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Willing Target: 0Trivial: 2-5Easy: 6-10Moderate: 11-15Difficult: 16-20Very Difficult: 21- 30Heroic: 31+
Sweep them, still in grapple.Throw them away (Shove effect)Few meters, depends on strengthUse your opponent as cover.Move with your opponent.Break the grapple.Silence them.Disarm themRestrain themPrevents both parties from moving and attacking (apart from attempting to free themselves).
MoveHit someone other than your opponent.Block or Dodge attacks from the Upper-Hander.
You can dodge their Grappling attemptsTN 10-20 depending on sizeYou add your Scaling bonus to your grappling attempts.They cannot hit you while you have the Upper-Hand.Any attack made while grappling ignores the Scaling bonus to Absorb.Shake them offContested Brawn, Finesse or related Skill roll.If won, the opponent is thrown proportionately to the size difference between you.Slam on a surfaceContested Brawn, Finesse, or related Skill roll.Loser receives damage in the form of the biggest entity’s Brawn.
Kobolds, Ratmen, Yuan-ti hatchlings: No bonusesHumanoids, Wolves, Displacer Beasts: No bonusesBears, Horses, Saplings, Wagons: +2D to Absorb / DodgeDragons, Bark Knights: +4D to Absorb / DodgeKraken, Planar Avatar, Old Bark Knight, Wyrms: +6D to Absorb / Dodge
Bypasses ArmorWater or magical means will remove the need for this roll.
Weakpoints:-1D to hit, +3D damage.Arms:If not applicable, prevents the opponent from using their weapons until your next turn.Legs:
In Depth Rules
Shove
Characters can kick, push, pull and generally shove each others in and out of danger.
To do so, make a Brawn or relevant skill roll. Add +1D per distance covered before the shove (Close Range > Melee =1D)
The TN is equal to the difficulty rating:
If the targets successfully blocks, they are not pushed.
if not, the target is successfully pushed. This means they are no longer in melee range with previous targets, they can’t reach close by objects anymore, and are considered close range.
Grapple
A struggle for power, swords are clashing, feets are struggling to get a grip, this is about to get dirty.
You can make a contested , , or wrestling related roll to attempt to wrestle your opponent.
The Characters then start wrestling, and the one with the highest roll gains the Upper-Hand.
When grappling, you can’t shoot with ranged weapons except for crossbows.
You also can’t do complex actions. You cannot open and drink a bottle, but you can drop it
If a character gets grappled, they end any previous grapples.
If a character gets moved away from their grappling partner, the grapple ends.
Upper-Hand
When you’re dominating, you can:
After making an attack (or a spell attack), without spending you can:
For Free:
Do special actions:
Lower-Hand
When the grapple isn’t going your way, you cannot:
You can attempt to gain the upper hand or free yourself
When you get the upper hand, your opponent automatically stops anything they were doing to you. if you were on the ground, you switch places with your opponent.
Climbing
When fighting larger opponents, you can perform a special type of Grapple and climb them.
When fighting above your size class:
When smaller creatures are climbing you, you can:
Scaling
Whether you’re fighting on horseback, trying to slay a dragon or piloting a Bark Sentinel, special rules apply when you fight outsize of you weight class.
In combat, larger and/or heavier creatures have bonuses to absorb damage.
Smaller and/or lighter creatures have bonuses to dodge.
When hitting smaller opponents, you can hit as many per attack as there is difference between your Size Classes.
Weight / Size Classes (compared to normal size)
Conditions
Surprised
When someone isn’t aware of your presence, they can’t dodge or block your attacks.
If you’re making a melee attack, you can bypass the armor and shield value of your opponent.
Prone
If you’re making a melee attack at a prone person, you can bypass their armor and shield value
Restrained
When restrained, you cannot move or act, and can only try to break free.
You cannot perform somatic components for spells.
Muted
You cannot speak nor perform verbal components for spells.
Burning
Continuous 5D damage unless Moderate Finesse or related Skill roll.
Poisoned
You have -1D to all rolls.
Frozen
First stage: Moving costs an action
Second stage: Extra actions have a penalty of -2D
Third stage: Cannot act or move
Fear
Training
When you train with a weapon for long enough, you become proficient with it.
When proficient with a weapon, you know how to repair and care for it.
You can also perform True Strikes.
Using superior skill, they let you aim your attacks for devastating effects.
You can aim for:
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