AKA: Rockstar, Musician, Performer, DJ
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Role: Leader Threshold: 1 + Vitality Defense: +1 to Willpower Power Sources: (Choose your primary)
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Stamina: 6 + Vitality Trained Skills:
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“To be a Bard is to accept a life of servitude. Most people will only see the fame, the stardom, the money. What they don’t realize; can’t realize, really, is all the sacrifice we make for them, contantly. With the kind of power we weild, every moment of our lives must be dedicated to it’s use or protection. Frankly, this lifestyle is the least we deserve.” – Mistress N’Vida
Not all Bards are famous, and not all famous musicians or actors are Bards. Ask ten Bards what makes someone a Bard or not, and you will get ten different answers. However, all Bards have a dedication to their craft that goes deeper than simply being good at it. They have found their own way to inspire and help those around them, to sooth their injuries, and to tear down those in their way.
Bards can draw their power from several sources: thier own guile and cunning, being expert liars, or even the knowledge of various myths and traditions.
A Bard who relies on Guile uses their force of personality to atract those around them, and make them want to do what the Bard wants them to do. These types of Bards favor being a secondary controller.
Bards can apply their cunning in another way, by focusing on deception and deceit. These bards tend more towards being secondary strikers, with a splash of controller.
Sometimes, it’s better to know what you’re talking about, rather than bluffing your way through. Bards who favor knowledge double down on their strengths as a leader.
Bards automatically gains the Jack of all Trades feat.
Act: You enter an act by using a power that has the Bardic keyword and an Act section. The Act section specified the effects of the act. They last as long as you choose to maintain the act; the Act section will specify the maintenence cost. You may drop the act at any time on your turn as an incidental.
When you use a power that has the Bardic keyword, you may enter a bardic “act”. These acts last as long as you choose to maintain them. What you are actually doing during these acts, however, is defined by your Bardic Style.
Because bards come in all different types, you must choose at character creation what your “Bardic Style” is. This could be rousing speaches, singing, or playing the lute. Whatever it is, that is the flavor of all of your bardic powers. (Note: This is intended to add flavor and not a mechanic, per say. GMs can, however, choose to make certain monsters resistent to the particular style you have chosen, i.e. A deaf monster may not be affected by singing. We do, however, encourage GMs not to abuse this. If in doubt, choose the more fun or amusing option.)
Here is a non-exhaustive list of possible Bardic Styles:
Feel free to choose anything not on this list, as long as it’s approved by the GM.
Target: All allies in burst
Effect: You and all targeted allies are no longer staggered. Targeted allies may spend a point of stamina to move one step up on the condition track.
Special: This ignores line of affect. (You can target you can’t see, or are blocked by walls, etc.)
Target: One ally in burst
Effect: The targeted ally may immediately give any number of stamina points to any other ally in the burst.
Target: One creature
Attack: Guile vs Willpower
Hit: Presence +
Act(Manuever): When you enter the act, you may spend one point of stamina for each enemy in a close blurst 2. If that enemy moves, thier movement must bring them closer to you. This effects ends once they save, or you fail to maintain the act.
Target: One creature
Attack: Guile vs Willpower
Hit: Presence +
Trigger: You are hit with a Retaliate Attack.
Target: Attacking creature
Attack: Treachery vs Willpower
Hit: Presence +
Act(Manuever): The target takes a
You may enter this act as an action without being hit by a Retaliate attack. When you do so, you must target an adjacent creature.
When you sustain your act, all enemies in a close burst 2 take a
Target: One creature
Attack: Treachery vs Willpower
Hit: Presence +
Special: You may only have one enemy taunted through this power at a time. Using it on a different enemy will immediately end the taunt on the first target.
Until the start of your next turn, if the target moves, all allies except the taunting ally may make retaliate attacks.
Target: One creature
Attack: Mythos vs Willpower
Hit: Intellect +
Act(Manuever): Any ally within a close blast 2 may spend one point of stamina to move up on the condition track as an Incidental.
You may choose to enter the act given by this upgrade, or the original act when you successfully hit with this power.
Target: One creature
Attack: Mythos vs Willpower
Hit: Intellect +
Recharge: Two points of stamina.
Target: One creature
Attack: Guile vs Willpower
Hit: Presence +
Act(Manuever): On your turn, you may force the target to make a Basic Melee attack against any creature.
The target must remain within range 5 of you. If the target is outside range 5, on it’s turn, it must take a manuever to attempt to move back into range 5.
Target: Two creatures
Attack: Guile vs Willpower
Hit: Presence +
Recharge: Two points of stamina.
The targets are stunned, instead of dazed.
Close burst 3.
Recharge: Two points of stamina.
Target: One creature
Attack: Treachery vs Willpower
Hit: Presence +
Act(Manuever): You grant combat advantage and gain +1 soak for the duration of the act. All enemies in a close blast 3 grant combat advantage to your allies.
When you maintain the act, allies in a close blast 3 may also spend one point of stamina to gain +1 soak. This lasts as long as the act is maintained and they are still within a close blast 3 of you.
Target: One creature
Attack: Treachery vs Willpower
Hit: Presence +
Recharge: Spend 2 points of stamina
Effect: All enemies in range 3 gain a
Target: Two creatures
Attack: Mythos vs Willpower
Hit: Intellect +
Act(Manuever): At the start of your turn, all enemies in a close burst 2 of you grant combat advantage. An ally in the burst may give any other ally in the burst a stamina.
Recharge: Spend 2 points of stamina.
The range of the act’s effect is increased to a close burst 3.
Recharge: Spend 1 point of stamina
Target: All enemies in burst
Attack: Mythos vs Willpower
Hit: Intellect +
Range: Close burst: 3
Each enemy hit is dazed, save ends.
Target: One creature in burst
Attack: Guile vs Willpower
Aftereffect: Target is unconcious (save ends)
Act(Action): Choose a creature in close burst 3. The enemy falls unconcious until the end of your next turn.
Target: One enemy in burst
Attack: Guile vs Willpower
Hit: Presence +
Act(Action): You grant combat advantage. You may spend a point of stamina to make a target fail it’s next saving throw versus domination.
Target: One creature
Attack: Treachery vs Willpower
Hit: Presence +
Effect: You enter an Act.
Act(Manuever): On your turn, one ally within range 5 of you can teleport to any square within range 2 of you. They gain invisibility till the end of their next turn.
Target: One creature
Attack: Treachery vs Willpower
Hit: Presence +
Act(Action): All allies in range 3 may ignore the penalties imposed by the condition track.
Target: One enemy
Attack: Mythos vs Willpower
Hit: Intellect +
Act(Action): When you maintain this act, any ally in a close burst 2 may move up the condition track one step. You grant combat advantage
Target: One enemy
Attack: Mythos vs Willpower
Hit: Intellect +
Act(Manuever): All allies in a close burst 2 may spend a point of stamina to gain +2 soak until the start of your next turn.
