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PLAYER'S GUIDE
 CONTENTS
GETTING STARTED BUILDING BEACONS

0: Introduction 7 6: Ancestries 68

1: How to Play 8 7: Classes and Jobs 84

Core Principles 8 Aegis 86
Combat and Narrative Scenes 8 Alchemist 90
Structure of Play 8 Arsenal 94
Dice 9 Assassin 98
Attacks, Checks, and Saves 9 Berserker 102
Modifiers 9 Chronomancer 106
Demon Hunter 110
2: Anatomy of a Beacon 10 Demonologist 114
Character Creation 11 Dragon Rider 118
Levels 14 Druid 122
Attributes 14 Equinox 126
Abilities 16 Gravewalker 130
Resources 17 Gunslinger 134
Hexblade 138
3: Quests 19 Knightmare 142
Goal 19 Lifeweaver 146
Stakes 19 Paladin 150
Information 19 Phoenix 154
Rewards 20 Riftblade 158
Quest Stages 20 Rimeguard 162
Seeker 166
4: Narrative Play 22 Shadebinder 170
Skill Checks 23 Shadow Dancer 174
Narrative Actions 24 Shapeshifter 178
Downtime Activities 27 Skald 182
Skill Challenges 33 Thunderclaw 186
Tidecaller 190
5: Combat Play 41 Warden 194
Summary 41 Warlord 198
Phases 42
Turns 42 8: Talents 202
Actions 43
Characters and Objects 48 9: Basic Equipment and Techniques 216
Ability Checks and Saves 49
Targeting 49 APPENDICES
Attacks 51
Reroll Table 52 A: Shops and Supplies 224
Range, Reach, and Area of Effect 53
Movement 54 B: Loot 234
Environmental Factors 56
Adaptations 56 C: NPC Types 265
Terrain Features 57
Damage and Stress 58 D: Glossary 266
Conditions and Statuses 62
Tags 64 Index 272

Combat Quick Guide 274

Character Sheets 279

 SECTION 1
GETTING STARTED
0: INTRODUCTION
BEACON is a tabletop roleplaying game (TTRPG)
inspired by the high fantasy stories of the Final
Fantasy video games and the tactical gameplay
of the Lancer and Dungeons & Dragons 4th
Edition TTRPGs. High-action, tactical combat
scenes are at the core of BEACON, supported by
a streamlined and engaging narrative system
that lets you get to the action quickly. Create
unique and interesting characters, explore
fantastical worlds with your friends, and con-
front the deadly dangers and obstacles that
stand in your way!
A World of Your Own
In BEACON, you create your own unique setting
together, called a Reflection.
Games of BEACON take place in the Source,
a wellspring of endless potential and stories.
While the true nature of the Source is incom-
prehensibly complex, it is often represented
as a giant crystal with infinite facets. Each facet
is a different Reflection, and each Reflection
is a unique reality.
While there are infinite stories that can be
told within the Source, there are commonali-
ties across its facets. The following are true of
each Reflection:
Ø The world is filled with action and
adventure.
Ø All things are composed of aether, a
magical element that comes in many
varieties, including astral and lunar forms.
Ø Magic is widely available and has been
combined with technology to create
magitech devices.
Ø There are beacons – people who are
sources of great inspiration for others,
whether they are heroes or villains.
Ø There is a recurring threat to the Reflection
– the Scourge.
Ø Crystals hold some significance to the
Reflection or its inhabitants.
Ø Ruins dot the landscape, ready to be
explored.
The GM and players work together to define
the specific details of the Reflection in which
their game takes place, including its history,
peoples, and cultures. This process is detailed
in Chapter 10: Game Master’s Guide in the
full version of BEACON.
Two Modes of Play
BEACON features two modes of play – narrative
play and combat. While playing, you will move
between these two modes, which each have
their own unique set of rules.
During narrative play, you tell stories about
your characters and the world in which they
live. Narrative play is rules-light, allowing play-
ers to shape the narrative without getting
bogged down by mechanics.
In combat play, your characters – custom-
ized and equipped in countless ways – enter
battle. Combat play is tactical and rules-heavy,
with plenty of scope for unique builds and
playstyles.
You are a Beacon
Your characters in the game are known as
beacons. Beacons are powerful heroes who
help and inspire others. Every Reflection has
its own unique take on what beacons are and
what they do.
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 1: HOW TO PLAY
Getting Started
Participants in BEACON take on one of two roles: either
that of a player or that of the game master (GM).
The goal of all participants is to tell a shared story,
and to have fun doing so. Each player creates a sin-
gle player character (PC) – a heroic figure called a
“beacon” – and explores the game through that char-
acter’s story. The GM, on the other hand, controls all
of the non-player characters (NPCs), sets up combat
scenes, and helps shape the narrative.
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CORE PRINCIPLES
BEACON has six core principles:
1 The well-being and fun of the group, including both
the players and the GM, is the top priority.
2 Specific text takes precedent over general text.
3 BEACON does not model reality or real-life physics,
and is not meant to.
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4 Narrative play and combat play are distinct modes
of play. The ability to do something in one does not
automatically grant the ability to do it in the other.
5 In combat play, players can do anything their abilities
allow, even if it doesn’t make narrative sense.
6 Always round up to the nearest whole number.
GENERAL TEXT VS. SPECIFIC TEXT
General text includes basic rules of the game, such
as “The Fight action is used to make a melee or
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improvised weapon attack.”
Specific text is more granular or detailed than
general text. For example, the Slow tag specifies
that, “Abilities with this tag can only be activated
as part of Full Attack.” This means that a Slow
weapon can’t be used as part of the Fight action,
because the text of the Slow tag is more specific
than the text of the Fight action.
COMBAT AND
NARRATIVE SCENES
BEACON’s gameplay is split into scenes. A scene is a series
of events that focus on a person, place, or challenge. Each
scene is either a narrative scene or a combat scene, falling
under the rules of either combat play or narrative play.
The GM determines when one scene ends and an-
other begins, and whether the scenes are narrative or
combat. But anyone can suggest or request a scene,
and you are encouraged to do so.
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Combat scenes use the rules for combat play (p.
41). These scenes feature important fights and battles.
Not every fight is worthy of a combat scene; only those
that are important or tactically challenging move into
combat play. A simple street fight or barroom brawl,
for example, wouldn’t start a combat scene. A fight on
a crumbling bridge against a horde of demons, or a
climactic showdown with an archnemesis would be
worthy of a combat scene.
Example: An angry necromancer has performed a
ritual in a nearby cemetery, creating a continuous
stream of undead soldiers that attack nearby towns.
The beacons are asked to stop the necromancer and
break the ritual. The GM sets up a combat scene
with the beacons fighting in a misty cemetery
against undead hordes and a necromancer riding
an animated mausoleum!
Narrative scenes, on the other hand, use the rules for
narrative play (p. 22). Any scene that isn’t a combat
scene is considered a narrative scene. These scenes
involve challenges that are resolved by rolling dice
(called “skill checks”) or roleplaying. Small-scale fights
can even happen during narrative play, but these fights
are resolved just like any other challenge that happens
during narrative play, using skill checks and roleplaying
instead of the combat play rules.
Example: The beacons need to get to a floating
island and the only way to get there is with an airship.
They don’t have one, so they ask the GM for a scene
with the Artificer’s Guild. The GM sets up a scene in
which the beacons meet the guildmaster directly.
The beacons attempt to convince the guildmaster to
let them borrow an airship, using a mix of roleplaying
and skill checks to determine how successful their
attempts are.
STRUCTURE OF PLAY
The gameplay of BEACON revolves around quests.
Quests are missions, tasks, or jobs provided to the
beacons by the GM. Quests contain both combat and
narrative scenes, connecting them to tell stories. The
quests that your characters participate in form the body
of your campaign, which is the overarching story of
your characters.
For example, your group’s primary motivation might
be to defeat a great evil. In order to gain the strength,
allies, and resources to do so, they might need to
undertake a number of quests, preparing themselves
for the final showdown with their foe.
The time between quests uses the rules for narrative
play. During this time, the players collaboratively tell
their beacons’ stories and explore the world.
When the players are ready to begin a new quest,
they equip their beacons with abilities they’ve unlocked
that they think will best suit the upcoming quest and
the combat scenes within it.
When the beacons return from a quest, they level
up (p. 14) and become more powerful. This allows
them to combine abilities and equipment from multiple
classes (p. 84) to create unique playstyles and character
configurations.
DICE
During both narrative play and combat, players roll dice to
determine success, failure, and other interesting outcomes.
BEACON uses two types of dice: 20-sided dice (d20)
and 6-sided dice (d6). The rules sometimes call for a
d3, which can be represented with a d6. A result of 1–2
equals 1, 3–4 equals 2, and 5–6 equals 3.
A number in front of the type of die indicates how
many dice of that type to roll. 3d6 means you roll 3
six-sided dice.
ATTACKS, CHECKS, AND SAVES
There are three main types of dice rolls in BEACON:
attack rolls, checks, and saves. They each use a single
d20. Any time you’re making one of these rolls, roll a
d20 and add the appropriate modifiers to the result
– bonuses or penalties to the roll based on beneficial
or disadvantageous situations. The final result is your
total for the roll.
ATTACKS
Attacks are hostile actions taken against other characters
in combat play. They are usually made with weapons,
spells, or skills. When attacking, you add your beacon’s
Grit score to the roll. See Chapter 5: Combat Play (p.
41) for more information.
CHECKS
Checks are rolls to determine how successful chal-
lenging actions are. There are two types of checks that
you might make: skill checks and ability checks. To
make a check of either type, you roll a d20 and add any
relevant modifiers. To succeed, you need a total of 10
or more (after modifiers).
Skill checks are used in narrative play. If one of
a character’s background skills (p. 12) would be
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helpful for the roll they’re making, or they can invoke
their title (p. 11), they can get a bonus on to the
roll. See Chapter 4: Narrative Play (p. 22) for more
information.
Ability checks, by contrast, are used in combat play.
They use the character’s relevant ability score – Bulk,
Agility, Mind, or Magic – as a modifier (p. 49).
During combat play, characters sometimes need to
make contested checks. In a contested check, the two
relevant parties each roll an ability check. Whoever gets
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the highest total succeeds, with ties going to the one
who attacked or initiated the action.
SAVES
Saves are rolls made to resist effects during combat play.
Effects that prompt a save indicate which of the target’s
ability scores to use as a modifier. Each character has a
Save Target, which is the total their opponents must
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meet or exceed when rolling saves. When there is no
Save Target indicated, it defaults to 10.
MODIFIERS
There are three types of modifiers that can affect rolls,
increasing or decreasing their results:
Ø Accuracy ( )
Ø Difficulty ( )
Ø Static modifiers (+1, –4, etc.).
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Bonuses from your beacon’s ability scores and Grit
count as static modifiers.
ACCURACY AND DIFFICULTY
Various effects can apply Accuracy or Difficulty to a
d20 roll.
For each or , roll 1d6 and take the single highest
result out of the dice rolled. If rolling with , this number
is added to the total as a positive modifier. If rolling with
, it is subtracted from the total as a negative modifier.
For example, if you are rolling with 2 , you would roll
2d6 and keep the single highest result out of all the
dice. If you rolled a 2 and a 4, you would keep the 4.
Rolls can be affected by multiple instances of or
, although they cancel each other out on a one-to-
one basis. For example, a roll could receive 4 and 2 ;
however, the 2 would cancel out 2 , leaving the roll
with 2 . Always determine the final amount of or
before rolling any dice.
An individual roll can’t benefit from more than 6 or .
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 2: ANATOMY OF A BEACON
Getting Started
This chapter walks through the steps of creating a
character and outlines the various components that
define them.
In BEACON, the characters created and portrayed
by the players are special individuals known as “bea-
cons”. They are called this because of the way they act
like shining lights to others. There is no one way that
beacons act or conduct themselves; no matter what,
they always find themselves in positions where they
can inspire or help others.
2: Anatomy of a Beacon
The precise characteristics that make someone a
beacon differ between Reflections. In one Reflection,
beacons might be mystically empowered individuals
born under a strange star. In another, they might be
students with an abundance of charisma.
Building Beacons
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Beacons don’t need a reason to be special in your
game. The fact they are controlled by a player already
makes them special, and grants them the opportunity
to influence and change the story as it’s told. Your game
could be about a band of heroes destined to save the
world, or it could be about a found family, fighting to
keep itself safe.
The only constant across all Reflections is that bea-
cons inspire people around them. Even those who are
cowardly or timid have the potential and opportunity,
as a group, to give hope to others.
Chapter 10: Game Master’s Guide in the full version
of BEACON details some example Reflections and the
roles of beacons within them.
CHARACTER CREATION
This section will guide you through the steps of cre-
ating a beacon.
Every beacon has a character level (p. 14). Char-
acter levels represent the overall growth and power
of a beacon. Higher-level beacons have more abilities
available to them, and can therefore handle a wider
variety of situations.
Your beacon begins at character level 1. At level
1, they have:
Ø a name and a title
Ø three rank 1 background skills (p. 12)
Ø 2 ability points (p. 12)
Ø three rank 1 talents (p. 13)
Ø an ancestry (p. 13)
Ø one class rank (p. 13)
Ø access to all basic equipment and techniques (p. 13)
Ø an appearance (p. 13).
Once you have finished these steps, you will determine
your beacon’s attributes, which are values used in com-
bat play (p. 14).
NAME
Choose a name for your beacon.
Beacons can have any sort of name, from the mundane
to the grandiose. Alternatively, you can decide this later.
You might not have an idea for a name yet, but might
think of one after picking your background skills or an-
cestry. There are also plenty of random name generators
online that you can use for inspiration.
Example: Shawn is creating her first beacon. She likes
the name Dhalia, so she uses it for her character.
TITLE
Choose a title for your beacon.
When the stories of your character and their fellow
beacons become legend, how will they be remembered?
What will they be called when their name falls into
obscurity and all that survives is their deeds?
People recognize your beacon by this title, even if
they don’t know their name. Titles can reference any-
thing from a fighting style to a physical trait or even
an aesthetic.
Example titles: The Green Knight, the Herald of
Silence, the Bosstown Bludgeon, Moonfang, the
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Timeless Bard.
Whenever you make a skill check during narrative play,
you can invoke your beacon’s title before rolling to gain
a +2 bonus. To invoke a title, the action in question must
be something that contributes to the legend of your
character’s title. Think of a story being told about your
beacon, their name lost to history and only their title
remaining. Would this make it into the story?
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Example: Shawn likes the idea of playing someone
smart; a knowledge-seeker. She gives Dhalia the
title of “the All-Knowing”. Shawn can invoke this
title when doing something that contributes to the
legacy of “the All-Knowing” beacon. For example,
if Dhalia is making a skill check to piece together
the conspiracy behind the Day of Shadows, she can
invoke her title to gain a +2 bonus to the roll. If Dhalia
is making a skill check to climb a mountain, on the
other hand, being all-knowing is less likely to be
helpful, and couldn’t be invoked.
The GM decides whether a title can be invoked or not.
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Players are encouraged to find creative explanations
for why a beacon’s title might apply, but they’re not
meant to be used in every situation.
If you find that your title is too easy to invoke, con-
sider rephrasing it to limit its scope.
Example: Delmar’s beacon is Dmitri, “the Demigod”.
After playing a few sessions, he realizes that “the
Demigod” can be invoked in every situation.
Delmar rephrases the title as “the Demigod of
Determination”, which puts some limits on when
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it can be invoked.
WRITING YOUR LEGEND
One way you can use titles is as a way of documenting
the legend of your beacon. Whenever you invoke their
title, write down what it was being used for and what
the outcome was. When you’re finished playing that
character, look over everything that was written down.
This is the foundation for the legends told about your
beacon for generations to come.
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 BACKGROUND SKILLS
Getting Started
At level 1, create three rank 1 background skills.
Background skills are words or brief phrases that
represent a beacon’s history and training, and provide
bonuses to skill checks. Background skills have three
ranks. When you make a skill check in narrative play and
one of your background skills is relevant, you get +1
on your roll for each rank you have in that skill. Each
skill check can only benefit from one background skill,
which must be decided before rolling.
Background skills can be anything, so make sure
2: Anatomy of a Beacon
they’re evocative. Instead of just “Acrobat”, make it
something interesting like, “Acrobat Performer for
the Demon Circus”.
Example background skills: Will of the Source, Troll-
Wrestling Champion, An Eye for Lies, Royal Assassin.
When creating a background skill, think about what
situations it might be relevant in. If it seems like it would
apply to every skill check you might make, you should
narrow its focus more.
Every time your beacon levels up they get a back-
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ground skill point. These points can be used to either
increase the rank of an existing background skill (to
a maximum of rank 3), or create a new background
skill at rank 1.
Example: Shawn creates a background skill
“Truthseeker” for Dhalia. This can be used any time
Dhalia is trying to learn the truth about something,
whether researching in books or detecting lies.
Shawn also thinks that Dhalia should know light-
based magic, so she creates the background skill
“Disciple of the Sun”, which would apply whenever
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she uses magic.
Finally, Shawn creates the background skill
“Multipurpose Clothing” because she likes the idea
of Dhalia having clothes with secondary benefits,
like a cloak that can be used as a paraglider. She
would apply this background skill whenever she can
think of a fun way to solve a problem with clothes.
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ABILITY SCORES
At level 1, assign 2 ability points.
Your beacon has four ability scores that affect their
attributes and actions in combat play:
Ø Bulk Ø Mind
Ø Agility Ø Magic
Ability scores range from +0 to +6, and give bonuses
in combat play. By default, they start at +0.
Each ability score also provides bonuses to some of
your character’s other attributes (p. 14). For example,
Agility affects the character’s Dodge and Speed.
Assigning an ability point to an ability score increases
it by +1. At level 1, this means you can have two ability
scores at +1 each, or one ability score at +2.
Bulk
Bulk determines how tough and sturdy a character is
in combat. You gain:
Ø +2 HP for every point of Bulk
Ø +1 Recovery for every two points of Bulk
Agility
Agility determines how fast and evasive a character
is in combat. You gain:
Ø +1 Dodge for every point of Agility
Ø +1 Speed for every two points of Agility
Mind
Mind determines how much mental strain a character
can handle, and how well they can remember their
training in combat. You gain:
Ø +1 Stress Cap for every point of Mind
Ø +1 Memory for every two points of Mind
Magic
Magic determines how magically adept a character is
in combat. You gain:
Ø +1 Aetheric Defense (A-Def) for every point of
Magic
Ø +1 MP for every two points of Magic
Example: Shawn wants Dhalia to be a spellcaster
with a variety of spells, so she assigns 1 ability point
to Mind and 1 to Magic.
Delmar wants Dmitri to be as tough as possible,
so he assigns 2 ability points to Bulk.
TALENTS
At level 1, choose three rank 1 talents. See p. 202
for the full list of talents and their abilities.
While many of the abilities available to beacons are tied
to their class (see below), talents are sets of abilities that
can be acquired by any beacon and that don’t need to
be equipped. Once your beacon has learned a talent,
they will always have access to any abilities unlocked
by their ranks in that talent.
Each talent has three ranks, each with its own ability.
When your beacon first gains a talent, they get access
to it at rank 1. If you assign additional points to that
talent, you can get that talent’s rank 2 and eventually
its rank 3 ability.
Beacons gain additional talents and can even change
their talent choices when they level up (p. 14).
Example: Shawn wants to pick magical-sounding
talents for Dhalia. She picks the Archmage,
Enchanter, and Leyline Walker talents because they
sound like they will assist with magic. She doesn’t
spend much time reviewing all the options because
she knows she can change them later.
Delmar, on the other hand, carefully reviews all
the talents before making his decision. He chooses
the Brawler talent because it enhances unarmed
combat and he wants Dmitri to fight with his fists.
He also wants to protect his allies, so he picks the
Knight talent. Finally, he wants Dmitri to be highly
mobile, so he chooses the Traceur talent.
ANCESTRY
Choose an ancestry. See p. 68 for the full list of
ancestries.
Your beacon’s ancestry describes their heritage or species.
Ancestry determines a beacon’s Size and gives access to a
list of ancestry traits. Whenever your character goes on a
quest, they can choose to equip one of their ancestry traits.
Ancestries can also be used as collections of common
traits, rather than literal descriptions of how characters
look or act. For example, the avian ancestry allows for
flight, but an avian character doesn’t have to be a literal
bird-person; maybe they’re a human that comes from
a culture where jetpacks are common.
Example: The elves in Shawn’s favorite stories are
known for being magically gifted, so she plans on
making Dhalia an elf. She reads the elf ancestry traits
and likes the Elven Accuracy one. She doesn’t need
to pick a trait until Dhalia goes on a quest, but she
knows she’ll probably use Elven Accuracy.
CLASS
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At level 1, choose 1 rank in any class. See p. 84 for
the full list of available classes.
Classes represent specialized approaches to combat, like
a Thunderclaw’s electrical fighting style or a Phoenix’s
burning spells. Classes unlock equipment and abilities
that beacons can equip for quests.
Each class has three ranks, with each rank unlocking
additional equipment and abilities.
As they level up, beacons gain ranks in multiple classes.
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The equipment, techniques, and jobs they unlock can be
mixed and matched in a huge number of combinations.
Job
Each class also provides a job unique to that class. Jobs
provide the starting values for a beacon’s attributes (p.
14) and their equipment slots (p. 16). A class’s job
is unlocked upon reaching rank 1 in that class.
Every job also has a limit break – a powerful,
scene-changing ability unique to that class. Your bea-
con can only perform one limit break per quest. If you
use a limit break from one job and later change jobs
within the same quest, you don’t get to use the new
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job’s limit break – you’ve already used your one limit
break for that quest. Beacons regain the ability to use
a limit break after a Long Rest (p. 61).
Example: Shawn picks the Equinox class for Dhalia,
gaining the Equinox job and unlocking the rank 1
Exobomb and Scar spells. She likes that the class
focuses on long-distance spell attacks, as well as the
description mentioning sun aether, which connects
to her background skill “Disciple of the Sun”.
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BASIC EQUIPMENT AND TECHNIQUES
All beacons have access to a wide array of weapons,
support items, skills, and spells that they can equip
right from the very beginning. They aren’t limited to
equipping only abilities from their current job.
You can find this standard gear in Chapter 9: Basic
Equipment and Techniques (p. 216). You don’t need
to choose any until you’re ready to go on a quest, but
you might want to look at them now to get a feel for
what’s available.
APPEARANCE
The last step in creating your beacon is deciding their
appearance – what they, their equipment, and their
abilities look like. It’s totally up to you – you can describe
them any way you want, regardless of the art and flavor
text in this book.
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 The only limitation is that your description can’t grant
mechanical benefits in combat play. You can’t give your
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character see-through skin and argue they should always
be invisible. Beyond that restriction, describe whatever you
want: Give your beacon wings that let them fly around
during narrative play. Let them move around the world in
a wheelchair. Have them wield weapons made of solid
ice. Describe a photon axe as a greatsword.
Describe the character you see yourself playing. The
information in this book is just intended to provide in-
spiration – it isn’t absolute truth. There are infinite worlds
in which your story can take place. Anything is possible.
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Example: Shawn finishes character creation by
deciding that Dhalia is a pale elf with long dark hair
and golden eyes. Her spells flash with bright light
when used, their color and luminosity changing
depending on her emotions. With that, she’s ready
to begin playing!
LEVELS
Each beacon has a character level, which represents
their overall growth and strength.
Whenever you finish a quest, whether you were
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successful or not, your beacon gains another character
level. This is called leveling up. The maximum character
level for beacons is 12.
LEVELING UP
Whenever your beacon gains a character level, they gain:
Ø 1 rank in a new or existing class
Ø 1 ability point
Ø 1 background skill point
Ø 1 talent rank or a new rank 1 talent
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GRIT
Grit represents the combat experience that beacons
gain when they increase their character level.
Starting at character level 2 and then at every second
level after that (i.e., levels 4, 6, 8, etc.), beacons gain +1
Grit. Grit is a passive bonus that applies to several other
attributes. Each point of Grit provides the following:
Ø +1 HP Ø +1 to all attack rolls
Ø +1 Save Target Ø +1 Memory
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CHANGING CHOICES
Whenever your beacon gains a level, you may do one
or both of the following:
Ø Reassign any number of ranks from one talent to
another.
Ø Reassign any number of ranks from one class to
another.
ATTRIBUTES
In addition to their talents, background skills, and so
on, beacons have several attributes that are used in
combat play. They are determined by a character’s level,
job, ancestry, talents, ability scores, and equipped gear
and techniques.
SIZE
Size determines how many spaces a character (or
object) takes up on a grid and how they interact with
cover. Chapter 5: Combat Play (p. 41) covers how
this works in greater detail. In an abstract sense, Size
represents how much space or control a character exerts
on the battlefield; it does not indicate exactly how tall
or how heavy they are.
Size 1/2 and Size 1 characters both occupy 1 space,
Size 2 characters occupy an area of 2 x 2 spaces, and
Size 3 characters occupy an area of 3 x 3 spaces.
SIZE SIZE
1/2 1
SIZE
2
SIZE
3
Beacons can be anywhere between Size 1/2 and Size
3. This is determined by their ancestry.
SCOPE
Scope is the maximum number of grid spaces within
which a character can detect Hidden characters, attack
with spells, and use certain other abilities.
ARMOR
Armor reduces incoming damage by an amount equal
to its value. Armor does not affect Discord, which is
a nonstandard damage type, or Stress, which is not
considered damage.
Characters cannot have more than 4 Armor.
SAVE TARGET
When one character forces another to make a save, the
character making the save must equal or exceed the
initiating character’s Save Target to succeed.
HP AND WOUNDS
Every character has a pool of hit points (HP). Points
are subtracted from this pool when they take damage.
Characters have a Bloodied value, which is half of
their maximum HP (rounded up). When a character’s
current HP is equal to or less than their Bloodied value,
they are considered Bloodied (p. 63).
When a character reaches 0 HP, they take a Wound.
When they take a Wound, their player resets their HP,
carrying over any excess damage, and makes a wound
roll to see what additional penalties they suffer. Bea-
cons are taken out of a fight when they accumulate 4
Wounds. This is known as their Wound Cap.
See Chapter 5: Combat Play (p. 41) for additional
information on HP, and Wounds and Overstress (p.
60) for more information about Wounds.
RECOVERIES
Each beacon has a pool of Recoveries, which represent
the resources they have available to heal themselves
and repair their equipment. They can heal themselves
by spending Recoveries using the Refresh action
and other abilities.
Beacons start with a maximum number of Recov-
eries determined by their job, which increases with
Bulk. They refresh their pool of recoveries when they
take a Long Rest (p. 61).
DODGE
Dodge represents how hard it is for attacks to hit a
character. To hit a target, the result of the attack roll
must equal or exceed the target’s Dodge.
SPEED
Speed is how fast a character can move. When a character
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takes a standard movement during their turn, they can
move a number of spaces equal to their Speed (p. 54).
STRESS CAP AND OVERSTRESS
Stress is a special type of harm that characters can
take (p. 58). Stress is accumulated through mental
and physical strain, like suffering psychic attacks or
performing tiring combat maneuvers.
When a character takes Stress, it accumulates until it
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exceeds their Stress Cap. If a character goes over their
Stress Cap, they take an Overstress. Their player resets
their Stress, carrying over any excess Stress; and make
an overstress roll to see what additional penalties
they suffer. Beacons are taken out of a fight when they
accumulate 4 Overstresses, which is known as their
Overstress Cap.
Characters have a Breaking point, which is half
of their Stress Cap (rounded up). When a character’s
current Stress is equal to or higher than their Breaking
point, they are considered Breaking.
See Wounds and Overstress (p. 60) for additional
information.
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MEMORY
A character’s Memory limits the maximum number of
techniques they can equip. Each technique has its own
Memory cost – the combined value of all of equipped
techniques cannot exceed the character’s Memory.
AETHERIC DEFENSE (A-DEF)
Aetheric Defense (A-Def) is how hard a character is
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to hit with Aetheric attacks. Aetheric attacks target
the aether that makes up a being, and they can’t be
avoided like normal attacks. These attacks – magical
attacks from abilities with the Aetheric tag – must
equal or exceed the target’s A-Def to hit.
MANA POINTS (MP)
Mana points (MP) are a pool of magical energy that
can be spent to use certain abilities. To use one of these
abilities, a character must have the indicated amount
of MP available, and it is spent once the ability is ac-
tivated. Beacons can restore MP in combat with the
Refresh action.
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 ABILITIES
Beacons use a wide variety of abilities to achieve victory
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in combat scenes. Abilities include traits, equipment,
talents, and techniques. In general, anything that can
be used in a combat scene is considered an ability.
Stacking Abilities
Each character can only benefit from one instance of
any given ability or effect at a time. Put another way,
subsequent instances of abilities and effects don’t stack
on top of themselves.
For example, the Sniper talent’s rank 2 ability, Zero
In, gives +1 on ranged attacks every time you miss,
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and stacks until you finally hit with a ranged attack.
Conversely, the Shocking Grasp spell, which prevents
targets from performing reactions until the end of their
next turn when they’re hit, wouldn’t extend its effect
across additional turns if they were hit by Shocking
Grasp again before the original effect expired.
TRAITS
Traits are abilities that reinforce a beacon’s identity and
playstyle. Traits come from a beacon’s ancestry (p. 13)
and equipped job (p. 13).
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Traits can provide either passive benefits or effects
that need to be activated. Some traits provide additional
abilities, like the Riftblade job’s special Riftcutter
weapon. Beacons’ equipped traits are always available
and cannot be destroyed.
EQUIPMENT
Equipment is the weapons, armor, and tools that a
beacon chooses to bring on a quest, and it has a signif-
icant impact on their combat performance. Equipment
is broken down into two categories: weapons and
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support items. Equipment is usually selected when
preparing for a quest.
Equipment Slots
Each job provides a different number of weapon slots
and support slots. These determine how many weapons
and support items the beacon can equip. Weapons can
only be equipped in weapon slots, and support items
can only be equipped in support slots. Each slot is also
suitable for equipment of a certain size – Light, Main,
or Heavy – or smaller.
Equipment Size
Like equipment slots, weapons and support items
come in three sizes, from smallest to largest: Light,
Main, and Heavy.
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You can only equip a weapon or support item into
a slot if the equipment is the same size as the slot or
smaller. For example, if you have a Main weapon slot,
you can equip either a Main or a Light weapon to it.
Free Equipment
Some equipment can be equipped for free. Free equip-
ment doesn’t take up a slot when equipped; however,
only one copy of each piece of equipment can be
equipped for free at a time. You can’t have multiple
free versions of the same equipment. You can have
multiple different pieces of equipment equipped for
free, though, and something equipped for free can still
be equipped in other slots.
Weapons
Weapons are the primary way that beacons attack their
foes. Weapons can be either melee weapons or ranged
weapons. Melee weapons make melee attacks, and
ranged weapons make ranged attacks. See Chapter
5: Combat Play (p. 41) for additional information
on how different sorts of attacks work.
WEAPON TYPE
In addition to a size, each weapon has one of the
following types:
Ø Artifact: Wands, staves, and other magical
implements. Artifacts often have the Aetheric tag.
Ø Blade: Swords, axes, and daggers of any size. Blades
are basic, balanced weapons.
Ø Bow: Bows and crossbows. Bows are typically ranged
and often have the Arcing tag, allowing them
to fire over obstacles.
Ø Club: Maces, warhammers, and other blunt weapons.
These weapons are often Slow or Inaccurate,
but hit hard. Natural weapons like claws also count
as clubs.
Ø Longarm: Spears, javelins, and other weapons with
an extended reach.
Ø Magitech: Magitech weapons are any that combine
technology and magic. Shardguns, which are firearms
that shoot blasts of magical energy from specialized
crystals, are the most common sort of magitech.
LINKED WEAPONS
Weapon slots that have a symbol between two weapon
sizes (e.g., LIGHT LIGHT ) can hold two linked
weapons of the indicated sizes. These two weapons
form a linked pair. When you attack with a linked
weapon, you can also attack with the weapon it’s linked
to as part of the same action – as long as you haven’t
already done so as part of the same action. This second
attack is called a linked attack. Each linked pair can
only trigger one linked attack per turn. You can make
a linked attack even if the weapon would normally be
used in a different phase. This excludes Slow attacks.
Linked attacks don’t benefit from bonus damage.
A weapon can only be in one linked pair at a time.
Both weapons count as linked to each other. Each
weapon in the linked pair counts as a separate weapon
and can benefit from a separate Enchantment; however,
if one is destroyed, so is the other.
WHAT DO LINKED WEAPONS LOOK LIKE?
Linked weapons can be interpreted a number of
ways. They might be depicted as dual-wielded
weapons; weapons literally connected by links; or
weapons fused together, like a double-bladed sword.
Support Items
Support items are the armor, shields, potions, and tools
that beacons can equip for quests. Support items often
provide defensive bonuses or utility abilities.
TECHNIQUES
Beacons learn a wide variety of battle techniques that
affect the way they approach combat. Offensive spells,
unique ways of moving, and changes to one’s own body
are all types of techniques a beacon can equip for a
quest. Techniques are broken down into two categories:
spells and skills.
Techniques cost a certain amount of Memory to
equip. A beacon’s available Memory is determined
by their equipped job, and increased by their Mind.
You can only equip a technique if there is sufficient
Memory available.
Techniques are usually equipped when preparing
for a quest.
Free Techniques
Like equipment, some techniques can be equipped
for free. Free techniques don’t take up any Memory;
however, only one copy of a given technique can be
equipped for free at a time. You can’t have multiple free
versions of the same technique. You can have multiple
different techniques equipped for free, though.
Spells
Spells are magical abilities. Not every spell requires
the caster to spend MP, but they do require the caster
to be able to manipulate aether. Because of this, the
Silenced condition (p. 62) prevents characters from
casting spells.
Skills
Unlike spells, skills are abilities that don’t require the
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user to manipulate aether. They are usually nonmag-
ical in nature, but some do cost MP to activate, like
the shapeshifter’s Scout Form. These skills draw their
mana directly from the user’s body, with no active
manipulation of aether needed. Because of this, skills
are unaffected by the Silenced condition.
RESOURCES
Beacons tend to acquire various resources during their
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adventures. Some resources are used for combat play
only, like temp HP and Focus, while others are only
used in narrative play, like gold and residuum. There
are also supplies, that can provide benefits in both
narrative and combat play.
COMBAT RESOURCES
Temporary HP
Temporary HP (Temp HP) is a separate pool of HP out-
side of a character’s normal HP. Whenever a character’s
HP is reduced by damage, points are taken from their
Temp HP first. Any remaining damage is subtracted
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from their HP as normal. Temp HP can’t be restored by
effects that restore normal HP.
Temp HP can come from various sources, including
techniques, equipment, and other abilities. Separate
instances of Temp HP don’t stack; if a character already
has Temp HP, a second source of Temp HP would only
apply if it is greater than the current amount of Temp
HP they have. For example, if a character with 2 Temp
HP uses an ability that would give them 4 Temp HP,
this new, greater source of Temp HP replaces the first
one – they end up with 4 temp HP, not 6.
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Focus
Focus is a temporary resource gained during com-
bat scenes. It can be spent for certain effects, like the
Interpose reaction. It starts at 0, and has no maximum.
All Focus is lost at the end of each scene.
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Gold
Instead of keeping track of every piece of currency your
character is carrying, BEACON uses an abstract form of
currency called Gold. Gold represents the resources
and influence that are available to your beacon. The
actual currency used in your Reflection might be em-
erald chips, paper bills, or credits, but for simplicity’s
sake these are all treated the same way.
Beacons are assumed to have enough resources to
cover basic needs like food and housing, and they always
have access to their starting and unlocked equipment.
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Supplies
Supplies are miscellaneous items that beacons can
bring on quests, like a well-cooked meal from the tav-
ern or a potion from the local alchemist. They provide
temporary benefits and don’t require equipment slots
or Memory to equip. Supplies can be earned as quest
rewards, through narrative play, most often with the
Shop downtime activity. You can find the full list of
supplies in Appendix A: Shops and Supplies (p. 224).
When preparing for a quest, your beacon can equip
up to three of their available supplies. Each beacon

Gold is only used for downtime activities, purchasing
supplies (see below), and in narrative scenes.
In narrative scenes, gold is only used for purchases
that are meaningful and impactful. A beacon doesn’t
need to spend gold when staying at an inn or purchasing
a drink at the tavern; however, staying in the penthouse
suite of the Golden Goose Casino might cost gold,
since doing so is a luxury reserved only for the wealthy.
Gold can be acquired through downtime activities
like Pursue Profession or as a reward at the end of
quests. Each beacon can have a maximum of 10 gold
at a time.
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can only bring one instance of each supply per quest.
All equipped supplies are destroyed at the end of the
quest, regardless of whether they were used or not.
Example: Dhalia has two sleeping bags, a titan flask,
and elf cookies as her available supplies. She is
preparing for a tough quest, so she wants to bring
as many supplies as she can. She can only bring 3
supplies and can’t bring duplicates, so she brings
one sleeping bag, one titan flask, and one elf cookie.
Supplies gained during the course of a quest can either

be immediately equipped – exceeding the normal limit

of three equipped supplies – or saved for a future quest.
WHY A GOLD LIMIT?
The Gold limit is to encourage players to spend their
Gold more often, instead of hoarding it. GMs are wel-
come to change the limit to better suit their game.

Residuum
Residuum is a byproduct of the destruction of magical
items. It is dense in aether and can be used to modify
other magical items. Residuum is created with the
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Disenchant Loot downtime activity. (p. 27).

Ø 1 Residuum: Reroll any one loot crate slot.

Ø 2 Residuum: Reroll any one loot crate slot and
choose a specific type for the slot (weapon, support
item, skill, or spell).
Ø 2 Residuum: Reroll any one loot crate slot. The
rerolled slot will be one level rarer than the original
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 3: QUESTS
Gameplay in BEACON revolves around quests. Quests are
the adventures that the beacons go on, each comprising
a combination of narrative and combat play.
After every quest, whether it is a success or failure,
all beacons gain a character level.
Quests have the following components:
Ø Goal: The quest’s objective.
Ø Stakes: The potential outcomes of success and
failure.
Ø Information: The things known by or available to
the PCs before they begin the quest.
Ø Rewards: The rewards, if any, that the beacons might
receive upon completing the quest. Listed rewards
might require succeeding in the quest, or simply
completing it.
Quests progress through the following stages:
Ø Preparation: The beacons prepare for the quest.
Ø Quest Scenes: The quest begins and moves through
a series of narrative and combat scenes that tell an
overarching story.
Ø Downtime: An opportunity to undertake downtime
activities before the next quest.
Chapter 10: Game Master’s Guide in the full version
of BEACON provides guidance for creating quests.
GOAL
The quest’s goal is the thing the beacons need to do
to succeed. This can include things like:
Ø destroying the forces occupying the castle;
Ø preventing the archmage from crashing the moon
into the planet;
Ø assassinating the leader of a faction;
Ø rescuing a captured friend.
The players should always know the quest’s goal.
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STAKES
The stakes describe the things that might happen if
the quest succeeds or fails. Depending on the goal,
this could include any of the following:
Goal: Destroy the forces occupying the castle.
Ø Success: The nearby town is safe and its people
don’t need to worry about extortion.
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Ø Failure: The occupying force retaliates and destroys
the town.
Goal: Prevent the archmage from crashing the moon
into the planet.
Ø Success: The moon stays where it is.
Ø Failure: The moon crashes. Bad things follow.
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Goal: Assassinate the faction leader.
Ø Success: The faction is weakened and likely to be
destroyed or assimilated.
Ø Failure: The faction is emboldened, gaining more
followers and strengthening its position.
Goal: Rescue a captured friend.
Ø Success: The beacons’ friend is returned safely.
Ø Failure: The beacons’ friend becomes the vessel of
a parasitic psychic entity.
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Each quest needs stakes, although the GM can keep
them broad or vague. Either way, the players should
have a good understanding of what the stakes are. The
stakes can’t be hidden or secret.
Depending on the actions of the players, it’s possible
to achieve a mixed outcome – neither an outright success
nor a total failure. The GM can decide the results in cases
like this. They don’t need to be specified ahead of time.
INFORMATION
Some information might be available to the players
before the quest begins. This helps them prepare for the
quest and understand the situation they’re getting into.
Before the quest begins, the players should have an
opportunity to ask questions, with the GM answering
based on what they might reasonably know or can
safely expect. The GM might also allow the players
to perform skill checks or downtime activities to gain
more information.
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 REWARDS
After finishing a quest, the beacons receive rewards.
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Whether the quest was successful or not, beacons
always receive a new character level, and a loot crate.
Ø New character level: The beacons level up after
every quest they complete. This increases their
character level by one and allows them to gain a
new class rank. They can either take a new class at
rank 1 or go up to the next rank in a class they already
have (up to a maximum of rank 3).
Ø Loot crate: Loot crates are randomized rewards.
Loot crates are an abstraction – a mechanism to
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assign random rewards to beacons – and they aren’t
always boxes of treasure. Each player receives their
own loot crate containing three random pieces of
equipment or techniques, one of which they get to
keep. The loot they choose is added to their unlocked
equipment and techniques. Players always have
access to unlocked loot, just like any other piece
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of equipment or techniques. Each player can only
receive a given piece of loot once; if a loot crate
contains a piece of loot they already have, that
option is rerolled. Loot crates are discussed in more
detail in Chapter 10: Game Master’s Guide in the
full version of BEACON.
Beacons might receive additional rewards after a request,
like gold, supplies, or narrative benefits. These addi-
tional quest rewards might be dependent on whether
the quest was successful or not. For example, the rescue
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of a captured prince might see the beacons awarded
noble titles. Clearing out a dangerous dungeon, on the
other hand, might earn each player a specific bonus
piece of loot. These additional rewards are up to the
GMs discretion.
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QUEST STAGES
Quests can be broken down into three stages: prepa-
ration, the quest itself, and then downtime.
PREPARATION
When preparing for a quest, the players pick the abil-
ities and equipment they want their beacon to have
during that quest. They choose the following from their
unlocked options:
Ø A job
Ø A trait from their chosen ancestry (p. 68)
Ø Equipment (weapons and support items) equal to
their slots
Ø Techniques (skills and spells) equal to their Memory
Ø Supplies
Players always have access to all of their jobs, ancestry
traits, equipment, techniques, and supplies when
preparing for quests, regardless of where they are or
the situation in which they find themselves.
Once everyone has prepared, the quest begins. From
this moment on, they are considered to be on that quest
until it is finished. They can only be on one quest at a
time, although side objectives and challenges may arise
along the way that weren’t present when they set out.
QUEST SCENES
Quests are composed of multiple narrative and combat
scenes. Each quest typically features between one and
four combat scenes, with narrative scenes sprinkled
throughout.
The GM is responsible for presenting scenes to the
players and stringing them together (see Chapter 7:
Game Master’s Guide, p. 84, for more information
about building quests). While the GM might have an idea
about how a scene could unfold, the actions of the play-
ers ultimately determine what happens within a scene.
The players are responsible for interacting with the
scenes presented to them. Players don’t get to choose
what scenes take place (although they are encouraged
to let the GM know if they have specific scenes they’d
like to see), but they do influence what happens within
a scene.
 Example: The GM sets up a narrative scene where
the beacons have to cross a heavily guarded bridge.
They expect that the players will try to talk their way
through; however, the players decide to solve the
problem by building gliders and using magic to soar
right over the bridge.
The GM did not expect this outcome, but the
point of the scene was to see how the beacons solved
the problem, not to force a social interaction. The
players used an unexpected but creative solution.
Example Quest Structure
Ø Preparation: The beacons are presented with a
quest to find a specific villain and defeat them. They
prepare for the quest and set out.
Ø Scene 1 (narrative scene): The beacons scout for
the villain’s lair and contend with native fauna.
Ø Scene 2 (narrative scene): The beacons find the lair,
but must navigate past the traps and guards within.
Ø Scene 3 (combat scene): The beacons confront the
villain in battle.
Ø Scene 4 (narrative scene): The beacons flee the
villain’s collapsing lair.
Ø Downtime: The beacons return to town, completing
the quest and receiving their rewards. They enter a
period of downtime until they begin their next quest.
DOWNTIME
After finishing a quest, the beacons begin a period
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of downtime. Downtime is a type of narrative play in
which the characters can pursue personal interests,
explore the world, and perform downtime activities
(p. 27). The GM can also decide to declare downtime
during long breaks in the middle of quests.
When the beacons begin downtime, it counts as
taking a Long Rest, which replenishes their HP, MP,
and other attributes; allows them to change out their
equipment and techniques; and more. See p. 61 for
more information on resting.
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Chapter 4: Narrative Play contains further infor-
mation on downtime (Downtime Activities, p. 27).
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Narrative play is anything that occurs outside of a
combat scene, whether it be planning quests, pursuing
personal objectives, disabling the traps in a ruin, or
even running a tavern.
The players decide what their characters do during
narrative play. If the GM believes an action is import-
ant, they can ask for a skill check to determine how
well it goes.
Narrative play can involve small-scale fights and con-
flict, like fending off back alley robbers or overwhelming
a single guard. These fights are resolved in an abstract
fashion, using skill checks or narrative actions (see
below) rather than tactical combat. Not every fight
triggers a combat scene; combat play is reserved for
important, large-scale fight scenes, like fending off a
squadron of dragon riders from the deck of an airship
during a thunderstorm.
NPCs don’t use these narrative play rules. They don’t
have background skills or titles, and they don’t roll dice
or perform narrative actions. Instead, the GM describes
what NPCs do or how they react to the things the PCs
do. For example, if an NPC guard wants to capture a
fleeing beacon, the guard wouldn’t make a skill check.
Instead, the GM would describe what the guard is trying
to do and let the player describe how they attempt to
avoid capture. If the beacon was in a bad situation or it
was clear there would be no escape, they could instead
just state that the beacon was captured. In either case,
the GM makes no rolls.
SKILL CHECKS
Skill check summary: When you make a skill check,
you roll 1d20 with the following modifiers:
• + equal to your ranks in a relevant background skill
• +2 if you invoke your beacon’s title.
When you attempt something in narrative play that has
a chance of failure, the GM may call on you make a skill
check to determine whether you are successful or not.
To make a skill check, you roll 1d20. If you have a
background skill that would be beneficial, you gain
on the roll equal to your ranks in that background
skill. Any given skill check can only benefit from one
background skill. If you invoke your title, you gain +2
to the roll (see p. 11 for information on titles).
Skill checks have three potential outcomes, depend-
ing on the total of your roll and any modifiers:
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Ø Miss (9 or less)
Ø Hit (10–19)
Ø Crit (20+)
A miss indicates you didn’t achieve the desired result. You
get a lesser version of what you were hoping to achieve
and there’s usually a significant cost you have to pay.
Example: Dhalia wants to research whether the
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Scourge’s latest manifestation has a weakness. The
GM asks Shawn to make a skill check to find out how
Dhalia’s research goes. She gets a 6 on her roll, which
is a miss. The GM decides that instead of finding out
a weakness, she learns of an ancient enemy of the
Scourge. The GM also decides that she loses track
of time and misses an important meeting.
A hit indicates success, but with some sort of cost.
The cost isn’t as severe as it would be on a miss, but it
is still present.
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Example: If Dhalia’s result had been a hit, the GM
would tell her that she successfully found one of the
Scourge’s weaknesses, but lost track of time and was
late to an important meeting.
A crit is a resounding success. You get what you wanted
at no additional cost, or you get even more than you
were hoping for at a cost.
Example: If Dhalia’s result had been a crit, the GM
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would just tell her that she found the Scourge’s
weakness, with no cost.
Costs for skill checks can include injuries, taking longer
than expected, losing an item, damaging a relationship,
embarrassing oneself, feeling a strong emotion, or
anything else the GM or players can think of.
Skill checks can only be attempted at the GM’s discre-
tion. For example, if you try to jump 30 feet straight up
in the air with nothing to aid you but an average level
of human strength, the GM will disallow that skill check,
even if you’ve already rolled a 25 on your attempt. Tell
the GM what you want to do, and they will let you know
whether you need to roll a skill check or not.
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The sorts of activities that prompt skill checks are in-
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herently difficult, since if they weren’t, you shouldn’t
be rolling dice for them in the first place. That said, the
GM can add to skill checks to represent particularly
tough challenges.
If the GM or players believe a challenge is exception-
ally hard, difficult, or challenging, the GM can impose
up to 3 on the skill check.
Ø 1 represents a very hard challenge.
Ø 2 represents a challenge in which numerous factors
all contribute to an exceptional level of difficulty.
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Ø 3 represents a challenge that straddles the line
of what should even be allowed as a skill check.
Before applying this level of difficulty, think about
whether this is something that should be possible
for a beacon to accomplish. If it is, then go for it –
even if it stretches the limits of plausibility. After all,
beacons are heroes that routinely do the impossible.
As a guideline, the GM usually shouldn’t add more
to a skill check than the tier of NPCs the beacons are
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currently up against.
HELPING OTHERS
Beacons can assist other beacons with their skill checks.
To do so, the beacon who is helping must be in the same
location as the one attempting the skill check and must
be able to invoke their title, and the beacon making the
skill check can’t have invoked their own title for that
check. If these criteria are met, the assisting beacon can
invoke their title on behalf of the roller.
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CHOOSING FAILURE
You can choose to automatically get a miss result on
a skill check. You might do so if you find that result
interesting or have a narrative reason.
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NARRATIVE ACTIONS
Skill checks work for anything a beacon might want to
do in narrative play, but they are intentionally broad
and generic. Narrative actions are specific types of
skill checks that can also be made during narrative play
and that have specific outcomes. They don’t represent
every possible action; instead, they are more detailed
and focused variations of normal skill checks.
Narrative actions are used instead of standard skill
checks when their trigger is met. Triggers are given
as a bolded phrase in the action’s description. This
phrase is the event that takes place in the narrative to
trigger the action.
When a narrative action is triggered, the player in
question rolls a skill check and uses the results listed
for that narrative action.
TERMINOLOGY
The terms miss and hit might sound familiar to you.
They are borrowed from Meguey and Vincent Bak-
er’s Powered by the Apocalypse (PbtA) framework,
first used in Apocalypse World. BEACON’s narrative
actions are designed like PbtA’s “moves”, meaning
you can easily import other PbtA moves into BEACON,
or even use an entirely different set of PbtA rules for
narrative play.
CONVINCE
A honeyed word, a veiled threat, or an equal exchange;
all are ways of convincing a person to do something.
When you try to convince someone to do what you
want, roll:
Ø 9 or less (Miss): They can’t be convinced to do it.
Ø 10–19 (Hit): The GM chooses one of the following:
‘ They do what you want, but only if you do
something for them first.
‘ They won’t do it unless you give up any leverage
over them.
Ø 20+ (Crit): They do what you want.
People can’t be persuaded to do things that go against
their beliefs or that they think are bad ideas unless you
have some kind of leverage.
 GAIN INSIGHT
What you see is not always what you get. Sometimes the
situation is unclear or confusing. Take a moment to look
around and dive a little deeper.
When you quickly read a person, place, or situation, roll:
Ø 9 or less (Miss): You get a bad read of things. The GM
tells you either something untrue that you believe,
or something true that you wish wasn’t.
Ø 10–19 (Hit): Ask two of the following questions
about your subject of study:
‘ What recently happened or is about to happen?
‘ How can I ______?
‘ What seems strange here?
‘ Who or what is in charge here?
‘ What is safe or vulnerable here?
‘ What is useful to me?
Ø 20+ (Crit): As above, and you can ask one follow-up
question that doesn’t need to be from the list.
GATHER INFORMATION
Hit the streets or hit the books. Information is power, and
you collect it from wherever you can find it.
When you spend time gaining information about a
person, place, or thing, name your general topic of
inquiry and roll:
Ø 9 or less (Miss): Ask the GM one question about
your topic, and they will give you an answer that
you think is true. The information is either untrue, or
contains true information that you wish wasn’t true.
Ø 10–19 (Hit): Ask the GM one question about your
topic, and they will respond truthfully.
Ø 20+ (Crit): As above, but you can ask two questions.
The GM can ask you to come up with a different question
if they think it unlikely you would be able to discover
that information, or if they want that information to
be discovered another way. A classic example would
be a beacon trying to solve a murder mystery: Asking,
“Who is the murderer” might invalidate the quest,
dampening the fun for everyone. On the other hand,
the GM might allow the question, pivoting the quest
from an investigation into a survival quest in which the
PCs must outlast or escape the murderer!
MAKE CONFLICT
Punch someone in the face, belittle them in front of their
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friends, or have a psychic showdown in their dreams.
However you do it, you’re in conflict with someone.
This action is for quickly handling conflict in narrative
play. Not every fight is important enough to warrant
moving to combat play. The benefits of this move are
purposely vague to encourage the players and GM to
interpret the results creatively.
When you engage in conflict with something (physical,
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social, or mental), roll:
Ø 9 or less (Miss): Choose two costs (see below).
Ø 10–19 (Hit): Choose one benefit (see below) and
one cost.
Ø 20+ (Crit): Choose one:
‘ You defeat them outright.
‘ Choose two benefits and one cost.
‘ Choose one benefit and no costs.
BENEFITS
Ø You wound them or drive them away.
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Ø You leave an impression of your choice on them.
Ø You create an opportunity for your allies.
Ø You take something from them.
COSTS
These costs have both narrative consequences as well as
associated mechanical costs (in parentheses). The GM can
decide whether to apply the mechanical cost or leave it
as purely narrative.
Ø You are wounded (reduce all of your background
skills by one rank until you have a chance to rest)
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Ø You put yourself or an ally in a bad position of the
GM’s choice (a character chosen by the GM gains +2
on their next skill check this scene).
Ø You lose an important piece of equipment (a weapon
or support item is destroyed).
Ø You are shaken (a technique is destroyed).
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 MOVE UNSEEN
Getting into a place you shouldn’t be is easy for a beacon.
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The hard part is not getting caught.
When you sneakily gain access to an area, describe
your plan and roll:
Ø 9 or less (Miss): You find yourself in a bad position.
Ø 10–19 (Hit): You get in, but getting out is harder.
Choose one:
Ø You leave something behind.
Ø You take a problem with you.
Ø 20+ (Crit): You get in and out without anyone
noticing.
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Leaving something behind can include leaving an
important item or evidence of your presence. Taking a
problem with you can include taking injuries, alerting
the guards, or taking a prisoner.
This action abstracts a variety of story beats and ac-
tions into one. Use it when you want to quickly handle
a stealth scene.
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OVERCOME
When an obstacle is in your way, go through it or around
it. Jumping over a crocodile-filled moat or disabling
a sentry-bot’s control mechanism are all ways of
overcoming an obstacle.
When you try to overcome an obstacle, state what you
want to accomplish. The GM will tell you the stakes
(the cost you must pay to succeed). If you accept, roll:
Ø 9 or less (Miss): You don’t succeed and must pay
the cost.
Ø 10–19 (Hit): You can choose to either succeed and
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pay the cost, or fail but don’t pay the cost.
Ø 20+ (Crit): You succeed and don’t pay the cost.
The stakes are a way for the GM to indicate how difficult
a specific course of action is and telegraph this to the
player. This also gives the player the opportunity to
change their mind and think of a different approach.
For example, if the aforementioned crocodile-filled
moat is particularly large, the GM could make the cost
“severe damage to one of your limbs”. The player might
decide this cost is too high to pay, so they decide to
think of another solution.
In the sentry-bot example, the GM could make the
cost “your tools are destroyed”. If the player decides
they are comfortable with that cost, they can proceed
to make the roll.
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RECALL LORE
Consult your accumulated knowledge to pull out random
bits of lore and trivia, like what type of creature stands
before you or the name of a specific noble.
When you recall your knowledge or memories about
a topic, ask the GM a question and roll:
Ø 9 or less (Miss): The GM gives an answer you wish
wasn’t true, or you wish you didn’t believe. They may
ask what you think the answer is before answering.
Ø 10–19 (Hit): The GM gives you a truthful answer.
You can propose additional detail, but you can’t
invalidate the GM’s answer.
Ø 20+ (Crit): The GM gives an answer, and you can
change or modify that answer as long as it remains in
the spirit of the GM’s original answer. The GM may ask
what you think the answer is before providing theirs.
USE MAGIC
Magic is powerful, but takes training to use safely. One
small mistake can magnify a spell’s undesirable effects.
When you attempt to create a magical effect, answer
the following and roll:
Ø Purpose: What should the spell do?
Ø Boon: Pick a positive trait for the spell (fast, quiet,
powerful, etc).
Ø Bane: Pick a negative trait for the spell (explosive,
draining, loud, etc).
The boon and bane shouldn’t be opposites of each other.
Ø 9 or less (Miss): The spell fulfills its purpose, but
gains the bane with no boon.
Ø 10–19 (Hit): The spell fulfills its purpose. Choose
one of the following:
Ø The spell gains its boon and its bane.
Ø The spell avoids its bane.
Ø 20+ (Crit): The spell fulfills its purpose and gains its
boon, but no bane.
DOWNTIME ACTIVITIES
Whenever your beacon has free time, they can perform
downtime activities. There is automatically a period of
downtime after the completion of a quest, but the GM can
also declare downtime during a long break within a quest.
A period of downtime allows each beacon to perform one
downtime activity, unless the GM allows for more.
There is no specific length of time needed to per-
form a downtime activity, but at least a day is a good
guideline. Some downtime activities are dependent on
resources or other people and might not be available
even if enough time exists to perform the activity.
CREATE A RITUAL
Rituals are complex magical spells that can be customized
to create whatever effects the caster wants. Due to their
complicated nature, however, they are not easy to perform
and can have dangerous side effects if done incorrectly.
When you want to use magic to solve a problem,
answer the following questions and roll:
Ø What does it cost to cast the ritual?
Ø How is the ritual performed?
Ø What could go wrong?
Ø 9 or less (Miss): There’s a problem with the ritual, and
that problem is worse than you thought. When you
use the ritual, the GM describes what goes wrong.
Ø 10–19 (Hit): The ritual is more complicated than
you expected. You and the GM each choose one of
the following complications:
Ø It takes longer to create the ritual than you
thought. You can automatically finish it by
performing this activity again in a subsequent
downtime period (no roll required) and
meeting all of the other conditions.
Ø It goes wrong in the way you expected.
Ø The cost isn’t sufficient. The GM adds an
additional cost that must be paid to perform
the ritual.
Ø The effects are unreliable or temporary.
Ø The ritual is considered forbidden or taboo.
Ø 20+ (Crit): You successfully create the ritual with
no complications.
Once you’ve created a ritual, you can use it again with-
out rolling if you meet the requirements and perform
this downtime activity. Record your answers and the
complications as the “recipe” for the ritual.
Each downtime activity has a bolded phrase in its
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description, which is its trigger. When a beacon meets
the trigger for a downtime activity, they can perform
that activity. Some downtime activities involve rolls,
while others have automatic effects.
If a player is unsure of which downtime activity to
pursue, they can explain what they want to do. The GM
and other players can then try to match that beacon’s
activity with an existing downtime activity or create a
custom activity on the fly.
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DISENCHANT LOOT
Loot can be disenchanted into residuum, a magical
powder used to enhance and alter other magical items
(p. 18).
When you want to disenchant loot into residuum,
choose at least one piece of loot.
The loot you select is destroyed and you gain an
amount of residuum depending on the rarity of the loot:
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Ø Uncommon: 3 Residuum
Ø Rare: 4 Residuum
Ø Legendary: 5 Residuum
DUNGEON-DIVE
Dungeons and ruins are great places to find interesting
gear and supplies.
When you want to acquire loot, roll:
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Ø 9 or less (Miss): It was a rough expedition. You get
a loot crate, but only the Slot 1 option.
Ø 10–19 (Hit): The expedition was a success. You get
a loot crate, but only the Slot 1 and Slot 2 options.
Ø 20+ (Crit): Jackpot! You get a loot crate.
You can immediately sell or disenchant loot you get
from this activity, as with the Shop and Disenchant
Loot downtime activities.
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 FIND ECHO
The Source is made of countless reflections, each a
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different reality. Because of this limitless potential, it’s
possible to find alternate versions of yourself in the
Source, called echoes. The strongest echoes are those
that are almost exact copies of yourself, with only minor
differences.
Finding an echo requires meditation, slowly aligning
your aether and mind with the Source. Once aligned,
you receive a vision of the Source and all your echoes
within. State the changes you wish to make to yourself,
and the echoes will fade until only one remains. This
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echo has the aspects you want, and is willing to swap
them with you for the versions you currently have.
When you want to magically change your appearance,
name, gender, title, ancestry, classes, or talents, find
an echo.
Once you find an echo, the changes take place. This is
always a willing exchange, as the process can only take
place with a willing echo. One thing that can’t change
are your life experiences, which remain the same.
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This activity can be used to fully retrain your char-
acter, or to change your character’s appearance to
better match your image of them. It is not intended for
shenanigans like getting away with crimes by changing
your appearance, and characters trying to do so will
discover that they can’t find any suitable echoes.
Remember, you can make some changes to your
character when they level up. Specifically, you can reas-
sign any number of ranks in one talent to another and
reassign any number of ranks in a class to another class.
This activity is for bigger, more encompassing changes.
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GAIN A CONTACT
Contacts are relationships that can be leveraged for
benefits. They can be people with any sort of relationship
to a beacon, from close friends to rivals or even mortal
enemies. Whatever the relationship, a contact can get
you something you want.
When you want to find a person that can help you,
name either a specific individual or a general catego-
ry of person (dockworker, business executive, town
guard, etc.), then roll:
Ø 9 or less (Miss): You gain the contact, but you will
need to earn their trust or deepen your relationship
with them before they will do anything for you.
Ø 10–19 (Hit): You gain this contact and they will
perform a minor or moderate favor for you, but they
will likely ask for something in return after doing so.
Ø 20+ (Crit): You gain this contact and they will
perform a minor or moderate favor for you at no
cost, or a major favor for which they will expect a
favor in return.
Once the roll is made, the GM should set up a brief nar-
rative scene to roleplay how they became your contact.
The GM can disallow certain characters from becoming
contacts, and should indicate this before a roll is made
to gain them as a contact. GMs, don’t make players use
the downtime activity if it is impossible succeed.
GET SOMETHING
Beacons can easily acquire common or mundane items
like food, armor, and weaponry. Some things are harder
to obtain – just out of a beacon’s reach, but not impossible
to grasp.
When you want to acquire something important,
name what it is and roll:
Ø 9 or less (Miss): You can get it, but at great cost.
You either have to give up something you don’t
want to lose, or do something you don’t want to
do for someone.
Ø 10–19 (Hit): You can get it, but you will owe
something to someone.
Ø 20+ (Crit): You can get it, no strings attached. Next
time you try to Get Something the same way, treat
this result as a 10–19 instead.
Before you commit to performing this activity, the
GM will let you know if the thing you want can’t be
obtained this way.
 GO SHOPPING SHOPS SUPPLIES
This downtime activity allows beacons to buy valuable

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items and supplies, or sell valuable items and loot GENERAL STORE Adventuring supplies (p. 224)
for gold. When using it, keep in mind that beacons
are always able to cover their basic needs, like food, ALCHEMY SHOP Potions and elixirs (p. 225)
housing, and their starting and unlocked equipment.
There are two versions of this downtime activity: BLACKSMITH Gear and equipment (p. 227)
Buying and Selling.
ENGINEER Magitech and cutting-edge tech
(p. 230)
BUYING
When you want to buy supplies or other valuable items, TAVERN Food and drink (p. 232)

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ask the GM for the available shops and their stock.
Buying supplies or valuable items costs gold. You LEATHERWORKER/ Gear and clothing (p. 228)
can buy as many items as you want from the shops CLOTHIER
available. The GM determines which shops are available,
what they have in stock, and their prices, either manually MAGIC SHOP/DOJO Temporary techniques (p. 233)
picking options or randomly generating them (see p.
224). The goods in stock are the same for all beacons
for the rest of the downtime period. The general store HIT THE BOOKS
is always available. Libraries, schools, and other repositories of information
A full list of shops and their supplies can be found are valuable tools for beacons.
in Appendix A: Shops and Supplies (p. 224).

SELLING
When you want to sell loot or other valuable items,
name the items or loot and roll for each item:
Ø 9 or less (Miss): You can only sell it for –1 gold below
its base price at this time. You can try again with a
future downtime activity.
Ø 10–19 (Hit): You can sell it for its base price.
Ø 20+ (Crit): You can sell it for +1 gold above its base
price.
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When you want to research or learn about something,
name what you want to learn and roll:
Ø 9 or less (Miss): You can ask the GM up to two
questions about your topic before they answer. One
of their answers can be untrue.
Ø 10–19 (Hit): You can ask the GM up to three
questions about your topic before they answer. One
of their answers can be untrue.
Ø 20+ (Crit): You can ask the GM up to two questions
about your topic, and both answers will be true. You
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The GM will set a base price of 1–3 gold. For loot, the
rarity of the loot determines its price (Uncommon: 2
gold; Rare: 4 gold; Legendary: 6 gold).

WISHLISTING
When one beacon performs the Shop downtime activity,
other beacons can also do so for free. Performing this
activity for free is called Wishlisting. When Wishlis-
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 IMPRINT A CRYSTAL
Beacons can imprint memories of themselves onto special
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gems called job crystals. By focusing on a memory and
weaving their aetheric field into the crystal, an imprint of that
memory is made. Beacons holding a job crystal containing
one of their imprints can access that memory by reweaving
their aetheric field into it, overwriting certain features of
themselves with the ones from the imprinted memory.
When you want to imprint a specific loadout onto a
job crystal, pick any number of the following elements
to imprint:
Ø An ancestry trait
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Ø A job
Ø Weapons
Ø Support items
Ø Techniques
Ø Clothing and general appearance
In narrative play, when you have a few moments
to focus, you can replace your clothing, equipment,
and gear with those imprinted on the crystal.
During a Short Rest or a Long Rest, you can
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replace your loadout with the imprinted load-
out without spending a Recovery. The following
caveats apply:
Ø Your current HP, MP, Stress, and Recoveries don’t
change unless the new maximums are lower than
your current values, at which point they are re-
duced to equal the new maximum.
Ø If any equipment or techniques have been de-
stroyed, their loss carries over to the new loadout:
Ø For every destroyed piece of equipment, a piece
of the new loadout’s equipment must be de-
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stroyed. The destroyed equipment must be of
the same size, if possible. If there is nothing of
matching size, something of the next largest size
is destroyed instead. For example, if one of your
Light weapons has been destroyed, one of
the new loadout’s Light weapons must also
be destroyed. If the new loadout doesn’t have
any Light weapons, then you have to destroy
a Main or Heavy weapon instead.
Ø For every destroyed technique, a number of
the new loadout’s techniques must be de-
stroyed with a Memory cost equal or greater
than the Memory cost of the destroyed tech-
niques from the old loadout.
Equipment and techniques with the Consumable or
Limited tags and no charges left count as destroyed
when using an imprint.
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A beacon can have one imprinted crystal at a time,
and crystals can be used multiple times. To be used,
the loadout imprinted on a crystal must have at least
one difference from your current loadout. If an imprint
matches the current loadout, it can’t be used.
MAKE SOMETHING
Beacons are capable of creating incredible items, whether
they be suits that can survive the crushing depths of the
ocean or airship engines that can traverse a storm wall.
When you want to make something special, answer
the following questions and roll:
Ø What does it do?
Ø Why is it special?
Ø What is it made of?
Ø 9 or less (Miss): Something goes wrong in the design
or crafting process. The GM picks two complications
(see below).
Ø 10–19 (Hit): The object is more complicated than
you expected. The GM picks one complication.
Ø 20+ (Crit): You make it with no complications.
COMPLICATIONS
Ø It’s expensive.
Ø It requires a rare or unique ingredient.
Ø It’s unreliable or temporary.
Ø It takes longer to make than you thought. You can
automatically finish it by performing this activity
again in a subsequent downtime period (no roll
required) and meeting all of the other conditions.
Ø You need help from _____.
Objects made using this activity are not usable in com-
bat play. Once you’ve made an item, you can use this
downtime activity to make the same item again without
rolling as long as you have the ingredients. Record your
answers as the “recipe” for the item.
This activity is for making special items. If a beacon
wants to make something simple or uncomplicated,
like carving a wooden duck, they can make it with
skill check at the GM discretion, instead of using a
downtime activity.
 PURSUE A PROFESSION WORK A PROFESSION
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or obtain supplies. with your profession’s background skill:

Pursuing a profession has two steps, each of which is Ø 9 or less (Miss): You gain 1 gold.
a downtime activity: Learn a Profession and Work a Ø 10–19 (Hit): You gain 3 gold.
Profession. Ø 20+ (Crit): You gain 5 gold.

LEARN A PROFESSION You can then immediately gain one supply with a gold
When you want to learn a new profession, pick one cost equal to or lower than your ranks in that profession’s
of the professions listed below, or create one and background skill. It must be available from the type of
pick the type of business that you think would be shop connected to your profession, but you can do this

connected to it from those listed below.
You gain a new rank 1 background skill named for that
profession. This background skill can be improved like
a normal background skill.
You can have a maximum of two professions at a
time, after which you can take this downtime activity
to replace a known profession with a new one at rank
1. When you learn a profession, you can immediately
Work a Profession using that profession.
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even if that shop wouldn’t otherwise be available. As
with the Shop downtime activity, the GM will provide
you with the available stock.
RUN AN ORGANIZATION
Beacons often have jobs, whether running stores or
leading guilds.
Running an organization has two steps, which are
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PROFESSION BUSINESS Manage an Organization.

ALCHEMY Alchemy Shop CREATE AN ORGANIZATION

When you want to create an organization or business,
CARPENTRY Engineer or Leatherworker/ answer the following:
Clothier Ø What is the name of the organization?
Ø What does the organization specialize in?
COOKING Tavern
You create the organization. It counts as a special back-
ENCHANTING Magic Shop/Dojo ground skill that starts at rank 0, and can range between
–3 and +3 ranks. You can’t increase its ranks with normal

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ENGINEERING Engineer background skill points.
When you create an organization, you can immedi-
FISHING Tavern ately Manage an Organization for that organization.

HERBALISM Alchemy Shop or Tavern MANAGE AN ORGANIZATION

When you want to manage an organization or busi-
LAPIDARY General Store or Engineer ness, roll with your organization skill:
Ø 9 or less (Miss): Reduce the rank of your organization
LEATHERWORKING Leatherworker/Clothier skill by –2.
Ø 10–19 (Hit): Increase the rank of your organization
MINING Blacksmith skill by +1.
Ø 20+ (Crit): Increase the rank of your organization
SCRIBING Magic Shop/Dojo skill by +2.

SKINNING Leatherworker/Clothier The organization can be used like a background skill in

situations that match its specialty. Whenever you use
SMITHING Blacksmith it like this, reduce its rank by –1 after using it. If you
have negative ranks in this skill, you gain equal to
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 When using the Go Shopping downtime activity, TRAINING
you can spend ranks from your organization skill in Training allows beacons to improve, gain new skills, or
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lieu of gold. Each rank spent counts as 1 gold, to a
maximum of 3 gold.
You can also have your organization act on your
behalf at the cost of one rank, calling on it to do things
that you as an individual wouldn’t be able to do.
You can spend 2 gold to increase the rank of your
organization skill by +1.
TAKE A BREATHER
Sometimes you just need to relax. Some people spend
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even learn new fighting styles.
When you want to learn something new or improve
an existing ability, pick one of the following to train:
Ø A background skill: you either gain a new
background skill at rank 1 or improve an existing
skill by one rank
Ø A class: choose any class and roll:
Ø 9 or less (Miss): It is hard to learn anything practical

time reading books or enjoying nature, while others meet
with friends or hit the town.
When you want to partake in an activity you enjoy or
find relaxing, name what you are doing to relax and roll:
Ø 9 or less (Miss): It had the opposite effect, and you
are now more stressed than you started. You and
the GM each choose one of the following:
Ø You couldn’t stop thinking about _____.
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about this class. Unlock a weapon, support item, or
technique from the chosen class. It can only be used
in the next quest.
Ø 10–19 (Hit): You’ve made progress in the
fundamentals of the class. Unlock up to two
weapons, support items, or techniques from the
chosen class. They can only be used in the next
quest.
Ø 20+ (Crit): You’ve begun to master the intricacies of
the class. You can choose to equip that class’s job for

Ø You made a fool of yourself. the next quest, and you unlock up to two weapons,
Ø You overindulged, and now you’re hurting. support items, or techniques from the class. They
Ø Something went wrong. can only be used in the next quest.
Ø You lost track of time and missed or forgot
something.
Ø You spent more money than you should have.
Ø You made an enemy.
Ø 10–19 (Hit): Choose one of the following, and one
from the above list:
Ø You meet an interesting person or make a
friend.
Ø You gain an interesting or useful piece of
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information.
Ø You develop a reputation of your choice.
Ø You deepen your relationship with someone.
Ø 20+ (Crit): You get one option from the 10–19 list
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SKILL CHALLENGES
Skill challenges are series of rapid skill checks. They can
be used for fast-paced narrative scenes, montages, and
other streamlined scenes.
Skill challenges can be split into two categories:
story challenges and adversity challenges.
STORY CHALLENGES
A rooftop chase, a journey across a pirate infested
sea, and navigating a bureaucratic nightmare are all
examples of potential story challenges.
Story challenges are used when an obstacle or scene
is too complex to be resolved with a single skill check.
A GM can declare a story challenge is required in any
narrative scene.
Story challenges exist purely within narrative play.
The actions they involve and their consequences have
no impact on combat, unlike adversity challenges, which
directly impact combat scenes.
Story challenges are structured as follows:
Goal: The GM lays out the end goal of the challenge. It
could be something like “catch this person before they
escape” or “get to your destination safely”.
Difficulty: The GM sets the difficulty of the challenge.
This determines the number of successful skill checks
the players need to achieve their goal.
Ø Simple: Successes required = number of PCs.
Ø Moderate: Successes required = number of PCs ×1.5.
Ø Challenging: Successes required = number of PCs
× 2.
Resolution: The players take turns describing what their
characters are doing in pursuit of the goal and making
skill checks to determine how impactful or successful
they are. Misses count as failures, and hits and crits
count as successes.
If the players collectively reach three failed skill
checks, they fail the challenge. They do not achieve
their goal and the GM describe what happens next. For
example, the target could escape, the beacons arrive too
late, or they don’t get the necessary backing they need.
Once every beacon has taken a turn, if they haven’t
yet succeeded or failed the challenge, they go again
in any order. Repeat until the beacons succeed or fail
the challenge.
Example: The beacons need to capture a spy who is
fleeing across the city rooftops. The GM declares a
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standard skill challenge. They set the goal as “capture
the spy before they reach their submarine” with a
simple difficulty. There are four beacons, so they need
to achieve four successes before three failures.
Dhalia goes first and uses her “Disciple of the
Sun” background skill to create a magical spotlight
on the spy so they’re easier to track. She rolls a 14,
which is a hit and the first of the four successes they
need (1/4 successes).
Dmitri goes second. He wants to immediately
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tackle and pin the spy, but since they need three
more successes to win the skill challenge, he can’t
do that yet since it would end the skill challenge.
Instead, he throws things at the spy to slow them
down with his “Perfected Body” background skill.
He rolls a 20 – another success (2/4).
Mallory is next. She decides to steal someone’s
horse to get ahead of the spy and cut off their escape
route. She doesn’t have a background skill to use.
She rolls an 8, which is their first failure. Two more
and they’ll fail the challenge!
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Barbazar sees Mallory’s struggles and wants to
help. Since Mallory is a small halfling and Barbazar is
incredibly strong, she offers to pick Mallory up and
throw her ahead. Mallory loves this idea, so Barbazar
rolls with her “Bend Bars and Lift Gates” background
skill and gets an 18, their third success (3/4).
Everyone has taken a turn, so they go again.
Because they’re one success away from winning
the challenge, everyone thinks it would be funny if
Mallory were the one to catch the spy after being
thrown like a missile. Mallory makes a roll with her
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“Murderous Ball of Death” background skill and
gets a 10, which is enough for their fourth and final
success (4/4)!
The GM describes how Mallory slams into the spy,
sending them both tumbling into an alley below
where the rest of the beacons are able to restrain
them.
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 ADVERSITY CHALLENGES
Adversity challenges are special skill challenges used during
Getting Started
quests. They can be used as the basis for whole scenes or
montages of scenes within a quest, with direct implica-
tions for combat scenes. These challenges represent the
obstacles the beacons encounter between combat scenes,
like moving through dangerous rooms in a dungeon or
sneaking past some patrolling guards to ambush a target.
In an adversity challenge, the beacons will get to
their goal. Unlike story challenges, where the outcome
is uncertain, adversity challenges are about how well
the beacons handle their challenges.
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Adversity challenges are structured as follows:
Goal: The GM lays out the end goal for the beacons. It
could be something like “find the end of the dungeon”
or “get to the leader of the enemy army”.
Adversities: The GM describes the adversities the bea-
cons will face. These can be people, things, or events that
the beacons will need to deal with, like the traps in the
dungeon or the soldiers in the enemy army. Adversities
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provide the PCs with guidance on how to describe their
actions, letting them know what problems they should
describe their character solving.
Adversity challenges can have any number of adver-
sities, but they should ideally have at least as many the
number of consequences (see below). The Adversities
section (p. 38) has a list of sample adversities.
Consequences: Adversities can have consequences
attached to them. Consequences are things that grant
negative effects to the next combat scene if they aren’t
overcome. Beacons can overcome consequences as
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part of the resolution of the adversity challenge. The
number of consequences is determined by the difficulty
of the challenge:
Ø Simple: half the number of PCs.
Ø Moderate: the number of PCs.
Ø Challenging: the number of PCs + 2.
The players should be aware of the effect of each con-
sequence and which adversity it is associated with.
Beacons aren’t required to overcome all consequences,
and in fact it is impossible to do so at the challenging
difficulty level. Deciding which adversities to overcome
and which to accept is one of the tactical decisions to
be made in an adversity challenge.
A list of consequences can be found in the Conse-
quences section (p. 38).
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Resolution: In an adversity challenge, each PC makes a
single skill check. To do so, they first pick an approach.
The six approaches represent different ways they can
approach the skill check, and offer players the option
to either overcome consequences or gain benefits in
the next combat scene.
After selecting an approach, you describe how your
beacon is contributing to the challenge. If you want to
overcome a consequence, you must specifically describe
how your beacon is attempting to do so. Once you’ve
described what you want to do, you make a skill check:
Ø 9 or less (Miss): You fail to make any progress. You
don’t get to choose any benefits from your approach.
Ø 10–19 (Hit): You can select one option from the hit
list for your chosen approach.
Ø 20+ (Crit): You can select one option from either
the hit list or the crit list for your chosen approach.
Once all the players have selected their approach,
described their actions, and rolled their skill check, the
GM describes the final resolution of the challenge and
what happens next.
Approaches
The six approaches are: Endure, Infiltrate, Prepare,
Scout, Sway, and Whittle. When you choose an ap-
proach, your skill check must be something that could
reasonably fall under the selected approach. For example,
if you want to hold up a crumbling wall so your allies
can escape, it would make sense to use Endure, but
Sway wouldn’t make sense.
When choosing an option from an approach’s hit list
or crit list, you can do so either immediately or at the
start of the next combat scene, after the GM describes
the type of combat and deployment but before the first
round of combat begins. Any unchosen options are lost
once the combat scene begins, and the benefits chosen
only apply to the next combat scene.
Options with the [Team] tag can only be selected
once per skill challenge.
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Weather the storm and stand strong, enduring whatever Surprise your opponents or gain an advantageous position

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trials come your way. by moving undetected.

HIT CRIT HIT CRIT

Overcome: You over- Surpass: You overcome Overcome: You over- Surpass: You overcome
come a consequence. a consequence and come a consequence. a consequence and
may choose one option may choose one option
from the hit list. from the hit list.

Armorer: You repair one Focused: Your Stress Ambush: 1/round when Cloak of Shadows: You
destroyed technique or can’t go above your you make an attack roll start combat Hidden

piece of equipment. Breaking point un-
til the end of the first
round of combat.
Adrenaline: You gain Unfazed: You gain 3 Un-
resistance to Physical, fazed. Whenever you
Force, Astral, and Lu- would gain a condition
nar until the end of the not caused by yourself,
first round of combat. you can spend 1 to not
gain the condition.
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while Hidden, you can and Invisible. You re-
roll the d20 twice and main Invisible until
take the best result. you make an attack,
deal damage, or force
a save.
Trapped Environment: M arked for D eath :
You can place three Choose a non-Boss
Traps in free spaces NPC. 1/round when you
on the map. Characters consume a Mark on
that trigger one of the them and successfully

Bolstered: You start Sturdy: Your HP can’t
combat with 4 temp HP. be reduced below
your Bloodied value
until the end of the first
round of combat.
Defensive: An ally of H ardened : You gain
your choice starts com- +2 Armor.
bat with 3 Focus.
Used to Pain: Choose
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Traps take [6 Physical, hit with an attack that
Astral, Lunar, or Force] deals Physical, Force,
(chosen by you at the Astral, or Lunar, the
time of placement) damage is increased by
and must pass an Agil- the result of the highest
ity save or be Slowed die rolled.
until the end of their
next turn.
In the Shadows: You start P ass W ithout T race :
combat Hidden. All PCs start combat

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either Wounds or Over- Hidden and can’t lose
stress. If you would take Hidden until they take
one of the options you a turn or an enemy ends
selected, you can roll a turn adjacent to them.
twice for your wound
or overstress roll and Surprise: You can take Spread Out [Team]: At
take the better result. your first turn during the start of the first
Phase Bolster and round of combat, all
H use any action during PCs can immediately
that phase. move up to their Speed.

Forward Position: When

you deploy for combat,
you can deploy up to
8 spaces further away
than normal.

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 PREPARE SCOUT
Research your enemies, create a plan, and trust in your Perform recon on who you’re fighting and the environment
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preparations to bring you to victory. you’re fighting in to gain an advantage.

HIT CRIT HIT CRIT

Overcome: You over- Surpass: You overcome Overcome: You over- Surpass: You overcome
come a consequence. a consequence and come a consequence. a consequence and
may choose one option may choose one option
from the hit list. from the hit list.

Defensive: An ally of Ready: At the start of Know Positions: You C hange G ear : Once
your choice starts com- each round of com- can move one non- during combat, you
bat with 3 Focus. bat, you can Ready an Boss NPC to another can switch one weapon,
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action. Each action can free space within their support item, ancestry
be readied once. deployment zone. If trait, or technique you
there isn’t a set NPC have equipped, even a
Encyclopedia: You and Plan [Team]: At the start deployment zone, you destroyed one, with a
the other PCs know if of a single round, you can move them to a free different one that you
any deployed enemies can enact your plan. All space within Range 8 . would be able to equip.
have abilities that grant non-boss NPCs count as
resistance or immuni- having base initiative Prioritize: Three ene- Study: You and your al-
ty or that make them 8 until the end of the mies of your choice lies know the current
Vulnerable, and what round. become Marked. HP, Stress, and MP of
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those abilities do. This all enemies.

includes abilities with
conditional triggers Searching Eye: Choose Weak Point: Choose a
(e.g., resistance that an enemy. You and the non-Boss enemy. They
only applies in certain other PCs always know become Vulnerable to
situations). their current HP and Physical, Astral, Lunar,
Stress. or Force (your choice)
Identify: You can learn Restock: You regain all for the rest of the scene.
the ability scores, attri- charges of one Con-
butes, and abilities of sumable ability. Know Enemies: Your ene- Tactical Position: When
one non-boss NPC of mies can’t start combat you deploy, choose two
your choice. Hidden or Invisible options from the list be-
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and can’t become low. If placing cover or

Precast: The first time Well rested: Your Surge Hidden or Invisible terrain, you can place it
you use an ability that level immediately de- during their first turn. in free spaces on the map:
costs MP, it costs –2 MP creases by one.
less than usual. Identify: You can learn Ø Place 4 pieces of
the ability scores, attri- Size 1 hard cover
Prepared: You can switch butes, and abilities of Ø Place 2 pieces of
one intact weapon, one non-Boss NPC of Size 2 hard cover
support item, ancestry your choice. Ø Place 6 spaces of
trait, or technique you difficult terrain
have equipped with a Ø Place 4 spaces of
different one that you dangerous terrain
would be able to equip. (Agility, 5 Physical)
Ø Remove 4 pieces of
HI Size 1 cover
Ø Remove 2 pieces of
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 SWAY
Bluff, lie, or charm your way to your destination.
HIT
Overcome: You over-
come a consequence.
Betrayal: One non-Boss
NPC of your choice is
Disarmed or Silenced
until the end of their
first turn.
C onflicted F eelings :
Non-Boss NPCs take
1 Stress every time
they damage you.
Confused: A non-Boss
NPC of your choice
treats their first Initia-
tive as 8 during the first
round of combat.
Friend: A non-Boss NPC
of your choice receives
+1 on attacks against
you until you deal dam-
age or Stress to them.
S hare : You regain a
Recovery.
WHITTLE
Take out foes and cut your way through to your destination.
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CRIT HIT CRIT
Surpass: You overcome Overcome: You over- Surpass: You overcome
a consequence and come a consequence. a consequence and
may choose one option may choose one option
from the hit list. from the hit list.
Buddy: You can change Adrenaline: You gain Channel Rush: You can
your starting position resistance to Physical, instantly release your
to be adjacent to an Force, Astral, and Lu- first Channel abili-
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enemy of your choice. nar until the end of the ty when used instead
first round. of waiting until Phase
Release.
Turncoat: The GM will
choose a non-Boss NPC Battered: One enemy Wounded: One non-
to change allegiance of your choice deals Boss NPC of your choice
to your side during the half damage on their starts the combat
next combat. They de- first ability that deals with their HP at their
ploy with the PCs, in the damage. Bloodied value.
PC deployment zone.
Bruised: One non-Boss Fear: Enemies that have
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Unprepared Enemies: You NPC of your choice line of sight to you re-
decide where all NPCs is always considered ceive +1 on all attacks
deploy. The GM will tell Bloodied regardless against you.
you the boundaries of how much HP they
within which you can actually have.
deploy.
Limp: One enemy of Crit Fisher: You auto-
False Reports [TEAM]: your choice is Slowed matically score a crit
You gain control over until the end of their on your first attack roll
enemy reinforcements. first turn. of 15+. You then score
The GM shares the list a crit hit on your next
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of reinforcements with Stressed Out: One non- attack roll of 16+. This
you, and you can de- Boss, non-Minion NPC target increases by +1
cide the order in which of the GM’s choice starts every time you score a
they are deployed and combat at their Break- crit on an attack until it
where. You can delay ing point. reaches 20.
creating reinforce-
ments for 1 round, but
otherwise can’t prevent
reinforcements from
appearing.
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 Adversities Consequences
Below is a list of example adversities that might appear Below are the negative effects that you can apply as
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in an adversity challenge. a result of the PCs failing to overcome adversities. The

For example, crossing the Duskwood Forest might players should always be aware of the effects of each
involve “dangerous fauna” and a “monster infestation” adversity they face.
as adversities. For example, a dungeon might have “traps” as an
adversity with “bumps and bruises” as its consequence,
or a bar crawl might have “poisoned’ as an adversity
ADVERSITIES with “unfocused” as its consequence.
As a reminder, consequences only apply to the next
1 Adoring fans combat scene.

2 Ambush
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CONSEQUENCES
3 Armed guards
1 Broken Each PC has one of their weapons
4 Blockade or support items of their choice
destroyed.
5 Dangerous fauna
2 Bumps and Each PC loses a Recovery.
6 Destroyed path Bruises

7 Extreme weather 3 Captured The GM gets to deploy one of the

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PCs in any free space that isn’t

8 Lack of sleep dangerous terrain. That PC is
Immobilized by a set of chains,
9 Locked door which are locked (p. 56). Once
the chains are unlocked, they are
10 Monster infestation no longer Immobilized.

11 People that need help 4 Delayed NPCs act before PCs in each phase.

12 Poisoned 5 Discovered All PCs start the combat Marked.

13 Political machinations 6 Drained The Surge level of all PCs increases

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by one.
14 Rival beacons
7 Exhausted All PCs are Weakened until cleared.
15 Shiny distractions
8 Frustrated All PCs start the combat with their
16 Structural instability Stress at their Breaking point.

17 Time loop 9 Hurt PCs can’t have more HP than their

Bloodied value.
18 Traps
10 Mana-Tapped All PCs start the combat with 0 MP.
19 Unfamiliar terrain
11 Surprised All PCs take their first turns during
20 Unfriendly locals Phase Delay, and can’t perform
reactions or free actions before
that.

12 Unfocused Each PC has one of their techniques

of their choice destroyed.

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Example: The beacons need to destroy a corrupted
crystal deposit at the bottom of a mine. The crystal is
spawning monsters and weakening the ground, so
the GM declares an adversity challenge. They set the
goal as “get to the bottom of the mine” and create
three adversities: “monster infestation”, “destroyed
path”, and “unfamiliar terrain”. They decide this will
be a simple challenge for four PCs, so they create
two consequences: monster infestation will have
the “hurt” consequence and the destroyed path will
have the “delayed” consequence.
The GM describes the scene, explaining how the
mine is old and full of dead ends (unfamiliar terrain)
and damaged minecart rails (destroyed path), which
are the quickest method of navigation. Monsters fill
every corner of the mine, spawned from the crystal
buried deep within (monster infestation).
Dhalia goes first. Because the mine is dark, she
wants to illuminate it. The Scout approach is the
best fit for her plan, so she makes a skill check with
her “Disciple of the Sun” background skill. She gets
a 12, which is a hit. She doesn’t have a good way to
overcome any of the consequences so she holds
onto her choice until the next combat scene.
Barbazar goes next. She wants to use a minecart
to get to the bottom of the mine quickly. Because the
rails are damaged, her plan is to use her incredible
strength to lift and jump the minecarts across the
damaged sections. She picks the Endure approach
and makes a skill check with her “Bend Bars and Lift
Gates” background skill. She rolls a 14, also a hit. One
of her weapons was destroyed in an earlier combat,
so she picks the “Armorer” option to immediately
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repair it.
Mallory wants to get rid of the monsters by
hacking and slashing at them while riding past them
in the minecart. She picks the Whittle approach
and makes a skill check with her “Murderous Ball of
Death” background skill. She rolls a 23, which is a
crit! She chooses the “Surpass” option, overcoming
the monster infestation consequence and holding
her other choice until later.
The GM decides that the actions of the beacons
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have gained the attention of a large monster in
the mine. They describe a giant monster that starts
chasing the PCs down the tunnels, adding a new
adversity (but no new consequences).
Dmitri wants to hold the giant monster off until
they can reach the bottom of the mine. He uses
the Endure approach and his “Perfected Body”
background skill to jump in the monster’s mouth
and keep it from biting anyone. He rolls a 17 and
immediately chooses the “Defensive” option.
Now that every PC has acted, the GM describes
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how the PCs soar down to the bottom cave, the giant
monster stuck in the entrance, too large to enter. The
guardian of the crystal materializes and the beacons
enter a combat scene. Everyone that didn’t already
choose a hit or crit effect from their approach can
do so now. Because no one overcame the “destroyed
path” consequence, all beacons will suffer the effects
of the “hurt” consequence in this combat.
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 5: COMBAT PLAY
This chapter contains the rules governing combat
scenes. Combat scenes are tactical, rules-heavy parts of
the game and the main focus of BEACON. This chapter
explains how combat scenes work, and the rules and
terminology used in combat play.
By default, there are two sides in every combat scene:
the PCs and the NPCs. The rules in this chapter apply to
PCs and NPCs, but NPCs have slight differences that are
explained in Chapter 11: Non-Playable Characters in
the full version of BEACON.
SUMMARY
Combat in BEACON is composed of a few different units
of time: scenes, rounds, phases, and turns.
Scenes: A scene is an entire combat, from beginning
to end. Once the fighting is over, the scene ends.
Rounds: Each combat scene is made up of a number
of rounds, each of which is split up into eight distinct
phases. At the end of the eighth phase, the round ends
and another round begins.
Turns: Each character takes one turn per round, taken
during one of that round’s phases. The action they want
to take on their turn determines which phase they act
in. On their turn, a character can perform their standard
movement, one standard action, one minor action,
and any number of free actions (within reason). Most
NPCs only take one turn per round, but some NPCs
might take multiple turns.
The players and the GM’s NPCs take turns on an
alternating basis, with priority going to whichever side
(PC or NPC) hasn’t acted most recently.
The PCs generally take the first turn in the first round
of a combat scene. When multiple PCs want to take a
turn at the same time, the PCs decide their order, and
if an agreement can’t be made, the GM will decide.
Example: In the first round of combat, two PCs and
one NPC want to act during Phase Skirmish.
No characters have taken a turn yet, so one of the
PCs gets to take the first turn. Once they’ve taken
their turn, the NPC can take their turn, followed by
the final PC.
Later that round, another PC wants to take their
turn during Phase Full Attack. Normally an NPC
could take their turn, but since there are no NPCs that
can act during this phase, the PC takes their turn.
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Phases: Phases are the various stages of the round
during which characters can act. The phase in which a
character takes a turn is usually decided by the action
they want to perform, as each action can only be per-
formed in a specific phase. For example, characters can
only Defend during Phase Bolster and can only
Grapple in Phase Brawl.
At the beginning of each phase, the side whose turn
it is to act can nominate a character to take a turn (as
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long as they haven’t already taken one this round). Once
they’ve taken their turn, the other side may nominate
a character, and so on.
Once all characters that want to take a turn during
a given phase have done so, the next phase begins.
THE BATTLEFIELD
Combat scenes in BEACON are played out on a battle map
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that uses either square or hex-shaped spaces (either is
fine). The battlefield is two-dimensional – it is a flat
plane, with no vertical spaces; however, there are
several mechanisms to represent height advantages,
like a character’s Size and the Flying status (p. 63).
INFORMATION TRANSPARENCY
Information transparency is important in combat scenes.
The players should always know:
Ø The NPC types and templates for all enemies.
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Ø The locations of enemies on the map at all times,
regardless of line of sight or whether they are
Hidden or Invisible.
Ø The conditions and statuses of all enemies.
Ø The battle plan and all relevant goals.
Ø The locations of all Traps.
Ø The mechanics of any abilities or items that NPCs use.
Other information is restricted unless a beacon has a
specific way to access it. This includes the ability scores
and attributes of NPCs and the specific features they
have equipped. Certain abilities, like the Lore Book
support item (p. 218), can provide access to restricted
information.
ENDING THE SCENE
Combat scenes end when all enemies are defeated or
when the combat’s objective has been achieved.
At the end of a combat scene, all effects, conditions,
statuses, and combat resources (Temp HP, Focus) go
away unless explicitly stated.
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 PHASES If an ability lists an action (e.g., Volley), you use
Each round has the following phases: that action to activate the ability instead of the normal
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effects of the action. For example, the Heroic Leap skill

PHASE ACTIONS AVAILABLE requires the Rush action to activate. A beacon can use
this skill when they take the Rush action, but can’t
Bolster Defend Refresh also move up to their Speed per the normal Rush
action effects (p. 44). If an ability requires a minor
Channel Channel action or free action, it can be performed during any
phase as long as it is your turn.
Skirmish Mark Search Volley If an ability lists a phase but not an action (e.g., Phase
Skirmish) activating it requires you to perform it as
Reposition Rush Hide your standard action during the indicated phase, but it
doesn’t count as one of that phase’s basic actions (Vol-
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Brawl Fight Shove Grapple ley, Defend, etc.) for the purposes of triggered effects.
For example, the rank 1 Knight talent Phalanx does
Release Release something when you Defend. Using the Aegis spell
Barrier, which has an activation of Phase Bolster,
Full Attack Full Attack would not trigger that effect, because you are not using
the Defend action.
Delay Delay NPCs take their turns in a different way. Each NPC has
an Initiative score, and they take their turn in whatever
Any Phase Ready phase matches their Initiative. Unlike PCs, though,
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their actions aren’t limited by the current phase. For

TURNS
During their turn, each character can perform one
standard movement, one standard action, one mi-
nor action, and any number of free actions (within
reason) in any order.
Standard movement: A movement of a number of
spaces up to a character’s Speed.
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example, the Ardent NPC type has Initiative 1. They
always take their turn in Phase Bolster, and they
could use their standard action in that phase for any
action, not just Defend or Recover.
Example: Dhalia wants to attack with her bow, which
is a Volley weapon. This requires her to use the
Volley action during Phase Skirmish, because
that phase allows the use of Volley. If she has any
abilities that trigger off of the use of a Volley action,

like the Pincer Strike loot skill, they also go into

Standard action: A basic action available during
the current phase.
Minor action: A quick or simple action, often grant-
ed by an ability.
effect.
Later, Dhalia wants to use her Mock skill from the
Skald class. This skill requires a Phase Skirmish
action to use, so Dhalia can only use it during Phase
Skirmish. Doing so doesn’t count as using a
Mark, Search, or Volley action.

Free action: A special action granted by some abili- SURGING

ties. Characters can take any number of free actions
during their turn (within reason).
Certain abilities will indicate either the phase in
which they can be performed or an action that must
be performed to use them.
For example, a technique that can only be used in
Phase Bolster would say “Phase Bolster”. One
that specifically requires the Defend action – a basic
Phase Bolster action – would say “ Defend”.
Each beacon can Surge once per round. Doing so allows
you to take a second turn at the cost of taking Stress.
Each time you Surge, it costs more Stress.
All beacons have a Surge level, which starts at 0
and determines how much Stress they take from using
Surge (see below). After they Surge, they increase their
Surge level by +1, to a maximum of 3. A beacon’s
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 At the beginning of a Surge turn, before anything
else happens, your beacon takes Stress based on their
Surge level.
Surge turns count as normal turns for the purposes
of effects that start or end in your next turn. When taking
Surge turns, your beacon can perform their standard
movement, standard action, minor action, and free
actions as normal. You can’t Surge before you’ve taken
your first turn in a round.
SURGE LEVEL STRESS COST
0 2 Stress
1 1d3+1 Stress
2 1d6+2 Stress
3 1d6+4 Stress
ALTERNATIVE SURGE RULES
Surge is a powerful tool that allows PCs to change
the game’s action economy. Because of this, some
groups may find that it doesn’t suit their game for
various reasons, like the potential for increased turn
length or the effect it can have on one-shot games.
Here are some alternative rules you can try if
your group wants to rein in the power of the default
Surge rules, although it is recommended that you
try the normal rules first.
Ø Higher starting cost: The beacons start at a high-
er Surge level. For example, they might start at
Surge level 2 instead of 0. This simple change is
often used for one-shot games.
Ø Partial Surge: When beacons Surge, they get
either a standard action, a standard movement,
or a minor action, instead of all three. All other
rules remain the same.
Ø Restricted Surge. PCs can only Surge once per
scene, with a flat cost of 1d6+1 Stress. The human
ancestry’s Adrenaline trait instead grants resis-
tance to Stress from Surge, and the Rimeguard’s
Absolute Zero limit break clears their own Stress
and that of all allies in the scene and grants the
affected characters resistance to all Stress for
the rest of the scene.
ACTIONS
There are four types of actions characters can take:
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standard actions, reactions, minor actions, and free
actions.
Some abilities grant characters additional options
when they use an action. For example, a beacon with
the Rank 3 Brawler talent Submission gains a unique
Channel action. When they Channel, they can
choose to use the effects of Submission instead of one
of their other Channel abilities.
Certain conditions, like Stunned, limit the actions
that a character can take.
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SIMULTANEOUS ACTIONS
When multiple actions or effects would affect a character
at the same time, such as at the beginning of their turn,
the following rules apply:
Actions and effects from other characters apply first:
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Ø Roll checks and saves first.
Ø If there are multiple effects from one character, they
choose the order in which they happen.
Ø If there are effects from multiple characters, the GM
decides the order.
Self-imposed actions and effects apply second:
Ø Roll checks and saves first.
Ø You determine the order.
Example: An enemy Cleaver is starting their turn
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adjacent to Dmitri, who is using the Warden job.
Two effects are triggering at the start of the Cleaver’s
turn. The Cleaver’s Whirlwind skill ends one of its
benefits, and the Warden trait Grasping Vines allows
Dmitri to apply a negative effect to the Cleaver.
Dmitri’s effect will apply first, and the Cleaver’s self-
imposed effect will apply second.
If Dhalia had an effect that was also triggering at
the start of the Cleaver’s turn, the GM would decide
whether Dmitri’s or Dhalia’s effect would happen first.
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 STANDARD ACTIONS
This section lists the standard actions that you can perform on your turn, broken down by phase.
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— Phase 1: Bolster — — Phase 3: Skirmish —

DefendPhase Bolster MarkPhase Skirmish

You gain Focus equal to your Armor+1d3. Until the A character within your Scope and line of sight
start of your next turn, attacks against you are made becomes Marked.
with +1 .

SearchPhase Skirmish
RefreshPhase Bolster
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Choose a character or object within Scope and pick one:

Choose one of the following:
Ø If they are Hidden, you make a contested Mind
Ø Spend a Recovery to regain all HP. check against their Agility. On a success, they are
Ø Clear all Stress. no longer Hidden.
Ø Regain all MP. Ø You learn the target’s ability scores, attributes, and
abilities.
Then choose one of the following:
Ø Reload all Reloading weapons/abilities.
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Ø Clear all Discord. VolleyPhase Skirmish

Ø Clear a condition that wasn’t caused by yourself.
Ø Clear a condition on an adjacent ally that wasn’t You make one of the following attacks:
caused by them.
Ø Ranged attack: Make a ranged attack with an abil-
ity against a target within the ability’s Range. Roll
— Phase 2: Channel — 1d20+Grit. If your result meets or exceeds the tar-
get’s Dodge (or A-Def for Aetheric attacks), it hits.
ChannelPhase Channel Ø Improvised spell attack ( 1 MP ): Make an
Aetheric ranged spell attack against a character
You begin to enact a Channel ability, the effect of within Scope. Roll 1d20+Grit. If your result meets or
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which you can unleash in Phase with the Release exceeds the target’s A-Def, they take 2 Stress .
action. This is the only way to trigger a channeled
ability’s Release effect. Until you release it, you are
considered to be channeling. — Phase 4: Reposition —
While channeling, if you take any damage (after
Armor) or Stress not caused by yourself, you must HidePhase Reposition
pass a Bulk save against the other character’s Save
Target. This is called a concentration save. On a You become Hidden.
failure, you lose concentration: you stop channeling
and the ability fizzles.
You can only channel one ability at a time, and RushPhase Reposition
you can’t Ready the Channel action. You can stop
channeling as a free action. If you don’t make a stan- Choose one of the following:
dard movement this turn, you can do so when you
Release the ability this round. Ø You move up to your Speed.
Channel abilities are considered to be used at the Ø Until the end of the turn, you ignore Engagement
time this action is taken, and any costs (e.g., MP) must be and don’t provoke reactions from movement.
paid at that time. Their effects, including choosing targets,
only happen when they’re released unless the ability
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 — Phase 5: Brawl —
FightPhase Brawl
You make one of the following attacks:
Ø Melee attack: Make a melee attack with an abili-
ty against a target within the ability’s Reach. Roll
1d20+Grit. If your result equals or exceeds the tar-
get’s Dodge (or A-Def for Aetheric attacks), it hits.
Ø Improvised weapon attack: Make a melee
weapon attack against an adjacent target. Roll
1d20+Grit. If your result equals or exceeds the
target’s Dodge, they take 1d3 Physical .
GrapplePhase Brawl
You make a grapple attack:
Ø Grapple attack: Make a melee weapon attack
against an adjacent character. Roll 1d20+Grit. If
your result equals or exceeds the target’s Dodge,
you and the target are both Grappled.
Grapple attacks can be made while you are Disarmed
(p. 62).
ShovePhase Brawl
You make a shove attack:
Ø Shove attack: Make a melee weapon attack
against an adjacent target. Roll 1d20+Grit. You gain
+1 for every Size you are larger than the target,
or +1 for every Size smaller. If your result equals
or exceeds the target’s Dodge, choose one of the
following:
‘ You push them 1 space.
‘ You knock them Prone.
Shove attacks can be made while you are Disarmed
(p. 62).
— Phase 6: Release —
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ReleasePhase Release
You release an ability you are channeling, causing it
to take effect. This is resolved as if you were taking a
turn, following the rules for alternating turns between
PCs and NPCs, but doesn’t count as a turn. Instead of
releasing an effect, you can continue channeling it
and release it during Phase in the next round. You
can’t release an ability if you are Silenced.
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IMPROVISED ATTACKS
Volley and Fight allow characters to make
improvised attacks. Improvised attacks are desper-
ate attacks with whatever is nearby. An improvised
weapon attack might use a nearby rock or even your
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bare hands, while an improvised spell attack might
be an incredibly simple spell or a fragment of a more
complex spell.
Improvised attacks allow characters to always
have the ability to attack and deal damage or Stress,
even if their equipped abilities get destroyed. Impro-
vised attacks don’t require any training to use, and
are usually inferior to equipped abilities.
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 — Phase 7: Full Attack —
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Full AttackPhase Full Attack
1/round, choose one of the following:
Ø You use a Slow ability.
Ø You perform any two of the following actions –
Volley, Fight, Shove, or Grapple. You
can choose the same action twice, but not the same
ability or the same linked pair of weapons.
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WHY CAN’T I USE THE SAME
ABILITY/ACTION TWICE?
To encourage variety. If you could use the same
weapon multiple times, you might find yourself us-
ing your best weapon twice and only using second-
ary options when the primary one is destroyed. This
way you need to use different options, and because
of that, look for interesting synergies.
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WHAT DOES ATTACKING WITH TWO
DIFFERENT WEAPONS LOOK LIKE?
Rounds don’t represent specific amounts of time. A
round could be six seconds, minutes, or even days.
This means you can describe it however you want.
Maybe you wield one weapon in each hand. Maybe
you swap them out. Maybe one gets stuck in your
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foe, and you draw another one. It’s up to you, and
doesn’t matter mechanically.
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— Phase 8: Delay —
DelayPhase Delay
The last chance to take an action during this round.
If you wanted to take an action but the phase had
already passed, you can do so in this phase.
— Any Phase —
Ready Any Phase
You prepare your standard action at a later moment,
turning it into a customizable reaction:
Ø Select a trigger, which must be a specific action,
movement, or reaction taken by any character.
Ø Select your effect, which must be an action or mi-
nor action you can take during your current turn.
Ø Until the start of your next turn, you can perform
that readied action as a reaction when the trigger
is met. If you haven’t used your readied action by
the start of your next turn, the action is lost. You
can’t use any other reactions while you have an
action readied. You can forgo your readied action
at any time.
Example Readied ActionReaction
Trigger: Any enemy moves outside of cover.
Effect: I will Volley at them.
The Ready action is used to set up an action for
later. It can be used during any phase, but the ac-
tion you set up for later is limited by the phase you
are in and it must be an action you can currently
take. For example, if you are Disarmed, you can’t
ready a Volley action to attack with one of your
ranged weapons, because the Disarmed condition
is preventing you from making that weapon attack.
REACTIONS
In addition to actions, you can also perform reactions.
Reactions are special actions that are performed in re-
sponse to specific triggers, even on other characters’ turns.
You can perform one reaction per turn, but there’s
no limit on how many times a specific reaction can be
used unless one is specified (e.g., 1/round).
Some NPCs (typically elite enemies or mini-bosses)
can take more than one turn in a round. For these NPCs,
reaction limits like 1/round reset at the start of each of
their turns and at the start of each new round.
Each reaction has a trigger and an effect. The trigger
is the event or occurrence that needs to take place for
the reaction’s effect to occur. The effect is what happens
when the trigger is met.
Unless otherwise noted, reactions resolve after their
triggers. If a reaction’s trigger is, “when attacked,” the
effect takes place after the attack has been resolved
(including any damage). A reaction with a trigger of,
“when targeted,” or, “when an attack is declared but
before the roll is made,” on the other hand, goes into
effect before the attack happens.
Some effects, like forced movement (p. 55), don’t
provoke reactions even if a reaction’s trigger would
be met.
These are the basic reactions available to all PCs.
You can acquire additional reactions through equipped
abilities.
Counterattack Reaction (1/round)
Focus 1
Trigger: You are hit by an attack from a character
within the Reach of one of your abilities.
Effect: You Volley or Fight against that character
with one of those abilities. Each attack roll can only
be counterattacked once – multiple characters
can’t Counterattack in response to the same
attack roll.
InterposeReaction
Focus 1
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Trigger: An ally within Range 3 is targeted by an
attack.
Effect: You shift up to 2 spaces. If you end this
movement next to the targeted ally, you can choose to
become the target instead, even if you would other-
wise not be a valid target. Each attack roll can only be
interposed once – multiple characters can’t Interpose
in response to the same attack roll.
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Opportunity Attack Reaction (1/round)
Trigger: An enemy begins a movement within the
Reach of one of your abilities.
Effect: You immediately Volley or Fight against
that character with one of those abilities.
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MINOR ACTIONS
You can perform one minor action during your turn.
Minor actions can be used during any phase.
You can acquire minor actions through equipped
abilities.
FREE ACTIONS
Free actions can only be taken during your turn, but
you can perform any number of free actions during
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that turn (within reason).
You can acquire free actions through equipped
abilities.
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 CHARACTERS AND OBJECTS
In combat, everything on the battlefield can be sep-
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arated into two categories: characters and objects.

CHARACTERS
PCs, Summons, and NPCs are all considered charac-
ters. As a general rule, characters are entities capable
of taking some sort of actions, either personally or at
the command of other characters.
A character’s abilities are considered part of that
character, not separate objects or characters (unless
explicitly stated otherwise).
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Allies and Enemies

There are two sides or teams in every combat scene. The
PCs are on one side and the NPC enemies are the other.
Characters in a combat can be allies or enemies of
the other characters. A character friendly to you or on
the same side is an ally; a character hostile to you or on
the other side is an enemy. The same applies in reverse.
You don’t count as your own ally.
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OBJECTS
An object is anything that isn’t a character (or part of
one). The terrain, parts of the environment, and deployed
items (like Traps) are all objects.
Only things that fit this definition count as objects
in the context of the rules. While we might describe a
character’s sword as an object in conversational lan-
guage, it does not count as one in game terms because
it is part of a character. You couldn’t target or affect the
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sword with an ability that targets objects.

Terrain
Terrain is a specific subset of object that includes the
environmental elements in a combat scene – trees,
walls, rocks, and similar. Deployed objects, like Traps,
are objects but don’t count as terrain. Terrain is different
from terrain features (p. 57), which are effects that
modify terrain.
The GM determines what counts as terrain and
what doesn’t.

Interactable Objects and Terrain

Some objects and terrain is interactive, meaning that
characters can use actions on them for specific effects.
Treasure chests, for example, require a minor action
to open.

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ABILITY CHECKS AND SAVES Certain effects (like the Arcing and Homing tags)
In combat, players make ability checks and saves allow you to bypass the usual rules regarding line of

instead of skill checks.
Ability check and save summary:
Roll 1d20 + indicated ability score + or .
Effects that prompt ability checks or saves indicate which
ability score – Bulk, Agility, Mind, or Magic – is used for
the roll. Background skills, Grit, and titles don’t apply.
To succeed on an ability check, you need a result of 10+.
To succeed on a save, your result must equal or
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sight. These tags not only allow you to draw line of
sight in situations where you normally couldn’t, but
also allow for one-directional line of sight.
Determining Line of Sight
To determine line of sight, draw a straight line from the
corner of one of the spaces you occupy to a corner of
one of the spaces occupied by the target. If the line
crosses a piece of hard cover that is a larger Size than
both parties, then line of sight is blocked.

exceed the Save Target of the initiator, or 10 if not
otherwise specified.
TARGETING
Abilities can either affect their user or target something
else on the battlefield. Targeted abilities, like attacks, can
be affected by obstacles or the layout of the battlefield.
To target something with an ability or effect, the
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Example: You and your enemy are both Size 1, and
are on opposite sides of a Size 3 wall. Neither of
you can draw line of sight to the other; however, if
you have a weapon with the Arcing tag, you could
shoot over the wall and the enemy still wouldn’t
have line of sight to you.

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potential target must be:

Ø within line of sight (p. 49);

Ø within Range or Reach (p. 53); and
Ø either a character, a space on the battlefield, or an
SIZE 3 SIZE 3
object (p. 48).

You can’t attack yourself unless otherwise indicated.

A B C
LINE OF SIGHT

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All abilities require a clear path to their target, known FIGURE 1:
as line of sight, unless otherwise noted. Example A: Line of sight can be drawn and
there is no cover.
Line of sight refers to a clear line of effect to a target. Example B: Line of sight cannot be drawn.
Walls and other sufficiently large objects can block line Example C: Line of sight can be drawn, but
of sight, while smaller objects like crates or shrubs might cover applies.
provide cover instead of fully blocking line of sight (p.
50). While BEACON doesn’t represent or measure
vertical space, the Size of characters and objects is
used as a way to determine line of sight.
Line of sight is reciprocal. If you can draw line of
sight to another character, then the second character
also has line of sight to you.
Line of sight does not literally require sight. For
example, a character with no eyes can still draw line of
sight, and a transparent wall of force still blocks line of
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 COVER
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Objects on the battlefield can provide cover.
Cover imposes on attacks and can block line of
sight, depending on whether it is hard cover or
soft cover.
Cover is most often an object, but it can also be a zone
(p. 53) or effect. Some abilities can create pieces of
cover on the battlefield. These created pieces of cover
count as objects.
Pieces of cover have Sizes just like PCs. A Size 1
piece of cover fills 1 space, a Size 2 piece of cover fills
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a 2 × 2 space, and so on. Cover can sometimes cover
more spaces than its Size would normally indicate; for
example, a tall, thin column might only occupy 1 space
despite being considered Size 3, or a continuous wall
surrounding a castle might be Size 2, but occupy all
the spaces around the castle.
You can only benefit from cover if it’s the same Size
as you or larger. For example, a Size 2 character does not
gain the benefits of cover from a Size 1 piece of cover.
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There are two types of cover: soft cover and hard
cover. Soft cover and hard cover don’t combine with
each other. If you would gain the benefits of both soft
and hard cover, you count as having hard cover.
Soft Cover
Soft cover grants +1 to attacks, but doesn’t block
line of sight.
Soft cover is either cover that partly blocks a character,
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or isn’t strong enough to fully shield them from attacks,
like smoke or thin walls.
Hard Cover
Hard cover grants +2 to attacks and can block
line of sight.
Hard cover is cover that is large or strong enough to
reliably block attacks, like thick walls.
To benefit from hard cover, you must be adjacent
to the source of cover. Otherwise, it only provides soft
cover. Hard cover blocks line of sight.
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In Figure 1: Example B, the hard cover blocking line
of sight means neither character has line of sight to the
other. In Example C, they’ve positioned themselves so
they have line of sight to each other, but cover applies.
Because both characters are adjacent to the cover, they
both benefit from hard cover. If one character was to
move away from the cover, they would instead only
benefit from soft cover, while their enemy retains hard
cover for remaining adjacent to it.
Determining Cover
To determine if cover affects an attack, draw a line from
the center of the space you occupy to the center of the
target. If the line crosses any cover that is the same Size
as the target or larger, your attack receives .
Abilities with the Indirect or Homing tags ignore
the effects of cover. Abilities with the Arcing tag, on
the other hand, don’t have their line of sight blocked
by cover, but are still affected by the cover provides.
FIGURE 2:
Example A: The soft cover does not break line
of sight, but both characters gain
cover.
Example B: The cover doesn’t break line of sight
because it isn’t larger than both
characters. Neither character is
adjacent to the cover, so they gain
soft cover instead of hard cover.
Example C: As with B, but the smaller character
gains hard cover because they are
adjacent to the cover.
Bypassing Cover
You can ignore the effects of cover you are adjacent to,
as long as you can aim over, through, or around said
cover. You must be the same Size as or larger than
the cover to aim over it. The GM has the final say on
whether a character can bypass a specific piece of cover.
As a guideline, you can ignore a number of spaces
of cover equal to your Size when aiming over, through,
or around said cover.
FIGURE 3:
Example A: The Size 2 character can choose
to bypass the cover because they
can shoot over it. They still benefit
from hard cover against attacks
from the Size 1 character.
Example B: The Size 2 character can ignore
the cover from the corner of the
hallway because they can shoot
around it. They still benefit from
hard cover against attacks from
the Size 1 character.
Example C: Both characters can shoot over
the pillar because they are the
same Size as it; however, due to its
length, the GM decides they can’t
bypass it since they can’t shoot
over the entire length of the pillar.
ATTACKS
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Attack roll summary: Roll 1d20 + Grit + or .
Attacks are attempts by characters to hit and harm
something with weapons, magic, or other means.
To hit your target, your result must equal or exceed
their defense (either Dodge or A-Def, depending on
the type of attack).
Once an attack hits, any “on-hit” effects apply, with
the attacker choosing the order when there are multi-
ple such effects. Damage is the most common type of
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on-hit effect (p. 58), but many abilities have unique
on-hit effects.
ATTACK TYPES
Attacks can be either melee attacks or ranged attacks.
They can be further categorized as weapon, spell,
support or skill attacks, depending on their source.
Some abilities reference reaction attacks. These are
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attacks made with a reaction, like Counterattack.
All attacks have a Range or Reach (or both), which
indicates the maximum number of spaces within which
an attack can be made. Range and Reach are measured
from the edge of one of the attacker’s spaces. At least
one of the target’s spaces must be within an attack’s
Range or Reach to be targeted by the attack.
See pages p. 53 for more information on Range
and Reach.
Melee Attacks
Melee attacks ignore cover (p. 50).
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Most melee attacks have a Reach, which indicates
the range of the attack. Reach is also used for certain
actions like Opportunity Attack.
For example, the Dragon Rider’s Longinus ability is a
melee weapon. Therefore, attacks with it are considered
melee weapon attacks. It has Reach 3, which means
it can be used to attack enemies up to 3 spaces away.
Longinus Fight
Melee Weapon  Heavy Longarm
Reach 3 1d6+4 Physical
This weapon gains Piercing when attacking targets
at its maximum Reach.
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 Ranged Attacks
Most ranged attacks have a Range, which indicates the
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range of the attack – the number of spaces within which
it can be used to attack. Some ranged spell attacks list
their Range as “ Range = Scope ”, which means that
the Range is equal to the user’s Scope.
For example, the Phoenix’s Immolate ability is a
ranged spell attack. Therefore, attacks with it are con-
sidered ranged spell attacks. It has a Range equal to the
user’s Scope, and can attack targets within that range.
Immolate Volley
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Ranged Spell Attack  1 Memory  Aetheric,
Indirect  Range = Scope 2 Discord    REROLL TABLE
On Hit: Choose one of the following:
Ø Building Fire: If the target already has Discord,
this attack deals 1d3+1 Discord instead of 2.
Ø Spontaneous Combustion: You can spend 1 MP
to deal 1 Discord to all enemies in a Burst 1
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AOE around the target.
Some ranged attacks also have a Reach, but they are
still considered ranged attacks. Reach, in these cases,
is used for certain actions like Opportunity Attack,
but doesn’t change the attack to a melee attack.
ATTACKS VS. ATTACK ROLLS
An attack can be composed of either a single attack
roll, or in the case of abilities that affect an area,
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multiple attack rolls.
When an ability refers to an attack, it means
all of the attack rolls made as part of that attack.
Anything that mentions an attack roll references
a single roll, even if the attack involves multiple
attack rolls.
AUTO-HIT
Certain abilities auto-hit their targets, meaning they
automatically hit with no attack roll. Abilities with an
auto-hit are considered attacks even though the attack
roll doesn’t take place. Interpose can still be used
against auto-hit effects.
Not every ability that deals automatic damage is an
attack – only those that specifically state they auto-hit
count as attacks.
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CRITICAL HITS
On a result of 20+, an attack roll is a crit. Roll all
damage dice twice and take the highest result.
Critical hits do more damage than normal hits. Critical
hits only affect damage rolls, not Stress or static damage
(e.g., 2 Physical ).
For example, if you critically hit with an attack that
deals 2d6+2 Physical , you would roll 4d6, take the
highest two, and add +2. If you rolled 4, 2, 6, and 3, you
would use the 4 and 6.
When making an attack, ability check, or save in combat,
you can reroll the dice by using the Reroll Table. To use
the table, you choose one of the listed options and reroll
all dice for one roll (including or ). Each option from
the table can only be chosen once per round.
You can choose to reroll a dice after rolling, but
before it is resolved as a failure or a success. For exam-
ple, rerolling to turn a missed attack into a hit doesn’t
mean that you actually missed the attack on the first
try. As such, it doesn’t prompt any effects that trigger
on misses (like Reliable damage).
REROLL TABLE
STRAIN You take 1d3 Stress.
ENDANGER You become Marked. You can’t use
this option if you are Marked. This
doesn’t count as a condition that
you’ve given yourself.
OVEREXTEND You can only choose this option if you
are adjacent to an enemy or within
Reach of an enemy’s weapon. The
enemy can choose one of the follow-
ing, which resolves before you reroll:
Ø They make an Opportunity
Attack against you.
Ø They deal 3 Physical to you as
a reaction.
RANGE, REACH, AND
AREA OF EFFECT
Many abilities have a Range or Reach, which indicates
the maximum number of spaces within which it can be
used. Range and Reach work in the same way, but some
effects trigger based on one or the other, not both.
Range and Reach are measured from the edge of
one space to another. A target must have at least one
of its spaces within an ability’s Range (or Reach) to be
targeted by the ability.
When an ability originates from a source larger
than 1 space – a Size 2 character, for instance – the
character using the ability decides which space to use
as the point of origin.
For example, two adjacent characters are within
1 space of each other, which means any ability with
Range 1 or greater could target them.
AREA OF EFFECT
Abilities and effects with an area of effect (AOE)
affect multiple targets or spaces.
Abilities and effects with an AOE affect all targets within
the indicated area. This area is the AOE. When making
an AOE attack, you make attack rolls against each
target in the area. Damage, on the other hand, is
only rolled once, and applied to every affected target.
There are several different types of AOE, including
Line (which affects all targets in a straight line) and
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Blast (which affects all targets within a certain radius).
If an effect lists a Range/Reach and an AOE, you
can place the AOE’s point of origin anywhere within
the indicated Range/Reach. For example, if you have a
Range 8, Line 5 effect, you can draw the Line 5 from
any point within Range 8 and pointed in any direction.
Zones
Zones are persistent AOEs that have ongoing effects.
For example, at rank 1, the Leyline Walker talent allows
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a character to create Blast 1 zones that last until the
end of the combat scene. Their AOE is Blast 1 , but
because they’re zones the effect is ongoing.
Standard Areas of Effect
Blast X: Affects all targets within a radius of X
spaces from the center space, including the center
space. Cover and line of sight are calculated from the
center space. Users can be affected by their own Blast.
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Close Blast X: As a Blast, but:
Ø at least 1 space must be adjacent to the user
Ø the user can’t be in the area
Ø cover and line of sight are calculated from the
user.
Burst X: Affects all targets within a radius of X
spaces from the edge of the spaces occupied by
the target, including the target’s spaces but excluding
the target itself. Cover and line of sight are calculated
from the edge of the spaces occupied by the target. If
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a Burst forms a zone, the zone moves with the target.
Line X: Affects all targets in a straight line with a
length of X spaces and a width of 1 space, drawn
directly away from you in any direction.
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Characters can move around the battlefield in various
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ways, including with their standard movement, or using
special types of movement like flight and teleportation.
On your character’s turn, you can use their standard
movement to move a number of spaces equal to
their Speed. Certain abilities can also move charac-
ters at other times.
Most of the time, entering an adjacent space counts as
moving 1 space. This is its movement cost. But some
effects, like difficult terrain (p. 56), can change the
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movement cost required to enter a space. Moving into
these spaces requires characters to spend more of their
total available movement. If a character doesn’t have
enough movement to enter a space, they can’t move
into that space.
Characters can move in any direction, even diago-
nally, and can move into any adjacent space that isn’t
obstructed or impassable (see below). Movement is
always made on the horizontal plane; characters can’t
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move vertically up or down.
To be considered moving, a character must move at
least 1 space. Standing up from Prone doesn’t count
as movement.
Movement can be voluntary or involuntary. Vol-
untary movement is any movement that a character
willingly takes. For example, a character taking their
standard movement would consider the movement
voluntary. Involuntary movement is not willingly taken
by the character moving and is usually forced upon
them, like forced movement (p. 55).
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LARGE CHARACTERS
Characters of Size 2+ occupy multiple spaces, and
therefore enter more than 1 space when moving.
When a Size 2+ character moves into multiple spaces
with different movement costs, use the highest cost.
For example, a Size 2 orc occupies a 2 × 2 space on
the battlefield. They want to move forward 1 space,
which involves moving into two new spaces. One of
these spaces is difficult terrain, which costs 2 spaces
of movement to enter, and the other is a normal
space that costs 1. The orc would have to spend 2
spaces of movement to move forward.
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SPLITTING UP MOVEMENT
Voluntary movements can be split into any num-
ber of smaller movements punctuated by actions.
Involuntary movements cannot.
For example, a character with Speed 6 could, when
performing their standard movement, move 2 spaces,
take an action, and then move 4 spaces.
If you can make multiple attacks with one action,
they can move in between each attack.
Example: Dmitri wants to Full Attack an enemy 3
spaces away. He has Speed 6, so he uses his standard
movement, moving 2 spaces so that he is adjacent to
the enemy. His first attack is with his club, and with
a lucky damage roll he defeats that enemy! He still
has one more attack he can make from the Full
Attack action, and 4 more spaces of movement left
from his standard movement. There’s another enemy
4 spaces away, so he uses the rest of his movement
to get to that enemy and make his second attack.
SPECIAL MOVEMENT
Some forms of movement, like flight, have special rules.
You only benefit from these special forms of movement
if an ability or effect explicitly says so.
SHIFTING
A shift is a special movement granted by some abil-
ities that doesn’t provoke reactions and ignores
Engagement.
You can’t shift if you are Slowed or Immobilized.
TELEPORTATION
Teleportation is a special movement in which a
character instantly travels between two spaces.
Teleportation does not require line of sight, doesn’t
provoke reactions, and ignores Engagement.
Teleportation counts as movement, and always counts
as moving 1 space, regardless of the distance traveled.
Immobilized characters can’t teleport themselves, since
they can’t perform any movement.
If you try to teleport into a space you can’t occupy,
like impassable terrain or another character, the teleport
fails and the action is lost.
FLIGHT
Characters with flight have the ability to fight on
the ground or in the air.
Characters with flight can can either take off, gaining
the Flying status, or land on the ground, clearing the
status, as a free action once per turn. They can also
choose to start combat scenes Flying.
Flight can be continuous, like with the draken an-
cestry trait Draconic Wings, or temporary, like with
the Dragon Rider’s ability Dragon Saddle. Abilities
that say to fly a certain number of spaces mean to
move that number of spaces as if under the effects of
the Flying status.
While a character is Flying, the following effects
apply:
Ø Non-thrown melee attacks from non- Flying
characters gain +2 against them.
Ø They can move normally over and are immune to the
effects of terrain, obstructions, and terrain features,
but cannot benefit from or interact with them either.
When flying over objects, they are considered to
have their Size increased by the Size of whatever
they are flying over for the purposes of determining
line of sight and cover, as if they were climbing.
Ø They cannot benefit from cover from terrain or
objects.
Ø When attacking non-Flying characters, they treat
their target’s cover from terrain and objects as one
step lower (hard cover becomes soft cover, soft cover
becomes no cover).
Ø They don’t trigger Traps but can still be affected
by them.
Ø They ignore Engagement and don’t cause
Engagement.
Ø They cease to be Flying if they become Prone.
CLIMBING
Climbing is a special movement that allows charac-
ters to move atop objects such as terrain.
Climbing has a movement cost equal to the object’s Size
+ 1. For example, climbing onto a Size 1 crate costs 2
spaces worth of movement, while climbing atop a Size 4
wall costs 5 spaces of movement.
You cannot partially climb an object. If you can’t
move enough spaces to reach the top, you can’t climb.
Moving from the top of an object to lower ground
doesn’t count as climbing.
Characters standing atop objects are considered to
have their Size increased by the Size of whatever they
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are standing on for the purposes of determining line
of sight and cover.
In BEACON, climbing is just a way to move. It doesn’t
provide any direct offensive or defensive benefits.
High ground, a special type of terrain, pro-
vides the benefits one might associate with having
a height advantage. See Terrain Features (p. 57)
for more information.
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SQUEEZING
Squeezing is a special movement that allows char-
acters to fit into smaller spaces.
You can squeeze into spaces one Size smaller than you,
but while in such a space, the cost of all movements
is increased by +1.
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FORCED MOVEMENT
Forced movement is any involuntary movement
that pushes, pulls, or causes a character to slide.
Each type of forced movement has its own rules:
Ø Push: Characters and objects that are pushed move
in a straight line directly away from the point of
origin.
Ø Pull: Characters and objects that are pulled are
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drawn in a straight line directly towards the point
of origin.
Ø Slide: Characters and objects that slide can move in
any direction, chosen by the one causing the forced
movement.
Forced movements do not provoke reactions and
ignore Engagement. You can’t be forcibly moved into
a space you can’t enter. For example, if there is a space
only reachable by Flying units, a non-Flying character
can’t be pushed into it, but a Flying one could.
In some instances, you may be able to subject yourself
to a push, pull, or slide effect. Even if you do so willingly,
it still counts as involuntary movement.
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 OBSTRUCTION
Getting Started
Characters and objects block movement into the
spaces they occupy. This is called obstruction.
Obstructions prevent movement if they are the same
Size as the moving character or larger.
If an obstruction is an allied character or an enemy
character smaller than you, they do not count as an
obstruction and you can move through their spaces;
however, you can’t end a movement sharing spaces
with another character.
If an obstruction is an object that is smaller than you,
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you can climb on it at no additional movement cost.
ENGAGEMENT
Characters gain the Engaged status when they are
adjacent to one or more enemies. This is called En-
gagement.
When you become Engaged with an enemy of your Size
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or larger, your movement ends and you lose any unused
movement. Once Engaged, you can begin new move-
ments normally. Moving adjacent to a character with who
you are already Engaged doesn’t stop your movement,
since you are still Engaged. The movement-ending
effect only occurs when Engaged is applied.
While Engaged, you receive +1 to all ranged attacks.
DIFFICULT TERRAIN
Difficult terrain is anything that slows movement,
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like mud, water, or thick grass. Difficult terrain has
+1 movement cost.
For example, if Dhalia has Speed 5, she can normally
move 5 spaces. If she moves into a space of difficult
terrain, it would cost 2 spaces worth of movement
instead 1. She would only have 3 spaces of movement
left, even though she only moved one space.
DANGEROUS TERRAIN
Dangerous terrain is any type of terrain that can
cause damage, like lava or thorns.
1/round, when you enter dangerous terrain or
end your turn in it, you must make an ability check of
the GM’s choice. Failure: You take 5 damage of any
type or Stress based on the type of terrain.
For example, if the ground is covered in freezing water,
the GM might decide that it triggers a Bulk check and
deals Lunar damage.
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ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS
Environmental factors are effects that alter combat
scenes, individual spaces, or even objects. Some apply
to the entire combat scene, while others affect char-
acters in smaller areas, such as in the case of a room
with poor visibility.
This section lists some of the more common envi-
ronmental factors. A full list of environmental factors
can be found in Chapter 10: Game Master’s Guide in
the full version of BEACON.
LOCKS
Doors, gates, and treasure chests can all be locked,
preventing them from being opened. A locked en-
trance – a bolted door, for instance – can’t be moved
through. The contents of chests and other objects that
are locked can’t be accessed.
To unlock something, you can make an Agility check
as part of the action to interact with it. On a success,
the lock is disabled and the object is opened.
LOW VISIBILITY
Low visibility can represent darkness, fog, and other ef-
fects that make it hard to see. It affects how far characters
can see, and makes it harder to find Hidden characters.
Low visibility has the following effects:
Ø Characters are Invisible while Hidden.
Ø Scope and the Range of all weapons are reduced by
half. Reach and AOEs are not affected.
UNDERWATER/ZERO-GRAVITY
Combat scenes that take place completely underwater
or in zero-gravity treat all characters as Flying. Howev-
er, unless they have flight or an Aquatic Adaptation
(granted by certain abilities), they can’t Rush or shift.
ADAPTATIONS
Some abilities grant an adaptation to specific types of
environments, like Aquatic Adaptation. Characters with
an adaptation to an environment are immune to any of its
negative effects. If it’s not clear whether an effect is nega-
tive or not, the character with the adaptation can decide.
Adaptations only affect the character with an adaptation.
The Low Visibility environmental factor, for example,
states that all characters are Invisible while Hidden.
A character with an adaptation to that environment
could decide that they don’t want to be Invisible while
Hidden, because that affects them directly, but they
couldn’t ignore the Invisible status on other Hidden
characters, because that’s an effect on other characters.
TERRAIN FEATURES
Terrain features modify spaces and terrain on the battle-
field. While they generally affect single spaces, multiple
terrain features can be placed next to each other to
create a continuous feature. For example, you can have
a single space of lava as dangerous terrain, but you
could also connect multiple lava spaces to create a lava
flow, all of which count as the same piece of dangerous
terrain. Cover (p. 50), difficult terrain (p. 56), and
dangerous terrain (p. 56) all count as terrain features.
This section lists some of the most common terrain
features. A full list of terrain features can be found in
Chapter 10: Game Master’s Guide in the full version
of BEACON.
EMPTY SPACE/FREE SPACE
A free space is a space that doesn’t contain any char-
acters or objects. Empty spaces, on the other hand, are
more specific than free spaces. Empty spaces are those
that don’t contain any characters, objects, terrain, or
terrain features.
Some abilities affect free spaces, while others will
affect empty spaces only.
HIGH GROUND
High ground provides benefits that represent being
at a higher elevation than other characters, similar to
those received when Flying. Characters standing on
high ground gain the following benefits:
Ø Non-thrown melee attacks against them from non-
Flying characters that aren’t on high ground receive
+2 .
Ø They neither become Engaged by nor cause
engagement to non-Flying characters that aren’t
on high ground.
Ø Their attacks gain +1 against non- Flying
characters that aren’t on high ground.
Accessing high ground sometimes requires special
movement, like flying or climbing.
IMPASSABLE TERRAIN
Impassable terrain is any terrain, like a wall or a cliff,
that cannot normally be traversed except by characters
who possess a type of movement that allows them to
do so, like flying or climbing. Some impassable terrain
cannot be entered at all (e.g., a pillar that reaches up to
the ceiling or the walls of an underground dungeon).
TRAPS
Traps are interactable objects with the Trap tag (p.
65). While many Traps are PC or NPC abilities, you
can use these Traps to represent Traps already on the
battlefield.
DAMAGE TRAP
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The triggering character takes 6/8/10 damage of any
type, chosen when the Trap is set.
AREA DAMAGE TRAP
When triggered, all characters in a Burst 1 AOE must
make a save of the GM’s choice. Failure: The target
takes 6/8/10 damage of any type, chosen when the
Trap is set. Success: They take 3/4/5 damage instead.
CONDITION TRAP
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The triggering character gains a condition based on
the type of Trap. Immobilized, Slowed, and Blinded
are common.
AREA CONDITION TRAP
When triggered, all characters in a Burst 1 AOE must
make a save of the GM’s choice. Failure: They gain a
condition, chosen when the Trap is set.
TREASURE CHESTS
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Treasure chests are objects that don’t cause obstruction
and that contain bonus effects for the players, chosen
from the table below. Players always know the contents
of chests. The GM can decide if the bonuses apply to the
character that opened the chest or everyone on their
team. Some bonuses provide immediate effects, while
others provide delayed effects or permanent resources.
Chests can be accessed with a minor action while
in their space, but might be locked (see the locked
environmental feature).
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EXAMPLE CHEST REWARDS
1 A reroll on the next loot crate’s first slot. Subsequent
instances of this bonus increase the slot that can be
rerolled. For example, getting this reward twice means
that you can reroll either the first or second slot.
2 +X gold
3 +X Recoveries
4 Repair a destroyed weapon/support item/technique
5 A specific piece of loot
6 Regain X uses of a Consumable ability
7 Increase current and total MP by X for the rest of
the scene
8 Clear all Stress
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 DAMAGE AND STRESS
Characters inflict harm on their enemies to wear them
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down and eventually defeat them. The most common
sources of damage are attacks, but other abilities and
effects can also inflict damage.
When you take damage, you subtract the damage
taken from your current HP. For example, if you would
take 5 Physical , your HP would be reduced by 5. Ar-
mor (p. 15) and other effects can change the amount
of damage you take. When your HP reaches 0, you take
a Wound (p. 60).
Stress is another type of harm separate from damage.
Stress is accumulated until it exceeds your Stress Cap,
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at which point you take an Overstress (p. 60).
There are five standard types of damage – Physical,
Force, Astral, Lunar, and Discord:
Physical: Damage from slashing, bludgeoning,
and piercing weapons, and other physical sources.
Force: Damage caused by explosions and pure
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arcane energies.
Astral: Damage caused by heat, light, and other
energy sources associated with the radiance of
stars. Fire, light, and electricity are commonly
associated with the Astral.
Lunar: Damage caused by cold, darkness, and
other energy sources associated with the stillness
of the moon. Ice, dark, and acid are commonly
associated with the Lunar.
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Discord: Damage that disrupts aetheric fields and
puts its victims into a state of aetheric discord,
like poison, burns, and blood loss, sapping the
sufferer’s lifeforce over time.
Physical, Force, Astral, and Lunar damage all function
the same way, but certain abilities can make characters
Vulnerable, resistant, or immune to certain damage
types (see facing page).
Discord has additional rules associated with it, as
it has a damage over time component (see below).
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ORDER OF DAMAGE
To determine the final amount of damage dealt by
any given action or effect, follow these steps in order:
1 Roll damage and bonus damage.
2 Halve bonus damage if there is more than one target.
3 Apply the effects of Weakened or Vulnerable,
where relevant.
4 Subtract damage equal to the target’s Armor.
5 If resistance applies, halve any relevant remaining
damage.
6 Deal the remaining damage (rounded up) to the target.
DISCORD
Discord is a unique type of damage that deals
discord damage to its victim’s HP over time. It
stacks with other Discord (see below) and is always
Piercing.
Discord applies damage every turn. Whenever you
take Discord, you immediately take Piercing Discord
damage equal to the amount of Discord gained. You
then make a note of the amount of Discord gained,
adding it to any Discord you already have.
Make a Magic check at the end of each of your
turns while you have Discord. Success: You clear all
Discord. Failure: You take Discord damage equal to
your current Discord.
Discord levels stacks. For example, if you have 2
Discord and gain another 2 Discord, you would have
a total of 4 Discord.
Resistance and Vulnerable apply only to the up-
front Discord you take (and, therefore, the amount of
ongoing Discord you gain), not to the discord damage
you take if you fail the Magic check to clear it.
STRESS
Stress is a special type of harm that doesn’t
count as damage, and doesn’t affect the
recipient’s HP.
Instead of being subtracted from your HP, Stress is accumu-
lated. When your Stress exceeds your Breaking point, you
gain the Breaking status (p. 63), and when it exceeds
your Stress Cap, you take an Overstress (p. 60).
Some characters (like Summons) don’t have a Stress
Cap. If these characters would take Stress, they instead
take the same amount of Force.
 Because Stress isn’t damage, it ignores Armor and
effects that modify damage don’t modify Stress unless
otherwise indicated. Taking Stress doesn’t count as
taking damage.
BONUS DAMAGE
Bonus damage is additional damage added onto an
existing source of damage. Bonus damage is granted
by abilities and effects.
Bonus damage is only ever added to successful attacks
or abilities that deal damage. It can only be Physical,
Astral, Lunar, or Force damage (not Discord or Stress).
Its type is the same as that of the underlying, basic
damage, unless otherwise indicated. If an attack or
ability normally deals multiple types of damage (e.g.,
Physical and Lunar), the character dealing the damage
picks one for the bonus damage.
Effects with more than one target, like AOE attacks,
only deal half their bonus damage to each target. Im-
portantly, this applies only if there is more than one
target, not if there could be multiple targets. If you attack
with a Blast 1 explosion but there is only one target
in the area, they take the full bonus damage. If there
are two targets, the bonus damage would be halved.
Linked attacks don’t deal bonus damage – only the
first attack in the linked pair does.
VULNERABLE AND WEAKENED
The Vulnerable and Weakened conditions af-
fect how much damage characters take and deal.
Vulnerable characters take double damage, and
Weakened characters deal half damage.
Modifications to damage from Vulnerable and Weak-
ened happen before Armor and resistances. The full
rules of these conditions can be found later in this
chapter (p. 62).
Example: Dhalia is currently Weakened and uses a
spell attack that deals 4 Astral . Her damage is
reduced to 2 Astral because of her Weakened
condition. If her target has 1 Armor, they would take
a total of 1 Astral from Dhalia’s attack.
Dmitri, on the other hand, is currently Vulnerable
to Lunar damage. He triggers a Trap that explodes
and deals 4 Lunar . Because he is Vulnerable
to that damage type, he instead takes 8 Lunar .
Dmitri then subtracts his 2 Armor, taking a total
of 6 Lunar .
ARMOR, RESISTANCE, AND IMMUNITY
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Armor reduces a set amount of damage, resistance
halves damage, and immunity reduces damage to
0. Resistance and immunity often apply to specific
types of damage.
Armor reduces incoming Physical, Astral, Lunar, and
Force equal to its value. Armor does not reduce Stress
or Discord. For example, 2 Armor would reduce Physical
damage taken from an attack by 2.
Armor applies to each separate source of damage.
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For example, if you are hit by two attacks in a turn,
Armor would apply to each attack.
Resistance halves any incoming damage of an in-
dicated type, or even Stress. For example, if you would
take 10 Astral and have resistance to Astral, you
only take 5 Astral .
Immunity negates all incoming damage or Stress
from whatever it is you have immunity against. For
example, if you would take 4 Stress and have
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Immunity to Stress, you take no Stress at all.
OBJECT AND TERRAIN DAMAGE
Objects and pieces of terrain can take damage. By
default, they have 10 HP per Size, 5 Dodge, and are
immune to Aetheric attacks and Stress.
The GM may allow objects and terrain to be broken
in smaller segments. For example, you might punch
a hole through a wall instead of destroying the entire
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wall at once.
In some cases, the GM may allow for objects or terrain
to be broken with successful a Bulk check. This might
be the case if you try to ram down a wooden door.
In general, the ground does not take damage. This
can be ignored in certain situations, like if you want to
destroy the floor in a house to fall into the basement.
But in most cases, no one needs to track how much
damage the ground is taking.
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 WOUNDS AND OVERSTRESS
In combat, characters can receive Wounds or become Overstressed
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Overstressed. As they accumulate Wounds and Over-

stresses, their combat performance weakens until they
are no longer able to fight.
Wounds
When a character reaches 0 HP, they take a Wound
and make a wound roll.
When you reach 0 HP, you take a Wound and reset your
HP, carrying over any excess damage. You then make a
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When a PC takes Stress in excess of their Stress Cap,
they take an Overstress. NPCs follow different rules
when they exceed their Stress Cap.
When you take Stress, it accumulates until it exceeds
your Stress Cap. If you go over your Stress Cap, you take
an Overstress and reset your Stress, carrying over any
excess Stress. If this causes you to exceed your Stress
Cap a second time, you take another Overstress. When
you receive an Overstress, you also make an overstress

wound roll by rolling 1d6 and consulting the Wound
Table to see what additional penalties you suffer.
Beacons have a Wound Cap of 4, while NPCs usually
have different Wound Caps. When you have Wounds
equal to your Wound Cap, you are defeated.
roll by rolling 1d6 and consulting the Overstress Table
to see what additional penalties you suffer.
Beacons have an Overstress Cap of 4, while NPCs
usually have different Overstress Caps. When you
have Overstresses equal to your Overstress Cap, you
are defeated.

WOUND TABLE Roll 1d6 and consult the relevant column based on the number of Wounds you have remaining.
3 2 1 DESCRIPTION
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5-6 6 - Dazed: You are Dazed until the end of your next turn.

3-4 4-5 5-6 Broken Weapon: Destroy one of your weapons. Limited and Consumable equipment
can only be selected if they have charges remaining. If you can’t destroy a weapon, this
becomes the Broken Support Item result. If you can’t destroy a support item either, this
becomes the Staggered result.

1-2 2-3 3-4 Broken Support Item: Destroy one of your support items. Limited and Consumable
equipment can only be selected if they have charges remaining. If you can’t destroy a sup-
port item, this becomes the Broken Weapon result. If you can’t destroy a weapon either,
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this becomes the Staggered result.

- 1 1-2 Staggered: You are Slowed and Stunned until the end of your next turn.

OVERSTRESS TABLE Roll 1d6 and consult the relevant column based on the number of Overstresses you have remaining.
3 2 1 DESCRIPTION

5-6 6 - Dazed: You are Dazed until the end of your next turn.

3-4 4-5 5-6 Broken Tech: Destroy one of your techniques. Limited and Consumable techniques
can only be selected if they have charges remaining. If you can’t destroy a technique, this
becomes the Lost Mana result. If you can’t do that, this becomes the Exposed result.

1-2 2-3 3-4 Lost Mana: You take –1 to your current and maximum MP until restored during a Short
Rest (p. 61). If your maximum MP is 0, this becomes the Broken Tech result. If you
can’t destroy a technique, this becomes the Exposed result.

- 1 1-2 Exposed: You are Vulnerable and Weakened until the end of your next turn.

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Defeat
Although defeat doesn’t always mean death, defeated
characters can no longer contribute to a scene.
When a character is defeated, all effects on them
and that originated from them are removed, like Sum-
mons or the effects of the Hexblade’s Hex. Damage,
conditions, statuses, and created objects and terrain
remain, including Traps.
When your beacon is defeated, you can narrate how
they’re defeated, whether it involves being knocked out
or running away. They are then removed from play and
unable to directly contribute to the scene.
NPCs are typically killed or knocked unconscious
when defeated, as chosen by whoever defeated them.
The GM can choose a different outcome, but they can’t
kill an NPC that a player wanted to keep alive unless
the player gives their permission.
RESTING
Resting allows PCs to heal, recover resources, and
repair equipment.
There are two types of rests: Short Rests and Long
Rests. Short Rests are quick breaks that allow beacons
to patch themselves up after a fight, while Long Rests
are longer and more restorative. Individual beacons
can choose to skip a Short Rest, receiving none of the
benefits, but they can’t skip a Long Rest.
Abilities that reference a rest but don’t specify what
kind of rest apply to both Short and Long Rests. For
example, the Shadebinder’s Companion Shade ability
creates a friendly summoned shade on the battlefield.
The shade regains all its HP during any rest, which
means it regains all its HP when you take either a Short
Rest or a Long Rest.
The GM determines when the beacons are able to
take rests. You can’t declare you are resting unless
the GM allows it.
Short Rests
During Short Rests, the beacons can spend Recov-
eries to replenish their resources.
Short Rests are taken during quests, and only require
that the beacons take a few moments to catch their
breath. Short Rests are often available between combat
scenes. During a Short Rest, you may do the following:
Ø Clear all Stress.
Ø Regain all MP.
Ø Reload all Reloading abilities.
Ø Clear all conditions, statuses, and effects (except for
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Bloodied and Breaking, if still applicable).
You can also spend Recoveries for the following:
1 Recovery Regain all HP.
1 Recovery Repair a destroyed technique or piece
of equipment.
1 Recovery Restore maximum MP to its normal
value.
2 Recoveries Clear 1 Wound or Overstress.
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2 Recoveries Change your current job. Your HP,
Stress, MP, and Recoveries remain at
their current values unless the new job’s
maximum is lower, in which case they
are reduced to the new maximum. If the
new job doesn’t have sufficient slots for
your current weapons, support items,
or techniques, you must unequip items
and techniques until they fit.
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4 Recoveries Return a defeated character to play.
The required Recoveries can be split
between any characters participating
in the Short Rest, including the defeated
character. The defeated character returns
to play with 3 Wounds, 3 Overstresses,
full HP and MP, and no Stress. You can
only bring a defeated character back into
play if the player is willing.
Long Rest
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During Long Rests, the beacons fully heal, recover
their resources, and repair damaged equipment
and techniques.
A Long Rest is an extended period of rest and recovery
that typically takes place between quests. A Long Rest
must be long enough for the beacons to sleep, eat, and
repair their equipment.
The beacons always benefit from a Long Rest between
quests. There may be time for a Long Rest during a par-
ticularly lengthy quest, but that is for the GM to decide.
During a Long Rest, defeated beacons are brought
back into play if their player wishes. Additionally, each
PC may do the following:
Ø Reset all attributes to their normal values (e.g., full
HP and MP, no Stress/conditions/Wounds, etc).
Ø Change their job, ancestry trait, equipment, and
other options.
Ø Repair all equipment and techniques.
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 CONDITIONS AND STATUSES
Getting Started

Conditions and statuses are continuous effects that

can be applied to characters. Conditions represent
short-term, specific consequences that usually have
finite durations and are applied by abilities, while
statuses are ongoing states that are usually applied
when certain conditions are met.

CONDITIONS
Conditions are always negative. Most effects that give
conditions indicate when the conditions end (e.g., “until
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the end of the target’s next turn”). They can also be

cleared with Refresh.

BLINDED
Blinded characters can only target and draw line of
sight to adjacent spaces.

DAZED
Dazed characters receive +1 on all attacks, checks,
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and saves.

DISARMED
Disarmed characters can’t make weapon attacks except
for improvised weapon attacks.

IMMOBILIZED
Immobilized characters can’t voluntarily move, but can
still be subjected to forced and involuntary movement.

MARKED STUNNED
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When attacking a Marked character, the attacker can Stunned characters can perform either a standard
choose to consume the Mark. Doing this clears Marked action or a minor action on their turns, not both.
and grants +1 on that attack roll. A character can only Additionally, they can’t Full Attack or perform
have one Mark at a time. reactions, and their Dodge and A-Def both count as 5.

SILENCED
Silenced characters can’t use or Release spells.
SLOWED
Slowed characters can only move with their standard
movement; they can’t Rush or use any other forms
of voluntary movement.
Slowed PCs can only take their turns in Phase
Delay. Slowed NPCs have their next Initiative be-
come 8 (this lasts until they’ve taken that turn and
the condition ends). During rounds in which they are
Slowed, Bosses must take at least one of their turns
during Phase Delay, even if they clear the condition
before doing so.
SUNDERED
Sundered characters don’t benefit from Armor or
resistance.
VULNERABLE
Vulnerable characters take double damage from
Physical, Astral, Lunar, and Force sources. Stress and
Discord are not affected.
WEAKENED
Weakened characters deal half damage when dealing
Physical, Force, Astral, and Lunar. Stress and Discord
are not affected. Their Summons and Traps are also
unaffected.

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STATUSES
Statuses describe characters’ current states, and can
be positive or negative. Unlike conditions, they can’t
be removed unless specific actions are taken or their
requirements no longer apply.
BLOODIED
Characters are Bloodied when they have half of their
HP maximum or less (their Bloodied level).
BREAKING
Characters are Breaking when they have Stress equal
to or exceeding half their Stress Cap (their Breaking
point).
ENGAGED
When a character becomes adjacent to an enemy,
they both gain the Engaged status as long as they are
adjacent to one another. Engaged characters make
ranged attacks at +1 . If a character becomes Engaged
by another character of the same Size or larger, their
movement ends and they lose any unused movement.
Characters cease to be Engaged when they are no
longer adjacent to an enemy.
FLYING
Characters with flight can either take off, gaining the
FLYING status, or land on the ground, clearing the
status, as a free action once per turn. They can also
choose to start combat scenes Flying.
While a character is Flying, the following effects apply:
Ø Non-thrown melee attacks from non- Flying
characters gain +2 against them.
Ø They can move normally over and are immune to the
effects of terrain, obstructions, and terrain features,
but cannot benefit from or interact with them either.
When flying over objects, they are considered to
have their Size increased by the Size of whatever
they are flying over for the purposes of determining
line of sight and cover, as if they were climbing.
Ø They cannot benefit from cover from terrain or
objects.
Ø When attacking non-Flying characters, they treat
their target’s cover from terrain and objects as one
step lower (hard cover becomes soft cover, soft cover
becomes no cover).
Ø They ignore Engagement and don’t cause
Engagement.
Ø They don’t trigger Traps but can still be affected
by them.
Ø They cease to be Flying if they become Prone.
GRAPPLED
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Grappled always involves at least two characters,
both of whom receive the status. While Grappled, the
following effects apply:
Ø Both characters are Engaged.
Ø Neither character can take reactions.
Ø The larger character can move normally.
Ø The smaller character is Immobilized, but is dragged
along by the larger character when they move,
mirroring their movements and inheriting any
special forms of movement like flight.
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Ø If the initiator is the same Size as the target, they
count as the larger one during the turn in which the
initiate the Grapple.
Ø Characters of the same Size can make a contested
Bulk check as a free action to see if they count as
the larger one until this contest is repeated.
Grappled ends when one of the following occurs:
Ø The characters are no longer adjacent to each other.
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Ø The initiator ends it as a free action.
Ø The Grapple target succeeds on a contested Bulk
check as a minor action.
HIDDEN
While a character is HIDDEN, enemies can only target
them with AOEs or while adjacent to them. They are
still visible on the combat map to players and the GM.
The following things end Hidden:
Ø The Hidden character uses a hostile effect (e.g.,
attacking or forcing a save) or uses Interpose.
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Ø The Hidden character ends any turn within an
enemy’s line of sight unless they are either Invisible
or benefiting from cover against that enemy.
Ø An enemy performs a successful Search against
them.
INVISIBLE
When making an attack against an Invisible character,
before any attack rolls are made, roll a d6. On a 1–3, the
attack misses. Invisible characters are still visible on
the map to players and the GM. Invisible lasts until
the end of the scene unless stated otherwise.
PRONE
Attacks against Prone targets gain +1 and Prone
characters always count as moving through difficult
terrain. Unless they are Immobilized, Prone characters
can stand instead of making their standard movement,
which ends this status. Standing doesn’t count as a form
of movement.
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 TAGS
Abilities often have tags associated with them, such
Getting Started
as Aura 2, Piercing, or Polymorph. When an ability
has a tag, the effects of that tag apply to the effects
of that ability. Some abilities don’t have tags, but do
have effects that have a tag, or that create objects or
characters with the tag, as indicated in their description.
If an ability has a tag with a value of “X”, like Mana X,
that means the amount can vary, but must be at least 1.
Below is a list of tags and their effects.
Accurate: Attacks with this tag gain +1 .
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Aetheric: Attacks with this tag are made against A-Def
instead of Dodge.
Arcing: Abilities with this tag can be aimed over ob-
stacles. They ignore line of sight as long as there is a
vertical path to the target, although cover still applies.
Armor: Abilities with this tag represent suits of armor
or similar defenses, many of which provide a bonus
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to Armor. A character can only have one ability with
this tag equipped at a time.
Aura X: When activated, abilities with this tag affect
indicated characters within X spaces of the user.
A character can only have one Aura activated at a
time and can change Auras 1/turn.
Auto-Hit: Attacks with this tag automatically hit without
making an attack roll.
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Blast X: Abilities with this tag have an AOE. It affects all
targets within a radius of X spaces from the center
space, including the center space. Cover and line
of sight are calculated from the center space. Users
can be affected by their own Blast.
Burst X: Affects all targets within a radius of X spaces
from the edge of the spaces occupied by the target,
including the target’s spaces but excluding the target
itself. Cover and line of sight are calculated from
the edge of the spaces occupied by the target. If a
Burst forms a zone, the zone moves with the target.
Close Blast X: Abilities with this tag have an AOE. It
operates like a Blast, but:
‘ at least 1 space must be adjacent to the user
‘ the user can’t be in the area
‘ cover and line of sight are calculated from the user.
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Consumable X: Abilities with this tag can only be
used X times per quest. Consumable abilities rep-
resent potions, elixirs, and other items that can be
replenished.
Enchantment: Abilities with this tag modify other
abilities. Enchantments can typically only be ap-
plied to specific types of abilities and can only be
applied to one ability at a time. Additionally, each
ability can only have one Enchantment at a time.
Enchantments can only be applied to a new ability
while preparing for a quest or during a Long Rest.
If an Enchantment is destroyed, the ability it is
enchanting is not destroyed and vice versa. Traits
and talents can’t be enchanted.
Homing: Abilities with this tag ignore line of sight and
the effects of cover. As long as the target is within
Range and it is possible to reach them (i.e., they
aren’t in a box), they can be targeted.
Inaccurate: Attacks with this tag receive +1 .
Indirect: Attacks with this tag ignore any from cover.
Innate: Abilities with this tag can’t be destroyed or
enchanted. They can’t be chosen for destruction as
the result of a wound roll.
Limited X: Abilities with this tag can only be used X times
per quest. Limited abilities provide powerful effects
that can’t be replenished during a quest once used.
Line X: Abilities with this tag have an AOE. It affects all
targets in a straight line with a length of X spaces
and a width of 1 space, drawn directly away from
you in any direction.
Focus X: Abilities with this tag cost X Focus to use.
Piercing: Damage with this tag ignores Armor.
Pull X: Abilities with this tag inflict a type of forced
movement. On a hit, the target is moved X spaces
directly toward the origin.
Push X: Abilities with this tag inflict a type of forced
movement. On a hit, the target is moved X spaces
directly away from the origin.
Range X: Abilities with this tag can be used on targets
within X spaces.
Reach X: Abilities with this tag can be used on targets
within X spaces. This tag also determines the range
of the Opportunity Attack reaction.
Mana X: Abilities with this tag cost X MP to use.
Polymorph: Abilities with this tag modify the target’s
form. A character can only be under the effect of one
ability with this tag at a time, and any subsequent
polymorph effects are automatically cancelled while
they are under the effects of a polymorph.
Reliable X: Abilities with this tag always deal at least X
damage, even if they would miss or deal less than
X damage. Reliable damage inherits the ability’s
damage type and tags; however, Reliable damage
does not count as a hit and doesn’t trigger any effects
that require a hit.
Reloading: Abilities with this tag must be reloaded
after each use before they can be used again. This
can be done using Refresh and other abilities.
Slide X: Abilities with this tag inflict a type of forced
movement. On a hit, the target is moved X spaces
in any direction.
Slow: Abilities with this tag can only be activated as
part of Full Attack.
Stressful X: Abilities with this tag inflict X Stress on
the user.
Summon: Abilities with this tag create one or more
temporary characters under the control of another
character, each of which has the Summon tag.
By default, each character can only have one
Summon per ability with this tag in play at a time.
If a Summon is defeated or dismissed, a new one
can be made using that same ability. Summons can’t
create Summons.
Thrown X: Abilities with this tag can be used to make
a thrown attack, a melee attack made against a
target within X spaces. Thrown attacks are affected
by cover. If throwing a weapon, it lands in a space
adjacent to the target (thrower’s choice), and must
be picked up as a free action while adjacent to it
before it can be used again.
Summons have the following statistics unless oth-
erwise indicated:
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Ø Size 1/2
Ø HP 5
Ø Dodge/A-Def 10
Ø Speed 0
Ø Save Target = Summoner’s Save Target
Ø Bulk/Agility/Mind/Magic 0
Summons can only be created in free spaces that
they could normally enter (they can’t be summoned
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into impassable terrain, for example).
Summons are characters with a standard ac-
tion, standard movement, and minor action per
round; however, they can’t perform any actions un-
less they have an ability that lets them do so and
can’t perform a movement unless they have Speed.
Their turn is their summoner’s turn, and if they can
take actions or move, they can do so at any point
in their summoner’s turn.
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Summons are defeated if they are reduced to 0
HP. They can also be dismissed by their summoner
as a free action. Summons last until dismissed or
defeated, or until the end of the scene.
Trap: Abilities with this tag place traps – objects that
modify spaces – or are traps themselves. They must
be placed in a free adjacent space. They become
armed at the end of the turn in which they are placed.
Moving into or adjacent to a space occupied by a
trap triggers it, activating its effects, after which it
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is removed from play.
Traps are permanently Hidden, but can be auto-
matically detected with Search. You can attempt
to disarm a trap by making an Agility check as a
minor action when moving into or adjacent to its
space (before it is triggered). On a success, the trap
is removed from play without being activated. On
a failure, it activates as normal.
Unbreakable: Abilities with this tag cannot be destroyed
and can’t be selected for destruction if there are
non-Unbreakable options left. If an Unbreakable
result is selected from a wound or overstress roll, it
becomes a Dazed result instead.
Unique: Characters can only equip one copy of each
ability with this tag at a time.
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BUILDING BEACONS
This section covers all the options for PCs, including ancestries, talents, classes, class-specific
equipment and techniques, and starting equipment and techniques.

KEY SECTIONS
Ø Ancestries (p. 68)
Ø Classes and Jobs (p. 84)
Ø Talents (p. 202)
Ø Basic Equipment and Techniques (p. 216)

AN ABILITY’S COLOUR IS DETERMINED BY ITS SOURCE:

WEAPON TRAIT

SPELL SKILL

SUPPORT ITEM LIMIT BREAK

AN ABILITY’S SHAPE IS DETERMINED BY THE ACTION IT REQUIRES:

Action Action Used Reaction Reaction (use limits)

This ability uses up an action to activate Trigger: This ability activates in response to
(even if it’s a free action). a certain trigger...

Effect: ...and uses one of your reactions to

Passive Ability activate it.

This ability is always active, or augments

other abilities when you use them. Attack Action Used

Weapon and Spell attacks both use this

format – the top bar will say the action you
use to make the attack.

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 6: ANCESTRIES
Getting Started
A character’s ancestry describes their heritage or
species.
Your beacon’s ancestry determines their Size and gives
you a collection of ancestry traits that you can choose
from for combat scenes. You select an ancestry for your
beacon during character creation (p. 13), and can only
change it with the Find Echo downtime activity (p. 28).
Building Beacons
In narrative play, ancestry can provide whatever abil-
ities or powers work in your Reflection. For example, in
your Reflection, elves might be immortal, while machina
don’t need to eat or sleep. Those are flavorful abilities
that impact narrative play, but don’t affect combat play
unless you pick an ancestry trait that says otherwise.
Ancestry can also be used to represent cultural
themes instead of biological ones, and individual ances-
tries can be reimagined to represent entirely different
species. For example, you might choose the elemental
ancestry to represent a ghostly, spectral beacon.
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This chapter lists the available ancestries for players
to choose. Each ancestry contains some questions
you can answer to help flesh out the ancestry and
your character, as well as an example of a Reflection
and discussion of how that ancestry fits within it. As a
reminder, one of the things common to all Reflections
is the presence of a Scourge – a recurring threat unique
to that Reflection.
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DUAL AND CUSTOM ANCESTRIES
Some characters might have more than one ancestry,
representing two different parts of their background, or a
custom one that isn’t represented by the existing options.
When playing such a character with a dual ancestry,
pick one ancestry as normal; however, you might have
abilities in narrative play that stem from the other ancestry.
Additionally, the GM can optionally allow you to
base your character’s Size on one ancestry and create
a list of four ancestry traits (two from each ancestry) as
your pool of potential ancestry abilities.
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Example: Artemis is the child of a halfling and a
goblin. She is Size 1/2 since both of her parent
ancestries are Size 1/2, and her player chooses
two ancestry traits from each. She chooses Nimble
Escape and Bite for the goblin heritage, and Lucky
and Brave for her halfling heritage. Now, whenever
she prepares for a quest, she can choose one of those
four ancestry traits.
To create a custom ancestry, start by choosing a Size
between 1/2 and 3. Then, create a pool of any four exist-
ing ancestry traits. It is recommended that you choose
traits that fit the themes of your custom ancestry, rather
than just choosing the abilities you think are strongest.
ANCESTRIES IN YOUR REFLECTION
Not every ancestry exists in every Reflection. Some
Reflections only feature humans, while others have a
limited number of ancestries represented.
Just because an ancestry doesn’t exist in a setting,
doesn’t mean you can’t use its traits. In an all-human
setting, for example, there are huge variances between
people. Maybe your human with the goblin ancestry is
a small teen, or a group of kids in a trench coat (using
the Swarm trait). A human with the avian ancestry
might have a magic item that allows them to fly, or
could have built a jetpack.
At heart, an ancestry is a set of bonuses for combat
play and an important part of the game. Just because
there isn’t a species in the setting that matches the
ancestry, doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be used. BEACON
is a game about choices, and severely restricting the
ancestry choices takes away a vital part of combat play.
In summary:
Ø ancestry does not have to equal species
Ø ancestry and ancestry traits only have direct rules
effects in combat play
Ø players shouldn’t be overly restricted in choosing
ancestries
Ø your Reflection can have as many or as few ancestries
as you want.
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Ø What sort of bird or flying creature do your people
resemble?
Ø Where do your people live and in what kind of
environment?
Ø What do your people eat, and what do they consider
a delicacy?
Ø Are avians without wings or the ability to fly treated
differently than those that have them?

EXAMPLE REFLECTION: GARUDA

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Name: Celestos
The celestos of Garuda live atop the highest mountains,
where they are bathed in radiant energy from the sky.
As a result, they have learned to harness this energy
as holy magic.
Celestos place a great emphasis on wings. Those born
with additional sets of wings are seen as having great
potential. Most celestos have two wings, with four wings
being rare and six or more wings almost unheard of.
Some celestos are born with a mutation that causes

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them to grow an additional pair of arms, but no wings.
These celestos find life atop the mountains hard, as their
homes aren’t designed for the flightless. They usually
leave their homes to find a more suitable life among
the other flightless civilizations, or take up supportive
roles in their homelands.

Avians are birdlike people with the physical charac- FLIGHTLESS CELESTOS
teristics of flying creatures: ravens, parrots, bats, and If you want to play a flightless celestos, you can either

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so on. Not every avian can fly, however, and some are use the orc ancestry or switch out the avian Flight
completely wingless. trait with a trait from the orc ancestry.

TRAITS
FlightTrait Flock TacticsTrait

You have flight. 1/round, you gain +1 on a melee attack roll if one
of your allies is adjacent to the target.

Get the Flock Outta There Reaction (1/round)

Trait GustTrait

Trigger: You take damage or Stress not caused by You gain the Gust spell, which is equipped for free.
yourself.

Effect: You shift up to half your Speed. Gust Fight

Melee Spell Attack  Innate, Push 1, Unique
Reach 1, Line 5 1d6 Force

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 CAMBION
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Getting Started

Cambions are people with demonic traits like horns,

tails, or cloven hooves. The specifics and prominence
of these traits varies from Reflection to Reflection, but
cambions are often distant descendants of demons
with their own unique cultures.

Ø What part of your people’s history do others still

hold against you, and are their feelings warranted?
Ø What good thing did you do that others disbelieved
or doubted your intentions for?
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Ø What was a hard bargain your people had to make?

Ø Where did your people once live but now don’t, and
why don’t they live there?

EXAMPLE REFLECTION: DIABLOS

Name: Azin
The azin of Diablos are just one of the many peoples
that live on the Umbral Plane, but some of the few who
can easily cross into the Astral Plane.
Most azin will only guide travelers between the planes
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with a strong contract in place, a practice learned from

a hard lesson long ago.
Azin mercenaries, guards, and scouts are highly
sought after for their unfamiliar umbral powers, which
seem strange and frightening to those native to the
Astral Plane.
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TRAITS
BloodhunterTrait WrathTrait

You gain +1 on attacks against Bloodied characters. You gain +1 on attacks against any characters
that have hit or damaged you since the end of your
last turn.
Infernal ResistanceTrait

You gain either Astral or Lunar resistance. Fiendish WingsTrait

You have flight.

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 DRAKEN
Draken are people with draconic traits like scales, tails,
or wings. Their specific physical characteristics depend
greatly on the Reflection and what its dragons are
like. Draken are imposing figures, either through their
stature or presence.
Ø What is a threat faced by other civilizations that is
only an inconvenience to your people?
Ø What do your people think of dragons, or what
relationship do they have with them?
TRAITS
DragonfireTrait
You gain the Dragonfire weapon, which is equipped
for free.
Dragonfire Volley / Fight
Melee Weapon  Main Artifact  Innate,
Unique Reach 1, Close blast 1 2 Discord
You can attack with this weapon while Disarmed.
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Ø Are draken associated with one element or many,
and what element are your people associated with?
Ø What monument or structure of your people has
endured multiple disasters?
EXAMPLE REFLECTION: IO
Name: Drakhal
The drakhal of Io primarily dwell in volcanic regions,
which run the gamut from barren wastelands to tropical
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islands teeming with life.
Each group of drakhal are in possession of ancient
dragon eggs. These massive eggs must be incubated
in the burning temperatures of active volcanos. Each
group of drakhal believe they are the inheritors of their
specific dragon’s legacy, which explains the physical
differences between these groups: some have tails,
some have wings, some have few scales, and so on.
Inside their eggs, the growing dragons are already
named, with names like Bahamut, Phoenix, and Nidhogg.
The drakhal believe that when their dragon hatches, it
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will change the world in their favor. One dragon might
destroy all enemies of the drakhal that hatched it, while
another might bring prosperity and bountiful harvests
across the world. Once the dragon has changed the
world, it returns to its lair, where a new shell forms
around it, and it waits until its next hatching.
These ancient dragons rarely awaken, and each has
their own cycle. It is likely, due to the cyclical nature of
these dragons, that one (or more) of them is Io’s Scourge.
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Dragon ScalesTrait
You gain either Astral or Lunar resistance.
Inner FireTrait
When you Refresh, you automatically regain 1d6
HP before choosing any effects.
Draconic WingsTrait
You have flight.
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 DWARF
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Getting Started

Dwarves are stocky people who tend to be shorter

than most humans. They are known for their mental
and physical fortitude.

Ø What structure or great work of art did your people

make?
Ø What do your people value that others envy?
Ø What type of actions do your people respect?
Ø What is something your people lost, and can it be
reclaimed?
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EXAMPLE REFLECTION: PENUMBRA

Name: Tektite
The tektite of Penumbra are locked in a constant race
upward, fleeing the ever-encroaching darkness from
below.
There is no surface in this Reflection, or at least none
has been discovered. The sky is stone, and it never ends.
The tektite and other people of Penumbra live comfort-
ably in whatever caverns they carve out, exploring and
meeting each other through tunnels both natural and
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cut by unknown forces.

Danger lurks in the depths, beneath old tunnels
long abandoned. Creatures of chaos live there, surging
their way upward. Every civilization moves ever higher,
trying to stay ahead of the Scourge Beneath. The tektite
have excelled at this, moving upward while maintaining
strongholds to hold back the Scourge, but no matter
what they do, the darkness always advances …
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TRAITS
Keep Moving ForwardTrait SturdyTrait

Abilities with the Armor tag don’t reduce your Speed
or Dodge, even if they would normally, and you are
immune to Slowed unless caused by yourself.
ResilienceTrait
When you would be subject to forced movement, you
may move 1 fewer space than normal. If this reduces
the forced movement to 0, the movement doesn’t
happen.
If you would be knocked Prone, you can make
a Bulk check. Success: You don’t become Prone.

You gain resistance to Lunar damage and +1 on

Bulk saves.

Unyielding Free Action (1/scene)

Trait

You Refresh.

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 ELEMENTAL
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Getting Started
Elementals are people with strong connections to
specific elements, like fire or water. Some have bodies
made entirely of their element, while others just have
individual features like burning hair.

Ø What element are you associated with?

Ø Where do elementals who share your element come
from?
Ø What are elementals associated with other elements
like?

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Ø What emotion is valued by your people?

EXAMPLE REFLECTION: CONVERGENCE

Name: Fewa
The fewa of Convergence live in separate nations based
on their associated elements. Two important individuals
are always born or created within a few years of each
other: the Weaver and the Cultivator.
The Weaver can always manipulate multiple elements.
They seek to unify the fewa nations under one banner

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and one element.
The Cultivator seeks to keep the nations independent,
and to grow them individually.
The Weaver and Cultivator are always in conflict
with each other, as their purposes and philosophies
are opposed. Each approach has benefits and flaws,
and each party firmly believes in their role.
To complicate matters, in each cycle one of these
two people becomes the Scourge, and there appears
to be no pattern as to which one it is.

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TRAITS
Elemental FormTrait Energy ResistanceTrait

You gain resistance to damage from dangerous You gain either Astral or Lunar resistance.
terrain. Additionally, when you become Bloodied
or Breaking, you gain hard cover until the start of
your next turn. Elemental NovaTrait

You gain the Elemental Nova spell, which is equipped

Energy AuraReaction for free.
Trait

When you equip this trait, choose Astral or Lunar. Elemental Nova Fight
Melee Spell Attack  Innate, Unique
Trigger: You are hit by an attack from an adjacent enemy. Burst 1 2 Astral or Lunar

Effect: You deal 2 Piercing Astral or Lunar to On Attack: The AOE and any spaces you occupy
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Getting Started

Elves are a long-lived people with lifespans that range

from slightly longer than human to truly immortal.
The signature physical characteristic of elves is their
pointed ears.

Ø How long do your people live?

Ø What magic or creations are your people known for?
Ø What skill or art do you wish you were better at?
Ø What tradition do your people follow that you feel
is outdated?
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REFLECTION: MOONTOUCHED
Name: Qiradel
The qiradel of Moontouched hail from a distant planet
called Fey which was destroyed and shattered by a
great cataclysm a generation ago. The inhabitants fled
through teleportation magics and flying cities, hurling
themselves through space in the hope of finding safety.
Over the last 100 years, many of these qiradel came
to a planet populated by powerful civilizations, with
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abundant magical energy and a moon in an uneven

orbit. There have been many painful lessons when
adapting to life on this new planet, but some measure
of stability has finally been found.
The qiradel of this Reflection absorb magical en-
ergy into their bodies throughout their lives, gaining
physical characteristics based on the types of magic
they encounter. Qiradel who surround themselves with
primal magic might grow leafy tattoos, while those gods, did not exist on Fey. The youngest generation of
with boundless arcane magic might gain glowing eyes. qiradel are starting to exhibit new traits derived from
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Divine magic, a source of aether drawn directly from their exposure to this alien magic.

TRAITS
Elven AccuracyTrait Fast MovementTrait

1/round when you use the Reroll Table for an attack You gain +1 Speed.
roll, you can roll an additional d20 on the attack and
use either result.
Fey Step  Free Action (1/scene)
Trait
Nature StepTrait
You teleport 5 spaces.
You ignore movement penalties from difficult terrain,
and gain +1 on dangerous terrain checks.

Ø Minor Action (1 MP): While in difficult terrain,

you become Invisible until the start of your next
turn or until you are no longer in difficult terrain,
whichever happens first.

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SIZE
2

Getting Started
The gigan, often called half-giants, tend to be the tallest
people in any given Reflection. It’s not known whether
they are directly related to giants, but they share un-
mistakable cultural similarities with them, like clothing
and music styles.

Ø What are giants like? What type of giants are your

people most similar to?
Ø What creatures do your people fear or respect?
Ø What do your people think of the civilizations of

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smaller folk?
Ø What staple or delicacy of your people do others
find off-putting?

EXAMPLE REFLECTION: TITAN

Name: Jotun
Giant monsters, called tyrants, roam this Reflection,
destroying cities and empires in their rampages. The
people of this Reflection have gathered their power
and resources to create weapons platforms called

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anti-tyrant suits, or ATSs. The ATSs are strong enough
to fend off the tyrants, but are too large to be used by
anyone but the jotun. These jotun pilots are known as
crownbreakers.
Whenever a tyrant appears, a crownbreaker with
a dedicated support team must don their ATS and do
battle. Their support team either keeps the ATS func-
tional, or directly fights in the field.
This Reflection’s Scourge is a particularly powerful
tyrant that threatens the stability of society and pushes

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the crownbreakers to the limit.

TRAITS
Big EquipmentTrait Oversized WeaponsTrait

One of your support slots increases by one size (Light 1/scene, you can attack with a Slow weapon as
to Main, or Main to Heavy). though it doesn’t have that tag, allowing you to
Volley with a Slow ranged weapon, or Fight
with a Slow melee weapon.
Endure Free Action (1/scene)
Trait
Giant LineageTrait
You gain resistance to all damage until the end of
your next turn. You gain either Astral or Lunar resistance.

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SIZE
1/2
Getting Started

Gnomes are a diminutive people with an appreciation for

technology or nature. Whichever they prefer, they lean
into it hard. Those fond of nature often live alongside
their favorite animals, while those fond of technology
strive to discover new advancements for it.

Ø What are you most proud of making or doing?

Ø What types of skills or professions do your people
value?
Ø How do your people defend themselves against
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larger threats?
Ø What is the most dangerous thing your people have
done?

EXAMPLE REFLECTION: CONDUIT

Name: Maji
The maji of Conduit led their Reflection’s most powerful
civilization for centuries, propelling society ahead with
their technological innovations. Then, they messed it
all up with one cataclysmic mistake.
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Through hubris, oversight, or ignorance, the maji

unleashed what was to be their greatest achievement,
only to have it backfire. Unbeknownst to them, the maji
were the Scourge.
But the maji – and their Reflection – survived. Now
they’re determined to either fix their mistake, or fix the
world they ruined.
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TRAITS
Instinctual StealthTrait TumbleTrait

You may begin any combat scene Hidden, and can’t You can move through spaces occupied by
lose it until the end of your first turn. enemies that are larger than you, and becoming
Engaged doesn’t stop or end your movement.

Fade Away Reaction (1/Round)

Trait  Mana 2 Tinker Toy Minor Action (1/scene)
Trait  Summon Range = Scope
Trigger: You are targeted by an attack.
Toy (Size 1/2, HP 5, Dodge/A-Def 10, Speed 0)
Effect: You become Invisible before the attack roll
is made, lasting until the end of your next turn. You deploy a toy within Range. Allies gain +1 when
attacking targets adjacent to your toy.

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TRAITS
ScurryTrait
When an attack misses you, you can shift 1.
SwarmTrait
Your base Size is increased to 2. Despite this, you
can still benefit from any cover of Size 1 or larger.
Additionally, you gain resistance to Physical but are
always Vulnerable to Force.
Each of your Recoveries might represent a dif-
ferent goblin in your swarm.
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1/2
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Goblins are ambitious people with shorter-than-hu-
man lifespans. In many Reflections they are viewed as
“monsters”, although that’s usually because the people
of those places want cannon-fodder for their heroes
to murder. Hopefully you’ll do better than that in your
Reflection.
Ø How do your people approach or view their short
lifespans?
Ø What do your people have a deep-seated fear of?
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Ø What do your people use for transportation?
Ø How many siblings do you have?
EXAMPLE REFLECTION: MONTON
Name: Gob
The gobs of Monton sometimes undergo a sudden
metamorphosis, rapidly changing their size and abili-
ties. The most common form (and the one they’re born
into) is that of a basic goblit, which is also the smallest.
In their second “hobgob” stage, they grow in size and
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strength. The third form is that of the “bokgob”, which
is even stronger and begins to develop wildly varied
appearances like fur, extra arms, or a thick hide.
The exact reasons why only some gobs undergo this
metamorphosis and why some never progress beyond
the goblit stage are unknown. The leading theory is
that it’s a genetic mutation.
There is rumored to be a stage of metamorphosis
beyond bokgob – the “urgob” stage. There are no re-
corded cases of urgobs, but if it is stronger than the
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bokgob stage, it must be incredibly powerful.
Nimble Escape Free Action (1/scene)
Trait
You Rush.
BiteTrait
At the start of your turn, you deal 1 Piercing Physical
to any character Grappled by you unless you are
Stunned.
Ø Minor Action: You deal 1 Physical to an
adjacent enemy.
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SIZE
1/2
Getting Started

Halflings are known for their strong wills and friendly

demeanors. They are among the shortest people of any
Reflection, but their charm can fill a room.

Ø What was a thing your people did that other people

respected?
Ø How comfortable is the world for someone of your
size?
Ø What is something your people refuse to let go of?
Ø What do your people think of the taller civilizations?
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EXAMPLE REFLECTION: RHOMBUS

Name: Ruppit
On Rhombus, the ruppit set up small hospitality stations
beside long, dangerous roads. These ruppits value
service to others and happily create establishments in
dangerous areas. Many a traveler has been saved by
an unlikely but much-needed ruppit inn.
No matter where, whether in the desert or the tun-
dra, you’ll find a ruppit hospitality establishment. Some
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ruppits have even set up hospitality chains, branding

them with names like “Rin’s Roadstop”.

TRAITS
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Lucky Reaction (1/round) BraveTrait

Trait  Stressful 2
During any turn in which you Surge, you gain +1
Trigger: You would be hit by an attack. on all attacks, checks, and saves.

Effect: You force the attacker to reroll the attack roll

and use the second result. TumbleTrait

You can move through spaces occupied by

NimbleTrait enemies that are larger than you, and becoming
Engaged doesn’t stop or end your movement.
Reaction attacks made against you receive +1 .
Additionally, 1/scene when you would trigger
an enemy’s reaction, the reaction doesn’t trigger.

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 HUMAN
SIZE
1

Getting Started
You are, presumably, a human; you might have some
idea what it involves.

Ø What type of clothing or fashion do your people

wear?
Ø How widespread are human cultures?
Ø What type of weapon is associated with your people?
Ø What spell did your people invent?

EXAMPLE REFLECTION: NIMBUS

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Name: Hyul
The Scourge poisoned the land, so the hyul and the
other survivors of Nimbus created flying airships capable
of supporting thousands of people. Everyone now lives
in the skies, venturing to the surface only to scavenge
tech and supplies, and wearing special suits to avoid
breathing the poison from below.
While society tries to survive, the Scourge plans its
next move below …

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TRAITS

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Strong SavesTrait HeartyTrait

You gain +1 on all saves. You gain +3 Maximum HP.

Hang in ThereTrait AdrenalineTrait

1/scene, you can ignore the effects of a wound or 1/scene, you can Surge without increasing your
overstress roll, although you still take the Wound or Surge level.
Overstress.

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SIZE
1/2
Getting Started

Kobolds are a reptilian people known for their incredible

craftmanship. Kobold-crafted gear is highly coveted
by beacons due to its unusually high aetheric density,
which makes it easier to enchant.
Ø What sort of craftsmanship are your people highly
regarded for?
Ø What type of environment did you grow up in?
Ø What is your favorite thing you’ve ever made?
Ø What is or was the family business?
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EXAMPLE REFLECTION: KEYSTONE
Name: Drik
When Keystone was fractured, the drik held it together.
Piece by piece, they were able to pull fragments of the
Reflection together and bind them with chains, bolts,
and glue. Now the drik maintain their world, keeping
everything running as best as they can for their fellow
survivors.

TRAITS

Distract Free Action (1/scene) Trap ArrayTrait

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Trait  Burst 2
You gain the Trap Array support item, which is
Enemies in the AOE become Marked. equipped for free.

TrapmasterTrait Trap Array Minor Action

You can automatically open locks as a free action.
Additionally, you gain +1 on rolls to disable Traps
and saves triggered by Traps.
EvasiveTrait
You gain resistance to damage and Stress from
AOEs, and +1 on saves against AOEs.
Additionally, 1/turn you can spend 1 Focus to
reroll a failed save.
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Support Item  Consumable 2, Innate, Trap,
Unique
You can expend a charge to deploy one of the fol-
lowing Traps, each of which have a Burst 1 AOE
when triggered:
Ø Explosive Trap: When triggered, all characters
in the AOE take 1d6+3 Force .
Ø Paint Marker: When triggered, all characters
in the AOE are Marked.
Ø Snare Trap: When triggered, all characters in
the AOE must make an Agility save. Failure:
They are Immobilized until cleared. After the
end of their next turn, affected characters can
make a Bulk check as a minor action. Success:
They clear Immobilized.
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SIZE
1

Getting Started
Lycanthropes are people with the ability to assume an
animal form, and sometimes even a hybrid form. Some
lycanthropes can do this naturally, and sometimes
lycanthropy is a disease or curse.

Ø What animals do your people have a special

connection with?
Ø What parts of your personality does your animal
form intensify?
Ø Do your people primarily have the same strain of

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lycanthropy, or can you each assume different animal
forms?
Ø Which form feels most comfortable to you, and
which one do your people primarily use?

EXAMPLE REFLECTION: ENKIDU

Name: Uranuk
The uranuk of Enkidu are organized based on the animals
into which they can transform: Tribe Tiger, Clan Crab,
the Antler Kingdom, and so on. Each group is guarded

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by a powerful primal spirit, but it can only manifest
physically for short periods of time.
The uranuk collect crystals, the energy of which can
be drained for summoning their primal spirit. They seek
to gather as many of these crystals as possible, mining
or stealing them as needed. Some groups use their
primal spirits for defensive purposes, while others use
them to aggressively expand their territories.

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TRAITS
Defender Strain Free Action (1/scene) Sneaky Form Minor Action
Trait Trait  Polymorph

You manifest your lycanthropic heritage, gaining the
heightened senses and vigor of a great beast. You
gain 2 Focus.
Pack TacticsTrait
You assume a small, sneaky form. You become Size
1/2 and can Hide as a free action 1/turn. You can’t
use spells or attack in this form.
You can revert back to your normal form as a mi-
nor action.

1/round, you gain +1 on a melee attack roll if the Travel Form Minor Action
target is adjacent to one of your allies. Trait  Polymorph

You assume a form suited for travel. You gain

+2 Speed, but you can’t use spells or attack.
You can revert back to your normal form as a mi-
nor action.

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 MACHINA
SIZE
1
Getting Started

Machina are artificial people. Whether made from tech-

nology or magic, they have now gained the ability to
think for themselves.

Ø Who or what made you?

Ø Were you made to fulfill a specific purpose?
Ø Do you have anyone you consider family?
Ø How long can you live for, and how long do your
memories last?
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EXAMPLE REFLECTION: LUNA

Name: Bayvo
The bayvo of Luna were once living, breathing creatures.
When the Scourge threatened to destroy their civiliza-
tion, they leveraged their scientific and magical skills
to ensure their survival. To do this, they constructed
artificial bodies and transferred their consciousnesses
into them.
The procedure was a success and their people sur-
vived, but their old ways of life were destroyed or made
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irrelevant. Now inhabiting new bodies and calling

themselves the bayvo, they have to decide what the
next chapter of their history will look like.
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TRAITS
Mechanical BodyTrait System RepairTrait

You gain resistance to Discord damage and +1 on 1/scene when you Refresh, you can choose any
checks to clear Discord. number of options from the list.

ArmoredTrait Integrated WeaponTrait

You gain +1 Armor while you aren’t Bloodied. Choose a Light weapon from the list of basic weap-
ons (p. 216). You can equip that weapon for free.
It is also Innate and you can use it while Disarmed.

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SIZE
2

Getting Started
Orcs are a tall, muscular people with a love for com-
petition. They sometimes have tusks or horns, and
have skin tones outside of the human range, including
green and grey.

Ø What was your people’s greatest achievement,

known by everyone?
Ø What is a tradition your family or people follow, and
how do you feel about it?
Ø What emotion do you sometimes struggle to

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control?
Ø What is your favorite type of contest or game to
either watch or participate in?

EXAMPLE REFLECTION: LEVIATHAN

Name: Mar’orc
The mar’orc of Leviathan control the Reflection’s largest
and most powerful naval fleet. It began as a host of
individual pirate bands, eventually brought together
by the Hook, Peg, and Powder pirate company to defeat

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one of the incarnations of the Scourge.
After their victory, Hook, Peg, and Powder was able
to maintain control of the pirate fleets and earn recog-
nition as a sovereign nation.

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TRAITS
Second WindTrait FuriousTrait

1/scene when you become Bloodied , you gain 1/turn, you can take 1d3 Stress to reroll all the dice
temp HP equal to 4+Grit. from one of your damage rolls.

RushdownTrait Workout RoutineTrait

When you Rush and choose the movement option, You gain +1 on Bulk checks and saves. You are con-
you can move +2 spaces. sidered to be +1 Size larger than usual for Grapple
and Shove.

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Getting Started

Classes are collections of abilities you unlock over
time. Each class has an associated job, which is
something you can choose to equip at the begin-
ning of a quest. Jobs grant traits and determine the
base values of your attributes.
Classes are thematically connected collections of equip-
ment and techniques that you can equip for quests, and
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You unlock one of a class’s associated jobs upon reach-
ing rank 1 in that class. Jobs give you access to specific
traits and determine the base values for your attributes,
like your HP and the number and size of your weapon
slots. Once you have unlocked a job, your beacon can
equip it whenever they go on a quest. They can only
equip one job at a time.
Every rank you have in a class also unlocks two abil-

each is associated with a job. The description of each
class includes some optional questions to help flesh
out your character and their connection to that class.
Each class has three ranks, starting at class rank 1
and going up to class rank 3. Whenever your beacon
levels up, including at level 1, they acquire a new class
rank, either gaining a new class at rank 1 or increasing
their current rank in a class by one step.
ities for your character. These abilities can be weapons,
support items, spells, or skills. Once an ability is unlocked,
it enters the pool of abilities you can equip when you
go on a quest.
You aren’t limited to equipping techniques and
equipment associated with the job you’ve equipped.
In fact, you are encouraged to mix equipment and
techniques from both the basic options (p. 216) and
all of your unlocked classes.

VARIANT JOBS
7: Classes and Jobs

Each of the classes in this book have one associated

job, which shares the same name as the class; how-
ever, future books may introduce variant jobs, and
you can always add new jobs in your own games.

For example, this book includes only one job for the
Paladin class – also called the Paladin – but a future
book might add another job for the Paladin class,
called the Avenger. In that case, upon reaching rank 1
in the Paladin class you could choose to unlock either
the Paladin job or the Avenger job, but not both.
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ELEMENTS OF A JOB
Each job has several elements: a role, base attributes, Mind

some traits, weapon slots and support slots of various
types, and a limit break.
Role: A job’s role describe what sorts of things characters
with that job do in combat:
Ø Artillery: Deals damage over long range.
Ø Controller: Manipulates foes or the battlefield to
gain an advantage.
Ø Defender: Protects their allies or draws attention
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Ø Stress Cap: When you exceed your Stress Cap, you
take an Overstress and make an overstress roll. When
you reach your Overstress Cap (4), you are defeated.
Ø Memory: You can equip any number of techniques
the combined Memory cost of which doesn’t exceed
your Memory.
Magic
Ø A-Def: The number that attackers must equal or
exceed to hit you with Aetheric attacks.

to themselves.
Ø Striker: Deals damage over close-to-medium range.
Ø Support: Assists allies, either by healing, mitigating
damage, or enhancing other characters.
Base Attributes: A character’s equipped job determines
the starting values for their attributes.
Each attribute is listed beneath an ability score (Bulk,
Agility, Mind, or Magic). These attributes are modified
by the points you have put into the relevant ability score.
The values listed for attributes are the starting values,
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Ø MP: A resource you can spend to use certain abilities.
Traits: Each job has several unique abilities. If you equip
a different job, you lose access to the traits from your
current job and gain the traits of the new one.
Weapon Slots: Your job determines the number and
type of weapon slots available.
Support Slots: Your job determines the number and
type of the support item slots available.

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assuming 0 points invested in the related ability score.
Limit Break: Limit breaks are powerful, unique abilities
Ø Scope: The distance within which you can use certain that can be used once per quest.
abilities, such as ranged spell attacks.
Ø Save Target: The target number characters have
to meet or exceed when rolling a save against you.

Bulk
Ø HP: When you reach 0 HP, you take a Wound and
make a wound roll. When you reach your Wound
Cap (4), you are defeated.
Ø Recoveries: A resource you can spend to recover

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HP and repair destroyed equipment and techniques.

Agility
Ø Dodge: The number that attackers must equal or
exceed to hit you.
Ø Speed: The number of spaces you can move with
your standard movement.

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Getting Started

DEFENDER

Defense-oriented spellcasters adept with protective magic.

Aegises put up barriers and shields to protect friends and block out foes.

A
egises are defensive spellcasters
that specialize in creating barriers BASE ATTRIBUTES
and mitigating damage. Aegises SCOPE:10 SAVE TARGET:  10
rely on efficient use of mana to keep BULK MIND
their barriers up for prolonged peri- HP:6 STRESS CAP:  7
RECOVERIES:3 MEMORY:  7
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ods of time, and a group of them can

maintain a city-spanning barrier for AGILITY MAGIC
the duration of a siege. DODGE:  6 A-DEF:  10
While the primary purpose of an SPEED:  4 MP:  5
aegis’s barriers is protection, they can
also be used offensively. A well-placed TRAITS
wall can split a group of enemies or
cut off an avenue of attack. For these Mana TransferalTrait
reasons, aegises find themselves in
high demand, especially in militaristic You can spend MP as if it were Focus.
organizations and cities. They are at
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their strongest when there are people

to protect, so they are seldom alone. Abjurer’s WardTrait
Aegises use many methods to ex-
tend their mana capacity and lessen You gain the Ward spell, which is equipped for free.
the cost of spells: magical tattoos that
act as miniature ley lines, mana batter-
ies and potions, and arcane familiars WardReaction
are just some of the tools used by dif- Spell  Innate, Mana 1, Unique
ferent schools of aegises.
Trigger: An ally within Scope would take any Physical, Astral, Lunar,
Ø What are your barriers made of, or Force damage, before Armor and resistance.
and what do they look like?
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Ø When did you fail to protect Effect: You reduce the damage by 1d6. You can reroll this dice as
someone or something? many times as you want, at a cost of 1 MP/reroll.
Ø What does it feel like when one of
your barriers breaks?
Ø What is the longest one of your WEAPON SLOTS SUPPORT SLOTS
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RANK 1
Getting Started

Perfect Shield Special

Limit Break Range = Scope
Ablative Armor Minor Action
At any time during a combat scene, you may choose Spell  2 Memory  Focus X Range = Scope
an ally within Range. Until the end of this phase in
the next round, all damage and Stress they receive One ally within Range gains Armor equal to the Focus
is reduced to 0. spent. They cannot have more than 4 Armor. When-
ever they take damage, they lose 1 Armor down to
The pinnacle of barrier magic is a shield that grows their usual maximum.
stronger the more force is used against it. Such a perfect
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shield is unbreakable, but hard to master and incredibly Layers of magical armor provide temporary protection,
draining. before themselves being torn asunder.

Aegises are fragile, backline defenders. Mana Trans- Warding WallPhase Bolster
feral allows them to protect allies without needing Spell  2 Memory  Mana 1
to generate Focus first, meaning as long as they Range = Scope, Line 1-3
have MP, they can use their main defensive tool,
Ward. Aegises can’t use Ward on themselves, so This AOE is a zone and can face any direction. The zone
they are incentivized to pick abilities that will keep counts as difficult terrain, and attacks that enter it,
them away from enemies. pass through it, or are made from within it receive +1 .
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Characters that enter the zone take 2 Stress 1/

turn per character.
This zone lasts for the rest of the scene, or until
you dismiss it as a free action or use this ability again.

Coalesce raw aether into a physical form, hard enough

to provide cover and protection.
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BarrierPhase Bolster
Spell  2 Memory  Mana 2 Range = Scope
Place one of the following protective barriers on a
character within Range. It lasts until the start of this
phase next round:
Ø Protect: The target gains resistance to Physical,
Astral, Lunar, and Force.
Ø Shell: The target gains resistance to Stress and
Discord caused by other characters.
Specialized barriers that can reduce damage from
physical attacks or spells.
Offensive Shielding Volley
Ranged Spell Attack  1 Memory  Aetheric,
Indirect, Mana 2  Range = Scope 2 Stress
On Hit: Choose one of the following:
Ø Shield Crush: The target is Sundered until the
end of their next turn.
Ø Stasis Field: The target must make a Magic save.
Failure: They are Immobilized and Slowed un-
til the end of their next turn. Success: They are
Slowed until the end of their next turn.
An aegis’s shielding can be used offensively, just as any
shield can. Being surrounded by shields is akin to being
trapped in a room.
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Dome Barrier Channel
Spell  2 Memory  Arcing, Mana 3, Summon
Range = Scope
Dome Barrier (Size 4, HP 20, Dodge/A-Def 5, Speed 0)
On Release: Create a dome barrier within Range.
Other characters can share spaces with this barrier.
1/turn when a character or object fully within the
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barrier is targeted by an attack from outside the bar-
rier, you may roll a d6: on 4+, the attack instead tar-
gets the barrier. This barrier can’t perform any actions
(including reactions) even if another ability would
allow it to do so.
Only the most skilled aegises can create these one-way
barriers that block incoming attacks but allow outgoing
attacks to pass freely.
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Force Shield
Support Item  Light
Whenever you take damage and you aren’t Stunned,
you may treat your Armor as equal to half your current
MP. After doing so, spend 1 MP.
You gain the Shield Block reaction. If you meet
this reaction’s trigger condition while using Inter-
pose, you can automatically use its effect as part of
that Interpose reaction.
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Force shields are defensive artifacts, crafted as small
talismans or tattoos that rest upon the hand. When
aether is funneled into the shield, it manifests an aetheric
barrier.
Shield Block Reaction (1/round)
Trigger: You would take Physical, Astral, Lunar, or
Force damage.
Effect: You take 2 Stress and gain resistance
to that damage.
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SUPPORT

Masters of potions and consumables. Alchemists bring a wide array

of support items into combat to prepare for any situation.

B
ubbling cauldrons, explosive con-
coctions, and brightly colored BASE ATTRIBUTES
liquids are the telltale signs of an SCOPE:8 SAVE TARGET:  11
alchemist. They mix together ingre- BULK MIND
dients and magic to create powerful HP:7 STRESS CAP:  6
RECOVERIES:5 MEMORY:  5
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potions that can be used by anyone.

Merchant-alchemists tend to have AGILITY MAGIC
a few recipes they can produce reli- DODGE:  7 A-DEF:  8
ably, but beacons are a step above. SPEED:  5 MP:  3
They have the skill and knowledge to
produce rarer and more varied effects TRAITS
than can be found in a potion shop.
Potion BeltTrait
Ø What was your first concoction
supposed to do, and what did it Your Consumable abilities each gain +1 Consumable. Additionally,
actually do? during Short Rests, you can regain all charges for Consumable abilities
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Ø What is a signature element of your at a cost of 1 Recovery per ability.

concoctions – an ingredient, flavor,
or effect?
Ø What type of ingredients do you Potion InjectorTrait
prefer to use? Plants, monster
parts, something else? Your Consumable abilities can be used up to Range 8 , and effects
Ø What is the ultimate creation you that would usually only apply to yourself (like Healing Potions,
want to perfect, but haven’t yet? p. 218) can be used on willing allies within that Range.

Ø Standard Action: During Phase Skirmish or later, you use a

support item that would normally require a minor action.
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Sanitizing VapoursTrait

At the end of your turn, an ally within Range 3 can clear 1 Stress
, or up to 2 Stress if they are Breaking.

WEAPON SLOTS SUPPORT SLOTS

MAIN LIGHT MAIN MAIN MAIN

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Philosopher’s Stone Minor Action
Limit Break
You reveal your philosopher’s stone. It has 6 charges,
which last until the end of the scene. You and your
allies can use these charges in place of spending Con-
sumable charges or MP for other abilities, at a 1:1 rate.
Abilities with no charges remaining can still be used
if they use these charges.
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The formula to create a philosopher’s stone is a carefully
guarded secret, shared with only the greatest alchemists.
To use one is not a decision made lightly.
Alchemists have the unique ability to replenish Con-
sumable charges during rests with Potion Belt, or
even during combat with their Scorpion Gauntlet.
Most Consumable abilities are support items, and
Alchemists can equip a lot of them. Alchemists can
change their playstyle depending on the types of
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support items they equip, especially when equip-
ping ones from other classes.
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Infusions  Minor Action
Support Item  Light  Consumable 3
You can expend a charge for one of the following ef-
fects, which can be used on yourself or an adjacent ally:
Ø Panacea: The target can clear one condition and
all Discord.
Ø Vigor: The target gains +4 temp HP and +1 on
their next ability check or save.
Healing potions are the most popular alchemical
product. Infusions are a specialized derivative of them
that are harder to make.
Transmutation Circle Volley
Spell  2 Memory  Mana 1
Range = Scope, Blast 1
This AOE is a zone. Choose one of the following ef-
fects. The zone lasts for the rest of the scene or un-
til you either use this ability again or are Silenced,
Stunned, or defeated.
Ø Exchange: Choose Physical, Astral, or Lunar. Free
spaces in the zone become dangerous terrain
(Agility, 5 damage of the chosen type).
Ø Reduction: Difficult terrain, dangerous terrain,
and other non-cover terrain features in the zone no
longer have any effects. Combat scene objectives
are unaffected.
Some alchemists apply their scientific discoveries to
the art of transmutation. With the simple principle of
transmuting one substance into another, an alchemist
can rapidly transform one material into something
radically different.
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Scorpion Gauntlet Fight
Melee Weapon  Main Magitech  Mana 1,
Unique Reach 1 1d3 Discord
On Hit (1/attack): If the target was an enemy, one of
your Consumable abilities regains 1 charge.
Articulated claws overlap the user’s fingers with a
needlelike tail along the forearm. The tail can strike at
nearby foes, injecting poison while extracting aetheric
energy. Once enough energy has been extracted, the
mechanism distills it into small vials.
Volatile Mixtures Minor Action
Support Item  Light  Consumable 3, Thrown 5
Thrown 5
You can expend a charge for one of the following
effects:
Ø Explosive Concoction: You auto-hit a character
within the thrown Range, dealing 3 Astral . You
can spend 1 MP to make it Blast 1 .
Ø Sticky Bomb: Make a melee weapon attack against
a target within Range. On a hit, they are Immobi-
lized. After their next turn, they can make a Bulk
save as a minor action. Success: They clear this
condition, dealing 2 Astral to themselves and
any other characters within Blast 1 .
Alchemy requires a great deal of trial and error.
Thankfully, even “errors” can still be useful.
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Grand Infusions Minor Action
Support Item  Main  Consumable 2
You can expend a charge for one of the following
effects, which can be used on yourself or an
adjacent ally:
Ø Cleanse: The target clears all conditions.
Ø Expertise: Roll 2d6. The target’s next attack roll,
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check, or save can’t be less than the result. You
can spend 1 MP to reroll one of the dice. You can
do this multiple times.
Ø False Life: Until the end of the target’s next turn,
if they are reduced to 0 HP or exceed their Stress
Cap, they don’t take the Wound or Overstress. Dam-
age and Stress continue to accumulate. If, at the
end of their next turn they are still at 0 HP or less,
or over their Stress Cap, they take the Wound or
Overstress.
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Grand infusions are the hardest concoctions for an
alchemist to make. Most puzzling is that, by necessity,
each alchemist has their own formula for grand infusions.
No alchemist has ever been able to replicate an existing
formula, even under perfect conditions. Every alchemist
has to make their own.
MutagenReaction
Support Item  Main  Consumable 3
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Trigger: You or a character within Scope fails an attack
roll, save, or check.
Effect: You expend a charge to roll 1d6 and add the
result to that character’s total, potentially turning a
failure into a success.
Recent advancements in genetics have given alchemists
the ability to splice together foreign gene-sequences,
mutating the test subject. While still an active field of
development, short-term mutations can be triggered to
grant the subject temporary boosts.
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STRIKER

Walking armories of weapons. Arsenals can summon new weapons at a

moment’s notice, surrounding themselves with a nimbus of steel.

A
rsenals carry nearly limitless num-
bers of weapons. They can infuse BASE ATTRIBUTES
weapons with mana, creating SCOPE:5 SAVE TARGET:  10
bonds between themselves and their BULK MIND
weapons. These weapons can then be HP:10 STRESS CAP:  5
RECOVERIES:5 MEMORY:  5
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manipulated with mana, flying around

at the arsenal’s command, or diffusing AGILITY MAGIC
into raw aether to be summoned at a DODGE:  8 A-DEF:  6
later time. SPEED:  5 MP:  3
Arsenals are dangerous opponents
and hard to fight against. Fighting one TRAITS
can feel like fighting an entire squad,
their weapons changing the moment ArmigerTrait
you think you’re getting used to it.
You gain the Phantom Armory weapon, which is equipped for free.
Ø What is your favored weapon or
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type of weapon, and why?

Ø How are you weapons summoned?
Directly into your hand, floating
around you, shrinking or growing
larger on command, or something
else?
Ø How would you describe your
fighting style?
Ø What mythical weapon do you wish
you could add to your collection?
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Phantom Armory Volley (Ranged) or Fight (Melee)
Ranged/Melee Weapon  Variable Size/Type  Innate, Unique
Ranged Artifact: Aetheric Range 10 1d6 Astral
Bow: Arcing Range 10 1d6 Physical
Magitech: 2 Range 5/Reach 3 1d6 Force
Reliable
Melee Blade: Accurate Reach 1 1d6+1 Physical
Club: Push 2 Reach 1 1d6+1 Physical
Longarm: Reach 2 1d6+1 Physical
When equipped or Minor Action: Choose one of the listed profiles
and any size for this weapon. This lasts until the end of the scene or

until you next change it.

1/round when you would take damage from a non-Aetheric attack,
you can choose one of the listed profiles and roll its damage, reducing
the damage you take by that amount (after Armor and resistance).
That profile can’t be used until the end of the scene. You can’t use this
effect if you are unable to take reactions.

Flex WeaponsTrait

You can choose to treat your Main weapon slots as Light Light
slots, and your Heavy slots as Main Light slots.

Walking ArmoryTrait

When you Refresh, you can spend 1 MP to repair one of your de-
stroyed weapons or support items. During a Short Rest, you can repair
one weapon and one support item for free.

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MAIN MAIN HEAVY RANK 1
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SUPPORT SLOTS
LIGHT LIGHT MAIN Weapon for the Job
Skill  1 Memory
LIMIT BREAK
When you attack with a weapon, you can spend
Cycle Weapons Phase Brawl 1 MP to change the damage to another non-Discord
Limit Break damage type of your choice (i.e., Physical, Astral, Lunar,
or Force). This new damage type remains until you
You repair all of your destroyed weapons, reload all use this ability again.
of your Reloading weapons, and regain all Phantom
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Armory profiles. You may also make an attack with Arsenals bind enough weapons to their souls that they
every weapon you have, including Slow ones. have one for every situation. Switching out one weapon
for an identical weapon with a different blade happens
Arsenals can bind a nearly limitless number of weapons with a mere thought.
to their souls, but manifesting them causes strain. The
more weapons an arsenal summons, the greater the
strain. To get around this, skilled arsenals rapidly switch Gunblade Volley (Ranged)/ Fight
between weapons, dismissing one as soon as an attack
is finished, using the momentum to summon a new one (Melee)
and flow into the next attack. Melee and Ranged Weapon  Light Magitech
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Melee Profile: Reach 1 1d3 Physical

Arsenals can customize their playstyle through their
equipped weaponry. Their weapon slots, Phantom
Armory, and Flex Weapons allow them to equip
more weapons than any other class. Arsenals usually
seek out interesting weapons from other classes and
a handful of passive skills to support their intended
strategy.
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Ranged Profile: Range 5 1d3 Lunar
This weapon can be used to attack with either a
ranged or melee profile.
1/turn when you attack with this weapon, you
can spend 2 MP to also attack with the unused profile.
Anyone can fuse a gun and a sword together, but making
them both functional and – most importantly – useful,
is an artform.
Different gunblade manufacturers approach these

weapons with different design goals. Some feature a

gun and blade connected together, while others feature
a blade that can also fire projectiles.

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Mana Siphon Masamune Full Attack
Support Item  Light  Enchantment Melee Weapon  Heavy Blade  Reliable 6,
Slow Reach 2 3d6+2 Physical
You may use one of the following Enchantments
at a time: Whenever you roll a 1 on a damage dice while at-
tacking with this weapon, take 1 Stress and roll
Ø Any Light Weapon: On a crit with this weapon, that die again. This effect can trigger multiple times
the target loses 1 MP and you regain MP equal to on the same roll and is not optional.

the amount they lost.
Ø Any Main Weapon: On a crit with this weapon,
the target loses 2 MP and you regain MP equal to
the amount they lost.
Ø Any Heavy Weapon: On a crit with this weapon,
the target loses 3 MP and you regain MP equal to
the amount they lost.
Wielders of weapons enchanted this way report feelings
of “hunger” emanating from them.
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A weapon so powerful it’s named after its creator. Every
swing seeks blood. If it cannot take it from its enemies,
it will take it from its wielder.
Disarming Strike Fight
Skill  2 Memory  Stressful 1
You attack with a melee weapon. On Hit: The target
takes half damage and must make a Bulk save.

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Failure: They are Disarmed until the end of their
Powerstone Fight next turn.
Melee Weapon  Main Club  Reloading
Reach 1, Close Blast 1 1d6+2 Force “If you take their weapon, they can’t hit you back. Unless
they’re a thunderclaw, of course. If they are, don’t even
An unstable power crystal embedded into a club of bother.”
morphic metal. Every swing destroys the club, shattering
it into tiny fragments. The lingering energy animates the
morphic metal, compelling it to reform again.

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STRIKER

Assassins are stealthy attackers, experts at taking out isolated or vulnerable targets.

A
ssassins deal in death. Their skills
are used for taking lives through BASE ATTRIBUTES
stealth, subterfuge, or force. SCOPE:8 SAVE TARGET:  10
Anyone can commit murder. An BULK MIND
assassin’s strength comes from being HP:8 STRESS CAP:  5
RECOVERIES:3 MEMORY:  6
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undetected and getting away with it.

They rely on their skills and training AGILITY MAGIC
to stay hidden for as long as possi- DODGE:  11 A-DEF:  7
ble, choosing the right time to strike. SPEED:  6 MP:  2
Magic isn’t a necessary part of their
work, but many find it helpful. These TRAITS
assassins branch out into other classes,
picking and choosing tools and tricks AssassinateTrait
to enhance their unique approaches.
1/round, you may deal +1d6 bonus damage on a hit with a melee
Ø Who was the first person you killed, attack if you are Hidden or if you are the only character adjacent to
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and how did you do it? the target.

Ø What is your signature style or
method for dispatching targets?
Ø Do you operate secretly, publicly,
or under an alias?
Ø How did you become an assassin,
or why do you have their skills?
PreparationTrait
At the end of each of your turns while Hidden, you gain 1 Prep, to a
maximum of 6. After making an attack roll, you can decide to spend
any amount of Prep, adding +1 to the attack roll per Prep. Prep lasts
for the rest of the scene or until spent.

WEAPON SLOTS SUPPORT SLOTS

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Exterminate Free Action

Limit Break
Throatcutter Fight
Until the end of the scene, your Preparation trait Melee Weapon  Light Blade  Thrown 5
grants 1 Prep at the end of each of your turns, or Reach 1 / Thrown 5 1d3+1 Physical
2 Prep if you are Hidden, instead of the Prep you
would usually gain. Assassinate now deals 1d6+X You can Fight with this weapon during Phase
bonus damage, where X is the amount of Prep spent Skirmish.
on the attack.
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This blade is as light as a feather, but as sharp as a razor.

An assassin’s job is to take lives, and their reputation relies It cuts so fast, its victims don’t realize they’ve been cut
on results. There is nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. The until they see the blood.
assassin will find you – it’s just a matter of time.

Assassins want to get in close to their targets to take
advantage of Assassinate, but their low HP means
they need to avoid taking damage. Their high Dodge
and stealth abilities help them do this, and abilities
from the Shadow Dancer class synergize with this
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Master of Stealth
Skill  2 Memory
To end your Hidden status at the end of their turn,
enemies must be within 10 spaces of you. Additionally,
enemies receive +1 to Search for you.

playstyle well.
Your movements are precise and calculated. You move
only at the edges of vision, keeping to the corners.
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Garrote
Support Item  Light
When you successfully Grapple a target, they are
Silenced for the duration of the grapple. Addition-
ally, they take 1 Piercing Physical for every space
moved while Grappled in this way, to a maximum
amount of damage each turn equal to your Speed.
You can only garrote one target at a time, and a
character can only be garroted by one character at
a time.
A simple piece of wire wrapped around the throat can
silently dispatch foes.
Poisoner’s Kit
Support Item  Main  Consumable 3
You can expend a charge when you hit with a
non-Aetheric weapon attack. The target takes
1 Discord . As long as they take any amount of Dis-
cord from this ability after resistances, immunity, and
so on, they are then affected by one of the following
poisons (your choice):
Ø Deathbite: Whenever the target fails the Magic
check to clear their Discord, their Discord doubles
before they take discord damage.
Ø Ghoulblood: The target is Weakened.
Ø Midnight Malice: The target is Blinded and can’t
reveal Hidden enemies.
This effect lasts until cleared.
Expert assassins have a variety of exotic and powerful
poisons at their disposal. These poisons can’t be bought
and are made specifically for these professional killers.
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Reaper’s Shroud
Support Item  Light  Armor
+1 Armor. Whenever you defeat an enemy, you
become Invisible until the start of your next turn.
The reaper’s shroud leaves no trace of the wearer be-
hind. No sounds, no fingerprints, not even their physical
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form.
Death Strike
Skill  4 Memory
1/round when you critically hit a Bloodied or Breaking
enemy with a weapon or spell attack, there is a chance
the target will take an instant Wound or Overstress:
Ø If the target is Bloodied and the attack deals dam-
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age, they must make a Bulk save. Failure: They take
a Wound instead of taking the usual damage.
Ø If the target is Breaking and the attack deals Stress,
they must make a Mind save. Failure: They take an
Overstress instead of taking the usual damage.
Death has come. Death is delivered.
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Getting Started

STRIKER

Berserkers are reckless warriors, able to unleash devastating

attacks with little regard for their own safety.

B
erserkers are most often known for
their rage, but any emotion can be BASE ATTRIBUTES
fuel for these devastating warriors. SCOPE:5 SAVE TARGET:  10
Most draw on one specific emotion, BULK MIND
but others use several. HP:16 STRESS CAP:  6
RECOVERIES:6 MEMORY:  4
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Berserkers tend to move fast and

wield heavy weapons to defeat targets AGILITY MAGIC
quickly. Maintaining extreme emotions DODGE:  8 A-DEF:  6
can be draining, and the longer a fight SPEED:  6 MP:  1
lingers, the harder it is to maintain the
necessary emotional intensity. TRAITS
Ø What causes you to lose your Endless EnduranceTrait
composure and act recklessly?
Ø What change takes place when Removing a Wound or Overstress during a Short Rest only costs you
you give into your emotions? 1 Recovery.
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Eyes turn red, vision turns black

and white except for your target,
or something else? RecklessTrait
Ø When was a time you acted
without thinking and regretted 1/round, you may deal +1d6 bonus damage on a hit with a melee
the outcome? attack. If you do so, attacks against you gain +1 until the end of your
Ø What sign of a past battle do you next turn.
carry with you?

RelentlessTrait

1/round when you critically hit, you can make an additional attack
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with the same ability.

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MAIN HEAVY LIGHT LIGHT

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Primal StrikeSpecial
Limit Break
Charge Full Attack
When you hit with a melee attack, you can activate this Skill  2 Memory  Stressful 1, Unique
limit break. All of the attack’s damage dice, including
bonus damage and extra sources of damage, are treat- You move up to your Speed in a straight line. As long
ed as if they had rolled their maximum values once. as you move at least 3 spaces, you can Fight or
Shove as a free action at the end of the movement.
Aether reacts to your emotions, building upon itself until
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you are teeming with it. You raise your weapon and your Getting somewhere is useless if you can’t do anything
energy pours into it. As you bring the weapon down, when you get there. But if you line it up right, you can
the excess of aetheric forces makes your strike stronger charge and attack.
than ever. A frightening attack that could fell titans – a
primal strike.
Victory Rush
Skill  1 Memory  Unique
Berserkers are extremely dangerous when they crit-
ically hit, and can lean into this aspect of their play- When you defeat an enemy or give them a Wound,
style by finding abilities that can make them more you gain temp HP equal to Grit+2.
likely to achieve this (abilities that increase their
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, for example), or that do more things when they The thrill of battle is intoxicating, and victory tastes
critically hit (like the Deadeye talent). Berserkers can sweet.
also make good defenders due to their incredibly
high HP.
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Bloodrage Armor Support Item Rageblade Full Attack
Support Item  Light  Armor Melee Weapon  Heavy Blade  Inaccurate,
Reliable 5, Slow Reach 2 4d6+3 Physical
While Bloodied, you gain +2 Armor.
While Bloodied, your attacks with this weapon are
This armor requires blood to activate. When it has drunk not Inaccurate.
enough, it hardens the user’s aetheric field into a phys-
ical barrier. By forsaking any pretense of defense, a rageblade puts

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everything towards offense. If a rageblade’s wielder
isn’t stopped before they can attack, whatever they’re
Cut Through attacking is going to die.
Skill  3 Memory  Stressful 1

1/round when you defeat a character or make them Brutal Critical

Bloodied, you can immediately shift up to your
Speed. In doing so, you can move through the spaces
of enemies, dealing 2 Physical to every enemy
through which you move. Each enemy can take this
damage 1/turn. When you end this movement, all
Skill  2 Memory  Unique
You deal +1d6 bonus damage on critical hits.
Make your attacks matter. Take every opportunity. Fight

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adjacent enemies become Marked. like you only have one chance to win.

Legends say Kruglor could cut through five foes with a

single swing of their axe, the Bloody Eon.

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Getting Started

CONTROLLER

Chronomancers manipulate time to avoid or mitigate damage.

They can alter the flow of time, speeding it up or slowing it down as needed.

C
hronomancy is a rare but powerful
form of magic. The more common it BASE ATTRIBUTES
becomes, the more it is regulated. SCOPE:10 SAVE TARGET:  12
Entire civilizations have been wiped BULK MIND
out by abuse of the timelines, and un- HP:6 STRESS CAP:  6
RECOVERIES:3 MEMORY:  6
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intended consequences follow those

who meddle with such forces. AGILITY MAGIC
Chronomancers aware of the exis- DODGE:  7 A-DEF:  9
tence of other Reflections have noted SPEED:  5 MP:  5
that their ability to control time does not
extend past the boundaries of their cur- TRAITS
rent Reflection. It is not possible to alter
the timelines of Reflections other than
the one in which they currently reside. UndoTrait
Ø What does time look like to you? 1/round, you can perform actions from a phase that has already passed,
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Individual threads, a spinning instead of waiting until Phase Delay. You take 1 Stress for every
wheel, interlocking gears, or phase that has passed since the action’s usual phase. For example, if you
something else? use Defend during Phase Brawl, you would take 4 Stress .
Ø What is something you have or
know of from a different timeline?
Ø How do you think the timeline Pluck the Threads of TimeTrait
should be handled? Protected,
changed, cultivated, or something You gain the Pluck the Threads of Time spell, which is equipped
else? for free.
Ø What is something you wish you
could change in the timeline, and
what prevents you from being able Pluck the Threads of Time Reaction (1/Round)
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to do it? Spell  Arcing, Innate, Mana 1, Unique

Trigger: A character within Scope makes an attack roll, save, or check.

Effect: You force them to reroll the die, taking the second result.

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LIGHT LIGHT LIGHT LIGHT

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Time ShuffleSpecial
Limit Break
Unwinding Beam Volley
At the start of a round, you may restructure the order Ranged Spell Attack  1 Memory  Aetheric
of phases for that round only. You can put them in any Range = Scope 4 Force
order with the exception of Phase Delay, which is
always the last phase in a round. On Hit: Choose one of the following:

Chronomancers can distort space-time in localized Ø Backstep: You teleport the target up to 2 spaces.
areas. By exploiting a time loop to gain more aether Ø Repetition: During the target’s next turn, they
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than normally possible, they can amplify the distortion become Marked if they take the same action they
to effectively shuffle time, albeit for only a few took on their previous turn.
moments.

Unwind the threads of their timeline, and weave it back

The Chronomancer is a complex class with abilities in a different place.
that let them break the normal flow of combat,
like Front of the Timeline and Borrowed Time.
Chronomancers can easily branch out into offensive Slow Channel
or supportive playstyles with their high base MP Spell  2 Memory  Mana 1
and Memory. Range = Scope, Blast 1
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On Release: All characters in the AOE take 2 Stress

and are Slowed until the end of their next turn.

This is a particularly horrifying spell, but not for the obvious

reasons. Yes, your movements and reactions are slowed,
but two things operate at their normal speed: your mind,
and your nerves. You see and feel everything happening
to you, but over a longer period of time. The stronger the
slowing effect, the worse it becomes.
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HastePhase Channel
Spell  2 Memory  Mana 2 Range = Scope
On Release: An ally within Range gains the following
benefits:
Ø They may Rush 1/turn as a free action.
Ø They may take their turn during Phase Bolster,
and all actions (except for Release) are available
during that phase.
This lasts for the rest of the scene or until you either
use this spell again or they gain a Wound or Over-
stress.
Haste spells supercharge their target’s aetheric field,
manifesting as electrical discharges. The target can act
beyond their normal limits in this state, but it is a perilous
balance that can be easily disrupted.
Front of the Timeline
Skill  1 Memory
You can always go first in any phase you act in if you
want to. This does not count as a PC slot for the pur-
poses of alternating turns with NPCs.
A Chronomancer can see multiple timelines at once, and
can insert themselves into the best one.
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Rewind Channel
Spell  2 Memory  Mana 2 Range = Scope
On Release: Place a Rewind marker in one space
occupied by a character in Range. Each character
can only have one marker at a time, and the marker
doesn’t move with the character.
While you have a Rewind marker on the map, you
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gain the Revert reaction.
Rewind, retry. Over and over again.
RevertReaction
Trigger: A character with a Rewind marker either
takes damage, takes Stress caused by another
character, or starts their turn.
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Effect: You negate any damage or Stress taken and
teleport them back to the marker or the closest
free spaces, then remove the marker. This counts
as forced movement. If they are unwilling, they can
make a Magic save. Success: They resist this effect
and remove the marker.
Borrowed Time
Skill  3 Memory  Unique
You may take an extra action of any type in any phase.
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This is resolved as if it was another PC turn but doesn’t
count as a turn for the purposes of other effects.
At the start of each round after doing this, make a
Magic save against your Save Target. Continue doing
this each round until you fail this save. Failure: You are
removed from play for that round, appearing in the
same space or nearest free space at the start of the
next round. While removed from play, you can’t take
any damage, be affected by anything, or take a turn.
This effect persists between scenes until you take
a Long Rest. You can’t use this ability again until you
fail the save or take a Long Rest.
You pull a version of yourself from an alternate timeline
to temporarily assist. It’s considered rude to not offer to
return to the favor.
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Getting Started

STRIKER

Demon hunters walk a dark path, willingly accepting corrupting influences in

exchange for greater power. To hunt demons, they need the power of demons.

D
emon hunters are outcasts from
society, shunned by the worlds BASE ATTRIBUTES
that they have decided to protect. SCOPE:8 SAVE TARGET:  10
Many of their kind fall to temptation, BULK MIND
giving into the corruption that slowly HP:10 STRESS CAP:  9
RECOVERIES:4 MEMORY:  5
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eats away at their soul. There is no

happy ending for one such as them. AGILITY MAGIC
They either give in to corruption, or DODGE:  8 A-DEF:  8
die fighting. SPEED:  6 MP:  2
Many demon hunters start their
training by studying one specific type TRAITS
of demon, learning how it thinks,
moves, and fights. When they think CorruptionTrait
they’re ready, they hunt that demon,
taking a trophy to mark their success You have a d6 Corruption Die that starts at 1. When you take Stress,
or dying in the process. If they were increase the Corruption Die by 1, to a maximum of 6. You gain the
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successful, the trophy becomes an
important catalyst in their first taste
of corruption.
Ø How has your body changed as it
has acquired corruption?
Ø What do you fear might happen
if you are overwhelmed by
corruption?
Ø What weapon, spell, or demonic
feature do you feel a connection
with?
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following effects (and all previous effects) when you reach the
relevant amount of Corruption:
Ø 2 Corruption: You deal +1 bonus Force on hits with attacks.
Ø 4 Corruption: Your bonus Force increases to +2.
Ø 6 Corruption: You can activate your Demon Form trait.
Demon Form Free Action
Trait  Polymorph
At 6 Corruption, you can reset your Corruption Die to 1 and assume

Ø What demon continues to elude a demonic form until the start of your next turn. While in this form, you
you? gain the following benefits:

Ø Your bonus damage from Corruption increases to +3 Force.

Ø All bonus damage you deal becomes Discord.
Ø You gain resistance to Stress caused by other characters.
Ø You have flight.
Ø You gain +1 Armor.

Infernal Aether Minor Action

Trait  Stressful X

You regain any amount of MP at a rate of 3 Stress per 1 MP.

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Getting Started
Become the Monster Free Action
Limit Break
You immediately assume your Demon Form regard-
less of the status of your Corruption Die, and then
reset the die. Until the end of the scene, your Corrup-
tion Die resets to 3 instead of 1.
Become that which you hate, that which you hunt.
Become the monster that everyone thinks you are.
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To defeat a monster, you must become one. Feel the
power rush through your veins – feel your aether
twist and distort. The power is alluring, intoxicating.
Give into it, and all will be yours.
Demon Hunters play a dangerous game. They want
to gain Stress to increase their Corruption, but they
risk overexerting themselves and becoming Over-
stressed. Increase your Stress Cap, or find ways to
lessen your Stress levels.
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Mantis Blade Fight
Melee Weapon  Light Blade
Reach 1 1d3 Physical
When you attack with this weapon, you may attack
two different targets at the same time.
Attached to these claws are a pair of folding blades.
When retracted, they allow for wide, sweeping attacks,
but in an instant they can be snapped together like a
mantis’s claw.
Immolation Field Free Action
Spell  1 Memory  Mana 1, Unique
You’re surrounded by a shield of burning flame that
lasts until the start of your next turn. Any character
that starts their turn adjacent to you or hits you with
a melee attack takes 2 Astral .
Blazing auras are a common spell, but this one is fueled
by corrupted aether that twists and burns with dark
flames.
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Demon LeapPhase Reposition Sinbow Volley
Skill  2 Memory  Arcing, Stressful 2 Ranged Weapon  Main Bow  Arcing, Unique,
Stressful 1 Range 10 1d3 Physical
You fly to a free space within a number of spaces equal
to twice your Speed and land, ignoring reactions. On Hit: While you are Breaking, this weapon deals
When you land, all adjacent characters must make bonus damage equal to half your Stress.
an Agility save. Failure: They take 2d6 Physical .
Sinbows are the weapons of demonic generals. Mortals

The wings of the Ildam demons aren’t strong enough
to fly with, but they can leap long distances. The Ildam
land with incredible crushing power, their long talons
impaling anyone that can survive the impact.
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can barely use them, experiencing pain and horrific visions
each time they pull the bowstring. Arrows fired by this bow
ravage the aetheric field of whatever they hit.

Let Loose
Aether Sight Skill  3 Memory
Skill  1 Memory
While Breaking, you have resistance to Stress.
You gain the following benefits:
You’ve been at the edge more times than you can count.

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Ø You can see Invisible characters, ignoring the You can thread that needle, making sure you don’t fall.
Invisible status. Because if you do, it’s into the Abyss.
Ø You gain +2 on Search checks.
Ø You can Search to find Hidden characters as
a minor action.
Ø 1/turn, you can learn the current MP of one
character within Scope.

Demons are made of pure aether. Demon hunters are

trained to hunt by aetheric fields, ignoring what their
eyes may normally see.

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CONTROLLER

Masters of summoning magic, demonologists call forth fiends and spirits from outside the world
and manifest them in their reality. These beings are merely pawns for demonologists to use.

D
emonologists use their magical
powers to rip holes in the fabric BASE ATTRIBUTES
of reality, pulling out demons and SCOPE:12 SAVE TARGET:  11
other creatures to do their bidding. The BULK MIND
process of becoming a demonologist HP:7 STRESS CAP:  6
RECOVERIES:2 MEMORY:  6
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is dangerous, as untrained summoners

risk bringing forth creatures that they AGILITY MAGIC
can’t control. DODGE:  7 A-DEF:  12
Not all creatures summoned by SPEED:  5 MP:  4
demonologists are demons. They can
just as easily pull creatures from oth-
er planes, alternate timelines, or the TRAITS
spaces between Reflections.
Demon Lexicon Volley
Ø What was the first thing you Trait  Mana 2, Summon Range = Scope
summoned?
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Ø What relationship do you have with
the creatures you summon?
Ø Where do you summon creatures
from?
Ø What creature do you know how to
summon, but are afraid to?
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You call forth any one of the following demons. They share your Dodge
and A-Def, can move up to their Speed during your turn, and add your
Grit to their HP. You can only summon one of these demons at a time:
Ø Flameskipper (Size 1/2, HP 5, Dodge/A-Def = yours, Speed 3):
At the end of your turn, you choose one target within Range 5
of the flameskipper, who must make a Magic save. Failure: They
take 5 Astral .
Ø Painlash (Size 1, HP 8, Dodge/A-Def = yours, Speed 4): At the end of
your turn, enemies adjacent to the painlash must make a Bulk save.
Failure: They are Dazed and Slowed until the end of their next turn.
Ø Soultracker (Size 1, HP 5, Dodge/A-Def = yours, Speed 5): Enemies

that start their turn adjacent to the soultracker become Marked.

Ø Voidheart (Size 2, HP 10, Dodge/A-Def = yours, Speed 4): 1/round,
the voidheart can Interpose without spending Focus.

Sacrifice Minor Action

Trait Range = Scope

You destroy one of your Summons within Range. When you do so, you
can choose one of the following effects:

Ø Boost: You gain +1 on attacks, checks, and saves until the end of
your next turn.
Ø Essence Explosion: All characters within Burst 1 of the destroyed
Summon must make an Agility save. Failure: They take 2d6 Force .
Success: They take half damage.
Ø Life Link: You gain 4 temp HP and regain 1 MP.

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MAIN LIGHT MAIN
Getting Started
LIMIT BREAK
Legion Volley
Limit Break  Mana 1
You immediately conjure up to 4 Summons drawn
from all of your Summon abilities, ignoring their nor-
mal limits on quantity of Summons but otherwise
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following their usual restrictions. At the end of each
of your turns, if any of these Summons exceed the
number usually imposed by that ability, one of them
is automatically affected by your Sacrifice trait re-
gardless of Range and line of sight.
Until the end of the scene, if the defeat of one of
your Summons would result in the destruction of
the underlying ability (like with Gert’s Backbone),
the ability is only destroyed if the last instance of that
Summon is defeated.
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It is neither wise nor recommended to summon every
demon in your lexicon, but then again, summoning
demons isn’t recommended in the first place.
Demonologists are a summoning class, but tend to
treat their Summons as disposable. If you want to
have as many Summons on the field as possible,
you can pick up more summoning abilities from
other classes, but if you want to enhance your
existing Summons, the Shadebinder class has
attractive options.
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Agony Volley
Ranged Spell Attack  1 Memory  Aetheric,
Indirect Range = Scope 1 Discord
On Hit: Choose one of the following:
Ø Pain: The target receives +1 on concentration
saves triggered by this damage.
Ø Distraction: The target receives +1 on spell at-
tacks until they clear all Discord.
Spells geared toward maximizing pain are highly effective
against spellcasters, who are often unaccustomed to
maintaining focus in the face of searing, unending
torment.
Corruption Fiend Channel
Spell  2 Memory  Mana 2, Summon
Range = Scope
Corruption Fiend (Size 1/2, HP 5, Dodge/A-Def 10,
Speed 0)
On Release: You create a corruption fiend within
Range. Enemies that start their turn adjacent to it must
make a Mind save. Failure: They take 2 Discord .
Tempters and seducers, corruption fiends read the minds
of mortals and promise them their deepest wishes. They do
this with the greatest weapon of all: truth. They don’t speak
in lies; they offer the path you are afraid to take.
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Gert’s Backbone Fight
Melee Weapon  Main Longarm  Summon
Reach 2 1d6 Lunar
Ø Minor Action: You deploy this weapon as a
Summon within Scope.
Gert’s Backbone (Size 1, HP 10, Dodge/A-Def 10,
Speed 0)
You can Fight with this weapon while it is deployed,
but you draw line of sight and Reach from it. If the weapon
is ever thrown via the Thrown tag while deployed,
it can pick itself up for you. It can also perform the
Opportunity Attack reaction, using its weapon profile.
If this Summon is destroyed, so is the weapon, and
vice versa. You can return the Summon to a weapon
as a minor action if it is within Scope, but any damage
it has taken persists until you rest.
Demonologists and necromancers have a long history
of naming pets or mounts “Gert”, and forming ironic
attachments to them. Upon the Gert’s passing, their
remains are fashioned into one of these weapons, so that
they can continue working with their owner.
Book of True Names
Support Item  Light
When you create a Summon, you can spend 1–3 MP.
The Summon gains Armor equal to the MP spent.
It can’t have more than 3 Armor.
As beings of pure aether, the true name of a demon rep-
resents the exact vocal frequency of its aetheric field.
Armed with this knowledge, demonologists can bind
demons much easier.
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Skull of Kroldar
Support Item  Main
When a character within Scope is defeated, you gain
1 Soul Essence (to a maximum of 6). You can spend
Soul Essence in the following ways:
Ø Summoning Essence: Soul Essence can be spent
in place of MP for abilities with the Summon tag.
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Ø Double Summon: 1/scene when you create a
Summon, you can spend 6 Soul Essence to create
another copy of that Summon. This can exceed
that ability’s normal limit on quantity of Summons
but must otherwise follow its usual restrictions.
When you take a Long Rest, your Soul Essence resets
to 0.
This is the skull of a royal demon, sealed and defeated
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by the first demonologist.
Ravager Channel
Spell  2 Memory  Mana 2, Summon
Range = Scope
Ravager (Size 2, HP 8, Armor 1, Dodge/A-Def 10,
Speed 0)
On Release: You create a ravager within Range.
Enemies that start their turn adjacent to it take
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3 Physical and are pushed 1 space.
Ø Minor Action: You command the ravager to make
a Line 3 melee weapon attack as a free action,
adding your Grit to the attack roll. On Hit: Targets
take 3 Physical and are Sundered until the end
of their next turn.
Ravagers thrive on the battlefield, gleefully fighting and
dying for anyone or anything. These creatures aren’t
difficult to summon, but controlling their destructive
tendencies takes focus and training.
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STRIKER

These aerial combatants dash across the sky,

impaling foes with their signature Flying Dragon Style.

D
ragon riders are trained to fight
against aerial foes, staying mobile BASE ATTRIBUTES
and using spears to increase their SCOPE:5 SAVE TARGET:  11
reach. The best dragon riders bond BULK MIND
with the companions (typically drag- HP:9 STRESS CAP:  4
RECOVERIES:5 MEMORY:  5
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ons) they ride into battle.

This bond isn’t just emotional, but AGILITY MAGIC
magical. When a dragon rider calls, DODGE:  7 A-DEF:  7
their companion can answer across SPEED:  6 MP:  3
any distance and adapt to any envi-
ronment. Their aetheric fields become
entwined, and their minds become TRAITS
as one. This special call can only be
maintained for a short period of time, Forceful JabTrait
before their aetheric fields begin to
separate once more. When you hit with a non-thrown melee longarm attack, you may push
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Ø What is your companion’s name,
and what are they like?
Ø What type of aerial threat were you
trained to fight against?
Ø Where is your companion’s natural
habitat?
Ø What do you or your companion
fear fighting?
the target until they are a number of spaces away from you equal to
the weapon’s Reach.
SkyhunterTrait
You gain +1 on attacks against Flying characters, don’t receive
for making melee attacks against them, and cause Engagement against
them as normal.

Skythrust Minor Action

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Trait  Stressful 1

You fly up to half your Speed in a straight line. If you fly at least
2 spaces, your next melee attack against an adjacent character that
turn gains +1 .

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Dragon Echo Minor Action
Limit Break  Summon Range = Scope
Dragon Echo (Size 3, HP = Grit+15, Dodge/ A-Def
10, Speed 6)
You summon an echo of your dragon within Range.
This dragon has flight and can move up to its Speed
during your turn. Allies can share spaces with it, and
any allies fully within its spaces can move with it when
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it moves. The dragon lasts until the end of the scene
or until defeated.
The dragon can also attack with the Echo Wave
weapon as a standard action during your turn, add-
ing your Grit to the attack roll.
The bond a dragon rider has with their mount is deep,
and requires both creatures to weave their aetheric fields
together. Many fail to do this, resulting in a backlash
against the creature with the weaker field, which is
usually the rider. Aetheric backlashes can cause serious
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injury or permanent physical changes in the likeness of
the more powerful creature.
Once the bond is complete, the rider and dragon
become one. The strongest dragon riders can pour their
mana into creating an echo of their companion made
of pure aether. Even if their dragon companion is long
dead, a dragon rider is never alone – their partner will
live on inside them.
Echo Wave Special
Melee Weapon  Heavy Artifact
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Close Blast 2 3 Astral + 1 Discord
Dragon Riders are anti-aerial strikers. They have a
penchant for longarm weapons, which makes the
Lancet talent a natural choice for them. They have a
high Speed, and any abilities that give them special
movement like flight or teleportation help them
maneuver around the battlefield with ease.
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Jump PadsPhase Skirmish
Skill  2 Memory  Mana 1 Range = Scope
Create two Size 1 jump pads in free spaces within
Range. When you or an ally enter a jump pad’s space,
you (or they) immediately fly up to 5 spaces, ignoring
reactions.
When an enemy enters a jump pad’s space, they
immediately fly 5 spaces in a direction of your choos-
ing, ignoring reactions.
All movement from this ability is considered in-
voluntary movement. Jump pads are destroyed after
they are used, and using this ability again destroys
all old pads. If not destroyed, they last until the end
of the scene.
Dragon riders have the skills and training to mount their
flying companions, but not everyone who needs to ride a
dragon has the same training. To this end, dragon rider
engineers invented the jump pads, which propel anyone
standing onto them into the air.
Safety protocols require all personnel that work
near jump pads to wear personal parachutes in case of
accidental deployment.
Dragon Saddle Free Action (1/Turn)
Support Item  Main  Mana 1
You gain Flying, which lasts until you end it as a free
action. During this time, whenever you move outside
of your turn, you gain soft cover until the start of
your next turn.
The dragon rider times their leap with the dive of their
dragon, nimbly landing on its back.
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Extending Enchantment Crash Full Attack
Support Item  Main  Enchantment Skill  2 Memory  Mana 1

You may use one of the following Enchantments
at a time:
Ø Any Weapon or Technique with Reach: This ability
gains +1 Reach and doesn’t receive when making
You teleport up to your Speed, then all enemies within
a Burst 1 AOE must make an Agility save. Failure:
They fall Prone.
You may then Volley, Fight, Shove, or
Grapple.

melee attacks against Flying characters.
Ø Any Weapon or Technique with Range: This ability
gains +3 Range.
Magical versions of this enchantment lengthen the blade
or shaft without increasing the weight.
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This fearsome technique is known only by dragon riders
who have been granted their full knighthoods. The knight
takes to the sky without the aid of their mount, and then
crashes down like a falling meteor.

Longinus Fight
Transfuse Volley Melee Weapon  Heavy Longarm
Ranged Spell Attack  2 Memory Reach 3 1d6+4 Physical
Range = Scope 1d3+1 Force

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This attack deals an additional +1d3 damage if the
target is Bloodied or Breaking, or an additional
+2d3 if the target is both Bloodied and Breaking.
You regain either HP or MP equal to the value of
any damage dice rolled as part of this spell (excluding
bonus and other sources of damage). If two or more
dice are rolled, at least one must apply to HP and one
must apply to MP.
This weapon gains Piercing when attacking targets
at its maximum Reach.
Longarms are the preferred and most iconic weapons
of the dragon riders. The extra reach of a spear or
lance is even more important when fighting in the sky,
where creatures can easily disengage and attack from
any angle.

The one spell taught to all dragon riders is transfuse.

Meant to be used late in a fight, this spell drains the

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target’s aetheric energy, and transforms it into a benefit
for the caster. The weaker the target’s aetheric field, the
greater the effect.

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CONTROLLER

Druids control the forces of nature,

moving foes around with storms and flora.

A
whispering wind that grows into
a howling hurricane. A morning BASE ATTRIBUTES
dewdrop falling into a rushing riv- SCOPE:10 SAVE TARGET:  11
er. The seed that grows to reach the BULK MIND
heavens. These are the primal forces of HP:9 STRESS CAP:  6
RECOVERIES:4 MEMORY:  6
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nature – the power that a druid uses.

These mysterious spellcasters use AGILITY MAGIC
their mana to manipulate and control DODGE:  7 A-DEF:  9
the weather and flora around them. SPEED:  4 MP:  4
Animals are outside the domain of the
druid, since their powers don’t control
thinking creatures. TRAITS
Ø How have the primal forces of Briar PatchTrait
nature marked you?
Ø What type of terrain do you feel When you subject a character to forced movement, a briar patch
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most connected to? Forest, desert,
artic, or something else?
Ø What type of weather makes
you feel calm, and what type of
weather makes you feel alive?
Ø What is considered taboo by other
druids?
is created in the spaces they occupied and any they move through
(excluding their ending positions). Briar patches are difficult terrain,
and enemies take 3 Piercing Physical the first time they enter one
in a turn.
You may remove any briar patches of your choice within Scope as
a minor action.

Nature’s PathTrait

When you push, pull, or slide a character, you can spend MP to

increase the distance they move by +1 space for every MP spent. You
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can’t use this trait if you are Silenced or Stunned.

RootTrait

When you hit with an Opportunity Attack, you can choose to make
the target Immobilized until the start of their next turn instead of
dealing damage.

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Tempest Storm Channel

Limit Break Range = Scope
Vine Whip Fight
On Channel: You begin calling a furious storm, and Melee Weapon  Light Longarm
all adjacent characters of your choice are pushed Reach 4 1 Physical
1 space away from you. If you stop channeling this
ability before releasing for any reason, you do not On Crit: You may slide the target 3 spaces.
expend your limit break.
Enchanted plant matter that never withers or burns.
On Release: You create a 4 × 4 storm zone within Druids make vine whips with the materials of their home
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Range. The storm lasts until the end of the scene and before venturing into the wider world.
its spaces are difficult terrain.

Characters within the storm when it is created or who Gust of Wind

enter one of its spaces take 1d6+4 Physical , no Ranged Spell Attack  1 Memory
more than 1/turn per character. If a character ends Range = Scope
their turn in one of the storm’s spaces, you may slide
them up to 3 spaces. You gain the Tornado and Air Blast ranged spell
attacks.
Ø Minor Action (1 MP): You move the storm up to 3
spaces in a straight line. Stir the aetheric flow of the air around you. Feel its
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movements. Move like the air, and then make its

“We thought they was normal storm clouds, though they movement yours.
did seem to form outta nowhere. There wasn’t no forecast
of rain, neither. But the lightning started immediately, even
before the rain. And then the winds hit. You’ve never felt Tornado Channel
winds like this. Funnels of dust were everywhere, and they Ranged Spell Attack  Auto-Hit, Slide 2
swept us off our feet. When I woke up, the ground was
scrubbed clean. No bushes, no grass, just rock.” On Release: The target takes 2d6 Force .

Druids are flexible, able to use a combination of Air Blast Volley

Channel and Volley abilities. Druids that seek Ranged Spell Attack  Push 1
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to command the fauna of their environments tend Range = Scope 1d6 Force
to choose the Companion support item (p. 218) and
ranks in summoning classes, while those that seek
to transform their bodies take ranks in the Shape-
shifter class (p. 178).

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Wall of Thorns Channel
Spell  2 Memory  Mana X Range = Scope
On Release: You create X+3 pieces of Size 1 soft cover
in free spaces within Range, where X is the amount of
MP you spend. The pieces of cover must be adjacent
to each other, but can be arranged in any way.
These pieces of cover can be moved through.
Characters take 4 Piercing Physical the first time
they enter one in a turn.
Stir the dormant land to life. Vines, thorns, and dirt rise
up and cleave together. Lands long thought dead still
have life that can be reawakened.
Entangle
Ranged Spell Attack  2 Memory
Range = Scope 2 Stress
You gain the Vine Field and Awakened Roots ranged
spell attacks.
Stir the plants to act. Coil and writhe, twist and turn.
Form an unbreakable knot.
Vine Field Channel
Ranged Spell Attack  Auto-Hit, Mana 2
On Release: You create a Blast 1 zone within
Range. It is difficult terrain and lasts until the
end of the scene or until you dismiss it as a free
action. All characters in the zone when you
release this spell are auto-hit for 2 Stress and
are Immobilized until cleared.
Awakened Roots Volley
Ranged Spell Attack  Mana 1
On Hit: The target must make an Agility save.
Failure: They are Immobilized until the end of
their next turn.
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Tether Vine Channel
Spell  2 Memory  Mana 2, Summon
Range = Scope
Tether Vine (Size 1/2, HP 5, Dodge/A-Def 10, Speed 0)
On Release: You create a tether vine within Range.
When summoned, or as a minor action on subse-
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quent turns, you can select an enemy within Range 3
of the tether vine and connect it to them. Only one
target can be connected to the tether vine at a time.
At the start of each of the connected character’s turns,
they are pulled 1d6 spaces toward the tether vine.
They can make a Bulk save as a minor action. Suc-
cess: They break free.
Stir the vital aether within nearby flora, accelerating
its growth.
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SkybeamPhase Skirmish
Spell  2 Memory  Arcing, Indirect, Mana 2
Range = Scope
You call down a beam of energy from the sky. Choose
up to 10 non-overlapping spaces within Range, each
of which after the first must be adjacent to another of
these spaces. Characters in these spaces must make a
Magic save. Failure: They take 1d6+2 Force .
Success: They take half damage.
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Stir the aether of the sky. Reach above the clouds, where
sun and moon meet. Bring them to the ground, and let
all become one.
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Getting Started

ARTILLERY

Equinoxes harness celestial aether to empower their destructive spells. Aether of the sun enhances
the explosive potential of spells, and aether of the moon enhances the effective range of spells.

E
quinoxes pull celestial aether from
beyond the bounds of their planet, BASE ATTRIBUTES
mixing it with the native aether SCOPE:12 SAVE TARGET:  11
around them. This celestial aether BULK MIND
comes in two types – sun aether and HP:6 STRESS CAP:  5
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moon aether – though they do not

necessarily originate from a literal sun AGILITY MAGIC
and moon. DODGE:  6 A-DEF:  10
Sun aether is dangerous and de- SPEED:  4 MP:  5
structive. Spells empowered with
sun aether explode violently. Moon
aether, on the other hand, is stable TRAITS
and strong. Spells empowered with
moon aether can keep their form over Day/Night CycleTrait
longer distances.
You have two special resources – Sun and Moon – that each start at
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Ø Which type of aether – sun or
moon – is easier for you to use,
and which one do you fear?
Ø What spell do you know that others
have declared too dangerous to
use?
Ø What celestial event are you waiting
for, during which something
important will happen? An eclipse,
a conjunction, or something else?
Ø What item helps you control your
spells?
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0. You can only have one of these resources at a time, and they reset
to 0 at the end of each combat scene.
Ø Minor Action: You set your Sun or Moon at 1 (setting the other at
0), or clear all Sun and Moon. If you already have 1 Sun or 1 Moon,
you can instead increase it by +1, to a maximum of 2.
Sun and Moon have the following effects:
Ø Sun: For each Sun you have, your AOE spells and artifact weapons
gain +1 to their AOEs (Line AOEs have their width increased by +1,
instead); however, you must spend +1 MP each time you use one of
these spells or weapons. If you can’t, you immediately lose all Sun.
Ø Moon: For each Moon you have, your Scope and Range with

artifact weapons and spells that have a Range increase by +4;

however, you take 1 Stress each time you target something with
a spell or artifact weapon attack beyond your normal Scope or
the weapon’s Range.

Mage TowerTrait

If you haven’t moved since the start of your last turn, you gain both of
the following benefits, which don’t stack:

Ø Surecast: Your ranged artifact weapon and spell attacks gain

+1 .
Ø Sharpcast: Your Channel spells impose +1 on any saves they
trigger.

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TetraFlare Channel
Limit Break  Arcing, Mana 1
Range = Scope, Blast 1 Exobomb Channel
Ranged Spell Attack  2 Memory  Mana 2
If you stop channeling this ability before releasing Range = Scope
for any reason, it does not expend your limit break.
On Channel: Choose one of the following options:
On Release: One character in the center of the AOE
is auto-hit by a spell attack for 2d6+2 Force . All Ø Fireball: On Release: Enemies in a Blast 2 AOE
other characters in the AOE are auto-hit for half of within Range are auto-hit, taking 2d6+2 Astral .
Ø Squall: On Release: Center a Burst 1 AOE
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that damage.
You can spend up to +3 MP when you release this
ability, increasing the damage by 1d6 Force for
each additional MP spent. You may also apply the
benefits of any amount of Sun and Moon to this ability
(to a max of 2 each), which affect this ability as if it
were a spell. This does not require you to have any
Sun or Moon or spend any amount of either.
Combining sun and moon aether at the same time results
in a cataclysmically dangerous spell. An equinox who
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around a character within Range. All characters
within the AOE are auto-hit for 2d6+2 Lunar
and Slowed until the end of their next turn.
Empowering a spell with sun or moon aether changes
the nature of the spell itself. Sun aether tends toward
astral manifestations like fire and lightning, and moon
aether tends toward lunar manifestations like ice
and air.

knows how to cast this spell, and is still alive, is a master

of their craft.
The Equinox’s Day/Night Cycle lets them switch
between long-range spells or large AOEs, although
the cost for repeatedly using each resource can add
up quickly. Equinoxes can focus on increasing their
MP or Stress Cap to let them use these effects for
longer. Picking up spell attacks from other classes
can give an Equinox more versatility.
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Scar  Minor Action
Spell  2 Memory  Mana 1 Range = Scope
Deal 1 Piercing Force to an enemy within Range,
or 3 Piercing Force if they’re Bloodied.
A quick spell to meant to incapacitate or outright kill
targets. The only defense against this spell is a strong
lifeforce.

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Celestial Ray Dividing Line Channel
Ranged Spell Attack  1 Memory Spell  2 Memory  Mana 3 Line 15
Range = Scope 1d6+1 Damage
On Release: Designate all adjacent spaces along one
You gain the Ray of Fire and Ray of Cold ranged long side of the AOE as Astral and all adjacent spaces
spell attacks. along the other as Lunar. The spaces at the tips of the
line are unaffected.
Focus celestial energy into a narrow beam that grows Characters in or adjacent to the line, excluding

stronger the longer it’s focused.
Ray of Fire
Ranged Spell Attack 
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yourself, must make an Agility save, taking damage
of a type determined by their location.
Failure: They take 2d6+6 damage and are Sun-
Volley dered until the end of their next turn.
Astral Damage Success: They take 1d6+6 damage.

On Hit: If the target was hit by Ray of Fire on your Characters on the Astral side take Astral, characters on
last turn, they also take 4 Discord . the Lunar side take Lunar, and characters in the center
of the AOE take Force. Characters spanning more than
one location choose which damage they take.
Ray of Cold Volley

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Ranged Spell Attack Lunar Damage
On Hit: If the target is Immobilized, Slowed,
Stunned, Grappled, or Prone, this ability deals
2d6+1 Lunar instead of its usual damage.
The signature spell of the equinox. One hand channels
sun aether, the other channels moon aether. The spells
are released into each other, merging into pure force
energy, and decaying into astral and lunar energy at
the sides.

Saturn Rod Volley Quickcast Minor Action (1/scene)

Ranged Weapon  Main Artifact  Aetheric, Skill  3 Memory  Mana 2
Homing, Mana 1 Range 10 1d3+3 Force
The next time you Channel an ability this round,
The head of this rod is crafted in the likeness of a ringed you release it immediately.

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planet. Different versions exist, shaped like different
planets or celestial objects, such as black holes or Expert spellcasters can replace the complicated
comets. requirements of their spells with an abundance of
mana.

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DEFENDER

Manifestations of the slow, lumbering specter of death that follows all living
things. Gravewalkers use the power of necromancy to stave off death.

G
ravewalkers stride the line between
life and death. They have close rela- BASE ATTRIBUTES
tionships with death, and use their SCOPE:10 SAVE TARGET:  10
necromantic magic to protect their BULK MIND
allies. When you are friends with a HP:8 STRESS CAP:  5
RECOVERIES:6 MEMORY:  5
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gravewalker, you die when they al-

low it. AGILITY MAGIC
These heavily armored necroman- DODGE:  6 A-DEF:  8
cers are nigh unkillable, able to shrug SPEED:  4 MP:  3
off wounds that would fell any other
person. Their shovel is functional and
symbolic, sometimes used to literally TRAITS
dig themselves out of their own grave.
HarvestTrait
Ø How did you die the first time, and
how did you come back to life? 1/round when an enemy within Scope is defeated, you gain 2 Focus.
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Ø What does the personification of

death look like to you, and what
are they like?
Ø How can you tell when someone
has been touched by death?
Ø How do you travel between the
world of the living and the world
of the dead?
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Tombstone Minor Action
Trait  Mana 1, Summon Range = Scope
Tombstone (Size 1/2, HP 5, Dodge/A-Def 10, Speed 0)
You summon a tombstone within Range. You can have up to two
tombstones in play at a time. So long as you have any tombstones
in play, you gain the Written Name skill, which is equipped for free.

Written NameReaction
Skill  Focus 1, Innate, Unique

Trigger: A character takes damage within Range 5 of a tombstone.

Effect: You give them resistance to that source of damage. If

the damage was from an AOE, you can use this reaction additional
times, up to 1/character in the AOE.

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That Which is Already DeadSpecial
Limit Break
At any time during a combat scene, you may refuse
the call of death. Until the end of the scene, you can’t
take a fourth Wound and don’t make any wound
rolls. When you would take your fourth Wound, you
instead return to your maximum HP and carry over
any excess damage.
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Gravewalkers have walked the path of the dead.
They know what lies on the other side of life. To kill a
gravewalker is to put them on a path they have already
marked before. As long as they can “walk”, they can
always come back.
Gravewalkers are slow, and armor can slow them
down further. To counteract this, they can provide
protection over distance. Gravewalkers can either
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seek out ranged options to get around their slow
speed, or choose heavy weapons to make devastat-
ing attacks when they finally reach their foes.
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Gravedigger’s Shovel Fight
Melee Weapon  Heavy Club  Reliable 3
Reach 1 2d6+1 Physical
This weapon deals double damage to objects
(including terrain) and Summons. You can attack
these targets as a minor action.
Dig a grave anywhere, and bury anything that stands
in your way.
Touch of the Grave
Skill  1 Memory
You gain resistance to Lunar. Additionally, 1/turn
when you make a wound or overstress roll, you can
reroll the dice and take either result.
Those that work around the dead find their aetheric
energy shifts towards the dark. Gravewalkers and nec-
romancers take advantage of this imbalance and use it
as a cloak against lunar-aspected energy.
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Entomb Channel
Spell  3 Memory  Mana 2 Range = Scope
On Release: A character within Range takes
2 Stress and must make a Bulk save. Success:
They are Dazed and Slowed until the end of their
next turn. Failure: They are Blinded, Immobilized,
and Slowed.
At the end of each of their turns, the target can
make another Bulk save. Success: They end the effect.
Failure: They take 2 Stress .
If the target is subjected to forced movement,
they clear Blinded and Immobilized.
Pale hands reach out from the ground, grasping at legs
with their bloody fingers. Dirty nails dig into flesh, and
pull their victim down… down… down.
Psychopomp Reaction (1/round)
Spell  2 Memory  Mana 1
Trigger: A character is defeated within Range 20 .
Effect: You teleport to the closest free space adjacent
to them.
Psychopomps are escorts into the afterlife. You don’t have
to help ease their transfer, but you can take advantage
of the free trip.
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Specter of Sins
Skill  2 Memory  Mana 2, Summon
Specter of Sins (Size = your Size, HP = your HP be-
fore you Refresh, Dodge/A-Def 0, Speed 0)
When you Refresh, you can call forth a ghostly
manifestation of your sins in a free space within
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Range 5 .
As long as you are within Range 2 of the spec-
ter, it takes any damage that you would take before
resistances and Armor, and you take none of the
damage. Damage the specter takes can’t be reduced
in any way.
You can only have one specter at a time.
The sinful are burdened by their transgressions, which
weigh upon them like an anchor. Purge yourself of your
sins, and you will feel the weight lift off your soul.
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Unliving Armor
Support Item  Heavy  Armor, Unbreakable
+3 Armor, –1 Speed, and –1 Dodge.
When you take a Wound, you gain immunity to all
damage, and when you take an Overstress, you gain
immunity to all Stress. Any excess damage or Stress
is negated. This immunity lasts until the start of your
next turn.
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When you are defeated, roll 1d6 at the start of each
round. On a 5+, you return to action with full HP and 0
Stress and clear either 1 Wound or 1 Overstress; how-
ever, you also become Dazed and become Dazed at the
start of each of your turns until you take a Long Rest.
Those that wear this armor cannot die. People have
sealed themselves inside such armor to achieve
immortality.
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ARTILLERY

Gunslingers are masters of firearms.

Their quick hands can draw, fire, and reload in the blink of an eye.

Y
ou are the bullet. The trigger is
your breath. Breathe in. Squeeze. BASE ATTRIBUTES
Breathe out. SCOPE:8 SAVE TARGET:  11
Gunslingers are firearms special- BULK MIND
ists. Their insight into their weapons HP:8 STRESS CAP:  5
RECOVERIES:3 MEMORY:  5
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lets them reload supernaturally fast,

recharging or replacing ammo with AGILITY MAGIC
their own aetheric energies. Gunsling- DODGE:  10 A-DEF:  6
ers often modify their weapons and SPEED:  5 MP:  3
ammunition to suit their style and
environment.
TRAITS
Ø How were you taught to aim
without sight? Fast ReloadTrait
Ø What unique modification have
you made to your weapons? 1/round when you attack with a Reloading weapon, roll a d6. On a 6,
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Ø What place have you sworn never you immediately reload it. You can spend MP to increase the result of
to return, and why? this roll by +1 per each MP spent.
Ø What is your motto or code?

Stare DownTrait

When you reload a weapon, you gain the Quick Draw skill until you
use it, or until start of your next turn.

Quick Draw Reaction (1/round)

Skill
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Trigger: A character within Range or Reach of one of your

weapons attacks.

Effect: You attack them with that weapon before they roll for the
attack.

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RANK 1
Getting Started

Customized Ammo Free Action

Limit Break
Curve Ammo
You gain access to the following special ammunition Support Item  Light  Enchantment
types for the rest of the scene. Each ammunition type
can be used once. You can choose to use an ammu- You may use the following Enchantment:
nition type when attacking with a ranged weapon,
giving the listed effects. The attack’s normal effects Ø Any Ranged Weapon, Skill Attack, or Spell
still apply. Attack: When you make a ranged attack with this
ability, you can do one of the following:
Ø Hotshot: Draw a straight line between yourself and
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‘ Spend 1 MP to ignore line of sight as long

your target, and place a Blast 2 AOE centered
anywhere along this line. Characters in the AOE
must make an Agility save. Failure: They take
2d6 Astral . Success: They take half damage.
Additionally, the area becomes dangerous terrain
(Agility, 5 Astral ) until the end of the scene
Ø Mindjack Round: On Hit: Until the end of the tar-
get’s next turn or until they are dealt damage by
you or one of your allies, they consider you and your
allies as their allies, and their former allies as ene-
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as there is a potential path to the target,
although cover still applies.
‘ Spend 2 MP to make this attack Homing.
Curve bullets can be bent, flying around cover. Different
grades of ammunition follow different paths.
Slugthrower Volley
Ranged Weapon  Main Magitech  Reliable 2,

mies. On Miss: The target is unable to target you Reloading Range 8 2d6 Physical
with hostile effects until the end of their next turn.
Ø Piercer: The attack gains Piercing and becomes Unlike energy-based firearms, this weapon fires solid
a Line attack with a distance of any amount up to pieces of metal.
the attack’s Range. The attack also has Reliable
10 against objects and terrain.
Ø Shock Round: On Hit: The target is Stunned and
Slowed until the end of their next turn. On Miss:
The target is Slowed and can’t take reactions until
the end of their next turn.

Gunslingers carry specialized ammunition, developed

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to support their unique strengths and weaknesses. This

ammunition can’t be mass-produced because it contains
volatile or experimental materials.

Gunslingers lean towards weapons with the

Reloading tag, as their traits helps them mitigate
that penalty. Increasing their MP pool can also allow
them to reload more often. While Gunslingers are
naturally drawn toward long-range combat, their
base traits can also work with melee weapons.

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Aim with Heart Ammo Crate Minor Action
Skill  3 Memory  Unique Support Item  Main  Limited 2, Summon

When making ranged attacks against targets within
Scope, you ignore up to 1 .
Additionally, when you are Blinded, you can
target and draw line of sight to characters within
Scope.
Ammo Crate (Size 1/2, HP 10, Dodge/A-Def 10, Speed
0)
You place an ammo crate in an adjacent space. It can’t
perform any actions (including reactions), even if an-
other ability would allow it to do so. It has 5 charges.

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In a world filled with magic, only a fool relies solely on While adjacent to it, you or an ally can expend a charge
their eyes. Gunslingers are taught to aim with their heart, as a minor action for either of the following effects:
a technique that uses aetherical fluctuations to discern
their true target. Ø Reload one weapon.
Ø Regain 2 MP.

Shardgun Revolver Volley When the ammo crate runs out of charges, it is de-
Ranged Weapon  Light Magitech  Piercing, stroyed. If it is defeated, it explodes in a Burst 2 area.
Reloading Range 5 / Reach 3 2d3 Force All characters in the area must make an Agility save.
Failure: They take 8 Force .

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This shardgun combines multiple crystals to fire piercing Success: They take 4 Force .
blasts of energy. The impacts can punch through
armor, but the crystals need to be replaced after every Ammo crates allow groups to quickly resupply, but are
shot. extremely explosive.

Widowmaker Volley
Ranged Weapon  Heavy Magitech  Accurate,
Reloading Range 15 3d6 Physical

On Crit: This attack is Piercing.

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One shot, one kill.

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Getting Started

STRIKER / CONTROLLER

Hexblades sow curses and confusion among their foes,

weakening them while growing stronger from their misery.

H
exblades know pain and misery
better than most. These warriors BASE ATTRIBUTES
can take the suffering in their heart SCOPE:10 SAVE TARGET:  11
and use it to power an array of curses BULK MIND
and hexes. To a hexblade, the soul is HP:8 STRESS CAP:  5
RECOVERIES:4 MEMORY:  6
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just another power source.

Hexes are blights upon creatures AGILITY MAGIC
with aetheric fields. The simplest of DODGE:  7 A-DEF:  8
them induce minor aetheric imbalanc- SPEED:  5 MP:  4
es, causing clumsiness and inability
to focus. The strongest ones act like
magical parasites, using their hosts TRAITS
own aether to produce ongoing, det-
rimental effects like loss of vision and HexTrait
internal decay.
You gain the Hex spell attack, which is equipped for free.
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Ø What’s the worst luck you had?

Ø How does the shape and
appearance of your soul alter your Hex Minor Action
weapons and techniques? Ranged Spell Attack  Auto-Hit, Innate, Mana 1,
Ø What’s your favorite curse to put Unique Range = Scope
on people?
Ø How do you get under people’s The target becomes hexed, which lasts until the end of the scene
skin? or until you use this ability again. This has the following effects:

Ø When you defeat a hexed target, you regain 1 MP.

Ø 1/round, you can deal +1d6 bonus damage on a successful
weapon attack against a hexed target.
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Ø 1/round when you inflict a condition on a hexed target, you

can also inflict the same condition on another enemy within
Range 5 of the hexed target. The second character has this
condition until the end of their next turn.

MiseryTrait

You gain +1 on attacks against characters with one or more conditions.

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Getting Started
Doom Hex Free Action
Limit Break
A character affected by your hex becomes Dazed,
Marked, Blinded, Sundered, Silenced, Slowed,
and Weakened. At the end of each of their turns in
which they have at least one of these conditions, they
make a Magic save. Success: They choose and remove
one of these conditions.
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Evil eye. Mind-fog. Dancing legs. Sloughing skin.
Atrophied muscles. Eldritch horror.
Warlocks and witches have hundreds of hexes and
curses at their disposal. The most powerful hexblades
can create doom hexes – powerful curses that combine
multiple curses into one.
Hexblades mix weapon and spell attacks together.
They excel when they focus on taking down one tar-
get at a time or on spreading conditions to multiple
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targets. Because Hex counts as a spell attack, they
make good use of the Spellblade talent.
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Bound Weapon
Support Item  Light  Enchantment
You may use one of the following Enchantments
at a time:
Ø Any Weapon: This weapon becomes Unbreak-
able, and when thrown, returns to you after the
attack resolves. It can be used even if you are Dis-
armed.
Ø Any Technique: This technique becomes Unbreak-
able. If it’s a spell, it can be used even if you are
Silenced.
When you make a pact for power, the patron will want
to monitor your progress. A weapon is manifested as
an extension of the patron and given to you. Refusal is
not an option.
Edge of Darkness Fight
Melee Weapon  Main Blade
Reach 1 1d6 Lunar
1/turn when you defeat, Wound, or Overstress an
enemy with this weapon, you gain 3 temp HP and this
weapon’s damage increases by +1. This effect stacks
with itself to a maximum of +6. This extra damage
lasts until you take a Long Rest.
This weapon feeds on souls, growing stronger and
sharper with each soul consumed. It will only achieve
its true form when sated.
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Curse Bolt Volley
Ranged Spell Attack  1 Memory  Aetheric,
Mana 1 Range = Scope / Reach 1 1d6 Force
This spell deals +1 damage for every condition the
target had at the time of the attack.
On Hit: The target is Marked. Additionally, choose
one of the following:
Ø Haze Curse: Until the Mark is cleared, your target
treats you as Invisible.
Ø Soul Curse: Until the Mark is cleared, your target
receives +1 on checks and saves.
Curses are natural phenomena that affect a creature’s
aetheric field. Warlocks have learned how to manipulate
these forces to induce specific types of curses. Hexblades
take that knowledge and force these curses into physical
forms that can be cast at any creature.
Curse of Weakness
Spell  2 Memory
When you make a character Marked, you can spend
2 MP to also make them Weakened until the end of
their next turn.
“When your knees buckle, I’ll have a good chuckle; it
doesn’t take a seer to know your doom is near.”
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Hexing Aura Free Action
Spell  2 Memory  Arcing, Aura 5
You can use one of the following Auras at a time:
Ø Intensify Hex: Enemies within your Aura gain
+2 when Dazed, instead of +1 .
Ø Lingering Hex: Enemies within your Aura take
1 Stress for each condition they clear.
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Misfortune follows hexblades. The smart ones learn how
to make that someone else’s problem.
Soul Strike
Skill  3 Memory  Mana 1
When you attack with a weapon, you can turn it into
a soul strike. The attack gains the Aetheric tag, deals
half damage, and deals all damage as Stress instead
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of its normal types.
It additionally gains On Hit: the target is Dazed
until the end of their next turn. If the Stress from this
attack causes them to exceed their Stress Cap, they are
also Sundered until it is both the end of their next turn
and they are no longer exceeding their Stress Cap.
It is possible to convert a weapon’s entire form into
aether. The aetheric weapon bypasses physical armor,
but interacts directly with aetheric fields.
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Getting Started

DEFENDER/ CONTROLLER

Knightmares manifest dreams into reality, creating unbreakable aetheric

chains to bind their foes. If a Knightmare catches you, there’s no escape.

T
he Dreamscape is a realm few know
about, and accessible to even fewer. BASE ATTRIBUTES
The Awoken are those who can SCOPE:5 SAVE TARGET:  11
travel this realm of infinite creativity BULK MIND
and shape it to their whims; however, HP:9 STRESS CAP:  6
RECOVERIES:4 MEMORY:  5
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not everything there is pleasant, and

dangers lurk in the shadows. AGILITY MAGIC
Knightmares have been influenced DODGE:  6 A-DEF:  7
by their brushes with the horrors of the SPEED:  6 MP:  3
Dreamscape – true nightmares. Using
these strong negative emotions, they
can take objects from the Dreamscape TRAITS
into the waking world, which display
properties that make a mockery of The Chains of DespairTrait
reality.
You gain the Chains of Despair skill, which is equipped for free.
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Ø When did you first become

Awoken?
Ø How do you choose to look in the Chains of DespairReaction
Dreamscape? Skill  Focus 1, Innate, Unique
Ø Who do you hope to capture in
your chains? Trigger: An enemy within Range 3 makes an attack.
Ø What nightmare still plagues you
to this day? Effect: You pull the enemy to the closest free space adjacent to you,
and their attack must include you as a target. You may also spend
an additional +1 Focus to Grapple the enemy after pulling them.
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The Inescapable NightmareTrait

When you would be able to make a melee attack as a reaction, you

can instead attempt a Grapple.
Additionally, 1/round if a Grappled enemy would cease to be ad-
jacent to you, you can spend 1 MP to continue the grapple and negate
any movement that would break adjacency.
You can’t use this trait if you are Stunned.

The Weight of InevitabilityTrait

You are always considered at least Size 3 for the purposes of Grap-
ple and Shove and you can perform reactions while Grappled.

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Getting Started
Trapped in a Dream Grapple
Limit Break
All enemies of your choice within Range 5 are
pulled to the closest free spaces adjacent to you
and Grappled. Escaping from the grapple requires a
standard action during any phase instead of a minor
action. Any time an enemy Grappled by this ability
attacks, they must include you as one of their targets.
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Your chains move according to your will, wrapping around
your foes and dragging them screaming toward you. As
they move closer, they find themselves transported into
a domain of the dreamscape chosen especially for them.
They can see the waking world, but the dreamscape
fights them every step of the way.
Knightmares are a grapple-focused class. The Brawl-
er talent can help them Grapple more often, and
grappling tends to shut down enemy defenders,
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who usually rely on reactions to use their defensive
features. The Weight of Inevitability means that
Knightmares don’t need to pick specific ancestries
to remain in control while grappling.
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Body Shields
Skill  1 Memory  Unique
Any Physical, Astral, Lunar, and Force you would take
is reduced by –1 (before Armor and resistances) for
every character Grappled by you. When characters
Grappled by you deal damage to you, they don’t
count toward this damage reduction.
You don’t benefit from this ability while Sun-
dered.
Most people are about the size of a tower shield. They
also do a pretty good job at blocking things – like a shield
– even if they’re not happy about it.
Night Terrors Fight
Melee Spell Attack  1 Memory  Aetheric,
Mana 1 Reach 2 2 Stress
On Hit: Choose one of the following:
Ø The One Where You’re Being Chased: The target
receives +1 on all attacks that don’t include you as
the target. This stacks to a maximum of +3 . If they
deal damage or Stress to you, they clear this effect.
Ø The One Where Your Teeth Fall Out: If the target
is Breaking, they take 4 Stress instead of the
usual damage.
You find the remnants of night terrors still lingering in
the corners of a person’s mind and make them relive
those dreams.
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Dream Eater Delirium
Skill  1 Memory  Unique Skill  2 Memory  Unique

1/turn, when an adjacent character gains Stress, you
gain 1 Focus.
As your foes become tired and stressed, you start to see
the outlines of the nightmares that plague them. Turn
Whenever you take damage, you can take 1 Stress
to lower the total needed for you to critically hit on
attacks by 1 (i.e., from 20+ to 19+, 19+ to 18+, etc).
This effect stacks and lasts until the end of the scene
or until you critically hit.

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these nightmares into your strength.
Give into your own nightmares, and let them take over
for a bit.
Recurring Dream
Support Item  Main  Enchantment
Wraith Chain Full Attack
You may use one of the following Enchantments Melee Weapon  Heavy Longarm  Aetheric,
at a time: Pull 2, Slow, Thrown 5
Reach 2 / Thrown 5 3d6+1 Force
Ø Any Weapon: When you hit with this weapon,
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can Volley, Fight, or Full Attack (Slow
weapons only) one phase earlier than before in
subsequent rounds. This effect stacks, but cannot
shift the attack any earlier than Phase Bolster.
It lasts until the end of the scene or until you attack
a different target with this weapon.
Ø Any Technique that Forces a Save: 1/turn when
a target succeeds on a save triggered by this tech-
nique, your Save Target increases by +1 for this
technique only until the end of the scene or until
a target fails the save, at which point it resets back
to normal. This effect can stack.
pulls them adjacent to you, you may auto-hit on a
Grapple against them.
You can attack with this weapon as a minor action
during any phase, but you can only attack with it 1/
turn. If you attack with it as a minor action, it deals
no damage.
This weapon is wrapped in dream-chains, brought from
the dreamscape into the waking world. Their strength is
unparalleled, unbound by the constraints of reality. With
a flick of your wrist, the chain shoots out and binds your
victim, pulling them close.

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“Haven’t we been here before? It feels so familiar…”

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SUPPORT

Lifeweavers are battlefield medics who weave flesh together. They can
keep their friends active and fighting even through deadly injuries.

L
ifeweavers have unique insights
into the dynamics of aetheric fields BASE ATTRIBUTES
and can use magic to heal wounds SCOPE:12 SAVE TARGET:  10
instantly. This knowledge also makes BULK MIND
them dangerous fighters, as they know HP:6 STRESS CAP:  6
RECOVERIES:10 MEMORY:  6
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exactly how to hurt or incapacitate

foes and turn their own aetheric fields AGILITY MAGIC
against them. DODGE:  7 A-DEF:  8
These healers have honed their SPEED:  5 MP:  4
training for the battlefield. Their heal-
ing magic may not be as effective as
proper medical attention, but it serves TRAITS
its purpose of quickly repairing minor
injuries and letting people continue Healer’s BurdenTrait
fighting.
When an ally spends or loses a Recovery within Range 5 or during
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Ø What mark is left behind on those a Short Rest, you can allow them to use your Recoveries instead.
you’ve healed?
Ø What type of effects or injuries do
you find difficult to fix? Quick StitchReaction
Ø What do aetheric fields look like Trait  Mana 1
to you, and how is yours different?
Ø What is the worst injury from which Trigger: A Bloodied ally within Scope starts their turn.
you’ve saved someone?
Effect: You heal them for 1d6 HP.

Purge Malady Minor Action

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Trait  Mana 2 Range = Scope

You or an ally within Range clear a condition.

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Getting Started
Second Life Channel
Limit Break  Arcing
If you stop channeling this ability before releasing
it for any reason, you do not expend the limit break.
On Release: Choose either an ally within Scope
or name a defeated ally. They are restored to their
maximum HP; regain all Recoveries and MP; clear
all Stress, conditions, and Discord; and clear two
Wounds and two Overstresses. If they were defeated,
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they return to play in a free space adjacent to you.
The ability to bring someone back from the dead, no
matter how long has passed, exists only in legend.
However, there is a very short window of time where
life can be restored to the recently departed.
A lifeweaver can repair and stimulate a person’s
aetheric field before it completely breaks down, breathing
life back into their body and repairing some of the recent
damage they’ve taken.
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Lifeweavers have many ways of keeping their allies
healthy during fights, from granting temp HP to
pure healing. Lifeweavers play a versatile supporting
role, especially when combined with other classes
like the Tidecaller.
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Soul ShieldPhase Skirmish
Spell  2 Memory Range = Scope
A character within Range gains 1d3+1 temp HP. You
can spend 1 MP to increase this to 1d6+1 temp HP.
While the target has temp HP, they don’t need to
make concentration saves as long as they had the
temp HP when the save was prompted.
Strengthen and enhance an ally’s aetheric field by
drawing power from their own lifeforce.
Stolen Life Volley
Ranged Spell Attack  2 Memory  Aetheric,
Indirect Range = Scope 2 Stress
On Hit: Choose one of the following:
Ø Drain Life: You or a character within Range 5 of
you regains 1d3 HP. You can spend 1 MP to increase
this to 1d6 HP instead.
Ø Drain Vitality: You or a character within Range 5
of you clear up to 2 Stress.
Siphon life energy from a victim and transfer it to
someone else.
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Inner Balance Channel
Spell  1 Memory  Mana 2 Range = Scope
On Release: Choose one of the following:
Ø Balance: Choose either yourself and one ally within
Range or two allies within Range. The targets swap
their current HP, Stress, or MP, your choice.
Ø Imbalance: Choose an enemy within Range and
roll 2d6, adding +1d6 if they are either Bloodied
or Breaking or +2d6 if they are both. They take
Stress equal to the result of one die, and Piercing
Force equal to another, your choice.
Lifeweavers seek to keep a harmonious balance between
the mind, body, and soul. By drawing from another’s
aetheric field, a lifeweaver can use both fields to balance
each other out or induce an internal imbalance.
Sewing Needle Volley
Ranged Weapon  Main Artifact  Piercing
Range 5 / Reach 3 1d3+2 Force
On Hit: If the target is Bloodied, you can spend 1
MP to make them Immobilized until the end of their
next turn. If you do so, any Bloodied enemies of your
choice adjacent to the target are Slowed until the
end of their next turn.
A tool used to stitch flesh together, turned into a weapon.
The needle itself is rarely seen. Instead, you catch glimpses
of the shimmering magical thread.
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HealPhase Bolster
Spell  3 Memory  Mana 1 Range = Scope
One character within Range can spend a Recovery
to regain all HP. If you spend 3 MP instead, they don’t
need to spend a Recovery.
Months of healing take place in moments. The process
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repairs all wounds on the patient’s body, but leaves them
feeling exhausted.
Serenity Channel
Spell  2 Memory  Arcing, Mana 3
Range = Scope
On Release: Choose one of the following:
Ø Lifewell: You create a Blast 1 zone of healing
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energy within Range. Characters that start their
turn within it regain 3 HP. This zone lasts until the
end of the scene or until you create a new one.
Ø Mend: An ally within Range clears a Wound or
Overstress. Each character can benefit from this
1/quest.
The Sungarde, divinely-inspired swashbucklers, have
enchanted their ships to make them permanent zones
of serenity. People rescued by the Sungarde recover
incredibly quickly, which has earned the swashbucklers
a stellar reputation. The innocent cheer at the sight of
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Sungarde flags, and pirates flee from them.
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DEFENDER / SUPPORT

Paladins draw upon their resolve to protect their allies and smite their
foes. They can manifest beneficial auras that enhance nearby allies.

P
aladins are motivated individuals
driven by their beliefs. What sepa- BASE ATTRIBUTES
rates a paladin from an advocate is SCOPE:5 SAVE TARGET:  10
their ability to turn their resolve into BULK MIND
power, bolstering their aetheric field HP:9 STRESS CAP:  7
RECOVERIES:6 MEMORY:  5
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and gaining strength through their

convictions. AGILITY MAGIC
Most paladins are very protective DODGE:  6 A-DEF:  7
of their friends and will willingly put SPEED:  5 MP:  2
themselves in harm’s way to save one
from danger. Their desire to protect
becomes so strong that when they TRAITS
sense a threat, they can travel great
distances in the blink of an eye to stand Layered AurasTrait
ready against it.
You gain the Aura of Inspiration spell, which is equipped for free.
7: Classes and Jobs

Ø Who or what would you give your Additionally, you may have two Auras active at once, but they must
life to protect? be from different abilities.
Ø What is a belief you hold onto
strongly?
Ø What sensation or emotion do Aura of Inspiration Free Action
people feel when they’re near you? Spell  Arcing, Aura 5, Innate, Unique
Ø When did you stand up for
something, and what did it cost You and all allies within this Aura gain +1 on checks and saves.
you?

Guardian Angel Minor Action

Trait
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Choose an ally within line of sight to protect. You may Interpose

for them as long as they are within Scope, teleporting to a free
adjacent space. This lasts for the rest of the scene or until you use this
ability again.

RetributionTrait

You can Counterattack 2/round instead of 1/round.

Additionally, 1/round when performing Interpose, you can
Counterattack the attacker before the triggering attack happens. This
Counterattack doesn’t cost Focus.

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RANK 1
Getting Started

Bastion of ResolveSpecial
Limit Break
Auras of Resistance Free Action
At any time during a combat scene, you may harden Spell  2 Memory  Arcing, Aura 5
your resolve and surpass your normal limits. When
activated, you clear all conditions and gain the fol- You can use one of the following Auras at a time:
lowing benefits, which last until the end of this phase
next round: Ø Aura of Energy Resistance: Choose either Astral
or Lunar. You and all allies within this Aura gain
Ø You gain resistance to all damage. resistance to the chosen damage type.
Ø Aura of Freedom: You and all allies within this Aura
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Ø Your weapons with Reach gain +2 Reach.

Ø You may use Guardian Angel on all allies.
Paladins draw upon their beliefs and convictions to
strengthen their aetheric fields. The more deeply they
believe in something, the stronger the effects. Once
they’ve perfected this skill, the only limit on their power
is the strength of their resolve. As long as they stand
unwavering, they can’t be stopped.
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gain immunity to Slowed and can automatically
break out of grapples as a free action.
Expand your aetheric field to cover those of your allies.
As they overlap, you can imbue their fields with your
own protections.
Lay on Hands Minor Action
Skill  1 Memory  Mana 1

As defenders, Paladins benefit from high Armor and

other damage-mitigation effects. With their Auras
and Retribution trait, they work best when close
to their allies. The Knight talent is a good choice
for Paladins.
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You or an adjacent ally can spend a Recovery to
regain HP equal to their Bloodied value.
A reassuring word and a calming hand placed on a
shoulder make everything seem easier.

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Holy Avenger Fight
Melee Weapon  Heavy Blade
Reach 1 2d6+1 Astral
This weapon is Accurate on turns other than your
own.
On Crit: You or an ally within Range 5 can clear
either a condition or all Discord.
The blade of a holy avenger is pure astral energy.
Without training, the manifested blade is dangerous
and unstable. An aetheric field must be wrapped around
it as a form of containment, giving it a solid shape with
an appearance unique to the user.
Smite
Skill  2 Memory  Mana 1, Unique
1/round when you hit with a weapon, you can cause
the entire attack to deal +1d6 bonus Astral.
Channel aether into a weapon, then release it for an
explosion of astral energy.
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Auras of Protection Free Action
Spell  1 Memory  Arcing, Aura 5
You can use one of the following Auras at a time:
Ø Aura of Steel: Allies within this Aura (excluding
you) gain +1 Armor (up to a maximum of 4 Armor).
Ø Aura of Retaliation: 1/turn when an ally within
this Aura (excluding you) is hit by an enemy, the
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enemy takes 3 Astral .
Layers of magical protection can be used as armor or
turned into a retributive shield.
Stalwart Shield
Support Item  Main  Unbreakable
Gain +1 Armor.
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Allies gain the benefits of cover from you as if you
were a piece of hard cover.
Additionally, you gain the Guardian Shield Block
reaction. If you meet the trigger condition of Guardian
Shield Block while using Interpose , you can
automatically use its effect as part of that Interpose
reaction.
“The resolve to protect others can even come from a
place of humility.”
 – Sheeta Shal
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Guardian Shield Block Reaction (1/round)
Trigger: You or an adjacent ally would take
Physical, Astral, Lunar, or Force damage.
Effect: You take 2 Stress and grant yourself or
the ally resistance to that damage.
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Getting Started

ARTILLERY

Phoenixes conjure fiery destruction from afar, inflicting

lingering burns upon their enemies.

P
hoenixes are elite spellcasters spe-
cializing in elemental fire. During BASE ATTRIBUTES
training, they take the mythical SCOPE:15 SAVE TARGET:  11
phoenix as their inspiration, focusing BULK MIND
on the different aspects of fire, such HP:7 STRESS CAP:  7
RECOVERIES:2 MEMORY:  6
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as destruction and rebirth. To become

a phoenix, you must give over your AGILITY MAGIC
aetheric field to the raw forces of flame. DODGE:  6 A-DEF:  10
If you have prepared correctly, it will SPEED:  4 MP:  5
be returned infused with fire; if not,
your aether will be consumed. TRAITS
Ø What color and shape do your Burning SpellsTrait
flames take?
Ø What aspect of fire do you respect You deal +1 Discord with all abilities that deal Discord.
the most? Destruction, warmth,
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rebirth, or something else?

Ø How has fire affected or shaped Burn ProofTrait
your life?
Ø What makes your connection to You have resistance to Astral and Discord.
fire stronger, and what makes it
weaker?
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RANK 1
Getting Started

Supervolcano Channel
Limit Break  Homing, Mana 2 Range = Scope
Immolate Volley
If you stop channeling this ability before releasing Ranged Spell Attack  1 Memory  Aetheric,
it for any reason, you do not expend the limit break. Indirect Range = Scope 2 Discord

On Release: You create a Size 3 volcano – a piece
of terrain – within Range. The volcano destroys any
objects (including terrain) other than objectives in its
spaces. Characters in these spaces are considered to
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On Hit: Choose one of the following:
Ø Building Fire: If the target already has Discord, this
attack deals 1d3+1 Discord instead of 2.
Ø Spontaneous Combustion: You can spend 1 MP

be atop the volcano.

Mark 6 spaces as lava flows. These must be ad- to deal 1 Discord to all enemies in a Burst 1
jacent to either the volcano or another lava flow AOE around the target.
space. Lava flows are dangerous terrain (Agility,
5 Discord ).
Characters within or adjacent to the volcano or Flames that cling to their target, refusing to be
a lava flow space receive +2 on checks to clear extinguished. The burning doesn’t stop until there’s no
Discord. fuel left.
On subsequent turns, you can spend 1 MP as a mi-
nor action to add or remove up to 3 lava flow spaces.
The volcano and lava flows last until the end of Solar Flare Volley
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the scene. Ranged Weapon  Main Artifact

Reaching deep below the surface with aetheric might, the
phoenix pulls up a grand manifestation of burning power –
a raging volcano. Lava erupts from within, forming molten
rivers that burn those who stray too close.
Phoenixes make expert use of effects that deal
Discord. Their significant MP and long Scope means
they are well suited to attack safely from afar with
spells. The Sniper talent is a good fit for Phoenixes
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Range 10 1d3 Astral + 1 Discord
You gain +1 when attacking with this weapon if the
target has Discord.
Long ago, a Reflection exploded. Pieces of the dead
world were scattered across the Source, coming to rest in
clusters within other Reflections. Thaumaturges fashion
these pieces into weapons that project the astral energy
of the shattered Reflection.

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Inferno Channel
Ranged Spell Attack  2 Memory  Auto-Hit,
Mana 2
Range = Scope, Blast 2 3 Discord
On Release: You can choose to reduce the size of the
AOE to increase the damage. For every –1 Blast, the
spell deals +2 Discord (e.g., reducing it from Blast 2
to Blast 1 increases the damage to 5 Discord ).
If the AOE would be reduced to 0, it instead targets
a single space.
This spell can funnel the heat of a raging inferno into
progressively smaller spaces, raising the temperature
exponentially.
Vent HeatReaction
Skill  2 Memory  Arcing, Unique
Trigger: A character within Range 20 clears any
amount of Discord.
Effect: You center a Burst 1 AOE on that character.
Characters in the AOE, including the target, take Astral
equal to half of the Discord cleared.
“No one wanted to get close enough to put him out –
it was too hot! So we, uh, kinda just stood there and
waited.”
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Royal Phoenix Armor
Support Item  Light  Armor, Unbreakable
+1 Armor.
Enemies within Range 5 use your Save Target
when making Magic checks to clear Discord instead
of the normal target number of 10. Adjacent enemies
use your Save Target+2.
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First worn by Taliesan, the Verdant Flame, phoenix feath-
ers adorn this red and gold armor. Fires burn brighter
and hotter in the presence of this artifact, to the point
of being unbearable when near it.
Wildfire Minor Action
Spell  2 Memory  Mana 1 Range = Scope
Choose one of the following:
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Ø Blueflame: Choose an enemy with Discord with-
in Range. Their Discord increases by +2, but this
doesn’t cause them to immediately take Discord
damage.
Ø Flames of Rebirth: Choose a character with Dis-
cord within Range. All of their Discord transfers
to you, but this doesn’t cause you to immediately
take Discord damage.
Ø Flashover: Choose an enemy within Range. They
gain the same amount of Discord as the charac-
ter with the highest Discord within Range 3 of
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them. This doesn’t cause them to immediately take
Discord damage.
Your flames grow wild and uncontrollable, changing
color based on the unique composition of your aetheric
field.
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Getting Started

ARTILLERY

Armed with experimental blades that can cut rifts in space-time itself,
riftblades can travel between Reflections to explore new worlds.

R
iftblades explore the different Re-
flections of the Source, catalog- BASE ATTRIBUTES
ing as much about these new and SCOPE:15 SAVE TARGET:  10
interesting worlds as possible. The BULK MIND
main tool of a riftblade is their signa- HP:8 STRESS CAP:  5
RECOVERIES:3 MEMORY:  6
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ture riftcutter, a magitech device with

an infinitely sharp edge that can cut AGILITY MAGIC
small portals between Reflections. DODGE:  7 A-DEF:  8
Knowing that each new Reflection is SPEED:  4 MP:  4
filled with unknown challenges and
hazards, riftblades outfit themselves
with a wide array of gear to prepare TRAITS
for any situation.
Rift Minor Action
Ø What was the most interesting Trait  Mana 1 Range 20
Reflection you visited?
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Ø What do you hope to find in your
travels?
Ø What did you leave behind in a rift
you’ll never be able to get back?
Ø Where are you forbidden to open
a rift to?
You place a rift in a free space within Range. This doesn’t require line
of sight.
Range, Reach, and line of sight for everything (except placing addi-
tional rifts) can be drawn both to and from you as if you were standing
in the rift’s space. The rift’s space is considered occupied by you.
The rift itself is not an object and cannot be directly interacted with
or affected in any way. It lasts for the rest of the scene, until you use
this ability again, or until you dismiss it as a minor action.

RiftcutterTrait
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You gain the Riftcutter weapon, which is equipped for free.

Riftcutter Fight
Melee Weapon  Light Magitech  Accurate, Innate,
Piercing, Unique Reach 1 3 Physical

This weapon ignores resistance and immunity.

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RANK 1
Getting Started

Gateway Minor Action

Limit Break
You create two Size 3 gateways on free solid surfaces
within Range 15 , ignoring line of sight. These gate-
ways aren’t obstructions, don’t block line of sight, and
last until the end of the scene.
1/turn when a character fully enters a gateway,
they are immediately teleported to the other gate-
way, being placed in a space of their choice so they
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Gravity Well
Skill  1 Memory
Enemies must always stop moving when they become
Engaged with you, regardless of their Size. Adjacent
enemies must spend 2 movement when moving to
spaces that aren’t adjacent to you.

are fully within the gateway. If a character enters a
gateway as a result of forced movement, their forced
movement continues in the same direction from the
other gateway starting in a space chosen by whoever
initiated the forced movement.
If a character cannot end this teleport fully within
the gateway (e.g., because too many spaces are oc-
cupied), the teleport fails.
Gravity generators are a standard piece of equipment
for Riftblades. The ability to create a comfortable gravity
field around themselves is sometimes the difference
between life and death.
Sensor Goggles
Support Item  Light

Riftcutters can be overcharged with energy, allowing You know the current HP, Stress, and MP of all
them to create larger and more stable rifts. With the Marked enemies.
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proper architecture, these gateways can become
permanent portals, allowing instant travel between
two places; however, the portable power packs that
riftblades carry aren’t strong enough, and the gateways
they create will eventually close.
Additionally, 1/turn, you can reroll the Invisible
miss chance when attacking an Invisible target.
These goggles are equipped with aetheric and biometric
scanners for any situation.

The Riftblade is a complicated class that use their

Rift trait to gain range and angles on their enemies.
Careful positioning of a rift is necessary, as enemies
can attack them through it. Try placing rifts in cover
or where enemies can’t reach.
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Flicker Enchantment Blink Minor Action
Support Item  Light  Enchantment Spell  2 Memory  Mana 1

You may use one of the following Enchantments
at a time:
Ø Any Armor: 1/round while this Armor is equipped,
you can immediately teleport up to 1d6 spaces
as a reaction when you take damage.
You teleport up to 1d6+1 spaces.
The earliest riftblades studied teleportation magics and
teleporting creatures to better understand the long-term
effects of repeated teleportation.

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Ø Any Weapon: 1/round when you critically hit with
this weapon, you can teleport the target up to Displacer Rod  Full Attack
1d6 spaces. Ranged Weapon  Heavy Artifact  Mana 3,
Slow Range 15 X Force
Flicker armor is used for emergency escapes. When
triggered, it quickly hurls the wearer away from their This weapon’s damage is equal to the number of
attacker. spaces between you and the target, to a maximum
of 20 Force .

Portal Gun Minor Action Displacer rods create pulses of energy that grow in power

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Support Item  Main  Mana 1 Range 10 the further they travel.

You teleport an ally or enemy within Range up to 3

spaces. This counts as forced movement. Unwilling
characters can make a Magic save. Success: They
resist this effect.

Portal guns can create small, short-lived holes in reality,

allowing limited teleportation at greater range than
possible with a riftcutter.

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DEFENDER

Icy armor grows over rimeguards, granting layers of

protection that grow stronger over time.

T
he Rimeguard’s source of power is
their frozen heart. A splinter of ice BASE ATTRIBUTES
formed from the death of an ancient SCOPE:8 SAVE TARGET:  11
elemental spirit is driven into their BULK MIND
heart, encasing it in ice and freezing HP:1 STRESS CAP:  5
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the blood in their veins. Those that

survive the process become one with AGILITY MAGIC
the forces of cold. DODGE:  6 A-DEF:  9
The icy splinters needed to create SPEED:  5 MP:  4
a rimeguard are rare, and as a result,
rimeguards are an uncommon sight.
Their rarity combined with their TRAITS
cold and distant demeanor, gives ri-
meguards a frightening reputation Frost Armor Minor Action
that is only sometimes earned. Trait  Focus 1 Range = Scope
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Ø Who did you save from certain
death?
Ø Where were you when you realized
you would change the world?
Ø What can’t you feel when you
channel the cold?
Ø Who or what have you lost to the
cold?
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You give an ally within Range temp HP equal to half your current temp
HP (to a minimum of 1). You can increase this amount by reducing your
own temp HP by 1 for every additional +1 temp HP granted, granting
a maximum of 10 temp HP received.
Icy VeinsTrait
You have resistance to Lunar.
Additionally, you start each combat scene with 6 temp HP, and this
amount refreshes whenever you take a Wound. When you gain Focus,
you can choose for any amount of it to become temp HP instead.

You can stack temp HP to a maximum of 10 temp HP. You can exceed
this maximum if a single source of temp HP would put you over this
amount, but you can’t stack additional temp HP past that.

Rimeheart Minor Action

Trait Range = Scope

An ally with temp HP within Range gains +2 temp HP, to a maximum

of 10. This temp HP stacks with existing temp HP.

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Absolute Zero Minor Action
Limit Break
You and your allies (ignoring line of sight) clear all
Stress and reduce their current Surge level by 1.
The rimeguard drops the temperature to absolute zero,
freezing everything in its tracks. With a snap of their
fingers, the cold breaks. Absolute zero lasts only for a
moment, but it’s enough for the rimeguard’s allies to
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cool off.
Rimeguards want to generate as much Focus as
possible, allocating it between temp HP granted by
Frost Armor and their other Focus needs. Because
of their unique mechanism for stacking temp HP,
rimeguards can either keep the temp HP for them-
selves and adopt an interposing defender style, or
play the role of the backline defender by sharing
temp HP with allies.
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Coldguard
Skill  2 Memory
When you Defend, adjacent allies gain temp HP
equal to your Grit+3.
The air around you is cold and dry. Leaving your feet
still for too long causes tendrils of ice to spread along
the ground, crawling up the legs of anyone nearby.
Frostbite  Volley
Ranged Spell Attack  1 Memory  Aetheric,
Indirect Range = Scope 2 Stress
On Hit: Choose one of the following:
Ø Frozen: At the end of their next turn, the target
takes Stress equal to their Speed. This Stress is
reduced by –1 for every space they move during
their next turn.
Ø Numbing: The next attack the target makes before
the end of their next turn deals half damage.
When skin turns blue, the cold has claimed it. You have
given yourself to the cold. There is nothing left for it to
take.
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Ice Spikes Frozen Throne  Free Action
Skill  1 Memory  Unique Support Item  Main  Mana 2 Burst 1

If you become the target of an attack when you Inter-
pose, you can deal 2 Piercing Lunar to the attacker
after their attack if they are within your Scope.
You are one with the ice. Without conscious thought, it
You create a zone of growing cold around you.
Enemies that start their turn in the zone take 2 Lunar .
At the start of each of your turns while this effect is
active, its damage increases by +2, after which you
take the updated damage. This damage bypasses

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bristles at your foes, vibrating in anticipation. your Armor.
You can deactivate this ability as a free action,
which resets the damage back to its base value of 2.
White Wind  Volley
Ranged Weapon  Main Artifact “With ice in your heart, go forth into the world. Build
Reach 1 / Close Blast 2 3 Lunar our throne where you travel, and our kingdom will
follow.”
On Hit: The target is Slowed until the end of their
next turn.
Siphon Heat
This staff is powered by a crystal of ice – the same crystal Skill  3 Memory  Unique

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that spawned the icy shard that pierced your heart
and gave you the powers of a rimeguard. Remember
what you have sacrificed, and the cold will answer
your call.
At the start of each of your turns, you gain Focus equal
to the number of adjacent characters.
Take their heat, and make it your cold. The warmth is
not welcome here.

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ARTILLERY / CONTROLLER

Trackers and hunters that always find their prey.

Seekers call out priority targets for their allies.

S
eekers are warriors who form bonds
with primal spirits, which impart BASE ATTRIBUTES
upon them a fraction of their pow- SCOPE:20 SAVE TARGET:  11
er. In return for power, seekers act as BULK MIND
extensions of their patron spirits, oper- HP:6 STRESS CAP:  4
RECOVERIES:3 MEMORY:  6
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ating beyond their normal boundaries.

Most seekers have a positive rela- AGILITY MAGIC
tionship with their bonded primal, but DODGE:  8 A-DEF:  9
some forged their bonds out of desper- SPEED:  5 MP:  3
ation or necessity. These seekers may
not agree with their primal’s motives,
but are nonetheless compelled to do TRAITS
its bidding or risk losing their powers.
However antagonistic the relationship, Marksman’s EyeTrait
the seeker acts as the eyes, ears, and
hands of their primal. Your allies gain +2 instead of +1 when consuming Marks against
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targets within your Scope.

Ø How do you see and know the
exact spots to shoot?
Ø What primal spirit do you have a Seeker’s Sight Minor Action
connection with? Trait  Mana 1
Ø Which of your primal spirit’s
aspects do you share? You Mark.
Ø What is the most dangerous
expedition you’ve been on?
Guided ShotTrait

You gain the Guided Shot skill, which is equipped for free.
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Guided ShotReaction
Skill  Innate, Unique

Trigger: A ranged or thrown attack misses an enemy within your

Scope.

Effect: The attack roll misses, but the attacker may reroll the attack
roll against a different target within Range 5 of the original target.
A target can’t be hit more than once by the same attack.

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Heavenly StarfallPhase Skirmish
Limit Break  Arcing
You create three non-overlapping Blast 2 zones
within Range 40 . All enemies in one or more of
these zones must make an Agility save. Failure: They
take 1d3+1 Force . Success: They take half damage.
Each character only takes this damage once, even if
they are in multiple zones.
While any of these zones exist, you can spend
1 MP as a minor action to
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Mark all enemies in
these zones and make them Dazed until the end of
their next turn.
At the end of each of your turns, one of the zones
disappears.
An arrow shot into the sky disappears into a rapidly
spreading dark cloud. Lightning cracks and rain begins
to fall. Each blue raindrop an arrow that seeks a home.
There is no escape until the storm passes.
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The Seeker playstyle revolves around the Marked
condition. Marksman’s Eye benefits allies that con-
sume Marks, and Seeker’s Sight allows them to
Mark enemies with ease. The Spotter talent is a
good choice for Seekers, and any abilities that use
Scope benefit from their high base Scope attribute.
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Heartseeker Volley
Ranged WeaponMain BowHoming
Range 15 1d3 Force + 1 Discord
If this attack consumes a Mark, it is Piercing.
The beating of your heart gives away your location. The
arrow will find you, piercing your heart. Then, all will
be still.
Chain Shot Volley
Ranged Spell Attack2 MemoryAetheric
Range = Scope 1d3 Lunar
On Hit: Choose one of the following:
Ø Grounding Chain: The target must make a Magic
save. Failure: They are Immobilized until the end
of their next turn. You can spend 1 MP to force all
characters adjacent to the target to make the save
as well.
Ø Linked Chain (1 MP): You center a Burst 2 AOE
around the target. Characters in the AOE must
make a Bulk save. Failure: They are pulled to the
closest free space adjacent to the original target.
When this magical arrow strikes its target, invisible chains
manifest and begin tightening around them.
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Spectral Shot
Skill2 MemoryMana 1
Your single-target ranged attacks pass through objects
(including terrain). As long as you have line of sight
to a target, you can ignore cover when attacking. You
can still attack targets without line of sight, but they
benefit from hard cover.
As you draw back the bowstring, you pour aether into the
arrow. When it can take no more, it ascends to a higher
state of matter and can pass through solid objects.
Swarming Shot Volley
Ranged Spell Attack2 MemoryAetheric,
Indirect, Mana 1
Range = Scope, Blast 1 2 Stress
On Attack: Choose one of the following:
Ø Buzzing Swarm: The AOE becomes a zone until
the start of your next turn. Any character that starts
their turn in the zone or enters it during their turn
becomes Dazed until the end of their next turn.
‘ On Hit: The target is Dazed until the end of
their next turn.
Ø Distracting Swarm: The AOE becomes a zone until
the start of your next turn. Any character that starts
their turn in the zone or enters it during their turn
becomes Marked.
‘ On Hit: The target is Marked until the end
of their next turn.
This magical arrow explodes into tiny aetheric motes,
which twinkle and buzz distractingly.
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Astral Barrage Volley
Ranged WeaponHeavy BowReloading,
Unique Range 20 2d6 Force
Instead of attacking normally, you can choose to
attack every Marked enemy within this weapon’s
Range. You consume each enemy’s Mark, taking
1 Stress for every additional target beyond the first.
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The longer you keep the bowstring drawn, the more
arrows appear. Release to have them find their
home.
Coiling Shot Volley
Ranged Spell Attack1 MemoryAetheric
Range = Scope 1d6+4 Force
On Hit: Choose one of the following:
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Ø Constricting Serpent: The target cannot make
Opportunity Attacks until the end of their
next turn.
Ø Striking Serpent: A spectral serpent coils around
the target. Until the end of their next turn, if the
target ends their turn adjacent to one of their allies,
the ally takes 3 Force and is Dazed until the end
of their next turn.
Upon impact, the magical arrow transforms into a
spectral serpent. Formed through the victim’s aetheric
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field, the serpent lashes out at anyone that draws near,
though it remains indifferent to its host.
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Getting Started

CONTROLLER

Shadebinders capture and train dangerous shades,

forging strong bonds with them.

S
udden shifts in an area’s aetheric
balance can give rise to shades BASE ATTRIBUTES
– creatures made of pure aether. SCOPE:10 SAVE TARGET:  12
These creatures can be dangerous, BULK MIND
often lashing out in pain and confusion HP:6 STRESS CAP:  5
RECOVERIES:5 MEMORY:  6
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due to the environmental imbalance.

Shadebinders capture and train AGILITY MAGIC
these dangerous shades, returning DODGE:  7 A-DEF:  7
them to their homes once the imbal- SPEED:  4 MP:  4
ance is addressed, or forging strong
bonds with them and becoming trav- TRAITS
eling companions.
Command PartnerTrait
Ø What was the first shade you
trapped, and what were they like? Once during each of your turns, one of your Summons within Scope
Ø What was the most elaborate trap can use one of your actions against a target within your Scope. You
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you set, and what was it for?
Ø When were you unable to return a
shade to its home, and why?
Ø What aetheric disturbance has
never been repaired, and is only
getting worse?
lose the action and pay any costs, like MP or Consumable charges,
but the Summon is considered to be the one performing it. If it is a
Channel action, the Summon is the one that concentrates and can
release during Phase Release.
While performing an action using this trait, your Summon benefits
from your talents.

Companion Shade Minor Action

Shadebinders are a summoning Trait  Summon Range = Scope
class that prioritizes having few-
er, stronger Summons. Command Friendly Shade (Size 1/2, HP = Grit+8, Dodge/A-Def = Grit+10, Speed 4)
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Partner lets their Summons

take actions on the behalf of the
Shadebinder, like grappling en-
emies instead of doing it them-
selves. As with most summoners,
they will likely want to take the
Summoner talent.
You call forth a friendly shade within Range. When you do so, you gain
one of the special reactions on the facing page.
You can only have one shade in play at a time and it retains its cur-
rent HP when dismissed, which persists between scenes. If the shade is
defeated, you must spend a Recovery to summon it again, after which
it regains all HP. It regains all HP during Rests.

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Reaction Firestarter
Reaction Vinecutter
Reaction
(1/Round) (1/Round) (1/Round)

Trigger: An enemy adjacent to the Trigger: An enemy adjacent to Trigger: An enemy adjacent to
shade starts their turn. the shade takes damage or Stress. the Shade takes damage or Stress.

Effect: They are Marked by the Effect: They take 1d6 Discord Effect: They take 2 Stress from
shade and must make a Magic from the shade. the Shade and the Shade can slide
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Aetheric Evolution Volley
Limit Break  Arcing Range = Scope
You empower one of your Summons within Range
with an influx of aether. It regains all HP and receives
the following benefits, which last until the end of the
scene or until the Summon is defeated, and remain
even if the Summon is dismissed:
Ø +1 Size.
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Ø +10 current and maximum HP.
Ø If it didn’t have a Speed, it gains Speed 4. Otherwise,
it gains +2 Speed.
It also gains the Hyper Ray, Slash, Snarl, and Recov-
er abilities, which it can perform as standard actions.
Shades are aetheric creatures. By infusing them with aether,
their form can change and grow, becoming stronger than
before. This change is temporary, as this new form radiates
aether until it returns to its natural state.
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Hyper RaySpell
All characters in a Line 15 AOE must make
an Agility save. Failure: They take 10 Force .
Success: They take 5 Force .
After performing this action, the Summon can’t
move or take any actions during your next turn, and
can’t be dismissed until the end of your next turn.
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SlashSkill
An adjacent enemy takes 3 Piercing Physical
and is Sundered until the end of their next turn.
SnarlSkill
An enemy within Range 5 is Marked and must
make a Mind save. Failure: They are Weakened
until the end of their next turn.
RecoverSkill
The Summon regains all of its HP, clears a condi-
tion, and gains hard cover until the end of your
next turn.
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Teamwork
Skill  1 Memory
Your Summons can use your Bulk, Agility, Mind,
and Magic scores instead of theirs for ability checks
and saves.
Minor Action: If you have at least one Summon in play,
choose one of the effects listed below. This lasts for the
rest of the scene, or until you choose another effect, end
it as a free action, or have no more active Summons.
These effects affect all of your Summons, includ-
ing ones summoned after the profile is activated:
Ø Threatening Summons: Attacks against your
Summons gain +1 , and attacks against you re-
ceive +1 .
Ø Unassuming Summons: Attacks against your
Summons receive +1 , and attacks against you
gain +1 .
You and your summons fight together and cover for
each other.
Trainer Items
Support Item  Main  Consumable 3, Reaction
You gain the Revive and Return reactions, which
expend a charge when used.
A supply of medicine, supplies, and equipment to keep
your companions in tip-top shape.
Revive Reaction (1/round)
Trigger: One of your Summons within Scope
would be defeated.
Effect: The Summon is not defeated, and has its
current HP set to its Bloodied value.
Return Reaction (1/round)
Trigger: A character starts their turn.
Effect: One of your Summons (ignoring line
of sight) is teleported to a free space adjacent
to you.
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Buddy Bond
Support Item  Light  Enchantment
You may use one of the following Enchantments
at a time:
Ø Any Support Item or Technique that Doesn’t
Require an Action to Activate: When you create
a Summon, you can choose for it to also receive
any passive benefits granted by this item or tech-
nique. This lasts until it is defeated or dismissed.
The Summon doesn’t gain the ability to use any
actions granted by this item or technique – just the
passive benefits. Only one Summon can benefit
from this ability at a time.
Ø Any Equipment or Technique with the Summon
Tag: When you regain HP, Summons created with
the enchanted equipment or technique regain half
as much HP. This only affects Summons that are
currently in play.
Your companion has their own appropriately sized
equipment.
Familiar Minor Action
Spell  1 Memory  Mana 1, Summon
Familiar (Size 1/2, HP 1, Dodge/A-Def 10, Speed 0)
You call your familiar forth in a free space adjacent to
you. You may automatically do this at the beginning of
a combat scene, spending the required MP as normal.
When you call your familiar, choose Bulk,
Agility, Mind, or Magic. While you and your familiar
are adjacent to each other, you both gain +1 to
checks and saves with the chosen ability score.
Whenever you move (excluding forced movement)
while adjacent to this Summon, it can also move to
any free space adjacent to you, benefiting from any
special forms of movement that you use (e.g., flight
or teleportation).
This cute creature is your friend. You feel better and more
capable when you’re near them.
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Lifelink
Spell  3 Memory
When you call forth a Summon, you can spend 1 MP
to forge a link between you. As long as you are both in
play, any time either of you takes damage (after Armor
and resistances), the damage is split between both
characters. This cannot be avoided or mitigated in
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any way, and does not count as the second character
taking damage (meaning it doesn’t trigger additional
instances of this effect).
The link lasts for the end of the scene, or until one
of the characters is defeated or you end the effect as
a free action.
Shadebinders can mix their aetheric fields with those of
their summoned companions, sharing in any damage
and pain received.
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Capture Orb Minor Action
Support Item  Main  Consumable 6, Thrown 5
Thrown 5
This item starts with the Empty profile:
Ø Empty: As a minor action, you can expend a
charge and make a thrown melee weapon at-
tack. On Hit: Your target must make a Magic save
with +1 if they are Bloodied, +1 if they are
Breaking, and +1 for every condition they have.
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Failure: They are Stunned and Immobilized
until the end of their next turn. Make note of their
current HP and MP, and this item switches to the
Full profile. Success: They are Dazed until the end
of their next turn and this item remains Empty.
Ø Full: As a minor action, one character within the
thrown Range gains temp HP equal to the com-
bined HP and MP of the character that failed their
Magic save. This item switches to the Empty profile.
This does not expend a charge.
These devices can convert shades back into pure aether,
allowing them to be transported safely and easily. When
opened, they return their inhabitant to their normal
form. While originally created for use on shades, recent
improvements now allow capture orbs to extract trace
amounts of aether from other creatures, storing it for
later use.
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Getting Started

STRIKER

Shadow dancers cloak themselves with darkness, moving unseen across the battlefield.
Their special connection with the shadows allows them to teleport between areas of darkness.

S
hadow dancers train in the dark,
increasing their attunement to the BASE ATTRIBUTES
power of the umbra. When they SCOPE:12 SAVE TARGET:  10
finish their training, their shadow has BULK MIND
changed: it moves differently, feels HP:8 STRESS CAP:  4
RECOVERIES:3 MEMORY:  5
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looser, and seems darker. Every shad-

ow looks different to the dancer once AGILITY MAGIC
they realize that they’re all connected. DODGE:  12 A-DEF:  7
SPEED:  7 MP:  4
Ø How are shadows linked, and how
do you exploit that?
Ø What is your favorite type of TRAITS
dance?
Ø Why do you feel more comfortable Shadow ClonesTrait
in the dark?
Ø What strengthens your shadow, Whenever you teleport, you leave a shadow clone in your former space.
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and what happens if it gets too These clones are the same Size as you, don’t cause obstruction, and
strong? aren’t characters or objects.
1/round when you or an ally damage a target adjacent to a shadow
clone, the shadow clone can cause the triggering ability to deal +1d6
bonus damage.
You can have any number of shadow clones, which last until the
end of the scene or until you are defeated.

Shadow RealmTrait

Any time you teleport, you can spend 1 MP to choose one of your
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shadow clones as the destination. This destroys the clone.

Slip StepTrait

Reaction attacks against you receive +1 .

Ø Minor Action: While adjacent to a character, you teleport to another

space adjacent to that character.

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Eclipse Free Action
Limit Break
Until the end of the scene, you can teleport when you
make your standard movement or use the movement
option from Rush, and can split up movements as
normal. You can only create one shadow clone per
standard movement or Rush.
For the duration, Shadow Realm costs 0 MP.
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Umbral shadows creep over any source of light,
plunging the area into darkness. Nothing is safe from
the obscurement, not even the sun itself.
Shadow Dancers are high-mobility attackers, moving
across the battlefield to attack precisely when they
need to before disappearing into a pool of darkness.
The Assassin class has useful stealth-enhancing abil-
ities, and any teleportation effects give the Shadow
Dancer more opportunities to gain Shadow Clones.
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Shadow Step
Skill  2 Memory  Mana 1
When you use the movement option from Rush,
you can teleport the distance instead. If you end this
movement adjacent to hard cover, you can Hide
as a free action.
All shadows are connected, and you know how to move
between them. Step into one, appear from another. Be
prepared for what awaits you in the shadow realm.
Strangle Volley
Ranged Spell Attack  1 Memory  Aetheric,
Indirect, Mana 1 Range = Scope 2 Stress
On Hit: Choose one of the following:
Ø Gasp for Air: The target must make a Bulk
save. Failure: They are Silenced and unable to
Channel until the end of their next turn. If they
are currently channeling, they receive +1 to their
concentration save from this attack.
Ø Hangman’s Handshake: Until the end of the tar-
get’s next turn, they gain +1 Stress any time they
take Stress.
Shadowy tendrils crawl up your leg, past your torso, and
wrap around your neck. But they’re just shadows, right?
Surely they can’t–
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ettingSStarted
Shadow Sorcery Volley Shadow Meld Minor Action
Ranged Spell Attack  1 Memory  Mana 1 Skill  2 Memory  Mana 2

Range = Scope
On Hit: Choose one of the following:
Ø Darkness: Deal 2 Stress . The target cannot at-
tack or use abilities on targets beyond Range 3
tarted
You become Invisible until you attack or force a save.
You merge with the darkness, becoming an extension
of the shadow realm. Your true form becomes that of a
shadow moving across the ground.

BBuilding
unless they are Arcing or Homing, and treats all

uildingBB
enemies as benefiting from soft cover. This effect
lasts until the end of their next turn. Living Shadow Volley
Ø Shadow Blade: Deal 1d6+2 Lunar . If you are Spell  2 Memory  Mana 3, Summon

eacons
Hidden when you make this attack, you regain Range = Scope

eacons
any MP spent on it.
Living Shadow (Size 1/2, HP 5, Dodge/A-Def 10, Speed 0)

A shadow dancer’s power is greatest at night, but that You create a living shadow within Range. This shadow
doesn’t mean they’re weaker during the day – it just emits a Burst 2 zone. Enemies are Blinded while

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means they’re more cunning. fully within the zone. Enemies that start their turn part-
ly within the zone must make a Magic save. Failure:

Classes
They are Weakened until the start of their next turn.
Flash-Step Dagger Fight

andand
Melee Weapon  Light Blade  Accurate, You call forth a creature from the shadow realm – a

Thrown 3 Reach 1 / Thrown 3 1d3+1 Physical
On Hit: You may teleport to a free space adjacent
to the target.
JobsJobs
living shadow. Its very presence darkens the world
around it, draining life and light into a realm of absolute
darkness.

RunningAthe
These daggers are carved with teleportation sigils.
When an attuned user throws them, they can activate
the magic to teleport directly to the dagger.

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SUPPORT

Shapeshifters are able to assume various forms to overcome obstacles,

transforming their entire body or individual parts as needed.

S
hapeshifters can change their
bodies, taking on the features of BASE ATTRIBUTES
other creatures or changing into SCOPE:10 SAVE TARGET:  10
different creatures altogether. The ear- BULK MIND
liest shapeshifters were lycanthropes HP:8 STRESS CAP:  7
RECOVERIES:4 MEMORY:  5
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studying the way their transformations

worked. Over time, they discovered AGILITY MAGIC
how to transform specific parts of their DODGE:  8 A-DEF:  7
bodies, and eventually how to choose SPEED:  5 MP:  4
what they transformed into.
This type of shapeshifting is notable
because it’s a learned skill, not a spell. TRAITS
The shapeshifter carefully rearranges
their aetheric balance until it precisely Beast WeaponsTrait
aligns with the typical aetheric balance
of the creature they’re shapeshifting You gain Beast Weapons, which is equipped for free.
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into. While their form may be different,

they’re still the same person they were
before. A shapeshifter that transforms Beast Weapons Fight
into a bear isn’t actually a bear; they’re Melee Weapon  Light Club  Innate, Unique
merely adopting the outward form Reach 1 1d3 Physical
of a bear.
At the end of your turn, if you didn’t make an attack that turn, you
Ø What does it look like when you can attack once with this weapon as a free action.
transform? You can use this weapon even if Disarmed.
Ø What physical trait carries over to
each form you assume?
Ø When was the first time you Form for the OccasionTrait
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changed your shape, and what

was it? You move normally in difficult terrain. Additionally, you have an
Ø What form or changes feel most Aquatic Adaptation and you can fly when you move, but you take
natural to you? 1 Stress at the end of any turn in which you do so.

SootheTrait

When an ally within Scope consumes a Mark, you can clear 1 Stress
from them as long as they aren’t Stunned.

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Getting Started

Perfect Form  Free Action

Limit Break
Scout Form Minor Action
You gain up to four of the following benefits, which Skill  2 Memory  Mana 2, Polymorph
last until the end of the scene. 1/turn as a free action,
you can change up to four of your chosen benefits. You assume a scouting form, with the following ef-
Only one instance of each option can be in effect at fects:
a time:
Ø You become Size 1/2.
Ø Adaptive Body: You gain +1 on all checks and Ø You gain +2 Speed.
Attacks against you receive +1
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saves.
Ø Dire Beast Weapons: Your Beast Weapons deal
1d6+2 Damage instead of their standard damage.
Ø Eagle Eye: You can Mark as a minor action.
Ø Perfected Form: Form for the Occasion no longer
causes Stress when you fly, and you have flight.
Ø Hunter’s Eye: At the start of your turn, you gain
1 Focus.
Ø Insulated Hide: You gain resistance to Physical,
Astral, Lunar, Force, Stress, or Discord from other
characters.
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Ø
Ø You can’t attack or use spells.
Ø You can Mark a character within Scope as a
minor action.
This form lasts for the rest of the scene or until you
end the effect as a free action.
By taking on a scouting form, you become a less visible
threat, but your reconnaissance skills remain the
same.

Ø Predator Weapons: You gain +1 on attacks.

Ø Resized: You become any Size from 1/2 to 4. Char-
acters are pushed to make space for your new size. Ferocious Bite
Ø Sneaky: You can Hide as a minor action. Skill  2 Memory
Ø Walking Wall: You count as hard cover for your
allies. Allies gain +1 on attacks against enemies Grappled
with you.
Take the best parts of every form you know, and manifest
them all at once. As long as you can maintain them, you Strong jaws lock your victim in place.
are the ultimate lifeform.
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A shapeshifter’s different forms make them very

versatile in combat play, and with Form for the
Occasion they don’t need to worry about chang-
ing their equipment and techniques based on the
environment. Shapeshifters are a jack-of-all-trades
class, and can adopt a range of playstyles by com-
bining their shapeshifting forms with those from
other classes.

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Defender Form  Minor Action
Skill  2 Memory  Mana 2, Polymorph
You assume a defensive form, with the following ef-
fects:
Ø You gain +1 Size (to a maximum of 3).
Ø Allies gain the benefits of cover as if you were a
piece of hard cover.
Ø When you enter this form or as a minor action, you
can select an ally within Scope. For the duration,
you can Interpose for them without spending
Focus and you gain +2 Armor against the trig-
gering attack when you do. Only one ally can be
selected at a time.
Ø You can only attack using reactions.
The form lasts for the rest of the scene or until you
end the effect as a free action.
Transcend the limitations of your natural form. Feel your
skin thicken and harden, your bones lengthen. Grow
taller, stronger, and tougher.
Apex Weapon Fight
Melee Weapon  Heavy Club
Reach 1 2d6+2 Physical
On Hit: You can auto-hit the target with Grapple. While
Grappled by you, they take 1 Piercing Physical at
the start of each of their turns.
A tyrannosaurus rex’s bite. A tiger’s claws. A manticore’s
spikes. Each of these are the weapons of an apex
predator, and you possess one.
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Familiar Form  Minor Action
Skill  2 Memory  Mana 1, Polymorph
You assume a form that is friendly or important to
your foes. Any character that attacks you in this form
takes 2 Stress , but all your attacks receive +1 .
This form lasts for the rest of the scene or until
you end the effect as a free action.
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Adopting the exact appearance of another person is
incredibly difficult, but it can be done. Most shapeshifters
recommend doing so for only a short time; otherwise, you
risk beginning to lose your own sense of self.
Snarl and Bite Reaction
Skill  2 Memory  Stressful 2
Trigger: Someone makes a melee attack against you.
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Effect: You make a melee attack against the attacker
with a Light or Main weapon.
Reflexively lash out with claw and tooth. Make them
regret having the audacity to strike at you.
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SUPPORT

Skalds are warrior poets who weave magic into song. A skald’s
songs can bolster their allies, providing powerful benefits.

T
here is magic in a song. There is
magic in a dance. Any performance BASE ATTRIBUTES
where you put some of yourself into SCOPE:10 SAVE TARGET:  11
it is magic. Skalds know this, and can BULK MIND
push it to its extremes. Stories come HP:7 STRESS CAP:  6
RECOVERIES:4 MEMORY:  6
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to life and move people, or draw out

specific emotions. Performance is the AGILITY MAGIC
weapon of the skald. DODGE:  8 A-DEF:  9
A skald’s performances stimulate SPEED:  5 MP:  4
the aetheric field of nearby creatures.
By honing these performances, they
learn to produce specific, repeatable TRAITS
effects. Skalds enjoy traveling and
meeting other skalds, growing their EncoreTrait
repertoire of performances and related
magical effects. At the beginning of any round, if you successfully released a
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Channel ability in the previous round, you can spend 1 MP to

Ø What type of performance is your immediately Channel.
specialty?
Ø What weapon and instrument
have you combined? Songbow, Inspire  Free Action (1/turn)
hammerhorn, or something else? Trait  Mana 1 Range = Scope
Ø What does your entrance music
sound like, or what is the main You grant Inspiration to an ally within Range. Allies with Inspiration
instrument it features? can consume it to gain +1 on an attack, check, or save. Each character
Ø Who was moved by your can only have one Inspiration at a time. Inspiration lasts until the end
performance that you didn’t of the scene or until consumed.
expect to be?
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TempoTrait

You gain the Tempo skill, which is equipped for free.

Tempo Reaction
Skill  Innate, Unique

Trigger: An attack misses an ally within Scope.

Effect: The ally shifts 2.

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Ballad Free Action

Limit Break  Arcing Range = Scope
You begin weaving a legendary performance. Upon
activation and at the start of each of your turns, pick a
verse from those listed below. It affects you and all allies
within Range. Each verse can only be chosen once.
Instead of picking a verse (or when there are no
more verses to select), you may select a finale from
those listed below. It affects you and all allies within
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Mock Phase Skirmish
Spell  2 Memory Range = Scope
An enemy within Range must make a Mind save.
Success: They take 1 Stress . Failure: They take
2 Stress and must move their Speed straight
toward you. This movement doesn’t count as forced
movement, but also doesn’t provoke reactions.

Range, following which this ability ends.

If you are Silenced, the effects of all verses are Hit them with a burn so sick they have to respond.
suppressed, and you don’t choose any new verses or
a finale until you have cleared the condition.
Wit Volley
VERSES: Ranged Weapon  Main Bow  Aetheric
Ø Verse of Heroes: +1 on attack rolls. Range 15 1d3+1 Force
Ø Verse of Journeys: +2 Speed.
Ø Verse of Relaxation: Gain resistance to Stress. On Hit: The target is Dazed until the end of their next
Ø Verse of Teamwork: +1 on all checks and saves. turn and is Marked.
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FINALE: The piercing force of this bow is inversely proportional

Ø The Last Stand: Gain 1d6+4 Focus. to the mental sharpness of the target. The dumber they
Ø The Storm Fades: Regain all MP. are, the more it hurts.
Ø Legends Never Die: Regain all HP.
Ø A New Beginning: Clear all Stress and conditions.
Ø The New World: Each character can shift up to
their Speed.

A skald can weave so much aether into a performance

that it becomes real. The audience feels the stories come
to life. they feel the emotions of the players; their hopes
and dreams.
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Each ballad tells a specific story, each of its acts mirror

whatever is happening in the moment. Eventually, your
actions become inseparable from those in the story, and
are memorialized in all future retellings.

Skalds have many ways to support their allies, from

the free movement of Tempo to the accuracy of In-
spire. They are efficient users of Channel abilities,
using Encore to chain together channeling abilities
each round.

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Parrying Dagger  Reaction (1/round)
Support Item  Main
Trigger: The result of an attack roll would meet or
exceed your Dodge.
Effect: You make a melee attack roll. The result
becomes your Dodge against the triggering attack,
potentially turning a hit into a miss.
If the attack misses you, you can spend 1 Focus to
deal 3 Stress to the attacker.
Parrying daggers are held in the offhand and used purely
defensively.
Song of Defense Channel
Spell  2 MemoryArcing
On Release: You and all allies within Range 5 gain
1 Focus. On each subsequent turn, you can spend
1 MP to continue using this song as a minor action,
gaining an additional +1 Focus. If you don’t continue
the song this way, the effect ends.
Sharp, rapid beats keep listeners on their toes and alert
to the possibility of danger.
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Song of Rest Channel
Spell  3 Memory  Arcing Burst 3
On Release: Allies within the AOE can spend a
Recovery to regain all HP.
On each subsequent turn, you can spend 1 MP to
move to the next verse of the song as a minor action,
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granting 3 temp HP to all allies within Burst 3 .
If you don’t continue the song this way, the effect
ends.
This song is soothing and relaxing. Listeners find their
aches and pains begin to fade away.
Soundwave Channel
Spell  2 Memory  Mana 1
Range = Scope, Blast 1
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On Release: This AOE is a zone. Choose one of the
following effects:
Ø Sound Vacuum: Characters in the zone when it is
created take 3 Stress . Characters are Silenced
and Vulnerable to Force while partly within
the zone.
Ø Dead Silence: Characters fully within the zone
gain immunity to all subsequent spells and spell
effects. Existing spell effects are not affected.
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You can have up to three of these zones in play at once.
You can dismiss a zone as a free action during your
turn. Otherwise, they last for the rest of the scene or
until you become Silenced or Stunned.
The signature spell of Solitaire, the Voice of Revolution.
As a sentient vocaloid, she has complete control over
soundwaves, which she uses to spread her message of
freedom for escognitive and nonorganic people like
herself.
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STRIKER

Thunderclaws have mastered electricity. They use it to enhance their

physical abilities, giving them explosive speed and power.

T
hunderclaws are named after the
elite canine warriors that created BASE ATTRIBUTES
the fighting style. Training atop a SCOPE:5 SAVE TARGET:  10
mountain in the Thunderfields, they BULK MIND
gained unique insights into the prop- HP:8 STRESS CAP:  5
RECOVERIES:5 MEMORY:  6
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erties of lightning. They learned how to

generate and channel it through their AGILITY MAGIC
bodies, and how to hold it within to DODGE:  10 A-DEF:  7
enhance their physical abilities. SPEED:  6 MP:  2

Ø What is unique about your fighting

style? TRAITS
Ø Where did you train, and why can’t
anyone else train there now? FlurryTrait
Ø What is the most dangerous
technique you know, and why is You have pool of Flurry that starts at 0 and has a maximum of 6.
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it dangerous?
Ø What does it feel like to hold
lightning within yourself?
Whenever you hit with a melee attack, you gain +1 Flurry. When you
hit with a melee attack, you can spend Flurry as follows:
Ø 1/round, you can spend 1 Flurry to deal +1d6 bonus damage of
the same type.
Ø 1/round, you can spend 6 Flurry to make a Stunning Strike, forcing
one of the targets to make a Bulk save. Failure: They are Stunned
and Dazed until the end of their next turn.

BalanceTrait
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Once during each of your turns, you can convert any amount of Flurry
to an equal amount of Focus, or vice versa.

Fast as Lightning Minor Action

Trait  Mana 1

You Rush or make an improvised weapon attack.

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RANK 1
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Living Lightning Free Action

Limit Break
You channel lightning directly into your body, pushing
it past its physical limits and immediately gaining 6
Flurry. Until the end of the scene, your Fast as Light-
ning trait doesn’t cost MP. When you spend 6 Flurry
to make a Stunning Strike, the target automatically
fails the save.
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Bottled Lightning Minor Action
Support Item  Light  Consumable 2 Burst 2
You expend a charge. Characters in the AOE with line of
sight to you are Blinded until the end of their next turn.
Lightning captured in a bottle, bouncing around angrily
while it tries to find a way out. Open the bottle to release

A bolt of magical lightning strikes the thunderclaw, it in a blinding flash of light.

but instead of discharging it, they hold it within their
body. Years of careful training allow the thunderclaw
to take this influx of energy and use it to enhance their Chakram Fight
physical abilities. Melee Weapon  Main Blade  Thrown 5
Supercharged thunderclaws can dart across the Reach 1 / Thrown 5 2 Physical
battlefield at breakneck speeds, delivering lightning-
charged strikes strong enough to punch through steel. When thrown, this weapon gains Arcing and deals
Lightning arcs off their body while in this state, as they +1 damage for every space traveled beyond the first.
contain the raw power of a bolt of lightning.
Held lightning still wants to find a way out of a This thin disc of metal is made of a rare alloy that allows
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thunderclaw’s body, and the longer it is held, the greater it to bounce off of surfaces and around corners.
the damage to the thunderclaw. If not discharged, this
technique will eventually kill the user.

Thunderclaws are highly mobile, with abilities that

allow them to quickly move around a battlefield, and
others that require specific positioning to maximize
their effects. The more attacks a Thunderclaw makes,
the more Flurry they can generate, so the Storm-
dancer talent’s third rank and other abilities that
allow for extra attacks are good choices for this class.
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Lightning Bolt  Volley
Melee Spell Attack  2 Memory  Mana 1
Line 10 1d6+2 Astral
On Attack: Choose one of the following:
Ø Shocked: Characters in the AOE are Dazed and can’t
perform reactions until the end of their next turn.
Ø Drained: On Hit: Characters in the AOE lose MP
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Chain Lightning Strikes Full Attack
Skill  3 Memory
Choose a character within Range 5 . You teleport
to a free adjacent space and make a melee skill
attack against them, dealing 4 Astral on a hit. You
can then repeat this, targeting a different character
each time, and increasing the damage by +1 Astral

equal to the total number of characters within the
AOE, and you regain MP equal to the number of
characters hit.
Your body is the generator. Your hand directs the flow.
Let the lightning loose.
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every time you make the attack roll until the end of
the turn. Each character can only be targeted by this
ability 1/turn.
Become a bolt of lightning arcing across the battlefield,
finding the shortest path between your foes.

Kinetic Redistributor Reaction (1/round)

Support Item  Main
Wolf Claws Fight

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Melee Weapon  Light Club  Piercing
Reach 1 2 Physical
On Hit: After dealing damage, you can shift a
number of spaces equal to the total damage of
the attack. If you end this movement next to a
different enemy than the one you attacked, you can
deal 1 Piercing Physical to them.
Wolf claws are tipped with an indestructible material,
allowing them to tear through anything.
Trigger: A ranged attack roll is made against you.
Effect: You either impose +1 on the attack or gain
2 Focus.
The thunderclaw fighting style prioritizes efficient
movements and using opponents’ momentum against
them. This logic can be applied to projectiles as well,
as demonstrated by the ability of thunderclaws to
capture incoming arrows and use their momentum
for defense.

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Getting Started

CONTROLLER / SUPPORT

Tidecallers command the oceans and waters. They can manipulate

currents to reposition allies and hinder enemies.

C
ommon wisdom suggests that only
a fool braves the seas without a tide- BASE ATTRIBUTES
caller. Their command over water SCOPE:8 SAVE TARGET:  12
and their insight into weather patterns BULK MIND
make them invaluable additions to any HP:8 STRESS CAP:  6
RECOVERIES:3 MEMORY:  6
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seafaring vessel.
Tidecallers are strongly associated AGILITY MAGIC
with water-aspect aether, known for its DODGE:  6 A-DEF:  10
healing properties. A drop of this mag- SPEED:  5 MP:  5
ical water can heal a small cut, while a
deluge can repair deadly wounds and
restore vitality. An often-forgotten TRAITS
aspect of water-aspect aether is its
weight. Surprisingly, small quantities Rising TideTrait
can knock a grown person off their
feet and drag them around in its wake. You have an Aquatic Adaptation. Additionally, 1/turn when you
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inflict forced movement on an enemy, one of your allies within Scope

Ø What secret do you know about
the ocean?
Ø How do you accurately predict the
weather?
Ø What underwater-dwelling person
do you owe a favor to?
Ø How do people typically travel
across open water?
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may shift the same number of spaces. You can’t use this effect if you
are Stunned.
River Current Minor Action
Trait  Mana 1 Range = Scope, Line 6
This AOE is a river current – a zone that can be pointed in any direction.
It suppresses the effects of difficult and dangerous terrain within it.
When an ally enters the river current, they can choose to slide to
a free space in the zone. Each ally can do this 1/turn.

This river current lasts for the rest of the scene or until you create
a new one, become Stunned, or are defeated.

Water Veil Reaction

Trait  Mana 1

Trigger: An ally uses a river current.

Effect: They become Invisible until the start of their next turn. If
they are attacked while outside of the river current, Invisible ends
after that attack.

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Tidal WavePhase Skirmish
Limit Break
Choose one side of the map. A wave of water washes
towards that side from the other, and all enemies
must make Bulk saves. Failure: They are pushed 6
spaces in a straight line towards the chosen side of the
map, are Dazed and Disarmed until the end of their
next turn, and are knocked Prone. Success: They are
pushed half as many spaces and are knocked Prone.
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Enemies that hit a character or obstruction when
pushed by this ability take 5 Physical and are
Sundered until they clear the condition.
Tidecallers have control over the seas, but even when far
away from the ocean, their power is no less deadly.
When there isn’t water around to command, a
tidecaller can converts the ambient aether in the
atmosphere to water aether, drawing the moisture out
of everything to form a roaring wave.
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Tidecallers use spells to move their allies and ene-
mies around the battlefield with Rising Tide and
River Current, while providing healing support
with spells like Tidal Healing. Their rank 3 Whirl-
pool ability is incredibly strong in combat scenes
that require controlling an area, like Acquisition
or Control.
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Rainfall  Channel
Spell  1 Memory  Arcing
Range = Scope, Blast 1
On Release: This AOE is a zone. Choose one of the
following options:
Ø Soothing Rain: Characters that start their turn in
the zone clear all Discord and 1 Stress. This zone
lasts until you use this ability again.
Ø Downpour: Characters are Blinded while in the
zone. This zone lasts until the end of your next turn,
but on each of your turns you can extend it to the
end of your following turn by spending 1 MP as
long as you aren’t Silenced or Stunned.
Call down a soothing rainstorm infused with healing
magic, or a torrential downpour.
Storm Surge Volley
Ranged Spell Attack  2 Memory  Arcing,
Aetheric, Indirect
Range = Scope, Line 4 2 Stress
This attack’s AOE can point in any direction.
On Hit: Targets are pushed to the furthest free spac-
es within the Line, following its direction. You can
spend 1 MP to force all hit targets to make a Bulk save.
Failure: They fall Prone.
This spell forces water into a high-pressure jet strong
enough to knock down a wall.
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Abyssal Scepter Volley Drown  Volley
Ranged Weapon  Main Artifact  Aetheric Ranged Spell Attack  2 Memory  Aetheric,
Range 8, Reach 1 1d3+2 Lunar Indirect Range = Scope 1 Discord

On Hit: You can spend 1 MP to create a Burst 2
AOE around the target. All characters in the area are
pulled to the closest free space adjacent to the target.
On Hit: Choose one of the following:
Ø Engulf Lungs: If the target gains Discord from
this attack, they are Silenced until they clear all
their Discord.

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This artifact creates crushing forces using a pearl from
the abyssal depths of the sea. Ø Submerge: The target must make a Magic save.
Failure: They are Blinded until the end of their
next turn.
Tidal Healing Channel
Spell  2 Memory  Mana 2 Range = Scope Pool water in their mouth and lungs, drowning them
from the inside.
On Release: One ally within Range regains up to
1d6+4 HP. Another ally within Range 5 of them
regains up to half of that amount. You may continue Whirlpool Channel
healing new allies in this fashion, halving the amount Spell  2 Memory  Mana 2

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healed each time, until there are no other allies within
Range 5 of the last target, or the healing reaches
1 HP. Each character can only benefit from this
healing 1/turn.
This spell concentrates healing magic into a liquid
essence, which can then be manipulated by tidecallers.
This healing water bounces between targets, trying
to spread its magic among as many vessels as
possible.
Range = Scope, Blast 2
On Release: This AOE is a zone. When it is created,
you may slide characters in the zone to any free space
within the zone, after which they are Immobilized.
They can clear Immobilized by succeeding on a Bulk
save as a minor action.
The zone is difficult terrain. It lasts until you dis-
miss it as a free action or use this ability again.
On subsequent turns, you can spend 1 MP as a
minor action to slide any number of characters in
the zone again.

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The best tidecallers can treat ambient aetheric energy
like liquid, creating swirling vortexes from which there
can be no escape.

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DEFENDER

The earth heeds the call of the wardens, rising to restrict their
foes while the wardens endure with the planet’s lifeforce.

W
ardens are connected to the life-
force of the planet, controlling the BASE ATTRIBUTES
elements of earth and rock. They SCOPE:5 SAVE TARGET:  10
feel what the planet feels, and when BULK MIND
it cries out in pain, they rise to defend HP:12 STRESS CAP:  6
RECOVERIES:6 MEMORY:  5
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it. In return, they can draw upon the

strength of the planet itself to protect AGILITY MAGIC
themselves. DODGE:  6 A-DEF:  8
Wardens can connect and attune SPEED:  5 MP:  2
to any planet or plane to which they
travel, although doing so may change
how their powers look or work. Travel- TRAITS
ing to a dimension of fire, for example,
a warden might find their hair turning Earthen SlideTrait
to flame, and their powers becoming
wreathed in flame. When you Interpose and end your movement adjacent to the attacker,
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you can make them Slowed until the end of their next turn.
Ø What earthlike features do you Additionally, you gain the Earthen Slide skill, which is equipped
have? Rocky skin, stone hair, for free.
something else?
Ø What creature or spirit did you
learn from? Earthen Slide Reaction
Ø How does the planet communicate Skill  Focus 1, Innate, Unique
with you?
Ø What are the unique properties of Trigger: An enemy or ally starts their turn within your Scope.
the tree from which one of your
pieces of equipment is made? Effect: You slide them 1 space.
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Grasping VinesTrait

When an enemy starts their turn adjacent to you or is moved adja-

cent to you by Earthen Slide, you can spend 1 Focus to make them
Slowed until the end of their next turn. You can’t use this ability if you
are Disarmed, Silenced, or Stunned.

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Gaia’s Wrath Free Action

Limit Break
You become an avatar of nature for the rest of the
scene or until you return to your usual state as a free
action. You gain the following benefits:
Ø You gain +1 Size (to a maximum of Size 3) and any
adjacent characters are pushed to the nearest free
space to accommodate your new Size.
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Lifeblood
Skill  1 Memory
You gain +1 on Magic saves.
Additionally, you can make a special Magic check
to clear Discord immediately after receiving it and
taking the relevant discord damage. Success: You
clear all Discord.
You still make a magic check to clear Discord at

Ø You gain 2 Focus at the start of each of your turns.

Ø When you hit a character with any attack, they are the end of your turn as normal.
Slowed until the end of their next turn. A character
that is already Slowed is also Immobilized until The lifeblood of the planet flows through your veins.
the end of their next turn.

You connect to the aetheric streams that crisscross the Inner Reserves
Reflection – the leylines. You become an extension of the Skill  2 Memory
Reflection’s will; an avatar of its wrath and destruction.
It acts through you, giving you the power to achieve its When you Refresh, you gain 2 Focus.
goals. Your goals. Our goals.
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You are never down and out. As long as you still breathe,
you fight. As long as you can still move, you protect. As
The Warden’s Earthen Slide and Grasping Vines long as you still live, there is hope.
let them bring enemies close and keep them there.
From there, they can use their Greatoak Mauler or
other close range AOEs to punish clusters of ene-
mies. The Great Weapon Master talent works great
with this type of playstyle.
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Nature Vortex  Channel
Melee Spell Attack  2 Memory  Auto-Hit,
Mana 1 Burst 3 2 Stress
On Release: All enemies of your choice within the
AOE are auto-hit for 2 Stress , pulled to the closest
free space adjacent to you, and Immobilized until
the end of their next turn. If there are no available
adjacent spaces, they are pulled to the free space
closest to you.
Vines and roots erupt from the ground and your skin,
grabbing anything nearby and pulling it close.
Earthwarden’s Shield
Support Item  Main
+1 Armor. When you Interpose, you can spend an
additional Focus to gain resistance to any damage
from the attack.
This shield is a gift from the Reflection itself: a giant hunk
of crystal with a grip fitted perfectly to your hand.
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Greatoak Mauler Full Attack
Melee Weapon  Heavy Club  Slow
Reach 1 3d6 Physical
On Hit: All enemies adjacent to you take Physical equal
to the highest d6 result for this weapon’s damage.
To make a greatoak mauler requires wood sourced from
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a tree at least a thousand years old. The wood is dipped
directly into a ley line, strengthening it with the aetheric
energies of the Reflection itself.
Weight of Earth
Skill  2 Memory
When you hit a character with a reaction attack, they
are Immobilized until the start of their next turn.
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“It was just a halfling wearing some sort of skull mask and
holding a wooden dagger, so we didn’t think anything
of it. As soon as we stepped close, they flung the dagger
at us, and I swear to Terram, it pinned Zelk to the wall! It
went straight through his armor and shoulder! No one is
that strong – it was just a wooden dagger!”
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SUPPORT

Warlords are commanders of the battlefield. They lead their allies

to victory, making them better fighters in the process.

T
acticians and leaders, warlords are
the glue that holds their groups BASE ATTRIBUTES
together. They feel the rhythm of SCOPE:12 SAVE TARGET:  10
battle, adjusting their plans, tactics, BULK MIND
and people accordingly. HP:10 STRESS CAP:  5
RECOVERIES:5 MEMORY:  7
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Warlords can either be backline

strategists, supporting their allies with AGILITY MAGIC
intelligence and positioning, or front- DODGE:  7 A-DEF:  6
line commanders, leading by example SPEED:  5 MP:  2
in the thick of battle.

Ø Why are people willing to follow TRAITS

your command?
Ø When did one of your decisions Focused PlanTrait
save the day?
Ø What tactical mistake have you 1/round when you make a character Marked, an ally of your choice
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promised to never let happen
again?
Ø Who do you wish you could learn
from or serve under?
can Volley or perform a Phase Brawl action against the Marked
character as a reaction with +1 .
Take a BreatherTrait

When you or an ally within Scope performs Refresh, another char-

acter of your choice within Range 10 of that character gains 1d6+1
temp HP.

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MAIN MAIN LIGHT LIGHT MAIN

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Follow My Lead Free Action

Limit Break
Command Phase Skirmish
Until the end of the scene, any time you perform your Skill  2 Memory
standard action, an ally of your choice can perform
a standard action from the same phase as a reaction. An ally within Scope can immediately make a weapon
Each ally can benefit from this effect 1/scene. or spell attack with +2 as a reaction. You can take
1 Stress to remove the .
You lead by example, your actions inspiring others to
do the same. Your confidence bleeds over to your allies, You command someone to take an action. Those that
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creating a positive feedback loop between them and know you and know your leadership style trust in your
you. Your confidence inspires, their loyalty enkindles. wisdom.
Together, you all act as one.

Standard of Courage  Minor Action

Warlords make their allies better. They can grant Support Item  Main  Summon
extra attacks with Focused Plan or have allies at-
tack on their behalf with Command. Marks are the Standard (Size 1/2, HP 5, Dodge/A-Def 10, Speed 0)
primary way that warlords provide support or trigger
their abilities, and the Spotter talent helps them You plant a standard in a free adjacent space.
apply more of them. It creates a Burst 2 zone. You and your allies in the
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zone gain +1 on attack rolls, checks, and saves, and

when you or an ally start their turn in the zone, they
gain 2 temp HP.
During your turn, you can pick up and move the
standard when you move, placing it in another free
adjacent space.
This Summon can only be dismissed with a minor
action while adjacent to it. You can only have one
standard in play at a time and it retains its current
HP when dismissed. It regains all HP during Rests.
If defeated, this support item is destroyed.
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You carry a flag as a symbol of your unit. Those that see

it know that any units near it fall under your command
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Frontline Fight
Melee Weapon  Main Longarm
Reach 2 1d6+2 Physical
On Crit: You can teleport one willing ally within Scope
up to 5 spaces.
Before battle, the troops gather around for a meal. As
a surprise, their commander produces a treat – a deer
they had hunted earlier in the day and prepared in the
style of their homeland. As everyone enjoys the meal
and camaraderie, their aetheric fields become attuned
to the spear lying nearby.
The next day, in the heat of battle, the commander
finds themselves separated from their troops. Facing
certain doom, the commander readies their spear. In
response, they feel aetheric energies beginning to rise
from the spear, and then see a flash of light. The light
fades, and the commander sees their troops stood before
them, weapons raised and ready to fight.
Lead from the Front
Skill  1 Memory  Unique
When you Fight or perform a Full Attack with
a melee weapon, one ally of your choice within Scope
gains 2 temp HP.
You take to the battlefield, making your way to the front-
lines. Your tactical prowess hadn’t been questioned, but
now neither will your martial prowess either.
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Focus Target
Skill  3 Memory  Stressful 2, Unique
1/round when an ally within Scope consumes a
Mark, another ally of your choice within Scope can
make a weapon or spell attack against the target as
a reaction.
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It is more efficient to focus your attacks on one target at
a time instead of spreading your blows around. If you
can take out an enemy, they pose no threat to you. But
a wounded enemy can still fight, and can wound you in
return. So, do everyone a favor, and make sure they’re
dead before moving onto the next.
Rally Reaction
Skill  2 Memory
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Trigger: An ally within Scope takes a Wound or Over-
stress.
Effect: No excess damage or Stress carries over, and
your ally gains +4 temp HP and clears any Discord
and conditions.
“Rally to me! I will be your shield; I will hold the line! Their
assault ends here!”
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 8: TALENTS
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Talents are bundles of abilities you can learn that
aren’t tied to specific classes. Each talent has three
ranks. Beacons start with three talents at rank 1.
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AETH E RBE NDE R
Your magical expertise gives you insight into the
manipulation of spells for different effects.
Rank 1: Aetheric Upgrade
You can apply the following effects to your spells. Each
spell can only be affected by one at a time:
Ø Far Spell: When you use a spell, you can spend 1
MP to do so with +5 Range.
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Ø Fast Spell: During your turn, you can use Volley
or Fight spells during earlier phases, but no
earlier than Phase Bolster. For each phase
earlier than its normal phase, you spend 1 MP.
Ø Quiet Spell: When you use a spell while Hidden,
you can spend 2 MP to remain Hidden after the
spell resolves.
Rank 2: Advanced Aetheric Upgrade
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You add the following effects to your Aetheric
Upgrades options:
Ø Flexible Spell: When you make a spell attack,
you can spend 1 MP to change the defense that it
targets (Dodge or A-Def).
Ø Empowered Spell: When you use a spell that
involves a save, you can spend 2 MP to impose
+1 on any saves it causes.
Ø Repeated Spell: When you make a non-AOE spell
attack, you can spend 3 MP to attack two targets.
They must be within Range 5 of each other and
within your Scope.
Rank 3: Aether Mixer
You can apply two different Aetheric Upgrade options
at once, spending the MP for each effect.
Additionally, you gain 1 MP when you crit with a
spell attack.
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Talents come in three ranks: rank 1, rank 2, and rank
3. Ranks must be taken in order; you need rank 1 in a
talent to take rank 2, and you need rank 2 to take rank 3.
When you level up, you can increase the rank of an
existing talent or gain a new one at rank 1.
Once you have a talent, its effects are always avail-
able to you.
A RC H MAG E
Archmages stand at the pinnacle of aetheric research.
They manipulate magic in ways that others can only
dream of.
Rank 1: Spell Sculptor
When you use a spell or artifact weapon with an AOE,
you can spend 1 MP to allow one character in the AOE
to ignore the effect.
Rank 2: Arcane Turret
You gain the following benefits:
Ø When you are channeling, you gain +2 Armor, to
a maximum of 4.
Ø Taking Stress doesn’t trigger concentration saves.
Rank 3: Focused Caster
The following option is added to your Reroll Table:
Ø Mana Effort: Spend 1 MP.
A R MO R E D D E F E ND E R
Armor keeps you alive. The stronger and more
reliable your armor is, the longer you stay alive.
Rank 1: Reinforced Plating
After you Defend, you can spend Focus, temporarily
gaining +1 Armor per Focus spent, to a maximum of
6 Armor. This lasts until the start of your next turn or
until you next take Physical, Astral, Lunar, or Force.
Rank 2: Adamantine Armor
Your Armor support items become Unbreakable.
Rank 3: Battle Hardened
When you reduce a source of damage to 0, you negate
all other effects the attack or ability would have on
you, including on-hit effects.
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You have been building your own custom weapon and
while it’s not what most would consider “stable”, it’s
close enough for field testing.
Rank 1: Experimental Weapon
When you gain this talent or during a Long Rest, you
create an Experimental Weapon, which is equipped
for free. You can only have one Experimental Weapon
at a time.
Experimental Weapon Volley (Ranged) /
3 becomes 1d6+4.
 5 Fight (Melee)
Custom Weapon  Main Custom  Unique,
Reloading Range X 1d6+2 Damage
You have built this weapon yourself. You can choose
some of its features when you equip it, and change
them during Long Rests.
Choose a damage type (Physical, Astral, Lunar,
or Force) and one of the following profiles:
Ø Melee Weapon: Blade, Club, Longarm, or
Magitech Reach 1
Ø Ranged Weapon: Artifact, Bow, or Magitech
Range 10
This weapon doesn’t need to be reloaded after every
use. Instead, roll a d6 Malfunction Die after each
use. On a 5–6, the weapon must be reloaded.
Rank 2: Improvements
Your Experimental Weapon only malfunctions on a
result of 6 on the Malfunction Die. Additionally, you may
choose two of the following improvements for your
weapon each time you equip it or during Long Rests.
Ø +Tag (Can be Chosen Twice): Your Experimental
Weapon gains one of the following: Accurate,
Aetheric, Arcing, Push 1, Reliable 2, or Thrown 5.
Ø +AOE: When you attack with your Experimental
Weapon, you can spend 1 MP to attack with either
of the following AOEs instead of its normal Range.
‘ Ranged Weapon: Line 8 , or Blast 1 within
weapon’s Range.
‘ Melee Weapon: Burst 1 or Close Blast 1 .
Rank 3: Perfection
Your Experimental Weapon no longer malfunctions
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and loses the Reloading tag. Additionally, when you
equip your Experimental Weapon or during a Long
Rest, you may choose one of the following improve-
ments for your weapon:
Ø Clunky: Your weapon’s damage becomes 2d6+3
but it gains Reloading.
Ø Increased Range: Your weapon gains +1 Reach if
melee or +5 Range if ranged.
Ø Increased Damage: Your weapon’s damage
Ø Punch Through: Your weapon gains Piercing.
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A RT IL L E R IST
The ability to shoot your enemy before they can hit
you is a critical advantage. Artillerists can squeeze
out every inch of range from their weapons.
Rank 1: Siege Mode
You may use your standard movement to enter or
exit Siege Mode instead of moving. While in Siege
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Mode, you are always Immobilized and your ranged
weapon attacks gain +3 Range and Arcing.
Rank 2: Siege Ammo
1/round when you make a ranged weapon attack in
Siege Mode, you can spend 1 MP to apply one of the
following effects in a Burst 1 AOE around one of
the targets. The primary target is included in the area.
Ø Aethermarker Round: Characters in the AOE must
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make a Magic save. Failure: They are Marked.
Ø Concussion Round: Characters in the AOE must
make a Mind save. Failure: They are Dazed until
the end of their next turn.
Ø Grounding Round: Characters in the AOE must
make a Bulk save. Failure: They are knocked
Prone.
Ø Shrapnel Round: Characters in the AOE must
make an Agility save. Failure: They take
2 Piercing Physical .
Rank 3: Aetheric Bombard
Siege Mode has the following effects:
Ø You gain +3 Scope.
Ø Your spells gain Arcing.
Ø You have immunity to all forced movement and
benefit from soft cover against attacks further
than Range 8 .
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 BR AW LE R B R EA K E R
The unarmed gladiator leagues of Bastion are among Clubs are highly effective weapons against armor.
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its most popular fighting competitions. The leagues
draw in competitors from dozens of different fighting
styles, ensuring the bouts are always dynamic and
fun. Gladiators in the league assume over-the-top
personas and quickly amass dedicated fans.
Rank 1: Quick Hands
You can take 1 Stress to Grapple or Shove
as a minor action.
Additionally, you gain +1 on attacks against
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Worst-case scenario, their powerful blows dent and
deform armor, restricting foes’ movements. Best-case
scenario, they crush enemies inside their armor.
Rank 1: Dazing Blows
1/round when you hit a character with a club, they
must make a Bulk save. Failure: They are Dazed until
the end of their next turn.
Rank 2: Sunder Armor

targets Grappled by you. When you crit with a club, the target is Sundered until
the end of their next turn and they receive –1 Armor
Rank 2: Fisticuffs (to a minimum of 0) for the rest of the scene.
Your improvised weapon attacks deal 1d6 Physical ,
and gain Reach 1 , which allows them to be used Rank 3: Ring the Bell
with Opportunity Attacks. You gain the Ring the Bell action.
Additionally, when you crit with an improvised
weapon attack, choose one: Ring the Bell Channel
Ø The target is Dazed until the end of their next turn. Talent
Ø You automatically succeed on a Shove against
the target. On Release: You make a melee attack with any club,
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even a Slow one:

Rank 3: Submission Ø On Hit: The weapon hits as normal, and the target
You gain the Submission action. is Stunned until the end of their next turn.
Ø On Miss: The weapon still hits as normal, but
Submission Channel doesn’t trigger any on-hit effects (e.g., Push, Pull,
Talent etc).

On Channel: A character Grappled by you becomes

Dazed until after you release this ability, and receives
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+1 on checks to break the grapple. This effect ends

and the ability is cancelled if the target ceases to be
Grappled by you.

On Release: The target takes 2d6+3 Physical and

must succeed on a Bulk save or be Disarmed and
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 COMMANDE R
The difference between a good commander and a
bad one is trust. A bad commander issues orders and
expects them to be followed because of their rank. A
good commander knows their troops and trusts them
to follow orders, and the team trusts the commander
to keep them alive.
Rank 1: Commander’s Mark
When you make a character Marked, you can make it
a special Commander’s Mark. It functions as a normal
Mark, but when an ally consumes it, you roll a 1d6: on
a 5+, the target stays Marked with the Commander’s
Mark. You can only have one Commander’s Mark at
a time; placing a new one turns the old one into a
normal Mark.
Rank 2: Planning
When an ally uses the Strain option from the Reroll
Table on an attack against a character with your
Commander’s Mark, the Stress cost is reduced by 1.
Additionally, your Commander’s Marks remain on
a result of 4+ instead of a 5+.
Rank 3: Order
1/round when you make a character Marked, you
can announce an action that you want any ally to take
against that target. The first ally that takes that action
against the target while they are Marked gains temp
HP equal to your Grit+2.
COPYCAT
Copycats possess the rare ability to mimic the abilities
of others. Those in possession of metamorphic ore
can even copy the equipment of their enemies.
Rank 1: Scan
You can Search as a minor action.
Rank 2: Copy
When you Search an enemy to learn about their
ability scores, attributes, and abilities, you can spend 1
MP to gain access to one of those pieces of equipment
or techniques until the end of the scene. You can only
copy one thing at a time.
Rank 3: Imitate
Copy can now be used to gain access to enemy traits,
and you can copy up to two things at once.
Additionally, when an enemy uses a piece of equip-
ment, technique, or trait within your line of sight, you
can spend 1 MP to gain access to it until the end of
the scene.
The Copycat talent is intended for fun, casual play
only. It’s not intended to be balanced. Check with
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your GM to see if they want this talent to be used.
D EA D EY E
Everyone knows that you’re better off hitting a specific
body part than lashing out blindly, but it’s incredibly
difficult to put that knowledge into practice during a
real fight. Those with the speed, skill, and accuracy to
reliably do so can end fights quickly.
Rank 1: Precision
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Minor Action: You take 1 Stress to gain +1 on
your next attack roll this turn. On a crit, it gains the
Piercing tag.
Rank 2: Body Parts
1/round when you crit on an attack roll, you can
choose to deal half damage and apply one of the
following additional effects:
Ø Foot: The target is Immobilized until the end of
their next turn.
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Ø Head: The target is Dazed until the end of their
next turn.
Ø Leg: The target is Slowed until the end of their
next turn.
Rank 3: Pinpoint Lethality
The following are added to the list of Body Parts
options:
Ø Arm: The target is Disarmed until the end of their
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Ø Throat: The target is Silenced until the end of
their next turn.
Ø Eye: The target is Blinded until the end of their
next turn.
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Infusing items with aetheric energy allows you to grant them unique traits. Enchanted weapons are always better
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than their mundane counterparts.
Rank 1: Apprentice Enchanter
Each quest, you can equip one of the following
support items – Keen, Variable, or Aspected – for free.
Keen
Support Item  Enchantment
You may use one of the following Enchantments
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at a time:
Ø Any Weapon, Skill Attack, or Spell Attack that
deals damage: On a crit with this ability, you deal
+1d3 bonus damage.
Ø Any Weapon, Skill Attack, or Spell Attack that
deals Stress: On a crit with this ability, you deal
+2 Stress.
Ø Any Weapon, Skill Attack, or Spell Attack that
deals Discord: On a crit with this ability, you deal
+1 Discord.
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Variable
Support Item  Enchantment
You may use the following Enchantment:
Ø Any Equipment or Technique: When you apply
this Enchantment, Refresh, or Rest, you can
change its damage type from Physical, Astral,
Lunar, or Force to another one of these damage
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types.
Aspected
Support Item  Enchantment
You may use one of the following Enchantments
at a time:
Ø Any Armor: You gain +1 to checks and saves with
one ability score – Bulk, Agility, Mind, or Magic –
chosen when you apply this Enchantment.
Ø Any Equipment or Technique: When you attack
with this ability, you can spend 1 MP to give it
the Aetheric tag, or to remove it. This change
lasts for the rest of the scene or until you use
this ability again.
Rank 3: Master Enchanter
You may have one ability at a time with two Enchantments applied, instead of just one. Additionally, you can
equip a single Enchantment support item for free, which can be an additional one from this talent.
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Rank 2: Portfolio of Formulas
You can apply one of your Enchantments to two
different things.
Additionally, the following support items –
Adamant, Speed, and Vorpal – are added to the list of
available support items from Apprentice Enchanter.
Adamant
Support Item  Enchantment
You may use one of the following Enchantments
at a time:
Ø Any Armor: As a minor action while wearing
this armor, you can gain 1 Focus.
Ø Any Weapon or Spell Attack: On a crit with this
ability, you gain 1 Focus.
Speed
Support Item  Enchantment
You may use one of the following Enchantments
at a time:
Ø Any Non-Slow Weapon: You can Volley or
Fight (as relevant) with this weapon during
Phase Bolster.
Ø Any Armor: While wearing this armor, you can
take Phase Reposition actions during Phase
Bolster.
Vorpal
Support Item  Enchantment
You may use the following Enchantment:
Ø Any Melee Weapon: 1/round when you roll the
highest possible value on a damage die as part
of a melee attack with this weapon, roll that die
again and add that result to the total damage.
This effect can trigger multiple times.
Only the damage from the weapon triggers
this effect, not any bonus damage or extra sources
of damage. On a crit, resolve which damage dice
are being used before doing any of the rerolls.
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Heavy weapons have the advantage of great size,
allowing powerful swings that create space between
the wielder and their enemies.
Rank 1: Cleaveent
1/round after you hit and deal damage to a character
with a Heavy melee weapon attack, you can take
1 Stress to Cleave. Choose a different character
within the weapon’s Reach and your line of sight,
even a Hidden one. That character takes damage
equal to half the total damage dealt to the original
target. The Cleave target can’t have been a target of
the original attack.
Rank 2: Carry Through
When you roll damage from a Heavy melee weapon,
you can choose to treat any 1s as 2s.
Additionally, when you use Cleave, you can choose
to gain temp HP equal to the amount of damage you
would deal to the second target instead of dealing
that damage. You lose that amount of temp HP at the
start of your next turn. If the first attack was a crit, you
can both deal damage and gain temp HP.
Rank 3: Wide Cleave
When you roll damage from a Heavy melee weapon,
you can choose to treat any rolled 1s or 2s as 3s.
If you defeat an enemy with damage from Cleave,
you can trigger Cleave again that turn, bypassing the 1/
round limitation. This effect can trigger multiple times.
G UN K ATA
In a prolonged firefight, it’s just as important to avoid
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getting shot as it is to accurately hit your enemies.
This fighting style uses movements meant to avoid
the most commonly attacked areas.
Rank 1: CQC
Your ranged weapons with Reach don’t receive from
being Engaged if your target is within their Reach.
Rank 2: Bullet Time
Your Light ranged weapons that don’t have Reach
gain Reach 1 . Additionally, 1/turn when you crit
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with a ranged attack against a target within that
weapon’s Reach, you gain 1 Focus.
Rank 3: Death-Blossom
You have a d6 Gun Kata Die that starts at 1. Each time
you make a reaction attack, increase the value of the
Gun Kata Die by +1, to a maximum of 6. When the die
reaches 6, you can reset it to 1 as a free action during
your turn to deal 6 Physical split however you like
among any enemies of your choice within Range 3 .
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1/turn you can spend 1 Focus as a free action to
increase the value of your Gun Kata Die by +1.
Your Gun Kata Die keeps its value between scenes,
but resets to 1 during Long Rests.
H O SPITA L L E R
The battlefield is no place for proper medicine and
care, but in a pinch, the presence of a hospitaller can
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mean the difference between life and death.
Rank 1: Reserves
When you Refresh, you can pick two different
options from the second list instead of one.
Rank 2: Help
When you Refresh, an adjacent ally gains temp
HP equal to your Grit+3.
Rank 3: Medic
When you Refresh, you can spend a Recovery for
an adjacent ally to also gain the benefits of whatever
options you selected.
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 JUG GE RNAUT
“Never stop moving. If something stands in your way,
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run them over. You are unstoppable.”
– Captain Inyanafretziel, retired beacon,
training a new generation of linebreakers
Rank 1: Leverage
You are considered to have +1 Size for Shove and
being smaller doesn’t impose .
Additionally, when you successfully Shove, you
can choose to push the target up to 3 spaces instead
of 1.
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Rank 2: Locomotion
1/round when you push a character into another
character or object, the pushed character takes
1d6 Physical . If you push them into another char-
acter, both must also make an Agility save against
your Save Target. Failure: They fall Prone.
Rank 3: Runaway Train
You gain the Runaway Train action.
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Runaway Train Rush
Talent
You move up to your Speed in a straight line.
While doing this, you ignore Engagement and
difficult terrain, and you can move through other
characters’ spaces.
Deal 10 Piercing Physical × your Size (mini-
mum 10) to any objects in your path. If you destroy
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an object that would be an obstruction, you con-
tinue moving.
If you move through a character, they must succeed
on an Agility save or be automatically affected by a
Shove from you, and be pushed out of your path.
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K NIF E JUG G L E R
With a quick flick of the wrist, the knife in your hand
disappears, already embedded in your target.
Rank 1: Thrower
Your Light melee weapons gain Thrown 3, and your
Main melee weapons gain Thrown 1.
Additionally, at the end of your turn all weapons
you threw that turn return to you.
Rank 2: Perfectly Balanced
All of your Thrown weapons gain +2 Thrown (e.g.,
Thrown 3 becomes Thrown 5).
Additionally, you can make thrown attacks with
Light Thrown weapons using Fight during Phase
Skirmish instead of during Phase Brawl.
Rank 3: Flick
Minor Action (1/round): You can make a thrown
attack with a Light Thrown weapon. This attack can’t
deal bonus damage and doesn’t trigger linked attacks.
K NIG H T
“To Aliarra Landsritter, we award you the title of
Knight Champion for your feats of courage, bravery,
and strength in the face of overwhelming opposition.”
The honorary title of knight is awarded to
individuals for exemplary service to a nation. While
working towards earning that title, many warriors
focus on selfless acts of protection on the battlefield.
Rank 1: Phalanx
When you Defend, you can choose one of the
following effects instead of gaining Focus normally:
Ø Roll 1d3 for each ally within Range 3 and take
the highest result, gaining Focus equal to the result
plus your Armor.
Ø You gain Focus equal to 1d3 plus the number of
allies within Range 3 .
Rank 2: Perfect Parry
When you Interpose, you can also Counterattack
during the same turn.
Rank 3: Hunker Down
Instead of using your standard movement, you can
perform a second minor action, but it must be a
different minor action.
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The lancets are an elite group of dragon riders. As the
final stage of membership, the inductee must procure
a piece of astral ore, which is used to forge their iconic
lancet spear.
Rank 1: Quick Step
You can shift 1 after attacking with a longarm.
Rank 2: Poke and Prod
When you crit with a longarm, the target is Weakened
until the end of their next turn.
Rank 3: Impale
1/turn when you attack with a longarm, you can turn
the attack into a Line attack with a length equal to
the weapon’s Reach.
L EYLINE WALKE R
First discovered by General Magnus, leylines are
seams of aetheric energy that that crisscross the
world. Leyline walkers can sense these veins, and tap
into their power.
Rank 1: Leyline Sensor
At the start of each combat scene, create three
Blast 1 zones – your ley nodes – anywhere on
the map. This doesn’t require line of sight but these
zones can’t contain any enemy spaces. If you or an
ally starts their turn fully within one of these zones,
roll a d6. On a 5+, they regain 1 MP.
Rank 2: Leyline Drainer
1/round as a reaction when a character enters one of
your ley nodes, you can force them to make a Magic
save. Failure: They lose 1d3 MP, and you regain that
much MP.
Additionally, you and your allies regain MP in your
ley nodes on a 4+ instead of a 5+.
Rank 3: Leyline Transportation
You create 4 ley nodes at the start of combat instead
of 3. While you are standing fully in one of your ley
nodes, you can use your standard action during
Phase Reposition to teleport to another one of
your ley nodes. The ley node you left is destroyed.
L IC H
Liches are arcanists that have discovered a path to
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immortality. By creating a device called a soul vessel,
the would-be lich can make a copy of their soul and
store it inside. Upon death, a new body is formed
around the soul vessel, and the process begins anew.
Rank 1: Soul Vessel
You gain the Soul Vessel support item, which is
equipped for free.
Soul Vessel Minor Action
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Support Item  Light  Consumable 1, Innate,
Summon, Unique
Soul Vessel (Size 1/2, HP 10, Dodge/A-Def 5, Speed 0)
You expend a charge and summon your soul vessel
in a free adjacent space. While it is in play, you gain
the Reformed reaction.
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Trigger: You would take damage or Stress from
another character.
Effect: The damage or Stress is immediately
negated along with any other effects. You im-
mediately teleport to your soul vessel, which is
then destroyed.
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Rank 2: Demilich
1/scene when you defeat a character, your Soul
Vessel regains 1 charge.
Additionally, you can remove Wounds or Over-
stresses for 1 Recovery each during Short Rests.
Rank 3: Living Vessel
Living Vessel (Size 1/2, HP 10, Dodge/A-Def 5, Speed 0,
immune to Aetheric attacks and Stress)
When you would be defeated, your body disappears
and you turn into your living vessel, a Size 1/2 object
in one of your spaces. Living vessels can’t act or move.
You gain a d6 Resurrection Die. At the start of
each round, roll your Resurrection Die and gain that
many charges. Once you have 6 charges, you return
with full HP and MP, and 0 Stress, and the living
vessel and your Resurrection Die are destroyed. If you
would return with 4 or more Wounds or Overstresses,
you return with 3 instead.
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 MAGI-TECH NICIA N
Magitech weapons utilize technology to mimic the
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effects of traditional spells, letting anyone harness
the destructive power of magic. Different civilizations
have created their own power sources for magitech,
from electrical currents through to soul gems.
Rank 1: Growing Power
Whenever you crit with a magitech weapon, you get a
d6 Power Die. You can have up to 6 Power Dice, which
last until the end of a quest or until spent.
After rolling an attack or damage roll with a magi-
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tech weapon, you can roll any number of Power Dice,
expending them in the process. The highest number
rolled is added to the result of the attack roll or to the
damage roll as bonus damage.
Rank 2: Infused Ammo
When you attack with a magitech weapon, you can
spend up to 6 MP to increase the attack’s existing
Physical, Force, Astral, or Lunar by +1 per MP spent.
The increased damage applies to every target hit by
the attack.
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Rank 3: Unstable Power Core
1/round when you crit with a magitech weapon, you
can apply one of the following effects:
Ø Magnetic: The target is Disarmed until the end
of their next turn.
Ø Shielded: You gain 2 Focus.
Ø Shock: The target is Dazed and Slowed until the
end of their next turn.
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Ø Soul Gem: The target is Weakened until the end
of their next turn and Marked.
Ø Volatile: The target is Sundered until the end of
their next turn and knocked Prone.
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SAVAG E F IG H T E R
In the face of unbridled savagery, most training and
discipline finds itself lacking.
Rank 1: Never Down
You receive the following benefits:
Ø While Bloodied, you gain +1 on attacks.
Ø While Breaking, you gain 1 Focus at the start of
each of your turns.
Rank 2: Vicious
You can use the Reroll Table to reroll damage rolls.
Rank 3: Wild Attacker
You can trigger the Overextend option from the
Reroll Table multiple times per turn, but only for a
different enemy each time.
SH A D OW
“Shadows cloak and conceal. Keep us safe. Keep us
hidden. Stay in the shadows. The light reveals to us
our deaths.”
– Myphos
Rank 1: Blend
While Invisible or benefiting from cover against all
enemies that have line of sight to you, you can take
2 Stress to Hide as a minor action.
Rank 2: Hunt
You gain +1 on your first attack roll while Hidden
in a given turn.
Additionally, whenever you defeat an enemy, roll
a d6 Hunt Die. On a 6+, you can choose to become
Hidden.
Rank 3: Infiltration
You can deploy in any free space within Range 5 of
an edge of the map.
Additionally, when you roll your Hunt Die, you
become Hidden on a 5+; if you were already Hidden
when you defeated the enemy, you become Hidden
on a 4+.
 SL ASHE R
Most cultures have their own unique version of the
sword. Katanas, gladii, scimitars, and khopeshes are
all considered swords. A skilled wielder of blades can
adapt to just about any situation.
Rank 1: Feint
1/round when you hit with a blade weapon attack,
you can take 1 Stress to Mark the target.
Rank 2: Hamstring
1/round when you crit with a blade weapon attack,
the target is Slowed until the end of their next turn.
Rank 3: Weeping Cuts
1/round when you hit with a blade weapon attack,
you can choose to treat half of the attack’s damage
as normal, and half of the attack’s damage as Discord
instead of its normal damage type. For example, if a
blade attack deals 10 Physical , you can choose to
have it deal 5 Physical + 5 Discord instead.
SNIPE R
Snipers are deadly marksmen. They live by the motto,
“one shot, one kill”, no matter how long it takes.
Rank 1: Steady Shot
At the start of your turn, you can choose to start
Aiming. You become Immobilized until the start of
your next turn and gain +1 on all ranged attacks
while Immobilized in this way.
Rank 2: Zero In
When you miss with a ranged attack, you gain +1
on all ranged attacks until you hit with one. This
effect stacks.
Rank 3: Pinpoint Shot
1/round when you crit with a ranged attack while
Immobilized, you deal +1d6 bonus damage.
S O L D IE R
A versatile soldier must be consistent and reliable in
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any situation.
Rank 1: Weapon Focus
The first time each turn you perform a melee attack
with a Main weapon, that attack gains +1 .
Rank 2: Stances
Minor Action: You take 1 Stress and enter one of
the following stances – Wolf Stance, Snake Stance,
or Eagle Stance. You remain in this stance for the rest
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of the scene or until you perform this minor action
again. You may enter each stance 1/scene.
When you enter a stance, you gain a d6 Stance
Die that starts at 6. After attacking with a Main melee
weapon, reduce the value of your Stance Die by –2. If
it reaches 0, you drop the stance.
Ø Wolf Stance: Your Main melee weapon attacks
gain Reliable X, where X is the value of your
Stance Die. The Reliable damage can’t exceed
the weapon’s maximum damage.
Ø Snake Stance: The Armor of your targets can’t
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reduce the damage of your Main melee weapon
attacks below the value of your Stance Die.
Ø Eagle Stance: Before rolling an attack with a Main
melee weapon, you can do either of the following:
‘ Treat one die as if it had rolled the value of
your Stance Die.
‘ Treat one die as if it had rolled 7 minus the
value of your Stance Die. For example, if your
Stance Die is 4, you could treat the result of a
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die as 3 (7 – 4 = 3).
Rank 3: Practiced
Instead of reducing your Stance Die by –2 after at-
tacking with a Main melee weapon, you only reduce
it by –1.
Additionally, the following option is added to your
Reroll Table:
Ø Flowing Stance: Reduce your Stance Die by –2.
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 SPE E D STE R
Go fast. Embrace speed. Put your problems behind
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you, and never stop running, or they’ll catch you.
Rank 1: Sprint
Minor Action: You take 2 Stress and move up to
half your Speed.
Rank 2: Supersonic
When you Rush or use Sprint, you gain 1 Sonido,
up to a maximum of 6. As your standard movement,
you can spend any number of Sonidos to teleport
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a number of spaces equal to the Sonidos spent and
gain soft cover until the start of your next turn. You
can’t use this ability if you are Slowed.
Sonidos last between scenes, but reset to 0 during
each Long Rest.
Rank 3: Tactical Repositioning
When you Rush, you can use both options instead
of choosing one.
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S PE L L B L A D E
Spellblades weave magic into their weapons, casting
spells between weapon strikes.
Rank 1: Spellweaver
1/turn after hitting the same target with both a weapon
and spell attack in the same turn, you gain 1 Weave,
to a maximum of 3. Weave lasts until you Rest.
During your turn, you can spend 3 Weave to per-
form the following Spellstrike minor action.
Spellstrike Minor Action
Talent
You attack with either:
Ø a Light or Main weapon
Ø a Volley or Fight spell.
This attack doesn’t deal bonus damage or trigger
linked attacks.
Rank 2: Spellblade Training
You gain the following benefits:
Ø When you hit with a weapon attack, you gain +1
on your next spell attack against the same target.
Ø When you hit with a spell attack, you gain +1 on
your next weapon attack against the same target.
You can’t gain more than +1 this way at a time.
Rank 3: Aetherblade
You can link a weapon and a spell together as if they
were a linked pair. When you would select equipment,
choose an unlinked Light or Main weapon and a
Volley or Fight spell attack. You can spend 1 MP
to make a linked attack with them as though they
were a linked pair. Unlike linked weapons, if either
the weapon or spell is destroyed, it does not destroy
the linked weapon or spell. This effect lasts until
you select a new linked pair with this talent.
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Spellbreakers are anti-mages. Their job is to shut
down enemy spellcasters, which they do with
surprising efficiency.
Rank 1: Broken Concentration
When you force a character to make a concentration
save, they become Dazed until the end of their next
turn and take 3 Stress . This doesn’t trigger an
additional concentration save.
Rank 2: Spell Evasion
If you succeed on a save against an effect that has a
reduced effect on a save (e.g., half damage or fewer
conditions), you don’t suffer those effects.
Rank 3: Break
You gain the Break Spell reaction.
Break Spell Reaction (1/round)
Talent
Trigger: A character begins channeling within
Reach of one of your weapons.
Effect: You attack them with that weapon.
SP OT TE R
Spotters are usually paired with snipers. The sniper
is the gun, and the spotter is the eye. Together, you
are dead.
Rank 1: Shotcaller
1/round, when you make a target Marked, you can
force them to make a Mind save. Failure: They are
Sundered until the end of their next turn.
Rank 2: Radar
When you perform a Full Attack, you can replace
one or both of the actions with Mark.
Rank 3: Quick Call
At the start of your turn, you can take 1 Stress to
Mark as a free action.
STO R MDA NC E R
The history of the stormdancers can be traced to a
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group of humanoids that lived in close proximity
to air elementals. The two cultures grew together
and eventually created the storm dance, in which a
humanoid and an air elemental would dance together
in a beautiful whirlwind.
When one of the Scourge’s heralds threatened
their home, the humanoids and elementals fought
together, using their dance as way for two creatures
to fight as one. The style has been adapted over time
to be used without an elemental partner, although
with a lesser effect.
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Rank 1: Twin Strike
After hitting a character with the second of two dif-
ferent attacks in a turn, you don’t provoke reaction
attacks from them until the end of that turn.
Additionally, you gain +1 on linked attacks
(see p. 16).
Rank 2: Whirling
1/round after hitting with the second of two different
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Light weapons during your turn, you begin Whirling.
This lasts until the end of your turn. During this time,
you can consume Whirling as a free action to do the
following in any order:
Ø Create a Burst 1 AOE, dealing 3 Physical to
enemies in the AOE.
Ø Move up to 3 spaces.
Rank 3: Dual Wielder
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One of your Main or Light Light weapon slots
becomes a Main Light slot, or one of your Light
slots becomes a Light Light slot.
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Pull creatures from other Reflections and dimensions, Artifacts are the weapons of spellcasters. Tomes filled
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or coalesce aether into solid forms. You have a close
connection to the creatures you call forth that allows
them to perform beyond expectations.
Rank 1: Strong Summons
Your Summons gain +5 maximum HP.
Ø Minor Action: One of your Summons within Scope
moves up to 4 spaces.
with arcane rituals, dueling wands, and powerful
staves can amplify their wielders’ mana.
Rank 1: Magical Charges
When you crit with an artifact, you regain 1 MP.
Rank 2: Overcharge
You gain the Overcharge action.

Rank 2: Defender Summons Overcharge Channel

Your Summons may spend your Focus, and they can
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Interpose. Additionally, you gain 1 Focus if you end
your turn within Range 5 of one of your Summons.
Rank 3: Tend to the Swarm
Minor Action (1 MP): You restore 4 HP to one of your
Summons within Scope.
SUN-BL OT TER
“It rained for three days, an endless barrage of death. Our
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Talent
On Release: You auto-hit with an artifact weapon,
even a Slow one.
Rank 3: Empowerment
1/round when you hit a target with an artifact, you
can spend 1 MP to apply one of the following effects:
Ø Cold: The target is Slowed until the end of their
next turn.

soldiers drowned in the deluge, and we were broken.”
– An Ardentine soldier, recounting the battle of Idol
Rank 1: Overdraw
Minor Action (Stressful 1): Your next bow attack gains
+5 Range . This effect can stack multiple times, and
ends when you attack with a bow.
Rank 2: Powershot
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Ø Dark: The target must make a Magic save. Failure:
They are Blinded until the end of their next turn.
Ø Fire: The target takes 1 Piercing Astral
for every space they move during their next turn.
Ø Force: The attack gains Push 1 and the target is
Dazed until the end of their next turn.
Ø Light: The target is Marked.
Ø Lightning: The target can’t use any reactions until
the end of their next turn.

When you attack with a bow while benefiting from Ø Toxic: The target takes 1 Discord .
Overdraw, you can take 1 Stress to choose one
of the following:
Ø Ballista: Your attack becomes a Line X attack,
where X equals the weapon’s Range. This replaces
the attack’s Range, and the attack can’t benefit
from Arcing.
Ø Catapult: On a hit, the target must make a Bulk
save. Failure: They are automatically affected by
a Shove from you.
Ø Rain of Arrows: All enemies within a Burst 1
AOE around the target are Marked.

Rank 3: High Shot

You punctuate your shots with arrows launched high
into the air. Whenever you attack with a bow, you can
either gain +1 Arrow or consume all Arrows. You can
only gain 1 Arrow per attack (not attack roll).
When you consume all your Arrows, you roll an
extra d20 for each Arrow and take the highest result
as the attack roll. Arrows last until the end of the scene.

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 TR ACEUR WA RCA ST E R
Parkour is a movement style focused on travelling Using magic on the battlefield is nothing like learning

between two points in the fastest, most efficient way.
Practitioners can jump, roll, or climb over any obstacle.
Rank 1: Limber
You receive the following benefits:
Ø You gain +1 on Agility checks and saves
Ø You move normally in difficult terrain.
Ø Climbing costs half as much movement as normal.
Ø Standing from Prone costs half your movement,
instead of all of your movement.
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it academically. Battlemages sacrifice flexibility for
power and speed. Warcasters must learn how to hold
their focus no matter what is happening around or to
them. Pain is a distraction that leads to death.
Rank 1: Maintain
You gain +1 on concentration saves.
Additionally, being Engaged doesn’t give your
ranged spell attacks +1 .
Rank 2: Spellfighter

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Rank 2: Rollout Your Volley and Fight spell attacks that don’t
You receive the following benefits: have Reach gain Reach 1 . You can Opportunity
Ø At the start of your turn, you can shift 1. Attack with these spells.
Ø You can move through spaces occupied by
enemies. Rank 3: Unflinching
Ø When you become Engaged , you can take While channeling, you gain resistance to Physical,
1 Stress to not lose your unused movement. Astral, Lunar, and Force.
Ø When you are subjected to forced movement from
another character, you can slide yourself 1 space.
You can’t slide into a space the forced movement

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moved you out of.

Rank 3: Free Movement

When you move adjacent to an object (including ter-
rain) of equal or greater Size, you can take 1 Stress
to move up to 2 spaces as a free action. You can repeat
this multiple times in a turn, taking 1 Stress each
time, but not from the same object twice in a row.

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TR EASURE HUNTE R
Delving into caves and abandoned ruins is dangerous,
but it can lead to great treasures and riches.

Rank 1: Lucky Haul

When you take this rank, the GM generates a loot crate
for you. You keep the loot even if you cease to have
this talent, but you don’t get additional loot crates if
you later take this talent again.

Rank 2: Gambler
When you get loot crates, you can reroll either the
Slot 1 or Slot 2 option once.
Additionally, you automatically succeed at open-
ing locks.

Rank 3: Deep Pockets

You gain an additional Light support slot.

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Getting Started

AND TECHNIQUES
Beacons have access to an array of basic equipment
and techniques. These abilities are always available to
beacons, either because they’re easy to find, learn, or
craft, or because they’re cheap.
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Whenever you prepare for a quest, you can always
choose equipment and techniques from those listed in
this section. Additionally, because none of these abilities
are Unique, you can equip multiple copies of each, as
long as you have the slots or Memory to equip them.

BASIC MELEE WEAPONS

NAME ACTION SIZE/TYPE TAGS RANGE DAMAGE

Aetherbreaker Fight Main Club Inaccurate Reach 1 2d6+1 Force

Bloodpike Fight Heavy Longarm – Reach 2 2d6+1 Lunar

Hammer Fight Light Club Thrown 5 Reach 1 1d3+1 Physical

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Maul Fight Heavy Club Inaccurate, Push 1 Reach 1 3d6 Physical

Moonknife Fight Light Blade Accurate, Thrown 3 Reach 1 1d3 Lunar

Photon Axe Fight Heavy Blade Reliable 4 Reach 1 1d6+7 Astral

Rapier Fight Light Blade Piercing Reach 1 2 Physical

Runespear Fight Main Longarm Thrown 3 Reach 2 1d6+1 Force

Sword Fight Main Blade Reliable 2 Reach 1 1d6+1 Physical

Whip Fight Light Longarm – Reach 3 1d3 Physical

BASIC RANGED WEAPONS

NAME ACTION SIZE/TYPE TAGS RANGE DAMAGE
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Crossbow Volley Heavy Bow Piercing, Reload- Range 10 2d6+3 Phys-

ing ical

Crystal Staff Volley Heavy Aetheric, Mana 2 Range 10, Blast 2d6 Lunar
Artifact 2

Forbidden Tome Volley Main Artifact Aetheric, Arcing, Range 15, Blast 1 1d3+1 Lunar
Mana 1

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Lunar Full Heavy Magitech Reliable 4, Line 15 3d6+3 Lunar
Cannon Attack Reloading, Slow

Shardgun Volley Light Magitech Reliable 1 Range 5, Reach 3 1d3 Force

Pistol

Shardgun Rifle Volley Main Magitech Reliable 2 Range 10 1d6+1 Force

Shardshredder Volley Main Magitech – Range 5, Reach 3 2d3 Force

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Shortbow Volley Main Bow Arcing Range 10 1d6 Physical

Starwand Volley Light Artifact Accurate, Aetheric Range 5 1d3 Astral

Stormbow Volley Heavy Bow Arcing, Push 1 Range 15 2d6 Astral

BASIC SUPPORT ITEMS

Aquatic Gear Support Item  Light Battering Ram Support Item  Heavy

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You move normally in liquid-based difficult terrain, You receive the following benefits:
and have an Aquatic Adaptation. Ø Whenever you push or slide another character,
you can move them +2 spaces.
Ø You gain +2 Save Target.
Arcana Crystal Minor Action: You push an adjacent character 1 space
Support Item  Light  Consumable 3 or deal 10 Piercing Physical to an adjacent piece
of cover.
When you use a spell, you can expend a charge for
one of the following effects:
Ø Potent: If it forces saves, it gains +2 Save Target. Caltrops Minor Action
Ø Seeking: If it’s a spell attack, you gain +1 for the Support Item  Light  Consumable 3,
attack. Thrown 5, Trap

You can expend a charge for one of the following effects:

Armor, Heavy Support Item  Heavy  Armor Ø Nails (Thrown 5): On Hit: The target takes
1 Piercing Physical for every space they move
+3 Armor, –1 Speed, and –1 Dodge. during their next turn.
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Ø Spikes (Trap): When triggered, this Trap creates a

Blast 1 zone centered on itself that lasts until the
Armor, Light Support Item  Light  Armor end of this phase in the next round. Characters that
start their turn in the zone or enter it for the first time
+1 Armor. in a turn take 1d6 Piercing Physical .

Armor, Medium Support Item  Main  Armor Climbing Gear Support Item  Light

+2 Armor and –1 Dodge. Climbing costs half as much movement as normal.

When you climb, you can bring a willing adjacent ally
with you as long as there is enough space for both of
you to stand in separate spaces.

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 Companion Minor Action
Support Item  Main  Summon Range = Scope
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Companion (Size 1/2, HP 5, Dodge/A-Def 10, Speed 0)
You summon or dismiss your companion, which
can be a beast, friend, or anything else willing to aid
you in combat. 1/turn when you attack a character
adjacent to your companion, the companion deals
3 Physical to them.
As a reaction after a character adjacent to your
companion moves, your companion can shift 5. They
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must end this movement as close to the triggering
character as possible.
You can only have one companion in play at a time
and they retain their current HP when dismissed. They
regain all HP during Rests. If they are defeated, this
item is destroyed.
Explosive Materials Minor Action
Support Item  Main  Consumable 3, Thrown 5,
Trap
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When you equip this item, choose either Physical,
Astral, Lunar, or Force. This determines the damage
it deals. You can expend a charge for one of the fol-
lowing effects:
Ø Explosive Bomb (Thrown 5): Center a Blast 1
AOE on the target space. All characters in the AOE
must make an Agility save. Failure: They take
1d6 damage . Success: They take half damage.
Ø Explosive Trap (Trap): When triggered, this Trap
creates a Burst 1 AOE. All characters in the area
take 6 damage .
Healing Potion Minor Action
Support Item  Light  Consumable 2
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You can expend a charge and a Recovery to regain
all HP.
Lore Book Minor Action
Support Item  Light  Mana 1
Choose a character in the scene. You can Search
them, but only to learn their ability scores, attributes,
and abilities.
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Mana Potion Minor Action
Support Item  Light  Consumable 2
You can expend a charge to regain all MP.
Poison
Support Item  Light  Consumable 2
You can expend a charge when you hit with a weapon.
The target must make a Bulk save. Failure: They take
2 Stress are Dazed until the end of their next turn,
and become Marked.
Resistance Enchantment
Support Item  Main  Enchantment
You may use one of the following Enchantments
at a time:
Ø Any Armor: While this Armor is equipped, you gain
resistance to Physical, Astral, Lunar, or Force,
chosen when you apply this Enchantment.
Ø Any Weapon, Skill Attack, or Spell Attack: This
weapon or technique ignores one type of resis-
tance – Physical, Astral, Lunar, or Force – chosen
when you apply this Enchantment.
Resistance Potion Minor Action
Support Item  Light  Consumable 2
You can expend a charge to gain resistance to Phys-
ical, Astral, Lunar, and Force until the end of your
next turn.
Shield
Support Item  Light
You gain the Shield Block reaction. If you meet the
trigger condition of Shield Block while using Inter-
pose, you can automatically use its effect as part of
that Interpose reaction.
Shield Block Reaction (1/round)
Trigger: You would take Physical, Astral, Lunar,
or Force.
Effect: You take 2 Stress and gain resistance
to that damage.
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Support Item  Main
Allies gain the benefits of cover from you as if you
were a piece of hard cover.
You gain the Shield Block reaction. If you meet
the trigger condition of Shield Block while using
Interpose, you can automatically use its effect as
part of that Interpose reaction.
Shield Block Reaction (1/round)
Trigger: You would take Physical, Astral, Lunar,
or Force.
Effect: You take 2 Stress and gain resistance
to that damage.
Smoke Charges Minor Action
Support Item  Light  Consumable 3,
Thrown 5, Trap
You can expend a charge for one of the following effects:
Ø Smoke Bomb (Thrown 5): Center a Blast 2
zone on the target space that lasts until the end
of your next turn. Characters fully within the zone
gain soft cover.
Ø Smokestick (Trap): When triggered, this Trap cre-
ates a Burst 3 zone that lasts until the end of this
phase in the next round. Characters fully within the
zone gain soft cover.
Stoneskin Potion Minor Action
Support Item  Main  Consumable 3
You can expend a charge to gain 1d3+2 Focus.
Sunrod
Support Item  Light  Consumable 3, Thrown 5
You ignore penalties from low visibility (p. 56)
while this item is equipped, even if it has no charges.
Minor Action: You expend a charge for the following
effect:
Ø Flash Bomb (Thrown 5): All characters in a
Blast 1 AOE centered on the target space must
make a Bulk save. Failure: They are Blinded until
the end of their next turn.
Supply Convoy
Support Item  Heavy  Limited 4
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You receive –1 Speed while this item has charges
remaining.
Minor Action (You or Adjacent Ally): You expend a
charge to do one of the following:
Ø Regain all MP.
Ø Regain all HP.
Ø Clear all Stress.
Ø Repair one destroyed piece of equipment or tech-
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nique.
Thieves’ Tools
Support Item  Light
You receive the following benefits:
Ø You can automatically open locks as a free action.
Ø You can attempt to disable Hidden Traps.
Ø You gain +1 on checks to disarm Traps and saves
triggered by Traps.
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Whetstone
Support Item  Light  Consumable 2
When you hit with a weapon, you can expend a charge
to deal its maximum damage. Bonus damage and
other effects are rolled normally.
Wire Charges Minor Action
Support Item  Light  Consumable 3,
Thrown 5, Trap
You can expend a charge for one of the following effects:
Ø Wire Knot (Thrown 5): Target a character within
Range. On a hit, they must make an Agility save.
Failure: They are Immobilized until the end of
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their next turn.
Ø Wire Trap (Trap): When triggered, all characters
in a Burst 1 AOE must make an Agility save.
Failure: They are Immobilized until the end of
their next turn.
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Getting Started

Adaptive Caster Glancing Blow

Skill  2 Memory Skill  1 Memory  Focus X

When you Release a channeled ability, you can
take 2 Stress to release a different one than the
one you were channeling. You must pay the costs of
both abilities.
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1/turn when you would take Physical, Force,
Astral, or Lunar after Armor and resistances, you can
reduce the amount by –1 for every point of Focus
you spend. You can’t use this ability if you are unable
to take reactions.

Arcane Bolt
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Volley
Ranged Spell Attack  1 Memory  Accurate, Hinder Spell Volley
Aetheric, Indirect Range = Scope 1d3 Force Ranged Spell Attack  1 Memory  Aetheric,
Indirect Range = Scope 2 Stress

Arcane Explosion Channel On Hit: The target is Dazed until the end of their next
Ranged Spell Attack  2 Memory  Auto-Hit turn.
Range = Scope, Blast 1 5 Force On Miss: You can spend 1 MP to deal 2 Stress to
the target.
On Release: You can spend 1 MP to increase the dam-
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age to 1d6+5 Force .

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Magic Missile Volley

Spell  2 Memory  Mana X Range = Scope
Block Reaction (1/round)
Skill  1 Memory For every MP spent, you deal 1d6 Force to a
different character within Range, with damage rolled
Trigger: You are hit by an attack. once for all targets.

Effect: You gain +1 Dodge against the attack and can

spend any amount of Focus, gaining an additional +1 Power Attack Minor Action
Dodge for each. If this raises your Dodge above the Skill  2 Memory
result of the attack roll, it misses.
You receive +1 on your next melee attack before the
start of your next turn, but it deals +3 bonus damage
Bolster Aether Reaction (1/round) on a hit.
Skill  1 Memory
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Trigger: You are hit by an attack. Resolve

Skill  1 Memory  Focus X
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Effect: You gain +1 A-Def against the attack and can

spend any amount of Focus, gaining an additional 1/turn when you make a save, you can gain +1 to the
+1 A-Def for each. If this raises your A-Def above the result for each point of Focus spent. You can’t use this
result of the attack roll, it misses. ability if you are unable to take reactions.

Endurance Shield Bash

Skill  1 Memory  Unique Skill  1 Memory
Appendices

+2 maximum HP. When you Interpose and end the movement next
to the attacker, you can push them 1 space after the
attack.

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9: Basic Equipment and Techniques
Shocking Grasp Fight Two-Weapon Fighting
Melee Spell Attack  1 Memory Skill  2 Memory  Unique
Reach 1 2 Stress
1/round immediately after you Volley or Fight
On Hit: The target can’t use reactions until the end with a Light weapon, you can attack with a different
of their next turn. Light weapon as a free action. The extra attack can’t
include a weapon used as part of the original action,
and doesn’t trigger linked attacks.
Support Training, Basic
Skill  2 Memory  Unique
Weapon Training, Basic
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You can equip one Main support item in a Light slot. Skill  3 Memory

You can equip one Main weapon in a Light slot or in a

Support Training, Heavy Light Light slot instead of two Light weapons.
Skill  3 Memory  Unique

You can equip one Heavy support item in a Main slot. Weapon Training, Heavy
Skill  4 Memory

You can equip one Heavy weapon in a Main slot or

in a Main Light slot instead of a Main weapon
and a Light weapon.

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 APPENDICES

KEY SECTIONS
Appendix A: Shops and Supplies p. 224

Appendix B: Loot p. 234

Appendix C: NPC Types p. 265

Appendix D: Glossary p. 266

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 A: SHOPS AND SUPPLIES
Getting Started

Shops are places where beacons can exchange gold for
supplies (p. 18). Supplies are minor items beacons
can bring on quests that don’t cost equipment slots or
Memory to equip. They must be equipped at the begin-
ning of each quest, at the same time as other equipment
and techniques. Beacons can equip up to three supplies
per quest (no duplicates), and all equipped supplies
are destroyed at the end of the quest.
Shops provide a way to thematically group supplies
together. For example, the Alchemy Shop sells sup-
Building Beacons
When beacons Go Shopping or otherwise have an
opportunity to select Supplies from a shop, not every
option is always in stock. Instead, the GM either random-
ly or manually decides which supplies are currently
available. It is recommended that no more than five
different supplies are available in each shop at a time.
Similarly, not every shop will be available during every
downtime. For example, a city that hates magitech may
not always have an Engineer available; however, the
General Store should always be available.

plies that are narratively potions and elixirs, while the

Tavern sells food and drink supplies. Beacons can buy
or acquire supplies with the Go Shopping or Pursue
a Profession downtime activities (p. 29, p. 31), but
the GM can also give them out as rewards (p. 20).

GENERAL STORE  Adventuring supplies and common goods.

SUPPLY COST EFFECT

Appendices

1 Compass 1 gold You gain +1 on skill checks to navigate.

2 Holster 2 gold You gain an extra Light weapon slot.

3 Pouch 2 gold You gain an extra Light support slot.

4 Rations 1 gold Minor Action (1/quest): You can regain HP equal to your Bloodied value.

5 Rented Gear X gold You gain access to any weapon or support item from any class for the duration
A: Shops and Supplies

of one quest, although it still needs to be equipped as normal. This costs Gold
equal to the class rank required to unlock it.

6 Rumors 1 gold You learn the environmental factors and NPC types that will be encountered
during this quest. If the GM doesn’t know them all yet, they will instead
provide as much guidance as they can on what the environments and NPCs
might be like.

7 Sleeping Bag 1 gold At the end of each combat scene, you regain HP equal to 1/4 of your maxi-
mum HP.

8 Treasure 1 gold 1/quest at the start of a combat scene, the GM will place a treasure chest in
Map the scene.

9 Tutor X gold You gain access to any technique from any class, although it still needs to be
equipped as normal. This costs gold equal to the class rank required to unlock it.

10 Waterskin 1 gold Minor Action (1/quest): You can clear Stress equal to your Breaking point.

11 Well Stocked 1 gold You gain +1 Recovery.

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ALCHEMY SHOP  Potions and elixirs with a variety of magical effects.

Getting Started
SUPPLY COST EFFECT

1 Acid 1 gold This support item is equipped for free. Support Item  Main  Consumable
3, Innate, Thrown 5  Minor Action. Expend a charge to make a support
attack within the thrown Range. On Hit: The target is Sundered until the
end of their next turn.

2 Alchemist’s Fire 1 gold This support item is equipped for free. Support Item  Light  Consumable
3, Innate, Thrown 5  Minor Action. Expend a charge to make a support
attack within the thrown Range. On Hit: The target takes 1 Discord .

Building Beacons
3 Antitoxin 1 gold Free Action (1/quest): You can clear all Discord.

4 Astral Potion 1 gold 1/quest at the start of a combat scene, you gain resistance to Astral for
the rest of the scene.

5 Barkskin Potion 1 gold 1/quest at the start of a combat scene, you gain resistance to Physical for
the rest of the scene.

6 Catseye Elixir 2 gold During this quest, you can Search as a minor action for 1 Stress .

7 Crystal Flask 1 gold One piece of Consumable equipment gains +1 Consumable.

Appendices
8 Diamond Flasks 3 gold All of your Consumable equipment gains +1 Consumable.

9 Displacer Flask 3 gold You gain +2 Agility.

10 Elixir of Agility 1 gold You gain +1 Agility.

11 Elixir of Fortitude 2 gold You gain +3 maximum HP.

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12 Elixir of Magic 1 gold You gain +1 Magic.

13 Elixir of Strength 1 gold You gain +1 Bulk.

14 Elixir of Wisdom 1 gold You gain +1 Mind.

15 Empyrean Flask 3 gold You gain +2 Mind.

16 Flask of Life 1 gold 1/quest at the start of a combat scene, you gain +5 maximum HP for the
rest of the scene. Your current HP also increases.

17 Force Potion 1 gold 1/quest at the start of a combat scene, you gain resistance to Force for
the rest of the scene.

18 Invisibility Potion 2 gold Free Action (1/quest): You become Invisible until the start of your next turn.

19 Lunar Potion 1 gold 1/quest at the start of a combat scene, you gain resistance to Lunar for
the rest of the scene.

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 ALCHEMY SHOP  Potions and elixirs with a variety of magical effects.
Getting Started

SUPPLY COST EFFECT

20 Memory Potion 2 gold 1/quest during a Short Rest, you can repair one destroyed technique
without spending a Recovery.

21 Minor Healing 1 gold 1/quest during a Short Rest, you can regain all your HP without spending
Potion a Recovery.

22 Minor Mana 1 gold Free Action (1/quest): You regain 1d6 MP.
Potion
Building Beacons

23 Moon Flask 3 gold You gain +2 Magic.

24 Potion of 2 gold You gain +1 Memory.

Expanded Mind

25 Potion of the 2 gold You gain +1 maximum MP.

Archmage

26 Prismatic Potion 2 gold 1/quest at the start of a combat scene, you gain resistance to Astral and
Lunar for the rest of the scene.
Appendices

27 Swiftness Potion 2 gold You gain +1 Speed.

28 Ruptured Flask 1 gold This support item is equipped for free. Support Item  Light  Consumable
3, Innate  Minor Action. You expend a charge and your aetheric field
becomes dangerously unstable. You gain a d6 Explosion Die that starts at 1.
Whenever you take damage, increase the value of your Explosion Die by 1
to a maximum of 6. As a free action you can discharge this unstable energy
in a Burst 2 area, dealing an amount of Force equal to your Explosion Die
to characters in the AOE. You take half as much Force. This effect then ends.
A: Shops and Supplies

29 Titan Flask 3 gold You gain +2 Bulk.

30 Water-Breathing 1 gold You gain an Aquatic Adaptation.

Potion

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BLACKSMITH  Forged metal gear and equipment.

Getting Started
SUPPLY COST EFFECT

1 Adamantine Plating 2 gold 1/quest when one of your weapons or support items would be destroyed,
it isn’t.

2 Adaptive Armor 1 gold You become immune to the effects of an environmental factor or terrain
feature of your choice (excluding Locks).

3 Armor Kit 1 gold 1/quest at the start of a combat scene, you gain +1 Armor until the end
of the scene.

Building Beacons
4 Armor Spikes 1 gold You deal 1 Piercing Physical on hits with Grapple, Shove, or
improvised weapon attacks.

5 Buckler 1 gold You start each combat scene with 1 Focus.

6 Cold Iron Weapon 1 gold One of your weapons that deals Physical, Force, or Astral deals Lunar instead.

7 Counterweight 2 gold One of your melee weapons changes its type to club.

8 Deep-Plate Scabbard 3 gold You gain an extra Main weapon slot.

Appendices
9 Handle 2 gold One of your melee weapons changes its type to longarm.

10 Helmet 1 gold 1/quest when you would become Dazed, you don’t.

11 Links 3 gold One of your Light weapon slots becomes Light Light.

12 Lockpick 1 gold 1/quest, you can automatically unlock a lock as a free action.

13 Manacles 1 gold 1/quest when you Grapple a character, they are Disarmed until the

A: Shops and Supplies

grapple ends.

14 Mithral Plating 2 gold Choose one of your weapons. When you use the Reroll Table to reroll an
attack with that weapon, the reroll gains +1 .

15 Padlock 1 gold As a free action while adjacent to a chest, door, or other object that can
be locked, you can lock it. Enemies receive +1 to unlock it.

16 Perfectly Balanced 2 gold One of your weapons gains Reliable 2.

17 Portable Wall 1 gold Minor Action (1/quest): You can place a Size 2 piece of hard cover.

18 Reinforced 1 gold 1/quest when you would become Marked, you don’t.

19 Repair Kit 1 gold 1/quest during a Short Rest, you or an ally can repair a piece of destroyed
equipment without spending a Recovery.

20 Sharpened 2 gold One of your weapons crits on rolls of 19+, instead of 20+.

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Getting Started

SUPPLY COST EFFECT

21 Sharpening Stone 2 gold One of your melee weapons changes its type to blade.

22 Solarite Weapon 1 gold One of your weapons that deals Physical, Force, or Lunar deals Astral instead.

23 Specialty Weapon 3 gold One of your weapons gains +1 .

24 Thorium Weapon 1 gold One of your weapons that deals Force, Astral, or Lunar deals Physical instead.

During Short Rests, you and your allies can each swap out an equipped
Building Beacons

25 Wagon 3 gold
weapon or support item with a different option for free. Destroyed weapons
and support items, and those with 0 charges remaining can’t be swapped.

26 Weapon Chain 1 gold One of your weapons can be used while Disarmed.

27 Weapon Ring 2 gold 1/quest at any time, you can swap out any number of your weapons for
different ones that can fit in the same slots.

LEATHERWORKER/CLOTHIER  Sturdy leather gear and lightweight clothing.

Appendices

SUPPLY COST EFFECT

1 Ammo Pouch 2 gold Free Action (1/quest): You can reload a weapon.

2 Archmage Cloak 2 gold You gain +1 maximum MP.

3 Archmage Robes 1 gold You gain +1 on concentration saves.

A: Shops and Supplies

4 Backpack 3 gold You gain an extra Main support slot.

5 Behemoth Gloves 1 gold Your crits deal +2 bonus damage.

6 Bloodroot Belt 1 gold 1/quest at the start of a combat scene, you regain 1 MP at the start of
each round for the rest of the scene.

7 Driftwind Cloak 2 gold You gain +2 Dodge.

8 Dragonscale Lining 1 gold 1/quest at the start of a combat scene, you gain resistance to Astral or
Lunar. You are Vulnerable to the other damage type. These effects
last for the rest of the scene.

9 Dragonstrike Gloves 2 gold Your weapon attacks critically hit on 19+, instead of 20+.

10 Explosive Ammunition 1 gold 1/quest, you can give one ranged weapon attack Blast 2 .

11 Fine Clothing 1 gold You gain +1 on skill checks to impress, convince, or make good im-
pressions.

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LEATHERWORKER/CLOTHIER  Sturdy leather gear and lightweight clothing.

Getting Started
SUPPLY COST EFFECT

12 Focus Band 1 gold 1/quest when you would be reduced from full HP to 0 HP, you instead
go to 1 HP.

13 Frostfur Lining 2 gold You are immune to the Slowed condition from other characters.

14 Gem-Studded Belt 1 gold Minor Action (1/quest): You regain all your HP.

15 Handwraps 2 gold Your improvised weapon attacks deal +2 damage.

Building Beacons
16 Lava Tunic 2 gold 1/quest at the start of a combat scene, you become immune to Astral
for the rest of the scene.

17 Leather Kit 1 gold 1/quest at the start of a combat scene, you gain +1 Armor until the
end of the scene.

18 Polar Tunic 2 gold 1/quest at the start of a combat scene, you become immune to Lunar
for the rest of the scene.

19 Prismatic Armor 2 gold At the start of each combat scene, you randomly gain resistance to
either Physical, Astral, Lunar, or Force.

Appendices
20 Raptor-Hide Boots 2 gold You gain +1 Speed.

21 Reins 3 gold You gain a mount, which counts as an allied NPC. It is 1 Size larger than
you, has HP equal to your Bloodied value, Dodge/A-Def 8, and Speed
4. The mount can carry one character smaller than it at a time. It moves
during Phase Reposition, and can only use its standard movement
and Rush. If the mount is reduced to 0 HP, it is defeated. You can
spend a Recovery to restore all the mount’s HP during a Short Rest.

A: Shops and Supplies

22 Runecloth Backpack 5 gold You gain an extra Heavy support slot.

23 Shadowcloak Armor 1 gold Free Action (1/quest): You can Hide.

24 Spellstrike Gloves 2 gold Your spell attacks critically hit on rolls of 19+, instead of 20+.

25 Spellweave Lining 2 gold 1/quest at the start of a combat scene, you gain resistance to all
damage from spells for the rest of the scene.

26 Spidersilk Boots 2 gold You are immune to the Immobilized condition from other characters.

27 Spidersilk Bowstring 1 gold One of your bows gains +3 Range.

28 Sturdy Belt 3 gold You gain an extra Main weapon slot.

29 Tent 3 gold 1/quest when you take a Short Rest, you reduce all Recovery costs
by –1 for you and your allies that rest, to a minimum of 0.

30 Wild Armor 1 gold You gain two random +1 bonuses to your Bulk, Agility, Mind, or Magic
checks/saves this quest. Randomly determine where each increase goes.
Both increases can go into the same ability score.
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Getting Started

SUPPLY COST EFFECT

1 Arcane Focus 2 gold You gain +1 maximum MP.

2 Arcane Retrofit 2 gold One of your weapons changes its type to artifact.

3 Auto-Picker 2 gold Free Action(1/scene): You can automatically disable either a Trap or a lock.

4 Autofeeder 3 gold Minor Action (1/scene): You can reload one weapon.
Building Beacons

5 Bayonet Attachment 1 gold One of your ranged weapons gains Reach 1 .

6 Blasting Charges 2 gold 1/quest, you destroy a piece of terrain Size 1 or smaller, or create a Size
1 hole in a larger piece of terrain.

7 Bouncing Betty 1 gold Flying characters trigger your Traps, and aren’t immune to them.
Upgrade

8 Combined Weapon 3 gold One of your weapons gains another, additional weapon type.

9 Composite 2 gold One of your ranged weapons changes its type to bow.
Construction
Appendices

10 Crawling Mines 1 gold Minor Action: You move one of your Traps up to 2 spaces.

11 Dynamite 2 gold This support item is equipped for free. Support Item  Main 
Consumable 1, Innate, Thrown 5  Minor Action. Expend a charge and
select a space within the thrown Range. The dynamite explodes in that
space, and all characters in a Blast 2 AOE must make an Agility save.
Failure: They take 2d6 Force . Success: They take half damage.
If this support item is destroyed, it immediately explodes with the
A: Shops and Supplies

Blast 2 AOE centered on you.

12 Echo Weapon 2 gold One of your weapons gains Aetheric.

13 Environmental 1 gold Gain an adaptation to an environmental factor.

Integration

14 Flight Systems 3 gold You have flight.

15 Gadget Goggles 2 gold You are immune to the Blinded condition from other characters.

16 Grapple Gun 1 gold Minor Action (1/scene): You can fly up to 3 spaces.

17 Hydraulic Suit 1 gold You count as +1 Size larger for the purposes of Grapple and Shove.

18 Jetpack 2 gold 1/quest, you have flight for the duration of a combat scene.

19 Minor Job Crystal 2 gold You gain access to a job of your choice, which must be equipped as normal.
For the duration of this quest, you can imprint into an additional job crystal.

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Getting Started
SUPPLY COST EFFECT

20 Mech Suit 3 gold Free Action (1/quest): You can activate a mech suit. You gain the following
benefits for the rest of the scene: +2 Size, temp HP equal to 2+Grit, +2
Armor. You can Grapple and Shove as a minor action. Additionally,
if you take a Wound or Overstress and it isn’t your fourth of that type, you
don’t have to make the wound or overstress roll.

21 Reflective Coating 2 gold You gain +2 A-Def.

Building Beacons
22 Spyglass 1 gold You gain +2 Scope.

23 Tech Retrofit 2 gold One of your weapons changes its type to magitech.

24 Telescoping 2 gold One of your melee weapons changes its type to longarm.

25 Walking Bomb 1 gold Walking Bomb (Size 1/2, HP 5, Dodge/A-Def 10, Speed 3, Tags: Summon)

1/quest, you can create a walking bomb in an adjacent space as a minor

action. As a minor action, you can detonate the bomb. All characters in a
Burst 2 AOE must make an Agility save. Failure: They take 2d6 Force .
Success: They take half damage.

Appendices
A: Shops and Supplies

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 TAVERN  Food and drink to keep you full and hydrated.
Getting Started

SUPPLY COST EFFECT

1 Appetizers 1 gold Your Summons gain +2 maximum HP.

2 Bubble Tea 2 gold 1/round when you would trigger a Trap, you can make an Agility check to
avoid doing so.

3 Chicken Curry 1 gold You gain +2 to Agility checks and saves.

4 Dino Steak 1 gold You gain +2 to Bulk checks and saves.

Building Beacons

5 Dragon Stout 1 gold You gain +2 to Magic checks and saves.

6 Elf Cookies 2 gold You gain +2 Save Target.

7 Feast 2 gold Free Action (1/quest): You can Refresh.

8 Fruit Smoothie 2 gold 1/quest at the start of a combat scene, you become immune to Lunar for
the rest of the scene.

9 Gillyeel 1 gold You gain an Aquatic Adaptation.

Appendices

10 Ginger Tea 1 gold 1/quest when you would be Silenced by another character, you aren’t.

11 Grilled Salmon 1 gold You gain +2 to Mind checks and saves.

12 Grog 1 gold 1/quest at the start of a combat scene, you can clear 1 Stress at the start of
each of your turns for the rest of the scene.

13 Hard Bread 1 gold You are immune to forced movement from other characters.
A: Shops and Supplies

14 Hero’s Feast 3 gold You can use your limit break a second time this quest.

15 Honey Walleye 1 gold You start each combat scene with 1 Focus.

16 Hot Cocoa 1 gold Each round you can use one Reroll Table option 2/round instead of 1/round.

17 Jungle Jelly 3 gold You move normally in difficult terrain.

18 Leftovers 1 gold You regain 1 HP at the start of each round.

19 Lucky Lollipop 1 gold Whenever you defeat an enemy, roll 1d6. On 5+, you gain 1 gold. This can
trigger 5 times.

20 Mac & Cheese 2 gold You only take 2 damage from dangerous terrain.

21 Mango Moxie 1 gold 1/quest when you take a Wound or Overstress and it isn’t your fourth of that
type, you don’t make the wound or overstress roll.

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Getting Started
SUPPLY COST EFFECT

22 Margarita 2 gold 1/scene when you use the Strain option from the Reroll Table, you only gain
1 Stress.

23 Milkshake 1 gold You gain +1 on saves while adjacent allies.

24 Rising Risotto 1 gold Minor Action: You stand up from Prone.

25 Rockfruit 1 gold 1/quest when you would be Sundered by another character, you aren’t.

Building Beacons
26 Spicy Noodles 2 gold 1/quest at the start of a combat scene, you become immune to Astral for
the rest of the scene.

27 Transmutive 1 gold You change your ancestry for the duration of the quest, choosing a new an-
Biscuits cestry trait.

28 Wildfruit 2 gold You gain two random +2 bonuses to your Bulk, Agility, Mind, or Magic
checks/saves this quest. Randomly determine where each increase goes. Both
increases can go into the same ability score.

Appendices
MAGIC SHOP / DOJO
Magic shops and dojos stock random assortments of LOOT techniques, which can be purchased as
Supplies. Magic shops sell spells, while dojos sell skills.
Techniques received as Supplies are equipped for free, and are destroyed at the end of the quest
as normal.

1 Uncommon Technique 1 gold

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2 Rare Technique 2 gold

3 Legendary Technique 3 gold

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Getting Started

Loot is bonus equipment and techniques that beacons earn as quest rewards. Loot is
usually presented to the players in loot crates, each of which is three pieces of loot from
which the player can select one to keep.
The GM can either randomly or manually pick loot to give to PCs. The tables later in this
appendix arrange loot by type (weapon, support item, technique) and rarity (Uncommon,
Rare, Legendary) to make it easier to randomly generate loot. In addition, a loot crate
randomizer can be found here.
This section lists all loot in alphabetical order.
Building Beacons

Absorb ElementsReaction Aether Flask Minor Action

Spell (Rare)  1 Memory  Mana 1
Trigger: You or an ally within Scope would take
Astral or Lunar.
Effect: They gain resistance to that damage.
Support Item (Uncommon)  Light 
Consumable 2
Drinking this potion suffuses you with aetheric ener-
gies until the end of your next turn. You can expend a
charge to receive all of the following effects:

Ø You cannot attack or use spells.

Absorption Fight Ø You are immune to Physical, Astral, and Lunar.
Appendices

Melee Weapon (Uncommon)  Main Artifact
Reach 1 1d6+1 Physical
On Crit: You regain 1 MP and your target loses 1 MP.
Ø You can move through solid objects as if they were
difficult terrain, but you can’t end a turn inside
one. If you end a turn inside or partly inside an
object, you are moved to the last free space you
moved through that turn.

Adamantine Armor
Support Item (Rare)  Heavy  Aether Shield
Armor, Unbreakable Spell (Rare)  1 Memory  Mana X, Unique
B: Loot

+3 Armor, –2 Speed, –2 Dodge. Additionally, when When you would take damage (after Armor and resis-
you would be critically hit, it becomes a normal hit tances), you can spend MP to reduce the damage tak-
instead. en. You take –2 damage for every 1 MP spent. This spell
can’t reduce Piercing damage or Discord, and can’t
be used if you are incapable of taking reactions.
Adamantine Construction
Support Item (Legendary)  Light 
Enchantment, Unbreakable, Unique Agile Discord
Skill (Rare)  1 Memory
You may use one of the following Enchantments
at a time: You can use Agility instead of Magic when making
checks to clear Discord.
Ø Any Armor: This Armor gains +1 Armor and is
Unbreakable.
Ø Any Weapon: This weapon gains Piercing and
Unbreakable.

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Aid Reaction (1/Round) Animated Shield
Spell (Uncommon)  1 Memory  Mana 1 Support Item (Rare)  Light  Summon

Trigger: An ally within Scope makes an ability check
or save.
Effect: You grant them +1 on the check or save.
Getting Started
Range = Scope
You gain the Shield Block reaction. If you meet the
trigger condition of Shield Block while using Inter-
pose, you can automatically use its effect as part of
that Interpose reaction.

Ammo Kit Minor Action Animated Shield (Size 1, HP 5, Dodge/A-Def 10,

Support Item (Uncommon)  Main  Speed 0)
Consumable 2
Minor Action: You deploy this shield as a Summon

Building Beacons
You or an adjacent ally can expend a charge to reload within Range or return it to you. While it is deployed,
a single weapon. it provides hard cover and you cannot use the other
effects provided by this support item.

Amulet of Health
Support Item (Uncommon)  Light Shield Block Reaction (1/round)

You gain +1 on Bulk checks and saves. Additionally, Trigger: You would take Physical, Astral, Lunar,
when you Refresh, you gain 4 temp HP. or Force.

Effect: You take 2 Stress and gain resistance

Appendices
Angelsteel Armor to that damage.
Support Item (Legendary)  Heavy  Armor

+2 Armor, –1 Speed, –1 Dodge. Additionally, when Armor of Growing Endurance

you are hit by an attack, you can spend 1 MP to add
your current Armor to your Dodge or A-Def against
the attack, potentially turning a hit into a miss. This
effect can be used once per attack, and can’t be used
while you are Sundered.
Support Item (Rare)  Light  Enchantment
You may use one of the following Enchantments
at a time:

B: Loot
Ø Any Armor: When you take a Wound while this
Armor is equipped, you gain temp HP equal to
Animate Objects Minor Action your Bloodied value.
Spell (Uncommon)  1 Memory  Mana X Ø Any Armor: When you take an Overstress while
Range = Scope this Armor is equipped, you gain charges equal to
your Breaking Point. Until the end of the scene,
You move an object or piece of terrain within Range whenever you would take Stress, you can instead
up to 6 spaces. The amount of MP you spend deter- spend 1 charge per Stress.
mines the Size of the object or piece of terrain you
can move:
Armor Plates
Ø Size 1/2: 1 MP Support Item (Uncommon)  Light 
Ø Size 1: 2 MP Enchantment, Unique
Ø Size 2: 3 MP
Ø Size 3: 4 MP You may use one of the following Enchantments
at a time:

Ø Any Armor: This Armor grants +1 Armor.

Ø Any Weapon: On a critical hit with this weapon,
you gain +1 Armor until the end of your next turn.

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 Astral Infusion Minor Action
Spell (Rare)  1 Memory  Mana 1
Getting Started
Range = Scope
You place the following Enchantment on a weapon
equipped by an ally within Range (their choice). It
lasts until the end of their next turn:
Ø Any Weapon: On a hit, this weapon deals +1d6
bonus Astral.
Astral Projection
Building Beacons
Volley
Spell (Rare)  2 Memory  Mana 3, Summon
Range = Scope
Astral Projection (Size = your Size, HP 5,
Dodge/A-Def 10, Speed 0)
You create a projection within Range that doesn’t
require line of sight. It is immune to Physical.
You can use this projection as the point of origin
for your spell and Aetheric attacks. Additionally, 1/
turn on your turn, the projection can Mark a target
Appendices
within your Scope as a free action.
Backstabber Fight
Melee Weapon (Uncommon)  Light Blade 
Accurate Reach 1 1d3 Physical
On Crit: This attack deals +1d6 bonus damage.
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Bag of Holding
Support Item (Rare)  Free  Unique,
Unbreakable
One of your other support slots increases by one size
(i.e., from Light to Main, or Main to Heavy).
Baleful Polymorph Channel
Spell (Legendary)  3 Memory  Mana 3,
Polymorph Range = Scope
On Release: One target within Range is transformed into
a Size 1/2 creature that can’t attack or use spells. They
can make a Magic save at the end of each of their turns
to end this effect, and they automatically revert to their
normal form if they take any damage. Each character can
only be affected by this spell 1/scene.
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Bane Reaction (1/Round)
Spell (Uncommon)  1 Memory  Mana 2
Trigger: An enemy within Scope makes an attack roll.
Effect: They receive +1 on the roll.
Banish Channel
Spell (Legendary)  3 Memory  Mana 2
Range = Scope
On Release: One target within Range is removed
from play. They return to play during Phase Delay
of the next round in the same space or the nearest
free space. Each character can only be affected by
this ability 1/scene.
Barbed Enchantment
Support Item (Uncommon)  Light 
Enchantment
You may use one of the following Enchantments
at a time:
Ø Any Armor: This Armor grants +1 on Grapple
attacks and checks related to Grapple and being
Grappled. Additionally, when you end your turn
Grappled with a character, they take 2 Physical .
Ø Any Melee Weapon, Skill Attack, or Spell At-
tack: On a critical hit with this weapon, you can
Grapple the target as a free action.
Barkskin Minor Action
Spell (Uncommon)  2 Memory Range = Scope
An ally within Range gains 1 Focus.
Barkskin Armor Minor Action
Support Item (Rare)  Light  Armor, Mana X
You gain Armor equal to the MP spent. Whenever
you take damage, the Armor granted by this effect
decreases by –1.
Battle Chant Minor Action
Skill (Uncommon)  1 Memory  Stressful 1
Allies adjacent at the time of use gain +1 on their
next attack roll before the end of the round.
Beam Saber Fight
Melee Weapon (Rare)  Main Blade  Piercing
Reach 1 1d6+1 Astral
You ignore all penalties from low visibility.
Beast Bond
Skill (Legendary)  2 Memory
When you use the Reroll Table, you can choose one of
your Summons within Range 3 to suffer the effects
instead of you.
Belt of Giantkind
Support Item (Uncommon)  Light
You count as +1 Size larger for the purposes of
Shove, Grapple, and stopping movement as a
result of Engagement.
Belt of Growing and Shrinking Minor Action
Support Item (Uncommon)  Main  Mana 1
Your Size changes by +1 or –1, to a minimum of 1/2
and maximum of 4. This effect lasts until the end of
the scene.
Bestow Curse Minor Action
Spell (Uncommon)  1 Memory  Mana 2
An adjacent enemy must make a Magic save. Failure:
They are Dazed until the end of their next turn.
Black Hole Volley
Ranged Weapon (Rare)  Heavy Artifact  Mana 1,
Aetheric Range 15, Blast 1 2d6+1 Force
On Hit: The target is Sundered until the end of their
next turn.
Blackiron Armor
Support Item (Rare)  Heavy  Armor
+3 Armor, –1 Speed, –1 Dodge. Additionally, you gain
resistance to Astral and Lunar.
Blinding Powder Minor Action
Support Item (Rare)  Light  Consumable 3
Getting Started
You can expend a charge to make an adjacent enemy
Blinded until the end of their next turn.
Bloodstone Armor
Support Item (Uncommon)  Light  Armor,
Consumable 1
+1 Armor. Additionally, when you become Bloodied,
you can expend a charge to gain resistance to all
Building Beacons
damage until the end of your next turn.
You can regain charges for this item during Short
Rests by spending 1 Recovery per charge.
Bloodthirst Fight
Melee Skill Attack (Uncommon)  1 Memory 
Accurate, Stressful 1 Reach 1 1d3+1 Lunar
On Crit: You regain HP equal to the damage the target
takes from the attack (after Armor and resistance).
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Blur
Skill (Legendary)  1 Memory  Unique
You gain +2 Dodge.
Bonecaller Armor
B: Loot
Support Item (Rare)  Main  Armor, Summon
+1 Armor.
Shambling Skeleton (Size 1, HP 5, Dodge/A-Def 10,
Speed 2)
Minor Action: You create a shambling skeleton in
a free adjacent space. Enemies that end their turn
adjacent to the skeleton take 3 Physical .
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 Book of Alternative Explosions Caduceus Volley
Support Item (Legendary)  Light  Mana X Ranged Weapon (Rare)  Main Artifact 
Getting Started

Aetheric Range 8 2 Stress

1/turn when you use an ability with an AOE (Blast,
Burst, Close Blast, Line), you can apply one of the On Hit: One ally within Scope gains 3 temp HP.
following effects. Each effect costs a different amount
of MP:
Cartwheel Reaction (1/round)
Ø Restorative (2 MP): Instead of taking any damage, Skill (Uncommon)  1 Memory
characters in the AOE regain HP equal to the dam-
age that would have been dealt. Trigger: You are hit by an attack.
Ø Flexible (1 MP): You can change the damage that
would be dealt from Physical, Astral, Lunar, or Effect: You shift 2 after the damage.
Building Beacons

Force to a different one of these types.

Ø Eye of the Storm (2 MP, Blast only): The center
space of the AOE is excluded from the effects. Catch a Breath Free Action
Ø Phased (2 MP): Cover and terrain don’t block line Skill (Rare)  2 Memory  Focus X, Unique
of sight for the AOE.
Ø Reliable (X MP): If the AOE deals Physical, Astral, You regain 1 HP per Focus spent.
Lunar, or Force, it gains Reliable equal to the MP
spent.
Chain Blade Fight
Submitted by Saleibriel Melee Weapon (Uncommon)  Light Blade
Range 5 / Reach 1 1d3+1 Physical
Appendices

Book of Endless Pages

Support Item (Legendary)  Main  Unique
One of your equipped techniques has its Memory
cost reduced to 1. This lasts for the rest of the quest,
even if this item is destroyed.
B: Loot
Chainsaw Blade Fight
Melee Weapon (Uncommon)  Heavy Magitech
Reach 1 2d6+2 Physical
Whenever you roll a 1 on any damage dice with this
weapon, you take 1 Stress and roll that die again. This
effect can trigger on the same die multiple times and

Boots of Levitation Minor Action is not optional.

Support Item (Uncommon)  Light  Mana 1

You start Flying, but can’t move. You can only clear Challenge-Seeker Fight
this status by ending this effect as a minor action. Melee Weapon (Uncommon)  Main Longarm
Reach 2 1d3+2 Physical

Boots of Speed Minor Action This weapon deals +1d6 bonus damage against tar-
Support Item (Legendary)  Light  Stressful 1 gets that have their maximum HP.

You Rush.
Charging Spear Fight
Melee Weapon (Uncommon)  Main Longarm
Broom of Flying Free Action Reach 2 1d6+1 Physical
Support Item (Rare)  Main  Mana 1
When you use the movement option from Rush,
You gain Flying until you end it as a free action. you can Fight with this weapon at +1 when you
end the movement.

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Chill Touch Minor Action Cursesong Armor
Skill (Rare)  1 Memory  Mana 1 Support Item (Rare)  Main  Armor, Mana X

Getting Started
You deal 2 Lunar to an adjacent target. +2 Armor. Gain the Curse reaction.

Cleansing Touch Minor Action Curse Reaction (1/round)

Skill (Uncommon)  1 Memory  Mana 2
Trigger: You are hit by an attack from a character
You clear one condition from an adjacent ally. within Scope.

Effect: You spend up to 3 MP, giving them +1

Cloak of Protection

Building Beacons
Minor Action on all attacks, checks, and saves per MP spent.
Support Item (Uncommon)  Main This decreases by –1 at the end of each of their
turns.
You gain 1 Focus.

Dancing Blade Fight

Conductor’s Baton Volley Melee Weapon (Rare)  Main Blade  Summon
Ranged Weapon (Rare)  Light Artifact  Reach 1    1d6+1 Physical   
Aetheric Range 8 1d3+2 Force
Dancing Blade (Size 1/2, HP 10, Dodge/A-Def 10,
On Hit: You can spend 1 MP to force the target to Speed = your Speed)
make a Magic save. Failure: They are Silenced until

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the end of their next turn. Minor Action: You deploy this weapon within Scope.
It has flight. You can attack with this weapon from
its space.
Counterspell Reaction (1/round) If the dancing blade is reduced to 0 HP, it is
Spell (Legendary)  2 Memory  Mana 2 destroyed and returns to you. You can recall it as a
minor action if it is within Scope, but any damage it
Trigger: A character within Scope uses a spell. has taken remains until you Rest.

Effect: The character must make a Magic save. Failure:

B: Loot
The spell fizzles and the action is lost. Danger Sense
Skill (Uncommon)  1 Memory  Unique

Critical Healing You get +1 on saves against AOE effects.

Skill (Uncommon)  1 Memory  Unique

When you restore HP to a Bloodied character, they Darkleaf Armor

regain an additional +2 HP. Support Item (Rare)  Light  Armor

+1 Armor. Gain the Darkshade reaction.

Cryo Cannon Volley
Ranged Weapon (Rare)  Heavy Magitech
Line 8 1d6+3 Lunar Darkshade Reaction (1/round)

On Hit: The target is Slowed until the end of their Trigger: You are hit by a melee attack.
next turn. If they are already Slowed, they are also
Immobilized until the end of their next turn. Effect: You spend 1 Focus and deal 3 Lunar to
the attacker.

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 Darksight Armor Defensive Fighter
Support Item (Uncommon)  Light  Armor Skill (Uncommon)  1 Memory  Unique
Getting Started

+1 Armor. Additionally, you ignore all penalties from 1/round when you critically hit, you gain 1 Focus.
low visibility and don’t treat Hidden characters as
Invisible in areas of low visibility.
Deflect Reaction (1/round)
Skill (Rare)  2 Memory  Unique
Death’s Gambit Dice
Support Item (Uncommon)  Light Trigger: You are hit by an attack and reduce the dam-
age to 0 through Armor or other effects.
When you make a wound roll, you can roll twice and
Effect: You negate any effects the attack would have
Building Beacons

take either result.

Defender’s Bond
Support Item (Rare)  Light  Unique
When you equip this item or during a Rest, you and
one ally can attune to this item. Only one ally can be
attuned at a time, and they can end the attunement
at any time, including during combat. This doesn’t
require an action. You and the attuned ally each gain
the Unbreakable Bond reaction.
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on you, and can force the attacker to reroll the attack
against a character or object adjacent to you.
Delayed Healing
Skill (Rare)  1 Memory  Unique
When you would regain HP from any source other
than this skill, you only regain half the amount. Then,
at the start of your next turn, you regain HP equal to
the original full amount. This effect isn’t optional.

Submitted by M. Tyson.
Demigod
Skill (Legendary)  1 Memory  Unique
Unbreakable Bond Reaction (1/round)
You are immune to the Dazed condition, and you
Trigger: Your attuned ally is targeted by an attack gain +2 Stress Cap.
while within Range 10 .
B: Loot

Effect: You and the ally switch places, teleport- Desync

ing into each other’s spaces, and you become the
target of the attack instead. This effect counts as if
you used Interpose on that ally.
Defending Enchantment
Support Item (Rare)  Main  Enchantment
You may use one of the following Enchantments
at a time:
Skill (Legendary)  1 Memory  Unique
Whenever you take a Wound or Overstress, you can
choose to be removed from play until the start of
your next turn. You are immune to all damage and
effects while removed from play and can’t move or
perform any actions, but your Traps and Summons
are unaffected as long as they don’t require you to
perform an action. You return to play in the space
you left, or the nearest free space.

Ø Any Weapon: 1/turn when you hit with this weap-

on, you gain 1 Focus.
Ø Any Armor: When you Defend or Refresh
while this Armor is equipped, you gain 2 Focus.

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Devil’s Crown Reaction (1/round)
Support Item (Legendary)  Light  Mana 1
Trigger: You take Physical, Astral, Lunar, or Force
after Armor and resistance.
Effect: The damage is reduced by –1d6. If the source
of the damage is within Scope, deal Piercing damage
to them equal to the damage reduced.
Submitted by Me the Maou.
Dimension Anchor Fight
Melee Weapon (Uncommon)  Heavy Club 
Inaccurate Reach 1 3d6 Physical
On Hit: The target must make a Magic save. Failure:
They are Immobilized until the end of their next
turn. Characters Immobilized by this weapon can’t
be subject to forced movement while Immobilized,
even teleportation.
Displacer CloakReaction
Support Item (Rare)  Main  Mana 1
Trigger: You are hit by an attack.
Effect: You teleport a number of spaces equal to the
damage dealt (after Armor and resistance), to a mini-
mum of 1 space and maximum of 10 spaces.
Distracting Force Minor Action
Spell (Uncommon)  2 Memory  Mana 1
A character that is channeling within Scope must
make a concentration save.
Distracting Strike Fight
Melee Skill Attack (Uncommon)  1 Memory
Reach 1 3 Physical
On Hit: The target is Marked.
Distraction Mark
Skill (Uncommon)  1 Memory Burst 1
You Mark all enemies in the AOE.
Double Spell
Spell (Legendary)  3 Memory  Mana 3
Getting Started
1/round when you use or Release a spell, you can
immediately use a duplicate of that spell. The target
must be within Range 5 of the original target and
cannot be the original target. Each character can only
be affected by one of these spells per turn.
Dragon Force Fists Fight
Melee Weapon (Rare)  Light Club
Building Beacons
Reach 1, Close Blast 1 2 Discord
Dragon Mask Fight
Support Item (Uncommon)  Main  Mana 1
Close Blast 2
You make a melee spell attack against characters in
the AOE that deals 1d6+1 Astral or Lunar , chosen
when equipped.
Appendices
Duck Reaction (1/round)
Skill (Uncommon)  2 Memory
Trigger: You are hit by an attack.
Effect: You gain resistance to any damage from the
attack, but you become Prone.
B: Loot
Durable Construction
Support Item (Uncommon)  Light 
Enchantment, Unbreakable, Unique
You may use the following Enchantment:
Ø Any Equipment or Technique: This equipment or
technique gains Unbreakable.
Efficient Burns
Skill (Rare)  2 Memory  Unique
When an enemy within Scope fails a check to clear
Discord to which you contributed, you regain 1 MP.
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 Electrical Pack
Support Item (Uncommon)  Main 
Getting Started
Consumable 3, Enchantment, Unique
You may use the following Enchantment:
Ø Any Melee Weapon, Skill Attack, or Spell
Attack: On a melee hit with this weapon, you can
expend a charge to deal +1d6 bonus Astral.
Elemental Burst Armor
Building Beacons
Support Item (Rare)  Main  Armor
+2 Armor, –1 Dodge. When you equip this Armor, you
gain resistance to either Astral or Lunar.
Additionally, you automatically clear all Discord
at the end of your turn. When you do, you create a
Burst 1 AOE. Enemies in the AOE take damage of
the type chosen previously equal to the amount of
Discord cleared.
Elemental Enchantment
Appendices
Support Item (Legendary)  Light 
Enchantment, Unique
You may use one of the following Enchantments
at a time:
Ø Any Weapon, Skill Attack, or Spell Attack: This
ability deals +1d3 Astral or Lunar.
Ø Any Armor: This Armor grants resistance to Astral
B: Loot
or Lunar.
Elven Cloak
Support Item (Uncommon)  Main
Search checks against you receive +1 . Addi-
tionally, while you are in difficult terrain, you are
Invisible while Hidden.
Ember Volley
Ranged Spell Attack (Uncommon)  1 Memory
Range = Scope 2 Astral + 1 Discord
Empowered Spells
Spell (Rare)  2 Memory  Mana 1, Unique
1/round when you use a spell, you can give it +2 Save
Target.
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Endless Stamina
Skill (Legendary)  1 Memory  Unique
Your Surge cost never goes above 1d6 Stress.
Energy Shield Volley
Spell (Uncommon)  1 Memory  Mana X
Range = Scope
You or an ally within Range gain 2 temp HP per MP
spent, to a maximum of 5 MP. Until the target loses
all their temp HP, they have resistance to Astral or
Lunar, chosen by the caster when used.
Escape Enchantment
Support Item (Uncommon)  Light  Enchantment
You may use one of the following Enchantments
at a time:
Ø Any Armor: This Armor allows you to escape from
any grapple as a minor action.
Ø Any Weapon, Skill Attack, or Spell Attack: You
can use this weapon or technique to attack char-
acters you are Grappled with as a minor action.
Ethereal Walk Minor Action
Skill (Legendary)  2 Memory  Mana 2
You enter the ethereal plane, gaining resistance to
Physical but becoming Vulnerable to Force for the
duration. You can return to your normal state as a
minor action.
Execute
Skill (Rare)  2 Memory  Unique
You deal +1d6 bonus damage on critical hits against
Bloodied characters.
Exploding Heart Full Attack
Melee Skill Attack (Legendary)  2 Memory 
Slow Reach 1 3 Stress
On Hit: The target must make a Bulk save. Failure: The
Stress dealt by this attack is either equal to their Breaking
point or as normal, whichever is higher. Additionally, they
are Stunned until the end of their next turn. Success: They
are Slowed until the end of their next turn.
Extend Spell Firebrand Fight
Spell (Uncommon)  1 Memory  Mana X, Unique Melee Weapon (Legendary)  Main Blade

When you cast a spell with Range, you can increase
its Range by +2 for each MP spent.
Getting Started
Reach 1 1d6 Physical + 2 Discord
You ignore all penalties from low visibility.
On Crit: This attack deals +2 Discord.

Extended Scope
Skill (Legendary)  1 Memory  Unique Flamethrower Volley
Ranged Weapon (Rare)  Heavy Magitech
You gain +3 Scope. Close Blast 2 5 Discord

False Swipe Fight
Melee Skill Attack (Uncommon)  1 Memory 
Accurate, Reliable 3 Reach 1 2d6+2 Physical
This attack can’t reduce targets below 1 HP.
Fast Movement
Skill (Uncommon)  1 Memory  Unique
Building Beacons
Flare Channel
Ranged Spell Attack (Legendary)  1 Memory
 Auto-Hit, Mana X
Range = Scope, Blast 2 4d6 Force
This attack consumes all of your MP, and you must
have at least 2 MP to use it.
On Release: All characters in the AOE are auto-hit.

You gain +1 Speed.

Appendices
Flash Step Standard Movement
Skill (Legendary)  2 Memory  Stressful 1,
Fatigue Fight Unique
Melee Weapon (Rare)  Main Magitech 
Reliable 2 Reach 1 1d6 Physical You teleport up to your Speed.

On Hit: You can spend 1 MP to change the damage

type of this attack to Stress. Fleetfoot Armor
Support Item (Rare)  Light  Armor, Mana X

Feel No Pain
Skill (Rare)  2 Memory  Unique
While you have 3+ Wounds, you gain resistance to
all damage. While you have 3+ Overstresses, you gain
resistance to Stress.
Additionally, when you receive your fourth Wound
or Overstress, you aren’t defeated and can keep acting
as normal, although you can’t regain HP or clear Stress
until you Rest. Roll 1d6 whenever you take damage
or Stress in this state. On a 1, you are defeated.
Feral Instincts
Skill (Uncommon)  1 Memory
B: Loot
+1 Armor.
Minor Action (1–3 MP): You gain +1 Speed for each
MP spent until the end of your turn.
Flawless Job Crystal
Support Item (Legendary)  Free 
Unbreakable
When you acquire this item, you gain permanent ac-
cess to a job of your choice without needing any levels
in that job’s class. If you acquire this item again, you
must pick a different job.

You are immune to the Blinded condition.

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 Frightening Howl Fight
Skill (Rare)  1 Memory  Stressful 1 Burst 1
Getting Started
All enemies in the AOE must make a Mind save.
Failure: They take 2 Stress and are unable to
voluntarily move further away from you during their
next turn.
Frost Bolt Volley
Ranged Spell Attack (Uncommon)  2 Memory
Range = Scope 2 Stress
Building Beacons
On Hit: The target must make a Bulk save. Failure:
They are Slowed until the end of their next turn.
Frost Fang Fight
Melee Weapon (Rare)  Light Longarm
Reach 1, Line 5 1d3+1 Lunar
Frost Lance Volley
Ranged Spell Attack (Rare)  2 Memory
Appendices
Line 10 2 Stress
On Hit: The target must make a Bulk save. Failure:
They are Slowed until the end of their next turn.
On Crit: The target is automatically Slowed until the
end of their next turn and must make a Bulk save.
Failure: They are Immobilized for the same duration.
B: Loot
Fusion Cannon Volley
Ranged Weapon (Rare)  Heavy Magitech 
Stressful 1, Unique Range 8 1d6+1 Astral
After you hit and deal damage with this weapon, its
damage increases by +1d6 Astral, to a maximum
of +4d6 Astral in addition to its standard damage.
The damage is only increased once per attack. This
weapon’s damage returns to its normal value when
you end a round without hitting a target with it.
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Gambling Dice
Support Item (Uncommon)  Light  Consum-
able 3, Unique
When you would make an attack roll, you can instead
expend a charge and roll 1d6 to determine the out-
come of the attack:
Ø 1: You miss and take 2 Stress .
Ø 2–3: You miss.
Ø 4–5: You hit.
Ø 6: You crit.
Ghost Fist
Skill (Uncommon)  1 Memory
Your improvised weapon attacks can deal Force, and
you can Opportunity Attack with them as if they
have Reach 1 .
Ghost Gloves
Support Item (Uncommon)  Light
Your improvised weapon attacks gain the Aetheric
tag and deal Force. You can Opportunity Attack
with them as if they have Reach 1 .
Ghostwalker Armor
Support Item (Uncommon)  Light  Armor,
Mana 1
+1 Armor.
Minor Action: You gain the ability to move through
characters and objects until the end of your turn, and
ignore Engagement for the same duration.
Give Order Minor Action
Skill (Uncommon)  2 Memory  Arcing,
Stressful 1 Range = Scope
One of your Summons within Range moves up to 4
spaces, even if they don’t have a Speed.
Golden Carp Volley Guard Break Fight
Spell (Legendary)  2 Memory  Summon Melee Skill Attack (Uncommon)  1 Memory

Getting Started
Range = Scope Reach 1 2 Stress

Golden Carp (Size 1/2, HP 15, Dodge/A-Def 10, Speed 1)
You create a golden carp within Range. It cannot
perform actions.
As a free action during each of your following
turns, you must spend 2 MP or the carp is dismissed.
Once you have spent 6 MP in this way, the carp
transforms with the following effects:
On Hit: Until the end of the target’s next turn, they
can’t perform reactions, take damage on the behalf
of others, or make themselves the target of attacks
on the behalf of their allies.
Hamstring Fight
Melee Skill Attack (Rare)  1 Memory 

Building Beacons
Reach 1 3 Stress
Ø It becomes a Size 3 Summon, pushing other char-
acters out of its spaces and destroying non-objec- On Hit: Until the end of their next turn, the target
tive objects and terrain it grows into. takes 2 Stress every time they attack or use a spell.
Ø It regains all HP, clears all conditions, and gains the
ability to take actions.
Ø It gains flight, a Speed of 4, and 2 Armor. Hand Cannon Volley
Ø It gains the Dragonflame weapon listed below, Ranged Weapon (Rare)  Heavy Magitech
and can use it as a standard action. Range 5 / Reach 3 10 Force

You must continue spending 2 MP as a free action If the target is within this weapon’s Reach, it attacks
during each of your turns to keep the carp in play with Push 1. This weapon’s deals –2 damage for every

Appendices
active. If you fail to do so, it is dismissed. space beyond Range 1 the target is from you.

Submitted by Grant Sumabat.

Dragonflame Fight
Melee Weapon Line 15 6 Discord
Harpoon Fight
The AOE becomes dangerous terrain (Agility, Melee Weapon (Uncommon)  Heavy Longarm
5 Astral ) for the rest of the scene or until the  Pull 1, Thrown 5
carp is defeated or dismissed. Reach 1 / Thrown 5 1d6+5 Physical

B: Loot
Grounded Caster Headband of Intellect
Skill (Uncommon)  1 Memory  Unique Support Item (Rare)  Light  Unique

1/round when you crit with a spell attack, the ground You gain +1 Memory, and +1 on Mind checks and
around you becomes temporarily supercharged. Until saves.
the start of your next turn, non-Flying characters that
start their turn adjacent to you take 2 Astral .
Healer’s Pact Free Action
Spell (Legendary)  1 Memory
Ground Pounder Volley
Spell (Rare)  2 Memory  Mana 2, Summon 1/scene, you can activate this ability when you restore
Range = Scope HP to an ally. At the start of each of your subsequent
turns, you regain 2 MP if you restored HP to an ally
Ground Pounder (Size 1/2, HP 5, Dodge/A-Def 10, since the start of your prior turn. If you didn’t, this
Speed 0) effect ends.

You create a ground pounder within Range. At the Submitted by Dolenwen.

end of each of your turns, each enemy adjacent to the
ground pounder must make an Agility save. Failure:
They are Slowed until the end of their next turn.
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 Healing Mace Fight Hexbolt Channel
Melee Weapon (Rare)  Main Club  Ranged Spell Attack (Rare)  1 Memory 
Getting Started

Inaccurate Reach 1 4d3+1 Physical Auto-Hit, Mana 1 Range = Scope 2d6 Lunar

This weapon loses the Inaccurate tag and instead
gains +2 when attacking allies.
On Hit: Instead of dealing damage, you can spend 1
MP to heal the target for the amount of damage that
would have been dealt.
Heaven-Piercing Fang
Building Beacons
On Release: One target within Range is auto-hit and
connected to a continuous beam of magic. On sub-
sequent turns, as long as they remain within Range,
you can use a minor action to deal 2 Lunar to them
automatically.
This connection lasts until the target is no longer
within Range, you use this ability again, or you be-
come Stunned or Silenced.

Volley
Ranged Skill Attack (Uncommon)  1 Memory
 Range 5 1d6+3 Astral Hold Channel
Spell (Uncommon)  2 Memory  Mana 1
Range = Scope
Heavy Draw
Skill (Rare)  1 Memory  Unique On Release: One target within Range takes 2 Stress
and is Immobilized until the end of their next turn.
Your weapons with Range gain +3 Range.

Homing Enchantment
Helm of Teleportation Minor Action Support Item (Rare)  Main  Enchantment
Appendices

Support Item (Legendary)  Main  Mana 2

You may use the following Enchantment:
You teleport up to 1d6+2 spaces.
Ø Any Ranged Weapon, Skill Attack, or Spell Attack:
This weapon or technique gains Homing.
Hemorrhage
Skill (Rare)  1 Memory  Unique
Hydra Helmet
When you critically hit with a weapon attack, you Support Item (Rare)  Main
B: Loot

also deal 1 Discord .

Heroic Leap Rush
Skill (Uncommon)  1 Memory  Stressful 1,
Unique
You teleport up to your Speed, to a minimum of 2
spaces. When you end the movement, all characters
in a Burst 2 AOE take 2 Force .
When you take a Wound or Overstress, you regain 4
HP at the start of your next turn, and 2 HP at the start
of the next turn after that one.
Minor Action: You change any number of Wounds
you have to an equal number of Overstresses, or vice
versa. This doesn’t trigger wound/overstress rolls.
Hydrus Full Attack
Melee Weapon (Rare)  Heavy Magitech 
Slow Reach 2 3d6 Physical

Minor Action: You make a Line 15 ranged weapon

attack that auto-hits all characters in the AOE for
5 Physical . After being used, this minor action can’t
be used again until it is reloaded as if it were a Re-
loading weapon.

Submitted by Grigori, That Knightmare Guy.

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Ice Crown Volley Lava Lob Volley
Spell (Rare)  1 Memory  Mana 2 Ranged Spell Attack (Rare)  1 Memory

Getting Started
Range = Scope 1d6 Astral
You gain 3 Ice Shards (which is the maximum). As a
minor action, you can expend an Ice Shard to make Hits with this attack against targets with Discord be-
a ranged spell attack against a target within Scope, come critical hits.
dealing 3 Lunar on a hit.

Leap Minor Action

Improved Interpose Skill (Uncommon)  1 Memory  Unique
Skill (Uncommon)  2 Memory  Unique
You instantly climb to the top of something to which

Building Beacons
You can Interpose when an ally within Range 4 is you are adjacent.
targeted, instead of within Range 3 , and you can
shift +1 space when doing so.
Leech Fight
Melee Weapon (Rare)  Main Magitech
Improved Spells Reach 1 1d3+2 Lunar
Skill (Uncommon)  2 Memory  Unique
On Hit: You regain HP equal to the amount of HP the
You deal +1 damage with all spells that deal Physical, target lost from this attack.
Force, Astral, or Lunar. Stress and Discord are
unaffected.
Lifedrinker Armor

Appendices
Support Item (Rare)  Main  Armor
Improved Weapons
Skill (Uncommon)  2 Memory  Unique +1 Armor. You gain the Drink Life reaction.

You deal +1 damage with all weapons that deal

Physical, Force, Astral, or Lunar. Stress and Discord Drink Life Reaction (1/round)
are unaffected.
Trigger: You would take Astral or Lunar.

B: Loot
Invisibility Cloak Minor Action Effect: You spend 1 MP and gain 4 temp HP. You
Support Item (Legendary)  Main  Mana 1 can spend an additional +1 MP to also give all allies
within Range 5 4 temp HP.
You become Invisible until you next attack, force a
save, or take a hostile action.
Lightburst Summon Volley
Spell (Legendary)  1 Memory  Mana 2,
Jack of all Trades Summon Range = Scope
Skill (Rare)  1 Memory  Unique
Lightburst Summon (Size 1/2, HP 1, Dodge/A-Def 10,
You gain +1 on all ability checks. Speed 0)

You create this Summon within Range. At the end

Justicar Armor
Support Item (Uncommon)  Light  Enchantment
You may use one of the following Enchantments
at a time:
of the next round it explodes in a Burst 2 AOE. All
characters in the area are Stunned until the end of
their next turn. The Summon is then defeated.

Ø Any Armor: This Armor grants resistance to Force.

Ø Any Channel Technique: While channeling this
ability, you gain resistance to Force.
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 Lightning Javelin Fight Mental Discord
Melee Weapon (Rare)  Main Longarm  Skill (Rare)  1 Memory
Getting Started

Thrown 8 Reach 2 / Thrown 8 1d6+2 Astral

You can use Mind instead of Magic when making
When thrown, this is a Line 8 attack. checks to clear Discord.

Living Leyline Meteor Staff Volley

Spell (Legendary)  1 Memory  Unique
You gain +2 A-Def, and +1 on Magic checks
and saves. This effect is suppressed while you are
Building Beacons
Ranged Weapon (Legendary)  Heavy Artifact
 Arcing, Mana X Range 10, Blast 2 X Astral
This weapon deals 1d6 Astral per MP spent, to a max-
imum of 4 MP and 4d6 damage.

Silenced.

Lucky Fight Mind Lasher Fight

Melee Weapon (Legendary)  Main Blade  Melee Weapon (Uncommon)  Light Longarm
Accurate Reach 1 1d6+3 Physical Reach 2 3 Stress

On Miss: You deal 1d6+1 Physical to the target. On Crit: You deal +1d3 Stress to the target.

Lunar Infusion Minor Action Minibow Volley

Spell (Rare)  1 Memory  Mana 1 Range = Scope Ranged Weapon (Uncommon)  Light Bow 
Appendices

Arcing Range 10 1d3 Physical

You place the following Enchantment on a weapon
equipped by an ally within Range (their choice). It
lasts until the end of their next turn: Mithardain Volley / Fight
Melee and Ranged Weapon (Uncommon)  Unique
Ø Any Weapon: On a hit, this weapon deals +1d6 Light Blade (Melee): Reach 1 1d3+1 Force
bonus Lunar. Bow (Ranged Profile): Range 10 1d3+1 Force

This weapon counts as a bow (ranged weapon) and

B: Loot

Mace of Terror Fight
Melee Weapon (Rare)  Main Club
Reach 1 1d6+2 Physical
On Crit: The target is Dazed and can’t attack you until
the end of their next turn.
Mana Battery
Skill (Legendary)  2 Memory  Unique
You regain 1 MP at the start of each of your turns as
long as you aren’t Silenced and haven’t spent any
MP since the start of your last turn.
blade (melee weapon), and effects that apply to either
apply to this weapon regardless of profile used. You
can Volley using this weapon’s ranged profile or
Fight with its melee profile.
Mithral Construction
Support Item (Legendary)  Main 
Enchantment, Unique
You may use the following Enchantment:
Ø Any Equipment: This equipment’s size is reduced
by one level, (Heavy to Main, Main to Light).
If the equipment was Light, it can be equipped
for free.

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Momentum Fight
Melee Weapon (Rare)  Heavy Club 
Thrown 8, Inaccurate
Reach 1 / Thrown 8 2d6+4 Physical
When thrown, this weapon returns to you automati-
cally after the attack.
Monitor’s Pivot
Skill (Legendary)  1 Memory  Unique
You gain +1 Reach with all weapons that have Reach,
and +1 on Mind checks and saves.
Mortal Strike
Skill (Uncommon)  1 Memory
1/turn when you Fight and hit a target, you can
take 1 Stress to make the attack a mortal strike. The
target can’t regain HP or gain temp HP until the start
of your next turn.
Mortar Full Attack
Ranged Weapon (Uncommon)  Heavy Magitech
 Arcing, Reloading, Slow
Range 15, Blast 1 2d6+4 Force
Mote Shield Minor Action
Spell (Rare)  1 Memory  Focus 2
You bestow an adjacent ally with protective energy. After
they next take damage, they regain 3 HP. Each character
can only have one such effect on them at a time.
Mother Pharaoh Fight
Melee Weapon (Rare)  Main Blade 
Consumable 3, Unique Reach 1 1d6+2 Physical
Minor Action: You expend a charge and heal yourself
or an adjacent ally for 1d6+1 HP.
Mountainous Armor
Support Item (Uncommon)  Heavy  Armor
+3 Armor, –1 Speed, –1 Dodge. When you are subjected
to forced movement, you can choose to reduce the
distance you are moved by up to 3 spaces.
Multitasker
Skill (Rare)  1 Memory  Unique
Getting Started
Your Surge cost never goes above 1d6+2 Stress.
Oathbow Volley
Ranged Weapon (Legendary)  Main Bow 
Arcing Range 15 1d6+1 Physical
When you attack a Marked character with this weap-
on and consume their Mark, the attack gains the
Homing and Reliable 2 tags and deals +3 damage.
Building Beacons
Orb of Power Free Action
Support Item (Uncommon)  Light  Mana 1
1/turn, one of your targets receives +1 to their save
against one of your effects.
Orbital Strike Channel
Support Item (Rare)  Heavy  Consumable 2
Appendices
Range = Scope
On Channel: Expend a charge and pick a space within
Range. If you stop channeling for any reason, you
regain the spent charge.
On Release: All characters in a Blast 3 AOE cen-
tered on the selected space must make an Agility
save, taking +1 if they are in the center space, or
B: Loot
+1 if they are at least 3 spaces away from the center
space. Failure: They take 14 Astral . Success: They
take 7 Astral .
Submitted by Aioran.
Oversized Enchantment
Support Item (Rare)  Heavy  Enchantment,
Unique
You may use the following Enchantment:
Ø Any Weapon That Rolls for Damage: This weap-
on deals 1 additional die of damage of its usual
damage type (excluding Stress and Discord). If
the weapon has multiple damage types, pick one
of them.
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 Overwhelming
Skill (Legendary)  1 Memory  Unique
Getting Started
You gain +2 Save Target. Additionally, whenever a
character fails a save against you, they take 1 Stress .
Paired Enchantment
Support Item (Legendary)  Main 
Enchantment, Unique
You may use the following Enchantment:
Building Beacons
Ø Any Non-Slow Equipment or Technique: When
you Full Attack, you can attack with this weap-
on twice instead of with two different weapons.
Paragon
Skill (Legendary)  1 Memory  Unique
You can pick two ancestry traits each quest.
Appendices
Pass Without Trace Volley
Spell (Rare)  2 Memory  Mana 3
You and all adjacent allies become Invisible until the
start of your next turn. If an affected character forces
a save, makes an attack, or targets something with a
hostile effect, they lose Invisible.
B: Loot
Penance Fight
Melee Weapon (Rare)  Light Longarm
Reach 2 1d3 Physical + 2 Stress
On Hit: The target loses concentration.
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Penta Quiver
Support Item (Legendary)  Main 
Enchantment
You may use the following Enchantment:
Ø Any Ranged Weapon: As a minor action, choose
one of the following effects for this weapon, lasting
until you pick a new one. Each effect can be used
1/turn, and “on-hit” effects only apply to a single
attack roll.
‘ Steel: This weapon gains Piercing.
‘ Flaming: On Hit: The target takes 1 Discord
for every damage die rolled for this attack.
‘ Explosive: On Hit: Characters in a Burst 1
AOE around the target are auto-hit for half
of the attack’s damage.
‘ Seeker: This weapon gains Homing.
‘ Poisoned: On Hit: The target is Dazed until
cleared. They can make a Bulk save at the end
of each of their turns, clearing the condition
on a success.
Submitted by Nick Hanson.
Perfect Accuracy
Skill (Legendary)  2 Memory  Unique
You can choose each option from the Reroll Table any
number of times per turn, as long as the conditions
are met for the option in question.
Physical Discord
Skill (Rare)  1 Memory
You can use Bulk instead of Magic when making
checks to clear Discord.
Piercer Volley
Ranged Weapon (Rare)  Heavy Bow
Range 15 2d6+1 Physical
On Hit: Make a Line 3 attack from the target with
this weapon, pointed in the opposite direction to the
original attack.
Pincer Strike Power Armor
Skill (Legendary)  2 Memory  Stressful 1 Support Item (Legendary)  Heavy  Armor

1/round when you Volley or Fight, you can
attack with two different weapons. All attacks must
target the same target. You can’t use this ability with
Full Attack.
Getting Started
+3 Armor, –1 Dodge. You have flight and an Aquatic
Adaptation.
Additionally, you gain the following ranged weap-
on attack: Range 10 1d6 Force .

Portable Cover Minor Action (2/scene) Prismatic Armor

Support Item (Uncommon)  Heavy Support Item (Uncommon)  Light  Armor

Building Beacons
You create a Size 1 or Size 2 object that counts as +2 Armor. Additionally, at the start of each combat
hard cover in a free adjacent space. scene, you are permanently Vulnerable to either
Astral, Lunar, or Force, determined at random. This
lasts until the end of the scene.
Portalis Fight
Melee Weapon (Rare)  Light Longarm
Reach 2 1d3 Physical Psi Blade Fight
Melee Weapon (Uncommon)  Light Blade 
You can use this weapon to attack targets that are ex- Stressful 1 Reach 1 1d3+3 Force
actly Range 5 from you, and deal +2 damage when
doing so. This doesn’t extend the weapon’s Reach.
Pummel Minor Action

Appendices
Skill (Rare)  1 Memory  Stressful 1
Potion of Climbing Minor Action
Support Item (Uncommon)  Light  You deal 2 Physical to an adjacent target.
Consumable 2

You expend a charge. Until the end of the scene, Purge Minor Action
climbing doesn’t cost any additional movement. Spell (Uncommon)  1 Memory  Mana 1
Additionally, when you climb, you can bring a will- Range = Scope
ing adjacent ally with you as long as there is enough

space for both of you to stand.
Potion of Giants Minor Action
Support Item (Legendary)  Light 
Consumable 2
1/scene, you can expend a charge to gain +1 Size,
+1 Reach with all effects with Reach, and +2 on
Bulk checks and saves. These effects last until the
end of the scene.
Potion of Size Minor Action
Support Item (Rare)  Light  Consumable 3
You can expend a charge to change your Size to 1/2,
1, 2, or 3 for the rest of the scene.
B: Loot
A character within Range must make a Magic save.
Failure: You can end one ongoing effect on them,
excluding statuses and conditions.
Push Through Pain Reaction (1/round)
Skill (Rare)  2 Memory
Trigger: You would take damage.
Effect: The damage you take (after Armor and resis-
tances) becomes Stress instead of its normal damage
type.
Push to the Edge
Spell (Rare)  2 Memory  Unique
Your abilities that deal Stress deal +2 Stress against
Breaking characters.

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 Quick Arm Fight Razorwire Enchantment Minor Action
Melee Weapon (Uncommon)  Main Blade Support Item (Rare)  Light  Enchantment
Getting Started

Reach 1 1d6 Physical

You may use one of the following Enchantments
During the first round of combat, you can Fight at a time:
with this weapon as a minor action.
Ø Any Armor: As a minor action while this Armor
is equipped, you can spend 2 MP. Until the end of
Quick Hide Minor Action your next turn, when an adjacent enemy hits you
Skill (Legendary)  2 Memory  Stressful 2 with a melee attack, they take 2 Physical .
Ø Any Weapon, Skill Attack, or Spell Attack: As
You Hide. a minor action while this ability is equipped, you
Building Beacons

can spend 1 MP. The next time you hit with this
ability this turn, the target takes 2 Physical if
Quick Rush Minor Action they make a melee attack against you before the
Skill (Legendary)  2 Memory end of their next turn.

You Rush.
Reckless Swing
Skill (Uncommon)  1 Memory  Unique
Quickstep Boots Minor Action
Support Item (Uncommon)  Light  Stressful 1 As long as you aren’t already Marked, you can Mark
yourself to reroll the damage of a melee attack.
You move up to 2 spaces.
Appendices

Reflect Reaction (1/round)

Radar Minor Action Skill (Legendary)  2 Memory  Unique
Skill (Rare)  1 Memory
Trigger: You are hit by an attack and reduce the dam-
Enemies within Range 5 lose Hidden. age to 0 through Armor or any other effect.

Effect: You force the attack to instead target the at-

Rage Caster tacker or another character or object within Range 8
B: Loot

Skill (Legendary)  2 Memory  Unique of you. The attacker rerolls the attack against the new
target.
You can take Stress in place of spending MP, at a rate
of 2 Stress per MP.
Regeneration
Skill (Legendary)  1 Memory  Unique
Railgun Full Attack
Ranged Weapon (Legendary)  Heavy Magitech As long as you aren’t defeated, you regain 1 HP at the
 Reliable 6, Reloading, Slow start of each of your turns.
Line 25 3d6+5 Astral

Characters in a Burst 1 AOE around each character Reincarnate

in this attack’s AOE are also targeted by this attack.
This can only affect each character 1/attack.
On Crit: The target is Sundered until the end of their
next turn.
Spell (Legendary)  1 Memory  Limited 1, Unique
When you would be defeated, you immediately return
to your HP maximum; clear all conditions, statuses,
Stress, and Discord; and remove the Wound or Over-
stress that would have defeated you.

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Restful Presence Runic Tattoos
Skill (Rare)  2 Memory Support Item (Rare)  Main  Armor

Getting Started
During Short Rests, you and your allies automatically When you Interpose, you gain +3 Armor against
regain all HP. the attack.

Contributed by Koleos.
Retribution Shield Minor Action
Spell (Uncommon)  1 Memory  Mana 1
Range = Scope Safe Travels
Skill (Uncommon)  1 Memory
You place a magical shield on an ally within Range.
You are immune to dangerous terrain.

Building Beacons
Until the end of their next turn, they deal 2 Astral
to any character that hits them with a melee weapon
attack.
Scarab Staff Volley
Ranged Weapon (Rare)  Heavy Artifact 
Returning Weapon Aetheric, Mana 1 Range 10, Blast 1 3 Stress
Support Item (Uncommon)  Light  Enchantment
On Hit: The target is Dazed until the end of their next
You may use the following Enchantment: turn.

Ø Any Melee Weapon with Reach: This weapon

gains Thrown 5 and automatically returns back Scimitar of Speed Volley or Fight

Appendices
to you when thrown. Melee Weapon (Uncommon)  Light Blade
Reach 1 1d3+1 Physical

Revive Kit Minor Action

Support Item (Uncommon)  Main  Scroll of Protection Minor Action
Consumable 2 Support Item (Legendary)  Light 
Consumable 2 Range = Scope
You can expend a charge to allow one defeated ally to
spend a Recovery to clear 1 Wound or Overstress and You can expend a charge to allow an ally within Range

B: Loot
return to play adjacent to you with their HP equal to to become immune to all damage until the end of
their Bloodied value and their Stress equal to their your next turn.
Breaking point.

Scythe of Darkness Fight

Ring of Regeneration Melee Weapon (Legendary)  Heavy Blade 
Support Item (Uncommon)  Light  Unique Accurate, Unique Reach 2 2d6+2 Lunar

While Bloodied, you regain 1 HP at the start of each On Crit: The target is Blinded until the end of their
of your turns. next turn.

Riposte Sharkskin Armor

Skill (Uncommon)  2 Memory  Unique Support Item (Rare)  Light  Armor

You gain +1 to attacks that cost Focus to make. +1 Armor. You move normally in liquid-based difficult
terrain, and have an Aquatic Adaptation. Addition-
ally, characters that successfully Grapple you take
Rocket Sledge Fight 2 Physical .
Melee Weapon (Rare)  Heavy Club  Push 2,
Reloading Reach 1 3d6+4 Physical

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 Shatterstone Minor Action Slam Minor Action
Support Item (Uncommon)  Light  Skill (Uncommon)  2 Memory  Stressful 1
Getting Started

Consumable 2 Range 5
An adjacent enemy must make a Bulk save. Failure:
You can expend a charge to make a ranged weapon They are Dazed until the end of their next turn.
attack against a character within Range. On Hit: They
are Sundered until the end of their next turn.
Slime Staff Volley
Ranged Weapon (Rare)  Main Artifact 
Shield of the Evil Eye Mana 1 Range 10 1d3 Lunar + 3 Discord
Support Item (Rare)  Main
On Crit: One enemy adjacent to the target (your
1/round when you are missed by an attack, you can
Building Beacons

choice) takes 3 Discord .

spend 1 MP to make the attacker Dazed until the end
of their next turn. Additionally, you gain the Shield
Block reaction. If you meet the trigger condition of Slippery Minor Action
the Shield Block while using Interpose, you can Skill (Uncommon)  1 Memory
automatically use its effect as part of that Interpose
reaction. You automatically escape from any grapples.

Shield Block Reaction (1/round) Snickersnack

Support Item (Legendary)  Light 
Trigger: You would take Physical, Astral, Lunar, Enchantment
Appendices

or Force.
You may use the following Enchantment:
Effect: You take 2 Stress and gain resistance
to that damage. Ø Any Weapon, Skill Attack, or Spell Attack:
1/round when you crit with this weapon or tech-
nique, it deals the maximum possible damage.
Shock Glove Fight
Melee Weapon (Rare)  Light Magitech
Reach 1 1d3+1 Astral Soaring Light Fight
B: Loot

Melee Weapon (Uncommon)  Main Blade

On Hit: The target can’t perform reactions until the Reach 1 1d6+2 Force
end of their next turn, and 1/turn you can spend 1
MP to attack another target adjacent to the original You can make a ranged attack with this weapon using
target. Each target can only be hit by this effect 1/turn. Range 8 .

Shrapnel Volley Sonar Bow Volley

Ranged Weapon (Uncommon)  Main Magitech  Ranged Weapon (Uncommon)  Main Bow 
Reloading Close Blast 2 / Reach 3 1d6 Physical Arcing Range 10 1d6+1 Physical

Minor Action: You spend 1 MP to fire a sonar arrow at

Skeleton Key a space within this weapon’s Range. This allows you
Support Item (Legendary)  Light to immediately Search for all Hidden characters
in or adjacent to that space.
You can automatically open locks as a free action and
have +1 on saves triggered by Traps.
Additionally, you automatically disable Traps, and
can do so even while they’re Hidden.

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Spacewarp Enchantment Spiked Fist Fight
Support Item (Uncommon)  Light  Enchantment Melee Weapon (Uncommon)  Light Club

Getting Started
Reach 1 1d3+2 Physical
You may use one of the following Enchantments
at a time: Whenever you roll a 1 on any damage dice with this
weapon, you take 1 Stress and roll that die again. This
Ø Any Armor: Any time you teleport while this Ar- effect can trigger on the same die multiple times and
mor is equipped, you increase the distance you is not optional.
move by spaces equal to your current Armor.
Ø Any Channel Technique: When you release this
ability, you can teleport up to 3 spaces. Spikes
Support Item (Uncommon)  Main 

Building Beacons
Enchantment, Unique
Spectral Dash Rush
Skill (Rare)  1 Memory  Mana 1 You may use one of the following Enchantments
at a time:
You Rush, and can move through characters and
objects as part of the movement from this action, ig- Ø Any Armor: When you Interpose and end the
noring Engagement. You can’t end your turn sharing movement next to the attack with this Armor
a space with something. equipped, you can deal 1 Piercing Physical to
them as part of the same reaction.
Ø Any Channel Technique: While channeling this
Spellstrike Fight ability, adjacent characters take 1 Piercing when
Melee Weapon (Uncommon)  Main Artifact  they hit you with a melee attack.

Appendices
Mana X Reach 1 X Force

This weapon deals 3 Force per MP spent. Splinter Volley

On Crit: The damage becomes 4 Force per MP spent. Ranged Weapon (Uncommon)Main Magitech
 Reloading Range 5 / Reach 3 2 Physical

Spider Staff Volley On Hit: This weapon deals its damage three times, with
Ranged Weapon (Legendary)  Heavy Artifact Armor and resistance applying to each instance. Bonus
 Aetheric Range 10 1d6+6 Lunar damage is only dealt on the first instance of damage.

B: Loot
As long as this weapon is equipped and isn’t de- On Crit: As a hit, but weapon deals 3 Physical each
stroyed, you have the Poison Web spell, which is time instead of 2.
equipped for free.

Sprinter’s Potion Minor Action

Poison Web Channel Support Item (Uncommon)  Light  Consumable 3
Spell  Innate, Mana 1, Unique
Range = Scope You can expend a charge to double your Speed until
the end of your next turn.
On Release: A character within Range takes
1d6+6 Lunar and must make an Agility save.
Failure: They are Immobilized and Slowed un-
til the end of their next turn. Success: They are
Slowed until the end of their next turn.

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 Starbow Volley Tactical Analysis Minor Action
Ranged Weapon (Uncommon)  Main Bow Skill (Uncommon)  1 Memory
Getting Started

Range 20 1d6+1 Astral

You can Search, but can only choose the option
that reveals the target’s attributes, ability scores, and
Stealth Spell Minor Action abilities.
Spell (Legendary)  2 Memory  Mana 1

The next time you Volley with a spell this turn, you Taunt Mark
become Invisible until the start of your next turn. Skill (Uncommon)  2 Memory Range = Scope

You Mark an enemy within Range and they must

Sundyr make a Mind save. Failure: They take 2 Stress and
Building Beacons

Fight
Melee Weapon (Legendary)  Main Club  have +1 on any attacks that don’t include you until
Unbreakable, Unique Reach 1 1d6+3 Force the start of their next turn.

This weapon deals double damage to terrain.

Third Wind Minor Action
On Crit: You can spend 1 MP. If you do, the target must Skill (Uncommon)  1 Memory  Limited 1
make a Bulk save. Failure: One of their weapons or
support items are destroyed (their choice) and can’t You regain all HP.
be repaired.

Telekinesis Shove
Appendices

Super Mode Spell (Rare)  1 Memory  Mana 1 Range = Scope

Skill (Legendary)  1 Memory  Unique
When you use your limit break, you also regain all
HP, clear all Stress, and roll a d20. On a 20, you can
use your limit break again this quest.
You Shove a target within Range and count as Size
3 when doing so. Instead of choosing to push them
1 space, you can slide them 3 spaces.

Teleport Partner
Super Speed Skill (Rare)  2 Memory  Unique
B: Loot

Skill (Legendary)  1 Memory  Unique

When you teleport, you can choose to bring an adjacent
When you Rush, your Speed is increased by +2 until character with you. If they are unwilling, they must
the end of the turn. make a Magic save. Failure: They are teleported.

Surprise Attack Telescope Minor Action

Skill (Legendary)  3 Memory  Unique Support Item (Uncommon)  Main  Mana 1
Range = Scope
1/round, you can deal +1d6 bonus damage on a
melee attack if you are the only character adjacent You Mark a character within Range.
the target.

Tentacle Rod Fight

Swordbreaker Fight Melee Weapon (Uncommon)  Light Club
Melee Weapon (Uncommon)  Main Blade  Reach 2 1d3+1 Physical
Reliable 2 Reach 1 1d6+1 Physical
On Hit: If this was an Opportunity Attack, the target
This weapon gains +1 on attacks against characters is Dazed until the end of their next turn.
with a melee weapon equipped.

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Tetherknot Minor Action Thunder Volley
Support Item (Rare)  Light  Consumable 3 Spell (Rare)  1 Memory Range = Scope

You can expend a charge to throw this ball of wire
at a character within Range 5 . They must make an
Agility save. Failure: They are Immobilized until the
end of their next turn.
The Unblinking Eye Reaction (1/round)
Skill (Legendary)  2 Memory  Unique
Getting Started
A character within Range must make an Agility save.
Failure: They take 1 Discord . Until they clear all
Discord, you can use this spell again (targeting any
character within Range) as a minor action whenever
they fail the check to clear their Discord. This effect
lasts until the end of the scene or until you use it again,
whichever comes first.

Trigger: An ally starts their turn. Thunderstomp

Building Beacons
Fight
Skill (Uncommon)  1 Memory  Stressful 1
Effect: You make an enemy Marked. Burst 1

All characters in the AOE must make an Agility save.

There is No Escape Failure: They take 1 Stress and become Slowed
Skill (Rare)  1 Memory  Unique until the end of their next turn.

You gain +1 on Grapple attacks and checks re-

lated to Grapple and being Grappled, and you can Thunderstruck Full Attack
still use reactions while grappling. Melee Weapon (Legendary)  Main Club 
Inaccurate, Reliable 3, Slow

Appendices
Reach 1 3d6+4 Force
Thorium Armor
Support Item (Uncommon)  Main  Armor On Hit: The target must make a Bulk save. Failure:
They are Stunned until the end of their next turn.
+3 Armor, –2 Dodge, –2 Speed.
On Miss: The target is Dazed until the end of their
next turn.
Throat Chop Reaction (1/round)
Skill (Rare)  1 Memory  Stressful 1

B: Loot
Timber Fight
Trigger: An adjacent character uses a spell or begins Melee Weapon (Uncommon)  Heavy Blade 
channeling. Reliable 3 Reach 1 2d6+2 Physical

Effect: They take 2 Stress and are Dazed until the This weapon deals +1d3 bonus damage to characters
end of their next turn. that are larger than you.

Thrust
Skill (Rare)  2 Memory  Stressful 1

You can Opportunity Attack when a character en-

ters the Reach of one of your weapons, not just when
they begin their movement.

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 Time’s Eclipse Free Action Toughness
Support Item (Uncommon)  Light  Stressful Skill (Legendary)  1 Memory  Unique
Getting Started

3, Unique Range = Scope

You gain +5 maximum HP.
This turn, instead of taking either your standard action,
standard movement, or minor action, you can give
it to an ally within Range. They can take that action or Tracker Volley
movement an additional time during their next turn. Ranged Weapon (Uncommon)  Main Bow 
Each ally can only be affected by this ability 1/scene. Arcing Range 15 4 Physical
This ability costs –1 Stress for every other PC
in the scene with this item equipped. Additionally, On Hit: The target loses Hidden and Invisible and
you can use this ability on allies that have this item can’t gain those statuses again until the end of its
Building Beacons

equipped at any range, and don’t need line of sight next turn.
to them to do so.

Submitted by Jude Purrington. Tranquil Summon Volley

Titan Blood
Support Item (Rare)  Light  Innate, Unique
You gain +1 Size, to a maximum of 3. Additionally, you can’t
be knocked Prone or be subjected to forced movement
from smaller characters unless you choose to allow it.
Appendices
Spell (Rare)  2 Memory  Mana 2, Summon
Range = Scope
Tranquil Summon (Size 1/2, HP 5, Dodge/A-Def 10,
Speed 0)
You create this Summon within Range. As a minor
action while it exists, you can restore 4 HP to an ally

within Range 3 of it.

Titan Grip
Skill (Legendary)  3 Memory  Unique Trap Sense
Skill (Uncommon)  1 Memory
If you have two Heavy weapons equipped, you can
turn them into a linked Heavy Heavy weapon. You don’t trigger Traps unless you want to, and you
gain +1 on saves forced by Traps.
B: Loot

Tomb-Link Armor
Support Item (Legendary)  Heavy  Armor Twin Death
Support Item (Legendary)  Light 
+3 Armor, –1 Speed, –1 Dodge. Gain the Grant Unlife Enchantment, Unique
reaction.
You may use the following Enchantment:

Grant UnlifeReaction Ø Any Light or Main Weapon, Skill Attack, or Spell

Trigger: An ally within Scope takes damage.
Effect: You spend a Recovery and they regain HP
equal to their Bloodied value.
Attack: 1/round when you crit with this weapon
or technique, you can immediately attack with it
again. The second attack doesn’t trigger linked
attacks.

Ultimate Protector
Torch Mace Fight Skill (Legendary)  1 Memory  Unique
Melee Weapon (Uncommon)  Light Club
Reach 1 1d3 Astral + 1 Discord You gain +1 Focus whenever you gain Focus.

You ignore all low visibility penalties

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Unarmored Defense Vicious Enchantment
Skill (Uncommon)  1 Memory  Unique Support Item (Rare)  Main  Enchantment,

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Unique
You gain +1 Armor if you don’t have a support item
with the Armor tag equipped. This Armor still applies You may use the following Enchantment:
while you are Sundered.
Ø Any Weapon, Skill Attack, or Spell Attack: On a
crit with this weapon or technique, you deal +1d6
Unbreakable Skin bonus damage.
Skill (Legendary)  1 Memory  Unique

You gain +1 Armor. Voidspace Pockets

Building Beacons
Spell (Legendary)  2 Memory  Unique

Unstable Wand Volley You gain an additional Main support slot.

Ranged Weapon (Uncommon)  Light Artifact
 Aetheric, Mana X, Reliable X
Range 5 X Astral Voidspace Weapon
Spell (Legendary)  2 Memory  Unique
This weapon deals 3 Astral per MP spent, and gains
Reliable equal to the MP spent. You gain an additional Main weapon slot.

Unyielding Wallbreaker

Appendices
Skill (Rare)  1 Memory  Unique Support Item (Rare)  Heavy

All forced movement you inflict is increased by +1,
and you can reduce forced movement inflicted on
you by –1 (to a minimum of 0).
Vampiric Touch Fight
Melee Spell Attack (Uncommon)  1 Memory 
You can move through solid, impassable terrain, in-
cluding walls, equal to your Size. When you move
through terrain in this fashion, you destroy it and
take Stress equal to the terrain’s Size for each piece
of terrain you destroy (to a minimum of 1 Stress). This
applies to any movement, including forced move-
ment, always applies, and is not optional.

B: Loot
Reliable 2 Reach 1 1d6+1 Lunar

On Hit: You can spend 1 MP to regain HP equal to Wand of Fireballs Volley

the damage the target takes from this attack, after Ranged Weapon (Legendary)  Light Artifact
Armor and resistance.  Mana 2 Range 5, Blast 2 1d3+4 Astral

Venom Fight Wand of Magic Missiles Volley

Melee Weapon (Uncommon)  Light Blade  Ranged Weapon (Rare)  Light Artifact 
Thrown 5 Reach 1 / Thrown 5 2 Discord Accurate, Homing Range 12 1d3+1 Force

On Hit: The target is Dazed until the end of their next

turn. Wand of Time Volley
Ranged Weapon (Rare)  Light Artifact 
Aetheric Range 5 1d3+1 Force

On Hit: You can spend 1 MP to make the target

Slowed until the end of their next turn.

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 Warstaff Fight Wind Infusion Minor Action
Melee Weapon (Uncommon)  Main Artifact Spell (Rare)  1 Memory  Mana 1
Getting Started

Reach 2 1d6+2 Physical Range = Scope

You place the following Enchantment on a weapon

Water-Walking equipped by an ally within Range (their choice). It
Skill (Uncommon)  1 Memory lasts until its effect is triggered:

You can move normally in liquid-based difficult ter- Ø Any Weapon: On a critical hit with this weapon,
rain (e.g., water). you can attack with it again after the attack
resolves.

Weapon Ring
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Minor Action
Support Item (Rare)  Main  Consumable 3, Windsprint Armor
Unique Support Item (Rare)  Light  Armor

You can expend a charge to replace one of your +1 Armor. Additionally, when you perform a Phase
equipped weapons with a different weapon you have Reposition action, you become Invisible until
unlocked that could be equipped in that slot. You can the end the turn.
also do this during Rests.

Windstep Armor
Weave Magic Support Item (Legendary)  Main  Armor
Spell (Legendary)  1 Memory  Unique
Appendices

+1 Armor. Additionally, 1/turn you become Invisible

You gain +2 maximum MP. whenever you move or are moved. You remain Invisi-
ble until you attack, force a save, take a hostile action,
or until after an attack roll is made against you.
Whirlwind
Skill (Rare)  2 Memory  Unique

1/round when you crit with a melee weapon attack,

you deal 3 Physical to all adjacent enemies.
B: Loot

Wind Boomerang Volley

Ranged Weapon (Rare)  Light Club
Range 5 / Reach 3 1d3+2 Force

On Hit: Spend 1 MP to force all characters in a Burst 1

AOE around the target to make a Bulk save.
Failure: They are pushed 1 space directly away from
the target.

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 Techniques

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UNCOMMON TECHNIQUES
TYPE NAME RARITY
1 Spell Aid Uncommon
2 Spell Animate Objects Uncommon
3 Spell Bane Uncommon
4 Spell Barkskin Uncommon
5 Skill Battle Chant Uncommon
6 Spell Bestow Curse Uncommon
7 Skill Bloodthirst Uncommon
8 Skill Cartwheel Uncommon

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9 Skill Cleansing Touch Uncommon
10 Skill Critical Healing Uncommon
11 Skill Danger Sense Uncommon
12 Skill Defensive Fighter Uncommon
13 Spell Distracting Force Uncommon
14 Skill Distracting Strike Uncommon
15 Skill Distraction Uncommon
16 Skill Duck Uncommon
17 Spell Ember Uncommon
18 Spell Energy Shield Uncommon
19 Spell Extend Spell Uncommon
LOOT BY TYPE AND RARITY 20 Skill False Swipe Uncommon

Appendices
This section lists loot by its type and rarity. When ran- 21 Skill Fast Movement Uncommon
domly generating loot, first determine the loot type 22 Skill Feral Instincts Uncommon
and rarity, and then manually or randomly pick from 23 Spell Frost Bolt Uncommon
the appropriate list. 24 Skill Ghost Fist Uncommon
25 Skill Give Order Uncommon
LOOT CRATE CONTENTS 26 Skill Grounded Caster Uncommon
27 Skill Guard Break Uncommon
D100 TYPE (ANY SLOT) 28 Skill Heaven-Piercing Fang Uncommon
29 Skill Heroic Leap Uncommon

B: Loot
1-17 Skill 30 Spell Hold Uncommon
31 Skill Improved Interpose Uncommon
18-34 Spell 32 Skill Improved Spells Uncommon
33 Skill Improved Weapons Uncommon
35-67 Weapon 34 Skill Leap Uncommon
35 Skill Mortal Strike Uncommon
68-100 Support Item 36 Spell Purge Uncommon
37 Skill Reckless Swing Uncommon
RARITY D100 38 Spell Retribution Shield Uncommon
SLOT 1 SLOT 2 SLOT 3 39 Skill Riposte Uncommon
40 Skill Safe Travels Uncommon
Uncommon 1-75 1-30 – 41 Skill Slam Uncommon
42 Skill Slippery Uncommon
Rare 76-100 31-90 1-75 43 Skill Tactical Analysis Uncommon
44 Skill Taunt Uncommon
Legendary – 91-100 76-100 45 Skill Third Wind Uncommon
46 Skill Thunderstomp Uncommon
47 Skill Trap Sense Uncommon
48 Skill Unarmored Defense Uncommon
49 Spell Vampiric Touch Uncommon
50 Skill Water-Walking Uncommon

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Getting Started

RARE TECHNIQUES LEGENDARY TECHNIQUES

TYPE NAME RARITY TYPE NAME RARITY
1 Spell Absorb Elements Rare 1 Spell Baleful Polymorph Legendary
2 Spell Aether Shield Rare 2 Spell Banish Legendary
3 Skill Agile Discord Rare 3 Skill Beast Bond Legendary
4 Spell Astral Infusion Rare 4 Skill Blur Legendary
5 Spell Astral Projection Rare 5 Spell Counterspell Legendary
6 Skill Catch a Breath Rare 6 Skill Demigod Legendary
7 Skill Chill Touch Rare 7 Skill Desync Legendary
8 Skill Deflect Rare 8 Spell Double Spell Legendary
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9 Skill Delayed Healing Rare 9 Skill Endless Stamina Legendary

10 Skill Efficient Burns Rare 10 Skill Ethereal Walk Legendary
11 Spell Empowered Spells Rare 11 Skill Exploding Heart Legendary
12 Skill Execute Rare 12 Skill Extended Scope Legendary
13 Skill Feel No Pain Rare 13 Spell Flare Legendary
14 Skill Frightening Howl Rare 14 Skill Flash Step Legendary
15 Spell Frost Lance Rare 15 Spell Golden Carp Legendary
16 Spell Ground Pounder Rare 16 Spell Healer’s Pact Legendary
17 Skill Hamstring Rare 17 Spell Lightburst Summon Legendary
18 Skill Heavy Draw Rare 18 Spell Living Leyline Legendary
19 Skill Hemorrhage Rare 19 Skill Mana Battery Legendary
20 Spell Hexbolt Rare 20 Skill Monitor’s Pivot Legendary
Appendices

21 Spell Ice Crown Rare 21 Skill Overwhelming Legendary

22 Skill Jack of all Trades Rare 22 Skill Paragon Legendary
23 Spell Lava Lob Rare 23 Skill Perfect Accuracy Legendary
24 Spell Lunar Infusion Rare 24 Skill Pincer Strike Legendary
25 Skill Mental Discord Rare 25 Skill Quick Hide Legendary
26 Spell Mote Shield Rare 26 Skill Quick Rush Legendary
27 Skill Multitasker Rare 27 Skill Rage Caster Legendary
28 Spell Pass without Trace Rare 28 Skill Reflect Legendary
29 Skill Physical Discord Rare 29 Skill Regeneration Legendary
B: Loot

30 Skill Pummel Rare 30 Spell Reincarnate Legendary

31 Skill Push Through Pain Rare 31 Spell Stealth Spell Legendary
32 Spell Push to the Edge Rare 32 Skill Super Mode Legendary
33 Skill Radar Rare 33 Skill Super Speed Legendary
34 Skill Restful Presence Rare 34 Skill Surprise Attack Legendary
35 Skill Spectral Dash Rare 35 Skill The Unblinking Eye Legendary
36 Spell Telekinesis Rare 36 Skill Titan Grip Legendary
37 Skill Teleport Partner Rare 37 Skill Toughness Legendary
38 Skill There is No Escape Rare 38 Skill Ultimate Protector Legendary
39 Skill Throat Chop Rare 39 Skill Unbreakable Skin Legendary
40 Skill Thrust Rare 40 Spell Voidspace Pockets Legendary
41 Spell Thunder Rare 41 Spell Voidspace Weapon Legendary
42 Spell Tranquil Summon Rare 42 Spell Weave Magic Legendary
43 Skill Unyielding Rare
44 Skill Whirlwind Rare
45 Spell Wind Infusion Rare

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UNCOMMON SUPPORT RARE SUPPORT LEGENDARY SUPPORT
ITEMS ITEMS ITEMS
NAME RARITY NAME RARITY NAME RARITY
1 Aether Flask Uncommon 1 Adamantine Armor Rare 1 Adamantine Legendary
2 Ammo Kit Uncommon 2 Animated Shield Rare Construction
3 Amulet of Health Uncommon 3 Armor of Growing Rare 2 Angelsteel Legendary
4 Armor Plates Uncommon Endurance Armor
5 Barbed Uncommon 4 Bag of Holding Rare 3 Book of Legendary
Enchantment 5 Barkskin Armor Rare Alternative
6 Belt of Giantkind Uncommon 6 Blackiron Armor Rare Explosions

Building Beacons
7 Belt of Growing Uncommon 7 Blinding Powder Rare 4 Book of Endless Legendary
and Shrinking 8 Bonecaller Armor Rare Pages
8 Bloodstone Uncommon 9 Broom of Flying Rare 5 Boots of Speed Legendary
Armor 10 Cursesong Armor Rare 6 Devil’s Crown Legendary
9 Boots of Uncommon 11 Darkleaf Armor Rare 7 Elemental Legendary
Levitation 12 Defender’s Bond Rare Enchantment
10 Cloak of Uncommon 13 Defending Rare 8 Flawless Job Legendary
Protection Enchantment Crystal
11 Darksight Armor Uncommon 14 Displacer Cloak Rare 9 Helm of Legendary
12 Death’s Gambit Uncommon 15 Elemental Burst Rare Teleportation
Dice Armor 10 Invisibility Legendary
13 Dragon Mask Uncommon 16 Fleetfoot Armor Rare Cloak

Appendices
14 Durable Uncommon 17 Headband of Rare 11 Mithral Legendary
Construction Intellect Construction
15 Electrical Pack Uncommon 18 Homing Rare 12 Paired Legendary
16 Elven Cloak Uncommon Enchantment Enchantment
17 Escape Uncommon 19 Hydra Helmet Rare 13 Penta Quiver Legendary
Enchantment 20 Lifedrinker Armor Rare 14 Potion of Giants Legendary
18 Gambling Dice Uncommon 21 Orbital Strike Rare 15 Power Armor Legendary
19 Ghost Gloves Uncommon 22 Oversized Rare 16 Scroll of Legendary
20 Ghostwalker Uncommon Enchantment Protection

B: Loot
Armor 23 Potion of Size Rare 17 Skeleton Key Legendary
21 Justicar Armor Uncommon 24 Razorwire Enchant Rare 18 Snickersnack Legendary
22 Mountainous Uncommon 25 Runic Tattoos Rare 19 Tomb-Link Armor Legendary
Armor 26 Sharkskin Armor Rare 20 Twin Death Legendary
23 Orb of Power Uncommon 27 Shield of the Evil Rare 21 Windstep Armor Legendary
24 Portable Cover Uncommon Eye
25 Potion of Climbing Uncommon 28 Tetherknot Rare
26 Prismatic Armor Uncommon 29 Titan Blood Rare
27 Quickstep Boots Uncommon 30 Vicious Rare
28 Returning Weapon Uncommon Enchantment
29 Revive Kit Uncommon 31 Wallbreaker Rare
30 Ring of Uncommon 32 Weapon Ring Rare
Regeneration 33 Windsprint Armor Rare
31 Shatterstone Uncommon
32 Spacewarp Uncommon
Enchantment
33 Spikes Uncommon
34 Sprinter’s Potion Uncommon
35 Telescope Uncommon
36 Thorium Armor Uncommon
37 Time’s Eclipse Uncommon

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 Weapons
Getting Started

UNCOMMON WEAPONS RARE WEAPONS LEGENDARY WEAPONS

NAME RARITY NAME RARITY NAME RARITY
1 Absorption Uncommon 1 Beam Saber Rare 1 Firebrand Legendary
2 Backstabber Uncommon 2 Black Hole Rare 2 Lucky Legendary
3 Chain Blade Uncommon 3 Caduceus Rare 3 Meteor Staff Legendary
4 Chainsaw Blade Uncommon 4 Conductor’s Baton Rare 4 Oathbow Legendary
5 Challenge-Seeker Uncommon 5 Cryo Cannon Rare 5 Railgun Legendary
6 Charging Spear Uncommon 6 Dancing Blade Rare 6 Scythe of Darkness Legendary
7 Dimension Anchor Uncommon 7 Dragon Force Fists Rare 7 Spider Staff Legendary
8 Harpoon Uncommon 8 Fatigue Rare 8 Sundyr Legendary
Building Beacons

9 Mind Lasher Uncommon 9 Flamethrower Rare 9 Thunderstruck Legendary

10 Minibow Uncommon 10 Frost Fang Rare 10 Wand of Fireballs Legendary
11 Mithardain Uncommon 11 Fusion Cannon Rare
12 Mortar Uncommon 12 Hand Cannon Rare
13 Psi Blade Uncommon 13 Healing Mace Rare
14 Quick Arm Uncommon 14 Hydrus Rare
15 Scimitar of Speed Uncommon 15 Leech Rare
16 Shrapnel Uncommon 16 Lightning Javelin Rare
17 Soaring Light Uncommon 17 Mace of Terror Rare
18 Sonar Bow Uncommon 18 Momentum Rare
19 Spellstrike Uncommon 19 Mother Pharaoh Rare
20 Spiked Fist Uncommon 20 Penance Rare
Appendices

21 Splinter Uncommon 21 Piercer Rare

22 Starbow Uncommon 22 Portalis Rare
23 Swordbreaker Uncommon 23 Rocket Sledge Rare
24 Tentacle Rod Uncommon 24 Scarab Staff Rare
25 Timber Uncommon 25 Shock Glove Rare
26 Torch Mace Uncommon 26 Slime Staff Rare
27 Tracker Uncommon 27 Wand of Magic Missiles Rare
28 Unstable Wand Uncommon 28 Wand of Time Rare
29 Venom Uncommon 29 Wind Boomerang Rare
B: Loot

30 Warstaff Uncommon

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These tables list all NPCs by their Initiative and role. This is to help GMs populate combat scenes with a diverse
array of NPCs.

NPC TYPE BY INITIATIVE NPC TYPE BY ROLE

NAME ROLE INITIATIVE NAME ROLE INITIATIVE
ARDENT Support 1 GUNNER Artillery 7
ELEMENTALIST Defender 1 SHARPSHOOTER Artillery 3
PROTECTOR Defender 1 CONJURER Artillery 2

Building Beacons
SPELLSHIELD Defender 1 WARMAGE Artillery 2
HEALER Support 2 ARCHITECT Controller 5
MINDREAVER Controller 2 MINDREAVER Controller 2
MIRAGE Controller 2 MIRAGE Controller 2
OVERLORD Support 2 SPECTER Controller 3
ROGUE Striker 2 SWARM Controller 4
CONJURER Artillery 2 TITAN Controller 7
WARMAGE Artillery 2 VULTURE Controller 3
MARSHAL Support 3 ELEMENTALIST Defender 1
RANGER Striker 3 FORTRESS Defender 5
SHARPSHOOTER Artillery 3 GLADIATOR Defender 5
SPECTER Controller 3 PROTECTOR Defender 1

Appendices
VULTURE Controller 3 SPELLSHIELD Defender 1
CHARGER Striker 4 CHARGER Striker 4
PEGASUS Striker 4 CLEAVER Striker 7
SWARM Controller 4 EXPENDABLE Striker 5
ARCHITECT Controller 5 FIREBUG Striker 5
EXPENDABLE Striker 5 FURY Striker 7
FIREBUG Striker 5 PEGASUS Striker 4
FORTRESS Defender 5 RANGER Striker 3
GLADIATOR Defender 5 ROGUE Striker 2

C: NPC Types
CLEAVER Striker 7 ARDENT Support 1
FURY Striker 7 HEALER Support 2
GUNNER Artillery 7 MARSHAL Support 3
TITAN Controller 7 OVERLORD Support 2

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Getting Started

GENERAL TERMINOLOGY
Ancestry: Ancestry describes a beacon’s heritage or
species. It determines their Size and gives access to
a list of ancestry traits. Whenever a beacon goes
on a quest, they can choose to equip one of their
ancestry traits.
Boss: The toughest enemies in the game are Bosses.
Building Beacons
NPC Template: Templates are additional sets of features
that can be added to NPCs, which can drastically alter
how they play. There are two types of templates:
thematic and mechanical.
NPC Tier: NPCs come in one of three tiers: tier 1 (T1),
tier 2 (T2), and tier 3 (T3). NPCs of higher tiers are

Bosses have their own unique rules for combat. stronger and tougher than those of lower tiers.

Battle Plan: Battle plans provide the framework for NPC Type: NPC types are collections of abilities and
combat scenes, determining the win conditions attributes that represent general themes, similar to
for the PCs, the NPC budget, and any special rules. player character jobs.

Class: Classes represent specialized approaches to
combat. Classes unlock equipment and abilities
that beacons can equip for quests. Each class has
three ranks, with each rank unlocking additional
equipment and abilities.
Appendices
Quest: Quests are adventures that beacons go on,
each comprising a combination of narrative and
combat play.
Reflection: The many settings of BEACON. Each setting
is called a Reflection.

Hub: A base of operations for beacons.

Job: Jobs provide the starting values for a beacon’s
attributes and their equipment slots. A class’s job is
unlocked upon reaching rank 1 in that class.
Level/Character Level: Each beacon has a character
level, which represents their overall growth and
strength. Whenever you finish a quest, whether you
D: Glossary
Resting: Resting allows PCs to heal, recover resources,
and repair equipment. There are two types of rests:
Short Rests and Long Rests. Short Rests are quick
breaks that allow beacons to patch themselves up
after a fight, while Long Rests are longer and more
restorative.
Title: All beacons have a title, which can be used during

were successful or not, your beacon gains another narrative play to gain a +2 bonus to a skill check.
character level. The maximum character level for
beacons is 12.

Loot: Loot includes a range of equipment and tech-

niques that aren’t tied to specific classes. It is usually
presented to the players via loot crates. Loot is
categorized by rarity. It can be Uncommon, Rare,
or Legendary.

Loot Crate: A loot crate is a set of three random pieces

of loot from which the player can select one to keep.

Non-Player Character (NPC): Characters controlled by

the GM are called non-player characters, or NPCs.
NPCs can be friends, foes, beasts, or anything else
that the GM presents.

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NARRATIVE TERMINOLOGY
Adversity Challenge: A type of skill challenge represent-
ing the obstacles the beacons encounter between
combat scenes, like moving through dangerous
rooms in a dungeon or sneaking past patrolling
guards to ambush a target.
Background Skills: Words or brief phrases that represent
a beacon’s history and training. Background skills
have three ranks. Skill checks use background skills,
and grant +1 on the roll for reach rank in the skill.
Downtime Activity: When beacons have free time,
they can perform downtime activities.
Narrative Action: Narrative actions are a type of skill
check with specific outcomes.
Skill Challenge: Skill challenges are series of rapid skill
checks. Skill challenges can be split into two catego-
ries: story challenges and adversity challenges.
Skill Check: Skills checks are used to determine success
during narrative play.
Story Challenge: A type of skill challenge. Story chal-
lenges are used when an obstacle or scene is too
complex to be resolved with a single skill check.
COMBAT TERMINOLOGY
Ability: All techniques, traits, and equipment. Basically,
Getting Started
if something does something in combat, it’s an ability.
Ability Check/Save: A roll made to overcome an obstacle
or resist an effect. Effects that prompt ability checks
or saves indicate which ability score – Bulk, Agility,
Mind, or Magic – is used for the roll. Background
skills, Grit, and titles don’t apply. To succeed on an
ability check, you need a result of 10+. To succeed
on a save, your result must equal or exceed the Save
Target of the initiator, or 10 if not otherwise specified.
Building Beacons
Ability Scores: The four ability scores – Bulk, Agility,
Mind, Magic – affect a character’s attributes and
actions in combat play.
Ally: A character friendly to you or on the same side.
You don’t count as your own ally.
Area of Effect (AOE): Abilities and effects with an AOE
affect multiple targets or spaces. Blast, Burst, Close
Blast, and Line are types of AOEs.
Appendices
Attack: Attempts by characters to hit and harm some-
thing with weapons, magic, or other means. To hit
your target, your result must equal or exceed their
defense (either Dodge or A-Def, depending on the
type of attack). Attacks can be either melee attacks
or ranged attacks, and can be further categorized
as weapon, spell, support, or skill attacks.
Attribute: Beacons have several attributes that are used
D: Glossary
in combat play, such as Dodge and Size. These scores
are determined by a character’s level, job, ancestry,
talents, ability scores, equipment, and techniques.
Bonus Damage: Additional damage added onto an
existing source of damage. Effects with more than
one target only deal half their bonus damage to each
target. Only successful attacks or abilities that deal
damage can deal bonus damage.
Character: PCs, Summons, and NPCs are all considered
characters. As a general rule, characters are enti-
ties capable of taking some sort of actions, either
personally or at the command of other characters.
Climbing: A special form of movement that allows
characters to move atop objects such as terrain.
Climbing has a movement cost equal to the object’s
Size + 1. Characters standing atop objects are con-
sidered to have their Size increased by the Size of
whatever they are standing on for the purposes of
determining line of sight and cover (p. 49).
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 Concentration Save: While channeling, if you take any
damage (after Armor) or Stress not caused by your-
Getting Started
self, you must pass a Bulk save against the initiator’s
Save Target. On a failure, you stop channeling and
the action is lost.
Cover: Objects on the battlefield can provide cover.
Cover imposes on attacks and can block line of
sight, depending on whether it is hard cover or
soft cover. Soft cover grants +1 to attacks, but
doesn’t block line of sight. Hard cover grants +2
to attacks and can block line of sight.
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Critical Hit: On a result of 20+, an attack roll is a crit. Roll
all damage dice twice and take the highest result.
Damage: Harm done to another character. Damage
is subtracted from HP, and comes in different types
(Physical, Force, Astral, Lunar, Discord).
Dangerous Terrain: Terrain that can cause damage.
1/round when you enter dangerous terrain or end
your turn in it, you must make an ability check of
the GM’s choice. Failure: You take 5 damage of any
Appendices
type or Stress based on the type of terrain.
Defeat: When a beacon is defeated, all effects on them
and that originated from them are removed, includ-
ing Summons. Damage, conditions, statuses, and
created objects and terrain remain, including Traps.
Difficult Terrain: Terrain that slows movement. It has
+1 movement cost.
D: Glossary
Discord X: Discord is a special effect that applies ongo-
ing damage. A character or object that takes Discord
immediately takes Piercing discord damage equal
to the amount of Discord gained. The Discord they
took is then added to any Discord they already have.
At the end of each turn while they have Discord,
the character or object makes a Magic check. On a
successful save, all Discord is cleared from them. On
a failure, they take Piercing discord damage equal
to their current Discord. For more information on
Discord, see p. 58.
Enemy: A character that is hostile to you or on the other side.
Environmental Factors: Effects that alter combat
scenes, individual spaces, or even objects. Some
apply to the entire combat scene, while others affect
characters in smaller areas.
Equipment: Weapons and support items are equipment.
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Flight: Characters with flight can activate or deactivate
the Flying status 1/turn as a free action.
Forced Movement: Any involuntary movement that
pushes, pulls, or slides a character. Forced move-
ments do not provoke reactions and ignore En-
gagement. You can’t be forcibly moved into a space
you can’t enter.
Free Action: Free actions can only be taken during
your turn, but you can perform any number of free
actions during that turn.
Grit: An attribute representing the combat experience
that beacons gain when they increase their character
level. Starting at character level 2 and then at every
second level after that (i.e., levels 4, 6, 8, etc.), beacons
gain +1 Grit. Grit is a passive bonus that applies
to several other attributes.
Immunity: When a character is immune to something,
they are unaffected by that type of effect.
Initiative: NPCs take their turns in a different way than
PCs. Instead of acting based on the phase of the
standard action they want to perform, each NPC has
an Initiative, which ranges from 1–8. This specifies
the phase in which they take their turn. During that
phase, the NPC can take any action, not only those
options available to PCs during that phase.
Limit Break: Every job has a limit break, which is a
power, scene-changing ability unique to that job.
Beacons can only perform one limit break per quest.
Line of Sight: All abilities require a clear path to their
target, known as line of sight.
Linked Weapons: Two weapons can be linked together
to form a linked pair. When you attack with a linked
weapon, you can also attack with the weapon it’s
linked to as a part of the same action. This is called
a linked attack, and each linked pair can only make
1 linked attack per turn (p. 16).
Minor Action: You can perform one minor action during
your turn. Minor actions can be used during any
phase.
Movement/Standard Movement: You can use your
standard movement to move a number of spaces
equal to your Speed.
Object: Anything that isn’t a character (or part of one).
The terrain, parts of the environment, and deployed
items (like Traps) are all objects.
Obstruction: If a character or object is the same Size as
you or larger, you can’t move through their spaces.
Allied characters and enemy characters smaller than
you don’t count as obstructions and you can move
through their spaces, but you can’t end a movement
sharing spaces with another character.
Phase: The various stages of the round during which
characters can act. The phase in which a character
takes a turn is usually decided by the action they want
to perform, as each action can only be performed
in a specific phase.
Range/Reach: The maximum number of spaces within
which a given ability can be used. Range and Reach
work in the same way, but some effects trigger based
on one or the other, not both.
Reaction: Special actions performed in response to
specific triggers, even on other character’s turns.
You can perform one reaction per turn, but there is
no limit on how many times a specific reaction can
be used unless one is specified.
Reroll Table: When making an attack, ability check,
or save in combat, you can reroll the dice by using
the Reroll Table. To use the table, you choose one
of the listed options and reroll all dice for one roll
(including or ). Each option from the table can
only be chosen once per round (p. 52).
Resistance: Reduces damage by half.
Round: Each combat scene is made up of a number of
rounds, each of which is split up into eight distinct
phases. At the end of the eighth phase, the round
ends and another round begins.
Shift: A special movement that doesn’t provoke reac-
tions and ignores Engagement. You can’t shift if
you are Slowed or Immobilized.
Scene: An entire combat, from beginning to end. Once
the fighting is over, the scene ends.
Squeezing: A special form of movement that allows
characters to fit into spaces one Size smaller than
them, but increases the cost of all movements by
+1 while doing so (p. 55).
Standard Action: Characters can take one standard
action per turn. Beacons can only use standard
actions from the current phase.
Stress: A special type of harm that doesn’t count as
damage and doesn’t affect the recipient’s HP. Stress
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accumulates up to a character’s Stress Cap.
Surging: Beacons can surge 1/round to take a second
turn at the cost of taking Stress (p. 42).
Talent: Sets of abilities that don’t need to be equipped.
Once your beacon has learned a talent, they will
always have access to any abilities unlocked by their
ranks in that talent. Each talent has three ranks.
Techniques: Skills and spells are techniques.
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Teleport: A special form of movement that allows for
instant movement between two spaces. Teleporta-
tion doesn’t require line of sight, doesn’t provoke
reactions, and ignores Engagement. Teleportation
always counts as moving 1 space. If a character tele-
ports into a space they can’t occupy, the teleport
fails and the action is lost.
Terrain: A specific subset of object that includes the
environmental elements in a combat scene – trees,
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walls, rocks, and similar.
Terrain Features: Terrain features modify spaces and
terrain on the battlefield. While they generally affect
single spaces, multiple terrain features can be placed
next to each other to create a continuous feature.
Trait: Abilities that reinforce a beacon’s identity and
playstyle. Traits come from a beacon’s ancestry and
D: Glossary
equipped job.
Turns: Each character takes one turn per round, taken
during one of that round’s phases. The action they
want to take on their turn determines which phase
they act in. On their turn, a character can perform
their standard movement, one standard action,
one minor action, and any number of free actions
(within reason). Most NPCs only take one turn per
round, but some NPCs might take multiple turns.
Wound/Overstress: Characters can receive Wounds or
become Overstressed. As they accumulate Wounds
and Overstresses, their combat performance weakens
until they are no longer able to fight.
Zone: A lingering effect from an AOE, which remains
in play for a set time or until the end of the scene.
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 TAGS
Accurate: Attacks with this tag gain +1 .
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Aetheric: Attacks with this tag are made against A-Def
instead of Dodge.
Arcing: Abilities with this tag can be aimed over ob-
stacles. They ignore line of sight as long as there is a
vertical path to the target, although cover still applies.
Armor: Abilities with this tag represent suits of armor
or similar defenses, many of which provide a bonus
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to Armor. A character can only have one ability with
this tag equipped at a time.
Aura X: When activated, abilities with this tag affect
indicated characters within X spaces of the user.
A character can only have one Aura activated at a
time and can change Auras 1/turn.
Auto-Hit: Attacks with this tag automatically hit without
making an attack roll.
Blast X: Abilities with this tag have an AOE. It affects all
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targets within a radius of X spaces from the center
space, including the center space. Cover and line
of sight are calculated from the center space. Users
can be affected by their own Blast.
Burst X: Affects all targets within a radius of X spaces
from the edge of the spaces occupied by the target,
including the target’s spaces but excluding the target
itself. Cover and line of sight are calculated from
D: Glossary
the edge of the spaces occupied by the target. If a
Burst forms a zone, the zone moves with the target.
Close Blast X: Abilities with this tag have an AOE. It
operates like a Blast, but:
‘ at least 1 space must be adjacent to the user
‘ the user can’t be in the area
‘ cover and line of sight are calculated from the user.
Consumable X: Abilities with this tag can only be
used X times per quest. Consumable abilities rep-
resent potions, elixirs, and other items that can be
replenished.
Enchantment: Abilities with this tag modify other
abilities. Enchantments can typically only be ap-
plied to specific types of abilities and can only be
applied to one ability at a time. Additionally, each
ability can only have one Enchantment at a time.
Enchantments can only be applied to a new ability
while preparing for a quest or during a Long Rest.
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If an Enchantment is destroyed, the ability it is en-
chanting is not destroyed and vice versa. Traits and
talents can’t be enchanted.
Focus X: Abilities with this tag cost X Focus to use.
Homing: Abilities with this tag ignore line of sight and
the effects of cover. As long as the target is within
Range and it is possible to reach them (i.e., they
aren’t in a box), they can be targeted.
Inaccurate: Attacks with this tag receive +1 .
Indirect: Attacks with this tag ignore any from cover.
Innate: Abilities with this tag can’t be destroyed or
enchanted. They can’t be chosen for destruction as
the result of a wound roll.
Limited X: Abilities with this tag can only be used X times
per quest. Limited abilities provide powerful effects
that can’t be replenished during a quest once used.
Line X: Abilities with this tag have an AOE. It affects all
targets in a straight line with a length of X spaces
and a width of 1 space, drawn directly away from
you in any direction.
Mana X: Abilities with this tag cost X MP to use.
Polymorph: Abilities with this tag modify the target’s
form. A character can only be under the effect of one
ability with this tag at a time, and any subsequent
polymorph effects are automatically cancelled while
they are under the effects of a polymorph.
Piercing: Damage with this tag ignores Armor.
Pull X: Abilities with this tag inflict a type of forced
movement. On a hit, the target is moved X spaces
directly toward the origin.
Push X: Abilities with this tag inflict a type of forced
movement. On a hit, the target is moved X spaces
directly away from the origin.
Range X: Abilities with this tag can be used on targets
within X spaces.
Reach X: Abilities with this tag can be used on targets
within X spaces. This tag also determines the range
of the Opportunity Attack reaction.
Recharge X: Whenever an NPC uses a Recharge ability,
it can’t be used again until that ability recharges.
At the start of each of the NPC’s turns after using a
Recharge ability, the NPC rolls a d6 recharge die. If
the result equals or exceeds the Recharge value (X)
of any Recharge abilities they have, those abilities
recharge. NPCs only make one recharge roll each turn,
but that roll can recharge multiple abilities at once.
Reliable X: Abilities with this tag always deal at least X
damage, even if they would miss or deal less than
X damage. Reliable damage inherits the ability’s
damage type and tags; however, Reliable damage
does not count as a hit and doesn’t trigger any effects
that require a hit.
Reloading: Abilities with this tag must be reloaded
after each use before they can be used again. This
can be done using Refresh and other abilities.
Slide X: Abilities with this tag inflict a type of forced
movement. On a hit, the target is moved X spaces
in any direction.
Slow: Abilities with this tag can only be activated as
part of Full Attack.
Stressful X: Abilities with this tag inflict X Stress on
the user.
Summon: Abilities with this tag create one or more
temporary characters under the control of another
character, each of which has the Summon tag.
Summons have the following statistics unless
otherwise indicated:
Basic Summon (Size 1/2, HP 5, Dodge/A-Def 10,
Speed 0, Save Target = Summoner's Save Target,
Bulk/Agility/Mind/Magic 0)
Summons can only be created in free spaces that
they could normally enter (they can’t be summoned
into impassable terrain, for example).
Summons are characters with a standard action,
standard movement, and minor action per round;
however, they can’t perform any actions unless
they have an ability that lets them do so and can’t
perform a movement unless they have Speed. Their
turn is their summoner’s turn, and if they can take
actions or move, they can do so at any point in their
summoner’s turn.
Summons are defeated if they are reduced to 0
HP. They can also be dismissed by their summoner
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as a free action. Summons last until dismissed or
defeated, or until the end of the scene.
By default, each character can only have one
Summon per ability with this tag in play at a time. If
a Summon is defeated or dismissed, a new one can
be made using that same ability. Summons can’t
create Summons.
Thrown X: Abilities with this tag can be used to make
a thrown attack, a melee attack made against a
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target within X spaces. Thrown attacks are affected
by cover. If throwing a weapon, it lands in a space
adjacent to the target (thrower’s choice), and must
be picked up as a free action while adjacent to it
before it can be used again.
Trap: Abilities with this tag place traps – objects that
modify spaces – or are traps themselves. They must
be placed in a free adjacent space. They become
armed at the end of the turn in which they are placed.
Moving into or adjacent to a space occupied by a
trap triggers it, activating its effects, after which it
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is removed from play.
Traps are permanently Hidden, but can be auto-
matically detected with Search. You can attempt
to disarm a trap by making an Agility check as a
minor action when moving into or adjacent to its
space (before it is triggered). On a success, the trap
is removed from play without being activated. On
a failure, it activates as normal.
D: Glossary
Unbreakable: Abilities with this tag cannot be destroyed
and can’t be selected for destruction if there are
non-Unbreakable options left. If an Unbreakable
result is selected from a wound or overstress roll, it
becomes a Dazed result instead.
Unique: Characters can only equip one copy of each
ability with this tag at a time.
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 INDEX
Getting Started

A Destruction 247 Pursue a Profession 31

Abilities 16 Elimination 247 Run an Organization 31
Ability Checks and Saves 49 Escort 248 Take a Breather 32
Ability Scores 12 Holdout 248 Training 32
Agility 12 Raid 249
Bulk 12 Rescue 249 E
Magic 12 Search 250 Enchantment 64
Mind 12 Survival 250 Engagement 56
Accuracy 9 Blast 64 Environmental Factors 56, 251
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Accurate 64 Bosses 323 Adaptations 56

Actions 43 Bulk 12 Equipment 16
Aether 232 Burst 64 Equipment Size 16
Aetheric 64 Equipment Slots 16
Aetheric Defense (A-Def ) 15 C Free Equipment 16
Agility 12 Campaigns 240 Support Items 17
Ancestry 13, 68 Changing Choices 14 Weapons 16
Arcing 64 Characters 48
Area of Effect 53 Checks 9 F
Blast 53 Class 13, 84 Flight 55
Burst 53 Climbing 55 Focus 64
Close Blast 53 Close Blast 53, 64 Forced Movement 55
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Line 53 Combat Play 41 Free Actions 47

Armor 64 Combat Resources
Attacks 51 Focus 17 G
Attributes 14 Temporary HP 17 Grit 14
Aetheric Defense (A-Def ) 15 Combat Scenes 243
Dodge 15 Consumable 64 H
HP 15 Core Principles 8 Homing 64
Mana 15 Cover 50 HP 15
Memory 15 Critical Hits 52 Hub 237
Index

Overstress 15 Crystals 231

Recoveries 15 I
Scope 14 D Inaccurate 64
Size 14 Damage 58 Indirect 64
Speed 15 Bonus Damage 59 Information Transparency 41, 255
Stress Cap 15 Dangerous Terrain 56 Innate 64
Wound 15 Difficult Terrain 56
Aura 64 Difficulty 9 J
Auto-Hit 52, 64 Discord 58 Job 13, 84
Dodge 15
B Downtime Activities 27 L
Background Skills 12 Create a Ritual 27 Leveling Up 14
Basic Support Items 217 Disenchant Loot 27 Levels 14
Basic Techniques 220 Dungeon-Dive 27 Limited 64
Basic Weapons 216 Find Echo 28 Line 64
Battlefield 41 Gain a Contact 28 Line of Sight 49
Battle Plan 244 Get Something 28 Linked Weapons 16
Acqusition 245 Go Shopping 29 Loot 356
Assassination 245 Hit the Books 29 Loot Crates 257
Control 246 Imprint a Crystal 30
Defense 246 Make Something 30

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M Crystal Warriors 233 Close Blast 64
Magic 12 The Soul Guard 236 Consumable 64

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Mana 15, 65 Reliable 65 Enchantment 64
Memory 15 Reloading 65 Focus 64
Mind 12 Reroll Table 52 Homing 64
Minor Actions 47 Resources 17 Inaccurate 64
Modifiers 9 Combat Resources 17 Indirect 64
Movement 54 Narrative Resources 18 Innate 64
Rewards 20 Limited 64
N Supplies 18 Line 64
Narrative Actions Ruins 231 Mana 65
Convince 24 Piercing 64
S

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Gain Insight 25 Polymorph 65
Gather Information 25 Safety Tools 227 Pull 64
Make Conflict 25 Saves 9 Push 64
Move Unseen 26 Save Target 15 Range 64
Overcome 26 Scope 14 Reach 65
Recall Lore 26 Scourge 230 Reliable 65
Use Magic 26 Session 0 226 Reloading 65
Narrative Play 22 Shifting 54 Slide 65
Narrative Resources Shops 346 Slow 65
Gold 18 Alchemy Shop 347 Stressful 65
Residuum 18 Blacksmith 349 Summon 65
Non-Player Characters 259 Engineer 352 Thrown 65

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NPC Actions 261 General Store 346 Trap 65
NPC Features 260, 304 Leatherworker/Clothier 350 Unbreakable 65
NPC Initiative 260 Magic Shop / Dojo 355 Unique 65
NPC Templates 259 Tavern 354 Talents 13, 202
Mechanical Templates 306 Size 14 Targeting 49
Thematic Templates 310 Skill Challenges 33 Techniques 17
NPC Tier 259 Adversity Challenges 34 Free Techniques 17
NPC Type 259 Story Challenges 33 Skills 17
Skill Checks 23 Spells 17

Index
O Slide 65 Teleportation 54
Objects 48 Slow 65 Terrain Features 57, 251
Obstruction 56 Source 7 Themes 229
Overstress 15 Speed 15 Thrown 65
Squeezing 55 Title 11
P Standard Actions 44 Tone 227
Phases 42 Stress 58 Traits 16
Piercing 64 Stress Cap 15 Trap 65
Polymorph 65 Stressful 65 Turns 42
Pull 64 Summon 65
Push 64 Supplies 346 U
Surging 42 Unbreakable 65
Q Unique 65
Quests 241 T
Tags 64 W
R Accurate 64 Weapons 16
Range 64 Aetheric 64 Weapon Type 16
Reach 65 Arcing 64 Wounds 15
Reactions 47, 399 Armor 64
Recharging 260 Aura 64 Z
Recoveries 15 Auto-Hit 64 Zones 53
Reflections 233 Blast 64
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Getting Started

Combat takes place within combat scenes. Each combat Order

is made up of a number of rounds. By default, each Each round starts with Phase Bolster, and ends
PC beacon and each NPC takes one turn each round. with Phase Delay.
PCs and NPCs alternate turns. If a PC decides to take
Scene their turn during Phase , then an NPC has the chance
to take the next turn in that phase. If no one else takes
Round a turn that phase, the next phase begins. The pattern of
alternating turns continues across phases and rounds.
1 Turn / Round This means that if the final turn in a round is taken by
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a PC, an NPC will have the first opportunity to act in

COMBAT STRUCTURE the next round.
Each round is broken up into eight phases. Charac- At the end of Phase , a new round begins, starting
ters take their turns in one of these phases. The phase at Phase .
determines which standard actions can be performed.

PHASE STANDARD ACTIONS REROLL TABLE

PCs can choose to reroll attacks, checks, and saves
Bolster Defend Refresh during combat, choosing from a list of penalties. This
is called using the Reroll Table.
Channel Channel Each option on the Reroll Table can only be used
1/round.
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Skirmish Mark Search Volley

REROLL TABLE
Reposition Rush Hide
STRAIN You take 1d3 Stress.
Brawl Fight Shove Grapple
ENDANGER You become Marked. You can’t use
Release Release this option if you are Marked. This
doesn’t count as a condition that
Full Attack Full Attack you’ve given yourself.
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Delay Delay OVEREXTEND You can only choose this option if you
are adjacent to an enemy or within
Any Phase Ready Reach of an enemy’s weapon. The
enemy can choose one of the follow-
Player Turns ing, which resolves before you reroll:
You take your turn each round during one of the eight
phases. During your turn, you can do the following in Ø They make an Opportunity
any order: Attack against you.
Ø They deal 3 Physical to you
1 Standard 1 Standard 1 Minor as a reaction.
Action Movement Action

Unlimited Free Actions

You can only take standard actions available in the

current phase.

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SURGE
Each PC can Surge once per round, allowing them to

take a second turn. This costs a certain amount of Stress
based on their Surge level, which increases each time
they Surge and resets when they next take a Long Rest.
This second turn counts as a brand-new turn, giving
them a new standard action, standard movement, and
minor action.
The Stress cost for surging is listed below. This Stress
is taken at the start of a Surge turn, before anything
else. The cost does not progress past 1d6+4.
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SURGE LEVEL STRESS COST
0 2 Stress.
1 1d3+1 Stress.
2 1d6+2 Stress.
3 1d6+4 Stress.

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STANDARD ACTIONS
Phase 1: Bolster Phase 2: Channel

Defend Phase Bolster Channel Phase Channel

You gain Focus equal to your Armor+1d3. Until the You begin to enact a Channel ability, the effect of
start of your next turn, attacks against you are made which you can unleash in Phase with the Release
with +1 . action. This is the only way to trigger a channeled

Refresh
Choose one of the following:
Ø Spend a Recovery to regain all HP.
Ø Clear all Stress.
Ø Regain all MP.
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ability’s Release effect. Until you release it, you are
considered to be channeling.
Phase Bolster While channeling, if you take any damage (after
Armor) or Stress not caused by yourself, you must
pass a Bulk save against the other character’s Save
Target. This is called a concentration save. On a
failure, you lose concentration: you stop channeling
and the ability fizzles.
You can only channel one ability at a time, and

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Then choose one of the following:
Ø Reload all Reloading weapons/abilities.
Ø Clear all Discord.
Ø Clear a condition that wasn’t caused by yourself.
Ø Clear a condition on an adjacent ally that wasn’t
caused by them.
you can’t Ready the Channel action. You can stop
channeling as a free action. If you don’t make a stan-
dard movement this turn, you can do so when you
Release the ability this round.
Channel abilities are considered to be used at
the time this action is taken, and any costs (e.g., MP)
must be paid at that time. Their effects, including
choosing targets, only happen when they’re released
unless the ability specifically states they happen when
channeling.

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Mark Phase Skirmish Fight Phase Brawl

A character within your Scope and line of sight be- You make one of the following attacks:
comes Marked.
Ø Melee attack: Make a melee attack with an abili-
ty against a target within the ability’s Reach. Roll
Search Phase Skirmish 1d20+Grit. If your result equals or exceeds the tar-
get’s Dodge (or A-Def for Aetheric attacks), it hits.
Choose a character or object within Scope and pick one: Ø Improvised weapon attack: Make a melee weap-
on attack against an adjacent. Roll 1d20+Grit. If
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Ø If they are Hidden, you make a contested Mind your result equals or exceeds the target’s Dodge,
check against their Agility. On a success, they are they take 1d3 Physical .
no longer Hidden.
Ø You learn the target’s ability scores, attributes, and
abilities. Grapple Phase Brawl

You make a grapple attack:

Volley  Phase Skirmish
Ø Grapple attack: Make a melee weapon attack
You make one of the following attacks: against an adjacent character. Roll 1d20+Grit. If
your result equals or exceeds the target’s Dodge,
Ø Ranged attack: Make a ranged attack with an abil- you and the target are both Grappled.
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ity against a target within the ability’s Range. Roll

1d20+Grit. If your result meets or exceeds the tar- Grapple attacks can be made while you are Disarmed
get’s Dodge (or A-Def for Aetheric attacks), it hits. (p. 62).
Ø Improvised spell attack (1 MP): Make an Aethe-
ric ranged spell attack against a character with-
in Scope. Roll 1d20+Grit. If your result meets or Shove Phase Brawl
exceeds the target’s A-Def, they take 2 Stress .
You make a shove attack:
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Ø Shove attack: Make a melee weapon attack against

Phase 4: Reposition an adjacent target. Roll 1d20+Grit. You gain +1 for
every Size you are larger than the target, or +1 for
Hide  Phase Reposition every Size smaller. If your result equals or exceeds
the target’s Dodge, choose one of the following:
You become Hidden. ‘ You push them 1 space.
‘ You knock them Prone.

Rush Phase Reposition Shove attacks can be made while you are Disarmed
(p. 62).
Choose one of the following:
Ø You move up to your Speed.
Ø Until the end of the turn, you ignore Engagement
and don’t provoke reactions from movement.

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Phase 6: Release Any Phase

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Release Phase Release ReadyAny Phase

You release an ability you are channeling, causing it
to take effect. This is resolved as if you were taking a
turn, following the rules for alternating turns between
PCs and NPCs, but doesn’t count as a turn. Instead of
releasing an effect, you can continue channeling it
and release it during Phase in the next round. You
can’t release an ability if you are Silenced.
You prepare your standard action at a later moment,
turning it into a customizable reaction:
1. Select a trigger, which must be a specific action,
movement, or reaction taken by any character.
2. Select your effect, which must be an action or mi-
nor action you can take during your current turn.
3. Until the start of your next turn, you can perform
that readied action as a reaction when the trigger

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Phase 7: Full Attack is met. If you haven’t used your readied action by
the start of your next turn, the action is lost. You
Full Attack Phase Full Attack can’t use any other reactions while you have an
action readied. You can forgo yur readied action
1/round, choose one of the following: at any time.

Ø You use a Slow ability. Example:

Ø You perform any two of the following actions – Trigger: Any enemy moves outside of cover.
Volley, Fight, Shove, or Grapple. You Effect: I will Volley at them.
can choose the same action twice, but not the same
ability or the same linked pair of weapons.

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Phase 8: Delay

Delay Phase Delay

The last chance to take an action during this round.

If you wanted to take an action but the phase had

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already passed, you can do so in this phase.

REACTIONS
Counterattack Interpose Opportunity Attack
Reaction (1/round), Focus 1 Reaction, Focus 1 Reaction (1/round)

Trigger: You are hit by an attack
from a character within the Reach
of one of your abilities.
Effect: You can Volley or Fight
against that character with one
of those abilities. Each attack roll
can only be counterattacked once
– multiple characters can’t Coun-
terattack in response to the same
attack roll.
Trigger: An ally within Range 3 is Trigger: An enemy begins a move-
targeted by an attack. ment within the Reach of one of
your abilities.
Effect: You can shift up to 2 spaces.
If you end this movement next to Effect: You can immediately Vol-
the targeted ally, you can choose to ley or Fight against that character
become the target instead, even if with one of those abilities.
you would otherwise not be a valid
target. Each attack roll can only be
interposed once – multiple charac-
ters can’t Interpose in response to
the same attack roll.

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BEACON
LEVEL
LIMIT BREAK
LK
U

ancestry active job

B

BACKGROUND SKILLS
CHARACTER SHEETS
// CLASS RANKS
TY

RANK used
I
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GRIT 1
G
A

2
D
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3
M
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4
G
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6
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G
D

7
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D

8
EF
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SIZE
10
V
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11
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P
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SPEED
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FOCUS ARMOR TEMP HP DISCORD TRACKERS

HP STRESS MP
MAX

MAX

MAX
WOUNDS OVERSTRESS RECOVERIES

X
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CONDITIONS STATUSES SURGE COST REROLL TABLE

2 Stress STRAIN
Blinded Marked Sundered Bloodied Grappled Take 1d3 Stress.
1d3+1 Stress
Dazed Silenced Vulnerable Breaking Hidden ENDANGER
1d6+2 Stress Become MARKED. You can't use this
Disarmed Slowed Weakened Engaged Invisible option if you are MARKED.
1d6+4 Stress OVEREXTEND
Immobilized Stunned Flying Prone If you are adjacent to an enemy or
within their weapon’s reach, they can
a) OPPORTUNITY ATTACK you, or
b) deal 3 Physical to you.

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TALENTS

RANK 1: RANK 1: RANK 1:

RANK 2: RANK 2: RANK 2:

RANK 3: RANK 3: RANK 3:

RANK 1: RANK 1: RANK 1:

RANK 2: RANK 2: RANK 2:

RANK 3: RANK 3: RANK 3:

RANK 1: RANK 1: RANK 1:

RANK 2: RANK 2: RANK 2:

RANK 3: RANK 3: RANK 3: