Talents
Talents are a special type of feat or ability which sets your character apart from the others. These are special abilities that your character is born with, and thus must be acquired during character creation . Talents are unique because you can acquire them without having to spend any skill points. Below is how you can get talents:
- You are able to choose 1 talent without any handicaps during character creation.
- What you roll during Character Origins might also give you additional talents. Those talents come without handicaps.
- Your race might also come with a talent. That talent comes without any handicaps.
- For any additional talent you desire, you will also acquire its matching handicap.
Talents are something that you do not have to have for your character, which sets them apart from abilities and skills. Talents can give you a certain edge over other characters and help to ensure that your character can handle better the dangers that face him or her.
Talents: List of talents that you can have for your character, only available during character creation.
Talent
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Effects
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Requirements
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Handicap Cost
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| Acquired Immunity | After becoming poisoned, sick, plagued, diseased, or any other health effecting status ailment, except burns and other such physical problems, the character can develop an immunity to the status ailment. When effected make a Resist check. If you pass after you are infected, then your character will develop an immunity chance of 20% to that particular infliction. Each time you succeed at the check for that affliction, your character's immunity chance increases by 20 until your character is completely immune, no longer being able to be inflicted by the same infliction. This must be done for every new infliction of any new health affecting status ailment, including beneficial ones, and happens despite player or character will. This is a permanent effect. | N/A | Having this talent lowers your Will when resisting mind, mental, or psychological affecting status effects and attacks, such as fear, by 20 points. |
| Acting | This talent allows you to act, fooling others into thinking that your performance is real. This increases your Luck score by 20% of your will score for a luck chance against deception. | N/A | N/A |
| Cat-Like Agility | This talent gives a bonus of +10 to Agility as a modifier. This talent also gives your character an Initiative bonus of +1. This is a permanent effect. | Your character's race must have a race maximum for Speed no lower than 50. | Having this talent makes you clumsy, giving you a 15% chance each time you attack that you will drop your weapon. |
| Elemental Summoning | Genetically created Xodians seem to have a connection with their runic element that allows them to cause magic without a rune stone. Unfortunately, they have no control over the magic they cause to happen, only that it is magic of their element. With a successful mental check with a 10 penalty, they can cause a random spell of their element decided by a 1d% roll. | Must be a genetically created xodian of the 1st era | Magical Berserk: You must make a will check with a 5 penalty, if failed your runic energy doubles but you are unable to do anything but use this talent or runic spells from your rune stone for the next 1d6 rounds. |
| Empathy | This talent gives the character strong empathetic senses, being able to sense the feelings around him or her. This is handy for allowing the character to sense nervousness, sarcasm, anger, or any other emotion. However the character may experience emotional breakdown should the emotions be very high. This talent also gives your character an Initiative bonus of +2. This is a permanent effect. With this talent you can simply go in rage when you feel a lot of anger around you, or suffer loss of self if you feel a lot of depression around you. The rage however won't prevent you from using your skills while still doubling your Melee, Throw, or Bow Power and Runic Energy, but could cause you to need to make will checks not to attack your allies. | Your character's race must have a race maximum for Mental no lower than 50. | Having this talent lowers your Will when resisting mind, mental, or psychological affecting status effects and attacks by 10 points. Your character also has a 15% chance of mental breakdown, stunning the character for an entire round, should the character be exposed to high levels of emotion. |
| Faster Reflexes | This talent increases the racial maximum for React by x 1.5, but not higher than 100. This talent also gives your character an Initiative bonus of +1. This is a permanent effect. | Your character cannot have a race max for React greater than 90. You cannot have this talent if you have a handicap from another talent that decreases the racial maximum for React. | Having this talent adversely affects your character's ability to defend and to cause physical damage. Having this talent requires you to make a react check to use defensive skills, as well as reducing your character's Melee Power and Throw Power by 10% |
| Faster Than Most | This talent increases the racial maximum for Speed by x 1.5, but not over 100. This is a permanent effect. | You cannot have this talent if you have a handicap from another talent that decreases the racial maximum for Speed. | Having this talent adversely affects your character's mental potential. Your character's race maximum for Luck is immediately reduced by 20% by having this talent. |
| Ghost Hunter | This is a good talent to have with Spirit Sight. With this talent, you are naturally more aware of spirits around you. You have a bonus of +10 to Detect. If you have Spiritual Communication, you have a chance to befriend spirits before they become your foes or learn where traps and dangers are. If you have the Spirit Sight talent, you get an extra round in before the battle against a spirit begins. | N/A | It is unfortunately easier for a spirit to possess you, giving you a 10 penalty to Will against spiritual possession. |
| Great Orator | This talent give you a bonus of +5 to Influence when speaking. | N/A | Having this talent makes you paranoid. You must make perceive checks constantly to see if someone is watching you or following you, and should you succeed on the perceive check, you must make a self control check to keep calm, even if nothing or no one is there. |
| Healthy as a Dragon | This talent greatly increases your character's Vitality. It does so by increasing it by your Fortitude as a percentage. So if your character's Fortitude is 50, you'll increase your character's Vitality by 50%. | N/A | Having this talent reduces your character's Endurance by your Strength as a percentage. So if your character's Strength is 50, you'll reduce your Endurance by 50%. |
| Heartier and Healthier | This talent increases your character's Fortitude racial maximum by x 1.5, but not higher than 100. This is a permanent effect. | You cannot have this talent if you have a handicap from another talent that decreases the racial maximum for Fortitude. | Having this talent adversely affects your character's Luck potential. Your character's race maximum for Luck is immediately reduced by 25% by having this talent. |
| Higher Perception | This talent gives your character a bonus to his or her Perceive of +15. This talent also gives your character an Initiative bonus of +2 and an Hit Chance bonus of +2. This is a permanent effect and can be listed as a modifier. | N/A | Having this talent makes your character more easily intoxicated. It does so by increasing the alcohol penalty to Resist by 10 points, so that it becomes easier and more likely that your character will become intoxicated much quicker. |
| Human Ingenuity | This talent gives the human character a +0.5 to Character Point Rate, on top of any modifiers they may already have. This is a permanent effect talent. | Your character must be a human. | Having this talent adversely affects your character's strength potential. Your character's race maximum for Strength is immediately decreased by 20% by having this talent. |
| Limb Transfiguration | The Proto-Talusian can transfigure his or her arms or legs to become something else. For example, they can make their legs become fins or their arms wings. The changed form must be biological. This requires a Focus check with a 5 penalty. To revert back simply requires a Focus check. | Must be a Proto-Talusian of the 1st Era. | N/A |
| Luckier Than Most | This talent increases the racial maximum for Luck by x 1.5, but not over 100. This talent also gives your character an Initiative bonus of +1. This is a permanent effect. | You cannot have this talent if you have a handicap from another talent that decreases the racial maximum for Luck. | Having this talent adversely affects your character's speed potential. Your character's race maximum for Speed is immediately reduced by 20% by having this talent. |
| Minor Shape Alterations | The Proto-Talusian can affect minor parts of his or her body, such as eye color, hair color and length, and small changes to height, weight, and perceived built. To do so, the Proto-Talusian must focus. This requires a successful Focus roll. A successful Focus roll is also needed to revert back to original form. | Must be a 1st era Proto-Talusian |
Forgotten True Form: By doing a lot of these transformations (10+) the proto-talusian will no longer have knowledge of what they were born with. For example, if the proto-talusian keeps changing his or her eye color, they will have no knowledge of their original eye color. For all they will know, the eye color they have now is theirs. This is a handicap that cannot be removed. |
| Natural Mage | This talent gives your character +1 Runic Speed and increases Runic Energy by 20%. | N/A | Having this talent causes it to be harder to learn from any other skill. It does so by decreasing the character point rate for any skill that is not a mage skill or magic spell by 0.5. |
| Natural Marksman | This talent gives your character a +10 bonus to Hit Targeting and Hit Chance. | N/A | Having this talent makes you clumsy, giving you a 15% chance each time you attack that you will drop your weapon. |
| Natural Sprinter | This talent gives you a permanent increase to your movement speeds. You get a +1d6 to World Move, +2 to Battle Move, and +5 to Adventure Actions. | N/A | You are however slower at casting spells, decreasing your Runic Speed by 1. |
| Naturally Calm | This talent increases your character's ability to resist psychological affecting status effects, such as fear, depression, loss of will, and berserk. It does so by giving your character a bonus of 20 points to Will to guard against any psychological affecting status effects and attacks. Your character's Will Racial Maximum is also increased by x 1.1, not to exceed 100. | This talent cannot be used if you have any handicap that lowers your character's Will against psychological affecting status effects and attacks. | Having this talent lowers your Will when resisting being controlled or influenced, such as charm, seduction, and possession, by 20 points. |
| Night Vision | This talent gives the character night vision, allowing the character to see as well in the dark as he or she can in daylight. This talent removes any perception penalties due to lack of light. | N/A | Having this talent lowers your Will when resisting mind, mental, or psychological affecting status effects and attacks, such as fear, by 20 points. |
| Polymorphing |
This allows the Proto-Talusian of a 3rd generation or later to completely change form into something that he or she has experienced. This other form must be a living form, however the shape and size of the form aren't as important. The player of the Proto-Talusian must first attempt this when seeing a form that they might want to change into later. If successful, he or she should record this information. Each future transformation will add a +1 bonus to the Focus check. This does require a Focus check...
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Must be a Proto-Talusian of the 1st Era and must be 3rd generation or later. | Forgotten True Form: By doing a lot of these transformations (25+) the proto-talusian will no longer have knowledge of what they were born with. For example, if the proto-talusian keeps changing his or her eye color, they will have no knowledge of their original eye color. For all they will know, the eye color they have now is theirs. This is a handicap that cannot be removed. |
| Potion Sensitive | This talent causes you to be extra sensitive to potions, causing their effects to be doubled for you. | N/A | This talent also applies for negative effect potions, such as poisons, doubling their effect on you as well. Furthermore you will need to make a Resist Check with each potion use against becoming addicted to the potion. |
| Psychic | This talent gives you a +10 to Mental for an intuition check, and for also having prophetic dreams. | N/A | Having this talent makes your character more easily intoxicated or addicted. It does so by increasing the alcohol penalty to Resistance by 10 points, so that it becomes easier and more likely that your character will become intoxicated much quicker. You also have to make a Resist check when using any potion with an effect that is 50 or greater. |
| Quick on Your Feet | This talent allows you to be quick on your feet, giving you a +1 to initiative and +5 to Evade. | Your character must have a racial maximum for React of at least 50. | Having this talent makes your character more easily intoxicated. It does so by increasing the alcohol penalty to Resistance by 10 points, so that it becomes easier and more likely that your character will become intoxicated much quicker. |
| Realm Jumping | With this talent the Proto-Deztunian can teleport via phasing out of the real realm and back into the real realm at another location. To others it would look like standard teleportation like powerful aeromancers can do, however in reality they are leaving the realm and reentering it. They require a great dea of Focus to do this. Each teleportation attempt requires a Focus check with a -5 penalty per 100 feet, and another -10 penalty if it is to an area that they cannot see, but have once been. They cannot teleport to any locations they have never visited. | You must be a Proto-Deztunian of the 1st Era, and a 3rd generation or greater |
Teleportation Mishap: Each use of this talent also requires a luck check. A failed luck check means that the GM can decide where you appear. A critical fail means death for your character, but you still get your saving grace. At the start, your Luck check has a -10 penalty. You get to increase your chances by adding a +1 bonus to this check per successful teleportation attempt. Therefore, after 10 successful teleportations, you will no longer have a penalty, and after 20 you'll have a +10 bonus. Generations after the 3rd generation get a +5 bonus to their Luck check. Since there's only 5 generations of Proto-Deztunians, the most you can get is a +10 bonus here. This handicap cannot be removed. |
| Shadow Walk | Allows the user to disappear into and navigate the area through the shadows at normal movement rates, and reappear from the shadows when their movement is complete. Requires a Focus check to perform and a Focus check per 50 feet traveled. If failed during shadow walking, the xodian will come out of the shadow realm wherever he or she is. This can of course lead to the xodian getting stuck in obstacles such as walls, and other embarrassing scenarios. | Must be a genetically created xodian of the 1st era. | Psychosis: Will check upon exiting the shadow realm to not have had a breakdown from the experience, leaving them stunned for up to 10 minutes. |
| Spirit Sight | This talent allows you to see spirits. This skill won’t show you all of the spirit world, or even all spirits. What it does is shows you spirits who are still strongly tied to this world. This talent is always in effect and the GM will describe any spirits that you might see. | N/A | Having this talent lowers your Will when resisting mind, mental, or psychological affecting status effects and attacks, such as fear, by 20 points. |
| Strong Willed | This talent makes it more difficult for others to con you, trick you, influence you, charm you, or seduce you in any way. It does so by giving your character a bonus of 20 points to Will to guard against any effect that would take away the control of your character. Your character's Will Racial Maximum is also increased by x 1.1, not to exceed 100. | This talent cannot be used if you have any handicap that lowers your character's Will against being controlled or influenced. | Having this talent lowers your Will when resisting mind, mental, or psychological affecting status effects and attacks, such as fear, by 20 points. |
| Stronger Than Most | This talent increases the racial maximum for Strength by x 1.5, but not over 100. This is a permanent effect. | You cannot have this talent if you have a handicap from another talent that decreases the racial maximum for Strength. | Having this talent adversely affects your character's mental potential. Your character's race maximum for Mental is immediately reduced by 20% by having this talent. |
| Survivor | Having this talent gives you a +5 to Save and Resist. | You cannot have any handicaps that reduce Resist or Fortitude. | Often you are a survivor of your own mistakes and misfortunes. Because of this you have a penalty of 5 to Luck and 5 to Perceive. |
| Telekinesis |
Powers of the mind that are unique to Xodians. With this you can speak into other's minds, search a location you know of, or cause things to move.
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Must be a genetically created xodian of the 1st era | N/A |
| The Barbarian | Your character is a natural barbarian. As such you are not keen on using wimpy projectile weapons or flashy spells. Give the barbarian an axe or a hammer any day. Due to this ability, you may choose either Chopping Proficiency or Bashing Proficiency free of charge to start with. Your character will also increase their damage power with chopping or bashing weapons by an extra 50%. | Your character must have a Strength Race Max at 60 or above. | Your character's damage power with other weapons that are not chopping or bashing is decreased by 30%. |
| The Deft | You are one slippery fool. You have a +5 modifier to Evade. | You cannot have any handicaps that reduce React, Evade, or Speed. | Constantly evading harm has left you with no need for greater strength. You will take a penalty of 5 to Strength and your Weight Limit is reduced by 25%. |
| The Genius | This talent increases the character's Mental race maximum by x 1.5 but no higher than 100. This talent also gives your character an Initiative bonus of +1. This is a permanent effect. | Your character cannot have a race max for Mental higher than 90. You cannot have this talent if you have a handicap from another talent that decreases the racial maximum for Mental. | Having this talent adversely affects your character's strength potential. Your character's race maximum for Strength is immediately decreased by 20% by having this talent. |
| Tough Skin | This talent permanently reduces all damage done to HP. It does so by giving you a Defense that is 20% of your Fortitude stat and Spirit that is 20% of your Mental stat. The defense given will reduce any felt physical damage, and the spirit will reduce any felt magical damage. This would be a reduction of any damage that would actually be felt by Vitality, after any absorption or blocking done by armor. This does not protect against damaging status effects, such as poisons or burns. This does protect against piercing attacks. | Your character's race must have a race maximum for Fortitude no lower than 60. | Having this talent adversely affects your character's speed potential. Your character's race maximum for Speed is immediately reduced by 20% by having this talent. |
| Unnatural Luck | With this talent your character has unnatural luck. This talent allows you to spend SA or character points to gain a temporary boost to your character's luck. Every 2 character points or 5 Soul spent with activating this talent gives your character a boost of 1 point to Luck. The maximum increase allowed is 25 points. This talent can be activated whenever desired. | Your character's race must have a race maximum for Luck no lower than 60. | Having this talent causes any and all skills and spells to always cost 10% more than the stat cost that you have for that skill or spell. This increase applies to your listed stat cost, even when you have the stat cost decreased. |
| Voice Acting | This talent allows you to alter your voice so that it sounds like something or someone else. This gives you a bonus to Luck of 20% your Mental for use with Luck checks against deception. | N/A | N/A |
| Wall Clinging | Proto-Deztunians can cling to walls and ceilings, allowing them to scale walls and walk on ceilings almost as effortless as walking. | Must be a Proto-Deztunian of the 1st Era | N/A |
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