Coriandus Mortis

You have a sinister and upsetting voice. This may be due to infrasonic cadences produced by a vox synthesiser, interrogation training, or just an inborn air of malice. Your character adds to all Coercion checks when using their voice, but adds to all other social interaction checks when dealing with persons likely to be put off by the character’s disturbing cadence.

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.

Your character may spend from a Coercion or Deception check to upgrade the ability of a single ally’s subsequent Social Interaction skill check against the same target in the same encounter. Upgrade the ability a number of times equal to your character’s ranks in Bad Cop. A single check may only benefit from one use of Bad Cop.

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.

When an ally engaged with your character makes a successful Charm, Deception or Negotiation check, your character adds a per rank in Coercion to the result of that ally’s check.

Once per session, your character may perform the Reconstruct the Scene action. The character makes a Hard ( ) Perception check when present at a single crime scene (or similar location). If the character succeeds, they identify all prominent physical characteristics of one person who was at the crime scene in the last 24 hours per uncancelled Trying to identify the characteristics of individuals who were present at the crime scene longer than 24 hours ago is sometimes possible, but increases the difficulty to Daunting ( ).

During a chase, your character adds per rank of Shortcut to their checks made to catch or escape an opponent

If your character would be disarmed or their weapon would be damaged or destroyed, you may choose to suffer 2 strain to ignore the effect.

When your character inflicts a Critical Injury with a severity of Average ( ) or higher, or incapacitates a target with their attack, they may use this talent to inflict 3 strain on all characters within short range of the target.

Once per encounter, when your character would become incapacitated due to suffering excess wounds, you may spend a story point. If you do so, your character does not become incapacitated until the end of their next turn, and they ignore the effects of any critical injuries they have suffered except that those which relate to lost limbs, eyes or other body parts

Your character increases their encumbrance threshold by two per rank of Well Organized.

When performing a combat check with a Ranged (Light) or Melee (Light) weapon, if your character has nothing in their other hand, they add a to the results.

When you purchase this talent, your character gains Gunnery, Ranged (Light) or Ranged (Heavy) as a career skill. In addition, once per session your character may use this talent to perform an aim maneuver as an incidental

When making a Coercion check, your character may use this talent to use Brawn instead of Willpower.

When your character makes a ranged combat check with a weapon that has the Blast item 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.

If your character spends at least an uninterrupted hour each day blessing and preparing their armour, they increase the soak provided by the armour by 1. This bonus only applies to armour worn by your character

Once per round while benefiting from cover, your character may perform the Ambush maneuver. You may add additional damage equal to your ranks in Stealth to one hit of the next successful combat check you make against a target within short range. This attack must be made before the end of your turn.

While engaged with one or more allies, your character and allies they are engaged with add to combat checks. If one or more allies engaged with your character also have Back to Back, the effects are cumulative to a maximum of .

When targeted by a combat check made by an enemy within medium range, you may spend a Story Point to upgrade the difficulty of the check a number of times equal to your ranks in Coercion.

When you gain this talent, select a target for your character’s hatred. This must be a specific group, such as gangers, daemons or psykers. When making attacks against a target that belongs to this group, add to the roll. To retreat or surrender when fighting a foe that belongs to this group, your character must first pass an Average ( ) Cool check. Each additional time you purchase this talent for your character, select two additional targets for your character’s hatred.

When performing a combat check with a Ranged (Heavy) weapon, if your character did not perform a maneuver to ready or stow a weapon or item during this turn, they add to the results.

Your character may use this talent to attack an unaware adversary using a Melee (Light) weapon. Backstab is a melee attack, and follows the normal rules for performing a combat check (see page 101 of the Genesys Core Rulebook), using the character’s Skulduggery skill instead of Melee (Light). If the check succeeds, each uncanceled adds +2 damage (instead of the normal +1).

Once per encounter, your character makes a Ranged (Light) or Ranged (Heavy) attack against a target and if the attack hits, they may heal Strain equal to half the damage taken by the opponent, rounded up. The character must activate this talent before making the check.

Before you roll to determine initiative, you may choose to suffer 2 strain. If you do so, add equal to half your Intellect (rounding up) to the results of each of your allies’ initiative rolls for this encounter, including your own.

Once per round on your character’s turn, they may suffer 2 strain to disengage from all engaged adversaries.

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.

When your character suffers a hit from a melee combat check, after damage is calculated but before soak is applied (so immediately after Step 3 of Perform a Combat check, page 102), 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 needs to be wielding a Melee weapon.

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 automatically 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.

Your character reduces any Critical Injury result they suffer by 10 per rank of Durable, to a minimum of 01.

Your character may use this talent to decrease the difficulty of the next combined combat check (see Two- Weapon Combat, on page 108) they make during the same turn by one.

Before your character heals strain at the end of an encounter, if their strain is more than half of their strain threshold, they heal two additional strain.

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.

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.