Techniques

Techniques are permissions, not class features. Any character may choose any Technique whose fiction their character supports; the groups are navigation aids, not class trees.

Techniques and equipment can grant at most one additional attack during an Activation unless a rule explicitly says otherwise. Two-Pistol Drill and Rapid Assault cannot combine into a third attack. There is no universal Overextend action; unusual attacks, movement and other exceptions need a specific permission.

Native Rules, printed pp. 8 and 29.

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• Quick Draw

  Weapon and Firearm

  Once during your Activation, draw or ready a one-handed weapon without spending your Action.

• Deadeye

  Weapon and Firearm

  Spend your Move to Aim before a firearm attack. On success, ignore Rigid Armour if you can see or identify an exposed weak point. Complete cover cannot be bypassed.

• Bayonet Drill

  Weapon and Firearm

  A bayoneted musket or carbine functions as a proper Reach melee weapon. Switching between firearm and bayonet use costs no Action.

• Two-Pistol Drill

  Weapon and Firearm

  Once per Combat, after firing one Loaded pistol with your Action, immediately fire a second Loaded pistol you already hold or have prepared. Resolve separately.

• Rapid Assault

  Weapon and Firearm

  Once per Combat, after a successful attack, immediately make one additional attack against a different nearby target with a usable prepared weapon. Cannot trigger itself.

• Close-Quarters Shooter

  Weapon and Firearm

  Do not reduce Effect for firing a carbine while Engaged. Pistols remain usable while Engaged unless the enemy physically controls the weapon.

• Scatter Specialist

  Weapon and Firearm

  On a 7-9 area attack with a Scatter weapon, choose two targets to suffer normal Effect instead of one. Everyone else in the area suffers Limited Effect.

• Breacher

  Weapon and Firearm

  Increase Effect by one step when using an appropriate weapon, charge, or tool specifically to break a door, hatch, light barrier, or similar obstacle.

• Guarded Stance

  Melee Defence and Control

  With a Defensive melee weapon, spend your Move to hold ground. Before your next Activation, the first Guard you use does not consume your Reaction. Voluntary movement ends the stance. Guarded Stance gives no protection against ranged attacks.

• Hold the Line

  Melee Defence and Control

  Requires Guarded Stance. When an enemy tries to enter, leave, or pass through one of your threatened spaces, you may spend a defensive Reaction to stop them in the first threatened space. They may use an Action and a Combat Manoeuvre to force through. Fighting Withdrawal does not bypass Hold the Line.

  • Requires Guarded Stance

• Against Many

  Melee Defence and Control

  Requires Guarded Stance. Gain one additional Reaction each round, usable only for Guard, Turn, or Hold the Line against an enemy in a space you threaten. It cannot make a Reaction Strike.

  • Requires Guarded Stance

• Master Guard

  Melee Defence and Control

  Requires Guarded Stance. Once per round, change Facing without ending the stance, including when an enemy moves and before their attack resolves.

  • Requires Guarded Stance

• Riposte

  Melee Defence and Control

  When your Guard Reaction reduces bodily Harm or reduces a Combat Manoeuvre's Effect, force that attacker to withdraw one space or remain Engaged. If they remain Engaged, your next melee attack against them before the end of your next Activation gains +1 Effect. No extra attack is granted.

• Press the Opening

  Melee Defence and Control

  After Great Effect in melee, immediately change Facing or move one space into the space the opponent abandoned, if plausible. This does not consume your Move.

• Skirmish Step

  Mobility and Position

  Once during your Activation, after resolving your Action, you may change Facing once without spending your Reaction.

• Fighting Withdrawal

  Mobility and Position

  Reduce your movement by 1 space to leave an ordinary threatened space carefully and avoid a Reaction Strike. Fighting Withdrawal does not bypass Hold the Line or another rule that explicitly stops movement.

• Slip the Line

  Mobility and Position

  You may move through a hostile threatened space when there is physically enough space. It remains dangerous; establish Risk before the roll.

• Flanker

  Mobility and Position

  Once per Activation, when you move around an Engaged enemy to occupy the space directly opposite an ally who is also Engaging that enemy, the enemy cannot use Turn Reaction against your final step into that flanking space. The normal flank begins only if you end in the exact opposite space.

• Sure-Footed

  Mobility and Position

  Ordinary difficult terrain does not increase your movement cost. Severe terrain still functions normally.

• Protective Order

  Command and Teamwork

  Spend your Reaction when a nearby ally who can receive your signal is about to suffer a positional consequence. Direct them one space to an immediately available safe space.

• Rally

  Command and Teamwork

  Use your Action to restore order to an ally or small group suffering fear, confusion, or loss of cohesion. Roll Command only when uncertainty matters.

• Controlled Volley

  Command and Teamwork

  When you personally direct a prepared group of shooters, coordinated fire gains +1 Effect against the declared target or occupied area.

• Hold Formation

  Command and Teamwork

  At Battlefield Scale, ignore the first Cohesion loss each round caused purely by movement, pressure, or enemy manoeuvre. Cohesion loss caused directly by enemy fire, assault, artillery, or casualties still applies.

• Tactical Reposition

  Command and Teamwork

  Once per round, use your Action to direct up to three nearby willing allies to change Facing if they can receive your order.

• Field Repair

  Engineering and Technical

  With proper tools, perform emergency repairs during a scene rather than extended downtime. Restores function, not consumed resources.

• Emergency Isolation

  Engineering and Technical

  Spend your Reaction, with physical access to controls, to prevent a machinery failure from immediately spreading to one connected system.

• Improvised Tooling

  Engineering and Technical

  Attempt plausible technical work without the proper Kit when usable materials are available. Reduced Effect may still apply.

• Pressure Sense

  Engineering and Technical

  When operating a pressurised, mechanical, or Éterlumin system, the GM warns you of an obvious dangerous operating state before an irreversible commitment.

• Jury-Rig

  Engineering and Technical

  Restore a Broken machine or system to temporary function for the scene or until heavily stressed.

• Field Stabilisation

  Medicine and Care

  Using a Medical Kit, you may attempt emergency stabilisation during active combat or another immediately dangerous scene without first needing extended treatment or a safe position. Use Medicine normally; difficult conditions still affect Risk and Effect. Stabilisation removes Unstable, not Broken.

• Combat Medic

  Medicine and Care

  Move to an injured adjacent ally and begin treatment as the same Action.

• Triage

  Medicine and Care

  After a quick examination, identify who is in immediate danger, who can wait, and who needs extraordinary intervention. No roll if observable.

• Keep Them Moving

  Medicine and Care

  Once per Scene per patient, after a successful Medicine action using a Medical Kit on a Wounded character, that character may ignore one immediate physical limitation caused solely by the wound until the end of their next Activation. Harm remains and further Harm escalates normally.

• Read the Room

  Investigation and Analysis

  Once per Scene after brief observation, ask who has most influence, who is most afraid, who watches whom, who does not belong, or what subject is being avoided.

• Spot the Contradiction

  Investigation and Analysis

  When examining testimony, records, or physical evidence, ask what does not fit the current explanation. The GM identifies an observable contradiction, not its cause.

• Specialist's Eye

  Investigation and Analysis

  When inspecting an object directly related to a Strength, receive one immediately obvious professional fact without a roll.

• Leverage

  Social and Infiltration

  When you possess something a person genuinely needs, fears, or wants hidden, establish it before negotiation. On success, increase Effect by one step.

• Prepared Identity

  Social and Infiltration

  With reasonable preparation, establish a credible false identity with ordinary supporting details and documentation.

• Network

  Social and Infiltration

  Once per Session, establish a plausible minor contact in one chosen sphere. The contact has their own interests and is not automatically loyal.

• Terms of the Deal

  Social and Infiltration

  Once per Scene, after establishing what a counterpart genuinely needs, fears, or wants hidden, reduce Risk by one step on your next Influence action with them if you can credibly offer, protect, expose, or threaten something relevant. Does not stack with Setup.

• Blend In

  Social and Infiltration

  With plausible clothes, conduct, and a credible role, ordinary observers accept your presence without a roll until you are directly challenged, closely inspected, or act outside the role.

• Wayfinder

  Fieldcraft and Exploration

  When you have adequate landmarks, charts, or prior route knowledge and no active obstruction, ordinary navigation succeeds without a roll. Roll when the route itself is uncertain, dangerous, altered, or contested.

• Trail Sense

  Fieldcraft and Exploration

  When you have time to inspect terrain where physical traces exist, establish whether meaningful passage occurred recently and its broad direction without a roll. Finer details, age, numbers, or identity may still require Fieldcraft or Investigation.

• Prepared

  General

  Once per Session, establish that you brought one ordinary item you could reasonably have anticipated needing.

• Hard to Kill

  General

  Once per Combat, when Harm would escalate you from Wounded to Broken, remain Wounded instead. The fiction still reflects the hit. This is exceptional resilience, not a baseline requirement for fighting characters.

• Iron Nerves

  General

  Ordinary fear, intimidation, and battlefield shock cannot prevent you from acting, though other consequences can still apply.

• Fast Hands

  General

  Once per Activation, one simple equipment interaction does not consume your Action. Does not reload firearms.

• Fortera Practice

  Fortera

  Gain permission to deliberately perform Workings, safe Capacity 2, and two known Workings. Fortera uses your existing Fortera Skill rating.

• Deep Reserve

  Fortera

  Requires Fortera Practice. Increase safe Capacity from 2 to 3.

  • Requires Fortera Practice

• Controlled Overdraw

  Fortera

  Requires Fortera Practice. Reduce one immediate personal Overdraw consequence by one step. Any field consequence that would normally occur is unchanged.

  • Requires Fortera Practice

• Ground the Working

  Fortera

  Requires Fortera Practice. Abandon an unstable Working before completion to prevent one step of additional field escalation caused by it. Grounding does not remove the personal Overdraw consequence already incurred by reaching beyond safe Capacity.

  • Requires Fortera Practice

• Efficient Pattern

  Fortera

  Choose one known Working. Within Capacity and controlled conditions, minor environmental complications alone do not force Overdraw.

  • Requires Fortera Practice and a chosen Working

• Resonant Specialist

  Fortera

  Choose a Fortera domain. When a known Working directly concerns it, gain the Specialist Die if no other Strength already provides one.

  • Requires a declared field: Fortera domain

• Fine Control

  Fortera

  Requires Fortera Practice. When a Working is at least one Capacity below your safe Capacity and the local field is not already unstable, a 7-9 consequence cannot consist only of accidental Fortera disturbance or collateral resonance. Choose another consequence that fits the situation.

  • Requires Fortera Practice

• Counter-Resonance

  Fortera

  Requires Fortera Practice and Read, Tune, or Redirect as a known Working. When you can perceive an active Fortera pattern, use an Action to dampen, distort, interrupt, or stabilise it with a normal Fortera roll. Effect determines how much of the pattern you alter and for how long.

  • Requires Fortera Practice
  • Requires one of these Workings: Read, Tune, Redirect

• Remote Patterning

  Fortera

  Requires Fortera Practice. Through a calibrated apparatus physically connected or resonantly linked to a system, you may perform a known Working through that apparatus without direct hand contact or line of sight. Distance alone does not reduce Effect while the established link remains intact.

  • Requires Fortera Practice