Streetwise

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Characters possessing this Skill know how life on the streets works and are adept at surviving by its harsh rules. Streetwise characters can gather information, make contacts, buy and sell on the black market, and otherwise make use of the street’s unique resources. The Skill is also important for navigating urban dangers, avoiding the law, and staying on the right side of the wrong people.

  • Possessed by: Criminals, Street Thugs, vagrants, clippers, bodyguards, Black Marketeers, Inquisitors, Bounty Hunters, spies
  • Specialties: Rumors, Nomad Tribes


General Roll Results
  • Success: Your character hooks up with someone who can provide what he needs.
  • Exceptional Success: Not only does your character find someone who can help him, that person turns up at just the right time to provide something quick and cheap.
  • Failure: Your character has no luck hooking up with any of his street associates, or of convincing the locals that he’s legit.
  • Dramatic Failure: Your character completely misreads the situation, committing an error that could have fatal consequences. He might try to sell secret documents to a servant of the owner of the documents or he uses the secret sign of a rival faction when talking to a gang or assassin.