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2nd-Level College Ability


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Feature

2nd-Level College Ability

Shadow
Level 2

Your shadow college grants your choice of one of two heroic abilities.

2nd-Level Black Ash Ability

Choose one of the following abilities.

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Ability

In a Puff of Ash

Shadow · Black Ash
Level 2
5 Insight
Main Action

You enchant a strike with your teleportation magic.

Distance
Melee 1 or ranged 5
Targets
One creature
Power Roll +Agility
!6 + A damage; you can teleport the target 1 square
@10 + A damage; you can teleport the target up to 3 squares
#14 + A damage; you can teleport the target up to 5 squares

2nd-Level Caustic Alchemy Ability

Choose one of the following abilities.

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Ability

Sticky Bomb

Shadow · Caustic Alchemy
Level 2
5 Insight
Main Action

Explosives are best when they're attached to an enemy.

Distance
Targets
One creature
Power Roll +Agility
!4 + A fire damage
@7 + A fire damage
#11 + A fire damage
Effect

You attach a small bomb to a creature. If you are hidden from the creature, they don't notice the bomb and you remain hidden. The creature otherwise notices the bomb and can disarm and remove it as a main action. If they don't, at the end of your next turn, the bomb detonates. When the bomb detonates, you make a power roll targeting each enemy within 2 squares of it.

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Ability

Stink Bomb

Shadow · Caustic Alchemy
Level 2
5 Insight
Main Action

Putrid yellow gas explodes from a bomb you toss.

AreaRanged
Distance
3 cube within 10
Targets
Each creature in the area
Power Roll +Agility
!2 poison damage
@5 poison damage
#7 poison damage
Effect

The gas remains in the area until the end of the encounter. Any creature who starts their turn in the area and has M < AVERAGE is weakened (save ends).

2nd-Level Harlequin Mask Ability

Choose one of the following abilities.

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Ability

Machinations of Sound

Shadow · Harlequin Mask
Level 2
5 Insight
Maneuver

Illusory sounds make your foes reposition themselves as they cower or investigate the disturbance.

AreaMagicRanged
Distance
3 cube within 10
Targets
Each creature in the area
Power Roll +Agility
Effect

This forced movement ignores stability. Instead, the forced movement is reduced by a number equal to the target's Intuition score.

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Ability

So Gullible

Shadow · Harlequin Mask
Level 2
5 Insight
Triggered Action

When your enemy strikes, you reveal you were in a different place all along.

Magic
Distance
Self
Targets
Self
Trigger

Another creature targets you with a strike.

Effect

You use your Clever Trick ability with no insight cost against the triggering creature and strike. You can teleport to an unoccupied space within 3 squares of that creature and can make a free strike against them. You can then spend a Recovery.

Source: Draw Steel: Heroes · printing 1.01b