Appendix A: Talent Descriptions

Weapon Skills

Guns:+1cs to all hand guns and Rifles
Heavy Weapons:+1cs to violenly explosive projectile weapons. includes Grenade launchers to Tank Guns.
Thrown Weapons:+1cs to Agility for Spears, disks, shurikens, snowballs, etc.
Bows:Without this talent -1cs to agility to hit when using bows. With this talent gain a +1cs, and may fire and reload in a single round. They may fire multiple arrows on a successful Agility FEAT
Blunt Weapons: +1cs with Clubs, bats, etc.
Oriental Weapons:This grants the character a +1cs to fighting or agility when using the following; Shurikens, crossbows, sais, and oriental swords and daggers
Sharp Weapons:+1cs to hit with swords, daggers and spears (unless thrown). Does not include Claws and other natural extension,
Marksman: +1cs to hit with any distance weapon that requires line of sight to hit, and marksman takes no penalty for range.
Weapons Specialist:Character gains +2cs with a single weapon of choice. Character also recieves a +1cs to initiative when using that weapon.
Weapons Master: Character gains a +1cs to hit with any weapon that requires a fighting FEAT to hit.

Fighting Skills

Martial Arts: Each Martial arts style costs 250 Karma, or a talent slot to gain. Each basic style gives you a +1cs to Fighting (noncummalitive).Each special move costs an additional 250 Karma or talent slot to gain. You may pick any special manuever in the belt rank, but must take all of one level before moving to the next. Damage may never exceed AM (50). All the Martial Arts stuff is here
Wrestling:+2cs for making garappling attacks, but not damage
QuickStricking: +1cs to fighting feats involving trying to make multiple attack rolls. Also gains +1 to initiative
Aerial Combat: +1cs in the air
Underwater Combat:+1cs underwater
Tumbling:Hero may make a roll to land on his feet after any fall that doesn't do damage
Acrobatics:Gains climbing, Dodging, and Gymanastics. +1cs to evading
Climbing:Allows you to climb trees, telephones , buildings cliffs, etc. +2cs to agility when trying this. Failure can be painful.
Dodging: +1cs to dodging
Gymnastics: Enables a character to perform flips, rolls , etc, and also allows a character to juggle. This skill will readily impress a crowd and increase the popularity of th hero +2 every time he works it into a battle where popularity is available.

Professional Skills

Medicine: Gains First Aid, Forensics, Medical Treatment, and Surgery subskills. The person with this skilll can halt Endurance loss. THis character can bring back a character who reached Sh0 up to 20 rounds after they reached that level. A character can restore one rak of endurance to a wounded character once a week, in addition to normal healing. +1cws on Reason FEATs that involve medical problems, medication, poisons, and surgery
First Aid: May halt endurance loss and may stabalize a character at Sh0 up to 5 rounds after they reach that level.
Forensics: Enables a character to determine informatin regardng the manner of death by examing a body. Such analysis must be made in a laboratory in all but the most obvious cases. in a laboratory, the exact cause of death, and an approximate time of death can be determined.
Medical Treatment:Allows a character to effectively fight disease and injury. This allows him to regain endurance rank once per day. This must be done with the proper equiptment. If the equiptment is unavailable only First Aid may be administered
Surgery: Allows the charactre to repair extensive physical damage. Surgery skill gives you the ability to perform surgery and a +1cs to Reason FEATs while performing them. If the surgery is performed anywhere but a hospital type setting, the surgery is done at a -2cs. Extensive surgery on an Alien or other abnormal physiology there is also a -2cs. Surgery is vry dangerous to the patient. If the Surgery is succesful the patient recieves twice his endurance points in health. If the surgery is unsuccessfgul the patient Loses three times his Endurance points. If the character reaches Sh0 he may die. Completing a succesful surgery should be worth a lot of Karma.
Law Enforcement: Includes Gun and Law talents and the Police Procedure talent. If a characer is still with the Law Enforcement agency, he may carry agun and make arrests legally
Pilot (air): Has a working knowledge of most aircraft, and recieves a +1cs to all FEATs invloving aircraft
Military: Includes Camouflage, Cartography, Demolition, Electronic Countermeasures, guns, and Heavy Weapons and grants a +1cs to all military matters including army weapons. Gain one co ntact in the military.
Camouflage: Allows a character +2cs to trying to camouflage equiptment, objects, and self. Requires a yellow Intuition FEAT for a person to find it.
Cartography: enables a character ot draw and interpret maps and grants +1cs to all attempts.
Demolition: +1cs to BLOW STUFF UP! Finding the weak place in buildings and recognize and defusing bombs. Like surgery this talent is a dangerous one to fail at. Meaning: SPEND KARMA!!! Failure indicates you BLOW UP taking full damage from Exposion, unless its a dud.
Electronic Countermeasures: (ECM) enables a character to understand, operate, and detect the use of bugs, jammers, and decoders. +1cs to Reason in using them, Intuition for finding them.
Tracking: This skill allows you to track others and to cover your own trail. When doing the tracking +1cs for tracking people +1cs fro each person over one that you are tracking.
Business/Finance: +1cs dealing with money
Journalism:Hero gains 2 additional contacts in the media
Engineering: +1cs to all FEATs involving building things, including the Resource roll.
Crime: This character understands the criminal mind and organization and recieves +1cs to FEATs of theis nature and also recieves an additional contact in either the Police or Criminal activities
Psychiatry: +1cs in all FEATs involving the mind. A popular talent for those with mental powers. These character gain a +1cs on FEATs involving Mental Contact, Domination, Hypnosis, Emotion Control, and Mental Probe powers.
Detective: Gains Clue Analysis, Counterfeit recognition, identification System, Law, and Police Procedure. This character is trained to notice small clues to a crime, and gains +1cs to find them, and also gains 1 contact in either Crme, Law enforcement, or Law.
Clues Analysis: + 1cs to Intuition/Reason on gathering information on clues.
Counterfeit Recognition: +1cs to Intuition for identifying false signatures, money, art, etc. A failed roll means that the character believes its genuine.
Identification Systems: enables a character to identify another character through fingerprints, retina scans, or voice prints, if they access to the proper equiptment. If the character is unknown to the authorities than there is no chance to identify the character.
Police Procedure: Enables a character to avoid both police conflict and security. For example; such a character could apprehend felons and gain access to a crime scene without being arrested.
Law: A character with law gains +1cs to al FEATs involving law
History: +1cs in history of civilizations, cultures, writings, and historic facts.
Driving (Ground): +1CS to driving and controlling cars, trains, tanks, hovercrafts, etc.
Pilot (Space): +1cs to all FEATs involving spacecratft
Driving (water): +1cs to all FEATs involving sailboats, aircraft carriers, submarines, tugboats, and so on.
Gadgetry: Can build and identify Gadgetry, and recieve a +1cs to all FEATs involving them.
Build Gadgets: Enables a character to build and design gadgets.
Identify Gadgets: Enables a character to Identify and use Gadgets but not build them. Alien technology results in -1cs to -5cs
Architecture: +1cs in architecture FEATs
Politics: Being involved with politics in the public eye, you are either realy liked or really hated. If the charcter is already freindly you gain a +1cs in getting help, but if the character is unfriendly or hostile you recieve an additional -1cs. You gain 2 contacts, Usually your cheif supporter (possibly a crime boss)
Thief: The thief gains Forgery, Escape Artist, Locks and Safes, Pickpocketing, and Stealth subskills.
Forgery: enables a character to create excellent copies of a signature or work of art.
Escape Artist:+1cs to strength in trying to escape holds or bonds.
Locks & Safes:Grants the character the ablity to pick locks and crack safes. this requires a reason FEAT to accomplish
Pickpocketing: Allows the character the ability to "borrow" items from another person without their knowledge. Can grant as much as +2cs to agility if item is in an accessible place (outside pocket of an overcoat.)
Security Systems: Gives the character an abilit to bypass, override, etc, security systems. Can recieve as much as +3cs to all rolls involving systems if player takes appropriate measures (staking it out, experiance with particular system, Etc)
Stealth: Causes a -1cs to Intuition FEATs when trying to detect this character.

Scientific Skills

Chemistry: A +1cs on matters of Chemistry, including finding cures for inorganic diseases, developing new formulas, and indentifing chemicals.
Biology: +1cs to Biology, including animal and plant identification, finding cures for organic poison and researchi ng diseases and cures
Geology: +1cs to matters of the earth, including volcanic activity, types of rocks and their powers, and mineral identification.
Genetics: +1cs to matters involving genes, including creating new life forms, understanding mutants, and researching diseases.
Archeology: +1cs to things involving the past, including paleontology, historical records, and ancient myths and legends.
Physics: +1cs on matters involvingphysics and astrophysics, including motion, flight, planets and stars.
Computers: +1cs to matters involving computers, computer controlled devices, and artificial intelligence, Includes Programming and Internet subskills
Programing: +1cs in matters of programming and reprogramming computers and such.
Internet: +1cs to gather information and communication
Electronics: +1cs to electronics including building and repairing
Mechanics: +1cs to building and repairing vehicles
Robotics: +1cs to the understanding, building and repairing of robots.

Mystical & Mental Skills

Trance:This character may place himaself into a trance. while in a trance the character slows his body functions to the point of appearing dead (intuition FEAT for those checking). A character in a trance reduces the need for food and water and may regain Endurance Ranks once per day.
Mesmerism and Hypnosis: This talent is a primitive form of mind control with the power rank equal to reason. Information can be gained as per mental probe and Post hypnotic suggestions may be implanted in the characters mind. Any attempt to force a person to do something they would not normally do, the hypnotism breaks.
Sleight of Hand:This is a talent developed by magicians which cause objects to appear, disappear, and reappear. The character with this talent may palm small items making them appear or disappear with agility +1cs ability
Resist Domintation: Like a Psi-screen, it operates at +1cs to Psyche for resisting mental attacks
Mystic Origin: Powers may be mystical in nature or the player has had some dealings in magic
Occultist Gains Occult Knowledge, Create Objects , Identify Objects and Ritual Magic.
Occult Knowledge: Characters with this talent has a knowledge of magical societies, antiquities, runes, and a general understanding of forgotten lore. The character gains +1cs to to reason FEATS involving items of occult nature.
Create Object: enables a character to create mystical items and artifacts. Items are built just like normal gadgets.
Identify Object: Enables a character to identify and use a magical item with a +1cs to Reason.
Ritual Magic:Reason FEAT to perform magical ceromonies. To do this you need knowledge of the ceremony (usually from a book), equiptment, and time. Time is 1d20 times 2 = rounds of spellcasting needed.

Other Skills

Artist:This character may recieve 10 times the amount of time it takes to produce the work of art in Karma.
Actor:This gives the ability to be used to disguis a character. An actor recieves a +1cs to all disguise attempts and opponents recieve a -1cs to seeing through the disguise
Photographer:This character can recieve money for pictures taken (like Peter Parker)
Writer:Enables a character to produce novel, screenplays, comic books, poetry, coloring books. Takes at least a week to complete.
Charisma:Also recieve Interrogation, Intimidation, Persuassion, Also gives a +1cs to all forms of Character Interaction.
Interrogation:+1cs to Interrogation
Intimidation:+1cs to Intimidation
Persuasion:+1cs to Persuasion
Languages:Character with this talent has a natural understanding of languages. Character automaically starts with one extra language, and may add another for 500 karma regardless of who teaches it.
Repair/Tinkering: Recieves a +1cs any Reason FEATs involving the repair and modification but not the building of new items
Trivia:Similair to the Scholar advantage. Gives +1cs to any specified subject
Animal Handling:Gain Animal Training and Riding
Animal Training:This Character may teach animals simple tricks. If the Char acter has animal communication, control, or empathy they recieve a +1cs
Animal Riding:This talent allows a character to recieve a +1cs to ride any animal trained for that purpose. If the animal is untrained theis character does not recieve a -1cs
Heir to Fortune:Not really a talent, but a situation which brings the character into a lot of money. Minimum resources are Rm. THis talent may not be gained after generation.
Student:Similair to Heir to fortune, this talent may only be chosen at the start of play. The student character has no other initial talents, but may gain other talents at a discounted price.New talents cost 1000 karma points if learned from another player, 800 if learned from an outside source. Students may maintain Advancement totals for a Talent along with other forms of advancement funds.

Leadership:The Hero with this talent is a natural born leader. If this Character forms akarma pool with a team then that pool receives a 50 point bonus, provided that this character is recognized as the team leader. When the leader leaves, the 50 points go with him. The leader does not gain them, they simply leave the pool. Only one leader per team.
Streetsmart:Character know the streets and how to survive theere. Character also gains 2 contacts at the s treet level
Television Junkie:Character gains +1cs to anything he might of seen on television.
Ultimate Skill:Like martial supremecy. Take any skill and you may become a grand master of that skill. this talent gains a rank, you add that rank to the attribute needed when using this skill. Ultimate skill of robotics with a rank of EX (20). When building a robot and you have a reason of GD (10) you may roll on RM column (20 +10 = 30 = RM) You may not have martial supremecy, and Ultimate skill on the samesubject. No double benefits.