Doug Burrows

Talents

Accustomed to Crowds

• Crowds do not count as Difficult Terrain for hivers
• When Running or Charging through a dense crowd, hivers take no penalty to the Agility Test to keep their feet

Basic Weapon Training (SP)

• No penalty to use these weapons

Basic Weapon Training (Las)

• No penalty to use these weapons

Caves of Steel

• Hivers treat the Tech-Use (Int) skill as a Basic Skill

Hivebound

• Hivers take a –10 penalty to all Survival (Int) Tests
• While out of a “proper hab” (e.g. places without manufactured goods, solid ceilings and electrical power) the hiver takes a –5 penalty to all Intelligence Tests

Melee Weapon Training (Primitive)

• No penalty to use these weapons

Pistol Training (Las)

• No penalty to use these weapons

Quick Draw

• You are quick to the draw, able to have a weapon in your hand and ready for combat in the blink of an eye
• You can Ready as a Free Action

Rapid Reload

• You have spent so long practising weapons drills that you can reload a gun in an instant
• All reload times are reduced by half (round down) – so a Half Action reload becomes a Free Action, a Full Action reload becomes a Half Action and so on

Takedown

• You are skilled at taking an opponent alive
• As a Half Action you may declare that you are attempting to Takedown an opponent before Testing Weapon Skill
• If you hit and do at least 1 point of Damage, this damage is ignored and your opponent must make a Toughness Test of be Stunned for one Round

Wary

• All hivers gain a +1 bonus to Initiative rolls