Aberrant 2.0 Abilities - Revision history

MJ12 Commando: /* Perception */

2011-06-27T13:01:54Z

Perception

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	* '''Awareness''': The Awareness ability covers a character's awareness of his surroundings. A character with high Awareness can easily see if he's walking into an ambush, spot even small or faraway objects, and finds other such feats of sensory prowess easy.		* '''Awareness''': The Awareness ability covers a character's awareness of his surroundings. A character with high Awareness can easily see if he's walking into an ambush, spot even small or faraway objects, and finds other such feats of sensory prowess easy.
	* '''Investigation''': Investigation covers a character's ability to find clues, put together pieces of disparate evidence, fill in holes via reading between the lines, and otherwise find the facts in a muddled situation. Unlike Awareness, Investigation takes more time-someone could find a hiding assassin via Investigation, but that implies combing every nook and cranny of a building over time, rather than just seeing the glint of steel before the ninja climbing on the ceiling strikes.		* '''Investigation''': Investigation covers a character's ability to find clues, put together pieces of disparate evidence, fill in holes via reading between the lines, and otherwise find the facts in a muddled situation. Unlike Awareness, Investigation takes more time-someone could find a hiding assassin via Investigation, but that implies combing every nook and cranny of a building over time, rather than just seeing the glint of steel before the ninja climbing on the ceiling strikes.
	* '''Gunnery''': The Gunnery ability determines a character's ability to use large, vehicle-mounted or crew-served weapons which are more complex to operate and manage than man-portable equipment. Gunnery is used to fire ~~guided antitank weapons,~~ vehicle weaponry, call in artillery strikes, and even launch ICBMs.		* '''Gunnery''': The Gunnery ability determines a character's ability to use large, vehicle-mounted or crew-served weapons which are more complex to operate and manage than man-portable equipment. Gunnery is used to fire vehicle weaponry, call in artillery strikes, and even launch ICBMs.

	==Intelligence==		==Intelligence==

MJ12 Commando: /* Superhuman Skill */

2011-06-27T12:59:43Z

Superhuman Skill

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	Certain characters may have ability ratings beyond 5. There are a handful of methods to achieve this:		Certain characters may have ability ratings beyond 5. There are a handful of methods to achieve this:
	* '''Inhuman Experience''': A character who has lived for significantly longer than a human lifespan may accumulate an ability rating higher than 5. A character may raise an ability up to 6 in this fashion.		* '''Inhuman Experience''': A character who has lived for significantly longer than a human lifespan may accumulate an ability rating higher than 5. A character may raise an ability up to 6 in this fashion.
	* '''(Ability) Prodigy''': A new Merit, see the [[Aberrant 2.0 ~~Expansion~~]] for details.		* '''(Ability) Prodigy''': A new Merit, see the [[Aberrant 2.0 Character Generation]] page for details.
	* '''Ability Masteries''': Paramorphs are capable of superhuman feats of skill and have the ability to gain automatic successes on abilities.		* '''Ability Masteries''': Paramorphs are capable of superhuman feats of skill and have the ability to gain automatic successes on abilities.

MJ12 Commando: /* New Concepts */

2011-03-09T11:39:23Z

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 * '''(Ability) Prodigy''': A new Merit, see the [[Aberrant 2.0 Expansion]] for details.
 * '''Ability Masteries''': Paramorphs are capable of superhuman feats of skill and have the ability to gain automatic successes on abilities.
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MJ12 Commando: moved Aberrant 2.0 Abilities List to Aberrant 2.0 Abilities

2011-03-09T11:38:38Z

moved Aberrant 2.0 Abilities List to Aberrant 2.0 Abilities

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MJ12 Commando: /* Superhuman Skill */

2011-01-21T10:28:05Z

Superhuman Skill

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	Certain characters may have ability ratings beyond 5. There are a handful of methods to achieve this:		Certain characters may have ability ratings beyond 5. There are a handful of methods to achieve this:
	* '''Inhuman Experience''': A character who has lived for significantly longer than a human lifespan may accumulate an ability rating higher than 5. A character may raise an ability up to 6 in this fashion.		* '''Inhuman Experience''': A character who has lived for significantly longer than a human lifespan may accumulate an ability rating higher than 5. A character may raise an ability up to 6 in this fashion.
	* '''(Ability) Prodigy''': A new Merit, see the ~~main page~~ for details.		* '''(Ability) Prodigy''': A new Merit, see the [[Aberrant 2.0 Expansion]] for details.
	* '''Ability Masteries''': Paramorphs are capable of superhuman feats of skill and have the ability to gain automatic successes on abilities.		* '''Ability Masteries''': Paramorphs are capable of superhuman feats of skill and have the ability to gain automatic successes on abilities.

MJ12 Commando at 13:51, 20 January 2011

2011-01-20T13:51:35Z

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MJ12 Commando: /* Perception */

2011-01-20T13:45:18Z

Perception

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	=Mental=		=Mental=
	==Perception==		==Perception==
	* Awareness		* Awareness: The Awareness ability covers a character's awareness of his surroundings. A character with high Awareness can easily see if he's walking into an ambush, spot even small or faraway objects, and finds other such feats of sensory prowess easy.
	* Investigation		* Investigation: Investigation covers a character's ability to find clues, put together pieces of disparate evidence, fill in holes via reading between the lines, and otherwise find the facts in a muddled situation. Unlike Awareness, Investigation takes more time-someone could find a hiding assassin via Investigation, but that implies combing every nook and cranny of a building over time, rather than just seeing the glint of steel before the ninja climbing on the ceiling strikes.
	* Gunnery: The Gunnery ~~skill covers~~ large, vehicle-mounted or crew-served weapons which are more complex to operate and manage than man-portable equipment. Gunnery is used to fire guided antitank weapons, vehicle weaponry, call in artillery strikes, and even launch ICBMs.		* Gunnery: The Gunnery ability determines a character's ability to use large, vehicle-mounted or crew-served weapons which are more complex to operate and manage than man-portable equipment. Gunnery is used to fire guided antitank weapons, vehicle weaponry, call in artillery strikes, and even launch ICBMs.

	==Intelligence==		==Intelligence==
	* Academics (Field): Academics covers social fields of formal study, such as sociology, psychology, economics, history, and the like. Each Academics field is a separate skill, ''but'' if a character has 3 or more separate Academics disciplines at 3 or above, any further acquisition of Academics skills is half cost, ''rounded down''.		* Academics (Field): Academics covers social fields of formal study, such as sociology, psychology, economics, history, and the like. Each Academics field is a separate skill, ''but'' if a character has 3 or more separate Academics disciplines at 3 or above, any further acquisition of Academics skills is half cost, ''rounded down''.

MJ12 Commando: /* Social */

2011-01-20T13:02:52Z

Social

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	=Social=		=Social=
	==Appearance==		==Appearance==
	* Intimidation		* Intimidation: The intimidation ability covers looking imposing, threats (overt or veiled), staredowns, ass-beatings, threatening the target's children, and so on. Although under Appearance, Intimidation often is used with Strength for more overt threats, or Charisma/Manipulation for indirect threats.
	* Style		* Style: Style covers a character's ability to look good with the materials on hand, whether at an informal gathering or a formal ball, as well as first impressions. A character with a high rating in Style is also skilled at disguise, and engendering the response he or she wishes to engender via dress alone.
	==Manipulation==		==Manipulation==
	* Interrogation		* Interrogation
	* Streetwise		* Streetwise: Streetwise is an overall understanding of the seedy underbelly of society and covers "street smarts" as opposed to "book smarts", covering the acquisition of illegal goods, an understanding of good hidey-holes or where one can find an informant, gang culture, and other miscellany.
	* Subterfuge		* Subterfuge: How to win friends and influence people (by lying your ass off), Subterfuge is the character's ability at trickery, deception, and other less-savory methods of personal interaction.
	==Charisma==		==Charisma==
	* Command: Command is used to inspire and lead personnel. By default, it does not come with the ability to make intelligent command decisions-to do so, a character should have additional abilities instead.		* Command: Command is used to inspire and lead personnel. By default, it does not come with the ability to make intelligent command decisions-to do so, a character should have additional abilities instead.

MJ12 Commando: /* Superhuman Skill */

2011-01-20T12:50:16Z

Superhuman Skill

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	==Superhuman Skill==		==Superhuman Skill==
	Certain characters may have ability ratings beyond 5. There are a handful of methods to achieve this:		Certain characters may have ability ratings beyond 5. There are a handful of methods to achieve this:
	* Ability Mastery: A character with Ability Mastery adds +1 to the ability rating for all purposes.
	* Inhuman Experience: A character who has lived for significantly longer than a human lifespan may accumulate an ability rating higher than 5. A character may raise an ability up to 6 in this fashion.		* Inhuman Experience: A character who has lived for significantly longer than a human lifespan may accumulate an ability rating higher than 5. A character may raise an ability up to 6 in this fashion.
	* Paramorphs and ~~Excellencies~~: Paramorphs are capable of superhuman feats of skill and have the ability to gain automatic successes on abilities.		* (Ability) Prodigy: A new Merit, see the main page for details.
			* Paramorphs and Ability Masteries: Paramorphs are capable of superhuman feats of skill and have the ability to gain automatic successes on abilities.

	=Physical=		=Physical=

MJ12 Commando at 12:48, 20 January 2011

2011-01-20T12:48:36Z

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			=New Concepts=
			==Field Skills==
			Certain abilities are now ''field skills''-that is to say, they are actually more than one Ability, with some correlation. For example, Science and Engineering are both field skills, as are Arts and Performance. Field skills are bought up individually, but there is a XP/chargen discount for having multiple related field skills. If a character has at least 3 individual field skills at 3+, it costs half cost (round down) to buy any additional field skills up, as long as the field skill with the highest dot rating was paid for in full.

			For example, a multitalented musician has Performance (Singing), Performance (String Instruments), and Performance (Wind Instruments), all at 3. If he wished to buy Performance (Standup Comedy), he would only have to pay 1 XP for it, but he would have to pay the full XP cost to raise Performance (Singing) to 4 (6 XP). If he had Performance (String Instruments) at 5, he would merely have to pay 3 XP to raise Singing to 4 instead.

			==Superhuman Skill==
			Certain characters may have ability ratings beyond 5. There are a handful of methods to achieve this:
			* Ability Mastery: A character with Ability Mastery adds +1 to the ability rating for all purposes.
			* Inhuman Experience: A character who has lived for significantly longer than a human lifespan may accumulate an ability rating higher than 5. A character may raise an ability up to 6 in this fashion.
			* Paramorphs and Excellencies: Paramorphs are capable of superhuman feats of skill and have the ability to gain automatic successes on abilities.

	=Physical=		=Physical=
	==Strength==		==Strength==