Cerberus
The Hunter Faction of the Hounds of Hell MC
Abilities
While a lot of challenges and actions can be undertaken with the use of a character's attribute traits, this is not always the case. Abilities are skills and talents that are used for to simulate some of the more difficult and dramatic tasks your character may participate in.
At creation you have 5 points to spend on your base abilities, it is important to consider carefully where to use them because of course, 5 points does not go very far in getting a wide variety of skills you may desire for your concept. Other Abilities may be purchased later with the use of XP points.
A character may have more than 1 point in each ability which dictates a higher skill in that one ability. However at Creation you may not purchase an ability beyond 3 points and in active progression you may no surpass 5 in total with XP.
Using Abilities:
There are many ways to use an Ability within game. But perhaps the most common is when attempting to use a particular skill or action withing the current game session. For example, your character may need to hack into a computer system in order to draw much needed information. In which case that character would need to have "Computers" as an ability in order to proceed with such an action and attempt, before challenging to see if that character is to be successful. The ST will be specific in how much time is needed for your character to attempt the action you have put forward, either asking you to act this out or drop out of game for this amount of time in order for your attempt to proceed.
Use of an ability may also require an additional test, some may be simple tests where others may static tests, it will be specified by your Storyteller which and what challenges are require to complete the action you desire. As with any challenge if you fail your challenge you will lose your risked trait, which will be your ability trait. This will be temporary until the end of the scene or challenge mission.
Retests:
In many cases a challenge can be resolved with a single challenge, sometimes a character may use a point in an appropriate ability in order to renew their efforts and retest a failed test in order to suceed in that challenge. By sacrificing an appropriate ability trait you may call for a retest on a failed challenge, while this will give the second attempt at the challenge, the traits risked and lost with the first failure remain lost even if the secondary test is sucessful. These traits are gone for the remainder of the game session or until specified by the Storyteller.
