Grimgrin
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Inspired by the Hawkoid Simian here is a few Oz inspired GW Origins
PSI Origins
Cowardly
You have a simple method for resolving conflict; Run Away.
You may be a gutless coward, but you continue to survive in a wasteland that has been the death of thousands of finer and braver men. You know what is most important to you, staying alive, and you will not hesitate to sacrifice others to insure your survival. Thanks to your winning ways and good looks you usually get away with it.
Appearance: You are handsome, healthy, and well liked. It is only in times of peril do you turn into a pathetic, backstabbing, wimp.
Cowardly Traits
Mutant Type: Charisma; Psi; +2 to Psi overcharge.
Skill Bonus (Level 1): Gain a +4 bonus to Conspiracy checks.
Jumping At Shadows (Level 1): Gain a +2 bonus to Reflex.
Clean Getaway (Level 1): Attacks that miss hitting you inflict no damage and have no effect on you.
Desperate Escape (Level 2 or 6): When you score a critical hit, the attack deals 1d10 extra damage, and you may shift one square away from your target.
Cowardly Powers
Object of Pity Novice
Your friends know that you are useless in a fight and help you out
Encounter ✇ Weapon, Psi
Standard Action Melee 1
Range: 10
Target: One ally
Effect: Any single ally within range can make an immediate basic attack against a foe adjacent to you with a bonus equal to your Charisma modifier.
Battle Buddy
Your friends often save you life, unwillingly.
Encounter ✇ Psi
Immediate Reaction Personal
Requirement: You must be standing next to an "ally".
Trigger: You are hit by an attack
Effect: You shift one square away from your enemy, and your ally suffers the damage intended for you.
Sucker Punch Expert
You hit your foe an unexpected blow and run away.
Encounter ✇ Weapon, Psi
Standard Action Melee 1
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma + your level + weapon bonus vs. Reflex
Hit: 2[W] + Charisma modifier + twice your level damage and you may shift a number of squares equal to your speed away from your victim.
Heartless
You have no emotions and can contemplate actions others would never consider.
You possess no emotions, compassion, or empathy. You may be guided by programmed logic, have suffered an massive emotional trauma, or obsessed with a specific goal. Whatever the cause, you are entirely fearless as well as loveless, joyless, passionless, and pitiless.
Appearance: Blank, Colorless, Subdued. You remain pokerfaced in good, bad, or ugly circumstances.
Heartless Traits
Mutant Type: Constitution; Psi; +2 to Psi overcharge.
Skill Bonus (Level 1): Gain a +4 bonus to Insight.
Clinically Detached (Level 1): +2 to Will
Goal Oriented (Level 1): Once per encounter you can re-roll any one d20 roll you make as part of an ability check, attack, saving throw, or skill check. You must use the second result, even if it is lower.
No Mercy (Level 2 or 6): When you score a critical hit the target suffers 1d10 extra damage and you gain a +1 to attack rolls until the end of your next turn.
Heartless Powers
Fearless Charge Novice
Ever take on a T-Rex with a butter knife?
Encounter ✇ Weapon, Psi
Standard Action Melee 1
Target: One creature
Attack: Constitution + your level + weapon bonus vs. AC
Hit: 1[W] + Constitution + twice your level damage.
Effect: You shift your speed toward your foe before you make your attack roll.
Free runner
You will find a way to overcome all obstacles
Encounter ✇ Psi
Free Action Personal
Effect: You gain a +10 bonus to Athletic and Acrobatics checks and move freely through "difficult terrain" until the end of your next turn.
Relentless Assault Expert
There's no stopping you.
Encounter ✇ Weapon, Psi
Standard Action Melee 1
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma + your level + weapon bonus vs. Reflex
Hit: 2[W] + Charisma modifier + twice your level damage and if your foe is reduced to zero hit points you may make a secondary basic attack against another target.
Brainless
Your skull is the only thing keeping your scalp inflated.
You are a witless wanderer, surviving on instinct rather than education or reasoning. Brainless creatures often speak in gibberish or confounding riddles. Brainless encompass a wide variety of creatures including headless undead, lobotomized humans, born fools, pea brains, flat heads, atavists, and the possessed.
Appearance: Depends on the secondary origin.
Brainless Traits
Mutant Type: Wisdom; Wisdom, Psi; +2 to Psi overcharge.
Skill Bonus (Level 1): Gain a +4 bonus to Conspiracy.
Meathead (Level 1): +2 to Fortitude
Psychic Feedback (Level 1): A Psi attack power that misses the Brainless with be reflected back at the user as an immediate reaction (use the Brainless attribute scores for attack modifiers).
Psychic Sponge (Level 2 or 6): When you score a critical hit the target suffers 1d10 extra damage and you regain your Wisdom modifier in hit points
Brainless Powers
Mental Void Novice
You mindless banter can suck others into a mental vortex of oblivion
Encounter ✇ Psi
Standard Action Close Burst 3
Targets: All creatures within burst
Attack: Wisdom + your level vs. Will
Hit: 1d6 + Wisdom + your level damage and "slowed" until the start of your next turn.
No Worries, Be Happy
You have nothing to worry about as far as you know.
Encounter ✇ Psi
Free Action Personal
Effect: Grant a +2 bonus to any single d20 roll you make. You must accept the result of this roll, and can not re-roll it.
Grand Malice Expert
You can drive a group of creatures into a mass seizure.
Encounter ✇ Weapon, Psi
Standard Action Close Blast 5
Target: All creatures within blast
Attack: Charisma + your level + weapon bonus vs. Will
Effect: 2d8 + Wisdom + your level in damage and knocked "prone".
PSI Origins
Cowardly
You have a simple method for resolving conflict; Run Away.
You may be a gutless coward, but you continue to survive in a wasteland that has been the death of thousands of finer and braver men. You know what is most important to you, staying alive, and you will not hesitate to sacrifice others to insure your survival. Thanks to your winning ways and good looks you usually get away with it.
Appearance: You are handsome, healthy, and well liked. It is only in times of peril do you turn into a pathetic, backstabbing, wimp.
Cowardly Traits
Mutant Type: Charisma; Psi; +2 to Psi overcharge.
Skill Bonus (Level 1): Gain a +4 bonus to Conspiracy checks.
Jumping At Shadows (Level 1): Gain a +2 bonus to Reflex.
Clean Getaway (Level 1): Attacks that miss hitting you inflict no damage and have no effect on you.
Desperate Escape (Level 2 or 6): When you score a critical hit, the attack deals 1d10 extra damage, and you may shift one square away from your target.
Cowardly Powers
Object of Pity Novice
Your friends know that you are useless in a fight and help you out
Encounter ✇ Weapon, Psi
Standard Action Melee 1
Range: 10
Target: One ally
Effect: Any single ally within range can make an immediate basic attack against a foe adjacent to you with a bonus equal to your Charisma modifier.
Battle Buddy
Your friends often save you life, unwillingly.
Encounter ✇ Psi
Immediate Reaction Personal
Requirement: You must be standing next to an "ally".
Trigger: You are hit by an attack
Effect: You shift one square away from your enemy, and your ally suffers the damage intended for you.
Sucker Punch Expert
You hit your foe an unexpected blow and run away.
Encounter ✇ Weapon, Psi
Standard Action Melee 1
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma + your level + weapon bonus vs. Reflex
Hit: 2[W] + Charisma modifier + twice your level damage and you may shift a number of squares equal to your speed away from your victim.
Heartless
You have no emotions and can contemplate actions others would never consider.
You possess no emotions, compassion, or empathy. You may be guided by programmed logic, have suffered an massive emotional trauma, or obsessed with a specific goal. Whatever the cause, you are entirely fearless as well as loveless, joyless, passionless, and pitiless.
Appearance: Blank, Colorless, Subdued. You remain pokerfaced in good, bad, or ugly circumstances.
Heartless Traits
Mutant Type: Constitution; Psi; +2 to Psi overcharge.
Skill Bonus (Level 1): Gain a +4 bonus to Insight.
Clinically Detached (Level 1): +2 to Will
Goal Oriented (Level 1): Once per encounter you can re-roll any one d20 roll you make as part of an ability check, attack, saving throw, or skill check. You must use the second result, even if it is lower.
No Mercy (Level 2 or 6): When you score a critical hit the target suffers 1d10 extra damage and you gain a +1 to attack rolls until the end of your next turn.
Heartless Powers
Fearless Charge Novice
Ever take on a T-Rex with a butter knife?
Encounter ✇ Weapon, Psi
Standard Action Melee 1
Target: One creature
Attack: Constitution + your level + weapon bonus vs. AC
Hit: 1[W] + Constitution + twice your level damage.
Effect: You shift your speed toward your foe before you make your attack roll.
Free runner
You will find a way to overcome all obstacles
Encounter ✇ Psi
Free Action Personal
Effect: You gain a +10 bonus to Athletic and Acrobatics checks and move freely through "difficult terrain" until the end of your next turn.
Relentless Assault Expert
There's no stopping you.
Encounter ✇ Weapon, Psi
Standard Action Melee 1
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma + your level + weapon bonus vs. Reflex
Hit: 2[W] + Charisma modifier + twice your level damage and if your foe is reduced to zero hit points you may make a secondary basic attack against another target.
Brainless
Your skull is the only thing keeping your scalp inflated.
You are a witless wanderer, surviving on instinct rather than education or reasoning. Brainless creatures often speak in gibberish or confounding riddles. Brainless encompass a wide variety of creatures including headless undead, lobotomized humans, born fools, pea brains, flat heads, atavists, and the possessed.
Appearance: Depends on the secondary origin.
Brainless Traits
Mutant Type: Wisdom; Wisdom, Psi; +2 to Psi overcharge.
Skill Bonus (Level 1): Gain a +4 bonus to Conspiracy.
Meathead (Level 1): +2 to Fortitude
Psychic Feedback (Level 1): A Psi attack power that misses the Brainless with be reflected back at the user as an immediate reaction (use the Brainless attribute scores for attack modifiers).
Psychic Sponge (Level 2 or 6): When you score a critical hit the target suffers 1d10 extra damage and you regain your Wisdom modifier in hit points
Brainless Powers
Mental Void Novice
You mindless banter can suck others into a mental vortex of oblivion
Encounter ✇ Psi
Standard Action Close Burst 3
Targets: All creatures within burst
Attack: Wisdom + your level vs. Will
Hit: 1d6 + Wisdom + your level damage and "slowed" until the start of your next turn.
No Worries, Be Happy
You have nothing to worry about as far as you know.
Encounter ✇ Psi
Free Action Personal
Effect: Grant a +2 bonus to any single d20 roll you make. You must accept the result of this roll, and can not re-roll it.
Grand Malice Expert
You can drive a group of creatures into a mass seizure.
Encounter ✇ Weapon, Psi
Standard Action Close Blast 5
Target: All creatures within blast
Attack: Charisma + your level + weapon bonus vs. Will
Effect: 2d8 + Wisdom + your level in damage and knocked "prone".
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