Class:Veteran

Jaded and tough, these warriors act as if they have seen it all. Obviously they are not all seasoned warriors, but the training of a Veteran involves a great deal of time in battle, so even a first rank Veteran has seen more action than other first rank warriors. The strategy of the Veteran is to be an immovable wall, and hold the line. Veterans rely on defense in battle, always working to better ensure their protection, which is why they survive to be veterans. If you are a Veteran be jaded, unimpressed, hard, and pessimistic.Metadata.

Restrictions

Armor Restrictions

Veterans have no armor restrictions.

Learning Restrictions

Veteran cannot be learned by mages.

Warrior Benefits

 Power sources: 💪Martial🤹Skill

 Delivery: 🎭Semblant🤲Self✳️Manifest

 Target: 🤲Self

 Execution time: 🔁Passive

 Duration: Always active.

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For every 2 ranks you train in warrior classes, you gain a warrior guildmaster ability of your choice. You also gain Limited Defensive Martial Arts.

Limited Defensive Martial Arts

Limitation: While wearing armor only.

 Power sources: 💪Martial🤹Skill

 Delivery: 🎭Semblant🤲Self✳️Manifest

 Target: 🤲Self

 Execution time: 🔁Passive

 Duration: Always active.

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Your hands and other handy body parts count as shields for the purposes of abilities that target them (although they cannot be shattered or destroyed). You may block with them and their BV is +1.

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 If proficient: The BV is now +2. If fluent: The BV is now +3.

Rank 1

 Power sources: 💪Martial🪖Veteran🤹Skill

 Delivery: 🎭Semblant🤲Self✳️Manifest

 Target: 🤲Self

 Execution time: 1️⃣Single action( ➡️Active )

 Duration: No limit.( ⏳️Sustained )

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Lose all temporary HP and gain 1d6 temporary HP as long as you remain stationary.

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 End condition: You move or are moved. If proficient: Instead gain 1d6 + Pd6 temporary HP. If fluent: Instead gain 1d6 + Fd6 temporary HP.

 Power sources: 💪Martial🪖Veteran🤹Skill

 Effect types: 🔧Construction

 Delivery: 🎭Semblant🤲Self✳️Manifest

 Target: ❓Other

 Execution time: 🌙Short rest( 🐢Slow )

 Duration: 8 hours.

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During a short rest, you may scavenge materials and make 1 piece of armor or a shield. It is improvised. Any armor you make in this way counts as a number of items equal to the armor's AV for the purpose of this ability. Only common mundane items can typically be made in this way, but the GM may specify if other options are available to you.

Improvised

An improvised item is one made out scrap or temporary pieces. It functions like any other item, but only exists for 8 hours before falling apart and becoming destroyed. It is easy to tell whether an item is improvised. Interacting with an item is enough to determine if it is improvised or not.

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 If proficient: You can instead make up to P items. If fluent: You can instead make up to F items.

 Power sources: 💪Martial🪖Veteran🤹Skill

 Delivery: 🎭Semblant👁️Sight✳️Manifest

 Target: 👤Creature

 Execution time: 1️⃣Single action( ➡️Active )

 Duration: 1 hour.

 Range: 30 feet.

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You and the target gain Limited Instant Awaken and Limited Reactive Awaken (only usable on each other). You may only have this active on one creature at a time.

Limited Instant Awaken

Limitation: Only usable on the other participant in the Partner Awaken.

 Power sources: 💪Martial🤹Skill

 Effect types: 🌞Awakening

 Delivery: 🎭Semblant🤚Hand⚔️Attack

 Target: 👤Creature( Hit target's AC. )

 Execution time: 1️⃣Single action( ➡️Active )

 Duration: Instant.

 Range: Your hand's range.

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 On hit: Target is awakened.

Limited Reactive Awaken

Limitation: Only usable on the other participant in the Partner Awaken.

 Power sources: 💪Martial🤹Skill

 Effect types: 🌞Awakening

 Delivery: 🎭Semblant🤚Hand⚔️Attack

 Target: 👤Creature( Hit target's AC. )

 Execution time: 1️⃣Reaction( ↩️Reactive )

 Duration: Instant.

 Range: Your hand's range.

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Target is awakened.

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 End condition: You use Partner Awaken again.

Rank 2

 Power sources: 💪Martial🪖Veteran🤹Skill

 Delivery: 🎭Semblant🤲Self✳️Manifest

 Target: 🤲Self

 Execution time: 🔁Passive

 Duration: 1 minute.

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You gain Bodyguard Backup and Bodyguard Taunt.

Bodyguard Backup

 Power sources: 💪Martial🪖Veteran🤹Skill

 Delivery: 🎭Semblant✳️Manifest

 Execution time: 0️⃣Free reaction( ↩️Reactive )

 Trigger: You attempt an attack against another creature.

 Duration: 1 minute.

 Range: 5 feet.

 Requirements: You are not also using Bodyguard Taunt.

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Pick another creature within range. They gain advantage on the next MOV or STR feat save they make.

Bodyguard Taunt

 Power sources: 💪Martial🪖Veteran🤹Skill

 Delivery: 🎭Semblant✳️Manifest

 Execution time: 0️⃣Free reaction( ↩️Reactive )

 Trigger: You attempt an attack against another creature.

 Duration: 10 seconds.

 Range: 5 feet.

 Requirements: You are not also using Bodyguard Backup.

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Pick another creature within range. They are goaded until the start of your next turn.

 Power sources: 💪Martial🪖Veteran🤹Skill

 Delivery: 🎭Semblant🤲Self✳️Manifest

 Target: 🏕️Area

 Execution time: 🌙Short rest( 🐢Slow )

 Duration: 24 hours.

 Requirements: You remain in the targeted area.

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You may spend a short rest building defensive fortifications around the area you are resting in. The area must not be greater than 30 feet wide in any direction. You and your allies that are in this are when combat begins gain 1d10 temporary HP for the duration of that combat. This area counts as having been "fortified".

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 If proficient: You and your allies instead gain 1d10 + Pd10 temporary HP. If fluent: You and your allies instead gain 1d10 + Fd10 temporary HP.

 Power sources: 💪Martial🪖Veteran🤹Skill

 Effect types: 👣Movement

 Delivery: 🎭Semblant🤲Self✳️Manifest

 Target: 🤲Self

 Execution time: 1️⃣Reaction( ↩️Reactive )

 Trigger: You would take damage.

 Duration: 1 minute.

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You are moved 5 feet in the direction opposite the source of the damage and become snared. If there is no direction associated with the source of the damage, you move in a random direction instead. This movement does not count as a trigger for Opportunity Attack. If this all completes without interruption, you take only half the triggering damage. If the damage has multiple types, each type is rounded down independently.

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 End condition: At the start of each of your turns, you roll 2d4. If either of these dice roll a 4, this effect ends.

 Power sources: 💪Martial🪖Veteran🤹Skill

 Delivery: 🎭Semblant🤲Self✳️Manifest

 Target: 🤲Self

 Execution time: 🔁Passive

 Duration: Always active.

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Armor you wear is unbreachable.

Rank 3

For ranks 3, 4, and 5, choose one combat ability and one support ability to gain at each rank.

Combat Abilities

 Power sources: 💪Martial🪖Veteran🤹Skill

 Delivery: 🎭Semblant🪖Armor✳️Manifest

 Target: 🤲Self

 Execution time: 1️⃣Reaction( ↩️Reactive )

 Trigger: You would take damage.

 Cost and components: 💥Shatter

 Duration: Instant.

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The triggering effect fizzles against you (and only you).

Note: Armor Wound requires that you are wearing the armor. If you have AV from some other source, it cannot be used for Armor Wound.

 Power sources: 💪Martial🪖Veteran🤹Skill

 Delivery: 🎭Semblant🤲Self✳️Manifest

 Target: 🤲Self

 Execution time: 🔁Passive

 Duration: Always active.

 Requirements: You are up.

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When you use Brace, you gain temporary HP in multiples of 1d10 instead of 1d6. All the same rules regarding the temporary HP from Brace still apply. In addition, using Brace causes you to deboost all damage you take as long as you remain stationary.

Note: Any extra damage dice rolled due to a boost or critical hit are added before the deboost from Improved Brace takes them away.

 Power sources: 💪Martial🪖Veteran🤹Skill

 Delivery: 🎭Semblant🤚Hand⚔️Attack

 Target: 👤Creature( Hit target's AC. )

 Execution time: 1️⃣Reaction( ↩️Reactive )

 Trigger: A creature within range would be dropped.

 Cost and components: ❤️1d8 HP

 Duration: Instant.

 Range: Your hand's range.

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If the effect causing the unconsciousness or death was a cost, then Intercept fizzles. Intercept's cost can be paid with temporary HP.

Note: Creatures can choose to be hit by attacks while up.

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 On hit: The effect causing the target to become down fizzles.

Support Abilities

 Power sources: 💪Martial🪖Veteran🤹Skill

 Delivery: 🎭Semblant🤲Self✳️Manifest

 Target: 🤲Self

 Execution time: 🔁Passive

 Duration: Always active.

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You gain Master Armor Smith and Runic Armor.

Master Armor Smith

 Power sources: 💪Martial🪖Veteran🤹Skill

 Delivery: 🎭Semblant🤲Self✳️Manifest

 Target: 🤲Self

 Execution time: 🔁Passive

 Duration: Always active.

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You are an expert blacksmith. In addition, you gain the ability to create master crafted armor.

Runic Armor

 Power sources: ✨Magical🪖Veteran🤹Skill

 Delivery: 🎭Semblant🕯️Ritual( 👁️Sight✳️Manifest )

 Target: 🪖Armor

 Execution time: 10 minutes.( 🐢Slow )

 Cost and components: 🩵X MP

 Mana cost: Runic Armor costs an amount of MP equal to the armor's AV.

 Duration: 24 hours.

 Range: 5 feet.

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The targeted armor becomes runic.

 Power sources: ✨Magical🪖Veteran🤹Skill

 Effect types: 🔧Construction

 Delivery: 🎭Semblant🕯️Ritual( 👁️Sight✳️Manifest )

 Target: 📦Item

 Execution time: 10 minutes.( 🐢Slow )

 Cost and components: 🩵1 MP👐Somatic

 Duration: 8 hours.

 Range: 5 feet.

 Requirements: The item must not be a weapon.

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You wave your hand over an item as arcane runes appear on its surface. While you are attuned to the targeted item, it is runic and effects that would render it destroyed cause it to be shattered instead.

 Power sources: 💪Martial🪖Veteran🤹Skill

 Effect types: 🚫Resistance

 Delivery: 🎭Semblant🤲Self✳️Manifest

 Target: 🤲Self

 Execution time: 🔁Passive

 Duration: Always active.

 Requirements: You are up.

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When in an area that's been "fortified" with Fortify Area, you resist being surprised, becoming frightened, and all mediator tradecrafts. You also gain these benefits when you use Brace as long as you remain stationary and while performing "guard duty". Whether or not something counts as "guard duty" is up to the discretion of the GM. Being on the front lines in a normal combat encounter would not typically count, but some cases that might are as follows.

• Being a hired guard for a nobleman.
• Keeping watch during a long rest.
• Standing guard while a mage completes a ritual.