Deeper (Dungeon Quest)

Stats:

Traits (Crab - Weight Class 1)

Base Form - Crab

• Environmental Adaptation 1(Semi-Aquatic) - You are adapted to an extreme environment of your choice (eg hot desert, underwater) and have all the necessary traits to thrive in that environment
  • Gills 1 - You can breathe in water (by extracting the dissolved oxygen)!
    • Gills 2 - You can use your gills to breathe air, provided they remain hydrated. (e.g. the Labyrinth organ of Labyrinth fish)
• Grasp 1 - the ability to hold on to an object: claws, mouths, 'n' stuff
• Size 1 - weight class equal to investment into this trait
• Limbs 10 - limbs come in many shapes and functions from tails to legs to arms. Generally, arms are limbs primarily used for grabbing and manipulating the environment, and legs/tails/wings are limbs primarily used to move. Some limb types are multifunction - tentacles are a great example. You can apply any unlocked and non-exclusive movement and/or manipulation options to any limbs you have (you don't pay again for each limb).

• Climb 1 - you can climb basic obstacles and surfaces
• Jump 1 - you're capable of vertical jumps
• Leap 1 - you can cross some distance horizontally when you jump
• Swim 1 - in water and similar liquids you're able to move in 3D space, but not well
• Walk 2 - Gotta go fast! Your walking speed increases by pushing your body entirely off the ground. (e.g. quadrupeds, crabs)

• Hearing (water) 1 - you can detect vibrations at range, specialised for detection through one medium of your choice (air, water, ground (solids)), though it might work somewhat through other mediums. This trait level can be taken multiple times to gain different specialisation options.
• Smell 1 - you have the ability to detect volatile/diffuse chemicals in air
• Taste 1 - you have the ability to detect chemicals diffused in water
• Touch 1 - You have a tactile sense and can detect when something is - or isn't - touching you. Detailed sensory information, such as exact texture or hardness is not readily available at this level.
• Ultra-vision 1 – You can see into the ultraviolet spectrum of light
• Vision 1 – You can see in the visible spectrum of light

• Autotomy 1- You are able to self-amputate at least some body parts to distract and escape predators. Most commonly limbs (including tails), but sometimes skin etc. losing a body part this way does not cause trauma or bleed, but does reduce durability.
  • Autotomy 2 - You are able to replace a body part shed with autotomy with an inferior replacement, causing vantage loss when relevant (GM discretion), barring exceptional circumstances.
  • Autotomy 3 - You are able to regenerate any body parts shed with autotomy, barring exceptional circumstances.
• Exoskeleton 1 – You have an exoskeleton that provides your weight class plus 1 in mundane armour to your torso and head, and half your weight class (rounded down) plus 1 in mundane armour to every limb. This stacks with other armour to a mundane maximum bonus of 10.
• Sturdy 1 - +1 durability
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• Short 1 - You are considered short for creatures of your shape and weight. This affects things like fitting into spaces or reaching higher and seeing further.

• Compassionate 1 - You understand the struggles of others and want to help: +1 vantage when helping people, -1 to attempts to maliciously hurt people.
• Contemplative 1 - When you have the time, you are thoughtful and capable of introspection: +1 vantage to any plan or action if a scene passes between the planning stage and execution.
• Excitable 1 - Your emotions are strong and quick to rise: +1 vantage to any situation where your emotions on the subject are beneficial (e.g. delivering an impassioned speech on a topic important to you): -1 vantage when they are detrimental to you. Also -1 vantage to resisting emotional manipulation
• Naïve 1 - You are unworldly, having lived a sheltered life, or have a tendency to believe in people's good nature that is beyond the entirely rational: -1 to resisting manipulation, for good or ill.

• Dungeon Empowered 1 - your connection to your home goes beyond the normal level:
  • +1 max mana
  • +2 max vigour
  • when in your dungeon of origin, At end of scene: +1 mana

Skills (Bonuses: Commerce +0, Magical +1, Martial +3, Leader: +3)

Bonuses:

Background

• Language [Plasegean] I (Social) - you can hold a conversation in a language of your choice without difficulty
  • Language II (Social) - you are considered fluent in your chosen language
• Lookout I (Martial) - Vigilant against danger, you're better than most at keeping watch. +1 vantage on rolls to stay alert and spot approaching danger
• [24% progress] Mathematics 0 -> Mathematics I (Commerce)

Commerce (+0 from 0 skills)

Magical (+1 from 1 skills)

Spells

• Paladin's Protection I (Magical) – You[Rally]are immune to and cleansed of poison and infectious disease. You may grow a magnificent beard and/or hair (including of unusual types e.g. barnacles), even if you otherwise couldn't.
  • Paladin's Protection II (Martial) - You[Rally] take 1 less damage from all sources
  • Paladin's Protection III (Social) - You may Rally eligible ([Rally]) effects of Paladin's Protection for 1 mana per effect rallied
  • Paladin's Protection IV - You do not deteriorate with age (though you can choose to let your appearance age and, as an action, return to youthful looks)

Martial (+3 from 4 skills)

• Aimed Strike/Called Shot I (Martial) – When you use an action to attack, you may lose 2 vantage to target a specific hit location, or 4 vantage to target an area smaller than the standard target areas (e.g. the eye slit of a visor). A GM may modify the vantage loss depending on the exact target.
• Courageous I (Martial) – You[Rally]gain 1 vantage against intimidation attempts.
  • Courageous II (Social) – You may Rally eligible ([Rally]) effects from Courageous. You also gain the following Rout: Routed hostiles lose 1 vantage on intimidate attempts. (Intrepid)

Social (+3 from 6 skills)

• Philosopher [of the Crabby Cave] I (Social) - Experienced in the field of careful thinking, you can work through problems that leave others stumped: When given ample time to reason through a situation, remove the smallest negative vantage effect (e.g. if one effect was giving -5 vantage and another -2, you would only suffer the -5 instead of the total -7). If there are no negative vantage effects, +1 vantage to the roll.
• Tactician (Social) - You gain 1 vantage on initiative rolls. If you give orders, Rallied allies that follow the plan gain 1 vantage. In a formation, this bonus only applies to the lowest vantage level. Routed hostiles lose 1 vantage on initiative next turn [ *Rework in progress ]

Languages

• Plasegean

Response to fear: Fight

Equipment:

• Shell Hermit - This creature can don torso and head armour (technically all Delvers have this ability). Additionally, you have (your weight class -1) (max 2) mundane armour on every limb. This stacks with other armour to a mundane maximum bonus of 5
• Aquatic Adaptations you are adapted to underwater environment of your choice and have all the necessary traits to thrive in that environment
• Large – your weight class increases by 1 (to 2)
• Any 1

• Prophet's Prongs (Spell, Activated) - you loose a fork-like projection of force towards a target that is far (or closer) to you: damage scales off your casting implement (Magical)
• Paladin's Protection (Spell, Passive) – you do not age (though you can choose to let your appearance age, and as an action return to youthful looks), cannot become poisoned or diseased, and take 1 less damage from all sources. Additionally you may grow a magnificent beard and/or hair, even if you otherwise couldn't (Magical, Leader)
• Divine Trust – You place your faith in a divinity and they in you. By furthering their goals and message, you gain spells unique to the divinity in question (without spending skill points): they are made the same way other spells are but the phonetic alliteration rule is replaced by Domain restrictions. This skill can be selected more than once (for different Deities - though that can get complicated). (Magical)
  • Nulumi's Negation (Spell, Activated) You may draw on Nulumi's strength to counter a spell or break an enchantment; roll against the caster/enchanter. If you win their spell fizzle or their enchantment breaks. Passive spells and other non-dispellable magical effects can be disrupted this way for a number of turns up to your magical modifier. (Magical)

• Formative Experience: Tier 1 - Wandering Hermit (Background) (Area)
• Life Altering Experiences: Tier 1 - Nulumi's Chosen (Background) (Skill)

• Plasegean
• Sumarsh

• Large White Conical Shell (+4 armour to head and torso locations) - this shell is slightly magical, granting an additional +1 to armour (base 3, +1 = 4) in addition to never dulling, ageing, or otherwise deteriorating. It doesn't seem to do anything else, but Skali is able to completely retract into it.