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| paths:sleuth_path [2026/03/09 05:15] – elfinlocks | paths:sleuth_path [2026/03/09 22:11] (current) – Replacing Disguise entries with Con, hyperlinking elfinlocks |
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| * **Requirements:** Sneak Attack 5d6, [[priority:skills:perception|Perception]] 5, 20 EXP | * **Requirements:** Sneak Attack 5d6, [[priority:skills:perception|Perception]] 5, 20 EXP |
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| You may spend a Standard Action to study a target of your choosing for 3 rounds prior to making a Sneak Attack against them. If you do so, the attack is instead considered a Studied Strike. If you successfully hit a Studied Strike attack, and inflict damage accordingly, the attack has a chance of paralyzing or outright killing the target (your choice). This Talent fails if you are detected or recognized as an enemy by your target. If the victim fails a Fortitude save (DC 10 + your [[priority:prowess|Prowess]] + your [[game_systems:tactic_pool#secondary_martial_attributes|Secondary Attribute Modifier]]), they either die, or are rendered helpless and unable to act for 1d6 minutes, depending upon your desired effect. | You may spend a [[chargen:common_terms#action_types|Half Action]] to study a target of your choosing for 3 rounds prior to making a Sneak Attack against them. If you do so, the attack is instead considered a Studied Strike. If you successfully hit a Studied Strike attack, and inflict damage accordingly, the attack has a chance of paralyzing or outright killing the target (your choice). This Talent fails if you are detected or recognized as an enemy by your target. If the victim fails a Fortitude save (DC 10 + your [[priority:prowess|Prowess]] + your [[game_systems:tactic_pool#secondary_martial_attributes|Secondary Attribute Modifier]]), they either die, or are rendered helpless and unable to act for 1d6 minutes, depending upon your desired effect. |
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| If the victim succeeds on their saving throw, the attack is applied as a normal Sneak Attack. Once you have completed the three rounds of study, you must make the Studied Strike within the next minute. | If the victim succeeds on their saving throw, the attack is applied as a normal Sneak Attack. Once you have completed the three rounds of study, you must make the Studied Strike within the next minute. |
| * **Requirements:** [[priority:skills:perception|Perception]] 5, 15 EXP | * **Requirements:** [[priority:skills:perception|Perception]] 5, 15 EXP |
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| By examining any piece of a creature's remains, as little as drops of their blood, you may roll a Perception check against a DC equal to the creature's [[priority:health|Hit Dice]] + 10. Success provides you with the following information: | By examining any piece of a creature's remains, as little as drops of their blood, you may roll a [[priority:skills:perception|Perception]] check against a DC equal to the creature's [[priority:health|Hit Dice]] + 10. Success provides you with the following information: |
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| * What the creature was (including specifics, such as gender, race, and lifestyle) | * What the creature was (including specifics, such as gender, race, and lifestyle) |
| * **Requirements:** [[priority:skills:disguise|Disguise]] 8, 15 EXP | * **Requirements:** [[priority:skills:disguise|Disguise]] 8, 15 EXP |
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| You may use [[priority:skills:disguise|Disguise]] in place of [[priority:skills:stealth|Stealth]] in any settlement - towns, castles, villages, goblin caves, necromancer towers, and any other settled location, at GM discretion. Additionally, this Talent allows you to enter stealth without the need of cover or concealment, though creatures actively observing you need not make a Perception check to notice you, unless you break their line of sight to you. | You may use [[priority:skills:disguise|Disguise]] in place of [[priority:skills:stealth|Stealth]] in any settlement - towns, castles, villages, goblin caves, necromancer towers, and any other settled location, at GM discretion. Additionally, this Talent allows you to enter stealth without the need of cover or concealment, though creatures actively observing you need not make a [[priority:skills:perception|Perception]] check to notice you, unless you break their line of sight to you. |
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| * **Requirements:** [[priority:skills:disguise|Disguise]] 5, 15 EXP | * **Requirements:** [[priority:skills:disguise|Disguise]] 5, 15 EXP |
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| You may use the Disguise skill as a Move Action by spending 3 [[game_systems:tactic_pool|TP]], and may always take 10 on Disguise checks. Once per day, you may treat any [[priority:skills:disguise|Disguise]] roll as a natural 20. Lastly, you may spend [[game_systems:tactic_pool|TP]] up to your ranks in [[priority:skills:disguise|Disguise]] to gain an untyped bonus of the same amount to a Disguise check of your choice as an Immediate Action. | You may use the [[priority:skills:bluff|Con]] skill as a [[chargen:common_terms#action_types|Half Action]] by spending 3 [[game_systems:tactic_pool|TP]], and may always take 10 on [[priority:skills:bluff|Con]] checks. Once per day, you may treat any [[priority:skills:disguise|Disguise]] roll as a natural 20. Lastly, you may spend [[game_systems:tactic_pool|TP]] up to your ranks in [[priority:skills:disguise|Disguise]] to gain an untyped bonus of the same amount to a [[priority:skills:bluff|Con]] check of your choice as an Immediate Action. |
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| * **Requirements:** [[priority:skills:bluff|Bluff]] 5, 15 EXP | * **Requirements:** [[priority:skills:bluff|Bluff]] 5, 15 EXP |
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| You may spend [[game_systems:tactic_pool|TP]] up to your ranks in [[priority:skills:bluff|Bluff]] to gain an untyped bonus of the same amount to a Bluff check as an Immediate Action. This ability overrides truth-compelling magic, such as [[priority:magic:spells:tier2:zone_of_truth|]]. | You may spend [[game_systems:tactic_pool|TP]] up to your ranks in [[priority:skills:bluff|Bluff]] to gain an untyped bonus of the same amount to a[[priority:skills:con|Con]] check as an Immediate Action. This ability overrides truth-compelling magic, such as [[priority:magic:spells:tier2:zone_of_truth|]]. |
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| * **Requirements:** One Of You, Studied Strike, 50 EXP | * **Requirements:** One Of You, Studied Strike, 50 EXP |
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| As a Move Action, you may target a grappled, pinned, or helpless creature. By spending [[game_systems:tactic_pool|TP]] equal to their [[priority:health|HD]], you immediately perform the following: | As a [[chargen:common_terms#action_types|Half Action]], you may target a grappled, pinned, or helpless creature. By spending [[game_systems:tactic_pool|TP]] equal to their [[priority:health|HD]], you immediately perform the following: |
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| * Make a [[priority:skills:disguise|Disguise]] check to assume their form. | * Make a [[priority:skills:disguise|Disguise]] check to assume their form. |
| * Shift your alignment to theirs. | * Shift your alignment to theirs. |
| * Hide their body, even when this would normally be impossible (The [[priority:skills:perception|Perception]] check to locate the victim is opposed by your previously made Disguise check). | * Hide their body, even when this would normally be impossible (The [[priority:skills:perception|Perception]] check to locate the victim is opposed by your previously made [[priority:skills:bluff|Con]] check). |
| * Studied Strike your target (3 round preparation not required). | * Studied Strike your target (3 round preparation not required). |
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| * **Requirements:** [[chargen:common_terms#core_stats|CST]] 5, 15 EXP | * **Requirements:** [[chargen:common_terms#core_stats|CST]] 5, 15 EXP |
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| When you hit a target with an unarmed strike or a light melee weapon and you have hit that target with an unarmed strike or a light melee weapon previously that round, you deal 1 STR or DEX damage. Additionally, you may choose to forgo standard damage dealt or used without unarmed strike but deal no damage aside from STR or DEX damage. (This ability damage restores at a rate of 1 per minute or can be removed with a heal check DC = Jabbers Secondary + [[priority:prowess|Prowess]] + 15.) | When you hit a target with an unarmed strike or a light melee weapon and you have hit that target with an unarmed strike or a light melee weapon previously that round, you deal 1 STR or DEX damage. Additionally, you may choose to forgo standard damage dealt or used without unarmed strike but deal no damage aside from STR or DEX damage. (This ability damage restores at a rate of 1 per minute or can be removed with a[[priority:skills:heal|Heal]]check DC = Jabbers Secondary + [[priority:prowess|Prowess]] + 15.) |
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