Rule Book - Fables of Fenorra

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
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