Characters (Red Age)
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Basics
Character Generation
- Start with 0 XP at level 1.
- If you are making a character to replace one who died, start with half the dead character's XP.
- Determine stats, rolling 4d6, summing the best 3, for each stat in order. Then swap any two stats of your choice.
- If the sum of all your stat MODs is less than +1, you can scrap the character and roll again.
- Choose a class.
- Gain its extra HP, combat proficiencies, attack, abilities, etc. Make any choices it offers.
- Choose 2 Saves to be proficient in (1 free choice and 1 choice from the options offered by your class).
- Describe your Background.
- Spend your Feat Points (and any Rogue or Mutation Points from your class).
- Determine your caster level (gaining Mana and Panoply) any starting spells.
- Determine starting weapons, armor (and defense), and gear.
Level
Stats
Hit Points & Life
- HP (up to 10th) = 2 + class starting bonus hp + ((3+VIG+class bonus hp) x level)
- Above 10th: +(1+heroic class bonus hp) per level
- If multiclassing, use your single highest (class starting bonus hp) and the (class bonus hp) and /or (heroic class bonus hp) for the individual class levels gained.
- Reserve HP: equal to normal HP.
- Reserve HP is converted into normal HP through rest, putting an upper limit on near-term natural recovery.
- Life (rounding down) = 10 + VIG + SPT + PROF
Attack, Defense, Saves, & Effect
Combat Proficienies
- Weapon: without weapon proficiency, take +D to attack rolls.
- Armor: without armor proficiency, gain only half the equipment's armor bonus, and take Clumsy 11 / +0.
- Shield: without shield proficiency, gain the shield's benefits only while taking a Dodge action.
Background
A brief description of your culture, upbringing, and previous life (e.g. escaped northern slave turned sailor).
- You may know how to play an instrument, sail a boat, herd animals, perform court etiquette, forge a plow, recite local history, etc. You aren't masterful, but you can be competent, or even professional (mastery or unique prowess requires a feat).
- You can perform actions using the knowledge and skills of your background. If the outcome is in doubt, make a check using the appropriate Stat Bonus.
- PCs are assumed to be competent adventurers as part of their background, able to handle pack animals, start campfires, forage and hunt a little, tie knots, make camp, etc.
- Through play and downtime actions, you can add to your background, learning new skills, languages, etc.
Feats
- Feats are unusual knacks or specialist training and knowledge.
- Feat Points
- 1st to 10th: WIT + 2 + (level / 2, rounding down)
- 11th and above: +1 per level
- Different Feats costs different amounts. Some Feats have prerequisites.
- Feat List
Classes
Fighter
Base Benefits
- High Attack
- Combat Proficiencies: all armor, shields, all weapons, dueling
- Save Proficiency Choice: Vigor or Dexterity
- +2 starting HP and +2 HP per level (+1 heroic)
Heroic Deeds
- Choose a number between 2 and 19. When you roll this number naturally on an attack, hit or miss, you may also follow up with a Force or Inflict Condition (rolled separately).
- Choose a second number at Fighter level 6.
Weapon Master
- Victories
- Track your victories with each category of weapon. For each threshold (5, 15, 25, 35) passed, choose 1 benefit that now applies to that weapon category.
- If you begin 1st level as a fighter, distribute 15 victories among your weapon categories.
- To count a victory against a foe, you must land at least 1 hit against it in open battle (not by stealth, etc). It's defeat can be lethal or non-lethal (surrender, knock-out).
- A friendly duel against a warrior close to your own skill can grant a victory if you win. You can't get more than one victory from a given person through friendly duels.
- When you receive intensive training from or fight a serious duel with a master, or read a rare manual of techniques, you may gain 1 or more victories with the weapon(s) it focuses on.
- When a weapon fits multiple categories, choose where to place a victory gained with it, as long as it was used that way in the battle (e.g. a thrown spear could be a pole weapon or thrown weapon victory).
- Track your victories with each category of weapon. For each threshold (5, 15, 25, 35) passed, choose 1 benefit that now applies to that weapon category.
- Benefits
- Deadly
- +PROF to weapon damage (if multiclassing, only count your PROF from Fighter levels).
- Brutal
- +1d damage at Fighter level 1. Critical on a 19-20 at Fighter level 5.
- Cleave
- If you fell an enemy, you may carry over any excess damage to another target your attack roll could have hit. With a ranged weapon, the follow-up target must be within 10'.
- You cannot cleave as part of an Opportunity Attack.
- Flurry
- When you use the Attack action, you can split your attack bonus (including MOD, magic weapon bonus, etc) among up to (PROF+1) targets, with a minimum of +1 per target.
- You can draw fresh ammo and draw Readied throwing weapons, but can't reload a weapon with the Loading tag.
- You may use Flurry with an Opportunity Attack as well, holding back some amount of attack bonus to use against subsequent OA targets this turn. You can only make OA attacks against those that provoke.
- Deadly
- Weapon Categories
- Brawling (daggers, fists, grappling, broken bottles)
- One-handed (swords, axes, maces, hammers)
- Great (great axes, great swords, mauls)
- Pole (staves, halberds, spears)
- Thrown (knives, spears, javelins, axes)
- Missile (bows, crossbows, slings)
- Exotic (each is its own category)
Rogue
- Medium Attack
- +1 starting HP and +1 HP per level
- Choose 1 Modus Operandi
Modus Operandi
- Assassin
- Combat Proficiencies: light armor, 1h melee weapons, finesse thrown weapons, short bows, hand and light crossbows, garrotes, blackjacks, blowguns.
- Choose 1 additional proficiency: slings, dueling, heavy crossbows, long bows
- Save Proficiencies: Dexterity or Wits
- Sneak Attack
- When your target is fully vulnerable (trusting, doesn't perceive you, immobilized), treat a hit with a finesse weapon as a crit (ranged attacks must be from within 30').
- +1d to sneak attack damage at 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 9th rogue levels.
- A sneak attack with a blackjack against a suitable target (humanoid, no helm) deals 1d6 damage (non-lethal) and Vigor Save or fall unconscious. If successful, the target is still Stunned until the end of their next round.
- A sneak attack with a garrote against a suitable target (humanoid, no throat protection) deals 1d6 and the target is grappled, restrained, and mute. Each subsequent round the grapple is maintained deals +1d6 damage (1d6, 2d6, 3d6...)
- You may sacrifice 1d6 of your sneak attack damage to add a Force, Grapple, or Inflict Condition (rolled separately), provided it makes sense with the nature of your attack.
- When your target is fully vulnerable (trusting, doesn't perceive you, immobilized), treat a hit with a finesse weapon as a crit (ranged attacks must be from within 30').
- Combat Proficiencies: light armor, 1h melee weapons, finesse thrown weapons, short bows, hand and light crossbows, garrotes, blackjacks, blowguns.
- Brawler
- Combat Proficiencies: light and medium armor, 1h melee weapons, thrown weapons, short bow, light crossbow
- Choose 2 additional proficiencies: polearms + great weapons, shields, heavy armor, slings, bows and crossbows
- Save Proficiencies: any one save
- Combat Proficiencies: light and medium armor, 1h melee weapons, thrown weapons, short bow, light crossbow
Expertise
- Once per Long Rest, reroll a stat or talent check and use the better outcome.
- For extended endeavors (with one or more rolls), you cannot reuse this ability until the endeavor ends. E.g. navigating a ship through a weeks-long voyage, if you use Expertise, it doesn't refresh until the end.
Talented
- Gain Rogue Points = (5 + level).
- Spend Rogue Poins like extra Feat Points, but only on feats with the Rogue keyword.
- If multiclassing, gain Rogue Feat Points only for rogue levels, and do not start with 5 points unless your initial level is in rogue.
Bragging Rights
- Fortune
- After a Long Rest, refresh your pool of Fortune to your Fortune Level.
- After a die roll (any type) by or directed at you, you may spend 1 Fortune to add or subtract 1d6 from the roll.
- Temp Fortune does not refresh, but otherwise spends the same.
- Fortune Level
- Start with Fortune Level 0 and have up to a maximum of Fortune (rogue levels).
- Treasure Level = the level the XP from a stolen treasure would give you (e.g. a 2000 GP item would get you to 2nd level).
- This becomes your new Fortune Level if higher than your current one, otherwise if Treasure Level is higher than the amount of Temp Fortune you currently have, it becomes the new value of your Temp Fortune (e.g. if you have 2 Temp Fortune and gain a level 3 treasure, you now have 3 Temp Fortune).
- A treasure can be multiple items, but must be carried off at the same time. It takes 500 GP to count for level 1.
- The DM will assign value to things with circumstantial values (battle plans from the enemy general, et cetera).
- "Stolen" means it was guarded or perilous to obtain and you successfully employed at least a degree of stealth, finesse, or cunning. Violence can play a part, but it can't just be "kick down door, kill everyone, take thing". You must return to safety with it, just like any XP-for-treasure award.
General
Skilled and Expertise (appropriate to Rogues)
Broad: perception, insight, stealth, tinkering, sleight of hand, wildcraft, deception, commerce
Narrow (1 point for Expertise): climbing, streetwise
Physical
Fleet of Foot 1
Fleet of Foot 2
Agile Acrobat 1
Agile Acrobat 2
Contortionist
Perception
Survival Instinct
Learning
Healer 1
Healer 2
Master Craftsman 1
Master Craftsman 2
Alchemist 1
Alchemist 2
Wilderness
Lesser Animal Companion
Skullduggery
Cunning Forger
Master of Disguise
Miscellaneous
Fortune's Favorite
