Marksmanship Ability

This Ability governs a person’s capacity to operate and maintain ranged weapons, from bows and arrows to pistols, rifles and machine guns. Marksmanship can be learned in a variety of ways, whether as a hobby, part of a profession or a matter of day-to-day survival.

Characters use Marksmanship to shoot at a target, to assemble or disassemble a ranged weapon, or to fix on that has been jammed or damaged.

Trait Effects: A character with Marksmanship 1 has a basic familiarity with her weapons and knows how to operate and maintain them. She is fairly accurate under most conditions. A character with Marksmanship 3 is an expert shot and is familiar with a wide assortment of weapons and their characteristics. A character with Marksmanship 5 wields her weapon with near-supernatural skill. Hitting a nickel-sized target from hundreds of yards away in a high wind is as easy and natural as breathing.