A Water approach helps a character adapt a work, survey an area or field of study, charm a person or group, or exchange goods and services.
Details
At the start of each downtime scene, each player chooses the downtime activity that their character is pursuing. Downtime activities are meant to help give players clear options for their characters during downtime scenes.
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Artisan Skill: Add a kept Ring Dice set to an * result to the next Artisan skill check you make before the end of the game session. |
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Scholar Skill: Spot a unique or identifying quality, aspect, or ability of something that you are identifying. |
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Social Skill: Add a kept Ring Dice set to an * result to your next Social check before the end of the scene. |
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Trade Skill: Get a 10% discount on items you are purchasing. |
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Remove 1 strife or fatigue per * spent this way. |
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Make a new friend while undertaking your downtime activity. |
Opportunity Uses |
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If you failed, determine the easiest way to accomplish the task you were attempting (skill and approach). |
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Remove 1 strife you gained from this check per * spent this way. |
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Provide assistance to the next character to attempt a check to accomplish something similar |
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If you failed, provide assistance to the next character trying to accomplish the same action (p. 298 CRB) |
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Remove 2 strife from yourself. |
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Perform the task efficiently, completing it more quickly or saving supplies. Extra * further reduces the time or materials expended. |
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Spot an interesting physical detail present in your environment not directly related to your check. At the GM’s discretion, you may establish a piece of terrain or a mundane object nearby. |
Special Circumstance Opportunities
In Shadowlands
**+ By luck or careful scavenging, you are able to find a useful item not yet corrupted by the Shadowlands. Such items have a maximum rarity of 3, plus 1 for each additional ** spent. The GM should modify this depending on the exact nature of the item as well.
Against Tainted Threats
* You adapt yourself to better fight the corrupted power before you. Once before the end of current the game session you may either reduce the TN of a check to resist a Tainted power, such as a mahō technique, assailing you by 1 or increase the TN of another character’s check to target or affect you with such a power by 1.
While Tainted
** You briefly become fluid in mind or body, shaking off disorientation or even injury. You remove one of the following conditions: Dazed, Disoriented, Immobilized, Intoxicated, Lightly Wounded, or Prone.
In Romance
** Your interaction is pleasant enough that your intended, not you, suggests another meeting within the next day or two. They offer you several options for the next time you and they spend personal time together; choose whichever you like the best, and don’t be late.
In Espionage
* You observe a clue or hint that indicates to you that information about your target or goal might also be found elsewhere. The GM reveals another viable avenue for espionage on the same subject, unrelated to your current operation.
In Contested Territory
* * * You create a clever disguise or ruse to get the jump on potential foes. The next time you enter a conflict scene this session, after initiative has been determined, choose one character in the scene. On that character's next check, they must reroll all results containing non-explosive Success symbols.
* * + Your charm wins over even enemies. For each * * spent, one hostile character within the scene becomes friendlier toward you. What exactly that means depends on context -- it may defuse an imminent conflict, or encourage your foes to try to take you alive, but it won't stop bloodshed altogether once blades have been drawn.
* * With cunning, you flow smoothly from one conclusion to the next. You learn of one key feature, fortification, or terrain quality present in the surrounding area, and whether or not enemies have passed through recently.
* * + Your charm wins over even enemies. For each * * spent, one hostile character within the scene becomes friendlier toward you. What exactly that means depends on context -- it may defuse an imminent conflict, or encourage your foes to try to take you alive, but it won't stop bloodshed altogether once blades have been drawn.
* * With cunning, you flow smoothly from one conclusion to the next. You learn of one key feature, fortification, or terrain quality present in the surrounding area, and whether or not enemies have passed through recently.