Homebrew Stunts

[Sanctaphrax]

I'd allow it, but only if you were using some kind of Feeding Dependency rewrite.

With canon Feeding Dependency, it's underpowered. Having Feeding Dependency is worth a 1 Refresh rebate, so if you spend 1 Refresh on resisting Hunger you should be completely Hunger-free.

I'd suggest broadening it slightly if you want to use it with the canon Power. Resist Hunger rolls and something else. Something like Blood Frenzy or Feeding Frenzy rolls.

Also, I'd let people without Feeding Dependency take it if they wanted to for some reason.

[narphoenix]

Would you allow it to stack (and be taken) with your version of Feeding Dependency, Sancta?

[Sanctaphrax]

You could definitely take it.

Stacking, well, I'd have to think about that one.

[Sanctaphrax]

Wow, it's been a long time.

Well, I'm updating the stunts page on the wiki. And there are some stunts there that aren't here, so I figure I should also update the stunt list here.

Anyway, here's the stuff on the wiki that isn't from here.

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Athletics:

Graceful Silence: Your natural poise and grace enable you to pass quietly and undetected. Use Athletics for the Skulking and Ambush trappings.
Magic Dodge: You only need to will a spell not to affect you if it can hit you in the first place. Use Athletics instead of Discipline to dodge any magical attack whose physical trappings mean getting out of the way is a valid option. Examples: a burst of fire, spikes of ice, a blast of energy, etc... Any ritual magic using a ritual link to you automatically bypasses this stunt.

Conviction:

I KNOW I'm Right!: Your knowledge the righteousness of your beliefs gives you strength in trying times. You may use Conviction for Mental Defense.
Set in My Ways: You're old. It took you decades to form your beliefs and you're not about to abandon them. Gain a +2 to social defense when anyone tries to get you to abandon a long held belief or who you are at the core. This includes defense against mental magic that threatens long-held beliefs or core character identity.

Deceit:

Feint: Pretend to attack one area and then quickly hit another. You can use Deceit instead of Weapons to attack with a melee weapon. Any enemy you use this trick on defends against further bluffs in the same fight at +2.

Discipline:

I've Seen It All: You've seen and done things that would make most beings cringe, and have become practiced at ignoring such stress. You may use Discipline in place of Conviction to determine your mental stress track.

Fists:

Mixed Martial Artist : You've trained extensively in Brazilian Jujitsu, Greco-Roman wrestling, or some other grappling fighting style. You may use Fists instead of Might when using the Grappling trapping.
Ground and Pound: (Requires Mixed Martial Artist ) You are a master at inflicting damage to your opponent in a grapple. You may choose to do an extra stress of damage with your supplemental hits while in grapple. If you do not do the extra damage, the hit is a free action, and therefore does not apply a penalty to any subsequent actions.

Guns:

Pistols Akimbo: You have two hands, why use only one pistol? You may dual-wield pistols and gain the damage bonus from one plus half the damage bonus from the second rounded up. Your maximum range while dual-wielding is limited to 1 zone.
Gun Kata: You have trained with using pistols in melee combat. You may use guns to parry attacks when dual-wielding pistols, and you're never at a disadvantage in melee combat for using pistols, should that for some reason be an issue.

Intimidation:

Domination: Your minions may be weak-minded, but you've scared them into submission. They use your intimidation skill to defend against social attacks or mind-influencing spells, not their own skills.

Lore:

Lore is My Strength: Your vast knowledge of magic and its effects enable you to get much stronger results than normal from your spellcrafting. Use Lore in place of Conviction for spellcasting. Should not be taken with Lore is My Guide.
Lore is My Guide: Your knowledge of the flows of magic allow you to more easily direct the energies around you. Use Lore in place of Discipline for spellcasting. Should not be taken with Lore is My Strength.

Presence:

Don't Mess with My Friends: You give your allies comfort and your presence skill complements any social skill they use to defend themselves.
Battle Tactician: Your leadership allows you to coordinate your allies' strengths effectively. Presence can normally be used to lead people in battle, placing an aspect or two on a teammate. With this stunt, you can place aspects on multiple allies with a single roll, provided they respect your leadership and carry out your orders.

Rapport:

Looks Can Be Deceiving : You're especially good at making people think you're on the level. You may use your Rapport skill for the trapping False Face Forward.
Good First Impression: You gain +2 to your first rapport roll when meeting someone.

Stealth:

Stealth Fighter: You're adept at using the chaos of battle to your advantage. You may sneak up behind any enemy that has already been attacked this round a supplemental action. If your attempt is successful, your attack counts as a sneak attack, and your opponent gets no benefit from any skill to dodge.sd

Weapons:

Defender: You watch over not only yourself but others. When any party member takes up a position right behind you as a supplemental action, you may use your weapons skill to defend them from attacks until their next turn. You may protect up to 2 allies this way.

Anyway, I'll be updating the stunt list here first. Then I'll copy the list here onto the wiki page.

This update isn't just for stunts from the wiki. You should feel totally free to contribute your own stunts. I plan to add a few stunts of my own, too.

[Sanctaphrax]

More stunts that are gonna be added in the next update. They pretty much all need editing.

These ones are mine:

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Banker (Resources): Use Resources to perform maneuvers based on moving other people's money around and to notice changes in the political/financial situations of supervillain groups.
Analytical Fighter (Fists): Attacks inflict +2 stress after you've seen your target act at least three times in the current fight.
Blade-Breaking Force (Weapons): May have an attack do +3 stress by breaking the weapon you're attacking with.
Sufficiently Advanced Technology (Lore): Use Lore to understand very advanced tech.
Light You On Fire (Fists): Natural weapon attacks do +2 stress against flammable targets.
Instant Medication (Endurance): +2 to defend against poisons and diseases.
Martial Scholar (Fists): +2 to Fists defence against anyone whose combat style has been successfully Assessed.
Hide Underground (Stealth): +2 to Stealth when hiding in an area with soft earth to burrow into.
Good Luck Charms (Resources): Add Good Luck Charms trapping to Resources. Use it to make Maneuvers and Declarations related to luck, protection against evil, and people's perceptions of those things.
Discreet Investigations (Contacts): Information gathering is not obvious, opponents must beat Contacts roll to discover it.
Disturbingly Insightful (Empathy): Use Empathy to make social attacks intended to unnerve and generally mess with people.
Muscle Your Way Up (Might): Use Might to climb.
Disable Device (Burglary): Use Burglary to disable and/or sabotage machines.
Locksmith (Craftsmanship): Use Craftsmanship instead of Burglary to pick locks.
Stalker (Stealth): Use Stealth for the Surveillance trapping of Investigation.

And these ones are from other people:

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Weapons Based Stunt:

Iaido Swordsman- Bonus to attack for the first time against each Individual opponent.

(I figure this is the bread and butter of the style. The swordsman anticipates his attack, or that of the enemies. Then it is on the draw that he reacts. E.g Parrying the attack and then counterattacking. Or simply going though the foe's defense and attacking first.)

O-Chiburi- After a successful attack that would draw blood, some small amount of mental stress is done to that opponent.

(This is a really neat idea. The Chiburi is the act of flicking the blade in such a way that it flings the blood away. The O-Chiburi is a variant that usually involves taking a large sweeping slash, allowing the blood the be flung direction-ally. The O-Chiburi is also known as "The wet umbrella". What is more likely to get into an opponents head to have their own blood splashed upon their face.)

These Next Two are more based on character, but I tried to keep it within the Samurai Flavor:

Discipline Based Skill:

Clarity Through Rage- Once per combat, Joe can shrug off one spell cast at him, but in turn, he is then subject to his trouble aspect.

(This may need some clarifying. The Swordsman of Boogie Down was taught of the never never, and conditioned to fight the supernatural by a white court vampire who feeds on Wrath. They have a bond, and she feeds on his wrath. His Trouble Aspect is "The Conduit of the White Court." This is very much a tool to be used by my DM. As a DM myself I know how important it is for the players to assist the DM in making the game exciting. For example: Joe is fighting a spellcaster. He ends the fight fairly quickly, getting the upperhand. Charging though a blast of fire and using this ability to shrug it off.  The spell caster losses his staff and the hand holding it for his trouble. Though Joe is merciful, The DM now has the chance to compel me toward wrath. And granted I have used this ability, I must accept the compulsion to finish the spell caster off. Murdering a now unarmed HAR... foe...)

The last one I have for you is an Empathy based skill:

One breath- Able to identify the highest initiative foe, or that which will attack first, and gain a bonus to attack him for the first time.

(The build itself will aim to build heavily upon the first attack against each opponent. In true Iaido fashion. A familiar and favored sort of mantra in Iaido is "One breath, one draw, one kill" Now the idea behind this one is though empathy, he can somewhat read the motive of those who imminently intend on violence. He can then be ready and react.)

Master's Bladework [-1]
When you use a bladed weapon in conjunction with the Weapons skill to place an aspect on yourself or enemy related to your sword work gain a +2 bonus.

Follow-Through Cut [-1]
When you take an enemy out using a weapon attack, you may use any overflow shifts as an additional weapon attack against another enemy in the same zone.

[Sanctaphrax]

And here are the edited versions of the new stunts from the wiki. Many of them were well-written and needed no real editing. I still messed around with their wording, though, so that they'd be worded similarly to the rest of the list.

I had to remove a few stunts. Namely:

Magic Dodge, because Athletics is already the default skill for spell defence.

I've Seen It All, because a canon stunt does the exact same thing.

Mixed Martial Artist, because there's already a stunt on the list that does what it does. I'll be adding its name to that stunt, though.

Lore is My Strength and Lore Is My Guide, because even if it's okay to change casting skills with stunts it isn't okay to use one skill for multiple parts of the casting process.

Good First Impression, because it's basically a duplicate of a canon stunt.

Battle Tactician, because I don't think you need a stunt to target multiple allies with a maneuver. And if it's intended to provide multiple tags, then that violates the action economy.

Stealth Fighter, because it's way too good.

I also edited a few stunts that seemed a bit too strong or too weak.

Graceful Silence was split in half, since you only get one trapping per stunt.

Ground And Pound lost its free action damage option, since that seemed too powerful. Also added a note saying such a stunt could exist in Might.

Domination now complements skills instead of replacing them.

Pistols Akimbo no longer has a range limitation.

Gun Kata now includes a situational +1 because it's narrower than it has to be.

Defender now requires its user to take a supplemental action. Not totally certain about this change, but I think the stunt was probably slightly too good before. I could be convinced otherwise quite easily.

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Athletics:

Graceful Silence: Your natural poise and grace enable you to pass quietly and undetected. You may use your Athletics skill for the Skulking trapping of the Stealth skill.
Deadly Grace: Your speed and agility let you take people down before they realise what's going on. You may use your Athletics skill for the Ambush trapping of the Stealth skill.

Conviction:

I KNOW I'm Right!: Your knowledge of the righteousness of your beliefs gives you strength in trying times. You may use your Conviction skill for the Mental Defence trapping of the Discipline skill.
Set in My Ways: You're old. It took you decades to form your beliefs and you're not about to abandon them. Add two to your Conviction skill when using it to resist attempts to change your deeply-held beliefs or your core identity.

Deceit:

Feint: Pretend to attack one area and then quickly hit another. You may use your Deceit skill to attack with melee weapons. Any character that you use this stunt on adds two to their defence rolls against your further use of this stunt for the rest of the scene.

Fists:

Ground and Pound: (Requires Nasty Infighter/Mixed Martial Artist) You are a master at inflicting damage to your opponent in a grapple. Add one to the stress you inflict when taking a supplemental action to hurt someone that you've grappled. (A similar stunt could exist in Might, without the prerequisite.)

Guns:

Pistols Akimbo: You have two hands, why use only one gun? When wielding two guns, you may add half of the weapon rating of the second gun to that of the first.
Gun Kata: You have trained in using pistols in melee combat. When dual-wielding pistols, you may use your Guns skill to defend against attacks made by other characters in your zone. Add one to your Guns skill when using it to defend against firearms.

Intimidation:

Domination: Your minions may be weak-minded, but you've scared them into submission. Your Intimidation skill complements their social and mental defence skills as long as they serve you.

Presence:

Don't Mess with My Friends: You give your allies comfort. Your Presence skill complements their social defence skills.

Rapport:

Looks Can Be Deceiving: You're especially good at making people think you're on the level. You may use your Rapport skill for the False Face Forward trapping of the Deceit skill.

Weapons:

Defender: You watch over not only yourself but others. Allies in your zone may take a supplemental action to hide behind you. If you take a supplemental action to protect your allies, they may use your Weapons skill to defend against melee attacks that exchange. You may protect up to two allies each exchange, with a single supplemental action. Both you and your allies may take these supplemental actions in response to an incoming attack, as long as you have not yet acted during that exchange.

[Sanctaphrax]

And here are the edited versions of the other stunts.

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Athletics:

Run Away: Discretion is the better part of valour, at least for you. On a successful defence with Athletics, you may sacrifice your next action to turn that defence roll into an immediate Sprint action.

Burglary:

Disable Device: If you can take apart a lock, you can take apart a clock. You may use your Burglary skill for the Breaking trapping of the Craftsmanship skill.

Contacts:

Discreet Investigations: You are unusually subtle when it comes to gathering information. It isn't obvious when you use the Gathering Information trapping of the Contacts skill; people need to beat your Contacts roll with one of their own to notice it.

Craftsmanship:

Locksmith: If you can take apart a clock, you can take apart a lock. You may use your Craftsmanship skill for the Lockpicking trapping of the Burglary skill.

Discipline:

Clarity Through Rage: Sometimes a burst of anger is exactly what you need to fight off a mental attack. Once per scene, when you are targeted by a magical mental effect, you may accept an immediate Compel on an anger-related Aspect. If you do so, you do not get a Fate Point. Instead, you add five to your Discipline defence roll against the mental effect.
Hunger Control: Through rigorous self-denial you have conquered your bestial needs. Mostly. Add two to your Discipline skill when using it to resist hunger and the temptation to feed. This doesn't lengthen your Hunger stress track if you have one, but it does help you resist Hunger stress and the compulsions of Blood Drinker or Emotional Vampire.

Empathy:

One Breath: A true samurai can size up a foe within a single breath. You may use your Empathy skill for Assessments and Declarations intended to determine when an opponent or potential opponent will attack you and what their combat skills are like.
Disturbingly Insightful: You always know just what people don't want to hear. You may use your Empathy skill to make social attacks intended to unnerve, annoy, and generally mess with people.

Endurance:

Always Healthy: You are always healthy. Duh. Add two to your Endurance skill when using it to defend against poisons and diseases.

Fists:

Defensive Fighting: You've mastered a cautious and defensive fighting style. Whenever you make a Fists attack, you may choose to reduce its weapon rating by 1. If you do so, add 2 to your Fists skill for the purpose of defence rolls until your next turn. (A similar stunt could exist in Weapons.)
Analytical Fighter: You fight more effectively once you've had a chance to analyse your target's fighting style. Add two to the weapon rating of any Fists attack you make against a character you've seen act at least three times in the current fight. (A similar stunt could exist in Guns or in Weapons.)
Light You On Fire: Anyone can light people on fire, but only a skilled fire-lighter like you can do it safely. As long as you have a lighter or some matches or a magical flaming fist or some other source of fire, your Fists attacks inflict two additional stress to anyone wearing or carrying flammable things.
Martial Scholar: (Requires Martial Artist) Once you know your opponent's style, defending against them is easy. Add two to your Fists skill when using it to defend against the attacks of someone whose style you have successfully Assessed with Martial Artist.

Intimidation:

Grisly Display: When people see what you do to the people you take down, they think twice about fighting you. Once per scene, when you take someone out with physical stress, you may create a taggable GRISLY DISPLAY Aspect for free. If you do so, add one to your Intimidation skill for the rest of the scene.

Lore:

I've Fought A Lot Of Monsters: You've been in a position to see how a lot of supernatural nasties fight--usually because they've been swinging their claws at you--and that knowledge is almost as good as just being quick on your feet. When fighting non-human supernatural creatures, you may use your Lore skill instead of your Athletics skill to dodge their melee attacks.
Sufficiently Advanced Technology: Some technology is basically magic. The underlying principles are different, but for all practical intents and purposes it's magic. And so you treat it that way. You may use your Lore skill to know about and sort-of understand any technology that's utterly beyond modern scientific understanding. Like an alien spaceship or the gun of a time traveller from the 45th century.

Might:

Muscle Your Way Up: Climbing is basically like weightlifting, except you are the weight. You may use your Might skill for the Climbing trapping of Athletics.

Resources:

Banker: Your wealth isn't just a stack of cash; it's an entire system of investments that you can manipulate. You may use your Resources skill to perform maneuvers based on controlling the flow of money through various markets and to notice things that affect those markets.
Good Luck Charms: You buy, sell, and own good luck charms of questionable effectiveness. Add a Good Luck Charms trapping to your Resources skill. The Good Luck Charms trapping is used to make Maneuvers and Declarations related to luck, protection against evil, and people's perceptions of those things.

Stealth:

Hide Underground: You can quickly and effectively dig out a little hidey-hole for yourself. Add two to your Stealth skill when using it to hide in a place with soft ground that you can burrow into.
Stalker: You like to watch people who don't know they're being watched. You may use your Stealth skill for the Surveillance trapping of the Investigation skill.

Weapons:

Master's Bladework: Your swordsmanship is truly a thing of beauty. Add two to your Weapons skill when using it to perform a maneuver related to your sword work.
Follow-Through Cut: You cut down lesser warriors the way a scythe cuts wheat. Whenever you take an enemy out with a melee attack using your Weapons skill, you may use your overflow shifts to create an additional attack with the same weapon against another enemy in the same zone. (A similar stunt could exist in Fists.)
O-Chiburi: When you get blood on your blade, you flick it off with a very intimidating-looking technique. When you inflict stress with an attack using the Weapons skill, you may sacrifice your next action to turn your attack roll into an automatically-successful maneuver related to fear or awe or looking really badass. (A similar stunt could exist in Fists or Guns.)
Blade-Breaking Force: You hit so hard that your weapons break. When you attack with the Weapons skill you may choose to add three to your attack's weapon rating. If you do so, and your attack hits, the weapon that the attack was made with is destroyed.

Edit list:

-Clarity Through Rage is now clearer and adds a huge bonus instead of creating an absolute effect.
-Hunger Control now works on all sorts of Hunger, so there's actually a reason to take both it and Feeding Dependency.
-Instant Medication now has a more generic name.
-One Breath edited so that it's mechanically clear, hopefully without changing what it's meant to do.
-Grisly Display is now clearer, I hope.
-Run Away now exists.
-O-Chiburi now inflicts an Aspect, which I think fits the idea the writer had in mind better than mental stress does.

I think the list update is pretty much ready.

But of course I'd appreciate it if y'all could look over this stuff and make sure it's okay.

And it's not too late to contribute your own stunts!

[Sanctaphrax]

Updated the list.

Made a few edits as I did so, but most of them were utterly trivial. The only ones that anyone is likely to care about were the slight clarifications about who's affected by Dominator and Don't Mess With My Friends.

Wiki page has been updated too.

It's not too late to criticize the update, though. I can always go back and change things.

PS: There are now two stunts on the list with the same name (Feint). Hopefully it won't be a problem.