EVIL Technologist

Technologist is the skill of working with or constructing technology and machinery.

O

Overcome: Technologist allows you to build, break, or fix technology, presuming you have the time and tools you need. Often, actions with Technologist happen as one component of a more complex situation, making it a popular skill for challenges. For example, if you’re just fixing a broken pump, neither success nor failure is interesting; you should just succeed and move on. Now, if you’re trying to get your car to start while a pack of werewolves is hunting you…

C

Create advantage: You can use Technologist to create aspects representing features of a piece of machinery, pointing out useful features or strengths you can use to your advantage (Armor-Plated, Rugged Construction) or a vulnerability for you to exploit (Flaw in the Cross-Beam, Hasty Work). Creating Technologist advantages can also take the form of quick and dirty sabotage or jury-rigging on mechanical objects in the scene. For example, you might create a Makeshift Pulley to help you get to the platform above you, or throw something into the pillbox that’s firing on you to give it a Jammed Pivoting Joint and make it harder to hit you.

A

Attack: You probably won’t use Technologist to attack in a conflict, unless the conflict is specifically about using technology or computers like when hacking. Usually, weapons you craft are likely to be used with other skills to attack—a guy who makes a sword still needs Fight to wield it well!

D

Defend: As with attacking, Technologist doesn’t defend, unless you’re somehow using it as the skill to control a piece of technology that you block with.

Stunts

• Always Making Useful Things. You don’t ever have to spend a fate point to declare that you have the proper tools for a particular job using Technologist, even in extreme situations (like being imprisoned and separated from all your stuff).
• Better than New! Whenever you succeed with style on an overcome action to repair a piece of technology or electronics, you can immediately give it a new situation aspect (with a free invoke) reflecting the improvements you’ve made, instead of just a boost.
• Hacker. You're great at quickly programming useful tools to aid people in gathering, sorting and storing information. Any search for information takes only half the time in addition to an giving you an extra invoke on any Aspects you find.