New Minor Talent Concepts

[Wolfwood2]

I'm looking to make a list of potential minor talent descriptions/concepts for quick reference and inspiration.  Note that I very deliberately say "description" as opposed to "power".  The existing powers in the book are very broad, and it's very possible to that many or most concepts for a minor talent could be covered under an existing power.  Nevertheless, there may be many different takes on any given power.  Someone who can lay out tarot cards and see a person's future might have the same power in a mechanical sense as someone who can channel ghosts from the future, but they'll play out very differently.  Or some concepts may be hard to represent with an existing power, but it may not be important if they're just an NPC.

A few ideas off the top of my head to 'prime the pump':

1. Old woman with lots of cats who has a telepathic bond bond with all of them and can see through their eyes and control them.

2. Taxi driver who can drive his cab from one end of the city to the other in less time than is physically possible.

3. Guy who can conjure ectoplasmic versions of his tattoos.

4. Woman with "x-ray eyes" who can see through walls and doors (but whose distance vision isn't better than anyone else's).

5. Someone who can see a person's future in a tarot reading.

More?

[bitterpill]

6. Man who can see the deaths of people written on thier forehead.

[Ren]

Had a character in my game who's talent derived from a Camera. It an Item of Power that allowed her to see and photograph spirits, ghosts etc as well as to talk to them.

[Bruce Coulson]

There are a lot of possibilities...I'm trying to put forward those who might prove to be interesting to a story.

A young man who can see whether or not someone is a supernatural being.

A Street Vendor who can always sell you 'what you need' (tip of the evil hat to Rod Serling...)

A ritualist who can only re-create 'urban legends'.

A woman who can separate her body parts and still control their actions.

[Ophidimancer]

A walking ley line, someone who can't cast magic, but enhances magic around him.

A walking dead zone, that cancels out magic around her.

An aura artist, who can manipulate energy and create art for the Sight or forge energy signatures.

[Ren]

A thief who is just inherently trustworthy...everyone believes every word he says...but he can never tell the truth.

[Team8Mum]

Some one who carries their own threshold with them and makes any enclosed space they are in (room, car, train carriage) a protected area.

[Sanctaphrax]

An alchemist who brews potions inside his own body.

A magician who literally breathes fire.

A martial artist who can crack a stone by touching it.

A bureaucrat whose paperwork controls reality.

A thief who can fit an entire warhouse into his pockets.

[bitterpill]

Sentient Afro Man (enough said)
 
A man who is an Pun Demesne where all the pun he has heard before are stored ready to be manifested at any time

Phantasm conjuring singer whose songs are so powerful they create phantoms of memories and emotions in wraithlike form.

Martial artist augmented by the immense spiritual power of interpretative dance

[Warpmind]

A man who can command spiders. Of course, spiders, being spiders, aren't precisely intelligent, so he needs to keep his orders very simple and short...

A man who, regardless of financial situation, always has enough spare change for small purchases in his pocket...

A mime who can force others to mirror his motions...

Someone who can see how people's acquaintances link up to others, Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon-style...

A receiving-only telepath with schizophrenia. It's difficult telling apart the voices in one's head from the voices in everyone else's heads...

A Pretender, with the ability to become anyone they want with a brief period of preparation...

[sandchigger]

A glutomancer, someone possessing the ability to ingest any substance without harm.