Talents

Double Tap

Allows a character to fire a second time with a semi-automatic weapon at a penalty to the hit roll.

Improved Aim

Refines aimed and called shots, helping a marksman place accurate fire where it matters.

Cover Fire

Uses disciplined fire from cover to improve a combatant's control of an engagement.

Center Mass

Focuses rifle fire on the torso for dependable stopping power.

Controlled Burst

Turns short automatic bursts into controlled, effective attacks.

Rolling Thunder

Develops the sustained-fire techniques of a dedicated machine gunner.

Silent Strike

Improves the ability to eliminate a target quietly with suitable weapons.

Breacher's Blast

Uses a shotgun at close range to punish armored targets and force openings.

One Shot, One Kill

Represents patient sniper discipline and decisive long-range fire.

Blood Strike

A precise stabbing attack that leaves the victim bleeding after the initial wound.

Quick Strikes

Uses speed and practiced weapon handling to deliver additional melee attacks.

Improvised Melee Weapon

Turns ordinary objects and tools into practical close-combat weapons.

Shoulder Throw

Uses leverage and positioning to throw an opponent to the ground.

Disarm

Attempts to knock or wrench a weapon away from an opponent.

Die Hard

Gives a badly injured character a chance to remain alive when an attack should finish them.

Tri-Athlete

Represents conditioning for sustained running, swimming, and other endurance-heavy activity.

Jump Attack

Combines momentum and elevation into an aggressive melee maneuver.

Ghost Step

Allows a trained mover to slip through danger and avoid detection at a critical moment.

Dive for Cover!

A sudden defensive movement that gets a character out of an attack's path and into nearby protection.

Adrenaline Rush

Lets a character push through exhaustion in a crisis by drawing on a sudden reserve of Stamina.

Against All Odds

Makes a character more effective when badly outnumbered, helping them endure pressure from several enemies at once.

Ain'T Got Time To Bleed

Lets a wounded character keep functioning by temporarily ignoring some of the penalties caused by injury.

Battle Hardened

Reduces the impact of fear, shock, and other battlefield conditions that can disrupt a character’s actions.

Bigger Is Better

Allows a strong character to handle oversized weapons and heavy equipment more effectively.

Body Training

Represents broad physical conditioning that improves the character’s overall toughness and ability to withstand punishment.

Bodybuilding

Develops raw muscular power, improving feats of strength and the force behind physical attacks.

Breath Holding

Allows a character to remain without air longer and function better during dives, smoke exposure, or similar hazards.

Cardio Training

Improves sustained physical effort, helping the character keep moving and recover from strenuous activity.

Controlled Breathing

Helps a character control fatigue and recover Stamina through deliberate breathing during stressful situations.

Cross-Fitness Training

Builds balanced strength and endurance for characters who need to perform several kinds of demanding physical activity.

Enduring March

Allows a character to travel for longer periods and carry on through the fatigue caused by extended movement.

Fortitude

Helps a character resist physical conditions and remain functional after taking serious punishment.

Heroic Comeback

Allows a battered character to regain momentum and return to the fight when the situation turns desperate.

High Intensity Tactical Training (Hitt)

Conditions a character for repeated bursts of strenuous tactical movement and combat activity.

I'Ll Take Watch

Helps a character remain alert and effective while going without sleep during long watches or emergencies.

Improved Leap

Increases the distance and effectiveness of jumps made through raw strength.

Iron Constitution

Improves resistance to disease, environmental hardship, and other threats to physical health.

Iron Grip

Makes the character harder to disarm and better able to hold, carry, or control objects through grip strength.

Iron Will

Helps a character withstand pain and physical trauma without losing control of their actions.

Never Back Down

Rewards a character for standing their ground instead of retreating from an immediate threat.

Power Throw

Lets a strong character throw weapons and objects farther and with greater force.

Resilient Stance

Uses a planted stance to make the character harder to knock down, move, or physically overwhelm.

Sparring

Represents regular combat practice that improves conditioning and readiness for physical confrontation.

Stamina Surge

Allows a character to recover a sudden reserve of Stamina when they need to keep acting.

Strength Surge

Lets a character briefly push beyond their normal strength for an especially demanding feat or attack.

Strong Attack

Trades some precision for a heavier melee blow with greater damage potential.

Tough As Nails

Makes a character better able to absorb wounds and remain effective after being hurt.

Toxin Resistance

Helps a character resist becoming Poisoned and gives them a chance to purge poison already affecting their system.

Unyielding Frame

Makes the character harder to shove, knock prone, or otherwise move against their will.

Weathered Resilience

Helps a character endure extreme weather and environmental exposure without suffering as quickly.

Wrecking Force

Improves attempts to smash doors, barriers, vehicles, and other objects through raw strength.

Acrobatic Evasion

Uses acrobatic movement to improve defense, at the cost of making attacks harder during the maneuver.

Blitz Attack

Allows a fast character to rush an opponent and turn that movement into a stronger melee attack.

Call Audible

Improves a rerolled Reaction, Speed, or Stunt Test when a quick change of plan is needed.

Combat Roll

Allows a character to Dive for Cover without ending prone and can help them roll through an enemy’s reach safely.

Dolphin Dive

Extends a Dive for Cover through an athletic leap, especially while Running or Sprinting.

Evasion

Improves Evasion Defense Rolls against attacks the character can dodge.

Extra Attack

Allows an additional melee attack during the character’s turn, though early versions make that extra strike less accurate.

Fall Guy

Reduces falling damage and offers a chance to turn a dangerous fall into a controlled landing.

Fast Gun

Improves the character’s ability to draw, aim, and fire quickly when combat begins.

Feint

Uses deceptive movement to make an opponent easier to hit in melee, with a defensive risk if the feint fails.

Floor Fighter

Reduces the difficulty of making melee attacks while prone.

Flurry

Allows an unarmed fighter or light-weapon user to make a rapid series of strikes as a Burst Attack.

Gotta Move Faster

Lets a character spend a Craze! Point to rescue a failed Reaction, Speed, or Stunt Test.

Improved Catch

Makes it easier to catch thrown objects, including dangerous objects that most characters could not safely intercept.

Incoming!

Improves the character’s chance to react to explosions and avoid Blast damage.

Knife Fighter

Improves combat readiness and reactions while using a light one-handed melee weapon.

Martial Arts

Improves Reaction and Initiative while fighting unarmed or with melee weapons.

Maximum Effort

Provides a limited opportunity to reroll a failed Reaction, Speed, or Stunt Test.

No Escape

Improves attacks made against enemies who move through the character’s threatened area.

Opportunist

Allows an additional Out of Turn melee attack against enemies moving through the character’s reach.

Parkour

Improves fast movement and stunts while helping the character Run and Sprint farther.

Prone Roll

Improves defense against melee attacks while the character is prone.

Quick Disengage

Allows the character to withdraw from melee without provoking an Out of Turn Attack.

Quick Draw

Allows non-heavy weapons to be drawn or stowed freely and improves readiness when Initiative is rolled.

Quick Reload

Reduces the time needed to reload weapons, including weapons that normally reload slowly.

Rapid Pursuit

Allows the character to chase and re-engage an opponent who tries to disengage from melee.

Sliding Attack

Combines a combat slide with an attack, improving defense while accepting an initial accuracy tradeoff.

Speed Surge

Lets a character spend Stamina or a Craze! Point for a chance at extra movement or an additional attack.

Sprinting

Improves Speed Tests and increases Run and Sprint movement.

Strength From Speed

Allows a fast character to use Speed instead of Strength to power melee damage.

Stunt Rider

Improves reactions and stunts performed while riding animals or vehicles.

Team Sports

Develops coordinated movement, speed, and reactions through team-based athletic training.

Twitch

Improves Initiative and attempts to Seize the Initiative, and helps the character act first when results are tied.

Anti Materiel Shot

Uses a sniper rifle and Tracking Tokens to inflict greater damage on armor, equipment, and hardened targets.

Anti Vehicle Shot

Uses Tracking Tokens and anti-materiel ammunition to inflict additional Durability damage on vehicles.

Anti-Tank Expert

Improves the destructive effect of anti-tank weapons against vehicle Durability.

Armor Buster

Makes armor-piercing rifle ammunition more reliable against Armor Points.

Artillery Expert

Improves damage with the heaviest weapons and artillery pieces.

Backup Shot

Allows a point-blank handgun attack followed by movement away without provoking an Out of Turn Attack.

Battlefield Zero

Improves a follow-up rifle attack against the same target after the first shot misses.

Bow Hunter

Turns bows or crossbows into precision weapons that can use sniper techniques and make accurate follow-up attacks.

Breacher

Specializes in shotguns, special ammunition, armor-breaking blasts, and forceful knockback.

Create Your Own

Creates a custom ranged-weapon specialty with improved attacks, damage, and related Talent effects.

Critical Shot

Allows a sniper to spend Tracking Tokens to increase the chance that an Aimed Shot becomes a Critical Hit.

Defensive Shot

Allows a character to fire a handgun while using a shield to protect someone else.

Disabling Shot

Uses a sniper’s Tracking Tokens and an arm shot to hinder the target’s later actions.

Disarming Shot

Uses a precise shot and Tracking Tokens to knock an item from a target’s grasp without destroying it.

Disruptive Spray

Makes SMG suppressive fire interfere with the attacks of enemies caught in its firing arc.

Enforcer

Specializes in SMG attacks, controlled bursts, automatic fire, and seizing the initiative during suppression.

Evasion Shot

Allows an immediate handgun counterattack after a successful Evasion Defense.

Exploit Armor

Uses a point-blank handgun Called Shot to attack gaps in armor that is not fully enclosed.

Extended Burst

Spends additional SMG ammunition to make a Burst Attack more damaging.

Fear Of God

Uses the threat of a support weapon to make enemies less accurate against the gunner and nearby allies.

Firestarter

Specializes in flamethrowers and incendiaries, improving attacks, damage, and sweeping flame techniques.

Flamethrower Expert

Protects a flamethrower and its fuel tank from Called Shots while making its attacks more likely to ignite targets.

Grenade Launcher Expert

Improves damage dealt with grenade launchers.

Grenadier

Specializes in grenades, grenade launchers, and accurate throwing attacks.

Gunslinger

Specializes in handgun accuracy, damage, and advanced rapid-fire techniques.

Heavy Weapons Gunner

Specializes in missile launchers, artillery, and anti-tank attacks against vehicles.

Hurl Object

Trades some throwing accuracy for greater damage and increased throwing distance.

Improved EMPlacement

Generates additional Tracking when a sniper is already prone and emplaced before attacking.

Improved Suppression

Improves the chance to Seize the Initiative for an automatic attack while maintaining SMG suppressive fire.

Improved Throw

Improves the accuracy, distance, and damage potential of thrown objects and throwing weapons.

Improvised Sniper Rifle

Allows a sniper to field-tune an ordinary rifle so it can support precision and Tracking techniques.

Interlocking Fields Of Fire

Makes suppressive fire reduce the protection enemies receive from cover.

Kneeling Stance

Adopts a supported rifle stance that improves ranged attacks and defense while kneeling.

Knockback Blast

Uses a point-blank shotgun blast to knock a target backward and potentially leave them prone.

Last Stand

Allows a Downed character to keep firing a handgun at a cost in accuracy and Stamina.

Light 'Em Up!

Adds additional Burning to rifle attacks that deal Thermal damage.

Lob Shot

Gives grenade-launcher blasts Indirect Fire, allowing shots to arc over barriers and cover.

Long Shot

Reduces rifle penalties for firing beyond the weapon’s most effective range.

LRAD Expert

Improves LRAD attacks and makes their disruptive effects harder to resist.

Machine Gun Expert

Improves the automatic-fire capability and damage of machine guns, miniguns, and laser repeaters.

Machine Gunner

Specializes in machine-gun attacks, automatic fire, and intimidating enemy shooters.

Missile Launcher Expert

Improves missile-launcher damage and makes its Blast Attacks harder to evade.

Mow Down

Makes point-blank SMG Automatic Bursts deliver their maximum number of hits.

One Kill

Allows a sniper to spend Tracking Tokens to increase a successful shot’s damage.

One Shot

Allows a sniper to spend Tracking Tokens to improve the accuracy of a shot before firing.

Penetrating Strike

Turns an Aimed rifle shot into an armor-penetrating attack that can also be upgraded to a Called Shot.

Prone Stance

Uses a prone rifle position to improve ranged accuracy.

Rapid Fire

Combines two Double Tap sequences into one rapid semi-automatic attack.

Ricochet Shot

Bounces a handgun shot off a hard surface to reduce the protection provided by cover.

Road Warrior

Removes the normal accuracy problems caused by firing while operating or riding in a moving vehicle.

Run And Gun

Reduces or removes firing penalties while moving and allows advanced attacks during movement.

Scout Sniper

Specializes in sniper-rifle accuracy, Aimed Shot damage, and control over hit location.

Secret Agent

Specializes in accurate handgun fire and precise Aimed Shots.

Silent Shot

Improves damage against Surprised targets and when using weapons designed for silent attacks.

Skeet Shooter

Allows the second shotgun attack from Double Tap to engage a different target across a wider angle.

Smoking Barrels

Allows a semi-automatic handgun to perform limited Focus Fire and Spray Attacks by rapidly expending ammunition.

Soldier

Specializes in rifle attacks and improves the damage of Center Mass fire.

Special Ammo: Bean Bag

Makes bean-bag rounds more effective at safely knocking a target unconscious without converting the impact into serious torso injury.

Special Ammo: Birdshot

Improves the use of birdshot for hunting and finding food in the wilderness.

Special Ammo: Bola

Improves ranged trip attacks made with bola rounds.

Special Ammo: EMP

Increases EMP-round damage and keeps affected machines Deactivated longer.

Special Ammo: Flashbang

Makes flashbang rounds harder to resist and intensifies their blinding, deafening, and stunning effects.

Special Ammo: Flechette

Improves the armor-piercing and wounding potential of flechette shotgun rounds.

Special Ammo: High Explosive

Improves the damage of high-explosive shotgun rounds.

Special Ammo: Incendiary

Increases the Burning inflicted by incendiary shotgun rounds.

Special Ammo: Injector

Improves the placement and effect of injector rounds fired at allies.

Special Ammo: Pepper Shot

Makes pepper-shot rounds harder to resist and extends their disorienting effect.

Special Ammo: Shock

Improves the damage of shock shotgun rounds.

Staggering Shot

Uses Tracking Tokens and a precise leg shot to leave a target Staggered.

Stick Around

Uses a piercing thrown weapon to pin a target to a nearby wall or similar surface.

Surgical Precision

Allows a sniper to spend Tracking Tokens to adjust where a successful shot lands.

Sweeping Flames

Sweeps a flamethrower across an arc to attack several characters instead of following a narrow Torrent chain.

Take The Shot!

Improves a waiting sniper’s chance to Seize the Initiative and fire at a Tracked target.

Target Lock

Allows a successful first rifle shot to guide the second Double Tap shot into the same Hit Location.

Tracking

Unlocks sniper techniques and lets a character build and spend Tracking Tokens for precision attacks.

Twin Fury

Combines simultaneous attacks from two ranged weapons into one more damaging strike.

Two Weapon Fighting (Ranged)

Reduces the attack penalties for firing two one-handed ranged weapons during the same turn.

Ultimate Sniper

Allows a sniper to spend Tracking Tokens to reduce the protection a target receives from cover.

Wall Of Fire

Uses extra flamethrower fuel to create a damaging fire that remains on the battlefield.