Calling
In troubled times, few things offer more comfort than the weight of a blade in hand.
The arms and armor that have kept you alive thus far now welcome you down a path of study. They invite you to earn your place as their worthy master, offer to rend apart those who have wronged you, entreat you to free the world of corrupt masters.
Your key virtue is either Might or Grace.
Your base endurance is 12. Raise your vigor by 4.
As a warrior, you gain the following benefits.
When you take up the warrior calling, you gain 4 skill points which you can freely invest into the following skills: Athletics, Command, Folklore, Letters, Perception, and Rhetoric or any other skill you already have.
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. Only your initial skill points are restricted to the list above.
When an attack first makes you bloodied, or whenever you are damaged while bloodied or dying, gain 1 focus.
Your mastery of combat lets you stop foes in their tracks. When a foe within your reach spends movement points, you can take a reaction to deal † damage to them and they lose movement points equal to the vigor they lost. Spend 1 focus to set their movement points to 0 instead.
You are difficult to shake from your footing. Raise your poise by 1.
Masteries improve upon your initial features. You gain masteries at 1st, 4th, and 8th level.
You fight wildly, at the expense of self-preservation. At the start of an encounter, roll a bloodlust die d4. When you triumph on a melee deed, add the result of your bloodlust die to its damage.
At the start of each new round, you may reroll the die or keep its current result. Whenever you reroll it, lose vigor equal to the new result.
Your bloodlust die grows by a step each time you take a bloodlust talent, to a maximum of d12.
You issue challenges that few warriors can bear to ignore. You gain an extra spark on successful checks using the Command skill. Moreover, as an action ✦ you can inflict taunted 2 on a creature within sight and you gain a surge.
You fight with patience and precision, waiting for the right moment to strike. At the end of your turn, if spent at least ✦✦ to attempt a deed, you gain discipline. You can spend your discipline to take the attempt deed action twice on a single turn, rather than once.
You have a mind for strategy and commonly outmaneuver your foes. You can gain sparks on maneuvers, as if they were deeds and a success on any maneuver deals damage to the target equal to your key virtue.
You are at your best in the thick of battle. You count as a wall for the purposes of line of sight, and whenever you end your turn within reach of 2 or more foes, you gain valor. You cannot have multiple instances of valor; you either have it or you don't. Track it with a coin or similar token. You can spend your valor in the following ways:
Gain an edge on a deed or maneuver.
Regain a spent guard die.
Halve the potency of a state or forced movement inflicted on you.
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.
You can spark on prevail checks. Make a recovery per spark gained. You can choose to give the recovered vigor to yourself or an ally within 4.
1 | Whenever a foe becomes taunted by you, you may pull them up to your key virtue.
You can counter ⤾ foes even if they aren't within your reach. Move 5 as part of the reaction. If you end this movement within their reach, you can deal damage as normal.
When you spend at least ✦✦ to move ✦➤, you gain an edge on your next melee deed against creatures that were at least 4 squares away before you moved.
You extend your poise to an ally within 2 squares against an effect that forces them to move.
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.
1 | When a foe gains a spark on a deed against you, you can attempt a common melee deed against them, provided they are within reach.
1 | When you use the challenge action, you can split the potency of the taunted state amongst several creatures in sight.
When you spend your valor, a creature within 4 squares may make a recovery.
1 | Whenever you gain discipline, you also gain protected 2.
When you spend discipline, the deed can be a great or mythic deed.
At the end of any turn, you may attempt to regain your senses and end your bloodlust. Make a simple Wits check. On a failure, you keep your bloodlust.
On a success, you may make a recovery and add the result of your bloodlust die twice to the amount of vigor you restore. You then lose your bloodlust die for the rest of the encounter.
1 | When you force a creature to move, you can raise this movement by an amount equal to half the number on your bloodlust die (round down).
You gain an edge on deeds against foes who flank you or have highground against you.
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.
rRAAAARRRRGHH!
✖ Base Until the end of your next turn, you take half damage from all attacks.
⬖ Glance Gain haste 2 or strong 2.
✦ Hit Gain both.
"You want some of this?"
✖ Base Deal † damage.
⬖ Glance Add † damage. Inflict taunted 2 or shove 2.
✦ Hit Armament effect.
You step in to defend an ally.
✖ Base Deal † damage. An ally within 4 can make a recovery.
⬖ Glance Add † damage. The ally gains protected 2.
✦ Hit The ally gains protected 4 instead.
You crash one foe into the other.
✖ Base Deal † damage and sweep 2. If the target ends this movement adjacent to other creatures, they suffer the same damage.
⬖ Glance Add †. Sweep 4 instead.
✦ Hit Inflict toppled to all damaged creatures.
Break your stance and put everything behind the blow.
Before If you are in a stance, end it to gain strong 5.
✖ Base Deal † damage.
⬖ Glance Add † damage.
✦ Hit Inflict exposed 2.
Send your foe flying.
✖ Base Deal † damage and push 2.
⬖ Glance Push 4 instead. Terrain and collision damage are doubled for this forced movement.
✦ Hit Add † damage. Push 6 instead.
Fight with the ferocity of a cornered lion.
✖ Base You gain lion stance 1. While affected, you gain an extra spark on successful melee deeds. Then, lower the state's potency by 1.
⬖ Glance Deal †† damage.
✦ Hit Gain lion stance 2 instead.
There are no rules in a fair fight.
✖ Base Deal † damage.
⬖ Glance Add † damage. Inflict dazed 2 or staggered 2.
✦ Hit Add † damage. Inflict both.
Nothing shall stand in your way.
✖ Base You gain mountain stance 2. While affected, you are immune to forced movement and whenever you would be forced to move, you can use a reaction ⤾ to push (potency) the mover instead. Gaining this state replaces any other stance states.
⬖ Glance Deal †† damage.
✦ Hit Gain mountain stance 4 instead.
You and your allies come together to end a threat.
✖ Base Deal † damage. Until the end of the round, each successful attack against the target also inflicts exposed 1.
⬖ Glance Add † damage.
✦ Hit Inflict exposed 1.
Every blow finds you ready.
✖ Base You gain sentry stance 2. While affected, when you guard ⤾, reduce the damage by an additional amount equal to the state's potency. Gaining this state replaces any other stance states.
⬖ Glance Deal †† damage.
✦ Hit Gain sentry stance 4 instead.
A fierce battle cry invites your foes to strike you down.
✖ Base Inflict taunted 1 on each foe. For each foe you taunt in this way, lower the potency of a state affecting yourself.
⬖ Glance You also gain protected 1 for each foe you taunt.
✦ Hit Increase the burst area by 1.
Steel sings as you carve a circle around yourself.
✖ Base Deal † damage.
⬖ Glance Add † damage and push 2.
✦ Hit Armament effect.
Commit everything to a single devastating blow.
✖ Base Deal †† damage.
⬖ Glance Add †† damage.
✦ Hit Add †† damage.
You've mastered the arts of blade, mace, and axe.
✖ Base Deal † damage. Inflict a state from dazed 3, stagger 3, or exposed 3.
⬖ Glance Add † damage. Inflict a second state.
✦ Hit Add † damage. Inflict the remaining state.
Every wound only makes you more dangerous.
✖ Base Deal † damage. For the rest of the encounter, whenever you take damage from a deed, gain strong 1.
⬖ Glance Add † damage.
✦ Hit Add † damage. You gain strong 2 instead whenever you take damage.
Come down and shake the battlefield.
Before Jump 4. The ground in the area becomes difficult terrain.
✖ Base Deal † damage.
⬖ Glance Add † damage. Inflict toppled.
✦ Hit Add † damage. Inflict toppled 3 instead.
You tear down their ranks.
✖ Base Deal † damage and push 2.
⬖ Glance Add † damage.
✦ Hit Add † damage.
After Move 3 and repeat the deed a second time.