Thursday, September 22, 2022

Mörk Borg: Disillusioned Templar

A FAITHLESS CLASS

You cast off your old life and took up your mighty sword in defense of the faithful. You thought yourself blessed when your masters judged you worthy to guard the Cathedral in Galgenbeck itself. But soon you saw the truth: the corruption, the decadence, the devilry that lurked within. You renounced your oaths and fled, hounded by the Two-Headed Basilisks for your vile apostasy.

Begins with 2d6 × 10s and d3 Omens.

HP: Toughness + d10

Oathbound Name (2d10)

Your vows stripped you of your birth name and you cannot reclaim it. The Basilisks dubbed you:

1

First

Austerity

2

Second

Justice

3

Third

Purity

4

Fourth

Rectitude

5

Fifth

Reverence

6

Sixth

Righteousness

7

Seventh

Sanctity

8

Eighth

Temperance

9

Ninth

Truth

10

Tenth

Zeal

What Broke Your Faith (d8):

  1. Widespread consulting of blasphemous texts.

  2. Sacrifice of children to Vehru to secure the gift of prophecy.

  3. Torture of innocents for amusement.

  4. Simony: the sale of ecclesiastical offices for riches.

  5. Sexual depravity among the ecclesiarchs.

  6. Daemonic whispers echoing in the halls of the Cathedral.

  7. Murder of a priest to advance the position of another.

  8. Necromantic rituals practiced on the high altar of the Cathedral.

Abilities

Steadfast, roll 3d6+2 for Toughness. Stolid, roll 3d6–2 for Presence. Roll d4 on the Armor table. Roll d6 to determine which of the following unique Zweihänders you wielded in service to the Two-Headed Basilisks:

  1. Fulgent The blade glows in the presence of undead within 30 feet, but they attack you above all other targets.

  2. Infrangible The blade is unbreakable by any means, even a fumble.

  3. Minatory The blade is frightfully curved, granting +1 to morale rolls against enemies.

  4. Piercing The blade deals +1 damage against tier 0 and tier 1 armor.

  5. Tenacious If broken while wielding the blade, re-roll result of dead; second result of dead is needed to slay you.

  6. Warding While wielding the blade, your defense DR is 11.

5 comments:

  1. I think my vocabulary has been augmented just reading this.

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    1. I'm curious what word(s) you didn't know already. Simony, maybe? That's pretty rarely heard these days, but it comes up all the time in European and Christian history.

      FWIW, minatory means threatening, not curved no matter how frightfully. Unless you're in a Monty Python skit, a banana is not a minatory weapon.

      Nice to see devilry used, always preferred that spelling to deviltry but it seems to lose out most of the time.

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    2. I wonder how many native speakers know what a glaive-guisarme is.

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  2. I credit RPGs and fantasy/SF novels in my youth for giving me my English SAT scores back in the louring mists of my youth...

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