Athletics

Athletics represents a character's overall fitness and physical capabilities, apart from sheer physical strength which is covered by Might.

Athletics allows you to overcome any obstacle that requires physical movement - jumping, running, climbing, swimming, etc. If it resembles something you’d do in the decathlon, you’d roll Athletics. You use overcome actions with Athletics to move between zones in a conflict if there’s a scene aspect or other obstacle in your way. You’d also roll Athletics to chase or race in any contests or challenges that rely on these types of activities.

When you’re creating an advantage with Athletics, you’re jumping to high ground, running faster than the opponent can keep up with, or performing dazzling acrobatic maneuvers in order to confound your foes.

Athletics is not meant as an attack skill.

Athletics is a catch-all skill to roll for defense in a physical conflict, against close quarters and ranged attacks. You can also use it to defend against characters trying to move past you, if you’re in a position to physically interfere with whoever’s making the attempt.

You may use Athletics to charge an enemy at least two zones away, and your roll counts as a physical attack. If the enemy defends successfully, you can move into their zone regardless. You may only do this if your movement would otherwise have been unrestricted by a scene aspect.

+2 to create advantages with Athletics if you are in a chase across rooftops or a similarly precarious environment.

When you succeed with style on a defend action against an opponent’s Attack roll, you gain a scene aspect with a free invocation, as opposed to just a boost.

You gain a +1 when using Athletics to defend.

You gain an additional +1 to defend when using the Full Defense option.

You may fit into or through spaces that are normally too small for your scale.

Requires Contortionist. You gain a +2 bonus to escape bonds or retraints.

You gain a +2 to defend against falling damage when you are close enough to a surface or things (tree branches, clotheslines, etc.) that could be used to slow your descent.