Calling
For most in these lands, wealth and luxury are unattainable dreams. For those with ambition and the will to relieve others of their hard-earned possesions, however, those dreams lie just beyond a locked door.
Some knaves spend their time in courts, plotting and scheming to rise the ladder of power, while others acquire their wealth by less legal means. The best, do a mix of both.
Your key virtue is either Grace or Wits.
Your base endurance is 8.
As a knave, you start with the following features.
When you take up the knave calling, you gain 4 skill points which you can freely invest into any skill of your choice.
You gain additional skill points each level after 1st. Every even level, you gain 2 skill points, which you can only use to advance two different skills you already have. At every odd level, you instead gain 1 skill point, which you can use to advance a skill you already have or learn an entirely new skill.
Its nice to have the upper hand. You can reduce the focus cost of your great and mythic deeds in the following ways. You can benefit from both, but you can't reduce a deed's focus cost to less than 1.
Whenever you roll a deed with one or more edges and no cuts, reduce the focus cost by 1.
Whenever you incorporate one or more surges, reduce the focus cost by 1.
During encounters, you have a cunning die d6, which you can spend in a multitude of ways. If you have spent your cunning die, you regain it at the start of the next round.
Cheat. The circumstances are in your favor–your enemy just doesn't know it yet. When you roll a check during an encounter, spend your cunning die to give yourself an edge.
Dodge. When you guard ⤾ against an attack, you can dodge it. Spend your cunning die and roll it, rather than a guard die.
Exploit. When you damage a foe, spend your cunning die to roll it, and add the result to your total damage.
Your cunning die grows by a step each time you take a talent related to cunning.
You start off with an extra talent.
1 | You can take your turn immediately after an ally ends theirs.
Masteries improve upon your initial features. You gain masteries at 1st, 4th, and 8th level.
You know how to appear harmless until the moment comes to reveal your true intentions. You gain an extra spark on successful checks made with the Charms skill.
Moreover, during encounters, at the end of your turn, if you didn't make an attack, you gain masquerade, a special state that grants you the following benefits:
Foes farther than 4 squares away from you cannot draw line of sight to you.
Deeds against you take a cut.
When you make attempt a deed ✦➤, masquerade ends immediately and you gain an extra spark on the deed.
You laugh in the face of danger, elegant and jolly. You gain an extra spark on successful checks using the Charms skill. Moreover, whenever you reduce a foe's successful attack against you to 0 damage, they gain your choice of exposed 2 or weak 2.
You've a knack for tampering with the tools at your foe's disposal. You gain an extra spark on successful checks using the Tinkering skill.
Moreover, as an action ✦ you can force an adjacent foe to make a supply check for an item in their hands or inventory that you are aware of. On a failure, the target gains sabotaged 4, a state that prevents them from using that item until they prevail ✦➤ against it.
Successive sabotage ✦ actions against a creature that already has sabotaged can only raise the potency against the same item, not choose a new one.
You have taken your first steps in the art of shadow magic. Your shadow is a separate entity from you, which you can dispatch in your service for a few minutes at a time within your spell range.
Your shadow cannot speak, but can gesture and interact with other shadows, and by extension, the objects that cast them. It could, for example, pick up a key by its shadow or open a door by manipulating the shadow of its handle. Combat or other serious disturbances send your shadow scampering back to your side.
Whenever a task or challenge tests your control over your shadow, the Judge may call for a Stealth check.
Talents are the new capabilities you acquire as you advance in level. You gain a talent when you first create your character and then again at every odd level.
When you spend your cunning die to exploit a target, roll it twice instead of once and add the total to the damage.
If this attack doesn't defeat the target, you cannot regain your cunning die for the rest of the encounter.
When your masquerade ends, you gain two sparks rather than one.
If a creature's sabotaged state reaches 6 or higher, the item breaks outright and becomes a material instead. The state then ends.
End your turn when you take this action. Next round, you gain an additional ✦ at the start of your turn.
1 | You call forth your shadow in a space within your spell range and gain dark companion, a special state that lets you control your shadow during encounters.
Whenever you move ✦➤, your shadow can move in tandem with you, using its own movement points. You can attempt deeds and maneuvers as though you occupied your shadow's space, and your shadow counts as an ally for the purpose of flanking.
While you have dark companion, any damage you take is increased by 2. This state ends if your shadow is ever outside of your spell range.
You don't suffer any drawbacks from being in darkness or engaging elusive enemies.
Immediately after you guard ⤾ against an attack, you can move up to your mobility.
When you guard ⤾ you roll your guard die twice and keep the better result. Moreover, the result on the die also reduces any forced movement you.
Raise both your speed and mobility by 1.
When you spend ✦✦ to move ✦➤, deeds against you take a cut until the start of your next turn.
While you have masquerade, you can spend your cunning die on allies within 5 squares as though they were you.
This counts as both a masquerades and cunning talent.
Whenever one of your tools break, you can use a camp activity to cobble it back together. Spend 1 material. The item is restored to a crude version of itself.
1 | A foe within sight becomes taunted 2. Choose a companion within 4 of them to be taunter.
When you trigger panache, you may immediately recover 1.
When you gain masquerade, you may make a prevail check against one of your harmful states.
When you trigger panache, use your reaction to deal † damage to the attacker.
You gain 3 skill points, which you can spend to advance at least two different skills you already have.
When you succeed on a prevail check, move up to your mobility.
While your shadow is dispatched, you can see and hear as though you were in its place.
1 | While in darkness, you can spend movement points to teleport instead of moving normally. You must end the teleport in another space in darkness.
When you first create your character, you learn two deeds. Then every even level thereafter you learn another deed of your choice.
For now, you can only learn great deeds. Beginning at 4th level, you can also choose to lean mythic deeds.
"You'll want to hear this."
✖ Base Before the end of the ally's next turn, their next successful deed gains an extra spark.
⬖ Glance You and the ally each gain a surge.
✦ Hit The ally's next deed also inflicts exposed 3 or protected 3 to one of the targets.
⛤ Spark You and the ally both gain an additional surge.
Rush in with blinding speed.
Before Jump 4 in a straight line and target one creature you pass through.
✖ Base Deal † damage.
⬖ Glance Add † damage.
✦ Hit Inflict staggered 1.
You carry a variety of lethal poisons on you.
✖ Base For the rest of the encounter, you can spend sparks on a melee or ranged deed to inflict suffering 3 on one target of the deed.
⬖ Glance You gain a surge.
✦ Hit Gain two surges instead.
⛤ Spark Gain an additional surge.
You apply the finer movements of ballroom dances to the battlefield.
✖ Base Gain dancer stance 3. While affected, you can take a reaction ⤾ to move potency whenever a foe enters a space adjacent to you. Gaining this stance replaces any other stance states.
⬖ Glance Gain a surge.
✦ Hit Gain dancer stance 5 instead.
Right where I want you.
Before Gain an edge if the target has damaged you this round.
✖ Base Deal † damage.
⬖ Glance Add † damage and sweep 3.
✦ Hit Inflict toppled 1. Raise the state's potency by an amount equal to the edges you had on this deed.
Hurl a bolt of darkness at your foe.
Before You gain an edge if the target is in darkness.
✖ Base Deal Ω damage.
⬖ Glance Add Ω damage.
✦ Hit Inflict blinded 2.
A debilitating blow that leaves them lacking.
✖ Base Deal † damage.
⬖ Glance Add † damage and inflict weak 2.
✦ Hit Inflict dazed 2.
⛤ Spark If you ✦ hit, each spark spent to raise the potency of either state raises both instead.
The welcoming dark rejuvenates.
✖ Base The target can make a recovery.
⬖ Glance Grant night's embrace 1. Only adjacent creatures can draw line of sight to the affected creature. At the end of the creature's turn, they make a recovery 1, and this state loses 1 potency.
✦ Hit Grant night's embrace 2.
The oldest trick in the book.
✖ Base Create a light cloud in the area.
⬖ Glance Inflict dazed 2 or blinded 2.
✦ Hit Inflict both.
Their shadow stretches taut and holds them fast.
✖ Base Inflict shadow leash 3, a state that yanks at the target's shadow. At the end of each of the target's turns, pull (potency) toward the space where they gained this state, taking 2 damage for each square they are pulled this way. After a creature has been pulled in this way, lower potency by 1.
⬖ Glance Deal Ω damage.
✦ Hit Inflict shadow leash 6 instead.
Read every twitch and tell. You already know how this ends.
✖ Base Inflict measured 2. Whenever you attempt a deed against a measured creature, you can spend potency to gain an equal number of edges.
⬖ Glance You gain a surge.
✦ Hit Inflict measured 4 instead.
Now's the time to execute a coup.
✖ Base Deal † damage.
⬖ Glance Add † damage.
✦ Hit Armament effect.
After At the end of the round, you gain ✦✦✦ and can take another turn. You cannot attempt mythic deeds for the rest of the encounter.
Your blade might be the last thing they see.
✖ Base Deal † damage.
⬖ Glance Add † + 1d6 damage.
✦ Hit Add † + 1d6 damage.
After If the target is bloodied, they immediately die. This part of the deed doesn't work if the target is a monstrosity or an overlord.
They only catch a glimpse of you between each strike.
Before You make the deed three times. You may jump 4 between each.
✖ Base Deal † damage.
⬖ Glance Add † damage.
✦ Hit Armament effect.
Now you see me...
✖ Base Jump 6, then remove yourself from the battlefield. Your turn then ends. At the end of the round, place yourself in a space within 6 of where you vanished, at which point, you can use any remaining ✦ you had. If you are unable to move, the base effect of this deed doesn't work.
⬖ Glance Gain 2 surges or make a recovery 2.
✦ Hit Do both.