Offensive Powers
Since martial powers focus on fighting, offensive powers
are the most common, ranging from particular fighting
techniques to enhancements of a character’s fighting capabilities.
Analyze Style
By observing and analyzing a foe’s fighting style and technique,
you can find weaknesses you can exploit to your
advantage. If the target fails to resist, you gain an advantage
due to the drop in the target’s active defenses until
the target manages to cover the opening by realizing
(through defensive fighting skill) what you are doing. A
variant form of this power may impose different conditions,
such as Impaired and Disabled.
Analyze Style: Perception Ranged Affliction (Resisted and
Overcome by Will; Vulnerable, Defenseless), Conditions
Limited to Your Attacks, Limited Degree, Insidious, Subtle • 2
points +1 point per rank.
Berserker Rage
You can fly into a berserk rage in combat, making you
strong and fearless, but heedless of your own safety.
The GM may set a limit on the ranks of Strength you can
gain from this power, or allow additional Strength-based
Damage to be layered on top of the Enhanced Strength.
Berserker Rage: Enhanced Advantage 1 (Fearless), Enhanced
Strength, Sustained, Quirk (–1 to active defenses, –2 points) • 1
point +2 points per additional Strength rank.
Breaking Blow
With a moment of focused concentration, you can strike
“through” an object with tremendous force, allowing you
to smash wood, or even stone and steel, with your bare
hands. You may combine this with a Power Attack maneuver
for additional effect.
Breaking Blow: Strength-based Damage, Penetrating, Limited
to Objects, Activation (move action, –1 point) • 1 point for rank
2, +1 point per additional rank.
Chi Strike
You focus your internal energies into a powerful unarmed
strike, greater than just your physical strength. This power
often has a flaw like Tiring to represent the drain on the
wielder’s energy.
Chi Strike: Strength-based Damage • 1 point per rank.
Dim Mak
You have mastered the legendary dim mak, or “death
touch” attack, allowing you to introduce “poison chi” into a
target’s system that eventually destroys them from within.
Progression beyond incapacitated takes the character’s
condition to dying. Some forms of Dim Mak are also Insidious
and Subtle.
Dim Mak: Affliction (Resisted and Overcome by Fortitude;
Fatigued and Impaired, Disabled and Exhausted,
Incapacitated), Extra Condition, Progressive, Reversible
•1 point + 4 points per rank.
Ear Boxing
A double-strike to a target’s vulnerable ears provides a
distraction. This power is an effective power stunt for
Strength Damage for a martial artist faced with an incredibly
tough or otherwise invulnerable target.
Ear Boxing: Affliction (Resisted and Overcome by Will; Dazed
and Impaired, Disabled and Stunned), Extra Condition,
Limited Degree • 1 point per rank.
Ghost Fighting
You know esoteric techniques to focus your inner energies
to strike ghosts and other incorporeal supernatural
beings, where material attacks normally would not.
Ghost Fighting: Strength Damage Affects Insubstantial
• 1 point (half Damage rank) or 2 points (full Damage rank).
Kiai Shout
You have learned the art of kiai, a fierce battle shout, combined
with breath control and harnessing your personal
energy to produce a variety of effects. The basic kiai shout
is intended to rattle and unnerve your opponents, leaving
them vulnerable when you attack.
Kiai Shout: Cone Area Affliction (Resisted and Overcome by
Will; Dazed and Vulnerable, Stunned and Defenseless), Extra
Condition, Hearing-Dependent, Limited Degree • 1 point
per rank.
More exotic kiai powers involve effects more akin to those
found in the Sonic Powers profile, including producing
damaging sonic blasts with just your voice.
Natural Fighter
While some gain their fighting talents from years of study and
training, others are naturally gifted, or supernaturally gifted,
gaining some advantages from esoteric arts, the blessings of
higher (or lower) powers, mystical insights, and so forth.
Natural Fighter: Enhanced Advantage • 1 point per rank.