Definitely Not A

RWBY RPG
Table of Contents The Numbers… What Do They Mean? (Skills) 16
About This Game i Cash Money 16
Materials1 Leftover Points 16
Character Creation 2 Thanks. I hate it. (Redux) (Optional Rule) 16
What’s Your Story? 2 Sample Character: Ruby Rose 17
Teams 2 Mechanics And Other Important Details 20
Names and Appearance 2 Contested Rolls 20
Emblems (Optional Rule) 3 Outcome 20
Environmental Rolls 20
Relationships 3
Outcome 20
Table 1: Relationship Strengths 4
When To Use Environmental Rolls 20
Table 2: Relationship Points of Interest 4
Roleplay Bonuses 20
Emotional Turmoil (In Character Creation) 4
Dust21
General Traits and Other Features 4
Common Dust 21
Race and Other Significant Body Modifications 5
Rare Dust 21
Beliefs and Defining Issue 5
Using Dust 21
Weapon Creation 6
Lien Sums in Play 22
How Combat Works (Roughly) 6
Damage Types 22
Picking Forms and Components 6
Common Status Effects 22
Table 3: Weapon Form Examples  7
Prone 22
Table 4: Weapon Component Examples 7
Frozen 22
Costing Complex Forms and Components 7
Paralyzed 22
Attacks 8
Burning 22
Range and Range Bands 8
Other Status Effects 22
Attack Costs - Damage 9 Fall Damage 22
Figure 1: Total Point Cost of Attacks By Aver- Injury Tracking And Recovery 22
age Damage 9
Table 6: Injuries By Damage Past Aura 23
Figure 2: Attack Rolls By Average Damage 9
Table 7: Injury Effects and Recovery Time 23
Attack Costs - Area of Effect 10
Injury Recovery 24
Attack Costs - Two Weapon Fighting 10
Aura Recharging 24
Attack Costs - Dust in Weapons 10
“He’s Sheer Willpower!” (Optional Rule) 24
Name And Brief Description  10 Emotional Turmoil 24
No Weapon And Unarmed Fighting 10 Emotional Outburst 24
Additional Notes 10 Bounty Missions 25
Example - Weapon Movement 10 Suitable Player Characters 25
Defense - A Shared Pool Between Weapon, Re- Combat26
flexes, and Weapon Training 11 Overview26
Semblance Creation 12 Actions Tokens and Actions 26
Semblance Names 12 Skip 26
Using Your Semblance 12 Attack  26
Example - Semblance Costs 12 Move  26
Table 5: Example Semblance Tiers and Costs 13 Setup  26
Core Statistics 14 Quick Action  26
The Numbers… What Do They Mean? (Stats) 14 Action Limits and Details 26
Will, Intuition, and Aura 14 Teamwork and Setup 27
Thanks. I hate it. (Optional Rule) 14 Levels of Setup (Optional Rule) 27
Strength and Attack 14 Reactions27
Reflexes and the Defense Dice Chain Pool 15 When You Are Attacked 27
Stats and Movement 15 When Someone Else is Attacked 27
Specific Skills 15 Roleplay Bonuses 27
 Range27 Monstra 50
Range and Height 27 Nevermore 52
Cover28 Nuckelavee 52
Levels of Cover 28 Sea Feilong 53
Durability 28 Seer 54
Penetrability 28 Silver-Eyed Warrior Grimm 55
Obscured From Sight 28 The Hound 56
But… 28 Sphinx 57
Engagement and Attacks of Opportunity 28 Sulfur Fish 58
Multiple Enemies and the Damage Waterfall 29 Combination A 58
Explosives and Area of Effect Damage 29 Combination B 59
Holding Back 29
Tempest 60
Disarming29
Teryx 61
Resolving Tricky Things 30
Ursa 61
Steps To Resolve An Attack 30
Wyvern 62
Sparks, Hope, and Progression 32
Robots63
Using Sparks and Hope 32
Atlesian Knight-200 63
Sparks 32
Atlesian Paladin-290 64
Hope 32
The Standard Humanoid Mook 64
Trading Sparks and Hope 32
The Standard Humanoid Mook 64
Dynamic Relationships 32
Fun Things You Can Add To A Group Of Mooks 65
Silver Eyes, Maidens, and Magic 33
Making a Monster 65
Silver Eyes 33
Magic34 Randomly Generating Huntsmen and Huntresses
66
The Four Maidens 34
Name66
How To Start A Game 35
Table 8: Name Inspirations 66
Bestiary36
Weapon66
The Grimm 36
Table 9-A: Melee Weapon Forms 66
The Grimm in Play 36
Table 9-B: Ranged Weapon Forms 67
Fodder Grimm 38
Table 10: Additional Weapon Features 67
Beowolf 38
Stats67
Boarbatusk 38
Table 11: Stat Modification 67
Centinel 39
Skills68
Creep 39
Table 12: Skill Modification 68
Lancer 40 Semblance68
Manticore 41 Table 13-A: Semblance Tier 68
Ravager 42 Table 13-B: Semblance Theme 68
Sabyr 42 Aura68
Elite Grimm 43 Movement68
Apathy 43 Character Sheet 70
Beringel 44 Ruby Rose  72
Cenitaur 44 Weiss Schnee  76
Death Stalker 45 Blake Belladonna  80
Geist 45 Yang Xiao Long  84
Base Form 45 Glossary  88
Petra Gigas 46
Goliath 47
Griffon 48
King Taijitu 48
Leviathan 49
Thank You!
A huge, incredible thank you to every one of my
friends who contributed to the creation of this game
through playtesting and providing me with valuable
feedback and advice. Thank you to every playtester
who suffered through some version of a broken sys-
tem.
Specifically, thank you to:
Aaron Packer, Joseph Newman, Julie Newman, John
Bachmann, André Evard, Jake Tyler, Tristan Levin-
son-Hayes, Anthony Posselli, Jackson Keller, Hayden
Griffin, Deeprashmi Nath, PJ Apruzzese, Maxwell
Hunsinger, Jason Weinberg, Kevin Dardik, and Mi-
chael Pulis.
A special thank you to Matt Anderson and Gabriel
Olson, for your support and belief in this project, and
your mentorship.
A very special thank you to Chase Wood, who I first
watched RWBY with, and Tristan Levinson-Hayes, for
helping me carry that obsession for many years now.
Thank you to Roosterteeth, and especially Monty
Oum for creating this series which I have spent so
many waking hours thinking about. Thank you to Jeff
Williams, Casey Lee Williams, Alex Abraham, and
every member of the RWBY music team, and thank
you to every other member of CRWBY.
This system was created by Benjamin Weinberg.
If you have any comments or concerns, please con-
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A specific thank you also to the RWBY Wiki at https://

rwby.fandom.com/ and everyone that contributes to
it. This website was an extremely helpful resource
during this project.

This system is inspired by every RPG I have ever

read. Specifically, thank you to: Burning Wheel,
Ryuutama, Hackmaster Basic, Exalted, Blades in the
Dark, Whitehack, and many many more.

And if you have somehow found this RPG passion

project, and are reading it right now, thank YOU very
much for giving me the time of day.

- Ben

About This Game
Definitely Not A RWBY RPG is exactly what it says it
isn’t in the title. Definitely Not A RWBY RPG is a table-
top roleplaying game, in which several players gather
around a table and use pen, paper, dice, a map and
a few tokens to collectively construct their own sto-
ry. Perhaps most importantly, this game is based off
of the web series RWBY, created by Rooster Teeth.
RWBY is a future-fantasy western animated show
where a few young adults train to be a Huntsman or
Huntress (together, Huntsmen) who have the danger-
ous job of protecting the world of Remnant from the
mysterious and deadly creatures of Grimm. It will be
easiest to play this RPG if you have seen the show
- the mechanics in this system are not only directly
inspired by the show, but are meant to emulate its
tone and major themes.
It is recommended that you play this game with
exactly 5 players. One of those players takes on a
special role called the Storyteller. This player does
not control a single character in the way that the other
players will, but instead narrates the world that the
other players inhabit, acts as a referee to determine
the outcomes of the players’ interactions with the
world, and provides the voices and personalities of
all of the miscellaneous characters the other players
will encounter in their journey. The Storyteller should
be familiar with the rules in this book and be prepared
both to plan and to improvise. The other 4 players
will take on the roles of characters in the world of
RWBY, likely Huntsmen or Huntresses. The number 4
is recommended in order to match the canonical size
of a team of Huntsmen in RWBY, but the players are
welcome to create any kind of character they all agree
will work - it is your story after all. The non-Storytell-
er players will act out, or roleplay, the decisions and
actions of the character that they create inside of their
shared world.
There is no formal way to win or lose this game, and
the game is definitely not a battle between the players
and the Storyteller; players should work together to
set their own goals and create their own story in the
world of Remnant.
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Materials
To play this game, you will need the following
• Dice: This game potentially uses all of the
common dice types, those with 4, 6, 8, 10, 12,
and 20 sides. A die with X sides in these rules
is referred to as a dX, and so a d6 would be a
six sided die. The most commonly used types
of dice are the d4, d6 and d8, and your group
should have around 8 of each, ideally more.
The other dice are used slightly less frequent-
ly, but you should have at least 4 of each type.
• Pen and Paper: Used in this game to record
information about your character or about your
world and story.
• A Battlemat: Combat in this game is tactical,
fast paced, and most importantly for this rules
section, played on a battlemat. This battlemat
does not need to have squares or hexes. You
only need one battlemat.
• Tokens: Each player should have a token of
any kind to represent their character. The Sto-
ryteller should have tokens, likely at least 10,
to represent enemies the players might en-
counter. Further, each player, and each char-
acter controlled by the Storyteller, should have
a set of 5 distinct action tokens to be used in
combat, as described later.
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Character Creation
Character creation in this game uses a point buy
system. The Storyteller should give your character or
your team of characters a point cap, indicative of an
appropriate power level for your team’s adventure.
It is suggested that all players on a team make their
characters at the same time and in the same place
so that they can bounce ideas off of one another and
complement each other’s designs. Keep in mind also
that this system is a suggestion - if you and your Sto-
ryteller would like to deviate from it, you certainly can.
For a power level approximating students entering
Beacon, the academy where students train to become
Huntsmen and Huntresses, consider an individual
point limit of 24, or a team point limit of 96.
The things that are available to spend points on in
character creation include your personalized weapon
and its abilities, your Semblance (like a superpower),
the four core stats, skills, any money or Dust you’d
like to have at the beginning of the game, and option-
ally, any other miscellaneous feature of your character
that might provide a mechanical benefit. Don’t feel like
you need to spend all of your points! Any extra points
you have can be either donated to your teammates or
saved for later, as explained at the end of character
creation.
See the sample character at the end of this section for
reference. More sample characters can be found in
the Sample Characters section lower in the document.
Also note in the Character Sheet section there is a
character sheet, and a link to a form fillable version
of that character sheet, which you may find useful for
ordering your character information.
If you are approaching character creation with no
familiarity with the world of Remnant, I recommend
that you and your group watch this short fight scene,
as (without any spoilers), it provides some really great
examples of almost every element you will encounter
in character creation.
What’s Your Story?
In this first section of character creation, you will be
figuring out the core of your character. What do they
look like? Who do they know? What do they believe in
or fight for? Specifically, in this section you will deter-
mine your name and appearance, your beliefs, and
your relationships.
Teams
Depending on the type of game you are playing and
the number of players in your game, you may be
creating a team. Typically a team consists of 4 Hunts-
men, one of which is the team’s leader of the team,
and is responsible for being the team’s coordinator
and arbitrator. Formal teams, including who is placed
in the leader position, are canonically picked by the
academy the Huntsmen attend. You should talk with
your Storyteller and teammates about who should be
your team’s leader, and what relevance, if any, you
want that position to have to your game.
While it’s certainly possible for new teammates to
be strangers, with little connection between them,
during character creation you may want to consider
what relationships and dynamics exist between your
teammates. Did you know one of your teammates
beforehand? Do you have any mutual relationships?
Do you have an interesting conflict of beliefs with your
teammates?
Names and Appearance
Names are an important part of RWBY, and if your
game is set anytime around the events of the show,
there are rules for naming your character and team
that you may want to follow. Here is how the creator of
the series explains the color naming rule to fans who
want to create their own characters and teams:
https://twitter.com/montyoum/sta-
tus/406894139746172928/photo/1
To summarize, a character’s name has to either be a
color, sound like a color, mean a color, or make you
think of a color. Here are some examples of names
that follow the color naming rule: Ruby Rose (Two col-
ors in the name), Lie Ren (Ren is from the Japanese
kanji for lotus, which has a distinct white, pink, and
green color profile), and Neptune Vasilias (Neptune
is the Roman God of the sea, bringing to mind the
ocean and its distinctive color).
Teams also have names and follow the color naming
rule, with an additional stipulation - the team name
must be a 4 letter acronym consisting of the initials
of each team member’s first name (rarely, the initial
from a team member’s last name is used instead). For
example, if your team members were named Ruby,
Weiss, Blake, and Yang, you might name your team
RWBY, following the color rule. The initial of the team
leader takes the first slot in the team name.

Here are some examples of team names that follow
the color names rule: CFVY (Coffee, which is a color),
SSSN (Sun, which has a distinctive color), and FNKI
(Funky, which evokes a distinct color palette).
Typically, the color that your character’s name rep-
resents is represented to some degree in your char-
acter’s appearance. Write a one or two sentence
description of what your character looks like (hair
color, eye color, clothes…). This is hard, so feel free
to come back to it at the end.
In the show, it’s common for characters to be based
loosely off of characters from real world myths or
legends. If you need inspiration, this is a good place
to start.
Emblems (Optional Rule)
An emblem is a personal symbol, like a crest, that
is used by Huntsmen to represent themselves. An
emblem is a simple logo which is often inspired by
the character’s name or name meaning, weapon, or
overall themes. A character’s emblem is often found
on their outfit or weapon.
Optionally, you can create an emblem for your charac-
ter. There’s a space for it in the Portrait section of the
character sheet, and you can add a description in the
Appearance section if you so choose.
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Relationships
Your character, coming into your story, is a person
with existing relationships which will affect that sto-
ry. When crafting a relationship, you should name
the person whom you have the relationship with and
describe their connections with you and within the
setting at large. If you aren’t sure what kind of rela-
tionship would be appropriate for your game, talk to
the other players about what they think. 
Below are two tables of descriptors that you should
use to better describe your relationships. The strength
of the relationship (Table 1) details the prominence
you want that relationship to have in your story. Each
relationship may be descriptively modified by any
number of points of interest, which are detailed in
Table 2.
For your first 2 relationships, you will receive one
Spark for each point of interest you use to modify the
relationship. (Sparks are metacurrency, which allow
you to improve your rolls or avoid damage in game,
see Sparks, Hope, and Progression for more informa-
tion). You can receive up to 2 Sparks in this way for
one of these relationships, and 1 Spark in this way for
a second relationship. You must take at least one re-
lationship of moderate or strong strength at character
creation. (Though more are recommended) 
You cannot take a relationship with another player
character. Relationships do not cost points.
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Table 1: Relationship Strengths Examples: 
• Loyal 
• Obsessive
Strong: You can count on this • Brave
person to show up in the story • Prideful
prominently.
If you would like your character to have any other
Moderate: This person should significant physical or mental features that will either
occasionally show up in the help or hinder them mechanically, they should be
story. considered here. Talk with your Storyteller for point
Weak: This person will be a rela- values, and consider the following list of examples for
tively minor factor in the story. recommendations.

Table 2: Relationship Points of Interest Examples:

• Silver Eyes: +4
o See Silver Eyes, Maidens, and Magic
Enemies (section contains show spoilers)
• Missing a limb: -3
Family o Might grant a -2 to attack rolls and a -4
Forbidden/Taboo to other rolls
• Robotic Limb: +1
Caused 1 Emotional Turmoil o Might grant a +1 to melee attack rolls,
or a -1 to kinetic damage received and
(Detail what this relationship did to cause you long a +2 to non-kinetic damage received
term emotional distress, can be taken up to twice
total in character creation)
Deceased/Missing

(This person will or may not appear in the story

directly, but may be referenced or known by other
characters)

Emotional Turmoil (In Character Creation)

Besides the 4 core statistics which you will determine
later in character creation, there is one auxiliary sta-
tistic that represents a character’s emotional wellbe-
ing. This statistic, Emotional Turmoil, starts at 0, and
can only be increased in character creation through
relationships, up to twice. If you take this Emotional
Turmoil, note that it should go in the Long Term Emo-
tional Turmoil section of your character sheet. Long
Term Emotional Turmoil is representative of some-
thing majorly traumatic that happened to the char-
acter in the past - for example, the death of a loved
one, abandonment, physical trauma and so on. The
mechanical effects of this statistic are explained in a
later section, but in general, having Emotional Turmoil
creates problems for your character, which, with good
roleplay, could turn into rewards.

General Traits and Other Features

Choose up to 3 words to describe your character’s
personality or disposition. Playing to these charac-
teristics through roleplay can be rewarded with meta-
currency. You may find these also help to inform what
kind of Semblance your character will have, later in
character creation.
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Race and Other Significant Body Modifications
In the world of Remnant there are primarily 2 human-
oid races, the Humans and the Faunus. The Faunus
are a race which look very similar to humans, but
are distinguished by each having one animalistic
trait, which is usually but not always mammalian. If
you would like to play as a Faunus (and receive a
mechanical bonus for your animalistic traits) the trait
might be scored and placed in General Traits and
Other Features. You could also say that it grants
you a skill level, or increases your core stats. These
should be priced as if they were being bought normal-
ly during character creation.

Examples: You must also choose a defining issue. A defining

• Night Vision (Can be taken with another ani-
malistic trait): +1 point
• Superhuman hearing (From rabbit ears): +1
Intuition, costed as per Stats
• Gliding and short flight (From bat wings): +5
points
• Skill: Balancing (From tail): Costed as per
Skills
If you’d like to play as, say, a robot, or some other
dramatic deviation, this is possible. Talk to your Sto-
ryteller about how this should be costed and how it
might fit into your story.
Beliefs and Defining Issue
Your character has desires and goals they want to
achieve either in the short or long term; they may
also adhere to philosophies that guide their actions.
Come up with 2 beliefs for your character. These be-
liefs could be things that your character wants to do,
achieve, push towards, learn, or overcome. Alterna-
tively, they could be a general guideline or philosophy
that will shape how your character acts.
Examples:  create.
• I know my sister, Ruby, is a little awkward at
the best of times. I want to help her come out
of her shell and make friends.
• I cannot allow my friends or allies to be hurt.
I will always choose to run away from my prob-
lems rather than put them in danger.
• I, as a truly exceptional and deserving individ-
ual, deserve to be the leader of the best team
at Beacon.
issue is like a belief, but is usually harder to achieve
and has a more specific scope. Characters tend
to have a central conflict either with themselves or
someone else that they are striving to resolve in the
long term.
Examples: 
• I want to make myself stand out. I want to be
known as more than just another member of
the influential Schnee family.
• My mom left my dad Taiyang when I was
young and I’ve been searching for information
about her my whole life. I need to find her and
find out why she left (though I will never let
that search control me).
If you are unsure what your character believes in or
struggles with, talk to your other players and Storytell-
er.
Beliefs do not cost points. Note that your beliefs
and defining issue will change; once one of these is
completed, or whenever you think it’s appropriate, the
belief or defining issue is replaced by a new one you
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Weapon Creation minigun) or multiple components (blades on guns, a
In RWBY, Hunstmen and other skilled fighters have sword and shield). 
a signature weapon that is an important part of their
character. This weapon is in many ways an extension A good way to think of a form is of a physically differ-
of the character, and its design is usually related to ent weapon your weapon can mechanically change
the character’s history. A weapon is usually designed, into. Typically only one form can be used at a time.
created, or inherited by its user.
A good way to think of a component is as a unique
In this section you will design the weapon that your vector for attack or defence, such as a blade on your
character uses, and specify all of its attacks and ca- gun, a spring loaded steel wire connecting to the
pabilities. You will spend points in this section based blade on your gun that can shoot it across the room,
on the number of things your weapon can do, as well or a retractable shield on your gauntlet.
as how powerful its attacks are. The power of each
attack, and your weapon overall, is something you will You should begin creating your weapon by thinking
determine for yourself. about what form or forms to base it off of, what ad-
ditional components your weapon might have, and
How Combat Works (Roughly) what makes your weapon distinct or unique. The first
2 forms or components of your weapon cost 0 points,
Before you start creating your weapon, it might be and each additional form or component costs 1 addi-
beneficial to understand how combat will work. A more tional point. The tables below contain sample lists of
thorough description can be found in the Combat sec- forms and components which are not complete, but
tion, as well as Steps to Resolve an Attack, but here’s intended to spark your creativity. You also may wish
what you’ll need to know for this section: to look in the Sample Characters section for complete
weapon examples.
• When you make an attack, you will make a sin-
gle damage roll, which is your attack’s damage.
As part of the weapon creation process, you will
freely choose the damage rolls you make with
each attack.
• In response to an attack, your target will typically
make a single roll of their Defense Die (based
on their Reflexes, and factors like cover). This roll
is subtracted from the damage roll you made
in your attack. If your attack roll is greater than
their defense die roll, the difference is inflicted as
damage to your target.
• Most weapons in the show are able to attack at
range and in melee, though you should expect to
be in melee most frequently.

Example:
Jaune Arc is sparring with Ruby Rose. Jaune uses his
Sword Swing attack, which does 2d6 damage. Before
Jaune rolls, Ruby chooses her reaction, which is to
Parry. Ruby’s Defense Die is a d10 because of her
Reflexes of 4, and she gets an additional +2 to this
from her Weapon Training (Guarding) skill. Jaune rolls
his attack and gets a 10, while Ruby rolls her Defense
Die and gets a 7, including her +2. Since Jaune’s roll
is larger than Ruby’s, 3 damage is done to Ruby’s
Aura.

Picking Forms and Components

Weapon designs are very freeform and personalized.
What follows is a framework of how to build your
weapon, and how, roughly, to assign it a point value.

Weapons often have multiple forms they mechanically

transform between (a javelin to a rifle, a purse to a
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Table 3: Weapon Form Examples Table 4: Weapon Component Examples

Katana Attached Shotgun

Spear Attached Or Separate Shield
Assault Rifle Attached Taser
Umbrella
Underbarrel Blade
Sniper Rifle
Attached Grappling Hook
Chainsaw
Net Thrower
Rocket Launcher
Warhammer Detachable Rope Dart
Shotgun Telescopic Pogo Stick
Nunchucks Alternate Fire Mode
Fishing Pole Launchable Blade(s)
Whip
Costing Complex Forms and Components
Pistol If you’re not sure how many points a form or com-
ponent should cost, consider the following: In each
Longbow
form or component there is a distinction between the
Purse appearance and the mechanical effect or effects. In
the case of a sword or rifle, the mechanical effect is
Gauntlets the singular thing you would expect based on the ap-
pearance. A sword is a melee weapon and a rifle is a
Trident ranged weapon. In the case of less traditional weap-
Flamethrower ons or components (fishing rod, fruit picker, hover-
board, etc.) the mechanical function provided may be
Trumpet less clear. In these instances, players should consider
Staff what the mechanical function(s) of these components
might be based on how the player wants to use them. 
Cattle Prod
Claws Some of these forms or components may appear as
just one thing, such as a large shield, but will serve
Minigun
multiple mechanical purposes - you might be able to
Throwing Knives attack with it, while it also provides defence. Here it’s
more appropriate to cost this component as 2 compo-
nents mechanically even though it is wrapped as one
component. Remember that points are an approxi-
mation of character power level, so forms or com-
ponents that let you do several things, or provide
several benefits, should have a cost that reflects
this.

While exact costs of most miscellaneous mechanical

benefits are left to the Storyteller and player, read
on to the end of this section for some recommend-
ed guidelines for a few common situations, namely
weapon movement, and defense from weapon com-
ponents.
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Attacks
Next, you will have to sketch out the different ways
your weapon can injure someone or something else.
An attack represents a brief period of assault, whether
that be several shots, a flurry of blows, or the swing of
a sword. Generally, each component or form of your
weapon will have at least one associated attack.  • Shotgun Blast(s): 4d4, Close (+3 points from
As explained in How Combat Works (Roughly), you
will roll once to determine an attack’s damage, and
this roll can always be reduced by a response roll
from your target. An attack that is more likely to miss
or be dodged should be represented by having a
larger range (less dice, bigger numbers), while a more
consistent attack should be represented with a tighter
range (more dice, smaller numbers).
When creating attacks, some of the details may cost
points. Whether or not something costs points is
determined by the mechanical advantage you receive
from it. See the relevant headings below in this sec-
tion, for more information on any item listed.
Details that may cost points:
• Attack damage
• Area of Effect damage
• Advantages from two weapon fighting
Details that don’t cost points:
• The optimal range band for the attack
• A sweet name
Below are dice and range band recommendations for
common attacks. These are examples of numbers
that may be suitable, but you can pick your own as
long as the Storyteller and group agrees that it makes
sense. A “normal” attack will do 2d6 damage - and
increasing the damage beyond that will cost points, as
detailed in the next section. 
Each attack has a basic description, the damage, and
a range band at which it is most effective (see “Range
and Range Bands” below). 
Examples:
• Sword, Morningstar, Spear: 2d6, Close
• A Hail of Bullets: 3d4, Medium
• Sniper Shot: 1d20. Very Far (+3 points from
average damage of 10.5)
• Crossbow Bolt: 1d12, Medium
average damage of 10.0)
• Launched Grenade Cluster: 6d4, Far (+15
points from average damage of 15.0, Optional-
ly add points based on desired Area of Effect)
Note that while all of the examples use only one type
of dice in their damage rolls, if you think a combina-
tion of dice types would better suit your weapon, feel
free to use them.
Range and Range Bands
For every attack, choose a range band at which it’s
most effective. The 4 range bands are Close, Medi-
um, Far, and Very Far, and each is represented by a
distance in inches on the battlemat. Note that an inch
(“) on the battlemat used for combat is an abstraction
of an in universe distance, but approximates to 10
feet. Your attack will lose effectiveness when used
from outside of its range band. This mostly applies to
ranged attacks, as attacks cannot be made at a range
band which would be illogical - such as a sword swing
from Very Far.
Close range is 0-0.5”, Medium range is 0.5-3.0”,
Far range is 3.0-6.0”, and Very Far Range is > 6.0”
For a general frame of reference, melee attacks are
Close range, most bullet weapons or bows are Me-
dium range, many explosive weapons like bazookas
or grenade launchers, as well as some rifles are Far
range, and long ranged rifles are Very Far ranged.
Note that the range band of an attack is not a contrib-
uting factor to its cost.
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Attack Costs - Damage
If you would like an attack to have higher average damage than 3d4, it will cost points. This cost increases
geometrically the higher the average damage of the attack, with an attack up to 1.5 average points of dam-
age higher costing one point, and the cost increasing cumulatively every 1.5 points of average damage after-
wards. See Figure 1 below for a visualization of the cost of attacks. 

Explicitly, between 7.5 and 9.0 (inclusive) average damage, the attack costs 1 point. Between 9.0 and 10.5
(inclusive) average damage, the attack costs 3 points, between 10.5 and 12.0 (inclusive) average damage the
attack costs 6 points, between 12.0 and 13.5 (inclusive) average damage the attack costs 10 points, and so
on.

If you find yourself spending many points on attacks, be sure to consult with your Storyteller and other players
to make sure it is suitable for your game. I recommend finding an online resource to calculate average dice
damage, such as anydice.com, if you would like to quickly compare values.

Figure 1: Total Point Cost of Attacks By Average Damage

Figure 2: Attack Rolls By Average Damage

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Attack Costs - Area of Effect
When considering any given attack, you may want
to target an area instead of a single target. You may
spend points to give an attack an area component. An
Area of Effect (AoE) of .5” should cost +1 point, and
the cost should scale such that 1” is +3 points, 1.5” is
+6 points, and so on. If you are considering adding an
AoE to a non explosive attack, consider how it would
work in the fiction compared to a single target attack
- it may make sense to lower the damage for an area
version of an attack. Consult with your Storyteller if
you aren’t sure what would be best for your game.
Damage from an AoE attack can not waterfall (as in
Multiple Enemies and the Damage Waterfall).
You do not have to spend points to make an attack
AoE if you don’t want to - a grenade, rocket, or sim-
ilar without points spent to make it AoE will have an
explosion which will only affect a single target.
Attack Costs - Two Weapon Fighting
Taking a second of the same weapon can be done for
free - if you would like to receive a benefit for having a
second weapon, you can spend 1 point for the op-
tional two weapon fighting bonus detailed in the Two
Weapon Fighting section. A second weapon which is
mechanically distinct from the first should probably
count and be costed as a separate component.
Attack Costs - Dust in Weapons
Many weapons can make use of Dust. Dust is a vital
part of the world of Remnant; it is the primary power
source used to power cities, vehicles, and gadgets,
and humanity’s greatest defense against the Grimm,
the monstrous creatures that inhabit the majority of
Remnant. Dust is a crystal which can produce energy
manifested through forms such as fire, earth, gravity,
and so on, depending on the type of Dust. Dust can
be used in weapons, infused into clothing, or even
injected directly into one’s body. See the Dust section
for more information about the types of Dust and how
they can be used to modify attacks.
Most weapons have the capacity to use Dust am-
munition, crystals, or blades in some way. The basic
functionality to have your weapons attacks modified
by Dust does not cost additional points. It just requires
that you have Dust. It may be beneficial to think about
what ways your weapon can use Dust and if there are
any ways you can intrinsically incorporate the use of
Dust into the design of your weapon to give it unique
properties.
While using Dust crystals to augment weapons/as
ammo/etc. does NOT cost points, if a specific weapon
attack, such as an explosive, supercharged shot, or
similar, requires Dust to be effective, you may give it a
cost reduction. I would suggest a cost reduction of -1
points for an attack that costs 4 Dust uses (1/5th of a
Dust crystal), -3 for 20 Dust uses (1 Dust crystal), or
values of a similar scale for other usage amounts. An
attack cost can never go below 1, regardless of the
base cost or reductions.
Dust will have to be purchased with Lien Sums, a cur-
rency which can be acquired during character creation
and as a result of adventuring. If you want Dust to be
an integral part of your weapon, keep this in mind or
consult with your Storyteller.
Name And Brief Description 
Your weapon should be given a name. It does not
have to follow the color naming rule, but it should
ideally relate to the theming of your character or the
weapon. You should write a brief 1 sentence descrip-
tion of your weapon so that other players can easily
understand what you’ve made.
No Weapon And Unarmed Fighting
While very uncommon, it is possible for a Huntsman
or Huntress to not use a weapon of any kind, and fight
only with their body. This costs no points, but con-
sult with your Storyteller before choosing this option.
Typically, an unarmed strike will do 1d6 + (Strength
value - 3) damage, in addition to the normal scaling
received from Strength.
Additional Notes
Make sure to note details and specifics about your
weapon that you have in mind but may not be obvi-
ous, and any unique mechanical effect your weapon
might have. For things that mechanically impact the
abilities of your weapon, consult with your Storyteller
to agree on a point cost.
Example - Weapon Movement
Something frequently seen in the show is characters
propelling themselves rapidly using their weapons,
either by using the force of a fired bullet or the effect
of Dust. One way to handle your character doing this
is as an additional note. For example, you might say
something like: “Once per action phase, Yang can
use her gauntlets to double the distance of her move
action (+1 point)”. Alternatively, a movement could be
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an effect of a particular attack noted in character cre-
ation. For example “When [my character] uses Rocket
Powered Sword Thrust, they launch themselves up to
0.5” towards their target (+1 point)”. This cost should
only be used for dramatic movements - standard
propulsion with weapon can and should be used in
narration of moving/avoiding damage/attacking as
appropriate.

Defense - A Shared Pool Between Weapon, Reflex-

es, and Weapon Training
When creating your weapon, you may have included
a shield, or some other component or ability that you
will use to advance your Defense Die (See Reflexes
and The Defense Die Chain Pool). Because these,
and later in character creation, the Reflexes stat and
the Weapon Training (Guarding) skill all increase
defense in the same way, Weapon defense increas-
es, Reflexes, and Weapon Training (Guarding) all
share one geometric cost pool. So, as we just saw
with attack costs, the first increase costs +1, the sec-
ond +2, then +3 and so on.

Example: 
In weapon creation, you purchase a shield that will
give you a Defense Die advance when parrying. This
costs +1 point. Later in character creation, you decide
that you want to increase your Reflexes stat twice,
from it’s baseline of 3 to 5. Given that you already
have the shield, the first increase, from 3 to 4, will
cost +2 points, and the second increase, from 4 to
5, will cost +3 points, for a total of 5 points spent on
Reflexes and 6 points total spent between Reflexes
and the shield. Finally, you decide you want 1 level of
Weapon Training (Guarding). Having already bought
3 defense increases, this 4th defense increase will
cost +4 points. This brings you to an overall total of 10
points for the shield, 2 Reflexes increases, and 1 point
in Weapon Training (Guarding).
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Semblance Creation
A Semblance is a unique power or ability that is a
projection of the user’s Aura, or spiritual energy, kind
of like a superpower. As a projection of the soul, a
Semblance usually in some way represents the per-
sonality of its user. Many Huntsmen and Huntresses
have “unlocked” their Semblance over the course of
their lives, but it is not uncommon, particularly among
students, for a person’s Semblance to not have re-
vealed itself yet.
You will get to choose what your Semblance does and
how it works. Below are some example Semblances
broken up into approximate tiers for the purpose of
attempting to assign costs during character creation.
This idea of tiers does not exist in universe. Work with
your Storyteller to approximate what tier your Sem-
blance is and how many points you think it should
cost. Semblances can grow and change over time
with personal development and training, as represent-
ed by metacurrency advances.
If you are having a difficult time costing your Sem-
blance, it might help to think of its effectiveness in
3 categories - effectiveness fighting other humans,
effectiveness fighting Grimm, and general utility out of
combat. This tier list example is a reflection of opin-
ion, and your own thoughts or your Storyteller’s on
the appropriate cost for a Semblance may differ. Note
that a Semblance cost does not have to correspond
directly to any of the suggested costs given in the ta-
ble - a Semblance that you and your Storyteller agree
is between the A and B tiers could cost 7 or 8 points,
for instance.
Semblance Names
Semblance names are not usually discussed in uni-
verse, but it may be useful to give your Semblance
some kind of name in case you ever want to talk
about it in or out of game. This name does not have to
follow the color naming rule.
Using Your Semblance
You do not need to come up with specific mechanical
things your Semblance can do - when you wish to use
your Semblance, describe what it is that you would
like to do, and your Storyteller will give you a cost in
Aura, either in terms of dice or flat numbers. If you
proceed with your Semblance use, you will deduct
that much from your Aura, and the effects of what you
wanted to happen will be mechanically resolved.
With that in mind, it might be useful in character cre-
ation to think of common use cases for your Sem-
blance, and the associated costs.
Example - Semblance Costs
Using a Semblance usually does not cost very much
Aura, and the Aura cost scales up as the scope and
power of the Semblance usage increases. Below are
some example cases and costs for Ruby Rose’s Sem-
blance, Petal Burst, which has the following descrip-
tion: Ruby can transform herself and anything touch-
ing her that she desires into a cloud of rose petals
which can then move at super speed in any direction.
Case: “I want to use my Semblance to move .15”
(apx. 15 feet) to make an attack”
Cost: 1d4 Aura
Case: “I want to use my Semblance to travel directly
to the top of this 3 story building”
Cost: 1d6 + 1 Aura
Case: “With my 3 teammates touching me, I want to
take myself and them into a car on the slowly depart-
ing train 20’ away”
Cost: 1d6 Aura

Table 5: Example Semblance Tiers and Costs
Tier, Description, and Apx. Cost
S: These Semblances are extremely power-
ful, and usually define not only a character’s
fighting style, but a large part of their character.
They generally excel in all 3 categories of fight-
ing Grimm, fighting humans, and general utility.
An S tier Semblance may not be appropriate
for your adventure - consult with your Storytell-
er before selecting it.
Cost: +15
A: These Semblances are very powerful and
typically have a wide variety of uses. They are
generally strong in all categories (but not quite
as game breaking as the S tier ones). Consult
with your Storyteller to make sure your A tier
Semblance is appropriate for your adventure.
Cost: +10
B: These Semblances are strong, and usually
excel in 2 of 3 previously listed categories.
Cost: +5
C: These Semblances are quite good, and
usually either strongly excel in just one of the 3
categories, or are partially effective in multiple
of the 3 categories.
Cost: +3
D: These Semblances are often niche. They
typically require creative or intelligent use by
the user in order to be as effective as higher
tier Semblances.
Cost: +1
F: Any Semblance in this tier may be occasion-
ally beneficial, but also causes inconvenience
or even harm to the user. Semblances of this
tier are rare.
Cost: -4
No Semblance: +0
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Examples (Listed in Approximate Order of
Strength)
Illusions (targeting one or two people and
controlling what they perceive), powerful teleki-
nesis (throwing boulders, repairing buildings),
Invulnerability (60 seconds of complete invinci-
bility once a day)
Controlling magnetism, creating teleportation
portals between selected people, amplifying
Aura powers (of yourself and other)
Absorbing matter into a pocket dimension,
creating shadow copies of yourself to dodge
attacks, disrupting another person’s Aura by
touch so their health can be attacked directly
Enhanced Reflexes, ability to feel no pain, de-
tecting when a touched subject is lying
High Voltage (channeling electricity into
strength and speed), Aura Roots (rooting your
feet to and become as immovable as the sur-
face you stand on)
Misfortune (bad luck manifests, sometimes
uncontrollably, on you and the people around
you)
You start with your Semblance still locked.
This may be a good option if you are uncer-
tain about what you should pick or would like
to spend points elsewhere. Your Semblance
may unlock over the course of your adventure,
during or after a critical moment. Talk with your
Storyteller to make this happen.
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Core Statistics
Each character has 4 core statistics, Will, Intuition,
Strength, and Reflexes. These statistics each start at
3 during character creation, and cost or award points
if they are increased or decreased respectively. A stat
cannot start below 1. An increase in a stat costs a cu-
mulative one point per level, so raising your Strength
to 4 would cost one point, and then an additional cost
of 2 to raise to 5, for a total cost of three points to
raise a stat from 3 to 5. The inverse is true for lower-
ing a stat, and so lowering a stat from 3 to 1 would
award you 3 additional points.
Each stat is important to your character and affects
them in different ways; here is a brief overview of the
role of each stat:
Will
• Aura amount (protects you from getting hurt)
Intuition
• Contributes to both contested and environ-
mental rolls, which are skill checks your char-
acter makes trying to perform difficult actions,
as explained in later sections.
• Lesser influence on Aura amount
they are weightlifters or comparable with professional
athletes.
Values of 7 and above reflect mastery and begin to
near the limits of Human/Faunus potential.
Will, Intuition, and Aura
Your Aura is a manifestation of your soul which can
act as a physical barrier to guard you against attacks.
Your Aura has a distinct color and can be seen when
you use your Semblance or when your Aura breaks.
Manifesting from the soul, Aura is derived from your
Will and Intuition, with Will having a stronger influ-
ence. 
To calculate your Aura, roll and sum your Will x 4 # of
d4s, and your Intuition x 2 # of d4s. Then add the val-
ue of your Will x 6, and the value of your Intuition x 3.
Example:
Your character, Reese Chloris, has 3 Will and 4 Intu-
ition. You roll 12 d4s (your Will of 3, times 4) and get
28. Then you roll an additional 8 d4s (your Intuition of
4, times 2) and you get 21. Summing your values so
far puts you at 49, now you just need to add 18 (Will x
6) and then 12 (Intuition x 3) to get a total Aura of 79.

Strength Thanks. I hate it. (Optional Rule)

• Health (injury and damage taken beyond Aura
amount, benefits capped at 5)
• Modifies melee damage
Reflexes
• Damage reduction
• Attack resolution order
The Numbers… What Do They Mean? (Stats)
It may be helpful to have the intended meaning of dif-
ferent stat values to judge what is appropriate for the
character you are trying to build. Below is an approx-
imate description of what each stat value is intended
to represent:
If you are unsatisfied with your roll for your Aura
amount, you may spend 1 point to instead take the
average expected roll, minus 1.
Strength and Attack
With a Strength between 2 and 4 (which would repre-
sent the vast majority of the general population) your
melee damage is not modified by your Strength. At a
Strength of 1, you suffer a -1 to all melee attack rolls.
Conversely, for every point  in Strength past 4, you
receive a +1 to all melee attack rolls. So, at 5 Strength
you would have a +1, at 6 Strength a +2 and so on.

1 is noticeably worse than average or expected. They

may be described as a pushover/oblivious/weak/clum-
sy.
2 is below average for a beginning Huntsman. They
may struggle slightly to keep up with their peers.
3 is average for a beginner Huntsman - higher than
an average citizen, though not by too much.
4 means the character exhibits natural talent or train-
ing in this attribute, among Huntsmen.
5 means that the character strongly exhibits that
attribute; their friends think of them as willful/knowing/
strong/quick.
6 means that the character is far above an average
citizen, and considerably above average when com-
pared to fellow Huntsmen - in terms of physical stats

Reflexes and the Defense Dice Chain Pool
The Reflexes stat is used to avoid an incoming attack
by parrying or dodging as much of it as you can. In
this game, you have the option to avoid an attack by
rolling dice that are collectively called your Defense
Dice. The amount rolled on your Defense Dice is
subtracted from the damage of the incoming attack,
potentially mitigating it entirely. The Defense Dice
Chain is a series of increasing dice sizes: d2 > d4 >
d6 > d8 > d10 > d12.  • Acrobatics: Gymnastics, performing feats of
The Defense Dice you will use are determined by
your Reflexes - at 3 Reflexes, your character has a
d8 Defense Dice - for every point above or below
that starting amount, your Defense Dice moves up or
down the Defense Dice Chain respectively. For exam-
ple, a Reflexes of 5 would grant a d12 Defense Dice,
and a Reflexes of 2 would grant a d6 Defense Dice.
The position on the dice chain can be modified by a
variety of things, including actions taken in combat,
shields, and Semblances.
Moving up the Defense Dice Chain is referred to as
advancing your Defense Dice, and moving down the
Defense Dice Chain is referred to as regressing your
Defense Dice. If your position on the Defense Dice
Chain ever advances past the top/higher than d12,
represent this by adding another dice to your Defense
Dice starting at d2 - so a character with a Reflexes of
5 and a shield granting one advance on the Defense
Dice Chain would have a d12 and a d2 for their De-
fense Dice.
(You can roll a d2 by rolling a d4 and dividing the
result by 2, rounding up)
Stats and Movement
Your movement starts at .5” per combat second.
For each point of Will, Intuition, and Strength above
the baseline of 3, add .025” to your movement, and
symmetrically subtract .025” for each point below the
baseline of 3. For your Reflexes, you should add .075”
for each point above the baseline of 3, and subtract
.075” for each point below the baseline. 
If you like math, the formula is: .5 + (Will + Strength +
Intuition - 9) * .025 + (Reflexes - 3) * .075
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Specific Skills
To determine a situation with an uncertain outcome,
you will often make a dice roll. Your character may
have one or a few areas in which they are proficient.
These are your skills, and they will grant you bonuses
when you make rolls when they are relevant. Below is
a list of suggested or example skills, along with a brief
description of their applicable scenarios:
flexibility and athleticism
• Deception: Having your lies or deceptions be
believed
• Gather Information: Performing research by
any means
• Intimidation: Scaring someone into submission
• Notice: Surveying details that would be missed
upon casual inspection
• Operate Vehicle1: The ability to operate vehi-
cles in general
• Persuasion: Winning someone over to your
side in a good faith argument
• Stealth: Remaining unnoticed
• Tracking: Locating Grimm or humans
• Weapon Training (Offense)2: Representing
years of training in the use of your specific
weapon, focusing on offensive techniques.
• Weapon Training (Guarding)2: Representing
years of training in the use of your specific
weapon, focusing on defensive techniques.
Skills can also be proposed to the Storyteller, if you
want your character to specialize in other areas.
Which should be at most as broad as the skills above,
and as specific as you would like. Some other skills
might be hacking, swimming, grappling, sharpshoot-
ing… anything your Storyteller agrees is appropriate.
A skill costs 1 point, and scales up for each level that
you buy in the same manner as stats, so getting a skill
to level 2 would cost 3 points total. 
Whenever you make a roll that specifically leverages
a skill you have a level in, you will roll an additional d6
for each level of the skill. 
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1
When Operate Vehicle is taken, you should specify
the class of vehicle that you have proficiency in. Most
characters can drive, but operate vehicle should be
tested for difficult maneuvers while driving.
2
Weapon training is a special skill that applies only to
one particular weapon the character is specialized in.
Instead of the usual skill bonus, Weapon Training (Of-
fense) provides a +1 to attack rolls with that weapon
for each level of the skill. Similarly, Weapon Training
(Guarding) provides a +1 to parry rolls made with the
weapon for each level of the skill.
The Numbers… What Do They Mean? (Skills)
It may be helpful to have the intended meaning of dif-
ferent skill values to judge what is appropriate for the
character you are trying to build. Below is an approx-
imate description of what each skill value is intended
to represent:
Leftover Points
If you are happy with your character, or aren’t sure
where to put your points, remember that your team
does not have to spend all of the points allotted to
them.
With leftover points you can:
• Ask your teammates if they need any more
points to finish their character concepts
• Convert your leftover points to an equivalent
amount of Hope. Hope is a metacurrency, de-
scribed in the Sparks, Hope, and Progression
section that can be used in the same way as
points in character creation. In this way, you
can essentially save some points for later.

0 means the character has no particular training or

strong aptitude
1 means the character has moderate training or expe-
rience
2 means the character has significant training or ex-
perience
3 means the character is an expert in this area

Values of 4 and above approach absolute mastery

Cash Money
While Lien is the currency of Remnant, this system
uses abstracted units of Lien called Lien Sums (LS)
to conceptualize important purchases. Your character
is assumed to have enough money to buy food, basic
ammunition, lodging and other necessities and so
these transactions and items are not tracked. LS are
used to limit important or impactful purchases such as
Dust or hired services. In character creation, the only
thing you may want to consider purchasing is Dust, to
use with your weapon.
Thanks. I hate it. (Redux) (Optional Rule)
At least for me, whenever I first try a new RPG sys-
tem, I have no concept of what is important in a
character and I invariably end up making someone
who, after a few sessions, I realize I probably should
have made very differently. To combat this, after 2-3
full sessions of play players can revise their character,
as if they were still in character creation, to any extent
they see fit as long as they remain within their original
point limit. When play continues, as far as anyone is
aware, the character has always been that way.

Your character starts with 0 LS. You can spend +1

point to gain one LS, non-cumulatively; so starting
with 4 LS would cost +4 points total. Common Dust
can be purchased at the rate of 4 crystals per one
LS, and rare Dust can be purchased at the rate of 2
crystals for one LS. The types of Dust, their uses, and
their use limits are detailed in the Dust section.

Sample Character: Ruby Rose
For clarity, the total point value of each section is
bolded at the top of the section. Within each section,
each part that accrued a cost has the point cost im-
mediately next to it in parentheses.
Ruby Rose  General Traits and Other Features: +4
(As of her arrival to Beacon Academy)
Stats: +2
Will: 5 (+3)
Intuition: 2 (-1)
Strength: 2 (-1)
Reflexes: 4 (+1)
Movement: .575”
Aura: 105 (20d4 + 4d4 + 30 + 6)
Long Term Emotional Turmoil: 1
Short Term Emotional Turmoil: 0
Skills: +6
Acrobatics: 0
Deception: 0
Gather Information: 0
Intimidation: 0
Notice: 0
Operate Vehicle: 0
Persuasion: 1 (+1)
Stealth: 0
Tracking: 0
Weapon Training (Offense): 2 (+3)
Weapon Training (Guarding): 1 (+2 (already has one
defense advance from Reflexes 4))
Beliefs:
I have always wanted to be a hero. I will train hard at
Beacon Academy in order to hone my skills and be-
come a Huntress who can protect the people of Vale.
I’m coming into Beacon younger than everyone else! I
need to make friends, and fast!
Defining Issue:
I’m worried about fitting in. I need to become a good
team member and leader and make sure my team
can work together.
Relationships: (Assuming Weiss, Blake, and Yang are
the other player characters)
Summer Rose: My kind, scythe-wielding, Silver Eyed,
Huntress mother who I adored. She died mysteriously
on a mission while I was young and I’m still grappling
with the loss. Strong, Family (+1 Spark), Deceased
(+1 Spark), Caused Emotional Turmoil (by way of
immense grief in childhood)
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Roman Torchwick: A flamboyant thief who seems
to be in charge of various operations stealing Dust
around the city. Strong, Enemies (+1 Spark).
Qrow Branwen: My drunk uncle. He was like a father
to me growing up and trained me to use my scythe.
He doesn’t like to talk about why he drinks. Moderate,
Family.
Naive
Bubbly
Determined
Silver Eyes (+4)
Appearance:
Ruby is a young girl with Silver Eyes and medium
length, red tipped, black hair. Ruby wears a black skirt
with red trim and a red cape. She wears a belt that
holds miscellaneous ammo cartridges and features
her rose emblem as a buckle.
Weapon: +6
Name: Crescent Rose
Description: A large red and black bolt action sniper
rifle that can transform into a scythe.
Forms: Sniper Rifle, Scythe
Components: Double Pronged Blade (+1)
Dust Usage: Can use various types of Dust ammo in
order to shoot bullets that have a modified effect.
Attacks:
Sniper Shot: 1d20, Far(+3)
Scythe Swings: 2d6, Close
Double Pronged Blade: 2d4, Close
Storm of Blades: 2d6, Close, AoE .5” (+1)
Additional Notes: The sniper rifle can also be fired in
Scythe mode. A sniper scope folds out of the weapon
in this form, changing the range to Very Far. (+1)
Semblance: +5
Name: Petal Burst
Description: Ruby can transform herself and anything
touching her that she desires into a cloud of rose
petals which can then move at super speed in any
direction.
Tier: B (+5)
Lien Sums: 0
Total Points: 23
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Name Team Name
Ruby Rose RWBY
Portrait Appearance
Ruby is a young girl with silver eyes and medium length, red tipped, black hair. Ruby
has silver eyes and wears a black skirt with red trim and a red cape. She wears a belt
that holds miscellaneous ammo cartridges and features her rose emblem as a buckle.

Emblem General Traits and Other Features Race and Other Significant Body Modifications
Naive, Bubbly, Determined, Silver Human, N/A
Eyes

Beliefs:
Belief 1
I have always wanted to be a hero. I will train hard at
Beacon Academy in order to hone my skills and
become a huntress who can protect the people of
Vale.
Belief 2
I’m coming into Beacon younger than everyone else!
I need to make friends, and fast!
Relationships:
Summer Rose: My kind, scythe-wielding, silver eyed,
huntress mother who I adored. She died mysteriously
on a mission while I was young and I’m still grappling
with the loss. Strong, Family, Deceased, Caused
Emotional Turmoil (by way of immense grief in
childhood)
Roman Torchwick: A flamboyant thief who seems to
be in charge of various operations stealing Dust around
the city. Strong, Enemies.

Qrow Branwen: My drunk uncle, he was like a father to

Defining Issue
I’m worried about fitting in. I need to become a
good team member and leader and make sure my
team can work together.
me growing up and trained me to use my scythe. He
doesn’t like to talk about why he drinks. Moderate,
Family.

Statistics: Skills:
Will 5 Long Term Em. Turmoil 1 Acrobatics 0 Tracking 0
Intuition 2 Short Term Em. Turmoil 0 Deception 0 WT (Offense) 2
Strength 2 Aura 105 / 105 Gather Information 0 WT (Guarding) 0
Reflexes 4 Melee Attack Bonus +2 Intimidation 0
Ranged Attack Bonus +2 Notice 0
Metacurrency:
Defense Dice 1d10+1 Operate Vehicle 0
3 0 Movement .575 inches Persuasion 1
Sparks Hope Stealth 0
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Weapon Name
Crescent Rose
Weapon Portrait Weapon Description
A large red and black bolt action sniper rifle that can transform into a scythe.

Forms Attacks
Sniper Rifle, Scythe Name Damage Range/AoE
Components Sniper Shot 1d20 Far
Double Pronged Blade
Scythe Swings 2d6 Close
Dust Usage
Can use various types of Dust ammo in order to shoot bullets that havePronged
Double a modified
2d4effect.
Blade Close
Additional Notes
Storm of Blades 2d6 Close, 0.5" AoE
The sniper rifle can also be fired in Scythe mode. A sniper
scope folds out of the weapon in this form, changing the
range to Very Far

Semblance Name
Petal Burst

Semblance Description and Limitations

Ruby can transform herself and anything touching her that she desires into a cloud of rose petals which can
then move at super speed in any direction.

Dust Type Uses Injury Tracker: Notes, Possessions, etc.

/ Major Trauma:
>= [Strength + 12] and < [Strength + 27] damage past Aura
/
/ 3rd Level Injury:
>= [Strength + 6] and < [Strength + 12] damage past Aura
/
/ 2nd Level Injury:
>= [Strength + 3] and < [Strength + 6] damage past Aura
/
/ 1st Level Injury:
>= [Strength - 1] (Min 2)

/ damage past Aura

Note: The value of Strength used is the lesser between the character’s strength and 5.
/ Injury Details
/

Lien Sums:
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Mechanics And Other Important
Details
Contested Rolls
Contested rolls occur when two characters are in
opposition. This opposition could be physical, like two
characters wrestling, or one sneaking past the other,
or it could be mental, such as one character trying to
persuade or deceive another.
In order to resolve a contested roll between 2 sides,
first pick a single one of the 4 core stats that is most
relevant to that roll. Will might be chosen for mental
endurance or an argument, Intuition for awareness
and perception, Strength for physical force, and Re-
flexes for deftness or dexterity. Then, both sides make
the following roll:
2d8 + Intuition + [Chosen Stat] + [1d6 for each level in
a relevant skill]
Note that Intuition is always included in that roll, and
the chosen stat may be Intuition.
A player or Storyteller may propose a skill they think is
relevant, and if the Storyteller and players agree, that
skill may be used towards the roll.
Outcome
After the roll is performed, if the sum of one side’s roll
is 5 or more than the other side’s sum. That side is
victorious and achieves their goal.
If one side beats another by 4 or less, then that side
achieves their goal, but with some kind of complica-
tion or compromise.
If there is a tie, then both sides are deadlocked. If this
doesn’t make any sense, just reroll.
Environmental Rolls
An environmental roll occurs when a character is
trying to overcome some obstacle presented by the
world, like keeping their balance in a collapsing build-
ing, or landing a damaged airship. In these situations
you should make an environmental roll if the outcome
is uncertain, and failure would provide an interesting
complication.
An environmental roll is performed just as a contested
roll is:
2d8 + Intuition + [Chosen Stat] + [1d6 for each level in
a relevant skill]
Before the roll, the Storyteller will set a target number
which the player must meet or beat to succeed.
Outcome
If the target number is beaten by 4 or more, the result
is a complete success; the character completes their
objective. 
Meeting the target number, or beating it by 3 or less,
results in a partial success. The character succeeds,
but with an additional complication or consequence. 
Below are difficulty categories for environmental rolls,
with an example and suggested target numbers.
Moderate task (Jumping between pieces of falling
debris): 
Target Number: 10
Fail: < 10
Partial Success: 10-13
Complete Success: > 13
Difficult task (Dodging a shower of falling rocks un-
harmed):
Target Number: 13
Fail: < 13
Partial Success: 13-16
Complete Success: > 16
Extremely difficult task (Safely landing a damaged
air vehicle):
Target Number: 16
Fail: < 16
Partial Success:16 - 20
Complete Success: > 20
When To Use Environmental Rolls
Nearly all conflict in the world of RWBY is between
entities. Most rolls that are made should be contested
rolls, and environmental rolls should only be made
in particularly extreme or interesting scenarios. Most
scenarios which are less intense than the moder-
ate difficulty category should not be rolled for - they
should just be allowed to happen. 
Keep in mind, if you would like to change any of the
example difficulty thresholds provided above, you are
welcome to.
Roleplay Bonuses
If a contested or environmental roll is roleplayed par-
ticularly well, as strongly motivated by a belief, humor-
ously, or in a cool way, the Storyteller may grant the
player an additional d4 to their roll. Up to 2 d4s may
be granted in this way. In a contested roll, this may
apply to both sides (though if one side is Storyteller
controlled, the players should be the ones to award
dice).

Dust
Dust is a vital part of the world of Remnant; it is the
primary power source for cities, vehicles, and gad-
gets, and humanity’s greatest defense against the
Grimm. Dust is mined in the form of distinctly color
coded Dust crystals, from which energy is then ex-
tracted. Dust can be used in weapons, infused into
clothing, or even injected directly into one’s body.  dealt. Medium range.
When Dust is used to augment an attack, commonly it
modifies the attack to cause more damage, and addi-
tionally changes the damage type of the attack. Below
are the types of Dust that can be typically found in the
world of Remnant, and suggestions of some common
mechanical usages. Dust has many uses, far more
than are listed in the following section, and if you
would like to use it in a way not mechanically de-
scribed below, work with your Storyteller to determine
the details.
The below types of Dust are ones that are typically
sold. At your Storyteller’s discretion, you may be able
to combine Dust of different types to produce a new
type of Dust.
Common Dust can typically be purchased at a rate
of 4 crystals per one LS, and Rare Dust at a rate of 2
crystals per one LS.
Common Dust
Blue, or Water:
• As ammo: Add 1d4 - 1 (minimum 1) damage,
change damage type to water. Douses sur-
roundings.
• As an attack: Shoot a stream of water that
does 2d8 damage. Douses surroundings.
Medium range.
• As an attack: Create a lashing whip of water
targeting multiple opponents in a 0.5” AoE
and doing 2d4 to each and knocking prone if
damage is dealt. Douses surroundings. Medi-
um range.
Red, or Fire:
• As ammo: Add 1d4 - 1 (minimum 1) damage,
change damage type to fire. May set surround-
ings on fire.
• As an attack: Shoot a fireball that does 4d4
damage. May set surroundings on fire.
• As an attack: Create a wave of flame target-
ing multiple opponents, doing 2d6 damage to
each. Medium range.
Light Green, or Wind:
• As ammo: Add 1d4 - 1 (minimum 1) damage.
Sends target flying backwards .3” and knocks
prone.
• As attack: Create a miniature tornado to send
at a target. Does 1d12 damage. If this attack
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does > 0 damage, the target gets thrown 1”/10
feet in the air (for an approximately human
weight target) and is prone after they land. Me-
dium range.
• As attack: Send blade of wind at group of
opponents in a 0.5” AoE. Does 1d8 damage,
knocking prone and back 0.5” if > 0 damage is
Yellow, or Electricity:
• As ammo: Add 1d4 - 1 (minimum 1) damage,
change damage type to electric. May briefly
disrupt electronics.
• As attack: Shoot bolt of electricity at enemy.
Does 1d20 damage. If this attack does > 10
damage, the target is paralyzed for 1d2 com-
bat seconds. Far range.
Light Blue, or Ice:
• As ammo: Change damage type to ice. If your
attack does damage, roll a d4. On a 4, the
body part you’ve hit is frozen. The Storytell-
er should determine what body part makes
sense, and what the mechanical consequence
should be. 
• As attack: Shoot large icicles at your foe. Does
2d8 damage. Medium Range.
• As action: Create a 1” wide and tall wall of ice
within Close range. This can absorb 10 points
of damage before breaking.
Brown, or Rock:
• As attack: Shoot a boulder at your enemy.
Does 1d10 damage. If this attack does > 0
damage, add 6 damage to it.
• As action: Create a wall of rock within Close
range. This can absorb 15 points of damage
before breaking.
Rare Dust
Black, or Gravity:
• As action/ammo: Create an attractive or re-
pulsive gravitational field at either the attacks
point of origin or destination. This field has the
approximate power to move a human sized
object 1”/10 feet and disperses afrer this com-
bat second.
Cyan, or Hard Light:
• As action: Create a hard light shield which
can sustain 50 damage. This shield lasts for 6
combat seconds. Costs 10 usage points.
Using Dust
Each Dust crystal typically has 20 usage points. A
typical use of Dust, either for attack or utility costs
4 usage points. After a use which reduces the total
number of usage points to 0, the Dust crystal is com-
pletely consumed.
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Lien Sums in Play
While for some groups, Lien Sums may hardly come
up at all, the uses of LS can and should be expand-
ed to fit what you think is suitable for your story. Lien
Sums can be used as a reward for completing boun-
ties, to motivate a player’s beliefs, to upgrade gear, or
to make any other major purchase the group wishes
to track. Some recommendations for LS rates and
costs are below:
Rates:
Easier Bounty: 1 LS total
Harder Bounty: 2 LS total
Very Difficult Bounty: 3+ LS total
Costs:
Weapon Upgrades: See character creation costs -
use LS as points in character creation
Bionics: 1-2 LS, for most bionics (arms, legs, eyes),
3+ LS for larger scale bionics or bionics featuring sig-
nificantly enhanced abilities.
Feel free to modify these rates and costs as you think
is appropriate for your group’s story.
Damage Types
The damage types are fire, water, ice, electric, caus-
tic, and kinetic.
A damage type represents the physical characteristics
of an attack. It should serve as a reminder of second-
ary effects the damage might cause, or what effect
the attack might have on its target or surroundings,
for example freezing it, setting trees on fire and so on.
Some enemies may also resist certain damage types,
or a Semblance may have a unique interaction with a
particular element. If a damage type is not specified, it
is kinetic.
Common Status Effects
Prone
When a humanoid or Grimm is prone, their Defense
Dice regress once. It costs half of their normal move-
ment to get up.
Frozen
When a humanoid or Grimm is frozen (typically, one
or 2 limbs encased in ice), their Defense Dice regress
once. If a limb or body part is frozen, the target is un-
able to use it effectively while it is frozen, which may
result in an inability to move, attack, or defend. They
unfreeze after 5 damage is done to the ice encasing
them, or any amount of fire damage.
Paralyzed
When a humanoid or Grimm is paralyzed, they cannot
move and their Defense Dice regress a number of
times equal to their Reflexes.
Burning
While a humanoid or Grimm is burning, they should
take 1d6 damage. If the result is a 5 or 6, the fire
burns itself out. Otherwise, this burning damage will
repeat 6 seconds later, also burning out on a 5 or
6. This continues until the fire has burned out, or 3
instances of damage have been taken.
If the burning object is covered in some kind of ac-
celerant, make the same roll, but inflict two times the
rolled damage.
Other Status Effects
Storytellers will likely need to make new status effect
rulings through the course of play. If a player is plan-
ning a unique effect as part of their character (poison-
ing, ensnaring, etc.) make sure it is discussed with
the Storyteller, and costed appropriately in Character
Creation.
When the Storyteller makes a ruling about a new
status effect, they should feel free to use the above
status effects as a basis, and communicate with the
other players about what you’re thinking - the most
important part of making a ruling is that the whole
group agrees it is reasonable. You can always change
it in the future if you change your mind!
Fall Damage
Huntsmen are generally adept at falling long dis-
tances, and typically can avoid taking fall damage
at all through their own “landing strategy”. However,
if a Huntsman or Huntress is ever flung or falls a far
distance in a way where they cannot stop themselves
gracefully, they should take 1d6 damage for every 1” /
10 feet fallen.
Injury Tracking And Recovery
When an Aura reaches ~15%, it visibly flickers. When
an Aura reaches zero, it breaks with a visible shatter-
ing. Once your Aura breaks is when you have to be
careful. Now formerly trivial things like bullets might
actually hurt you, and badly.
When damage goes past your Aura and hits your
health you may take an injury based on the damage.
Note that damage past Aura is calculated per combat
second - if you are hit twice in the same combat sec-
ond for 3 and 3 damage past Aura, you should take
one injury resulting from 6 damage past Aura.
You have 7 injury slots, 3 for 1st level, or minor, inju-
ries, 2 for 2nd level, or impactful, injuries, and 1 for a
3rd level, or severe, injury. The final injury slot beyond
severe injury is a major trauma. Too much past a ma-
jor trauma, and your injury is instantly fatal. 
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If you receive an injury and all of the injury slots at that level are full, the new injury is promoted to the next
level of injury; e.g., if you take a second major trauma before your first is treated, it would be fatal.

Table 6: Injuries By Damage Past Aura

Injury Level Damage Past Aura

Fatal >= [Strength* + 27]
Major Trauma >= [Strength* + 12] and < [Strength* + 27] 
3rd/Severe >= [Strength* + 6] and < [Strength* + 12]
2nd/Impactful >= [Strength* + 3] and < [Strength* + 6]
1st/Minor >= [Strength* - 1] (Min 2) and < [Strength* + 3]
No Injury < [Strength* - 1] (Min 2)

Note: In table 6, Strength* is the character’s Strength, or 5 if the character’s Strength is greater than 5.

Table 7: Injury Effects and Recovery Time

Injury Level Effect Recovery Example Injuries

Time
Fatal Death is immediate, or within a few short min- - -
utes, barring a miraculous intervention
Major Trau- Dramatic mechanical effect until treatment (can’t - Lost limb, lost eye
ma perform certain attacks, can’t move…)
3rd/Severe 3rd level injury slot fills, sincere mechanical effect 1 month Fractured hand, fractured
(-2 to stat, lose dice on attacks, can’t run...) rib, deep gash
2nd/Impactful 2nd level injury slot fills, minor mechanical effect 5 days Gashes, badly twisted
(-1 to stat, -1 to attack roll...) ankle
1st/Minor 1st level injury slot fills 1 day Moderate cuts, bruises,
welts

The exact injury that you take, along with its mechanical effect, is awarded by your Storyteller as appropriate at
the time the injury is received.
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Injury Recovery
Injuries heal with rest (which entails not travelling, just
recovering). Fortunately, Huntsmen and Huntresses
heal at a slightly accelerated rate thanks to their Au-
ras. Injuries from multiple tracks heal simultaneously,
but only one injury on a track can heal at a time. Fla-
vorwise, multiple injuries of the same level are healing
together, but mechanically, you should mark off one
as healed after the appropriate time has passed, and
then the other can begin its recovery period.  moil. The Storyteller should propose to the player
Injuries up to 3rd tier can also be healed by medical
professionals, for a suggested cost of .25, 1, and 3 LS
respectively per tier. You can also seek treatment for
major traumas - the costs and how much functionality
your character can recover will vary based on your
Storyteller’s discretion.
Aura Recharging
Once your Aura is damaged or broken, it will take rest
to recharge it. It takes 6 hours of rest to fully recharge
your Aura from zero, and resting a fraction of that
time will recharge your Aura an appropriate fractional
amount, i.e. resting for 3 hours will recharge half of
your Aura.
“He’s Sheer Willpower!” (Optional Rule)
If your Will is above 8, you can, upon sustaining any
injury, replace the received injury with a special injury
of the same level which reduces your Will by 2. If this
special injury is taken, recharge your Aura immediate-
ly to 25% of its capacity. If your Aura breaks but you
don’t sustain an injury, you may still activate this effect
by taking the described injury in the lowest open slot
on your injury tracker.
Emotional Turmoil
Emotional Turmoil represents the mental wellbeing of
a character, and comes in two forms, long term and
short term. When a character is stressed out, made
fun of in a way that gets to them, has something that
they care about hurt or insulted, has a belief or goal
rendered impossible by the actions of another char-
acter, or in any other way are provoked emotionally,
that character should take a point of Emotional Tur-
the amount and type of Emotional Turmoil, and if the
player agrees that it makes sense for their character,
that character receives the Emotional Turmoil.
Grimm are attracted to and more likely to attack play-
ers with a higher Emotional Turmoil sum.
Characters lose one point of Short Term Emotional
Turmoil per day, down to 0.
Emotional Outburst
Anytime a character receives Emotional Turmoil, if the
sum of that character’s short and long term Emotional
Turmoil is higher than the value of their Will, the Story-
teller may call for the character to have an Emotional
Outburst. The player must act out the consequences
of their character’s negative emotions as appropriate,
and then reset their short term Emotional Turmoil to 0.
An emotional outburst depends on the character, and
can range from a burst of rage or cruelty, to a crying
breakdown, to a sullen emotional retreat. Good perfor-
mances, or performances that make life more difficult
for the character may be rewarded with metacurrency.
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Bounty Missions Suitable Player Characters
“...make no mistake - school’s over. You get to choose It might be tempting for some players to try and create
what type of Huntsman or Huntress you are.” characters that are as powerful in combat as possible,
or with one very high stat at the cost of their other
During the course of your story, you may have the attributes.
chance to accept bounty missions from your kingdom
as an officially licensed Huntsman or Huntress. These I strongly encourage all players making characters to
missions represent the core work of Huntsmen, who think about who they want their character to be first,
have free choice over the kinds of missions that they fleshing out their beliefs, relationships, and descrip-
will accept. Note that there are no restrictions on the tion, and then think about choosing stats, skills, and
number of Huntsmen that can work together on a weapon attributes that make sense for the character
mission, but the reward for completing that mission is they have already created. The Numbers... What Do
fixed. They Mean? (Stats) and (Skills) are valuable sections
to get a good frame of reference as to what stat num-
Here are some types of missions typically found on
Kingdom bounty boards: bers would be appropriate to your story and character.
• Bounty: Bringing a person into captivity or
killing them, or killing a specific Grimm
• Escort: Protecting a group of civilians in transit
through dangerous territory
• Perimeter Defense: Guarding the exterior
walls of a city or kingdom from Grimm attack
• Search and Destroy: Infiltrating an area heav-
ily populated by Grimm and eliminating as
many as possible
• Search and Rescue: Locating a missing per-
son or missing items and returning them to
safety
• Village Security: Protecting a village, which is
typically far smaller and more vulnerable to
attack than a city or kingdom border

As a Storyteller, don’t neglect using formal missions

as a tool to interact with player’s beliefs and drive the
plot forward!
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Combat
Overview
Combat is a very important part of RWBY, and the
combat system presented here is designed with the
intent of trying to match the style of combat in the
show, which is fast paced, dramatic, team driven, and
creative.
Combat takes place on a gridless battlemat in simul-
taneous semi real-time action and consists of a series
of turns, each of which consists of a planning phase
followed by two action phases.
In the planning phase, the Storyteller will give the
players 30 seconds, and players have this time to
quickly discuss with their teammates how they’re
going to work together over the next 2 action phases.
Players can end the planning phase early if they are
ready - if all players push forward their skip tokens,
play immediately continues to the first action phase in
the turn.
During an action phase, the Storyteller will count
up from 1 to 6, through the 6 seconds of the action
phase. These seconds are referred to as combat
seconds. If a player would like their character to make
any action (attack, setup, move, quick action, or some
combination) during a combat second, the player
must declare that with the appropriate tokens at the
beginning of that second.
Actions Tokens and Actions
In combat, each player will have 5 action tokens,
which represent 5 distinct declarations of action. One
of these, the skip token, is only used during the plan-
ning phase. The attack, move, setup, and quick action
tokens are used only during the action phases.
Skip
If all players play this token at any point during the
planning phase, the remainder of the planning phase
is skipped and the next action phase begins.
Attack  The move action as well as the quick action can be
By taking this action, you are selecting the second in
an action phase where you strike. You must declare
your target and ask them what their response to being
attacked is. An attack action may be a weapon at-
tack, an attack using your Semblance, Dust, or any
other similar major attacking action. You can choose
to modify any attack (or other action) with your Sem-
blance if appropriate. In each 6 second action phase
you can use either a ranged attack or up to 2 melee
attacks.
Move 
By selecting this action, you choose to move a dis-
tance on the battlemat up to your character’s move-
ment. If your character’s end position is more than .25
inches away from your character’s starting position,
your Defense Dice advance once during this second
due to your mobile nature. You must physically move
your character across the battlemat from origin to des-
tination during this second in the action phase. This
movement may be augmented by your Semblance as
appropriate.
Setup 
This action covers any significant, miscellaneous,
tactical maneuvers you may want to take such as
shooting a pile of Dust crystals, creating a distraction,
dragging the body of a teammate to cover, or assist-
ing with a teammate’s attack through Semblance us-
age or other means. Depending on the setup action,
this may require a general or contested roll. Setting
up for teammates can greatly increase the power of
their attacks!
Quick Action 
This action represents any miscellaneous and trivial
action your character would like to take which would
take no more than a second. Some common exam-
ples include shouting a few words to a teammate,
switching between the forms of your weapon, loading
or changing a Dust cartridge in your weapon, or drop-
ping a held item. Any action which would take multi-
ple seconds or require a test should be represented
instead with the setup action.
Action Limits and Details
During an action phase, a character can either per-
form up to two melee attack actions, or one ranged
attack action. Any time your character could perform
an attack action, they may instead perform a setup
action, which counts towards the attack limit as a
melee attack. For example, if a character performs a
melee attack action and a setup action in an action
phase, they cannot perform any more attack or setup
actions.
taken any number of times in the action phase and
can be chosen concurrently with an attack or setup
action. Attacks are resolved at the end of the second
they are declared. If multiple actions occur during the
same second, they are resolved in the order of high-
est to lowest Reflexes. Characters with tied Reflexes
should roll off each time they attempt to take simul-
taneous action to determine the resolution order for
their actions.

Teamwork and Setup
If you choose to use a setup action to help your
teammate more effectively make an attack, such as
through launching them towards their target, using
Dust to make platforms to assist them, and so on,
your teammate should add 1d12 to their roll for each
teammate helping them with a setup action.
Levels of Setup (Optional Rule)
At the Storyteller’s discretion, less interesting, less
teamwork focused, or repeated setup actions may
have a reduced effect. Ex. Using a setup action to dis-
tract an opponent may only award a d6 to your friends
attack vs. a more involved strategy.
Reactions
When You Are Attacked
When attacked, you have an automatic option to parry
or dodge the incoming attack. Collectively, these ac-
tions are called avoid actions. Each of these actions
are represented by rolling your Defense Dice which,
at base, is determined by your Reflexes stat. Your
Defense Dice may be further modified by an action
you or your opponent took, or circumstances such as
cover or Semblances as appropriate. 
If you choose to parry, add your Weapon Training
(Guarding) skill level to your roll. Note that some
attacks (usually Dust based, or at your Storyteller’s
discretion) are un-parryable, meaning that they cannot
be mitigated with the parry reaction.
As appropriate, you may augment any avoid action
through Semblance usage.
Alternatively, if you are being attacked by any melee
attack, you may also attempt to counter-attack. To
counter-attack, make an attack roll in response. If you
roll higher than the opponent’s attack, take no dam-
age from their attack and inflict your damage on them.
If you roll equal to or lower than their roll, take the full
damage from their attack. Each character may only
make a counterattack once per action phase, and a
counterattack does not count towards the total num-
ber of standard attack actions a character can use
in an action phase. Damage that is passed via the
damage waterfall cannot be counterattacked.
As appropriate, you may augment this counter-attack
through Semblance usage.
When Someone Else is Attacked
When anyone else on the field of combat is attacked,
if you are within Close range of the target you may
choose to take the attack for them. You can roll to
avoid this incoming attack with two Defense Dice
regressions.
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You may also assist in another character’s Defense
through use of your Semblance as appropriate at any
time.
Roleplay Bonuses
Up to two times per character in a combat, if an attack
is narrated in such a way that is deemed very cool,
uses the environment in a creative or interesting way,
or is driven by a belief, the Storyteller (or players, if
the Storyteller is narrating for an NPC) can grant the
character up to two additional d4 on their attack. 
If an action is exceptionally cool or creative, the Sto-
ryteller should acknowledge it as such - if the player
likes, they may spend one Spark to add a d10 to their
roll. This bonus should almost always require team-
work of some kind.
The level of coolness or creativity required for each
level will vary by group; these incentives should be a
tool that you use to push players to be creative and
engaged with combat - start off with a low barrier of
coolness, and as the players get more comfortable,
push them to take it farther.
Range
Each attack has a selected optimal range band. For
each range band away from the optimal range a
weapon is attacking from, the target of that attack
advances their Defense Dice twice. So, a sniper shot
with an optimal range of Very Far attacking from a
range of Close would grant the target 6 Defense Dice
advances, because the Close range band is 3 away
from the Very Far range band (Very Far > Far > Me-
dium > Close). Attacks cannot be made from ranges
that do not make sense for the attack. For example,
a sword swing attack cannot be made from far range.
What “makes sense” might vary based on specific
circumstances. In general, it is up to the players and
Storyteller to decide what they think is reasonable. If a
target moves between range bands during the action
phase, use the most beneficial range band for your
attack.
Close range is 0-0.5”, Medium range is 0.5-3.0”,
Far range is 3.0-6.0”, and Very Far Range is > 6.0”
Range and Height
When fighting an enemy at a different height from
you, such as a flying Grimm, this height is taken into
account. The range band between the two characters
is the greatest value between the horizontal and verti-
cal distances.
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Cover Example Pieces of Cover:
Cover is an important part of a dynamic battlefield, • Bush: 1 HP, flimsy penetrability
and each piece of cover is different. How many hits • Average tree: 3 HP, moderate penetrability
can it take? Is it penetrable or strong? How much of • Waist high metal barrier: 6 HP, impenetrable
yourself is covered? All of these things should be tak-
en into account when determining how much a piece Engagement and Attacks of Opportuni-
of cover will defend you from incoming attacks.
ty
If you are within Close range of another character,
Levels of Cover and one character has attacked the other since that
The level of cover is a property of cover referring to range was entered, you are engaged with that char-
how much of a character can be concealed by the acter. If you are engaged with a character and attempt
cover, and is measured in quarters. The levels of to leave Close range, the character you are engaged
cover, in descending order, are fully covered, ¾ cov- with may make an attack of opportunity. 
ered, ½ covered, ¼ covered, and uncovered. During a
combat second in which you attack from behind cover, An attack of opportunity is a Close range attack of
reduce the provided level of cover by one quarter. any kind, which does not count towards that charac-
ter’s attack actions for the action phase. A character
Durability may avoid or counterattack an attack of opportunity,
Cover is only so strong, and can take damage and though with 2 Defense Dice regressions and a -3
be destroyed - when a piece of cover loses half of to their counterattack respectively. If a character is
its health or more, if the cover is not impenetrable, engaged with multiple other characters and tries to
reduce its level of cover by one quarter. Impenetra- leave their radius, only one attack of opportunity may
ble cover can only be reduced by being completely be made. If you move around an enemy who you are
destroyed. engaged in without leaving Close range, you will not
be subject to an attack of opportunity, you also do not
receive the standard Defense Dice advance normally
Penetrability
received from moving greater than .25 inches.
How well can your cover actually protect you?
Flimsy: No reduction to incoming damage. Additional-
ly, inflict the full unmitigated damage to the cover.
Moderate: Reduce the incoming damage to your
character by 1 for each quarter of your character cov-
ered/level of cover. Additionally, inflict the full unmiti-
gated damage to the cover.
Impenetrable: Reduce the incoming damage to your
character by 2 for each quarter of your character cov-
ered/level of cover. Damage cannot pass through this
cover if you are fully covered. Inflict the full unmitigat-
ed damage to the cover.

Obscured From Sight

If you are ¾ covered, increase your Defense Dice by
one. If you are totally covered, increase your Defense
Dice by two.

But…
The above covers the majority of situations - melee
attacks and standard gunshots directed at a covered
target. Inevitably some situations will arise that can-
not be comfortably covered - if I’m using a grenade
launcher, can’t I arc those over the wall? If I’m us-
ing rounds that could shred an Atlas war machine,
how does that affect penetrability? Your Storyteller
will have to make a ruling in these situations. Try to
discuss and reach a conclusion everyone thinks is
reasonable.

Multiple Enemies and the Damage Wa-
terfall
Especially when fighting Grimm, you may find yourself
fighting many opponents simultaneously. If your attack
after reduction does enough damage to kill an oppo-
nent, any damage beyond the enemy’s health total
can waterfall into being inflicted on other enemies,
who will then have a chance to reduce that damage.
Waterfalling damage represents dispatching one
enemy and turning your attention to another within the
timeframe of a single action.
Example:  Holding Back
You are fighting 4 adolescent beowolves to defend
your friends, all within Close range of you. You roll
2d6 for your Sword Slashes attack and gain an addi-
tional 1d4 from roleplay bonuses for a total of 14 dam-
age. The Grimm you initially attack rolls their Defense
Dice of 1d6, and gets a 3. 11 damage is therefore
inflicted to them. The Grimm has 3 health and is bru-
tally dismembered - and the 8 damage of the original
11 which has not yet been inflicted can then waterfall
onto another Grimm. The next Grimm rolls their De-
fense Dice and gets a 1. Of the remaining 8 damage,
1 is mitigated by the second Grimm’s Defense Dice,
and 7 is inflicted to them, which kills them in a similar
fashion to the first Grimm. Since this Grimm has 3
health, there is 7 - 3 = 4 damage left to continue the
waterfall onto the 3rd Grimm. The third Grimm rolls a
2 on their Defense Dice, and so of your remaining 4
damage, you inflict 2, which is not enough to kill, but
the severity of the damage is shown by you lopping
off one of its arms. Since you are out of damage, the
waterfall ends here.
Two Weapon Fighting
This section describes an example two weapon
fighting bonus that a character may purchase during
character creation. Players can also create their own
bonuses, as long as they Storyteller agrees it is ap-
propriately costed.
When fighting with two weapons, it’s easier for you
to deal with multiple opponents quickly. The first time
your damage waterfalls, add three to it, i.e. 7 damage
waterfalling onto a second enemy becomes 10 dam-
age.
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Explosives and Area of Effect Damage
When damaging an area with Area of Effect (AoE)
damage, make the attack roll on every character in
the AoE area. Each character will have a chance to
react, including parrying, dodging, or volunteering
to take the hit for someone else, as a normal attack.
Damage from an AoE attack cannot waterfall. If the
AoE attack is a melee attack, each instance of dam-
age can be counterattacked. Any bonus dice added to
an AoE attack, including from Dust, can only be added
to one instance of the AoE damage.
Sometimes you might realize you’re hitting harder
than you really intended. At any point during an at-
tack, including after damage is rolled, you can declare
you are holding back, and reduce the damage of your
attack by half.
Disarming
Disarming should not happen very commonly in com-
bat, but if it ever comes up, here are some rules to
handle how to disarm generally.
Before an attack roll is made, it must be declared that
it is a disarming attack. If this attack does 10 or more
points of damage post mitigation, (or, if the attack is
part of a counterattack, the roll is 5 or greater than the
opponent’s roll) that damage may be translated into a
disarm attempt. In either case, only half of the dam-
age is inflicted on the target. A disarm attempt is a
contested roll of Intuition and Reflexes. If the disarmer
wins the contested roll without the need to compro-
mise, the weapon flies in a direction of the disarmer’s
choice up to a distance of .2” for each point of dam-
age that was translated into the disarm attempt. If the
disarmer wins by a margin that dictates a compromise
must be made, it flies in a direction of the disarmees
choosing.
Someone who is disarmed must move to their weap-
on, and pick it up using a quick action before they
can use it again. While someone is disarmed, they do
not receive any bonuses from Weapon Training, or
any other skills or bonuses that imply the use of their
weapon.
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Example: Steps To Resolve An Attack
As Qrow Branwen fights Tyrian Callows at Close
1. At the beginning of any particular second of
range, Tyrian rolls an attack, and before doing so, de-
the action phase, reveal the token indicating
clares that this will be a disarming attack. Tyrian rolls
you will perform an attack
extremely well, and Qrow rolls very poorly, and Tyrian
2. Declare your target as well as your attack
has 15 damage after mitigation to translate to a dis-
3. At the end of the combat second, the attack
arm attempt. Half of this damage (8) is done to Qrow.
begins resolution; determine situational De-
Both Tyrian and Qrow make their Intuition and Reflex-
fense Dice advances or regressions from the
es rolls. Tyrian rolls a 33, while Qrow rolls a 30. Since
range band, opponent’s action, or other factors
Tyrian has won by fewer than 5, he achieves his goal
such as cover or Semblance use. Remember
with a compromise, as per the standard contested roll
that the resolution order of multiple actions
rules. In this case, this means Qrow decides the direc-
within the same second is in order of high to
tion his weapon goes flying in. Qrow is disarmed, and
low Reflexes.
his weapon, Harbinger, flies only 1.4” before becom-
4. Describe your attack! Remember, executions
ing lodged in the nearest wall. that are cool, creative, or belief driven may
grant you additional dice to use with your
Resolving Tricky Things attack!
The biggest takeaway from this block is that the at- 5. Before you roll, ask the target how they
tacker will always choose at what precise moment in respond. The target chooses whether to avoid
the combat second an attack will occur. or counterattack if applicable. Roll your attack
dice, and the target rolls their Defense Dice or
With so much possibility in weapons, Semblances, attack as appropriate.
strategies, and movement, a lot of weird situations 6. If the target avoided: The target takes dam-
can and do occur. To attempt to resolve these things, age equal to the attack die sum minus the
remember the following: Defense Dice sum.
If the target counterattacked: The larger at-
tack roll goes through and is inflicted on its
• The attacker will always choose at what pre-
cise moment in the combat second an attack target without mitigation.
will occur. For example, if an attacker targets
a player who moves from medium to far range
during a turn, the attacker can choose which
range the attack will have occurred at. Similar-
ly, if a target moves to cover during a combat
second, the attacker can choose to attack
them before the cover is reached.
• If two players are taking actions which directly
contradict one another, resolve it immediate-
ly, usually with a contested roll. For example,
during an avoid action, the defender augments
their dodge with their Semblance, which con-
structs a wall of stone in front of them, provid-
ing cover - however, the attacker has already
narrated their attack to be modified by their
speed Semblance and zip around to the back
of the defender. Is the defender quick enough
to realize this, and turn and put the wall behind
him? This is a perfect time to use a contested
roll with Reflexes. Have the players agree on
the consequences of each side’s complete
or partial success, and then resolve what the
outcome is.
• If a player moves/teleports as part of an attack
or other action, for Semblance reasons or oth-
erwise, do the movement whenever the action
is being resolved. This helps keep movement
coherent, and minimizes the  interference and
confusion with other players’ actions.
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Sparks, Hope, and Progression
Sparks and Hope are metacurrency rewards for
players who roleplay their characters well and drive
the plot through their actions. Sparks and Hope are
awarded at the end of each session and can help
players to accomplish their goals. 
When a session ends, the Storyteller should ask the
other players the following questions:
• Did you use your beliefs or defining issue to
drive the plot forward?
• Did you roleplay your general traits in a way
that was interesting or impacted the story?
• Did you have any emotional outbursts that
meaningfully impacted the story or were well
roleplayed?
• Did you complete any beliefs?
creative, and your Storyteller recognizes it as
such, you may spend a Spark to add 1d10 to
the attack roll. (Once per roll)
• You may consume all of your Sparks (mini-
mum 1) to reduce any instance of damage to
you by half, rounding down.
Hope
You can derive strength from Hope. At any time in
between sessions, you can spend your Hope on your
character in the same way that you would spend
points in character creation, for example, to increase
your stats, purchase a skill, upgrade your weapon, or
develop a new feature of your Semblance. As in char-
acter creation, work with your Storyteller to figure out
how to appropriately cost different features you may
be interested in buying.

For each of these questions, if a player answers affir-
matively, ask them to explain. What beliefs or traits?
How was the story meaningfully impacted? How was
it accomplished? If the majority of the players, includ-
ing the Storyteller, agree with the player, the player
should be awarded metacurrency. 
For the first two questions on the above list, award 1
Spark for each question answered affirmatively. For
the third question award 2 Sparks, and for the final
question, award 2 Sparks per belief.
Next ask your players:
• Did you complete any defining issues?
• Has your group accomplished their primary
goal in this scenario or campaign?
If a player or the players believe they have, have
them explain how so. If the majority of players, includ-
ing the Storyteller, agree with the player, each player
who completed a defining issue should be awarded
2 Hope, and if the players as a group have accom-
plished their primary goal, award each player 3 Hope.
Using Sparks and Hope
“...It’s true that a simple spark can ignite hope;
breathe fire into the hearts of the weary; the ability to
derive strength from hope is undoubtedly mankind’s
greatest attribute...”
Trading Sparks and Hope
At any time, you may trade 1 Hope for 6 Sparks. You
may not trade Sparks for Hope.
Dynamic Relationships
Relationships that players create at character creation
will change through the course of play. At any point,
players should feel free to update or expand the writ-
ten descriptions or points of interest in their relation-
ships. This will never affect the Spark bonus gained
through determining points of interest in character cre-
ation. In the same vein, the players may come across
characters they would like to maintain a relationship
with - players can feel free to add these characters to
their relationships as they see fit.
Players may also want to create entirely new rela-
tionships present in the setting. I suggest doing this
collaboratively, optionally any time a Hope is earned
(i.e. when a player resolves their defining issue, or
when the group completes their primary objective in
a campaign). Players and the Storyteller should feel
free at this point, or at any other point when they feel
it is appropriate, to collaboratively come up with 1-2
new relationships/characters, or expand on existing
relationships/characters, that might be important for
wherever the story of the group is going to go next.

Sparks
If your character has any Sparks, you may spend
them during the course of your game in the following
ways:
• You may reroll any die in a roll you have made.
(Once per roll)
• You may add a dice to any roll. To an attack
roll, add a d6, to a general or contested roll,
add a d12. (Once per roll)
• If an attack description is exceptionally cool or
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Silver Eyes, Maidens, and Magic Emotional Turmoil, and is most likely to occur from
events that either caused the gain of multiple Emo-
WARNING: Major spoilers are prevalent and unavoid-
tional Turmoil or resulted in an Emotional Outburst. In
able in this section. If you care about such things, and
such a situation, the effects of the Silver Eyes typically
have not watched the series, you should avoid this
manifest immediately. Exact details, the power of the
section. This section was last updated after Volume 8
outburst and its consequences are very dependent on
aired. To avoid spoilers, skip ahead to How To Start A
the Silver Eyed Warrior and situation in question, and
Game. are left to the discretion of the Storyteller. For exam-
ple, a first time use triggered by extreme trauma might
[Begin Spoilers] result in a powerful effect - but also the character
passing out. See further down for information on what
The magic present in Remnant is heavily tied to the happens when these powers are activated.
specific setting and the characters in it - depending on
how closely your particular game follows the lore and A character may also want to explicitly call upon
setting of the main series, things may vary dramatical- the power of their Silver Eyes. In such a situation,
ly. a special roll should be performed. The Silver Eyed
Warrior should roll their Will # of d8s, and they should
Silver Eyes subtract from this a # of d4s equal to their current total
Short Term and Long Term Emotional Turmoil sum. A
Silver Eyes are a trait seemingly introduced into
penalty should be applied to those using Silver Eyes
humanity via the God of Light, and are manifested
without sufficient training. To someone with the bare
just as they are described, as eyes that are silver in
minimum understanding of how Silver Eyes work, a
color. The Silver Eyes trait comes from a rare genetic
-4 penalty might be applied, and to someone with a
line - rare now as it seems like those born with Silver
vague but working knowledge, a -2 penalty. If a penal-
Eyes are actively hunted by Salem, humanity’s pri-
ty is applied, it will take 2 Actions in combat for these
mary antagonist in the world of Remnant. Taking this
powers to manifest - one to conjure up the appropriate
trait in some senses marks the character, and if they
mental imagery of people who love them and things
have any degree of publicity, in the canonical setting,
that are worth protecting, and another to unleash the
they will eventually find themselves being hunted. If
power. A player making this roll should be encouraged
captured by Salem, those with Silver Eyes may be
to narrate what their character is imagining during this
subject to any matter of inhumane experimentation
time, and if their imagery is well motivated by their
- see “Silver-Eyed Warrior Grimm”. Those born with
character or well narrated, the Storyteller may award
Silver Eyes are said to be destined to be warriors
them an additional d4 to their roll. Once this special
who can destroy Grimm with a glance, and in fact the
roll has been made, the results will determine the
Silver Eye property allows these Silver Eyed War-
effectiveness of the power of the Silver Eyes. If this
riors to emit a brilliant piercing light from their eyes
power is being used in a 2 turn sequence, as de-
in the presence of Grimm through the channeling of
scribed above, the roll should be made at the begin-
emotions relating to the protection of life. This light,
ning of the second turn.
depending on a variety of unknown factors, can petrify
or outright destroy Grimm.
If the sum of the roll is 0 or less, the character is
unable to focus their mental willpower into a manifes-
In character creation, it is possible that a player
tation of the power of their Silver Eyes.
wishes to make a character with Silver Eyes. The
If the sum of the roll is > 0, the following effect occurs:
suggested cost in the General Traits and Other Fea-
All Grimm with health less than or equal to the result
tures section, +4, is suggested with the assumption
of the roll, who are within Far range and within the
the character has essentially no knowledge of Silver
line of sight of the user are vaporized instantly. All
Eyes or how to use them. In this case, it is possible
unvaporized Grimm remaining with health equal to or
their powers will activate on their own, but only in very
less than 3 times the amount of the roll within Very
extreme situations, such as witnessing the death of
Far range and line of sight of the user are petrified;
a friend. If a player would like to take this trait with
as such they are no longer alive and their stone forms
some ability to use their Silver Eye powers, I would
can be broken as normal rock. Any remaining Grimm
recommend increasing the cost. I would recommend
with more than 3 times the amount of health as the
costing the ability to use Silver Eyes on demand at
roll result, within Very Far range and line of sight of
~15 points.
the user, are encased in stone - Grimm may be able
to break free of this encasement only if their Strength
is greater than 7. Any of these effects may be overrid-
For the powers latent in Silver Eyes to activate, the
den or modified as your Storyteller sees fit.
user must be in the presence of Grimm. These pow-
ers can activate passively, through the witnessing of
a traumatic or near traumatic event. This event would
definitely be one that causes the character to gain
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Magic
“Magic” is a gift that was given to humanity by the
God of Darkness. Being able to use magic is an
exceedingly rare trait, found in Ozpin, Salem, and
some others whom Ozpin has donated a portion of
his powers. “Magic” represents an extremely broad
range of abilities, from directing energy, telekinetics,
shapeshifting, to manipulating the elements. Unlike
Semblance usage, magic usage does not drain Aura,
nor is it dependent on Aura being intact to function.
While it is most likely not suitable for a character to
have access to magic during character creation, it can
be handled if necessary. Magic which is equivalent to
the powers of Salem (not including the effects of the
curse placed on her by the God of Light or the conse-
quences of her interactions with the Pools of Grimm
(immortality and some degree of control/communica-
tion with Grimm respectively)), should cost approx-
imately 50+ points, depending on the details of its
limits. A more canonically obtainable source of magic
is powers distributed by Ozpin. While some of these
powers are grand and dramatic, such as the Maiden
powers, there are also characters with more limited
powers, such as Raven and Qrow, who have the
abilities to shapeshift into a Raven and Crow respec-
tively. These powers might be costed at ~15 points.
Any sort of power can be potentially handled, and I
would recommend using the costs and cost justifica-
tions present in the Semblance tier list as a point of
comparison, keeping in mind that magic use has less
of an inherent cost and restrictions. Ideas about how
Maidens can be handled during character creation are
detailed in the appropriate section below. If a charac-
ter does take some kind of magical power in this way,
and your story is set in the canonical (or near enough)
universe in the show they will likely have very close
ties with Ozpin, which the player should detail and
likely reflect in their relationships. I would recommend
only allowing players with a strong knowledge of the
setting to take something magical related during char-
acter creation - definitely ask your Storyteller to see if
this would be appropriate for your story.
The Four Maidens
The four Maidens are a particular set of four young
women whom Ozpin gifted a significant portion of his
powers. These four Maidens are typically denoted as
corresponding to the four seasons, Winter, Spring,
Summer, and Fall. The powers of the four Maidens
are tied primarily to the manipulation of the elements.
When one Maiden dies, these powers seek out a
new young female host. This new host will be the last
person that the previous Maiden was thinking of as
she died - if the previous Maiden was not thinking of
someone else, the powers will transfer to a seemingly
random suitable host. When this transfer occurs, the
soul of the previous Maiden will seek out the soul of
the new Maiden, and they will have a few brief mo-
ments to converse as the powers are passed on. The
four Maidens are canonically important for a variety
of reasons relevant to the central conflict of RWBY,
which may be relevant if your game’s setting is similar
to the show.
The four Maidens are pre-existing characters in the
canonical setting, but if your story takes place outside
of the main setting, players may be interested in being
a Maiden at character creation. I would recommend
costing being a Maiden at ~35+ points, depending
on the specified limitations. The powers of a Maiden
seem to start as more unrefined and limited, and grow
considerably with use and experience. You might
express this though the meta progression that is used
to improve other aspects of the average character, or
through some other means. As with magic generally, it
might make sense for a Maiden to have their relation-
ships be closely connected to this trait - as if they are
known to be a Maiden, several groups may be trying
to alternatingly hunt or protect them. As with magic in
general, while it is likely not suitable that a character
should have access to these powers at character cre-
ation, if they do, I would recommend that the corre-
sponding player has strong knowledge of the setting,
and that they should consult with their Storyteller to
see if this would be appropriate.
The power of the Maidens typically revolve around the
manipulation of natural forces, as well as telekinetic
abilities. These powers include shooting fireballs,
calling lighting strikes from the sky, creating whirl-
winds of freezing cold, and levitating or flying. When a
Maiden is using her Maiden powers, her eyes become
surrounded with a fiery telltale glow that matches her
Aura color. For a showcase of a Maiden using their
powers, you should see here. If a player ever needs
to specify the extent of these powers, you should
attempt to describe the limitations of these powers as
you would a Semblance, but recall that magic does
not consume nor require Aura.
[End Spoilers]
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How To Start A Game
Now that you know how the game works, how do you
start a game? Firstly, all players should meet and
talk about what kind of game they want to play. What
kind of characters do they want to play as? Students
entering school? Licensed Huntsmen? Does this
game take place during the time of the show? Before?
After? In an alternate universe setting? Where in the
world is this game taking place? What organizations
and conflicts are present in the world, and how do you
want to relate to them initially? Do you want the tone
to be wholesome? Gritty? It’s everyone’s story, so
everyone should get a say in it and feel good about its
direction. In order to get the best background, ideally
all of the players should have seen the show, but if
they haven’t at least show them clips to give them an
idea of what the theme of combat in the show is like,
and to inspire them. (Try this and this)

Once you’ve figured out what kind of game you want

to play, you should figure out how to incite the events
of the campaign. What will make sense here depends
on what kind of game it is - what I’ve found generally
works in RPGs is to start in media res. In other words,
an event is happening or has just happened as the
game begins, and the player’s need to decide how
best to react.

For the Storyteller, it is important that whatever initial

situation you are presenting to the players challeng-
es their beliefs by providing them with something to
overcome. A belief should not be completed easily, it
should require struggle and work. Make sure you use
their relationships and put every player in a situation
where they can express their traits and individuality,
and try to watch or listen to the show to keep fresh in
your mind what the system is trying to convey.

Good luck!
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Bestiary ries will employ any kind of complex strategy - and
typically Grimm in these age groups will be the only
ones to counterattack, with ancient Grimm counterat-
The Grimm tacking more frequently than adult Grimm.
The Grimm are monsters which have preyed on Man
and the Faunus ever since the dawn of Mankind. His-
tory is a story of struggle between Man and Grimm,
and Man’s struggle to survive. The Grimm typically
resemble large, monstrous forms of normal animals
like wolves, bears, or wasps. Most species of Grimm
are pitch black, have red eyes, and are covered in
bony protrusions. Additionally, the bony plates of
many Grimm are covered in arcane red Grimm mark-
ings, which are usually common across a species of
Grimm.

Grimm are creatures that lack a soul. As a result, they

do not have a normal lifespan, Aura or Semblance.
Grimm are not born, but spring into existence from a
Grimm liquid. When young, Grimm are no more intelli-
gent than predatory animals, though over long periods
of time they grow both stronger and smarter. When
a Grimm dies, their body immediately disintegrates.
Grimm want nothing more than to destroy life in any
capacity.

Grimm are drawn to negative emotions. In this game,

that is reflected by each character’s Emotional Tur-
moil score. A party with a high net Emotional Turmoil
is more likely to attract the Grimm.

Grimm should always be relevant to your game - even

large cities defended by hundreds of soldiers can
occasionally experience a breach of security, and set-
tlements out in the wilderness can be easily wiped out
by bands of roving Grimm. Remember that Grimm are
attracted to negative emotions, and so if large num-
bers of people are feeling unsafe, it will likely cause a
Grimm attack.

The Grimm in Play

Each Grimm has four potential ages, representing
their growth in both size and intelligence over time,
neophyte, adolescent, adult, and ancient. In the
statblocks, each field will have 4 values, separated by
slashes, and each of these will represent that stat in
each of the progressive age categories. 

Because Grimm do not have Auras, instead of an

injury tracker, they have a more traditional health bar.
When a Grimm reaches 50% health or less it should
be indicated that they are injured, which can option-
ally manifested as an injury like a limb being lost.
When a Grimm reaches 25% health or less it should
be indicated they are heavily injured, which may also
be reflected through an injury like a limb being lost, if
appropriate.

Typically, only Grimm in the adult or ancient catego-

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Fodder Grimm
Fodder Grimm are typically encountered in large
numbers ~(6-20). They have very little health, and can
usually be defeated in 1-2 attacks. Groups of fodder
Grimm might have 1 ancient member, and the remain-
der in lower ages.
Beowolf
Description:
Beowolves are large Grimm that resemble were-
wolves. Beowolves are black, with glowing red eyes
and a bony face mask as well as sharp claws, a crest
of bone spines running down their back, and various
other bony protrusions. On all fours, adults are about
6 feet long and 4 feet wide. Ancient beowolves are
known as “alpha beowolves”.
Boarbatusk
Description:
Boarbatusks are quadrupedal Grimm resembling
boars. Some notable features are bony protrusions
with Grimm markings, a ridge of black hair going
down the center of their backs, and 4 red eyes.
Boarbatusks have two large main tusks which curve
outward from the bottom of their snout, as well as two
auxiliary sets of tusks, one walrus-like, and another
smaller set protruding from the top of the snout. An
adult Borbatusk is about 7 feet long from snout to tail
and about 5 feet tall. The signature move of the Boar-
batusk is a Medium ranged rolling charge in which it
curls into a ball and rolls at high speeds into its target,
ramming them.

Stats:
Will: 2/3/3/3
Intuition: 4/4/4/5
Strength: 4/4/5/6 (+ 0/0/1/2 bonus to melee)
Reflexes: 3/3/4/4
Stats:
Will: 2/2/2/3
Health: 3/4/5/8
Intuition: 3/3/4/5
Strength: 5/6/6/7 (+ 1/2/2/3 bonus to melee)
Attacks:
Reflexes: 2/2/3/3 Tusks: 2d8/2d8/2d8/3d8 Range: Close/Close/Close/
Close
Health: 2/3/4/8 Spin Dash: 2d10/2d10/2d10/3d10 Range: Medium/
Medium/Medium/Medium [See Notes]
Attacks:
Claws, Fangs: 2d8/2d8/2d8/3d8 Range: Close/Close/ Movement: .65”/.6875”/.8125”/.875”
Close/Close
Notes:
Movement: .9”/.9”/1.15”/1.3” Armored Face:
When the Borbatusk is attacked head on (from the
front, if the Boarbatusk is not incapacitated), reduce
all damage taken from kinetic attacks by 1.

Spin Dash:
A Spin Dash can be performed without penalty from
Medium or Close range. During this attack, the Boar-
batusk charges towards its target, ending the attack
directly next to the target if it deals damage. If all of
the damage from a Spin Dash is avoided (and not
counterattacked) the Boarbatusk will not be able to
stop until the full 3” range of the attack has been trav-
eled. A Spin Dash can only be performed once per 6
second combat round.

Centinel
Description:
Centinels are large insectoid Grimm that resemble
centipedes or millipedes. Adolescent and adult Centi-
nels measure about 6 feet long, though ancient Centi-
nels seem to be able to grow dozens of feet in length.
All Centinels have the ability to burrow through rock
and dirt at their full movement speed, often popping
out of walls or floors in large numbers in underground
areas. Besides their many legs and large pincers,
Centinels can also spit an acid strong enough to
corrode metal, though it is rarely used as their primary
mode of attack.
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Creep
Description:
Creeps are squat bipedal Grimm that resemble
lizards. Creeps have bony protrusions along their
back and around their face, and their limbs end in
dual-claws. Creeps attack with their tails, claws, and
teeth. Adult Creeps grow to be about 6 feet long and
2 feet wide. Though rare, Ancient Creeps can grow to
much larger sizes of 20+ feet tall.

Stats:
Will: 2/2/2/3
Intuition: 2/2/2/3
Strength: 1/2/2/5 (+ -1/0/0/1 bonus to melee)
Stats:
Reflexes: 2/2/2/2
Will: 2/3/3/4
Intuition: 2/3/3/4
Strength: 1/2/3/6 (+ 0/0/0/2 bonus to melee) Health: 1/2/3/7
Reflexes: 2/3/3/4
Attacks:
Claws, Tail: 2d6/2d6/2d8/3d8 Range: Close/Close/
Health: 1/2/3/8
Close/Close
Attacks:
Pincers: 2d6/2d6/2d6/2d10 Range: Close/Close/ Movement: .65”/.7”/.7”/.95”
Close/Close
Acid Spit (damage type: caustic): 2d4/2d4/2d6/2d8
Range: Medium/Medium/Medium/Medium

Movement: .7”/.95”/1”/1.4”

Notes:
Burrowers:
Centinels can move through rock and dirt at their full
movement speed.

Wall Walkers:
Centinels can crawl along ceilings and walls as if they
were normal terrain.
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Lancer
Description:
Lancers are flying Grimm which resemble wasps.
They have bone masks with Grimm markings, bony
carapaces down their backs, four red translucent
wings, and intimidating claws, mandibles, and sting-
ers. An adult Lancer measures about 10 feet from
head to stinger. Adolescent to adult Lancers are often
found in swarms. Rarely, you can find a swarm being
headed by the far more dangerous ancient Lancer, or
Queen Lancer. The Lancer’s primary means of attack
are harpoon-like stingers that they can launch from
their abdomens. These stingers remain tethered to
the Lancers after they are fired, allowing them to latch
on to mobile flying targets. Lancers seem to be able
to coordinate better than many other Grimm, and are
capable of coordinating as a team to restrain and take
down large targets, even self-sacrificing so that the
rest of their group can succeed in their goal.
Notes:
Flying:
The Lancer can fly, and therefore pass through range
bands usually untraversable by the player.
Stinger:
If a stinger attack deals damage to a structure (or
health damage to a humanoid), if the Lancer wish-
es, the Lancer’s stinger lodges in the target, and the
Lancer becomes tethered to the target. When teth-
ered to a target, a Lancer moves with the target, and
may not move further from the target than Medium
range. Depending entirely on the Storyteller’s discre-
tion based on the material of the target, Lancers may
then attempt to retract their stinger, consequentially
pulling the target to them. The stinger attack may not
be used again while a target is tethered.

Stats:
Will: 3/3/3/3
Intuition: 3/4/4/4
Strength: 3/4/6/7 (+ 0/0/2/3 bonus to melee)
Reflexes: 3/3/3/4

Health: 3/5/6/85

Attacks:
Claws, Mandibles: 2d8/2d8/2d8/3d8 Close/Close/
Close/Close
Stinger: 1d12/1d20/1d20/3d10 Medium/Medium/Medi-
um/Medium
Bone Shrapnel: -/-/-/2d20 -/-/-/Medium

Movement: 1”/1.1”/1.2”/1.4”

Manticore
Description:
The body and head of a Manticore resemble a lion
with bull-like horns and a mane of bones. Manticores
can fly, and have large feathered wings as well as a
scorpion-like tail. Like many other Grimm, their body
features bony protrusions, and their bone face mask
is marked with red Grimm symbols. Adult manticores
are about 5 feet tall on all fours, to the top of their
heads, though their stinger, wings, and mane all ex-
tend considerably higher.
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Notes:
Flying:
The Manticore can fly, and therefore pass through
range bands usually untraversable by the player.
Stinger:
Despite their stinger attack being strictly worse, Manti-
cores will occasionally use it!
Variant: Cold Adapted:
Some Manticores, found in cold climates, are adapted
to the cold. Their skin and bones are frozen over in
patches of ice. These Grimm take ½ damage from Ice
type damage and will never be hindered or damaged
by cold temperatures.

Stats:
Will: 2/2/2/2
Intuition: 2/2/2/2
Strength: 2/3/5/5 (+ 0/0/1/1 bonus to melee)
Reflexes: 2/3/3/3

Health: 4/7/9/11

Attacks:
Paws, Teeth, Horns: 2d10/2d10/2d10/2d12 Range:
Close/Close/Close/Close
Fireball (damage type: fire): 1d6/2d6/3d6/3d6 Range:
Medium/Medium/Medium/Medium
Stinger: 1d8/1d10/1d12/1d12 Close/Close/Close/
Close

Movement: .7”/.9”/1”/1”
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Ravager
Description:
Ravagers are fierce looking Grimm that resemble
large bats. The head of the Ravager is covered by a
bony faceplate with red Grimm markings. The head
also features a mouth filled with large, sharp canines
and two black, pointed ears. The red, leathery wings
of the Ravager are webbed by its digits, as a bat’s
wings. The Ravager’s black body has a crest of bony
spines extending down its back and is covered with
various bony plates - finally, two legs end in claws
with sharp talons. The wingspan of an Adult Ravager
is about 35 feet, and the body of an adult Ravager
approaches 8 feet long. This Grimm is known for let-
ting out sharp sonic screeches, the exact purpose of
which is unknown.
Stats:
Will: 2/2/3/3
Intuition: 2/2/2/3
Strength: 2/4/6/6 (+ 0/0/2/2 bonus to melee)
Reflexes: 2/2/3/3
Health: 2/5/7/9
Attacks:
Teeth, Claws: 2d4/2d6/2d8/3d8
Movement: 1.2”/1.4”/1.9”/2.0”
Notes:
Flying:
Ravagers can fly, and therefore can easily travel
through range bands not usually traversible by play-
ers.
Sabyr
Description:
Sabyrs are large creatures that resemble prehistoric
saber tooth tigers. On all fours, adults are about 6 feet
long and 4 feet wide. Sabyrs are black, with red eyes
and a bone masked face featuring intimidating ~1 foot
long canines. Adapted to cold environments, on Sab-
yrs the typical Grimm bony protrusions appear to be
infused with ice, and surrounding patches of their skin
appear white or frozen. 
From a gameplay perspective, Sabyrs are very similar
to Beowolves, and share a core stat block (repeated
here) excepting that Sabyrs are resistant to cold, and
exclusively inhabit cold environments.
Stats:
Will: 2/2/2/3
Intuition: 3/3/4/5
Strength: 5/6/6/7 (+ 1/2/2/3 bonus to melee)
Reflexes: 2/2/3/3
Health: 2/3/4/8
Attacks:
Claws, Canines: 2d8/2d8/2d8/3d8 Range: Close/
Close/Close/Close
Movement: .9”/.9”/1.15”/1.3”
Notes:
Variant: Cold Adapted:
Sabyrs take ½ damage from Ice type damage. Sabyrs
will never be hindered or damaged by cold tempera-
tures.

Elite Grimm
Elite Grimm are usually encountered 1 at a time, often
with a pack of fodder Grimm to support them. Elite
Grimm are usually encountered in the adult/ancient
age group, and rarely in lower age groups. If these
Grimm are encountered in the neophyte/adolescent
age group they may be encountered in greater num-
bers.
Apathy
Description:
The Apathy are tall, gaunt, shambling, zombie-like
Grimm with long and slender bodies, limbs, and digits.
The Apathy are neither strong nor fast, but they have
the unique and horrific power to drain the Will of their
victims, draining them of their passions, motivation,
will to move, and self-preservation instincts. Unlike
most other elite Grimm, the Apathy are typically found
in numbers comparable to fodder Grimm, in swarms
or groups of 6-10+.
Stats:
Will 3/3/3/3
Intuition: 3/3/3/3
Strength: 1/1/1/1 (+ -1/-1/-1/-1 bonus to melee)
Reflexes: 1/1/1/1
Health: 4/5/6/7
Attacks:
Claws: 2d2/2d2/2d2/2d2 Range: Close/Close/Close/
Close
Will Draining Scream: [See notes]
Movement: .25”/.25”/.25”/.25”
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Notes:
Infectious Apathy:
For every 8 hours a non-Grimm spends within 150
feet of an Apathy or group of Apathy, reduce their Will
by 1. 
Slow:
The Apathy may only make an attack once per round,
and a group of Apathy may only perform a Will Drain-
ing Scream once per round.
Will Drain:
As a character loses Will from the Apathy, they stop
caring. If a character has lost Will due to the effects
of the Apathy, the affected character gains a new
movement speed equal to [Original Movement Speed
* (Current Will/Total Will)]. Characters also subtract
2x the amount of Will they’ve lost from all attack rolls,
and subtract 4x the amount of Will they lost on non-at-
tack rolls. If a character’s Will ever reaches 0 due to
the effects of the Apathy, that character loses con-
sciousness.
Will Draining Scream:
In lieu of attacking, a group of Apathy may let out a
piercing scream that affects all characters in earshot.
A contested roll should be made against the Apathy,
using Will. Each character who loses to the Apathy
loses 1 Will. The Apathy gain +1 to this roll for every
Apathy beyond the first emitting the scream.
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Beringel Cenitaur
Description: Description:
Beringels are Grimm that resemble large gorillas, with Cenitaur are rather grotesque looking Grimm reminis-
adults standing about 10 feet tall. Beringels have a cent of Centinels. Cenitaurs have long, segmented,
bone face mask and several spots of bone plate cov- millipede-like bodies, which grow to about 12 feet
ering their bodies, with red Grimm markings on bone long in the adult age category. The Cenitaur has 2
covering their backs. thin, black arms, with sharp bone arm blades taking
the place of forearms. The Cenitaur’s back is covered
by segmented bone plates with red Grimm markings,
with each segment below the arms featuring a pair of
short, bony, insectile legs. The top half of the Ceni-
taur’s underside is extremely bloated and glows green
with acid. This distension means that the Cenitaur will
typically rest its weight on its backmost legs and raise
the rest of their torso vertically, bringing the Cenitaur
to a “standing” height of about 8 feet. A twisted mass
of pipelike organs connects the Cenitaur’s distend-
ed stomach to its mouth, allowing it to spit acid as
a means of attack. Cenitaurs are capable of quickly
burrowing through stone and similar materials, and
may catch a Huntsman unaware by popping out of the
Stats: ground or a wall.
Will: 3/3/3/3
Intuition: 2/2/3/3
Strength: 5/6/8/9 (+ 1/2/4/5 bonus to melee)
Reflexes: 3/3/4/4

Health: 12/28/40/55

Attacks:
Punch, Slam: 2d8/2d8/2d8/3d8 Range: Close/Close/
Close/Close

Movement: .525”/.55”/.7”/.725”

Notes:
Variant: Winged:
While not found naturally, a Beringel given wings (see:
the show) can fly and therefore pass through range
bands usually untraversable by the player. Stats:
Will: 3/3/4/4
Intuition: 2/3/3/3
Strength: 2/3/4/4 (+ 0/0/0/0 bonus to melee)
Reflexes: 3/4/4/5

Health: 7/10/12/15

Attacks:
Arm Blades: 3d6/4d6/5d6/6d6 Range: Close/Close/
Close/Close
Acid Spit (damage type: caustic): 2d6/2d8/2d10/2d12
Range: Medium/Medium/Medium/Medium

Movement: .775”/1”/1.1”/1.225”

Notes:
Burrowers:
Cenitaurs can move through rock and dirt at their full
movement speed.

Death Stalker
Description:
Death Stalkers are Grimm that resemble scorpions,
with 10 red eyes, a golden stinger, and largely cov-
ered by a bony exoskeleton with red Grimm markings.
Ancient Death Stalkers can grow to be about 100
feet long from claw to tail, with a body and legs about
30 feet across and its stinger poised to strike about
50 feet in the air. Their size varies widely across age
ranges -  neophyte Death Stalkers are closer in size
and strength to a medium sized dog.
Stats:
Will: 1/3/4/5
Intuition: 1/2/3/5
Strength: 2/5/8/10 (+ 0/1/4/6 bonus to melee)
Reflexes: 2/3/3/4
Health: 1/7/24/40
Attacks:
Pincers: 2d4/2d6/2d8/2d10 Range: Close/Close/
Close/Close
Stinger: 1d4/1d6/1d8/1d10 Range: Close/Close/
Close/Close
Movement: .3”/.525”/.65”/.85”
Notes:
Armored Exoskeleton:
All damage done to the Death Stalker is reduced by
0/1/1/2
Dangerous Sting:
If a Death Stalker does > 2 damage with its Stinger
attack post-mitigation, increase the damage done by
0/8/18/45. Any damage past Aura done by the Stinger
attack will always cause at least a level 1 injury. The
injury inflicted by the stinger is a special injury named
Poisoned Sting, which reduces the target’s Strength
by 1/2/2/3.
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Geist
Description:
Geists are floating Grimm, which resemble humanoid
sized ghosts from the torso up, their body fading into
tatters below the torso. Geists are black, with faces
resembling bony masks with Grimm markings and
a single yellow eye. Geists have bony protrusions
extending from their shoulders. Older Geists may ap-
pear more full bodied / less tattered than their younger
counterparts.
Geists have the unique ability to possess and con-
trol inorganic matter. Geists typically use this ability
in combat to form hulking, powerful, mech-like con-
structs constructed from nearby materials such as
boulders or trees, which they can pilot with surprising
speed and coordination.
Base Form
Stats:
Will: 3/4/5/5
Intuition: 3/4/4/5
Strength: 1/2/2/2 (+ -1/0/0/0 bonus to melee)
Reflexes: 4/5/6/7
Health: 1/2/2/2
Attacks:
Ghostly Swipe: 2d8/3d6/3d6/3d6 Range: Close/Close/
Close/Close
Movement: .9”/1.05”/1.1”/1.15”
Notes:
Ethereal: 
Geists float as if they were flying, and therefore pass
through range bands usually untraversable by the
player. Geists are also thin and nimble, and can navi-
gate quickly through narrow spaces.
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Possession:  Notes:
If found in their base form, Geists will typically attempt
to flee in order to possess a construct. Over a period
of 15 combat seconds, a Geist can possess objects
in its immediate environment to form a construct. In
this form, the Geist maintains its Will and Intuition, but
gains a new Strength determined by the materials that
it possesses. The Reflexes of the construct are equal
to the Reflexes of the Geist - 2 (Max 4).
Petra Gigas
A Petra Gigas is a possessed construct whose body,
four limbs, and head are formed from large boulders
or similar material. This stat block and its notes is
an example, and stats or other properties should be
modified depending on the materials the Geist is pos-
sessing. A Petra Gigas is approximately 30 - 50 feet in
height, with limbs ~20 feet long.
Will: -
Intuition: -
Strength: 11 (No bonus to melee [See Notes])
Reflexes: -
Health:
Head: 5
Body: 10
Right Arm: 5
Left Arm: 5
Right Leg: 5
Left Leg: 5
Attacks:
Smash: 1d10 Range: Close or Medium (0.5” AoE)
[See Notes]
Movement: 2”
Made of Stone: 
All damage done to the Petra Gigas is reduced by 10,
after mitigation from Defense Die.
Possession:
If the Geist suffers the destruction of a limb it may
possess a new limb as an action in addition to mak-
ing normal attacks, once per action phase. Geists
may eject themselves from their constructs as a
quick action, and when not possessing a construct,
may spend 15 seconds assembling a new construct.
During this period of time they will possess a new
body part every ~2 seconds, starting with the head
and body. 
Removing the Brain:
The Geist can be removed from its construct before
the head is destroyed. A character who somehow
grapples the mask of the Geist which protrudes from
the head of the construct can perform a contested
Strength roll (using the Strength of the base form of
the Geist) to eject the Geist from its construct.
Slow but Very Strong:
If the Petra Gigas’ attack does > 0 damage, add 50.
The Petra Gigas does not get a bonus to its attack roll
from its Strength.
Smart:
Geists of all ages are fairly intelligent Grimm, and
seem to fight using tactics one might expect of an an-
cient or adult Grimm in most other species. They are
particularly adept at using their environment to their
advantage, both in assembling their constructs and
making use of environmental features.
Smash:
Due to its impressive size, the Petra Gigas is able to
make its “Smash” attack at both Close and Medium
range without penalty.
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The Sum of Its Parts: Goliath
When attacking the Petra Gigas, an attack may be Description:
targeted to a specific body part. If an attack is target- Goliaths (and their cold adapted cousin, the Mego-
ed at the head, the Geist receives a Defense Dice liath) are large elephantine Grimm that are strong,
advance as long as it has any limbs, as it prioritizes resilient, intelligent, and often found in herds. Unlike
protecting this weak point. If unspecified, the part may many other Grimm, Goliaths older than adolescent will
be randomly determined. When a body part loses its typically avoid conflict with Huntsmen in the interest
health, it is destroyed.  of self preservation, making exception for what they
might perceive as prime opportunities for destruction.
As its body parts are destroyed, the Petra Gigas is Adult Goliaths are a little over 20 feet tall, while an-
impacted: cient, or “Alpha” Goliaths seem to range from ~35-60
• For each body part destroyed, the Petra Gigas feet.
suffers a Defense Dice regression. 
• If a limb is destroyed, the Petra Gigas may
melee attack only once, instead of the usual
twice, per 6 second period. 
• If the body is destroyed, the limbs are de-
stroyed as well.
• If a Petra Gigas has no limbs, it may not at-
tack.
• A Petra Gigas loses 1” of movement for each
missing leg.
• If the head is destroyed, the Geist is ejected
from the construct and assumes the stats and
behavior of its base form.

Stats:
Will: 2/3/3/4
Intuition: 3/4/5/5
Strength: 6/7/7/9 (+ 2/3/3/5 bonus to melee)
Reflexes: 2/2/2/2

Health: 8/12/22/45

Attacks:
Stomp, Gore: 3d8/4d8/4d8/5d10 Range: Close/Close/
Close/Close

Movement: .475”/.55”/.575”/.65”

Notes:
Natural Armor:
Reduce all damage done to the Goliath by 1/2/3/4

Variant: Megoliath: 
Megoliath are similar to Goliaths, but their appearance
more closely resembles a prehistoric mammoth than
a modern day elephant. Notably, Megoliaths have 2
sets of eyes and tusks, while Goliaths only have one
of each. Megoliaths are adapted to the cold and their
skin and bones are frozen over in patches of ice.
These Grimm take ½ damage from Ice type dam-
age and will never be hindered or damaged by cold
temperatures. Furthermore, Megoliaths get a bonus
of 1/1/1/1 to their Natural Armor, mitigating that much
more damage in addition to what their Goliath coun-
terpart would receive.
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Griffon
Description:
Griffons are large flying Grimm, with adults standing
about 10 feet tall on all fours. The Griffon’s body is
feline, though it sports large feathered wings, a bird-
like head, and intimidating talons. Like many other
Grimm, the Griffon has bony protrusions, particularly
on the top of its wings and around its tail, and a bony
faceplate. Adult Griffons are typically found in groups
of 4+, and to be as threatening as other Elite Grimm,
they should be encountered in groups of this size.
Stats:
Will: 2/2/3/3
Intuition: 2/2/3/3
Strength: 4/5/6/7 (+ 0/1/2/3 bonus to melee)
Reflexes: 2/2/3/3
Health: 8/16/25/30
Attacks:
Claws, Beak: 2d8/2d10/3d8/3d10 Range: Close/
Close/Close/Close
Movement: 1.2”/.1.275”/1.725”/1.8”
Notes:
Flying:
Griffons can fly, and therefore pass through range
bands usually untraversable by the player.
King Taijitu
Description:
The King Taijitu is a large Grimm resembling a snake
with a head on each end. One half black, and one
half white, these halves are both essentially intelli-
gent creatures that share a body and work together in
combat. An adult King Taijitu is about 4 feet wide and
120 feet long, with each head having fangs a few feet
in length. Despite their immense size, they are typi-
cally coiled, and not extended to their full length. The
bone protrusions and Grimm markings typically found
profusely on Grimm are relatively lacking on the King
Taijitu, found primarily on each head, with the bulk of
the King Taijitu composed of black or white scales.
Stats:
Will: 2/3/4/5
Intuition: 2/3/4/4
Strength: 4/6/7/7 (+ 0/2/3/3 bonus to melee)
Reflexes: 3/3/4/4
Health: 
Black Half: 10/15/20/25
White Half: 10/15/20/25
Attacks:
Fangs: 2d8/2d10/2d12/2d20 Range: Close/Close/
Close/Close
Movement: 0.85”/1”/1.25”/1.3”

Notes:
A Balance Between Two Halves:
The King Taijitu has two health bars, one for each half
of its body. When targeting the King Taijitu, a specific
half may be targeted. If one half of the King Taijutu
is defeated, the other half may fight on, though their
movement speed is reduced by 75% of its total, and
the King Taijitu can no longer counterattack twice, as
per “Two-pronged attack”. An attack that does AoE
damage to one of the Taijitu’s halves may not do dam-
age to the other half, at the Storyteller’s discretion.
Two-pronged Attack:
The King Taijitu attacks twice in a 6 second combat
round, as normal, but additionally may counterattack
twice.
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Leviathan
Description:
The Leviathan is a massive amphibious, primarily
aquatic, Grimm. Its head and tail vaguely resemble
that of a dolphin, while its body more closely resem-
bles a hulking lizard. The claws and feet of the Levi-
athan are webbed, as is the crest of large spines that
runs down its back. As with many other Grimm, the
Leviathan is covered in bony protrusions and sports
a Grimm marked mask of bone on its face.  While
Leviathan are hard to measure, ancient Leviathan’s
appear to be about 150-200 feet tall.
Stats:
Will: 2/2/2/2
Intuition: 2/2/2/2
Strength: 9/11/13/15 (No bonus to melee [See Notes])
Reflexes: 2/2/2/2
Health: 20/40/60/80
Attacks:
Energy Beam (damage type: fire and electric):
10d4/20d4/28d4/36d4 Range: Medium/Medium/Medi-
um/Medium [See Notes]
Claws: 1d8/1d10/1d12/1d12 Range: Medium/Medium/
Far/Far [See Notes]
Jaws: 1d8/1d10/1d12/1d12 Range: Close/Close/
Close/Close [See Notes]
Movement: .525”/.575”/.625”/.675”
Notes:
Claws and Jaws:
A Claws or Jaws attack can only be made once every
6 seconds. If the Leviathan does > 0 damage with
Claws, add 20/30/40/50. If the Leviathan does > 0
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damage with Jaws, add 40/60/80/100. A Jaws attack
can only be made on a target directly in front of where
the Leviathan is facing. A Claws attack counts as
being in its favored range from Close to Medium/Me-
dium/Far/Far range, due to the size of the Leviathan.
The Leviathan does not add its strength bonus to its
Claws or Jaws attack.
Energy Beam:
The Leviathan’s Energy Beam is a special attack. The
Leviathan may take any 3-5 consecutive seconds to
charge its energy beam - this charging will be appar-
ent to anyone watching - and then can fire the Energy
Beam for an amount of seconds equal to double the
time that they spent charging the attack. Anyone di-
rectly in the path of the beam must make an environ-
mental roll with a target number of 16 while anyone
in Close range must make an environmental roll with
a target number of 13. A failure will result in taking
the attack’s full damage, a partial failure, ½ damage,
a partial success, ¼ damage, and a full success, no
damage. Structures in the path of the beam are typi-
cally destroyed. The Leviathan moves slowly outside
of water, and can only be expected to adjust the path
of a beam being fired a small amount each second.
The Leviathan cannot perform any other attacks while
it is firing or charging its energy beam attack.
Firing My Laser:
The Energy Beam attack counts as in its favored
range in the medium to very far ranges.
Natural Armor:
All damage done to the Leviathan is reduced by 5.
Monstra
Description:
Monstra are truly gargantuan Grimm that resemble
sperm whales. While difficult to measure, the esti-
mated length of an ancient Monstra is 9000 feet; their
estimated height is 1000 feet, and they appear to be
about 750 feet wide at the head. Due to this colossal
size, Monstra are not typically harmed by convention-
al weapon attacks. Monstra are black, with huge bony
spines running down their backs in a mane, and scat-
tered bony plates along their sides. The skull of the
Monstra is translucent, and glows orange in a fashion
reminiscent of the Seer. At the base of the skull, the
Monstra has a long mouth, filled with several rows of
large incisors. Parallel to and behind the line of the
mouth, down the first half of the Monstra, there are 5
sets of ragged red fins, resembling the wings/fins of a
Sea Feilong, and ending in a bony tip. Monstra also
have a long red whale tail, which is made of a similar
material. While one might assume Monstra would be
waterbound, the species seems to be capable of sur-
viving in terrestrial environments: ancient Monstra are
known to assimilate colossal quantities of gravity Dust
onto their bodies, allowing them a ponderous form of
flight.
Stats:
Will: 3/3/4/5
Intuition: 2/3/3/3
Strength: 150/200/250/300 (No bonus to melee [See
Notes])
Reflexes: 2/2/2/2
Health: 120/170/200/250
Attacks:
Crush: [See Notes]
Bite: 20d20/25d20/30d20/40d20 Range: Close/Close/
Close/Close [See Notes]
Movement: 3.05”/4”/4.975”/5.925” [See Notes]
Notes:
Bite:
Monstra, being in possession of a mouth almost 1000
feet long and 100 feet tall in the ancient age catego-
ry, are capable of a fearsome bite attack. If a player
character ever finds themselves in the mouth of a
Monstra as it’s biting, instead of the normal attack
process, they should make a contested Reflexes roll
with the Monstra. A complete success from the player
indicates that the player completely avoids the attack.
A partial success from the player indicates that they

will only take 1/10 of the rolled damage, a partial fail-
ure 1/5, and a complete failure the full damage of the
attack. Monstra will typically not use this attack unless
they are aware of something inside their mouths.
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Monstra can be reached from within it, and the empty
space between the internals of the Monstra is so large
that they can be comfortably used as passages and
rooms by large parties.

Crush:
The Monstra seems more inclined to crush things
with its colossal mass rather than attack them more
traditionally. A neophyte Monstra crushing a character
should be treated as approximately equivalent to a
skyscraper crushing the character - and older age cat-
egories far exceed that. This is to say - the damage
that is dealt, and how it is avoided in such a situation
is entirely up to the discretion of the Storyteller based
on the environment and positioning of the Monstra
relative to the character.

Flying:
If a Monstra has assimilated a sufficient amount of
gravity Dust crystals onto its body, it gains the ability
to fly through the air in a controlled manner with the
use of its fins with a maximum height relative to its
weight and the amount of gravity Dust assimilated.

Grimm Liquid:
The Monstra has the ability to spew a torrent of
Grimm liquid from its mouth. Ancient Monstra have
the ability to spawn potentially 100s of Grimm at a
time, including any type of fodder Grimm, and some
elite Grimm such as the Apathy, Goliaths, Teryxes,
and Ursai.

Like Gnats:
Monstra, particularly larger Monstra, will typically not
notice human sized combatants attacking them. This,
combined with the cumbersome nature of their move-
ment, means the Monstra will almost never counterat-
tack.

Movement:
The size of the Monstra means that it is unlikely that
it will be represented on the battlemat in its entirety at
any point. Consider that in many situations, the move-
ment of the Monstra may be irrelevant (if for example,
the players are in or on it). The numbers supplied
here therefore are largely theoretical, especially since
it is unknown how the speed of the Monstra changes
in water.

Natural Armor:
All damage done to the Monstra is reduced by
25/30/40/50, due to the thickness of their massive
bodies.

Vast Internals:
Monstra are typically so large that characters can
actively explore, or even take up residence in their
interiors while the Monstra is alive. Squads of airships
are able to dock, board, and take off from an ancient
Monstra. While labyrinthine, all major parts of the
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Nevermore
Description:
Nevermores are avian Grimm that resemble large
black birds. In addition to a white bone mask, Never-
more have 4 glowing eyes, large talons, a fierce beak,
and two wings ending in finger-like claws. Nevermore
vary hugely in size and strength by age category, with
wingspans of approximately 4”/10”/40”/200”. Ancient
Nevermore grow to be larger than multiple large build-
ings.
Nuckelavee
Description:
The Nuckelavee is a single Grimm which resembles
a horse and its rider. The humanoid body resembles
a gaunt torso fused to the back of its steed, and has
large curved horns and exaggeratedly elongated arms
ending in claws. The equine body has a similarly ema-
ciated torso, which its ribs extend from. The back two
legs of the equine body are hooved, while the front
two are clawed. Both the horse and rider have sparse
bony protrusions, and a bone face mask with Grimm
markings.

Stats:
Will: 1/2/3/3
Intuition: 2/2/3/4
Strength: 1/4/6/12 (+ -1/0/2/8 bonus to melee)
Reflexes: 1/2/3/4

Health: 1/6/12/35

Attacks:
Beak, Talons: 1d4/3d6/6d6/3d20 Range: Close/Close/
Close/Close
Razor Sharp Feathers: -/2d12/3d12/4d12 Range: -/
Very Far/Very Far/Very Far

Movement: 0.675”/1.2”/1.725”/2.925”
Stats:
Will: 3/3/4/4
Notes:
Intuition: 3/3/3/4
Flying: 
Strength: 3/4/5/5 (+ 0/0/1/1 bonus to melee)
Nevermores can fly, and therefore pass through range
Reflexes: 3/3/3/4
bands usually untraversable by the player.
Health: 40/60/75/90
Variant: Cold Adapted: 
Some Nevermores, found in cold climates, are adapt-
ed to the cold. Their skin and bones are frozen over in Attacks:
patches of ice. These Grimm take ½ damage from Ice Stretchy Arms Swipe: 3d8/4d6/4d8/4d8 Range: Medi-
type damage and will never be hindered or damaged um/Medium/Medium/Medium
by cold temperatures. Stretchy Arms Spin: 3d6/3d6/3d8/3d10 (2” AoE, cen-
tered on self)
Hooves, Claws:  3d8/4d6/4d8/4d8 Range: Close/
Close/Close/Close

Movement: .5”/.525”/.575”/.675”

Notes:
Grapple:  Description:
If the Nuckelavee does > 5 damage with their Stretchy
Arms Swipe, the target of the attack becomes pinned.
When a target is pinned, the Nuckelavee cannot
perform any other action with the pinning arm, includ-
ing the Stretchy Arms Spin attack. While a charac-
ter is pinned, they count as paralyzed for any other
incoming attacks. Each combat second, a character
may make a contested check to break free, with a -1
penalty to their roll. Suggested roll consequences: A
complete victory will result in the character breaking
free, a partial victory will grant a cumulative +1 to
their next attempt, a partial failure will also grant a
cumulative +1 to their next attempt, but also result in
the pinned character taking 1d6 damage. A failure will
result in no effect.
Horse and Rider:
The Nuckelavee cannot perform actions or move-
ments with its humanoid and equine bodies simulta-
neously.
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Sea Feilong
The Sea Feilong is an aquatic Grimm resembling a
dragon, with a long skinny body and fins in a ridge
on its upper back as well as around its head and tail.
The Sea Feilong has a multitude of spikes running
down its long back, and has the bone mask typical of
most Grimm, as well as bony plating with red banding
running along its underbelly. An adult Sea Feilong is
about 100 feet long, though its body is only about 8
feet wide.
Sea Feilongs have large wings which unfurl from the
fins on their back which give them the ability to fly
through the air. The Sea Feilong attacks primarily by
shooting the Lightning Beam attack from its mouth.
Sea Feilongs are rarely seen outside of the deep
ocean.
Stats:
Will: 2/3/4/5
Intuition: 2/2/3/4
Strength: 3/5/8/11 (+ 0/1/4/7 bonus to melee)
Reflexes: 3/4/5/6
Health: 6/12/24/32
Attacks:
Lightning Beam (damage type: electric):
3d4/6d4/9d4/12d4 Range: Far/Far/Far/Far
Jaws, Lashing Tail: 2d6/2d10/3d10/3d12 Range:
Close/Close/Close/Close
Movement: .9”/1.2”/1.6”/2”
Notes:
Firing My Laser: 
The Lightning Beam attack counts as in its favored
range in the medium to very far ranges.
Flying: 
Sea Feilongs can fly, and therefore pass through
range bands usually untraversable by the player.
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Nimble Hunter:  Seer
Once every 6 combat seconds, when the Sea Feilong Description:
avoids half or more damage from an attack, they may Seers are strange Grimm that resemble floating crys-
freely move a distance equal to ½ of their movement. tal balls with slender, red tentacles hanging from them
like jellyfish. While Seers do not have a recognizable
Rushing Winds:  face, their crystal ball “head” is covered in plates of
As a quick action, the Sea Feilong may flap its wings bone and features a collar of bony spikes around its
and send a powerful gust of air at all targets within base. Seers exhibit strange and somewhat mysteri-
Far range in front of it. Each character should make a ous telepathic powers, as detailed in “Notes” below.
contested Strength roll against the Sea Feilong, and Ancient Seers have tentacles tipped in bony barbs,
for every 4 less they get than the Sea Feilong, they greatly increasing their attack power over Seers of the
are pushed in the direction of the gust of wind .1”. adult age category and lower who do not have these
barbs. Seers are about 4 feet tall from their crystal
balls to their tentacles, and typically float about 1 foot
off the ground.

Stats:
Will: 3/3/3/3
Intuition: 3/3/3/3
Strength: 2/3/3/3 (+ 0/0/0/0 bonus to melee)
Reflexes: 3/3/3/3

Health: 3/4/4/5

Attacks:
Tentacles: 4d4/4d4/4d4/6d6 Range: Close/Close/
Close/Close

Movement: .375”/.4”/.4”/.4”

Notes:
Floating:
Seers float above the ground, though they cannot
float upwards above the height of an average person.

Telepathic Communication:
Seers can uniquely be used as a means of communi-
cation. One Seer can be used to establish a long dis-
tance connection to another Seer (there is no known
limit to the distance of this connection), and parties on
either side may talk to and see each other. Based on
your setting, this may require the use of magic (which

may be the case in the canonical setting). Additionally,
magic may enhance the connection between a user
and a Seer, allowing them to control the Seer.
Telepathically Controlled:
In a rare instance where a Seer is being controlled by
another creature, the Will and Reflexes of the Seer in-
crease to the controller’s Will, up to a maximum of 5.
The Intuition of the Seer increases to the controller’s
Intuition, up to a maximum of 5.
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Silver-Eyed Warrior Grimm
NOTE: This entry contains spoilers for RWBY volume
8. Due to incomplete knowledge, this section contains
some unconfirmed extrapolation. This entry may not
be applicable in settings that diverge from canon.
Description:
Those born with Silver Eyes are said to be destined
to lead the life of a warrior - and it seems that desti-
ny often finds them, one way or another. Silver-Eyed
Warrior Grimm were once humanoid Silver-Eyed
Warriors, but have been fundamentally broken in both
body and mind and turned into the core of a powerful
and intelligent Grimm. The humanoid core is com-
pletely embedded within a body that resembles a
more traditional Grimm. In the world of Remnant, this
type of Grimm seems to have arisen through experi-
mentation by Salem, and they are completely under
Salem’s control.
Unlike most other Grimm, the Silver-eyed warrior
Grimm is highly intelligent, due to its still partially
intact humanoid mind. As a result, this class of Grimm
exhibits high levels of planning and self control. For
example, these Grimm have been seen patiently
stalking a party, understanding, and employing hos-
tage tactics - such as using a held person as a shield.
These Grimm, uniquely, are also capable of under-
standing speech and even some speech themselves.
Due to the artificial nature of the Silver-Eyed Warrior
Grimm, their bodies are very plastic - Grimm liquid
drips from them, and they have the ability to manifest
new appendages from this Grimm liquid at will, as
detailed in the notes below.
It is speculated that the specific abilities, and perhaps
even the physical forms these humanoid-derived
Grimm take are closely connected to the person serv-
ing as their core, and any innate abilities they may
have had. The example dictated below, The Hound, is
a Silver-Eyed Warrior Grimm with a fox or dog Faunus
Silver-Eyed Warrior at its core. Note that, due to their
artificial nature, Silver-Eyed Warrior Grimm do not
have multiple age categories.
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The Hound
Description:
The Hound usually resembles a large dog, and seems
to have a very fine ability to track people and objects
by their smell. At the Hound’s core is a Silver-Eyed
Faunus with the ears of a fox or dog - which is pre-
sumably the source of the Hound’s name, typical
form, and tracking ability. The Hound can move and
attack both quadrapedally and bipedally; its bone
plate covered snout presents a large mouth filled with
large canines, and a second mouth can be seen on
the top of its neck. A thick gangle of bony spines runs
in a disorganized mane down its upper back. Standing
on two legs, the Hound is approximately 8 feet tall. On
all fours, the Hound is about 6 feet tall, 3 feet wide,
and 8 feet long.
Silver-Eyed Core:
Due to the incorporation of some powers of the Light
God via the Silver-Eyed Warrior at the center of the
Hound, the Hound is resistant to the usual effects of
Silver Eyes on Grimm. The following effects apply
when evaluating the Hound’s health compared to a
Silver Eyes roll result:
Hound’s Health less than roll result, in Far range and
line of sight:
• Much of the Grimm coating of the Hound is
vaporized. Over the next 48 combat seconds,
it quickly reconstructs itself. During this time,
the Hound cannot attack and its movement is
reduced by three quarters.
Hound’s health less than or equal to 3 times the roll
result, in Very Far range and line of sight:
• Some of the Hound’s Grimm flesh is seared
away. Over the next 24 combat seconds, this
flesh quickly reconstructs itself. During this
time, the Hound cannot attack and its move-
ment is reduced by three quarters.

Hound’s health greater than 3 times the roll result,

within Very Far range and line of sight:
• The Hound is briefly stupefied by the incoming
blast of light. For the next 6 combat seconds,
the Hound cannot attack, and its movement is
reduced by three quarters.
Stats:
Will: 5 Tracker:
Intuition: 5 The Hound can track targets by scent as a dog would.
Strength: 6 (+ 2 bonus to melee) The Hound can easily follow a scent trail less than
Reflexes: 5 24 hours old, barring extreme weather conditions or
attempted concealment, and is able to follow older
Health: 65 scents with slightly more hesitation.

Attacks:
Claws, Jaws: 4d6 Range: Close or Medium [See
Notes]

Movement: .825”

Notes:
Blind:
The Hound is blind, and locates its targets through
smell and sound.

Grimm Liquid Body:

The Hound’s body is dripping with Grimm liquid. At
any time as a quick action the Hound may change
their body, adding or removing appendages made of
Grimm material including arms, legs, or wings. The
Hound will generally only do this when required or
obviously advantageous. The Hound is also capable
of using its elasticity to extend its reach during an at-
tack, and resultingly may use the Claws, Jaws attack
at a favored range of Medium as well as Close. The
Silver-Eyed warrior core is not malleable in this way.
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Sphinx
Description:
Sphinxes are huge, feline Grimm with large feath-
ery wings, a mane, and a white snake for a tail. The
Sphinx’s face is covered with a white bone mask
and its body is covered with sparse bone plating and
bony protrusions. Sphinxes have the ability to launch
fireballs from their mouths as a form of attack. Adult
Sphinxes are about 30 feet tall on all fours, about 50
feet long, and have a winspan of about 120 feet.

Stats:
Will: 2/3/4/5
Intuition: 3/3/3/4
Strength: 2/4/6/7 (+ 0/0/2/3 bonus to melee)
Reflexes: 2/2/3/4

Health: 15/30/45/60

Attacks:
Paws, Teeth: 2d6/2d8/3d8/4d6 Range: Close/Close/
Close/Close
Fireball (damage type: fire): 1d10/3d10/5d10/7d10
Range: Medium/Medium/Medium/Medium

Movement: .6”/.7125”/.9375”/1.275”

Notes:
Flying: 
Sphinxes can fly, and therefore pass through range
bands usually untraversable by the player.

Snake Tail: 
While in Close range, the sphinx can make a
1d8/1d10/1d12/2d8 attack in addition to its normal
attack action by striking with its snake tail.
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Sulfur Fish
NOTE: Due to the Sulfur Fish’s limited appearance in
the show, this section contains unconfirmed extrapo-
lation based on this Grimm’s concept art.
Description:
The Sulfur Fish is an insectile Grimm resembling a
silverfish. The Sulfur Fish is approximately one foot
tall and two feet long. They have 6 legs covered in
bone plate and a similarly armored back ending in
a 3 pronged fiery stinger. Their skull-like face mask
has horns protruding from the eye sockets and one
glowing eye peeking out of the nasal cavity. Sulfur
Fish are individually weak, but have the unique ability
to combine with other Sulfur Fish to create powerful
amalgations, as detailed on the following pages.
Stats:
Will: 1/2/2/2
Intuition: 1/2/2/3
Strength: 1/1/2/2 (+ -1/-1/0/0 bonus to melee)
Reflexes: 2/2/2/2
Health: 1/1/1/1
Attacks:
Searing Tail (damage type: fire): 1d6/2d4/2d4/2d4
Range: Close/Close/Close/Close
Movement: .4125”/.4875”/.525”/.5625”
Notes:
Heat Resistant:
The Sulfur Fish emanates heat, and takes ½ damage
from fire typed attacks. The Sulfur Fish will never be
hindered by heat or high temperatures.
Tactics and Transformations:
The individual Sulfur Fish is quite weak and avoids
conflicts it suspects it will not be able to win. Groups
of about 5-15 Sulfur Fish will attempt to swarm over
single targets. Uniquely, in sufficiently large numbers,
Sulfur Fish have the ability to combine, connecting
their bodies with many other Sulfur Fish in a highly
coordinated fashion to form an organized construct of
considerably greater strength. Two known transforma-
tions are described below, a group of approximately
50-100 Sulfur Fish will form Combination A, and a
group of approximately 100-150 Sulfur Fish will form
Combination B. Sulfur Fish prefer one single large
combination over a few smaller combinations of Sulfur
Fish.
Combination A
Description:
Typically composed of 50-100 Sulfur Fish, Combi-
nation A is the name given to a vaguely humanoid
amalgamation of Sulfur Fish. This construct consists
of a body and 4 limbs, with the fists/feet of each limb
consisting of about 8-12 Sulfur Fish, and the central
body consisting of about 30 tightly packed Sulfur Fish.
The tails of the Sulfur Fish intertwine to connect each
fist/foot with the central body, creating glowing orange
arms and legs. On two legs, this construct stands
about 5-6 feet tall.
Stats:
Will: 4
Intuition: 4
Strength: 5 (+ 1 bonus to melee)
Reflexes: 4
Health: [See Notes]
Attacks:
Punch, Kick: 3d8 Range: Close
Movement: 1”
Notes:
Health:
Combination A’s health is equal to the combined
health of the Sulfur Fish composing it.

Heat Resistant:
Combination A emanates heat, and takes ½ damage
from fire typed attacks. Combination A will never be
hindered by heat or high temperatures.
Made of Stingers and Claws:
The “skin” of Combination A is a living mesh of Sulfur
Fish, and while each one works to control the greater
whole, they also retain some ability to be an individual
unit, capable of attack. If a melee attack from Close
range made on Combination A does 0 or less damage
post-mitigation, the Sulfur Fish composing Combi-
nation A closest to the attacker will be able to take
advantage of this fumble, lashing out and dealing 1d4
fire typed damage which cannot be avoided.
Patchwork Construct:
As the construct takes damage, the Sulfur Fish
composing it will be killed. When the health of Com-
bination A is less than half of its original HP, the form
that the Sulfur Fish have taken cannot be consistently
held together and the majority of the remaining Sulfur
Fish composing the construct (equal to the number of
remaining HP) will scatter and attempt to flee. A few
younger Sulfur Fish may attempt to stay and fight.
Combination B
Description:
Typically composed of about 100-150 Sulfur Fish,
Combination B is an amalgamation of Sulfur Fish that
resembles a serpentine or draconic mouth and neck
emerging from the ground. The “skin” of Combination
B is mostly black Grimm flesh and bone plate - most
of the Sulfur Fishes’ tails are pointed inwards to form
a fiery core. The mouth is large and imposing, with the
legs of individual Sulfur Fish forming its “teeth”. Fully
extended, the length of the neck and mouth is approx-
imately 12 feet - the large mouth opens to a height of
about 4.5 feet.
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Stats:
Will: 4
Intuition: 4
Strength: 6 (+ 2 bonus to melee)
Reflexes: 4
Health: [See Notes]
Attacks:
Bite: 4d6 Range: Close
Fire Breath (damage type: fire): 3d8 Range: [See
Notes]
Movement: 1.05”
Notes:
Fire Breath:
During this attack, the heat generated by the Sulfur
Fishes’ tails at the core of Combination B lets loose,
and a 45° cone of fire extends from Combination B’s
mouth out to Medium range. This attack does not
suffer range penalties at Medium or Close range, but
cannot deal any damage to targets further away than
Medium range.
Health:
Combination B’s health is equal to the combined
health of the Sulfur Fish composing it.
Heat Resistant:
The Sulfur Fish emanates heat, and takes ½ damage
from fire typed attacks. The Sulfur Fish will never be
hindered by heat or high temperatures.
Made of Stingers and Claws:
The “skin” of Combination B is a living mesh of Sulfur
Fish, and while each one works to control the greater
whole, they also retain some ability to be an individual
unit, capable of attack. If a melee attack from Close
range made on Combination A does 0 or less damage
post-mitigation, the Sulfur Fish composing Combi-
nation B closest to the attacker will be able to take
advantage of this fumble, lashing out and dealing 1d4
fire typed damage which cannot be avoided.
Patchwork Construct:
As the construct takes damage, the Sulfur Fish
composing it will be killed. When the health of Com-
bination B is less than half of its original HP, the form
that the Sulfur Fish have taken cannot be consistently
held together and the majority of the remaining Sulfur
Fish composing the construct (equal to the number of
remaining HP) will scatter and attempt to flee. A few
younger Sulfur Fish may attempt to stay and fight.
Radiating Heat:
Such a high concentration of Sulfur Fish radiates a
dangerous level of heat. Each combat second, all
creatures in Close range of Combination B take 1d2
fire typed damage which cannot be avoided.
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Tempest
Description:
The Tempest is a massive jellyfish-like Grimm that is
capable of floating high in the air. The top of a Tem-
pest resembles a black bulbous cap, ringed with 8
equally spaced downward facing bony spikes. Below
the cap hangs a red flower-like mass, presumably
housing the mouth, from which hang 12 large red ten-
tacles. While hard to measure, an ancient Tempest,
from the bottom of the tentacles to the top of their cap,
seems to be capable of reaching lengths of about
500 feet. Notably, Tempests are capable of generat-
ing electrical current and channeling it through their
bodies. Due to their immense size, these currents
are capable of disturbing the atmosphere around the
Tempest and creating thunderstorm-like conditions.
Tempests seem to use this to their advantage as a
method of concealing their otherwise exceedingly
obvious presence.
Stats:
Will: 2/3/3/4
Intuition: 2/3/3/4
Strength: 8/10/11/12 (+ 4/6/7/8 bonus to melee)
Reflexes: 2/2/3/3
Health: 180/255/300/375
Attacks:
Tentacle: 5d4/8d4/10d4/12d4 Range: Close/Close/
Close/Close [See Notes]
Zap (damage type: electric): 5d4/8d4/10d4/12d4
Range: Close/Close/Close/Close (.5” AoE) [See
Notes]
Movement: .5”/.6”/.625”/.7”
Notes:
At This Time of Year, at This Time of Day, in This Part
of the Country, Localized Entirely Around the Tem-
pest?:
Tempests have the ability to generate swirling thunder
clouds around them as a side effect of their genera-
tion of electrical current, such that their bodies and the
surrounding sky are covered by cloudbank. Tempests
of all age ranges are typically found disguised in this
manner.
Death Grip:
When the Tempest grips an object with multiple ten-
tacles, its grip strength greatly increases. For each
tentacle grappling an object, increase the Tempest’s
bonus to melee by 0/1/1/1.
Floating:
Tempests are capable of floating to great heights,
typically found floating among the clouds. Within
Remnant’s atmosphere, there’s no known limit to the
heights they can reach.
Tentacle:
When a target receives >0 damage from the Tentacle
attack post-mitigation, have them make a contested
Reflexes roll against the Tempest. A complete suc-
cess by the Tempest means that the target becomes
grappled by the tentacle. On a partial success, the
Tempest achieves a loose grip - the target is grappled
but gets a +8 on attempts to break free in subsequent
turns. On a partial failure, the target is not grappled,
but tripped, and their movement in the next combat
second is reduced by half. On a complete failure, the
target is not grappled and there is no further effect.
If a target is being grappled by one of the Tempest’s
tentacles, they suffer the following effects:
• The target’s movement becomes [The target’s
maximum movement] / [Number of tentacles
being grappled with + 1].
• The target cannot move beyond Medium
range of the Tempest.
• The target suffers a minus to all attack rolls
equal to the number of Tentacles being grap-
pled with.
In order to break free of a Tentacle, a target must suc-
ceed in a contested Strength roll with the Tempest.
Zap:
This attack does not receive a melee attack bonus. If
targets are grappling with a tentacle, for each tentacle
the target is grappling with, add 3d4/5d4/7d4/8d4 to
the attack.

Teryx
Description:
Teryxes resemble raptors with large, red, membra-
nous wings. Adult Teryxes are about 30 feet long
from head to tail. Teryxes have a bone faceplate and
various bony protrusions, including a plume of bony
spines at the top of their head and a heavily spiked
tail. Adult Teryxes are typically found in groups of 4+,
and to be as threatening as other Elite Grimm, they
should be encountered in groups of this size.
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Ursa
Description:
The Ursa is a large, bear-like Grimm. Ursai are black,
with a bone faceplate, two glowing eyes, large claws,
and various patches of bone speckled across their
bodies. On all fours, an adult Ursa is about 12 feet
long, 5 feet across and 6 feet high. Ancient Ursai are
commonly referred to as “Ursa Major”.

Stats:
Will: 2/2/3/3
Intuition: 2/2/2/3
Strength: 5/7/8/9 (+ 1/3/4/5 bonus to melee)
Reflexes: 2/3/3/3

Health: 6/15/21/28

Attacks:
Claws, Teeth, Tail: 2d8/2d10/3d8/3d10 Range: Close/
Close/Close/Close

Movement: 1.275”/1.65”/1.8”/1.95”
Stats:
Notes: Will: 2/2/2/2
Flying:  Intuition: 2/2/3/4
Teryxes can fly, and therefore can easily travel Strength: 5/6/7/8 (+ 1/2/3/4 bonus to melee)
through range bands not usually traversible by play- Reflexes: 2/2/3/3
ers.
Health: 7/10/13/16
Variant: Cold Adapted: 
All Teryxes seen in the series so far are found in cold Attacks:
climates, and are adapted to the cold. Their skin and Claws, Teeth: 1d8/1d10/1d12/2d6 Range: Close/
bones are frozen over in patches of ice. These Grimm Close/Close/Close
take ½ damage from Ice type damage and will never
be hindered or damaged by cold temperatures.
Movement: .6375”/.675”/.8775”/.9375”
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Notes:  Wyvern
Slow but Strong:
If Claws, Teeth deals more than 0 damage post-miti-
gation, add 15/18/20/25 damage to the attack.
Variant: Cold Adapted:
Some Ursai, found in cold climates, are adapted to
the cold. Their fur and bony protrusions are frozen
over in patches of ice. These Grimm take ½ damage
from Ice type damage and will never be hindered or
damaged by cold temperatures.
Description:
The Wyvern is a colossal Grimm resembling a
wyvern, as the name suggests. The Wyvern has 2
translucent, red, bat-like wings tipped in bony claws,
and jagged spines running down its back and tipping
its back-leg claws and tail. The Wyvern’s mouth and
jawline, somewhat grotesquely, stretch past its skull
and down its neck. An ancient Wyvern on all fours is
about 60 feet tall, and about 200 feet long from head
to tail. Wyverns drip Grimm liquid from their bodies,
from which other Grimm spontaneously form.
Stats:
Will: 3/4/4/5
Intuition: 3/4/5/5
Strength: 6/9/12/15 (+ 2/5/8/11 bonus to melee)
Reflexes: 3/4/4/5
Health: 40/60/75/90
Attacks:
Massive Fangs, Massive Claws: 6d6/8d6/10d6/12d6
Range: Close/Close/Close/Close
Movement: 2.875”/3.1”/3.5”/4.2”
Flying: 
The Wyvern can fly, and therefore can easily travel
through range bands not usually traversible by play-
ers.
Grimm Liquid:
Every combat second the Wyvern is flying, a drop of
Grimm liquid, enough to form a puddle about 8 feet
across, falls from the Wyvern’s body. Upon landing,
this Grimm liquid can spawn 1-2 fodder Grimm, or 1
of the “smaller” Elite Grimm (such as an Ursa) at the
Storyteller’s discretion.
Natural Armor:
Reduce all damage done to the Wyvern by 1/2/2/2.

Robots
Used almost exclusively by the kingdom of Atlas,
these robots represent the cutting edge of military
technology, and are widely seen in a handful of stan-
dardized forms offering safety, security, and maintain-
ing order for civilians of all stripes; all without putting
human lives in danger.
The above description was definitely not provided by
the Atlesian military.
Robots are completely destroyed when they reach 0
health or lower. Analogously to Grimm, when a robot
reaches 50% of its health or lower, it should be shown
that the robot is damaged; this could potentially be
shown by major damage to the robot - it loses an arm
or a leg or similar. When the robot reaches 25% of
its health or lower, it should be shown that the robot
is heavily damaged; which might also be reflected
through a missing robotic limb, as appropriate.
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Atlesian Knight-200
Description: 
Atlesian Knights are a mass produced android unit
with a slender humanoid appearance. The Knight is
intended to replace the common footsoldier, police-
man, or any other rank and file military or peacekeep-
ing personnel. They, and their weapons, are primarily
white in color with black highlights. Atlesian Knights
are fairly intelligent machines, and while they respond
to orders coming from a centralized command center,
they are autonomously capable of carrying out com-
plex tasks such as driving, locking down and patrolling
areas, and holding enemies at bay. That being said,
they are no match for an experienced Huntsman, or
sufficiently powerful or numerous Grimm, and typically
need to be deployed in large numbers to be effective.
Stats:
Will: 3
Intuition: 2
Strength: 3 (+ 0 bonus to melee)
Reflexes: 2
Health: 1
Attacks:
Automatic Rifle: 2d4 Range: Medium
Arm Blades: 1d8 Range: Close
Movement: .4”
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Atlesian Paladin-290
Description:
The Atlesian Paladin is a fearsome machine capable
of heavy combat with Grimm and humanoids alike.
The Paladin is a hulking mech suit measuring about
20 feet high and 14 feet wide. Paladins are primarily
white in color, with black highlights. They are typically
controlled by a pilot from an interior cockpit, where
they have access to a variety of sensors and displays,
as well as full control of the robot - however, Paladins
can also operate and carry out simple tasks autono-
mously. Paladins are armed with a variety of heavy
weapons, including energy weapons and missiles.
Stats:
Will: 3
Intuition: 2
Strength: 10 (+ 6 bonus to melee)
Reflexes: 2
Health: 18
Attacks:
Retractable Fists: 3d8 Range: Close
Missile Pod Barrage: 6d4 Range: Medium (AoE 1.5”)
Energy Gun: 2d8 Range: Medium
Movement: .575”
Notes:
Heavily Armored:
Decrease all kinetic damage done to the Paladin by 4.
Heavy Ammo:
The Missile Pod Barrage attack can only be used
twice before the Paladin needs to resupply missiles.
Piloted:
If the pilot of a Paladin has a higher Will or Intuition
than the Paladin, increase the Paladin’s stats to
match the pilots. If the pilot has a Reflexes of 4 or
greater, increase the Paladin’s Reflexes up to the pi-
lots stat minus 2, up to a maximum of 4 total Reflexes
for the Paladin.
The Standard Humanoid Mook
The “standard humanoid mook” is intended to be a
quick statblock for general purpose use and modifi-
cation as appropriate. This statblock can be used as
a basis for White Fang goons, bandits, generic Atlas
military personnel, and so on. You should definitely
feel free to change this sample block as appropriate to
your story. For the mooks, you should allow reaching
0 HP to signify them being “knocked out” … unless
your players specify otherwise.
Huntsmen, and other named humanoid enemies,
should likely have their own sheet, including a weap-
on and possibly Semblance, instead of using these
stats.
The Standard Humanoid Mook
Description: 
These enemies represent rank and file enemies,
unnamed members of a group or organization that are
relatively unimportant. They are usually encountered
in groups of 6+, and do not have custom made weap-
ons, or Semblances. Insert your own flavor here!
Stats:
Will: 2 to 3
Intuition: 2 to 3
Strength: 2 to 3 (+ 0 bonus to melee)
Reflexes: 2
Health: 1
Example Attacks:
Automatic Gun/Rifle/Pistol: 2d4, Medium
Sword/Cleaver/Bladed Weapon: 1d8, Close
Fists: 1d6 + (Str - 3), Close
Movement: .35” - .425”

Notes:
Skills:
Consider that some mooks, especially those serving
in the military, might have a level or two in skills like
Weapon Training (Offense)!
Fun Things You Can Add To A Group Of Mooks
• A slightly tougher mook (4 Health, 3 Reflexes,
2d6 Damage…) who coordinates advanced
mook strategy
• Give one of them a rocket launcher (3d8, Far,
.5” AoE)
• Some of them use Dust ammo/crystals to aug-
ment their attacks
• One of them uses a smoke/stun grenade
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Making a Monster
As different areas of Remnant are explored, inevita-
bly new types of Grimm are encountered. Canonical
Grimm may be all your game needs, but you may
also occasionally want to invent new Grimm or Grimm
variants. Here’s some general advice for making your
own stat blocks:
• Look to existing statblocks for references for
stats/health/damage! The given Grimm stat-
blocks have had a good amount of effort put
into them to reflect how the stats of the Grimm
in the show might translate to this system.
Even if Grimm are not conceptually similar, it
may be good to ground yourself with a base-
line you can make changes to.
• You can expect an average player to do ~ 3.5
damage against an opponent with a Reflex-
es of 3. Keep this in mind whether you are
making fodder Grimm that you want to be one
shotted, or Grimm that you want a team of 4 to
take a few rounds to kill!
• For some Grimm, you may want to reinforce
that individual attacks do very little, and team-
work is required to take down the Grimm. A
good way to do this is with flat damage reduc-
tion (As on the Wyvern, Leviathan, Goliath,
etc.).
• Remember most Grimm are based on exist-
ing or mythical creatures - these are definitely
good things to reference for a base for a new
Grimm, especially for possible unique powers
or attacks.
• Tweaking an existing stat block can make it
feel unique - for example, adding wings to
Beringels, frozen variants to any number of
Grimm, or incorporating any of the mutations
seen on the island of Dr. Merlot can complete-
ly change how players approach combat with
existing Grimm.
Nearly all of this advice is applicable to new non-
Grimm enemies as well!
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Randomly Generating Hunts- More name examples: Aurora, Monsoon, Umbra, Ray,
Nyx, [Any tree], Aqua(marine), Mycel, Shale, Ochre.
men and Huntresses
This section is intended for Storytellers who realize Weapon
that wow they suddenly need 4 new distinct Hunts- Roll 1d100 once on each of the two tables below to
men and they sure didn’t prepare any.  determine what forms this Huntsman’s weapon will
have. These results can be single or dual wielded as
That being said, the primary and important NPCs you think is appropriate.
in your campaign, heroes and villains alike, should
probably be characters that you do create through the
normal character creation process, but if you need Table 9-A: Melee Weapon Forms
characters quickly, or just want inspiration, feel free to
use the tables below. Of course feel free to modify or Roll Their weapon form is...
override any rolls you get that you don’t like.
1 None! (Unarmed if rolled on both tables)
Name 2-11 One Handed Sword (Any Type)
Names are hard - but very important to RWBY. Below 12-15 One Handed Axe
is a table of name inspirations - roll on the table and
choose a related name that you like. Once you have 16-18 Mace
the name, you can describe the character’s outfit/ap- 19-20 Club/Bat
pearance to match. Last name is up to you to match
(and not always relevant anyways). Roll 1d20. 21-31 Two Handed Sword
32-36 Two Handed Axe
Table 8: Name Inspirations
37-41 Spear
41-42 Javelin
Roll First Name Based On...
1 A red color 43-47 Scythe
2 A green color 48-49 Kama
3 A blue color 50-57 Shield and (Reroll)
4 A yellow color 58-60 Hammer
5 A metal 61-64 Warhammer
6 Earth/mud/rock 65-66 Nunchucks
7 A gemstone 67-68 Whip
8 An animal 69-70 Trident
9 A flower 71-72 Gauntlet
10 Forests/trees 73-74 Arm Blades
11 Deserts 75-78 Bo Staff
12 Rivers 79-81 One Handed Staff
13 Clouds 82-84 Halberd
14 Rain 85-86 Flail
15 Snow 87-92 Dagger
16 Fire 93 Cattle Prod/Taser
17 A season 94 Fishing Rod
18 A fruit 95 Umbrella
19 A dessert 96 Chainsaw
20 A spice 97-98 Boots/Shoes
99-100 Reroll - add one more form!
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Table 9-B: Ranged Weapon Forms Extrapolate from or tweak these numbers as you see
appropriate.
Roll Their weapon form is... Now, roll 1d20 on Table 10 to determine an additional
1 None! (Unarmed if rolled on both special feature related to the character’s weapon.
tables)
2-13 Semi-automatic Pistol Table 10: Additional Weapon Features
14-19 Revolver
Roll Additionally...
20-24 Machine Pistol
1-3 +1 Weapon Training (Offense)
25-28 Submachine Gun
4-5 +1 Weapon Training (Guarding)
29-40 Assault Rifle
6-7 Exclusively uses Dust ammo/blades
41 Minigun
8 Imbued with a Water Dust crystal
42-52 Shotgun
9 Imbued with a Fire Dust crystal
53-57 Hunting Rifle
10 Imbued with an Electric Dust crystal
58-62 Sniper Rifle
11 Imbued with an Ice Dust crystal
63-66 Grenade Launcher
12 Imbued with a Rock Dust crystal
67-69 Rocket Launcher
13 Imbued with a Gravity OR Hard Light Dust
70-71 Flamethrower
crystal
72-75 Shortbow
14 Additional defense component - reroll
76-80 Longbow
15-19 Increase an attack by a die size/dice -
81-86 Crossbow reroll
87 Sling 20 Reroll twice
88-89 Bladed Boomerang
90-93 Throwing Knives
Stats
Roll 1d12 on Table 11 once per stat to see if that stat
94-96 Rope Dart should be modified from its baseline. All stats start at
97-98 Grappling Hook a baseline of 3.
99 Instrument
Table 11: Stat Modification
100 Reroll - add one more form!
Roll Stat Change
For base weapon damage, use the below damage
numbers and ranges as guidelines and feel free to 1-2 -1 to stat
tweak them higher or lower as desired.
3-5 No change
Melee: 6-9 +1 to stat
One handed weapon: 2d6, Close
Two handed weapon: 2d8, Close 10-12 +2 to stat

Ranged:
Bow: 1d12/1d10/2d6 (Depending on type), Medium/
Far (Depending on type)
SMG/AR/Machine Pistol: 3d4, Medium/Far
Sniper Rifle: 1d20, Very Far
Revolver: 1d10 + 1d4, Close/Medium
Shotgun: 4d4, Close
Rocket Launcher: 3d8, Far
Minigun: 6d4, Medium/Far
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Skills Table 13-B: Semblance Theme
Roll 1d12 twice on Table 12. For each result, increase
your character’s skill level in that stat by 1. All skills
Roll Semblance Theme
(except Weapon Training Offense/Guarding) start
at 0. Duplicate results will result in a skill level of 2. 1-2 Strength
Weapon Training (Offense) and Weapon Training
(Guarding) for all characters made in this system start 4-6 Speed/Travel
at 1, and are modified through Table 10, and is there-
7-8 Projections/Clones/Illusions
fore not included in Table 12. 
9-11 Aura Projection/Extension/Manipulation
Table 12: Skill Modification 12-14 Emotions/Psychological
15-17 Manipulating inorganic matter
Roll Skill 18 Protection
1-2 Acrobatics 19 Passive area effect
3 Deception 20 Special/Other (Glyphs, Marrow Armin’s
Semblance, Marcus Black’s Sem-
4 Gather Information blance… Reroll if tier is below A)
5 Intimidation
The relationships and beliefs your character may have
6-7 Notice
will be highly specific to your game, and so they are
8 Operate Vehicle left to you to outline if necessary.
9-10 Persuasion
11 Stealth
Aura
To calculate the Aura amount of your character mul-
12 Tracking tiply their Will by 16, and add it to their Intuition multi-
plied by 8. Now add 2d8, and then subtract 2d8.
Semblance
Roll twice, first 2d20 on table 13-A to determine a Movement
Semblance tier, and second 1d20 on Table 13-B to To calculate the movement of your character, use the
determine a theme for the power of the Semblance. movement formula provided in the core rules: 
Look back on what you rolled for your name for inspi- .5 + (Will + Strength + Intuition - 9) * .025 + (Reflexes
ration on the details of the power of your character’s - 3) * .075
Semblance!

Table 13-A: Semblance Tier

Roll Result Semblance Tier

1-7 Semblance Not
Unlocked
8-9 F
10-12 D
13-18 C
19-24 B
25-32 A
33-40 S
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Character Sheet
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definitely-not-a-rwby-rpg
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Sample Characters
These characters follow the same format as the sam-
ple character in the character creation section (which
is repeated here). Point totals for each section are
in bold next to the section name, and features which
cost points have the point cost denoted next to them
in parentheses. Explanations for point costs are also
included where necessary. Lastly, the final character
is shown transposed onto a character sheet.
Ruby Rose 
(As of her arrival to Beacon Academy)
Stats: +2
Will: 5 (+3)
Intuition: 2 (-1)
Strength: 2 (-1)
Reflexes: 4 (+1)
Movement: .575”
Aura: 105 (20d4 + 4d4 + 30 + 6)
Long Term Emotional Turmoil: 1
Short Term Emotional Turmoil: 0
Skills: +6
Acrobatics: 0
Deception: 0
Gather Information: 0
Intimidation: 0
Notice: 0
Operate Vehicle: 0
Persuasion: 1 (+1)
Stealth: 0
Tracking: 0
Weapon Training (Offense): 2 (+3)
Weapon Training (Guarding): 1 (+2 (already has one
defense advance from Reflexes 4))
Beliefs:
I have always wanted to be a hero. I will train hard at
Beacon Academy in order to hone my skills and be-
come a Huntress who can protect the people of Vale.
I’m coming into Beacon younger than everyone else! I
need to make friends, and fast!
Defining Issue:
I’m worried about fitting in. I need to become a good
team member and leader and make sure my team
can work together.
Relationships: (Assuming Weiss, Blake, and Yang are
the other player characters)
Summer Rose: My kind, scythe-wielding, Silver Eyed,
Huntress mother who I adored. She died mysteriously
on a mission while I was young and I’m still grappling
with the loss. Strong, Family (+1 Spark), Deceased
(+1 Spark), Caused Emotional Turmoil (by way of
immense grief in childhood)
Roman Torchwick: A flamboyant thief who seems
to be in charge of various operations stealing Dust
around the city. Strong, Enemies (+1 Spark).
Qrow Branwen: My drunk uncle. He was like a father
to me growing up and trained me to use my scythe.
He doesn’t like to talk about why he drinks. Moderate,
Family.
General Traits and Other Features: +4
Naive
Bubbly
Determined
Silver Eyes (+4)
Appearance:
Ruby is a young girl with Silver Eyes and medium
length, red tipped, black hair. Ruby wears a black skirt
with red trim and a red cape. She wears a belt that
holds miscellaneous ammo cartridges and features
her rose emblem as a buckle.
Weapon: +6
Name: Crescent Rose
Description: A large red and black bolt action sniper
rifle that can transform into a scythe.
Forms: Sniper Rifle, Scythe
Components: Double Pronged Blade (+1)
Dust Usage: Can use various types of Dust ammo in
order to shoot bullets that have a modified effect.
Attacks:
Sniper Shot: 1d20, Far(+3)
Scythe Swings: 2d6, Close
Double Pronged Blade: 2d4, Close
Storm of Blades: 2d6, Close, AoE .5” (+1)
Additional Notes: The sniper rifle can also be fired in
Scythe mode. A sniper scope folds out of the weapon
in this form, changing the range to Very Far. (+1)
Semblance: +5
Name: Petal Burst
Description: Ruby can transform herself and anything
touching her that she desires into a cloud of rose
petals which can then move at super speed in any
direction.
Tier: B (+5)
Lien Sums: 0
Total Points: 23
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Name Team Name
Ruby Rose RWBY
Portrait Appearance
Ruby is a young girl with silver eyes and medium length, red tipped, black hair. Ruby
has silver eyes and wears a black skirt with red trim and a red cape. She wears a belt
that holds miscellaneous ammo cartridges and features her rose emblem as a buckle.

Emblem General Traits and Other Features Race and Other Significant Body Modifications
Naive, Bubbly, Determined, Silver Human, N/A
Eyes

Beliefs:
Belief 1
I have always wanted to be a hero. I will train hard at
Beacon Academy in order to hone my skills and
become a huntress who can protect the people of
Vale.
Belief 2
I’m coming into Beacon younger than everyone else!
I need to make friends, and fast!
Relationships:
Summer Rose: My kind, scythe-wielding, silver eyed,
huntress mother who I adored. She died mysteriously
on a mission while I was young and I’m still grappling
with the loss. Strong, Family, Deceased, Caused
Emotional Turmoil (by way of immense grief in
childhood)
Roman Torchwick: A flamboyant thief who seems to
be in charge of various operations stealing Dust around
the city. Strong, Enemies.

Qrow Branwen: My drunk uncle, he was like a father to

Defining Issue
I’m worried about fitting in. I need to become a
good team member and leader and make sure my
team can work together.
me growing up and trained me to use my scythe. He
doesn’t like to talk about why he drinks. Moderate,
Family.

Statistics: Skills:
Will 5 Long Term Em. Turmoil 1 Acrobatics 0 Tracking 0
Intuition 2 Short Term Em. Turmoil 0 Deception 0 WT (Offense) 2
Strength 2 Aura 105 / 105 Gather Information 0 WT (Guarding) 0
Reflexes 4 Melee Attack Bonus +2 Intimidation 0
Ranged Attack Bonus +2 Notice 0
Metacurrency:
Defense Dice 1d10+1 Operate Vehicle 0
3 0 Movement .575 inches Persuasion 1
Sparks Hope Stealth 0
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Weapon Name
Crescent Rose
Weapon Portrait Weapon Description
A large red and black bolt action sniper rifle that can transform into a scythe.

Forms Attacks
Sniper Rifle, Scythe Name Damage Range/AoE
Components Sniper Shot 1d20 Far
Double Pronged Blade
Scythe Swings 2d6 Close
Dust Usage
Can use various types of Dust ammo in order to shoot bullets that havePronged
Double a modified
2d4effect.
Blade Close
Additional Notes
Storm of Blades 2d6 Close, 0.5" AoE
The sniper rifle can also be fired in Scythe mode. A sniper
scope folds out of the weapon in this form, changing the
range to Very Far

Semblance Name
Petal Burst

Semblance Description and Limitations

Ruby can transform herself and anything touching her that she desires into a cloud of rose petals which can
then move at super speed in any direction.

Dust Type Uses Injury Tracker: Notes, Possessions, etc.

/ Major Trauma:
>= [Strength + 12] and < [Strength + 27] damage past Aura
/
/ 3rd Level Injury:
>= [Strength + 6] and < [Strength + 12] damage past Aura
/
/ 2nd Level Injury:
>= [Strength + 3] and < [Strength + 6] damage past Aura
/
/ 1st Level Injury:
>= [Strength - 1] (Min 2)

/ damage past Aura

Note: The value of Strength used is the lesser between the character’s strength and 5.
/ Injury Details
/

Lien Sums:
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Weiss Schnee  General Traits and Other Features:
(As of her arrival to Beacon Academy) Proud, Haughty, Spoiled
Stats: +1
Will: 4 (+1) Appearance:
Intuition: 3 (+0) Weiss is a young heiress with blue eyes, pale skin,
and long white hair in an off center ponytail. Weiss
Strength: 2 (-1)
wears a white thigh length dress and a white bolero
Reflexes: 4 (+1) with red interior lining and the emblem of the SDC on
the back. Her outfit is gradated from white to light blue
Movement: .575” at the edges of her clothing.

Aura: 81 (16d4 + 6d4 + 24 + 9) Weapon: +3

Name: Myrtenaster
Long Term Emotional Turmoil: 1 Description: A silver rapier passed down through the
Short Term Emotional Turmoil: 0 Schnee family. The hilt features a revolver-like barrel
that can be loaded with various types of Dust.
Skills: +9 Forms: Rapier
Acrobatics: 1 (+1) Component: Revolving Dust Barrel in Hilt
Deception: 0
Gather Information: 0 Dust Usage: Expansive - see additional notes
Intimidation: 0
Notice: 0 Attacks:
Operate Vehicle: 0 Rapier Strikes: 2d6, Close
Persuasion: 0
Stealth: 0 Additional Notes: Myrtenmaster is designed to chan-
Tracking: 0 nel the Dust it holds to coordinate complex maneu-
Weapon Training (Offense): 2 (+3) vers with my Semblance, Glyphs. (+3)
Weapon Training (Guarding): 2 (+5 (already has one
defense advance from Reflexes 4)) Semblance: +10
Name: Glyphs
Beliefs: Description: Weiss possesses the uncommonly
I, as a truly exceptional and deserving individual, de- hereditary Semblance of the Schnee family, Glyphs.
serve to be the leader of the best team at Beacon. Glyphs have a wide variety of uses, a primary exam-
ple being for propulsion, to propel someone in a di-
While the SDC may have made some questionable rection, exert a force, or act as a platform. Glyphs can
choices in the past, ultimately the Faunus are a far also be used to summon ethereal forms of previously
worse party - and so I will continue to support the defeated enemies. These enemies must have posed
name of the SDC, and deride the Faunus, and partic- a significant challenge and will aid Weiss in combat. 
ularly the White Fang. 
Glyphs can be modified by the Dust in Myrtenaster to 
Defining Issue: create a variety of effects such as shooting projectiles
I want to make myself stand out. I want to be known of the Dust element, modifying the elements of friend-
as more than just another member of the influential ly projectiles, and even T I M E D I L A T I O N.
Schnee family. Tier: A (+10)

Relationships: (Assuming Ruby, Blake, and Yang are Lien Sums: +5

the other player characters) 5 Lien Sums (+5)
Winter Schnee: My older sister who works for the Atle- Used to purchase:
sian Military. She is my only real friend or ally from my Common Dust: 3.5 LS
family. Moderate, Family (+1 Spark) Ice Dust x8
Jacques Schnee: My cold, cruel, and manipulative Fire Dust x3
father. He’s wormed his way to the head of my family Electric Dust x2
and torn it apart. In other news, the SDC is more prof-
Wind Dust x1
itable than ever. Weak, Family (+1 Spark), Caused
Emotional Trauma (+1 Spark) by way of emotional
abuse. Rare Dust: 1.5 LS
Hard Light Dust x3
Total Points: 28
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Name Team Name
Weiss Schnee RWBY
Portrait Appearance
Weiss is a young heiress with blue eyes, pale skin, and long white hair in an off center
ponytail. Weiss wears a white thigh length dress and a white bolero with red interior
lining and the emblem of the SDC on the back. Her outfit is gradated from white to
light blue at the edges of her clothing.

Emblem General Traits and Other Features Race and Other Significant Body Modifications
Proud, Haughty, Spoiled Human, N/A

Beliefs: Relationships:
Belief 1
I, as a truly exceptional and deserving individual, Winter Schnee: My older sister who works for the Atlas
deserve to be the leader of the best team at Beacon. Military. She is my only real friend or ally from my
family. Moderate, Family

Jacques Schnee: My cold, cruel, and manipulative

father. He’s wormed his way to the head of my family
Belief 2 and torn it apart. In other news, the SDC is more
While the SDC may have made some questionable profitable than ever. Weak, Family, Caused Emotional
choices in the past, ultimately the Faunus are a far Trauma by way of emotional abuse.
worse party - and so I will continue to support the
name of the SDC, and deride the Faunus, and
particularly the White Fang.

Defining Issue
I want to make myself stand out. I want to be known
as more than just another member of the influential
Schnee family.

Statistics: Skills:
Will 4 Long Term Em. Turmoil 1 Acrobatics 1 Tracking 0
Intuition 3 Short Term Em. Turmoil 0 Deception 0 WT (Offense) 2
Strength 2 Aura 81 / 81 Gather Information 0 WT (Guarding) 2
Reflexes 4 Melee Attack Bonus +2 Intimidation 0
Ranged Attack Bonus +2 Notice 0
Metacurrency:
Defense Dice 1d10+2 Operate Vehicle 0
3 0 Movement .575 inches Persuasion 0
Sparks Hope Stealth 0
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Weapon Name
Myrtenaster
Weapon Portrait Weapon Description
A silver rapier passed down through the Schnee family. The hilt features a
revolver-like barrel that can be loaded with various types of Dust.

Forms Attacks
Rapier Name Damage Range/AoE
Components Rapier Strikes 2d6 Close
Revolving Dust Barrel in Hilt
Dust Usage
Expansive - see additional notes
Additional Notes
Myrtenmaster is designed to channel the Dust it holds to
coordinate complex maneuvers with my Semblance,
Glyphs.

Semblance Name
Glyphs

Semblance Description and Limitations

Weiss possesses the uncommonly hereditary Semblance of the Schnee family, Glyphs. Glyphs have a wide
variety of uses, a primary example being for propulsion, to propel someone in a direction, exert a force, or act
as a platform. Glyphs can also be used to summon ethereal forms of previously defeated enemies. These
enemies must have posed a significant challenge and will aid Weiss in combat.
Dust Type Uses Injury Tracker: Notes, Possessions, etc.
Ice Dust 160 / 160 Major Trauma:
>= [Strength + 12] and < [Strength + 27] damage past Aura
Fire Dust 60 / 60
Electric Dust 40 / 40 3rd Level Injury:
>= [Strength + 6] and < [Strength + 12] damage past Aura
Wind Dust 20 / 20
Hard Light Dust 30 / 30 2nd Level Injury:
>= [Strength + 3] and < [Strength + 6] damage past Aura
/
/ 1st Level Injury:
>= [Strength - 1] (Min 2)

/ damage past Aura

Note: The value of Strength used is the lesser between the character’s strength and 5.
/ Injury Details
/

Lien Sums: 0
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Blake Belladonna
(As of her arrival to Beacon Academy)
Stats: +5
Will: 4 (+1)
Intuition: 4 (+1)
Strength: 3 (+0)
Reflexes: 5 (+3)
Movement: .675”
Aura: 98 (16d4 + 8d4 + 24 + 12)
Long Term Emotional Turmoil: 1
Short Term Emotional Turmoil: 0
Skills: +9
Acrobatics: 2 (+3)
Deception: 0
Gather Information: 0
Intimidation: 0
Notice: 0
Operate Vehicle: 0
Persuasion: 0
Stealth: 1 (+1)
Tracking: 1 (+1)
Weapon Training (Offense): 1 (+1)
Weapon Training (Guard): 1 (+3 (already has two
defense advances from Reflexes 5))
Beliefs:
I am afraid to be myself. I can’t let people know that I
am a Faunus or a former member of the White Fang.
I cannot allow my friends or allies to be hurt. I will
always choose to run away from my problems rather
than put them in danger.
Defining Issue:
Your hopes have become my burden, I will find my
own liberation. I must create my own destiny and fight
for the rights of the Faunus, separate from the White
Fang.
Relationships: (Assuming Ruby, Weiss, and Yang are
the other player characters)
Adam Taurus: The leader of the Vale branch of the
White Fang. He is a spiteful manipulator who wants
nothing more than for Humans to kneel before the
Faunus. I worked for(?) him and was very close to him
for a long time. It took me a long time to realize that
what he was doing was wrong and leave him, due to
his extremely manipulative nature. Strong, Enemies
(+1 Spark), Caused 1 Emotional Turmoil (+1 Spark)
through manipulation and emotional abuse.
General Traits and Other Features: +1
Bookish
Reserved
Outspoken (specifically about the Faunus)
From Faunus:
Night Vision - Can see in near darkness/at night as in
daytime (+1)
Catlike Reflexes - Manifested by a Reflexes of 5, Ac-
robatics of 1 (Points counted in section)
Cat Ears - Intuition of 4 (Points counted in section)
Appearance:
Blake is a young Faunus with pale skin, golden eyes,
and long, wavy, black hair. Blake wears a black vest
with coattails over a white sleeveless cropped under-
shirt. Blake wears white shorts with black to purple
gradated stockings, and a black ribbon on her head,
which hides her black cat ears, her Faunus trait. Blake
has a black detached sleeve on her left arm, and
wears black ribbons wrapped around both forearms.
Weapon: +3
Name: Gambol Shroud
Description: A black sheathed katana which can be
wielded in one hand, or dual wielded with the sheath.
The katana can transform into what resembles a
kusarigama with a hooked blade, though instead of
the traditional chain, Blake uses the ribbon she keeps
wrapped around her arms. The kusarigama also fea-
tures an attached pistol.
Forms: Katana + Sheath, Kusarigama
Component: Pistol (+1)
Dust Usage: Gambol Shroud can be loaded with Dust
that will affect Blake’s Semblance, Shadow.
Attacks:
Katana and sheath dual wield 3d4, Close
Katana or sheathed blade 2d6, Close
Pistol/kusarigama, 2d6, Close
Pistol/kusarigama, 2d4, Close, .5 AoE (+1)
Pistol, 2d6, Medium
Additional Notes:
I’ve chosen to price the Sheath+Katana as one form,
given that dual wielding the sheath does not provide a
mechanical advantage.
Since the ribbon Blake uses has several potential
uses (swinging, throwing teammates, clotheslining
people etc.) Which are mechanically different from the
attack of the kusarigama, I have chosen to give it an
additional (+1).
Semblance: +5
Name: Shadow
Description: Blake’s Semblance allows her to create a
shadow clone at her location, and push herself in any
direction (~.5”). These clones, at base, have 1 HP and
last for one combat second.
When Gambol Shroud is loaded with Dust, the shad-
ow clones can take on properties of that Dust type.
For example, earth Dust for a solid clone, fire Dust for
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a fiery clone, ice Dust to create a clone that can freeze people who hit it, and so on.

Lien Sums: None

Total Points: 23
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Name Team Name
Blake Belladonna RWBY
Portrait Appearance
Blake is a young Faunus with pale skin, golden eyes, and long, wavy, black hair. Blake
wears a black vest with coattails over a white sleeveless cropped undershirt. Blake
wears white shorts with black to purple gradated stockings, and a black ribbon on
her head, which hides her black cat ears, her Faunus trait. Blake has a black detached
sleeve on her left arm, and wears black ribbons wrapped around both forearms.
Emblem General Traits and Other Features Race and Other Significant Body Modifications
Bookish, Reserved, Outspoken Cat Faunus: Night Vision, Catlike Reflexes -
(specifically about the Faunus) Manifested by increased Reflexes, Acrobatics.
Cat Ears - Intuition of 4
Beliefs: Relationships:
Belief 1
I am afraid to be myself. I can’t let people know that Adam Taurus: The leader of the Vale branch of the
I am a Faunus or a former member of the White White Fang. He is a spiteful manipulator who wants
Fang. nothing more than for the Humans to kneel before the
Faunus. I worked for(?) him and was very close to him
for a long time. It took me a long time to realize that
what he was doing was wrong and leave him, due to his
Belief 2 extremely manipulative nature. Strong, Enemies,
I cannot allow my friends or allies to be hurt. I will Caused 1 Emotional Turmoil through manipulation
always choose to run away from my problems rather and emotional abuse.
than put them in danger.

Defining Issue
Your hopes have become my burden, I will find my
own liberation. I must create my own destiny and
fight for the rights of the Faunus, separate from the
White Fang.

Statistics: Skills:
Will 4 Long Term Em. Turmoil 1 Acrobatics 2 Tracking 1
Intuition 4 Short Term Em. Turmoil 0 Deception 0 WT (Offense) 1
Strength 3 Aura 98 / 98 Gather Information 0 WT (Guarding) 1
Reflexes 5 Melee Attack Bonus +1 Intimidation 0
Ranged Attack Bonus +1 Notice 0
Metacurrency:
Defense Dice 1d12 + 2 Operate Vehicle 0
2 0 Movement .675 inches Persuasion 0
Sparks Hope Stealth 1
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Weapon Name
Gambol Shroud
Weapon Portrait Weapon Description
A black sheathed katana which can be wielded in one hand, or dual wielded with the
sheath. The katana can transform into a form resembling a kusarigama with a
hooked blade, though instead of the traditional chain, Blake uses the ribbon she
keeps wrapped around her arms. The kusarigama also features an attached pistol.
Forms Attacks
Katana+Sheath, Kusarigama Name Damage Range/AoE
Components Katana and sheath3d4
Dual Wield Close
Pistol
Katana or sheathed blade
2d6 Close
Dust Usage
Can be loaded with Dust that will affect Blake’s Semblance, Shadow.
Pistol/kusarigama2d6 Close
Additional Notes
Pistol/kusarigama2d4 Close, 0.5" AoE
Gambol Shroud's ribbon has many potential
non-traditional uses: swinging across a battlefield, throwing
Pistol 2d6 Medium
teammates, clotheslining people etc.

Semblance Name
Shadow

Semblance Description and Limitations

Blake’s Semblance allows her to create a shadow clone at her location, and push herself in any direction (~.5").
These clones, at base, have 1 HP and last for one second.

Dust Type Uses Injury Tracker: Notes, Possessions, etc.

/ Major Trauma:
>= [Strength + 12] and < [Strength + 27] damage past Aura
/
/ 3rd Level Injury:
>= [Strength + 6] and < [Strength + 12] damage past Aura
/
/ 2nd Level Injury:
>= [Strength + 3] and < [Strength + 6] damage past Aura
/
/ 1st Level Injury:
>= [Strength - 1] (Min 2)

/ damage past Aura

Note: The value of Strength used is the lesser between the character’s strength and 5.
/ Injury Details
/

Lien Sums:
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Yang Xiao Long
(As of her arrival to Beacon Academy)
Stats: +6
Will: 5 (+3)
Intuition: 3 (+0)
Strength: 5 (+3)
Reflexes: 3 (+0)
Movement: .6”
Aura: 102 (20d4 + 6d4 + 30 + 6)
Long Term Emotional Turmoil: 1
Short Term Emotional Turmoil: 0
Skills: +6
Acrobatics: 0
Deception: 0
Gather Information: 1 (+1)
Intimidation: 1 (+1)
Notice: 0
Operate Vehicle (Motorcycle): 1 (+1)
Persuasion: 0
Stealth: 0
Tracking: 0
Weapon Training (Offense): 2(+3)
Weapon Training (Guard): 0
Beliefs:
I’m a thrillseeker. I’m heading to Beacon to become a
Huntress because I want to find my next adventure.
I know my sister, Ruby, is a little awkward at the best
of times. I want to help her come out of her shell and
make friends.
Defining Issue:
My mom left my dad Taiyang when I was young and
I’ve been searching for information about her my
whole life. I need to find her and find out why she left,
though I will never let that search control me.
Relationships: (Assuming Ruby, Weiss, and Blake are
the other player characters)
Raven Branwen: My mom. Raven left our family when
I was very young. I need to know why she left. Strong,
Family(+1 Spark), Missing(+1 Spark), Caused 1 Emo-
tional Turmoil via longstanding abandonment issues.
Taiyang Xiao Long: My dad, an instructor at Signal
Academy who is definitely supportive yet often seem-
ingly distant. Maybe it has something to do with how
both of his former partners are dead or missing?
Weak, Family(+1 Spark)
Junior: A local mob boss who I recently had a scuffle
with in an attempt to track down my mom. He might
still do me a favor, with some convincing… Weak,
Enemies
General Traits and Other Features:
Extroverted
Blunt
Confident
Appearance:
Yang is a young, fair-skinned huntress with long,
bright golden hair and lilac eyes. Yang wears a tan
jacket over a yellow crop top, as well as a brown belt
with brown cloth hanging from the back half of it over
black shorts. Yang wears knee high boots and over
the knee orange socks, and black fingerless gloves
under her distinctive yellow gauntlets and weapon,
Ember Celica.
Weapon: +6
Name: Ember Celica
Description: A pair of yellow shotgun gauntlets that
Yang always wears. They can be used for shotgun
punching at close range with devastating effect, or to
launch explosive shells at a distance.
Forms: Shotgun Gauntlets
Component: Explosive Shells
Dust Usage: Dust ammo can be used.
Attacks:
Shotgun Blasts 4d4 (+3), Close
Explosive Shells 2d8 (+1), Medium
Additional Notes:
Because of the similarity to unarmed fighting, Yang’s
close range shotgun gauntlets blasts receive the
same [Strength Value - 3] bonus as unarmed fighting
(+2)
Semblance: +5
Name: Burn
Description: Yang can deal the damage she has been
dealt back to her opponent, twice as hard. Yang may
use her Semblance as an action to launch an attack
which does 2x the total damage Yang has taken in
the current fight. When she uses her Semblance, the
counter of damage she has taken during the fight
resets.
Tier: B(+5)
Lien: None
Total Points: 23
Total Cost for Team RWBY: 97, or an average of
24.25 per member
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Name Team Name
Yang Xiao Long RWBY
Portrait Appearance
Yang is a young, fair-skinned huntress with long, bright golden hair and lilac eyes.
Yang wears a tan jacket over a yellow crop top, as well as a brown belt with brown
cloth hanging from the back half of it over black shorts. Yang wears knee high boots
and over the knee orange socks, and black fingerless gloves under her distinctive
yellow gauntlets and weapon, Ember Celica.
Emblem General Traits and Other Features Race and Other Significant Body Modifications
Extroverted, Blunt, Confident Human, N/A

Beliefs: Relationships:
Belief 1
I’m a thrillseeker. I’m heading to Beacon to become Raven Branwen: My mom. Raven left our family when
a Huntress because I want to find my next I was very young. I need to know why she left. Strong,
adventure. Family, Missing, Caused 1 Emotional Turmoil via
longstanding abandonment issues.

Taiyang Xiao Long: My dad, an instructor at Signal

Belief 2 academy who is definitely supportive yet often
I know my sister, Ruby, is a little awkward at the seemingly distant. Maybe it has something to do with
best of times. I want to help her come out of her how both of his former partners are dead or missing?
shell and make friends. Weak, Family

Junior: A local mob boss who I recently had a scuffle

with in an attempt to track down my mom. He might
Defining Issue still do me a favor, with some convincing… Weak,
My mom left my dad Taiyang when I was young and Enemies
I’ve been searching for information about her my
whole life. I need to find her and find out why she
left, though I will never let that search control me.

Statistics: Skills:
Will 5 Long Term Em. Turmoil 1 Acrobatics 0 Tracking 0
Intuition 3 Short Term Em. Turmoil 0 Deception 0 WT (Offense) 2
Strength 5 Aura 102 / 102 Gather Information 1 WT (Guarding) 0
Reflexes 3 Melee Attack Bonus +5 Intimidation 1
Ranged Attack Bonus +2 Notice 0
Metacurrency:
Defense Dice 1d8 Operate Vehicle 1
3 0 Movement .6 inches Persuasion 0
Sparks Hope Stealth 0
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Weapon Name
Ember Celica
Weapon Portrait Weapon Description
A pair of yellow shotgun gauntlets that Yang always wears. They can be used for
shotgun punching at close range with devastating effect, or launch explosive shells at
a distance.

Forms Attacks
Shotgun Gauntlets Name Damage Range/AoE
Components Shotgun Blasts 4d4 Close
Explosive Shells
Explosive Shells 2d8 Medium
Dust Usage
Dust ammo can be used.
Additional Notes
Because of the similarity to unarmed fighting, Yang’s close
range shotgun gauntlets blasts receive the same [Strength
Value - 3] bonus as unarmed fighting (+2)

Semblance Name
Burn

Semblance Description and Limitations

Yang can deal the damage she has been dealt back to her opponent, twice as hard. Yang may use her Semblance
as an action to launch an attack which does 2x the total damage Yang has taken in the current fight. When she
uses her Semblance, the counter of damage she has taken during the fight resets.

Dust Type Uses Injury Tracker: Notes, Possessions, etc.

/ Major Trauma:
>= [Strength + 12] and < [Strength + 27] damage past Aura
Operate vehicle taken
/ for my motorcycle,
/ 3rd Level Injury: Bumblebee.
>= [Strength + 6] and < [Strength + 12] damage past Aura
/
/ 2nd Level Injury:
>= [Strength + 3] and < [Strength + 6] damage past Aura
/
/ 1st Level Injury:
>= [Strength - 1] (Min 2)

/ damage past Aura

Note: The value of Strength used is the lesser between the character’s strength and 5.
/ Injury Details
/

Lien Sums: 0
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Glossary
Action Phase: A phase consisting of 6 combat sec­
onds, where all combat actions take place
Action Tokens: Tokens used during the combat for
a player to declare whether they are going to attack,
move, setup, perform a quick action, or skip the plan­
ning phase
Atlas: One of the 4 Kingdoms in the world of Rem­
nant. Known for advanced technology and military
discipline
Attack: A combat action where a character solely fo­
cuses on attacking another character with their weap­ rewarded with metacurrency.
on or Semblance
Attack of Opportunity: An attack made automatically bat in order to send an opponents weapon flying out
by a character when their combat opponent moves
out of close range
Aura: A character unique manifestation of the soul.
Most commonly works like a shield to protect you from
harm
Break: When Aura is depleted. After this point,
the person is susceptible to physical harm,
and can no longer use their Semblance
Avoid: A reaction used to avoid incoming damage.
The two types of avoid actions are dodge and parry
Beacon: A Huntsman academy found in the world of
Remnant, on the continent of Vale
Beliefs: An actionable item a character has and they
are trying to achieve, or a philosophy that guides a
character’s actions. Completing or acting towards
these is rewarded with metacurrency.
Color Naming Rule: The naming convention which is
used for nearly all denizens of Remnant. Their name
must be a color, sound like a color, mean a color, or
make you think of a color.
Combat Second: The smallest unit of the action
phase in combat, where players declare and perform
actions. There are 6 combat seconds in an action
phase.
Components: Elements of a weapon that represent
new vectors for attack or defense, such as a bayonet
or shield
Contested Rolls: A type of roll made between two
entities with opposing goals to see who succeeds,
such as in grappling, persuasiding, or stealthing
Counter-attack: A reaction that allows players to
attempt to avoid damage entirely and inflict their own
in return by making their own attack roll. The highest Faunus: A demi human race with animalistic charac­
attack roll total is inflicted on its target
Damage Types: Represents the physical properties
of an attack. The damage types are fire, water, ice,
electric, and kinetic.
Defense Dice: Dice used in the avoid reaction to
reduce damage. Based primarily off of Reflexes
Defense Dice Chain: A progression of dice types that Grimm: Monsters which are attracted to negative
is traversed in order to determine a character’s De­
fense Dice: d2 > d4 > d6 > d8 > d10 > d12. A charac­
ter with a Reflexes of 3 starts at a d8 on this chain
Advance: Moving to a higher step on the
De­fense Dice Chain, for example, from d8
to d10 is one advance, and d8 to d12 is two
advances. Advancing past d12 starts another
Defense Dice at d2 - so 2 advances past d12
is d12 + d4
Regression: Moving to a lower step on the
Defense Dice Chain, for example, from d8 to
d6 is one regression, and d8 to d4 is two re­
gressions.
Defining Issue: A character’s main point of tension.
Similar to a belief but even more centrally important
to the character. Completing or acting towards this is
Disarming: A special attack that can be made in com­
of their hands
Dodge: An avoid reaction where damage is reduced
by Defense Dice
Dust: The primary energy source of Remnant. Used
to power technology and fuel weapons
Usage Points: How much a Dust crystal can
be used. Dust crystals start with 20 usage
points, and a typical use costs 4 usage points.
The Dust crystal is consumed at 0 usage
points
Emotional Outburst: A consequence of having too
much emotional turmoil. A character specific display
of stress
Emotional Turmoil: A measurement of the stress and
negativity a character is experiencing
Long Term: A form of emotional stress which
is harder to acquire and lasts longer
Short Term: A form of emotional stress which
is easier to acquire but lasts for a shorter peri­
od of time
Engaged: When two characters are within close
range of and have attacked each other. A character
leaving close range when two characters are engaged
results in the other character making an attack of
opportunity
Environmental Roll: A roll used to resolve a difficult
and uncertain situation presented by the world or en­
vironment. Uses Intuition, one other stat, and appro­
priate skills
Target Number: The number that an environ­
mental roll must meet or beat in order to suc-
ceed
teristics
Forms: Different mechanical functional appearances
a weapon can assume. Examples: Sword, Revolver,
Fishing Pole
General Traits: Adjectives which describe a charac­
ter. Playing to these is rewarded with metacurrency.
emotion. Humanity’s biggest threat.
Neophyte: The youngest and weakest age
group of Grimm

Adolescent: The second age category of a
Grimm
Adult: The third age category of a Grimm
Ancient: The fourth and final age category of Far: 3.0”-6.0”
a Grimm
Fodder: A class of Grimm that are easy to kill Reflexes: One of the four core statistics, used in the
and usually encountered in large numbers
Elite: A class of Grimm who are more threat­
ening and harder to kill than normal Grimm
- typically only one of a high age category is
encoun­tered at a time
Heavily Injured: When a Grimm’s HP is <
25% of its maximum.
Injured: When a Grimm’s HP is < 50% of its
maximum.
Holding Back: Intentionally reducing the damage
dealt from an attack by half.
Huntsman/Huntress: A profession in the world of
Remnant responsible for defending the average citi­
zen from the Grimm
Injury: The physical consequences of taking damage
with a broken Aura
Minor: A small injury, like scratches or cuts
Impactful: A moderate injury, like a twisted
ankle
Severe: A serious injury, like a broken rib
Major Trauma: A traumatic injury, such as a
severed limb
Intuition: One of the four core stats. Used for con­
tested and environmental rolls, and influences Aura
amount.
Lien: The unit of currency in Remnant
Lien Sums: An abstraction of Lien used in this sys­
tem as currency
Maiden: One of 4 canonical figures who have been
gifted magical powers. Their existence is typically kept
a secret, lest they be hunted or captured
Magic: Distinct from Semblances and Aura, a gift
given to humanity in the ancient past. Magic is rarely
seen in the present day
Metacurrency: A currency awarded to a player (and
not their character). Used to reward player behavior
that is dramatic, engaging, or drives the plot forward
Sparks: Used to reroll dice, add dice to rolls,
or mitigate damage
Hope: Used as points in character creation
Move: A combat action where a player moves up
to their movement speed on the battlemat/combat
space.
Parry: An avoid reaction where damage is reduced by
Defense Dice. Weapon Training (Guarding) is added
to this roll.
Planning Phase: A combat phase in a turn where all
sides discuss their course of action for 30 seconds
Point of Interest: Descriptors that can be used to
modify a relationship in character creation
Range Bands: A physical measurement of range.
Each attack has a range bands in which it is most
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effective, and suffers penalties outside of.
Close: 0.0” - 0.5”
Medium: 0.5”-3.0”
Very Far: Beyond 6.0”
avoid reaction to determine Defense Dice, as well as
to determine resolution order in combat
Relationships: The significant connections one char­
acter has with other NPC in the world
Remnant: The world in which RWBY is set
Semblance: The manifestation of Aura as a unique
power, ability, or effect.
Setup: A combat action where one character assists
another character in performing their own action, usu­
ally an attack
Silver Eyes: A rare genetic trait. Those with silver
eyes are said to be destined to lead the life of a war­
rior
Skills: The unique talents of a character. Contributes
to the die sum of contested and environmental rolls
when appropriate.
Statistics/Stats: Will, Intuition, Strength and Reflex­
es. Number values representing the rough physical
and mental profile of the character
Storyteller: The player who acts as the narrator of
the story
Strength: One of the four core statistics, used pri­
marily to modify melee attacks and for determining
injuries
Turn: A set of phases in combat. One planning phase
followed by two action phases
Un-parryable: An attack that cannot be avoided with
the parry action
Waterfalling Damage: When damage left over after
dispatching one enemy is transferred to another ene­
my in range of the attack
Will: One of the four core statistics, used primarily to
determine Aura amount