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Fighter

Class Feature - Determination

Fighters have reserves of grit and determination above and beyond other characters. Twice per adventure, fighters can immediately HEAL FULL themselves. If they wish, they can do this in response to being reduced to 0 hits.

Combat Paths

Fighters can choose one Combat Path to add to their skill tree, the first skill is free but further skills in the Path must be bought as usual.

Skill Effects

Weapon Specific Skills

Each type of weapon gains different benefits from each of the weapon skills on the fighter skill tree. You may purchase any of the skills on the tree once for each type of weapon if you wish. If you are fighting ambidextrously, you gain calls for each hand separately, so if you fight with two of the same weapon, you will effectively gain twice the normal number of calls.

Use Weapon

You may fight with any appropriate weapon physrep of the class you choose. Weapon types available to fighters are:

  • Sword
  • Axe
  • Mace/Hammer
  • Great Weapon
  • Spear
  • Rapier
  • Staff
  • Flail
  • Bastard (Weapon) 1)

If you have the Use skill for a one-handed weapon, and fight with an appropriate weapon of 36” or less, you may make one WEAKEN call per encounter (this does NOT stack for ambidexing).

Note that a Bastard Weapon must be greater than 36“ in length.

Weapon Finesse

  • Great Weapon: You gain 3 STRIKEDOWN calls per encounter.
  • Bastard weapon: You gain 3 STRIKEDOWN calls per encounter which you can use while wielding the weapon in two hands.
  • All others: Gain 1 dodge while fighting with your chosen weapon.

Weapon Talent 1

  • Great Weapon:You may strike for DOUBLE with a great weapon. You may combine this with effect calls. You also gain 1 WOUND 5 per encounter.
  • Axe: You gain 1 REND and 1 WEAKEN call per encounter, as well as 2 SHATTER calls per adventure.
  • Spear/Staff: You gain 1 STRIKEDOWN and 1 WEAKEN call per encounter, as well as 1 SHATTER call per adventure.
  • Mace/Hammer: You gain 2 STRIKEDOWN call per encounter and 1 WOUND 30 call per adventure.
  • Rapier: You gain 2 calls per encounter of DISARM or WEAKEN, as well as 1 Blind 5 call per adventure.
  • Sword: You gain 1 WOUND 5 and 1 STRIKEDOWN per encounter, as well as 1 SHATTER call per adventure.
  • Flail: You gain 1 DISARM and 1 WOUND 5 per encounter, as well as 1 WOUND 30 call per adventure.
  • Bastard (Weapon): You may strike for DOUBLE with a bastard weapon. You may combine this with effect calls. You also gain 1 WOUND 5 per encounter while wielding the weapon in two hands.

Weapon Potency

  • Great Weapon: You gain 1 SHATTER call per encounter.
  • Rapier: You may strike for SINGLE THROUGH with your chosen weapon.
  • Bastard Weapon: You gain 1 STRIKEDOWN and 1 DISARM call per encounter (in one or two hands), as well as 1 SHATTER call per adventure so long as you are using the weapon in 2 hands.
  • All others: You may strike for DOUBLE with your chosen weapon. You may combine this with effect calls.

Weapon Talent 2

  • Great Weapon: You may call IMMUNE to any SHATTER calls made while you wield a Great Weapon. You gain an additional SHATTER per encounter.
  • Mace/Hammer: You gain 1 SHATTER call per encounter.
  • Sword: You gain 1 REND call per encounter.
  • Axe: You gain 1 STRIKEDOWN calls per encounter.
  • Staff: You gain 2 DISARM calls per encounter.
  • Spear: You gain 2 STRIKEDOWN calls per encounter.
  • Rapier: You gain 1 REND call per encounter.
  • Flail: You gain 1 ENTANGLE call per encounter.
  • Bastard (Weapon): Gain 1 Wound 10 per encounter, which you may use while wielding the weapon in 2 hands.

Improvised Weapon

Your chosen weapon type is familiar enough to you that you can almost always find something that will work in its place up to a point. Mechanically, you can find an object that will work for you as a standard weapon of your chosen type with ten seconds of appropriate “searching” roleplaying.

One With Your Weapon

You may call IMMUNE to any disarm calls made against your chosen weapon.

Weapon Supremacy

  • Great Weapon: You may strike for TRIPLE with your chosen weapon. You may combine this with effect calls. You gain an additional SHATTER call per encounter
  • Rapier: You may strike for DOUBLE THROUGH with your chosen weapon.
  • Bastard (Weapon): You may strike for TRIPLE so long as you are wielding your weapon in 2 hands. You may also call REND once per encounter.
  • All others: You gain the effects of Weapon talent 1 an additional time. This does NOT double with Ambidex.

Weapon Transcendence

  • Sword/Rapier: Once per an adventure you may, for a period of 10 seconds, call DISARM on every blow.
  • Spear/Knife: Once per an adventure you may, for a period of 10 seconds, call WOUND 5 on every blow.
  • Flail/Hammer/Mace/Bastard Weapon/Great Weapon: Once per an adventure you may, for a period of 10 seconds, call STRIKEDOWN on every blow.

Heavy Armour

Heavy Armour Use

You may use this type of armour. While in the field, you can repair a suit of heavy armour by half of its maximum hits each encounter. When wearing heavy armour you lose all dodges (including those gained due to other character's abilities). However, you also gain 1 use of resist strikedown or resist rend for every dodge you would have had. This is in addition to any resists gained from Large Shield use.

Heavy Armour Training

Gain the listed number of additional armour hits when appropriately attired.

Heavy Armour Repair/Extra Training

You may fully repair the listed type of armour between encounters. If you already have the ability to repair it, you instead gain an additional +3 armour hits.

Bulwarked Defence

You ignore any “Through” component of damage calls.

Medium Armour

Medium Armour Use

You may use this type of armour. While in the field, you can repair a suit of medium armour by half its totally hits each encounter.

Medium Armour Training

Gain the listed number of additional armour hits when appropriately attired.

Medium Armour Repair/Extra Training

You may fully repair the listed type of armour between encounters. If you already had the ability to fully repair medium armour, you instead gain +2 armour hits.

Medium Armour Swiftness

Gain an additional dodge while wearing medium armour.

Shields

Buckler Use

You may fight with a buckler, this can be done in one of two ways:

  • When held in your hand, you may ignore any call delivered by a blow which hits your buckler and may use other relevant shield skills.
  • When strapped to your arm, you may treat blows that hit the buckler as if they had hit your weapon or use relevant shield skills.

Medium Shield Use

You can use a medium shield. You gain 2 uses of Resist Shatter, Disarm, or Strikedown per encounter against blows which hit your shield.

Additionally, you CAN wield a large shield with this skill, but do not gain any of the benefits of Large Shield use while still losing all dodges, nor can you use other shield skills while using a large shield.

When fighting with a weapon and shield, resists from shield skills can be applied to strikes against either your shield or your weapon.

Large Shield Use

You can use a large shield. When using a large shield you lose all dodges you would otherwise have. Instead, you gain one use of Resist Shatter, Disarm, or Strikedown per encounter against blows which hit your shield for each dodge you would have had. This is in addition to any resists gained through Heavy Armour Use.

Additionally, you CAN wield a medium shield with this skill, but do not gain any of the benefits of Medium Shield use nor can you use other shield skills while using a medium shield.

When fighting with a weapon and shield, resists from shield skills can be applied to strikes against either your shield or your weapon.

Dampen Blow

You may ignore any Strikedowns which are delivered by melee weapon and impact upon your shield (you may still use your resists against blows which impact against your shield from another source).

Deflect Blow

You may call immune to Shatter and Disarm calls which are delivered by melee weapon and impact upon your shield (you may still use your resists against blows which impact against your shield from another source).

Reflect Blow

Once per encounter you may call resist to a single (non-BACKSTAB) damage/effect call delivered to you, your weapon or your shield via a melee weapon. You may then immediately make the same call back at the person who delivered it.

Disarm Blow

Once per encounter you may ignore the full effects of one blow delivered via melee weapon against your shield, and instead call a disarm against the weapon which struck your shield.

Solid Defence

You gain 2 uses of Resist Shatter, Disarm, or Strikedown per encounter against blows which hit your shield.

Hold the Line

Once per encounter, you may call RESIST to any one call that contains the MASS descriptor.

Fighting Styles

Ambidextrous

You may fight with any weapon you have the skill to use in both hands at once.

Weapon Catching

You gain 1 DISARM call per encounter while fighting with a weapon in your off-hand.

Twin-Blade Rend

As long as you have a weapon in each hand, you may call make one call of REND or WOUND 10 per encounter.

Twin Defensive Swiftness

Gain an additional dodge while wielding in each hand a weapon that you are skilled in using.

Main Gauche Swiftness

Gain an additional dodge while wielding a main gauche.

Shield Swiftness

Gain an additional dodge while using a shield.

Two-Handed Block

You may call IMMUNE to any STRIKEDOWN call you block with a two-handed weapon.

Iron Defence

Once per encounter, you may call SHATTER when you block a weapon strike with a two-handed weapon.

Reaping Blow

Twice per encounter, you may call THROUGH QUINT a QUINT REND with a two-handed weapon.

Agile Fighter

You may call IMMUNE to all STRIKEDOWN calls, and ignore the strikedown effect. You still suffer any damage component of the call.

Single Hand Focus

Triple the number of all offensive combat calls you gain through weapon mastery, talent and supremacy skills while fighting with a weapon in one hand and nothing in your off hand. Any single use damage bonuses from superior or master-crafted weapons are also tripled.

Single Hand Perfect Defence

While fighting with a weapon in one hand alone, you may choose to either gain two dodges or double your number of dodges.

Arrow Catching

While you have a free hand, you may DODGE arrows.

Light Armour Swiftness

Gain an additional dodge while wearing light armour.

Body Training

Tough

You have +2 body hits.

Absurdly tough

You have +3 body hits.

Iron Body

You are immune to WEAKEN from all sources, even surgery or disease.

High Pain threshold

REND and WOUND duration is halved on you (to five seconds from ten).

Battle Rage

On any occasion where you use a determination, you also refresh your per-encounter calls.

Additionally, you can perform forced marches in heavy armour or skip multiple nights of sleep without penalty.

Bloodstained Hero

Twice per an adventure, upon dropping an opponent, you may call HEAL 4 PARTY. Usually along with a blood curlding roar or shout of a motivational nature.

Burly

You may carry another person at a run, carry a heavy armoured person at a walk, or trivially pull an injured comrade away from the front line. Additionally, you have an additional body hit.

Strength of Arms

You may call DOUBLE with any weapon you pick up that is either under 36” or you have a “use” skill for.

Mighty

Gain the ability to apply Strengthen to yourself twice per adventure. Additionally, you can carry a heavily armoured person at a run or carry multiple unarmoured people.

Beyond Mortal Strength

You count as STRENGTHED at all times, unless affected by a WEAKEN. With extended effort you can break any mundane object that you can reasonably leverage your full strength against (supporting pillars are easy work but you might need to find a stout tree before you attempt to batter down a castle wall).

Other Skills

Fearsome Renown

Among any who pay attention in martial circles, your name will be known, and your prowess respected/feared. Additionally, you have a particular reputation amongst a particular faction that you have interacted with which can be leveraged in a similar way to Contacts.

Fearsome Visage

You have become talented at leveraging your reputation/appearance/skill to unnerve your foes. You gain 2x uses of MASS FEAR per an adventure. This ability can also be used to intimidate those at your mercy.

Improved Determination

You gain TWO additional uses of your Determination class feature per adventure.

Affiliation

You are a paid up member of some sort of organisation that values your skills as a combatant. This could be anything from being a member of a mercenary company through to a thug working for a faction of the True Council. This provides you a reasonable “in” to the activities of the group, and they'll also help you out by loaning you up to two items of standard equipment at any one time.

Reputed

You are a notable member of your affiliated organisation. You can draw a small wage from them (9 Riel per adventure, and can also have one superior item on loan at any one time.

Champion

You are one of the better (or at least, most renowned) fighters in your group. You can expect significant cooperation from them, and can borrow as much superior equipment from them as you like, and one Master-Crafter item at any one time.

1) Where the weapon is either Sword, Axe, or Mace/Hammer. A Bastard Weapon must be greater than 36“ in length.
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