Rule Book - Fables of Fenorra

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“sell back” any skills that are included in Two Handed Weapon Master. Two Weapons: This skill allows the character to hold and use two weapons in combat, one in each hand. Neither weapon can be a two handed weapon, and one of the weapons can be no longer than a short sword. If different damages are being delivered with each weapon, then you must call out different damages when swinging the weapons. Unnatural Strength: This skill acts as a master proficiency, except that no hand has to be assigned. Also, each time purchased a role play +1 strength is gained to be used for carrying bodies. This role play strength skill may also possibly be used in marshaled encounters only. This skill does not allow the player to rip from binding effects. The maximum purchase amount for this skill is two. Valiant Stand: This skill grants a character the ability to plant their feet and reduce all damage hit with by half (rounded up) for 5 minutes, until death count is reached or they move their feet. This reduces damage from damage inflicting spells as well. The correct verbal to use when taking damage while in a Valiant Stand is “reduced”. The maximum purchase amount for this skill is one. Vital Shot: This skill allows the character's base weapon damage with arrows/bolts be raised to 5. This skill only needs to be purchased once. Waste Away: This skill allows a character to deliver the effect “Waste” via packet once per day per purchase of the skill. This ability is Elementally delivered. The correct verbal to speak when using this skill is “Elemental Waste”. The maximum purchase amount for this skill is four. Waylay: This skill allows the character to attempt to sneak up on another character or monster and knock him, her or it unconscious. The victim of a Waylay will be unconscious for five minutes unless given an Awaken spell or potion. The character must be behind and able to see the targets shoulder blades to perform a Waylay; you cannot reach around from the front. A Waylay cannot be held active like a Critical Slay nor may it switch targets. The Waylay strike has to be a surprise attack to be successful. A Waylay is applied by striking with the striking surface of a hand held NERO-safe weapon. This skill can only be used with a one handed weapon (bows and crossbows are considered two handed weapons for purposes of this skill). The character using this skill must call out the attack verbal of “physical waylay.” If the weapon is not a normal weapon (i.e. silver, magic, elemental aura etc.) then the call is still “physical waylay.” Only one purchase of this skill is needed. It is impossible to Waylay non-humanoid monsters that have no necks, and certain other monsters may also be immune due to alien physiology or no metabolism. Most magical constructs such as golems are likewise immune as they are not life forms in a true definition of the term. Undead are all immune. Weapon Master: This skill allows the use of all non-ranged weapons. It does not allow the use of Shield, Florentine, or Two Weapons. When buying this skill, you must “sell back” any skills that are included in Weapon Master. Weapon Proficiency: This allows the character to do a constant extra point of damage with one weapon for each time this skill is purchased. A person can be proficient in as many weapons as desired, but a Proficiency for each weapon must be bought separately. When Weapon Proficiency is bought, the player must specify for which hand the skill is to be used, as with Critical Slay or Critical Attacks. You cannot use the same proficiency to do an extra point of damage with both weapons if you are fighting with Florentine or Two Weapons skills. When attacking with a proficiency, you should merely call out the extra point of damage as regular damage. Count all previously bought Weapon Proficiencies and Master Proficiencies when determining the cost of this skill. Weapon Skills: The following weapon skills can be purchased. For exact descriptions of each of these weapon skills, see the chapter on Weapons. Archery: This skill allows the character to use a bow or crossbow. In NERO, bow and crossbow use is very limited for safety reasons. For insurance and safety reasons, crossbows and real bows of any draw weight are not allowed. One Handed Blunt: This skill allows the character to wield a one handed blunt weapon. This includes Sap, Bludgeon, Short Hammer, Long Hammer, Short Mace, and Long Mace. A blunt weapon cannot be used for thrusting, and any thrust with the tip of the weapon does no damage. The weapon may be used with either hand. One Handed Edged: This skill allows the character to wield a one handed edged weapon. This includes Dagger, Hatchet, Short Sword, Long Sword, Short Axe, or Long Axe. The weapon may be used with either hand. This skill also allows a character to wield a one handed spear, but the spear is a thrust-only weapon. Polearm: This skill allows the character to wield any hafted two handed weapon with a blade on the far end (a meat cleaver on a stick). This includes any two handed axes, halberds, etc. 43
Shield: This skill allows the character to use a shield in combat. Shield use in NERO is unrealistic, as NERO shields are indestructible. To compensate for this, shield use is somewhat restricted as well, as dictated in the section on Armor. Small Weapon: This skill allows the character to wield any small weapon, and includes Sap, Bludgeon, Dagger, or Hatchet or any other small (under 26 inch) close combat weapon. Note that the weapon must be a minimum of 12" in length. You cannot “sell back” this skill when buying the skills One Handed Edge or One Handed Blunt, although you must sell it back if you buy One Handed Weapon Master. Staff: This skill allows the character to wield a staff. Staff use in NERO is restricted for safety reasons, so a player using a staff must keep both hands gripped within the middle 3 feet of the staff. You cannot trip people with a staff or perform many other staff moves that are staples of staff use in real life. Thrusting with a staff is not allowed. A staff has two edges for the purposes of Vorpal Coatings. Thrown Weapon: This skill allows a character to use hand-thrown missile weapons. All thrown weapons must be soft-sculptured or made of only pipe insulation with no pipe inside. Rocks to be used as thrown weapons must be at least 6 inches in diameter and must be made of open-cell foam, not pipe foam. Thrown weapons should not have any sharp corners on them. Spell packets may not be used as thrown weapons. Javelins may be used as thrown weapons, but one handed spears may not be thrown weapons. This skill is needed, along with Superhuman Strength, to throw boulders. Two Handed Blunt: This skill allows the character to wield a two handed blunt weapon. Note that a blunt weapon cannot be used for thrusting, and any thrust with the tip of the weapon does no damage. This skill also grants the character the skills One Handed Block and Stop Thrust. Two Handed Sword: This skill allows the character to wield a two handed sword, and only a two handed sword. Any other two handed edged weapon falls under the Polearm skill. This skill also grants the character the skills One Handed Block and Stop Thrust. Wear Extra Armor: With this skill, a character can get five additional armor points beyond their class limitations for every time this skill is bought. For example, a scholar could buy this skill three times and be able to legally wear 15 extra points of armor. Magic Spell Aura Spell packets are constructed with bird seed and fabric. The bird seed should be the small variety, with no sunflower seeds or other heavy or sharp items that could hurt. Do not use replacements! Rice can get wet and turn into a hardened ball. Rubber balls or tightly packed rubber bands will be too hard. If you are caught using something other than bird seed, you will have your packets and spell tags, if tags are used, confiscated and will lose your spells for the rest of the day. To make a spell packet, the birdseed is placed in the center of the fabric, and the fabric is gathered around it and a small rubber band is used to bind the fabric or it can be sewn shut.. Packets should be loosely packed—tight balls of birdseed can hurt! The packet may be of any color except orange, blue, green or yellow. Orange packets are used to represent alchemical globes, blue are used for Crystomancy, green are used for master traps and yellow packets are used for arrows. A good size for your fabric is 6”x 6”, and a good amount of birdseed is 3/4 tbsps. You can use different amounts but, you should never use so much material that the resulting packet cannot fit into a 35mm film canister. Packets that are larger than that will be confiscated by a marshal. You may want to personalize your spell packets in some way by using a distinctive cloth or writing on the packets. This is a good way to make sure you can get your packets back after a battle without arguing with other spell casters about whose packets are whose. Spell packets are visible as an opaque colored aura of energy only when held in the hand. In game they are visible but they do not produce any light. They are not in-game items and cannot be stolen, fumbled or removed. You should not carry in your hand more spell packets than you can actually cast (although you can have plenty of extras in your pouches or pockets). If you only have 3 spells, you cannot have 42 spell packets between your fingers. You may also carry packets to represent scrolls or magic items that require a thrown packet to be thrown but those items must be readily available and not stashed away in a backpack. Casting Spells To cast a spell, the caster must have a spell packet in hand. The hand and arm with the spell packet in it must be “free” (Hands that are holding something else, or are tied or bound either physically or with a binding spell are not “free”). The caster must then correctly recite the verbal for the spell in a voice loud enough to be heard by a person standing next to you even if there is no one standing next to you. Within three seconds after finishing the verbal, the caster must then throw the packet at the target. The short phrase or “incantation” of the spell is spoken in plain 44
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