Introduction
Setting information
Rastaban
System information
Available Classes
- Paladin
- Plane Weaver
-
-
Sidebar
shroud
This is an old revision of the document!
Table of Contents
Shroud
Class Feature: Initiate's Vow
- When you join the cult of an Imperial Muse, you swear a vow.
- As a Paladin of the Shroud, pick one vow from below:
- I will never tell the complete truth.
- I will never knowingly reveal a secret.
- I will never betray a friend.
- You should roleplay this vow accordingly.
- This vow allows you to use Might to perform the Acts below.
- If you ever feel as though you have violated your vow, let the GM know:
- You will lose all your Might for the adventure.
Acts
Shroud from Sight
- Light bends around you leaving your form invisible.
- You may call DISAPPEARING.
- As long you move slowly are little more than a shimmer in the air.
- Call APPEARING if you move quickly or make a call when in this form.
Secrets hidden from self
- You may hide knowledge deep within your mind such that even you do not remember it.
- This knowledge is then inaccessible to everyone - even you - until you perform this act again to retrieve it or a condition you specify is met.
- You may choose whether you remember having forgotten or not.
Mute the signs of distinctive form
- For the rest of the encounter your features are oddly blurry and indistinct.
- No one will be able to accurately describe you afterwards.
Harmless visage
- You are good at looking harmless and unobtrusive.
- Provided you are not doing anything extravagant you may call IGNORE ME at anyone who approaches.
- They will find something more interesting to do.
- Note that this only works in public places.
- In private areas even being there is calling attention to yourself.
Silent Death
- You may call BACKSTAB 20 on your next blow.
Domain of Shadow
- You may call DOMAIN OF SHADOWS on your next melee blow.
- You and the target vanish from the encounter for the next 30 seconds.
- If they die during this time their body never returns.
- Your target has to be caught unaware for this call to work, otherwise they take a SINGLE instead.
Steal the Face
- You can steal the face of an unconscious or sleeping person.
- Their face is left a blank mask.
- With another use of this act you may don the face.
- With another use of this act you may restore your original face.
- The stolen face is subsequently destroyed when overwritten in this way.
Steal the vitality
- You may steal the very life from your foes.
- Call HEAL X on yourself, where X is the DAMAGE you deal on your next blow.
Whirling disguise trick
- You may instantaneously apply a new disguise by spinning in a circle.
- The quality of the disguise depends on your normal disguise skill.
Path of Shadow
- Your body temporarily dissolves into formless shadow.
- Whilst in this form you may not call damage but take all damage as HALF.
- You may also slip through any gap through which light can pass.
Liars tongue
- You may use this reactively to call RESIST to any effect which is attempting to get you to reveal secrets.
Blade of shadow
- You manifest a shadowy weapon in your hand which lasts for the encounter.
- This counts as a standard version of any weapon you can use.
Touch of unlocking
- Any lock which you could open given time you may do so instantly just by touching it.
Shadow Safe
- By touching an item of weapon size or smaller you may hide it within your shadow.
- You may then retrieve it again with a further use of this act.
Playing dead
- You may sequester part of your life away for safe keeping.
- When using this ability choose how many body hits you are sequestering away, your current and maximum body hits drop by this amount.
- You may choose to restore these body hits at any time (so long as you have not bled to death).
- This can be used to trick an enemy into believing you are near-death, but is usually used as a safety-net against bleeding to death.
Skills
Flanker
- You are skilled at stealthily ranging ahead of the party and getting into prime positions.
- Any time a combat starts that is in terrain for which you have the survivalist skill and is not a sudden surprise to your party, you may choose to begin the encounter in cover away from the main party.
- Monsters will usually not notice you until you move or take an offensive action.
Ambusher
- You are always ready to surprise your foes.
- You can always use the flanking ability in terrain for which you have the survivalist skill, even when the party is caught by surprise.
Disguise
- You are adept at putting together a disguise to cover your looks.
Larceny
- You have basic criminal talents.
- You can pick simple locks and are capable of sneaking past people who are not paying attention such as bystanders of sleeping guards.
Legerdemain
- You are skilled at trickery and slight of hand.
- You may attempt to pickpocket someone after spending 5s roleplaying doing so without being noticed.
- You are adept at hiding items about your person and in general can sneak objects up to the size of a dagger past searches.
Edificier
- You are a skilled climber.
- The effects of this are at GM discretion, but it’s very useful for breaking and entering.
Guide
- As long as you have a Survivalist skill sufficient to cover the terrain you’re travelling in, the whole party gains a DODGE.
- For you, this is in addition to the one you get from Survivalist.
Streetwise
- You are at home in the city.
- You may track people through city environments.
- You may ask the GM for useful information on local threats.
- You gain a DODGE in this environment.
A thousand faces
- You have a large number of convincing disguises, and fabricated evidence to support who you are claiming to be at any time. You can put together a new disguise of this quality with a few hours work in any settlement.
- This lets you look like someone else but not a specific someone else unless the people you are attempting to fool know them only by reputation.
Shroud's Embrace
- Once per adventure you may extend yourself further than normal accomplishing a mighty feat within purview.
- For example you could make it so that nothing that happens in the encounter will be noticed by those outside.
Commend to shadow
- Whenever you execute someone you may choose to have their body disintegrate along with their belongings.
- There is still a very faint residue left behind which the skilled or paranoid might be able to detect.
Cipher
- You have been trained in ciphers by your order.
- You can recognise and understand most common ciphers and have the ability to devise your own or attempt to decrypt more esoteric ones.
- You also gain the ability to make convincing forgeries of documents.
Master of Shadows
- Your criminal talents have improved.
- You can now pick complicated locks such as those on safes.
- You also have a fair chance at avoiding the attention of even alert guards.
Icon
- You have made an icon to the Muse you follow.
- Twice per adventure you may use this to attempt to divine the Muse's opinion on a matter.
- The responses, if they arrive are generally cryptic.
- Icons are hard to lose or break.
- If either occurs, they will likely find there way back to the paladin, restored, after a couple of encounters.
- For paladins of the Shroud the icon is most often an item of clothing.
- This counts as instilled light armour with the following qualities: unobtrusive, durable, durable.
Icon Atunement
- Your Icon gains the ability to transform, changing its colour or shape at will.
Echoes of Self
- For one encounter per adventure your icon comes alive whipping around you and foiling the blades of your foes.
- Once every 10 seconds you may call WOUND against a limb someone has just struck you with.
shroud.1505864035.txt.gz · Last modified: 2017/09/19 23:33 by gm_matthew
Except where otherwise noted, content on this wiki is licensed under the following license: CC Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International
