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Song of Swords Beta 1.9.9 Opaque Studios h[YnabXcamZ\g Song of Swords Beta 1.9.9 (MICRO UPDATE) from Opaque Studios LATEXified Revision - Alpha version 0.2.0 April 1, 2017 © Zachary Irwin,James Lacombe, 2015. All Rights Reserved h[YnabXcamZ\g h [a\ g Beta Rules for Song of Swords Roleplaying Game Lead Designer: James “Rome” Lacombe Executive Designer, Producer: Zachary T. Irwin Supplementary Design Team: Daniel Leiendecker, Forrest Phanton, Taylor Davis Art Director: Taylor Davis Cover Art: Kenneth Solis Book Art: Darren Tan, Frankie Perez, Duc Pham, Taylor Davis, Kassandra Swager Additional Development: Justin Hazen, Travis Mitchell, Alex Gann, Nicholas Henry, Alan Baird and The Five Cells, Dusan Nadimakovic CEO: Zachary T. Irwin All contents copyright © 2012-2015 by Zachary T. Irwin, James T. Lacombe. All rights reserved. This book is dedicated to Daniel Paris. Special thanks to our families, friends, teachers, Bret Sweet, Sherri Paris, Kenneth Solis, Charlie Krank, Nicholas Nacario, and our fans met on /tg/ and other places, everyone else, everyone else’s grandmother, the moon, God, any other deities you might care to name except Moloch because he’s a tool, Thomas Sowell, Zeljko Raznatovic’s pet tiger, Lu Bu, Mr. Rogers, Margaret Thatcher, G.K. Chesterton, Thomas Aquinas, Hidetaka Suehiro and Andrew Jackson If you can think of anyone else we didn’t name, write it in. We even left a space. opaquegames.com facebook.com/OpaqueIndustries opaque.freeforums.net Kickstarter is live! XcamZ\g g f i Contents 1 Introduction 1 1.1 What is Song of Swords?......................................... 3 1.2 What is a Roleplaying Game?...................................... 4 1.3 Basic Mechanics Explained........................................ 4 1.3.1 Basics of the Dice Pool...................................... 4 2 Character Creation 6 2.1 How to Create a Character........................................ 8 2.2 Campaign Power.............................................. 9 2.2.1 Player Creation Points...................................... 9 I Character Information 11 3 Arc and Advancement 12 3.1 Arc Categories............................................... 13 3.1.1 Saga Arc.............................................. 13 3.1.2 Epic Arc.............................................. 14 3.1.3 Belief Arc.............................................. 14 3.1.4 Glory Arc............................................. 15 3.1.5 Flaw Arc.............................................. 15 3.2 Awarding Arc Points............................................ 16 3.2.1 Arcs Ending and Changing................................... 17 3.2.2 Character Advancement..................................... 17 4 Attributes 18 4.1 Character Creation............................................. 19 4.2 Advancing with Arc............................................ 20 4.3 Core Attributes............................................... 21 4.4 Compound Attributes........................................... 22 4.5 How to Increase Grit............................................ 23 4.6 Luck..................................................... 24 ii Contents Contents h [a\ g 5 Races 26 5.1 Character Creation............................................. 27 5.2 Humans, Goblins, Dwarves and Tenebrae............................... 28 5.2.1 Humans.............................................. 28 5.2.2 Goblins............................................... 29 5.2.3 Dwarves.............................................. 31 5.2.4 Fetchlings............................................. 34 5.3 Din...................................................... 35 5.3.1 Zells................................................ 36 5.3.2 Burdinadin............................................. 40 5.3.3 Ohanedin............................................. 43 5.3.4 Orredin............................................... 47 5.3.5 Paleolithic Elf........................................... 52 5.4 Dhampirs.................................................. 52 5.5 Ascended Humans............................................. 53 5.5.1 Genosian Paladin......................................... 54 5.5.2 Dessian Silver Guard....................................... 59 5.5.3 Sarturi Chosen........................................... 64 5.6 Star Vampires................................................ 67 6 Boons and Banes 72 6.1 Character Creation............................................. 73 6.2 Advancing with Arc............................................ 74 6.3 Boons List.................................................. 75 6.4 Banes List.................................................. 76 6.5 Boons.................................................... 78 6.6 Banes..................................................... 86 7 Skills 101 7.1 Skills..................................................... 102 7.1.1 Skills List.............................................. 104 7.1.2 Structure of a Skill........................................ 105 7.1.3 Character Creation........................................ 106 7.2 Skill Descriptions.............................................. 106 XcamZ\g g f iii Contents Contents h [a\ g 8 Social Class and Wealth 121 8.1 Character Creation............................................. 122 8.1.1 Social Class Benefits....................................... 122 8.1.2 Abnormal Social Class and Wealth Combinations...................... 122 8.2 Wealth.................................................... 123 8.3 Assets.................................................... 124 9 Proficiencies 125 9.1 Character Creation............................................. 126 9.1.1 Advancing with Arc....................................... 127 9.2 Using Proficiencies............................................. 127 9.2.1 Alternate Weapon Usage..................................... 128 9.3 Schools.................................................... 129 9.3.1 Self-Taught............................................. 130 9.3.2 Noble................................................ 131 9.3.3 Soldier............................................... 132 9.3.4 Officer............................................... 132 9.3.5 Esoteric............................................... 133 9.4 Melee Proficiencies............................................. 133 9.4.1 Wrestling.............................................. 133 9.4.2 Pugilism.............................................. 134 9.4.3 Dagger............................................... 135 9.4.4 1H Sword............................................. 135 9.4.5 2H Sword............................................. 136 9.4.6 1H Blunt.............................................. 137 9.4.7 2H Blunt.............................................. 138 9.4.8 Spear................................................ 139 9.4.9 Polearm.............................................. 139 9.5 Missile Proficiencies............................................ 140 9.5.1 Bow................................................. 140 9.5.2 Crossbow.............................................. 141 9.5.3 Firearms.............................................. 141 9.5.4 Throwing Weapons........................................ 141 XcamZ\g g f iv Contents Contents h [a\ g 10 Talents 142 10.1 Gaining Talents............................................... 143 10.1.1 Buying Talents........................................... 143 10.1.2 Choosing Talents......................................... 143 10.2 Using Talents................................................ 143 10.3 Novice Talents............................................... 144 10.4 Journeyman Talents............................................ 151 10.5 Master Talents............................................... 157 11 Magic 161 11.1 The Unkindlies............................................... 162 11.1.1 Blood Corruption......................................... 163 11.1.2 Mutations............................................. 163 11.1.3 Honors............................................... 164 11.1.4 Unkindly Weapons........................................ 166 11.2 Dark Pyromancy.............................................. 167 11.2.1 Dark Pyromancy Stats...................................... 168 11.2.2 Performing Pyromancy..................................... 168 11.2.3 Dark Pyromancies........................................ 170 12 Void Magic 173 13 The Way of Five 180 II Gear and Equipment 185 14 Equipment 186 15 Melee Weapons 188 15.0.1 Which Weapon for Me?..................................... 189 15.0.2 Melee Weapon Characteristics................................. 190 15.1 Daggers................................................... 192 15.2 Swords.................................................... 193 15.2.1 1H Swords............................................. 193 XcamZ\g g f v Contents Contents h [a\ g 15.2.2 2H Swords............................................. 195 15.3 Blunt..................................................... 196 15.3.1 1H Blunt.............................................. 196 15.3.2 2H Blunt.............................................. 197 15.4 Spears.................................................... 199 15.5 Polearms................................................... 201 15.6 Special Qualities.............................................. 203 15.7 Materials.................................................. 206 15.8 Customization Options.......................................... 207 16 Missile Weapons 209 16.1 Missile Weapon Characteristics.....................................
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