Editing Hawkmoon:Marks of the Ancients (section)

== Mutation Edges ==

=== Beast-Blooded ===
'''Requirements:''' Novice, Vigor d6+

Your body carries visible animalistic traits: fur, unusual musculature, slit pupils, vestigial claws, heavy bones, or some other stable alteration.

Gain a +1 bonus to '''Athletics''' rolls and a +1 bonus to '''Toughness''' against unarmed attacks, falls, and environmental scrapes and battering.

'''Typical Hindrance:''' '''Bestial Appearance (Minor or Major)'''  
The same traits that harden your body mark you as something not entirely human.

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=== Giant Blood ===
'''Requirements:''' Novice, Strength d8+, Vigor d6+

Somewhere in your lineage, something larger than common humanity entered the line. You are broad-boned, long-limbed, and unusually powerful.

Gain +1 die step to your lifting and carrying capacity and +1 to rolls to resist being pushed, grappled, or knocked prone.

'''Typical Hindrance:''' '''Monstrous Build (Minor or Major)'''  
Your great size makes ordinary life inconvenient and often costly.

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=== Keen Scent ===
'''Requirements:''' Novice, Notice d6+

Your senses are subtly inhuman. You can smell blood, smoke, fear, wet stone, and spoor better than ordinary folk.

Gain a +2 bonus to '''Notice''' or '''Survival''' rolls when tracking by scent or detecting hidden creatures, blood, smoke, poison, or nearby animals.

'''Typical Hindrance:''' '''Relic-Tainted (Minor)''' or '''Bestial Appearance (Minor)'''  
Your senses betray your unnatural nature to others.

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=== Night Eyes ===
'''Requirements:''' Novice, Notice d6+

Your pupils are strange, reflective, or over-large, and you see far better in darkness than other men.

Ignore up to 2 points of penalties from Dim or Dark Illumination.

'''Typical Hindrance:''' '''Light-Sick (Minor)'''  
What serves you in darkness betrays you in the light.

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=== Redundant Vigor ===
'''Requirements:''' Novice, Vigor d8+

Your flesh is oddly resilient, your organs displaced, doubled, or simply harder to fail.

Gain a +2 bonus to rolls to resist '''disease''' and '''poison'''.

'''Typical Hindrance:''' '''Unstable Mutation (Major)'''  
Your resilience is unnatural and not wholly reliable.

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=== Spring-Heeled ===
'''Requirements:''' Novice, Agility d8+

Your joints and musculature are subtly unnatural.

Gain a +2 bonus to '''Athletics''' rolls for leaping, climbing, and keeping balance.

'''Typical Hindrance:''' '''Fragile Frame (Minor)'''  
Your unnatural agility comes at the cost of structural weakness.

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