
Dedication to your craft has finely tuned your senses, putting your martial prowess a step above your peers. By taking a moment to center yourself, you can perform your art more effectively and use it to its fullest potential, pushing yourself ever further toward martial perfection.
- Racial Requirement: Any
- Transformation Type: Enhancement Power
- Prerequisite(s): N/A
- Stress Test Requirement: 10
- Tier of Power Requirement. 1+
- Aspects: Transcendent, Strainless
| AG | FO | TE | SC | IN | MA | PE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | +1(T) | – | – | – | +1(T) | – |
Honed Skill: Your expert technique and rote memorization has given you the necessary muscle memory to fight without thinking about your movement.
-[Option, Permanent]: Upon gaining access to this Enhancement Power, choose one of the following effects:
- Turtle Style [Passive]: Increase your Attribute Modifier Bonus (TE) by 1(T).
- Crane Style [Passive]: Increase your Attribute Modifier Bonus (IN) by 1(T).
- Wolf Style [Passive]: Increase your Attribute Modifier Bonus (AG) by 1(T).
- Dragon Style [Passive]: Increase your Attribute Modifier Bonus (FO/MA) by 1(T).
-[Choice, Permanent]: Depending on your choice for the Option effect, gain the following effect(s):
- Turtle Style [Passive]: For each Health Threshold you are below, increase your Soak Value by 2(T).
- Crane Style [Passive]: For each Health Threshold you are below, increase your Strike Rolls by 1(T).
- Wolf Style [Passive]: For each Health Threshold you are below, increase your Dodge Rolls by 1(T).
- Dragon Style [Passive]: For each Health Threshold you are below, increase your Wound Rolls by 2(T).
Blood, Sweat and Tears: You have worked yourself to the bone to reach your current level of martial skill, and that effort has paid dividends.
-[Triggered, 1/Round]: If you use the Signature Technique Maneuver, you may spend 4(bT) Life Points. If you do, that Attacking Maneuver gains an additional Energy Charge.
-[Triggered, 1/Round]: If you are targeted by an Attacking Maneuver, you can increase either your Defense Value or Soak Value against that Attacking Maneuver by 1(T) or 2(T) respectively. If you are below the Injured Health Threshold, double this bonus.
-[Triggered/Defeated]: If an Attacking Maneuver that would Defeat you did not inflict Damage equal to or higher than 1/5 of your Maximum Life Points, set your Life Points to 1.
Burst Limit
Prepared Stance: You carefully prepare for battle with a stance you choose specifically for the situation at hand.
-[Triggered/Transform]: Choose a second Option effect of Honed Skill. You benefit from that effect until the end of your next turn.
Unlimited Trait
Expanding Focus: You have mastered an additional style of martial arts, blending your styles expertly.
-[Passive]: Gain an additional Energy Charge through the first effect of Blood, Sweat and Tears.
-[Triggered/Unlimited]: Select an additional effect through the first effect of Honed Skill. You benefit from that effect.
-[Triggered/Power, 1/Round]: Select an Option effect of Honed Skill. You stop benefiting from that effect, but you may choose to benefit from a different Option effect of Honed Skill.