I haven’t tested this at all yet and plan to have it be a single one-off sort of situation. The small paragraph about the Confederacy of Royin sparked my interest. I thought the idea of these Blooded descended from the Chosen of whatever god the Confederacy worshipped was really cool. It also felt like an easy way to squeeze Weave into a playbook. The special abilities are mostly stolen from someone’s custom Wizard playbook for Bands and inspiration drawn from several playbooks in Blades Against Darkness.
Playbook: Blooded
An Enchanter and Creator
One of the few survivors of the Confederacy of Royin, the blooded are descended from Chosen and have a unique connection to divine powers. Blooded are not original a part of the Legion or the Old Empire but are a unique cultural part of the Confederacy’s Chosen. When serving with the Confederacy’s forces, they often formed a protective role much like a Medic. Blooded are responsible for how long it took the CInder King to take and corrupt their land.
When you play a Blooded, you earn xp when you help your squad with unexpected solutions or divine insight. Help keep people protected from corruption and assist them to success by employing out-of-the box magical options.
Starting Abilities:
- 1 Weave
- 1 Research
- 2 Rig
- 1 Skirmish
- 1 Consort
Specialist Action
A Weave use will allow you to identify if something is an artifact or to detect magical or divine presence.
Blooded special Abilities:
Magical Preparation - When you are about to roll for an action, you can spend a point of Weave and narrate a short Flashback to describe how you made a one-use magical implement for this kind of occasion. You can then use your rank in Rig to determine the number of dice to roll. Blooded gain this ability for free.
Divine Protection - When an ally nearby takes corruption, you can spend a use of Weave to reduce the total amount of corruption by your total ranks in Weave. This can only be used as someone experiences corruption and not to heal existing corruption. Additionally, when sent on secondary missions the Blooded can prevent 1 Rookie or Soldier death in exchange for taking an additional level 3 harm.
Foresight - When the Blooded is assigned to a Primary mission, the Commander counts as having 1 more Intel than they actually have. If the Commander already has 3 Intel, the Blooded may ask an extra question from the zero intel list. Additionally, gain +1d Insight resist.
Blood to Fire - Your blood carries the power of long-dead Chosen, gifted with their strengths from the Everburning Flame, Goddess of Fire. You may take a level of harm to conjure divinely created fire. Say the effect you desire and mark harm based on the base effect (1 for limited, 2 for standard, 3 for great). This fire can burn through undead flesh and stone alike.
Protective Amulets - When choosing your load for the mission, you can take along Protective Amulets by marking 1 Utility load. Choose an attribute and yourself and one other person going on the mission gain +1d to resist with the chosen attribute.
Durable - Your ancestry and heritage harden your mind and body. You get +1 stress box. Also, you can probably eat undead flesh without dying immediately.
Divination - You can push yourself to do one of the following – You can see into a nearby location as if you were there or you can take control of a single Threat 1 undead for a scene.
Blooded Items and Loadouts
Light Load
- Fine Reliquary: A reliquary containing a piece of a long deceased Chosen. Spend to reduce corruption taken by 2 and +1d to resist it. Was it one of your ancestors?
- Fine Hand Weapon - A masterfully crafted Confederate weapon forged from divine fire. Who created it?
- Fine Books and Scrolls - An assortment of papers and books on arcane and divine subjects. Are these from Royin or your own collected works?
Normal Load
Ammo - Orite pistol shells for your fine sidearm.
Fine Pistol - A well-crafted Orite pistol with five shots and embossing on the side. Did you obtain this before or after the fall of the Confederacy of Royin?
Armor: Leather cuirass and chain shirt. Provides 1 armor against physical attacks. Is this Legion issue or leftover from your time in Royin?
Heavy Load
Enchanted Jewelery - Provides 1 armor against magical attacks. IIt loses its luster or crumbles to dust when used. What type of jewelery is it?
TBD