Hero Points
Each PC starts the game with 6 Hero Points.  These points can be used to buy special skills (listed below),
or can be used at any point during the game to alter one die roll during a particularly dramatic moment (GMs discretion).  

Points		Skill			Effect				

5		Natural Affinity	Character has a natural affinity for a particular skill to be 
                                        determined by the GM.  Skill is at level 4 and cannot be changed during game.

4		Natural Affinity	Same as above but skill is at level 3.

4		Ambidextrous		Can use either hand equally well.  May fire 2 Pistols 
					at the same time or with either hand.

4		Insight/Awareness	Character is aware of things that normally would pass
					a normal person by.  Skill functions like a heightened 
					Observation skill with a particular emphasis on things
					that could help out the party in solving mysteries.

3		Quick Draw		Can ready and fire a weapon from a holster in one action.

3		Sixth Sense		Character is alerted to danger moments before anything						happens.  Treat character as unsurprisable and with automatic
					initiative.

3		Handsome/Beauty	        Character has a heightened level of personal beauty.  Allow 						the character a bonus on any type of action which would have
				        a bearing on this.

3		Heightened Sense-Sight	Character has 20/10 vision.  Can see farther and with greater 
					clarity than a regular character.

3		       "     -Hearing 	Character has a particularly sharp sense of hearing.  Allow a 						bonus on all rolls that might have a bearing on this.

3		       "	-Smell	Character has a super sense of smell.  Can recognize people 
					by odor and could probably track someone given enough 
					familiarity with that person.

3		       "        -Taste	Character has a super sense of taste.  Can recognize distinct
                                        tastes and could even determine chemicals by taste given 
                                        enough practice and familiarity with the substances.

2		Sponsor/Friend 		Character has a sponsor who might be paying for his travels 
                                        or a friend in high places who might provide the character 
                                        with information on occasion or even a friendly loan.

1		Taunting-Creative	Character has acquired a keen sense of taunting from bar room
					brawls or from a study of obtuse literature.

1		Swearing-Creative	Character has acquired a keen sense of swearing from time in
					the army, on the docks, in seedy quarters, or in foreign places.

1		Taste in _______	Character has impeccable taste in one item, i.e. clothes, 
					furniture, the opposite sex, food, wine, etc.

1		Pet			Character has an unusual affection for a particular animal.  

1		Fondness for _______	Much like the skill Taste in ____, only that the character has
					an appetite for a certain something.  The GM can determine 
					what the benefits or detriments from this item might be.