Always on

• Hack and Slash

  When When you attack an enemy in melee.

  When you attack an enemy in melee, roll+STR. On a 10+, deal your damage and avoid their attack. On a 7-9, deal your damage and the enemy makes an attack against you. You may choose to deal +1d6 damage, but then you also expose yourself to the enemy's attack.

• Volley

  When When you take aim and shoot at an enemy at range.

  When you take aim and shoot at an enemy at range, roll+DEX. On a 10+, you have a clear shot and deal your damage. On a 7-9, choose one: you must move to get the shot, putting yourself in danger, or take what you can get and deal -1d6 damage, or take several shots and reduce your ammo by one.

• Defy Danger

  When When you act despite an imminent threat or suffer a calamity.

  When you act despite an imminent threat or calamity, say how you deal with it and roll the appropriate stat. On a 10+, you do what you intended and the danger does not come to bear. On a 7-9, you stumble, hesitate, or flinch, and the GM offers you a worse outcome, a hard bargain, or an ugly choice.

• Defend

  When When you stand in defense of a person, item, or location under attack.

  When you stand in defense of a person, item, or location under attack, roll+CON. On a 10+, hold 3. On a 7-9, hold 1. While defending, you may spend hold 1 for 1 to redirect the attack to yourself, halve the attack's effect or damage, open the attacker to an ally for +1 forward, or deal damage to the attacker equal to your level.

• Spout Lore

  When When you consult your accumulated knowledge about something.

  When you consult your accumulated knowledge about something, roll+INT. On a 10+, the GM tells you something interesting and useful about the subject. On a 7-9, the GM tells you something interesting, and it is up to you to make it useful. The GM may ask how you know this, and you should answer honestly.

• Discern Realities

  When When you closely study a situation or person.

  When you closely study a situation or person, roll+WIS. On a 10+, ask the GM 3 questions from the list. On a 7-9, ask 1. Take +1 forward when acting on the answers.

• Parley

  When When you have leverage on a GM character and manipulate them.

  When you have leverage on a GM character and manipulate them, roll+CHA. On a hit, they ask you for something and do it if you make them a promise first. On a 7-9, they need concrete assurance of your promise right now.

• Bend Bars, Lift Gates

  When When you use pure strength to destroy an inanimate obstacle.

  When you use pure strength to destroy an inanimate obstacle, roll+STR. On a 10+, choose 3. On a 7-9, choose 2. Options: it doesn't take a very long time, nothing of value is damaged, it doesn't make an inordinate amount of noise, you can fix the thing again without a lot of effort.

• Armored

  When When you wear armor.

  You ignore the clumsy tag on armor you wear.

• Signature Weapon

  When When you choose and wield your signature weapon.

  Choose a base description for your weapon, and then define it with range and enhancements. Carter's signature weapon is a sword, close range, sharp, and well-crafted, giving it +2 piercing and -1 weight. The weapon is uniquely yours and cannot be properly used by others without you.

• Human Versatility

  When Once per battle when a damage roll is made.

  Once per battle, you may reroll a single damage roll, yours or someone else's.

• Merciless

  When When you deal damage.

  When you deal damage, deal +1d4 damage.

• Armor Mastery

  When When you choose to let your armor absorb damage.

  When you make your armor take the brunt of damage dealt to you, the damage is negated, but you must reduce the armor value of your armor or shield by 1. If the reduction leaves the item at 0 armor, it is destroyed.

• Improved Weapon

  When When you improve your signature weapon.

  Choose one extra enhancement for your signature weapon.

• Seeing Red

  When When you discern realities during combat.

  When you discern realities during combat, take +1.

• Interrogator

  When When you parley by threatening violence.

  When you parley using threats of impending violence as leverage, you may use STR instead of CHA.

• Iron Hide

  When Always.

  You gain +1 armor.

• Blacksmith

  When When you have access to a forge and a magical weapon to destroy.

  When you have access to a forge, you can graft the magical powers of a weapon onto your signature weapon. The magical weapon is destroyed in the process, and your signature weapon gains its magical powers.

• Steel Hide

  When Always.

  Replaces Iron Hide. You gain +2 armor.

• Superior Warrior

  When When you hack and slash and roll a 12+.

  When you hack and slash on a 12+, you deal your damage, avoid their attack, and impress, dismay, or frighten your enemy.

• TraitHumanHuman adaptability, once per battle reroll one damage roll.
• TraitHumanAmbitious, resilient, and hard to put down.