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Tier 1 Talents

Apothecary
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
When a patient under your character's care heals wounds from natural rest, they heal additional wounds equal to twice your character's ranks in Apothecary.
Genres -
Source RoT
Black Market Contacts
Tier 1
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked Yes
When purchasing illegal goods, may reduce rarity by 1 per rank of Black Market Contacts, increasing cost by 50 percent of base cost per reduction.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Bought Info
Tier 1
Activation Active (Action)
Ranked No
When making any knowledge skill check, your character can instead use this talent to spend an amount of currency equal to fifty times the difficulty of the check and automatically succeed on the knowledge check with one uncanceled (instead of rolling). At your GM’s discretion, your character may not be able to use Bought Info if the information is particularly sensitive or difficult to find, or when buying it doesn’t make narrative sense.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Bull Rush
Tier 1
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
When your character makes Brawl, Melee (Light), or Melee (Heavy) combat check after using a maneuver to engage a target, you may spend or to use this talent to knock the target prone and move them up to one range band away from your character.
Genres -
Source RoT
Challenge!
Tier 1
Activation Active (Maneuver)
Ranked Yes
Once per encounter, your character may use this talent to choose a number of adversaries within short range no greater tahn your character's ranks in Challenge! (a minion ground is considered a single adversary for this purpose). Until the encounter ends or your character is incapacitated, these adversaries add to combat checks targeting your character and to combat checks targeting other characters.
Genres -
Source RoT
Clever Retort
Tier 1
Activation Active (Incidental, Out of Turn)
Ranked No
Once per encounter, your character may use this talent to add automatic to another character's social skill check.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Dark Insight
Tier 1
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
When a spell adds a quality to your character's spell with a rating determined by your character's ranks in Knowledge (Lore), your character may use their ranks in Knowledge (Forbidden) instead.
Genres -
Source RoT
Desperate Recovery
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Before your character heals strain at the end of an encounter, if their strain is more than half their strain threshold, they heal two additional strain.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Duelist
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Your character adds to their melee combat checks while engaged with a single opponent. Your character adds to their melee combat checks while engaged with three or more opponents.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Dungeoneer
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
After your character makes a Perception, Vigilance, or Knowledge (Lore) check to notice, identify, or avoid a threat in a cavern, subterranean ruin, or similar location, your character cancels a number of no greater than your character's ranks in Dungeoneer.
Genres -
Source RoT
Durable
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
Your character reduces any Critical Injury result they suffer by 10 per rank of Durable, to a minimum result of 01.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Familiar Sky
Tier 1
Activation Active (Maneuver)
Ranked No
Once per session, may perform a Familiar Sky maneuver; make a Hard () Survival check to reveal the current type of environment and other useful information.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Finesse
Tier 1
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
When making a Brawl or Melee (Light) check, your character may use Agility instead of Brawn.
Genres -
Source RoT
Forager
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Your character removes up to from any skill checks they make to find food, water, or shelter. Checks to forage or search the area that your character makes take half the time they would normally take.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Grit
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
Each rank of Grit increases your character's strain threshold by one.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Hamstring Shot
Tier 1
Activation Active (Action)
Ranked No
Once per round, your character may use this talent to perform a ranged combat check against one non-vehicle target within range of the weapon used. If the check is successful, halve the damage inflicted by the attack (before reducing damage by the target's soak). The target is immobilized until the end of its next turn.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Intuitive Casting
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
When making a magic action check, add per rank in Intuitive Casting when targeting a character who has not yet acted in the current encounter.
Genres -
Source CCC
Jump Up
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Once per round on your character's turn, your character may use this talent to stand from a prone or seated position as an incidental.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Knack for It
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
When you purchase this talent for your character, select one skill. Your character removes from any checks they make using this skill. Each additional time you purchase this talent for a character, select two additional skills. Your character also removes from any checks they make using these skills. You cannot select combat or magic skills when using this talent.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Know Somebody
Tier 1
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked Yes
Once per session, when attempting to purchase a legally available item, your character may use this talent to reduce its rarity by one per rank of Know Somebody.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Let's Ride
Tier 1
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
Once per round during your character's turn, your character can use this talent to mount or dismount from a vehicle or animal, or move from one position in a vehicle to another (such as from the cockpit to a gun turret) as an incidental. In addition, if your character suffers a short-range fall from a vehicle or animal, they suffer no damage and land of their feet.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Mystic
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Arcana is now a career skill for your character. They may only cast one spell per encounter using this skill.
Genres -
Source GR:ES
One with Nature
Tier 1
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
When in the wilderness, your character may make a Simple (-) Survival check, instead of Discipline or Cool, to recover strain at the end of an encounter.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Painful Blow
Tier 1
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
When your character makes a combat check, you may voluntarily increase the difficulty by one to use this talent. If the target suffers one or more wounds from the combat check, the target suffers 2 strain each time they perform a maneuver until the end of the encounter.
Genres -
Source RoT
Parry
Tier 1
Activation Active (Incidental, Out of Turn)
Ranked Yes
When your character suffers a hit from a melee combat check, after damage is calculated but before soak is applied, your character may suffer 3 strain to use this talent to reduce the damage of the hit by two plus their ranks in Parry. This talent can only be used once per hit, and your character must be wielding a Melee weapon.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Physician
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
When making a Medicine check to help a character heal wounds, the target heals 1 additional strain per rank of Physician.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Proper Upbringing
Tier 1
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked Yes
When your character makes a social check in polite company (as determined by your GM), they may suffer a number of strain to use this talent and add an equal number of to the check. The number may not exceed your character's ranks in Proper Upbringing.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Quick Draw
Tier 1
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
Once per round on your character's turn, they may use this talent to draw or holster an easily accessible weapon or item as an incidental. Quick draw also reduces a weapon's Prepare rating by one, to a minimum of one.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Quick Strike
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
Your character adds for each rank of Quick Strike to any combat checks they make against any targets that have not yet taken their turn in the current encounter.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Rapid Reaction
Tier 1
Activation Active (Incidental, Out of Turn)
Ranked Yes
Your character may suffer a number of strain to use this talent to add an equal number of to a Vigilance or Cool check they make to determine initiative order. The number may not exceed your character's ranks in Rapid Reaction.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Rapid Recovery
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
When healing strain after an encounter, heal 1 additional strain per rank of Rapid Recovery.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Second Wind
Tier 1
Activation Active (Indidental)
Ranked Yes
Once per encounter, your character may use this talent to heal an amount of strain equal to their ranks in Second Wind.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Seer
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Primal is now a career skill for your character. They may only cast one spell per encounter using this skill.
Genres -
Source GR:ES
Shapeshifter
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked No
When your charcter is incapacitated due to exceeding their strain threshold while in their normal form, the undergo the following change as an out-of-turn incidental. They heal all strain; increase their Brawn and Agility by one to a maximum of 5; reduce their Intellect and Willpower by one to a minimum of 1. They deal +1 damage when making unarmed attacks, and their unarmed attacks have a crit rating of 3, but they cannot use magic skills or make ranged attacks

Your GM should ensure that NPCs react appropriately to this (at the very least, upgrading the difficulty of all socail skill checks twice). your character reverts to human form after eight hours, or if they are incapacitated (by exceeding either their wound threshold or their strain threshold).

Genres -
Source RoT
Shield Slam
Tier 1
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
When your character uses a shield to attack a minion or rival, you may spend or to stagger the target until the end of the target's next turn.
Genres -
Source RoT
Soothing Tone
Tier 1
Activation Active (Action)
Ranked No
Take a Soothing Tone action; make an Average () Survival check to allow a beast to recover strain equal to .
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Surgeon
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
When your character makes a Medicine check to heal wounds, the target heals one additional wound per rank of Surgeon.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Swift
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Your character does not suffer the penalties for moving through difficult terrain. They move through difficult terrain at normal speed without spending additional maneuvers.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Tavern Brawler
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Your character adds to Brawl checks and combat checks using improvised weapons.
Genres -
Source RoT
Templar
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Divine is now a career skill for your character. They can only cast one spell using this skill per encounter.
Genres -
Source RoT
Toughened
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
Each rank of Toughened increases your character's wound threshold by two.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Tumble
Tier 1
Activation Active (Indicental)
Ranked No
Once per round on your character's turn, they may suffer 2 strain to disengage from all engaged adversaries.
Genres -
Source RoT
Unremarkable
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Other characters add to any checks made to find or identify your character in a crowd.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Wheel and Deal
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
When selling goods legally, gain 10% more currency per rank of Wheel and Deal.
Genres -
Source SWRPG

Tier 2 Talents

Adventurer
Tier 2
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Athletics and Knowledge (Adventuring) are now career skills for your character.
Genres -
Source RoT
Bard
Tier 2
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Knowledge (Lore) and Verse are now career skills for your character.
Genres -
Source RoT
Beast Wrangler
Tier 2
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
Add per rank of Beast Wrangler to checks to tame or wrangle creatures.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Berserk
Tier 2
Activation Active (Maneuver)
Ranked No
Once per encounter, your character may use this talent. Until the end of the encounter or until they are incapacitated, your character adds to all melee combat checks they make. However, opponents add to all combat checks targeting your character. While berserk, your character cannot make ranged combat checks.

At the end of the encounter (or when they are incapacitated), your character suffers 6 strain.

Genres -
Source GCRB
Blackmail
Tier 2
Activation Active (Incidental, Out of Turn)
Ranked No
When an NPC exceeds his strain threshold, you may spend 1 Story Point for your character to convince that NPC to perform a single task of your character's choice instead. This task is subject to GM approval.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Block
Tier 2
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Your character must have purchased the Parry talent to benefit from this talent. While wielding a shield or a weapon with the Deflection quality, your character may use Parry to reduce damage from ranged attacks.
Genres -
Source RoT
Blood Sacrifice
Tier 2
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked Yes
Your character must have purchased the Dark Insight talent to benefit from this talent. Before your character makes a magic skill check, they may suffer a number of wounds to use this talent to add an equal number of to the check. This number cannot exceed your character's ranks in Blood Sacrifice.
Genres -
Source RoT
Burly
Tier 2
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
Reduce any wielded weapon's Cumbersome quality and Encumbrance rating by a number equal to ranks in Burly to a minimum of 1.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Bulwark
Tier 2
Activation Active (Incidental, Out of Turn)
Ranked No
Your character must have purchased the Parry talent to benefit from this talent. While wielding a weapon with the Defensive quality, your character may use Parry to reduce the damage of an attack targeting an engaged ally.
Genres -
Source RoT
Command
Tier 2
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
Add per rank of Command when making Leadership checks. Affected targets add to Discipline checks for the next 24 hours.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Confidence
Tier 2
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
May decrease the difficulty of Discipline checks to avoid fear by 1 per rank of Confidence, to a minimum of Easy ().
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Coordinated Assault
Tier 2
Activation Active (Maneuver)
Ranked Yes
Once per turn, your character may use this talent to have a number of allies engaged with your character equal to your ranks in Leadership add to all combat checks they make until the end of your character's next turn. The range of this talent increases by one band per rank of Coordinated Assault beyond the first.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Counteroffer
Tier 2
Activation Active (Action)
Ranked No
Once per session, your character may use this talent to choose one non-nemesis adversary within medium range and make an opposed Negotiation versus Discipline check. If successful, the target becomes staggered until the end of their next turn. At your GM's discretion, you may spend on this check to have the adversary become an ally until the end of the encounter. However, the duration of this may be shortened or extended depending on whether your GM feels your offer is appealing to the adversary and wehther your character follows through on their offer.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Defensive Stance
Tier 2
Activation Active (Maneuver)
Ranked Yes
Once per round, your character may suffer a number of strain no greater than their ranks in Defensive Stance to use this talent. Then, until the end of your character's next turn, upgrade the difficulty of all melee combat checks targeting your character a number of times equal to the strain suffered.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Dirty Tricks
Tier 2
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
After your character inflicts a Critical Injury on an adversary, they may use this talent to upgrade the difficulty of the adversary's next check.
Genres -
Source RoT
Disorient
Tier 2
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
After hitting with a combat check, may spend to disorient a target for a number of rounds equal to ranks in Disorient.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Dual Wielder
Tier 2
Activation Active (Manuever)
Ranked No
Your character may use this talent to decrease the difficulty of the next combined combat check they make during the same turn by one.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Encouarging Song
Tier 2
Activation Active (Action)
Ranked No
While equipped with a musical instrument, your character may use this talent to make an Average () Charm or Verse check. For each the check generates, one ally within medium range adds to their next skill check. For each , one ally benefitting from Encouraging Song heals 1 strain.
Genres -
Source RoT
Exploit
Tier 2
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked Yes
When your character makes a combat check witha Ranged or Melee (Light) weapon, they may suffer 2 strain to use this talent to add the Ensnare quality to the attack. The rating of the Ensnare quality is equal to your character's ranks in Exploit.
Genres -
Source RoT
Flash of Insight
Tier 2
Activation Passive
Ranked No
When the character generates on a Knowledge skill check, add to the results in addtion to spending the as usual.
Genres -
Source RoT
Freerunning
Tier 2
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
Suffer 1 strain when making a Move maneuver to move to any location within short range.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Grapple
Tier 2
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
Your character may suffer 2 strain to use this talent. Until the start of your character's next turn, enemies must spend two maneuvers to disengage from your character.
Genres -
Source RoT
Hard Headed
Tier 2
Activation Active (Action)
Ranked Yes
When staggered or disoriented, perform the Hard Headed action; make a Daunting () Discipline check to remove status. Difficulty reduced per rank of Hard Headed.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Heightened Awareness
Tier 2
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Allies within short range of your character add to their Perception and Vigilance checks. Allies engaged with your character add instead.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Heroic Recovery
Tier 2
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
When your character acquires this talent, chose one characteristic. Once per encounter, you may spend one Story Point to use this talent to have your character heal strain equal to the rating of the chosen characteristic.
Genres -
Source RoT
Hunter
Tier 2
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Knowledge (Geography), Ranged, and Survival are now career skills for your character.
Genres -
Source RoT
Hunter's Eye
Tier 2
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
Add per rank of Hunter's Eye to all checks when interacting with a beast or animal (including combat checks). At +10 to Critical Injury results against beasts or animals per rank of Hunter's Eye.
Genres -
Source SWPRG
Hunter's Quarry
Tier 2
Activation Active (Action)
Ranked No
Take the Hunter's Quarry action. Make a Hard () Survival check to upgrade the ability of all attacks made against a single target within long range until the end of the character's next turn.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Impaling Strike
Tier 2
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
When your character inflicts a Critical Injury with a melee weapon, they may use this talent to immobilize the target until the end of the target's next turn.
Genres -
Source RoT
Inspiring Rhetoric
Tier 2
Activation Active (Action)
Ranked No
Your character may use this talent to make an Average () Leadership check. For each the check generates, one ally within short range heals one strain. For each , one ally benefiting from Inspiring Rhetoric heals one additional strain.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Inventor
Tier 2
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked Yes
When your character makes a check to construct new items or modify existing ones, use this talent to add a number of equal to ranks in Inventory. In addition, your character may attempt to reconstruct devices that they have heard described but have not seen and no not have any kinds of plans or schematics for.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Loom
Tier 2
Activation Passive
Ranked No
When an ally engaged with the character makes a successful Charm, Deception, or Negotiation check, the character adds per rank of Coercion to the ally's check.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Lucky Strike
Tier 2
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
When your character purchases this talent, choose one characteristic. After your character makes a successful combat check, you may spend on Story Point to use this talent to add damage equal to your character's ranks in that characteristic to one hit of the combat check.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Natural Communion
Tier 2
Activation Passive
Ranked No
When your character uses the Conjure magic action, the spell gainst the Summon Ally effect without increasing the difficulty. All creatures your character summons must be naturally occurring animals native to thet area.
Genres -
Source RoT
Quick Draw (Improved)
Tier 2
Activation Psasive
Ranked No
Your character must have purchased the Quick Draw talent to benefit from this talent. May use Quick Draw twice per round. This also allows you to reduce the prepare rating by 2 to a minimum of 1.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Reckless Charge
Tier 2
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
After using a maneuver to move to engage an adversary, your character may suffer 2 strain to use this talent. They then add to the results of the next Brawl, Melee (Light), or Melee (Heavy) combat check they make in this turn.
Genres -
Source RoT
Scathing Tirade
Tier 2
Activation Active (Action)
Ranked No
Your character may use this talent to make an Average () Coercion check. For each the check generates, one enemy within short range suffers 1 strain. For each , one enemy affected by Scathing Tirade suffers 1 additional strain.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Shapeshifter (Improved)
Tier 2
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
Once per session, your character may make a Hard () Discipline check as an out-of-turn incidental to eitehr trigger Shapeshifter or avoid triggering it when they exceed their strain threshold.
Genres -
Source RoT
Shortcut
Tier 2
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
During a chase, add per rank in Shortcut to any checks made to catch or escape an opponent.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Side Step
Tier 2
Activation Active (Action)
Ranked Yes
Once per round, your character may suffer a number of strain no greater than their ranks in Side Step to use this talent. Until the end of your character's next turn, upgrade the difficulty of all ranged combat checks targeting your character a number of times equal to the strain suffered.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Signature Spell
Tier 2
Activation Passive
Ranked No
When your character gains this talent, decide on a signature spell for them, consisting of a particular magic action and a specific set of one or more effects. When your character casts their signature spell (consisting of the exact combination of action and effects previously chosen), reduce the difficulty of the check by one.
Genres -
Source RoT
Stalker
Tier 2
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
Add per rank of Stalker to all Stealth and Coordination checks.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Strong Arm
Tier 2
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Treat thrown weapons as if they had 1 greater range.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Stunning Blow
Tier 2
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
When making Melee checks, may inflict damage as strain instead of wounds. This does not ignore soak.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Templar (Improved)
Tier 2
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Your character must have purchased the Templar talent to benefit from this talent. When your character casts the single Divine spell per encounter granted by the Templar talent, they do not add for wearing heavy armor (armor with +2 soak or higher), using a shield, or not having at least one hand free.
Genres -
Source RoT
Threaten
Tier Active (Incidental, Out of Turn)
Activation Yes
Ranked Yes
After an adversary within short range of your character resolves a combat check that deals damage to one of your character's allies, your character may suffer 3 strain to use this talent to inflict a number of strain on the adversary equal to your character's ranks in Coercion. The range of this talent increases by one band per rank of Threaten beyond the first.
Genres -
Source RoT
Unarmed Parry
Tier 2
Activation Passive
Ranked No
May Parry while unarmed. Reduce the strain cost to Parry while unarmed by 1 (to a minimum of 1).
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Well-Travelled
Tier 2
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Knowledge (Geography), Negotiation, and Vigilance are now career skills for your character.
Genres -
Source RoT
Wraithbane
Tier 2
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Your character counts the Critical rating of their weapon as one lower to a minimum of 1 when making an attack targeting an undead adversary.
Genres -
Source RoT

Tier 3 Talents

Ambush
Tier 3
Activation Active (Maneuver)
Ranked No
Once per round while benefiting from cover may make the Ambush maneuver. Add damage equal to Stealth skill to one hit of the next successful combat check against a target within short range before the end of the turn.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Animal Companion
Tier 3
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
Your character creates a bond with a single animal approved by your GM. This animal must be silhouette 0 (no larger than a mid-sized dog). The bond persists as long as your character chooses, although at your GM's discretion, the bond may also be broken due to abusive treatment or other extenuating circumstanes. As long as the bond persists, the animal follows your character, and you dicate the animal's overall behavior (although, since the animal is only bonded with the character, not dominated, it may still perform inconvenient actions such as scratching furniture, consuming rations, and marking territory). Once per round in structured encounters, your character amy spend one maneuver to direct their animal in performing one action and one maneuver during your character's turn. The animal must be within hearing and visual range of your character (generally medium range) to do this. Otherwise, the animal does not contribute to the encounter. The specifics of its behavior are up to you and your GM. For ever additional rank of Animal Companion your character has, increase the allowed silhouette of the companion by one. (This may mean your character gets a new companion, or their companion grows in size.)
Genres -
Source GCRB
Armor Master
Tier 3
Activation Passive
Ranked No
When wearing armor, increase total soak value by 1.
Genres -
Source RoT
Backstab
Tier 3
Activation Active (Action)
Ranked No
Your character may use this talent to attack an unaware adversary using a Melee (Light) weapon. A backstab is a melee attack, and follows the normal rules for performing a combat check, using the character's Skulduggery skill instead of Melee (Light). If the check succeeds, each uncancelled adds +2 damage (instead of the normal +1).
Genres -
Source RoT
Body Guard
Tier 3
Activation Active (Manuever)
Ranked Yes
Once per round, your character may suffer a number of strain no greater than tanks of Body Guard to use this talent. Choose one ally engaged with your character; until the end of your character's next turn, upgrade the difficulty of all combat checks targeting that ally a number of times equal to strain suffered.
Genres -
Source RoT
Cavalier
Tier 3
Activation Active (Maneuver)
Ranked No
While riding a mount trained for bsttle or a flying mount, once per round your character may direct the mount to perform an action.
Genres -
Source RoT
Congenial
Tier 3
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked Yes
May suffer a number of strain to downgrade the difficulty of Charm or Negotiation checks or uptrade the difficulty when targeted by Charm or Negotiation checks by an equal number. Strain suffered this way cannot exceed ranks in Congenial.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Counterattack
Tier 3
Activation Active (Incidental, Out of Turn)
Ranked No
Your character must have purchased the Improved Parry talent to benefit from this talent. When your character uses the Improved Parry talent to hit an attacker, they may also activate an item quality of the weapon they used as if they had generated on a combat check using that weapon.
Genres -
Source RoT
Disciplined Strike
Tier 3
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
Once per round on your character's turn, your character may suffer 3 strain to use this talent to add damage equal to their ranks in Discipline to one hit of a successful melee attack.
Genres -
Source RoT
Dissonance
Tier 3
Activation Active (Action)
Ranked No
While wielding a musical instrument, your character may use this talent to make an Average () Charm or Verse check. For each the check generates, one enemy of the player's chosing within medium range suffers 1 wound. For each , one enemy affected by Dissonance suffers 1 additional wound.
Genres -
Source RoT
Dodge
Tier 3
Activation Active (Incidental, Out of Turn)
Ranked Yes
When your character is targeted by a combat check (ranged or melee), they may suffer a number of strain no greater than their ranks in Dodge to use this talent. Then, upgrade the difficulty of the combat check targeting your character a number of times equal to the strain suffered.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Double or Nothing
Tier 3
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Suffer 2 strain to perform the Double or Nothing incidental to increase the difficulty of the next check by one. Then, after cancelling opposed symbols, double the amount of remaining .
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Dual Strike
Tier 3
Activation No
Ranked No
When resolving a combined check to attack with two weapons in a melee combat, your character may suffer 2 strain to use this talent to hit with the secondary weapon (instead of spending ).
Genres -
Source RoT
Eagle Eyes
Tier 3
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
Once per encounter before making a ranged combat check, you may use this talent to increase your weapon's range by one range band (to a maximum of extreme range). This lasts for the duration of the combat check.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Easy Prey
Tier 3
Activation Active (Maneuver)
Ranked No
Your character may suffer 3 strain to use this talent. Until the start of your character's next turn, your character and allies within short range add to combat checks against immobilized targets.
Genres -
Source RoT
Extended Reach
Tier 3
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
While armed with a Melee (Heavy) weapon, suffer 1 strain to make a Melee (Heavy) combat check with that weapon targeting an enemy at up to short range (rather than engaged range).
Genres -
Source RoT
Eye for Detail
Tier 3
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked Yes
After making an Alchemy or Mechanics check, may suffer strain up to ranks in Eye for Dtail to convert that many to .
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Feint
Tier 3
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
Spend or generated on a missed melee attack to upgrade the difficulty of an opponents next attack targeting the character by ranks in Feint.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Feral Strength
Tier 3
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
Add 1 damage per rank of Feral Strength to one hit of successful melee attacks made using the Brawl or Melee skills.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Field Commander
Tier 3
Activation Active (Action)
Ranked No
Your character may use this talent to make an Average () Leadership check. If successful, a number of allies equal to your character's Presence may immediately suffer 1 strain to perform one maneuver (out of turn). If there are any questions as to which allies take their maneuvers first, your character is the final arbiter.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Forgot to Count?
Tier 3
Activation Active (Incidental, Out of Turn)
Ranked 3
When an opponent makes a ranged combat check, you can spend from that check to use this talent to cause their weapon to run out of ammo as long as the weapon can normally run out of ammunition.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Freerunning (Improved)
Tier 3
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
Your character must have purchased the Freerunning talent to benefit from this talent. Suffer 4 strain when making a move maneuver to move to any location within medium range.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Frenzied Attack
Tier 3
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked Yes
When making a Melee or Brawl check, suffer a number of strain to upgrade the attack an equal number of times. The strain suffered may not exceed ranks in Frenzied Attack.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Grenadier
Tier 3
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked Yes
When your character makes a ranged combat check with a weapon that has the Blast quality, you may spend one Story Point to use this talent to trigger the weapon's Blast quality, instead of spending (even if the attack misses). In addition, your character treats grenades as having a range of medium.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Harass
Tier 3
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
Whenever the character's animal companion makes a successful combat check against a target, it may forgo inflicting damage to upgrade the difficulty of the target's next check once instead.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Heroic Resilience
Tier 3
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked Yes
Once per encounter, immediately after being hit by an attack but before suffering damage, spend 1 Story Point to increase soak by ranks in Resilience.
Genres -
Source SWRPG (Modified)
Heroic Will
Tier 3
Activation Active (Incidental, Out of Turn)
Ranked No
When you purchase this talent for your character, choose two characteristics. You may spend a Story Point to use this talent to have your character ignore the effects of all critial injuries on any skill checks using those two characteristics until the end of the current encounter. (Your character still suffers the Critical Injuries; they just ignore the effects.)
Genres -
Source GCRB
Hunter's Quarry (Improved)
Tier 3
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Your character must have purchased the Hunter's Quarry talent to benefit from this talent. Suffer 2 strain to perform the Hunter's Quarry action as a maneuver.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Informant
Tier 3
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
Once per session, your character may reveal a contact who can shed light on a chosen subject.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Inspiring Rhetoric (Improved)
Tier 3
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Your character must have purchased the Inspiring Rhetoric talent to benefit from this talent. Allies affected by your character's Inspiring Rhetoric add to all skill checks they make for a number of rounds equal to your character's ranks in Leadership.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Interjection
Tier 3
Activation Active (Incidental, Out of Turn)
Ranked No
After another character makes a social check, suffer 3 strain to take an interjection incidental. Make an Average () Vigilance check to add or equal to , and or equal to to the check.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Lethal Blows
Tier 3
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
Add +10 per rank of Lethal Blows to any Critical Injury resuls inflicted on opponents.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Natural
Tier 3
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
When your character purchases this talent, choose two skills. Once per session, your character may use this talent to reroll one skill check that uses one of those two skills.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Nobody's Fool
Tier 3
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
May upgrade the difficulty of incoming Charm, Coercion, or Deception checks once per rank of Nobody's Fool.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Opportunist
Tier 3
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked Yes
When your character purchases this talent, choose one non-combat, non-magic skill. When you roll a check using this skill, you may suffer strain up to ranks in Opportunist to convert that many into .
Genres -
Source RoT
Painkiller Specialization
Tier 3
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
When your charcter uses painkillers, the target heals one additional wound per rank of Painkiller Specialization. The sixth painkiller and beyond each day still has no effect.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Parry (Improved)
Tier 3
Activation Active (Incidental, Out of Turn)
Ranked No
Your character must have purchased the Parry talent to benefit from this talent. When your character suffers a hit from a melee combat check and uses Parry to reduce the damage from that hit, after the attack is resolved, you may spend or from the attacker's check to use this talent. Then, your character automatcially hits the attacker once with a Brawl or Melee weapon your character is wielding. The hit deals the weapon's base damage, plus any damage from applicable talents or abilities. Your character can't use this talent if the original attack incapacitates them.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Potent Concoctions
Tier 3
Activation Passive
Ranked No
When your character makes an Alchemy check that generates , roll an addtional and add its results to the pool, in addtion to spending the normally. When your character makes an Alchemy check that generates , roll an addtional and add its results to the pool, in addtion to spending the normally. Each of these effects can only occur once per check.
Genres -
Source RoT
Precise Archery
Tier 3
Activation Passive
Ranked No
When making a Ranged combat check targeting a character engaged with one of your character's allies, downgrade the difficulty of the check once (thus negating the penalty for shooting at engaged targets).
Genres -
Source RoT
Pressure Point
Tier 3
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
When your character makes an unarmed Brawl check targeting a living opponent, they may use this talent to deal strain damage instead of wound damage, and inflict addtional strain damage equal to their ranks in Medicine.
Genres -
Source RoT
Rapid Archery
Tier 3
Activation Active (Maneuver)
Ranked No
While your character is armed with a bow (or similar weapon, at your GM's discretion) they may suffer 2 strain to use this talent. During the next Ranged combat check your character makes this turn, the weapon gainst the Linked quality with a value equal to their ranks in the Ranged skill.
Genres -
Source RoT
Scathing Tirade (Improved)
Tier 3
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Your character must have purchased the Scathing Tirade talent to benefit from this talent. Enemies affected by your character's Scathing Tirade add to all skill checks they make for a number of rounds equal to your character's ranks in Coercion.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Shockwave
Tier 3
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Your character treats Melee (Heavy) weapons as possessing the Blast item quality with a rating equal to your character's ranks in Melee (Heavy). Your character does not suffer damage from their weapon's Blast quality (but allies do!).
Genres -
Source RoT
Shortcut (Improved)
Tier 3
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Your character must have purchased the Shortcut talent to benefit from this talent. When engaging in a chase or race, may suffer 2 strain to add equal to ranks in Shortcut to the check.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Spur
Tier 2
Activation Active (Action)
Ranked No
Take the Spur action; make a Hard () Survival check to increase a beast's top speed by 1. The best suffers 2 strain every round it stays spurred.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Stunning Blow (Improved)
Tier 3
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
Your character must have purchased the Stunning Blow talent to benefit from this talent. When dealing strain damage with Melee or Brawl checks, may spend to stagger target for 1 round per spent.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Spur (Improved)
Tier 3
Activation Active (Maneuver)
Ranked No
Your character must have purchased the Spur talent to benefit from this talent. Suffer 1 strain to attempt Spur as a maneuver and decrease its difficulty to Average ().
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Twisted Words
Tier 3
Activation Active (Incidental, Out of Turn)
Ranked No
When an incoming social check generates or , may suffer 1 strain as an incidental to inflict strain equal to ranks in Coercion on the speaker.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Well Rounded
Tier 2
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
Choose any 2 skills. They permamently become career skills.
Genres -
Source SWRPG

Tier 4 Talents

Armor Master (Improved)
Tier 4
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Your character must have purchased the Armor Master talent to benefit from this talent. When wearing armor with a soak value of 2 or higher, increase defense by 1.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Back-to-Back
Tier 4
Activation Passive
Ranked No
While engaged with one or more allies, your character and allies they are engaged with add to combast checks. If one or more allies engaged with your character also have Back-to-Back, the effects are cumulative to a maximum of .
Genres -
Source RoT
Can't We Talk About This?
Tier 4
Activation Active (Action)
Ranked No
Your character can use this talent to make an opposed Charm or Deception versus Discipline check targeting a single non-nemesis adversary within medium range. If the check succeeds, the target cannot attack your character (or perform hostile actions against your character) until the end of their next turn. You may spend to increase the length of the effect by one additional turn, and spend to extend the benefits to all of their identified allies within short range. The effect ends immediately if your character or a known ally attacks the target. In addition, your GM may rule that some targets are immune to this ability.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Commanding Presence
Tier 4
Activation Active (Action)
Ranked No
Once per session, may take the Commanding Presence action; make an opposed Cool vs. Discipline check to force a target to leave the current encounter.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Conduit
Tier 4
Activation Active (Maneuver)
Ranked No
Once per encounter, your character may spend a Story Point to perform a magic action as a maneuver.
Genres -
Source RoT
Deadeye
Tier 4
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
After your character inflicts a Critical Injury with a ranged weapon and rulls the result, your character may suffer 2 strain to use this talent. Then, you may select any Critical Injury of the same severity to apply to the target instead.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Death Rage
Tier 4
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Your character adds +2 damage to melee attacks for each Critical Injury they are currently suffering. (Your GM may also impose additional penalties on social skill checks your character makes if they are suffering Critical Injuries due to their frenzied behavior.)
Genres -
Source RoT
Defensive
Tier 4
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
Each rank of Defensive increases your character's melee defense and ranged defense by 1.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Discredit
Tier 4
Activation Active (Action)
Ranked No
Once per encounter, take the Discredit action; make a Hard () Deception check to upgrade the difficulty of one character's social checks once, plus once for every spent, until the end of the encounter.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Double or Nothing (Improved)
Tier 4
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Your character must have purchased the Double or Nothing talent to benefit from this talent. When performing the Double or Nothing incidental, after cancelling opposing symbols, also double the amount of remaining .
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Enduring
Tier 4
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
Each rank of Enduring increases your character's soak value by one.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Field Commander (Improved)
Tier 4
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Your charcter must have purchased the Field Commander talent to benefit from this talent. When your character uses the Field Commander talent, your character affects a number of allies equal to twice the character's presence. In addition, you may spend to allow one ally to suffer 1 strain to perform an action, instead of a maneuver.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Inspiring Rhetoric (Supreme)
Tier 4
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
Your character must have purchased the Inspiring Rhetoric talent to benefit from this talent. Your character may choose to suffer 1 strain to use the Inspiring Rhetoric talent as a maneuver instead of an action.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Jury Rigged
Tier 4
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
The character chooses one personal weapon or piece of armor. They may increase the damage of weapon by one, decrease the Critical rating by one (to a minimum of 1), increase or decrease one of a weapon's qualities by one, or increase armor's ranged or melee defense by one. Alternatively, they may decrease the encumbrance of the item by two to a minimum of one. The bonus only applies so long as the character is using the item. If the item is ever lost or destroyed, the character may apply Jury Rigged to a new personal weapon or piece of armor.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Menace
Tier 4
Activation Active (Maneuver)
Ranked No
Take the Menace maneuver. Enemies within short range of the character's animal companion add to the next combat check made against the character before the end of the character's next turn.
Genres -
Source SWRPG (Modified)
Resolve
Tier 4
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
When a character involuntarily suffers strain, they suffer 1 less strain per rank of Resolve, to a minimum of 1.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Scathing Tirade (Supreme)
Tier 4
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
Your character must have purchased the Scathing Tirade talent to benefit from this talent. Your character may choose to suffer 1 strain to use the Scathing Tirade talent as a maneuver instead of as an action.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Second Chances
Tier 4
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked Yes
Once per encounter choose a number of positive dice equal to ranks in Second Chances and reroll them.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Showboat
Tier 4
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
When making a check in a vehicle, may suffer 2 strain to gain on success or on failure.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Signature Spell (Improved)
Tier 4
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Your character must have purchased the Signature Spell talent to benefit from this talent. When your character casts their signature spell, reduce the difficulty of the check by two instead of one.
Genres -
Source RoT
Sorry About the Mess
Tier 4
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Decrease the Critical Rating of a weapon by 1 (to a minimum of 1) against targets that have not yet acted this round.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Spur (Supreme)
Tier 4
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Your character must have purchased the Spur talent to benefit from this talent. When activating and maintain Spur, the beast only suffers 1 strain instead of 2.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Steady Aim
Tier 4
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Your character does not lose the benefits of the aim maneuver if they perform other maneuvers (including moving) or actions. Your character does lose the benefits of the aim maneuver if the encounter ends.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Unrelenting
Tier 4
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
Once per round after resolving a successful Brawl, Melee (Light), or Melee (Heavy) combat check, your character may suffer 4 strain to use this talent to make an addtional melee attack as an incidental against the same target. Increase the difficulty of the combat check by one if this attack uses a different weapon, or by two if the attack uses the same weapon.
Genres -
Source RoT
Venom Soaked Blade
Tier 4
Activation Passive
Ranked No
When makeing a Melee (Light) combat check using a poisoned weapon, your character treats it as possessing the Burn 2 item quality.
Genres -
Source RoT

Tier 5 Talents

Armor Master (Supreme)
Tier 5
Activation Active (Incidental, Out of Turn)
Ranked No
Your character must have purchased the Armor Master talent to benefit from this talent. Once per round, when the character suffers a Critical Injury, they may suffer 3 strain to take the Armor Master incidental. If they do, they reduce the Critical Injury result that they suffer by 10 per point of soak, to a minimum of 1.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Biggest Fan
Tier 5
Activation Active (Action)
Ranked No
Once per session, may take the Biggest Fan action; make a Hard () Charm check to turn one NPC into the character's biggest fan. The exact effects of this may vary depending on the NPC and the situaiton. they can include drastically decreasing the difficulty of of socail interaction skill checks the character makes targeting his biggest fan, the fan being willing to perform minor or even significant favors for the character, or the NPC even becoming a recurring ally in the narrative. At the GM's discretion, this talent may not be able to target certain NPCs whose adversarial nature is vital to the plot, or NPCs who would be unable to appreciate the character's work.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Coordination Dodge
Tier 5
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
When targeted by a combat check, may spend 1 Story Point to add equal to ranks in Coordination to the check.
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Crushing Blow
Tier 5
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
Once per session after rolling a melee attack but before resolving the check, your character may suffer 4 strain to use this talent. While resolving the check, the weapon gains the Breach 1 and Knockdown item qualities, and destroys one item the target is wielding that does not have the Reinforced quality.
Genres -
Source RoT
Dedication
Tier 5
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
Each rank of Dedication incrases one of your characteristics by 1. This talent cannot increase a characteristic above 5. You cannot increase the same characteristic with Dedication twice.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Double or Nothing (Supreme)
Tier 5
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Your character must have purchased the Double or Nothing talent to benefit from this talent. When performing the Double or Nothing incidental, also double the number of and .
Genres -
Source SWRPG
Indomitable
Tier 5
Activation Active (Incidental, Out of Turn)
Ranked No
Once per encounter, when your character would be incapacitated due to exceeding their wound or strain threshold, you may spend a Story Point to use this talent. Then, your character is not incapacitated until the end of their next turn. If your character reduces their wound or strain threshold before the end of their next turn, they are not incapacitated.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Master
Tier 5
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
When you purchase this talent for your character, choose one skill. Once per round, your character may suffer 2 strain to use thsi talent to reduce the difficulty they make using that skill by 2, to a minimum of Easy ()
Genres -
Source GCRB
Retribution
Tier 5
Activation Active (Incidental, Out of Turn)
Ranked No
Once per round when an adversary attacks an ally within medium range, your character may spend one Story Point to use this talent to automatically hit that enemy once with a weapon your character is wielding, if the enemy is within the weapon's range. The hit deals the weapon's base damage, plus any damage from applicable talents or abilities.
Genres -
Source RoT
Ruinous Repartee
Tier 5
Activation Active (Action)
Ranked No
Once per encounter, your character may use this talent to make an opposed Charm or Coercion versus Discipline check targeting one character within medium range (or within earshot). If successful, the target suffers strain equal to twice your character's Presence, plus one additional strain per uncancelled . Your character heals strain equal to the strain inflicted. If incapacitated due to this talent, the target could flee the scene in shame, collapes in a dejected heap, or throw themselves at your character in fury, depending on your GM and the nature of your character's witty barbs.
Genres -
Source GCRB
Whirlwind
Tier 5
Activation Active (Action)
Ranked No
Your character may suffer 4 strain to use this talent to make a Brawl, Melee (Light), or Melee (Heavy) attack against the engaged adversary who is hardest to hit (as determined by the GM), increasing the difficulty by one. If the combat check succeeds, each adversary engaged with the character suffers one hit from the attack, that deals base damage plus damage equal to the total scored on the check.
Genres -
Source RoT
Zealous Fire
Tier 5
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Each time your Game Master spends a story point, your character heals 2 strain.
Genres -
Source RoT

Sources: GCRB = Genesys Core Rule Book | RoT = Realms of Terrinoth| GC17 = GenCon 2017 | SWRPG = Star Wars RPG | CCC = Community Created Content

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