Dirty Tricks (Tag)

Dirty Tricks		Dirty Tricks Mercenary Tag
These tags are available to mercenaries that have taken the dirty tricks specialization. Their abilities may be displayed with the Abilities command. Dirty Tricks tags may be learned from Doulb in Kaezar.
Name	Requirements	Cost	Description
Shiv	None	1 Stamina per hit	The mercenary's piercing attacks with a precision weapon hit weak points in armor and armor-like effects, allowing it to bypass some or all of the resistance. The amount bypassed scales with tactics skill and caps at ignoring 25% of the armor bonus.
Distract	20 Stealth	None	The mercenary distracts its target, lowering the target's observation and tactics. The penalty scales with larceny skill. Failing to distract may reveal one when hiding.
Vanish	30 Stealth	Passive	The mercenary becomes skilled in the art of hiding, greatly increasing its chances of concealing itself. Provides Good stealth to mercenaries with Dirty Tricks secondary.
Toxicology	36 Alchemy	Passive	Passively allows the mercenary to use toxicology formulae in alchemy. Mercenaries with a Dirty Tricks Secondary also gain Alchemy as a Normal skill prior to innates.
Steady Fingers	50 Lockpicking 50 Mechanisms	Passive	Passively allows the mercenary to have a significantly smaller chance of setting off traps when failing an attempt to disarm one. Gives a bonus to disarming traps that scales with Lockpicking and Reflexes and allows the mercenary to learn Larceny while Lockpicking and disarming traps. Mercenaries with a Dirty Tricks Secondary also gain Lockpicking and Mechanism as a Normal skill prior to innates.
Ambush	60 Stealth	None	The mercenary ambushes its target, catching it by surprise, knocking it prone, and stunning it.
Puncture	90 Melee	None	Allows the mercenary to have a guaranteed chance to inflict poisons from its attacks for a limited period of time that ends when a poison is delivered. Also adds a second roll to inflict poisons using tactics + dexterity.
Deception	110 Stealth	1 Stamina per avoidance	The mercenary moves in a manner confusing to its opponents, granting a small chance that its enemies will flat out miss. This is a primary defensive ability. The mercenary also gains an increase to its resistance to physical damage that scales with Stealth and Reflexes, but is disrupted by any armor heavier than heavy leather. This is an armor resistance effect.
Misdirection	150 Stealth	1 Stamina per second	The mercenary moves in such a manner as to make its allies stand out more than itself, giving it less of a chance of being targeted. Also provides the mercenary with a physical bonus to Evasion that scales with Stealth and Reasoning.
Pilfer	170 Larceny	Passive	Allows the mercenary to passively attempt to pilfer from humanoid targets it searches, boosting the value of the treasure found from it by performing a Larceny + Dexterity vs Level check. The increased treasure scales with Larceny and Dexterity.
Chicanery	210 Larceny	Passive	Passively provides the mercenary with a physical bonus to Alchemy, Lockpicking, Mechanisms, and Stealth that scales with Larceny and Reasoning.