The old avocado nomad sips at his vine-whiskey and inhales deeply through his weathered cob pipe, resigning himself to misty visions. A corridor of glowing sinew unwinds from the greater fabric before him. He grins, stepping onto that precipice of knowing, and soon not. He stumbles into the Long, Long Ago.
An ever-growing sect of oneiromancers led by Serge the K.I.D. postulate this great period of Not-Knowing to be the nexus betwixt the realm of dreams and the mythos-songs. Some vintner vampires declare it to be the latent field of Being which allows their thralls to become ensorcelled so. Regardless, those with the expertise can gain root access to the mainframe of the mind and leverage it as a potent vector for manipulating their prey’s ba-code.
SAGA Dreamcast // AutoREMbulation
P: 2 R/T: self D: imbue
Pinch some crystal lotus powder and sprinkle it into your eyes, imbuing them with a deep purple glow. While asleep, you are able to move about, perform mundane tasks, and even hold conversations as if you were awake. You gain a d8 Dreamcast die at the end of each week spent with this spell imbued. You can store a number of Dreamcast dice equal to your character level. These dice are used to fuel specific oneiromancy spells.
Daemonware Injector // spurn the disobedient
P: 2 R: short T: a sleeper D: imbue
Fingers of electricity trace a negative-space silhouette in the air, granting you access to a sleeping creature’s psyche. In a blaze of creation, you compile malicious script and tuck it away in their ba-directory before closing the terminal and taking your leave. Once per round at any time, you can spend and roll any number of Dreamcast dice to inflict that much damage or heal an ally of your choice within short range of the creature for the result.
Overcharge: the creature mustn’t be asleep, and the Dreamcast die is treated as a d10.
Dreamhack // Ba-ception
P: 1 R: special T: a sleeper D: instant
Spend and roll any number of Dreamcast or hero dice to enter the fog-realms of an entity’s dreams. You can tinker and shape a single belief held by the entity. If you roll a 6 or higher on one of the dice, it is unaware of your oneiro-psychic interference.
REM Recycler // dream therapy modality
P: 2 R: near T: a sleeper D: a day
Spend any number of Dreamcast dice to remove that many afflictions from a sleeping creature or hallmark artifact.
Overcharge: Alternatively, you can impart a temporary bonus to all of their rolls equal to the number of Dreamcast dice spent.
Bicameral Battle-Pass // haste_protocol.exe
P: 4 R/T: self D: a week
Upon waking from your wanton slumber, spend all available Dreamcast dice to gain an additional action each turn that can be used to attack with an oldtech gizmo or fantascience artifact. You gain a bonus to that attack equal to the number of dice spent in this way.
Prophesy // 4th-wall mesh sequence
P: 3 R/T: self D: instant
You gain fog-shrouded visions while drifting deeper into your oneiro-field. During the course of an evening’s rest, you may spend any number of Dreamcast dice to ask the great Demiurge Maester that many questions which they must answer at least with partial truth. Visions are fickle however, so you may only receive fragments of meaningful lore.
Stalwart in faith, skilled with hammers, staves, rods, rituals, and rites. As an action, you can roll and spend a hero die to Rebuke the Wicked. All foul and unnatural creatures nearby subtract the result from their Defense score for a minute. Tier 2: Expert with hammers, staves, rods, rituals, and rites. When you slay a Rebuked creature, gain a hero die. Tier 3: When an ally slays a Rebuked creature, they gain 1d6 Life. In addition, your divine incantations cost 1 less Life to cast.
Devout Saint
Your hero die is a d8 when used to Rebuke the Wicked. Tier 2: instead a d10. Tier 3: instead a d12.
Hungry Scholar
A decade spent in divinity academics prepared you for the grand journeys ahead. You are considered skilled in recalling information, applying advanced religious analysis, and appreciating the grand arts of those divinely inspired. Your faithful studies have also yielded an ancient, but significant culinary recipe related to your field of study. Tier 2: Expert in the ways of your field, and a second…more obscure recipe. It requires one exotic ingredient (worth at least €50), but grants you and your allies a temporary +3 bonus to your next roll. Tier 3: Master in your academic subject & hitting with hefty, holy tomes. Your divine meal now grants a +6 bonus.
Channel Divinity
You can spend a hero die to grant your allies a soothing ward, granting them [+] on their next Save.
Divine Intervention
You can only use this ability if you are currently holding the maximum number of hero dice possible. Spend all hero dice available to restore you or an ally back to full Life. Alternatively, you can instead remove a burden for each hero die spent.
Spiritual Weapon
As an action, you can spend any number of hero dice to imbue them into a Trait slot, summoning a radiant floating weapon of your choice within short range. While this weapon follows you, you are unable to gain more hero dice. It can fly a short distance each turn, and when you attack, you can use it to make a melee attack using either Strength or Charisma. If you hit, roll the imbued hero dice and deal damage equal to that amount.
d6 Pseudohymns for the Faithful
Horn of Plenty // Feast for Heroes!
P: 3 R: close T: a table D: instant
Chant loudly, o` sadakh! Smooth your palms across the beams of roughwood and turn nothing into abundance. Where once a table was empty, now a bountiful feast awaits! Enough to feed an entire caravan, lest ye be too unreasonable, o` faithful. They shall not go hungry for a week’s time, though long-term exposure may cause the flock to float away, thin and fraught.
Leo’s Tiny Mutt // Waldo’s Whistletune
P: 3 R: close T: special D: imbue
Whistle a cheery tune so pleasant that an angelic pup (L2, cuddly sniffer) can’t help but materialize and follow you to the ends of the Vastlands. It has a penchant for finding valuables and even the occasional trap. At the first sign of danger, it vanishes in a puff of light, and returns when it’s safe.
Angelcall // Servitor.exe
P: 12 R: close T: special D: a few minutes
Immense pain overcomes your body as you become a vessel for the divine. Your eyes glow hot, skin sweltering beyond compare, and nails become molten. Exorcise the holy within and from beyond the pale, the horrific angel visage becomes clear. Your crusade begins now, and your soldier (L8, almighty and unknowable) starts their terrifying march.
Nullify Poisons // Experimental Antidote Dart
P: 1 R: long T: a creature D: instant
Invoke the higher truth of your deity and ring the sacred tone of your bell. One creature of your choice within range is purified of all physical disease and poisons, though burdens shall remain. Alternatively, you can force a serpentine creature to immediately make a Morale roll.
Warding Censer // Huff the Good Stuff
P: 2 R: short T: allies D: channel
Swing your strange-smell chains and fumigate your surroundings with the ritual incense and salts of the Do Drugs, Never Die cult. All allies within your fog of peace gain +1 Defense and +2 Ward.
Overcharge: +2 Defense, +4 Ward, regain d4 Life each round.
Corona of Peace // Halo of Artifice
P: 2 R/T: self D: imbue
The heretics shall know your divine nature! A savior’s halo shines as a beacon behind your head, glowing brighter than a finely-made torch, lantern, or setting sun. Creatures find it difficult to lie to you, but also tend to avoid any dealings with you. Strikes against you suffer a d4 penalty.
d6 Relics of the Saints
Maidenguard
Armor +4 / 2 stone / L3
Flare 15: Ignore any damage above 15 from one attack.
A legendary steppe-errant once roamed the Petal Archipelago on a strange iguana-camel. She carried on her back a gourd of honeywine; her hip, a ruby blade. She never married, never spoke, and supposedly never died. Many an old soot-beet farmer claim to have stolen the young champion’s heart over a cup of wine, but that makes many a liar. Eventually, she laid this ornate bone breastplate to rest and now it falls into your hands, still humming with holy power.
Raiment of the Iron Brother
Armor +3 / 1 stone / L3
Conductive: When struck by energy, you gain 1 charge which you can assign to a Powered item.
Fashionable: While wearing this tunic, gain +1 charisma.
Metal Flesh: You are resistant to all physical blows.
The Iron Brother was a beloved merchant in Port Deliverance in the days of yore, when you could buy your salvation from the local funny-hat man. He’d always be found in the taverns, half-spilled out upon the tables and buying out the entire stock for a week of revelry for the neighborhood. He insisted on having his brass locks of hair woven into fabric, one day becoming this very tunic. A peculiar set of garments, unusually strong. Perhaps it radiated with his charity and faith. Perhaps.
Vambrace of Embrace
Armor +1 (shield) / 1 stone / L3
Crush Organs: While you have a hostage grappled, you can spend any number of hero dice to roll and deal damage equal to the total to the creature and they must then roll Morale if they survive.
Leech: While you have a hostage grappled, gain d6 Life each round.
Viced: You gain [+] on grappling checks. While you have a hostage, they have [-] on escaping.
Despite what the Graph-Line Gospels preach, not all saints are virtuous. For years, the town of Fruiting cowered in terror under the iron fist rule of Bear-Hug-Harold, a local knight recognized by the Cogflowers and land barons for his efforts in removing certain obstacles to proposed tax legislation. One good elbow around your torso and you were squeezed dry like an orange.
Challenger’s Gauntlet
2d4 damage / 1 stone / L3
Strength or Agility
Clear Victor: If you score a critical hit against your Challenger, they surrender.
Duelist’s Challenge: This gauntlet counts as an unarmed strike. When you strike a foe, they must Save or be compelled to answer your challenge and only strike you. To the death.
Keen: Score a critical hit on a 19-20 (Critical Range +1).
Chelius the Chaste was renowned for his utter contempt for the wandering knight errant despite being one himself. They say every knight he encountered on the road would receive the proverbial gauntlet tossed upon the ground. Chelius ensured the Farwood only had one defender filled with derring-do. His challenges drew in knights from all the Garden Realms, and soon his gauntlet sat upon the hand of another, more vicious knight. At least, that’s what the fat priests would tell you.
Preacher-Gun
1d12 damage / 1 stone / L3
Agility or Charisma
Reliable: Roll damage dice with advantage.
Testify!: When you strike a creature, their Bonus is doubled.
Weight of Your Sin: Deal additional damage to your target equal to their Bonus.
Some preacher-men wore dusters and wandered the Grasslands in service of their long-lost god. One of em had a damn fine gun that bore a terrible curse. If you survived its bullet, it brought you both wonderous fortune and terrible tragedy, usually in rapid succession. Just what kind of game was that man of the cloth playin at? Dispensing deliverance and death in the same day? Ain’t right.
Sword of the Saint
2d10 damage / 2 stone / L5
Accurate: Advantage on Attack rolls.
Keen 2: Score a critical hit on a 18-20 (Critical Range +1).
Immaculate: Immune to breaking, dust, debris, and vandalism. Genuine perfection.
Soothing Light: When you roll max damage on a die, an ally within short range heals for the result.
This legendary claymore was wielded by a benevolent paladin who shielded the weak and fed the hungry in the Long, Long Ago. Somehow, it survived the ravages of time stuck inside a stone until it was unearthed by a young nomad boy. He pulled it effortlessly from the stone and went on to lead a crusade against a neo-daemon deep terrorizing his valley. Finally slain, they saw the many suns for the first time in generations. To this day, no one knows where this valleys lies, or what happened to the boy, but every so often…the blade finds a new owner: a new champion.
all art copyright Bethesda, Morrowind concept art
It’s been quite a while since I’ve published a post. As you can tell, I’ve rebranded the site from Organic Memory Device to Cordy’s Corner. I felt it proper to switch it over from what was originally a bit, to be frank. I want to keep it clean and concise as ever and provide the best content I can! I’ve still got some work to do and need to figure out a couple CSS hiccups for list spacing, but things have come along. I have quite a bit in my drafts, collecting dust, that I could fashion into new workable stuff to add into SDM/UVG games. I would also like to expand into Mork Borg and other titles and start doing more design commentaries. Probably scrapping Dungeon Deck though…
I’ll continue my Memory series of porting over the D&D 5e-inspired classes, but I think I’ll start making it a weirder twist to keep in line with the lovely gonzo aesthetic of Luka’s work. Working again on this post has me pondering my orb a whole lot and I’m gonna get my nose back into Affinity, so hopefully I’ll have something exciting on the horizon. I’d love to be the first community content for the system, so I guess the race is on. 😛
Anywho, if you’ve read this far, I truly appreciate you. Thank you!
Music flows through you in mystical fashion. Skilled with singing, playing instruments, and drafting historical epics on the spot. As an action, you can give one of your Hero dice to a creature, increasing it one size. A creature can only have one Bardic die at a time. Tier 2: Recite your dramas with unerring consistency! When your muse rolls a 6 or higher on their Bardic die, you gain a hero die. Tier 3: You are utterly perfect, perhaps even divine. You gain +2 to Reaction rolls and your muse regains Life equal to the result of their Bardic die roll.
Omnivoice
While you have Hero dice, you can universally communicate with any creature, regardless of tongue or anatomy.
Good Company
You can spend a Hero die to confer your bonus to Reaction rolls to an ally. Eventually, you may share a sense of humor.
Spellshare
You can spend a Hero die to cast a power known by an ally in your vicinity, treating it as bardic magic.
Reality Raconteur
You speak and the universe listens. Spend all of your Hero dice to apply that many instances of advantage or disadvantage on a roll. For example, if you have five Hero Dice when you impose disadvantage on a target’s roll, they must roll five times and take the lowest result.
Final Boss Music
While facing a creature of a higher level, you and your allies add +2 to all rolls, treating them as natural rolls. For example, if an ally rolled an 18 on the die, it is considered a natural 20. Optionally, heavy metal or dramatic opera may ring out into the local realty field.
Battle Theme 01
You are skilled at using your instruments as weapons. On a hit, they deal 1d8 damage. THEME 02: Expert at battle instrumentation, your instruments deal 1d10 damage, and you can make them hallmark items with weapon traits. THEME 03: Master at the battle banjo, deals 2d6 damage, and you can spend a Hero die to make the damage dice explode.
d6 Bardic Songs from the Other, Other Realms
Victory Fanfare // Song of Rest
P: 2 R: Short T: All allies D: Instant
At the end of a conflict, you can cast this spell to grant an immediate 1d8 Life to all allies in range.
Overcharge: instead restore one attribute.
Temporal Motif // Song of Time
P: 8 R: Close T: Special D: Instant
Using your favorite potato flute, serenade your surroundings with this mystic tune. After a few moments of playing, you and creatures of your choice within range are tugged backwards through time, landing in the same space a few minutes ago. If a creature is unwilling, they Save. Typically, this snuffs out your past selves, but the simulation may sometimes glitch. Contact your administrator for help.
Hurricane Half-Step // Song of Storms
P: 3 R: Close T: Self D: Channel
Through music or spectacular dance, you whip about a mighty gale in the vicinity. All other creatures within Save or are pushed back to Short range. Arrows, bullets, and prayer-bolts have difficult time (-) passing through this wondrous wind barrier. As part of your action to channel this power, you can launch back any projectiles within the typhoon.
Noospheric Psychelance // Cutting Words
P: 3 R: Short T: A creature D: Instant
Invade the mind of your prey, feast upon their emotions and memories. When you’ve had your fill, yank the noospheric tether and invite pain into their brain. They must Save, suffering 3d6 damage on a failure while losing their will to strike you, or 1d6 damage on a success.
Wanderer’s Steed // Horse-call.exe
P: 2 R: Close T: Special D: A week
A majestic L3 splice-horse appears! Perhaps by druidic call, or a quick hack into the source code. It carries four sacks, and never tires. It can communicate perfectly with you, and if you summon it by your side religiously over time, you may find yourself a lifelong companion. It is adverse to battle, though it may heed the call after a year’s worth of summoning.
Overcharge: instead L5, or it can carry eight sacks.
Courage Thick as Steel // Partita of Protection
P: 3 R: Short T: All allies D: A few minutes, channeled.
While Channeling this multi-layered song, you and your allies gain damage reduction 3.
Ultraviolet Inspiration: d6 Plot Hooks
A long lost historical tome is rumored to have resurfaced in the scholastic orders at large. Detailing the fall of the Viles, it can be found deep within the Forest of Meat, nestled in an overgrown ruin watched over by a L13 Godroot Feaster (writhing, colossal-fanged).
The neoskalds of the southern valleys have called for a moot. The clans have long been at war ever since the High Elder was robbed of his Blod-Crown. Each of the thirteen clans claim another stole away the artefact. You’ve been granted a vision of this artefact, and its hidden away within the Ribs of the Father. Can you procure the crown before the moot? Or is all lost?
A local cat lord recently purchased a rare songblade. Lightweight, smooth, and sings with every strike. You’ve been tasked with picking up the shipment, and delivering it back to the spoiled merchant. It’d be a shame if it were to be lost to the ravages of legend.
An expedition has recently set out from the Porcelain Citadel, searching for ancient sites to the north. Sgt. Pontifax Equinox Mauricitano, a peculiar dwarf of unknown origins, leads the expedition. You’ve been given a missive from a close relative of his, worried about the sergeant’s well-being. Can you find the dwarf before its too late?
Dante, your fondest childhood friend, has studied the spoken word and lyre for most of his life. Attending the Smithson Bardic University in the Emerald City, he graduated with highest honors. Lately, he’s been in a bit of a depressive lull, and indicates in an off-hand comment that he deeply wishes he could see the ancient halls of Vardenull to help spark his creative energies once more. You’ve heard that it’s to the south of the Near Moon.
You’ve sought out the great Poet’s Quill for most of your life. Legends speak of its grand restorative properties, as well as its propensity to raw creation of the material. With a single stroke of the pen, you would be granted the raw creative furnace of a thousand men and women. Can you bear to take up that challenge? What ancient monastery grants safe harbor to this relic? The Black City holds the answers.
Altered Beast I, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
d6 Savage Character Traits
Memory of the Barbarian
Prone to anger, skilled with an axe, club, and greatsword, smells of the wild. Spend and roll a Hero die to fly into a supernatural Rage for a few minutes, gaining that much temporary Life and damage reduction, but you are unable to use Powers and suffer (–) to Saves. Tier 2: Expert, increase the size of your Hero die by one when spent on Rage. Tier 3: Master, add your Endurance to damage dealt with berserker weapons & your Hero dice explode when used to Rage.
Euphoric Struggle
While in a Rage, gain a hero die when you suffer damage.
Stormbound Savage
Ooh girl, you got that electric feel!
When you strike a foe, they lose their reaction until you strike another as superprimal electricity seizes their joints. Tier 2: (+)(+) vs metal. Tier 3: Striking metal-clad foes deals d6 damage to nearby foes.
Beast of Malice
When you slay a Foe, heal 1d4 Life and gain cumulative +1 damage reduction until end of bloodshed.
Crimson Bear Blessing
When you strike a foe, gain a d6 Bear totem, which lasts until next dawn. You can spend and roll any number of Bear totems and add it to a damage roll against a single target.
Jade Wolf Blessing
When you strike a foe, gain a d6 Wolf totem, which lasts until next dawn. You can spend and roll any number of Wolf totems and add the result to an ally’s attack roll.
Iron Boar Blessing
When you strike a foe, gain a d6 Boar totem, which lasts until next dawn. You can spend and roll any number of Boar totems to reduce the damage of one attack by the result.
d6 Brutish Artefacts from the Long, Long Ago
Blood Axe
1d12 damage / 2 stone / L3
Two-handed
Keen: Score a critical hit on a 19-20 (Critical Range +1).
Vampiric: When you slay a foe, gain 5 Life.
Carnage: When you slay a foe, gain a hero die.
Vintner Lords know this dreaded axe all too well. Rumor has it…Cochran Two-Finger’s head was severed from his dark neck by a thrall that threw off her chains. She took the axe from a stump in the vineyard and dispatched him with righteous fury. She took to the country roads and disappeared into the hills, never to be seen again. When a local vampire goes missing…
Lula
1d10 damage / 1 stone / L4
Sentient Artifact: Sassy, borderline bratty personality that bothers you more than you like.
Voltaic Lady: Spend a hero die to Attack a foe at Short range with a bolt of lightning, dealing +1d10 damage.
Bejabbers! You are a master (+9) at knitting and sewing.
Ageless Apostle: While you wield this blade, you do not age.
An enchanted longsword crafted by Argon the Ageless. If you ask Lula, he should be called Argon the Fool. One day, he had eight too many ales and stumbled out into the snowdrifts. Thinking her a carrot, he stuck Lula into the face of a snowman before stumbling back into his hearth to slumber. A fella then came and stabbed him in the chest that very night. Whoops!
God Hand
1d10 damage / 1 stone / L5
Strength or Agility
Holy Hands: Ignores resistance, looks sick – a lot of leather & belt buckles?
Keen 2: Score a critical hit on a 18-20 (Critical Range +2).
Master of Motions: When you strike a foe, automatically succeed at a stunt.
Eclipse: When you slay a foe, all creatures nearby portend a distant omen, suffering d4 to their next roll.
This wicked gauntlet was forged in the soul of a dark sun deep in the voidlanes. Its creator, an eldritch horror beyond comprehension, thought it a joke to place it into the mortal realm to witness the chaos this artifact could cause. Countless wars have erupted from the visions of darkness granted by this wretched creation.
Ancestral Call
1d8 damage / 2 stone / L3
Churning Chaos: Swirls with untapped primal energy. When you strike a foe, energy surges forth, dealing d8 damage to (roll a d6): (1-3) an ally in short range, or (4-6) a foe in long range.
Bestial Nature: Your totem dice are d8’s.
DivineTotem : Once per session, you can enter a Rage without spending a hero die.
This totemic club is made of pure chaosmetal, pulled from veins in the Primordial Infinite. It was forged by a great and fearsome Changetoad. The threads of reality unravel when it drinks enough sourceblood. Take care.
Ursa Minoris
1d8 damage / 1 stone / L4
Lunar Bear: Add a d4 to Attack rolls.
Cosmic Mauler: When you slay a foe, Lunar Bear increases one die size until the end of bloodshed.
Hibernating Titan: Gain an additional d4 Life when you take a short rest.
Unleash [15] – Solar Roar: All nearby foes must roll Morale.
The starforged hatchet of prophecy is one of two hand-crafted by the Crimson Bear. Legends speak of calamity should Ursa Minoris be joined again with its older brother, Ursa Majoris. The Crimson Bear would have you believe those legends are falsehoods spread by the other two Great Beasts in a bid to keep him in check. What do you believe?
Dave
1d6 damage / 1 soap / L3
Strength or Agility
Sentient Dagger: Intensely melodramatic, often cries over his ex-girlfriend, extremely worried over the wielder’s well-being.
Danger Sense: Add a d6 to your Initiative rolls.
Unleash [15] – Emotional Wreck: Dave shrieks out in bothersome anguish, causing nearby foes to suffer (–) on Saves until they seek out psychotherapy.
Dave was once a great prince of a sword-kingdom in the Far South. No mace nor javelin could ever hope to be as beautiful as he, and he knew it. He fell from grace during the Cooksey Incursion, when a fleet of men toppled the great weapon empire. Separated from Lula, he was taken away to the Ultraviolet Grasslands, leaving him a shell of the dagger he used to be.
Ultraviolent Barbarism: d6 Plot Hooks
You have been tasked with retrieving a sacred totem relic from a (roll d6): (1) vome hive, (2) psycho-mutant’s lair, (3) shady black market vendor stall near the Black City, (4) hidden ravine shrine ten miles below the surface realms, (5) hyper-real pyramidal geodesic megastructure two layers above, or (6) Big Bill’s Bigger Saloon™.
A wasp-hawk surprises you in the dead of night around your caravan campfire. Your tribe, clan, gang, or atomic family are in dire need of a Guffin-class MicroBoard Chip to repair their failing water supply system. You may not know what that means, but one of your fellow party members probably knows! It is likely to be found at the Porcelain Citadel, but the Princes have a particular disdain for your people. Good luck!
Your talking sword, Lula, is complaining again. You’re not sure why you keep the damn thing around, but she does make pleasant company on rare occasion. Enough of that though, she has a crucial task for you, Bearer! Her ex-lover messaged her through the Artefactosphere (don’t ask) and wants her back. Reunite the star-crossed lovers and be rewarded! Two talking artifact weapons! No way that can go wrong.
The Eternal Eclipse is nigh! Your armor, previously thought mundane, whispers dark tidings into your ear, prophesying the end of days…of the demon lords of the Second Astral Server laying waste to the Grasslands. The infernal beast within your armor grins and grants you a vision of an individual to be slain, should you wish to prevent this highest of dark calamities. Is this delusion? A darker plot to unravel? What’s the difference?
The Three Beasts are waging war in the North Chasma near the Dark Light Passage. Will you aid the Crimson Bear, the Jade Wolf, or the Iron Boar? Shamans speak of Greater Blessings to be bestowed by the ancient spirits. Godspeed.
You, Black Emperor! Rise! The City has been unconquerable for all of space-time-?/@|!\. Heroes rise, fall, and fade by gracing its streets with their presence. Your divine fury, insatiable as it is, can only be quelled one way. Find the Throne (if it exists) and Ascend. Should you fail, your source code will corrupt and then delete, breaking the universal data-stream, and unleash untold horrors on the fragments that stay behind in the simulation.
Upon the instruments of death the sunlight brightly gleams
Epitaph, King Crimson
Time Knife
2d4 damage / 1 soap / L4
Agility or Charisma
Hyperdimensional: Ignores resistance, looks sick.
Keen: Score a critical hit on a 19-20 (Critical Range +1).
Lethal: Deals triple damage on a critical hit (Critical Multiplier +1).
Terrifying: When you score a critical hit, all creatures nearby must roll vs Morale.
Pulled from the finger of a hyper-horror, a time knife exists in every possible realm at once. It resembles a small tear in the fabric of space that lets you peek inside just long enough to give you a headache, anxiety, or religious beliefs.
Inevitable Rune-Mace
1d10 damage / 1 stone / L3
Accurate: Advantage on attack rolls.
Inevitable: Deal half damage on a miss.
Reliable: Advantage on damage rolls.
When an elite death squad needs serious firepower, you better believe each agent is provided one of these bad boys. Sleek metal finish, color-accented runes of maiming, and vome-leather handle. Oh yeah. Crimson Corps approved.
Duoflare Gamma Blaster Mk9
2d6 damage / 2 stone / L2
Two-handed / Range: Short / Reload 12
Inertial: You can choose to forgo your Movement to double your attack’s damage dice.
Melting: When you roll max damage on a die, the target is unable to move for the next round.
A real sicko devised this death device in a lab somewhere on the badlands northwest of Emerald City. Using a godcore as a power source and the carapace of a mirror scarab as a focusing lens, the first consumer-grade gamma shotgun was born. Built in inertial-capture, cones of pure blue-radiation, and green flames painted on the side. Popular among the wealthy.
Egofire
1d12 damage / 2 stone / L4
Strength or Aura / Two-handed
Hungry: When you slay a foe, heal 1d6 Life.
Lethal 2: Deals quadruple damage on a critical hit (Critical Multiplier +2).
Unleash – Mindburn [15]: instead deals 3d6* damage & sets their ego on fire, imposing [-] on focusing & saves.
A daemon from a kalpa beyond is sealed in the vessel attached to this carbon-black greataxe. Few have seen this terrible weapon in action, even fewer survive to tell the tale. When the spirit of the warrior shines, great fires roar out from the psychic realms and scorch the unfortunate victim. If they survive, their mind is set ablaze in agonizing pain.
Nano-Hammer
1d10 / 1 soap / L3
Fast: +1d6 to Initiative & get a free attack prior to Initiative.
Ultralight: Reduce weight by 1 stone, can use Agility to hit.
Unleash – Massive Crush [15]: reassembles into an enormous maul to deal +1d10 damage and knock back or knock prone.
Onion Corporation engineers from yesteryear devised a solution to protect them from mirror scarab attacks. Installing nano-bot matter reassemblers into their utility hammers, they could quickly mobilize into a proper self-defense force and minimize losses to company property. Thanks to their ingenuity, the board of directors laid off half the security force. Nice!
Explosive: When you hit a target, all nearby creatures take damage equal to your Strength.
Frag Rounds: When you slay a foe, they explode for 1d4 damage to all nearby creatures.
Ultralubricated: Immune to breaking or jamming.
The Crimson Corps had to improvise when they found themselves without a conflict-zone contract. Putting the Onion Corporation behind them, they now shoot their guns in the name of FREEDOM (and lots of cash). Emerald City has scav-scum to deal with in the badlands nearby and fresh new play-toys to obliterate them with. Delivering democracy 10,000 bullets at a time.
Feline Funk is on its ninth life, even in the Violet City. Is it vanity? Gluttony? Either way, few Cat Lords harness their ancestral magicks. While they enthralled the humanoids over generations, their claws grew dull from disuse. Still however, there are still some night clubs that play the classic hits. Here’s a few!
Special thanks to LR_Demiurge_WTF & the Stratometaship.
Cat Scratch Fever // Infected Laceration
P: 2, R: Close T: A creature D: a few minutes
Channel vitriol and hate into your hand-turned-paw, lashing out at your transgressor. Their flesh is mere paper to your venomous talon. Attack & inflict 1d6 damage. Your foe swells and reels in pain, suffering 1d6* damage when they act.
Caesar’s Ear-Bleed // Grievous Speaker Feedback
P: 2, R: Near T: All who hear D: Instant
Losing an argument? Look no further! Loosen your jaw and produce a sound so jarring, painful, and maddening that anyone who hears has to run away, ears cupped, on their next turn if they wish to hold their sanity.
Oliver’s Forced Hairball // Spontaneous Nausea Ray
P: 2, R: Long, T: A creature, D: Instant
Heave and arch your back in a rapid pattern before shooting a deathly glare upward at your mark. Clap your paws together and the creature must Save. Should they fail, they vomit a mass of hair and bile and retch in distress during their next turn.
Rito’s Danger Sniff // Vigil of the Foxdogcat
P: 1, R: Touch, T: Self, D: Imbue
What was that!? Peering out from thy windows of the soul, you expand your awareness to better guard your desmense. You cannot be surprised and during times of ambush, you act alongside your assailant.
Overcharge: additionally you gain [+] to any tests to sniff out details others would miss.
Overcharge Twofold: with precognitive grace, your prowess of the senses extends to nearby allies.
Stormcat’s Pounce // Rapid Forward Accelerator
P: 1, R: Touch, T: Self, D: Imbue
Feed the primal spirit within and leap for the heavens! You safely jump ten times as far. In times of battle, you can move a Short distance and unleash a melee attack, even after already striding through the chaos.
An organic tribute album to the greatest uranium hits. Five classic tracks originally found on Vinyl Press Run-208 of Uranium Butterflies 0.9b (2022), produced by LR_Demiurge_WTF. Emerald City hipsters argue the mythic DJ existed before the Long, Long Ago and with a single bass-drop, collapsed the prior time-cycle on itself and created the Given World anew. But those are hipsters, so take it with a grain of salt. I sure do.
Please note: Cordy, lead singer for Organic Memory Device, wants to emphasize that this is a cover album played on a dream machine-synth. Special thanks to LR_Demiurge_WTF & the Stratometaship.
Repair Loop
// AGAIN BUT BETTER
P: 2, R: Touch T: A creature D: Instant
A friend in need is a friend indeed! Extend your hand through the infinite fractal and pull back threads from a different now-space continuum where a creature avoids suffering, overwriting the local reality. Undo an injury suffered this round, at the expense of the patient’s memory.
Overcharge: undo damage suffered in the last hour.
Overcharge Again: in the last week.
Again?: in the last month.
Somehow, Again: in the last year.
Rot’s Aurora // Bad Time’s Memory
P: 2, R: Self T: Your hand D: Focus
Dangerous, always. Daemons from beyond the putrid veil cackle as you foolishly summon their energies to your hand. Enveloped in oil and hatred, your next touch is that of the rotting god, dealing damage equal to 1d8* + your level. Your very presence corrupts.
Overcharge: from your dark hand, chaos spews forth with sick-fire, affecting all nearby creatures and objects, dealing 1d8 × level damage and corrupting their being.
Overcharge Again: instead a foul tall-pillar of nihilism manifests a short distance from you, corrupting all nearby and dealing damage equal to 1d8* × level per round while you focus.
Foolishly Again: the tall-pillar becomes a long-wall of decay stretching from here to over there. Dark unbeings swirl and shriek within, corrupting the nearby damned, dealing 2d8* × level damage per round and driving them mad while you focus & pay 1 life each round. The cursed creatures within your wall suffer twice as much.
Wizardstrike // Reality Dart
P: 1, R: Short T: A creature or object D: Instant
Channel the negative space of the negative space, buried deep within the hollows of all-reality-truth. Crystallize and launch a lance of creation toward your mark. If you dare, split the lance and divide damage dealt among a number of projectiles equal to your level. The lance deals damage equal to 1d10 + your level.
Overcharge: Your lance reaches a foe at long range and ignores their armour, piercing their ka-ba dyad.
Overcharge Again: 2d10 + twice your level.
Yet Again: 3d10 + thrice your level.
Wizardwalk // Between One Step and the Next
P: 1, R: Touch T: A door D: Imbue
Others see an obstacle in their way. You see a golden opportunity to expose the grand illusion of the Given World for what it is. Place your hand upon a mundane door, locked or not, and imagine it open. It is so.
Overcharge: instead a magical obstacle, such as a force field or electrogate.
Overcharge Again: instead a portal opens through a barrier such as stone, metal, stuckforce, or crystal. Alternatively, link two reflections so that one can step through.
Overcharge Yet Again: Awaken a dormant gate, learn its destination, and bravely step through.
Wizardward // Cloth of Angel’s Guard
P: 2, R/T: Self D: Item
Weave the errors in the null-set to make real an arcane buckler. Wielded in one hand, this lesser aegis provides you +3 defense until you decide it is fictional once again.
Overcharge: lesser aegis to greater, a buckler becomes a two-hand tower. Provides +6 defense & imposes [—] on ranged attacks from a single direction.
Overcharge Again: greater aegis to grand, a tower becomes an arcane chrome-disc, taking two humans to move and shielding three from raining projectiles. Used as an arena, attacks from beyond suffer [—] to those within.
Yet Again: grand aegis to supreme, a chrome-disc becomes an unmoving sphere. Grants immunity to mundane damage, attacks from beyond suffer [—][—] to the lucky six.
