Class Warfare

Alternate character and class creation rules for Dungeon World

by Johnstone Metzger

2014
Vancouver Canada

Class Warfare
Editing, publishing, and additional writing by Johnstone Metzger.
October, 2014.
Vancouver, Canada.

Art
Cover art, plus the arsenal, firestarter, and sage illustrations, by
Nate Marcel. Flame logo by John Harper.
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Additional interior art by Abbie Farwell Brown, Albrecht Dürer,
Alfred Kappes, Anne Anderson, Annibale Carracci, Archie
Macgregor, Arthur Paunzen, Arthur Rackham, Austin Osman
Spare, Carlo Bossi, Carlos Schwabe, Carlton Alfred Grant,
Charles-Albert Arnoux Bertall, Clara Elsene Peck, Daniel Bruun,
Dorothy M. Payne, Edmund Dulac, Edmund Leighton, Elliot Dold,
Ernst Moritz Retzsch, F. H. Ball, Fortunino Matania, Frederick
Richardson, Gabriel Cornelius von Max, Gerald Metcalfe, Gustave
Doré, Hans Brosamer, Hans Printz, Hans von Gersdorff, Helen
Class Warfare
Editing, publishing, and additional writing by Johnstone Metzger.
October, 2014.
Vancouver, Canada.

Art
Cover art, plus the arsenal, firestarter, and sage illustrations, by
Nate Marcel. Flame logo by John Harper.
nates-notes.blogspot.ca
onesevendesign.com
Additional interior art by Abbie Farwell Brown, Albrecht Dürer,
Alfred Kappes, Anne Anderson, Annibale Carracci, Archie
Macgregor, Arthur Paunzen, Arthur Rackham, Austin Osman
Spare, Carlo Bossi, Carlos Schwabe, Carlton Alfred Grant,
Charles-Albert Arnoux Bertall, Clara Elsene Peck, Daniel Bruun,
Dorothy M. Payne, Edmund Dulac, Edmund Leighton, Elliot Dold,
Ernst Moritz Retzsch, F. H. Ball, Fortunino Matania, Frederick
Richardson, Gabriel Cornelius von Max, Gerald Metcalfe, Gustave
Doré, Hans Brosamer, Hans Printz, Hans von Gersdorff, Helen
Stratton, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Henry Justice Ford, Henry
Weston Keen, Herbert Morton Stoops, Howard Pyle, J. Allen St.
John, J. C. Leyendecker, Jacob von Sandrart, Jan Mostaert, Jean
Discart, John British Dixon, John D. Batten, John Duncan, Lancelot
Speed, Louis Boulanger, Louis Rhead, Lucas Cranach, Master L.
Cz., Master of the Housebook, Melchior Lorck, O. van Corven,
Odilon Redon, Sidney Sime, Valère Bernard, Warwick Goble, and
William Heath Robinson.

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Table of Contents

Introduction
11
Miracle Worker
152

Anatomy of a Class
12
Oracle
158

Character Creation
15
Pilgrim
163

Anatomy of a Specialty
16
Psychopomp
167

Compendium Classes
19
Sacred Lamb
172
Putting it All Together
20
Venerator
178

Example: Class Creation

22

The Dust Eater

27
Holy Spells
183

Animals
185

Adventurers
37
Battle
188

Bard
42
Death
191

Caver
46
The Earth
194

Engineer
50
Healing
198

Fool
54
Judgment
200
Good Samaritan
58
Plants
202

Householder
63
Protection
204

Landed Gentry
66
Revelation
206

Luminary
70
The Sky
208

Merchant
76
Wisdom
210

Monstrous Heritage 82
Sage
87
Magicians
215

Shopkeeper
93
Arcane Ritualist
220

Wayfarer
96
Awakened Mind
224

Wraithlander
101
Blue Mage
228

Conjurer
232

Disciples
105
Dominator
237

Avatar
110
Enchanter
240

Crusader
116
Flux
244

Devoted
120
Golemist
248

Elementalist
126
Illusionist
252

Embodiment
132
Mind-Mover
257
Empath
136
Objectivist
260

Exorcist
140
Prepared Caster
264

Impervious
144
Psychic Healer
268

Martial Hero
148
Shadowmancer
272

Shield Arcanus
276
Warriors
401

Soothsayer
280
Armiger
407

Spellsinger
284
Arsenal
412

Telepath
288
Beastmaster
418

Vancian Caster
292
Blade Dancer
424

Bounty Hunter
428

Magic Spells
297
Captain
432

Alteration
298
Champion of Law
438

Divination
302
Defender
443

Enchantment
305
Destroyer
446

Evocation
308
Duellist
450

Illusions
311
Friend of the Wild
456
Mind
314
Gorgon
460

Movement
316
Insatiable
464

Necromancy
319
Ranger
469

Pyromancy
322
Sharpshooter
474

Summoning
324
Slayer
479

Ward-Weaving
326
Standard Bearer
484

Strongarm
488

Rogues
329
Veteran
492

Acrobat
334
War Leader
496

Assassin
339
Wielder
500

Body Thief
342

Breaker
346
Indexes
505

Fence
350
Index of Moves
508

Firestarter
354
Index of Specialties
522

Mastermind
358
Index of Spells
524

Poisoner
362

Pretender
367

Psi-Knife
370
Puppet Master
374

Shadow
379

Siren
382

Swindler
386

Thief
390

Tomb Robber
395
Class Warfare

Class Warfare is a sourcebook to help you create your own

character classes and customized characters for the Dungeon
World role-playing game. Inside these pages you will find what
are essentially compendium classes, along with rules for how to
assemble them into coherent, playable characters

Anatomy of a Class

Most of the original Dungeon World classes are built on a similar

framework: each has roughly three powers, one racial move, and
some additional details to flesh them out. Base damage, load,
and maximum HP are set based on what the class is good at and
expected to be doing: the Fighter and the Paladin are, by default,
close combat experts, so they have high hit points and high
damage. Notice how the Ranger gets a damage bonus from his
animal companion and is also good at ranged combat? In order to
keep him from outshining the Fighter and the Paladin, his damage
and hit points are not as high. The Wizard is supposed to hang
back and cast spells instead of fighting with weapons, so she gets
the fewest hit points and the smallest damage die. The Thief isn’t
supposed to be fragile, exactly, but she should be better at dishing
out the pain than taking it, while the Cleric is the opposite—
tough and stalwart but a better healer than a head-smasher. Their
respective damage dice and maximum HP scores reflect that.
In terms of starting moves, the Fighter and the Ranger are the
clearest examples of classes with three, distinct special abilities. The
Fighter is able to wear heavy armour and break things, plus she has
a signature weapon—three abilities, easy to see. The Ranger has
four moves, but only because having an animal companion requires
two. That trope is joined by the archer and the woodsman to make
a complete, three-power Ranger.
The Thief may seem like she has a lot of moves, but look again: she
can backstab, find traps, and brew poisons. Being able to hide her
alignment is a bit of colour to make the class more roguish—it’s
nowhere near as useful as any of the Fighter’s or Ranger’s moves—
and the ability to pick locks and steal items is there to remind you
that you can just defy danger with DEX to see if sneaky behaviours
go as planned or not.
Spellcasting ability gets spread across several moves, for both
the Cleric and the Wizard, but again, they each have three special
abilities. In addition to spells, the Cleric has a deity and can repel
the undead, while the Wizard can defend with her spells and
perform rituals.
The Bard is a little bit lopsided—arcane art is her chief move, with
charming and open and port in a storm playing support roles.
Bardic lore may seem like an additional power, on par with the
other two support moves—especially when compared to port in a
storm—but it really just functions to make the Bard an expert at
something, even if her player decides Intelligence will be her dump
stat, and has no interest in using the spout lore move.
The Paladin could easily be accused of being overpowered,
especially when directly compared to the Fighter. He appears
to have four special abilities, and indeed he does, although
undertaking a quest also puts more restrictions on the Paladin than
other characters have to deal with, so in this case, four powers are
balanced out by a weakness. Not exactly three, but close enough.
Not every class is built around three distinct powers, however. The
Druid, for instance, is almost completely devoted to shapechanging,
with her other moves backing up that concept, but not adding
much in the way of dynamic special abilities. But this book
isn’t designed to make new classes like the Druid—the material
presented here is all about balancing a few different archetypal
concepts or tropes, the way the other original character classes do.
Character Creation
Making a custom character is much easier than making a class. It’s
more complicated than making a normal character, but follows the
same basic set of steps:

1. Choose an archetype: adventurer, disciple, magician, rogue,

or warrior. Each archetype comes with a list of specialties you can
take.

2. Choose two or three specialties. This gives you your starting

moves.

3. Set your damage die, load, and maximum HP based on your

archetype and any modifiers from your specialties.

4. Choose a race from the options provided by your archetype,

the extras that come with your specialties, and any that your group
decides to add.

5. Assign scores and modifiers to your six stats as normal.

6. Choose an alignment from the options provided by your

archetype, the extras that come with your specialties, and anything
else your group decides to add.

7. Choose your gear, from the options provided by your

archetype and all of your specialties.

8. Introduce your character. For each of your specialties, tell

the other players what you did to gain these abilities.

9. Write bonds. You have a maximum number of bonds

determined by your archetype; choose from the bonds offered by
your archetype and your specialties.

10. Go play!
Anatomy of a Specialty
When you choose an archetype, it gives you your base damage,
load, and maximum hit points ratings, plus options for alignment,
bonds, gear, and race move. You may also get an additional starting
move, if you choose the Disciple or Rogue archetype.
You get a list of specialties to choose from, based on your archetype.
Choose two or three, following the rules of your archetype, to
determine your starting moves and add more options to those your
archetype gives you.
If you are making a new class instead of a character, the process is
somewhat similar, but you will want to trim various options from
the final product.

Requirements
A rare few specialties have requirements you must meet in order
to take them. The champion of law, for example, must be a lawful
character. The vast majority of specialties do not require anything
beyond the normal procedures and rules.

Stats
All characters start with the same selection of six different scores
for Charisma, Constitution, Dexterity, Intelligence, Strength, and
Wisdom. Not all characters have the same base damage, load,
and maximum HP, though. Your archetype will give you a base
amount for each of those three stats. The specialties you choose,
and whether you choose a specialty from another archetype, may
modify these scores somewhat. Most specialties don’t change your
stats at all.
If you choose ones that do, remember that you can never have a
damage die that is larger than a d12 or smaller than a d4, and your
maximum HP is never lower than 4+Constitution.
Starting Moves
You get all the starting moves of your specialties. If you choose
only two specialties, you also get one advanced move from either of
them. If you are designing your own class, you may want to swap
out a normal starting move and start with one of the advanced
moves instead. This is fine, as long as it fits with the class concept
and doesn’t require the original starting move.
If you are creating a new class by combining specialties with more
than one starting move each, beware of overloading players with
too many moves. The more individual moves a class starts with, the
more confusing it can be for someone playing it for the first time.

Advanced Moves
Whenever you level up, you can select a new advanced move.
Which ones you can choose from depends on your archetype
choices, and whether you have added any compendium classes to
your character.
If you’re making a new class, make sure you include only the
advanced moves that fit with your class, but also include enough
that future players have enough options to be excited about playing
the class over the course of all ten levels—approximately ten
advanced moves for levels 2-5, and the same amount for levels 6-10
is usually a good upper limit.

Alignment
Each archetype has four or five alignment options. If none of these
are appropriate, each specialty has one or more options tailored
to its specific concept that you can choose from. There are also
suggestions for writing new alignment conditions in the Dungeon
World rulebook.
For a custom class, don’t list the same alignment more than once
but with different conditions. Choose three different alignments—
or use drives or motivations instead of alignments, if you’re writing
a class for a setting that doesn’t highlight either of the “law vs.
chaos” or the “good vs. evil” cosmic dichotomies.
Bonds
Each of the base classes in Dungeon World comes with a set
number of bonds, but Class Warfare gives you a larger number of
options for which bonds you want to take. Each archetype has a set
maximum number of bonds—you can write names in any of the
bonds you have to choose from until you have reached your limit.
Don’t make a custom class with more bond options than it has
maximum number of bonds, as this is bound to be confusing. If
players want to change their initial bonds, they can always discuss
that with the rest of their group.
Gear
You get gear from your archetype and from each of your specialties.
Some specialties come with a lot of gear, some have very little. For
custom characters, this is alright, but try to avoid extremes of too
many or too few items if you are making a new class. Compare your
class to the base classes in the Dungeon World rulebook and adjust
accordingly.

Races
Each archetype has a few race options, and most specialties have
several race options with moves connected to their starting moves.
Not every specialty has race options. Your custom class should
probably include three race options, though you might find that a
different number suits you better. For best effect, each race option
should tie into either the class concept or one of the starting moves.
Almost universally, race moves don’t involve a roll, but give a bonus
or a modification to a starting move or to something the class is
supposed to be good at. Of course, you don’t have to be limited to
these options when writing your own material.
Compendium Classes
Because characters advance both prescriptively and descriptively
in Dungeon World, it is entirely possible for your characters to
branch out during play. If you complete the requirements listed
under a specialty’s compendium class description, you can add
that specialty to your character, exactly as if it were a compendium
class—you can add its starting moves instead of taking an advanced
move, and once you have done so, that specialty’s advanced move
count as class moves for you. If a specialty has more than one
starting move and you select those moves instead of an advanced
move from one of your starting specialties, you get all starting
moves, not just one.
You can also use this collection of specialties to allow characters to
advance beyond tenth level. As long as characters aren’t gaining so
many moves that players feel weighted down by them, it is perfectly
reasonable to consider level 11 no different than levels 6 to 10.
Once you gain a compendium class or two, you will have plenty of
advanced moves to choose from once you pass level 10.

Putting It All Together

Specialties can make it easier to design a class, but they don’t
necessarily make it easy. Designing a good class is still something of
an art. It takes both time and careful consideration.
Balancing Moves Thematically
You should choose moves that will both push your class or
character toward certain situations, as well as moves that will help
them deal with those situations. The Ranger is good for more than
just fighting villains in the woods, but that’s the one situation
where all of his moves come into play—and also exactly where
we would expect the Ranger to shine. The Wizard’s moves are all
about magic—casting magical spells, defending with magic, and
performing magical rituals—because that’s the appeal of a wizard:
using magic.
The moves that make both of these classes unique all emphasize the
premise that gives the class its appeal. It’s fine to design a class that
has something to do in combat, as well as a magical ability, and also
a social connection, but if all three don’t support a central premise,
it will feel like a random grab bag, and you might as well just select
moves randomly. The Paladin has all three of those—Armoured,
Lay on Hands, and I am the Law, respectively—but they all fit the
archetype.

Moves and Stats

If you’re just creating a single character to play, you can decide
which stats you want to be high and then choose moves that fit
those stats. But when you’re making a new class, you should leave
room for different players to choose different options. Don’t choose
a collection of moves that uses too many different stats.
Starting moves that rely on one or even two stats is fine, as long
as you keep in mind that different classes will also emphasize and
rely on certain basic moves as well as their own starting moves.
The Paladin’s starting moves only call for a high Charisma, but the
tropes of the class, as well as many of the advanced moves, also rely
on—and enhance—the use of both the defend and hack and slash
moves. Because of that, this character already needs three different
high stats—there is not much room left for customization unless
you want to ignore one of those areas of expertise.
Meanwhile, the Fighter asks only for a high Strength. However,
there are numerous alternatives provided: the Elf race option calls
for Dexterity to be higher than Strength, a high Constitution is
never a bad idea for a character specializing in close combat (even
one who rarely uses the defend move), and some of the advanced
moves use Charisma or Wisdom. These moves give suggestions
for what kind of Fighter you should make, but none of them are
required. You could make a Dwarven Fighter with high Intelligence
and simply ignore any advanced move that calls for a stat other
than Strength.
Sometimes the push toward certain basic moves, and thus the stats
they use, is subtle. The Bard looks like she is all Charisma all of the
time, but note that some advanced moves rely on hack and slash,
and that one of her starting weapon options is precise— suggesting
that a Bard could try having a high Strength, or perhaps, since it
fits better with the stereotype, a high Dexterity. On the other hand,
some classes really are all about a single stat, like the Thief and the
Wizard. Other than Dexterity and Intelligence, respectively, you are
free to be good at whichever of the basic moves you like.

Character
A class is about more than just the moves, though. While they
certainly point the class in a specific direction, all the other
elements need to support that, and give it flavour. Alignments,
bonds, even gear and race options, are all places that allow a specific
character to become unique, form relationships, and solidify their
motivation for adventuring. These should encourage the player to
flag what they want to see in the game, and give the GM ideas that
will push their character into exciting situations.
After all, Dungeon World is about the players’ characters and their
adventures, first and foremost—not the GM’s adventures, but the
players’ characters’ adventures. So they should be having adventures
that could only ever happen to them, not just to anybody.
Example: Class Creation
Making a customized character using the Class Warfare rules is a
fairly straightforward process. Designing a new class using these
rules demands a little more creativity and flexibility. Here’s an
example of how it can work.
I want to create a class that is both tragic and romantic, in the
old sense: a wanderer of many lands who can never truly settle
down. They can save others from trouble and bring peace to a land,
but they can never find it themselves. I need a name that sums
up the entire concept and I think the Dust Eater works well. It’s
definitely emo, but this concept has more than a bit of martyr in it.
Now I need to decide which three specialties would best combine to
bring this idea to life. That will also determine my archetype, which
might be obvious if I was thinking of making a crooked merchant
or a mercenary captain, but in this case isn’t.
I briefly consider a combination of pilgrim and wayfarer, which
would make this class an adventurer, with the disciple specialty
impervious. While this could definitely make an interesting
character, it’s not actually what I want. I think this class should be
more of a wandering warrior than just a wanderer.
I decide to go with two warrior specialties—bounty hunter and
defender—combined with the disciple specialty venerator. All
three specialties give the Dust Eater connections to the setting
and the people in it. The first two, being about hunting people and
protecting people, are a little at odds, which adds some tension and
provides players with options for what they want to emphasize in
their own characters and what direction they want those characters
to take this class in. Venerator adds a supernatural element, which
is perfect for a fantasy setting.

Stats
Being a warrior archetype with one disciple specialty means
this class has a d8 for base damage and a maximum HP of
10+Constitution score. With the bounty hunter specialty, this
class has a load of 11+STR. Not as good at fighting as the Fighter
or Paladin, but tough enough to wander the world in defence of
others.
Starting Moves

With those three specialties, the Dust Eater should start with these
four moves: The Hunter (page 428), Meatshield (page 443), Prayers
to the Dead (page 178), and Words from Beyond (also on page
178).
I think I need to add something to make this class a little more
unique, though. This is supposed to be someone whose personal
triumphs turn to ashes in their mouth, no matter how well they
manage to defend others. So, let’s take that literally and replace
Prayers to the Dead with this move:

Mouth Full of Ashes

The lands of the dead are always with you, at the edge of your
vision, on the tip of your tongue. You are able to converse with
spirits of the dead as if they were living, but you must also smell
and taste as the dead do—everything like ashes—and you gain no
pleasure from foods or perfumes. What is lost to you is not lost to
the dead, however—they can taste the food in your mouth, smell
the air in your nostrils, and know life again for a moment. They can
also sense this, and will be more inclined to appear before you.

Alignments

The three alignment options are pretty obvious for this class.
Evil doesn’t fit with a protective figure, and Chaotic would be
too disrespectful of the ancestors. So we have Good, Lawful, and
Neutral. First, I take the Good alignment form venerator as-is,
change the Lawful alignment from bounty hunter so you only
need to thwart a dangerous criminal, and then I need a Neutral
alignment condition. I decide to adapt one of the defender’s
alignments and make it more about personal interests: Protect
someone important to the spirits during a dangerous situation.
That means all aspects of this class are touched on in alignments:
hunting, protecting, and talking to spirits of the dead.

Bonds
Because this class is supposed to be social and connected to people,
in spite of being a wanderer, I think it will have five bonds instead
of four. I choose one bond from each specialty and two from the
warrior archetype.

Gear

A warrior character with these three specialties would get dungeon

rations and four pieces of gear, but I want to make this section go a
bit faster and maybe limit the options a bit to make up for the extra
bond. So this class will have a choice of weapons, one defensive
piece of gear, and something related to the ancestor spirits that the
player can describe for themselves. That puts this class on a pretty
even level with other base classes.

Races

I want three race options, with each one emphasizing a different

aspect of the class. I take the dwarf racial move from the bounty
hunter specialty, the elf racial move from the venerator specialty,
and I decide to leave halflings out. But I’m not sure what I want for
the human racial move yet.

Tweaking

Before moving on to which advanced moves this class should have

access to, I start to think about tweaking things again. I wrote
earlier that the Paladin has four moves because Quest gives both a
hindrance as well as an advantage, and I want to add a version of
that to the Dust Eater. It should tie into the spirits of the dead, so
missions must be undertaken on their behalf. I replace some boons
with powers related to the spirits—the Dust Eater can’t see through
lies, but they can tell what is magic, because that’s something the
dead know. Similarly, I change the requirements so they reflect the
concerns of the dead and having respect for them, as well as having
to give up what the dead do not have.
This version of Quest gives me an idea for a human racial move that
allows the player more influence over the quests they undertake. It
also gives me more options for advanced moves.

Advanced Moves

I want to avoid the more mercenary aspects of the bounty hunter

specialty. The Dust Eater is a hunter, yes, but is more of a questing
knight than a freelance law enforcer. The Harder they Fall and
Wrap It Up are good—they encourage a less-violent approach
to conflict—and Hellhound emphasizes the hunting nature of
quests. The other moves would make this class into too much of a
kidnapper or a professional, so I ignore them.
The advanced moves that come with defender are more in keeping
with the Dust Eater concept, except for the bodyguard moves. I
ditch those and keep the rest, along with all the venerator moves.
After I add in two multiclass moves, that gives me nine moves for
levels 2-5 and seven moves for levels 6-10. That’s maybe a bit too
few—all the original base classes have more advanced moves than
that. Since this class also uses the Paladin’s Quest move, I grab a few
advanced moves related to that: Divine Protection, Holy Protection,
Smite and Holy Smite, as well as Perfect Knight. After I remove the
defender moves Protection and Over My Dead Body, which have
become redundant, that gives me nine advanced moves in each
category—good enough!

Conclusion

This may not be the most clever, original, or cliché-busting class

ever written—and might have a little too much in common with the
Paladin—but to me it looks interesting and adds a slightly different
flavour to a normal fantasy setting. Because of the Questing Nature
move, the breakdown of the three specialties isn’t quite as clear cut
as, say, the Cleric or Ranger, but that’s not necessary for every class.
The Dust Eater provides a dark alternative to both the Cleric and
the Paladin, or it could be played as a necromancy-styled “defender
of the land” in place of the Druid or the Ranger. All that is needed
now are some names and some look options, in case players need a
spark of inspiration.
This is what the finished class looks like:

The Dust Eater

You walk the borderlands between the living and the dead, one foot
on either side. The ghosts of your ancestors cry out for vengeance
against those who conquered and destroyed them, and the living
cry out for protection against the evils of the present day. And
yet the triumphs of the dead are but shadows and dust just as
they are. All the joys of those still alive, that you fight so hard to
preserve, only turn to ashes on your tongue. So what is left for
you, the servant of both worlds? You still have your duty and your
dedication, until you cross that line yourself.

Names

Dwarf: Bosh, Choofu, Gan, Ginger, Hili, Imamu, Kneff, Miranda,

Nebiru, Pool, Uzhak, Voltina.
Elf: Arima, Cotori, Finucane, Hania, Hasukha, Roland, Spiridion,
Sulom, Tien.
Human: Chrtwi, Gushmazak, Mulian, Ningwo, Oliver, Orpheus,
Penguzi, Sisang, Songdai, Tokoloshe, Tunzi, Xu.

Look

Choose one from each:

Black Cloak, Dusty Clothes, or Jewels of the Dead. Eerie Timbre,
Flat Monotone, or Harsh Whispers. Gloved Hands, Impatient
Fingers, or Sure Hands. Masked, Rugged Features, or Ugly Face.

Stats

Your base damage is d8. Your load is 11+STR.

Your maximum HP is 10+Constitution.
Starting Moves

You start with these five moves:

The Hunter
Name someone you want to find, either an individual or a gang that
sticks together. When you discern realities while looking for them,
on a hit, the GM will also tell you if there is any evidence of their
passage, and if so what. On a miss, though, something catches up to
you instead, the GM will tell you what. You can only be hunting one
target at a time, but you can change that target whenever you want.

Meatshield
When you are engaged in close combat with an enemy and they
make an offensive move against someone else, you may intercept it.
Their move affects you instead of its intended target.

Mouth Full of Ashes

The lands of the dead are always with you, at the edge of your
vision, on the tip of your tongue. You are able to converse with
spirits of the dead as if they were living, but you must also smell
and taste as the dead do—everything like ashes—and you gain no
pleasure from foods or perfumes. What is lost to you is not lost to
the dead, however—they can taste the food in your mouth, smell
the air in your nostrils, and know life again for a moment. They can
also sense this, and will be more inclined to appear before you.

Questing Nature
When you dedicate yourself to completing a mission on behalf of
the spirits, state what you set out to do:
• Defend __________ from the danger that threatens them.
• Discover the truth of __________ and present it to the
spirits.
• Slay __________, an enemy of the spirits. Then choose up
to two boons:
• Directions from the spirits to an important location.
• A freedom from sleep.
• Invulnerability to one cause of harm (acid, blades, or fire,
for example).
• A mark of your allegiance to the spirit world.
• Senses that can tell magic from the mundane.
• Spirit allies in another land.
• A voice that transcends language.
Humility is always required of you when you undertake a quest—
you are forbidden from boasting of your exploits. The GM will then
tell you what additional restriction is required of you to maintain
these boons:
• Abstinence (forbidden: the vices of the living).
• Austerity (forbidden: temporal wealth in any form).
• Hospitality (required: comfort to those in need, no matter
who they are).
• Judgment (forbidden: suffering an evil creature to live).
• Respect (required: daily rituals of respect for the dead).

Words from Beyond

When you venerate your ancestors and ask for advice, roll+WIS.
On a hit, a spirit gives you advice about your situation, but on a 7-9,
it comes with strings attached. They want something from you as
well—a favour, a sacrifice, or just an ear that will listen, perhaps.
The GM will tell you what. If you act on the advice the spirit gives
you, take +1 forward.

Race

Choose your race and gain the corresponding move:

Dwarf
You are blessed with a hardy constitution. While on someone’s trail,
you do not need to consume any rations.

Elf
You have many ancestors and their lives stretch back for many ages.
When you ask them for advice, they will also tell you something
about your location and its past. You take +1 forward when acting
on this information, too.

Human
When you undertake a quest, the GM will offer two possible
restrictions to you. Choose which one you must abide by.

Alignment

Choose your alignment:

Good
Use the advice of your ancestors to bring useful knowledge to
someone else.

Lawful
Thwart a dangerous criminal.

Neutral
Protect someone who is important to the spirits during a volatile
situation.

Bonds

Fill in the name of one of your companions in at least one:

• __________ also respects the ancestors, so I will respect
them.
• __________ gave me food and shelter when I had nothing.
• __________ is always getting into trouble—I must protect
them from themselves.
• I have heard of _________’s exploits and am suitably
impressed.
• I have sworn to guide and protect __________, because of
what they have done.

Gear

You start with your clothes, a backpack, dungeon rations (5 uses,

1 weight), and an item that connects you with your ancestors.
Describe it.
Choose your defences:
○ Adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight).
○ Chainmail (1 armour, 1 weight).
○ Shield (+1 armour, 2 weight).
○ Two healing potions. Choose your weapons:
○ Dagger (hand, 1 weight) and halberd (reach, two-handed,
+1 damage, 2 weight).
○ Duelling rapier (close, precise, 2 weight).
○ Longsword (close, +1 damage, 2 weight).
○ Net (reach, stun damage, 2 weight).
○ Two axes (close, thrown, 1 weight each).

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Ancestor Song
When you perform an ancestor veneration ceremony for a
community, roll+WIS. On a 10+, they are impressed and feel the
need to reciprocate. On a 7-9, they are merely impressed and treat
you with respect. Not everyone in the community may feel this way,
but the majority do.

The Harder They Fall

When you successfully attack someone, you can roll a d6. If you
roll your foe’s HP or higher, after they take your damage, you knock
them out cold or capture them.

Holy Protection
While on a quest, you get +1 armour.

Martyr
Replaces: Meatshield
When anyone within your reach either makes or is subject to an
offensive move, you may intercept it. The move affects you instead
of the intended target.

Medium
When you allow a spirit to inhabit your body, roll+WIS. On a 10+,
it may use your body to converse with the living until you banish
it or move to a new location. On a 7-9, it may use your body only
as long as you are unconscious—choose how much time you will
allow it beforehand.

Multiclass Dabbler
Get one move from another class. Treat your level as one lower for
the purpose of qualifying for the move.

Smite
While on a quest, you deal +1d4 damage.
Spirits of Knowledge
When you arrive at a new settlement, the spirits of the dead will tell
you a fact from the history of that location or something that has
changed since you were there last.

Staunch Defender
When you defend, you get +1 hold, even on a miss.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Curse of Ghosts
When you pronounce a curse upon someone, name one condition
that will lift the curse and roll+WIS. On a 10+, ghosts will haunt
this person until they fulfill the condition or until one week after
you curse another person. On a 7-9, ghosts will pursue them for a
few weeks, until they fulfil the condition, or until you curse another
person. On a miss, the ghosts rebel against you, and it is you who
suffers a curse.

Divine Protection
Replaces: Holy Protection
While on a quest, you get +2 armour.

Hellhound on Your Trail

Once you have shed someone’s blood, or they have shed yours, you
can track them anywhere. No matter where they go you can always
find them.

Impervious Defender
Replaces: Staunch Defender
When you defend, you get +1 hold, even on a miss. On a 12+,
instead of getting hold, the nearest attacking creature is stymied,
giving you a clear advantage. The GM will describe it.

Holy Smite
Replaces: Smite
While on a quest, you deal +1d8 damage.

Multiclass Initiate
Get one move from another class. Treat your level as one lower for
the purpose of qualifying for the move.

Perfect Knight
When you undertake a quest, you may choose up to three boons
instead of two.

Spirit of Warning
Requires: Spirits of Knowledge
When you consult the spirits of those who died at your location,
roll+CHA. On a 10+, a spirit will guide you past danger, keep you
from becoming lost, or show you something hidden. On a 7-9, a
spirit will show you a danger, but no more than that.

Wrap It Up
Replaces: The Harder They Fall
When you successfully attack someone, you can roll a d8. If you
roll your foe’s HP or higher, after they take your damage, you knock
them out cold or capture them, however you want.

Adventurers
Dumb Luck

Jack of all trades, master of none. The adventurer’s specialties are a

mish-mash of strange things that don’t fit the other archetypes.

Stats

The specialties you choose may modify these scores: Your base
damage is d6.
Your load is 7+STR.
Your maximum HP is 6+Constitution.

Starting Moves

Choose three adventurer specialties. You get all the starting moves
from each. Make a note of any stat modifiers from your specialties.
Each time you level up, choose one advanced move from those
offered by your three specialties.

You may instead choose only two adventurer specialties instead of

three. Take a level 2-5 move from one of them right away, but no
other bonuses.

You may instead choose two adventurer specialties and one

specialty from another archetype, but:
• If you choose a magician specialty, reduce your base damage
by
one die size (from d6 to d4).
• If you choose a specialty from any other archetype, your
stats remain unchanged.

Advanced Moves

Each time you level up, choose an advanced move from one of your
specialties. Or choose one of the following options:
• At any level, instead of a move from one of your specialties,
you may choose a move from one of the other rogue specialties.
You may do this twice only.
• Once between levels 2-5, instead of a move from one of
your
specialties, you may choose a move from any other archetype.
• Twice between levels 6-10, instead of a move from one of
your specialties, you may choose a move from any other archetype.

Adventurer Alignments

Choose one of these alignments, or one from those offered by your

specialties:

Chaotic
Spur others to significant and unplanned action.

Evil
Shift danger or blame from yourself to someone else.

Good
Endanger yourself to combat an unnatural threat.

Lawful
Help a criminal receive their just rewards.

Neutral
Avoid a conflict or defuse a tense situation.

Adventurer Bonds

As an adventurer, you can have up to five bonds at a time. Choose

from the following, and from those offered by your specialties:
• __________ does not understand me or my culture. I will
explain
myself to them, no matter how long it takes.
• __________ doesn’t think I’m cut out for this life. I’ll show
them!
• __________ got me involved in a dubious adventure, and
now I’m having second thoughts.
• __________ has been through hardships that would break
me. They can stand against the darkness I see looming over the
world.
• __________ has seen the lands of my home, more recently
than me.
• __________ is a friend of a friend, so if they don’t get me
out of this mess, they’re going to be in trouble!
• __________ knows I have a secret map.
• __________ owes me a favour.
• __________ talked me into it.
• I am in love with __________.

Adventurer Gear

You get whatever you were wearing when the adventure started,
and choose one:
○ 13 coins.
○ Adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight).
○ Dungeon rations (5 uses, 1 weight).
○ Healing potion.
○ Horse or other steed.
○ Makeshift club (close, 1 weight).
○ Spare change of clothes.

Adventurer Races

You may choose one of these races or one of the race options
provided by your specialties. Once you have chosen your race, gain
the corresponding move:
Dwarf
When you share a drink with someone, you may parley with them
using CON instead of CHA.

Elf
When you enter an important location (your call), you can ask the
GM for one fact from the history of that location.

Halfling
When you attack with a ranged weapon, deal +2 damage.

Human
When you make camp in a dungeon or city, you don’t need to
consume a ration.

Bard

A performer’s life is the one for you, travelling the world, singing its
songs, and telling its tales.

Compendium Class

Once you have trained for a year at the feet of a master bard and
passed the examination by proving your knowledge, you may
consider the bard specialty an available compendium class. The
next time you level up, you may add this specialty to your character
instead of choosing a move from your class.

Stats

If you choose the bard specialty, you get +1 load.

Starting Moves

You start with these two moves:

Bardic Lore
Choose an area of expertise:
○ A Bestiary of Creatures Unusual.
○ The Dead and Undead.
○ Gods and their Servants.
○ Grand Histories of the Known World.
○ Legends of Heroes Past.
○ The Planar Spheres.
○ Spells and Magicks.
When you first encounter an important creature, location, or item
(your call) covered by your bardic lore, you can ask the GM any one
question about it; the GM will answer truthfully. The GM may then
ask you what legend, song, or tale you heard that information in.

A Port in the Storm

When you return to a civilized settlement you’ve visited before, tell
the GM when you were last here. They’ll tell you how it’s changed
since then.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Bamboozle
When you parley with someone, on a hit, you also take
+1 forward with them.

Bardic Expert
Requires: Bardic Lore
Choose a second area of expertise from the bardic lore list.

Fount of Knowledge
When you spout lore about something no one else has any clue
about, take +1.

A Little Help From my Friends

When you successfully aid someone, you take +1 forward as well.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Con
Replaces: Bamboozle
When you parley with someone, on a hit, you also take
+1 forward with them and get to ask their player one question
which they must answer truthfully.

An Ear for Magic

When you hear an enemy cast a spell, the GM will tell you the
name of the spell and its effects. Take +1 forward when acting on
the answers.

Reputation
When you first meet someone who’s heard of you, roll+CHA. On a
10+, tell the GM two things they’ve heard about you. On a 7-9, tell
the GM one thing they’ve heard, and the GM tells you one thing.

Unforgettable Face
When you meet someone you’ve met before (your call) after
some time apart, you take +1 forward against them.

Bard Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of an adventurer

alignment:
Good
Leave someone more knowledgeable than when you met them.

Neutral
Uncover a secret truth.

Bard Bonds

• __________ trusted me with a secret.

• This is not my first adventure with __________.

Bard Gear

Choose one:
○ Adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight).
○ Halfling pipeleaf (6 uses).
○ Leather armour (1 armour, 1 weight).
○ Ostentatious clothes.
○ Worn bow (near, 2 weight), and bundle of arrows (3 ammo,
1 weight).

Bard Races

You may choose one of these instead of an adventurer race option:

Dwarf
You can also count the dwarves and their mountains as part of your
bardic lore.

Elf
You can also count the elves and their forests as part of your bardic
lore.
Halfling
You can also count the halflings and their shires as part of your
bardic lore.

Human
When you first enter a civilized settlement, someone who respects
the custom of hospitality to bards will take you in as their guest.

Caver

Where do monsters hide their treasures? Deep underground, in

caves. Who knows how to find those treasures? You do.

Compendium Class

Once you have fully explored a legendary cave, you may consider
the caver specialty an available compendium class. The next time
you level up, you may add this specialty to your character instead of
choosing a move from your class.

Stats

If you choose the caver specialty, you get +1 load.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Dungeon Crawl
When you defy danger to get through a difficult or dangerous
passageway, on a hit, you may bring one of your companions
through with you safely. Whatever you roll, you may sacrifice a
piece of your gear to ignore a consequence—whichever piece is
most readily at hand or makes the most sense. If this is adventuring
gear that is still undefined, say what it is now.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Bug Eater
When you make camp in a cave, or undertake a perilous journey
through a cave, you do not need to consume any rations. If you act
as quartermaster underground, you automatically succeed as if you
had rolled a 10+, and you may take on a second job as well.

Lynx-Eyed, Like Burning Coals

Your eyes cut through the night and you need bring neither lamp
nor torch to see in even the most Stygian darkness.

Mental Map
You have perfect recall of the places you have explored. You can
always find your way back to an underground location you have
been to, without considering it a perilous journey. If anything has
changed since your last visit, you spot it right away.

Rope Tricks
With time and room to use your rope, you can safely traverse a
dangerous environment (don’t roll) and take others with you,
provided they follow your instructions. You can also use your rope
as a weapon (reach, near, forceful) that does stun damage.

Tremors
You can feel vibrations echoing through the earth. You can never be
ambushed or surprised underground, even in the dark. When an
enemy, trap, or accident would get the drop on you, you get to act
first unless they never touch the earth.
When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Cavedancer
When you use the natural formations of a cave to your
advantage, take +1 to defend and defy danger.

Cavespeaker
Requires: Tremors
When you ask a cave about someone or something else inside it,
roll+INT. On a 10+, the cave tells where it is, what it’s doing, and
answers any one question you ask about it. On a 7-9, the cave tells
you either where it is or what it’s doing.

Strange Medicine
Requires: Bug Eater
When you have time to gather supplies in a natural cave, you can
prepare a poultice that will heal one debility next time you make
camp.

Caver Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of an adventurer

alignment:

Evil
Use something you found underground to harm another.

Good
Remove a threat to others that emanates from underground.

Neutral
Recover something from underground that is useful even though it
is not valuable.

Caver Bonds

• __________ shares my thirst for adventure.

• I worry about __________’s ability to survive underground.

Caver Gear

You get adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight), dungeon rations (5

uses, 1 weight), and choose one weapon:
○ Axe (close, 2 weight).
○ Dagger (hand, 1 weight).
○ Sword (close, 2 weight).

Caver Races

You may choose one of these instead of an adventurer race option:

Elf
Choose one weapon—you can always treat weapons of that type as
if they had the precise tag.

Halfling
You know how to take advantage of your small size underground,
where you get +1 armour if you’re at all able to defend yourself.

Engineer

Wizards and warlords think their powers are the mightiest of all,
but how could their triumphs ever be as useful as the machines you
build?

Compendium Class

Once you have successfully built a machine, you may consider the
engineer specialty an available compendium class. The next time
you level up, you may add this specialty to your character instead of
choosing a move from your class.

Stats

If you choose the engineer specialty, you get +1 load.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Mother of Invention
When you build a machine, the GM will name one requirement for
each function the machine will perform:
• It will take a long time.
• You need help or someone else’s expertise.
• You need materials above and beyond what you have now.
• You need to build something else first.
• You need to take something else apart to build it.
Once you meet the requirements, roll+INT. On a hit, it works like
you want it to, as far as the materials it is made out of can handle,
but on a 7-9, there is also a flaw in your design. The GM will tell
you what. On a miss, it doesn’t work the way you want it to.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Land Surveyor
When you search or survey a location, roll+INT. On a 10+, you
may ask the GM three questions from the list below. On a 7-9, ask
two. On a miss, ask one anyway, but you may not like the answer
much. Take +1 forward when you act on the answers.
• How could this place be ruined?
• Is there a way out, past, or through?
• What here could cause someone harm?
• Who else has been here and what were they doing?

Mechanical Aptitude
You may study machines and mechanisms as if they were people.
When you do, you may discern realities with INT instead of WIS.

Mining Engineer
When you discern realities underground, the GM will also tell you
about any natural hazards nearby, such as flooding, gas, or the risk
of a cave in.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Demolition
When you prepare materials in order to demolish or destroy a
location, the GM will choose one or two requirements:
• These materials will have to be applied very carefully.
• These materials will have to be transported very carefully.
• You need arcane ingredients to harm this location.
• You need to spend a lot of coin on these ingredients.
Meet the requirements and your compounds will get rid of this
location or change it irrevocably.

Mechanical Genius
Requires: Mechanical Aptitude
You may study machines and mechanisms as if they were people.
When you do, you may discern realities with INT instead of WIS.
On a 12+, you may ask any three questions you like, not limited to
the list.

Renovation
When you make alterations to an existing structure, natural or
built, roll+INT. On a 10+, choose two. On a 7-9, choose one:
• Your work contains hidden elements.
• Your work is artfully done, exquisite, or extravagantly
grand.
• Your work is durable and will last.
If you have spent either a great deal of coin or an unreasonable
amount of time, you can choose one extra option.

Engineer Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of an adventurer

alignment:

Chaotic
Build machines that give power to the powerless.

Evil
Strike terror into the hearts of others with your machines.

Neutral
Gain tangible profits by building or operating machines.

Engineer Bonds

• __________ has offered to help me build something truly

amazing.

Engineer Gear

You get a kit full of tools (2 weight), in addition to whatever your

other specialties give you.

Engineer Races

You may choose one of these instead of an adventurer race option:

Dwarf
Gold and gems are what you crave, so much so that you can smell
them! When you discern realities, the GM will always tell you if
there’s treasure here without you asking.

Human
When you use an engineer move that lets you ask the GM
questions, you may also ask how you can make things more
comfortable for humans and less hospitable to non-humans, in
addition to your other questions.

Fool

What are you doing, you idiot? Don’t touch that!

Compendium Class

Once you have done something so blusteringly idiotic that

everyone around you is stunned speechless in amazement, you
may consider the fool specialty an available compendium class. The
next time you level up, you may add this specialty to your character
instead of choosing a move from your class.

Stats

If you choose the fool specialty, lower your damage die by one size,
but not lower than d4, and raise your maximum HP by 2.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Lucky Charm
You have a blessed charm that grants you great Luck, which is an
extra stat for you. When you make camp, reset your Luck to 3.
When you roll and miss, you may lower your Luck by 1 to re-roll.
Take the second result, and if it is a hit, explain how you succeeded
only through sheer luck. When your Luck is zero, you may not
lower it further, and you take -1 ongoing until you gain more.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Curiosity
Requires: Lucky Charm
When you put yourself at risk to check something out, ask the GM
any one question related to the risks and roll+Luck. On a 10+, the
GM will answer it, as clearly as the circumstances allow. On a 7-9,
the GM will tell you what more you need to do to find the answer
yourself.

A Fool and His Money

When you pay too much for something, the GM will tell you
something useful and interesting about the item you bought,
and you take +1 forward when using it—even though you were
swindled.

Lucky for You!

Requires: Lucky Charm
When you take damage that was intended for someone else, you get
+1 Luck. You may not spend Luck to negate this damage.

The Mouths of Babes

If you blurt out whatever comes into your head when you spout
lore, take +1 to your roll.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Supremely Lucky
Requires: Lucky Charm
When you make camp, reset your Luck to 4 instead of 3. When you
take damage, you may lower your Luck by 1 to ignore it. Describe
the comedic, contrived, or outright miraculous circumstances that
saved you from harm.

Three Stooges
Requires: Lucky Charm
You can lower your Luck by 1 to deal 1d10 damage to an enemy.
Describe how you embarrass, humiliate, or accidentally clobber
them.

Fool Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of an adventurer

alignment:

Chaotic
Endanger yourself in order to experience something new.

Good
Remove something dangerous from someone else’s presence.
Fool Bonds

• I will never give up on __________.

• I will protect __________ from the danger that looms over
us.

Fool Gear

You get a stick (close, 1 weight) and a sack, in addition to whatever

your other specialties give you.

Fool Races

You may choose one of these instead of an adventurer race option:

Dwarf
When you suffer a debility, you get +1 Luck.

Elf
What? Elves aren’t fools! You get nothing.

Halfling
When you eat to excess and suffer the consequences, you get
+1 Luck.

Good Samaritan
The real reason the world is a terrible place is because it has terrible
people in it. If everyone would just treat others with kindness and
respect, the way you do, we wouldn’t need adventurers!

Compendium Class

Once you save a person’s life, with no thought to the consequences

or of profit, you may consider the good Samaritan specialty an
available compendium class. The next time you level up, you may
add this specialty to your character instead of choosing a move
from your class.

Requirements

You must be of Good alignment to take this specialty.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Charming and Open

When you speak frankly with someone, you can ask their player a
question from the list below. They must answer it truthfully, then
they may ask you a question from the list (which you must answer
truthfully):
• How can I get you to __________?
• What are you feeling right now?
• What do you most desire?
• What do you wish I’d do?
• Whom do you serve?

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:
Ask Me Anything
When another PC comes to you for advice about a difficult
problem, if you tell them what you really think they should do, they
take +1 forward if they follow your advice, and you mark XP if they
succeed.

Helpful
When you aid another PC, treat a miss as a 7-9 result. They always
take +1 to their roll.

A Little Help From my Friends

When you successfully aid someone, you take +1 forward as well.

Show Me the Way

When you give a receptive NPC heartfelt advice about what they
should do, roll+WIS. On a 10+, they follow your advice in whatever
way they think is most beneficial for them. On a 7-9, they only
follow your advice if you back them up and help them do it.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Show Me the Right Way

Replaces: Show Me the Way
When you give a receptive NPC heartfelt advice about what they
should do, roll+WIS. On a 12+, they do exactly what you tell them
to do. On a 10-11, they follow your advice in whatever way they
think is most beneficial for them. On a 7-9, they only follow your
advice if you back them up and help them do it.

Tough Love
When you tell another PC that they did something wrong, they
take +1 forward to fixing it.
Very Helpful
Replaces: Helpful
When you aid another PC, you don’t roll. They take +1 to their roll
and if you would share in the consequences of their actions, you
always get a chance to defend yourself first.

Good Samaritan Alignments

You may choose this instead of an adventurer alignment:

Good
Help someone without them even asking.

Good Samaritan Bonds

• __________ has some problems I could help them solve.

• __________ is a valuable friend.

Good Samaritan Gear

Choose one:
○ Antitoxin and bandages (3 uses, slow).
○ Healing potion.
○ Poultices and herbs (2 uses, 1 weight).

Good Samaritan Races

You may choose one of these instead of an adventurer race option:

Dwarf
When you share a drink with someone, choose one:
• It counts as consuming a ration for both of you.
• They heal 1d4 damage.

Halfling
When you share a ration with someone, it counts as consuming a
full ration for both of you and they heal 1d4 damage.

Householder

Not everyone is lucky enough to own vast estates. But then, not
everyone is savvy enough to keep them, either.

Compendium Class

Once you take possession of a vast estate and acquire the staff to
run it, you may consider the householder specialty an available
compendium class. The next time you level up, you may add this
specialty to your character instead of choosing a move from your
class.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Dominion
You are the master of wealthy estates, either tracks of land,
mercantile operations, or governmental offices. When you request
an expensive item from your estates, as long as it is not unique,
roll+WIS. On a 10+, your estates supply you with your heart’s
desire. On a 7-9, you are supplied with the item, but your estates are
exhausted until you put them back in order, by doing any one of the
following:
• Close out an old, presumably-problematic account.
• Set up a new profitable venture.
• Spend time in your offices reorganizing your accounts.
• Take a tour of your estates, correcting any errors you
encounter.
Once you put your estates back in order, you can once again use
this move. On a miss, your estates are in disarray.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Cultured Host
When you provide hospitality to someone, take +1 forward to
discern realities about them or parley with them.

A Long and Storied History

When you spout lore about your house and its lands, take +1.

Profitable Enterprise
Requires: Dominion
When you return to your estates after an absence, roll+WIS. On
a hit, your estates have produced surplus income for you. On a
10+, take 2 income. On a 7-9, take 1 income. You can spend your
income this session to put your estates back in order or purchase a
moderately expensive item, like a house, from someone else.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

A Long and Rather Singular History

Replaces: A Long and Storied History
When you spout lore about your house and its lands, take +1. On a
12+, the GM will ask you one question about the topic. Whatever
you answer, it is the truth.
Mortgages
Requires: Dominion
When you leverage your estates to purchase something ridiculously
expensive (an army, ship, or castle, say), take
-1 forward to dominion and roll+WIS. On a 10+, it is yours. On
a 7-9, it is mostly yours but there are strings attached and your
estates are exhausted.

This is my Domain
Replaces: Cultured Host
When you provide hospitality to someone, take +1 ongoing to
discern realities about them or parley with them while they stay
with you, and take +1 forward against them when they leave.

Householder Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of an adventurer

alignment:

Evil
Take someone else’s possessions or position for your own.

Good
Use your wealth and power to directly benefit the least fortunate.

Lawful
Increase your influence through your economic powers.

Neutral
Acquire a new estate or title.

Householder Bonds
• __________ has worked on my estates before.
• __________ is aware of my more sensitive financial
arrangements.

Householder Gear

Choose five different pieces of gear that are not unique items.

Landed Gentry

To us comes power, land, and title from the divine on high, and so
to our lessers do we tend. In swearing true this oath, the lands and
people granted to you are not merely yours to command, but to
protect, to love as your family as the gods love you as theirs. Under
their sight, do you swear it?

Compendium Class

Once you have been granted a hold by your betters, you may
consider the landed gentry specialty an available compendium
class. The next time you level up, you may add this specialty to your
character instead of choosing a move from your class.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Landed
You own a stronghold. Give it a name! Add it to the world map
as a keep steading with these tags: Poor, Steady, Guard, Oath
(protection for nearby lands).Choose two benefits:
○ Fortified: Your stronghold is nearly impregnable, its walls
and siege defences are strong.
○ Garrisoned: Your stronghold has a Garrison instead of
Guard.
○ Prestigious: Your stronghold is well-known and therefore
you are too. Add Personage (you).
○ Skilled: Your stronghold has people with exceptional skills,
such as blacksmithing or magic. Add Craft.
○ Taxation: Your stronghold provides income, roughly one
coin per family within its domain per year.
The GM will also give you one complication:
○ Disputed: Someone else has a claim to your stronghold too.
○ Infested: There are monsters about.
○ Unrest: The people are unhappy with the stronghold.

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Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Call the Banners

Requires: Landed
When you recruit from your stronghold or the lands it
protects, treat any miss as if you had rolled a 7-9 instead.

Hold Court
Requires: Landed
When you hold court and hear the problems of the people, the GM
will tell you of at least one opportunity within you stronghold or
the areas surrounding it.
Long Road Home
Requires: Landed
No matter where you are, you always know either a long and
safe way or a shorter and more dangerous road home to your
stronghold. Your choice.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Diplomat
Requires: Landed
When you send a letter requesting a person’s presence in your
stronghold, roll+CHA. On a 10+, they agree to visit with the
expectation of hospitality. On a 7-9, they name some terms, you
must meet them or they refuse.

Empire
Requires: Landed
You inherit, by hook or by crook, a second steading. Create it as per
the Landed move, but you get the prestigious option for free.

In the Service of the People

Requires: Landed
After either successfully dealing with a problem in your realm
set forth by the GM or successfully pursuing an opportunity you
heard about while holding court, you may change any one of your
stronghold’s tags.

Landed Gentry Alignment

You may choose one of these instead of an adventurer

alignment:

Evil
Intimidate or terrorize the people who live under your rule.
Good
Protect the lands you rule from evil.

Lawful
Uphold the laws of your lord in the lands you rule.

Landed Gentry Bonds

• __________ helped me get where I am today, and I owe

them for it.
• __________ is a great help to my stronghold.

Landed Gentry Gear

You start with a stronghold worth of basic supplies, in addition to

whatever your other specialties give you.

Landed Gentry Races

You may choose this instead of an adventurer race option:

Dwarf
Your stronghold is Dwarven and Wealthy instead of Poor.

Luminary

Surrounded by your minions, bathed in adulation and respect, you

are no flea-bitten, rough-and-tumble mercenary.

Compendium Class

Once you attract a permanent entourage, either by hiring retainers

or becoming famous and admired, you may consider the luminary
specialty an available compendium class. The next time you level
up, you may add this specialty to your character instead of choosing
a move from your class.

Stats

If you choose the luminary specialty, lower your damage die by one
size, but not lower than d4.

Starting Moves

You start with both moves:

Entourage
You can surround yourself with up to a dozen or so minions who
will back you up, follow your orders, impress people, and help you
conduct your business. Choose what type of people compose your
entourage:
Noble Courtiers: Dissent +2, Eloquence +1, Fighting +1, Learning
+1.
Obedient Servants: Dissent +0, Eloquence +0, Fighting +1,
Learning +1.
Savvy Clerks: Dissent +1, Eloquence +1, Fighting +0, Learning +2.
Seasoned Mercenaries: Dissent +1, Eloquence +1, Fighting +2,
Learning +0.
Talented Artistes: Dissent +1, Eloquence +2, Fighting +0, Learning
+1.

You can order individuals around like hirelings if you want them
to do things other than act as part of your entourage. If they
are obedient servants, take +1 to order them. If they are noble
courtiers, take -1 to order them.

Choose your entourage’s accoutrements, as many as their

dissent or fighting:
Books and instruments, costumes and props, finery and riches,
many weapons, metal armour, mounts, samples of your wares,
travelling gear.

Choose their skills, as many as their eloquence or learning:

Accounting, appraisal, crime, diplomacy, hospitality, hunting,
music and poetry, politics, rhetoric, science, soldiering.

Choose their weaknesses, as many as their dissent:

Arrogant, careless, cowardly, dead inside, feuding, gossiping,
greedy, hedonistic, insular, obsequious, religious heresy,
treacherous.

Ex Officio
When you’re surrounded by your entourage…
…and you attack the same target, add both their dissent and their
fighting to your damage.
…and you defend the same target, add their fighting to your roll.
…and you parley, add their eloquence to your roll.
…and you spout lore, add their learning to your roll.
…and someone interferes with you, add your entourage’s dissent to
their roll.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Bodyguards
Requires: Entourage
When you are accompanied by your entourage, you get
+1 armour.

Dogs of War
Requires: Entourage
When you attack with your entourage, your base damage is d8.

Prestigious Companions
Requires: Entourage
Your entourage gets another pick from accoutrements and another
skill, which can be whatever you want.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Influencer
When you parley with someone, on a 12+, not only do they do
what you want, they change their mind about you and become your
ally. They will no longer advance the GM’s dangers and will instead
support your plans.

A Many-Headed Beast
Requires: Entourage
Choose an additional entourage type. You may surround yourself
with companions from either type of entourage, but for ex officio
you can only use the stats of whichever is most numerous. You can
switch between the two types by dismissing some companions and
summoning others.

Palace Guard
Replaces: Dogs of War
When you attack with your entourage, your base damage is d12.

Versatile Companions
Requires: Prestigious Companions
Choose a move from another class or specialty. You may use this
move as long as you are accompanied by your entourage.
Luminary Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of an adventurer

alignment:

Chaotic
Run rampant over the plans of someone in a position of authority.

Evil
Take someone else’s possessions or position for your own.

Good
Provide a good example of leadership for someone else to follow.

Luminary Bonds

• __________ is great to have around, but I wouldn’t trust

them with my life.
• My entourage is suspicious of __________, but not
suspicious enough!

Luminary Gear

You have enough clothing to always look like the most impressive
person amongst your entourage, in addition to whatever your other
specialties give you.

Luminary Races

You may choose one of these instead of an adventurer race option:

Dwarf
Your entourage is composed of hardy dwarves, add +1 fighting.

Elf
Your entourage is composed of wise elves, add +1 learning.

Halfling
Your entourage is composed of proud halflings, and halflings stick
together. You entourage’s dissent is one lower (but you cannot
choose obedient servants).

Human
Your entourage is silver-tongued and skilled in rhetoric and the
laws of mankind, add +1 eloquence.

Merchant

Money makes the world go ’round.

Compendium Class

Once you acquire a stable supply of goods and a customer base

you can sell them to, you may consider the merchant specialty an
available compendium class. The next time you level up, you may
add this specialty to your character instead of choosing a move
from your class.
Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Entrepreneur
You have two or three business ventures:
○ Apothecary or barber shop (medicine / malpractice).
○ Brothel (influence or secrets / disease or scandal).
○ Contracting service (influence / betrayal or scandal).
○ Extortion racket (influence / turf war).
○ Grain mill (influence / fire).
○ Inn (secrets / scandal).
○ Silver mine (silver / flood or strike).
○ Smithy (arms and armour / strike or theft).
○ Trade ships (exotic spices / a ship sinks).
○ Transportation service (secrets / lost goods).
When you set up a new venture, add it to this list, along with what
it produces and possible disasters it could experience. If a venture
goes under, remove it from your list.
When you have downtime or at the beginning of a session, choose
up to three of your ventures to tend to and roll+CHA. On a 10+,
each venture you chose produces either its surplus or money for
you and you take +1 forward to making requests of your domain.
On a 7-9, only one of your ventures produces surplus or money
for you, and one venture experiences disaster, such as bankruptcy,
legal problems, or the disaster listed. On a miss, all the ventures
you chose experience disasters. Ventures you choose not to tend
to do not produce for you and do not suffer disasters, but may
still experience changes. If a venture produces money, your take is
1d6×100 coins.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Eye for Loot

When you see or come to know about a thing you want, roll+INT.
On a 10+, ask the GM three questions about it. On a 7-9, ask two.
On a miss, ask one anyway, but your desire is betrayed to everyone
who cares (and some who don’t):
• What happened to it recently?
• What is it really worth, all things considered?
• What protects it and keeps it where it is?
• Who will try to keep it from me?
• Who will want it once it is mine?

I Know People Who Know People

When you put the word out that you need someone with certain
skills or experience, roll+CHA. On a 10+, you find someone
suitable or a hireling with +2 skill points. On a 7-9, you find
someone with similar experience or a hireling with +1 skill points.

Trade Networks
When you consult your contacts before undertaking a journey to
another settlement, the GM will tell you about a person there who
can help you.

We All Want Things

When you parley with someone or discern realities connected to
them, on a hit you can also ask the GM one of these question:
• What does this person really want from me?
• What does this person value most?
• What is the most valuable thing here?

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Back-Up Plan
When you meet with someone on business, you may ask the GM
two questions from the list below:
• Is there an ambush waiting for me?
• What are they really feeling?
• What is my best way out of this?
• Who is watching?

I Must Have It!

Requires: Eye for Loot
When you use your eye for loot, on a 12+, ask the GM an
additional question, any question, about the thing you want.

Influencer
When you parley with someone, on a 12+, not only do they do
what you want, they change their mind about you and become your
ally. They will no longer advance the GM’s dangers and will instead
support your plans.

Wealthy Entrepreneur
Requires: Entrepreneur
When a venture produces money for you, you may take 1 income
instead of cashing out. Spend 1 income to get the 10+ result from
your domain without rolling. Any income left over at the end of a
session is converted into coins as normal. You can spend income
from profitable estates in the same way.

Merchant Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of an adventurer

alignment:

Good
Use your wealth to directly benefit the least fortunate.
Neutral
Acquire something amazing or unique.

Merchant Bonds

• __________ has a great nose for bargains.

• __________ is too irresponsible to manage money.

Merchant Gear

You get 100 coins and whatever you want to buy with it, in addition
to whatever your other specialties give you.

Merchant Races

You may choose this instead of an adventurer race option:

Human
Your race are conquerors. When you see or come to know of a
thing you want, ask an extra question from the eye for loot list, even
if you haven’t taken the move.

Monstrous Heritage

You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family.

Compendium Class

Once you find out your ancestry includes people you think are
monsters, you may consider the monstrous heritage specialty an
available compendium class. The next time you level up, you may
add this specialty to your character instead of choosing a move
from your class.

Starting Moves
You start with these two move:

Ancestral Heritage
You have a mixed heritage. Decide on your species, ethnicity, and
cultural heritage, choosing anything or any combination of things
that sounds interesting to you. Then choose up to three heritage
moves to start with, from the monster moves that best match your
heritage. How do you honour your people and invoke your rights of
blood and tradition? Choose one:
○ Building things for your people.
○ Charity.
○ Enforcing your peoples’ code of honour.
○ Fighting for your people.
○ Obeying your elders.
○ Sacrifice.

Blood and Tradition

At the beginning of a session, or when you invoke your rights of
blood and tradition, roll+WIS. On a 10+, hold 3. On a 7-9, hold 2.
On a miss, you still hold 1. Spend a hold to make a heritage move,
just like that.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Honouring Tradition
Requires: Ancestral Heritage
When you gain a new appreciation for your heritage, add a new
heritage move or change an existing one.

Interpreting Tradition
Requires: Ancestral Heritage
Choose a second way you can honour your people.

Passing
Requires: Ancestral Heritage
You are able to hide your heritage, and pass as a member of another
race, as long as you don’t use your heritage moves.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Awakening Blood
Requires: Ancestral Heritage
Choose another type of creature that has contributed to your
heritage. Gain one of their moves, in addition to your other
heritage moves, and you may change any other heritage moves to
moves from this new heritage, if you wish.

Flexible Traditions
Requires: Interpreting Tradition
Choose a third way you can honour your people.

Monster Blood
Requires: Blood and Tradition
When you roll for blood and tradition, on a hit, you get +1 hold.

Monstrous Heritage Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of an adventurer

alignment:

Evil
Attack your ancestral foes.
Good
Deliver aid to your ancestral allies.

Neutral
Prove your worth to someone else.

Monstrous Heritage Bonds

• __________ doesn’t judge me for who my parents were.

• __________ thinks I am a monster, I will prove them
wrong.

Monstrous Heritage Gear

You get adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight) and an item that

symbolizes your heritage (describe it), in addition to whatever your
other specialties give you.

Sage

A scholar of infinite knowledge, who plunders the pages of lost

tomes, and finds forgotten treasures in the scripts of ancient
peoples, now lost in the mists of time—that’s you!

Compendium Class

Once you have mastered the works of the eight immortals, you may
consider the sage specialty an available compendium class. The
next time you level up, you may add this specialty to your character
instead of choosing a move from your class.
Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Consult Sage
When another PC comes to you for advice about something
important and you tell them what you honestly think is best, they
get +1 forward when following your advice. At the end of a session,
if any other PCs benefited from following your advice, you can
mark XP.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Buddy Movie
You have a trusty sidekick or partner, who supports you in all that
you do. Describe them and give them a name (Adam, Monkey
King, or Sarah, for example). They count as a hireling with loyalty
+2 and skill points equal to your level+1, with your choice of skills,
plus one of the following abilities:
• When they help you defend, you get +1 hold.
• When they help you defy danger, take +1.
• When they help you fight, you deal +1d4 damage.
• When they help you parley, take +1.
They do not have their own HP. When they take damage, lower
your own HP. If you die or refuse Death’s bargain, your buddy can
sacrifice their own life so that you may live.

Fount of Knowledge
When you spout lore about something no one else has any clue
about, take +1.
I Know This Work
When you encounter an interesting artifact, construction, or device
(your call), roll+WIS. On a hit, you can ask the GM questions. On a
10+, ask three. On a 7-9, ask two:
• How could I make this thing do ________?
• How is it weak or vulnerable?
• What’s happened to it recently?
• What’s it for?
• What’s it made of?
• Who made it?
On a miss, it is something beyond your knowledge and
understanding.

Quick Study
When you see the effects of an arcane spell, ask the GM the name of
the spell and its effects. You take +1 when acting on the answers.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Book of Names
When you meet someone important (your call), say what you’ve
heard about them and roll+WIS. On a hit, the GM will tell you
more details. On a 10+, the GM’s details will complement yours.
On a 7-9, the GM’s details may contradict your own information,
and how you discover the truth is your own affair. On a miss, you
are wrong about something important.

Evidence of Faith
When you see divine magic as it happens, you can ask the GM
which deity granted the spell and its effects. Take +1 when acting
on the answers.

Superfriends
Requires: Buddy Movie
Give your trusty sidekick or partner a second ability from the list.
A Wealth of Knowledge
When you spout lore, on a 12+, you ask the GM a question, but the
GM will also ask you a question about the subject. Whatever you
answer, it is the truth.

Sage Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of an adventurer

alignment:

Chaotic
Give someone the advice they need to change their life.

Lawful
Support the lawful order with your wisdom.

Sage Bonds

• __________ is always making fun of me, but they still know

who the real boss is around here.
• __________ never takes my advice.

Sage Gear

You get sagacious robes and choose one:

○ Antitoxin and bandages (3 uses, slow).
○ Bag of books (5 uses, 2 weight).
○ Staff (reach, 2 weight).

Sage Races
You may choose one of these instead of an adventurer race option:

Dwarf
When you ask the stones of a mountain for advice, they will tell you
what they want. If you try to give it to them, take +1 forward, and
mark XP if you succeed.

Elf
You have lived a long, long life. When you spout lore about
historical events, you may roll with WIS instead of INT.

Human
When another PC comes to you for advice about something
important and you tell them what you honestly think is best, they
also deal +1d6 damage forward if they follow that advice.

Shopkeeper

Sometimes, running a business is an adventure in and of itself.

Compendium Class

Once you have a shop and some employees to work in it, you may
consider the shopkeeper specialty an available compendium class.
The next time you level up, you may add this specialty to your
character instead of choosing a move from your class.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Inventory
When you check your shop for something you should have,
roll+WIS. On a 10+, it’s in stock. On a 7-9, you’re out, but
somebody owes you some. On a miss, you had it, but somebody
stole it or broke it, or stole it and broke it, the scumbag.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Bustling Storefront
When you have time to advertise your services and tend your
storefront, the GM will tell you who has come to spend money at
your store. Other players may tell you that their characters have
been customers as well. Say which ones you gave special treatment
and roll+CHA. On a 10+, they were all satisfied. On a 7-9, one of
them wasn’t happy but the rest were. On a miss, none of them are
happy.

Hired Help
When you recruit from your shop, you attract twice as many
prospective recruits.

Idle Gossip
When you ask your staff or regulars about someone important
(your call), roll+CHA. On a 10+, you can ask the GM three
questions from the list below. On a 7-9, only two:
• How could I get to them, physically or financially?
• What’s their deal and how’s it working out?
• When should I expect to see them next?
• Who do they associate with?
• Who or what do they cherish most?
On a miss, ask one anyway, but your questions stir up trouble.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:
Bazaar of Curios
Requires: Inventory
When you check your shop for something you really shouldn’t
have, roll+WIS. On a 10+, you have it, or something close, although
it might cause problems down the line. On a 7-9, you can get it, or
something close, but it will come with strings attached. On a miss,
you have it, alright, and a world of problems along with it!

High Class
Your shop deals in higher-end, more expensive goods. At the
beginning of a session, or when there’s downtime, roll+CHA. On a
10+, both. On a 7-9, choose one:
• You gain a useful contact from amongst your customers.
• You make 1d6×100 coins in profit.

Make This Go Away

When you give something to one of your underlings and tell them
to get rid of it, roll+CHA. On a 10+, it’s gone and only the two of
you know it was ever there to begin with. On a 7-9, it’s common
knowledge in and around the shop, but no further. On a miss, the
thing pops up again at the worst possible time.

Shopkeeper Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of an adventurer

alignment:

Evil
Swindle a customer.

Lawful
Win a legal dispute.
Shopkeeper Bonds

• __________ should be able to get me some more

customers.
• __________ used to work for me, until I fired them.

Shopkeeper Gear

You get your shop’s inventory in addition to whatever your other

specialties give you.

Shopkeeper Races

You may choose this instead of an adventurer race option:

Human
When you first arrive at a civilized settlement, the GM will tell you
what goods are in abundance and what goods the settlement is in
need of.

Wayfarer

A vagabond, a wanderer, a rolling stone is what they call you and it

is true. You cannot stay long in one place, or at least you have yet to
find the place that would have you, and you it.

Compendium Class

Once you have visited seven different lands, and in each land
visited seven different settlements, you may consider the wayfarer
specialty an available compendium class. The next time you level
up, you may add this specialty to your character instead of choosing
a move from your class.

Stats

If you choose the wayfarer specialty, you get +2 load.

Starting Moves

You start with one of the following two moves:

A Port in the Storm

When you return to a civilized settlement you’ve visited before, tell
the GM when you were last here. They’ll tell you how it’s changed
since then. Additionally, at your option, name a person you met
here or something you left behind.

Wide-Wanderer
You’ve travelled the wide world over. When you arrive someplace,
ask the GM about any important traditions, rituals, and so on,
they’ll tell you what you need to know.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Hobo Signs
When you discern realities in the wilderness or when you enter a
settlement for the first time, also ask one of these questions:
• How could I be accepted by the people here?
• How could I best attract attention here?
• How could I gain access to what is secret here?
• What here is a source of evil?
• Where could I best hide around here?
If you discern realities about a location, you may ask one of these
questions instead of one from the normal list.

Local Contacts
When you arrive at a new settlement, roll+CHA. On a hit, you
know someone here who can help you. They count as a hireling
with points according to the settlement size and will accept
friendship as payment. Additionally, on a 10+, they will rescue you
from danger once while you are here. On a miss, instead you bring
your enemies with you and find no friends here.

Secret Paths and Ways

You know places in the wilderness where secret paths lie unseen.
When you travel by a way that is beyond the mortal world,
roll+WIS. On a 10+, it leads where you want it to. On a 7-9, you or
the GM must choose a difficulty:
• Others find the way who did not know it before.
• The journey takes much longer than it seemed to.
• The way is long and hard. Each person who takes it must
consume a ration or mark the debility weak.
• You encounter some danger upon the road.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Around the World

Requires: A Port in the Storm or Wide-Wanderer
You now have both A Port in the Storm and Wide-Wanderer. When
you return to a civilized settlement you’ve visited before, you may
name both someone you met and something you left behind.

Reputation
When you first meet someone who’s heard songs about you,
roll+CHA. On a 10+, tell the GM two things they’ve heard about
you. On a 7-9, tell the GM one thing they’ve heard, and the GM
tells you one thing.

Unforgettable Face
When you meet someone you’ve met before (your call) after some
time apart, you take +1 forward against them.
Wayfarer Alignment

You may choose one of these instead of an adventurer alignment:

Good
Leave a place in a better condition than it was in when you arrived.

Neutral
Leave a place in a better condition that you were in when you
arrived.

Wayfarer Bonds

• __________ brings trouble with them wherever they go.

• __________ is great to have around, but I wouldn’t trust
them with my life.

Wayfarer Gear

You get a bag and a walking stick, if you want one, in addition to
whatever your other specialties give you.

Wayfarer Races

You may choose one of these instead of an adventurer race option:

Dwarf
When you wake from at least a few uninterrupted hours of sleep,
you regain all your HP.

Elf
When you take watch, don’t roll. If something approaches, you’re
able to wake the camp and prepare a response of your choice.
Everyone in the camp takes +1 forward, provided they participate
in your choice of response.

Wraithlander

Death is a guard at the gates, a keen eye and a black hand on the
latch. Some folk find their way through the hollow kingdoms and
out the other side. Shame they’ll never fit in again—nobody comes
back without a mark to show for it.

Compendium Class

Once you have returned from the wraithlands with your life, you
may consider the wraithlander specialty an available compendium
class. The next time you level up, you may add this specialty to your
character instead of choosing a move from your class.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

From the Forbidden Land Returned

You bear a mark of your time in the wraith lands. Choose a part of
your body that takes on the visible aspects of death while remaining
fully functional:
○ Arm: Any weapon you grasp flows into the other world. It
gains +2 piercing against living creatures.
○ Eye: When you touch a corpse you see what it saw in its last
moments. The GM will describe it.
○ Legs: Your passing leaves no mark or scent as a living
person would.
○ Tongue: You may lace any oath, prayer, or spell, prayer with
a link to the forbidden land. Its effects on the dying or dead will be
amplified, as described by the GM.
Dead spirits see your mark and know you as their own. Any dead
spirit that still clings to the mortal plane will speak with you,
sharing openly. The living, especially the devout, see your mark as a
sign of sin. You take -1 ongoing to CHA rolls with the devout who
see your mark.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Branded
Requires: From the Forbidden Land Returned
Choose another body part to take on the visible aspects of death.

Death’s Friend
When another player character meets death you may immediately
resolve a bond you have with them, marking XP and writing a new
bond as usual.

Indelible
Requires: From the Forbidden Land Returned
The mark of the wraith lands grows such that it may not be
concealed. Describe it. The dead will seek you out, giving you what
aid they can. The undead will not harm you. The devout will treat
you as a heretic.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Blemished
Requires: Branded
Choose a third body part to take on the visible aspects of deaths.

Final Tether
When you speak to a dead spirit, you take +1 forward with all who
knew that spirit in life.

Wraithlander Alignment

You may choose one of these instead of an adventurer

alignment:

Evil
Increase the influence of the wraithlands over the living world.

Good
Bring peace to a restless spirit.

Neutral
Discover more about the wraithlands or your connection to them.

Wraithlander Bonds

• __________ has seen much of Death, almost as much as I.

• __________ is too full of secrets for my liking.

Wraithlander Gear

You get a token of your time in the wraithlands, in addition to

whatever your other specialties give you. Describe it.

Wraithlander Races

You may choose one of these instead of an adventurer race option:

Elf
You are immune to all types of paralysis—from enchantment to
hypnosis, from poisons to the influence of gods.

Human
Take +1 ongoing to your last breath roll. Death is no stranger to
you.

Disciples

Strength of Will

The disciple follows the narrow path of devotion. Whether to a

code of honour or a sentient deity, the disciple’s faith is a beacon in
the darkness, a strength that moves mountains—an inspiration.

Stats

The specialties you choose may modify these scores: Your base
damage is d6.
Your load is 9+STR.
Your maximum HP is 8+Constitution.

Starting Moves

Choose three disciple specialties. You get all the starting moves
from each. Make a note of any stat modifiers from your specialties.
Each time you level up, choose one advanced move from those
offered by your three specialties.

You may instead choose only two disciple specialties instead of

three. Take a level 2-5 move from either one of them right away, but
no other bonuses.

You may instead choose two disciple specialties and one specialty
from another archetype, but:
• If you choose a magician specialty, reduce both your base
damage by one die size (from d6 to d4) and your maximum hit
points by 2.
• If you choose a rogue or adventurer specialty, reduce your
maximum hit points by 2.
• If you choose a warrior specialty, your stats do not change.

Disciples also start with this move in addition to starting moves

from specialties:

Devotion
You are devoted to something larger than yourself: a calling, a deity,
a mission, or a philosophy. Whatever it is, it fills your life with
purpose, your soul with enthusiasm, and your limbs with strength.
Choose up to three spheres of influence (but always at least one)
that your devotion gives you special insight into:
○ Animals.
○ Battle (or any specific aspect of it).
○ Death (or any specific aspect of it).
○ The Earth (or the chthonic goddesses, or nature).
○ Healing (or fertility, medicine, or renewal).
○ Judgment (or conquest, law, or social order).
○ Plants (or agriculture, or the natural world).
○ Protection (or mercy).
○ Revelation (or knowledge, learning, or truth).
○ The Sky (or weather).
○ Wisdom.
Also, choose a set of codes, strictures or tenets that you live by—
some things you are supposed to do, some things you are forbidden
to do. You can also flesh out your lifestyle during play.

Advanced Moves

Each time you level up, choose an advanced move from one of your
specialties. Or choose one of the following options:
• At any level, instead of a move from one of your specialties,
you may choose a move from one of the other disciple specialties.
You may do this twice only.
• Twice between levels 6-10, instead of a move from one of
your
specialties, you may choose a move from any other archetype.

Disciple Alignments

Choose one of these alignments, or one from those offered by your

specialties:

Evil
Harm another to prove the superiority of your devotion.

Good
Give someone aid according to the spheres you have insight into.

Lawful
Endanger yourself in order to follow the precepts you are devoted
to.

Neutral
Avoid trouble or loss by following your ideals.

Disciple Bonds

As a disciple, you may have up to four bonds at a time. Choose

from the following, and from those offered by your specialties:
• __________ does not understand my faith and devotion. I
will help
them understand, no matter how long it takes.
• __________ has been through hardships that would break
me. They can stand against the darkness I see looming over the
world.
• __________ has insulted my devotion. I do not trust them.
• __________ is a good and faithful person. I trust them
implicitly.
• __________ showed me true insights into the path I must
follow.
• I am working on getting __________ to share my ideals.
• I have heard of __________’s exploits and am suitably
impressed.
• I have shared the secrets of my devotion with __________.

Disciple Gear

You have clothes appropriate to your calling and present situation,

dungeon rations (5 uses, 1 weight), an item that symbolizes your
devotion, and choose one:
○ Adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight).
○ Bandages (3 uses, slow) and a healing potion.
○ Chainmail (1 armour, 1 weight).
○ Shield (+1 armour, 2 weight).
○ Staff (close, two-handed, 1 weight).

Disciple Races

You may choose one of these races or one of the race options
provided by your specialties. Once you have chosen your race, gain
the corresponding move:

Dwarf
When you swear an oath according to the precepts of your faith,
take +1 forward to accomplish it. If you fail to do so, or you turn
away from your oath (to swear another one, for example), take
-1 forward.

Elf
When you spend a day in contemplation, gain 1 preparation if you
take action the next day.

Halfling
You sing the healing songs of spring and brook. When you make
camp, you and your allies heal +1d6.

Human
When you pray for guidance, even for a moment, if you ask “What
here is evil?” the GM will tell you, honestly.

Avatar

You have been chosen to bear the blessings of your god to the
world.

Compendium Class

Once you have been chosen by a deity to carry a piece of its essence
within you, you may consider the avatar specialty an available
compendium class. The next time you level up, you may add this
specialty to your character instead of choosing a move from your
class.

Stats

If you choose the avatar specialty, lower your maximum HP by 2,

but not lower than 4+Constitution.

Starting Moves

You start with these two moves:

Blessed
When you roll for another move while asking for the blessings of
your deity, you may choose options equal to your WIS or less (but
not fewer than none), and then tell the other players:
• …how your deity’s domain manifests itself on earth.
• …what your deity asks for in return.
• …which one of your deity’s boons is granted to you now.
• …why your deity has taken an interest in this affair.
On a 10+, all that you say is true. On a 7-9, the GM chooses one
statement to be false, the others are true. On a miss, you have
angered the gods.

Personal Deity
You serve and worship some deity or power which speaks to you
and through you. Give your god a name. You may also choose an
additional domain for your deity, in addition to the sphere(s) you
have insight into:
○ Bloody conquest.
○ Civilization.
○ Knowledge and hidden things.
○ Mercy for the downtrodden.
○ Those lost and forgotten.
○ Time and the passing seasons.
○ What lies beneath.

Choose one precept of your god:

○ Your god believes in trial by combat, and is petitioned
through personal victory.
○ Your god desires sacrificial rites, and is petitioned through
offerings of such.
○ Your god is secretive and insular, and is petitioned through
the gaining of secrets.
○ Your god preaches the sanctity of suffering, and is
petitioned by such.

Choose one or two personal features for your deity:

○ A handful of other deities are closely connected to yours.
○ Many festivals are held in honour of your deity.
○ Numerous other deities are loosely connected to yours.
○ One or more regions have outlawed your deity.
○ Your deity desires more worldly worship.
○ Your deity has a favoured social group, a chosen people.
○ Your deity has divine rivals.
○ Your deity has multiple personas, that manifest in different
situations.
○ Your deity has worshippers all over the world.
○ Your deity is vengeful and has many worldly enemies.

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Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Divine Guidance
Requires: Personal Deity
When you petition your deity according to the precepts of your
religion, you are granted some useful knowledge or boon related to
your deity’s domain. The GM will tell you what.

Driven by the Divine

When your actions are controlled by supernatural or outside forces,
you may instead surrender control of your body to your deity. If
you do so, roll+CHA. On a 10+, choose two. On a 7-9, choose one:
• You are possessed for a short time only.
• Your deity is not interrupted by demonic forces.
• Your deity is not single-minded in pursuit of its agenda.
Either way, your deity is not controlled by outside forces, and the
GM will tell you how its will is done through your body.

Orison for Guidance

Requires: Personal Deity
When you sacrifice something of value to your deity and pray for
guidance, your deity tells you what it would have you do. If you do
it, mark experience.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

The Face of God

Requires: Blessed
When you choose blessed options, you may also choose to take on
the likeness of your deity. Anyone witnessing your acts will react
accordingly. This manifestation lasts until you rest or dispel it.

Haruspex
Requires: Personal Deity
When you petition your deity according to the precepts of your
religion, you may also ask the GM any one question. The GM will
answer truthfully. You or your allies take +1 forward when acting
on the answer.

Petitioning the Empty Sky

Requires: Personal Deity
When you undertake a petition to your deity, dedicating such
actions to them beforehand, take +1 forward.

Avatar Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a disciple alignment:

Chaotic
Disrupt a power structure that is not aligned with your god.
Lawful
Assist a local power structure that agrees with your god.

Avatar Bonds

• __________ is ignorant of the evil that we face.

• My god has a special task for __________.

Avatar Gear

You get a symbol of your god, in addition to whatever your other

specialties give you. Describe it.

Avatar Races

You may choose one of these instead of a disciple race option:

Dwarf
When you choose blessed options, your deity will also show you
one of the following (your choice:
• A way out from underground.
• A way to get underground.
• If there is treasure nearby.

Elf
When you choose blessed options, you may also make plants grow
in your presence, in addition to any other effects.

Halfling
When you choose blessed options, your deity will also reveal an
escape route from your current situation, if any exist.

Human
When you choose blessed options, your deity will also reveal to
you who or what is the greatest threat to you, personally, at that
moment, and why.

Crusader

You have a crusade to lead and you will not stop fighting for it!

Compendium Class

Once you have been accepted into a holy order of knights after
passing their initiation tests, you may consider the crusader
specialty an available compendium class. The next time you level
up, you may add this specialty to your character instead of choosing
a move from your class.

Stats

If you choose the crusader specialty, increase your damage die by

one size (from d6 to d8), and you get +1 load.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Lay on Hands
When you touch someone, skin to skin, and pray for their well-
being, roll+CHA. On a 10+, you heal 1d8 damage or remove one
disease. On a 7-9, they are healed, but the damage or disease is
transferred to you.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:
Charge!
When you lead the charge into combat, those you lead take
+1 forward.

First Aid
Requires: Cast a Spell
Cure Light Wounds is a rote for you, and therefore doesn’t count
against your limit of granted spells.

Hospitaller
When you heal an ally, you heal +1d8 damage.

Invigorate
When you heal someone, they take +2 forward to their damage.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Ever Onward
Replaces: Charge!
When you lead the charge into combat, those you lead take
+1 forward and +2 armour forward.

Greater First Aid

Requires: First Aid
Cure Moderate Wounds is a rote for you, and therefore doesn’t
count against your limit of granted spells.

Perfect Hospitaller
Replaces: Hospitaller
When you heal an ally, you heal +2d8 damage.
Crusader Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a disciple alignment:

Chaotic
Deny the authorities power over your actions.

Good
Endanger yourself to protect someone weaker than you.

Lawful
Deny mercy to a criminal or unbeliever.

Crusader Bonds

• __________ is a brave soul, I have much to learn from

them.
• __________ is in constant danger, but I will keep them safe.
• __________ has stood by me in battle and can be trusted
completely.

Crusader Gear

Choose two:
○ Adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight) and a backpack.
○ Chainmail (1 armour, 1 weight).
○ Dungeon rations (5 uses, 1 weight) and a healing potion.
○ Halberd (Reach, +1 damage, two-handed, 2 weight).
○ Longsword (close, +1 damage, 2 weight).

Crusader Races
You may choose one of these instead of a disciple race option:

Dwarf
While you attend to healing a comrade, you have +2 armour.

Elf
Lay on hands may be used on anyone who can see you or hear your
voice, not just people you touch.

Human
When you heal someone, on a 10+, you may also ask a question
about them from the discern realities list, as if you had made the
move and rolled 7-9.

Devoted

More than a mere philosophy, you have devoted yourself to a god.

Compendium Class

Once you devote yourself to a specific, personified deity and that

deity contacts you personally to accept your devotion, you may
consider the devoted specialty an available compendium class. The
next time you level up, you may add this specialty to your character
instead of choosing a move from your class.

Stats

If you choose the devoted specialty, you get +1 load. It is a heavy

burden you bear, but you have grown used to it.
Starting Moves

You start with these two moves:

Divine Guidance
When you petition your deity according to the precepts of your
religion, you are granted some useful knowledge or boon related to
your deity’s domain. The GM will tell you what.

Personal Deity
You serve and worship some deity or power which speaks to you
and through you. Give your god a name. You may also choose an
additional domain for your deity, in addition to the sphere(s) you
have insight into:
○ Bloody conquest.
○ Civilization.
○ Knowledge and hidden things.
○ Mercy for the downtrodden.
○ Those lost and forgotten.
○ Time and the passing seasons.
○ What lies beneath.

Choose one precept of your god:

○ Your god believes in trial by combat, and is petitioned
through personal victory.
○ Your god desires sacrificial rites, and is petitioned through
offerings of such.
○ Your god is secretive and insular, and is petitioned through
the gaining of secrets.
○ Your god preaches the sanctity of suffering, and is
petitioned by such.

Choose one or two personal features for your deity:

○ A handful of other deities are closely connected to yours.
○ Many festivals are held in honour of your deity.
○ Numerous other deities are loosely connected to yours.
○ One of more regions have outlawed your deity.
○ Your deity desires more worldly worship.
○ Your deity has a favoured social group, a chosen people.
○ Your deity has divine rivals.
○ Your deity has multiple personas, that manifest in different
situations.
○ Your deity has worshippers all over the world.
○ Your deity is vengeful and has many worldly enemies.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Divine Intervention
Requires: Commune or Divine Guidance
When you commune with or petition your deity, you get one hold
and lose any hold you already had from this move. Spend that
hold when you or an ally take damage to call on your deity, who
intervenes with an appropriate manifestation and negates the
damage.

Heaven’s Weaving
When you parley with someone, your faith grants you insight into
them. Ask their player two questions from the discern realities list.

Orison for Guidance

Requires: Personal Deity
When you sacrifice something of value to your deity and pray for
guidance, your deity tells you what it would have you do. If you do
it, mark experience.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:
Apotheosis
Requires: Personal Deity
The first time you spend time in prayer as appropriate to your god
after taking this move, choose a feature associated with your deity
(rending claws, wings of sapphire feathers, an all-seeing third eye,
etc). When you emerge from prayer, you permanently gain that
physical feature.

Divine Invincibility
Replaces: Divine Intervention
When you commune with or petition your deity, you gain 2
hold and lose any hold you already had. Spend one hold when you
or an ally takes damage to call on your deity, who intervenes with
an appropriate manifestation and negates the damage.

Evidence of Faith
When you see divine magic as it happens, you can ask the GM
which deity granted the spell and its effects. Take +1 when acting
on the answers.

Devoted Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a disciple alignment:

Chaotic
Disrupt the workings of authorities who do not share your faith.

Evil
Gain an advantage for your deity at the expense of someone else.

Good
Bring the benefits of your deity to people of a different faith.
Lawful
Defend others who share your faith.

Devoted Bonds

• __________’s misguided behaviour endangers their very

soul!
• I have interceded with others of my faith on behalf of
__________ before.
• I respect the beliefs of __________ but hope they will
someday see the true way.

Devoted Gear

Choose one:
○ An additional symbol of your devotion.
○ Adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight) and a backpack.
○ Bag of book (5 uses, 2 weight).
○ Mace or warhammer (close, 1 weight).

Devoted Races

You may choose one of these instead of a disciple race option:

Dwarf
You may also petition your deity by crafting items made of gems,
metal, and stone to honour your devotion.

Elf
You may also petition your deity by tending to the health of the
natural world around you.
Halfling
Choose one of your deity’s spheres (or your deity’s additional
domain, if you chose one). When you spout lore concerning that
sphere or domain, take +1.

Human
When you petition your deity, you are also told who poses the
greatest threat to you or your faith, and why.

Elementalist

Let the sun fall into the ocean, let the earth erupt in flames.

Compendium Class

Once you sacrifice your most prized possession to the spirits of the
elements, you may consider the elementalist specialty an available
compendium class. The next time you level up, you may add this
specialty to your character instead of choosing a move from your
class.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Elemental Mastery
When you call on the primal spirits of air, earth, fire or water to
perform a task for you, roll+CON. On a 10+, choose two from the
list below. On a 7-9, choose one:
• The effect you desire comes to pass.
• You avoid paying nature’s price.
• You retain control.
On a miss, some catastrophe occurs as a result of your calling.
Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Born of Fire
You are no longer harmed by the touch of fire, nor are you
vulnerable to heat.

Eye of the Storm

When you exert your will in a circle around yourself, roll+CON.
On a hit, the world calms around you (the earth below your feet
stops breaking apart, fires you touch go out, storms break around
you, etc), but on a 7-9, this calmness affects only what you touch,
and only as long as you are touching it.

Friend of the Sea

You can live, breathe, and move underwater with ease.

Heart of Ice
You can walk easily on ice and are no longer vulnerable to freezing.
No matter how cold or slippery it gets, you function fine.

Nature’s Fury
When you use the natural elements to deal damage, your
damage die is d10 instead of d4.

Touching the Firmament

If you have a few hours or so to meditate amongst the raw elements,
or to perform rituals before them, they will purify you. This counts
as making camp and sleeping, but you do not need to consume
a ration. If you spend days amongst the elements, it counts as
recovering under the care of a healer.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Elemental Form
You can transmute your own body into a form made from the raw
elements. When you assume an elemental form, roll+CON. On
a 10+, hold 3. On a 7-9, hold 2. On a miss, hold 1 in addition to
whatever the GM says.
Your new form can move much like your old form, but has the
innate abilities of the elements it is made of: fire burns, stone is
hard, water runs and flows, and a body made of light, shadow, or
wind is intangible. You still use your normal stats but some moves
may be harder to trigger. The GM will also tell you one or more
moves associated with your new form. Spend a hold to make that
move. Once you’re out of hold, you return to your natural form. At
any time, you may spend all your hold and revert to your natural
form.

Physical Purity
Requires: Touching the Firmament
When you purify yourself amongst the elements, you may also
remove a debility or be cured of a disease or poison, so long as
the cause of your ailment is not more powerful than the elements
themselves.

To Speak With the World Itself

When you examine something made from the raw elements of
nature, roll+CON. On a 10+, you learn something interesting and
useful. On a 7-9, you learn something interesting, but it’s on you
to make it useful. On a miss, you have disturbed the elements with
your meddling. Whatever the result, the GM may also tell you
something this element wants. If you give it what it wants, it will
answer one question you ask of it, to the best of its abilities.

WeatherWeaver
When you are under open skies when the sun rises, the GM will ask
you what the weather will be that day. tell them whatever you like, it
comes to pass.

Elementalist Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a magician alignment:

Chaotic
Permanently change the way someone else interacts with their
environment.

Evil
Prove yourself superior to someone in a position of authority.

Good
Use your powers over the elements to better someone else’s lot in
life.

Elementalist Bonds

• __________ and I have braved the elements together.

• __________ has been touched by the primal elements and I
will find out why.

Elementalist Gear

Choose one:
○ A large item made of, or for, a particular element, with one
tag of your choice.
○ Many small items made of, or for, a particular element, with
one tag of your choice.

Elementalist Races

You may choose one of these instead of a magician race option:

Dwarf
When you call on the primal spirits of earth, on a hit, choose one
extra option.

Elf
When you call on the primal spirits of air, on a hit, choose one
extra option.

Halfling
You can interact (and parley) with elemental spirits as if they were
people.

Human
When you call on the primal spirits of water, on a hit, choose one
extra option.

Embodiment

Your embody one particular domain, one aspect of the cosmos.

This is what you live and breathe. In this domain, you work
miracles.

Compendium Class

Once you have devoted yourself to a single sphere of divine

influence and completed one task of legend to prove it, you may
consider the embodiment specialty an available compendium class.
The next time you level up, you may add this specialty to your
character instead of choosing a move from your class.

Starting Moves

You start with these two move:

Cast a Holy Spell

When you cast a spell from your sphere of influence, roll+WIS. On
a 10+, you cast the spell, but choose one consequence from the list
below. On a 7-9, you cast the spell, but choose two:
• The spell has other effects as well.
• You may not cast this spell again until after you get a full
night’ssleep.
• Your spellcasting is obvious and you draw attention to
yourself.

Sphere of Influence
Choose one sphere of holy spells. Your faith and discipline allows
you to cast any spell from that list of your level or lower.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Learned and Wise

Requires: Sphere of Influence
When you spout lore about your sphere of influence, take +1.

Ostentation
Requires: Cast a Holy Spell
When you cast a spell, on a hit, you may also choose one of these
options:
• The spell’s effect is doubled.
• The spell’s targets are doubled.

Worldly Wisdom
Requires: Cast a Holy Spell
Choose a spell from another spell list. You can cast that spell as if it
were one of your own.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Exacting Discipline
Requires: Cast a Holy Spell
When you cast a spell, on a 12+, choose no consequences.

Genius Savant
Replaces: Learned and Wise
When you spout lore about your sphere of influence, take +1. On a
12+, the GM will also ask you a question about the topic. Whatever
you answer, it is the truth.

Syncretic Faith
Requires: Worldly Wisdom
Choose another spell from another spell list. You can cast that spell
as if it were one of your own.

Embodiment Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a disciple alignment:

Chaotic
Defeat someone who opposes your sphere of influence.
Good
Discredit a dangerous misconception about your sphere of
influence.

Lawful
Sacrifice something to your sphere of influence instead of
accepting personal gain.

Embodiment Bonds

• __________ could also become the embodiment of my

faith’s sphere of influence.
• I will teach __________ all about my faith’s sphere of
influence.

Embodiment Gear

Choose one:
○ An additional symbol of your faith, exhibiting your sphere
of influence.
○ Adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight) and a backpack.
○ Axe or sword (close, 1 weight).
○ Bandages (3 uses, slow) and dungeon rations (5 uses, 1
weight).
○ Dagger (hand, 1 weight).

Embodiment Races

You may choose one of these instead of a disciple race option:

Dwarf
After you cast a spell underground, take +1 forward.
Elf
After you cast a spell in a forest, take +1 forward.

Human
Your faith is diverse. Choose a spell from any spell list: you can cast
this spell as if it were part of your sphere of influence.

Empath

“Captain, I sense hostility.”

Compendium Class

Once you have thrice bared your emotional soul to another person
and had them reciprocated, you may consider the empath specialty
an available compendium class. The next time you level up, you
may add this specialty to your character instead of choosing a move
from your class.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Empathy
When you study someone, you can also ask their player “What is
your character feeling?” in addition to anything else that happens.
Also, add these to the list of discern realities questions:
• How could I make your character feel __________?
• What is making your character feel this way?
Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Comfortably Numb
When you touch someone, you may deaden their emotions and
sense of pain. This stops them from feeling extremes of anger, joy,
or sadness. It lasts for several hours or until the target suffers any
kind of emotional trigger or trauma.

Emotional Transference
When you touch someone, you may allow them to feel all the
emotions you are feeling, even if emotions are something strange
for them to feel. If you can use this as leverage, you may parley with
WIS instead of CHA.

Mindmeld
When you touch a willing or sleeping subject, your senses are tuned
to their thoughts. The GM will give you an impression of what’s
going on inside their head.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Crowd Control
When you catch the attention of a crowd and fix your will upon
their emotions, roll+WIS. On a hit, you may instil one emotion of
your choice into every member of that crowd. On a 10+, you may
also command the crowd to take one concrete action—the majority
will obey. On a miss, the crowd turns on you.

Emotional Manipulation
Requires: Emotional Transference
When you touch someone, you may force them to feel any emotion
you want. If you can use this as leverage, you may parley with WIS
instead of CHA.

Pain to Pleasure
When you take damage, take +1 forward.

Empath Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a disciple alignment:

Good
Turn someone’s foul mood around by doing something significant
for them.

Neutral
Use someone else’s mood for your own profit.

Empath Bonds

• __________ needs to respect me more than they do right

now.
• I keep telling __________, but they won’t listen.
• I suspect __________ of some kind of betrayal.

Empath Gear

Choose one:
○ Antitoxin and bandages (3 uses, slow).
○ Dungeon rations (5 uses, 1 weight).
○ Healing potion.
○ Poultices and herbs (2 uses, slow, 1 weight).
○ Shield (+1 armour, 2 weight).

Empath Races

You may choose one of these instead of a disciple race option:

Dwarf
When you study someone, the GM will also tell you if they intend
to break or keep any oaths they have made, or if they are the kind of
person who keeps the oaths they make.

Halfling
When you parley with someone, you may ask their player “What is
your character feeling?” in addition to anything else that happens.

Human
When you study someone, you may ask their player “What do I
have that your character wants?” instead of “What is your character
feeling?”

Exorcist

Who you gonna call?

Compendium Class

Once you have successfully banished a demon, ghost, or other

extraplanar monster, you may consider the exorcist specialty an
available compendium class. The next time you level up, you may
add this specialty to your character instead of choosing a move
from your class.
Starting Moves

You start with these two moves:

Circle of Protection
When you draw a magical circle on the floor or ground, roll+WIS.
On a 10+, it will keep spirits, ghosts, or extra-planar entities in or
out until someone else breaks it. On a 7-9, it will keep them in or
out momentarily, but not for long.

Ghost Seer
When you invoke your faith by prayer, you can interact with
ghostly, insubstantial, or extra-planar entities, including dealing
damage to them if your faith opposes them. If they are possessing
someone, though, you can’t necessarily deal with them separately.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Abjuration
When you banish a creature from another plane of existence,
roll+INT. On a 10+, it may not approach you further and if it lacks
an anchor in this world, it must return to whence it came. On a 7-9,
it may not approach you further unless you allow it to (or you let
your guard down). On a miss, you cannot banish it.

Ghost Killer
When you attack a spirit, ghost, or extra-planar entity, your damage
die is a d10.

Spiritual Connection
If you have a piece of someone’s body, or a possession they hold
very dear, you can interact with them as if they were a spirit, ghost,
or extra-planar entity, and use moves against them as such.

To Know the Unknowable

When you encounter a creature, manifestation, or power from
another plane of existence, you can ask the GM from whence it
came and what its properties are. Take +1 when acting on the
answers.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Ars Goetia
When you first encounter an extra-planar entity, you may ask the
GM any one question about it. The GM will answer truthfully.

Closing the Gateway

When you attack a spirit, ghost, or extra-planar entity, you deal
+1d6 damage, and your foe can choose to return from whence it
came instead of taking damage. When you reduce a spirit, ghost,
or extra-planar creature to zero HP, its soul is henceforth barred
from appearing on the material plane in any form. It can still be
encountered in astral visions and on other planes, just not your
world.

Command of Injunction
When you command someone in your presence to cease from a
specific activity, roll+WIS. On a 10+, they must comply to the best
of their ability. On a 7-9, they must comply until they leave your
presence. Only one injunction you issue can stand at any one time,
though you may command any and all person in your presence.
Those under an indefinite injunction are not notified when it is
lifted. Only activities consciously undertaken can be subject to
injunction.
Exorcist Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a disciple alignment:

Good
Free someone from a troublesome spirit.

Lawful
Punish a necromancer or summoner of spirits for their misdeeds.

Exorcist Bonds

• __________ helped me banish a great evil from the world,

but not without cost.
• __________ is in constant danger, but I will keep them safe.

Exorcist Gear

Choose one:
○ Bag of books (5 uses, 2 weight).
○ Bandages (3 uses, slow).
○ Fifty feet of rope (1 weight).
○ Lead-lined gloves (hand, +1 damage, 1 weight).
○ A special uniform.

Exorcist Races

You may choose one of these instead of a disciple race option:

Elf
When you discern realities, on a hit, your keen senses also tell you
if there are any spirits, ghost, or extra-planar entities around.
Human
When you touch someone, you can always tell if they are
possessed, and if so, by what.

Impervious

Your path in life is to face danger head on, and defy it.

Compendium Class

Once you have stood up to defend those less fortunate than

you, been met with violence, and responded in a non-violent
manner, you may consider the impervious specialty an available
compendium class. The next time you level up, you may add this
specialty to your character instead of choosing a move from your
class.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken

When you prepare yourself to endure some hardship without
fighting back, roll+CON. On a hit, you can either take half damage
or you can completely ignore one other ill effect. On a 10+, you
can also defeat, expose, or frustrate your oppressor with your
stubbornness.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Bloody Aegis
When you take damage, you can grit your teeth and accept the
blow. If you do, you take no damage but instead suffer a debility of
your choice. If you already have all six debilities you can’t use this
move.

By Nature Sustained
You don’t need to eat or drink. If a move tells you to mark off a
ration just ignore it.

Divine Protection
When you wear no armour or shield, you have 2 armour.

Iron Will
When you are subject to mind control or magic that influences
your feelings, you may choose to take 1d4 damage (ignores
armour) and ignore the influence.

Staunch Defender
When you defend, you always get +1 hold, even on a miss.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Divine Armour
Replaces: Divine Protection
When you wear no armour or shield, you have 3 armour.

Healthy Distrust
Whenever the unclean magic wielded by mortal men causes
you to defy danger, treat a miss as a 7-9 instead.
Impervious Defender
Replaces: Staunch Defender
When you defend, you always get +1 hold, even on a miss. On
a 12+, instead of getting hold the nearest attacking creature is
stymied giving you a clear advantage, the GM will describe it.

Indomitable
When you suffer a debility (even through Bloody Aegis), take
+1 forward against whatever caused it.

Impervious Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a disciple alignment:

Good
Endanger yourself to protect someone weaker than you.

Lawful
Stand up to an illegitimate authority figure.

Impervious Bonds

• __________ is a brave soul, I have much to learn from

them.
• __________ is hiding something, but that is okay. We’ve all
got scars we’re not willing to share.
• __________ is tougher than they think. I will prove it to
them.

Impervious Gear

You don’t need any more gear, you’re impervious!

Impervious Races

You may choose one of these instead of a disciple race option:

Dwarf
When you defend, you cannot be moved if your feet are planted
firmly upon the ground.

Elf
You know what patience is. For you, non-violent protest counts as
making camp and recovering, even under harsh conditions.

Halfling
It takes only two days of recovery for you to remove a debility, or
one if you are tended by a healer.

Human
When you suffer a debility, take +1 forward to do anything other
than fight back.

Martial Hero

You are a fighter, for sure. But you fight with honour!

Compendium Class

Once you have finished training under a master of the martial arts,
whether as part of their school or as their only student, you may
consider the martial hero specialty an available compendium class.
The next time you level up, you may add this specialty to your
character instead of choosing a move from your class.

Starting Moves
You start with these two move:

Fight with Honour

When you enter a fight, roll+CON. On a 10+, hold 3 chi. On a 7-9,
hold 2 chi. On a miss, hold 1 chi anyway, but your enemies already
have the drop on you. Spend a chi during the fight to achieve one of
the following effects:
• Block a blow meant for you or someone else (you take half
damage).
• Break free from bonds or other confinement.
• Cross the distance between yourself and a foe, bypassing all
obstacles.
• Deal your damage to a foe within reach.
• Leap over or across a physical obstacle.
You lose any remaining chi once the fight is over.

Fists of Fury
You are never unarmed—your body, and each of your limbs, is a
weapon (hand, 0 weight), just as good as any other.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Arrows in Hand
Requires: Fists of Fury
When you block or dodge a missile attack, roll+DEX. On a 10+,
you snatch the missile out of the air and it deals no damage. On a
7-9, choose one:
• You avoid the attack completely.
• You snatch the missile out of the air and take half damage.

Fuelled by Honour
Requires: Fight with Honour
If you accomplish your alignment condition during a fight, gain
one chi, up to a maximum of three total.

Hand of Monkey
Requires: Fists of Fury
If you are unarmoured and carry no shield, you have 2 armour
against hand-held weapons. If this reduces the damage you take to
zero, you may also disarm your foe.

Honourable Society
You are a respected member of an honourable fighting society.
When you send word to them for aid, you may recruit as if you
have a useful reputation and are paying generously, even though
you are not paying at all. Any hirelings they send you have at least
loyalty +1 and warrior +1.

Light as a Feather
When you run across a surface that cannot hold your weight,
roll+DEX. On a 10+, you actually do it, gracefully and without
trouble. On a 7-9, you make it across, but with consequences. The
GM will tell you what.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Glorious Honour
Requires: Fight with Honour
When you fight with honour, hold an extra chi, even on a miss.

Hands of the Monkey King

Replaces: Hand of Monkey
If you are unarmoured and carry no shield, you have 4 armour
against hand-held weapons. If this reduces the damage you take to
zero, you may also disarm your foe.

Superior Technique
Requires: Fight with Honour
Add these to the list of deeds you can spend a chi to perform:
• Break through a physical obstacle.
• Deal your damage to a foe within sight.
• Grab an item within reach. Now it is yours.

Martial Hero Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a disciple alignment:

Chaotic
Fight agents of the oppressive status quo.

Good
Fight honourably on behalf of someone who does not deserve the
misfortunes they have suffered.

Lawful
Expose corruption amongst the authorities.

Neutral
Bring fame and renown to your honourable fighting society.

Martial Hero Bonds

• __________ has stood by me in battle and can be trusted

completely.
• __________ is in constant danger, but I will keep them safe.
• __________ would benefit greatly from following my path.

Martial Hero Gear

If you belong to an honourable fighting society, you have a token of

your membership, such as a robe, sash, or scroll. Describe it.

Martial Hero Races

You may choose one of these instead of a disciple race option:

Dwarf
As long as you have chi left, you cannot be pushed, thrown, tripped,
or knocked over.

Elf
As long as you have chi left, you may defend with DEX instead of
CON, and hack and slash with DEX instead of STR.

Halfling
When you fight with honour, add this to the list of deeds you can
spend a chi to perform:
• Dodge a blow meant for you.

Human
When you arrive at a new settlement, an honourable fighting
society will accept you as their guest and provide you with
friendship, hospitality, and advice. If you also agree to help them
solve a problem they have, take +1 forward.

Miracle Worker

You have been imbued with divine abilities as a reward for your
faith in a higher power. These abilities take the form of spells.
Compendium Class

Once you have been infused with divine power as a result of your
faith and devotion, you may consider the miracle worker specialty
an available compendium class. The next time you level up, you
may add this specialty to your character instead of choosing a move
from your class.

Starting Moves

You start with these two moves:

Cast a Miraculous Spell

When you unleash a spell granted to you by your devotion,
roll+WIS. On a 10+, the spell is successfully cast and your devotion
does not revoke the spell, so you may cast it again. On a 7-9, the
spell is cast, but choose one:
• After you cast it, the spell is revoked. You cannot cast the
spell
again until you commune and have it granted to you.
• You draw unwelcome attention or put yourself in a spot.
The GM will tell you how.
• Your casting strains your devotion—take -1 ongoing to cast
a spell until the next time you commune.
Note that maintaining spells with ongoing effects will sometimes
cause a penalty to your roll to cast a spell.

Commune
When you spend uninterrupted time (an hour or so) in quiet
contemplation of your devotion, you:
• Lose any spells already granted to you.
• Are granted new spells of your choice, whose total levels
don’t exceed your own level+1, and none of which is a higher level
than your own level.
• Prepare all of your rotes, which never count against your
limit.
Your spheres of insight determine which spells you can cast—you
cannot be granted spells from other spheres, or from other classes.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level between 2-5, you may choose from these
moves:

Chosen One
Requires: Cast a Spell
Choose one spell. You are granted that spell as if it was one level
lower.

Empower
Requires: Cast a Spell
When you cast a spell, on a 10+, you have the option of choosing
from the 7-9 list. If you do, you may choose one of these effects as
well:
• The spell’s effects are doubled.
• The spell’s targets are doubled.

Serenity
Requires: Cast a Spell
When you cast a spell, you ignore the first -1 penalty from
ongoing spells.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Anointed
Requires: Chosen One
Choose one spell in addition to the one you picked for chosen one.
You are granted that spell as if it was one level lower.

Evidence of Faith
When you see divine magic as it happens, you can ask the GM
which deity granted the spell and its effects. Take +1 when acting
on the answers.

Greater Empower
Replaces: Empower
When you cast a spell, on a 10-11, you have the option of choosing
from the 7-9 list. If you do, you may choose one of these effects as
well. On a 12+, you get to choose one of these effects for free.
• The spell’s effects are doubled.
• The spell’s targets are doubled.

Providence
Replaces: Serenity
You ignore the -1 penalty from two spells you maintain.

Miracle Worker Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a disciple alignment:

Chaotic
Disrupt the natural order with the power of your miracles.

Evil
Use your miraculous powers to harm or endanger another.

Good
Assist someone whose cause you believe in.
Miracle Worker Bonds

• __________ has stood by me in battle and can be trusted

completely.
• __________ helped my complete an important task.
• __________ is in constant danger, but I will keep them safe.
• __________ would benefit greatly from following my path.

Miracle Worker Gear

Choose one:
○ Adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight) and a backpack.
○ Antitoxin and 12 coins.
○ Healing potion.
○ Keg of Dwarven stout (4 weight).

Miracle Worker Races

You may choose one of these instead of a disciple race option:

Dwarf
You are one with stone. When you commune, you are also granted
a special version of Words of the Unspeaking as a rote which only
works on stone.

Human
Your faith is diverse. Choose one spell from another sphere or class.
You can cast and be granted that spell as if it belonged to your own
spheres of influence.
Oracle

To know the future absolutely is to be trapped inside the future

absolutely. Time collapses, the present swallows everything. You
have more freedom than that, though: the freedom to choose your
own future.

Compendium Class

Once you have drunk the water of life and successfully filtered
out the poisons while experienced the intoxicating visions, thus
surviving the spice agony, you may consider the oracle specialty an
available compendium class. The next time you level up, you may
add this specialty to your character instead of choosing a move
from your class.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Truth and Consequences

When you examine the strands of possible futures, describe an
event that is yet to occur and roll+WIS. On a 10+, name three
people, groups, or social institutions. On a 7-9, only two. On a
miss, name one anyway, in addition to whatever else the GM tells
you. For each subject you name, the GM will tell you what sort of
consequences this future event will have for them. You may only
examine each event once.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Foreshadowing
When you look into the future for possible dangers, name a person,
place, or thing and roll+WIS. On a 10+, the GM will tell you two
things from the list below. On a 7-9, only one. On a miss, the GM
will tell you one anyway, but also something else that is not true.
Which one is which you will have to divine for yourself.
• The nature of a danger (its type and impulse) that threatens
the
subject or that the subject is part of.
• One grim portent, related to the subject, that is yet to occur.
• One stakes question related to the subject.
• What kind of threat the subject is.

Prophetic Lineage
Requires: Truth or Consequences
When you use truth or consequences, on a 12+, name three people,
groups, or social institutions and you may use this move again to
examine the same event.

Weakness Prophesied
When you fight someone whose futures you have prophesied,
choose one stat. Until you take damage, you may roll with WIS
instead of this stat. Choose again each time you enter a fight.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Accurate Prediction
When you parley with someone whose futures you have
prophesied, on a 10-11, the GM will tell you how your deal will
affect them in the future. On a 12+, you say how your deal will
affect them in the future.

Martial Oracle
Replaces: Weakness Prophesied
When you fight someone whose futures you have prophesied,
choose one stat. Until the fight is over, you may roll with WIS
instead of this stat. Choose again each time you enter a fight.

Parting Shadows
Requires: Foreshadowing
When you look into the future for possible dangers, on a 12+,
choose three options from the list.

Oracle Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a disciple alignment:

Evil
Oppose someone who will cause trouble in the future.

Good
Use your prophecy to help someone else avoid tragedy.

Neutral
Profit financially from your prophetic powers.

Oracle Bonds

• __________ will play a part in important future events. I

have seen it!
• I keep telling __________, but they won’t listen.
• I must protect __________ from the doom that is coming
for them.

Oracle Gear

Choose one:
○ Adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight).
○ Antitoxin and bandages (3 uses, slow).
○ Bag of books (5 uses, 2 weight).
○ Halfling pipeleaf (6 uses).

Oracle Races

You may choose one of these instead of a disciple race option:

Dwarf
Your mind can see into the earth. When you handle metal or stone,
you may ask one question from the discern realities list about it.
The GM will answer from the earth’s perspective.

Elf
You have great insights into the natural world. When you handle
plants, you may ask one question from the discern realities list
about it. The GM will answer from the plant’s perspective.

Human
When you discern realities, the GM will always tell you what is
about to happen, in addition to the move’s other results.

162 Disciples

Pilgrim

What better way could there be to show your piety than to make a
pilgrimage to the homes of the gods? Even dead saints will do!

Compendium Class
Once you have made a pilgrimage to the five most holy sites in the
known world, you may consider the pilgrim specialty an available
compendium class. The next time you level up, you may add this
specialty to your character instead of choosing a move from your
class.

Stats

If you choose the pilgrim specialty, you get +1 load.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Pilgrimage
When you arrive at a well-respected place after a dangerous
journey, hold 2 blessings. You can spend a blessing at any time to:
• Create a rumour in a well-travelled location.
• Restore yourself to max HP.
• Use a move that another PC has but you don’t.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Follow Me
When you undertake a perilous journey, you can take two jobs. You
make a separate roll for each.

Pilgrim’s Progress
Requires: Pilgrimage
Choose a school of magic or a sphere of influence. You may spend
a blessing to cast a spell from that school or sphere, of your level or
lower. When you cast a spell, roll+WIS. On a 10+, the spell takes
effect as normal. On a 7-9, choose one:
• The spell has only half its normal effect.
• You are exhausted and suffer a debility.
• You attract unwanted attention or produce additional
effects.

Uncanny Senses
Requires: Pilgrimage
Choose a type of energy: divine influence, emotional residues,
infernal taint, or magic, for example. While you hold blessings, you
can sense this type of energy as if it were tangible and visible. You
can only sense one type of energy at a time, but you can switch the
type whenever you have spent all your blessings.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

The Power of Pilgrimage

Requires: Pilgrim’s Progress
When you cast a spell, on a miss, the spell takes effect as normal, in
addition to what the GM tells you. On a 12+, also choose one:
• The spell’s effects are doubled.
• The spell’s targets are doubled.

Shrinewalker
Requires: Pilgrimage
The first time you pray at a shrine or temple, hold 2 blessings.

Strider
Replaces: Follow Me
When you undertake a perilous journey you can take two jobs. Roll
twice and use the better result for both jobs.

Pilgrim Alignments
You may choose one of these instead of a disciple alignment:

Evil
Prevent someone else from making the same pilgrimage as you.

Good
Defend a travel route or the people on it from threats.

Pilgrim Bonds

• __________ is a lovely travelling companion, and very

devout.
• __________ is not mature enough to undertake this
journey.

Pilgrim Gear

You get adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight), dungeon rations (5

uses, 1 weight), and a holy symbol of some kind, in addition to
whatever your other specialties give you.

Pilgrim Races

You may choose this instead of a disciple race option:

Human
You may spend a blessing to negate the effects of one attack against
you.

Psychopomp
Your work is done on the borderlands between life and death.

Compendium Class

Once you have been to Death’s black gate and been allowed to
return to the world of the living, you may consider the psychopomp
specialty an available compendium class. The next time you level
up, you may add this specialty to your character instead of choosing
a move from your class.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Turn Undead
When you hold your holy symbol aloft and call on your devotion
for protection, roll+WIS. On a hit, so long as you continue to pray
and brandish your holy symbol, no undead may come within reach
of you. On a 10+, you also momentarily daze intelligent undead
and cause mindless undead to flee. Aggression breaks the effects
and they are able to act as normal. Intelligent undead may still find
ways to harry you from afar. They’re clever like that.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Ashes to Ashes
Requires: Turn Undead
The first time you brandish your holy symbol at an undead
creature, deal your damage to it (ignores armour).

Ghost Talker
You can see and interact with all ghosts and spirits of the dead,
and peer into the spiritual workings of the undead, even if they
are mindless. When you study an undead creature, ask whatever
questions you like, from the discern realities list or not.

Necromancy
Requires: Cast a Spell
When you cast a spell from the sphere of death, take +1.

The Scales of Life and Death

When someone takes their last breath in your presence, they take
+1 to their roll.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Armour of Faith
Requires: Turn Undead
While you are turning the undead, you and any allies you are
protecting get +2 armour. This bonus lasts only as long as there are
undead present.

Cheat Death Again

When you have zero HP, instead of taking your last breath,
roll+WIS. On a 10+, you live and choose one:
• You discover one of Death’s dark secrets.
• You have a moment with a soul that has already passed on.
• You manage to stay beneath Death’s notice.
On a 7-9, you live but Death takes notice and you discover
something terrible. On a miss, you can cheat death no longer and
you must pass through the Black Gate forever.

Dust to Dust
Requires: Ashes to Ashes
When you reduce a creature to zero HP, its soul is put to rest and
it cannot be raised again as any kind of undead creature. If the
creature is already undead, its evil influence is also defeated, at least
in part.

Reaper
When you take time after a conflict to dedicate your victory to your
ideals and deal with the dead, take +1 forward.

Psychopomp Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a disciple alignment:

Evil
use your knowledge of death to frighten or intimidate someone.

Good
Save someone from a premature death.

Lawful
Put the undead to their rightful rest.

Psychopomp Bonds

• __________’s misguided behaviour endangers their very

soul!
• I have shown __________ a glimpse of what lies beyond.

Psychopomp Gear

You have a symbol of your understanding of death: a shirt made

of bones, a drinking cup made from a skull, or a map of the
shadowlands, for instance. Describe it.

Psychopomp Races

You may choose one of these instead of a disciple race option:

Dwarf
When you deal damage to the undead, deal +1d4 damage.

Elf
When you discern realities, on a hit, your keen senses also tell you
what here is dead or undead.

Human
When you turn the undead, you may also ask one question about
them, as if you had discerned realities and got a 7-9.

Sacred Lamb

Your suffering is a sacrifice, to save others from pain. It is your gift.

Compendium Class

Once you have sacrificed your life for the life of another and been
returned to life, you may consider the sacred lamb specialty an
available compendium class. The next time you level up, you may
add this specialty to your character instead of choosing a move
from your class.

Starting Moves
You start with this move:

Sacrifice
When you touch someone and make a demand of them, if they do
what you ask, take the debility of your choice and choose one:
• They are healed for half your current HP.
• They are healed of a debility.
• They are healed of one injury (like a broken arm).
• They gain 1d8 temporary HP. Damage must reduce these
before affecting the character’s normal HP, but they cannot be
healed.
You must ask for something immediate, not long-term, and if you
already have all six debilities you cannot heal them.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Devoted Healer
When you heal someone else of damage, add your level to the
amount of damage healed.

Divine Protection
When you wear no armour or shield, you get 2 armour.

First Aid
Requires: Cast a Spell
Cure Light Wounds is a rote for you, and therefore doesn’t count
against your limit of granted spells.

Penitent
When you take damage and embrace the pain, you may take
+1d4 damage (ignores armour). If you do, take +1 forward.

Stigmata
When you display your bleeding, take 1d4 damage (ignores
armour) and choose one person who can see. They heal 2d8
damage. Your wounds leave bloody stains that do not come out
until the damage caused by their infliction is repaired.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Caretaker’s Insight
When you discern realities, if you study someone who is afflicted,
injured, or in pain, you may ask questions from this list instead:
• What do you hope for the future?
• What do you intend to do now?
• What do you want from me?
• What makes you feel beautiful or loved?
• What’s wrong with you and how could I help you?
When you heal someone, also ask one of these questions.

Divine Armour
Replaces: Divine Protection
When you wear no armour or shield, you get 3 armour.

Greater First Aid

Requires: First Aid
Cure Moderate Wounds is a rote for you, and therefore doesn’t
count against your limit of granted spells.

Greater Stigmata
Replaces: Stigmata
When you display your bleeding, take 1d4 damage (ignores
armour) and choose one person who can see. They heal
2d8 damage, and all your other allies who can see you heal 1d8
damage each. Your wounds leave bloody stains that do not come
out until the damage caused by their infliction is repaired.

Martyr
Replaces: Penitent
When you take damage and embrace the pain, you may take
+1d4 damage (ignoring armour). If you do, take +1 forward and
add your level to any damage done or healed by your next action.

Sacrificial Bounty
Requires: Sacrifice
When you use sacrifice, choose two options, instead of one.

Sacred Lamb Alignment

You may choose one of these instead of a disciple alignment:

Chaotic
Help someone take impulsive, even reckless action.

Good
Endanger yourself to heal another.

Sacred Lamb Bonds

• __________ has hurt me before, but I forgave them.

• __________ is not worth suffering for, not yet.
• I respect the beliefs of __________ but hope they will
someday see the true way.
• I would die for __________.
Sacred Lamb Gear

You get bandages (3 uses, slow) and a backpack or shoulderbag,

which is empty, in addition to whatever your other specialties give
you.

Sacred Lamb Races

You may choose one of these instead of a disciple race option:

Dwarf
When you are wounded or suffer a debility, you may choose to take
an additional 1d4 damage (ignores armour) and +1 forward.

Elf
You are always graceful, even in suffering. When you take the
debility shaky, also take +1 forward. While you have the shaky
debility, you suffer a -1 penalty to another stat of your choice, but
never to DEX.

Halfling
When you are wounded and bleeding, you get +DEX armour.

Human
You can have two debilities affecting your WIS score. Each gives
you a -1 penalty, and having both gives you a -2 penalty. This brings
your maximum number of debilities up to seven.

Venerator

You worship the ancestors, venerate them, and for your dutiful
attention, they reward you.

Compendium Class

Once you have paid homage to your ancestors of at least seven

generations back, either by building shrines to them or praying for
them at three sacred sites, you may consider the venerator specialty
an available compendium class. The next time you level up, you
may add this specialty to your character instead of choosing a move
from your class.

Starting Moves

You start with these two moves:

Prayers to the Dead

You are able to converse with spirits of the dead as if they were
living. They can sense this, and will be more inclined to appear
before you.

Words from Beyond

When you venerate your ancestors and ask for advice, roll+WIS.
On a hit, a spirit gives you advice about your situation, but on a 7-9,
it comes with strings attached. They want something from you as
well—a favour, a sacrifice, or just an ear that will listen, perhaps.
The GM will tell you what. If you act on the advice the spirit gives
you, take +1 forward.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Ancestor Song
When you perform an ancestor veneration ceremony for a
community, roll+WIS. On a 10+, they are impressed and feel the
need to reciprocate. On a 7-9, they are merely impressed and treat
you with respect. Not everyone in the community may feel this way,
but the majority do.

Medium
When you allow a spirit to inhabit your body, roll+WIS. On a 10+,
it may use your body to converse with the living until you banish
it or move to a new location. On a 7-9, it may use your body only
as long as you are unconscious—choose how much time you will
allow it beforehand.

Spirits of Knowledge
Requires: Prayers to the Dead
When you arrive at a new settlement, the spirits of the dead will tell
you a fact from the history of that location or something that has
changed since you were there last.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Curse of Ghosts
When you pronounce a curse upon someone, name one condition
that will lift the curse and roll+WIS. On a 10+, ghosts will haunt
this person until they fulfill the condition or until one week after
you curse another person. On a 7-9, ghosts will pursue them for a
few weeks, until they fulfil the condition, or until you curse another
person. On a miss, the ghosts rebel against you, and it is you who
suffers a curse.

Grave Digger
When you first encounter a ghost, you may ask its player one of the
following questions:
• How could I put this ghost to rest?
• What caused this ghost’s death?
• Where is this ghost’s grave?
• Whom does this ghost haunt?
Add all of these questions to the discern realities list when you
closely study a ghost.

Spirit of Warning
Requires: Spirits of Knowledge
When you consult the spirits of those who died at your location,
roll+CHA. On a 10+, a spirit will guide you past danger, keep you
from becoming lost, or show you something hidden. On a 7-9, a
spirit will show you a danger, but no more than that.

Venerator Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a disciple alignment:

Evil
Take revenge on someone who acted against your ancestors.

Good
Use the advice of your ancestors to bring useful knowledge to
someone else.

Venerator Bonds

• __________ also respects the ancestors, so I will respect

them.
• __________ helped my complete an important task.
• __________’s misguided behaviour endangers their very
soul!

Venerator Gear

You have an item that connects you to your ancestors. Describe it.

Venerator Races
You may choose one of these instead of a disciple race option:

Elf
You have many ancestors and their lives stretch back for many ages.
When you ask them for advice, they will also tell you something
about your location and its past. You take +1 forward when acting
on this information, too.

Human
When acting on the advice a spirit gives you, you may ignore the
presence of all other spirits of the dead. They may not appear before
you are speak to you while you ignore them.

Holy Spells

Some disciple specialties grant you the ability to prepare and cast
spells. If you choose the embodiment specialty, you may cast spells
related to one of your three spheres of influence, as determined by
your devotion move. If you choose the miracle worker specialty,
you may cast spells related to all three of your spheres of influence.

There are eleven spheres of influence:

• Animals
• Battle
• Death
• The Earth
• Healing
• Judgment
• Plants
• Protection
• Revelation
• The Sky
• Wisdom

Each sphere includes a list of eight or more spells. If you have

command over a sphere of influence, you may prepare any of the
spells included in it whose level is equal to, or exceeded by, your
own level, plus the rotes, which you always prepare when you
prepare spells.

Animals

In the great chain of being, the gods set the four mortal races upon
the earth to rule it and to worship the heavens. As long as mortals
maintain their fealty to the gods, they shall have dominion over all
else that is of the earth, over both the rocks and trees, and so too
the beasts that crawl and the birds that fly.

Rote

Find the Beast ROTE ONGOING You

can sense the presence of a type of animal you name, or a particular
animal you have met before. You know what direction to look in,
and vaguely how far away they are.

First Level

Charm Animal LEVEL 1

One animal in your presence regards you as a friend and will
perform a single favour for you, such as tracking someone’s passage,
showing you something hidden, or allowing you to pass by safely.

Repel Creature LEVEL 1 ONGOING Name a

type of beast or animal (but not a person or a monster). While this
spell is ongoing, creatures of that type cannot approach or attack
you, and you take -1 to cast a spell.

Third Level

Animal Summons LEVEL 3

Name a species or type of animal. One specimen of that type is
summoned to your presence. It must make its way to you of its own
power, but unless its kind are all extinct, one will come.

The Speech of Beasts LEVEL 3 ONGOING This spell

allows you to communicate with one type of animal, which you
choose when it is cast. You may use basic moves like parley and
discern realities while doing so. While this spell is ongoing, you
take -1 to cast a spell.

Fifth Level

Conjure Beast LEVEL 5 ONGOING

An animal appears and aids you as best it can. Treat it as your
character, but with access to only the basic moves (though it can’t
speak to people). It has a +1 modifier for all stats, 1 HP, and uses
your damage dice. The animal also gets your choice of 1d6 of these
traits:
• It does 1d8 damage.
• It has +2 instead of +1 for one stat.
• It has some useful adaptation.
• It’s clever.
• It’s tough: +2 HP for each level you have.
The GM will tell you they type of animal you conjure based on the
traits you select. The animal remains until it dies or you dismiss it.
While this spell is ongoing, you take -1 to cast a spell.

Spirits of the Wild LEVEL 5 ONGOING You call

upon the power of an animal spirit to aid you. Name the animal.
While this spell is ongoing, you gain the use of one of that animal’s
abilities and take -1 to cast a spell. Unless this spell is revoked, you
may use it to call upon another animal spirit.

Seventh Level

Summon Swarm LEVEL 7 ONGOING Name a

location you can see. An immense swarm of small animals (your
choice what kind) descends upon this location immediately. While
this spell is ongoing, these animals do not cease to infest this
location, and you take -1 to cast a spell.

Ninth Level

Altered Beast LEVEL 9

You permanently alter the form of an animal you touch. You can
give it the traits of another animal you are touching, grant the
animal traits that describe you, or remove unwanted traits. The only
limit is that you cannot give an animal the intelligence of a person.

Battle

We are as pawns upon a chess board, fighting on the gaming board

that is our world, for the victory of those heavenly forces we pray
to, lest the darkness of evil devour us.

Rote

The Wisdom of War ROTE

When cast during a battle, or on the spot of a historical battle, the
GM will tell you something interesting and useful about that battle,
as if you were spouting lore and you rolled a 10+.

First Level

Bless LEVEL 1 ONGOING

Your deity smiles upon a combatant of your choice. They take
+1 ongoing so long as battle continues and they stand and fight.
While this spell is ongoing you take -1 to cast a spell.

Magic Weapon LEVEL 1 ONGOING The

weapon you hold while casting does +1d4 damage until you dismiss
this spell. While this spell is ongoing you take -1 to cast a spell.

Third Level

Fireball LEVEL 3
You evoke a mighty ball of flame that envelops your target and
everyone nearby, inflicting 2d6 damage which ignores armour.

Immunity LEVEL 3 ONGOING Name one specific source

of harm, such as burning, cutting, lightning, or poisonous gas, for
example. While this spell is ongoing, you are immune to harm from
that source, and you take

-1 to cast a spell. You may still be subject to secondary effects—fire

that does not burn you produces smoke that can still choke you,
and drowning is still uncomfortable, to say the least.

Fifth Level

Summon Monster LEVEL 5 ONGOING A

monster appears and aids you as best it can. Treat it as your
character, but with access to only the basic moves. It has
+1 modifier for all stats, 1 HP, and uses your damage dice. The
monster also gets your choice of 1d6 of these traits:
• It does 1d8 damage.
• It has +2 instead of +1 to one stat.
• It has some useful adaptation.
• It’s not reckless.
• Its bond to your plane is strong: +2 HP for each level you
have. The GM will tell you the type of monster you get based on the
traits you select. The creature remains on this plane until it dies or
you dismiss it. While the spell is ongoing you take -1 to cast a spell.

Seventh Level

Sever LEVEL 7 ONGOING

Choose an appendage on the target such as an arm, tentacle, or
wing. The appendage is magically severed from their body, causing
no damage but considerable pain. Missing an appendage may, for
example, keep a winged creature from flying, or a bull from goring
you on its horns. While this spell is ongoing you take -1 to cast a
spell.

Ninth Level

Rain of Fire LEVEL 9

You call down fire from the sky. Choose a specific area: everyone in
that area takes 2d8 damage, which ignore armour.

Death

She is not the first of all foes faced by the living, but she is the
strongest and the easiest to fear. Such power demands reverence—
for understanding comes only with the proper humility.

Rote

Corpse Whispers ROTE

Cast this spell when you touch a corpse. You experience that
person’s last moments of life through one of their senses—you see
what they saw or hear what they heard, for example.

First Level

Ghost Sight LEVEL 1 ONGOING By

peering into the shadowlands, you are able to see or sense the
presence of any ghost, restless spirit, or other undead. While this
spell is ongoing, you take -1 to cast a spell.

Mask of Death LEVEL 1 ONGOING You

can assume the visage of death, and use it to attract insects, pass as
a corpse, or to become invisible to the undead. While this spell is
ongoing, you take -1 to cast a spell.

Speak With Dead LEVEL 1

A corpse converses with you briefly. It will answer any three
questions you pose to it to the best of the knowledge it had in life
and the knowledge it gained in death.

Third Level

Animate Dead LEVEL 3 ONGOING You

invoke a hungry spirit to possess a recently-dead body and serve
you. This creates a zombie that follows your orders to the best of its
limited abilities. Treat the zombie as a character, but with access to
only the basic moves. It has a +1 modifier for all stats and 1 HP. The
zombie also gets your choice of 1d4 of these traits:
• It does not appear obviously dead, at least for a day or two.
• It has a functioning brain and can complete complex tasks.
• It’s durable. It has +2 HP for each level you have.
• It’s talented. Give one stat a +2 modifier.
The zombie lasts until it is destroyed by taking damage in excess of
its HP, or until you end the spell. While this spell is ongoing you
take -1 to cast a spell.

Resurrection LEVEL 3
Tell the GM you would like to resurrect a corpse whose soul has not
yet fully departed this world. Resurrection is always possible, but
the GM will give you one or more (possibly all) of these conditions
to fulfill:
• It will require a lot of money.
• It’s going to take days/weeks/months.
• You must get help from __________.
• You must sacrifice __________ to do it.
The GM may, depending on the circumstances, allow you to
resurrect the corpse now, with the understanding that the
conditions must be met before it’s permanent, or require you to
meet the conditions before the corpse is resurrected.

Fifth Level

Trap Soul LEVEL 5

You trap the soul of a dying creature within a gem. The trapped
creature is aware of its imprisonment but can still be manipulated
through spells, parley, and other effects. All moves against the
trapped creature are at +1. You can free the soul at any time but it
can never be recaptured once freed.

Seventh Level

Mark of Death LEVEL 7

Choose a creature whose true name you know. This spell creates
permanent runes on a target surface that will kill that creature,
should they read them.

Ninth Level

Consume Unlife LEVEL 9

The mindless undead creature you touch is destroyed and you steal
its death energy to heal yourself or the next ally you touch. The
amount of damage healed is equal to the HP that the creature had
remaining before you destroyed it.

The Earth

The oldest faith is the covenant mortals have with the earth, and the
chthonic goddesses that dwell there, giving life to the living until
the living are done with it.

Rote

Pass Without Trace ROTE ONGOING You or

an ally you touch may pass over natural terrain without leaving
footprints, a scent, or any other trail.

First Level

The Fog LEVEL 1 ONGOING

Name a location you can see. It is completely blanketed in thick
fog that prevents anyone from seeing further than a foot in front
of them. While this spell is ongoing, the fog will not dissipate and
cannot be blown away by wind, and you take -1 to cast a spell.

Stonespeak LEVEL 1
With a touch you speak to the spirits within the earth. A piece of
stone you touch answers one question you pose, as best it can.

Third Level

Find the Way LEVEL 5

The earth shows you or an ally you touch the quickest and
shortest path, either to a desired destination, or out of the present
location. If used during a perilous journey, this counts as being the
trailblazer and rolling a 10+.

Fifth Level

Cold Snap LEVEL 5

With a snap of your fingers, the temperature in a location you can
see plummets below freezing. Crops die, animals flee, and people
who aren’t protected may suffer frostbite if they remain in the cold.
The temperature and weather does not return to normal for the
remainder of the day, unless you wish it to.

Seventh Level

Part the Seas LEVEL 7 ONGOING You

cause a body of water to part before you, revealing a pathway across
its floor. It can be wide enough for you and twice your level in
companions to walk abreast, if you like. While this spell is ongoing,
you take -1 to cast a spell.

Servant of the Earth LEVEL 7 ONGOING You

summon an elemental being from the earth itself. It is made of one
type of chthonic substance (dust, plants, soil, stone, wood, etc).
The GM will give the elemental one or two special abilities based
on its composition. Treat it as your character, but with access to
only the basic moves. It has +1 modifier for all stats, 6 HP, and uses
your damage dice. The elemental also gets your choice of two of the
following traits:
• It deals +1d6 damage.
• It has +2 for two stats instead of +1.
• It has 16 HP instead of 6.
• It has protection worth 3 armour.
The elemental remains until it is destroyed or you dismiss it. While
this spell is ongoing, you take -1 to cast a spell.

Ninth Level

Commune with Nature LEVEL 9

You attune yourself to a location and the earth answers you. Spirits
of this location will answer any three questions you pose to them.
Anything the land can know, it will tell you.

Earthquake LEVEL 9 ONGOING A location you can see

begins to shake violently. The earth heaves and shudders, tearing
itself asunder for miles around. While this spell is ongoing, you
take -1 to cast a spell.
Healing

Why do we put up with these clerics, with their lectures and their
superior attitudes? Because their hands close up wounds and
restore health out of a state of abject ruination. Perhaps they really
are superior after all.

Rote

Sanctify ROTE
Food or water you hold in your hands while you cast this spell is
consecrated by your deity. In addition to now being holy or unholy,
the affected substance is purified of any mundane spoilage.

First Level

Cure Light Wounds LEVEL 1

At your touch wounds scab and bones cease to ache. Heal an ally
you touch of 1d8 damage.

Invigorate LEVEL 1
One ally you touch is cured of fainting, lethargy, paralysis, or
unconsciousness, and are instantly able to move again.

Third Level

Analgesia LEVEL 3 ONGOING You touch an ally for

a second and they are cured of all fear, nausea, and pain, be it
mundane or magical. While this spell is ongoing, you take -1 to cast
a spell.

Cure Moderate Wounds LEVEL 3

You staunch bleeding and set bones through magic. Heal an ally
you touch of 2d8 damage.

Fifth Level

Cure Critical Wounds LEVEL 5

Heal an ally you touch of 3d8 damage.

Reverse Poison LEVEL 5

With a touch, you cure an ally of any ill effects caused by a
poisonous substance, short of death itself. Damage caused by the
poison itself is healed, but damage caused by other sources that was
enhanced by the poison remains.

Seventh Level

Heal LEVEL 7
Touch an ally and you may heal them of damage by a number of
points equal to your own maximum HP.

Ninth Level

Repair LEVEL 9
Choose one event in the target’s past. All effects of that event,
including damage, poison, disease, and magical effects, are ended
and repaired. HP and diseases are healed, poisons are neutralized,
magical effects are ended.

Judgment

Perhaps the most important responsibility, the heaviest duty, that

the gods bear upon their shoulders is that of judgment.

Rote
Contract ROTE
When you sign a contract you have cast this spell upon, you are
mystically notified if the other party breaks it.

First Level

Casting Stones LEVEL 1 ONGOING

As long as you concentrate on judgment, any stone you pick up
becomes a powerful weapon (thrown, near, 1 piercing). While this
spell is ongoing you take -1 to cast a spell.

Cause Fear LEVEL 1 ONGOING Choose

a target you can see and a nearby object. The target is afraid of the
object so long as you maintain the spell. Their reaction is up to
them: flee, panic, beg, fight. While this spell is ongoing you take
-1 to cast a spell. You cannot target entities with less than animal
intelligence (magical constructs, undead, automatons, and the like).

Third Level

Dispel Magic LEVEL 3

Choose a spell or magic effect in your presence: this spell rips it
apart. Lesser spells are ended, powerful magic is just reduced or
dampened so long as you are nearby.

Hold Person LEVEL 3 ONGOING Choose a

person you can see. Until you cast a spell or leave their presence
they cannot act except to speak. This effect ends immediately if the
target takes damage from any source.

Fifth Level

Contagion LEVEL 5 ONGOING Choose a creature you can

see. Until you end this spell, the target suffers from a disease of
your choice. While this spell is ongoing you take -1 to cast a spell.

Seventh Level
Harm LEVEL 7
Touch an enemy and strike them with divine wrath—deal 2d8
damage to them and 1d6 damage to yourself. This damage ignores
armour.

Ninth Level

False World LEVEL 9 ONGOING With

a touch, you can put someone’s body into an enchanted sleep and
their mind into a false world that they believe is real. Until the
spell is ended, they continue to live on in a world entirely of your
creation, never knowing it is a lie and that their body lies sleeping
somewhere else.

Plague LEVEL 9 ONGOING

Name a city, town, encampment, or other place where people live.
As long as this spell is active that place is beset by a plague
appropriate to your deity’s domains (locusts, death of the first born,
etc). While this spell is ongoing you take -1 to cast a spell.

Plants

What heavenly power could be more vital to civilization than that

behind the world of plants? Without them, mortal life is doomed.

Rote

Grass Eater ROTE

This spell allows you to eat any vegetable matter, even poisonous
vegetation, and derive nutrition from it. You may eat as many
rations as you like, as long as there are enough plants available.

First Level

Entangle LEVEL 1
You cause your target to become entangled in any nearby
vegetation, which moves to accomplish this goal. These plants are
not strengthened by this spell, and the target can break free as if
they had become entangled normally.

Wood Bender LEVEL 1

A piece of wood, either alive or dead, or a structure made of wood,
warps at your touch into a new shape of your choosing.

Third Level

Plant Whispers LEVEL 3

You speak with the spirits of the green world. One living plant you
touch will answer three questions you pose, as best it can.

Fifth Level

Summon Nature Elemental LEVEL 5 ONGOING An

elemental creature made of plant matter appears and aids you as
best it can. Treat the elemental as a character, but with access to
only the basic moves. It has a +1 modifier for all stats, 1 HP, and
uses your damage die. The elemental also gets your choice of 1d6 of
these traits:
• It does 1d8 damage.
• It has a functioning mind and can complete complex tasks.
• It has some useful adaptation.
• It’s durable. It has +2 HP for each level you have.
• It’s talented. Give one stat a +2 modifier.
The elemental exists on this plane until it is destroyed by taking
damage in excess of its HP, or until you end the spell. While this
spell is ongoing, you take -1 to cast a spell.

Seventh Level

Wall of Thorns LEVEL 7

You call up thorny vines and brambles from the earth. They can
loosely cover any location within sight, or form a thick wall in the
middle of it. These plants are hard to get rid of, resistant to fire, and
their thorns cause deep gashes.

Ninth Level

Cornucopia LEVEL 9
With a word, the entire region you are in bursts into harvest. In
a matter of moments, plants grow until they are ripe and farms
produce their full crop. This spell only affects plants and seeds that
are present—it does not cause seeds to be sown.

Protection

If the work of the gods is to be done here, on this plane, their

servants must survive to do it.

Rote

Endure ROTE ONGOING

As long as this spell is ongoing, you or an ally you touch can endure
extremes of heat or cold that would normally cause harm, like
walking across burning sands or swimming through arctic waters.

First Level

Sanctuary LEVEL 1
As you cast this spell, you walk the perimeter of an area,
consecrating it to your deity. As long as you stay within that area
you are alerted whenever someone acts with malice within the
sanctuary (including entering with harmful intent). Anyone who
receives healing within a sanctuary heals +1d4 HP.

Ward of Protection LEVEL 1

By drawing a simple glyph on one of your possessions, you will
always know if and when it is taken from you, and generally where
it is located if that should happen. You may only have one Ward
active at a time.
Third Level

Immunity LEVEL 3 ONGOING Name one specific source

of harm, such as burning, cutting, lightning, or poisonous gas, for
example. While this spell is ongoing, you are immune to harm from
that source, and you take
-1 to cast a spell. You may still be subject to secondary effects—fire
that does not burn you produces smoke that can still choke you,
and drowning is still uncomfortable, to say the least.

Silence LEVEL 3 ONGOING Name a location you can see.

While this spell is ongoing, no sound can be made in that place,
and you take -1 to cast a spell (assuming the silence does not
prevent spellcasting outright).

Fifth Level

Circle of Protection LEVEL 5 ONGOING Draw a

circle upon the ground around you or someone else. Until that
person leaves the confines of the circle, no extraplanar entity can
cross it or extend their influence beyond it. While this spell is
ongoing, take -1 to cast a spell.

Seventh Level

Word of Recall LEVEL 7

Choose a word. The first time after casting this spell that you speak
the chosen word, you and any allies touching you when you cast
the spell are immediately returned to the exact spot where you cast
the spell. You can only maintain a single location; casting Word of
Recall again before speaking the word replaces the earlier spell.

Ninth Level

Divine Presence LEVEL 9 ONGOING Every

creature must ask your leave to enter your presence, and you must
give permission aloud for them to enter. Any creature without your
leave takes an extra 1d10 damage whenever they take damage in
your presence. While this spell is ongoing you take -1 to cast a spell.

Revelation

The divine power can push back even the darkest curtains of
ignorance, and show the devoted the truth of things.

Rote

Light ROTE
An item you touch glows with divine light, about as bright as a
torch. It gives off no heat or sound and requires no fuel but is
otherwise like a mundane torch. You have complete control of the
colour of the flame. The spell lasts as long as it is in your presence.

First Level

Detect Magic LEVEL 1

One of your senses is briefly attuned to magic. The GM will tell you
what here is magical.

Faerie Fire LEVEL 1 ONGOING One

target you can see is outlined in pale, glowing light that produces
no heat but makes the target highly visible, especially in darkness.
While this spell is ongoing, the target also leaves a faint trail of
fading light and you take -1 to cast a spell.

Third Level

Locate Object LEVEL 3 ONGOING Name a

specific object or a type of object. While you concentrate, this spell
will indicate which direction it is in, and where it is exactly if it is
within a short walking distance. If you name a type of object, the
spell points you toward the nearest one. While this spell is ongoing,
take -1 to cast a spell.
Fifth Level

Divination LEVEL 5
Name a person, place, or thing you want to learn about. Your
devotion grants you visions of the target, as clear as if you were
there.

Revelation LEVEL 5
Your devotion is answered with a moment of perfect
understanding. The GM will shed light on the current situation.
When acting on the information, you take +1 forward.

Seventh Level

Prophecy LEVEL 7
Name someone who poses a threat to you. The GM will reveal
one aspect of a danger they are involved with. It could be a grim
portent, the impending doom, someone else connected to that
danger, a custom move or some other detail that gives you insight
into how to stop it from achieving its goal.

Ninth Level

Alert LEVEL 9
Describe an event. The GM will tell you when that event occurs, no
matter where you are or how far away the event is. If you choose,
you can view the location of the event as though you were there in
person. You can only have one Alert active at a time.

The Sky

The mightiest of all the gods, the conquerors of heaven, who lay
waste to their enemies upon the earth, are the gods of the sky.

Rote
Gust of Wind ROTE
You summon a gust of wind to blow in the direction of your
choosing, scattering light objects before it.

First Level

Perfume LEVEL 1
Name a location you can see. The aroma of your choice, pleasant
or putrid, descends from the air above and saturates the area. This
smell can be dispersed as all scents can, once the spell has been cast.

Skysight LEVEL 1
For a moment, you see things from the sky’s perspective, looking
down at yourself and your surroundings with the eyes of an eagle.

Sunbeam LEVEL 1
An object you hold glows or projects a warm yellow light that
functions as sunlight does—illuminating the darkness, nourishing
plants, and burning vampires. While this spell is ongoing, you take
-1 to cast a spell.

Third Level

Lightning LEVEL 3
A bolt of lightning strikes down from the sky, the clouds, or from
out of your own body, striking the target and everyone nearby,
inflicting 2d6 damage which ignores armour.

Fifth Level

Fly LEVEL 5 ONGOING

You take to the air, soaring on a gust of wind or floating on a puffy
cloud. While this spell is ongoing, you take -1 to cast a spell.
Starlight LEVEL 5
You commune with the stars above and name a location. Whether
you can see them or not, the stars tell you where you are now and
which way you need to go to get to the stated location.

Seventh Level

Control Weather LEVEL 7

Pray for rain—or sun, wind, or snow. Within a day or so, the sky
will answer. The weather will change according to your will and last
a handful of days.

Rainbow Bridge LEVEL 9

Name a location, describing it with a number of words up to your
level. A bridge made of rainbows bursts forth from the ground in
front of you—walking across it leads you and any allies present to
the location you described. The bridge may only be used once by
each person.

Ninth Level

Storm of Vengeance LEVEL 9

The sky brings the unnatural weather of your choice to pass. Rain of
blood or acid, clouds of souls, wind that can carry away buildings,
or any other weather you can imagine: ask and it shall come.

Wisdom

Without the wisdom to know Truth from Folly, one cannot choose
the right path over the others.

Rote

Guidance ROTE
The symbol of your deity appears before you and gestures towards
the direction or course of action your deity would have you
take then disappears. The message is through gesture only; your
communication through this spell is severely limited.

First Level

Detect Alignment LEVEL 1

When you cast this spell choose an alignment: Good, Evil, Lawful,
or Chaotic. One of your senses is briefly able to detect that
alignment. The GM will tell you what here is of that alignment.

Mending LEVEL 1
Your devotion allows you to fix some mundane object, without
needing tools or expertise.

Planning LEVEL 1 ONGOING Cast this spell when you

devise a plan to better your understanding of the situation. When
you carry out that plan, take +1 forward. You can only have a
heightened understanding of one plan at a time.

Third Level

Inquiry LEVEL 3
Cast this spell on a person you can see and ask one question about
them from the list below:
• What does this person intend to do?
• What does this person need or desire?
• What is false about this person?
• Who does this person associate with? Take +1 forward
when you act on the answer.

Local Customs LEVEL 3 ONGOING The

customs of the people you observe are revealed to you. While
this spell is ongoing, you take -1 to cast a spell and you are able to
determine and mimic local customs, wherever you are. You can tell
if someone’s behaviour is routine or unexpected by observers, and
you can predict what kind of behaviour is expected of you, but you
do not gain any additional language skills.

Fifth Level

True Seeing LEVEL 5 ONGOING Your

vision is opened to the true nature of everything you lay your eyes
on. You pierce illusions and see things that have been hidden. The
GM will describe the area before you ignoring any illusions and
falsehoods, magical or otherwise. While this spell is ongoing you
take -1 to cast a spell.

Words of the Unspeaking LEVEL 5

With a touch you speak to the spirits within things. The non-living
object you touch answers three questions you pose, as best it can.

Seventh Level

True Discernment LEVEL 7

When you cast this spell on the evidence left by some creature or
event, or something removed from a faraway location, you may
study that creature, event, or location as if you had discerned
realities and rolled 10+.

Ninth Level

Questing LEVEL 9
Describe an objective, however complicated. The GM will tell you
what it would take to accomplish normally. You can choose one
of those requirements, and the GM will tell you an easier—and
possible—way to achieve it.

Magicians
The Colour of Magic

Magicians handle sources of power that no one else would dream of

getting mixed up with.

Stats

The specialties you choose may modify these scores: Your base
damage is d4.
Your load is 6+STR.
Your maximum HP is 6+Constitution.

Starting Moves

Choose two magician specialties and one of the following:

• A level 2-5 move from either magician specialty.
• A specialty from another archetype.
• A third magician specialty.

You get all the starting moves from each specialty. Make a note of
any stat modifiers from your specialties. Each time you level up,
choose one advanced move from those offered by your specialties.

Advanced Moves

Each time you level up, choose an advanced move from one of your
specialties. Or choose one of the following options:
• At any level, instead of a move from one of your specialties,
you may choose a move from one of the other magician specialties.
You may do this twice only.
• Once between levels 2-5, instead of a move from one of
your
specialties, you may choose a move from any other archetype.
• Once between levels 6-10, instead of a move from one of
your specialties, you may choose a move from any other archetype.
Magician Alignments

Choose one of these alignments, or one from those offered by your

specialties:

Chaotic
Add more magic to the civilized world.

Evil
Use magic to cause terror and fear.

Good
Use magic to directly aid another.

Neutral
Discover something about a magical mystery.

Magician Bonds

As a magician, you may have up to three bonds at a time. Choose

from the following, and from those offered by your specialties:
• __________ does not trust me, and for good reason.
• __________ has supplied me with forbidden tomes.
• __________ seems suitably impressed by my powers and I
just can’t help showing off in front of them.
• __________ will play an important role in the events to
come. I have foreseen it!
• I have used my magic on behalf of __________ before.
• This is not my first adventure with __________.

218 Magicians
Magician Gear

You start with your clothes, a backpack or shoulder bag, dungeon

rations (5 uses, 1 weight), and choose one:
○ Adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight).
○ Bag of books (5 uses, 2 weight).
○ Dagger (hand, 1 weight).
○ Staff (close, two-handed, 1 weight).
○ Three healing potions.

Magician Races

Choose a race and gain the corresponding move:

Dwarf
Your race is hardy, even in the face of sorcery. When you are the
target of a magical effect or spell, you get +1 armour forward or
+1 armour ongoing until the spell wears off if the effect is ongoing.

Elf
Magic is as natural as breath to you. When you discern realities,
on a hit, the GM will also tell you if anything you are studying is
magical.

Halfling
You sing the healing songs of spring and brook. When you make
camp, you and your allies heal +1d6.

Human
Battle magic is like food and drink to you. When you cause harm
with magic, deal +2 damage.

Arcane Ritualist

Not all magic is flashy, not all magic is rolled off the cuffs of
fluttering mage-hands in the heat of the moment. Indeed, the
greatest of all magic takes time, sustained effort, and deep
concentration. When you have time to change your mind and don’t,
you know the result is worth the toil.

Compendium Class

Once you have successfully completed a complex, week-long

magical ritual, you may consider the arcane ritualist specialty an
available compendium class. The next time you level up, you may
add this specialty to your character instead of choosing a move
from your class.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Ritual
When you draw on a place of power to create a magical effect, tell
the GM what you’re trying to achieve. Ritual effects are always
possible, but the GM will give you one to four of the following
conditions:
• First you must __________.
• It will require a lot of money.
• It will take days/weeks/months.
• The best you can do is a lesser version, unreliable and
limited.
• You and your allies will risk danger from ________.
• You’ll have to disenchant ________ to do it.
• You’ll need help from ________.
Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Arcane Library
When you spout lore about magical writings, on a 10+, the GM will
also ask you a question. Whatever you answer, it is the truth.

Logical
When you use strict deduction or logic to analyze your
surroundings, you can discern realities with INT instead of WIS.

Scrying Pool
When you perform a ritual to investigate the doings of someone,
and you have a piece of their body or an item that is important to
them, roll+INT. On a 10+, ask the GM two questions from the list.
On a 7-9, ask one. On a miss, they get to ask two questions about
you:
• How could I get to them, physically or emotionally?
• What are they really up to?
• What is their weakness?
• Who are their allies?
• Who are their enemies?

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Astral Scryer
Requires: Scrying Pool
When you use your scrying pool, you can ask an extra question,
even on a miss.
Ethereal Tether
When you have time with a willing or helpless subject, you can
craft an ethereal tether with them. You perceive what they perceive
and can discern realities about someone tethered to you or their
surroundings no matter the distance. Someone willingly tethered to
you can communicate with you over the tether as if you were in the
room with them.

Highly Logical
Replaces: Logical
When you use strict deduction to analyze your surroundings, you
can discern realities with INT instead of WIS. On a 12+, you get to
ask the GM any three questions, not limited by the list.

Self-Powered
Requires: Ritual
When you have time, arcane materials, and a safe space, you can
create your own place of power. Describe to the GM what kind of
power it is and how you’re binding it to this place, the GM will tell
you one kind of creature that will have an interest in your workings.

Arcane Ritualist Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a magician alignment:

Lawful
Exploit the letter of the law (or an agreement) for your own benefit.

Neutral
Make an ally of someone powerful.

Arcane Ritualist Bonds

• __________ and I shared a mystical vision, after

performing a ritual together.
• I need __________’s help to perform a particularly
important ritual.
• I went to school with __________.

Arcane Ritualist Gear

Choose one:
○ Bag of books (5 uses, 2 weight).
○ Ritual carpet (2 weight).
○ Ritual dagger (hand, 1 weight).
○ Small mirror.
○ Staff (close, two-handed, 1 weight).
○ Sword (close, 1 weight).
○ Small pet animal.

Arcane Ritualist Races

You may choose one of these instead of a magician race option:

Dwarf
While you are working magic, you have +1 armour.

Elf
You may consider any forested area to be a place of power.

Halfling
You never need a lot of money to successfully perform a ritual.

Human
You may consider any site a place of power after you perform a
human sacrifice on it.
Awakened Mind

It is the noblest endeavour, to find enlightenment even here, in a

world of flame and steel and coin. There are those among us who
walk a secret path, the eye of their mind open in darkness.

Compendium Class

Once you have discovered the latent abilities that lie within your
mind, you may consider the awakened mind specialty an available
compendium class. The next time you level up, you may add this
specialty to your character instead of choosing a move from your
class.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Expanded Consciousness
When you project your mind from your body, choose two to
describe your mind’s form (it’s always insubstantial):
• It is invisible.
• It moves quickly.
• Its senses are not clouded.
Your mental form can roam the physical world for as long as you
like. While it does, your body lies comatose. While in your mental
form you have no access to your body’s senses.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Mindmeld
When you touch a willing or sleeping subject, your senses are tuned
to their thoughts. The GM will give you an impression of what’s
going on inside their head.
Sleep Walk With Me
Requires: Expanded Consciousness
When your mental form passes through the body of a sleeping
person, you may choose to inhabit their body. Your control is
limited as if they were sleepwalking: movement, maybe even simple
conversations at most. The eyes of the body you inhabit never open;
if they do open, you are immediately expelled.

Talisman
Choose an item of importance to you. From now on you can hear
the thoughts of whomever holds that item.

Thoughts Beyond
Requires: Expanded Consciousness
When you project your mind from your body, you can also choose
one of these options:
• You can communicate with the minds of people you are
near.
• You can move small physical objects that have recently been
touched by someone.
• You hear nearby thoughts instead of sounds.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

From Beyond
You can see spirits and other invisible or insubstantial beings
whenever you concentrate. While you can see them, you can also
interact with them as if they were solid.

Sleep Walk Inside Me

Replaces: Sleep Walk With Me
When your mental form passes through the body of a sleeping
person, you may choose to inhabit their body. You can use their
body as if it were your own until they would have awoken had you
not possessed them. At that moment, they awaken and you are
immediately expelled.

Thoughts Beyond Thought

Replaces: Thoughts Beyond
When you project your mind from your body, you can also choose
two of these options:
• You can become visible, if only as a ghostly figure.
• You can communicate with the minds of people you are
near.
• You can move small physical objects that have recently been
touched by someone.
• You hear nearby thoughts instead of sounds.

Awakened Mind Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a magician alignment:

Chaotic
Reveal a hidden truth about someone of importance.

Neutral
Discover a useful secret.

Awakened Mind Bonds

• __________ does not use the full potential of their mind,

and is worse off for it.
• __________ has some strange insight into my powers.
• I watch out for __________ sometimes, when they need it.
Awakened Mind Gear

Choose one:
○ Bag of books (5 uses, 2 weight).
○ Healing potion.
○ Leather armour (1 armour, 1 weight).
○ Personal feast (1 use, 1 weight).

Awakened Mind Races

You may choose one of these instead of a magician race option:

Dwarf
When you project your mind from your body, add this to your list
of options:
• Your physical body turns to stone until your mind returns.

Elf
When someone touches your sleeping or comatose body, you may
immediately return to it and awaken.

Halfling
When you consume a ration right before projecting your mind
from your body, it counts as making camp if you roam the world in
spirit form for more than a few hours.

Human
When you project your mind from your body, you can choose all
three options if you take either 1d8 damage or a debility.

Blue Mage
You live in a world full of magic. Why create your own style when
you can just copy what others do? What really matters is whether it
works or not—and your magic works, all right.

Compendium Class

Once you have absorbed a slain enemy’s essence—by consuming

their body, or shattering a crystal made of air that you have
imprisoned them inside of, for example—you may consider the
blue mage specialty an available compendium class. The next time
you level up, you may add this specialty to your character instead of
choosing a move from your class.

Starting Moves

You get these two moves, though you may replace Cast a Mimicked
Spell with another spellcasting move if you also take a specialty that
gives you one:

Cast a Mimicked Spell

When you cast a spell you have mimicked, roll+INT. On a 10+, the
spell is successfully cast and you may cast it again. On a 7-9, the
spell is successfully cast, but choose one:
• The spell is forgotten. You may not cast it again.
• You cause unintended harm or damage.
Maintaining spells with ongoing effects imposes a -1 penalty to
using this move.

Spell Mimicry
When you see or experience a magical effect and try to copy it,
roll+INT. On a hit, you have memorized it like a spell, but on a 7-9,
you must forget a spell you already have memorized. If you have
no spells to forget, you can memorize this new one only if you also
take a debility. When you forget this spell, you may not memorize
it again. If you memorize an offensive ability, your magic does the
same damage as the original.
Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Beyond Mimicry
Requirements: Spellbook
If you want to write a mimicked spell you successfully memorized
into your spellbook permanently, you can take it as your next spell
when you level up, or you can replace one of the spells you already
have in your spellbook.

Face Like a Mask

Requires: Spell Mimicry
You can mimic the appearance of another person as if it were a
spell, if you touch them.

Monster Mash
Requires: Spell Mimicry
You can mimic non-magical monster moves, as if they were spells.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Better Mimic
Requires: Cast a Mimicked Spell
When you cast a spell you have mimicked, on a 10-11, you may
choose from the 7-9 list in order to double the effects of the spell
or ignore the -1 penalty if it is ongoing. On a 12+, you may choose
either of those options with no consequences.

Face Dancer
Replaces: Face Like a Mask
You can mimic someone’s appearance and mannerisms just like a
spell, if you touch them. While disguised, you sound and move like
them, and only your lack of their memories will give you away.

Perfect Replica
Requires: Monster Mash
You can mimic the non-magical abilities of other people, as if they
were spells.

Blue Mage Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a magician alignment:

Chaotic
Risk your life to get access to a magical spell.

Neutral
Make a profit off of a magical spell you mimicked.

Blue Mage Bonds

• __________ brings trouble with them wherever they go.

• __________ is woefully misinformed about the world. I will
teach them what I can.

Blue Mage Gear

Choose one:
○ Antitoxin.
○ Healing potion.
○ Keg of Dwarven stout (4 weight).
○ Leather armour (1 armour, 1 weight).
○ Shield (+1 armour, 2 weight).
Blue Mage Races

You may choose one of these instead of a magician race option:

Elf
You can mimic the abilities of forest creatures as if they were spells.

Human
If a harmful spell is cast on you and you successfully mimic it, the
damage is halved (round up).

Conjurer

Parlour tricks? Pulling rabbits out of hats? I don’t think so.

Compendium Class

Once you have obtained a magic hat or bag and a magical box,
and performed onstage with them for an appreciative audience,
you may consider the conjurer specialty an available compendium
class. The next time you level up, you may add this specialty to your
character instead of choosing a move from your class.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Conjuration
When you conjure an item, hand-sized and neither unique nor
extremely valuable, roll+INT. On a 10+, it appears in your hand or
on your person somewhere. On a 7-9, it’s not quite what you had
in mind, but vaguely similar. On a miss, what you conjure up is the
opposite of useful.
Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Abjuration
When you banish a creature from another plane of existence,
roll+INT. On a 10+, it may not approach you further and if it lacks
an anchor in this world, it must return to whence it came. On a 7-9,
it may not approach you further unless you allow it to (or you let
your guard down). On a miss, you cannot banish it.

From Beyond the Black Gate

When you summon a monster from beyond this world, say what it’s
for, one thing it is, and one thing it’s not. Then roll+INT, and find
out what comes through. On a 10+, both. On a 7-9, choose one or
the other:
• It fulfills its purpose and leaves.
• It’s perfect for the job.
On a miss, it isn’t what you said it is, but it is what you said it’s not.

The Summoner’s Trick

Choose a summoning spell of your level or lower. If you cast spells,
add it to your spellbook, but prepare and cast it as if it were one
level lower. If you don’t cast spells, you can now cast this one. When
you do, roll+INT. On a hit, it works, but on a 7-9, you also choose
one:
• You can’t cast this spell again until the next dawn or dusk.
• You lose control of the spell’s effects.
• You take a debility of your choice.

Vanishing Act
When you obscure an item from sight for a moment, roll+INT.
On a 10+, it vanishes and reappears in the exact location of your
choosing (but not in the same place as something else). On a 7-9, it
vanishes and reappears in your life at some unpredictable point in
the future.

What’s Mine is Mine

When you give someone an item you’d rather keep, roll+INT. On
a hit, it returns to you in good time but on a 7-9, there are strings
attached. On a miss, it’s gone forever.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Arch-Summoner
Requires: The Summoner’s Trick
Choose another two summoning spells that you can either add to
your spellbook and cast as if they were one level lower or cast as
described in the summoner’s trick.

Conjuratorium
You can dedicate a location to be a special arcane sanctum where
you can summon all manner of things into existence, limited only
by the size of this conjuratorium. In order to summon something,
you need an antecedent that resonates with the summoned thing’s
true nature. Discuss what you can use as a proper antecedent with
the GM. When you use an antecedent to begin the summoning
process, roll+INT. On a 10+, choose two. On a 7-9, choose one:
• It’s a secret.
• Nothing else is summoned.
• The antecedent remains in this world.

Summons
When you summon someone by name with magic, roll+INT. On a
10+, choose two. On a 7-9, they come directly and choose one:
• They arrive at exactly the location you specify.
• They arrive exactly when you specify, no matter the
distance.
• You have some form of defence when they arrive.

Conjurer Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a magician alignment:

Chaotic
Upset the existing social order.

Evil
Bring something evil into the world that other people have to deal
with.

Conjurer Bonds

• __________ knows a secret about my powers that no one

else does.
• I was summoned here by __________.

Conjurer Gear

Choose one or two:

○ Fancy robes.
○ Painted box.
○ Strange hat.
○ Wand.
○ White gloves.

Conjurer Races

You may choose this instead of a magician race option:

Human
You can use DEX for your conjurer moves, instead of INT.

Dominator

What else is magic for, if not to control others?

Compendium Class

Once you have completely broken the will of another person and
made them your slave, you may consider the dominator specialty
an available compendium class. The next time you level up, you
may add this specialty to your character instead of choosing a move
from your class.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Hypnotist
When you make eye contact with someone and exert your will over
them, roll+INT. On a hit, they are paralysed and cannot move, but
on a 7-9, the effect is broken if you move. When you break off eye
contact, they can move again.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Control
When you touch someone and force your will upon them,
roll+INT. On a 10+, hold 2. On a 7-9, hold 1. You can spend your
hold to give them an order. They must obey or suffer 1d6 damage.
You may only have a hold over one person at a time.

Dominating Power
Choose an enchantment spell of your level or lower. If you cast
spells, add it to your spellbook, but prepare and cast it as if it were
one level lower. If you don’t cast spells, you can now cast this one.
When you do, roll+INT. On a hit, it works, but on a 7-9, you also
choose one:
• You can’t cast this spell again until the next dawn or dusk.
• You lose control of the spell’s effects.

Iron Will
When you are subject to mind control or magic that influences
your feelings, you may choose to take 1d4 damage (ignores
armour) and ignore the influence.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Arch-Enchanter
Requires: Dominating Power
Choose another two enchantment spells that you can either add
to your spellbook and cast as if they were one level lower or cast as
described in dominating power.

Jaws Around Your Spine

Replaces: Control
When you touch someone and force your will upon them,
roll+INT. On a 10+, hold 2. On a 7-9, hold 1. You can spend a hold
to give them an order. They must obey or they suffer 1d8 damage.
You may have hold over a number of people equal to your INT, but
no more than that.

Mystical Puppet Strings

When you use magic to control a person’s actions, they have no
memory of what you had them do and bear you no ill will.

Dominator Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a magician alignment:

Chaotic
Expose corruption and abuse of power.

Evil
Use your powers to make people you don’t control fear you.

Dominator Bonds

• __________ has seen my bad side, and they’re still here.

• I am deeply intrigued by __________.
• The world has not been kind to __________, but I will be.

Dominator Gear

You get 30 coins, in addition to whatever your other specialties give

you.

Dominator Races

You may choose one of these instead of a magician race option:

Dwarf
When you use magic to control a person’s actions, take
+1d4 damage forward against them.

Elf
When you use magic to control a person’s actions, you may ask one
question about them, as if you had discerned realities and rolled a
7-9.

Human
When you use magic to control a person’s actions, take
+1 forward to parley with them.

Enchanter

To change the soul with but a small, simple item—all this task
requires is a unique and magical talent. The art of enchantment is
the creation of the catalyst for change, and thus the change itself.

Compendium Class

Once you have discovered how to extract an emotion from

someone, distil it into a physical form, and then transfer it to
someone else, you may consider the enchanter specialty an
available compendium class. The next time you level up, you may
add this specialty to your character instead of choosing a move
from your class.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Wondrous Creations
When you create a magic item or a work of art, tell the GM what
effect you want it to have on people and the GM will tell you how
long you need to work on it and if you need any special materials.
The first time you use or unveil your creation, roll+INT. On a hit,
it has the effect you desired, but on a 7-9, it has an additional effect
chosen by the GM. On a miss, you have created something terrible.
Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Enchanted
Requires: Cast a Spell
When you cast an enchantment spell, take +1.

Enchanter
When you have time and safety with a magic item, you may ask the
GM what it does. The GM will answer you truthfully.

Knack for Enchantments

Choose one enchantment spell of your level or lower. If you cast
spells, add this spell to your spellbook, but prepare and cast it as if
it were one level lower. If you don’t cast spells, when you use this
spell, roll+INT. On a hit, it works, but on a 7-9, choose one:
• You can’t use it again for the rest of the day.
• You take a debility of your choice.

Operator of Magical Mechanisms

When you use a magical item and force it to obey your will,
roll+INT. On a 10+, you control the degree and extent of its effects.
On a 7-9, you direct its effects, but choose one:
• It is broken and cannot be used again until fixed.
• It slips out of your control, creating additional, unwanted
effects.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:
Arch-Enchanter
Requires: Knack for Enchantments
Choose another two enchantment spells that you can either add
to your spellbook and cast as if they were one level lower or cast as
described in knack for enchantments.

Enchanter’s Soul
Requires: Enchanter
When you have time and safety with a magic item in a place of
power, you can empower that item so that its effects are amplified
the next time you use it. The GM will tell you exactly how.

Permanent Wonder
Requires: Wondrous Creations
When you create a magic item or a work of art, ask the GM what
component you need to make its effect permanent and the GM
will tell you. The more powerful the effect, the more dangerous the
component is to obtain and handle, but of you do just that, your
item or work of art will effect people even after its first use.

Transference
As long as you have time and space to work, you may remove
the magical properties of an enchanted item and transfer them
to another item. The recipient item may already possess magical
properties or it may be a mundane item.

Enchanter Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a magician alignment:

Chaotic
Create an item that changes the balance of power.
Evil
Cause chaos and terror by unveiling a magic item.

Good
Make an item that changes someone’s life for the better.

Enchanter Bonds

• __________ once saw me safely through a dangerous

situation.
• Ironically, __________ seems to have enchanted me.

Enchanter Gear

You get one mundane item that you intend (or intended) to
enchant, and whatever your other specialties give you.

Enchanter Races

You may choose one of these instead of a magician race option:

Halfling
When you affect someone with a magic item, take +1 forward to
parley with them.

Human
When you affect someone with a magic item, take +1d4 damage
forward against them.

Flux

That cloak of phasing tickled that rift of chaos just right, and in the
moment before you rematerialized, a slice from off the foundation
of reality was captured within you.

Compendium Class

Once you have touched the mind of a god, while travelling through
dimensions, you may consider the flux specialty an available
compendium class. The next time you level up, you may add this
specialty to your character instead of choosing a move from your
class.

Stats

If you choose the flux specialty, you get +1 load.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Bind
When you call upon the fundamental force within yourself, if you
are touching two objects no heavier than yourself, roll+CON. On a
hit, the objects are attracted to each other like Newton’s apple to the
ground. On a 10+, also choose one option from the list below. On a
7-9, choose one:
• There are no adverse side effects.
• This bond lasts until you choose to break it.
• You are able to weaken the bond without breaking it.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Due North
You always know where you are with respect to the northernmost
point of the world. You never get lost and you can always find your
way back to a place you have been to before.

Faraday’s Law
Requires: Bind
Magnetism pulses from your flesh stirring loose the charge that
lives in all metal. When you stir the charge within a weapon you
hold, it does +1d4 damage ongoing. Until you dismiss this effect
you take -1 to bind.

Subtle Sense
When you discern realities, add this question to the list:
• What nearby is metal?

Velocitas Eradico
You can volley with any object up to 2 weight by repelling it from
yourself. Objects launched this way are far range only. When
volleying this way use CON instead of DEX.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Artillery
Replaces: Velocitas Eradico
You can volley with any object up to 2 weight by repelling it from
yourself. Objects launched this way count as weapons (near, far)
and your base damage with them is a d8 instead of a d4. When
volleying this way use CON instead of DEX.

Binding Field
Requires: Bind
You can bind any two objects you can see, not just those you touch.
Repel
Requires: Bind
When you bind two objects, you can choose to have them repel
each other instead of attracting each other. The force is the same.

Flux Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a magician alignment:

Chaotic
Stymie or frustrate someone else’s plans in an amusing manner.

Evil
Ruin something valuable with your powers.

Neutral
Impress someone important with your wondrous powers.

Flux Bonds

• __________ and I are friendly rivals.

• __________ is a great friend to me, we are bound together
like one.
• __________ needs to respect me and my powers more than
they do right now, for serious.
• I will show __________ that my abilities surpass theirs.

Flux Gear

You have adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight), in addition to

whatever your other specialties give you.

Flux Races
You may choose this instead of a magician race option:

Halfling
You may bind an object to yourself instead of another object,
treating your body as if it were one of the two bound objects.

Human
You can use any object you can pick up as a melee weapon. It has
a range tag appropriate to its size and can do +1 damage if it is
particularly heavy or dangerous.

Golemist

Who needs spells when you can make slaves out of the very
elements themselves?

Compendium Class

Once you have built a humanoid figure out of a single element and
infused it with your own blood and life essence, then anointed
it with five different magical oils, and brought it to life, you may
consider the golemist specialty an available compendium class. The
next time you level up, you may add this specialty to your character
instead of choosing a move from your class.

Starting Moves

You start with these three moves:

Elemental Golem
When you summon an elemental being, choose an element at hand
and roll+CON. On a 10+, you create a golem under your control,
made out of this element, and you hold 3 control over it. On a 7-9,
either you create a golem made out of this element and you have 1
control over it, or you have 2 control over it and choose one:
• The golem is hostile and will resent you later.
• The golem is made out of a different element, the GM will
tell you which.
You can only control one golem at a time. As long as you have
control over your golem, you can use your golem moves and
command it to take simple actions. When you spend all your
control, your golem acts on its own, and has hit points equal to
twice your level.

Golem Attack
When you command your golem to attack, roll+control. On a hit,
it does what you want, but on a 7-9, you also lose 1 control. Your
golem deals 1d8 damage.

Golem Protection
When your golem takes damage, you lose 1 control and the
damage is negated.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Automaton
Requires: Elemental Golem
You can make a golem out of bits and pieces of physical items, not
just base elements.

Banish Golem
Requires: Elemental Golem
When you banish an elemental golem, roll+CON. On a 10+, the
golem is removed from the world. On a 7-9, the golem is removed,
but choose one:
• Take -1 ongoing to your golem moves until you make camp.
• You take 1d6 damage (ignores armour).
Golem Puppet Strings
Requires: Elemental Golem
While you control a golem, you can use it like your own character
to undertake complicated actions other than fighting. You can use
its senses as your own, but use your own stats to make moves.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Elemental Shield
Requires: Elemental Golem
While you control an elemental golem, you are immune to
damage caused by whatever it is made out of.

Osmosis
Replaces: Banish Golem
When you banish an elemental golem, roll+CON. On a 10+, the
golem is removed from the world and you heal 1d6 damage. On a
7-9, the golem is removed, but choose one:
• Take -1 ongoing to your golem moves until you make camp.
• You take 1d6 damage (ignores armour).

Reckless Summoner
Requires: Elemental Golem
When you summon an elemental being, on a 10+, you can choose
an option from the 7-9 list and choose a second element that the
golem is made out of.

Golemist Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a magician alignment:

Evil
Use your golems to extort profit out of someone important.

Neutral
Make a golem do something important for no other reason than so
other people can see you.

Golemist Bonds

• __________ doesn’t sufficiently respect the power of the

elements.
• __________ earned my respect the hard way.
• __________ keeps cramping my style.

Golemist Gear

Choose one:
○ Adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight).
○ Bag full of sand (1 weight).
○ Bandages (3 uses, slow).
○ Five torches and a tinderbox (1 weight).
○ Jug full of water (2 weight).
○ Poultices and herbs (2 uses, 1 weight).

Golemist Races

You may choose one of these instead of a magician race option:

Dwarf
When you summon an elemental golem on a mountain, hold
+1 control over it.

Elf
When you summon an elemental golem in a forest, hold
+1 control over it.
Human
When you control a golem, it deals +1d4 damage.

Illusionist

One day they’ll understand. Image is everything.

Compendium Class

Once you have studied under the tutelage of a master illusionist

and managed to fool them with your magic, you may consider the
illusionist specialty an available compendium class. The next time
you level up, you may add this specialty to your character instead of
choosing a move from your class.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Smoke and Mirrors

When you create a magical illusion, roll+INT. On a hit, you can
change the appearance of someone or something that you can see.
This illusion lasts as long as you concentrate on it. Additionally, on
a 10+, you may also choose an options from the list below:
• Your illusion can include smells and flavours.
• Your illusion can include sounds.
• Your illusion can move, independent of its original
appearance.
• You illusion lasts for a few moments after you stop
concentrating.

Advanced Moves
When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

The Image Itself

Requires: Smoke and Mirrors
You do not need to disguise someone or something when you
create an illusion—it can exist independent of other objects.

Just Because You Feel It

Requires: Smoke and Mirrors
You may add a tactile element to your illusions. This can change the
way they feel, or make something feel substantial even though it is
not. This can be used to cause pain, but does not deal damage, and
will not stand up to close scrutiny (it cannot be used to actually bar
passage through an open doorway, for example).

Knack for Illusions

Choose one illusion spell of your level or lower. If you cast spells,
add this spell to your spellbook, but prepare and cast it as if it were
one level lower. If you don’t cast spells, when you use this spell,
roll+INT. On a hit, it works, but on a 7-9, you can’t use it again for
the rest of the day.

The Next Best Thing

Requires: Smoke and Mirrors
When you create an illusion, on a hit, you may choose an
additional option.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Doesn’t Mean It’s There

When you create an illusion, it always lasts a few moments after you
stop concentrating; replace that option with this one:
• Your illusion lasts for days after you stop concentrating.

Master of Illusions
Requires: Knack for Illusions
Choose another two illusion spells that you can either add to
your spellbook and cast as if they were one level lower or cast as
described in knack for illusions.

Phantom Pains
Requires: Just Because You Feel It
When you add a tactile element to your illusions, you may use
them to deal your damage. This does not cause actual wounds—the
effects only exist in the victim’s mind. Victims with weak hearts
may die if reduced to zero HP from this; others will faint. Damage
caused by an illusion is healed when the illusion is revealed to be
false.

Illusionist Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a magician alignment:

Evil
Use your illusions to steal something valuable.

Good
Use your illusions to comfort or entertain someone.

Neutral
Use your illusions to cover up an awful truth.

Illusionist Bonds

• __________ is too gullible for my liking. If we’re in this

together, they need to smarten up!
• __________ thinks my powers are all style and no
substance. I’ll show them how useful I can be!

Illusionist Gear

Choose one:
○ Adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight).
○ Bag of wooden nickels.
○ Dungeon rations (5 uses, 1 weight).
○ Fancy clothes and fake jewels.

Illusionist Races

You may choose one of these instead of a magician race option:

Elf
When you create an illusion, you may add the smell or sound of a
forest to it, at your option.

Halfling
When you create an illusion your size or larger, you can also hide
behind it. Unless you reveal yourself or the illusion is dispelled, you
cannot be found.

Human
While you are concentrating on an illusion, you get +1 armour.

Mind-Mover
The mind is a powerful thing, more powerful than the body is,
certainly. You think we need a body for life? Then what of ghosts
and spirits? You think we need a body to move things around in the
physical world? I beg to differ.

Compendium Class

Once you have disciplined your mind, focuses it, and been able
to project your will upon a physical object through the strain of
multiple physical shocks and traumas, you may consider the mind-
mover specialty an available compendium class. The next time you
level up, you may add this specialty to your character instead of
choosing a move from your class.

Stats

If you choose the mind-mover specialty, lower your maximum HP

by 2, but not below 4+Constitution.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Telekinesis
You can use your mind to move objects smaller than yourself
without touching them. It is easy to move objects nearby as long as
they can fit in one hand. When you move an object larger than that
and smaller than yourself with your mind, roll+INT. On a 10+, you
can move it wherever you want it to go, within sight. On a 7-9, you
can move it a short distance in one direction. You must concentrate
while the object is moving.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:
Aquakinesis
Requires: Telekinesis
You can move liquids with your mind as if they were objects.

Hold Person
Requires: Telekinesis
You can move people as if they were objects, even if they are larger
than you. On a 10+, you may also immobilize them, as long as you
maintain your concentration.

Telekinetic Weapons
When you throw objects with your mind, they count as weapons in
near range, and you volley with INT instead of DEX.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Friend of the Sky

You can fly, whenever you want, without having to concentrate.

Mind Warrior
Requires: Telekinetic Weapons
When you attack with telekinetic weapons, your base damage is
d10, instead of d4.

Telekinetic Mastery
Requires: Telekinesis
You can move objects with your mind that are larger than yourself.

Mind-Mover Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a magician alignment:

Evil
Destroy something of value with your psychic powers.

Neutral
Increase your personal reputation.

Mind-Mover Bonds

• __________ is ignorant of the evil that we face.

• __________ is too full of anger and darkness for my liking.
• I have a friendly rivalry going with __________.

Mind-Mover Gear

Choose one:
○ Adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight).
○ Antitoxin and bandages (3 uses, slow).
○ Dungeon rations (5 uses, 1 weight).
○ Healing potion.
○ Staff (close, two-handed, 1 weight).

Mind-Mover Races

You may choose one of these instead of a magician race option:

Halfling
You may move objects with your mind that are smaller than a
house, instead of smaller than yourself.

Human
When you use your psychic powers, you may roll with WIS instead
of INT.
Objectivist

You can tell so much about a person just from the things they own.

Compendium Class

Once you have conducted a thorough study on the inner life

of objects and reported your findings at great length, you may
consider the objectivist specialty an available compendium class.
The next time you level up, you may add this specialty to your
character instead of choosing a move from your class.

Stats

If you choose the object reader specialty, you get +2 load.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Psychometry
When you handle an interesting object, roll+INT. On a 10+, ask the
GM three questions from the list below. On a 7-9, ask two.
On a miss, ask one anyway, in addition to whatever the GM tells
you:
• What are the most recent words spoken near it?
• What has been done to or with it recently?
• What strong emotions has it been close to?
• What’s wrong with it and how could it be fixed?
• Who handled it last?
• Who made it?
Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Concealed Object
When you hide an object on your person, it cannot be found unless
you want it to. Only one object may be concealed like this at a time.

Improvised Objection
You can use any object as an effective melee weapon. It has a
range—hand, close, or reach—based on it’s size.

Psychic Phrenology
Requires: Psychometry
You can use psychometry on plants and animals when you handle
them, as well as inanimate objects.

Wealth and Taste

When you make a show of flashing around your most valuable
possession, the GM chooses an NPC who can see you. They will do
anything they can to obtain your item or one like it.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Eye for Weaponry

When you look over an enemy’s weaponry, ask the GM how
much damage they do.

Forceful Objection
Requires: Improvised Objection
When you attack with an improvised weapon, your damage die is a
d8, not a d4.
Psychic Psychology
Requires: Psychic Phrenology
You can use psychometry on humans and other sentient creatures,
alive or dead, when you handle them, as well as inanimate objects.

Strong Arm, True Aim

You can throw any melee weapon, using it to volley. A thrown
melee weapon is gone from your possession; you can never choose
to reduce ammo on a 7-9.

Objectivist Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a magician alignment:

Lawful
Return lost or stolen property to its rightful owner.

Neutral
Acquire something valuable for much less than it is worth.

Objectivist Bonds

• __________ has an amazing collection of possessions.

• __________ has little respect for inanimate objects. I will
show them how much these things matter to me.
• I’d like to get my hands on __________’s stuff at some point.
• I’ve seen __________ eyeing my things before. I need to
keep an eye out for when they decide to take a closer look.

Objectivist Gear

Choose one or two:

○ Adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight).
○ Bag of books (5 uses, 2 weight).
○ Bag of human bones (1 weight).
○ Chess set (1 weight).
○ Key ring.
○ Mechanical bird that sings when wound up (1 weight).
○ Melee weapon of your choice.
○ Unopened letter from a relative.

Objectivist Races

You may choose one of these instead of a magician race option:

Dwarf
When you handle an interesting piece of stone, you need not be
limited by the questions on the psychometry list. Ask whatever
questions you like.

Elf
When you handle an interesting object made of wood or other
once-living plant material, you need not be limited by the questions
on the psychometry list. Ask whatever questions you like.

Halfling
When you handle an interesting tool, you need not be limited by
the questions on the psychometry list. Ask whatever questions you
like.

Human
When you handle an interesting object made of precious gems
or metals, you need not be limited by the questions on the
psychometry list. Ask whatever questions you like.
Prepared Caster

You are the kind of wizard who prepares spells and holds onto
them, so you can use them later. Spells are like tools for you—make
sure you choose which ones to pack with care and forethought, and
try not to wear them out.

Compendium Class

Once you learn to capture magic and imprison it inside your

head, after being instructed by a magical tome or an archmage
tutor, you may consider the prepared caster specialty an available
compendium class. The next time you level up, you may add this
specialty to your character instead of choosing a move from your
class.

Stats

If you choose the prepared caster specialty, you get +1 load, and
lower your maximum HP by 2, but not lower than 4+Constitution.

Starting Moves

You start with all three of these moves:

Cast a Magic Spell

When you release a spell you’ve prepared, roll+INT. On a 10+, the
spell is successfully cast and you do not forget the spell—you may
cast it again later. On a 7-9, the spell is cast, but choose one:
• After it is cast, the spell is forgotten. You cannot cast the
spell
again until you prepare spells.
• The spell disturbs the fabric of reality as it is cast—take
-1 ongoing to cast a spell until the next time you prepare spells.
• You draw unwelcome attention or put yourself in a spot.
The GM will tell you how.
Note that maintaining spells with ongoing effects will sometimes
cause a penalty to your roll to cast a spell.
Magic Spellbook
You have mastered several spells and inscribed them in your
spellbook. Choose three schools of magic. You start with all the
cantrips from each school and three first level spells chosen from
those offered by your three schools. When you gain a level, add
a new spell of your level or lower to your spellbook, chosen from
those offered by your three schools. Your spellbook is 1 weight.

Prepare Magic Spells

When you spend uninterrupted time (an hour or so) in quiet
contemplation of your spellbook, you:
• Lose any spells you already have prepared.
• Prepare new spells of your choice from your spellbook
whose total levels don’t exceed your own level+1.
• Prepare your cantrips which never count against your limit.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Empowered Magic
Requires: Cast a Magic Spell
When you cast a spell, on a 10+, you have the option of choosing
from the 7-9 list. If you do, you may choose one of these as well:
• The spell’s effects are maximized.
• The spell’s targets are doubled.

Expanded Spellbook
Requires: Magic Spellbook
Add a new spell from the spell list of any class or archetype to your
spellbook.

Prodigy
Requires: Prepare a Magic Spell
Choose a spell. You prepare that spell as if it were one level lower.

Quick Study
When you see the effects of an arcane spell, ask the GM the name of
the spell and its effects. You take +1 when acting on the answers.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Greater Empowered Magic

Replaces: Empowered Magic
When you cast a spell, on a 10-11, you have the option of choosing
from the 7-9 list. If you do, you may choose one of the these effects
as well. On a 12+, you get to choose one of these effects for free:
• The spell’s effects are doubled.
• The spell’s targets are doubled.

Master
Requires: Prodigy
Choose one spell in addition to the one you picked for prodigy. You
prepare that spell as if it were one level lower.

Spell Augmentation
Requires: Cast a Magic Spell
When you deal damage to a creature, you can shunt a spell’s energy
into them—end one of your ongoing spells and add the spell’s level
to the damage dealt.

Prepared Caster Bonds

• __________ is keeping an important secret from me.

• __________ is woefully misinformed about the world. I will
teach them what I can.
• __________ once saw me safely through a dangerous
situation.

Prepared Caster Gear

You get your spellbook (1 weight), and some writing implements,

in addition to whatever your other specialties give you.

Prepared Caster Races

You may choose one of these instead of a magician race option:

Elf
Magic is as natural as breath to you. You know Detect Magic in
addition to your other spells, and you cast it as if it were a cantrip.

Halfling
Choose one of your first level spells. When you cast this spell, one
aspect of its effects—area, damage, range, targets, etc—is doubled.

Human
Choose one spell from another archetype, or from a school of
magic you have not studied. You can cast it as if it were one of your
own spells.

Psychic Healer

There are those who train their whole lives in the arts of medicine,
so they can heal others. There are those who cry out to their gods to
give them the power to heal. You have no need for either training or
the gods, you can heal with nothing but your mind.

Compendium Class
Once you have experienced a vision of the internal structure of the
body—either your own or someone else’s—and found that structure
imprinted upon your mind, you may consider the psychic healer
specialty an available compendium class. The next time you level
up, you may add this specialty to your character instead of choosing
a move from your class.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Psychic Surgery
When you touch someone, skin to skin, and concentrate on healing
them, roll+INT. On a 10+, you heal 1d8 damage or remove one
disease. On a 7-9, they are healed, but the damage or disease is
transferred to you.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Hospitaller
When you heal an ally, you heal +1d8 damage.

Martyr’s Touch
Requires: Psychic Surgery or The Cure
When you heal someone, you can swap any one debility, disease,
impairment, injury, or wound they have with another person,
including yourself, who is either willing or unconscious.

The Sick Will See

Requires: Psychic Surgery or The Cure
You can heal a mental illness or insanity as if it were damage or a
disease—removing it on a 10+, transferring it to yourself on a 7-9.
When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

The Cure
Replaces: Psychic Surgery
When you touch someone, skin to skin, and concentrate on healing
them, roll+INT. On a 10+, you heal 1d8 damage and remove one
disease, if one is present. On a 7-9, they heal 1d8 damage and
you may remove a disease if you take 1d8 damage yourself.

Mad Scientist
Replaces: Martyr’s Touch
When you heal someone, you can swap any one physical feature
they display or possess with the same feature of another person,
including yourself, who is either willing or unconscious.

Perfect Hospitaller
Replaces: Hospitaller
When you heal an ally, you heal +2d8 damage.

Psychic Healer Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a magician alignment:

Good
Heal someone in spite of their animosity toward you.
Neutral
Heal someone in exchange for an appropriate favour.

Psychic Healer Bonds

• __________ needs someone to look out for them.

• I keep telling __________, but they won’t listen.
• This isn’t the first time __________ and I have been in a
mess together.

Psychic Healer Gear

Choose one:
○ Adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight).
○ Antitoxin and bandages (3 uses, slow).
○ Bag of books (5 uses, 1 weight).
○ Dungeon rations (5 uses, 1 weight).
○ Healing potion.
○ Personal feast (1 use, 1 weight).
○ Poultices and herbs (2 uses, slow, 1 weight).

Psychic Healer Races

You may choose one of these instead of a magician race option:

Dwarf
When you heal someone, you can heal an additional 1d6 damage if
you take 1d4 damage (ignores armour) yourself.

Elf
While you are healing others or tending to their welfare, as long as
you take no aggressive actions, you get +1 armour.
Halfling
When you heal someone, you can heal an extra 1d6 damage if you
consume a ration.

Human
When you heal someone, they take +2 damage forward.

Shadowmancer

If all our lives are nothing more than shadows and dust, then the
master of shadows becomes the master of life.

Compendium Class

Once you have travelled to the astral plane of shadows and

darkness, and been infused with its essence, you may consider the
shadowmancer specialty an available compendium class. The next
time you level up, you may add this specialty to your character
instead of choosing a move from your class.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Gather Darkness
You can gather shadows and darkness around you, as long as you
are not in direct sunlight, making light sources less effective and
you harder to notice. You can also snuff out small flames or other
light sources within your presence, or cause large fires to dim, by
concentrating on them.

And either one of these two:

Dark, Dark Hands

When you call forth a piece of the shadows, roll+INT. On a hit, a
solid limb of any kind emerges, under your command. It uses your
INT in place of all stats if you need to roll for anything. As long
as you command it, take -1 ongoing to do anything else. You may
banish it at any time. On a 10+, it has HP equal to 5+your level and
deals d8 damage. On a 7-9, it has HP equal to 2+your level and
deals d6 damage.

Walking Through Darkness

When you step into a dark patch of shadow, you can step out of
another one less than a hundred yards away. The whole of you must
step through, with all that you carry.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Artifacts of Darkness
When you reach into shadows or darkness in search of an object,
roll+INT. On a 10+, you draw forth just such an object, only made
of shadows and darkness. It has no other magical properties, but
behaves just like the object it mimics. If you desire a unique object
and you know what it looks like—a particular key, perhaps—this
object will work in its stead. On a 7-9, you draw forth an object that
is similar, but the GM will add a tag to it. The object lasts as long as
you are using it, no longer.

The Darkening Path

You can travel through the plane of shadows, from one patch of
darkness to another. When you travel through darkness, name
your destination and roll+CON. On a 10+, you emerge as close to
your intended destination as possible. On a 7-9, the way is long and
hard. Choose one:
• You bail out early, some distance from your intended
destination.
• You bring something else out with you when you emerge
into the light.
• You stick it out and emerge with a debility, the GM will tell
you which.

Fixation on the Darkness

Requires: Dark, Dark Hands or Walking Through Darkness
You had only one before, now you have both Dark, Dark Hands and
Walking Through Darkness.

My Shadow and Me
When your shadow attacks the same target you do, instead of their
shadow, deal +1d4 damage.

Shadow Thief
When you take someone’s shadow, roll+DEX. On a 10+, you can
use it for two purposes from the list below. On a 7-9, only one:
• You can command it to accompany you.
• You can command it to perform one task, which can be
continuous.
• You can wear it over your face to disguise yourself as it’s
caster. While you have someone’s shadow, they cast none and you
take
-1 ongoing to use your shadow-related moves unless you seal it in a
bottle or other container.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Faces in the Dark

As long as you concentrate and do little else, you may cause
illusions to emerge from the shadows that can move and talk but
are otherwise insubstantial.

Gate of Darkness
Requires: The Darkening Path
When you open a gate between dark places far apart, others
can travel through. They must each use the shadow travel move
individually and you choose the destination. A gate lasts as long as
it is dark or until you cancel it.

Murder in the Shadows

Replaces: My Shadow and Me
When your shadow attacks the same target you do, instead of their
shadow, deal +1d8 damage.

Reaching Through Darkness

Requires: Walking Through Darkness
When you reach into a dark patch of shadow, you can reach out of
another one less than a hundred yards away. Only part of you need
reach through and you may push others through before you.

Shadow Master
Requires: Shadow Thief
When you command someone’s shadow to accompany you or to
perform a set task, you do not take -1 ongoing to use your shadow-
related moves, and the shadow counts as a hireling with points
equal to your level.

Shadowmancer Alignments

You may choose this instead of a magician alignment:

Neutral
Avoid detection or infiltrate a secure location.

Shadowmancer Bonds

• __________ is keeping an important secret from me.

Shadowmancer Gear
Choose one:
○ Extra set of black clothes.
○ Five torches and a tinderbox (1 weight).
○ Leather armour (1 armour, 1 weight).
○ Small mirror.
○ Two antitoxins.

Shield Arcanus

You are a master of the Omnipotent Sphere.

Compendium Class

Once you have built an observatory keyed to the stars of the Shield
Nebula and used their light to form the Omnipotent Sphere, you
may consider the shield arcanus specialty an available compendium
class. The next time you level up, you may add this specialty to your
character instead of choosing a move from your class.

Stats

If you choose the shield arcanus specialty, reduce your damage die
by one size, but not below a d4.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Spell Defence
You may end any ongoing magical effect immediately and use the
energy of its dissipation to deflect an oncoming attack. The effect
ends and you subtract its level from the damage done to you, if it is
a spell, or your level if not.
Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Arcane Shield
By using arcane words and gestures, you can defend with INT
instead of CON.

Arcane Ward
Requires: Prepare Spells
As long as you have at least one prepared spell of first level or
higher, you have +2 armour.

Counterspell
Requires: Prepare Spells
When you attempt to counter an arcane spell that will otherwise
affect you, stake one of your prepared spells on the defence and
roll+INT. On a 10+, the spell is countered and has no effect on you.
On a 7-9, the spell is countered and you forget/lose the spell you
staked. Your counterspell protects only you; if the countered spell
has other targets they get its effects.

Magical Sphere
When you make camp, you can create a magical sphere around you.
If something approaches, this sphere warns you as if it had kept
watch and rolled a 10+.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Arcane Armour
Replaces: Arcane Ward
As long as you have at least one prepared spell of first level or
higher, you have +4 armour.

Dangerous Dreams
When you demand prophetic truth from your dreams, roll+INT.
On a hit, the GM will describe a vision of an immanent grim
portent. On a 10+, you also take +1 forward against it if you
encounter it. On a miss, take -1 forward due to unpleasant visions.

Omnipotent Sphere
Requires: Magical Sphere
In addition to keeping watch for you, your magical sphere can
also protect you from poison gas and drowning while you keep it
around yourself and up to a small handful of others.

Protective Counter
Requires: Counterspell
When an ally within sight of you is affected by an arcane spell, you
can counter it as if it affected you. If the spell affects multiple allies
you must counter each ally separately.

Shield Arcanus Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a magician alignment:

Good
Defend those weaker than you.

Lawful
Fulfill a promise to protect someone during a dangerous journey or
situation.

Shield Arcanus Bonds

• __________ has a great destiny to fulfill—if I can keep
them from getting killed, that is!
• __________ is woefully misinformed about the world. I will
teach them what I can.
• I have sworn to guide and protect __________, because of
what they have done.

Shield Arcanus Gear

Choose one:
○ Healing potion.
○ Leather armour (1 armour, 1 weight).
○ Longsword (close, +1 damage, 1 weight).
○ Three antitoxins.

Shield Arcanus Races

You may choose one of these instead of a magician race option:

Dwarf
When you defend or protect someone else with your magic,
take +1 armour forward.

Elf
When you discern realities while protecting someone, on a hit, you
can also ask this question:
• How can I get my ward out of here?

Soothsayer

Knowing is half the battle, but so many others ignore it. Then they
wonder how they lost the war. Not you, no, you know all to well
what the future holds.

Compendium Class
Once you have fasted for weeks, consumed the milk of the
dreaming plant, and completed a vision quest that led you through
seven realms of heaven, you may consider the soothsayer specialty
an available compendium class. The next time you level up, you
may add this specialty to your character instead of choosing a move
from your class.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Forebodings of Doom
When you warn an NPC off a future course of action, roll+INT. On
a 10+, they decide not to do it. If someone forces them, things go
badly. On a 7-9, they do it anyway, if they want to, and of course it
goes badly. On a miss, whatever they choose it ends up going badly
for you, as well.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Foreshadowing
When you look into the future for possible dangers, name a person,
place, or thing and roll+INT. On a 10+, the GM will tell you two
things from the list below. On a 7-9, only one. On a miss, the GM
will tell you one anyway, but also something else that is not true.
Which one is which you will have to divine for yourself.
• The nature of a danger (its type and impulse) that threatens
the
subject or that the subject is part of.
• One grim portent, related to the subject, that is yet to occur.
• One stakes question related to the subject.
• What kind of threat the subject is.
Magical Senses
When you discern realities with the aid of magic, or with magic
present, you may use INT instead of WIS.

Omens of the Future

When you spend a few hours interpreting omens, say what you
desire most, and the omens will show you a way it can be achieved.
Take +1 forward if you act on this information, until you consult
the omens again.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

The Golden Path

Replaces: Omens of the Future
When you spend a few hours interpreting omens, describe an event
or state of things that has not yet come to pass, and the omens will
show you a way this event or state can be achieved, if it is possible.
Take +1 forward if you act on this information, even if you are
thwarting the event, until you consult the omens again.

Parting Shadows
Requires: Foreshadowing
When you look into the future for possible dangers, on a 12+,
choose three options from the list.

Scrying Power
When you have something closely connected with another person
(one of their possessions, a piece of their body, etc), you may aid,
interfere, or study them closely, wherever they might actually be at
the time.

Truth and Consequences

When you examine the strands of possible futures, describe an
event that is yet to occur and roll+INT. On a 10+, name three
people, groups, or social institutions. On a 7-9, only two. On a
miss, name one anyway, in addition to whatever else the GM tells
you. For each subject you name, the GM will tell you what sort of
consequences this future event will have for them. You may only
examine each event once.

Soothsayer Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a magician alignment:

Evil
Harm someone whose plans will cause you trouble in the future.

Good
Use your prophecy to help someone else avoid tragedy.

Neutral
Profit financially from your prophetic powers.

Soothsayer Bonds

• __________ and I share a common purpose.

• __________ doesn’t trust my powers, but I won’t let them
stop me.

Soothsayer Gear

Choose one:
○ Golden water bowl.
○ Knucklebones in a cloth bag.
○ Pair of dice.
○ Silvered mirror.
Soothsayer Races

You may choose one of these instead of a magician alignment:

Dwarf
When you fight someone whose futures you have prophesied, you
may hack and slash with INT instead of STR.

Elf
When you discern realities with the aid of magic, the GM will
also tell you what else is magic nearby, in addition to your other
questions.

Spellsinger

Magic and music are intimately linked inside your soul.

Compendium Class

Once you have learned to perform the six great classics of song
and how to weave magic into the space between your breaths, you
may consider the spellsinger specialty an available compendium
class. The next time you level up, you may add this specialty to your
character instead of choosing a move from your class.

Stats

If you choose the spellsinger specialty, you get +1 load.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Vox Arcanus
When you perform a magnificent song, choose an ally and one
effect:
• Their mind is shaken clear of one enchantment.
• They get +1d4 forward to damage.
• They get +2 instead of +1 the next time they receive aid.
• They heal 1d8 damage.
Then roll+CHA. On a hit, your ally gets the selected effect, but on a
7-9, you also draw unwanted attention or your magic reverberates
to other targets, affecting them as well, GM’s choice.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Eldritch Tones
Requires: Vox Arcanus
Your arcane art is strong, allowing you to choose two effects instead
of one.

Healing Song
Requires: Vox Arcanus
When you heal with vox arcanus, you heal +1d8 damage.

Metal Hurlant
When you shout with great force or play a shattering note, choose
a target and roll+CON. On a 10+, the target takes 1d10 damage
and is deafened for a few minutes. On a 7-9, you still damage your
target, but they’re out of control: the GM will choose an additional
target nearby.

Vicious Cacophony
Requires: Vox Arcanus
When you grant bonus damage with vox arcanus, you grant an
extra +1d4 damage.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

An Ear for Magic

When you hear an enemy cast a spell, the GM will tell you the
name of the spell and its effects. Take +1 forward when acting on
the answers.

Eldritch Chord
Replaces: Eldritch Tones
When you use vox arcanus, you choose two effects. You also get to
choose one of those effects to double.

Healing Chorus
Replaces: Healing Song
When you heal with vox arcanus, you heal +2d8 damage.

Vicious Blast
Replaces: Vicious Cacophony
When you grant bonus damage with vox arcanus, you grant an
extra +2d4 damage.

Spellsinger Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a magician alignment:

Chaotic
Spur others to significant and unplanned decisive action.

Good
Provide a positive role model for someone in trouble.

Neutral
Avoid a conflict or defuse a tense situation.

Spellsinger Bonds

• __________ is woefully misinformed about the world. I will

teach them what I can.
• I sang stories of __________ long before I ever met them in
person.

Spellsinger Gear

You get a change of clothes, a musical instrument (1+ weight), and

choose one:
○ Adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight).
○ Halfling pipeleaf (6 uses).
○ Rapier (close, precise, 1 weight).

Spellsinger Races

You may choose one of these instead of a magician race option:

Elf
When you give aid to someone while performing a magnificent
song, also add your CHA to your roll.

Human
When you first enter a civilized settlement, someone who respects
the custom of hospitality to minstrels will take you in as their guest.
Telepath

How much closer could you get to another person than to “see” into
their mind, to think their thoughts, to experience the world as they
experience it? There is nothing else like it.

Compendium Class

Once you have experienced someone else’s thoughts as if they were

your own, either through mental trauma or some kind of magical
influence, and decided to pursue this experience further, you may
consider the telepath specialty an available compendium class. The
next time you level up, you may add this specialty to your character
instead of choosing a move from your class.

Stats

If you choose the telepath specialty, lower your maximum HP by 2,

but not lower than 4+Constitution.

Starting Moves

You get this move:

Brainworm
When you have a few moments of physical contact with someone,
you can read their mind. When you do so, roll+INT. On a 10+, ask
their player three questions from the list below. On a 7-9, ask two.
On a miss, ask one anyway, but they also get to ask two of you, in
addition to whatever the GM tells you.
• How is your character’s mind and psyche vulnerable?
• What does your character want most?
• What is your character trying to hide?
• What pain does your character carry around with them?
• Who or what does your character value most?

Advanced Moves
When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Far Speaking
You can send a telepathic message to someone you know, or
someone you have met before. If they are willing, you can carry on
a psychic conversation.

Fast Read
Requires: Brainworm
You only need to touch someone, skin to skin, to read their mind.

Mind Sense
When you discern realities, you can also sense the presence of any
mental activity within bowshot.

Mindmeld
When you touch a willing or sleeping subject, your senses are tuned
to their thoughts. The GM will give you an impression of what’s
going on inside their head.

Wild Empathy
You can speak with and understand animals.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Erasure
Requires: Brainworm
Instead of asking a question, you may erase a short memory, or
temporarily obscure their memory of an answer they gave you.
Far Read
Requires: Brainworm
You can read the mind of anyone you can see—physical contact is
not required. It still takes time and concentration.

Great Wyrm
Requires: Brainworm
When you read someone’s mind, ask an extra question, even on a
miss.

Inquisitor
Requires: Brainworm
When you read someone’s mind, on a 12+, ask whatever
questions you want, from the list or not.

Wild Speech
Requires: Wild Empathy
You can speak with and understand any non-magical, non-planar
creature.

Telepath Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a magician alignment:

Chaotic
Publicly reveal information about someone in power.

Evil
Use someone else’s secrets to hurt them.

Good
Separate truth from lies and reveal it to others.
Telepath Bonds

• __________ thinks my powers are hideous, and I must find

out why.
• I have been inside __________’s mind before.
• What an intriguing mind __________ has!

Telepath Gear

You have an item that reminds you of how you gained or honed
your psychic powers. Describe it.

Telepath Races

You may choose one of these instead of a magician race option:

Dwarf
Your mind can see into the earth. When you handle metal or stone,
you may ask one question from the discern realities list about it.
The GM will answer from the earth’s perspective.

Elf
You have great insights into the natural world. When you handle
plants, you may ask one question from the discern realities list
about it. The GM will answer from the plant’s perspective.

Halfling
When you read someone’s mind, you may also heal them of
1d6 damage.

Human
When you read someone’s mind, you may also deal your damage to
them.
Vancian Caster

Spells are creatures you hold inside your memory, that flee when
cast into the world.

Compendium Class

Once you have stolen one of the last remaining books of Phandaal’s
magical spells and memorized its contents, you may consider the
Vancian caster specialty an available compendium class. The next
time you level up, you may add this specialty to your character
instead of choosing a move from your class.

Stats

If you choose the Vancian caster specialty, you get +1 load, and
lower your maximum HP by 2, but not lower than 4+Constitution.

Starting Moves

You start with all three of these moves:

Cast a Vancian Spell

When you release a spell you’ve memorized, it is cast successfully
(as if you had rolled 12+, if it matters), but you forget it and cannot
cast this spell again until your re-memorize it. If a spell would
give you a -1 ongoing penalty to cast a spell, ignore it and take -1
forward instead.

Prepare Vancian Spells

When you spend uninterrupted time (an hour or so) in quiet
contemplation of your spellbook, you:
• Forget any spells you already memorized.
• Memorize new spells whose number does not exceed your
level+2, and whose total magnitude does not exceed your level+1.
You cannot memorize the same spell more than once.
For you, the magnitude of a spell is equal to half its level rounded
up. Cantrips are magnitude zero.

Vancian Spellbook
You have mastered several spells and inscribed them in your
spellbook. Choose three schools of magic. You start with all the
cantrips from each school and three first level spells chosen from
those offered by your three schools. When you gain a level, add to
your spellbook a new spell whose magnitude is equal to your level
or lower, chosen from those offered by your three schools. For you,
the magnitude of a spell is equal to half its level rounded up. Your
spellbook is 1 weight.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Expanded Spellbook
Requires: Vancian Spellbook
Add a new spell from the spell list of any class or archetype to your
spellbook.

Prodigy
Requires: Prepare Vancian Spells
Choose a spell. You prepare that spell as if it were one level lower.

Quick Study
When you see the effects of an arcane spell, ask the GM the name of
the spell and its effects. You take +1 when acting on the answers.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:
Master
Requires: Prodigy
Choose one spell in addition to the one you picked for prodigy. You
prepare that spell as if it were one level lower.

Risky Magic
Requires: Cast a Vancian Spell
When you cast a spell, you can choose to double the spell’s effects
or double the number of targets affected, but you must also choose
one:
• Mark a debility of your choice.
• The spell has additional, unwanted effects. The GM will tell
you what.
• You draw unwanted attention or put yourself in a spot. The
GM will tell you how.

Spell Augmentation
When you deal damage to a creature, you can shunt a spell’s energy
into them—end one of your ongoing spells and add the spell’s level
to the damage dealt.

Vancian Caster Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a magician alignment:

Evil
Deal out gruesome, terrible vengeance to someone who has crossed
you.

Neutral
Get the better of someone in a duel of wits.
Vancian Caster Bonds

• __________ and I have been to another world together.

• I have travelled long and hard through dangerous lands
with
__________ at my side.

Vancian Caster Gear

You get your spellbook (1 weight), some writing implements, and

whatever your other specialties give you.

Vancian Caster Races

You may choose one of these instead of a magician race option:

Elf
Magic is as natural as breath to you. You know Detect Magic in
addition to your other spells, and you cast it as if it were a cantrip.

Human
Choose one spell from another archetype, or from a school of
magic you have not studied. You can cast it as if it were one of your
own spells.

Magic Spells

The prepared caster and Vancian caster specialties give you the
ability to cast spells. If you have one of these specialties, you have
studied three schools of magic.
Choose from the list of magical schools:
• Alteration
• Divination
• Enchantment
• Evocation
• Illusions
• Mind
• Movement
• Necromancy
• Pyromancy
• Summoning
• Ward-Weaving

Each school has a list of eight or more spells associated with it.
When you choose which spells you know, choose from those
offered.

Alteration

With the power that flows through your mind, forms are not
limited to what we can see. One thing can become another in an
instant.

Cantrip

Erase CANTRIP ONGOING

With a wave of your hand, you erase any text in front of you. You
may choose to be selective of which words you erase, and you may
erase an entire book you wave your hand over.

First Level

Alter Colours LEVEL 1

You change the colour of an object, structure, or person you touch.
The change can be permanent or it can last until you dispel it, your
choice.
Mending LEVEL 1
You touch a single mundane object and it is miraculously repaired.

Two Face LEVEL 1 ONGOING

Your face changes so you resemble someone else. While this spell is
ongoing, you take -1 to cast a spell.

Third Level

Alter Liquid LEVEL 3

You transmute a body of liquid no larger than yourself into a
different kind of liquid. It must be within your reach, but you need
not touch it. This transmutation only affects one liquid at a time,
and does not affect liquids being used in a biological process (like
blood, for example). A corrosive liquid may be used as a weapon.

Alter Thing LEVEL 3

You transform one mundane item in your hands into some other
mundane item, whatever you want. The effect is permanent.

Gift of Spells LEVEL 5

You give one of your memorized spells to someone you can see.
You forget that spell and they can cast it as if they were you. Until
they cast it, you may not memorize it again.

Fifth Level

Four Arms LEVEL 5 ONGOING

You grow an extra pair of arm-like limbs. If they are wings, you can
fly or glide with them. If they are arms, you gain +1 damage for
each extra arm that wields a weapon, or you can use two shields at
once, gaining the armour bonus for both. Or you can play a bunch
of musical instruments all at once! While this spell is ongoing, you
take -1 to cast a spell.

Polymorph LEVEL 5
Your touch reshapes a creature entirely, they stay in the form
you craft until you cast a spell. Describe the new shape you craft,
including any stat changes, significant adaptations, or major
weaknesses. The GM will then tell you one or more of these:
• The creature’s mind will be altered as well.
• The form has an unintended benefit or weakness.
• The form will be unstable and temporary.

Seventh Level

Change Self LEVEL 7 ONGOING You

transform your shape into that of an animal, monster, or another
person. Hold 3, and the GM will tell you one or more moves
associated with your new form. Spend a hold to make that move.
Once you’re out of hold, you return to your natural form. At any
time, you may spend all your hold to banish the spell and revert to
your natural form. While this spell is ongoing, you take -1 to cast a
spell.

Ninth Level

Change Other LEVEL 9 ONGOING Someone or

something you touch is transformed into another form of your
choice. They cannot become smaller than half, or larger than twice,
its original size. They have all the innate abilities and weaknesses of
the form, except magical powers. While this spell is ongoing, you
take -1 to cast a spell.

Divination
Open you eyes to the possibilities of magic, see the truth behind the
lies.

Cantrip

Identify CANTRIP
This spell will tell you what an item that you touch is, if you don’t
already know. Only mundane details are revealed.

First Level

Detect Alignment LEVEL 1

When you cast this spell choose an alignment: Good, Evil, Lawful,
or Chaotic. One of your senses is briefly able to detect that
alignment. The GM will tell you what here is of that alignment.

Detect Magic LEVEL 1

One of your senses is briefly attuned to magic. The GM will tell you
what here is magical.

Telepathy LEVEL 1 ONGOING You form a telepathic

bond with a single person you touch, enabling you to converse
with that person through your thoughts. You can only have one
telepathic bond at a time.

Third Level

Locate Object LEVEL 3 ONGOING Name a

specific object or a type of object. While you concentrate, this spell
will indicate which direction it is in, and where it is exactly if it is
within a short walking distance. If you name a type of object, the
spell points you toward the nearest one. While this spell is ongoing,
take -1 to cast a spell.

Visions Through Time LEVEL 3

Cast this spell and gaze into a reflective surface to see into the
depths of time. The GM will reveal the details of a grim portent
to you—a bleak event that will come to pass without your
intervention. They’ll tell you something useful about how you can
interfere with the grim portent’s dark outcomes. Rare is the portent
that claims “You’ll live happily ever after.” Sorry.

Fifth Level

Contact Other Plane LEVEL 5 ONGOING You send a

request to another plane. Specify who or what you’d like to contact
by location, type of creature, name, or title. You open a two-way
communication with that creature. Your communication can be cut
off at any time by you or the creature you contacted.

Divination LEVEL 5
Name a person, place, or thing you want to learn about. This spell
grants you visions of the target, as clear as if you were there.

Seventh Level

True Seeing LEVEL 7 ONGOING You see

all things as they truly are. This effect persists until you tell a lie or
dismiss the spell. While this spell is ongoing you take -1 to cast a
spell.

Ninth Level

Alert LEVEL 9
Describe an event. The GM will tell you when that event occurs, no
matter where you are or how far away the event is. If you choose,
you can view the location of the event as though you were there in
person. You can only have one Alert active at a time.

Enchantment
Magic is like a net, a gloss, an infusion of flavour. You are an artist
who adds to the world, not a vandal who destroys it.

Cantrip

Emote CANTRIP
You cause a person you touch to feel one emotion of your choice,
very strongly, but only for a moment.

First Level

Cause Fear LEVEL 1 ONGOING Choose

a target you can see and a nearby object. The target is afraid of the
object so long as you maintain the spell. Their reaction is up to
them: flee, panic, beg, fight. While this spell is ongoing you take
-1 to cast a spell. You cannot target entities with less than animal
intelligence (magical constructs, undead, automatons, and the like).

Charm Person LEVEL 1 ONGOING

The person (not beast or monster) you touch while casting this
spell counts you as a friend until they take damage or you prove
otherwise.

Third Level

Dispel Magic LEVEL 3

Choose a spell or magic effect in your presence: this spell rips it
apart. Lesser spells are ended, powerful magic is just reduced or
dampened so long as you are nearby.

Sleep LEVEL 3
1d4 enemies you can see of the GM’s choice fall asleep. Only
creatures capable of sleeping are affected. They awake as normal:
loud noises, jolts, pain.
Fifth Level

Hold Person LEVEL 5 ONGOING Choose a

person you can see. Until they take damage or leave your presence,
they cannot act except to speak. While this spell is ongoing you
take -1 to cast a spell.

Polymorph LEVEL 5
Your touch reshapes a creature entirely, they stay in the form
you craft until you cast a spell. Describe the new shape you craft,
including any stat changes, significant adaptations, or major
weaknesses. The GM will then tell you one or more of these:
• The creature’s mind will be altered as well.
• The form has an unintended benefit or weakness.
• The form will be unstable and temporary.

Seventh Level

Dominate LEVEL 7 ONGOING Your touch pushes your

mind into someone else’s. You gain 1d4 hold. Spend one hold to
make the target take one of these actions:
• Give you something they hold.
• Make a concerted attack on a target of your choice.
• Speak a few words of your choice.
• Truthfully answer one question.
If you run out of hold the spell ends. If the target takes damage you
lose 1 hold. While the spell is ongoing you cannot cast a spell.

Hold Monster LEVEL 7 ONGOING Choose

a monster you can see. Until they take damage or leave your
presence, they cannot act except to speak. While this spell is
ongoing you take -1 to cast a spell.

Ninth Level

Antipathy LEVEL 9 ONGOING Choose a target and describe

a type of creature or an alignment. Creatures of the specified type
or alignment cannot come within sight of the target. If a creature
of the specified type does find itself within sight of the target, it
immediately flees. This effect continues until you leave the target’s
presence or you dismiss the spell. While the spell is ongoing you
take -1 to cast a spell.

Evocation

The potential of matter and energy, the creative urge, the desire
to come into being—all these are things you understand about
creation. And you are the one to bring them forth into existence.

Cantrip

Light CANTRIP
An item you touch glows with arcane light, about as bright as a
torch. It gives off no heat or sound and requires no fuel, but it is
otherwise like a mundane torch. You have complete control of the
colour of the flame. The spell lasts as long as it is in your presence.

First Level

Magic Missile LEVEL 1

Projectiles of pure magic spring from your fingers. Deal 2d4
damage to one target.

The Fog LEVEL 1 ONGOING

Name a location you can see. It is completely blanketed in thick
fog that prevents anyone from seeing further than a foot in front
of them. While this spell is ongoing, the fog will not dissipate and
cannot be blown away by wind, and you take -1 to cast a spell.

Third Level

Fireball LEVEL 3
You evoke a mighty ball of flame that envelops your target and
everyone nearby, inflicting 2d6 damage which ignores armour.

Web LEVEL 3
Up to 1d4 creatures you can see become trapped in a sticky web.
Until they are cut free or the webs are burnt away, they are stuck.

Fifth Level

Cage LEVEL 5 ONGOING

The target is held in a cage of magical force. Nothing can get in or
out of the cage. The cage remains until you cast another spell or
dismiss it. While the spell is ongoing, the caged creature can hear
your thoughts and you cannot leave sight of the cage.

Seventh Level

Contingency LEVEL 7
Choose a spell of 5th level or lower that you know. Describe a
trigger condition using a number of words equal to your level. The
chosen spell is held until you choose to unleash it or the trigger
condition is met, whichever happens first. You don’t have to roll
for the held spell, it just takes effect. You may only have a single
contingent spell held at a time; if you cast Contingency while you
have a held spell, the new held spell replaces the old one.

Ninth Level

Shelter LEVEL 9 ONGOING You create a structure out of pure

magical power. It can be as large as a castle or as small as a hut, but
is impervious to all non-magical damage. The structure endures
until you leave it or you end the spell.
Illusions

Who needs real power over the elements, when the appearance of
power is just as useful? Who needs power over someone’s mind,
when a simple trick will change it just as easily? Who needs money
when money is just an illusion anyway? You have it all figured out,
illusionist, just don’t get caught.

Cantrip

Prestidigitation CANTRIP ONGOING You perform

minor tricks of true magic. If you touch an item as part of the
casting you can make cosmetic changes to it: clean it, soil it, cool
it, warm it, flavour it, or change its colour. if you cast the spell
without touching an item you can instead create minor illusions no
bigger than yourself. Prestidigitation illusions are crude and clearly
illusions—they won’t fool anyone, but they might entertain them.

First Level

Invisibility LEVEL 1 ONGOING Touch an ally: nobody

can see them. They’re invisible! This spell persists until the target
attacks or you dismiss the effect. While this spell is ongoing, you
can’t cast another spell.

Control Sound LEVEL 1 ONGOING With

this spell, you can create noise, music, or silence in your presence.
While you control the sound around you, take -1 to cast a spell.

Third Level

Mimic LEVEL 3 ONGOING

You take the form of someone you touch while casting this
spell. Your physical characteristics match theirs exactly but your
behaviour may not. This change persists until you take damage or
choose to return to your own form. While this spell is ongoing you
lose access to all your wizard moves.

Mirror Image LEVEL 3

You create an illusory image of yourself. When you are attacked,
roll a d6. On a 4, 5, or 6 the attack hits the illusion instead, the
image then dissipates and the spell ends.

Fifth Level

Doppelgänger LEVEL 5 ONGOING You create an exact

duplicate of any creature you have observed yourself. This
doppelgänger has all the mundane, physical attributes of the
creature it mimics, but none of the same knowledge or special
powers. It acts according to your mental command, with no life of
its own. While this spell is ongoing, you can’t cast another spell.

Faerie Kingdom LEVEL 5 ONGOING You

create the illusion of a fully-detailed location. The old location is
covered up, and anyone entering this place experiences only the
new one. This location can cause fright, but not any real harm, nor
does any food give sustenance, nor fire give warmth. The illusion is
broken if you leave and cease to observe it.

Seventh Level

Shadow Walk LEVEL 7

The shadows you target with this spell become a portal for you and
your allies. Name a location, describing it with a number of words
up to your level. Stepping through the portal deposits you and any
allies present when you cast the spell at the location you described.
The portal may only be used once by each ally.

Ninth Level

City in a Bottle LEVEL 9 ONGOING Choose

a location, up to the size of a city. That location disappears from
the view of outsiders, who can no longer find it without your
permission. Anyone who leaves a disappeared location also cannot
find their way back without your leave.

False World LEVEL 9 ONGOING With a

touch, you can place someone’s body into a deep sleep and their
mind into a false world that they believe is real. Until you reverse
the spell, they continue to live on in a world entirely of your
creation, never knowing it is a lie and that their body lies ageless
somewhere else.

Mind

What could be more mysterious and unknowable than the mind

itself? Truly this is the final frontier, the inside of our very souls.

Cantrip

Identify Person CANTRIP

This spell tells you the name, cultural background, and occupation
of one person you can see, hear, or feel.

First Level

Deadened LEVEL 1 ONGOING You touch someone, and

they find their emotions dulled and deadened. They can still choose
to act on the remaining ghost of their emotions, but will not be
ruled by lust or fear while under the influence of this spell. While
this spell is ongoing, you take -1 to cast a spell.

Telepathy LEVEL 1 ONGOING You form a telepathic

bond with a single person you touch, enabling you to converse
with that person through your thoughts. You can only have one
telepathic bond at a time.
The Urge LEVEL 1
You touch someone and create an urge in them—escape, greed,
hunger, sexual desire, or thirst, for example. You choose the urge,
but they react of their own free will. The urge fades after a few
hours.

Third Level

Memory Reading LEVEL 3

You touch someone and experience one of their memories, as if it
were your own.

Truth Telling LEVEL 3 ONGOING A

creature you touch is prevented from saying anything they know to
be a deliberate lie. While this spell is ongoing, take -1 to cast a spell.

Fifth Level

Open Mind LEVEL 5 ONGOING

When you touch someone, their thoughts become audible to
anyone else nearby, as long as you continue to concentrate. While
this spell is ongoing, you take -1 to cast a spell.

Seventh Level

Past Thoughts LEVEL 7

You can “hear” the thoughts and emotions that happened in your
specific location during one historical event of your choosing. You
do not necessarily know who originally possessed these thoughts
and emotions, though thoughts can easily give away their origins.

Ninth Level

Mind Transfer LEVEL 9 (ONGOING) You

transfer your mind into the body of another living being you touch.
You may choose to exchange bodies, in which case their mind now
inhabits your body until the effect is reversed. You retain all your
moves and stats except those that require your old body. You may
instead choose to possess them, which makes this spell ongoing
and gives them a chance to resist. If they cannot, your body remains
in a state of sleep and while this spell is ongoing, you take -1 to cast
a spell.

Movement

Places to go and people to meet-everyone is in a hurry to get

somewhere. But you don’t need to worry, do you? You always get
where you need to go.

Cantrip

Message CANTRIP
You send a small item from your hand into the air, to land at the
feet of whomever you name when the spell is cast.

First Level

The Hand that Calls LEVEL 1

You pull an object you can see into your hand, no matter its
distance from you. The object can be no larger than something you
would be able to life one-handed.

Vestigia Nulla Retrorsum LEVEL 1 ONGOING This

spell erases your tracks as you walk so that you leave no trace.
While this spell is ongoing, you take -1 to cast a spell.

Third Level

Environmental Protection LEVEL 3 ONGOING A magic

force surrounds and protects you from the environmental hazard of
your choice (breathe underwater, resist fire, etc). While this spell is
ongoing, take -1 to cast a spell.
Fly LEVEL 5 ONGOING
You take to the air, soaring on a gust of wind or floating on a puffy
cloud. While this spell is ongoing, you take -1 to cast a spell.

Fifth Level

Star Gate LEVEL 5 ONGOING

You open a gateway to another dimension or plane of existence.
You can pass through this gate, either entering this other location
or passing through it to get to another place in your present
dimension. You can bring a number of others with you equal to
your level, if they are willing, or you can send one target of your
choice that you touch through, by themselves.

Seventh Level

Astral Projection LEVEL 7 ONGOING You

project your mind into the astral plane, in the form of light, where
you can meet nearly any kind of divine spirit. You cannot bring
mundane objects with you, only magical items. A silver strand
connects your astral light to your physical body, which is immobile
while your mind roams the stars.

Ninth Level

Teleport LEVEL 9
Choose a location, anywhere else you can think of. You disappear,
then appear in this new location.

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Necromancy

What power is greater than Death? Most would argue that there is
none, but you know the truth. Magic is more powerful than Death.

Cantrip

Corpse Whispers CANTRIP

Cast this spell when you touch a corpse. You experience that
person’s last moments of life through one of their senses—you see
what they saw or hear what they heard, for example.

First Level

Find Corpse LEVEL 1 ONGOING This

spell points you in the direction of the nearest dead body, or, if it’s
within a short walking distance, reveals exactly where it is. While
this spell is ongoing, take -1 to cast a spell.

Speak With Dead LEVEL 1

A corpse converses with you briefly. It will answer any three
questions you pose to it to the best of the knowledge it had in life
and the knowledge it gained in death.

Third Level

Animate Dead LEVEL 3 ONGOING You

invoke a hungry spirit to possess a recently-dead body and serve
you. This creates a zombie that follows your orders to the best of its
limited abilities. Treat the zombie as a character, but with access to
only the basic moves. It has a +1 modifier for all stats and 1 HP. The
zombie also gets your choice of 1d4 of these traits:
• It does not appear obviously dead, at least for a day or two.
• It has a functioning brain and can complete complex tasks.
• It’s durable. It has +2 HP for each level you have.
• It’s talented. Give one stat a +2 modifier.
The zombie lasts until it is destroyed by taking damage in excess of
its HP, or until you end the spell. While this spell is ongoing you
take -1 to cast a spell.

Fifth Level

Consume Unlife LEVEL 5

The mindless undead creature you touch is destroyed and you steal
its death energy to heal yourself or the next ally you touch. The
amount of damage healed is equal to the HP that the creature had
remaining before you destroyed it.

Seventh Level

Mark of Death LEVEL 7

Choose a creature whose true name you know. This spell creates
permanent runes on a target surface that will kill that creature,
should they read them.

Ninth Level

Soul Gem LEVEL 9

You trap the soul of a dying creature within a gem. The trapped
creature is aware of its imprisonment but can still be manipulated
through spells, parley, and other effects. All moves against the
trapped creature are at +1. You can free the soul at any time but it
can never be recaptured once freed.

Pyromancy

Are you the magician who longs to see? I chant it out, between two
worlds, and fire walks with me.

Cantrip

Light CANTRIP
An item you touch glows with arcane light, about as bright as a
torch. It gives off no heat or sound and requires no fuel, but it is
otherwise like a mundane torch. You have complete control of the
colour of the flame. The spell lasts as long as it is in your presence.

First Level

Burning Hands LEVEL 1 ONGOING Your

hands alight with flame, which does not burn until you let it
go. When you do, you can use the fire as a weapon to deal your
damage, or to light flammable materials ablaze.

Fire Walk For Me LEVEL 1 ONGOING You

command a fire that is contained to one location—such as a
campfire or a bonfire—to move to another location of your choice.
Although it moves quickly, it may set things on fire as it goes. While
this spell is ongoing, you may not cast another.

Third Level

Extinguish Small Fires LEVEL 3

At your command, any fire the size of a funeral pyre or smaller is
extinguished.

Fireball LEVEL 3
You evoke a mighty ball of flame that envelops your target and
everyone nearby, inflicting 2d6 damage which ignores armour.

Fifth Level

Summon Fire Elemental LEVEL 5 ONGOING An

elemental creature made of fire appears and aids you as best it can.
Treat it as your character, but with access to only the basic moves. It
has +1 modifier for all stats, 1 HP, and uses your damage dice. The
monster also gets your choice of 1d4 of these traits:
• It can choose what to set on fire and what not to touch.
• It can fly and hover.
• It does 1d10 damage.
• It has +2 instead of +1 to one stat.
• Its bond to your plane is strong: +2 HP for each level you
have.
• You can touch it safely.
The elemental remains on this plane until it dies or you dismiss it.
While the spell is ongoing you take -1 to cast a spell.

Seventh Level

Extinguish Large Fires LEVEL 7

At your command, a fire of any size is extinguished, or an elemental
is banished from this plane of existence.

Ninth Level

Form of Fire LEVEL 9 ONGOING You

transform into an elemental made of fire. While in this form, you
have all the innate abilities and weaknesses of the form, and your
damage die is a d10. Also, hold 3. You may spend a hold to use
either of the following moves:
• Engulf a foe in flames.
• Fly through the air like a spark.
Once you are out of hold, the spell ends. At any time, you may
spend all your hold and revert to your natural form.

Summoning

You are never alone, unless you want to be.

Cantrip
Unseen Servant CANTRIP ONGOING You
conjure a simple invisible construct that can do nothing but carry
items. It has Load 3 and carries anything you hand to it. It cannot
pick up items on its own and can only carry those you give to it.
Items carried by an unseen servant appear to float in the air a few
paces behind you. An unseen servant that takes damage or leaves
your presence is immediately dispelled, dropping any items it
carried. Otherwise the unseen servant serves you until you end the
spell.

First Level

Contact Spirits LEVEL 1

Name the spirit you wish to contact (or leave it to the GM). You
pull that creature through the planes, just close enough to speak to
you. It is bound to answer any one question you ask to the best of
its ability.

Summon Feast LEVEL 1

From nothing, you are able to summon up to your level in rations
worth of delicious food. Somewhere else in the world, all this food
goes missing.

Third Level

Darkness LEVEL 3 ONGOING Choose an area you can see:

it’s filled with supernatural darkness and shadow. While this spell is
ongoing you take -1 to cast a spell.

Fifth Level

Summon Monster LEVEL 5 ONGOING A

monster appears and aids you as best it can. Treat it as your
character, but with access to only the basic moves. It has
+1 modifier for all stats, 1 HP, and uses your damage dice. The
monster also gets your choice of 1d6 of these traits:
• It does 1d8 damage.
• It has +2 instead of +1 to one stat.
• It has some useful adaptation.
• It’s not reckless.
• Its bond to your plane is strong: +2 HP for each level you
have. The GM will tell you the type of monster you get based on the
traits you select. The creature remains on this plane until it dies or
you dismiss it. While the spell is ongoing you take -1 to cast a spell.

Seventh Level

Cloudkill LEVEL 7 ONGOING A cloud of fog drifts

into this realm from beyond the Black Gates of Death, filling the
immediate area. Whenever a creature in the area takes damage it
takes an additional, separate 1d6 damage which ignores armour.
This spell persists so long as you can see the affected area, or until
you dismiss it.

Ninth Level

Perfect Summons LEVEL 9

You teleport a creature to your presence. Name a creature or give a
short description of a type of creature. If you named a creature, that
creature appears before you. If you described a type of creature, a
creature of that type appears before you.

Ward-Weaving

The schools of wards and runes involves inscribing magical

markings onto the surfaces of solid objects, thus imbuing them
with your magic. Symbols have power, after all.

Cantrip

Wizard’s Mark CANTRIP

You mark a person or object that you touch with your invisible
magic. Unless the mark is dispelled, you can always recognize it.
First Level

Alarm LEVEL 1
Walk a wide circle as you cast this spell. Until you prepare spells
again your magic will alert you if a creature crosses that circle. Even
if you are asleep, the spell will shake you from your slumber.

Secret Runes LEVEL 1

You write a message on a surface in magical runes which no one
can see—except for the person you name as the spell is cast. They
will see these runes as plain as day.

Third Level

Trap Ward LEVEL 3

By placing this ward on an object, and you deal your damage to the
next person who touches this object and isn’t you.

Fifth Level

Ward Against Intruders LEVEL 5

When you place this ward on a doorway, window, or other passage,
it prevents creatures of a certain type from passing through. Name
what kind of creature when you place the ward; they can only pass
if they possess magical protection, or the passageway is destroyed.

Seventh Level

Location Ward LEVEL 7

When you place this ward anywhere in a specific location, it
prevents creatures of a certain type from entering that area. The
location must have clearly-defined boundaries, though you can
pace out a circle or other space and mark it with chalk, sand, etc.
Name what kind of creature is barred from entry when you place
the ward.
Mark of Death LEVEL 7
Choose a creature whose true name you know. This spell creates
permanent runes on a target surface that will kill that creature,
should they read them.

Ninth Level

Gateway Runes LEVEL 9

This spell may be used to create two effects. The first effect is to
place a gate ward upon a location. The second use of this spell
transports yourself and a small handful of other people from one
gate ward to another, no matter the distance between. When the
spell is cast, you may only do one or the other, not both.

Rogues

In the Shadows

Rogues are pretty much experts in some form of deceit, be it

stealing, lying, or staying out of sight.

Stats

The specialties you choose may modify these scores: Your base
damage is d8.
Your load is 8+STR.
Your maximum HP is 6+Constitution.

Starting Moves

Choose three rogue specialties. You get all the starting moves from
each. Make a note of any stat modifiers from your specialties. Each
time you level up, choose one advanced move from those offered by
your three specialties.
You may instead choose only two rogue specialties instead of three.
Take a level 2-5 move from one of them right away, but no other
bonuses.

You may instead choose two rogue specialties and one specialty
from another archetype, but:
• If you choose a warrior specialty, your stats remain
unchanged.
• If you choose a specialty from any other archetype, your
base damage is d6 instead of d8.

Rogues also start with this move in addition to starting moves from
specialties:

Flexible Morals
When someone tries to detect your alignment, you can tell them
any alignment you like.

Advanced Moves

Each time you level up, choose an advanced move from one of your
specialties. Or choose one of the following options:
• At any level, instead of a move from one of your specialties,
you may choose a move from one of the other rogue specialties.
You may do this twice only.
• Once between levels 2-5, instead of a move from one of
your
specialties, you may choose a move from any other archetype.
• Twice between levels 6-10, instead of a move from one of
your specialties, you may choose a move from any other archetype.

Rogue Alignments

Choose one of these alignments, or one from those offered by your

specialties:
Chaotic
Leap into danger without a plan.

Evil
Shift danger or blame from yourself to someone else.

Good
Give to the poor what you take from the rich.

Neutral
Tell an elaborate lie and get away with it.

Rogue Bonds

As a rogue, you may have up to four bonds at a time. Choose from

the following, and from those offered by your specialties:
• __________ and I have a con running.
• __________ has my back when things go wrong.
• __________ helped me make some important contacts. I
owe them.
• __________ is my lover, or was, or would have been, or…
it’s complicated.
• __________ knows incriminating details about me.
• __________ left me in a pinch when they were supposed to
come through for me.
• __________ still owes me for some stuff they were
supposed to fence for me.
• Me and __________ are the only survivors of a dubious
adventure.

Rogue Gear

You start with your own clothes (or someone else’s), some dungeon
rations (5 uses, 1 weight), and choose one piece of roguish gear:
○ Backpack and adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight).
○ Dagger (hand, 1 weight).
○ Healing potion.
○ Lantern (2 weight) and oil (5 uses).
○ Ragged bow (near, 2 weight) and a bundle of arrows (3
ammo, 1 weight).

Rogue Races

You may choose one of these races or one of the race options
provided by your specialties. Once you have chosen your race, gain
the corresponding move:

Dwarf
You have a nose for gold and gems. When you discern realities, add
this to the list of questions you can ask:
• Is there treasure here?

Elf
Choose one weapon—you can always treat weapons of that type as
if they had the precise tag.

Halfling
When you attack with a ranged weapon, deal +2 damage.

Human
You are a professional. When you spout lore or discern realities
about criminal activities, take +1.

Acrobat
Who better to perform an impossible heist than the death-defying
acrobat?

Compendium Class

Once you have trained with a troupe of acrobats or a master acrobat

for a full tour cycle (every location the circus goes to), you may
consider the acrobat specialty an available compendium class. The
next time you level up, you may add this specialty to your character
instead of choosing a move from your class.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Perfect Poise
You never lose your balance, even on a high wire, or fall without
being pushed. If you are pushed, as long as there is something to
break your fall, you can defy danger with DEX to use it and take no
damage.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

The Long Climb

When you assess a stretch of dangerous terrain between you and an
objective, the GM will sketch out a map or diagram to help you plot
your approach. Working together, make note of a number of useful
features equal to your level, and take +1 forward when you make
use of them.

Nine Lives
Requires: Perfect Poise
When you fall, if there is something that could possibly break your
fall, it does so and you take no damage.

Swashbuckler
When you use your surroundings to perform a flamboyant
acrobatic maneuver, choose one outcome, in addition to anything
else that may happen:
• You grab something undefended. Now it’s yours!
• You knock someone down or off-balance.
• You move from where you are to somewhere else in sight or
in reach without difficulty.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Death Defying Grace

When you defy danger using acrobatic maneuvers, on a 7-9, you
can choose not to personally suffer the consequences. Someone
or something else, possibly your equipment but certainly not you,
suffers the consequences instead.

Heroic Swashbuckler
Replaces: Swashbuckler
When you use your surroundings to perform a flamboyant
acrobatic maneuver, choose one outcome, in addition to anything
else that may happen:
• You grab something, even if someone else is holding it: Now
it’s yours!
• You knock someone down or off-balance. You may deal
damage equal to your level.
• You move from where you are to somewhere else in sight or
in reach without difficulty. You may take someone else with you.

Serpentine
When you employ acrobatics, deft maneuvers, or quick
reflexes, you can defend with DEX instead of CON.

Acrobat Bonds

• I ran away from the circus to be with __________.

Acrobat Gear

You get adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight) in addition to whatever

your other specialties give you.

Acrobat Races

You may choose one of these instead of a rogue race option:

Halfling
When you defy danger and use your small size to your
advantage, take +1.

Human
When you first enter a civilized settlement, you can always find a
circus, tavern, or theatre that will take you in as a guest.

Assassin

Killing people for money isn’t pretty, but it’s a living. Well, sure, not
for them.

Compendium Class

Once you have murdered a well-known person in a position of

power without being caught or identified, you may consider the
assassin specialty an available compendium class. The next time
you level up, you may add this specialty to your character instead of
choosing a move from your class.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Backstab
When you attack a surprised or defenceless enemy with a melee
weapon, you can choose to deal your damage or roll+DEX. On a
10+, choose two. On a 7-9, choose one:
• Their armour is reduced by 1 until the repair it.
• You create an advantage that gives +1 forward to you or an
ally acting on it.
• You deal your damage +1d6.
• You don’t get into a fight with them.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Cheap Shot
Requires: Backstab
When using a precise or hand weapon, your backstab deals an extra
+1d6 damage.

Improvised Weapon
Anything solid that you can pick up, you can use as a weapon with
the appropriate range (usually hand).

Shoot First
You’re never caught by surprise. When an enemy would get the
drop on you, you get to act first instead.
Underdog
When you’re outnumbered, you have +1 armour.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Dirty Fighter
Replaces: Cheap Shot
When using a precise or hand weapon, your backstab deals an extra
+1d8 damage and all other attacks deal +1d4 damage.

Disguise
When you have time and materials, you can create a disguise that
will fool anyone into thinking you’re another creature of about
the same size and shape. Your actions can give you away but your
appearance won’t.

Serious Underdog
Replaces: Underdog
You have +1 armour. When you’re outnumbered, you have
+2 armour instead.

Strong Arm, True Aim

You can throw any melee weapon, using it to volley. A thrown
melee weapon is gone from your possession; you can never choose
to reduce ammo on a 7-9.

Assassin Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a rogue alignment:

Chaotic
Murder a tyrant.

Lawful
Execute a convicted criminal.

Assassin Bonds

• __________ has promised to help me leave this life behind.

• __________ saw me kill someone important.
• I’ve worked with __________ before.

Assassin Gear

Choose one:
○ Backpack and adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight).
○ Leather armour (1 armour, 1 weight).
○ Rapier (close, precise, 1 weight).
○ Short sword (close, 1 weight).
○ Three throwing daggers (thrown, near, 0 weight).

Body Thief

It was horrible. She was stealing my body, crowding me out, making

a prisoner of me. You know it was she, that preying wolf in my
body. You ought to have known the difference!

Compendium Class

Once you have experienced a severe mind/body break, and found

yourself wandering away from your flesh, due to powerful magic
or psychic influence, you may consider the body thief specialty an
available compendium class. The next time you level up, you may
add this specialty to your character instead of choosing a move
from your class.
Stats

If you choose the body thief specialty, lower your maximum HP by

2, but not lower than 4+Constitution.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Possession
When you touch a sleeping or unconscious NPC, you may possess
their body with your mind. While you possess someone’s body,
your own body lies unconscious and you have full control over
their body, as if it were yours. Use your own stats. Your new body
takes any physical damage you suffer, but you mark a debility if it
dies or suffers particularly traumatic injury. Your mind returns to
your original body when you want it to or when the person you are
possessing wakes up.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Doll House
Requires: Possession
When you build a body out of inanimate materials, you can possess
it like a sleeping or unconscious person. Do not mark a debility if
your constructed body suffers damage or is destroyed.

Eyes of the Tiger

When you mark an animal (with blood, dirt, or mud, for example),
you can see through that animal’s eyes as if they were your own,
no matter what distance separates you. Only one animal may be
marked in this way.
Mind Invasion
Requires: Possession
When you touch a conscious NPC and force your mind into their
body, roll+INT. On a hit, you can take possession of their body, but
on a 7-9, choose one:
• It is hard to maintain control. Take -1 ongoing until you
leave
their body.
• Their mind must inhabit your body while you possess
theirs.
• They can still speak while you possess their body.
• You can only possess their body for a few short moments.
Your mind returns to your body when you want it to, or when your
victim finds a way to drive you out.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Callous Master
Requires: Possession
You never mark a debility if the body you are possessing dies or
suffers injury.

Far Invasion
Requires: Mind Invasion
You can attempt to possess a conscious person if you make eye
contact, even without touching them.

I am the Tiger
Requires: Eyes of the Tiger
When you mark an animal, you can possess it as if it were a
sleeping or unconscious person. When you take advantage of the
animal’s specific adaptations, take +1.
Body Thief Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a rogue alignment:

Chaotic
Cause embarrassment to someone powerful by possessing them or
someone close to them.

Evil
Possess an enemy and cause them harm.

Neutral
Possess someone in order to increase your material wealth.

Body Thief Bonds

• __________ knows what I can do and doesn’t loathe me, for

some strange reason.
• I wish I were __________, but I can never be them.
• I would never possess __________, I cannot stand their
body.

Body Thief Gear

Choose one:
○ Adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight).
○ Book of “sorcery” (1 weight).
○ Change of clothes (stolen).
○ Dungeon rations (5 uses, 1 weight).
○ Incriminating letters.
○ Manacles (1 weight).
○ Someone else’s purse, unopened.
Body Thief Races

You may choose one of these instead of a rogue race option:

Halfling
When you possess someone of a different race, you gain a move
that corresponds to their race, for as long as you possess their body.

Human
When you discern realities while in a possessed body, add these
questions to the list of those you can ask:
• What does my new body remember about this?
• What would my new body do in this situation?

Breaker

Breakin’ in, breakin’ out.

Compendium Class

Once you have cracked the most famous prison, safe, or stronghold
in the land, you may consider the breaker specialty an available
compendium class. The next time you level up, you may add this
specialty to your character instead of choosing a move from your
class.

Stats

If you choose the breaker specialty, you get +1 load.

Starting Moves

You start with these two moves:

Tools of the Trade
When you have time to prepare for a job, you can produce the
tools you need later on. When you produce them, say what they
are and roll+INT. On a 10+, they work perfectly and aren’t even
the only thing inside your black bag. On a 7-9, either there’s plenty
more where that one came from but the GM will add a tag or a
complication to it, or this is the last thing up your sleeve and it
works perfectly. On a miss, there is probably something wrong with
your tools.

Tricks of the Trade

When you pick locks or pockets or disable traps, roll+DEX. On a
10+, you do it, no problem. On a 7-9, you still do it, but the GM
will offer you two options between a cost, danger, and suspicion.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from the
following moves:

Breakin’
When you scout a location with the intention of breaking in,
roll+INT. On a 10+, ask the GM three questions from the list below.
On a 7-9, ask one:
• What’s my best way in?
• What’s out of place here?
• What’s the greatest danger here?
• Where do they keep the valuables?
Take +1 forward when you take advantage of the answers.

The Long Climb

When you assess a stretch of dangerous terrain between you and an
objective, the GM will sketch out a map or diagram to help you plot
your approach. Working together, make note of a number of useful
features equal to your level, and take +1 forward when you make
use of them.

Safecracker
Requires: Tools of the Trade
When you use your tools to break through a door, safe, wall, or
other sealed obstacle, roll+DEX. On a 10+, choose two option from
the list below. On a 7-9, choose one:
• It doesn’t cost you anything.
• You do it quickly.
• You do it quietly.
•

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Buyers
When you see something of great value, ask the GM who would be
interested in acquiring it and choose one:
• The GM will name a number of persons equal to your INT
and you can ask one question about each of them, but no more.
• The GM will name one person, and you can ask a number
of questions about them equal to your INT.

Escape Route
When you’re in too deep and need a way out, name your escape
route and roll+DEX. On a 10+, you’re gone. On a 7-9, you can stay
or go, but if you go it costs you: leave something behind or take
something with you, the GM will tell you what.

Leg Work
You can spend a preparation to reveal a safe house or a secret stash
of supplies close to a place you intend to break into.

Breaker Alignments
You may choose one of these instead of a rogue alignment:

Neutral
Avoid detection or infiltrate a location.

Breaker Bonds

• __________ has fenced goods for me before.

• __________ helped me steal something really valuable from
someone who is really dangerous.
• __________ knows where I stashed some loot.
• I don’t think __________ approves of my lifestyle.

Breaker Gear

You have a black bag of tools (1 weight) and choose one:

○ Adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight).
○ Bag of books (5 uses, 2 weight).
○ Lantern (1 weight) and oil.
○ Small watchdog.
○ Sword (close, 2 weight).

Breaker Races

You may choose one of these instead of a rogue race option:

Dwarf
When you produce gemcutting, safecracking, or stonecrafting tools,
roll for tools of the trade as normal but treat a miss as a 7-9.

Elf
When you study a location, you may ask one question from the
breakin’ list, in addition to whatever discern realities questions you
also ask.

Halfling
When you defy danger and use your small size to your
advantage, take +1.

Human
When you disarm a trap, as long as you don’t destroy it, you can
reset it once you are out of danger.

Fence

The middleman makes all the money.

Compendium Class

Once you have found a buyer for a famous, unique, and valuable
artifact stolen by someone else, you may consider the fence
specialty an available compendium class. The next time you level
up, you may add this specialty to your character instead of choosing
a move from your class.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Connections
When you put out word to the criminal underbelly about
something you want or need, roll+CHA. On a 10+, someone has it,
just for you. On a 7-9, you’ll have to settle for something close or it
comes with strings attached, your call.
Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from the
following moves:

Eye for Loot

When you see or come to know about a thing you want, roll+INT.
On a 10+, ask the GM three questions about it. On a 7-9, ask two.
On a miss, ask one anyway, but your desire is betrayed to everyone
who cares (and some who don’t):
• What happened to it recently?
• What is it really worth, all things considered?
• What protects it and keeps it where it is?
• Who will try to keep it from me?
• Who will want it once it is mine?

Trade Networks
When you consult your contacts before undertaking a journey to
another settlement, the GM will tell you about a person there who
can help you.

We All Want Things

When you parley with someone or discern realities connected to
them, on a hit you can also ask the GM one of these questions:
• What does this person really want from me?
• What does this person value most?
• What is the most valuable thing here?

Wealth and Taste

When you make a show of flashing around your most valuable
possession, the GM chooses an NPC who can see you. They will do
anything they can to obtain your item or one like it.
When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Back-Up Plan
When you meet with someone on business, the GM will answer
two questions you ask from the list below:
• Is there an ambush waiting for me?
• What are they really feeling?
• What is my best way out of this?
• Who is watching?

Buyers
When you see something of great value, ask the GM who would be
interested in acquiring it and choose one:
• The GM will name a number of persons equal to your INT
and you can ask one question about each of them, but no more.
• The GM will name one person, and you can ask a number
of questions about them equal to your INT.

I Must Have It!

Requires: Eye for Loot
When you use your eye for loot, on a 12+, ask the GM an
additional question, any question, about the thing you want.

Magic Mark
When you mark an object in some special way, you can always find
out where it is later on by making the mark again on something you
have at hand.

Web of Contacts
Requires: Connections
When you put out the word that you want to meet with someone,
roll+CHA. On a 10+, someone can set up a meeting, with
circumstances in your favour. On a 7-9, you can meet with them,
but there are strings attached or the circumstances are less than
ideal.
Fence Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a rogue alignment:

Evil
Prevent someone from getting their possessions back.

Neutral
Obtain a unique and valuable treasure.

Fence Bonds

• __________ knows where I stashed some loot.

• I’ve moved goods for __________ before.

Fence Gear

Choose one:
○ Bag of books (5 uses, 2 weight).
○ Fancy clothes.
○ Rapier (close, precise, 2 weight).
○ Three throwing daggers (thrown, 0 weight).

Fence Races

You may choose one of these instead of a rogue race option:

Elf
When you examine an object, add this to the list of discern realities
questions you can ask:
• Where does this come from?
Human
When you examine a person, add this to the list of discern
realities questions you can ask:
• What kind of things do you consider valuable?

Firestarter

Fire is seductive. The beauty of it, the power, the sheer freedom
of its chaotic dance of destruction. Who wouldn’t want to control
that?

Compendium Class

Once you have miraculously survived a raging inferno, you may

consider the firestarter specialty an available compendium class.
The next time you level up, you may add this specialty to your
character instead of choosing a move from your class.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Pyrokinesis
When you exert your will over fire, roll+INT. On a 10+, hold
3 commands. On a 7-9, hold 2. Spend a command to:
• Create fire.
• Extinguish a single body of fire.
• Make a body of fire take an action according to your will.
• Move a body of fire instantaneously.
•
Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Born of Fire
You are no longer harmed by the touch of fire, nor are you
vulnerable to heat.

Inner Heat
You are no longer vulnerable to cold or freezing. You can melt ice
with your touch, as if you were on fire.

Teeth of Flame
Whenever you deal damage using fire, you deal 1d10 damage.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Fire Control
Requires: Pyrokinesis
When you hold command over fire, you may control a body of fire
no larger than yourself that you have created without spending a
command.

Flame Out
Requires: Pyrokinesis
When you hold command over fire, you may gain +1 command at
any time if you take 1d4 damage (ignores armour).

Wreathed in Flame
Requires: Born of Fire
When you summon fire to envelope your body, the following things
are true:
• Anyone who touches you is burned, for at least 1d10
damage.
• Anything you touch is burned.
• Nothing you are holding or wearing when you summon the
fire burns, unless you want it to.
• You may act normally, see fine, and you have no need to
breathe.
The fire that surrounds you lasts as long as you want it to.

Firestarter Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a rogue alignment:

Evil
Use your power over fire to destroy and terrorize.

Good
Push someone away so there’s no chance of you hurting them by
accident.

Firestarter Bonds

• __________ thinks my powers are nothing but trouble.

• __________ underestimates the amount of danger we are
in.
• I’ve been burned by __________ before, if you know what I
mean.

Firestarter Gear

Choose one:
○ Adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight).
○ Dungeon rations (5 uses, 1 weight).
○ Healing potion.
○ Leather armour (1 armour, 1 weight).
○ Staff (close, two-handed, 1 weight).

Mastermind

Whoever plans the heist has the best chance of keeping the loot.

Compendium Class

Once you have successfully planned and executed a daring

heist, you may consider the mastermind specialty an available
compendium class. The next time you level up, you may add this
specialty to your character instead of choosing a move from your
class.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

I’ve Got a Bad Feeling About This

When you spend a moment surveying an area, ask the GM two of
the following questions. The GM will answer truthfully.
• Is there a trap or ambush here, and if so, where?
• What can I see that no one else can?
• What here is the biggest threat to me?
• Where’s my best way in, out, or through?

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from the
following moves:
Connections
When you put out the word to the criminal underbelly about
something you want or need, roll+CHA. On a 10+, someone has it,
just for you. On a 7-9, you’ll have to settle for something close or it
comes with strings attached, your call.

Ever Watchful
When you discern realities, ask one additional question, even on a
miss.

Forecast
When you make camp, the GM will tell you about one enemy,
hazard, or obstacle you are likely to face tomorrow, and you take
+1 forward against it.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Evasion
When you defy danger, on a 12+, you transcend the danger. You
not only do what you set out to, but the GM will offer you a better
outcome, true beauty, or a moment of grace.

Ever Thoughtful
Requires: Ever Watchful
When you discern realities, up to two of your questions can by
anything, not limited to the list.

Heist
When you take time to make a plan to steal something, name the
thing you want to steal and ask the GM these questions. When
acting on the answers you and your allies take +1 forward.
• What’s its most powerful defence?
• Who else wants it?
• Who will come after it?
• Who will notice it’s missing?

Mastermind Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a rogue alignment:

Chaotic
Pull off a heist that causes an uproar in public society.

Evil
Rob someone of their most valuable item.

Mastermind Bonds

• __________ earned my respect the hard way.

• __________ helped me get where I am today.
• __________ is my trusty assistant.

Mastermind Gear

You get the clothes necessary to look like a normal person, a bag of
thieves’ tools (2 weight), and whatever your other specialties give
you.

Mastermind Races

You may choose one of these instead of a rogue race option:

Dwarf
Add these to the list of questions you can ask when you have a bad
feeling about this:
• Is there treasure hidden here?
• What is the most valuable object here?

Elf
Add these to the list of questions you can ask when you have a bad
feeling about this:
• Is there a secret hiding here?
• What here is magical or an illusion?

Human
When you recruit from the criminal underworld, take +1.

Poisoner

Poison is a coward’s weapon. A smart coward’s weapon.

Compendium Class

Once you have created your own unique blend of poison, you may
consider the poisoner specialty an available compendium class. The
next time you level up, you may add this specialty to your character
instead of choosing a move from your class.

Stats

If you choose the poisoner specialty, you get +1 load.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Poisoner
You’ve mastered the care and use of a poison. Choose a poison
from the list below; that poison is no longer dangerous for you
to use. You also start with three uses of the poison you choose.
Whenever you have time to gather materials and a safe place to
brew, you can make three uses of the poison you choose for free.
Note that some poisons are applied, meaning you have to carefully
apply it to the target or something they eat or drink. Touch poisons
just need to touch the target, they can even be used on the blade of
a weapon.
○ Bloodweed (touch): The target deals -1d4 damage ongoing
until cured.
○ Goldenroot (applied): The target treats the next creature
they see as a trusted ally, until proved otherwise.
○ Iocaine Powder (ingested): Causes the target to die.
○ Oil of Tagit (applied): The target falls into a light sleep.
○ Serpent’s Tears (touch): Anyone dealing damage to the
target rolls twice and takes the better result.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Brewer
Requires: Poisoner
When you have time to gather materials and a safe place to brew,
you can create three doses of any one poison you’ve used before.

Envenom
Requires: Poisoner
You can apply even complex poisons with a pinprick. When you
apply a poison that’s not dangerous for you to use to your weapon,
it’s touch instead of applied.

Nose for Danger

Using only your sense of smell, you can tell if something has been
poisoned and with what, if you know the poison.

Poison Master
Requires: Poisoner
After you’ve used a poison once, it is no longer dangerous for you
to use.

The Poisoned Blade

When you attack with a poisoned blade, on a hit, the poison also
takes effect, but on a 7-9, your weapon is no longer poisoned. When
you coat your blade with poison, choose an applied or touch poison
that you possess or either of these two:
• Paralytic: Choose one of your foe’s limbs, senses, or other
physical abilities. They can no longer use it.
• Toxic: Deal +1d4 damage moments after you strike.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Alchemist
Replaces: Brewer
When you have time to gather materials and a safe place to brew,
you can create three doses of any poison you’ve used before.
Alternately you can describe the effects of a poison you’d like to
create. The GM will tell you that you can create it, but with one or
more caveats:
• It will have obvious side effects.
• It will only work under specific circumstances
• It will take a while to take effect.
• The best you can manage is a weaker version.

Envenomed
Requires: Envenom
Choose one poison: your body is infused with it. Your blood, sweat,
and tears, even your spit, are all now poisonous, as if they are this
poison. You are unaffected by it.

Poison God
Requires: Poison Master
No poison, neither mundane nor magical, can affect you unless you
let it.

Poisoner Bonds

• __________ helped me develop my poison.

• __________ suspects me of a crime I didn’t commit.
• I spent time in jail with ___________.

Poisoner Gear

You get three uses of your poison and whatever your other
specialties give you.

Poisoner Races

You may choose one of these instead of a rogue race option:

Elf
Your race is old and patient. You start with three poisons, instead of
only one.

Halfling
When you brew your poisons, you can make four uses instead of
three.

Human
When you’re in a town or city, you can always find the materials
you need to brew your poison.

Pretender

Fake it ’till you make it.

Compendium Class

Once you have successfully impersonated someone famous

throughout the land, you may consider the pretender specialty an
available compendium class. The next time you level up, you may
add this specialty to your character instead of choosing a move
from your class.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Fake
Choose a type of person—perhaps an occupation, rank, or other
social role. You have a costume that allows you to disguise yourself
as this kind of person—all you need do is don the clothes. Your
actions might give you away, but your clothes and mannerisms will
not. Each time you level up, choose another type of person that you
can disguise yourself as.

Advanced Moves
When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Bamboozle
When you parley with someone, on a hit, you also take
+1 forward with them.

Impersonation
When you disguise yourself as a specific person, roll+CHA. On
a 10+, only that person’s most intimate associates can tell the
difference. On a 7-9, only those who do not know the person are
fooled.

Silver Tongue
You never have to spend money to carouse, and you roll with CHA
instead of coins spent. If there is already a gathering happening,
you may carouse without having returned triumphant.

Social Climber
When you set your heart on achieving a certain social position, the
GM will sketch out a relationship map or diagram to help you plot
your approach. Working together, make note of a number of useful
circumstances equal to your level, and take +1 forward when you
make use of them. You can only work towards one position at a
time.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Con
Replaces: Bamboozle
When you parley with someone, on a hit, you also take
+1 forward with them and get to ask their player one question
which they must answer truthfully.
Master Impersonator
Replaces: Impersonation
When you disguise yourself as a specific person, you look just like
them. Your actions may give you away, but anyone who does not
know the person intimately will be fooled by your appearance.
When you meet someone who is intimately associated with the
person you are impersonating, roll+CHA. On a 10+, they are
fooled, even by strange behaviour, until you give yourself away for
certain. On a 7-9, they are already suspicious of you.

Reputation
When you first meet someone who’s heard tell of you, roll+CHA.
On a 10+, tell the GM two things they’ve heard about you. On a
7-9, tell the GM one thing they’ve heard, and the GM tells you one
thing.

Pretender Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a rogue alignment:

Evil
Harm someone’s reputation or social standing.

Pretender Bonds

• __________ shared a secret with me.

• I grew up with ___________. They know who I really am.

Pretender Gear

You start with the extra costume you get from being fake, and
whatever else your other specialties give you.

Psi-Knife
A keen intellect you have, as sharp as a knife. Literally.

Compendium Class

Once you have worked the anger in your heart like an iron in a
forge, dedicating yourself to stifling its expression in any way save
through the mental image of a knife, and proved your discipline by
remaining calm three times you should have responded, you may
consider the psi-knife specialty an available compendium class. The
next time you level up, you may add this specialty to your character
instead of choosing a move from your class.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Psychic Blade
When you create a blade out of psychic energy, it counts as a
weapon (hand, near, ignores armour), and you can hack and slash
with INT instead of STR when you fight with it. If you reduce a
foe to zero HP with your psychic blade, instead of dying, they fall
unconscious.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Flying Daggers of the Mind

Requires: Psychic Blade
Your psychic blades gain the near tag. You can volley using INT
instead of DEX, but if you choose to expend ammo, take 1d4
damage (ignores armour) instead.

Psychic Fist
Requires: Psychic Blade
Your psychic blade also has the forceful, messy, and reach tags.

Psychic Shield
Requires: Psychic Knife
You can use your psychic blade as a shield instead of a knife. When
you do, you get +1 armour, and you cannot use it as a weapon.

Savage Blade
Requires: Psychic Blade
Your psychic blade does an extra +1d4 damage, and also has the
close tag.

Twilight Blade
Requires: Psychic Blade
Your psychic blade can cut through solid objects. When you deal
damage with your psychic blade to a damaged, defenceless, or
surprised enemy, you may also cut through one of their possessions
or weapons, or reduce their armour by 1. If you do, deal no damage.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Deadly Blade
Replaces: Savage Blade
Your psychic blade does an extra +1d8 damage, and also has the
close and reach tags.

The Lock Undone

You can open locks and interfere with other mechanical devices as
if you had lockpicks or other tools, using only your mind.
Shield of Blades
Replaces: Psychic Shield
You can use your psychic blade as a shield and a weapon at the
same time. When you wield your psychic knife, you get
+1 armour.

Twilight Reckoning
Requires: Twilight Blade
When you deal damage with your psychic blade to a damaged,
defenceless, or surprised enemy, you may sever anything from
the target—their life, their limb, their title, their relationship with
someone, their most prized possession, their thoughts on a topic,
anything. If you do, deal no damage.

Psi-Knife Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a rogue alignment:

Evil
Defeat a foe because they have something you want.

Good
Capture and imprison a dangerous villain.

Neutral
Get the drop on a foe by appearing harmless.

Psi-Knife Bonds

• __________ keeps cramping my style.

• __________ underestimates the trouble that lies before us.
• This isn’t the first time __________ and I have been in a
mess together.
Psi-Knife Gear

Choose one:
○ Adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight).
○ Antitoxin.
○ Healing potion.
○ Leather armour (1 armour, 1 weight).
○ Shield (+1 armour, 2 weight).

Puppet Master

You have your hands in so many pies, your strings on so many

hearts, your fingers stroking so many minds. Who could defy your
will?

Compendium Class

Once you have successfully manipulated someone else into making

a series of life-altering decisions, according to your elaborate plan,
all without suspecting your influence, you may consider the puppet
master specialty an available compendium class. The next time you
level up, you may add this specialty to your character instead of
choosing a move from your class.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Puppet Strings
When you have time and physical contact with someone, you can
plant commands inside their mind. Voice your commands, no
matter how complicated, and roll+INT. On a 10+, hold 3. On a 7-9,
hold 1. If they fulfill your commands, you lose all your hold over
them. Until then, you can spend a hold at any time to inflict 1d6
damage (ignores armour). You may only retain your hold over one
person at a time, though you can abandon your remaining hold if
you wish.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Command and Conquer

When you order hirelings, add your INT to their loyalty.

Commanding Touch
Requires: Puppet Strings
You may use puppet strings, and maintain hold, on more than one
person at a time, if you have time and physical contact with them.
You may also use puppet strings with but a touch, skin to skin, but
you must abandon your hold on anyone else in order to do so, if
you have any.

Iron Will
When you are subject to mind control or magic that influences
your feelings, you may choose to take 1d4 damage (ignores
armour) and ignore the influence.

Vicious Commands
Requires: Puppet Strings
When you spend a hold, you deal 1d8 damage, not 1d6.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Deadly Commands
Replaces: Vicious Commands
When you spend a hold, you deal 1d10 damage, not 1d6.

Master of Puppets
Requires: Puppet Strings
You can spend all your hold on an NPC to control their physical
movements for a few minutes or until they suffer harm.

The Voice
Replaces: Commanding Touch
You may use puppet strings on more than one person as long as
you touch them, skin to skin. You may also use puppet strings on
one person who can hear you speak, but you must abandon your
hold on anyone else in order to do so, if you have any.

Puppet Master Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a magician alignment:

Evil
Deflect blame or consequences from yourself to someone else.

Lawful
Use your special powers to enforce or restore the social order.

Puppet Master Bonds

• __________ is undisciplined, and needs firm guidance.

• Chaos follows in __________’s wake. I must be wary.
• What an intriguing mind __________ has!

Puppet Master Gear

You get 3d6 coins, in addition to whatever your other specialties
give you.

Puppet Master Races

You may choose one of these instead of a magician race option:

Dwarf
Increase your maximum HP by 2.

Human
When you have a hold over someone, you can spend all your hold
and take 1d6 damage (ignores armour) to make them obey your
command, whether they want to or not.

Shadow

Like the ghost of something real, like a passing shadow, you’re not
really there most of the time. Until you are. But then you’re gone!

Compendium Class

Once you have followed someone to a place that is impossible to get

to, without them noticing, you may consider the shadow specialty
an available compendium class. The next time you level up, you
may add this specialty to your character instead of choosing a move
from your class.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Stay Out of the Light
When you hide in shadows or darkness, you cannot be detected by
any normal means until you reveal yourself.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Following
When you follow or shadow someone, roll+DEX. On a 10+, you
find out exactly what they’re up to without arousing suspicion. On
a 7-9, it’s either an impression of their doings or you can reveal
yourself to learn more.

Iron Will
When you are subject to mind control or magic that influences
your feelings, you may choose to take 1d4 damage (ignores
armour) and ignore the influence.

Like a Ghost
When you roll for another move that you want to perform in a
clandestine manner, you may choose options equal to your DEX or
less (but not fewer than none), and then tell the other players:
• …how you draw attention elsewhere instead of to you.
• …how you stay out of sight.
• …that you remain silent.
• …why you leave no trace behind.
On a 10+, all that you say is true. On a 7-9, the GM chooses one
of your statements to be false, the others are true. On a miss, no
guarantees.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:
Disguise
When you have time and materials, you can create a disguise that
will fool anyone into thinking you’re another creature of about
the same size and shape. Your actions can give you away but your
appearance won’t.

Escape Route
When you’re in too deep and need a way out, name your escape
route and roll+DEX. On a 10+, you’re gone. On a 7-9, you can stay
or go, but if you go it costs you: leave something behind or take
something with you, the GM will tell you what.

Fade Away
Requires: Stay Out of the Light
While you stay still or act meek and unobtrusive, even in broad
daylight, people only notice you if they are looking for you
specifically.

Unseen Hand
When you leave a room or other location, you can name something
small that you saw that no one else was using or studying. You took
it.

Shadow Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a rogue alignment:

Neutral
Learn a secret about someone important.

Shadow Bonds

• __________ once talked me into guiding some halflings

on the run through dangerous territory, and never thanked me
properly for it.
• I am obsessed with __________, but they don’t know. Yet.
• I stole something from __________.

Shadow Gear

You get adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight), a backpack, and a key,

though you don’t know what lock it opens.

Shadow Races

You may choose one of these instead of a rogue race option:

Elf
You can hide in forests just as well as shadows and darkness.

Human
At the end of a session, mark an extra experience if you infiltrated a
secure location.

Siren

Everyone needs guidance at some point. Everyone needs a muse.

They just hate so much to be commanded. But you can steer
anyone in the right direction without commands, can’t you?

Compendium Class

Once you have convinced someone to worship you as a deity or

to trust you more than anyone else in the world, even though
they shouldn’t, you may consider the siren specialty an available
compendium class. The next time you level up, you may add this
specialty to your character instead of choosing a move from your
class.
Stats

If you choose the siren specialty, reduce your base damage by one
die size, but not lower than d4.

Starting Move

You start with this move:

Hypnotic Allure
When you are alone with an NPC and you fix your will upon them,
roll+CHA. On a 10+, hold 2 over them. On a 7-9, hold 1. While
you have a hold over them, they cannot act against you, except in
self-defence. They can spend one of your hold by:
• Doing something you tell them to do.
• Fighting to protect you.
• Giving you something you want.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Dangerous Eyes
Requires: Hypnotic Allure
You can spend a hold on someone to meet their gaze. They freeze
and cannot move until you break off eye contact. You cannot move
either.

Grand Entrance
When you make a spectacular entrance or perform for an audience,
roll+CHA. On a 10+, choose three options from the list below. On a
7-9, choose two. On a miss, choose one, in addition to whatever the
GM tells you.
• Someone desires to meet you later, the GM will tell you
who.
• Someone falls in love with you, the GM will tell you who.
• Someone must give you a gift, the GM will tell you who.

Social Climber
When you set your heart on achieving a certain social position, the
GM will sketch out a relationship map or diagram to help you plot
your approach. Working together, make note of a number of useful
circumstances equal to your level, and take +1 forward when you
make use of them. You can only work towards one position at a
time.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Animal Magnetism
Requires: Hypnotic Allure
When you use your hypnotic allure, you get +1 hold, even on a
miss.

Deadly Eyes
Replaces: Dangerous Eyes
You can spend a hold on someone to meet their gaze. They freeze
and cannot move until you break off eye contact. You can move as
long as you maintain eye contact.

Popular
You can write an additional two bonds with the other PCs, in
addition to those you started with.

Reputation
When you first meet someone who’s heard tell of you, roll+CHA.
On a 10+, tell the GM two things they’ve heard about you. On a
7-9, tell the GM one thing they’ve heard, and the GM tells you one
thing.
A Specific Audience
Requires: Grand Entrance
Instead of choosing one of the options from the list, you may
choose a member of the audience. The GM will choose how they
react from the list.

Siren Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a rogue alignment:

Chaotic
Use your personal influence to sow discord amongst your foes.

Evil
Get someone to give you their most valued possessions.

Neutral
Increase your social position and personal influence.

Siren Bonds

• __________ has a thing for me, but I’m not interested.

Right now.
• I need something from __________, something important.

Siren Gear

Choose one or two:

○ Antitoxin.
○ Bandages (3 uses, slow).
○ Dagger (hand, 1 weight).
○ Engagement ring.
○ Letter of introduction.
○ Map.
○ Mask.
○ Ostentatious clothes.
○ Personal feast (1 use, 1 weight).
○ Pet.
○ Spyglass (1 weight).

Siren Races

You may choose one of these instead of a rogue race option:

Elf
When you use your hypnotic allure, on a 12+, hold 3 over them.

Human
When you have a hold over someone, you deal +1d4 damage when
you harm them.

Swindler

Why work hard for it, when people just give it away?

Compendium Class

Once you have convinced someone to part with something

unique or valuable, that they would charge a high price for, and
then swindle them out of the payment you agreed upon, you may
consider the swindler specialty an available compendium class. The
next time you level up, you may add this specialty to your character
instead of choosing a move from your class.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Con Artist
When you evaluate a potential victim, roll+INT. On a 10+, ask their
player three questions from the list below. On a 7-9, ask one:
• How could I engage you in conversation?
• How much are you worth?
• What are your current intentions?
• What do you value?
On a miss, you look suspicious.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Bamboozle
When you parley with someone, on a hit, you also take
+1 forward with them.

Disarming and Open

When you engage someone in conversation, you can ask their
player a question from the list below. They must answer it
truthfully, then they may ask you a question from the list. If you lie,
you cannot use this move on them ever again. If you tell the truth,
you can.
• What are your present intentions?
• What do you most desire?
• What do you not want me to know?
• What do you want from me?

Heart of Gold
Requires: Con Artist
After you evaluate a potential victim and ask your questions, tell
the other player something they could do to make you change your
mind about taking advantage of them. If they end up doing this,
you take +1 forward. If they are a PC, they also mark XP.

The Upsell
If you repackage or modify goods you own in order to resell them,
they are now worth one-and-a-half times as much as before.
Note that doing this with money is called “counterfeiting” and is
everywhere banned by law.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Con
Replaces: Bamboozle
When you parley with someone, on a hit, you also take
+1 forward with them and get to ask their player one question
which they must answer truthfully.

Devious
Requires: Disarming and Open
When you use disarming and open, you may also ask this:
• How are you vulnerable to me?
Your subject may not ask this question of you.

Snake Oil
When you give someone a thing that you have tampered with,
roll+INT. On a hit, you may choose one, but on a 7-9, there are
strings attached or complications:
• The thing comes with some sort of unpleasant side effects
(describe them).
• The thing is ruined as soon as you are gone.
• The thing returns to you within the week.

Swindler Alignments
You may choose one of these instead of a rogue race option:

Evil
Profit from someone else’s misery.

Neutral
Get the better of another thief or swindler.

Swindler Bonds

• __________ helped me steal something really valuable from

someone who is really dangerous.
• __________ knows where I stashed some loot.
• I stole something from __________.

Swindler Gear

You get a case full of fraudulent merchandise and various kinds of

quackery (3 weight) and 2d6 coins, in addition to whatever your
other specialties give you.

Swindler Races

You may choose one of these instead of a rogue race option:

Elf
When you enter an important location (your call) you can ask the
GM for one fact from the history of that location.

Human
When you evaluate a potential victim who is also human, ask an
extra question, even on a miss.
Thief

It’s not just about stealing things. It’s about stealing things from
people who don’t want their things to be stolen, who make sure that
you know it. That’s the stuff worth stealing!

Compendium Class

Once you have successfully robbed the richest person you know,
you may consider the thief specialty an available compendium
class. The next time you level up, you may add this specialty to your
character instead of choosing a move from your class.

Starting Moves

You start with both moves:

Trap Expert
When you spend a moment to survey a dangerous area, roll+DEX.
On a 10+, hold three. On a 7-9, hold one. Spend your hold as you
move through the area to ask these questions:
• Is there a trap here and if so, what activates it?
• What does the trap do when activated?
• What else is hidden here?

Tricks of the Trade

When you pick locks or pockets or disable traps, roll+DEX. On a
10+, you do it, no problem. On a 7-9, you still do it, but the GM
will offer you two options between a cost, danger, and suspicion.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:
Cautious
When you use trap expert, you always get +1 hold, even on a miss.

Guild Thief
When you contact the guild and ask for assistance, roll+CHA. On a
10+, another thief shows up with what you need for a fair price. On
a 7-9, you can still get what you want but there are strings attached
or the guild wants a favour in return. On a miss, you have fallen out
of good standing with the guild and need to make amends.

It Belongs in a Museum
When you are trying to snatch a significant treasure and get away
with it, and no more, you have 2 armour.

The Smell of Sorcery

When you discern realities or use trap expert, the GM will also tell
you what the closest magical effect or source is, if it’s within sight or
scent.

Sneaky Bastard
Requires: Tricks of the Trade
When you disable a trap, you can reset it after you pass, so it catches
the next person. When you pick a lock, you may set it so that it
locks behind you again.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Heist
When you take time to make a plan to steal something, name the
thing you want to steal and ask the GM three questions from the
list below. When acting on the answers you and your allies take
+1 forward.
• What’s its most powerful defence?
• Who else wants it?
• Who will come after it?
• Who will notice it’s missing?

Evasion
When you defy danger, on a 12+, you transcend the danger. You
not only do what you set out to, but the GM will offer you a better
outcome, true beauty, or a moment of grace.

Extremely Cautious
Replaces: Cautious
When you use trap expert, you always get +1 hold, even on a miss.
On a 12+, you get 3 hold and the next time you come near a trap
the GM will immediately tell you what it does, what triggers it, who
set it, and how you can use it to your own advantage.

Thief Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a rogue race option:

Chaotic
Steal something of social or cultural significance.

Neutral
Avoid detection or infiltrate a location.

Thief Bonds

• __________ helped me steal something really valuable from

someone who is really dangerous.
• __________ knows where I stashed some loot.
• __________ saved me from joining the wrong thieves’
guild.
• I spent time in jail with ___________.
• I stole something from __________.

Thief Gear

You get thieves’ tools (1 weight) and choose one:

○ Bag of chalk and sand.
○ Change of clothes.
○ Small watchdog.

Thief Races

You may choose one of these instead of a rogue race option:

Dwarf
When you use trap expert in a structure made of stone, on a hit,
you get +1 hold.

Elf
When you discern realities or use trap expert, on a hit, you may
also ask this question, in addition to any other results:
• Is there a secret door here?

Halfling
When you defy danger and use your small size to your
advantage, take +1.

Tomb Robber
Looting the tombs of dead wizards isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. You
need some powerful magic of your own if you’re going to survive!

Compendium Class

Once you have looting the treasures of an ancient tomb that was
protected by magic, you may consider the tomb robber specialty an
available compendium class. The next time you level up, you may
add this specialty to your character instead of choosing a move
from your class.

Stats

If you choose the tomb robber specialty, you get +1 load.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Ward of Protection
You have a device that is proof against arcane magic. This could
be something you wear, like a bracelet or an amulet, or it could be
a procedure of limited duration—a potion you prepare, symbols
painted on your skin, etc. When you use the protection of this
device to thwart a magical effect (actively or passively), roll+CON.
On a 10+, you are unaffected by the magic. On a 7-9, you can either
suffer the effect to a lesser degree or exhaust yourself and mark a
debility of your choice.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Appraisal
When you examine an important item (your call) for the first
time, roll+INT. On a 10+, ask three questions from the list below.
On a 7-9, ask two. On a miss, ask one question anyway, but you
might not like the answer. If you act on the answers while using the
item, take +1 forward.
• Does this have magical properties?
• How much is this worth and to whom?
• What has been done to this or with this?
• What is it for?
• Who made this and how old is it?

Life, Death, and Greed

When you have a great and valuable treasure in your
possession, you deal +1d6 damage.

Sympathetic Ward
Requires: Ward of Protection
Your ward of protection also guards anyone you touch; they resist
any magic you do. On a 7-9, they choose between the lesser effect
and a debility for themselves.

Ward Against the Dead

Requires: Ward of Protection
When you use your ward or wards against the undead, select
another living target and roll+CON. On a 10+, all undead present
pursue the other target instead of you. On a 7-9, only mindless
undead pursue the other target. Intelligent undead are too clever,
and will do what they want.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Greed is Good
When you obtain a great and valuable treasure for the first
time, gain 1d6 temporary hit points. Damage is applied to these
temporary hit points before harming you.

Looting the Wizard’s Tomb

Requires: Appraisal
When you use a magical item and force it to obey your will, instead
of using its effects as written, roll+INT. On a 10+, you control the
degree and extent of its effects. On a 7-9, you direct its effects, but
choose one:
• You break it and its beneficial properties cannot be used
again
until it is fixed.
• You lose control, producing additional, unwanted effects.

Protection Most Excellent

Requires: Sympathetic Ward
When your ward protects you, on a 12+, the magic rebounds onto
its caster, affecting them instead of anyone else.

Ward Against Monsters

Replaces: Ward Against the Undead
When you use your wards against monsters, select another living
target and roll+CON. On a 10+, all monsters present pursue the
other target instead of you. On a 7-9, only mindless monsters
pursue the other target. Intelligent monsters are too clever, and will
do what they want.

Tomb Robber Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a rogue alignment:

Good
Give your treasure to someone who needs it more than you.
Lawful
Return treasure to its rightful owner.

Neutral
Avoid detection or infiltrate a location.

Tomb Robber Bonds

• __________ has promised to lead me to an ancient burial

site.
• I worry about the ability of __________ to survive in the
dungeon.
• Me and __________ are the only survivors of a dubious
adventure.

Tomb Robber Gear

You get your ward of protection, two large sacks, and whatever your
other specialties give you.

Tomb Robber Races

You may choose one of these instead of a rogue race option:

Elf
Only the darkest and most violent of elves would willingly seek
their fortunes underground. Choose a weapon. In your hands,
weapons of this type have the precise tag.

Halfling
You know how to take advantage of your small size underground,
where you get +1 armour if you’re at all able to defend yourself.
Human
As a child of the greediest of all races, you can treat all treasures
that are 2 weight or heavier as if they were 1 weight lighter than
they are.

Warriors

Why We Fight

The warrior is someone whose business it is to fight, to wage battle,

to handle violence like a lover. The war is the warrior’s way.

Stats

The specialties you choose may modify these scores: Your base
damage is d10.
Your load is 10+STR.
Your maximum HP is 10+Constitution.

Starting Moves

Choose three warrior specialties. You get all the starting moves
from each. Make a note of any stat modifiers from your specialties.
Each time you level up, choose one advanced move from those
offered by your three specialties.

You may instead choose only two warrior specialties instead of

three. Take a level 2-5 move from either of them right away, but no
other bonuses.

You may instead choose two warrior specialties and one

specialty from another archetype, but:
• If you choose a disciple specialty, reduce your base damage
by
one die size (from d10 to d8).
• If you choose a magician specialty, reduce both your base
damage by one die size (from d10 to d8) and your maximum hit
points by 2.
• If you choose a rogue specialty, reduce your maximum hit
points by 2.
• If you choose an adventurer specialty, either reduce your
base damage by one die size (from d10 to d8), or reduce your
maximum hit points by 2.

Advanced Moves

Each time you level up, choose an advanced move from one of your
specialties. Or choose one of the following options:
• At any level, instead of a move from one of your specialties,
you may choose a move from one of the other warrior specialties.
You may do this twice only.
• Once between levels 2-5, instead of a move from one of
your
specialties, you may choose a move from any other archetype.
• Once between levels 6-10, instead of a move from one of
your specialties, you may choose a move from any other archetype.

Warrior Alignments

Choose one of these alignments, or one from those offered by your

specialties:

Chaotic
Free someone from literal or figurative bonds.

Evil
Kill a defenceless or surrendered enemy.
Good
Endanger yourself to protect someone weaker than you.

Lawful
Deny mercy to a criminal or unbeliever.

Neutral
Defeat a worthy opponent.

Warrior Bonds

As a warrior, you may have up to four bonds at a time. Choose

from the following, and from those offered by your specialties:
• __________ gave me food and shelter when I had nothing.
• __________ got me involved in a questionable adventure
and I’m having second thoughts about it now.
• __________ is a brave soul, I have much to learn from
them.
• __________ is always getting into trouble—I must protect
them from themselves.
• __________ owes me their life, whether they admit it or
not.
• __________ was once my enemy, but we’ve since
reconciled.
• I have sworn to protect __________.
• I worry about the ability of __________ to survive in the
dungeon.

Warrior Gear

You start with your clothes, a backpack, a torch, some dungeon

rations (5 uses, 1 weight), and choose one piece of fighting gear:
○ Adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight).
○ Chainmail (1 armour, 1 weight).
○ Dagger (hand, 1 weight).
○ Shield (+1 armour, 2 weight).
○ Short sword (close, 1 weight).
○ Spear (reach, 1 weight).

Warrior Races

You may choose one of these races or one of the race options
provided by your specialties. Once you have chosen your race, gain
the corresponding move:

Dwarf
When you share a drink with someone, you may parley with them
using CON instead of CHA.

Elf
Choose one weapon—you can always treat weapons of that type as
if they had the precise tag.

Halfling
When you defy danger and use your small size to your
advantage, take +1.

Human
Once per battle you may reroll a single damage roll (yours or
someone else’s).

Armiger

You are skilled in the wearing of heavy armour. You make it look
easy, walking around with heavy pieces of metal all over you,
deflecting blows left and right.

Compendium Class

Once you have commissioned a suit of armour, and then run a

marathon, given a rousing speech, and won a fight while wearing it,
you may consider the armiger specialty an available compendium
class. The next time you level up, you may add this specialty to your
character instead of choosing a move from your class.

Stats

If you choose the armiger specialty, you get +2 load.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Armoured
You ignore the clumsy tag on armour you wear.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Armour Mastery
When you make your armour take the brunt of damage dealt to
you, the damage is negated but you must reduce the armour value
of your armour or shield (your choice) by 1 until you spend a
few hours repairing it. The value is reduced each time you make
this choice. If the reduction leaves the item with 0 armour, it is
destroyed.
Bloody Aegis
When you take damage, you can grit your teeth and accept the
blow. If you do you take no damage but instead suffer a debility of
your choice. If you already have all six debilities you can’t use this
move.

Heroic Monster Slayer

When you take the skin of a slain monster, you can fashion it into
a clumsy shield worth +1 armour or a clumsy suit worth 1 or more
armour, the GM will tell you how much (usually 1 or 2 less than the
monster had in life).

Hide Like Iron

Armour that you are wearing has +1 armour and weighs 1 less.

Staunch Defender
When you defend, you always get +1 hold, even on a miss.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Armoured Perfection
Replaces: Armour Mastery
When you choose to let your armour take the brunt of damage
dealt to you, the damage is negated and you take +1 forward
against the attacker, but you must reduce the armour value of your
armour or shield (your choice) by 1. The value is reduced each time
you make this choice. If the reduction leaves the item with 0
armour, it is destroyed.

Impervious Defender
Replaces: Staunch Defender
When you defend, you always get +1 hold, even on a miss. On
a 12+, instead of getting hold the nearest attacking creature is
stymied giving you a clear advantage, the GM will describe it.

Indomitable
When you suffer a debility (even through Bloody Aegis), take
+1 forward against whatever caused it.

Maker of Monster Suits

Replaces: Heroic Monster Slayer
When you take the skin of a slain monster, you can fashion it into
a clumsy shield worth +1 armour or a clumsy suit worth 1 or more
armour, the GM will tell you how much (usually 1 or 2 less than
the monster had in life). This armour also retains one aspect of the
slain monster that you choose to imbue it with.

Skin of Steel
Replaces: Hide Like Iron
Armour that you are wearing has +1 armour and weighs 2 less, but
not less than zero. Any shield on your arm has +1 armour, too, and
counts as 0 weight.

Armiger Bonds

• __________ has stood by me in battle and can be trusted

completely.
• __________ was instrumental in helping me get my
armour.

Armiger Gear

Choose one:
○ Plate armour (3 armour, clumsy, 4 weight).
○ Scale mail (2 armour, clumsy, 3 weight) and shield (+1
armour, 2 weight).
Armiger Races

You may choose one of these instead of a warrior race option:

Dwarf
When you make camp, you can repair damaged armour for 1 point
of armour. If you have access to a forge, you can restore any suit of
broken armour to its original condition.

Human
When you take damage, take +1 armour forward.

Arsenal

You are a walking arsenal, kitted out with a myriad of murderous

implements. Who can stand before your onslaught? For every foe,
and every defence, you have the perfect weapon. Until you stand
upon a mountain of your discarded blades and handles, surrounded
by the conquered, you cannot be stopped.

Compendium Class

Once you have collected a dozen different types of exotic weapons

and have a story to tell about each of them, you may consider the
arsenal specialty an available compendium class. The next time you
level up, you may add this specialty to your character instead of
choosing a move from your class.

Stats

If you choose the arsenal specialty, you get +1 load.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Pull Out a Weapon

You have a whole arsenal of weapons at your disposal. It is 4
weight, and starts with stock +2. While you carry it around, you
can instantly produce weapons of any type with the hand, close,
or reach tags. When you pull out a more specialized weapon,
roll+stock. On a 10+, describe it and choose one option from the
list below. On a 7-9, you can still choose one option but you can’t
choose that option again until you restock your arsenal by buying
more weapons.
•+1 damage.
• 2 piercing.
• Forceful and messy.
• Precise.
• Ranged weapon (near, far) with 1 ammo.
• Stun damage.
When you pull out and define a specialized weapon, write it down:
once you have four, you cannot pull out another until you restock
your arsenal. If you lose or give away a weapon from your arsenal,
take -1 stock until you restock. When you restock, your arsenal is
restored to stock +2 and you can keep one weapon as a separate
item. The rest go back into your arsenal, erase them.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:
Pack Rat
Requires: Pull Out a Weapon
You have more than just weapons in your arsenal. When you search
it for an item that would fit, roll+WIS. On a 10+, you find just the
thing as long as it isn’t magical, unique, or valuable. On a 7-9, you
have just the thing and you take -1 stock or you have something
close but not exact. Make do. Anything you pull out counts toward
your limit of four specialized weapons.

Scavenger
Requires: Pull Out a Weapon
When you collect the weapons of your fallen foes (more than one),
it counts as restocking your arsenal.

A Shield Made of Weapons

Requires: Pull Out a Weapon
When you defend, you can take -1 stock to get +1 hold.

Suiting Up
Requires: Pull Out a Weapon
You can pull out a weapon with two options if you spend a
preparation or take -1 stock instead of rolling.

Swordbreaker
Requires: Pull Out a Weapon
When you allow your weapons to take the brunt of an attack upon
you, the damage is negated but a weapon is destroyed. Take
-1 stock and you may not pull out any other weapons of that type
until you restock your arsenal.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:
Bag of Holding
Requires: Pull Out a Weapon
You can pull out seven specialized weapons or items before you
must restock your arsenal. When you restock, you get stock +3
instead of +2.

Can Opener
Requires: Pull Out a Weapon
Instead of the 2 piercing option, you can produce a weapon that
ignores armour. You may not keep this weapon separate when you
restock.

Superior Arsenal
Requires: Pull Out a Weapon
When you pull out a weapon, on a 12+, you can choose two options
and this weapon doesn’t count toward your limit.

That’s Not a Knife

Requires: Pull Out a Weapon
Instead of the +1 damage option, you can produce a weapon that
deals +1d6 damage. You may not keep this weapon separate when
you restock.

Arsenal Gear

You get your arsenal (4 weight) in addition to whatever your other

specialties give you.

Arsenal Races

You may choose one of these instead of a warrior race option:

Dwarf
You can also pull tools out of your arsenal, in addition to weapons,
as long as they are used in forging, smithing, gemcutting, mining,
or underground survey work.

Elf
You can always pull out a ranged weapon from your arsenal,
along with 1 ammo, or a weapon with the hand tag, but pulling
out a weapon with the close or reach tags is a specialized weapon.
Replace the ranged option with this:
• Close or reach.

Halfling
You always pack a lunch. Instead of pulling out a specialized
weapon, you can choose to pull out a tasty ration from your arsenal.
If someone eats it, take -1 stock until you restock.

Human
When you restock, you also gain 1 Preparation.

Beastmaster

Nature is red of tooth and claw, but it obeys your call.

Compendium Class

Once you have successfully raised a wild animal from a newborn to

an adult, you may consider the beastmaster specialty an available
compendium class. The next time you level up, you may add this
specialty to your character instead of choosing a move from your
class.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Call of the Wild
When you summon animals to your presence or to the presence
of someone else, choose a type of animal and roll+WIS. On a
10+, they congregate at the location you chose. On a 7-9, they
congregate but choose one:
• It takes time for them to gather.
• You are not precise about the location.
• You attract other animals in addition to or instead of those
you intended.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Eyes of the Tiger

When you mark an animal (with mud, dirt, or blood), you can see
through that animal’s eyes as if they were your own, no matter what
distance separates you. Only one animal at a time may be marked
in this way.

Familiar
When you spout lore about an animal, you can use WIS instead of
INT.

Wild Empathy
You can speak with and understand animals. This means you can
closely study them and parley with them as if they were people.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:
Two Minds, One Thought
When you touch and animal and push your thoughts into its mind,
roll+WIS. On a hit, you can read the animal’s mind and memories,
reliving its past and seeing what it has seen. On a 7-9, though, you
have trouble separating these memories from your own, and you
exhibit some aspects of the animal’s behaviour for a while after you
break the link.

Wild Speech
Replaces: Wild Empathy
You can speak with and understand any non-magical, non-planar
creature. This means you can closely study them and parley with
them as if they were people.

Zoologist
Replaces: Familiar
When you spout lore about an animal, you can use WIS instead of
INT. On a 12+, in addition to the normal effects, you get to ask the
GM any one question about the subject.

Beastmaster Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a warrior alignment:

Chaotic
Eschew a convention of the civilized world.

Neutral
Teach someone the ways of your people.

Beastmaster Bonds

• __________ does not understand life in the wild, so I will

teach them.
• __________ has tasted my blood and I theirs. We are bound
by it.
• __________ smells more like prey than a hunter.
• __________’s ways are strange and confusing.

Beastmaster Gear

Choose one:
○ Adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight).
○ Antitoxin and dungeon rations (5 uses, 1 weight).
○ Healing potion.
○ Leather armour (1 armour, 1 weight).

Beastmaster Races

You may choose one of these instead of a warrior race option:

Dwarf
Choose one type of cave-dwelling or underground animal: these
animals will always answer your call if they are near. Choose one
type of bird or aerial creature: these animals will never heed your
call, but nor will they arrive unbidden.

Elf
Animals of the Great Forest respect your power. They will never
attack you, even if they are unfriendly.

Halfling
Wild Empathy is a starting move for you.

Human
You may summon other humans as if they were animals, though
you cannot specify what type (language, class, or gender) to call.
Blade Dancer

Battle is an art form and you are its master.

Compendium Class

Once you have mastered the two dozen blade katas, to the
satisfaction of a master blade dancer, and constructed your own set
of dancing blades, you may consider the blade dancer specialty an
available compendium class. The next time you level up, you may
add this specialty to your character instead of choosing a move
from your class.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Dance of Blades
When you enter a fight against multiple foes, roll+DEX. On a 10+,
hold 3 maneuvers. On a 7-9, hold 2. On a miss, hold 1 anyway, but
your enemies already have you, in particular, at a disadvantage.
Spend a hold to perform a maneuver that achieves one of the
following results:
• You create an advantage and you or an ally can take +1
forward
for exploiting it.
• You disengage from melee with one foe.
• You immediately cross the distance between you and one
foe it is possible for you to reach.
• You throw off the effects of being stunned, confused, or
enchanted.

Advanced Moves
When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

On the Move
When you defy a danger caused by movement (maybe falling off a
narrow bridge or rushing past an armed guard), take +1.

Viper’s Strike
When you strike an enemy with two weapons at once, add an extra
1d4 damage for your off-hand strike.

Wall of Knives
When you are outnumbered, you get +1 armour as long as you have
a weapon in hand.

The Well-Balanced Blade

Any blade in your hands counts as having the precise tag.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Right Where I Want to Be

Requires: Dance of Blades or Symphony of Battle
When you use the dance of blades or symphony of battle moves,
add these to your options:
• You escape the clutches of one foe.
• You take a position where only one enemy can fight you at a
time.

Symphony of Battle
Replaces: Dance of Blades
When you enter a fight against multiple foes, roll+DEX. On a 10+,
hold 3 maneuvers. On a 7-9, hold 2. On a miss, hold 1 anyway, but
your enemies already have you, in particular, at a disadvantage.
Spend a hold to perform a maneuver that achieves one of the
following effects:
• You create an advantage and you or an ally can take +1
ongoing
while exploiting it.
• You disengage from melee with all foes.
• You immediately cross the distance between you and one
foe.
• You throw of the effects of being stunned, confused, or
enchanted.

Viper’s Fangs
Replaces: Viper’s Strike
When you strike an enemy with two weapons at once, add an extra
+1d8 damage for your off-hand strike.

Blade Dancer Alignment

You may choose one of these instead of a warrior alignment:

Chaotic
Break an unjust law to help someone.

Evil
Destroy something beautiful.

Lawful
Choose honour over personal gain.

Blade Dancer Bonds

• __________ left me in a pinch when they were supposed to

come through for me.
• __________ obviously doesn’t trust me, and this needs to
change.

Blade Dancer Gear

Choose one blade:

○ Axe (close, 1 weight).
○ Greatsword (close, two-handed, +1 damage, 2 weight).
○ Long sword (close, +1 damage, 2 weight).
○ Pair of throwing knives (thrown, 2 weight).
○ Rapier (close, precise, 2 weight).

Blade Dancer Races

You may choose one of these instead of a warrior race option:

Dwarf
Add these options to the dance of blades/symphony of battle lists:
• Barge past others to enter melee with a foe.
• Push someone over.
• Take a blow meant for someone else.

Elf
Add this option to the dance of blades list:
• Avoid an attack meant for you.

Human
When you roll for dance of blades (or symphony of battle), on a
12+, hold 5 maneuvers.

Bounty Hunter

What’s the difference between a kidnapper and a bounty hunter?

The one who pays the ransom money! Oh, sorry, I meant reward, of
course. I hunt down bad people before they can do bad things and
I return them to the rightful authorities. That’s the real difference.
Why? You know somebody worth something?

Compendium Class

Once you have tracked down a criminal, captured them, and

delivered them to the authorities, you may consider the bounty
hunter specialty an available compendium class. The next time you
level up, you may add this specialty to your character instead of
choosing a move from your class.

Stats

If you choose the bounty hunter specialty, you get +1 load.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

The Hunter
Name someone you want to find, either an individual or a gang that
sticks together. When you discern realities while looking for them,
on a hit, the GM will also tell you if there is any evidence of their
passage, and if so what. On a miss, though, something catches up to
you instead, the GM will tell you what. You can only be hunting one
target at a time, but you can change that target whenever you want.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

The Bigger They Are

When you spout lore about someone you know or you’ve heard of
before (your call), on a hit, you can also ask the GM either of these
questions and then take +1 forward when acting on the answer.
• How could they be taken?
• What are they worth and to whom?

The Harder They Fall

When you successfully attack someone, you can roll a d6. If you
roll your foe’s HP or higher, after they take your damage, you knock
them out cold or capture them.

Official Position
You work for the law. When you first enter a civilized settlement,
someone in authority will take you in as their guest. Take +1 to
parley if you can use your authority as leverage.

Professional Gossip
When you ask around at the local watering-hole or other social
nexus and make your profession obvious, roll+CHA. On a hit,
you’re told about available work. On a 10+, you’re able to suss out
the backgrounds of prospective employers. On a 7-9, you only hear
about the most promising job currently available. On a miss, you’re
shut out or given bad information.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Considered It Already
Replaces: The Bigger They Are
When you spout lore about someone you know or you’ve heard of
before (your call), on a hit, you can also ask the GM both of these
questions and then take +1 forward when acting on the answers:
• How could they be taken?
• What are they worth and to whom?
Hellhound on Your Trail
Once you have shed someone’s blood, or they have shed yours, you
can track them anywhere. No matter where they go you can always
find them.

Wrap It Up
Replaces: The Harder They Fall
When you successfully attack someone, you can roll a d8. If you
roll your foe’s HP or higher, after they take your damage, you knock
them out cold or capture them, however you want.

Bounty Hunter Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a warrior alignment:

Good
Show mercy to a captive.

Lawful
Apprehend a dangerous criminal.

Neutral
Gain profit from someone else’s body.

Bounty Hunter Bonds

• I have heard of _________’s exploits and am suitably

impressed.
• Me and __________ were both hired by a boss who turned
on us.

Bounty Hunter Gear

Choose one:
○ Adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight) and bandages (3 uses,
slow).
○ Duelling rapier (close, precise, 2 weight).
○ Dungeon rations (5 uses, 1 weight).
○ Net (reach, stun damage, 2 weight).
○ Shield (+1 armour, 2 weight).

Bounty Hunter Races

You may choose one of these instead of a warrior race option:

Dwarf
You are blessed with a hardy constitution. While on someone’s trail,
you do not need to consume any rations.

Elf
When in the wilderness, you may discern realities with INT
instead of WIS.

Human
When you take damage from or are harmed by someone you are
hunting, take +1 forward.

Captain

Heavy is the head that wears the crown, and though you may have
only a small kingdom—your loyal crew—the responsibility or
leadership is still a weighty burden.

Compendium Class

Once you become the leader of a loyal band of sailors, soldiers, or

other troops, you may consider the captain specialty an available
compendium class. The next time you level up, you may add this
specialty to your character instead of choosing a move from your
class.

Starting Moves

You start with these two moves:

Loyal Crew
You run a gang. They could be soldiers, pirates, thieves, or
mercenaries, but they’re yours and you are their captain and
commander. By default, your crew is a medium-sized group (12-15
people), cautious, intelligent, and organized. In the normal course
of operations, they obey your orders.

Choose what type of crew you have:

○ Your crew are a vicious and brutal gang of thugs. Add the
savage tag, remove the cautious tag, and roll+STR to command
them.
○ Your crew are elite troops, a small-sized group (5-10
people).
Roll+WIS to command them.
○ Your crew fights for a cause. Add the idealistic tag and
roll+CHA to command them. At your option, you may remove the
cautious tag.

Choose two advantages:

○ They control a fortress or headquarters of some kind.
○ They engage in commerce or have jobs. Add the rich tag.
○ They run a ship or caravan.
○ They are not ordinary people, but wondrous creations. Add
the construct and/or magical tags.
○ They were summoned by magic. Add the magical and/or
planar tags.
○ They’re armed to the teeth, ready for war.
○ They’re skilled infiltrators. Add the stealthy tag.
○ They’re very social and know a lot of people.
○ Your crew is a large-sized group (20-30 people).

Choose one drawback:

○ They have heretical and possibly anti-social beliefs.
○ They’re a loose-knit group, members come and go.
○ They’re dissolute, hedonistic, and perverse without your
guidance.
○ They’re filthy and unwell. Remove the cautious tag.
○ They’re poor, with shoddy equipment and no money. Add
the poor tag.
○ You and you crew are in significant debt to someone.
○ Your crew is a small-sized group (5-10 people).

The Weight of Command

When you issue commands to your crew during a charged
situation, roll+your command stat. On a 10+, your crew obeys
you. On a 7-9, you have a problem to deal with first. Either they
demand rewards, fight back, or try to back down until you make
an example of one of them or convince them some other way. On a
miss, either one of them makes a concerted effort to supplant you
as leader or they fall prey to their drawbacks, GM’s choice.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Lieutenants
Requires: Loyal Crew
Now, and each time you level up, stat up a member of your crew as
a hireling with +1 loyalty and additional points equal to your level.

Pirates and Thieves

When you recruit from a bustling port or a den of thieves, any
hirelings you find will take loot, plunder, and pillage as payment, no
matter what else they desire.

Plot a Course
When your vessel sets out for a new destination, roll+INT. On a
10+, all three. On a 7-9, choose two:
• None of your tinkering causes problems for the vessel.
• The voyage suggests some new improvement for the vessel,
the GM will tell you what and how to implement it.
• You get there as soon as could be hoped for.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Captain, My Captain
When you publicly impress yourself upon a group of people, by
words or deeds, you may spend up to three XP. For each XP spent,
the GM chooses an NPC you have impressed and a reaction:
• They back you up, stand by your side, or support your play.
• They come to you with something they think you want,
need or could use.
• They come to you with valuable information.
• They fight by your side.

Don’t Be a Dick
When you’re around your crew, they treat each other with respect
and dignity. If trouble finds them, they’ll react as best they can, as a
team.

Tactical Commander
When you direct a unit of troops in the heat of battle, roll+CHA.
On a 10+, choose three results from the list below. On a 7-9, choose
two. On a miss, choose one anyway, but take -1 forward and your
enemies see this unit as their main threat.
• Choose a hazard on the battlefield: Your unit avoids it.
• Choose a location within reach: Your unit gets to it or deep
into the troops defending it.
• Choose an enemy unit within reach: Your unit engages
them and pins them down.
• Choose an enemy unit you are engaged with: Your unit
breaks contact in an orderly fashion.
• You rally them: No member of your unit is shaken or
routed.

Captain Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a warrior alignment:

Evil
Upset the rightful order.

Good
Lead others into righteous battle.

Neutral
Make an ally of someone powerful.

Captain Gear

Choose one:
○ Ceremonial sabre (close, 1 weight).
○ Infamous flag or standard.
○ Pet bird.
○ Spyglass (1 weight).
○ Warhorse.
○ Whip (reach, 1 weight).
Captain Races

You may choose one of these instead of a warrior race option:

Elf
In the forest, your crew is always disciplined, self-sufficient, and
stealthy. Anywhere else, you can take +1 forward to command
them if you promise to take them back to the forest, but they
become unruly if you do not comply.

Human
Your crew is very mobile, as is the way of humans. They are trained
to operate either a mighty vessel of some sort or on horseback, and
possess the necessary gear to travel in this manner.
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Champion of Law

The mighty forces of Law and Order have chosen their champion,
and it is you.

Compendium Class

Once you have devoted yourself to the divine principles of law

and defeated one of its mightiest enemies, you may consider the
champion of law specialty an available compendium class. The next
time you level up, you may add this specialty to your character
instead of choosing a move from your class.
Requirements

You must be of lawful alignment to take this specialty.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

I am the Law
When you give an NPC an order based on your authority,
roll+CHA. On a hit, they choose one:
• Attack you.
• Back away cautiously, then flee.
• Do what you say.
On a 10+, you also take +1 forward against them. On a miss, they
do as they please and you take -1 forward against them.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Balance
When you deal damage, hold 1 balance. When you touch
someone and channel the spirits of life you may spend balance. For
each balance spent, heal 1d4 HP.

Charge!
When you lead the charge into combat, those you lead take
+1 forward.

Judge of Character
When you parley with someone or discern realities concerning
them, you also learn their alignment.

Voice of Authority
Take +1 to order hirelings.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Divine Authority
Replaces: Voice of Authority
Take +1 forward to order hirelings. Also, on a 12+, the hireling
transcends their moment of fear and doubt and carries out your
order with particular effectiveness or efficiency.

Ever Onward
Replaces: Charge!
When you lead the charge into combat, those you lead take
+1 forward and +2 armour forward.

Evidence of Faith
When you see divine magic as it happens, you can ask the GM
which deity granted the spell and its effects. Take +1 when acting
on the answers.

Healthy Distrust
Whenever the unclean magic wielded by mortal men causes
you to defy danger, treat a miss as a 7-9 instead.

Invoking the Gods of Law

When you call upon the gods of law and order, roll+WIS. On a 10+,
choose two. On a 7-9, choose one. On a miss, neither and the gods
are displeased with you:
• The gods display you publicly as their champion.
• The gods point you toward the greatest source of chaos.
• The gods show you one weakness of chaos in this region.

Champion of Law Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a warrior alignment:

Lawful
Advance the interests of the Gods of Law.

Lawful
Bring a villain to justice.

Champion of Law Bonds

• __________’s misguided behaviour endangers their very

soul!
• __________’s ways are strange and confusing.
• I respect the beliefs of __________ but hope they will
someday see the true way.

Champion of Law Gear

You get some mark of your faith and choose one additional piece of
gear:
○ Dungeon rations (5 uses, 1 weight) and a healing potion.
○ Halberd (reach, +1 damage, two-handed, 2 weight).
○ Long sword (close, +1 damage, 1 weight) and shield (+1
armour, 2 weight).
○ Scale mail armour (2 armour, clumsy, 3 weight).

Champion of Law Races

You may choose one of these instead of a warrior race option:

Dwarf
When you roll for I am the Law, on a hit, you also take
+1d4 damage forward against those you are ordering around.

Human
When you pray for guidance, even for a moment, and ask “What
here is evil?” the GM will tell you, honestly.

Defender

You are the wall, the gate, the moat surrounding someone
important. You will not falter in your duty, and you will not see
them fall before you do.

Compendium Class

Once you have save someone’s life from an overwhelming danger,

you may consider the defender specialty an available compendium
class. The next time you level up, you may add this specialty to your
character instead of choosing a move from your class.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Meatshield
When you are engaged in close combat with an enemy and they
make an offensive move against someone else, you may intercept it.
Their move affects you instead of its intended target.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Bodyguard
When you are protecting a client, add these to the list of discern
realities questions:
• How can I get my client out of here?
• What does my client intend to do now?
• What here poses the greatest threat to my client?

Martyr’s Shield
Replaces: Meatshield
When anyone within your reach either makes or is subject to an
offensive move, you may intercept it. The move affects you instead
of the intended target.

Protection
When you defend, you take +2 armour forward.

Staunch Defender
When you defend, you get +1 hold, even on a miss.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Impervious Defender
Replaces: Staunch Defender
When you defend, you get +1 hold, even on a miss. On a 12+,
instead of getting hold, the nearest attacking creature is stymied,
giving you a clear advantage. The GM will describe it.

Over My Dead Body

Replaces: Protection
When you defend, you take +3 armour forward.

Superior Bodyguard
Replaces: Bodyguard
When you discern realities while protecting a client, you may
also ask the GM one of these questions, even on a miss:
• How can I get my client out of here?
• What does my client intend to do now?
• What here poses the greatest threat to my client?
You may also ask any of these instead of a question from the
discern realities list.

Defender Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a warrior alignment:

Good
Defend those weaker than you.

Lawful
Fulfill a promise to protect someone during a dangerous journey or
situation.

Defender Bonds

• __________ is on their own. There’s no defending that one.

• I have sworn to guide and protect __________, because of
what they have done.

Defender Gear
Choose one:
○ Healing potion.
○ Scale mail armour (2 armour, clumsy, 3 weight).
○ Shield (+1 armour, 2 weight).

Defender Races

You may choose one of these instead of a warrior race option:

Dwarf
When you take the damage meant for someone else, you get
+1 armour.

Elf
When you discern realities while protecting someone, on a hit, you
can also ask this question:
• How can I get my ward out of here?

Destroyer

Have you come here to conquer? To become a king? No! You have
come to destroy!

Compendium Class

Once you have destroyed something that is famous, unique,

valuable, and has a longer history than your family does, you may
consider the destroyer specialty an available compendium class.
The next time you level up, you may add this specialty to your
character instead of choosing a move from your class.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Bend Bars, Lift Gates
When you use pure strength to destroy an inanimate obstacle,
roll+STR. On a 10+, choose three. On a 7-9, choose two:
• It doesn’t make an inordinate amount of noise.
• It doesn’t take a very long time.
• Nothing you value is damaged.
• You can fix the thing again without a lot of effort.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Berserker
When you are afflicted by fear, mind control, or enchanting magic,
you may ignore the effect as long as you attack the closest enemy
in sight. If you have no enemies in sight, the GM chooses who you
attack.

Blood Ill-Tempered
When a foe deals damage to you, your next attack against them
deals +1d4 damage.

Crushing Blow
When you deal damage to a foe, you can break their weapon, if they
have one, or if they have armour, reduce their armour by 1.

Interrogator
When you parley using threats of impending violence as
leverage, you may use STR instead of CHA.

Samson
You may take a debility to immediately break free of any physical or
mental restraint.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Fire in the Blood

Replaces: Blood Ill-Tempered
When a foe deals damage to you, your next attack against them
deals +1d8 damage.

Superior Warrior
When you hack and slash, on a 12+, you deal your damage, avoid
their attack, and impress, dismay, or frighten your enemy.

Vandal
When you discern realities, on a hit, you may also ask this question
in addition to your other questions:
• Who or what here is most vulnerable to me?

Destroyer Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a warrior alignment:

Chaotic
Destroy a symbol or a structure of civilization.

Evil
Destroy something beautiful.

Lawful
Destroy a threat to orderly civilization.
Destroyer Bonds

• __________ has stood by me in battle and can be trusted

completely.
• __________ shares my hunger for glory; the earth will
tremble at our passing!
• __________ stood up to me and got away with it. That’s
how it is, I guess.

Destroyer Gear

You get one weapon of your choice in addition to whatever your

other specialties give you.

Destroyer Races

You may choose one of these instead of a warrior race option:

Dwarf
Once per battle you may reroll a single damage roll (yours or
someone else’s).

Human
When you attack a foe, you may roll a d6 for your damage die
instead of a d10, and permanently lower your enemy’s armour by 1.

Duellist

Ah, the duel! A fully self-contained, one-on-one lethal contest of

skill. Could there be any endeavour more refined or exciting? I
think not!

Compendium Class
Once you have won a duel with an opponent whose martial abilities
are more renowned than yours, you may consider the duellist
specialty an available compendium class. The next time you level
up, you may add this specialty to your character instead of choosing
a move from your class.

Starting Moves

You start with these two moves:

En Garde!
When you single out a foe in combat, you engage them in a one-
on-one duel, whether they like it or not. After a duel begins, the
following things are true:
• If they break off the duel before either of you are defeated,
take +1 forward against them and they count as defeated if you
encounter them again.
• If they break off the duel to attack someone else, you may
also deal your damage to them for their insolence.
• If you break off the duel before either of you are defeated,
take -1 forward against them and consider yourself defeated.
Having allies enter the fight on your side counts as breaking off the
duel.

Keeping Score
The first time you encounter a foe again after being defeated by
them, take -1 forward. The first time you encounter a foe again after
defeating them, take +1 forward.

Warriors 4SI

Advanced Moves
When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Duellist’s Parry
When you hack and slash, you take +1 armour forward.

Exterminatus
When you speak aloud your promise to defeat an enemy, you deal
+2d4 damage against that enemy and -4 damage against anyone
else. This effect lasts until the enemy is defeated. If you fail to defeat
the enemy or give up the fight, you can admit your failure, but the
effect continues until you find a way to redeem yourself.

Eye for Technique

Once you have fought against someone, take +1 forward to discern
realities about them. If they defeated you, instead take
+1 ongoing to discern realties about them until you defeat them.

The Field at Dawn

When you challenge someone to a duel, if they either refuse or fail
to appear, choose one:
• They lose the respect of their peers.
• They lose the respect of your peers.

How Can You Hope to Defeat Me?

When you encounter a foe you have previously defeated, hold three
as if you had defended against them and made the roll with a 10+.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Duellist’s Block
Replaces: Duellist’s Parry
When you hack and slash, you take +2 armour forward.

Gladiator
When you duel an opponent in front of an audience, roll+CHA. On
a 10+, choose two NPCs who cannot help but be impressed. On a
7-9, choose one. For each impressed NPC, the GM chooses one:
• They admire you and will seek you out.
• They desire your services.
• They will defend you or your reputation publicly.

Respected Duellist
Replaces: The Field at Dawn
When you challenge someone to a duel, if they either refuse or fail
to appear, they lose the respect of both their own peers, and yours.
Additionally, you may sully their reputation amongst the general
public, if you choose to make their failure widely known.

So, We Meet Again

When you encounter a foe who defeated you previously, say what
you have learned since then and spend up to 3 XP to prove it. Then
roll+XP spent. On a 10+, ask the GM two questions about your foe
and take +1 ongoing when acting on the answers. On a 7-9, ask
one. On a miss, you have learned nothing! Whatever you roll, if you
are the victor this time, take back 1 XP that you spent.

Duellist Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a warrior alignment:

Evil
Publicly humiliate an enemy.

Good
Duel a villain on behalf of someone you respect or care about.

Duellist Bonds

• For complicated reasons, I cannot face __________ in a

duel, even though I would like to.
• I have duelled __________ before.

Duellist Gear

Choose one or two:

○ Adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight) and bandages (3 uses,
slow).
○ Duelling rapier (close, precise, 2 weight).
○ Net (reach, stun damage, 2 weight).
○ Pistol (close, 1 weight) and shot and powder (3 ammo, 1
weight).
○ Shield (+1 armour, 2 weight).
○ Trident (reach, 1 piercing, 2 weight).

Duellist Races

You may choose one of these instead of a warrior race option:

Dwarf
When you get +1 forward because of a duel, you may take
+1d6 damage forward instead.

Elf
When you engage in a duel, you may consider any weapon you use
to have the precise tag.

Human
When you have been defeated by an opponent, you gain
+1 armour against their attacks in the future, until you defeat them.

Friend of the Wild

You are not alone in the world. You have an animal friend who
accompanies you wherever you go.

Compendium Class

Once you have befriended a wild animal, you may consider the
friend of the wild specialty an available compendium class. The
next time you level up, you may add this specialty to your character
instead of choosing a move from your class.

Stats

If you choose the friend of the wild specialty, reduce your base
damage by one die size, but not lower than d4.

Starting Moves

You start with both moves:

Animal Companion
You have a supernatural connection with a loyal animal. You can’t
talk to it per se but it always acts as you wish it to.

Name your animal companion and choose a species:

Bear, cat, cougar, dog, eagle, hawk, mule, owl, pigeon, rat, or wolf.

Choose a base:
• Cunning +1, Ferocity +2, Instinct +1, 1 Armour
• Cunning +1, Ferocity +3, Instinct +2, 1 Armour
• Cunning+2, Ferocity +1, Instinct +1, 1 Armour
• Cunning +2, Ferocity +2, Instinct +1, 0 Armour

Choose as many strengths as its ferocity:

Adaptable, burly, calm, camouflage, careful, fast, ferocious, huge,
intimidating, keen senses, quick reflexes, stealthy, tireless.

Choose as many weaknesses as its instinct:

Broken, flighty, forgetful, frightening, lame, savage, slow, stubborn.

Your animal companion is trained to fight humanoids. Choose as

many additional trainings as its cunning:
Fight monsters, guard, hunt, labour, perform, scout, search, travel.

Command
When you work with your animal companion on something it’s
trained in…
• …and you attack the same target, add its ferocity to your
damage.
• …and you discern realities, add its cunning to your
cunning.
• …and you parley, add its cunning to your roll.
• …and you take damage, add its armour to your armour.
• …and you track, add its cunning to your roll.
• …and someone interferes with you, add its instinct to their
roll.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:
My Best Friend
When you allow your animal companion to take a blow that was
meant for you, the damage is negated and your animal companion’s
ferocity is reduced to zero. If its ferocity is already zero you can’t
use this ability. When you have a few hours rest with your animal
companion its ferocity returns to normal.

Two Are Better Than One

When you undertake a perilous journey, you can take two roles
(one for yourself and one for your animal companion). You make
separate rolls for each.

Well-Trained
Choose another training for your animal companion.

Wild Empathy
You can speak with and understand animals. This means you can
closely study and parley with them as if they were people.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Special Trick
Choose one move from another class. So long as you are working
with your animal companion you have access to that move.

Striders Two
Replaces: Two Are Better Than One
When you undertake a perilous journey, you can take two roles
(one for yourself and one for your animal companion). Roll twice
and use the better result for both roles.

Unnatural Ally
Your animal companion is a monster, not an animal. Describe
it. Give it an additional +2 ferocity and +1 instinct, plus a new
training.

Wild Speech
Replaces: Wild Empathy
You can speak with and understand any non-magical, non-planar
creature. This means you can closely study and parley with them as
if they were people.

Friend of the Wild Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a warrior alignment:

Chaotic
Eschew a convention of the civilized world.

Neutral
Teach someone the ways of your people.

Friend of the Wild Bonds

• __________ is a friend of nature, so I will be their friend as

well.
• My companion seems to like __________. They must be
someone I can trust.

Friend of the Wild Gear

You get dungeon rations (5 uses, 1 weight) in addition to whatever

else your specialties give you. Your animal companion can eat these
rations, whatever they are.

Friend of the Wild Races

You may choose one of these instead of a warrior race option:

Elf
When you undertake a perilous journey through the wilderness,
whatever job you take you succeed as if you rolled a 10+.

Human
Your animal companion can also speak like a human.

Gorgon

The face of the gorgon is the face of death, the face of fear, the face
that turns limbs to stone before they are hewn away by claws of
brass. This face is your face.

Compendium Class

Once you have dedicated the slaying of an enemy to the gorgons,

while wearing their face on your breastplate or shield, you may
consider the gorgon specialty an available compendium class. The
next time you level up, you may add this specialty to your character
instead of choosing a move from your class.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

What Are You Waiting For?

When you cry out a challenge to your enemies, roll+CON. On a
10+, they treat you as the most obvious threat to be dealt with and
ignore your companions, take +2 damage ongoing against them.
On a 7-9, only a few (the weakest or most foolhardy among them)
fall prey to your taunting.
Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Berserker
When you are afflicted by fear, mind control, or enchanting magic,
you may ignore the effect as long as you attack the closest enemy in
sight. If you defeat the cause of such influence, the effect ends.

Gorgoneion
When you draw the face of the gorgon on an object or a location, it
will remain unmolested by animals, vermin, and incidental magical
influence. If the object or location is also being targeted by a group
of attackers, thieves, or vandals, roll+WIS. On a 10+, as a group,
they stay away. On a 7-9, they stay away for now, but only until they
can get someone else to remove the gorgoneion.

Petrifying Visage
Requires: What Are You Waiting For?
When you cry out a challenge to your enemies, on a hit, they
also hesitate for a moment and allow you to make the next move
unimpeded.

Seeing Red
When you discern realities during combat, you take +1.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Evil Eye
Requires: Seeing Red
When you enter combat, roll+CHA. On a 10+, hold 2. On a 7-9,
hold 1. Spend a hold to make eye contact with an NPC present,
who freezes or flinches and can’t act until you break it off. On a
miss, your enemies immediately identify you as their biggest threat.
If you have the gorgoneion painted on your shield, you can use its
eyes instead of your own.

Through Death’s Eyes

When you go into battle, roll+WIS. On a 10+, name someone
who will live and someone who will die. On a 7-9, name someone
who will live or someone who will die. Name NPCs, not player
characters. The GM will make your vision come true, if it’s
even remotely possible. On a miss, you see your own death and
consequently take -1 ongoing throughout the battle.

War Cry
When you enter battle with a show of force (a shout, a rallying cry,
etc), roll+CHA. On a 10+, both. On a 7-9, one or the other:
• Your allies are rallied and take +1 forward.
• Your enemies feel fear and act accordingly (avoiding you,
hiding, attacking with fear-driven abandon, etc).

Gorgon Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a warrior alignment:

Chaotic
Eschew a convention of the civilized world.

Evil
Convince a terrorized enemy to spread tales of your wrath.

Gorgon Bonds
• _________ has plenty of potential, but is yet untested.
• __________ needs to respect me more than they do right
now.

Gorgon Gear

Choose one:
○ Leather armour (1 armour, 1 weight) with the gorgoneion
on the breastplate.
○ Shield (+1 armour, 2 weight) with the gorgoneion on it.

Insatiable

Too much is never enough.

Compendium Class

Once you have compared your appetites to a hundred others

and been proven the most covetous, the most desirous, the most
insatiable, you may consider the insatiable specialty an available
compendium class. The next time you level up, you may add this
specialty to your character instead of choosing a move from your
class.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Herculean Appetites
Others may content themselves with just a taste of wine, or
dominion over a servant or two, but you want more. Choose two
appetites. While pursuing one of your appetites, if you would roll
for a move, instead of rolling 2d6 you roll 1d6+1d8. If the d6 is the
higher die of the pair, the GM will also introduce a complication or
danger that comes about due to your heedless pursuits.
○ Conquest.
○ Discovering secrets.
○ Fame and glory.
○ Mortal pleasures.
○ Power over others.
○ Pure destruction.
○ Riches and property.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Eye for Loot

When you see or come to know about a thing you want, roll+INT.
On a 10+, ask the GM three questions about it from the list below.
On a 7-9, ask two. On a miss, ask one anyway, but your desire is
betrayed to everyone who cares (and some who don’t):
• What happened to it recently?
• What is it really worth, all things considered?
• What protects it and keeps it where it is?
• Who will try to keep it from me?
• Who will want it once it is mine?

Indestructible Hunger
Requires: Herculean Appetites
When you take damage, you can choose to take -1 ongoing until
you sate one of your appetites instead of taking the damage. If you
already have this penalty you cannot choose this option.

Khan of Khans
Requires: Herculean Appetites
Your hirelings always accept the gratuitous fulfillment of one of
your appetites as payment.

Still Hungry
Requires: Herculean Appetites
Choose an additional appetite.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

I Must Have It!

Requires: Eye for Loot
When you use your eye for loot, on a 12+, ask the GM an
additional question, any question, about the thing you want.

More! Always More!

Requires: Herculean Appetites
When you satisfy an appetite to the extreme (destroying something
unique and significant, gaining enormous fame, riches, power,
etc), you may choose to resolve it. Cross it off the list and mark XP.
While you may pursue that appetite again, you no longer feel the
burning desire you once did. In its place, choose a new appetite
from the list or write your own.

Obsession
Requires: Herculean Appetites
When you discern realities, on a hit, the GM will also tell you if you
can indulge one of your appetites here, and if so, how.

Insatiable Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a warrior alignment:

Chaotic
Eschew a convention of the civilized world.

Neutral
Convince someone else to help you sate your appetites.

Insatiable Bonds

• __________ has helped me slake my hungers before. I must

keep them close by!
• __________ shares my hunger for glory; the earth will
tremble at our passing!

Insatiable Gear

You get an item that symbolizes your insatiable appetites, in

addition to whatever your other specialties give you. Describe it.

Insatiable Races

You may choose one of these instead of a warrior race option:

Dwarf
When you defend yourself while in pursuit of your appetites, you
get +1 hold, even on a miss.

Elf
While in pursuit of your appetites, you may consider any weapon
you wield to have the precise tag.

Human
When you get your hands on an item demanded by your appetites,
you may ask one question about it from the eye for loot list, even if
you do not have the move.
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Ranger

The wilds are your home.

Compendium Class

Once you have protected a patch of wilderness from intruders,

poachers, and villains for a year and a day, you may consider the
ranger specialty an available compendium class. The next time you
level up, you may add this specialty to your character instead of
choosing a move from your class.

Stats

If you choose the ranger specialty, you get +1 load.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Hunt and Track

When you follow a trail of clues left behind by passing creatures,
roll+WIS. On a hit, you follow the creature’s trail until there’s a
significant change in its direction or mode of travel. On a 10+, you
also choose one:
• Determine what caused the trail to end.
• Gain a useful bit of information about your quarry, the GM
will tell you what.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Camouflage
When you keep still in natural surroundings, enemies never spot
you until you make a movement.

Communion of Whispers
When you spend time in a place, making note of its resident spirits
and calling on the spirits of the land, roll+WIS. You will be granted
a vision of significance to you, your allies, and the spirits around
you. On a 10+, the vision will be clear and helpful to you. On a 7-9,
the vision is unclear, its meaning murky. On a miss, the vision is
upsetting, frightening, or traumatizing. The GM will describe it.
Take -1 forward.

Familiar Prey
When you spout lore about a monster, you can roll with WIS
instead of INT.

Follow Me
When you undertake a perilous journey, you can take two roles.
You make a separate roll for each.

A Safe Place
When you set the watch for the night, everyone takes +1 to take
watch.
Wild Empathy
You can speak with and understand animals. This means you can
closely study and parley with them as if they were people.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Hunter’s Prey
Replaces: Familiar Prey
When you spout lore about a monster, you can roll with WIS
instead of INT. On a 12+, in addition to the normal effects, you get
to ask the GM any one question about the subject.

Observant
When you hunt and track, on a hit you may also ask one question
about the creature you are tracking from the discern realities list for
free.

A Safer Place
Replaces: A Safe Place
When you set the watch for the night, everyone takes +1 to take
watch. After a night in camp when you set the watch, everyone
takes +1 forward.

Strider
Replaces: Follow Me
When you undertake a perilous journey, you can take two roles.
Roll twice and use the better result for both roles.

Weather Sense
When you are under open skies when the sun rises, the GM will ask
you what the weather will be that day. tell them whatever you like, it
comes to pass.
Wild Speech
Replaces: Wild Empathy
You can speak with and understand any non-magical, non-planar
creature. This means you can closely study them and parley with
them as if they were people.

Ranger Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a warrior alignment:

Chaotic
Eschew a convention of the civilized world.

Good
Endanger yourself to combat an unnatural threat.

Neutral
Help an animal or spirit of the wild.

Ranger Bonds

• __________ does not understand life in the wild, so I will

teach them.
• __________ has no respect for nature, so I have no respect
for them.
• __________ once talked me into guiding some halflings
on the run through dangerous territory, and never thanked me
properly for it.
• I have guided __________ before and they owe me for it.
• I have shown __________ a secret rite of the land.
Ranger Gear

You get adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight) and choose one:

○ Bundle of arrows (3 ammo, 1 weight).
○ Dungeon rations (5 uses, 1 weight).
○ Leather armour (1 armour, 1 weight).
○ Magnificent fur cloak.

Ranger Races

You may choose one of these instead of a warrior race option:

Dwarf
When you hunt and track a creature, you also take +1 forward
against it.

Elf
When you undertake a perilous journey through the wilderness,
whatever job you take you succeed as if you rolled a 10+.

Human
When you make camp in a dungeon or city, you don’t need to
consume a ration.

Sharpshooter

Danger is a greedy mistress, always lurking near adventurers, ever

ready to cut them down. And she always gets what she wants in the
end. So why give her any more chances to take your life? Only a
fool fights an enemy close in. Better to stay away and pick them off
from afar.
Compendium Class

Once you have won a sharpshooting contest against multiple

opponents generally considered the best in their field—and
certainly better than you—you may consider the sharpshooter
specialty an available compendium class. The next time you level
up, you may add this specialty to your character instead of choosing
a move from your class.

Stats

If you choose the sharpshooter specialty, lower your maximum HP

by 2, but not lower than 4+Constitution.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Called Shot
When you attack a surprised or defenceless enemy at range, you
can choose to deal your damage or name your target and roll+DEX.
On a hit, choose your target:
• Arms: They drop anything they’re holding.
• Head: They do nothing but stand and drool for a few
moments.
• Legs: They’re hobbled and slow moving. On a 10+, also deal
your damage.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Blot Out the Sun

When you volley, you may spend extra ammo before rolling. For
each point of ammo spent you may choose an extra target. Roll
once and apply damage to all targets.

Camouflaged Position
When you strike with a ranged weapon from hiding, your first shot
never gives away your position.

Counterstrike
When you expend your ammo to defend against enemy missile
attacks, take +1 for each ammo expended (but no more than
+3 total).

Eagle-Eyed
When you observe a far-off location, roll+INT. On a 10+, you
may ask three questions from the discern realities list about that
location. On a 7-9, ask two. On a miss, you may still ask one, but
you are distracted and taking your time while you do it.

Witch Darts
If you attach a piece of your target—blood, hair, nails—to a missile,
if they are within range when you let it loose, it will always hit
them.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Darts of Apollo
If a wound caused by one of your missiles is not treated by a skilled
healer, it will fester and kill the victim. You can specifically choose
to loose a clean missile instead and avoid this result.

Smaug’s Belly
When you know your target’s weakest point, your missile weapons
have +2 piercing.

Snapshot
If you are pushed over, swarmed by enemies, or take a blow that
reduces your HP to zero, you’re fast enough to get off one last shot.
Deal your damage to any one foe.

Strong Arm, True Aim

You can throw any melee weapon, using it to volley. A thrown
melee weapon is gone from your possession; you can never choose
to reduce ammo on a 7-9.

Sharpshooter Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a warrior alignment:

Chaotic
Defeat a tyrant.

Neutral
Defeat an enemy without getting close to them.

Sharpshooter Gear

Choose one:
○ Hunter’s bow (near, far, 1 weight) and a bundle of arrows (3
ammo, 1 weight).
○ Ragged bow (near, 2 weight) and two bundles of arrows (6
ammo, 2 weight).
○ Rifle (near, far, 2 weight) and powder and shot (3 ammo, 1
weight).

Sharpshooter Races
You may choose one of these instead of a warrior race option:

Dwarf
When you make a called shot, you can also choose to knock your
enemy over or off balance.

Elf
Eagle-Eyed is a starting move for you.

Halfling
When you attack with a ranged weapon, deal +2 damage.

Slayer

Murder at your every footstep. Blood’s cheap, it’s everywhere.

Compendium Class

Once you have eaten the still-beating heart of an enemy you have
slain and drunk their blood from a goblet made from their skull,
you may consider the slayer specialty an available compendium
class. The next time you level up, you may add this specialty to your
character instead of choosing a move from your class.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Spill the Blood

When you deal damage to an enemy, hold 1 blood. When you have
a moment to rest, you can spend all your blood on yourself or feed
it to someone else, healing 1d6+blood damage. If you go a day
without dealing damage to an enemy, lose all the blood you have
gained.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Blood Red
Requires: Spill the Blood or Reign in Blood
In combat, you can spend your blood, 1-for-1 to:
• Block a blow meant for someone else. You take the damage
instead.
• Disarm a foe.
• Free yourself from constraints or bonds.
• Increase the damage of one attack by +1.

Die by the Sword

When you take your last breath and either miss or refuse Death’s
bargain, you can still come back to life, but Death will take you
during the next combat you participate in, somehow, some way, no
matter what.

Merciless
When you deal damage to something that can bleed, deal
+1d4 damage.

South of Heaven
When you have less than half your maximum hit points left,
your attacks gain the forceful and messy tags and you deal
+1d6 damage.
When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Angel of Death
Requires: Spill the Blood or Reign in Blood
When you hack and slash or volley, you may spend blood before
rolling. For each blood you spend choose an extra target. Roll once
and apply damage to all targets, but gain no blood for this attack.

Bloodthirsty
Replaces: Merciless
When you deal damage to something that can bleed, deal
+1d8 damage.

Reign in Blood
Replaces: Spill the Blood
When you deal damage to an enemy, hold 1 blood. When you have
a moment to rest, you can spend all your blood on yourself or feed
it to someone else, healing 1d6 damage per blood. If you go a day
without dealing damage, lose all the blood you have gained.

Slayer Bonds

• __________ has tasted my blood and I theirs. We are bound

by it.
• __________ saw me kill someone important.
• If I am the spirit of Death, __________ is the spirit of Life.
They must survive this danger, no matter what.

Slayer Gear

Choose one or more:

○ Axe (close, 1 weight).
○ Curved sword (close, 1 weight).
○ Rapier (close, precise, 1 weight).
○ Ritual dagger (hand, 1 weight).
○ Spear (reach, thrown, near, 1 weight).
○ Throwing dagger (thrown, near, 0 weight).

Slayer Races

You may choose one of these instead of a warrior race option:

Dwarf
Choose a type of monster that is your enemy. All your attacks
against this type of monster gain the forceful and messy tags.

Elf
Choose a type of monster that is your enemy. When you deal
damage to this type of monster, deal +1d4 damage.

Halfling
When you have less than 5 blood and you deal damage at range,
gain 2 blood instead of 1.

Human
When you attack, you may deal +1d4 damage if you also take
1d4 damage (ignores armour). You still get 1 blood for dealing
damage.

Standard Bearer

The mascot, the rally point, a beacon of light in the darkness

of war—that’s you. You are the hope and pride that binds these
soldiers together.

Compendium Class
Once you have been appointed the standard bearer for a mighty
lord whom you feel an intense loyalty towards, you may consider
the standard bearer specialty an available compendium class. The
next time you level up, you may add this specialty to your character
instead of choosing a move from your class.

Stats

If you choose the standard bearer specialty, you get +1 load.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Standard
You have a symbol of some kind that you use to inspire others—
maybe not a literal standard, but something visible and obvious.
When you raise your standard in support of a cause, anyone who
joins that cause gains 1d6 temporary hit points until you lower
your standard (by your own choice or not) or they turn away from
your cause. Any damage they take must reduce these temporary hit
points before being applied to their own hit points.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

All for One

As long as you wear no armour and carry no shield, allies in your
presence who defend get +1 hold, even on a miss.

And One for All

At the end of a session, if any other PC defended you or fought to
keep you safe while your standard was raised, they each mark XP. If
you lent any of them aid while they did so, you can mark XP, too.

Battlefield Grace
When you help someone with aid, take +2 armour forward.

A Little Help From my Friends

When you successfully aid someone, you take +1 forward as well.

Staunch Defender
When you defend, you always get +1 hold, even on a miss.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Exemplar
Requires: Standard
When you raise your standard, choose one of your special moves.
Any of your allies can use this move while they fight by your side,
until you lower your standard.

Gold Standard
Requires: Standard
Those who join the cause you raise your standard for gain 2d6
temporary hit points, instead of 1d6.

Impervious Defender
Replaces: Staunch Defender
When you defend, you always get +1 hold, even on a miss. On
a 12+, instead of getting hold the nearest attacking creature is
stymied giving you a clear advantage, the GM will describe it.
Stand Together
When you show your standard and rally your allies, roll+CHA. On
a hit, they hear you and answer. Choose one:
• NPCs act at a distinct advantage; their next action as a
group is
a success.
• One of your allies heals 1d8 damage.
• PCs take +1 forward if they rally to your standard.
Additionally, on a 10+, your enemy is also taken aback and either
hesitates or fails to take advantage of the situation.

Standard Bearer Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a warrior alignment:

Good
Ignore danger to aid another.

Lawful
Choose honour over personal gain.

Neutral
Survive a battle without having to fight anyone.

Standard Bearer Bonds

• __________ has defended me before. I can trust them.

• __________ proved a worthy ally in the last war, even
considering that one mistake they made.

Standard Bearer Gear

You get your standard (2 weight) in addition to whatever your

other specialties give you.

Standard Bearer Races

You may choose one of these instead of a warrior race option:

Dwarf
Your standard grants 1d8 temporary hit points, instead of 1d6 (and
gold standard grants 2d8 instead of 2d6).

Human
When you raise your standard, anyone who was previously your
enemy can choose to gain either +1 armour for the remainder
of the fight, or +1 forward, in addition to the 1d6 temporary hit
points, if they choose to fight on your side this time.

Strongarm

I am Muscle Wizard, I cast fist!

Compendium Class

Once you have successfully completed three tests of legendary

strength—such as wrestling a bear, walking a mile with a boulder
on your back, or tearing down the walls of a city, for example—you
may consider the strongarm specialty an available compendium
class. The next time you level up, you may add this specialty to your
character instead of choosing a move from your class.

Stats

If you choose the strongarm specialty, you get +2 load.

Starting Moves
You start with this move:

Musclebound
While you wield a weapon, it gains the forceful and messy tags.
And either one of these two moves:
Unencumbered, Unharmed
So long as you are below your Load and neither wear armour nor
carry a shield, take +1 armour. Show off those muscles.

The Upper Hand

You are so strong you take +1 ongoing to last breath rolls. When
you take your last breath, on a 7-9, you make an offer to Death in
return for your life. If Death accepts, she will return you to life. If
not, you die.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Interrogator
When you parley using threats of impending violence as
leverage, you may use STR instead of CHA.

My Love for You is Like a Truck

When you perform a feat of strength, name someone present whom
you have impressed and take +1 forward to parley with them.

Samson
You may take a debility to immediately break free of any physical or
mental restraint.

Smash!
When you hack and slash, on a 12+, deal your damage and choose
something physical your target has (a weapon, their position, a
limb): they lose it.

Submission Hold
When you get your hands on someone, your next attack against
them deals +1d4 damage.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

A Good Day to Die

As long as you have less than your CON in current HP (or 1,
whichever is higher), take +1 ongoing.

Hands Like a Vise

Replaces: Submission Hold
When you get your hands on someone, your next attack against
them deals +1d8 damage.

Mark of Might
When you take this move and spend some uninterrupted time
reflecting on your past glories, you may mark yourself with a
symbol of your power (a long braid tied with bells, ritual scars or
tattoos, etc). Any intelligent mortal creature who sees this symbol
knows instinctively that you are a force to be reckoned with and
treats you appropriately.

Too Brave to Die

Requires: Unencumbered, Unharmed or The Upper Hand
You had only one before, now you have both Unencumbered,
Unharmed and the Upper Hand.
Strongarm Bonds

• __________ is puny and foolish, but amusing to me.

• __________ is soft, but I will make them hard like me.
• __________ stood up to me and got away with it. That’s
how it is, I guess.

Strongarm Gear

Choose one:
○ Adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight).
○ Net (reach, stun damage, 2 weight).
○ Pair of giant weights (4 weight).
○ Trophy (1 weight).

Strongarm Races

You may choose one of these instead of a warrior race option:

Dwarf
As long as you are touching the ground, you cannot be moved by
attacks that also deal damage.

Human
When you attack with a thrown weapon, deal +1d4 damage.

Veteran

How many battles have you fought, now? You hardly remember
anymore. Life is war.

Compendium Class
Once you have survived enough battles to think that the business of
war is perfectly normal and not the insane shitstorm it actually is,
you may consider the veteran specialty an available compendium
class. The next time you level up, you may add this specialty to your
character instead of choosing a move from your class.

Stats

If you choose the veteran specialty, you get +1 load.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

The Good Soldier

When you aid an ally in a fight, they take +2 instead of +1 as well as
+1d4 damage forward. When a hireling aids you in a fight, you deal
an additional +1d4 damage.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

A Little Help From my Friends

When you successfully aid someone, you take +1 forward as well.

Scout
When you spout lore about a military unit or situation you have
observed, you may use WIS instead of CHA. Anyone acting on
your information takes +1 forward.

Setup Strike
When you hack and slash, choose an ally. Their next attack against
your target does +1d4 damage.
Skirmisher
When you enter a battle, roll+WIS. On a 10+, hold 3. On a 7-9,
hold 2. On a miss, hold 1 anyway, but take -1 forward and your
enemies see you as their main threat. During the battle, spend a
hold to:
• Choose a character that can see or hear you and direct them
out of a bad position.
• Choose a character within your reach and lure them into a
bad position.
• Choose a character within your reach and redirect their
attack.
• Choose a character you can see or hear. You reach them
before they can react.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Battle Plans
When you make a plan before a battle, roll+WIS. On a 10+, hold 3.
On a 7-9, hold 2. On a miss, hold 1 anyway, because you’ll need it
when everything goes to hell. Spend a hold at any time before the
end of the battle to declare a plan of action. Anyone pursuing that
plan of action takes +1 forward.

Tactical Commander
When you direct a unit of troops in the heat of battle, roll+CHA.
On a 10+, choose three results from the list below. On a 7-9, choose
two. On a miss, choose one anyway, but take -1 forward and your
enemies see this unit as their main threat.
• Choose a hazard on the battlefield: Your unit avoids it.
• Choose a location within reach: Your unit gets to it or deep
into the troops defending it.
• Choose an enemy unit within reach: Your unit engages
them and pins them down.
• Choose an enemy unit you are engaged with: Your unit
breaks contact in an orderly fashion.
• You rally them: No member of your unit is shaken or
routed.

Tandem Strike
Replaces: Setup Strike
When you hack and slash, choose an ally. Their next attack against
your target does +1d4 damage and they take +1 forward against
them.

Veteran Scout
Requires: Scout
When you undertake a perilous journey, you always spot trouble
in advance, as if you had rolled 10+ for scout. You can take on a
second job, roll for it as normal.

Veteran Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a warrior alignment:

Evil
Take advantage of someone untouched by war.

Lawful
Fulfill an important promise.

Neutral
Learn a secret about an enemy.

Veteran Bonds
• __________ proved a worthy ally in the last war, even
considering that one mistake they made.
• __________ saw me kill someone important.
• Me and __________ were both hired by a boss who turned
on us.

Veteran Gear

You get adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight), bandages (3 uses), and

choose one additional piece of gear:
○ Axe (close, 1 weight).
○ Dungeon rations (5 uses, 1 weight).
○ Healing potion.
○ Shield (+1 armour, 2 weight).
○ Short sword (close, 1 weight).
○ Warhammer (close, 1 weight).

War Leader

You lead from the front, inspiring others to acts of heroism and
sacrifice by your own bravery and prowess.

Compendium Class

Once you have led an army to victory against a superior enemy, you
may consider the war leader specialty an available compendium
class. The next time you level up, you may add this specialty to your
character instead of choosing a move from your class.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Recruiting for the Cause

When you recruit, also pick options equal to your CHA. On a
10+, all of them are true. On a 7-9, only one of them is true, GM’s
choice. On a miss, none of them are true:
• You gain the support of the locals, and may carouse in town
before leaving.
• You recruit a small squad of hirelings who do not have
skills.
• You recruit an additional, skilled hireling.
• You requisition a piece of equipment from the locals.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Charge!
When you lead the charge into combat, those you lead take
+1 forward.

Lead by Example
After you roll for a move, on a hit, your allies take +1 forward when
they roll for the same move, until you make another move.

Tactical Commander
When you direct a unit of troops in the heat of battle, roll+CHA.
On a 10+, choose three results from the list below. On a 7-9, choose
two. On a miss, choose one anyway, but take -1 forward and your
enemies see this unit as their main threat.
• Choose a hazard on the battlefield: Your unit avoids it.
• Choose a location within reach: Your unit gets to it or deep
into the troops defending it.
• Choose an enemy unit within reach: Your unit engages
them and pins them down.
• Choose an enemy unit you are engaged with: Your unit
breaks contact in an orderly fashion.
• You rally them: No member of your unit is shaken or
routed.
Voice of Authority
Take +1 to order hirelings.

When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Ever Onward
Replaces: Charge!
When you lead the charge into combat, those you lead take
+1 forward and +2 armour forward.

Mark of Might
When you take this move and spend some uninterrupted time
reflecting on your past glories, you may mark yourself with a
symbol of your power (a long braid tied with bells, ritual scars or
tattoos, etc). Any intelligent mortal creature who sees this symbol
knows instinctively that you are a force to be reckoned with and
treats you appropriately.

War Cry
When you enter battle with a show of force (a shout, a rallying cry,
etc), roll+CHA. On a 10+, both. On a 7–9, one or the other:
• Your allies are rallied and take +1 forward.
• Your enemies feel fear and act accordingly (avoiding you,
hiding, attacking with fear-driven abandon, etc).

War Leader Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a warrior alignment:

Evil
Profit personally from an act of war.
Good
Lead others in righteous battle.

War Leader Bonds

• __________ has stood by me in battle and can be trusted

completely.
• __________ is soft, but I will make them hard like me.
• __________ proved a worthy ally in the last war, even
considering that one mistake they made.
• __________ shares my hunger for glory; the earth will
tremble at our passing!

War Leader Gear

Choose one:
○ Banner (1 weight).
○ Conspicuous helmet (1 weight).
○ Horse and adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight).
○ Mace (close, 1 weight).
○ Squire.
○ War horn (1 weight).

War Leader Races

You may choose one of these instead of a warrior race option:

Dwarf
When your recruits help you fight, you get +1 armour.

Human
When your recruits help you fight, you deal +1d4 damage.
Wielder

You are known by the weapon you wield.

Compendium Class

Once you have acquired a weapon more famous than you are and
been indelibly linked with it in the minds of all who know you,
you may consider the wielder specialty an available compendium
class. The next time you level up, you may add this specialty to your
character instead of choosing a move from your class.

Starting Moves

You start with this move:

Signature Weapon
This is your weapon. There are many like it, but this one is yours.
Your weapon is your best friend. It is your life. You master it as you
master your life. Your weapon, without you, is useless. Without
your weapon, you are useless. You must wield your weapon true.
Describe your weapon. It has 2 weight. Choose the most
appropriate range for your weapon, then pick one enhancement
and one special power it has.

Enhancements:
○ Alarm: Glows in the presence of one type of creature, your
choice.
○ Blunt: Does stun damage, at your option.
○ Grisly: +1 damage.
○ Huge: Add the messy and forceful tags.
○ Perfectly weighted: Add the precise tag.
○ Sharp or spiked: +2 piercing.
○ Versatile: Choose an additional range.
○ Well-crafted: -1 weight.
○ Invent a new tag for your weapon.
Special Powers:
○ Bane: Kills one specific type of monster (your choice) with
but a single wound.
○ Blessed by the Gods: This weapon is divine.
○ Boomerang: It always returns to your hand.
○ Flaming: +1d4 damage when on fire.
○ Protector: Two-handed, gives you +1 armour while you
wield it in melee.
○ Sentient: This weapon is intelligent and can communicate.
○ Stonecutter: Cuts through stone like butter.
○ Vorpal blade: Ignores armour.
○ Choose two more enhancements instead of a special power.

Advanced Moves

When you gain a level from 2-5, you may choose from these moves:

Blacksmith
Requires: Signature Weapon
When you have access to a forge, you can graft the magical powers
of a weapon onto your signature weapon. This process destroys the
magical weapon. Your signature weapon gains the magical powers
of the destroyed weapon.

Heirloom
Requires: Signature Weapon
When you consult the spirits that reside within your signature
weapon, they will give you an insight relating to the current
situation, and might ask you some questions in return, roll+CHA.
On a 10+, the GM will give you good detail. On a 7-9, the GM will
give you an impression.

Improved Weapon
Requires: Signature Weapon
Choose one extra enhancement for your signature weapon.
When you gain a level from 6-10, you may choose from these
moves as well as the level 2-5 moves:

Agent of Destruction
Requires: Signature Weapon
When you deal damage with your signature weapon, if your enemy
has armour, reduce their armour by 1, to a minimum of zero.

Eye for Weaponry

When you look over an enemy’s weaponry, ask the GM how
much damage they do.

Magic Weapon
Requires: Signature Weapon
Choose one extra special power for your signature weapon.

Superior Warrior
When you hack and slash, on a 12+, you deal your damage, avoid
their attack, and impress, dismay, or frighten your enemy.

Wielder Alignments

You may choose one of these instead of a warrior alignment:

Chaotic
Use your signature weapon to stand up to unjust authority.

Good
Use your signature weapon to better the life of someone in need.
Wielder Bonds

• __________ has stood by me in battle and can be trusted

completely.
• __________ is integral to the destiny revealed by my
signature weapon.

Wielder Gear

You get your signature weapon in addition to whatever your other

specialties give you.

Wielder Races

You may choose one of these instead of a warrior race option:

Dwarf
You may add the huge enhancement to your signature weapon, in
addition to its other powers.

Elf
In your hands, your signature weapon and all other weapons of the
same type are considered precise.

Halfling
You may add the alarm enhancement to your signature weapon, in
addition to its other powers.

Human
You may add the versatile enhancement to your signature weapon,
in addition to its other powers.
Indexes

Credits
Class Warfare uses material from prior works. All moves with
text that is not original to this book have the original author and
location listed next to them in the indexes.

Key

• AoDP = Adventures on Dungeon Planet, by Johnstone

Metzger, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution
ShareAlike
3.0 Unported license.
• Barbarian = The Barbarian, by Sage LaTorra and Adam
Koebel, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Unported license.
• DHotD = Dark Heart of the Dreamer, by Jonathan Walton,
licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
license.
• DW = Dungeon World, by Sage LaTorra and Adam Koebel,
licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
license. Page numbers refer to the print version. Add 2 to the
numbers listed in this index to find the correct page numbers in the
pdf.
• Ensign = The Ensign, by Sage LaTorra and Adam Koebel,
licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
license.
• GH = Ghostwood Haunts, by Johnstone Metzger, licensed
under
a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license.
• GW = Grim World, by Deanna Nygren and Trenton
Kennedy,
licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
license.
• Initiate = The Initiate, by Josh Krutt, licensed under a
Creative
Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license.
• IoFM = Island of Fire Mountain, by Johnstone Metzger,
licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0
Unported license.

• IW = Inverse World, by Jacob Randolph and Alyssa

Schmelz, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution
ShareAlike
4.0 International license.
• LotU = Lair of the Unknown, by Johnstone Metzger,
licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0
Unported license.
• PC = Player Compendium, licensed under a Creative
Commons
Attribution 3.0 Unported license. Awakened Mind moves by Mattie
Casper. Flux moves by Jeffrey J. A. Fuller II. Landed Gentry moves
by Markus Wagner. Wraithlander moves by MC3. Page numbers
refer to the original print version.
• PoG = The Path of Ghosts, by Jonathan Walton. Material
used
by kind permission.

The Meatshield move (pages 28 and 443) was written by Alex

Norris and is used by kind permission.

Index of Moves

Abjuration 141, 232

Accurate Prediction 159
Agent of Destruction 502
Alchemist (DW 140) 364
All for One 485
Ancestor Song 32, 179
Ancestral Heritage 82
And One for All 485
Angel of Death 481
Animal Companion
(DW 129) 456
Animal Magnetism 383
Anointed (DW 94) 154
Apotheosis (DW 94) 122
Appraisal (LotU 100) 396
Aquakinesis 258
Arcane Armour (DW 148)
… 278
Arcane Library 221
Arcane Shield 277
Arcane Ward (DW 147) 277
Arch-Enchanter 238, 242
Arch-Summoner 234
Armour Mastery (DW 115)
… 408
Armour of Faith 169
Armoured (DW 112) 407
Armoured Perfection
(DW 116) 409
Around the World 98
Arrows in Hand 149
Ars Goetia 142
Artifacts of Darkness 273
Artillery 246
Ashes to Ashes 168

Ask Me Anything 59
Astral Scryer 221
Automaton 249
Awakening Blood 84
Back-Up Plan (GH 124)79, 352
Backstab (DW 136) 339
Bag of Holding 416
Balance (DW 108) 439
Bamboozle (DW 85)
… 43, 368, 387
Banish Golem (GW 28) 249
Bardic Expert 43
Bardic Lore (DW 82) 42
Battle Plans 494
Battlefield Grace 485
Bazaar of Curios 94
Bend Bars, Lift Gates
(DW 112) 446
Berserker 447, 461
Better Mimic 230
Beyond Mimicry 229
The Bigger They Are
(GH 126) 429
Bind (PC 16) 244
Binding Field (PC 16) 246
Blacksmith (DW 116) 501
Blemished 102
Blessed 110
Blood and Tradition
(DHotD 26) 82
Blood Ill-Tempered 447
Blood Red 480
Bloodthirsty (DW 116) 481
Bloody Aegis (DW 122)
… 145, 408

Blot Out the Sun (DW 131)

… 475
Bodyguard 443
Bodyguards (GH 121) 71
Book of Names 89
Born of Fire (IoFM 98) 128, 355
Brainworm 288
Branded (PC 25) 102
Breakin’ 347
Brewer (DW 139) 363
Buddy Movie 88
Bug Eater (LotU 92) 47
Bustling Storefront 93
Buyers 348, 352
By Nature Sustained
(DW 105) 145
Call of the Wild 418
Call the Banners (PC 23) 68
Called Shot (DW 128) 474
Callous Master 344
Camouflage (DW 131) 470
Camouflaged Position (AoDP 86) 475
Can Opener 416
Captain, My Captain 434
Caretaker’s Insight 175
Cast a Holy Spell 132
Cast a Magic Spell
(DW 144) 264
Cast a Mimicked Spell 228
Cast a Miraculous Spell (DW 91) 152
Cast a Vancian Spell 292
Cautious (DW 138) 391
Cavedancer (LotU 94) 48
Cavespeaker (LotU 94) 48
Charge! (DW 123)
… 117, 439, 497

Charming and Open

(DW 82) 58
Cheap Shot (DW 138) 340
Cheat Death Again 169
Chosen One (DW 93) 154
Circle of Protection 140
Closing the Gateway 142
Comfortably Numb 137
Command (DW 129) 457
Command and Conquer 374 Command of Injunction 142
Commanding Touch 376
Commune (DW 91) 153
Communion of Whispers (DW 107) 470
Con (DW 87) 44, 368, 388
Con Artist 386
Concealed Object 261
Conjuration 232
Conjuratorium 234
Connections (DW 139)
… 350, 359
Considered It Already
(GH 127) 430
Consult Sage 87
Control 237
Counterspell (DW 147) 277
Counterstrike (AoDP 86) 475
Crowd Control 138
Crushing Blow447
Cultured Host (GH 121) 64
The Cure 270
Curiosity (IW 67) 55
Curse of Ghosts 34, 180
Dance of Blades 424
Dangerous Dreams 278
Dangerous Eyes 383
Dark, Dark Hands 272

The Darkening Path 273

Darts of Apollo 476
Deadly Blade 372
Deadly Commands 376
Deadly Eyes 384
Death Defying Grace 336
Death’s Friend (PC 25) 102
Demolition (LotU 98) 51
Devious (DW 87) 388
Devoted Healer (DW 94) 174
Devotion 107
Die by the Sword 480
Diplomat (PC 23) 68
Dirty Fighter (DW 139) 340
Disarming and Open 387
Disguise (DW 141) 340, 380 Divine Armour
(DW 95) 146, 175
Divine Authority
(DW 125) 439
Divine Guidance
(DW 91) 113, 120
Divine Intervention
(DW 93) 122
Divine Invincibility
(DW 95) 123
Divine Protection
(DW 94) 145, 174
Divine Protection
(DW 124) 33
Doesn’t Mean It’s There 254
Dogs of War (GH 121) 72
Doll House 343
Dominating Power 238
Dominion (GH 118) 63
Don’t Be a Dick (Ensign) 435
Driven by the Divine 113
Due North (PC 17) 245

Duellist’s Block (DW 87) 453

Duellist’s Parry (DW 85) 452
Dungeon Crawl (LotU 92) 46 Dust to Dust 169
Dwarf Adventurer
(DW 112) 41
Dwarf Arcane Ritualist 223
Dwarf Armiger 410
Dwarf Arsenal 417
Dwarf Avatar 115
Dwarf Awakened Mind 227
Dwarf Bard 45
Dwarf Beastmaster 423
Dwarf Blade Dancer 427
Dwarf Bounty Hunter
(GH 128) 431
Dwarf Breaker 349
Dwarf Champion of Law 441 Dwarf Crusader 119
Dwarf Defender 445
Dwarf Destroyer 449
Dwarf Devoted 125
Dwarf Disciple 109
Dwarf Dominator 239
Dwarf Duellist 455
Dwarf Dust Eater 30
Dwarf Elementalist 131
Dwarf Embodiment 135
Dwarf Empath 139
Dwarf Engineer (LotU 99) 53
Dwarf Fool 57
Dwarf Golemist 251
Dwarf Good Samaritan 61
Dwarf Impervious 147
Dwarf Insatiable 467
Dwarf Landed Gentry 69
Dwarf Luminary (GH 118) 75
Dwarf Magician 219
An Ear for Magic (DW 87)
… 44, 286
Eldritch Chord(DW 86) 286
Eldritch Tones (DW 85) 285 Elemental Form (IoFM 100)
… 129
Elemental Golem (GW 26)
… 248
Elemental Mastery
(DW 108) 126
Elemental Shield 250
Elf Adventurer (DW 82) 41
(DW 128) 459
Elf Golemist 251
Elf Illusionist 255
Elf Impervious 147
Elf Insatiable 467
Elf Luminary 75
Elf Magician 219
Elf Martial Hero 151
Elf Mastermind 361
Elf Objectivist 263
Elf Oracle 161
Elf Poisoner 365

Elf Prepared Caster

Enchanter’s Soul

(DW 144)
267
(DW 148) 242

Elf Psychic Healer

271
Entourage (GH 119) 70

Elf Psychopomp
171
Entrepreneur (GH 122) 77

Elf Ranger (DW 128)

473
Envenom (DW 139) 363

Elf Rogue (DW 112)

333
Envenomed 364

Elf Sacred Lamb

177
Erasure 289

Elf Sage
91
Escape Route (DW 141)

Elf Shadow
381
… 348, 380

Elf Sharpshooter
477
Ethereal Tether (DW 149) 222

Elf Shield Arcanus

279
Evasion (DW 140) 360, 392

Elf Siren
385
Ever Onward (DW 124)

Elf Slayer
482
… 117, 439, 498

Elf Soothsayer
283
Ever Thoughtful (IW 131) 360

Elf Spellsinger
287
Ever Watchful (IW 128) 359

Elf Swindler (DW 82)

389
Evidence of Faith (DW 124)

Elf Telepath
291
… 89, 123, 154, 440

Elf Thief
393
Evil Eye (DW 116) 462

Elf Tomb Robber

Exacting Discipline 133
(LotU 103)
399
Ex Officio (GH 119) 71

Elf Vancian Caster

Exemplar 485

(DW 144)
295
Expanded Consciousness

Elf Venerator
181
(PC 8) 224

Elf Warrior (DW 112)

405
Expanded Spellbook

Elf Wayfarer
99
(DW 147) 265, 293

Elf Wielder
503
Exterminatus (DW 123) 452

Elf Wraithlander
103
Extremely Cautious

Emotional Manipulation
138
(DW 140) 392

Emotional Transference
137
Eye for Loot (GH 123)
Empathy
136
… 78, 351, 465

Empire
68
Eye for Technique 452

Empower (DW 93)

154
Eye for Weaponry

Empowered Magic
(DW 117) 261, 502

(DW 146)
265
Eye of the Storm

En Garde!
450
(IoFM 94) 128

Enchanted
241
Eyes of the Tiger

Enchanter (DW 147)

241
(DW 107) 343, 420

Face Dancer 230

Face Like a Mask

229
From Beyond
226
The Face of God
114
From Beyond the Black

Faces in the Dark

274
Gate
233

Fade Away 380

From the Forbidden Lands

Fake 367
Returned (PC 24)
101

Familiar
420
Fuelled by Honour
149

Familiar Prey (DW 131)

470
Gate of Darkness
274

Far Invasion
344
Gather Darkness
272

Far Read
290
Genius Savant
133

Far Speaking
289
Ghost Killer
141
Faraday’s Law (PC 17)
245
Ghost Seer
140

Fast Read
289
Ghost Talker
168

The Field at Dawn

452
Gladiator
453

Fight with Honour

148
Glorious Honour
150

Final Tether (PC 25)

102
Gold Standard
485

Fire Control
355
The Golden Path
281

Fire in the Blood

448
Golem Attack (GW 26)
249

First Aid (DW 93)

117, 174
Golem Protection
Fists of Fury
148
(GW 26)
249

Fixation on the Darkness 273

Golem Puppet Strings
249

Flame Out 355

A Good Day to Die

Flexible Morals (DW 136) 330

(Barbarian)
490

Flexible Traditions 84
The Good Soldier
492

Flying Daggers of the

Gorgoneion
461

Mind 371
Grand Entrance
383

Follow Me (DW 132) 164, 470

Grave Digger
180

Following 379
Great Wyrm
290

A Fool and His Money 55 Greater Empowered Magic

Forceful Objection
261
(DW 148)
155, 266

Forebodings of Doom
280
Greater First Aid

Forecast (IW 128)

359
(DW 95)
117, 175

Foreshadowing
159, 281
Greater Stigmata
175

Fount of Knowledge
Greed is Good (LotU
102) 397

(DW 146)
43, 88
Guild Thief
391

Friend of the Sea

Halfling Acrobat (DW 112)337

(IoFM 98)
128
Halfling Adventurer

Friend of the Sky

(DW 136) 41

(IoFM 100)
258
Halfling Arcane Ritualist 223
Halfling Arsenal
417
Halfling Warrior (DW 112
)

Halfling Awakened Mind

227
…
405

Halfling Avatar
115
Halfling Wielder
503

Halfling Bard
45
Hand of Monkey
149

Halfling Beastmaster
423
Hands Like a Vise
490

Halfling Body Thief

345
Hands of the Monkey

Halfling Breaker (DW 112)349

Halfling Caver 49
Halfling Devoted 125
Halfling Disciple (DW 104)
… 109
Halfling Elementalist 131
Halfling Empath 139
Halfling Enchanter 243
Halfling Flux 247
Halfling Fool 57
Halfling Good Samaritan 61
Halfling Illusionist 255
Halfling Impervious 147
Halfling Luminary 75
Halfling Magician
(DW 104) 219
Halfling Martial Hero 151
Halfling Mind-Mover 259
Halfling Objectivist 263
Halfling Poisoner 365
Halfling Prepared Caster 267 Halfling Psychic Healer 271
Halfling Rogue (DW 136) 333 Halfling Sacred Lamb 177 Halfling
Sharpshooter
(DW 136) 477
Halfling Slayer 482
Halfling Telepath 291
Halfling Thief (DW 112) 393
Halfling Tomb Robber (LotU 103) 399

King 150
The Harder They Fall
(GH 127) 32, 429
Haruspex 114
Healing Chorus (DW 86) 286
Healing Song (DW 85) 285 Healthy Distrust
(Barbarian) 146, 440
Heart of Gold 387
Heart of Ice (IoFM 98) 128
Heaven’s Weaving 122
Heirloom (DW 115) 501
Heist (DW 141) 360, 392
Hellhound on Your Trail (GH 127) 34, 430
Helpful 59
Herculean Appetites (Barbarian) 464
Heroic Monster Slayer 408
Heroic Swashbuckler 337
Hide Like Iron 408
High Class 94
Highly Logical (DW 148) 222
Hired Help 94
Hobo Signs 97
Hold Court (PC 23) 68
Hold Person 258
Holy Protection (DW 123) 32
Holy Smite (DW 124) 35
Honourable Society 149
Honouring Traditions (DHotD 26) 84

Hospitaller (DW 123) 117, 269 How Can You Hope to

Defeat Me? 452
Human Acrobat 337
Human Adventurer
(DW 128) 41

Human Friend of the Wild

… 459
Human Golemist 251
Human Illusionist 255
Human Impervious 147
Human Insatiable 467

Human Arcane Ritualist

223
Human Luminary
75

Human Armiger
410
Human Magician
219

Human Arsenal
417
Human Martial Hero
151

Human Avatar
115
Human Mastermind
361

Human Awakened Mind

227
Human Merchant
81

Human Bard (DW 82)

45
Human Mind-Mover
259

Human Beastmaster
423
Human Miracle Worker

Human Blade Dancer

427
(DW 90)
157

Human Blue Mage

231
Human Objectivist
263

Human Body Thief

345
Human Oracle
161

Human Bounty Hunter

431
Human Pilgrim
165

Human Breaker
349
Human Poisoner
365

Human Captain
436
Human Prepared Caster

Human Champion of Law

(DW 144)
267

(DW 120)
441
Human Psychic Healer
271

Human Crusader
119
Human Psychopomp
171

Human Destroyer
449
Human Puppet Master
377

Human Devoted
125
Human Ranger (DW 128)
473

Human Disciple (DW 120)

Human Rogue (DW 136)
333

…
109
Human Sacred Lamb
177

Human Dominator
239
Human Sage
91

Human Duellist
455
Human Shadow
381

Human Dust Eater

30
Human Shopkeeper
95

Human Elementalist
131
Human Siren
385

Human Embodiment
Human Slayer
482

(DW 90)
135
Human Spellsinger

Human Empath
139
(DW 82)
287

Human Enchanter
243
Human Standard Bearer
487

Human Engineer (LotU

99) 53
Human Strongarm
491

Human Exorcist
143
Human Summoner
235

Human Fence
353
Human Swindler
389

Human Flux
247
Human Telepath
291

Human Tomb Robber

Inner Heat 355

(LotU 103)
399
Inquisitor 290

Human Vancian Caster

295
Interpreting Tradition 84

Human Venerator
181
Interrogator (DW 115)
Human War Leader
499
… 447, 489

Human Warrior (DW 112) 405

Human Wielder 503
Human Wraithlander 103
Hunt and Track (DW 128)469 The Hunter (GH 126) 28, 428
Hunter’s Prey (DW 132) 471
Hypnotic Allure 382
Hypnotist 237
I am the Law (DW 120) 438
I am the Tiger 344
I Know People Who Know People (GH 120) 78
I Know This Work 88
I Must Have It! (GH 124)
… 79, 352, 466
Idle Gossip 94
The Image Itself 253
Impersonation 368

Inventory 93
Invigorate (DW 93) 117
Invoking the Gods of Law440 Iron Will 145, 238, 376, 379
It Belongs in a Museum 391 I’ve Got a Bad Feeling
About This (IW 125) 358 Jaws Around Your Spine 238 Judge of
Character 439
Just Because You Feel It 253
Keeping Score 450
Khan of Khans (Barbarian)
… 465
Knack for Enchantments 241 Knack for Illusions 253
Land Surveyor (LotU 97) 51
Landed (PC 22) 66
Lay on Hands (DW 120) 116

Impervious Defender
Lead by Example
497

(DW 124)
Learned and Wise
133

… 35, 146, 409, 444, 486

Leg Work
348

Improved Weapon
Lieutenants
434

(DW 115) 501

Life, Death, and Greed

Improvised Objection 261

(LotU 100)
396

Improvised Weapon 340

In the Service of the
People (PC 23) 69
Indelible (PC 25) 102
Indestructible Hunger (Barbarian) 465
Indomitable (DW 125)
… 146, 409
Influencer (GH 124) 72, 79

Light as a Feather(Initiate)149
Like a Ghost (PoG) 380
A Little Help From my Friends (DW 85)
… 43, 59, 485, 493
Local Contacts97
The Lock Undone 372
Logical (DW 147) 221
A Long and Rather
Singular History 64
A Long and Storied
History 64
The Long Climb (PoG)
… 336, 347
Long Road Home (PC 23) 68 Looting the Wizard’s
Tomb (LotU 102) 397
Loyal Crew 432
Lucky Charm (IW 75) 54
Lucky for You! 55
Lynx-Eyed, Like Burning Coals (LotU 92) 47
Mad Scientist 270
Magic Mark 352
Magic Spellbook (DW 144)
… 265
Magic Weapon 502
Magical Senses 281
Magical Sphere 277
Make This Go Away 95
Maker of Monster Suits 409
A Many-Headed Beast
(GH 124) 72
Mark of Might (Barbarian)

Mechanical Genius 52
Medium 33, 179
Mental Map (LotU 92) 47
Merciless (DW 115) 480
Metal Hurlant(DW 85) 285
Mind Invasion 343
Mind Sense 289
Mind Warrior 258
Mindmeld (PC 9) 137, 225, 289
Mining Engineer (LotU 97) 51
Monster Blood84
Monster Mash 229
More! Always More! (Barbarian) 46
Mortgages (GH 124) 64
Mother of Invention
(LotU 98) 50
Mouth Full of Ashes 23, 28 The Mouths of Babes 55
Multiclass Dabbler
(DW 86, 95, 116) 33
Multiclass Initiate
(DW 86, 117) 35
Murder in the Shadows 274
Musclebound (Barbarian) 488
My Best Friend (DW 131) 457

…
490, 498
My Love for You is Like a

Martial Oracle
160
Truck (Barbarian)
489

Martyr (DW 95)

33, 175
My Shadow and Me
274

Martyr’s Shield
444
Mystical Puppet Strings

Martyr’s Touch
269
(DW 149)
238

Master (DW 148)

266, 294
Nature’s Fury (IoFM 99)
128
Master Impersonator
369
Necromancy
168

Master of Illusions
254
The Next Best Things
253

Master of Puppets
376
Nine Lives
336

Meatshield (Alex Norris)

Nose for Danger
363

… 28, 443
Observant (DW 133)
471

Mechanical Aptitude 51
Obsession
466

Official Position (GH 127)429 Omens of the Future 281

Omnipotent Sphere 278
On the Move (Barbarian) 425 Operator of Magical
Mechanisms 241
Orison for Guidance
(DW 94) 113, 122
Osmosis (GW 29) 250
Ostentation (DW 93) 133
Over My Dead Body 444
Pack Rat 415
Pain to Pleasure 138
Palace Guard (GH 125) 72
Parting Shadows 160, 282
Passing 84
Penitent (DW 93) 174
Perfect Hospitaller
(DW125) 117, 270
Perfect Knight (DW 125) 35
Perfect Poise 334
Perfect Replica 230
Permanent Wonder 242
Personal Deity (DW 90)
… 111, 121
Petitioning the Empty Sky 114 Petrifying Visage 461
Phantom Pains 254
Physical Purity (IoFM 99) 130
Pilgrimage 163
Pilgrim’s Progress 164
Pirates and Thieves 434
Plot a Course (Ensign) 434
Poison God 364
Poison Master (DW 139) 363

A Port in the Storm

(DW 83) 43, 96
Possession 342
The Power of Pilgrimage 164
Prayers to the Dead 178
Prepare Magic Spells
(DW 144) 265
Prepare Vancian Spells 293
Prestigious Companions (GH 123) 72
Prodigy (DW 146) 265, 293
Professional Gossip
(GH 127) 429
Profitable Enterprise
(GH 123) 64
Prophetic Lineage 159
Protection 444
Protection Most Excellent (LotU 102) 397
Protective Counter
(DW 148) 278
Providence (DW 94) 155
Psychic Blade 370
Psychic Fist 371
Psychic Phrenology 261
Psychic Psychology 262
Psychic Shield 371
Psychic Surgery 268
Psychometry 260
Pull Out a Weapon 414
Puppet Strings 374
Pyrokinesis 354
Questing Nature 29
Quick Study (DW 147)
… 89, 266, 294

The Poisoned Blade

363
Reaching Through

Poisoner (DW 137)

362
Darkness
275

Popular
384
Reaper (DW 94)
169

Reckless Summoner
(GW 29) 250
Recruiting for the Cause 496 Reign in Blood 481
Renovation (LotU 98) 52
Repel (PC 17) 246
Reputation (DW 86)
… 44, 98, 369, 384
Respected Duellist 453
Right Where I Want to Be425 Risky Magic 294
Ritual (DW 145) 220
Rope Tricks (LotU 94) 47
Sacrifice 172
Sacrificial Bounty 176
A Safe Place (DW 132) 470
Safecracker 347
A Safer Place (DW 133) 471
Samson (Barbarian) 447, 489
Savage Blade 371
The Scales of Life and
Death (DW 93) 168
Scavenger 415
Scout 493
Scrying Pool 221
Scrying Power 282
Secret Paths and Ways 97
Seeing Red (DW 115) 461
Self-Powered (DW 149) 222
Serenity (DW 93) 154
Serious Underdog
(DW 140) 341
Serpentine 337
Setup Strike (DW 123) 493
Shadow Master 275
Shadow Thief 274
A Shield Made of
Weapons 415

Shield of Blades 372

Shoot First (DW 139) 340
Show Me the Right Way 59
Show Me the Way 59
Shrinewalker 165
The Sick Will See 269
Signature Weapon 500
Silver Tongue 368
Skin of Steel 409
Skirmisher 493
Sleep Walk Inside Me 226
Sleep Walk With Me
(PC 9) 225
Smash! (Barbarian) 489
Smaug’s Belly (DW 133) 476
The Smell of Sorcery 391
Smite (DW 123) 33
Smoke and Mirrors 252
Snake Oil 388
Snapshot (AoDP 87) 476
Sneaky Bastard 391
So, We Meet Again 453
Social Climber 368, 383
South of Heaven 480
Special Trick (DW 133) 458
A Specific Audience 384
Spell Augmentation
(DW 149) 266, 294
Spell Defence (DW 145) 276
Spell Mimicry 229
Sphere of Influence 132
Spill the Blood 479
Spirit of Warning 35, 180
Spirits of Knowledge 33, 179
Spiritual Connection 141
Stand Together 486
Standard 484

Staunch Defender (DW 123)

… 33, 145, 408, 444, 485
Stay Out of the Light 379
Stigmata 174
Still Hungry (Barbarian) 465
Strange Medicine (LotU 94)
… 48
Strider (DW 133) 165, 471
Striders Two (DW 133) 458 Strong Arm, True Aim
(DW 140) 262, 341, 476
Submission Hold 489
Subtle Sense (PC 17) 245
Suiting Up 415
The Summoner’s Trick 233
Summons 234
Superfriends 89
Superior Arsenal 416
Superior Bodyguard 444
Superior Technique 150
Superior Warrior
(DW 117) 448, 502
Supremely Lucky (IW 78) 56
Swashbuckler 336
Swordbreaker 415
Sympathetic Ward
(LotU 102) 396
Symphony of Battle 426

This is My Domain
(GH 125) 65
Thoughts Beyond (PC 9) 225 Thoughts Beyond Thought
… 226
Three Stooges 56
Through Death’s Eyes
(DW 117) 462
To Know the Unknowable
… 141
To Speak with the World Itself (IoFM 95) 130
Too Brave to Die 490
Tools of the Trade 346
Touching the Firmament (IoFM 95) 128
Tough Love 60
Trade Networks (GH 123)
… 78, 351
Transference 242
Trap Expert (DW 136) 390
Tremors (LotU 94) 47
Tricks of the Trade
(DW 136) 346, 390
Truth and Consequences
… 158, 282
Turn Undead (DW 91) 167
Twilight Blade (IW 103) 371

Syncretic Faith 134

Twilight Reckoning

Tactical Commander
(IW 106)
372

… 435, 494, 497

Two Are Better Than One

Talisman (PC 8) 225

(DW 132)
457

Tandem Strike (DW 124) 494

Two Minds, One Thought

Teeth of Flame 355

…
420

Telekinesis 257
Unbowed, Unbent,

Telekinetic Mastery 258

Unbroken
144

Telekinetic Weapons 258

Uncanny Senses
164

That’s Not a Knife 416

Underdog (DW 139)
340

Unencumbered, Unharmed
We All Want Things

(Barbarian) 488
(GH 123)
78, 351

Unforgettable Face
Weakness Prophesied
159

(DW 86) 44, 98

Unnatural Ally (DW 133) 458
Unseen Hand 381
The Upper Hand
(Barbarian) 488
The Upsell 387
Vancian Spellbook 293
Vandal 448
Vanishing Act 233
Velocitas Eradico (PC 17) 245 Versatile Companions
(GH 125) 72
Very Helpful 60
Veteran Scout 494
Vicious Blast (DW 86) 286
Vicious Cacophony
(DW 85) 285
Vicious Commands 376
Viper’s Fangs (DW 132) 426
Viper’s Strike (DW 131) 425
The Voice 376
Voice of Authority
(DW 123) 439, 497
Vox Arcanus (DW 82) 284 Walking Through
Darkness 273
Wall of Knives 425
War Cry (Barbarian) 462, 498 Ward Against the Dead
(LotU 102) 396
Ward Against Monsters

Wealth and Taste

(DW 138) 261, 351
A Wealth of Knowledge 89 Wealthy Entrepreneur
(GH 125) 79
Weather Sense (DW 109) 471 Weather Weaver (DW 109)
… 130
Web of Contacts 352
The Weight of Command 433 The Well-Balanced Blade 425 Well-
Trained (DW 131) 458 What Are You Waiting
For? (Barbarian) 460
What’s Mine is Mine 233
Wide-Wanderer
(Barbarian) 96
Wild Empathy (DW 131)
… 289, 420, 458, 470
Wild Speech (DW 132)
… 290, 420, 458, 471
Witch Darts 475
Wondrous Creations 240
Words from Beyond 29, 178
Worldly Wisdom 133
Wrap It Up (GH 128) 35, 430
Wreathed in Flame 356
Zoologist 421

(LotU 103)
397

Ward of Protection
(LotU 100)
395

Index of Specialties

Acrobat
334
Golemist
248

Arcane Ritualist
220
Good Samaritan
58

Armiger
407
Gorgon
460

Arsenal
412
Householder
63

Assassin
339
Illusionist
252

Avatar
110
Impervious
144

Awakened Mind
224
Insatiable
464

Bard
42
Landed Gentry
66

Beastmaster
418
Luminary
70

Blade Dancer
424
Martial Hero
148

Blue Mage
228
Mastermind
358

Body Thief
342
Merchant
76

Bounty Hunter
428
Mind-Mover
257

Breaker
346
Miracle Worker
152

Captain
432
Monstrous Heritage
82

Caver
46
Objectivist
260

Champion of Law
438
Oracle
158

Conjurer
232
Pilgrim
163

Crusader
116
Poisoner
362

Defender
443
Prepared Caster
264

Destroyer
446
Pretender
367

Devoted
120
Psi-Knife
370

Dominator
237
Psychic Healer
268

Duellist
450
Psychopomp
167

Elementalist
126
Puppet Master
374

Embodiment
132
Ranger
469

Empath
136
Sacred Lamb
172

Enchanter
240
Sage
87

Engineer
50
Shadow
379

Exorcist
140
Shadowmancer
272

Fence
350
Sharpshooter
474

Firestarter
354
Shield Arcanus
276

Flux
244
Shopkeeper
93

Fool
54
Siren
382

Friend of the Wild

456
Slayer
479

Soothsayer
280
Vancian Caster
292

Spellsinger
284
Venerator
178

Standard Bearer
484
Veteran
492

Strongarm
488
War Leader
496

Swindler
386
Wayfarer
96

Telepath
288
Wielder
500

Thief
390
Wraithlander
101

Tomb Robber
395
Index of Spells

Alarm (DW 151)

326
Contract
200

Alert (DW 155)

207, 303
Control Sound
311

Alter Colours
298
Control Weather

Alter Liquid
300
(DW 100)
209

Alter Thing
300
Cornucopia
203

Altered Beast
187
Corpse Whispers
191, 319

Analgesia
198
Cure Critical Wounds

Animal Summons
186
(DW 99)
199
Animate Dead (DW 98)
… 192, 320
Antipathy (DW 155) 307
Astral Projection
(AoDP 48) 317
Bless (DW 97) 188
Burning Hands 322
Cage (DW 153) 309
Casting Stones 200
Cause Fear (DW 97) 200, 305
Change Other 301
Change Self 301
Charm Animal 185
Charm Person (DW 151) 305
Circle of Protection 205
City in a Bottle (AoDP 49) 313 Cloudkill (DW 154) 325
Cold Snap 196
Commune with Nature 197
Conjure Beast 186
Consume Unlife (DW 101)
… 193, 320

Cure Light Wounds

(DW 97) 198
Cure Moderate Wounds (DW 98) 198
Darkness 324
Deadened 314
Detect Alignment
(DW 97) 210, 302
Detect Magic (DW 151)
… 206, 302
Dispel Magic (DW 152)
… 200, 306
Divine Presence (DW 101) 205
Divination (DW 99) 207, 303
Dominate (DW 154) 307
Doppelgänger 312
Earthquake (AoDP 49) 197
Emote 305
Endure 204
Entangle 202
Environmental Protection 316
Erase 298

Contact Other Plane (DW 153)

Extinguish Large Fires
323

303
Extinguish Small Fires
322

Contact Spirits (DW 151)

324
Faerie Fire
206

Contagion (DW 99)

201
Faerie Kingdom
312

Contingency (DW 154)

309

False World (AoDP

49)
Mask of Death
191

…
201, 313
Memory Reading
315
Find Corpse
319
Mending
210, 298

Find the Beast

185
Message
316

Find the Way

194
Mimic (DW 152)
312

Fire Walk For Me

322
Mind Transfer
315

Fireball (DW 152) 188,

308, 322
Mirror Image (DW 152)
312

Fly
209, 316
Open Mind
315

The Fog
194, 308
Part the Seas
196

Form of Fire
323
Pass Without Trace
194
Four Arms
300
Past Thoughts
315

Gateway Runes
327
Perfect Summons (DW
155)

Ghost Sight
191
…
325

Gift of Spells
300
Perfume
208

Grass Eater
202
Plague (DW 101)
201

Guidance (DW 96)

210
Planning
210

Gust of Wind
208
Plant Whispers
202

The Hand that Calls

316
Polymorph (DW 153) 300, 306
Harm (DW 100)
201
Prestidigitation (DW 150) 311

Heal (DW 100)

199
Prophecy 207

Hold Monster
307
Questing 213

Hold Person (DW 98)201,

306
Rain of Fire 189

Identify 302
Rainbow Bridge
209

Identify Person 314

Repair (DW 101)
199

Immunity 188, 204

Repel Creature
185

Inquiry 212
Resurrection (DW 98)
192

Invigorate 198
Revelation (DW 99)
207

Invisibility (DW 151) 311

Reverse Poison
199
Light (DW 96, 150)
Sanctify (DW 96)
198

… 206, 308, 322

Sanctuary (DW 97)
204

Lightning 208
Secret Runes
326

Local Customs 212

Servant of the Earth
196

Locate Object 206, 302

Sever (DW 100)
189

Location Ward 327

Shadow Walk (DW 154)
313

Magic Missile (DW 151) 308

Shelter (DW 155)
309

Magic Weapon (DW 97) 188

Silence
205

Mark of Death (DW 100)

Skysight
208

… 193, 320, 327

Sleep (DW 152)
306
Soul Gem (DW 155) 321
Trap Ward
326

Speak With Dead

True Discernment
213

(DW 97) 191, 319

True Seeing (DW 99)
212

The Speech of Beasts 186

True Seeing (DW 154)
303

Spirits of the Wild 186

Truth Telling
315

Star Gate 317

Two Face
298

Starlight 209
Unseen Servant (DW 150)
324

Stonespeak 194
The Urge
314

Storm of Vengeance
Vestigia Nulla Retrorsum
316

(DW 101) 209

Visions Through Time

Summon Feast 324

(DW 152)
303

Summon Fire Elemental 323

Wall of Thorns
203

Summon Monster
Ward Against Intruders
327

(DW 153) 189, 325

Ward of Protection
204

Summon Nature
Web
308

Elemental 203
The Wisdom of War
188

Summon Swarm 187

Wizard’s Mark
326

Sunbeam 208
Wood Bender
202

Telepathy (DW 151)

302, 314
Word of Recall (DW 100) 205

Teleport
317
Words of the Unspeaking

Trap Soul (DW 99)

193
(DW 99) 212