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 //It's all well and good to bring berserkers, karate-fighters, aethernauts, weaselmancers, ape-men, mystic chefs and other traditional types along with you on adventures. If you're in the business of wealth acquisition, however, sooner or later you're going to need the services of a thief.// //It's all well and good to bring berserkers, karate-fighters, aethernauts, weaselmancers, ape-men, mystic chefs and other traditional types along with you on adventures. If you're in the business of wealth acquisition, however, sooner or later you're going to need the services of a thief.//
  
-The Thief class specializes in getting things that belong to other people into your own possession, generally through slight of hand and/or trickery. Being a Thief does not give you stealth capabilities; check the Shadow class if you're into that sort of thing.+The Thief archetype specializes in getting things that belong to other people into your own possession, generally through slight of hand and/or trickery. Being a Thief does not give you stealth capabilities; check the [[Shadow]] archetype if you're into that sort of thing. If your larceny tends to be on a grand and dramatic scale, you might also consider the [[Mastermind]] archetype.
  
 ^[[#Thief]] ^^Steal things. | ^[[#Thief]] ^^Steal things. |
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 |{{fa>caret-right?24}} |[[#Legerdemain]] |Steal better. | |{{fa>caret-right?24}} |[[#Legerdemain]] |Steal better. |
 |{{fa>caret-right?24}} |[[#Lockpicks]] |Open locks without needing a key. | |{{fa>caret-right?24}} |[[#Lockpicks]] |Open locks without needing a key. |
-|{{fa>caret-right?24}} |[[#Mug]] |Inflict Deprived and sometimes loot your targets. | +|{{fa>caret-right?24}} |[[#Vulture]] |Better looting results. | 
-^[[#Enterprises]] ||Thief School |+^ ^^^
  
 ====== Thief ====== ====== Thief ======
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 ^ ^^^ ^ ^^^
 ^{{ra>gear-hammer?48|Utility}} ||{{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**Slight of Hand:** You can steal any small, light object in the environment or in another creature's direct possession that isn't too secure (silverware, keycards, wallets, snacks, etc) within 1 meter of your position as an action, even if you are being directly observed. \\ \\ {{fa>minus-circle?24&align=left}}**Skulduggery:** You can only use this ability when all onlookers who would object to your larceny aren't suspicious of you. If anybody is really intently watching you closely to make sure you don't try any funny business, then you can't. \\ \\ {{fa>minus-circle?24&align=left}}**Check-Based:** Roll a trigger die when stealing something. If the result is 5+, you steal the thing; if not, then you get caught. | ^{{ra>gear-hammer?48|Utility}} ||{{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**Slight of Hand:** You can steal any small, light object in the environment or in another creature's direct possession that isn't too secure (silverware, keycards, wallets, snacks, etc) within 1 meter of your position as an action, even if you are being directly observed. \\ \\ {{fa>minus-circle?24&align=left}}**Skulduggery:** You can only use this ability when all onlookers who would object to your larceny aren't suspicious of you. If anybody is really intently watching you closely to make sure you don't try any funny business, then you can't. \\ \\ {{fa>minus-circle?24&align=left}}**Check-Based:** Roll a trigger die when stealing something. If the result is 5+, you steal the thing; if not, then you get caught. |
-|{{fa>caret-right?24}} ^{{fa>star?24|Alternative}} |{{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**Smooth Recovery:** If you fail to steal something, you can avoid getting caught. This allows you to retry if you'd like. \\ \\ {{fa>minus-circle?24&align=left}}**Supply Cost:** Every time you avoid getting caught after a botched stealing attempt, you must spend 1 Supply or use of a Mojo Catcher item. |+|{{fa>caret-right?24}} ^{{fa>star?24|Alternative}} |{{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**Smooth Recovery:** If you fail to steal something, you can avoid getting caught. This allows you to retry if you'd like. \\ \\ {{fa>minus-circle?24&align=left}}**Mojo:** Every time you avoid getting caught after a botched stealing attempt, you must spend 1 Mojo. |
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-^{{ra>gear-hammer?48|Utility}} ||{{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**Counterfeit:** When you steal something, you can choose to replace it with a real-looking, but fake substitute. Close examination or attempts to use the fake will immediately reveal that it is a fake, but casual observation will not. \\ \\ {{fa>minus-circle?24&align=left}}**Supply Cost:** Every time you create a counterfeit object, it costs 1 Supply/Mojo Catcher use. |+^{{ra>gear-hammer?48|Utility}} ||{{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**Counterfeit:** When you steal something, you can choose to replace it with a real-looking, but fake substitute. Close examination or attempts to use the fake will immediately reveal that it is a fake, but casual observation will not. \\ \\ {{fa>minus-circle?24&align=left}}**Supplies:** Every time you create a counterfeit object, it costs 1 Supplies. |
 ^ ^^^ ^ ^^^
 ^{{ra>gear-hammer?48|Utility}} ||{{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**Hidden Pockets:** You can hide anything you're keeping in a single inventory slot on your person in a place impossible to find. No amount of searching (or stripping) will reveal it. You can only hide one such inventory item at a time. | ^{{ra>gear-hammer?48|Utility}} ||{{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**Hidden Pockets:** You can hide anything you're keeping in a single inventory slot on your person in a place impossible to find. No amount of searching (or stripping) will reveal it. You can only hide one such inventory item at a time. |
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-^{{ra>gear-hammer?48|Utility}} ||{{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**GTA:** You can take possession of an unattended vehicle that doesn't belong to you with a few minutes of work. The vehicle retains all special features from its owner's class abilities (Driver, Sailor, Aviator, etc) plus any abilities equipped to it via the Mechanic class. \\ \\ {{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**A Fine Addition:** If you have the relevant ownership class for the vehicle you're stealing (Driver for wheeled vehicles, Sailor for boats, Aviator for aircraft, etc) and you know all the same abilities from that class that are known by the vehicle's previous owner, the vehicle becomes yours with no further action or fuss required. Note that a vehicle being "yours" in terms of game mechanics and a vehicle being "yours" in terms of the legal system in the game's campaign world are not the same thing. \\ \\ {{fa>minus-circle?24&align=left}}**Unfamiliar Controls:** If you don't have the relevant class or one or more of the abilities in it for the vehicle you're stealing, you must spend 1 Supply/Mojo Catcher use per missing ability per day until you ditch it. For example, if you do not have the Sailor class at all and you steal a boat from a creature with the Sailor class and the Pumps and Shipwright abilities, you've got to spend 3 Supply/Mojo Catcher uses per day to make up for your own nautical shortcomings. If you have the Sailor class but have learned different abilities than the original owner, you still have to spend 2 Supply/Mojo Catcher uses per day. Features of your stolen vehicle that depend on Mechanic abilities add to this cost for every Mechanic ability you're missing as well. |+^{{ra>gear-hammer?48|Utility}} ||{{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**GTA:** You can take possession of an unattended vehicle that doesn't belong to you with a procedure of work. \\ \\ {{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**A Fine Addition:** If you know all the same abilities from the [[Vehiclist]] archetype that are known by the vehicle's previous owner, the vehicle becomes yours with no further action or fuss required. Note that a vehicle being "yours" in terms of game mechanics and a vehicle being "yours" in terms of the legal system in the game's campaign world are not the same thing. \\ \\ {{fa>minus-circle?24&align=left}}**Unfamiliar Controls:** If you don't have any levels in the Vehiclist archetype, you must spend 1 Mojo per session in order to make use of your stolen vehicle. Features of your stolen vehicle that depend on advanced abilities from the Vehiclist archetype simply don't function for you. |
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 ^{{ra>gear-hammer?48|Utility}} ||{{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**Open Locks:** You can open an adjacent locked object (door, chest, diary, manacles, etc) as an action without needing the key. \\ \\ {{fa>minus-circle?24&align=left}}**Check-Based:** Roll a trigger die when opening a lock. If the result is 5+, you successfully open the lock; if not, then you don't. Really advanced locks (like electronic ones requiring multi-part verification) can only be picked on a 9+, and really crappy locks (like cheap padlocks in the locker room) are always pickable without needing to roll at all. | ^{{ra>gear-hammer?48|Utility}} ||{{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**Open Locks:** You can open an adjacent locked object (door, chest, diary, manacles, etc) as an action without needing the key. \\ \\ {{fa>minus-circle?24&align=left}}**Check-Based:** Roll a trigger die when opening a lock. If the result is 5+, you successfully open the lock; if not, then you don't. Really advanced locks (like electronic ones requiring multi-part verification) can only be picked on a 9+, and really crappy locks (like cheap padlocks in the locker room) are always pickable without needing to roll at all. |
-|{{fa>caret-right?24}} ^{{fa>star?24|Alternative}} |{{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**Retry:** If you fail to pick a lock, you can retry. \\ \\ {{fa>minus-circle?24&align=left}}**Supply Cost:** Every time you retry a lockpicking check, it costs 1 Supply/Mojo Catcher item. You can retry as many times as you like. | +|{{fa>caret-right?24}} ^{{fa>star?24|Alternative}} |{{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**Retry:** If you fail to pick a lock, you can retry. \\ \\ {{fa>minus-circle?24&align=left}}**Mojo:** Every time you retry a lockpicking check, it costs 1 Mojo. You can retry as many times as you like. | 
-|{{fa>caret-right?24}} ^{{fa>star?24|Alternative}} |{{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**Wax Key:** Once you've picked a lock, you can choose to re-lock it and give yourself a copy of its key, allowing you to bypass it freely in the future. Keys don't occupy an inventory slot. \\ \\ {{fa>minus-circle?24&align=left}}**Supply Cost:** Every time you make yourself a copy of a lock's key, it costs 1 Supply/Mojo Catcher item. |+|{{fa>caret-right?24}} ^{{fa>star?24|Alternative}} |{{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**Wax Key:** Once you've picked a lock, you can choose to re-lock it and give yourself a copy of its key, allowing you to bypass it freely in the future. Keys don't occupy an inventory slot. \\ \\ {{fa>minus-circle?24&align=left}}**Supplies:** Every time you make yourself a copy of a lock's key, it costs 1 Supplies. |
 ^ ^^^ ^ ^^^
  
-====== Mug ======+====== Vulture ======
  
 ^ ^^^ ^ ^^^
-^{{ra>fireball-sword?48|Offense}} ||{{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**Disarray:** When you steal from a subject, you can choose to immediately inflict the Deprived condition on them. | +^{{ra>gear-hammer?48|Utility}} ||{{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**Rob The Dead:** When you loot a fallen foe, you may roll the looting check twice and take whichever result you like better. |
-^ ^^^ +
-^{{ra>gear-hammer?48|Utility}} ||{{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**Live Looting:** If the trigger die rolled to steal from a subject is 7+, you may immediately make a looting check on that subject as if they were dead. You gain whatever items (if any) that result from the looting check as normal. \\ \\ {{fa>minus-circle?24&align=left}}**Normal Looting Limits:** A given creature still cannot be looted more than once per session per 5 levels they have, and any looting checks made on a creature while alive are still deducted from the total that can be made against them after they are dead. |+
 ^ ^^^ ^ ^^^
  
-|{{ra>help?24|Help}} |**Deprived** creatures are unable to access their supplies. | +^  Sidebar: Looting  ^ 
-|::: |{{fa>minus-circle?18&align=left}} Cannot use or spend Supply in any way. \\ \\ {{fa>minus-circle?18&align=left}} Cannot use any ability that requires Supply in inventory. |+|When treasure and other valuable rewards need to be generated on the fly, the referee may call for a looting roll. This most often happens when you're going through the pockets of a defeated foe and helping yourself to the contents. You can roll once per 5 levels of a defeated creature and get everything that comes up (so creatures of level 1-4 never yield any loot, but creatures of level 5-9 give one loot roll, level 10-14 give two loot rolls, and so on). \\ \\ Looting rolls are not trigger dice and thus cannot have their values changed by any archetype that alters the result of trigger dice. What you roll is what you get, period. | 
 + 
 +^Check ^ Loot ^ 
 +|1-3 |Nothing | 
 +|4 |Provisions | 
 +|5 |Supplies | 
 +|6 |Mojo | 
 +|7-8 |Dosh | 
 +|9-10 |Keystone | 
 +|11-12 |Treasure |
  
-====== Enterprises ======+Keystones looted from a creature always correspond to one of the archetypes that creature has training in (referee's choice). 
  
-^Thief School |The settlement hosts an institution that teaches the secrets of this class for a small fee. Keystones of this class can be purchased here: the first such keystone per session costs 1 Supply, the second 2, the third 3, and so on. | 
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