Every standard identity substitutes for at least one ability, by default, or more if taken as an additional feature. It’s only for taking actions that the ability it subs for ordinarily covers.
An identity does not sub for that ability for the purposes of coercing a shock meter or making a stress check, unless it has the Resists Shock or Coerces feature respectively.
I’m a Crooked Cop, of course I can pull strings, check you records, call in favours, legally intimidate, protect and serve, get cover, be official and officious, reasonably request access, know my way around town.
Substitutes for: Lie or Status.
Feature: Coerce Helplessness or Coerces Violence.
Feature: Provides Firearms Attacks.
Feature: Substitutes for Dodge or Tactical.
Two versions of the I Have Scary Problems Identity are included. One’s mystic. One’s just the outcome of living a life of incipient terror.
I Have Scary Problems.
Supernatural: Specific Inform (for whatever those oranges and pencils and people in
crowds have in common).
Feature: Use Gutter Magick.
Feature: Casts Rituals.
I Have Scary Problems, of course I can maintain a poker face, be ready to flee at all times, awaken at the slightest noise.
Substitutes for: Pursuit.
Feature: Substitutes for Dodge.
Feature: Substitutes for Notice.
I Was in The War, of course I can: speak military slang, source a live grenade if I’m willing to risk a lot of trouble, make an educated guess about an explosion, get my health care paid for eventually.
Substitutes for: Dodge.
Feature: Provides Firearm Attacks.
Feature: Unique (can construct home-made explosives, but hasn’t yet).
I Came Out of Foster Care, of course I can yell, nitpick the legality of certain tense social
interactions, instinctively hide of everything of value.
Substitutes for: Notice.
Feature: Substitutes for Dodge.
Feature: Coerces Violence.
I’m Sort of Immortal, of course I can survive that fall, take that hit, endure those burns.
Substitutes for: Health.
Feature: Provides Wound Threshold.
Feature: Substitutes For Dodge.
I’m a Zookeeper, of course I can get into the zoo, acquire poisonous snake venom, remain unbothered by the anteater’s incredible stench.
Substitutes for: Knowledge.
Feature: Provides Initiative.
Feature: Substitutes for Dodge.
I’m a Yardbird, of course I can play dumb, craft makeshift weapons, know when things are about to get ugly.
Substitutes for: Dodge.
Feature: Substitutes for Fitness.
Feature: Provides Initiative.
I’m a Karate Instructor, of course I can speak some fragmentary Japanese, get a tonfa out of my gym bag, get help or advice from one of my students.
Substitutes for: Dodge.
Feature: Resists challenges to Violence.
Feature: Provides Initiative.
I’m a Jujutsu Instructor, of course I can explain that martial arts match to an outsider, get a bokken out of my trunk, bond with other fans of Ronda Rousey.
Substitutes for: Struggle.
Feature: Substitutes for Dodge.
Feature: Evaluates Violence.
I’m a Gym Rat, of course I can massage that sore iliotibial band, talk shop with the bike store owner, find a buddy to lend me a kayak.
Substitutes for: Fitness.
Feature: Substitutes for Dodge.
Feature: Substitutes for Pursuit.
