Astrakaleidos

Class: Berserker Skills: fasting, stargazing, plying the worm-writhen blade Gear: damascened sword, shield, purple-hemmed robes A: The Saccharine Touch , Inner Torsion B: Fateless , Heart-Prison, +1 Template cap C: Die The Saccharine Touch : Your soul coils upon a promise made; when your body dies in battle with sword in hand, you shall spring free in a shower of dusty plasma. [ templates in berserker ] in 2 odds that you reach the heavens, and fall back to earth 2d6 days later encased in a fresh-forged vessel. Inner Torsion : You may make any roll with advantage, but suffer damage equal to the lower die if you choose to do so. Fateless :  Your next template must be template C of this class. Heart-Prison :  You are plasmolized, wound so tight that you hardly touch the walls of your self. Nothing pains you; your body is a blade of senseless metal. Nothing vexes you; your mind is but hilt and pommel. Nothing tires you; scabbards are for swords with a future. Where you are headed...

  sword - spear - axe - bow - knife that covers most stuff pretty plainly Attacks: Roll 1d20 against the DC to hit. This is 10 at a distance but 5 up close. Roll 1d6 for damage, and interpret as fit — preferably with significant consequences. Whatever the implementation, on a roll of 1 the weapon is lost: dropped, broken, embedded Defence: Shields increase your DC by 5. Armour also increases your DC by 5, and is only a magnitude more expensive. Full Armour increases your DC by 10.  Shields and armour aren't unbearable, but tiring. In intervals of intensive action, accrue one fatigue per 5 added DC; each point takes up one inventory slot. Measure: Weapons have measures in which their wielders can make attacks. When two weapons of unequal length are opposed, the shorter one usually begins the combat out of measure. The longer one usually has initiative. To attack from out of measure, the fighter with the shorter weapon makes a DC 10 check to close distance. If successful, the ta...

    Blood is thicker than the deep waters,     More vibrant than the shining stone Old blood bled like wine from His throat, the King of Kings, and a friend sucked at the clotted blood till his mouth was bloodied, sucked at the poisoned blood till the earth was puddled.  One way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Class: Paladin Skills: archery, equestrianism, dririmancy Gear: a bow, 20 arrows, a noble companion (1HD), their blood, a small dagger with a rayskin hilt ( light ) A: Your Blood Inside My Heart , Entrainment B: The Shining Stone C: Prophecy D: The Deep Waters Your Blood Inside My Heart : When your blood enters another's veins, it takes root; people who hold your blood must do anything that you ask of them. At any time, for any reason, they may Disown your blood by cutting themselves and calling it out. Should they do this, they find themselves unable to sleep until they spill your blood from all who contain it. Entrainment : Should another's bloo...