Character Creation: Ancestries and Cultures

Fungorian Signature Traits

Psycorrhizal Network

As a Maneuver, you can communicate telepathically with any Fungorian you personally know that is within 1 mile. As a respite activity, you can bond with a number of non-Fungorian creatures equal to your level and you can communicate with them this way as well. This psionic bond helps strengthen your mind against psychic attacks, granting you psychic immunity equal to your level.

Ancestral Recall

Accessing your ancestors' memories is as easy as living in the present. You have an edge on all tests made to recall lore.

Small!

Your size is 1S.

Grown in the Dark
(1 Point)

You see well in the dark. Creatures who aren’t hidden from you are not granted concealment from you because of darkness, negating the usual bane on attacks against them. Your body can also shed a soft blue/green light for 10 squares. You can turn this light on and off as a maneuver.

Mycelium Grip
(1 Point)

You can send thread-like tendrils into objects and creatures to help you climb. You gain the Climb keyword to your speed entry. You also gain an edge to climb creatures and resist being thrown off of them.

Taming Spores
(1 Point)

Invisible Spores float around you, creating a calming effect on any animals you interact with. This gives you an edge on presence tests that use the Handle Animals skill.

Don't Eat Me
(2 Points)

You have poison immunity equal to your level. Additionally, you gain the following ability:

Poison Spores

When you take damage, you can let out a small defensive burst of poisonous spores

Keywords: Area   Type: Triggered   Action Distance: 1 Burst
Target: All enemies   Trigger: You take damage

• 11 or lower: 2 poison damage
• 12-16: 5 poison damage
• 17+: 7 poison damage; weakened (EoT)

Psionic Gift
(2 Points)

You gain one of the following signature abilities.

Concussive Slam

You slam an invisible force down upon the target.

Keywords: Psionic, Ranged, Strike   Type: Action
Distance: Ranged 10   Target: 1 creature or object

Power Roll + Reason, Intuition, or Presence:

• 11 or lower: 2 + R, I, or P damage
• 12-16: 5 + R, I, or P damage; push 1
• 17+: 7 + R, I, or P damage; push 2; M < [strong] prone.

Psionic Bolt

You shoot forth a beam of psychic purple force that grips your target.

Keywords: Psionic, Melee   Type: Maneuver
Distance: Self or Melee 1   Target: Self or 1 ally

Power Roll + Reason, Intuition, or Presence:

• 11 or lower: 2 + R, I, or P psychic damage; slide 1
• 12-16: 5 + R, I, or P psychic damage; slide 2
• 17+: 7 + R, I, or P psychic damage; slide 3

Minor Acceleration

You fill yourself or an ally with a burst of energy.

Effect: The target's speed increases by an amount equal to your Reason, Intuition, or Presence score (your choice) until the start of your next turn.

Anakim Signature Traits

BIG!

Your size is 1L.

All Is A Feather
(1 Point)

You are exceptionally strong and have an edge on tests that use the Lift skill.

Forceful
(1 Point)

When you force move a creature or object, you can increase the distance moved by 1.

Stand Tough
(1 Point)

Your body is made to withstand your enemies' blows. Your Might score counts as 1 higher for resisting potencies.

Great Fortitude
(2 Points)

Your hearty constitution prevents you from losing strength. You can't be weakened.

All-Seeing Eye
(2 Points)

Your senses extend past mundane obscuration and the veil of the future alike. You can’t be surprised. You also instinctively know the location of any concealed creatures who aren’t hidden from you, negating the usual bane on attacks against them. Additionally, whenever you are attacked, you can use a triggered action to impose a bane on the power roll.

Dwarf Signature Traits

Runic Carving

You can carve a rune onto your skin, and the magic within your body activates it. The rune you carve determines the benefit you receive. You can change or remove this rune with 10 minutes of work while not engaged in combat.

• Detection: Pick a specific type of creature, such as "goblins" or "humans" or an object, such as "magic swords" or "potions." Your rune glows softly when you are within 20 squares of a chosen creature or object, regardless of line of effect. You can change the type of creature as a maneuver.
• Direction: This rune always points north.
• Voice: As a maneuver, you can use this rune to amplify your voice so that it can be heard over a large crowd or to hail a ship.

Grounded
(1 Point)

Your heavy stone body and connection to the earth make it difficult for others to move you. Your stability increases by 1.

Stand Tough
(1 Point)

Your body is made to withstand your enemies' blows. Your Might counts as 1 higher for resisting potencies.

Passionate Artisan (1 Point)

You have a passion for creation. Choose two skills from the crafting skill group. Whenever you make a project roll using these skills, you gain a +2 bonus to the roll.

Great Fortitude
(2 Points)

Your hearty constitution prevents you from losing strength. You can't be weakened.

Spark Off Your Skin
(2 Points)

Your stone skin affords you potent protection. Your Stamina increases by 6 at 1st level, then increases by 3 each time you gain a new level.

Elf Signature Traits

Elf Glamor

You can magically alter your appearance to better blend in with your surroundings. You gain an edge on Agility tests made to hide and sneak, and tests made to find you while you are hidden take a bane.

Forest Walk
(1 Point)

You can shift into difficult terrain.

High Senses
(1 Point)

You have senses that are keen and perceptive. You have an edge on Intuition tests that use the Awareness skill.

Swift
(1 Point)

Your speed is 6.

Nature's Grace
(2 Points)

Your elf body and mind can't be contained for long. You succeed on saving throws when you get a 5 or higher.

The Wode Defends
(2 Points)

You have the following signature ability.

The Wode Defends
Thorny vines erupt into existence and attempt to bind your foe.

Keywords: Magic, Ranged, Strike   Type: Action
Distance: Ranged 10   Target: 1 creature

Power Roll + Might or Agility:

• 11 or lower: 2 + M or A damage; A < [weak] slowed (save ends)
• 12-16: 3 + M or A damage; A < [average] slowed (save ends)
• 17+: 5 + M or A damage; A < [strong] restrained (save ends)

Goblin Signature Traits

Shadowmeld

You gain the following ability.

Shadowmeld
You become an actual shadow.

Keywords: Magic   Type: Maneuver   
Distance: Self   Target: Self

Effect: You flatten yourself into a shadow against a wall or floor you are touching and become hidden from any creature you have cover or concealment from or who isn’t observing you. While in shadow form, you have full awareness of your surroundings, attacks against you and tests made to find you take a bane, and you can’t move or take actions or maneuvers except to exit this form. Any ability or effect that targets more than 1 square affects you in this form only if it explicitly affects the surface you are flattened against. You can exit this form as a maneuver.

Small!

Your size is 1S.

Corruption Immunity
(1 Point)

Your innate shadow magic gives you corruption immunity equal to your level + 2.

Graceful Retreat
(1 Point)

When you take the Disengage move action, you can shift 1 additional square as part of the move action.

Poltergeist
(1 Point)

When you start your turn while no creatures have line of effect to you, or while you are hidden from or have concealment from all enemies with line of effect to you, your speed is increased by 3 until the end of your turn.

Fearless
(2 Points)

Courage is all you know. You can't be frightened.

Nimblestep
(2 Points)

Your light feet allow you to ignore the effects of difficult terrain and move at full speed while you are sneaking.

Human Signature Traits

Detect the Supernatural

As a maneuver, you open your awareness to detect supernatural creatures and phenomena. Until the end of your next turn, you know the location of any supernatural object, undead, construct, or creature from another plane of existence within 5 squares of you, even if you don't have line of effect to them. You know if you're detecting an item or a creature and you know if a creature is undead, a construct, or from another plane of existence.

Can't Take Hold
(1 Point)

Your connection to the natural world allows you to resist supernatural effects. You ignore difficult terrain (but not other effects) created by magic and psionic abilities. Additionally, when you are force moved by a magic or psionic ability, you reduce the forced movement by 1.

Perseverance
(1 Point)

Giving up is for other people. You have an edge on tests that use the Endurance skill, and when you are slowed, your speed is reduced to 3 instead of 2.

Resist the Unnatural
(1 Point)

Your connection to the natural world protects you from unnatural forces. When you take damage that isn't untyped, you can use your triggered action to halve the damage.

Determination
(2 Points)

Your anatomical tolerance for pain allows you to push through difficult situations. If you are frightened, slowed, or weakened, you can use a maneuver to immediately end the condition.

Staying Power
(2 Points)

Your human anatomy allows you to fight, run, and stay awake longer than others. Increase your number of Recoveries by 2.

Mallki & Muki Signature Traits

Tough but Withered

Your undead body grants you cold, corruption, lightning, and poison immunity equal to your level. You also have fire weakness 5. You can't suffocate, and you don't need to eat or drink to stay alive.

Additionally, when your Stamina equals the negative of your winded value, you become inert instead of dying. You can continue to observe your surroundings, but you can't speak, take actions, maneuvers, triggered actions, or move, and you fall prone. If you take any fire damage while in this state, your body is destroyed, and you die. Otherwise, after 12 hours, you regain Stamina equal to your recovery value.

Previous Life
(1 Point)

You gain a purchasable trait that costs 1 ancestry point from your previous ancestry. You can take this trait multiple times, selecting a new cost 1 trait from your previous ancestry each time you take this trait.

Undead Influence
(1 Point)

Your supernatural gifts allow you to influence other undead. You gain an edge on Reason, Intuition, and Presence tests made to interact with undead creatures.

Bloodless
(1 Point)

For you, an open wound is indistinguishable from a scratch. You can't become bleeding.

Previous Life
(2 Points)

You gain a purchasable trait that costs 2 ancestry points from your previous ancestry.

Vengeance Mark
(2 Points)

As a maneuver, you place a magic sigil on a creature within 10 squares of you. When you place a sigil, you can decide where it appears on the creature's body and whether the sigil is visible to only you or to all creatures.

You always know the direction to the exact location of a creature who bears one of your sigils and is in the same world as you.

You can have an active number of sigils equal to your level. You can remove a sigil from a creature harmlessly (no action required). If you are already using your maximum number of sigils and place a new one, your oldest sigil disappears with no other effect.

Additionally, you gain the following signature ability.

Detonate Sigil

A magical sigil you placed on a creature explodes with energy.

Keywords: Magic, Ranged, Strike   Type: Action
Distance: Ranged 10   Target: 1 creature with your sigil

Power Roll + Reason, Intuition, or Presence:

• 11 or lower: 3 + R, I, or P damage; slide 1
• 12-16: 5 + R, I, or P damage; slide 2
• 17+: 8 + R, I, or P damage; slide 3

Effect: The sigil disappears from the creature.