Editing SHELTER:Carter Postma

 

 

 

 

 

 

Class: Snoop 5/Soldier 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Backstory:

Subplots:  

Personal Mission — Since Carter discovered that SHELTER may be a secret arm of the Shadow Patriots, the cryptographer has been significantly shaken by this possibility. He's made it his personal goal to find out as much as he can about the connection between SHELTER and the Patriots, and do it as subtly as possible.

INT 18 (+4)

Action Dice: 4d6

Vitality Points: 30

Wound Points: 10

Fortitude: +4

Reflex: +6

Will: +6

Stress Threshold: 13

Subdual Threshold: 10

Request: +6

Gear: +6

Defense: 17

Initiative: +6

Base Attack Bonus: +3

Unarmed: +3

Weapon Proficiencies: Handgun (forte), Rifle, Shotgun, Submachine Guns, Unarmed

Secondary Weapon:  

Speed: 30 ft.

Analysis +13/+10 (9 ranks, cap 45)

Blend +9/+9 (8 ranks, cap 40)

Bluff +9 (8 ranks, cap 40)

Bureaucracy +9 (8 ranks, cap 40)

Computers +12 (8 ranks, cap 40)

Cultures (North America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe) +6 (2 rank, cap 20)

Drive (Personal Ground Vehicle) +2 (1 rank, cap 20)

Electronics +12/+9 (8 ranks, cap 40)

Investigation +9/+9 (8 ranks, cap 40)

Notice +10 (9 ranks, 40 cap)

Profession +1 (Musician) (0 ranks, cap 15)

Science (Mathematics, Programming) +15 (11 ranks, cap 50)

Sense Motive +9/+9 (8 ranks, cap 40)

Sleight of Hand +7 (6 ranks, cap 30)

 

Interests: conspiracy theories, music theory, contemporary composers, photography

 

 

Origin Abilities: +2 Int, -2 Con, +1 bonus to skill checks determining surprise, +1 insight to Reflex save, bonus feat (Unlocked Potential), additional skill points, additional class skills (Analysis, Search)

 

 

 

Astute: Each time you spend 1 action die to boost an Intelligence- or Wisdom-based skill check, you roll and add the results of 2 dice (e.g. a Level 1 Snoop’s bonus of 1d4 becomes 2d4)

 

 

Flawless Search: At Level 1, each time you fail an Analysis or Search check and don’t suffer an error, you still succeed as long as the check DC (or your opponent’s check result) is equal to or less than your class level + 20. If several grades of success are possible, you achieve only the lowest possible positive result.

 

Intuition: At Level 2, as a 1-minute action, you may request a hint from the GC for which the GC gains no action dice (see page 398). If the GC refuses, you gain 1 bonus action die. You may use this ability a number of times per mission equal to your starting action dice.

 

Intercept Communication: At Level 3, once per session, you may choose 1 specific location of which you’re aware. You clandestinely intercept the next telephone call, email, or other communication to or from the target without making a skill check (though if it’s encrypted, you must still decipher it). You also learn the address, phone number, or frequency from which the message was sent.

 

Spookshow — Intelligence Analysis: You may quickly sift through large amounts of data. The time required for you to perform research using a computer decreases to 1/2 standard (rounded up, minimum 1 minute).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marksmanship Basics: Each time Carter takes an Aim action, he may also Brace as a free action. Further, he may take a Brace action even when no obvious surface is available to brace against. Finally, Carter suffers only a -1 penalty with Reflex saves while braced instead of the standard -4.

 

Unlocked Potential (Science (Mathematics)): Choose 1 skill. This skill is always a class skill for you, and your maximum rank with the skill increases by 3 (to your career level + 6). This skill’s maximum rank may not be increased by any other character option or effect, however. At Level 1 and each time you gain a level, you must increase your chosen skill to its maximum possible rank before you may spend skill points on any other skill.

 

Pack Rat: Your Possessions increase by 2 (maximum 10).

 

Associate: Assembly: You’re an ingenious tinker, routinely creating devices on the fly. At Level 3, you may choose 1 gear table. Once per session, you may assemble any pick of Medium or smaller Size listed on this table. This requires a number of Reserve Common Items equal to the target pick’s Caliber and a number of minutes equal to the pick’s Request DC. The pick’s maximum Caliber may not exceed 1/2 your class level (rounded up). Once assembled, the gear pick operates in all ways according to its standard statistics, except that the error range of each attack and skill check made using it increases by 2.You may cannibalize gear assembled with this ability by spending a number of minutes equal to the item’s Request DC. Once the item is cannibalized, you gain a number of Reserve Common Items equal to 1/2 the item’s Caliber (rounded down, minimum 1). An item assembled using this ability is lost at the end of the mission, as standard. At Levels 5, 7, and 9, you may choose 1 additional gear table to which this ability applies.

Wealth: 4

Possessions: 7 (FN Browning High-Power (9mmP, holster + additional load of non-lethal ammo); parabolic microphone; All-purpose replacement cipher (Code -- PR 4); still camera (commercial grade); video bug (PR 1); audio bug (PR 1); cover identity (PR 2 — Charles Parker, photographer for Urban Trends magazine); field glasses; physical tap; Common items: cell phone, small pen flashlight, pack of AA batteries, tablet, several pens, signal mirror, folder with several sheets of music, viola, thumbed-through western novel, caffeine pills, several packs of over-the-counter painkillers, pitch pipe, stopwatch)

Spending Cash: 3 ($900)

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