situation, the target is compelled to
fight, regardless of the danger.
Contact (high-level)
You cultivate associates and informants with more power and
influence.
Prerequisites: Contact (mid-level), Gather Information 13
ranks.
Benefit: You gain a high-level contact. A contact will not
accompany a character on missions or risk his or her life. A
contact can, however, provide information or render a service
(make a specific skill check on your behalf ). You cant call on the
same contact more than once in a week, and when you do call
on a contact, compensation may be required for the assistance
the contact renders. In general, a professional associate wont be
compensated monetarily, but instead will consider that you owes
him or her a favor. Contacts with underworld or street
connections usually demand monetary compensation for the
services they render, and experts in the use of skills normally
want to be paid for the services they provide.
For underworld or street contacts, this expense is
represented by a Wealth check against a purchase DC of 20. For
skilled experts, the purchase DC is 10 + the ranks the expert has
in the appropriate skill.
Special: This feat may be gained multiple times. Each time
the character acquires a new high-level contact. Each time a
character gains a contact, the GM should develop a supporting
character to represent the contact. The player can suggest the
type of contact his or her character wants to gain, but the
contact must be an ordinary character, not a heroic character.
Contact (low-level)
You cultivate associates and informants.
Prerequisites: Gather Information 7 ranks.
Benefit: You gain a low-level contact. A contact will not
accompany a character on missions or risk his or her life. A
contact can, however, provide information or render a service
(make a specific skill check on your behalf ). You cant call on the
same contact more than once in a week, and when you do call
on a contact, compensation may be required for the assistance
the contact renders. In general, a professional associate wont be
compensated monetarily, but instead will consider that you owe
him or her a favor. Contacts with underworld or street
connections usually demand monetary compensation for the
services they render, and experts in the use of skills normally
want to be paid for the services they provide.
For underworld or street contacts, this expense is
represented by a Wealth check against a purchase DC of 10 for
the low-level contact, 15 for the mid-level contact, or 20 for the
high-level contact. For skilled experts, the purchase DC is 10 +
the ranks the expert has in the appropriate skill.
Special: This feat may be gained multiple times. Each time
the character acquires a new low-level contact. Each time a
character gains a contact, the GM should develop a supporting
character to represent the contact. The player can suggest the
type of contact his or her character wants to gain, but the
contact must be an ordinary character, not a heroic character.
Contact (mid-level)
You cultivate associates and informants with more power and
influence.
Prerequisites: Contact (low-level), Gather Information 10
ranks.
Benefit: You gain a mid-level contact. A contact will not
accompany a character on missions or risk his or her life. A
contact can, however, provide information or render a service
(make a specific skill check on your behalf ). You cant call on the
same contact more than once in a week, and when you do call
on a contact, compensation may be required for the assistance
the contact renders. In general, a professional associate wont be
compensated monetarily, but instead will consider that you owe
him or her a favor. Contacts with underworld or street
connections usually demand monetary compensation for the
services they render, and experts in the use of skills normally
want to be paid for the services they provide.
For underworld or street contacts, this expense is
represented by a Wealth check against a purchase DC of 15. For
skilled experts, the purchase DC is 10 + the ranks the expert has
in the appropriate skill.
Special: This feat may be gained multiple times. Each time
the character acquires a new mid-level contact. Each time a
character gains a contact, the GM should develop a supporting
character to represent the contact. The player can suggest the
type of contact his or her character wants to gain, but the
contact must be an ordinary character, not a heroic character.
Cool Under Pressure
You are good at using some of your skills under stress.
Prerequisite: Base Will save +4.
Benefit: Selects a number of skills equal to 3 + your
Wisdom modifier. When making a check with one of these
skills, you can take 10 even when distracted or under duress.
Coordinate
You have a knack for getting people to work together.
Prerequisite: Charisma 13, base Will save +1.
Benefit: When you can spend a full round directing your
allies and makes a Charisma check (DC 10), you provide any of
your allies within 30 feet a +1 bonus on their attack rolls and
skill checks. The bonus lasts for a number of rounds equal to the
your Charisma modifier. You can coordinate a number of allies
equal to your Charisma bonus + 1.
Critical Strike
You can guarantee your threats become critical hits with your
chosen weapon.
Prerequisites: Greater Weapon Specialization with the
chosen weapon, base attack bonus +13.
Benefits: When you roll a threat using your chosen weapon
you can spend an action point to automatically confirm the
critical. This is done before the die roll.
Dazzle
You have the ability to dazzle a target (a GM character) through
sheer force of personality, a winning smile, and fast-talking.
Prerequisite: Fast Talk, Bluff 5 ranks.
Benefit: This feat can only be used in non-hostile situations,
though the penalties persist should it turn hostile. To dazzle a
target, you must use an attack action and make a Charisma
check (DC 12). If the Charisma check succeeds, the target can
try to resist.
The target resists the dazzle attempt by making a Will
saving throw (DC 13 + your Charisma bonus). If the save fails,
the target receives a 1 penalty on attack rolls, ability checks,
skill checks, and saving throws for a number of rounds equal to
the your Charisma bonus + 3.
The target must have an Intelligence score of 3 or higher to
be susceptible to a dazzle attempt, must be within 30 feet of
you, and must be able to see, hear, and understand you.
Damage Reduction
You have an innate talent to ignore a set amount of damage
from most weapons, but not from energy or special attack forms
(which may or may not exist, depending on the campaign).
Prerequisite: Constitution 13, base Fortitude save +2, 3 or
more hit dice and either Remain Conscious or Energy
Resistance (any type).
Benefit: You gain Damage Reduction 1/.
Defensive Position
You know how to take advantage of cover.
Prerequisite: Defense bonus +6.
Benefits: Your gain an additional +2 cover bonus to Defense
and an additional +2 cover bonus on Reflex saves whenever you
have one-quarter, one-half, three-quarters, or nine-tenths cover.
Defensive Roll
You can roll with a potentially lethal attack to take less damage
from it.
Prerequisites: Uncanny Dodge, Defense bonus +5, base
Reflex save +4
Benefit: When you would be reduced to 0 hit points or less
by damage in combat (from a ranged or melee attack), you can
attempt to roll with the damage. You spend 1 action point to use
this feat. Once the point is spent, the you make a Reflex saving
throw (DC = damage dealt). If the save succeeds, you take only
half damage. You must be able to react to the attack to execute
a defensive rollif you are immobilized, you cant use this feat.
Defensive Strike
You can catch your opponents off guard when on the defensive.
Prerequisites: Sudden Action, base attack bonus +7.
Benefits: If an opponent makes a melee attack against you
and misses while the you are using the total defense option, you
can attack that opponent on your next turn (as an attack action)
with a +4 bonus on your attack roll. You gain no bonus against
an opponent who doesnt attack you or against an opponent
who makes a successful attack.
Delay Damage
You can stave off damage you have taken for a few rounds.
Prerequisites: Adrenaline Rush, Concentration 13 ranks,
base Fortitude save +7.
Benefits: Once per day you can delay the damage dealt by
a single attack or effect for a one round per 3 ranks of
Concentration.
Discern Lie
You develop the ability to gauge whether another character is
telling the truth by reading facial expressions and interpreting
body language.
Prerequisites: Investigate 13 ranks, Sense Motive 13 ranks.
Benefits: You must be able to see and hear (but not
necessarily understand) the individual under scrutiny. With a
successful Sense Motive check opposed by the subjects Bluff
check result or against DC 10 (whichever is greater), you can tell
whether the subject is deliberately and knowingly speaking a lie.
This ability doesnt reveal the truth, uncover unintentional
inaccuracies, or necessarily reveal omissions in information.
Energy Resistance
You are particularly resistant to certain kinds of deadly energy.
Prerequisite: Base Fortitude save +1.
Benefit: Pick one type of energy (acid, cold, electricity, fire
or sonic/concussion). You ignore an amount of damage of that
type equal to your Constitution modifier per round.
Empathy
You have a knack for being sensitive to the feelings and thoughts
of others without having those feelings and thoughts
communicated in any objectively explicit manner.
Prerequisite: Wisdom 13.
Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on checks involving
interaction skills (Bluff, Diplomacy, Handle Animal,
Intimidate, Perform, and Sense Motive), provided you spend at
least 1 minute observing your target prior to making the skill
check.
Evasion
Your reflexes allow you to avoid some types of damage.
Prerequisites: Defense bonus +3, base Reflex save +1.
Benefit: When exposed to any effect that normally allows a
a Reflex saving throw for half damage, you suffer no damage if
you make a successful saving throw. Evasion can only be used
when wearing light armor or no armor.
Expert Healer
Your ability to restore hit points with a medical kit or surgery kit
and a successful use of the Treat Injury skill improves.
Prerequisites: Healing Touch, Surgery.
Benefits: In addition to the normal hit point recovery rate
(1d4 for a medical kit, 1d6 per patients character level for
surgery), you restore 1 hit point for every 3 ranks you have in
the skill Treat Injury.
Exploit Weakness
You can find ways to use brains over brawn in combat.
Prerequisites: Intelligence 15, base attack bonus +3
Benefit: After 1 round of combat, you can designate one
opponent as your target. You must use a move action and make
an Intelligence check (DC 15) with a bonus equal to your Base
Attack Bonus. If the check succeeds, for the rest of the combat
you use your Intelligence bonus instead of either Strength or
Dexterity bonus on attack rolls as you finds ways to outthink
your opponent and notices weaknesses in his opponents
fighting style.
Extreme Effort
You can push yourself to make an extreme effort.
Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus to any Strength checks or
Strength-based skills. This requires a full-round action, or longer
if the check normally takes longer.
Special: You can take this feat up to three times, each time
gaining an additional +2 to your Strength checks and Strength-
based skills, for a maximum of +6
Extreme Machine
If it has mechanical or electronic components, a know how to
get maximum performance out of it.
Prerequisites: Jury-Rig.
Benefits: By spending 1 action point and making either a
Craft (electronic) or Craft (mechanical) check (whichever is
appropriate for the machine in question), you can temporarily
improve a machines performanceat the risk of causing the
machine to need repairs later. The DC for the Craft check
depends on the type of improvement being made, as shown on DC ranges from 10 for a simple favor to as high as 30 for
the table below. formidable and highly dangerous, expensive, or illegal favors.
You cant take 10 or 20 on this check, nor can you retry the
Repair check for the same (or virtually the same) favor.
Improvement Craft DC Chance (d%) Special: Favors should help advance the plot of an
Ranged Weapons adventure. A favor that would enable a character to avoid an
+1 to damage 15 0125 adventure altogether should always be unavailable to the
+2 to damage 20 0150 character, regardless of the result of a favor check. The GM
+3 to damage 25 0175 should carefully monitor a characters use of favors to ensure that
+5 ft. to range increment 15 0125 this ability isnt abused. The success or failure of a mission
+10 ft. to range increment 25 0150 shouldnt hinge on the use of a favor, and getting a favor
Electronic Devices shouldnt replace good roleplaying or the use of other skills. The
+1 equipment bonus 15 0125 GM may disallow any favor deemed to be disruptive to the game.
+2 equipment bonus 20 0150
Fearless
+3 equipment bonus 25 0175
You are less prone to fear.
Vehicles
Prerequisite: Concentration 6 ranks.
+1 on initiative checks 20 0125
Benefit: You gain a +4 morale bonus on Will saves to resist
+1 to maneuver 25 0150
fear effects and on level checks to oppose Intimidate checks.
+2 to maneuver 30 0175
Flurry of Blows
The extreme modifications takes 1 hour. You cant take 10 or You gain the ability to strike with a flurry of blows at the
take 20 on this check. If the check succeeds, the effect of the expense of accuracy.
improvement lasts for a 1 minute per 3 ranks in the Craft skill Prerequisites: Combat Martial Arts, base attack bonus +10.
you used, beginning when the object is first put into use. The Benefits: You must be unarmoured to use this feat, and you
You select the single improvement you want to make prior to must make unarmed strikes to gain the benefit. With a flurry of
making the check. After the duration of the effect ends, the blows, you may make one extra attack in a round at your highest
machine reverts to its previous state and a repair chance base attack bonus. This attack and each other attack made in the
percentile roll is made. The result of this roll indicates whether round take a 2 penalty. Using this ability is a full-round action.
the machine requires repairs before it can be used again. Flying Kick
Faith You can launch a powerful leaping strike.
You have a great deal of faith. It might be faith in self, in a higher Prerequisites: Living Weapon, base attack bonus +5
power, or in both. Benefits: You can use a charge to deliver a powerful flying
Prerequisite: Base Will save +3, Iron Will. kick to an opponent. At the end of your charge, the you add +1
Benefit: Your unswerving belief allows you to add your damage die to the damage you deal with an unarmed strike. For
Wisdom modifier to the die roll whenever you spend 1 action example, if you had Improved Living Weapon and did 1d8
point to improve the result of an attack roll, skill check, saving damage with an unarmed strike, you would do 2d8 when doing
throw, or ability check. a flying kick.
Fast-Talk Greater Inspiration
You have a way with words when attempting to con and deceive. Your ability to bolster your allies improves.
Prerequisite: Charisma 13. Prerequisite: Improved Coordinate, Inspiration, base Will
Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on any Bluff, Diplomacy, or save +6.
Gamble checks the hero makes while attempting to lie, cheat, or Benefit: An ally must listen to and observe you for a full
otherwise bend the truth. round for the inspiration to take hold, and you must make a
Charisma check (DC 10). The effect lasts for a number of
Favor rounds equal to your Charisma modifier. An inspired ally gains
You have the ability to acquire minor aid from anyone you meet.
a +3 morale bonus on saving throws, attack rolls, and damage
Prerequisite: Charisma 15, Charm, Diplomacy 6 ranks.
rolls.
Benefit: By making a favor check, you can gain important
Your cant inspire yourself. You can inspire a number of
information without going through the time and trouble of
allies equal to equal to your Charisma bonus + 5. A target can
doing a lot of research. Favors can also be used to acquire the
only be inspired by you twice per day.
loan of equipment or documents, or to receive other minor
assistance in the course of an adventure. Greater Weapon Focus
You spend 1 action point to activate this feat. To make a Pick a weapon for which you have the feat Weapon Focus. Your
favor check, roll a d20 and add your Charisma bonus. The GM accuracy with your chosen weapon increases.
sets the DC based on the scope of the favor being requested. The
 Prerequisite: Weapon focus for your chosen weapon, base
attack bonus +8.
Benefits: Your bonus from Weapon Focus increases by +1,
for a total of +2.
Greater Weapon Specialization
Your ability to strike more solid blows increases.
Prerequisite: Improved Critical for the chosen weapon, base
attack bonus +11
Benefit: Your bonus to damage from Weapon Specialization
increases by +2, to a total of +4.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Its effects do
not stack; each time you take this feat it applies to a different
weapon.
Harms Way
You know how to put yourself between harm and an ally.
Prerequisite: Base Reflex save +3.
Benefits: Once per round, if you are adjacent to an ally who
is targeted by a direct melee or ranged attack (but not an area
effect), you can subject yourself to the attack in the allys stead.
If the attack hits the you, you take damage normally. If it misses,
it also misses the ally.
You must declare your intention to place yourself in harms
way before the attack roll is made. You select your ally either
prior to combat or immediately after you make your initiative
check. You cant change your ally for the duration of the combat.
Healing Touch
You have a knack for treating injuries.
Prerequisite: Treat Injury 6 ranks.
Benefit: Your ability to restore damage with a medical kit or
perform surgery with a surgery kit increases by +2 hit points.
Ignore Hardness
You have an innate talent for finding weaknesses in objects. This
allows you to ignore some of an objects hardness when making
a melee attack to break it.
Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +1.
Benefit: You can ignore 2 points of an objects hardness
when making a melee attack against it.
Improved Adrenaline Rush
You can temporarily increase two of your physical ability scores
(Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution).
Prerequisites: Adrenaline Rush, Concentration 14 ranks,
base Fortitude save +8.
Benefits: You can spend 1 action point to increase the
selected ability score by 1d4+1 points. The increase lasts for one
round per 3 ranks of Concentration you have. At the end of the
duration, you are fatigued for 1d4+1 rounds. Or, you can
temporarily increase two physical ability scores. At the end of
the duration, you are fatigued for 1d6+2 rounds.
Improved Aid Another
You are good at aiding others in their actions.
Benefit: Your bonus on attempts to aid another increases by
+1 on a successful aid another check.
Special: This feat can be taken multiple times, each time
increasing the bonus by +1.
Improved Charge
You can move around obstacles when charging.
Prerequisites: Sudden Action, Dexterity 13+.
Benefits: You can make a charge without having to move in
a straight line. All other charge rules apply, but you can alter
your direction when making a charge to avoid obstacles.
Improved Combat Sense
Your ability to read an opponents defenses improves.
Prerequisites: Combat Sense, base attack bonus +8,
Wisdom 15+.
Benefits: Your competence bonus from Combat Sense
increases by +1, for a total of +2.
Improved Coordinate
Your leadership skills allow you to direct a large number of
people.
Prerequisite: Charisma 15, Coordinate, base Will save +4.
Benefit: When you can spend a full round directing your
allies and makes a Charisma check (DC 10), you provide any of
your allies within 60 feet a +1 bonus on their attack rolls and
skill checks. The bonus lasts for a number of rounds equal to the
your Charisma modifier. You can coordinate a number of allies
equal to your Charisma bonus + 5.
Improved Critical
Choose one weapon for which you have the feat Weapon
Specialization. With that weapon, you know how to hit where it
hurts.
Prerequisites: Weapon Specialization for the chosen
weapon, base attack bonus +8 or higher.
Benefit: When using the weapon you selected, your threat
range is doubled.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Its effects do
not stack; each time you take this feat it applies to a different
weapon.
Improved Damage Reduction
Your ability to shrug off damage improves.
Prerequisite: Constitution 15, Damage Reduction, base
Fortitude save +4 and 5 or more hit dice.
Benefit: Your Damage Reduction increases to DR 2/.
Improved Dazzle
Your ability to dazzle opponents improves.
Prerequisite: Dazzle, Bluff 8 ranks.
Benefit: This feat can only be used in non-hostile situations,
though the penalties persist should it turn hostile. To dazzle a
target, the hero must use an attack action and make a Charisma
check (DC 10). If the Charisma check succeeds, the target can
try to resist.
The target resists the dazzle attempt by making a Will
saving throw (DC 16 + your Charisma bonus). If the save fails,
the target receives a 2 penalty on attack rolls, ability checks,
skill checks, and saving throws for a number of rounds equal to
the your Charisma bonus + 6.
The target must have an Intelligence score of 3 or higher to
be susceptible to a dazzle attempt, must be within 30 feet of
you, and must be able to see, hear, and understand you.
Improved Empathy
Your empathy has developed, giving you a more keen insight.
Prerequisite: Wisdom 15 and Empathy.
Benefit: Your bonus from Empathy improves to +4.
Improved Evasion
Your ability to avoid some forms of damage improves.
Prerequisites: Evasion, Defense bonus +6, base Reflex
save +6.
Benefit: When exposed to any effect that normally allows a
character to attempt a Reflex saving throw for half damage, you
suffer no damage if you make a successful saving throw and only
half damage on a failed save. Improved evasion can only be used
when wearing light armor or no armor.
Improved Fast-Talk
You are particularly adept at cons and deception.
Prerequisite: Fast Talk, Bluff 6 ranks.
Benefit: Your Fast Talk Bonus improves to +4.
Improved Healing Touch
You quite adept at treating injuries.
Prerequisites: Healing Touch, Treat Injury 8 ranks.
Benefit: Your ability to restore damage with a medical kit or
perform surgery with a surgery kit increases by +2 hit points, for
a total of +4.
Improved Ignore Hardness
Your ability to find weakness in a target improves.
Prerequisite: Ignore Hardness, base attack bonus +3.
Benefit: You can ignore 3 points of an objects hardness
when making a melee attack against it. This does not stack with
Ignore Hardness.
Improved Increased Speed
You move much faster than normal.
Prerequisite: Dexterity 15, base Reflex save +2.
Benefit: Your base speed increases by 5 feet, stacking with
Increased Speed for a total of +10 feet.
Improved Iron Fist
You can focus your energies to strike more powerfully with all of
your attacks in a round.
Prerequisites: Advanced Living Weapon, Iron Fist, base
attack bonus +13.
Benefits: You can spend 1 action point to increase the
damage you deal to all opponents with unarmed strikes for one
round. You can declare the use of the action point after making
a successful unarmed strike or at the start of your turn. The
result of the action point roll is added to the damage roll for all
attacks for one round.
Improved Jury-Rig
You are very good at jury-rigging devices.
Prerequisites: Jury-Rig, Computer Use 12 ranks, and
Disable Device 12 ranks, and either Craft (electronic) 12 ranks
or Craft (mechanical) 12 ranks.
Benefits: Your bonus from the feat Jury-Rig increases by +2,
for a total of +4.
Improved Living Weapon
You know how to hit hard with unarmed strikes.
Prerequisites: Living Weapon, base attack bonus +7.
Benefits: Your unarmed strikes deal 1d8 damage.
Improved Mastercraft
Your mastercraft items are of higher quality.
Prerequisites: Mastercraft, 14 or more ranks in your chosen
Craft skill.
Benefits: You can create mastercraft items that have up to a
+2 bonus. The XP cost of items with a +2 bonus is 400 XP.
The Craft DC for a mastercraft object is the same as for a
normal object of the same type, as described in the Craft skill,
with the following modification: For a +2 object, add +5 to the
Craft DC.
Improved Medical Miracle
You have a chance to bring a character who has been dead for
several minutes.
Prerequisites: Medical Miracle, Treat Injury 16 ranks.
Benefit: At 10th level, you can revive a character reduced to
10 hit points or lower. If you are able to administer aid within
3 minutes of the characters death, you can make a Treat Injury
check. The DC for this check is 40, and you cant take 10 or take
20. If the check succeeds, the dead character can make a
Fortitude save (DC 20) to stabilize and be restored to 1d6 hit
points. If you fail the skill check or the patient fails the Fortitude
save, the dead character cant be restored.
Improved Melee Smash
Your melee attacks strike very fast and hard, doing more
damage.
Prerequisite: Melee Smash, base attack bonus +3
Benefit: You receive a +2 bonus on melee damage.
Special: This bonus replaces, and does not stack with, the
bonus from Melee Smash.
Improved Sweep
Your ability to get the lay of the land improves.
Prerequisites: Sweep, Spot 12 ranks.
Benefits: You not only spot potential perils with a successful
check, you can determine the relative strength of these dangers.
A successful check relates the dangers strength compared to you:
stronger (higher level or Hit Dice), on par (same level or HD),
or weaker (lower level or HD).
Improved Talk Down
You can talk several people into a more peaceful situation.
Prerequisites: Talk Down, Bluff 13 ranks, Diplomacy 13
ranks.
 Benefits: When using Talk Down you can talk down a
number of opponents equal to your Charisma bonus within 15
feet of your position or within 15 feet of a television, radio, or
telephone broadcasting the your message.
Improved Uncanny Dodge
You can react to opponents on opposite sides of you as easily as
a single attacker.
Prerequisites: Uncanny Dodge, Defense bonus +5, base
Reflex save +4
Benefit: You can no longer be flanked.
Improved Unlimited Access
Your reputation as a well known personality can get you into
places others cant go.
Prerequisites: Unlimited Access, Diplomacy 10 ranks,
Perform (select one) 10 ranks, base Reputation bonus +6.
Benefits: Your bonus from Unlimited Access improves by
+3, for a total of +6.
Special: The GM may allow some characters to use a skill
other than Perform to qualify for this skill, to cover famous
authors, scientists or politicians. A good background and story
should be a prerequisite.
Improvised Implements
You are adept at using improvised weapons and equipment.
Benefits: You no longer take a 4 penalty when wielding an
improvised weapon. Also, you are able to make do without
proper equipment in certain circumstances: you no longer take
a 4 penalty when using the Climb and Disable Device skills
without the proper tools.
Improvised Weapon Damage
You do more damage with improvised weapons.
Prerequisites: Improvised Implements, base attack
bonus +5.
Benefits: You treat an improvised weapon as one size
category larger than it is for the purpose of determining the
damage it deals.
Increased Speed
You move faster than normal.
Prerequisite: Dexterity 13.
Benefit: Your base speed increases by 5 feet.
Intuition
You have an innate ability to sense trouble in the air.
Prerequisite: Wisdom 15, Alertness.
Benefit: You can make a Will saving throw (DC 15). On a
successful save, the hero gets a hunch that everything is all right,
or the hero gets a bad feeling about a specific situation, based on
the GMs best guess relating to the circumstances. This feat is
usable a number of times per day equal to twice your base Will
save.
Inspiration
You can inspire your allies, bolstering them and improving their
chances of success.
Prerequisite: Coordinate, base Will save +2.
Benefit: An ally must listen to and observe you for a full
round for the inspiration to take hold, and you must make a
Charisma check (DC 10). The effect lasts for a number of
rounds equal to your Charisma modifier. An inspired ally gains
a +2 morale bonus on saving throws, attack rolls, and damage
rolls.
Your cant inspire yourself. You can inspire a number of
allies equal to equal to your Charisma bonus + 1. A target can
only be inspired by you once per day.
Iron Fist
You can focus your energies to strike more powerfully.
Prerequisites: Improved Living Weapon, base attack
bonus +8.
Benefits: You can spend 1 action point to increase the
damage you deal to a single opponent with a single unarmed
strike. You declare the use of the action point after making a
successful unarmed strike. The result of the action point roll is
added to the damage roll for that attack.
Jury-Rig
You are good at jury-rigging devices.
Prerequisites: Computer Use 6 ranks, and Disable Device 6
ranks, and either Craft (electronic) 6 ranks or Craft
(mechanical) 6 ranks.
Benefits: You gain a +2 competence bonus on Repair skill
checks made to attempt temporary or jury-rigged repairs. See
the Repair skill in the modern d20 rulebook for details on jury-
rigging.
Linguist
You are a master linguist.
Prerequisite: At least 1 rank in either Read/Write Language
or Speak Language for each of three different languages.
Benefit: Whenever you encounter a new language, either
spoken or written, you can make an Intelligence check to
determine if you can understand it. The check is made with a
bonus equal to one-half your level (minimum of 1) + your
Intelligence modifier. For a written language, the bonus applies
to a Decipher Script check instead.
The DC for the check depends on the situation: DC 15 if
the language is in the same group as a language the hero has as
a Read/Write Language or Speak Language skill; DC 20 if the
language is unrelated to any other languages the hero knows;
and DC 25 if the language is ancient or unique. With this
special ability, a Smart hero can glean enough meaning from a
conversation or document to ascertain the basic message, but
this ability in no way simulates actually being able to converse
or fluently read and write in a given language.
Lightning Shot
You can fire your weapon more quickly, at the expense of
accuracy.
Prerequisites: Weapon Focus with a personal firearm, Base
attack bonus +5
Benefits: You may make one extra ranged attack with a
personal firearm in a round at your highest base attack bonus.
This attack and each other attack made in the round take a 2
penalty. Using lightning shot is a full-round action. You cant
take more than a 5-foot step and use lightning shot in the same
round.
Living Weapon
You know how to attack well with any part of your body.
Prerequisites: Combat Martial Arts, Defensive Martial Arts,
base attack bonus +4.
Benefits: You can attack with either fist interchangeably, or
even with elbows, knees, and feet. This means that you may
even make unarmed strikes when your hands are full, and there
is no such thing as an off-hand attack for you when striking
unarmed.
You also deal more damage (1d6) with unarmed strikes.
Lucky
Fate likes you and often smiles upon your endeavors.
Benefits: Whenever you spend 1 action point to improve
the result of a die roll, you roll an additional 1d6. You can then
select the highest die roll to add to your d20 roll.
Major Breakthrough
You receive credit for a major scientific breakthrough that earns
you the recognition of your peers.
Prerequisites: Minor Breakthrough and 16 or more ranks in
your chosen Knowledge skill. Plus, you must have spent time in
research and study, a minimum of two months. This time need
not be continuous.
Benefits: You gains a +2 bonus on Reputation checks when
dealing with individuals who have at least 1 rank in any of the
following Knowledge skills: behavioral sciences, earth and life
sciences, physical sciences, or technology. This bonus stacks
with the bonus provided by Minor Breakthrough.
This major breakthrough also provides you with a +3
Wealth bonus increase.
Mastercraft
Choose a Craft skill. With that skill you are are adept at creating
mastercraft objects.
Prerequisites: 11 or more ranks in your chosen Craft skill.
Benefits: You can build mastercraft objects using your
chosen Craft skill. With Craft (electronic), you can build
electronic devices. With Craft (mechanical), you can build
mechanical devices, including weapons.
On average, it takes twice as long to build a mastercraft
object as it does to build an ordinary object of the same type.
The cost to build a mastercraft object is equal to the purchase
DC for the components (see the appropriate Craft skill
description) + the bonus provided by the mastercraft feature.
You can add the mastercraft feature to an existing ordinary
object by making the Wealth check and then making the Craft
check as though he or she were constructing the object from
scratch.
In addition to the Wealth check, you must also pay a cost
in experience points of 125 XP. The XP must be paid before
making the Craft check. If the expenditure of these XP would
drop you to below the minimum needed for your current level,
then the XP cant be paid and you cant use the mastercraft
ability until you gains enough additional XP to remain at your
current level after the expenditure is made.
When successfully completed, a mastercraft object provides
a +1 bonus to its quality compared to an ordinary object of the
same type. All weapons and armor, and certain other types of
equipment, such as computers and electronic devices, can be
constructed as mastercraft objects.
The Craft DC for a mastercraft object is the same as for a
normal object of the same type, as described in the Craft skill,
with the following modification: For a +1 object, add +3 to the
Craft DC.
Medical Miracle
If you can get to them quick enough, you can save a character
reduced to 10 hit points or lower.
Prerequisites: Expert Healer, Treat Injury 13 ranks.
Benefits: If you are able to administer aid within 3 rounds
of the characters death, you can make a Treat Injury check. The
DC for this check is 30, and you cant take 10 or take 20. If the
check succeeds, the dead character can make a Fortitude save
(DC 15) to stabilize and be restored to 0 hit points. If you fail
the skill check or the patient fails the save, the dead character
cant be saved.
Melee Smash
Your melee attacks strike fast and hard, doing more damage.
Prerequisite: Strength 13, base attack bonus +1.
Benefit: You receive a +1 bonus on melee damage.
Minor Breakthrough
You receive credit for a minor scientific breakthrough that earns
you the recognition of your peers.
Prerequisites: 11 or more ranks in one of the following
Knowledge skills: behavioral sciences, earth and life sciences,
physical sciences, or technology. Plus, you must have spent time
in research and study, a minimum of one month. This time need
not be continuous.
Benefit: Choose one of the following Knowledge skills that
meets the prerequisites: behavioral sciences, earth and life
sciences, physical sciences, or technology. When dealing with
others with at least 1 rank in the same Knowledge skill, you gain
a +2 bonus on Reputation checks. This minor breakthrough also
provides you with a +3 Wealth bonus increase.
Nip-Up
You are quick at getting to your feet.
Prerequisite: Dexterity 13+.
Benefits: You can stand up from a prone position as a free
action without drawing an attack of opportunity.
Nonlethal Force
You become adept at using nonlethal force to subdue an
opponent.
Prerequisites: Base attack bonus +4.
 Benefits: You can deal nonlethal damage with a weapon
that normally deals lethal damage (if you so chooses) without
taking the normal 4 penalty on the attack roll.
Opportunist
You are adept at taking advantage of the damage to others in
combat.
Prerequisites: Evasion, Defense bonus +4, base Reflex
save +2
Benefit: You can spend 1 action point to make an attack of
opportunity against an opponent who has just been struck for
damage in melee by another character. This attack counts as
your attack of opportunity for that round. You cannot use this
feat more than once per round, even if you have the feat
Combat Reflexes.
Plan
Prior to a dramatic situation, either combat- or skill-related, you
can develop a plan of action to handle the situation.
Prerequisites: Intelligence 15, Knowledge (tactics) 6 ranks.
Benefit: Using this feat requires preparation, generally
about five minutes; you cant use this feat when surprised or
otherwise unprepared for a particular situation. To devise a plan
make an Intelligence check (DC 10). The result of the check
provides you and your allies with a circumstance bonus. You
cant take 10 or 20 when making this check.
Check Result Bonus
9 or lower +0 (check failed)
1014 +1
1524 +2
25 or higher +3
This bonus can be applied to all skill checks and attack rolls
made by you and your, but the bonus only lasts for the first 3
rounds. After that time, reduce the bonus by 1 point (to a
minimum of +0) for every additional round the situation
continues, as the vagaries of circumstance begin to unravel even
the best-laid plans.
Profile
By making a Gather Information check (DC 15) when talking
to witnesses of a crime, you compile a rough mental picture of
the suspect.
Prerequisites: Investigate 6 ranks, Gather Information 6
ranks, Sense Motive 6 ranks.
Benefits: The mental picture you create provides a physical
description, including distinguishing markings and visible
mannerisms. Success makes the profile accurate, at least
concerning a particular suspect as seen by witnesses. (For this
Gather Information check, no money changes hands.)
You can expand the profile by making an Investigate check
(DC 15) involving the crime scene or other evidence linked to
the suspect. If successful, you combine eyewitness accounts with
forensic evidence to develop a profile of the suspects method of
operation. This provides a +2 circumstance bonus on any skill
checks made to uncover additional evidence or otherwise locate
and capture the suspect.
React First
You are ready to act if negotiations go sour.
Prerequisites: Alertness, Bluff 6 ranks, Diplomacy 6 ranks.
Benefits: You gain the ability to react first when trying to
make a deal or mediate a settlement. You must make contact
and speak to the participants prior to the start of combat. If you
do this, you gain a free readied action that allows you to make
either a move or attack action if either side in the negotiation
(other than you) decides to start hostilities. You get to act before
any initiative checks are made, in effect giving you the benefit of
surprise.
Remain Conscious
You have the ability to continue performing actions when you
would otherwise be considered unconscious and dying.
Prerequisites: Endurance, base Fortitude save +4.
Benefit: When your hit points reach 1, you can perform as
though you were disabled, making either an attack action or a
move action every round until you reach 10 hit points (and
die) or your hit points return to 1 or higher. You can choose to
succumb to unconsciousness if you thinks that doing so might
prevent you from taking more damage.
Scientific Improvisation
You have the ability to improvise solutions using common
objects and scientific know-how.
Prerequisites: Knowledge (technology) 6 ranks, and either
Craft (chemical) 6 ranks or Craft (electronic) 6 ranks.
Benefits: You can create objects in a dramatic situation
quickly and cheaply, but that have a limited duration. By
spending 1 action point and combining common objects with a
Craft check that corresponds to the function desired, you can
build a tool or device to deal with any situation. The DC for the
Craft check is equal to 5 + the purchase DC of the object that
most closely matches the desired function. Only objects that can
normally be used more than once can be improvised.
Electronic devices, special tools, weapons, mechanical
devices, and more can be built with scientific improvisation. It
takes a full-round action to make an object with scientific
improvisation. The object, when put into use, lasts for 1 round
per 3 ranks you have in the Craft skill utilized before it breaks
down. It cant be repaired.
Second Wind
You can call upon your willpower to give you a second wind.
Prerequisites: Base Fortitude Save +1.
Benefit: You can spend 1 action point to gain a second
wind. When you do this, you recover a number of hit points
equal to your Constitution modifier. This feat cannot increase
your hit points beyond your full normal total.
Sharp-Shooting
You know how to get past a targets cover.
Prerequisites: Weapon Focus with a personal firearm,
Defensive Position, base attack bonus +7.
 Benefits: When using a personal firearm to attack a target,
the cover bonus to the targets Defense for one-quarter, one-half,
three-quarters, or nine-tenths cover is reduced by 2.
Sixth Sense
You become so attuned at solving mysteries that you find a way
to put two and two together and rarely miss a clue.
Prerequisites: Investigate 10 ranks and Gather Information
10 ranks.
Benefits: Whenever you spend 1 action point to improve
the result of a skill check made using certain skills (see below),
you get to add an additional 1d6 to the result. The skills that
sixth sense applies to are Gather Information, Investigate,
Listen, Research, Search, and Spot.
Skill Focus
You are particularly adept with a single skill.
Benefit: Pick one skill. With that skill you gain a +3 bonus
on skill checks.
Special: This feat does not allow you to make checks for a
trained-only skill if you have no ranks in the skill. You can take
this feat multiple times. Its effects do not stack; each time it
applies to a different skill.
Smart Survival
You think quickly on your feet, finding ways to avoid damage.
Prerequisites: Intelligence 15+, Defensive bonus +4.
Benefits: You can spend 1 action point to reduce the
damage dealt by a single attack or effect by 5 points.
Smart Weapon
Choose one weapon you are proficient with and can use with
one hand. With that weapon you know how to put your mind
to work when using it.
Prerequisites: Smart Survival, base attack bonus +6.
Benefits: With the selected weapon, you can use your
Intelligence modifier instead of Strength or Dexterity modifier
on attack rolls.
Sow Distrust
You can turn one character against another.
Prerequisites: Improved Talk Down, Bluff 14 ranks,
Diplomacy 14 ranks.
Benefits: You must spend a full-round action and know the
name of the character you are attempting to persuade as well as
the name of the character toward whom the targets distrust will
be directed. The target must be able to hear and understand you.
The target makes a Will save. The DC is equal to 10 + 1 per
3 ranks of Bluff + your Charisma bonus. If the target fails the
save, his or her attitude toward the other designated character
worsens by one step: helpful turns to friendly, friendly to
indifferent, indifferent to unfriendly, unfriendly to hostile (see
the Diplomacy skill). The target makes a Will save whenever
you uses this feat against him or her. As long as the target
continues to fail the Will save, you can continue taking full-
round actions to worsen the targets attitude toward a designated
character. When the targets attitude drops to hostile, he or she
may attack the designated character.
A successful Will save doesnt restore previous attitude
shifts, but it does render the target immune for 24 hours to
further attempts by you to sow distrust.
You cant use this feat on your allies.
Stamina
You recover from damage twice as fast as normal.
Prerequisites: Base Fortitude Save +3.
Benefit: You recover 2 hit points per character level per
evening of rest, 2 points of temporary ability damage per
evening of rest, and awaken in half the normal time after being
knocked unconscious.
Sudden Action
You can focus your effort to burst into sudden action when the
situation calls for it.
Prerequisites: Base attack bonus +5, base Reflex save +6.
Benefits: Once per day you can change your place in the
initiative order, moving higher in the count by a number less
than or equal to your base Reflex save, as you see fit. You can
declare the use of this ability at the start of any round, before
anyone else takes an action. After you have used this feat once
in a day, you can spend action points to activate it.
Sweep
You know how to size up an area and get the lay of the land in
a single sweep of your eyes.
Prerequisite: Spot 6 ranks.
Benefits: A sweep provides a +4 circumstance bonus on
Spot checks and covers an area out to 30 feet away from the you
(but not behind you). You can use this bonus at the start of an
encounter. Anything not concealed can be spotted in a sweep
with a successful check (DC 10). The DC for concealed or less
obvious threats is equal to their Hide check result.
Tactical Aid
You can give helpful tactical advice to your allies.
Prerequisites: Knowledge (tactics) 10 ranks, base attack
bonus +6.
Benefits: As an attack action, you can provide tactical aid to
any single ally (but not yourself ) within sight and voice range of
the your position. As a full-round action, you provide tactical
aid to all of your allies (including yourself ) within sight and
voice range of the your position.
This aid provides either a competence bonus on attack rolls
or a dodge bonus to Defense (your choice). This bonus is equal
to the your Intelligence modifier (minimum +1), and it lasts for
one round per 3 ranks you have in the skill Knowledge (tactics).
Talk Down
You can talk someone into a more peaceful situation.
Prerequisites: Alertness, Bluff 10 ranks, Diplomacy 10
ranks
Benefits: Either prior to the start of hostilities or during
combat, you can talk down a single opponent within 15 feet of
your position or otherwise able to hear your voice. The target
must be able to understand you. That opponent immediately
stops fighting and reverts to an indifferent attitude regarding
you and the situation in general. Any hostile action by you or by
one of your allies directed at the opponent allows the opponent
to act as he or she sees fit.
To initiate this feat, you must spend a full-round action
talking to our opponent. The opponent makes a Will saving
throw. The DC is equal to 10 + 1 per 3 ranks in Diplomacy +
your Charisma bonus. If the save fails, the opponent stops
fighting. If the save succeeds, the opponent continues as normal.
Taunt
You have the ability to temporarily rattle a target (a GM
character) through the use of insults and goading.
Prerequisite: Improved Dazzle.
Benefits: To taunt a target, you must use an attack action
and make a Charisma check (DC 10). If the Charisma check
succeeds, the target can try to resist.
The target resists the taunt by making a Will saving throw
(DC 13 + your Charisma bonus). If the save fails, the target
becomes dazed (unable to act, but can defend normally) for 1
round.
The target must have an Intelligence score of 3 or higher to
be susceptible to a taunt, must be within 30 feet of you, and
must be able to hear and understand you.
A taunt can be played on an opponent any number of
times.
Trick
You have the ability to temporarily confuse a target (a GM
character) through the use of ploy and deception.
Prerequisite: Intelligence 13, Bluff 6 ranks.
Benefit: The target must have an Intelligence score of 3 or
higher to be susceptible to a trick, must be within 30 feet of you,
and must be able to hear and understand you. To trick the target
use a full-round action and make an Intelligence check (DC 20),
adding one-half your ranks in Bluff as a bonus. If the check
succeeds, the target can try to think quickly and ignore the trick.
The target resists the trick by making a Reflex saving throw (DC
10 + your ranks in Bluff + your Intelligence bonus). If the saving
throw fails, the target becomes dazed (unable to act, but can
defend normally) for 1 round.
A trick can only be played on a particular target once per
encounter. After the first trick in an encounter, whether the
attempt succeeds or not, that target becomes wary and immune
to such ploys.
Uncanny Dodge
You keep your wits and reflexes when attacked by surprise.
Prerequisites: Evasion, Defense bonus +4, base Reflex
save +3.
Benefit: You retain your Dexterity bonus to Defense
regardless of being caught flat-footed or struck by a hidden
attacker.
Special: You still loses your Dexterity bonus to Defense if
you are immobilized.
Unlimited Access
Your reputation as a known personality can get you into places
others cant go.
Prerequisites: Renown, Diplomacy 6 ranks, Perform (select
one) 6 ranks, base Reputation bonus +4.
Benefits: When others would normally make a Diplomacy
check or Bluff check to smooth-talk or trick their way into a
private party or invitation-only event, you gain a +3 bonus.
When you buy a ticket to a show or for transportation, you can
make a Diplomacy check to get that ticket upgraded. DCs are
given below.
Diplomacy
Upgrade DC
Seat at sporting event to field pass 10
Hotel room to suite 15
Concert or theater ticket to backstage pass 20
Economy transportation to first-class 25
Special: The GM may allow some characters to use a skill
other than Perform to qualify for this skill, to cover famous
authors, scientists or politicians. A good background and story
should be a prerequisite.
Weapon Specialization
With a chosen weapon you know how to strike more solidly,
doing additional damage.
Prerequisite: Weapon Focus with the chosen Weapon, base
attack bonus +5.
Benefits: You gain +2 bonus on damage rolls with your
chosen weapon.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Its effects do
not stack; each time you take this feat it applies to a different
weapon.
Winning Smile
You combine force of personal magnetism with your reputation
to convince a single target to regard you as a trusted friend.
Prerequisite: Improved Unlimited Access, Bluff 10 ranks.
Benefits: The target makes a Will saving throw to avoid
being persuaded by your words and actions. The DC is 10 + 1
per 3 ranks of Bluff + your Charisma bonus. If the target is
currently being threatened or attacked by you or your allies, this
feat wont work. This feat doesnt enable you to control the
target, but the target perceives your words and actions in the
most favorable way. You can try to give the target orders, but he
or she must win an opposed Charisma check to convince the
target to perform any actions the target wouldnt normally
undertake. The target never obeys suicidal or obviously harmful
orders, and any act by you or your allies that threatens the target
breaks the mood and clears the targets head. Otherwise, a target
remains won over for 1 minute per 3 ranks you have in the Bluff
skill.
After the duration expires, the GM determines the reaction
and attitude of the target based on what you compelled the
target to do.
Without a Trace
You know how to operate with leaving clues behind.
Prerequisites: Hide 13 ranks, Search 13 ranks.
Benefits: When you use any of the following skills: Balance,
Climb, Disable Device, Escape Artist, Hide, Move Silently, and
Sleight of Hand, those using Investigate, Listen, Search, or Spot
to detect your activity take a 4 penalty.

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