Advancements in science coupled with your drive to excel enable you to progress faster toward becoming a truly strong hero.

Benefit: You gain two talents from the Strong hero's talent trees. The talents must be selected from the following list, you cannot select more than one talent from a single talent tree, and you must meet all the prerequisites of a talent to select it.

Improved Extreme Effort, Advanced Extreme Effort, Improved Ignore Hardness, Advanced Ignore Hardness, Improved Melee Smash, Advanced Melee Smash

Special: You may select this feat multiple times. Each time you select this feat, you must choose a different pair of talents.

A Strong hero can push himself to make an extreme effort. The effort must relate to either a Strength check or a Strength-based skill check. You must decide to use this ability before making the check.

• Improved Extreme Effort: The effort requires a full-round action and provides a +2 bonus that stacks with the bonus provided by extreme effort (+4 total). Prerequisite: Extreme Effort
• Advanced Extreme Effort: The effort requires a full-round action and provides a +2 bonus that stacks with the bonus provided by extreme effort and improved extreme effort (+6 total). Prerequisites: Extreme Effort, Improved Extreme Effort

The Strong hero has an innate talent for finding weaknesses in objects. This allows a Strong hero to ignore some of an object’s hardness when making a melee attack to break it.

• Improved Ignore Hardness: The Strong hero ignores 1 additional point of hardness (for a total of 2). Prerequisite: Ignore Hardness
• Advanced Ignore Hardness: The Strong hero ignores 1 additional point of hardness (for a total of 3). Prerequisites: Ignore Hardness, Improved Ignore Hardness

The Strong hero has an ability to focus his strength to increase melee damage.

• Improved Melee Smash: The Strong hero receives an additional +1 bonus to melee damage (+2 total). Prerequisite: Melee Smash
• Advanced Melee Smash: The Strong hero receives an additional +1 bonus to melee damage (+3 total). Prerequisites: Melee Smash, Improved Melee Smash