Sure Footing

Trigger: Before an Acrobatics check to keep your balance or cross a physical route, declare Sure Footing. Boost the check with at least 1 AD.

This must be a separate balance or route check, not an attack or Full Guard.

Cost: One use of Sure Footing.

Effect: Add +1 to your check total.

Example: Your balance check totals 1 against Difficulty 1. Sure Footing raises your total to 2, so you succeed.

False Step

Trigger: When an enemy starts a Melee Exchange against you, choose Full Guard. If you can physically evade the attack, declare False Step as you commit your response. Boost it with at least 1 AD, before either of you rolls.

Cost: One use of False Step.

Effect: Use Acrobatics instead of Melee for this Full Guard's roll and Boost limit.

Example: You have Melee level 1 and Acrobatics level 3. False Step lets you use Acrobatics for this Full Guard, so you can Boost it with up to 3 AD instead of 1.

Last Chance

Trigger: Your boosted Acrobatics check to cross a route or avoid a physical hazard would fail, after Edge, rerolls and modifiers. Before resolving the failure, declare Last Chance if one of your dice still shows a Miss.

The check must be outside a Combat Exchange. Before the original roll, the Guide must have established that failure could cause Physical Wounds.

Cost: One use of Last Chance.

Effect: Reroll one Miss. Keep its new result. Use Last Chance only once for this check.

If the check finally fails, add 1 Wound to the hazard's Physical harm after Protection and Wound Conversion, but before Wound prevention and application. Use the hazard's Physical Type.

Example: Your leap totals 1 against Difficulty 1. Reroll a Miss: a Hit raises your total to 2 and saves the leap. Another Miss leaves you falling. If that fall would normally cause 2 Wounds, it causes 3 before Wound prevention.

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You used Last Chance, but the check still failed. This hazard would normally cause 2 Wounds.

1. After normal Protection and Wound Conversion, this hazard would cause 2 Wounds.
2. Add Last Chance’s extra Wound: 2 + 1 = 3.
3. Apply any Wound prevention, then suffer the Wounds left, using the hazard’s Physical Type.

Result: Last Chance makes the normal two Wounds into three before prevention. Prevention may then reduce them.

• Before the original roll, the Guide must establish that failure could cause Physical Wounds. Last Chance requires a boosted Acrobatics check to cross a route or avoid a physical hazard, outside a Combat Exchange.
• After Edge, rerolls and modifiers, the check must still be about to fail with a Miss remaining. Before resolving failure, spend one Last Chance use to reroll one Miss and keep its replacement. Use it only once for this check.
• If the final check succeeds, resolve its ordinary successful outcome. One Hit on a die does not necessarily make the whole check succeed.
• Last Chance has no separate Action Die or Reaction cost. This picture illustrates only the final failed case.

Full rule: Last Chance

Ambush

Trigger: During your Activation, start a Melee or Ranged Exchange against a creature you are hidden from. Boost your attack with at least 1 AD and declare Ambush before the target chooses a response.

Cost: One use of Ambush.

Effect: Add +1 to your attack total if you remain hidden from the target until you roll. Being revealed before the roll loses the bonus.

Example: You throw a dagger from hiding. Your attack total of 2 becomes 3. If the target's Clash total is 2, you win by 1.

Quiet Step

Trigger: Once during your Activation, while hidden from at least one observer, declare Quiet Step before moving. Choose one continuous concealed stretch of your normal Walk or Run. You must have movement left.

Cost: One use of Quiet Step.

Effect: For up to 6m of that stretch, moving while hidden costs no extra movement. Use your existing movement allowance.

The stretch ends when you reach 6m, take another Action, finish your Activation or are no longer hidden from any observer. A Reaction pauses your movement; its consequences may end the stretch. Any unused distance is lost.

Example: You have 6m of Walk movement left. Quiet Step lets you sneak 6m along a clear, concealed route instead of the usual 3m. Difficult terrain still uses twice as much movement.

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You are already hidden, have 6 m of Walk movement left, and follow a clear, concealed route.

1. Start already hidden from at least one observer, with 6 m of Walk movement left on a clear, continuous, concealed route.
2. Ordinary hidden movement spends 2 m of movement for each 1 m travelled. The 6 m allowance covers 3 m.
3. Declare Quiet Step before moving. For up to 6 m of the chosen stretch, each 1 m travelled spends 1 m of movement. The same allowance covers 6 m.

Result: With Quiet Step, you travel 6 m instead of 3 m along this route. Your movement allowance has not increased.

• Spend one Quiet Step use. Declare it once during your Activation, before moving, while hidden from at least one observer and with movement left. Choose a continuous concealed stretch of your normal Walk or Run.
• The stretch ends when you reach 6 m.
• It also ends if you take another Action or finish your Activation.
• It ends when no observer still counts you as hidden. You can continue while you remain hidden from at least one observer.
• A Reaction pauses movement; its consequences may end the stretch. Any unused Quiet Step distance is lost.
• Difficult terrain still costs twice as much movement. Ordinary movement and Opportunity Attack rules still apply.

Full rule: Quiet Step

False Trail

Trigger: Before a new Hide check, describe a false clue or camouflage that helps hide your presence or location. Declare False Trail and Boost the Stealth check with at least 1 AD.

Cost: One use of False Trail.

Effect: Add +1 to your Hide total. Record the improved total as your Hide result.

Example: You roll 1 against a guard with Observation Readiness 1. False Trail raises your total to 2, so you hide from that guard. Your recorded Hide total is now 2.

Exact Cut

Trigger: After your boosted Melee attack with a Dagger wins, check its normal Wound Margin. If it is at least 1, you may declare Exact Cut before Wound Conversion. The attack must have struck anatomy you can reach and understand.

Cost: One use of Exact Cut.

Effect: Add +2 to that attack's Wound Margin.

Apply the bonus only to this hit on your declared target.

Example: Your dagger hit has Wound Margin 4, which would cause 2 Wounds. Exact Cut raises the margin to 6, causing 3 Wounds instead.

Fine Work

Trigger: Before a Finesse check to interfere with an existing nonmagical mechanism, choose a control or fastening you have identified and can reach. Agree on your method, required tools, target and consequences with the Guide. Declare Fine Work and Boost the check with at least 1 AD.

Cost: One use of Fine Work.

Effect: Add +1 to your check total.

Example: You have found an alarm's exposed spring and explain how you will jam it. Your Finesse total of 1 becomes 2 against Difficulty 1, so your plan succeeds.

Fast Hands

Trigger: Once during your Activation, before a Minor Action that normally costs 1 AD to draw, stow or pass one object. Choose an object within reach that fits in one usable hand: something you carry, something unattended, or something a willing holder offers.

Cost: One use of Fast Hands.

Effect: Reduce that handling Action's base cost from 1 AD to 0.

Example: You need to sheathe your dagger under pressure, which takes a 1-AD Minor Action. Fast Hands lets you do it for 0 AD.