Available Classes

Cutting Insults: Once per round as an OoTI (out-of-turn incidental), you can use a narrative token to grant a target disadvantage on a check. These can be the tokens from the Inspiring ability.

The Skalds’ thirst for obtaining and storing knowledge rivals an Archivist’s, but their interest lies in people’s secrets, fears, and shames. Stored away and guarded with the ferocity and care of a young drake’s hoard. To offend—or even spend too long around the Skald—is to tempt them to release their arsenal of insults. If you stay on their good side however, their sharp, porcupine-like social armor can extend to protect you as well.

T’was a Jest!: Once per [Rest], treat your or a party member’s failure, critical failure, or spectacular failure on a social check as a success.

Fun, dopey, bumbling and flexible, always either the bud or butt of the joke—oft both. The Jester walks a tightrope, occasionally a literal one, but always a metaphorical one. Playful and distracting, useful and surprisingly wise, insulting and entertaining the powerful without ever drawing enough ire to provoke a real response.

Working in Harmony: Once per [Downtime], as an action, designate a [Round] in an [Action Scene] as ‘harmonious’. Any narrative tokens spent on each other grant major advantage instead of advantage. Still costs 2 after a check.

The Maestro isn’t one who does all their work behind the scenes—they’re still a bard. Just because they aren’t the ones playing the instruments or swinging the swords doesn’t mean they aren’t front and center, making sure it all goes according to their plan.

Entertaining Misdirection: Once per Round when using a narrative token on a party member you can grant them a major advantage if you put yourself OoP.

When you say the word ‘bard’, The Entertainer is the image you conjure in one’s mind. Showy, impressive. They’re skilled and magnetic, they know it and how to use it to their advantage. Some shrink into their shell away from the stage, others seem to always adore the adoration and desire being desired.

Musical Exchange: Once per [Scene] you can spend a musical equipment box instead of a strain when speaking a phrase. Add both bonuses together.

Of course, most bards can play an instrument or hold a tune, compose a little limerick—but The Musician uses instruments and their voice like a wizard uses a wand. They artfully assist as they Speak or Sing the language of creation and watch the rules of reality bend and sway on beat.

Honeyed Tongue: Once per [Rest], add your sway roll to a party member’s social check before or after the roll.

A bard with a quick smile and quicker feet, unlikely to stay in town or at court for too long. Often it’s because they find their welcome wanting if they stay too long. Our own Troubadour has gotten us into trouble more times than I can count—but they’ve talked, lied, swayed, and coerced us out of trouble twice as many times.

Daring Act: Once per [Scene] declare that for your next check a success counts as a critical success, critical success as a spectacular success, and a failure counts as a critical failure, critical failure counts as spectacular failure.

The Raconteur tells stories and sings songs of heroics, daring rescues, and long-lost loves like any bard. But while other bards may include bits of themselves in their work, the Raconteur is the star of all their pieces. They strive to rival the greatest heroes of myth and legend, keeping a mostly honest and always flattering record.

Sustained Smite: When using the crusader’s smite ability, you can sustain it without spending an action. However, you can still lose it by failing a sustain check or other normal ways.

The Sword, The Hammer, The Bow—named after whatever weapon the founder of their order wielded in life. All but one wield an imitation of the hallowed weapon. As the name suggests, crusaders who chose or are chosen for this path are the most skilled at, and the most drawn to, battle. With each strike they aim to emulate the strikes of their founder and destroy the enemies of their order and ideal.

Protector’s Promise: Once per [Round] as an OoTI grant a fight check against an ally engaged with you disadvantage. If it still hits you can choose to take the damage instead of your ally.

Inspired not by the tales of their founder’s destructive prowess or magical might but by how they used their strength to shelter the weak, these crusaders prioritize defense—surviving in order to continue spreading the message.

Through the Eyes: Once per [Rest] use an action to activate one of the following. They last for a scene: Gain advantage on perception and insight rolls, advantage on seeing through glamor or illusions, grant disadvantage to any mind-affecting magic targeting you and advantage to resist them, gain immunity to being dazed or stunned, or gain advantage to any intimidation or leadership rolls.

Oft donning a prized and ornate helm—one worn by the founder if they are the lead templar, or else by historic crusaders of the order—these members are prized for their wisdom, guidance, and often for being the first to a battle.

Fist of Fury: Can use Will instead of Presence for Intimidation. When using the crusader’s once per [Scene] ability with an unarmed/gauntlet strike, you can activate the special modifier without taking a strain.

The image of an armored fist is heavily weighted imagery. What it means can differ depending on your life, belief, and past. To these crusaders it represents strength, order, protection, and power. Through the strength of their conviction and ability to command they strive to see the ideals of their order spread.

Follow in the Footsteps: Once per [Scene] when you move, you move as if you used two actions. Until the start of your next turn, any party member can move in the same direction as you once on their turn as an incidental. They move at their normal speed.

Crusaders crusade—and a crusade cannot be done where you are. It requires you to travel, to follow in the footsteps of those who came before you and forge on, showing the way for those with you and those after you.

Armor of Belief: Once per [Rest] gain [1+Tier] Bonus Armor. Anytime you are the target of an attack while the armor is up you have advantage on the next non-fight check you make to heal a party member or resist an effect on them. Ex. Overpower to pull them from restraints.

To complete their mission, a crusader must survive. These crusaders know that in order to keep slaying enemies, protecting others, and doing the work of your order, you must protect yourself—not in place of or before doing so for others, but in addition to.

Symbol of Strength: Once per [Rest], during an action scene, present your crest as an action. You and all your allies can add your presence die to the next check they make.

Each order varies. Some are like extended families, brothers and sisters in arms. Others are enemies, warring constantly. But three things each order has: a founder, an ideal, and a crest. Crusaders and Templars of this ilk hold the symbol of their order to be as important as their founder or ideal and display it proudly about their person.

Form Adaptation: When using the Animal Form ability you can change your form every [Scene] and can spend up until the end of your next [Rest] as an animal. You share strain and injuries across animals until you Rest. If you leave this form due to injuries you take 1 injury and cannot shift again until you rest. You can communicate with other animals of your species while in this form.

For the Shifter, the ability to live as another animal—the connection they get to other species and the new perspective on the world—is the best part of being a druid. Some spend nearly their entire lives as one beast or another. Not, I have found, the best for conversation.

Otherworldly Knowledge: Once per [Rest], you can choose a being you can see and know either their currently pressing fear, or desire. Unless you are well hidden they are aware of your intense focus.

All druids act as negotiators and advocates between groups. The Witch focuses mostly on the faewild—the lands of light and shadow. Tending shrines, protecting thin places, and upholding the ‘old ways,’ they often serve both realms... except when they choose a side.

Conversationalist: Once per [Scene], take 1 strain to Speak to any non-worked medium (ex. not extracted metal, machine planed wood boards, or man-made glass). 1+Tier for the bonus.

The Animist tends not to the spirits of the fae world, but the base—the spirits within each being and thing, which when of great reverence and importance grow and coalesce into river spirits, spirits of trees, and the wild spirit that grows from a herd of wild horses. In learning and teaching the knowledge and care of these spirits the Animist strives for balance and harmony in the constantly shifting tapestry.

Plant Life: Choose a form of plant (Trees, fungus, flowers, etc.). You have a living conduit of it on your body. This acts as a +1 conduit and does not take away from your other conduit points or block out an injury box as it is still living and functioning. If you choose to invest more points in this, it increases like a regular conduit.

Perhaps the starkest example of a druid who defends life that cannot defend itself, the Gardener gives voice and power to plants—alongside blights, awakened trees, and grasping vines. These druids channel the will of flora itself.

Friend from Beyond: You are aware of the nature and presence of undead & spirits within extreme range of you. Advantage on the first social check made vs undead or spirits.

Druids act as a link between wilderness and civilization. Shamans do the same between the living and the dead—keeping both sides safe, and ensuring traditions are honored so peace is kept.

Shield of Thorns: When you’re sustaining a beneficial Phrase on a party member including yourself, once per [Round] if they’re hit by a fight check by an enemy within close range that enemy takes [1+Tier] damage.

A true example of druids as protectors—of both wilds and settlements. Guardians focus not on fostering understanding, but on ending harm in its tracks.

Beast Sense: Any intuit check made against an animal is treated as one result band higher (e.g., failure = success). Once per [Scene] a non-harmful phrase spoken over an animal is made with advantage.

As the Shaman focuses on the spirits of the dead and the Witch on the spirits of the fae, the Beastfriend focuses on speaking for the living, breathing beings that cannot speak for themselves—while also protecting vulnerable settlements from the ravages of wild beasts.

Reconnaissance: You can use Prowl as your initiative. When you do you’re considered hidden to anyone whose initiative you beat, automatically ends at the start of the 2nd round.

Trained—either formally or through a lifetime of experience—to blend into the wild and spot those attempting to do the same. The Scout is a great aid to any traveler, caravan, or army passing through unfamiliar or unfriendly territory.

Active Rests: Gain a third [Rest] action when resting in the wilderness. This action is TN 8.

The Survivalist is an expert at spending long stretches of time fending for themselves, often alone. They know how to take advantage of all that nature has to offer and how to keep themselves—and those around them—safe from the dangers it holds.

Predator’s Mark: Once per [Rest] choose a target. Once per [Scene] roll with advantage on a Fighting, Navigate, Perceive, or Intuit check against your target.

A specialist in tracking specific targets through a variety of terrains and biomes. Once the Hunter has chosen a target there’s very little chance of escape.

Aura of Harmony/Conflict: Once per [Downtime], shift the relationship between two beings or groups one level in either direction (Enemies, Hostile, Frosty, Neutral, Warm, Friendly, Allies). You don’t know their current status automatically—you just push it in the direction you choose.

Focused on bridging the gap between beasts, sentient creatures, and those beyond the base plane. When tensions rise between a town and the wild, the Mediator is called to ease the conflict.

Reciprocal Nature: Once per [Scene] when you help an animal on a check, they can help you on your next check without having to spend an action. Or vice versa.

The Beastfriend is, as the name suggests, a friend to animals. While they care for wildlife in general, they often have a specific Animal Companion. Together, they act almost as extensions of each other—more effective together than alone.

Sure Thing: Once per [Rest] treat the result of a Shoot check as one result band higher (Success = Critical success).

While the Hunter is known for tracking and eliminating targets, the Marksman’s specialized skill in hitting exactly what they intend to—with a wide variety of ranged weapons—is unparalleled.

Guardian of Life: Once per [Rest] grant all party members the ability to take their 3rd action without spending a strain until the end of the scene.

The Warden is a ranger who guides and protects—perhaps a fellow team of rangers, a military unit, caravan, or adventuring party. Their leadership is often subtle, showing the path rather than forcing others down it.

Covert Cover: Once per [Downtime] you can create a cover identity while preparing for upcoming missions. You have advantage to the first social check made in a scene when disguised in this way.

Trained in surveillance, deception, and disguise, the Spy excels at infiltration and social manipulation. Whether slipping into noble courts or enemy encampments, they thrive in plain sight.

Unseen Strike: Once per [Scene] after hitting with an attack you can attempt to hide as an incidental.

Assassins wait in silence for their moment to strike—fast, clean, and unseen. Their kills are whispers in the dark, their escapes ghostlike.

Appraising Eye: You know the general value of any mundane item. Advantage to study checks made about jewels, treasure, artifacts, and similar items.

The Thief always has an eye out for what glitters, shines, or holds hidden value. Be it coins in a noble’s purse or relics buried in ancient tombs, they know what’s worth the risk.

Saw it Coming: Once per [Scene] after a party member fails a roll, you can take a strain to make a Leadership roll against the same difficulty to replace their roll. If you fail, you both take the consequences.

Planners and schemers, Masterminds stay ten steps ahead. They watch, adapt, and direct, ensuring their allies succeed where others would fall.

Challenge: Once per [Rest] you can challenge an enemy as an incidental. All attacks and phrases, including buffs against you or them, have disadvantage unless it’s coming from each other. You have advantage on 1 check each round.

Skilled in one-on-one combat, the Duelist thrives in personal challenge and precision. They taunt, provoke, and dismantle foes with flair.

Shadow Step: Once per [Rest] as an incidental while hidden, move 1 band from one shadow to another unseen.

The Shadow blends into darkness like breath into air—appearing only to strike and disappearing just as swiftly. They are the night’s whisper and the unseen blade.

Clever Ruse: Once per [Rest] after you or a party member fails a check you can roll your Presence and add it to the result.

Masters of fast talk and smooth lies, Swindlers can spin stories so convincing that even the cautious lean in. When things go wrong, they’re already on plan B—or convincing you that was the plan all along.

Medical Advice: [Tier] party members can take advantage on their healing check made during rest.

Physickers are those who see life as the most sacred resource. They dedicate themselves to mending flesh, healing minds, and keeping their companions standing against all odds.

Innovative Creation: Once per [Rest] imbue something you created with 1 equipment dice point. Anyone who uses it does so with +1 equipment dice point. This can be something you created in the past or are making for the first time.

Inventors dream in blueprints. They craft bizarre and brilliant solutions to complex problems and push the boundaries of what magic and machinery can do.

Potion Brew: Gain +1 Equipment Dice Point in a brewer’s, alchemist’s, or poisoner’s kit of your choice at character creation. If you choose to invest more points into this, it increases like a normal tool.

Alchemists see the world as elements and energy waiting to be transmuted. Through careful mixtures and powerful concoctions, they transform ingredients into potions, poisons, and miracles.

Legends Say: Once per [Scene], after you succeed on a Recall or Study check, a party member gains a narrative token.

Loremasters are walking libraries—living encyclopedias of myths, monsters, and magic. They remember what others forget and know what most never knew.

Otherworldly Experience: Choose a plane. You know a thin place leading to that plane & the conditions for travel. Once per [Scene], you gain advantage on a social or knowledge check dealing with this plane or its inhabitants.

Planeseers study the multiverse itself. They navigate cosmic forces and dangerous portals, drawing insight from the creatures and cultures beyond the mortal world.

Useful Parts: Once per [Rest] when making a crafting check with monstrous ingredients, treat the result as one result band higher.

Anatomists study not only how bodies live, but how they break. They’re experts at harvesting valuable components from the fallen and turning biology into utility.

Keeper of Knowledge: During [Downtime], you can grant one party member advantage on a knowledge check. Once per [Rest], when you fail on a non-combat check, you can make a [Mind] roll and add it to the result.

Archivists are guardians of written wisdom, protectors of forgotten truths, and seekers of ancient secrets. Their pursuit of understanding is tireless, and their minds sharp as blades.

Ally in Arms: Once per [Scene] on your turn, spend both actions to have you and a party member within close range make an attack against the same target. If you both hit, you can activate one of the following modifiers without taking a strain, even if they aren’t normally on either weapon: Crippling, Staggering, Pushing, Restraining.

Not one to fight in tournaments, duels or shows, the soldier fights to kill and survive. Perhaps they do so as a mercenary, or a beloved country or ideals. The soldier's moves may not be as flashy as some other warriors, but theirs are honed, precise, and executed with purpose. The question is, how does the soldier find themselves on the road, arm and arm with adventurers?

Trained & Conditioned: Treat armor as 1 category lighter for drawbacks. You don’t have disadvantage to grapple or shove actions when your hands are full.

The Knight is not just an expert in riding and fighting, they are an ideal of an honorable warrior saving and protecting those in need. Even though not all who bear the title live up to the ideal, a heavily armored hero riding in to rescue the weak is a powerful and lasting image.

Frenzied Assault: Once per Rest, take 1–3 strain as an incidental, regain an equal amount in bonus armor. Add as many modifiers as you sacrificed injury boxes to your fighting until the end of the scene. May activate 1 modifier per round without taking a strain. This state ends at the end of a round where you neither attacked an enemy nor took an injury. You lose the bonus armor when the state ends.

A warrior of single passion and purpose, the Berserker—through perhaps some concoction or simply internal rage—is able to push their body to ignore pain in order to inflict it on their enemies.

Master of Self: At the end of downtime, gain Ki points equal to Will + Tier. They can be used in the following ways:

— After a successful strike check, deal 1 injury to an enemy engaged with your initial target

— Make a second attack not at disadvantage

— Advantage on Endure, Overpower, or Prowl check

— Ignore the effects of your injuries when making a roll

— Add the following modifiers to your attack: Grappling, Dazing, Destructive, Precise

The monk is a warrior who trained and strengthens their body as a form of meditation, as a way to gain a deeper understanding of themselves. In this way they’re able to push themselves beyond the normal physical limits of their species.

Hold and Toss: Targets have a disadvantage on their first Resist to escape from your grapple. You have advantage on any attempts to throw beings.

Dirty Boxing: When making an unarmed or hand weapon fighting check against an out-of-position enemy, you can choose to remove the advantage. If you hit, you can activate 1 modifier without taking a strain.

The Thug is a warrior, often acting as guards, entertainers or prize fighters. They often don’t wear heavy armor or carry large weapons. But they know how to end a fight quick when they need to.

Strategic Oversight: Once per [Scene], you can do one of the following:

— Sacrifice an action to give a party member 3 actions on their next turn. They have advantage on one of their checks next turn.

— Have one party member take the effect of an enemy’s successful fight check instead of another party member. The two must be within close range, and the one receiving the injuries must be willing.

— Make a party member reroll a failed fighting check. The party member is out of position after their attack.

The Commander is a military strategist and a leader from the front lines.

Elemental Form: Choose an elemental medium (Ice, water, fire, wind, stone, etc.). You have a living conduit of it on your body. Any phrase that uses this medium adds a d2 without having to spend a strain. If you spend a strain, you add your full conduit dice as normal.

Elementalists are living extensions of their chosen element, with their magic flowing through them like the forces they command.

Undead Minions: Any attacks from permanent or temporary undead minions/companions have the vampire effect. If you take the strain instead of them on their attack, you can heal the injuries.

Necromancers bend death to their will—reanimating bones and shadow to do their bidding while drawing power from pain and sacrifice.

Celestial Study: Once per [Rest], roll Study and record your higher and lower dice. At any time before a roll as an incidental, replace a party member or enemy roll with one of the recorded results. Once a result has been used, it can't be used again. Any results not used by your next rest are removed.

Stargazers look to the heavens not for fate, but for information. They see patterns others miss, guiding actions with cosmic foresight.

Strategic Strike: Once per [Scene], before rolling, replace one die from a fighting check with your Mind die.

Blending martial training with magical might, Battlemages bring calculated force to the front lines of arcane warfare.

Syphoning Ward: You can counter-speak on a party member within long range of you. If a magic check fails against a being you're counter-speaking for (including yourself), you have advantage on the next magic check you make before the end of your next turn.

Dampeners don’t just cast spells—they silence them. With counterspells and clever shields, they unravel magic before it manifests.

Fused Creation: You have an equipment dice point that can act as both a tool and conduit dice, either as part of your body or on your person. You can invest additional tool or conduit points into it.

Arcanotechnologists merge artifice and arcana into singular constructs. Part tinkerer, part channeler—they’re inventors of the impossible.

Magical Ward: While sustaining a phrase, you have bonus armor equal to your tier. It refreshes any time you Speak a new phrase but disappears if you stop sustaining. At the start of your turn, you can pass this ward to a party member within long range as an incidental.

Abjurers stand between danger and the vulnerable, wielding arcane shields and redirecting hostile magic with layered defense.

Diplomatic Influence: Once per [Rest], set your base relationship in a scene as one level higher. Alternatively, change the relationship between two beings in the scene by one step in either direction.

Emissaries are chosen to represent the will and values of their patron, often serving as diplomats, negotiators, and charismatic envoys.

Blessed Touch: Once per [Scene], after making a Heal check, allow the target to ignore a number of unhealed injuries equal to the number healed. These injuries return at the end of the scene.

Healers channel divine grace through touch, temporarily mending wounds and restoring others long enough to save lives and shape legends.

Cryptic Visions: [+attribute dice] for Intimidate and Study, [-attribute dice] for Teach. Once per [Rest], take 1 strain to roll Intuit with major advantage. Before your next rest, you may replace any check made by you or a party member with the result of that roll. Must be declared before rolling.

Oracles receive visions from their patron—sometimes clear, often mysterious—but always potent. They are burdened with glimpses of things to come.

Righteous Fury: Once per [Rest], you may use the Worshiper’s Transcendent Intervention ability on a fighting check.

Zealots are the blades of their faith, striking down the heretical and faithless with terrifying fervor. They are crusaders of divine wrath.

Spiritual Endurance: You may take 1 injury in place of 2 strain when speaking a phrase. Roll with advantage when doing so.

Ascetics deny the pleasures of the flesh to embrace spiritual clarity. Their sacrifices fuel their unshakable faith and unwavering endurance.

Guiding Light: Once per non-action [Scene], add a relevant conduit die to a social check without spending a strain.

Recruiters are silver-tongued missionaries or charming cult leaders, spreading the word and will of their patrons through persuasion and guile.

Channel the Beyond: Once per [Rest], you may Speak a phrase without taking a strain or spending an action to sustain it. When the sustain ends, take injuries equal to your tier.

Vessels are direct conduits for divine or infernal power—blessed or cursed with the ability to channel their patron’s voice through their own flesh.