Always on

• Hack and Slash

  When When you attack an enemy in melee with a weapon...

  When you attack an enemy in melee with a weapon, roll +STR. On a 10+, you deal your damage to the enemy and avoid their attack. On a 7-9, you deal your damage to the enemy and the enemy makes an attack against you.

• Volley

  When When you attack a target at range...

  When you attack a defenseless or unaware enemy at range, roll +DEX. On a 10+, you have a clear shot, deal your damage, and no danger comes to you. On a 7-9, deal your damage, but you are exposed to danger, make a move, or hesitate in your attack.

• Defy Danger

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

  When you act despite an imminent threat or suffer a calamity, say how you deal with it and roll. If the method you use matches a stat, roll that stat. On a 10+, you do what you set out to do. On a 7-9, the GM will offer a worse outcome, hard bargain, or ugly choice.

• Defend

  When When you stand in defense of a person, item, or location and suffer an attack...

  When you hold position in the face of an enemy attack, roll +CON. On a 10+, hold 3. On a 7-9, hold 1. Spend hold 1-for-1 to redirect an attack from an ally, halve an attack's effect, deal your level damage to the attacker, or add +1 to someone's next move against the attacker. On a miss, you still hold the line, but the GM will tell you how the enemy overwhelms you or forces you to give ground.

• Spout Lore

  When When you consult your accumulated knowledge about a subject...

  When you study a situation or a person and search for hidden facts, roll +INT. On a 10+, the GM will answer 3 questions from the list. On a 7-9, ask 1. If you act on the answers, take +1 forward. Questions include what happened here recently, what is about to happen, what here is useful or valuable to me, what is really going on, or what here is not what it appears to be.

• Discern Realities

  When When you study a person, place, or situation in detail...

  When you closely examine a person, place, or situation, roll +WIS. On a 10+, ask 3. On a 7-9, ask 1. Take +1 forward when acting on the answers. Questions include what happened here recently, what is about to happen, what should I be on the lookout for, what here is useful or valuable to me, who is really in control here, or what is not what it appears to be.

• Parley

  When When you leverage a promise, reward, or threat to influence an NPC...

  When you try to get an NPC to do what you want by offering leverage, making a deal, or threatening consequences, roll +CHA. On a 10+, they do what you ask, as long as you fulfill your promise if it was a deal. On a 7-9, they need some concrete assurance, such as payment first, a hostage, or a clearer promise, before they comply.

• Signature Weapon

  When When you choose and define your signature weapon...

  When you Hack and Slash, deal +1d4 damage. In addition, when you choose this weapon, describe what makes it distinctive, it has 2 of the following tags, or 3 if it is a close weapon: forceful, messy, precise, reach, thrown, or versatile. Clayne's signature longsword is balanced, patient, and made for measured defense and clean counterstrikes.

• Armored

  When Always on, while wearing armor or using a shield...

  You are competent with any armor or shield and suffer no special penalties from wearing them. You know how to keep your stance, breathe through the weight, and let protection become part of your fighting style.

• Bend Bars, Lift Gates

  When When you rely on brute force to overcome a physical obstacle...

  When you use pure strength to smash something, break through a barrier, or force open a passage, roll +STR. On a 10+, you break it cleanly and quickly, and the GM will tell you if anything nearby shifts, breaks, or makes noise. On a 7-9, it takes a lot of effort, time, noise, or danger, but you get it open. On a miss, the obstacle holds and the GM makes a move against you.

• Merciless

  When When you deal damage...

  When you roll damage, you may choose to deal your level instead of rolling your damage die. Clayne can spend a perfect opening with controlled force, making every hit count when a clean finish matters more than flair.

• Seeing Red

  When When you rush into battle or are drawn into a fight...

  When you enter a fight, add +1 forward and take +1 ongoing while the battle lasts. Clayne does not rage, he settles into danger like a practiced craft, and that steady focus sharpens him when steel comes out.

• Armor Mastery

  When Always on, while wearing armor...

  You ignore the weight of armor you wear. For purposes of load, your armor does not count against you, though it still provides its normal protection. Clayne has learned to move as if the burden is part of him rather than an obstacle.

• Interrogator

  When When you use a threat of immediate violence to influence an NPC...

  When you threaten violence to get your way, you may roll +STR instead of +CHA for Parley. Clayne is quiet, but the promise of what he can do carries farther than loud boasting ever could.

• Adaptability

  When When you are a human and choose a move from another class...

  Choose one move from another class. You may treat yourself as if you had that move. Clayne's worldly friendships and wide travels have taught him a little of many roads, not just the path of the sword.

• TraitHumanAdaptable, worldly, and quick to learn from other traditions.
• TraitHumanChoose one move from another class at character creation.