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With this skill a character is able to get two doses out of one component. It takes 1 minute per dose of component to use this skill. When a character uses this skill the marshal should note that the component was doubled by placing a “D” on the tag. Reagents cannot be doubled, only Rare Components.

Once doubled, a component cannot be used in sorcery rituals, even if both halves of the component are used. A component that has been doubled cannot be doubled again.

Normally, only one trap may be attached to one trigger. This skill allows the character to add an extra trap tied to the same trigger for each purchase of this skill up to a maximum of three traps, one extra per purchase of the skill. The extra trap must be added when the trap is set and cannot be added to an existing trap. Each slot can be filled with any trap as per the set trap rules, and can be the same or different trap types. All in-game costs must be paid for each trap the character sets.

When the trap goes off, one defense is needed for each trap set. So, for example, if a trap is set with three 10 damage fire traps in a 10 foot radius, the affected character(s) would require three separate defenses. One Trap Dodge skill will stop all the slots in a trap.

To set the trap, the character should place the three separate trap tags onto the trap and set the trigger accordingly. If the trap is disarmed, the character may take the trap tags, but may only set the same trap if they have the same number of purchases of the Advanced Set Traps skill as was originally used.

This skill turns the non-combinable Strength Bonus of the Superior Strength skill to a combinable Strength Bonus.

This Alchemist only skill allows the character to make use of Alchemist only alchemical items that are categorized as Alchemical Focus.

This skill allows the character to recognize alchemical reagents. This is the basic Alchemy skill and grants the character the ability to brew, distill, mix, and perform the other basic skills needed to create alchemical items. It does not grant the character the ability to actually make anything; a separate skill is required for that. Alchemy Lore is required to read and identify alchemical recipes in-game.

For each purchase of this skill a character gains a +1 Damage Bonus with all Tools of the Trade weapons. This skill may be combined with other Damage Bonuses. The Arcane Proficiency skill is not hand specific. When behind a target, or if the target is Disadvantaged the Damage Bonus with all Tools of the Trade weapons becomes +1.5 instead. The character must be approximately 90 degrees behind their target to be considered behind them. The character cannot reach their arms around the target to gain their Damage Bonus.

A character is considered to be Disadvantaged if they are under the following effects: Stunned, Paralyzed, Enfeebled, Pain, Confusion, Sleep, Unconscious, Unarmed or if both arms are: Bound, Disabled, Broken, Withered, or Severed. A character is not Disadvantaged if they are: surprised, blind, weakened, etc.

Normally, after every battle, a character wearing armor will lose Armor Points after spending 5 minutes resetting their armor. With the purchase of this skill, the character gains three advantages.

The first grants the character 25% bonus to their Base Armor Points or Special Armor Points – whichever is appropriate for any armor that they wear. The character should total all of their separate armor pieces then multiply the total by 1.5 (this includes the 25% bonus for the Armor Proficiency skill, if the character only has the Armor Efficiency skill, then multiple by 1.25) and round the number normally to nearest whole number.

The second ensures that the character will always have 25% their starting Base Armor Points or Special Armor Points – whichever is appropriate – after resetting their armor. The character must still spend the 5 minutes in-game resetting their armor after a battle to gain this benefit.

Third, the amount the armor degrades decreases by 1 point. After all skills, crafting and enchanting bonuses, the minimum Degradation number is 1 point.

Torso armor must be worn to use this skill. The character may remove the other parts of their armor: their helmet, greaves, gauntlets, etc. but still has to wear their torso armor.

This skill does not augment magical Armor Points from an Armor spell, an alchemical item, magic items, rituals, or similar magical effects. It will increase the Armor Points from a Ritual of Armor Enchantment.

This skill increases the character’s knowledge of how to effectively wear armor. It grants them a 25% bonus to their Base Armor Points or Special Armor Points – whichever is appropriate - for any armor that they wear. The character should total all of their separate armor pieces then multiply the total by 1.25 (1.5 if they also have the Armor Efficiency skill) and round the number normally to nearest whole number.

Normally, a character must spend 5 minutes adjusting and resetting their armor after it is damaged to reset their Armor Points. With this Tagged skill, the character can do this in 10 seconds. The character must be able to use skills, not be engaged in combat, be able to see, and have free, unfettered hands and legs. The player should role play quickly adjusting their armor in-game for 10 seconds so it is obvious to anyone watching what they are doing. While resetting their points, the player should say, “Resetting Armor 1, Resetting Armor 2, etc.” to a count of 10. This is an out-of-game count and does not require the character to be able to speak. If the character is interrupted, the skill is not used. After using this skill, the armor will still degrade normally based on crafting, enchanting, and skill bonuses as if they had spent the whole 5 minutes resetting their armor.

The player may use this skill on another character’s armor so long as both characters meet all the conditions to use the skill, in other words, they must be able to use skills, not engaged in combat, etc.

This skill improves the characters ability to wear armor. It lowers the degradation number by one, so for a suit made of normal materials, it will lose 4 Armor Points instead of 5. This effect stacks with all other crafting, enchanting, and skill bonuses with a minimum of 1 point.

Each purchase of this skill allows the character to repair 6 Armor Points of cloth, leather, or metal armor. It takes the character 5 minutes to repair up to 6 Armor Points; so if a character has three purchases of this skill, it will take them 5 minutes to repair 1 to 6 Armor Points, 10 minutes to repair 7 to 12 Armor Points, and 15 minutes to repair 13 to 18 Armor Points. The character may break up their repair points any way they wish up to their maximum number of repair points.

This skill is not used if the character is inside an armory when repairing armor.

This skill will also allow the character to make a new piece of armor. For every purchase of this skill, the character can make a piece of leather or metal armor worth up to 6 Armor Points; so a character with three purchases of this skill can make a piece of leather or metal armor worth up to 18 Armor Points.

Four purchases of the Armor Smith skill is needed for Elven Crafting, Dwarven Crafting, Bone Crafting, and Enchantment Quality. Five purchases of the Armor Crafting skill is needed for Mithril Crafting.

When this skill is purchased, the character embraces the animalistic power of nature and gains the ability to call upon their guardian animal totem and merge with it, transforming their body into a bipedal version of the character’s guardian totem animal. All armor and items worn are unchanged in the new form.

When a character transforms, they must drop to their hands and knees or crouch for 1 minute to roleplay the shift. During this time, the character puts on the appropriate costuming for the animal which must be at least a mask and a tabard approved by Plot. The character can be attacked and harmed during this time and no skills or abilities can be used. The Druid may call latent spell defenses or invoke spell defenses from items, however. Taking damage will not interrupt the transformation unless the Druid is rendered unconscious or worse. If the character is interrupted, they do not use the skill for that Tag Cycle.

When transformed, the Druid gains the following abilities:
• +20 Body Points
• +1 Strength Bonus
• +1 Damage Bonus with their claws only
• One special ability based on the type of totem (see table below)
• Immunity to all charm effects
• Immunity to Fear
• May still use their Druid skills, even Nature Magic

They also suffer the following detriments while shapeshifted:
• They cannot speak common and therefore cannot use any skills, spells, powers, or items that require a verbal, but can understand what others are saying, and can be understood by Druids.

Category
Examples
Special Ability

Avians
Eagles, etc
Critical Attack 1x,
Flight levels 1 and 2

Insects
Ants, Beetles
20 Natural Armor,
Acid Spit: 18 points of damage x2

Bears
+10 Body Points,
+1 Strength Bonus, Non-Combinable

Canines
Wolves, Hyenas
+1 Damage Bonus,
Master Parry, Track By Scent

Felines
Lions, Tigers
+1 Damage Bonus,
Critical Attack, Track By Scent

Primates, Equines
+1 Damage Bonus,
Feat of Strength x2

Reptiles
Snakes, Lizards
10 Natural Armor, Threshold of 2 (stackable),
Poison Spit: Blindness

Scorpions
20 Natural Armor,
Poison Spit: 24 Point Damage x2

Spiders
10 Natural Armor,
Webbing x3

The character must receive approval from the Plot Director for their totem animal and the final category benefits. If a character has a totem that is not represented in the above table, the closest match will be assigned.

While in their aspect, the character appears as a half animal half man version. The character gains no special movement powers or the ability to walk on four (or more) legs. While in animal form, the character may use their Druid skills and Nature Magic spells. They still need to say the appropriate verbal but, in-game, the characters around them do not understand what they are saying. Also, they may use any latent spell normally. When the character changes back to their natural form and they are down Body Points, the bonus Body Points the character gains from changing are the first to be lost. Therefore, if the character normally has 20 Body Points and uses this skill they would have 45 Body Points. If the character was down 18 Body Points when they changed back, they would be at 20 Body Points – the normal for their natural form. Willingly changing back to their natural form takes the character however long it takes to remove their costume.

The change normally lasts 1 hour, but the character may change back to their natural form at will. If while in the animal form, the character is brought to the Brink of Death, they are forced back into their natural form.

This skill requires the use of the character’s focus and a verbal, which must be at least 5 syllables, not including the skill’s name, and must contain some reasonably recognizable version of the name of the skill.

The character may only purchase Aspect of the Beast or Elemental Quintessence, not both. Once learned this skill cannot be unlearned in order to purchase the other skill.

For each purchase of this skill a character gains a +1 Damage Bonus with all Master Assassin weapons. This skill may be combined with other Damage Bonuses. The Assassin Proficiency skill is not hand specific.

When behind a target, or if the target is Disadvantaged the Damage Bonus with all Master Assassin weapons becomes +1.5 instead. The character must be approximately 90 degrees behind their target to be considered behind them. The character cannot reach their arms around the target to gain their Damage Bonus.

This skill allows the character to triple their weapon damage for one swing. The player should triple the amount of damage their character is swinging including base weapon damage, Damage Bonus, Strength Bonus, alchemical effects, or magic bonuses. This attack does not need to be from surprise or behind. Any defense that stops physical attacks will stop this skill.

The character is able to use multiple purchases of this skill to increase the amount of damage in one attack, increasing the multiplier by one for each additional tag used. There is no limit to the number of Assassin Strike skills the character can use in one attack.

The character using this skill should suffix his normal damage with “…Strike”.

This skill is not used if the character misses their target or the attack is blocked. If they succeed in striking their target or if the target calls an appropriate defense the skill is used. This skill does not double any additional damage from the Heal Wounds skill, Wounding skill, or Elemental Pool Points.

This skill allows a character to strike down a target character with one strike. The character hit with this skill is Mortally Wounded and requires the appropriate healing. This skill ignores armor and does not damage it. The character must strike the arm between the elbows and the shoulders, or the body between the shoulders and the knees of the target character. The character must call “Assassinate” after the blow is delivered suffixed by any special damage modifiers, such as “Magic”, “Silver”, etc. Unlike other skills, this skill only requires the character to call the effect loud enough for the target to hear. However, anyone who hears the word “assassinate” is aware of the attack.

Only non-blunt weapons gained with the Master Assassin skill can be used to assassinate a target character.

If the character using this skill surprises their target, the target character may not use any martial skills to block the attack. As a general rule, if the target character is surprised by the attack, the assassinate works. The most common way to achieve surprise is by attacking from behind, but a character need not do that. They can walk up to their target, shake their hand and assassinate them with their other. The target character is not surprised if the character is fighting them. The character may assassinate someone by surprise if they are fighting another opponent, however. Even if the target turns their back and runs, you can assassinate them, however the attack still has to be a surprise.

A character may use this skill while actively fighting their target. In this case, the target character may use any martial or magical defense that would stop an Advanced skill, such as Dodge, Master Parry, Slay Parry, Invulnerability, etc.

A character must have one Assassin Proficiency skill per Assassinate skill they wish to purchase, after the first purchase. So, a character that wants three Assassinate skills must have three Assassin Proficiency skills.

This skill is not used if the character misses their target or the attack is blocked. If they succeed in striking their target or if the target calls an appropriate defense the skill is used.

Auras is the magic of Defense. A shield against threats both magical and physical. When cast there is a flash of Green light.

Special Rules for the Auras School:

A character may only have one physical defensive Aura spell – Vigilance or Invulnerability – on them at any one time, not both. Similarly, a character may only have one magical defensive Aura spell – Defense, Negation, Reflection, or Absorption – on them at any one time. If a character has a latent defensive spell and an incompatible spell is cast on them, the spell that uses the most Power Points takes precedence. Aura of Resistance and Purity will not stack with themselves but can be combined with a physical and magical spell defense.

If a character is hit with a Destroy Magic spell then all the spells of the Auras School are lost, excluding the Armor and Stamina spells. Further rules and description of the Destroy Magic spell is listed under the Thaumaturgy School.

The magical spell defenses may or may not work on other forms of magic than just the spells in these rules. For example, they are known to work against spell songs, but they do not work against curses. If you do not know whether some mystical attack on your character can be prevented by a magical defense, you can try invoking it, but even if the defense does not work, it is still used up.

Grants access to Rank 2 Auras spells. All spells unlocked by this rank skill are detailed below.

Grants access to Rank 3 Auras spells. All spells unlocked by this rank skill are detailed below.

Grants access to Rank 4 Auras spells. All spells unlocked by this rank skill are detailed below.

Grants access to Rank 5 Auras spells. All spells unlocked by this rank skill are detailed below.

This skill allows a character to determine the cause of death of a character in their Death Count or a corpse. This skill will tell if the cause of death is from a Slay, Assassinate, poison, general damage, magical effect, the spell and its school, etc. It can tell what type of weapon was used, but not what specific weapon it was.

A character can only Autopsy one character at a time. The use of this skill requires the character to concentrate while they are using this skill. The player should look at the character they are using this skill on and can only talk and invoke Latent spells while autopsying someone. If the use of this skill is interrupted by either taking damage or the character choosing to stop, the attempt fails. If the character wishes to try to autopsy again they must start from the beginning.

This skill does not stop a character’s Death Count, nor can their Death Count be stopped by any means and still use this skill. For example, a character cannot use Battle Surgery skill to stop the Death Count. This skill takes 1 minute to use.

When this skill is purchased the character gains a +1.5 Damage Bonus to all their attacks from behind with any weapon. This skill is not hand specific and applies to both their right and left hand weapons. The character must be approximately 90 degrees behind their target to be considered behind them. The character cannot reach their arms around the target to gain their Damage Bonus.

Additionally, if the target character is Disadvantaged, the character gets their Backstab Bonus. A character is considered to be Disadvantaged if they are under the following effects: Stunned, Paralyzed, Enfeebled, Pain, Confusion, Sleep, Unconscious, Unarmed or if both arms are: Bound, Disabled, Broken, Withered, or Severed. A character is not Disadvantaged if they are: surprised, blind, weakened, etc.

This skill is stackable with itself and all Backstabs learned are cumulative. So a Backstab +4 would allow the character to cause 7 points of damage with their Small Weapon.

Learning this skill allow the character to activate the Bane Endowment by consuming specific kinds of demon flesh. Once activated, the endowment allows the character to swing normal fire or normal ice damage with any melee weapon held in either hand. The character must swing the selected element and suffixes the damage type to the damage called in addition to any other damage modifiers. For example, if the character is using a normal one-handed edged weapon and chooses the Ice Bane option, they would call “...Fire”. If they then picked up a magic one-handed edge weapon, they would call “...Magic Fire”.

Depending on the type of demon, different effects and detriments are gained. See the table below.

Type
Effect
Demon Type

Ice Bane
Swing Normal Fire
Fire

Fire Bane
Swing Normal Ice
Ice

Rot Bane
Swing Normal Healing
Undead

This Endowment gives the Character 2 Corruption Points when activated at Rank 1.

Rank 1 will last for 10 minutes at the cost of 2 corruption points.

The duration of the endowment must be chosen when the skill is activated and cannot be changed once set.

The character many not end the effect of the endowment early. The character cannot activate another Bane Endowment while they have a Bane Endowment active. They do not stack.

Learning this skill allows the Demon Hunter to choose to have their Bane Endowment last for 10 or 20 minutes at the cost of 2 or 4 Corruption points respectively.

The duration of the endowment must be chosen when the skill is activated and cannot be changed once set.

The character many not end the effect of the endowment early.

The character cannot activate another Bane Endowment while they have one active, they do not stack.

Learning this skill allows the Demon Hunter to choose to have their Bane Endowment last for 10, 20, or 60 minutes at the cost of 2, 4, or 6 Corruption points respectively.

The duration of the endowment must be chosen when the skill is activated and cannot be changed once set.

The character many not end the effect of the endowment early.

The character cannot activate another Bane Endowment while they have one active, they do not stack.

This skill, once invoked, will grant the character the following benefits while active. First it will increase their base Body Point stat by 25%. Second, the character is immune to Dark damage, though the Dark Pool points – if any are used – are not expended.

Finally, the character is immune to special damage effects, including Eldritch attacks, of supernatural creations of the Dark Lord – anything from zombies, orcs, demonlings to Hierarchs. This only works on attacks – melee or ranged – that deal damage and does not affect weapon damage types – silver, mithril, magic, etc. The character still takes the damage normally, just not the special modifier. Note that this does not have any effect on special abilities, spells, skills, etc. from these characters. For example, the character is struck by a Ghoul dealing 4 Paralysis. The character will take 4 damage but not the paralyzing effects of a Ghoul.

This skill requires the use of the character’s focus and a verbal, which must be at least 5 syllables, not including the skill’s name, and must contain some reasonably recognizable version of the name of the skill.

Learning this skill allow the character to activate the Battle Strength Endowment by consuming a specific kind of demon flesh. Once activated, the endowment gives the character the following bonuses:

•  +2 Strength Bonus. This is a racial bonus and does not stack with other racial bonuses. The greater bonus takes effect.
•  +12 Body Points. These Body Points are healable and are the first to be lost. They are temporary and are not affected by anything that affects the character’s Base Body Points. When the affect ends, the character will lose 12 Body Points unless they have already have taken more than 12 points of damage. For example, if a character has 20 Body Points and activates this skill. They then have 32 Body Points. They take 16 points of damage and are currently at 16 Body Points. When the endowment ends, they will not lose any more Body Points. Had they been at 24 Body Points when the endowment ends, they would be at 20 Body Points.
• +20 points of Natural Armor. These Armor Points do not reset and are the last to be lost after all spells, rituals, and real armor.

Rank 1 lasts for only 10 minutes and gives the character 3 Corruption points.

Each purchase of this skill increases the amount of time this endowment is active and amount of corruption gained by activating it. The character may choose how long the endowment will last in the standard increments of 10, 20, or 60 minutes, up to maximum rank of this skill learned. For example, a character with Rank 2 can consume the correct type of demon flesh and have this endowment last for either 10 or 20 minutes. They could not choose to have it last 60 minutes since they do not have Rank 3. The duration of the endowment must be chosen when the skill is activated and cannot be changed once set.

The character many not end the effect of the endowment early. The character cannot activate another Battle Strength Endowment while they have a Battle Strength Endowment active. They do not stack.

Learning this skill allows the Demon Hunter to choose to have their Battle Strength Endowment last for 10 or 20 minutes at the cost of 3 or 6 Corruption points respectively.

Learning this skill allows the Demon Hunter to choose to have their Battle Strength Endowment last for 10, 20, or 60 minutes at the cost of 3, 6, or 9 Corruption points respectively.

For every purchase of this skill, the character can spend 1 minute to restore Body Points to a character. The character may use this skill any time they wish on any living character, including themselves so long as the character is awake and not restrained. For every purchase of this skill the character can restore 12 Body Points. No matter how many Body Points restored, the character need only take 1 minute to use this skill. The character can restore any amount of Body Points they wish with this skill up to their maximum amount. To use this skill, the character can use any available cloth, like tearing a piece of their costume, to bandage the wound. If a character uses clean white bandages that are at least 2 feet long and 2 inches wide will gain a bonus of 50%, rounded down, to the Body Points restored. One area of the body per use of this skill (or per 12 Body Points restored) is required. The player using this skill is responsible for providing the bandages, which are an in-play item and do not require a tag. The target character must keep the bandages on for at least 1 minute. If the bandages are removed or fall off before the 1 minutes are up, the Body Points healed with this skill are lost and the use of this skill is still expended.

One complete (12 Body Points) use of this skill can be used to indefinitely stabilize a living character who is Mortally Wounded or at the Brink of Death. The character should place their hand on the target character’s torso and call “Battle Surgery”. As long as the character maintains contact, the target character’s Death Count stops.

Thirdly, if a character wishes, they can restore Body Points when using their First Aid skill. When using First Aid on a target character, the character can opt to use points of their Battle Surgery Body Point Tags to heal the target character. Combining the use of these skills takes 1 minute and the target character will wake up at the end of the minute, bypassing the 5 (or 21⁄2 with bandages) minutes of wake up time normally required with the First Aid skill.

Lastly, the character can use 6 points from their Battle Surgery Body Points to splint a leg that is broken – NOT SEVERED!!! – and allow the injured character to slowly walk on the leg moving no faster than one step per second.

A character may not walk on two broken legs, without help, even if both are splinted. A character can only be battle surgeried by one character at a time and a character can only battle surgery one character at a time. The use of this skill requires the character to concentrate while they are using this skill. The player should look at the character they are using this skill on and can only talk and invoke Latent spells while battle surgering someone.

The bandage is in-game, does not have to be purchased, must be white, and must be larger than 2 feet by 2 inches. The character must either have their hand on the target character or be bandaging to use this skill.

When this skill is used, the target character cannot take any actions or use any non-defensive skills, abilities, or items. While the target is under the effects of the Blather, they may do nothing but stand there and look at the character. The target character is unaware of their surroundings for the duration. The effects of the Blather ends should the character stop talking for more than 3 seconds, the character or target character is attacked, or there is combat within 20 feet of the target character. The target character may use any defensive ability if they are attacked, i.e., Crit Parry, Dodge, Vigilance, Spell Shield, etc.

To use this skill, the character needs to engage the target in a conversation for 5 seconds and the target needs to acknowledge the character by either looking at the character or verbally acknowledging the character. The Blather skill will last so long as the character continues talking. They do not need to be saying anything intelligent or sensible, but they do need to be speaking words not just mumbling sounds. The maximum duration is 10 minutes.

This skill is stopped by Iron Will. Any character that is immune to charms (i.e. has the Immunity: Charms ability) is immune to this skill. The target character needs to be able to hear the character, so people who are deaf cannot be effected, and understand the character, so animals (unless the character can speak to animals) are not affected. If the target does not speak the character’s language, this skill still works on the target Character.

This skill can only be used on one character at a time. While this skill forces the target character to pay attention to the character, it does not prevent the target character from maintaining their concentration for purposes of spells like Magic Sanctuary.

This skill enables a blinded character to engage in hand to hand combat; without this skill a character may not engage in combat while blinded. This skill does not imply the ability to see. A character using this skill is assumed to be fighting by "feel" and sound, and can only respond to a hand to hand attack and cannot initiate combat with a foe that they cannot perceive. Once combat starts, the character can continue until the target leaves the combat entirely or out runs the player.

This skill cannot be used – ever – to detect invisible characters, but can be used to attack invisible characters that attack first.

Bonds is the magic of restraint, holding objects or characters in place. The flash of magic associated with bonds is a deep blue color.

Special Rules for the Bond School:

Any Bond School spell can be removed by its caster. The caster must touch the target player of the spell and say, “I Release You From (name of spell)”. This also applies to the Imprisonment spell, as the act of touching the target player refers to the ability of the caster to make physical contact with the target, not the caster’s character and the target character.

Almost all the Bond spells can be removed by a Dispel Magic; Imprisonment and Impenetrable Portal are the only two listed here that cannot. The Pin, Bind, Paralysis, and Imprisonment spells are not mutually exclusive and therefore, a character can be effected by all four at once.

Characters with an exceptional Strength Bonus are immune to the effects of certain Bonds School spells. Only a Strength Bonus that is combinable counts at all towards determining if a character is immune to a Bonds School spell. Skills, spells and alchemical items that grant a non-combinable Strength Bonus are never considered in the calculations, but skills and spells that grant even a temporary combinable Strength Bonus do count. The table below outlines the required Strength Bonus needed and what spell immunities are gained.

Spell Name
Strength Bonus

Some characters are immune to the effects of Bond School spells. The commonly encountered ones are ethereal or incorporeal undead. Others to be sure exist, but the player must learn of these during game play.

Grants access to Rank 2 Bonds spells. All spells unlocked by this rank skill are detailed below.

Grants access to Rank 3 Bonds spells. All spells unlocked by this rank skill are detailed below.

Grants access to Rank 4 Bonds spells. All spells unlocked by this rank skill are detailed below.

Grants access to Rank 5 Bonds spells. All spells unlocked by this rank skill are detailed below.

This skill will temporarily remove a target character’s Threshold or Soak for 5 minutes. The character needs to hit the target in the torso, knees to elbows, just like a Slay, with their weapon.

This skill will work on any Character, not just ones with the Monster Type: Demon. It will not affect Thresholds or Soaks from magic spells, alchemy, rituals or skills and only affects Thresholds and Soaks gained from abilities.

This skill is not stopped by any amount of Threshold, Soak, or Damage Resistance. To use this skill the character should call “Break Threshold”. If the character fails to connect with the target, the skill is not used. This skill can be stopped by any defense that stops Martial attacks.

This skill prevents the character from getting lost in any above ground, underground, or underwater aquatic setting. This skill will also allow the character to return to any place they have previously been from anywhere so long as they know where they are. This skill can be purchased up to three times, once for each environment and the type of environment must be specified at the time of purchase. Unlike other multipurchase skills, the teacher must have purchased a Bump of Direction for that environment.

This skill is subject to a Plot Marshal’s ruling and may not always work.

When this skill is used, the character blesses a single weapon with the power of the High Lord. The weapon, while wielded, may not be broken, may swing for Light damage and the character is immune to disarming effects. The character must suffix their damage called with “…Light” if they wish to use the Light effect.

This skill will last for 10 minutes and will work in the hands of any good character, i.e. Acolyte of Light, Follower of the Light, Solars, etc. Any other character wielding the weapon does not gain the bonuses of this skill but may use the weapon normally.

This skill requires the use of the character’s focus and a verbal, which must be at least 5 syllables, not including the skill’s name, and must contain some reasonably recognizable version of the name of the skill.

This skill allows a character to channel a school of magic through their weapon. For the character’s strike, the weapon acts as a spell packet, but the character needs to make contact with the target. A spell cannot be channeled through another weapon but will go through a shield, thus the target can block with their weapon but not their shield and stop the spell from going off. The full spell verbal for the spell must be recited and the casting can be interrupted normally, however the character can cast the spell with their weapon in hand for that school only. The channeled spell costs the normal amount of Power Points.

Upon learning this skill, the character learns to channel one school of magic. The character may channel any damaging spell from that school plus a small number of spells specified on the table in the Mystic Warrior section of the Playtest Document. The character can cast and channel a spell while holding a weapon in their hand. To cast a spell normally, they must have a free, unfettered hand as per the normal casting rules.

Channeling a spell replaces the normal damage the weapon would do, even if the typical weapon damage is more than the spell’s damage. Channeling strikes cannot be combined with any specialty martial attacks except the Speed skill. Channeling strikes also cannot be combined with any Warlock skills except the Speed Cast skill.

The character can channel through any weapon they have dedicated. Any attempt to channel a spell using a normal weapon fails and the Power Points are expended. In the special case of weapons enchanted with an element, only that element can be channeled, though any spell can be spell parried or redirected. Additionally, channeling a spell from that school of magic with a permanent Ritual of Elemental Weapon or a Greater Elemental Magic Weapon will lower the cost of the channeled spell by 1 Power Point with a minimum of 1 Power Point. This discount only applies to spells channeled and not a spell cast normally.

If a character misses their target, they can continue to try and strike their target until they connect with a blow or 5 seconds elapses. If the character accidentally strikes the ground or some other viable object, the spell is lost. The target can use a martial skill, such as Crit Parry, Master Parry, Slay Parry, etc., to stop the channeled spell, but the spell is not expended. Similarly, a character can stop the attack for another character using a martial skill. A Dodge will prevent the channeled spell from landing but will not expend the spell.

The character can learn to channel other elemental schools of magic, but these must be learned separately with the Expanded Focus skill, see the Mystic Warrior section of the playtest document.

Only Low Magic Schools can be learned to be channeled, therefore, Spell Songs and Nature Magic cannot be channeled. This skill can only be used with a spell cast by the character and not when invoked from an item or read from a scroll.

Charms is the magic of interfering with your opponents mind. From dazzling them with lights, to convincing them you're a trusted ally. The flash of magic when charms are cast is Yellow.

Special Rules for the Charms School:

Any Charm spell can be removed by its caster. The caster must touch the target of the spell and say, “I Release You From (name of spell).” Charm spells do not cease their effects if the caster falls unconscious or is in any stage of their Death Count.

The Enslave and Dominate spells are incompatible spells. If a character already has one of these spells cast on them and another spell is cast, the spell that uses the greater number of Power Points takes precedence. If a character has one of these spells cast on them and the same spell is cast on them again, the more recently cast spell takes precedence. Also, you cannot command someone to do something they cannot do; for example, you cannot order a character to resist a Speak the Truth spell if they could not normally resist it; you can cast a Resist Suggestion and order the character to use it. Similarly, you cannot order a person to use a Slay skill on someone if they do not have the skill or have already used it during that Tag Cycle.

Remember, a character can never be forced through the use of these spells to lose permanent pool points, Body Points or skills.

Grants access to Rank 2 Charms spells. All spells unlocked by this rank skill are detailed below.

Grants access to Rank 3 Charms spells. All spells unlocked by this rank skill are detailed below.

Grants access to Rank 4 Charms spells. All spells unlocked by this rank skill are detailed below.

Grants access to Rank 5 Charms spells. All spells unlocked by this rank skill are detailed below.

This skill renders the target character blind for 10 seconds by using some dirty combat trick such as a flash of light in the opponent’s eyes, flicking sand, dirt or rocks in their eyes, throwing powder, etc. Out-of-game, the character does not throw anything at the target player. To deliver the attack, the character must strike the target character with any melee weapon they know how to use in any legal combat location but must be delivered to the target character’s front 180° arc. Attacks from the side or back fail and the skill is used for that Tag Cycle. The character should call, “Cheap Trick” when they use this skill. Cheap Trick is not stopped by Damage Resistance and therefore does not rely on the quality of the weapon being used.

There is nothing that will reduce the duration of this attack, the target is blinded for a full 10 seconds once the attack lands successfully. The skill will not work on characters that do not have a normal humanoid physiology, like most undead.

The skill is not used if the character fails to connect with the target, but is used once it successfully hits the target or if the character attacks the target character’s side or back. The skill is stopped by any defense that stops physical attacks.

This ability allows the character to turn one or both hands into claws and allows them to use an approved LAIRE claw in combat dealing 1 point of magical damage with each blow. The claws are part of the character's body and may not be coated with poison as doing so would poison the character. Even if the character were immune to the poison, the poison would be expended when applied. The character’s claws take damage and any damage dealt to the claws is taken from the character’s Body Points.

Damage Bonuses and special weapon attacks, like the Slay, Stun, Waylay, Assassinate, etc. skills, with the exception of the Speed skill and Inspire and Heroism spell songs, may not be used with the Claws skill. However, the character’s Strength Bonus does add to the damage.

Claws always swing for magic damage. The character has the option of using their Elemental Pool Points to increase the amount and type of damage dealt.

This skill requires the use of the character’s focus and a verbal, which must be at least 5 syllables, not including the skill’s name, and must contain some reasonably recognizable version of the name of the skill

Learning this skill allow the character to activate the Clear Mind Endowment by consuming a specific kind of demon flesh. Once activated, the endowment makes the character immune to Demonic Charm and Demonic Possession for the duration. Note that the charm effects of Hierarchs is not the same and the character will be affected normally. Similarly, any other charm effects like Enslavement spell, Dominate spell, Hypnosis skill, etc. cast or used by a demon is not stopped by this Endowment.

The Clear Mind Endowment requires the flesh of any guile demon to activate.

Rank 1 will last for 10 minutes at the cost of 2 corruption points.

The duration of the endowment must be chosen when the skill is activated and cannot be changed once set.

The character many not end the effect of the endowment early.

The character cannot activate another Clear Mind Endowment while they have one active, they do not stack.

Learning this skill allows the Demon Hunter to choose to have their Clear Mind Endowment last for 10 or 20 minutes at the cost of 2 or 4 Corruption points respectively.

The duration of the endowment must be chosen when the skill is activated and cannot be changed once set.

The character many not end the effect of the endowment early.

Learning this skill allows the Demon Hunter to choose to have their Clear Mind Endowment last for 10, 20, or 60 minutes at the cost of 2, 4, or 6 Corruption points respectively.

The duration of the endowment must be chosen when the skill is activated and cannot be changed once set.

The character many not end the effect of the endowment early.

Cleave will allow you to deliver damage to an opponent within weapons reach if you reduce your primary target to 0 Body Points or less with a melee attack. The damage delivered to the secondary target is the same as what you dealt to the primary target. The target has to be dropped by damage only – no effects.

Should the primary target character drop, but not be at 0 Body Points or less, ie they are playing possum, this skill can still be used.

To use this skill, after the primary target is dropped, the character should point to the secondary target and call, “Cleave, X Damage”, substituting any damage modifiers like fire, silver, magic, etc. The cleave attack does not require the character to hit the secondary target, just be in normal weapon’s reach. The only two skills that will work with Cleave are Speed and Critical Attack.

You may not chain cleaves with the same attack. If the secondary target drops from the damage of the Cleave attack, the character may not then turn to a tertiary target and continue the cleaving. This skill only works if your primary target drops from damage delivered by a melee attack. Skills like Slay, Stun, Disarm, Assassinate, Assassin Strike, Channeling, etc do not work with a Cleave attack.

This skill is stopped by any defense that stops physical attacks.

This skill grants the character a limited immunity to necromancy. The character is immune to any undead creation spell in the Necromancy School. Damaging spells from that school still effect the character normally and a Death Slave spell brings the character to the Brink of Death. Undead creating sorcery rituals affect the character, but they are at half power, in other words, half the normal Body Points, Power Points, Strength Bonus, Skills, etc. and is wracked with constant pain and agony. After the end of the current Event in which the undead was created, the player can choose to end their character’s undead torment whenever they want, even if the character is on their last death.

A player may only have the Cleric or Paladin skill at one time. It is possible, with Plot approval and appropriate in-game roleplay, for a character to change from a Cleric to a Paladin by swapping this skill for Paladin, with the appropriate Build Point change.

This skill has only one use, to overcome obstacles encountered during game play which do not physically exist. It cannot be used to climb over a stone wall if the stone wall is there out-of-game, but if the Marshal only describes the wall or if the wall is only represented by a tarp, string or other such out-of-game item, then the character can use this skill. The Marshal will have final say as to whether the character successfully uses this skill. It typically takes the character 10 seconds to climb 20 feet, although the character can climb any height with this skill.

This skill can never be used to enter or exit combat, nor can it be used to attack from trees, roofs or other out of reach locations. A character absolutely cannot stand next to a tree and say they have climbed the tree and attack other characters. Ever.

For 6 hours, this skill will cloak any corporeal undead making them appear to be alive. The Detect Life spell, First Aid skill, or Detect Undead skill will reveal the character as being alive. The character will look as they did in life and will appear to have flesh, be warm to the touch and otherwise appear to be a living breathing character. The undead will even appear to bleed if struck. However, if the undead is immune to a class of weapons or spells, then no effect will show. This skill will also protect the character from sunlight for the duration of this skill.

This skill provides no protection from damage and will not work on incorporeal undead such as Wraiths or Specters.

This skill requires the use of the character’s focus and a verbal, which must be at least 5 syllables, not including the skill’s name, and must contain some reasonably recognizable version of the name of the skill.verbal, which must be at least 5 syllables, not including the skill’s name, and must contain some reasonably recognizable version of the name of the skill.

When a character purchases this skill they permanently change their Death Count, effectively doubling the amount of time the character has at each stage. Therefore, it takes them 2 minutes to Bleed to Death, are Mortally Wounded for 2 minutes, and will be at the Brink of Death for 10 minutes. This skill does not affect how long they are Unconscious, when they are at 0 Body Points, or Waylaid; it is still 5 minutes.

If another character uses the First Aid skill or a Detect Life spell, in addition to receiving their Death Count status, they will know the character has the Coma skill.

This skill allows a character to channel spells while they are taking damage. Once purchased, this skill is always in affect. This skill does not protect a character from taking damage; it only allows them to ignore the damage for the purpose of casting spells. Combat Casting does not prevent a character from being paralyzed, knocked unconscious, affected by a Bind spell, or otherwise rendered physically unable to cast spells.

This skill works only with the schools of magic the character can channel and only while channeling those spells. If the caster casts a spell from another school or casts a spell normally, the spell will be interrupted if they take damage.

The character’s Dedicated Weapon is needed to use this skill.

This skill allows the character to bend any single undead or demon of any type within hearing range and line of sight to their will for 30 minutes. The targeted character will do exactly what the user commands; care should be taken that these commands are explicit since the target character may carry out the letter but not the spirit of the command. After the duration of this ability expires, the undead may seek revenge for being controlled, depending on its personality and the nature of the commands given. If given a command within the designated time period, the undead must attempt to accomplish and complete the command to the best of its ability, within the duration of this skill. If the duration should expire, all incomplete commands are forfeit, and the target character is free to react of its own free will. This skill can be used as a counter to the Follower of the Light turn skills. This skill can only be countered by a Follower of the Light skill, Servant of Darkness skill, or sorcery; necromancy or abilities will not counter this ability. A character cannot use this skill on themselves.

This skill requires the use of the character’s focus and a verbal, which must be at least 5 syllables, not including the skill’s name, and must contain some reasonably recognizable version of the name of the skill.

This skill uses the Druid’s influence and tie to nature to compel all natural animals within hearing range or Line of Sight of the character to obey their commands for 30 minutes. When the skill’s duration ends, all incomplete commands are forfeit, and the animals will return to their own will and react according to their nature. This skill can be countered by sorcery or any other spell or ability that charms the animal.

This skill is not a charm effect and only works on characters with the Animal type on their card (see LAIRE’s Codex of Monstrous Creatures).

This skill requires the use of the character’s focus and a verbal, which must be at least 5 syllables, not including the skill’s name, and must contain some reasonably recognizable version of the name of the skill.

This skill allows a character to cast spells while they are taking damage. Once purchased, this skill is always in affect. This skill does not protect a character from taking damage; it only allows them to ignore the damage for the purpose of casting spells. Concentration does not prevent a character from being paralyzed, knocked unconscious, affected by a Bind spell, or otherwise rendered physically unable to cast spells.

Any lesser undead and lesser demons within hearing range or Line of sight of the character must obey all the character’s commands for 30 minutes. If the duration should expire, all incomplete commands are forfeit, and the undead will return to their own will and react according to their nature. This skill can be used as a counter to the Follower of the Light turn skills. This skill can only be countered by a Follower of the Light skill, Servant of Darkness skill, or sorcery; necromancy or abilities will not counter this skill. A character cannot use this skill on themselves.

This skill requires the use of the character’s focus and a verbal, which must be at least 5 syllables, not including the skill’s name, and must contain some reasonably recognizable version of the name of the skill.

All undead and all demons within hearing range or Line of Sight of the character must obey their commands for 30 minutes. Greater Undead will act as if affected by the Compel Undead skill. If the duration should expire, all incomplete commands are forfeit, and the undead will return to their own will and react according to their nature. This skill can be used as a counter to the Follower of the Light turn skills. This skill can only be countered by a Follower of the Light skill, Servant of Darkness, or sorcery; necromancy or abilities will not counter this ability. A character cannot use this skill on themselves.

This skill requires the use of the character’s focus and a verbal, which must be at least 5 syllables, not including the skill’s name, and must contain some reasonably recognizable version of the name of the skill.

This Sorcerer only skill allows the character to access rituals that are categorized as Cosmic Focus rituals.

When a character learns this skill, they may resist the effects of any and all fear abilities, spells or effects for 5 minutes. This skill will also resist the use of the Interrogate skill. The player should call “Courage” when they invoke this skill and when affected by any additional fear effects during the skill’s duration.

This set of skills allows a character to create in-game commodities not covered elsewhere in these rules. The character needs to pay 100% of the production cost only, not the 110% non-craftsman must pay to the Treasure Manager obtain the item. The Treasure Manager will then give the character a tag for their product.

A player may never charge in-game money for an out-of-game physical representation of the commodity, but may charge out-ofgame money for it.

The list of approved craftsman skills is listed below. If a character wishes to have a skill not listed below the new skill must be approved by the normal process of adding a new skill to the game.

This skill allows the character to create golems. Create Golem Rank 1 allows the character to identify golems and other types of automatons after 1 minute of examination.

They may also Craft Wood Golems

For the full rules on how to create golems and how they work ingame, see Chapter 4.

This skill allows the character to create Flesh Golems.

For the full rules on how to create golems and how they work ingame, see Chapter 4.

This skill allows the character to create Stone Golems.

For the full rules on how to create golems and how they work ingame, see Chapter 4.

This skill allows the character to create Iron Golems.

For the full rules on how to create golems and how they work ingame, see Chapter 4.

This skill allows the character to create Steel Golems.

For the full rules on how to create golems and how they work in-game, see the Create Golem skill.

This skill allows the character to create Mithril Golems.

For the full rules on how to create golems and how they work in-game, see the Create Golem skill.

The pinnacle of alchemical mastery is the art of golem crafting. By means of the Create Golem skill, the character is able to animate a golem to serve his needs. Golems are a type of construct bound to the will of their creator. They can operate somewhat autonomously, following and remembering the verbal commands of their creator, or the creator can transfer their consciousness into the golem and control it directly.

The character must gather the needed components to create the golem before starting to animate the golem. In the case of flesh golems, the alchemist has the required skill to sew the golem together. Wood and stone golems require someone with the appropriate craftsman skill to fashion the golem. The alchemist needs to find someone with Rank 2 of either the Weapon Smith or Armor Smith skill to create the husk needed to animate the golem.

The creation process ends with the alchemist transfusing all of their blood to the golem thereby delivering a Killing Blow to the character. The alchemist may be healed appropriately. The character will lose a number of Body Points equivalent to the level of golem created until the golem is destroyed. The Body Points must come from the creator and not a potion or spell. This creates the link between creator and golem. The golem must be created in the Alchemist Guild or an equivalently outfitted laboratory.

Should the golem be destroyed, the creator will know it instantly (or as soon as a marshal can tell the player) and will experience pain as the Body Points return.

Golems cannot invoke rituals or spells on their person or in any item, but they can benefit from passive constant effects like the damage from an enchanted weapon, the armor points from a Ritual of Armor, or the strength from a Ritual of Strength. The link between golem and creator allows a golem to carry and wield items that are attuned to the creator as if the golem were also attuned. This follows the normal rules for items attuned to multiple characters. If the golem is destroyed the item will behave as normal for that type of attunement. An exception is items attuned by a curse, these cannot be transferred between golem and creator.

Golem Creation Table

Two whole, un-dissected, destroyed golems of the same type can be substituted for the minor component.

Autonomous Golem Behavior

The golem has no free will and will obey the commands given to it to the fullest extent of its ability. While the golem is robotic in nature, it does understand the intent of the commands given to it, understanding the will of the creator. It is able to remember any number of commands. The golem however is unable to make rational choices. If the golem is ordered to: “Kill anyone who attacks me,” the golem will attack a person who gives a friendly slap. The golem cannot be ordered to “Attack anyone who steals something from this room,” but can be ordered to “Attack anyone who takes anything from this room they did not come in with.” In the latter case the golem will attack a character even if the alchemist gives them something to take with them. The golem can never speak. They can make gestures if commanded, but because they cannot reason they have no ability to communicate a thought of their own.

The golem can never be made to harm the creator, and similarly the creator cannot order the golem to strike them self. The golem can be ordered to listen to the commands of someone else, but the creator’s command will always override anyone else they have given control of the golem to.

To use a golem in this autonomous mode the player must find a volunteer to play the golem. Any player can volunteer their own time to play the golem, but they cannot make it part of their NPC duty without a Plot Marshal’s approval. However, if a Marshal has foreknowledge that a golem is present in someone’s room and they send out a group to specifically engage that area, they should send an extra NPC to play the golem.

Inhabiting a Golem

A golem’s creator can temporarily transfer their consciousness into one of their golems, allowing them to control the golem directly and circumvent the limitations of the golem’s autonomous thinking. While inhabiting the golem the character’s abilities will be replaced by those of the golem, except that they can still speak and use the following skills if they have them: Alchemy Lore, Autopsy, Demon Lore, Herbal Lore, Identify Alchemy, Identify Component, Literacy, Sorcery Lore, and Read Magic. While inhabiting the golem they cannot invoke spells or rituals, but they can benefit from passive constant effects like normal. Rituals, curses, active alchemies, and spells on the character’s body do not transfer with them to the golem, and they do not transfer from the golem to the character when finished. Heroic Boons will not be usable by the golem unless they note so specifically.

To use this ability the character must touch the golem and will their consciousness into it. The character cannot be doing anything else while they transfer, which takes as long as it takes to change costume and leave behind any items that will not be going with the golem. While the character inhabits a golem their body is unconscious and cannot be awoken by any means. The player leaves behind their character card and marshal notes explaining their state, and takes over playing the golem. The marshal note should say to alert a plot marshal if the character’s body is moved to a new location or harmed.

To stop using this ability the character must return to their body and touch it. The character cannot be doing anything else while they transfer, which takes as long as it takes to change costume and leave behind any items that will be staying with the golem. The character will awaken with full memory of what they experienced while inhabiting the golem. If the character finds that their body was killed while they were away they may choose to touch it and transfer back anyway or remain in the golem until the end of the event. If they transfer consciousness back to the dead body they can choose to dissipate or remain as a corpse.

If the golem is destroyed while inhabited the player must leave any in-game items behind and put on a white headband to go out-of-game. They must return to their character’s body then change costuming and resume playing their character like above. If they don’t know where the body is they should find a plot marshal to help them locate it.

If the alchemist is inhabiting their golem at the end of an event the character’s consciousness will be forced to return to their body at that time. If the golem has no orders otherwise it will attempt to return to where the character last transferred to the golem. See a plot marshal to determine the golem’s, and possibly the character’s, fate.

Golem Statistics — Special Rules

Golems have a modified death count. If reduced to 0 Body Points the golem has 1 minute to be healed by their specific element damage from spells or thrown Elemental Pool. They do not require a Heal Mortal Wound or a Life effect to be healed regardless of what dropped them to 0 Body Points. Effects that reduce a death count’s length have no effect on a golem. If they do not receive healing within that minute they are destroyed.

If the Golem is reduced to 0 Body Points by eldritch damage, or struck with it while in their death count, then the golem is destroyed.

This skill allows the character to create Scrolls. For the complete rules on creating scrolls in-game, see the beginning of the Sorcery Advanced Career in Chapter 4.

Note, all scrolls are written in the Magic language with English characters.

This skill works just like the Critical Attack skill with the following exceptions:

•  It can only be used as an attack and can never be used to parry any attack by any character,
•  It can be used with any weapon the Character is proficient with, in either hand,
•  It will affect any demonic Character regardless of Damage Resistance, and
•  It will only work on a Character with the Demonic Monster Type (this is primarily demons, but the character’s card will have this information).

This skill triples the total damage – Base Damage, Damage Bonus, Strength Bonus, alchemy, etc. – done by a weapon for one attack. This skill is not weapon or hand specific and can be used with any weapon the character has an appropriate Weapon Skill for. This skill cannot be combined with itself ever. The player should suffix the damage they call with the word “Crit”.

Additionally, the character can use his Critical Attack skill to block one martial attack which can either be Damage, Critical Attack, Disarm, Stunning Blow, Cheap Trick, Throat Punch, or Critical Backstab skills. The character may block ranged physical attacks but not those that have been used with the True Aim skill. Faith skills, spells or abilities cannot be blocked or stopped with this skill.

A character can use this skill to parry even if it is delivered from behind, but not if from a surprise attack; therefore it is impossible to parry the Waylay skill. It is also possible to parry an attack directed against someone else as long as they are within weapons length.

The character can choose to block a spell with this skill for another person; however they will take the effect of the spell and must call the appropriate defense against spells if they wish not to take the spell’s effect. The character may not block a spell that has been augmented with the Perfect Aim skill.

To use this skill as a parry the player should call “Crit Parry”.

When this skill is used offensively, it is not used if the character misses their target or the attack is blocked. If they succeed in striking their target or if the target calls an appropriate defense, the skill is used. This skill is always used once used to parry an attack. This skill does not double any additional damage from the Heal Wounds skill, Wounding skill, or Elemental Pool Points.

This skill allows the character to triple their weapon damage for one swing when attacking from behind. The player should triple the amount of damage their character is swinging including base weapon damage, Damage Bonus, Strength Bonus, alchemical affects or magic bonuses. The character must be approximately 90 degrees behind their target to be considered behind them. The character cannot reach their arms around the target to use their Critical Backstab skill. A Critical Backstab does not have to be delivered from surprise. This skill can be used with the Waylay skill to triple the damage of the Waylay skill. The player should suffix the damage they call with the word “Crit”. This skill is not used if the character misses their target or the attack is blocked. If they succeed in striking their target or if the target calls an appropriate defense, the skill is used. This skill does not double any additional damage from the Heal Wounds skill, Wounding skill, or Elemental Pool Points.

This skill allows the character to bless Servants of Darkness, Dark Acolytes, and non-mortal beings of evil (such as Hierarchs, Demons, and undead) with a +1 Strength Bonus and immunity to fear. This skill is non-latent and will last for 10 minutes from time of blessing. If this skill is used on an unaligned person, a Follower of Light or a being of good, the skill is used but it will have no effect.

This skill cannot be stacked with itself, but will stack with other Strength Bonuses. This skill requires the use of the character’s focus and a verbal, which must be at least 5 syllables, not including the skill’s name, and must contain some reasonably recognizable version of the name of the skill.

This skill grants the character a limited immunity to necromancy. The character is immune to any undead creation spell in the Necromancy School. Damaging spells from that school still effect the character normally and a Death Slave spell will bring the character to the Brink of Death. Undead creating sorcery rituals affect the character normally.

A player may only have the Dark Cleric or Dark Paladin skill at one time. It is possible, with Plot approval and appropriate in-game roleplay, for a character to change from a Dark Cleric to a Dark Paladin by swapping this skill for Dark Paladin, with the appropriate Build Point change.

This skill allows the character to choose either Necromancy or Demonology as a second school they can cast creation/summoning spells from using their Wounding Pool. Additionally, they can cast all spells from their original school, not just creation/summon, for twice the Power Point cost in Wounding Pool points. Note, the spell Summon Total Demonic Power to Infuse Me with Magic spell is not able to be cast from their pool. The character must still spend double pool points.

This skill grants the character a limited immunity to necromancy. The character is immune to any undead creation spell in the Necromancy School. Damaging spells from that school still effect the character normally and a Death Slave spell will bring the character to the Brink of Death. Undead creating sorcery rituals affect the character normally.

This skill makes the character permanently immune to all fear effects.

A player may only have the Dark Cleric or Dark Paladin skill at one time. It is possible, with Plot approval and appropriate in-game roleplay, for a character to change from a Dark Paladin to a Dark Cleric by swapping this skill for Dark Cleric, with the appropriate Build Point change

This skill allows the character to cast dark only rituals, gives the character a +5% Casting Bonus to all dark and dark only rituals and doubles the caster and participants’ Knowledge Bonus for ranks of Necromancy School known.

For more information, see the sections on the Servant of Darkness Advanced Career and Sorcerer Advanced Career.

This skill allows the character to move through the Darkwood Forest unmolested by its denizens by knowing the safe paths to travel and how not to alert the creatures that live there. If the character wishes, they can lead a group of no more than seven other characters safely through at one time.

It does not give the character any special knowledge of what might live in the forest or where anything in the forest is, just how to navigate safely through it.

The more intelligent, free willed creatures in the forest are not fooled and can choose to act when they see the character normally. Additionally, these Darkwood creatures do not take kindly to intruders and usually act to kill anyone with this skill they find wandering where they are not supposed to be.

Death magic tampers with the body. Removing senses and injuring it directly. Death magic has a Gray flash of light when cast.

Special Rules for the Death school:

If a Death spell does damage, it does so directly to a character’s Body Points. Death spells do not affect armor. Death spells that cause damage will heal undead; the undead adds to its Body Points the amount of damage that would normally be done by the spell, up to the character’s starting total. The Kill spell has a special effect on undead and is described below, but note that lesser undead dissolve into dust when they are slain and cannot be restored by these spells. The rest of the non-damaging spells will have no effect on undead.

Grants access to Rank 2 Death spells. All spells unlocked by this rank skill are detailed below.

Grants access to Rank 3 Death spells. All spells unlocked by this rank skill are detailed below.

Grants access to Rank 4 Death spells. All spells unlocked by this rank skill are detailed below.

Grants access to Rank 5 Death spells. All spells unlocked by this rank skill are detailed below.

This skill causes the targeted character to go the Brink of Death. Also, the Death Touch skill can be reversed to life any evil character – Servant of Evil, Greater Undead, any demon, etc. If used in this way, it takes 1 minute to invoke and the character falls unconscious for 10 minutes. Note, when this skill is used as a life effect, the target character does not stop their Death Count.

This skill requires the use of the character’s focus and a verbal, which must be at least 5 syllables, not including the skill’s name, and must contain some reasonably recognizable version of the name of the skill. This skill can be delivered by touch or through a weapon. If delivered through a weapon, the targeted character must be struck, and unlike Channeled spells, weapons and shields will stop the attack. If the character misses their target or the target uses a martial skill to stop the attack, the skill is not used. If the attack is stopped by a Resist Evil or Life skill or a magical defense that stops physical attacks the skill is used.

This skill works just like the Slay skill with the following exceptions. First the target character’s head is severed and is assumed to land near the character’s body. Second, the character is not Mortally Wounded, but is at the Brink of Death. Lastly, this skill cannot be used as a parry to an attack. The character must call “Decapitate” after the blow is delivered, followed by any special damage modifiers, such as “Magic”, “Silver”, etc.

This skill requires the character to have a +5 Strength Bonus to learn and use. This can either be a natural racial bonus or from some other source, such as a magic item. However, the Strength Bonus must be a continuous bonus, not one that has a duration or is invoked for a duration. Therefore, things such as a Strength Potion does not count towards this prerequisite.

This skill gives the character the basic knowledge the need to be a Demon Hunter. First, it teaches the character a secret cypher that is only known to Demon Hunters with this skill. The code cannot be broken by people without the Demon Lore Skill. Since it is not a language, extraordinary means of reading languages will not decode the script.

Second, it gives the character an intimate knowledge of demons. The character has access to an out-of-game book that describes the basics of each kind of standard demon found in LAIRE’s Codex of Monstrous Creatures. This book can be acquired from the Head of Plot. The information in the book is ingrained in the character and cannot be normally forgotten – though magic, alchemy, etc. can make the character forget. This allows the player to review the notes during play. They may not call a Hold to read them and however long it takes them to look it up is how long in-game they take to remember the information. If the character comes across a demon they do not know, they may know enough about demons that some information may be imparted to them by a Plot Marshal. This is at Plot’s discretion.

** Any skill that gives you access to multiple Weapon Skills, for example Master Assassin, satisfies the 2 Weapon Skill prerequisite for Demon Lore.

In order to learn Demonology, the character must be taught by a demon capable of teaching this magic. This demon will extract a price for this knowledge, nothing less than their immortal soul. This demonic pact marks the characters soul forever and when the character dies they are guaranteed to spend the rest of eternity in Hell.

Should this contract with Hell ever be broken, the character is unable to cast Demonology spells until a new pact is made.

Making the initial pact can be a tricky matter. The character must find a teacher in-game. Demons guard their knowledge most jealously and do not normally allow tomes to be made.

At the time the pact is signed, the character must choose which aspect of Hell they will follow: fire, ice, undeath, and shadow. This will directly affect how the character’s spells work. For example, should the character choose fire, then the type of demon they summon is fire and the spells will deal fire damage. Their aspect never changes unless their contract is passed to another and they change the aspect.

The four <Aspect> verbals would be:

• From the Unending and Fiery Pits of Hell I...

• From the Unending and Icy Pits of Hell I...

• From the Unending and Undying Pits of Hell I...

• From the Unending and Shadowy Pits of Hell I...

Grants access to Rank 2 Demonology spells. All spells unlocked by this rank skill are detailed below.

Grants access to Rank 3 Demonology spells. All spells unlocked by this rank skill are detailed below.

Grants access to Rank 4 Demonology spells. All spells unlocked by this rank skill are detailed below.

Grants access to Rank 5 Demonology spells. All spells unlocked by this rank skill are detailed below.

This skill will destroy any lesser Vile Spawn such as undead or lesser demons by touch or through a weapon bringing them to the end of their Death Count. This skill can be blocked by a magical defense against physical attacks and the Destroy Lesser Vile Spawn skill is used. A martial parry skill will block the attack, but the Destroy Lesser Vile Spawn skill is not used.

This skill requires the use of the character’s focus and a verbal, which must be at least 5 syllables, not including the skill’s name, and must contain some reasonably recognizable version of the name of the skill.

This skill will destroy any Vile Spawn such as undead or demons of any type by touch or through a weapon. The targeted character is completely destroyed and turns to dust if corporeal or vanishes if non-corporeal. Demons or Hierarchs are brought to the Brink of Death and instantly banished to their home plane leaving their worldly possessions behind. The Paladin is brought to the Brink of Death after successful use of this skill.

Unlike other skills, this skill is not used if it is stopped by any defense that stops physical attacks and the Paladin suffers no ill effects. If stopped by an Empowerment skill, this skill is used and the Paladin suffers no ill effects. However, if this skill is blocked by an innate Resist ability, the skill is used and the Paladin is brought to the Brink of Death.

This skill requires the use of the character’s focus and a verbal, which must be at least 5 syllables, not including the skill’s name, and must contain some reasonably recognizable version of the name of the skill.

This skill will test the veracity of the last statement made by another character. To use this skill, the character should call a Hold, privately ask the target player if they are lying, then call the Lay On. The skill is undetectable in-game to bystanders and the target character. However, a character with the Lie skill can use their skill as a defense. This is the only defense to this skill.

The veracity of the statement is based on what the player, not the character, knows is the truth. Therefore, if the character is intentionally lying or lying under compulsion (charm effect, Forget and Remember poison, etc), they are lying and will detect as such. Even if the character’s perception of the truth is skewed, the skill will detect the statement as a lie.

The player should not draw upon out-of-game knowledge their character should not know about when judging the truthfulness of their answer.

If a character is lied to and later tells people the lie believing it to be the truth, he will not detect as lying.

In the above example, Constantine was not attempting to lie to Juhani, even though he was wrong and Squire Scanlon was alive, the skill still revealed he was telling the truth. This skill requires no verbal to use.

This skill allows the character to sense if another character is Vile Spawn, such as undead, demons, etc., or a higher power, such as Hierarchs, Dragons, or Forestals, by looking at them. This skill can only be stopped by the Cloak Undead skill. If used against a character who is currently possessed, this skill will reveal this fact and the nature of the possessing character. When used against a Vile Spawn it will reveal whether the target is lesser or greater.

This skill requires the use of the character’s focus and a verbal, which must be at least 5 syllables, not including the skill’s name, and must contain some reasonably recognizable version of the name of the skill.

With this skill, a character may attempt to disarm traps the character comes across while playing the game. This skill does not allow the character to automatically disarm a trap, the player must actually disarm the trap they find during game play.

Without this skill, any character that attempts to disarm a trap will automatically set it off, even if the player successfully disarmed the trap. Any character can detect any trap they can see in-game; this skill is not required to detect traps.

A character can use this skill to disarm another character’s weapon or any other in-game or in-play (you cannot disarm a coffee cup or a spell packet for example) item held in that arm. To use the skill, the character only has to hit the weapon or target character – but not their shield if they are wielding it – to disarm the character.

If your target is wielding a one-handed weapon or holding an object in one hand, you only have to hit them once, and use one purchase of the Disarm skill to disarm them. If the target character is wielding a two- handed weapon or holding an object with two hands, you would need to hit them twice, and use two purchases of the Disarm skill. However, one limb is still unusable for 5 seconds, but the target character can still hold their weapon with the other hand.

To use this skill, the character must call “Disarm” after the blow is delivered followed by any special damage modifiers, such as “Magic”, “Silver”, etc., and the arm – either left or right. For example, “Disarm Magic, Right Arm”. If the character does not designate an arm, then the target can choose which limb – even if there is nothing in that hand – and, if struck multiple times with multiple disarms, can choose the same arm for all attacks.

A character that has been disarmed must drop what is in that hand and cannot use that arm for 5 seconds. They cannot pick up their weapon nor do any other in-game action with that arm for 5 seconds. The character should drop their weapon at their feet; they cannot throw the weapon behind them or to another character.

If the item in the character’s hand is attuned to the character, then the character does not have to drop the item, but they still cannot use that arm for the full 5 seconds. An Attachment spell or a Paste of Stickiness will not prevent the character from losing the weapon or item in their hand.

This skill can be used with ranged attacks. The same rules as above apply, so you only have to strike the target in a legal combat location to disarm a limb.

Shields cannot be disarmed if wielded, but if the character is simply holding the shield then it can be disarmed by striking that character.

This skill can be used to parry a Disarm skill. It cannot be used to parry any other martial attack or for another character. The character should call “Retain” when they use this skill to stop a disarm attempt. This skill is stopped by any defense that stops martial attacks.

When this skill is used offensively, it is not used if the character misses their target or the attack is blocked. If they succeed in striking their target or if the target calls an appropriate defense the skill is used. This skill is always used when used to parry a Disarm skill.

This skill will dispel one active spell on a character or spell effect struck instead of dealing damage. For example, this spell can cancel the effects of most Bond spells, Charm spells, wall spells, etc. The Dispelling Strike skill can be used on the effect of the spell as in the case of Wall of Force or Lock spells or at the character affected by the spell. When the skill is used against a character directly, the character should make an out-of-game comment indicating which spell is being canceled; if the wielder does not specify one, then the target player must choose one active spell to be removed.

This skill does not work against latent spells. It also does not work against Imprisonment or Magic Sanctuary spells, and it cannot undo the creation of undead by the Necromancy School.

This skill is stopped by any defense that stops physical attacks, Master Parry, Slay Parry, Dodge, etc. The character should call “Dispelling Strike”. If the character misses, the skill is not used.

The character’s Dedicated Weapon is needed to use this skill.

This skill allows the character to take and preserve a body part from a dead or immobile character. Using this skill takes 1 minute and the character should roleplay cutting or removing the body part as appropriate. Additionally, the character needs to use a dissection knife to use this skill; no other tools or items can be used.

Normally, any body part taken from a character dissipates after 5 minutes. However, if the body part was removed and preserved by someone with the Dissection skill, the body part does not dissipate. If the character is healed or resurrected, the character is whole and intact even if a portion of its body is preserved elsewhere.

When you start to remove an internal organ, bones or blood, you deliver a Killing Blow in the first three seconds of starting the dissection. You cannot use First Aid, Battle Surgery, Icy Preservation spell, or other means that stop a Death Count while you are Dissecting a part from a character.

This skill allows a character to collect components from various characters. However, you can only collect the same component once from the same character per month. For example, Adriana needs the unwilling heart of a Paladin for her Dark Sorcery. She captures Rynn and dissects his heart, then casts a Life spell on him. She can take his heart again if she wishes but it would not be useable in her ritual; only the first heart is worth anything. Only one component can be taken from the same character per Event, regardless of how many characters are dissecting the body. If multiple characters dissect the same body, then the first one to finish is the only one who gains a usable component. They could take the heart, muscles, or blood but only the first one finished would be a valid component.

This skill is used to extract components from a character. It can never be used to preserve a whole character or body. If a part is dissected that contains other components, those components are null and useless.

This skill allows the character to distract another character for 10 seconds. While distracted, the character cannot take any offensive action or theft against the target character. The target character cannot be Killing Blowed. Should the distracted character be attacked or any violent action takes place within 10 feet of them the character is no longer distracted.

The targeted character should roleplay being distracted by something for the duration of this skill.

To use this skill the character needs to hit the target character with a spell packet and call “Distraction”. This skill cannot be combined with the True Aim skill. This charm like skill can be stopped by an Iron Will or a use of the Hypnosis skill used defensively. This is not stopped by martial or magical defenses that stop physical attacks. The target of this skill is aware that they have been distracted by the character.

By taking 10 minutes of in-game roleplay, the character is able to see into the beyond and divine the fate of a character. This skill is rather unreliable, not all predictions come true and those that do, rarely the way the characters expected. Once the diviner is finished with their reading, they should write down their prediction on a sheet of paper and hand it to a Plot Marshal. The Plot Marshal, at their own discretion and under no obligation, may or may not act on the information and should they chose to act, they are under no obligation to use it the way the character would wish or think.

Knowing this skill allows the character to use any divination tools they wish to, for example: tarot cards, dice, bones, tea leaves, crystal balls, palm reading, etc.

This skill will allow a character to avoid any one magical or physical attack, even from surprise. If the attack is an area affect attack, this skill does not allow the character to move to avoid the area of affect. The character may dodge an attack even while encumbered, for example when carrying a body or other heavy items. The character may also dodge when blinded or unable to see the attacker or the attack. However, the character cannot dodge an attack if they are immobilized in any way, or if they intentionally touch or pick up an item or person. This includes areas or parts of a structure that a character intentionally touches. A character is considered immobile if they are affected by a Pin, Bind, Paralysis, Imprisonment spell or similar effect or if they are held by another character. A character in a Magic Sanctuary spell must drop the sanctuary in order to dodge.