3.5e Skill Tricks

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Interaction

Name	Description	Prerequisites
Alluring Distraction	You can use your seductive guile to buy yourself a few seconds.	Bluff 3 ranks
Angry Glare	Make an intimidate check to demoralize as a swift action or prevent people from speaking up against you.	Intimidate 5 ranks
Blinding Maneuver	Use light in combat to hinder opponents.	BAB +1 or Bluff 1 rank
Chirology	Read the future from palms.	Knowledge (arcane) or (psionics) 1 rank, Sense Motive 5 ranks
Compassionate Hug	Give a truly heart-felt hug and make someone feel better.	Sense Motive 8 ranks, Diplomacy 8 ranks
Counterbluff	Make someone believe you swallowed their lie whole.	Bluff 6 Ranks, Sense Motive 6 Ranks
Counterfeint	You can trick tricksters and con conmen, and turn their dirty tricks right back upon them.	Bluff 10 ranks, Sense Motive 10 ranks, Diplomacy 4 ranks, Gather Information 4 ranks, Spot 4 ranks, Listen 4 ranks
Cunning Suggestion	You can make a suggestion sound particularly reasonable.	Bluff 8 Ranks, must be able to cast suggestion or insidious suggestion.
Deriding Comment	Make an incredibly hurtful comment or insult.	Bluff 8 ranks
Disbelieve the Reality	Treat a spell you are being affected by as if it was partially unreal.	Must know at least one [Shadow] spell.
Don't Hurt Me	You convince an enemy that you are too feeble to fight.	Bluff 8 ranks, Diplomacy 5 ranks
Fear Itself	With a mere glare, you cause extreme and intense fear to a single opponent.	Intimidate 10 ranks
Fire Eating	Learn to breathe flames from a lit torch.	Minor Pyrotechnics, Perform (pyrotechnics) 6 ranks
Fistful of Blows	Throw many punches as a singular strike.	Flurry of Blows feature
Flurry of Opportunities	When the enemy drops its guard you hit multiple times.	Flurry of Blows feature
I Will Make You An Offer You Can't Refuse	You intimidate another party into doing your biding.	Intimidate 11 Ranks
Intimidating Initiative	Growl at the start of combat to instill fear into opponents slower than you.	Intimidate 4 ranks
Lasso	Ensnare targets at range.	Use Rope 5 ranks
Liar Instinct	You use your acumen and instinct as a liar to spot a lie, of course if you are wrong it may cause you to honestly believe the lie. After all, your instinct and mastery can't be wrong.	Bluff 6 Ranks
Major Pyrotechnics	Deepening your craft with fireworks you gain new techniques with them.	Character level 3rd, Minor Pyrotechnics
Minor Pyrotechnics	Use fireworks and black powder in efficient ways	Craft (fireworks) 1 rank or Perform (pyrotechnics) 1 rank
Play 'Possum	You pretend to play dead (or at least unconscious).	Bluff 10 ranks, Tumble 5 ranks
Predict Action	Predict the opponent's action, forcing them to go through with it or be dazed from the revelation that they could be read so easily.	Cha 13
Pretty Eyes	You exchange a look with another, attempting to enamore them to you.	Bluff 4 Ranks
Reinforce Compulsion	You use cunning words to reinforce your mind control abilities.	Must be able to cast at least one [Compulsion] spell.
Scare Them Back	Scare foes back who try to scare you	Intimidate 8 ranks, strength 13
Secret Identity	You assume a secret identity.	Bluff 9 rank, Disguise 9 ranks
Secret Society	You are a member of a secret society and know how to communicate secretly with other member of your secret society.	1st Level only or Forgery 5 ranks
Smell of Fear	Respond to fear with disgust.	Must not be immune to fear and must have a digestive system.
Smooth Social Recovery	You can recover from botched social checks handily and efficiently.	Bluff 4 Ranks and Diplomacy 4 ranks.
Surprising Entrance	You make a scene when you enter a room or into view, causing everyone to look at you.	Bluff 8 ranks or Diplomacy 8 ranks
Tandem Initiative	Synchronize with your team and act as a group.	Teamwork 2 ranks
Teamwork Mind Link	Share a moral bonus with your team.	Teamwork 5 ranks, Sense Motive 5 ranks
Terminator Walk	You are really scary when you are walking slowly.	Intimidate 6 ranks
There Is Logic In What He Says	Gain a large bonus to bluff, but the lie only lasts for a short time before they realize what's up.	Bluff 10 ranks

Manipulation

Name	Description	Prerequisites
Alchemize	You turn some reagents into a magical potion	Craft (alchemy) 5 ranks
Caltrop Panic	Toss out caltrops as an immediate action.	Sleight of Hand 8 ranks
Cheap Attack	You make a single super cheap attack that leave your opponents open.	Improved Unarmed Strike
Concussive Maintenance	Fix an object temporarily, and recover broken items into a semi-functional state.	Craft (any) 8 ranks, Knowledge Engineering 8 ranks
Crystal Exchange	Exchange the magic crystal of equipment in the middle of a fight to adapt your strategy.	Sleight of Hand 5 ranks
Enraging Taunt	Through clever diversion or intimidation, you can make enemies fly into rage.	Bluff or Intimidate 5 ranks.
Etamina Stcejbo	You use truespeak to instill life into lifeless objects.	Truespeak 8 ranks
Flex Off	You flex, and anything that is covering you is thrown off.	Str 13 or Escape Artist 4 ranks
Going Bareback	ride your mount without a saddle	9 ranks in ride or 8 ranks in handle animal
Hands-Free Grapple	Grapple or pin creatures with appendages that shouldn't be well-suited for grappling, allowing you to use your more dextrous appendages for something else.	Improved Grapple, BAB +5, Unarmed Mastery class feature or Str 16 and Dex 15 or Kickmaster
Human Shield	You use another creature as a human shield.	Improved Grapple
Improbable Shot	You meant to hit the other guy all along.	Point Blank Shot
Ki Veil	Suppress your aura and become invisible.	At least 3rd level in a ki-based class, any ki-based feature (such as Stunning Fist attempts).
Opportunistic Draw	Draw a weapon when so you can make that attack of opportunity.	Sleight of Hand 9 ranks
Paper Cut	Inflict light but bloodletting cuts with your blade.	Sleight of Hand 1 rank
Quicker Picker Upper	You can pick up dropped items in your reach as a free action without provoking attacks of opportunity.	Sleight of Hand 5 ranks
Razor Cut	A slash of your blade causes a downpour of blood.	Paper Cut, Sleight of Hand 4 ranks
Relentless Strike	Infuse a part of your martial knowledges in your way of using martials strikes to render them more dangerous.	Martial Lore 8 ranks, BAB +6
Scissor Slash	Strike with your weapons as one.	Sleight of Hand 4 rank, Two-Weapon Fighting
Sensual Robbery	With a sensual gait, and a seductive smile, you approach him by mixing your gaze with hers, your hands wandering over his leather pants before grasping ... a key.	Seduction 8 ranks, Sleight of Hand 8 ranks
Spitfire	Pour alchemical substances into your mouth and then spit it at targets.	Craft (Alchemy) 6 ranks
Switch Off Magic	With a well placed strike, you turn off a magic item temporarily.	Appraise 5 ranks, Disable Device 8 ranks
True Ability	Actually three skill tricks (True Flex, True Agility, and True Vitality), it grants a +20 bonus on a single ability check made in the next round.	Str 13 (for True Flex), Dex 13 (for True Agility), or Con 13 (for True Vitality).
Veil of the Desert	Use sand as a weapon to blind your foe.	Tumble 8 ranks OR Perform (Dance) 8 ranks
Ventriloquy	Produce sounds as if originating in other places.	Bluff 4 ranks

Mental

Name	Description	Prerequisites
Accelerate Vestige	Coax a vestige to replenish the cooldown of its abilities a bit more quickly.	Pactcraft 9 ranks
Eidetic Memory	Remember scenes, images and details flawlessly.	Autohypnosis 5 ranks
Erif	You use truespeak to create a small flame or control flames	Truespeak 4 ranks
Etaminaer Ydob	You use truespeak to create reanimate bodies.	Truespeak 8 ranks
Give Me a Lever	Apply your knowledge to your efforts.	Knowledge (Engineering) 4 ranks.
Harmonic Competence	Combine inspire competence efforts to produce a stronger bonus.	Inspire Competence Bardic Music, Perform 6 ranks
Harmonic Countersong	Combine countersong efforts to produce a countersong that disrupts vocal components.	Countersong Bardic Music, Perform 3 ranks
Harmonic Courage	Combine inspire courage efforts to produce an inspire courage that has additional benefits.	Inspire Courage Bardic Music, Perform 3 ranks
Harmonic Fascinate	Combine fascinate efforts to produce a fascination with greater effects.	Fascinate Bardic Music, Perform 3 ranks
Harmonic Freedom	Combine song of freedom efforts to use the ability quickly.	Song of Freedom Bardic Music, Perform 15 ranks
Harmonic Greatness	Combine inspire greatness efforts to allow you to share feats and increase the number of targets.	Inspire Greatness Bardic Music, Perform 12 ranks
Harmonic Heroics	Combine inspire heroics efforts to produce	Inspire Heroics Bardic Music, Perform 18 ranks
Holmesian Forensics	Analyze what happened in a room depending on your Intelligence or Wisdom check result.	Int or Wis 15, Search 12 ranks, Sense Motive 7 ranks
Just As Planned	Plan for nearly unknowable factors. Like Holmesian Forensics, but...backwards.	Int or Wis 20, Knowledge(nature, history, Sense Motive 15 Ranks, Spot 15 Ranks, and local) at 15 Ranks or Bard Level 12
Just a Flesh Wound	Ah losing your arm isn't so bad, just gotta keep your head cool. Oh the head is gone too.	Bab +3
Ki Double	You use your ki to create an afterimage of yourself.	Monk 4th level
Ki Sense	Detect auras around you.	Any ki-based feature (such as Stunning Fist attempts).
Ki Trick	Gain various ki-based powers as the need arise.	Character level 3rd, Ki pool (or Stunning Fist attempts).
Macho Mind	You are scary and know how to protect from fear since you cause it	Intimidate 10 ranks, must have successfully intimidated at least 20 different foes within 2 CR of your character level.
No Breath	You can hold your breath for a long time using autohypnosis.	Autohypnosis 5 Ranks
Professional Butcher	Only a surgeon could sever that man's jugular vein with this spoon. Luckily, you're a surgeon.	Heal 8 Ranks, BAB +5 or 5 levels in Expert
Rapid Dismissal	Dismiss a spell as a free action.	1st level spells, Concentration 9 ranks
Spell Ward	Your knowledge of how spells work helps protect you from them.	Spellcraft 8 ranks, Intelligence 14
Spontaneous Telepathic Language Learning	You are able to learn language telepathically.	Autohypnosis 4 Ranks, must be able to cast detect thoughts or manifest read thoughts.
Structural Weakness	Make it possible to critical hit objects and constructs.	Appraise 10 ranks
Tfola	You use truespeak to move you or objects aloft and maybe even fly away.	Truespeak 6 ranks
Thought Trick	You attempt various tricks to ward off a potential mind reader.	Concentration 8 Ranks
Time to Think	Retry a failed knowledge check, and remove the penalties of No Time to Think.	Any Knowledge 5 ranks
Verbal Hacking	Confound Bots and hack things with microphones.	Program 5 ranks
Wobble	Wobble a bit before you fall down when knocked unconscious.	Autohypnosis 4 ranks

Movement

Name	Description	Prerequisites
Airborne Charge	Ignore obstacles that would prevent you from charging by leaping right over them.	Improved Charge, Jump 6 ranks
Anime's Teleportation	If a creature moves in to flank you, you can teleport to flank them instead.	Any one teleportation spell known, or Jump 8 ranks
Backward Step	You dash backwards, avoiding an attack.	Dodge or Mobility or Tumble 5 ranks
Boneless Slide	Briefly gain freedom of movement and pass through impossible spaces.	Escape Artist 10 ranks
Cautioned Dodge	You become more caution after avoiding a real danger.	Combat Expertise, Tumble 5 ranks
Combo Jump	After a full-attack with an unarmed strike or monk weapon, you can jump back.	Monk 3rd level, Jump 7 ranks
Corkscrew Fall	You use your cloak/robe to greatly reduce the impact of your fall.	Tumble 5 ranks
Dimensional Jump	You can make a jump through folded space, teleporting instead.	Jump 10 ranks
Dive for Cover	You make a short withdraw and drop prone.	Tumble 4 Ranks
Dive for Rescue	Dive to save an endangered ally.	Dive for Cover, Teamwork 5 ranks
Dodge Roll	You roll through things to avoid getting hit.	Tumble 8 ranks
Double Jump	You make a second jump as you jump, double jump.	Jump 5 ranks
Dynamic Entry	No need to stop to break the window, when you can crash right through!	Knowledge (Architecture and Engineering) 8 ranks, Strength 13+
Expert Slide	You slide to the ground and get up extremely effectively.	Tumble 5 Ranks
Extreme Sprint	You blitz across the battlefield so fast no one can react to you.	Run
Free Step	As an expert of movement tactics, you learn to perfectly take short tactical move.	Tumble 5 ranks
Houdini's Escape	Escape from an inescapable situation and turn invsiible	Escape Artist 15 ranks, Hide Skill 10 ranks
Intercept Attack	You intercept an incoming attack, saving an ally.	BAB +5, Tumble 8 Ranks
Interlaced Strikes	In tandem with an ally, you make a series of intertwined attacks.	Balance 5 ranks, Tumble 8 ranks, Teamwork 8 ranks
Landing Roll	Roll at landing, for minimum fall damage.	Jump 5 ranks or Tumble 5 ranks
Limbo Dodge	You limbo under the swinging blade, evading the attack but ending up prone.	Balance 8 ranks, Escape Artist 5 ranks
Marvel Landing	You can make for a showy landing, reducing falling damage, landing on your feet and possibly creating difficult terrain.	Jump 5 ranks
Rocket Path	When someone fires siege weaponry at you, you not only avoid it but use it as a leg up to your destination.	Dex 15, Jump 10 ranks, Balance 10 ranks
Rolling Reload	You reload when you tumble away.	Tumble 7 ranks
Slide Into Frame	Get into the scene when there's dialogue and immediately slide on over.	Tumble 4 ranks
Super Suplex	You suplex a creature, that it really.	Improved Grapple
Tactical Wall Jump	Move tactically, using the walls to your advantage.	Climb 8 ranks, Jump 8 ranks, Tumble 12 ranks
Trip Slide	You can make a trip attempt when you tumble through an enemy's square.	Balance 5 ranks, Tumble 9 ranks
Vicious Pounce	Leap onto a foe that flies into your vicinity and bring it crashing down to the ground.	Jump 18 ranks, Climb 6 ranks, base attack bonus of +12 or more
Wall Pounce	When you run on a wall, you can jump from the wall to a horizontal surface.	Walk the Walls, Wall Jumper, Climb 16 ranks, Jump 8 ranks, Tumble 8 ranks

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