FATE Da Cool Shit! Skill: Intuition

Special:

• Intuition is the main skill used to help others recover from mental consequences and conditions.
• Intuition is the de factor skill for determining turn order in a mental conflict. Descending order by rank.

Overcome: You don’t really use Intuition to overcome obstacles directly - normally, you find out some information with it, and then use another skill to act. In some cases, though, you might use Intuition like you would Perception, to see if you catch a change in someone’s attitude or intent.

Create an Advantage: You can use Intuition to read a person’s emotional state and get a general sense of who they are, presuming you have some kind of interpersonal contact with them. Most often, you’ll use this to assess the aspects on another character’s sheet, but sometimes you’ll also be able to create new aspects, especially on NPCs. If the target has some reason to be aware that you’re trying to read them, they can defend with Deceive or Rapport. You can also use Intuition to discover what circumstances will allow you to make mental attacks on someone, figuring out their breaking points.

Defend: This is the skill to go to in order to defend against Deceive actions, allowing you to pierce through lies and see through to someone’s true intent. You can also use it to defend against those creating social advantages against you in general.

Example Stunts:

• Lie Whisperer. +2 to Intuition attempts to discern or discover lies, whether they’re directed at your or someone else.
• Nose for Trouble. You can use Intuition instead of Perception to determine your turn order in a conflict.
• Psychologist. Once per session, you can expedite someone else’s recovery from a mental consequence. If you spend at least half an hour with them in therapy and then succeed on the Intuition overcome action to start their mental recovery, their consequence will also immediately shift down one level of severity or go away entirely if it was mild.