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AXES

Battle axes, hatchets, and other chopping weapons. Your hero can reduce the difficulty rating when striking with a battle axe, logging or throwing a hatchet.

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BOXING

The sweet science. Boxing applies only if the hero uses his or her fists (gloved or bare) to attack. If you declare it, you can divide your hero's total action score between two fist attacks, the second being a contingent attack.

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BRAWLING

This skill lets the hero inflict bloody damage when using fists, claws, teeth, or any other natural attack. If your hero reduces a foe to 0 cards or 0 Health this way, the foe goes comatose. These actions-- bites, eye gouges, kidney punches, and so on--are generally frowned upon in hero circles.

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CLIMBING

Scaling vertical surfaces. Your hero can reduce the difficulty rating when resisting wind and acrophobia while scaling buildings, trees, cliffs, and other vertical challenges.

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CLUBS

Anything from a blackjack to a telephone pole assuming the hero can lift it. Your hero can reduce the difficulty rating when throwing the club or staff.

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GARROTES

Strangling cords, piano wires, and even bare-handed choking. If the hero wounds the target, he or she may make a contingent action to begin strangulation. This is an average Strength action. If it succeeds and the target does not damage the hero, the hero inflicts 4 damage points on each exchange thereafter, assuming the strangulation continues. The stranglehold remains in effect until either the hero lets go or suffers damage from the target.

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HAMMERS

Objects used for pounding things into other things. Your hero can reduce the difficulty rating for throwing hammers, plus carpentry and other such actions.

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HYPER-BREATH

Blowing really hard to knock people over. This feat can be performed only by those with an 11+ strength. Your hero must make an average strength action, and those whom the hero succeeds against are knocked back and lose their action for the exchange.

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KNIVES

Objects that are small, sharp and easily concealed, from daggers to hypodermics.

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MARTIAL ARTS WEAPONS

A catchall for the shuriken, sai, nunchaku, and oriental swords and daggers, including the katana and wakizashi.

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NATURAL WEAPONS

Claws, quills, horns teeth, and the like.

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SHIELDS

Normally defensive, shields can also be thrown. A shield can either absorb its defense bonus in damage from one attack or to inflict its bonus in damage for one attack in a single exchange, but not both.

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SONIC SLAM

Smashing the ground or one's fist together to produce a sound wave. This feat can be performed only by those with an 11+ strength. Your hero must make an average strength action, and those whom the hero succeeds against are disoriented, losing their action for the exchange.

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SPEARS

Long, sharp, and painful pole weapons. Your hero can use this skill for throwing or stabbing with javelins, tent poles and anything else shaftlike.

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SWORDS

Any long-bladed weapon, from an epee to a scythe. If the hero chooses not to attack, he or she may parry with a sword, adding the sword's damage bonus to Agility when dodging.