| Name | Type | Text |
|---|---|---|
| Take 10 | Skill | When your character is not in immediate danger or distracted, you may choose to take 10. Instead of rolling 1d20 for the skill check, calculate your result as if you had rolled a 10. For many routine tasks, taking 10 makes them automatically successful. Distractions or threats (such as combat) make it impossible for a character to take 10. In most cases, taking 10 is purely a safety measure—you know (or expect) that an average roll will succeed but fear that a poor roll might fail, so you elect to settle for the average roll (a 10). Taking 10 is especially useful in situations where a particularly high roll wouldn’t help. |
| Taking 10 and Taking 20 | Skill | A skill check represents an attempt to accomplish some goal, usually while under some sort of time pressure or distraction. Sometimes, though, a character can use a skill under more favorable conditions, increasing the odds of success. Ability Checks and Caster Level Checks: The normal take 10 and take 20 rules apply for ability checks. Neither rule applies to concentration checks or caster level checks. |
| Tiefling | Race | This lanky man sneers as he draws his sword. Tiny horns and a barbed tail reveal that he is something more than human. Tieflings are humans with demonic, devilish, or other evil outsider blood in their ancestry. Often persecuted for their strange appearance and unnatural mannerisms, most tieflings disguise their nature or are forced to live on the fringes or underbelly of civilized society. Though they are not born evil, it is an easy path for them to find, especially as most suffer at the hands of “normal” folks while growing up. Tieflings look mostly human except for some physical traits that reveal their strange heritage. Tiefling Characters Tieflings are defined by their class levels—they do not possess racial HD. They have the following racial traits. +2 Dexterity, +2 Intelligence, –2 Charisma: Tieflings are quick in body and mind, but are inherently strange. Senses: darkvision (60 feet.) Racial Skill Bonuses: Bluff and Stealth +2. Spell-Like Abilities: darkness 1/day (caster level equals the tiefling's class level.) Resistance(s): cold, electricity, and fire resistance 5. Fiendish Sorcery: Tiefling sorcerers with the Abyssal or Infernal bloodline treat their Charisma score as 2 points higher for all sorcerer class abilities. Languages: Tieflings begin play speaking Common and either Abyssal or Infernal. Tieflings with high Intelligence scores can choose any of the following: Abyssal, Draconic, Dwarven, Elven, Gnome, Goblin, Halfling, Infernal, and Orc. |
| Trapfinding | Ability | A character adds 1/2 her level to Perception skill checks made to locate traps and to Disable Device skill checks (minimum +1). A character can use Disable Device to disarm magic traps. |