Mental Resolve (WIL)

This specialty skill is used to determine a hero’s ability to cope with emotional or mental stress. The higher a hero’s rank in mental resolve, the more resistant he is to trauma, fear, mind control, and mental powers.

Results

• Critical Failure: The hero collapses in anguish and can’t act, or flees in the face of extreme fear for d4 rounds.
• Failure: The hero freezes and loses one action.
• Ordinary: The hero can act normally but receives a +1 penalty to all actions for 1 round.
• Good/Amazing: The hero puts aside his negative emotions and can act without penalty.

Rank Benefits

• Resistance Modifier: The hero’s Will resistance modifier improves by +1 at rank 4, by +1 again at rank 8, and by +1 again at rank 12.

  Results	Description
  Ordinary	Success indicates that the hero can act normally but receives a +1 penalty for 1 round.
  Good	Success indicates that the hero can act normally without penalty.
  Amazing	Success indicates that the hero can act normally without penalty.