Posts in category Combat Styles
Combat Styles Part 6: The Blade Maste...
We looked at brutes, gunslingers and ranged Lucid combatants. For the final installment of combat styles we end with a variation of the martial artist, pairing hand to hand skill with weapons training.
The name alone Blade Master conjurers images of street Samurai and Yakuza assassins. For our Blade Master we ride the edge of what a blade [...]
Combat Styles Part 5: The Storm Lord
While the Dark Lucid channels the horrors of the Dark the Verdant is bound to the primal forces. Their connection with the land gives them strength. Most give in to the bestial aspect of the Verdant others learn to harness the powers of nature itself.
The Storm Lord embodies classic divine power. Th weather warps to their will and the power [...]
Combat Styles Part 4: The Black Arche...
Guns, it’s true I was a solider once. War taught me fear. There is no greater weapon.
– Albrecht Oswald, The Mad Artist
Each of the Four Realms posses ways to affect others from a distance, but none more so than the Dark. This week we look at the Black Archer, a combatant that forgoes convectional weapons to rely on pure Supernatu [...]
Combat Styles Part 3: Gun Bunny
Forget the romanticism art of combat and the visceral thuggery of some more primitive men by now some one has had to ask and in the immortal words of Simon Phoenix:
“This is the future. Where are all the phaser guns?”
This week we’re talking about guns, marksmen and some of the advantages of being Lucid.
While corporate sec [...]
Combat Styles Part 2: The Hulking Bru...
Last week we discussed how skill and dedication could elevate one’s fighting prowess to supernatural levels. This week we’re taking the opposite approach. The Hulking Brute is a brawler that all things being even a skilled martial artist would have no problem taking apart. However, for the Lucid there is no such thing as a fair fi [...]
Combat Styles Part 1: The Martial Art...
In virtually any role-playing game conflict is an inevitability. Most times this means combat. This series will look at different common themes characters take on and how those are interpreted in Fractured Kingdom. We begin this series with a fighting style that straddles both the real and the supernatural worlds: martial arts.
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