This specialty skill represents a hero’s ability to trade insults with the best of them. A successful taunt can rattle or even enrage an opponent, causing them to perform an action against their best interest.

Taunt has no effect on a Charmed or Fanatic target.

Results

• Critical Failure: Target uses the taunt to fuel rage, receiving a -2 bonus to their next action.
• Failure: The taunt has no effect.
• Ordinary: Effective, providing a +1 penalty to the target’s next action.
• Good: Target is rattled, receiving a +2 penalty to their next action.
• Amazing: Target is enraged, receiving a +3 penalty to their next action and shifts one grade in attitude toward Combative.

Only one successful taunt can be directed at a target in a scene.

Interaction pp = 101