Con Face

Con artist and social engineer.

The Con Face is the person who walks into a corporate arcology with a stolen identity, walks out with the quarterly earnings report, and makes the security chief thank them for the visit. In the Nine's corporatocracy, every transaction is a negotiation and every negotiation has a mark. The Con Face finds the mark. The Con-Face sells a version of events at the price the room will bear, and is three systems away before the audit lands. The Kadiss grid is both their obstacle and their tool: every identity verification, every financial transaction, every social connection is a data point that can be forged, exploited, or turned. A good Con Face maintains a portfolio of identities and knows exactly which one opens which door. They operate on the Edge chassis (d6 HD, 3/4 BAB, Ref good, Fort/Will poor) because their survival depends on reading the room, not reading the battlefield. Light armour. The Will poor save is the class's hidden vulnerability: the Con Face who believes their own lie is a Con Face who is about to get caught. Prime requisites: CHA and INT.

Rules Reference

Field	Value
Armor Allowance	Light
Bab Tier	three-quarters
Base Skill Points	8
Hd	d6
Hd Sides	6
Max Level	20
Multiclass Notes	Con Faces can multiclass with Face and Fixer archetypes. Non-humans use simultaneous multiclassing rules.
Primary Abilities	CHA, INT
Prime Requisites	CHA, INT
Save Tiers / Fortitude	poor
Save Tiers / Reflex	good
Save Tiers / Will	poor
Weapon Allowance	Pistol, Knife, Concealable weapons

Notes

Archetype Niche: The Con Face is the party's long-term social weapon. The Long Game provides a structured confidence scheme system with escalating rewards -- Approach (intel), Build (access), Payoff (assets). Perfect Lie defeats supernatural truth-detection, making the Con Face the only character who can lie to a psion's mind-reading and have it hold. Exit Strategy is the ultimate escape clause -- when the con collapses, the Con Face gets the party out clean. The Con Face's niche is winning the social war, not the social battle -- they play for weeks, not rounds.

Level Table

Short-Con Artist

Field	Value
bab	0
fortitude	0
level	1
reflex	2
skillPoints	32
title	Short-Con Artist
will	0
xp	0

Grifter

Field	Value
bab	1
fortitude	0
level	2
reflex	3
skillPoints	8
title	Grifter
will	0
xp	1250

Confidence Man

Field	Value
bab	2
fortitude	1
level	3
reflex	3
skillPoints	8
title	Confidence Man
will	1
xp	2500

Long-Con Artist

Field	Value
bab	3
fortitude	1
level	4
reflex	4
skillPoints	8
title	Long-Con Artist
will	1
xp	5000

Con Face

Field	Value
bab	3
fortitude	1
level	5
reflex	4
skillPoints	8
title	Con Face
will	1
xp	10000

Master Grifter

Field	Value
bab	4
fortitude	2
level	6
reflex	5
skillPoints	8
title	Master Grifter
will	2
xp	20000

Grand Con Face

Field	Value
bab	5
fortitude	2
level	7
reflex	5
skillPoints	8
title	Grand Con Face
will	2
xp	40000

Puppet Master

Field	Value
bab	6
fortitude	2
level	8
reflex	6
skillPoints	8
title	Puppet Master
will	2
xp	70000

Shadow Puppeteer

Field	Value
bab	6
fortitude	3
level	9
reflex	6
skillPoints	8
title	Shadow Puppeteer
will	3
xp	110000

High Puppeteer

Field	Value
bab	7
fortitude	3
level	10
reflex	7
skillPoints	8
title	High Puppeteer
will	3
xp	160000

Scheme Lord

Field	Value
bab	8
fortitude	3
level	11
reflex	7
skillPoints	8
title	Scheme Lord
will	3
xp	220000

High Scheme Lord

Field	Value
bab	9
fortitude	4
level	12
reflex	8
skillPoints	8
title	High Scheme Lord
will	4
xp	280000

Void Grifter

Field	Value
bab	9
fortitude	4
level	13
reflex	8
skillPoints	8
title	Void Grifter
will	4
xp	340000

High Void Grifter

Field	Value
bab	10
fortitude	4
level	14
reflex	9
skillPoints	8
title	High Void Grifter
will	4
xp	400000

Memory Thief

Field	Value
bab	11
fortitude	5
level	15
reflex	9
skillPoints	8
title	Memory Thief
will	5
xp	460000

High Memory Thief

Field	Value
bab	12
fortitude	5
level	16
reflex	10
skillPoints	8
title	High Memory Thief
will	5
xp	520000

The Unbelievable

Field	Value
bab	12
fortitude	5
level	17
reflex	10
skillPoints	8
title	The Unbelievable
will	5
xp	580000

High Unbelievable

Field	Value
bab	13
fortitude	6
level	18
reflex	11
skillPoints	8
title	High Unbelievable
will	6
xp	640000

The Great Pretender

Field	Value
bab	14
fortitude	6
level	19
reflex	11
skillPoints	8
title	The Great Pretender
will	6
xp	700000

Supreme Con Face

Field	Value
bab	15
fortitude	6
level	20
reflex	12
skillPoints	8
title	Supreme Con Face
will	6
xp	760000

Special Abilities

The Long Game

Field	Value
level	1
name	The Long Game

description: The Con Face can initiate a confidence scheme against a target (individual or small organization). The scheme has three stages: Approach (DC 15 Deception, 1 hour -- the introduction, the first impression, the bait), Build (DC 20 Deception, 1 day -- the trust-building, the shared secret, the manufactured crisis), and Payoff (DC 25 Deception, 1 week -- the extraction). At each stage, the Con Face extracts escalating value: Approach yields information or 100 rek, Build yields an introduction to a more important target or 500 rek, Payoff yields a major asset (ship registration, property deed, corporate credential) or 2000 rek. A failed check at Approach means the target is suspicious (future Deception checks -2). Failure at Build or Payoff means the scheme collapses and the target becomes hostile. The Con Face can maintain a number of simultaneous schemes equal to CHA modifier (minimum 1). At level 6, the scheme DCs decrease by 5. At level 12, by 10. The Long Game is the Con Face's rek engine: every successful scheme is a quarter's worth of Legion payroll, extracted from a mark who does not know they have been played.

Perfect Lie

Field	Value
level	3
name	Perfect Lie

description: When the Con Face tells a lie, even supernatural means of detecting falsehood (Fold telepathy, truth serums, polygraph machines) register the lie as truth unless the interrogator succeeds on an opposed check (their relevant skill or ability vs the Con Face's Deception). The Con Face can maintain one Perfect Lie at a time (the 'keystone' of their current con -- the one lie that holds the whole structure together). At level 8, two simultaneous Perfect Lies. At level 14, the Con Face can implant a Perfect Lie that the target remembers as their own thought (the target truly believes they came up with the idea). This is the ability that makes Con Faces valuable to intelligence services and terrifying to anyone who relies on telepathic security screening.

Exit Strategy

Field	Value
level	5
name	Exit Strategy

description: When a Con Face's scheme is exposed or a social encounter turns hostile, the Con Face can activate Exit Strategy as an immediate action. The Con Face and up to 4 allies within 30 feet gain +10 feet movement for 1 minute, cannot be tracked for 1 hour (the Con Face knows how to lay a false trail), and any active BOLOs, arrest warrants, or Kadiss flags against the Con Face are downgraded by one severity level. At level 11, Exit Strategy also removes the party from active sensor tracking for 1 hour. At level 17, the Con Face can activate Exit Strategy as a free action when combat begins (triggering before initiative is rolled). The Con Face always knows the exit before they know the entrance. This is not paranoia; it is professionalism.