Talents: Insightful Talent Tree

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The Dedicated hero’s innate insightfulness serves well. The Insightful Talent Tree includes four talents that demonstrate how it serves: Skill Emphasis, Aware, Faith, and Cool Under Pressure.

Skill Emphasis.
The Dedicated hero chooses a single skill and receives a +3 bonus on all checks with that skill. This bonus does not allow the hero to make checks for a trained-only skill if the hero has no ranks in the skill.

Aware.
(Prerequisite: Skill Emphasis)

The Dedicated hero is intuitively aware of his or her surroundings. The hero adds his or her base Will saving throw bonus to Listen or Spot checks to avoid surprise.

Faith
(Prerequisite: Skill Emphasis)

The Dedicated hero has a great deal of faith. It might be faith in self, in a higher power, or in both. This unswerving belief allows the Dedicated hero to add his or her Wisdom modifier to the die roll whenever the hero spends 1 action point to improve the result of an attack roll, skill check, saving throw, or ability check.

Cool Under Pressure
(Skill Emphasis, plus Aware or Faith)

The Dedicated hero selects a number of skills equal to 3 + the hero’s Wisdom modifier. When making a check with one of these skills, the Dedicated hero can take 10 even when distracted or under duress.