END OF SESSION

When you reach the end of a session, choose one of your bonds that you feel is resolved (completely explored, no longer relevant, or otherwise). Ask
the player of the character you have the bond with if they agree. If they do, mark XP and write a new bond with whomever you wish.

DUNGEON
Once bonds have been updated look at your alignment. If you fulfilled that alignment at least once this session, mark XP. The n answer these three
questions as a group:
 Did we learn something new and important about the world?
 Did we overcome a notable monster or enemy?
 Did we loot a memorable treasure?
For each “yes” answer, everyone marks XP.

NOTES

WORLD
CHARACTER PLAYBOOK

THE BERSERKER
“There are those who can’t control their tempers—and then there’s you.
I should like a thousand of you to deploy in the holds and cities of my enemies, and not a
one to stand in the defense of my own.”

PLAYED BY:__________________________
 MAKE CAMP
When you settle to rest, consume a ration. If you’re somewhere
dangerous, decide the watch order as well. If you have enough XP
you may level up. When you wake from at least a few uninterrupted
hours of sleep, heal damage equal to half your max HP.
TAKE WATCH
When you’re on watch and something approaches the camp,
roll+WIS. On a 10+, you’re able to take the camp and prepare a
response—everyone in the camp takes +1 forward.
On a 7-9, you react just a moment too late. Your companions in
camp are awake but haven’t had time to prepare: they have
weapons and armor, but little else.
On a 6-, whatever lurks outside the campfire’s light has the drop on
you.
UNDERTAKE A PERILOUS JOURNEY
When you travel through hostile territory, choose one member of the
party to act as trailblazer, one to scout ahead, and one to be
quartermaster. Each character with a job to do rolls+WIS. On a 10+:
 The quartermaster reduces the number of rations required by one
 The trailblazer reduces the amount of time it takes to reach your
destination (the GM will say by how much)
 The scout will spot any trouble quick enough to let you get the
CHARACTER SKETCH drop on it
On a 7-9, each role performs their job as expected: the normal
GEAR number of rations are consumed, the journey takes about as long as
expected, no one gets the drop on you but you don’t get the drop on
COIN AND TREASURE: LOAD them either
LEVEL UP
MAX (8+Strength) When you have downtime (hours or days) and XP equal to (or greater
than) your current level+7, you can reflect on your experiences and
ITEM WEIGHT VALUE hone your skills.
 Subtract your current level+7 from your XP.
 Increase your level by 1.
 Choose a new advanced move from your class.
 Choose one of your ability scores and increase it by 1 (this may
change your modifier). Changing your Constitution increases your
maximum and current HP. Ability scores can’t go higher than 18.
CAROUSE
When you return triumphant and throw a big party, spend 100 coins
and roll+1 for every extra 100 coins spent. On a 10+, choose 3. On a
7-9, choose 1. On a 6-, you still choose 1, but things get really out of
hand (the GM will say how):
 You befriend a useful NPC
 You hear rumors of an opportunity
 You gain useful information
 You are not entangled, ensorcelled, or tricked
SUPPLY
When you go to buy something with gold on hand, if it’s something
readily available in the settlement you’re in, you can buy it at market
price. If it’s something special, beyond what’s usually available
here, or non-mundane, roll+CHA. On a 10+, you find what you’re
looking for at a fair price.
On a 7-9, you’ll have to pay more or settle for something that’s not
exactly what you wanted, but close. The GM will tell you what your
options are.
RECOVER
When you do nothing but rest in comfort and safety, after a day of
rest you recover all your HP. After three days of rest, you remove one
debility of your choice. If you’re under the care of a healer (magical
or otherwise), you heal a debility for every two days of rest instead.
RECRUIT
When you put out word that you’re looking to hire help, roll:
 +1 if you make it known that your pay is generous
 +1 if you make it known what you’re setting out to do
 +1 if you make it known that they’ll get a share of whatever you
find
 +1 if you have a useful reputation around these parts
On a 10+, you’ve got your pick of a number of skilled applicants.
Your choice who you hire, no penalty for taking them along.
On a 7-9, you’ll have to settle for someone close to what you want or
turn them away.
On a 6-, someone influential and ill-suited declares they’d like to
come along (a foolhardy youth, a loose cannon, a veiled enemy).
Bring them and take the consequences or turn them away. If you
turn away applicants you take -1 forward to recruit.
OUTSTANDING WARRANTS
When you return to a civilized place you’ve caused trouble before,
roll+CHA. On a 10+, word has spread of your deeds and everyone
recognizes you.
On a 7-9, as above, and the GM chooses a complication:
 The local constabulary has a warrant out for your arrest
 Someone has put a price on your head
 Someone important to you has been put in a bad spot as a result
of your actions
BOLSTER
When you spend your leisure time in study, meditation, or hard
practice, you gain preparation. If you prepare for a week or more,
take 1 preparation. If you prepare for a month or longer, take 3
instead. When your preparation pays off, spend 1 preparation for +1
to any roll. You can only spend one preparation per roll.
STARTING MOVES
You begin with the following moves:
 WRATH
When you suffer harm or loss, or witness an ally suffering
the same, hold 1 Wrath, up to a maximum of 3, and let your
anger build. When you hold 3 Wrath and would be made to
hold 4, enter your Blood Rage.
You may choose not to Rage if you wish. If you do, ignore
this slight and take a Debility (the GM will tell you which)
until you have had time to calm down.
Wrath will dissipate over time: for every hour in which you
aren’t fighting or putting your life on the line, reduce your
held Wrath by one.
 BLOOD RAGE
When you fly into the Blood Rage:
 You cannot fall unconscious
 You are immune to anything that influences your mind or
emotions
 You ignore the effects of the Weakened, Sick, or Shaky
debilities.
But the GM also gains the move “Grossly distort your
perceptions” that they can use against you while you Rage.
Beware mistaking friend for foe or causing unintended
destruction.
When you try to control your Rage, roll+WIS. On a 10+,
reduce your held Wrath by one and act as you wish (for the
moment, at least). On a 7-9, reduce your held Wrath by one,
but choose between having to take some deep breaths
while you count to ten, fuming all the while, or venting your
fury—explain how, and on what.
On a 6-, ask the GM what terrible or foolish thing you do.
Your Blood Rage ends only when you run out of Wrath.
 SOUND AND FURY
When you Hack and Slash while in your Blood Rage, your
attacks gain the messy and forceful tags. On a 7-9, instead
of the enemy making an attack against you, the GM will
choose one:
 You expose yourself to attack
 You shatter, break, or destroy something important
 You lash out at an ally or bystander
When you lash out at somebody, you inflict your damage
(forceful, messy) unless they find some way to counter or
evade your attack.
 INSATIABLE
Giving in to your Blood Rage has left its mark on you. Choose an
appetite that you thirst, yearn, or hunger for—something to slake
the anger and fill the hole. When you’re not in your Blood Rage,
your appetite is always in your mind, somewhere:
 Pure destruction  Conquest
 Power over others  Riches and property
 Mortal pleasures  Fame and glory
When you take damage, you can choose to ignore it and instead
take -1 ongoing until you (temporarily) sate your appetite. This
penalty is in addition to any debilities you may have, and if you
already have this penalty you can’t take it again.
ADVANCED MOVES
When you gain a level from 2-5, choose from these moves:
 STILL HUNGRY
Add another appetite to your Insatiable list.
 MY LOVE FOR YOU IS LIKE A TRUCK
When you perform a feat of strength, name someone
present whom you have impressed and take +1 forward to
Parley with them.
 WHAT IS BEST IN LIFE
When you reach the End of Session, if you have crushed
your enemies, seen them driven before you, or have heard
the lamentations of their kinfolk, mark XP.
 USURPER
When you prove yourself superior to a person in power, take
+1 forward with their followers, underlings, and hangers-on.
 SMASH!
When you Hack and Slash or attack in Sound and Fury, on a
12+, in addition to dealing your damage, choose something
physical your target has (a weapon, their position, a limb):
they lose it.
 VANDAL
When you Discern Realities, you may also ask, “Who or what
here is weak or vulnerable to me?” for free, in addition to
your other questions.
 HAIR TRIGGER
You’ve learned how to hold a grudge. When you would
decrease your held Wrath due to rest or meditation, you can
choose to focus on your anger and keep it instead.
 WAR PAINT
When you mark your flesh with the blood or ash of the fallen and
you wear no other armor, you have 2 armor.
 BATTLE-SCARRED
When you first show off the wicked scar you earned in the last
fight, describe it and heal 1d6 HP.
 RING OF PAIN
The spirits of wrath favor you. When you mark the immediate
space around you as your own, roll+CON. On a 10+, anytime
your opponents take damage while in the Ring of Pain, they
take +2 damage that ignores armor.
On a 7-9, you suffer the bonus damage whenever you take
harm, too.
 TERRIFYING REPUTATION
When you enter a town, hold, or steading, rumors of your fury
precede you. Tell the GM a few things the locals might have
heard, and they’ll react accordingly—barring their doors, fleeing
at the sight of you, confronting you, testing your strength,
asking for your help.
When you make the Outstanding Warrants move, the GM will
never send the local constabulary after you—they know better
than to try.
 APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION
Take a move from the WARRIOR, SLAYER, or MARTIALIST
playbook.
 YOU SHOULDN’T HAVE DONE THAT
In or out of your Blood Rage, when somebody attacks you, take
+1 forward to attack them back, or -1 forward if you attack
anybody else.
MASTER MOVES
When you gain a level from 6-10, choose from these moves or
from the Advanced Moves:
 A GOOD DAY TO DIE
When you have less than your CON in HP, take +1 ongoing to all
your rolls.
 ALWAYS ANGRY (requires HAIR TRIGGER)
When you gain Wrath, you can choose to take it personally: fill
up your Wrath and enter your Blood Rage, even if you didn’t
already have 3 Wrath.
 WHO SAID YOU COULD LEAVE?
(requires RING OF PAIN)
You’re not locked in here with them—they’re locked in here with you.
Upgrade Ring of Pain’s bonus damage to +3 that ignores armor,
and when anybody tries to leave your Ring of Pain, they suffer the
bonus damage as if they’d been struck.
 INVINCIBLE RAGE
If your HP is reduced to zero during your Blood Rage, don’t take your
Last Breath—stay standing and fighting until your Rage ends. Then,
Death will come to bargain.
If your HP is 0 and you take further harm, reduce your Wrath by 1.
 UNBOWED, UNBENT, UNBROKEN
(replaces BATTLE-SCARRED)
When you first show off the wicked scar you earned in the last fight,
describe it and heal either 1d6 HP or a debility, your choice.
 BERSERKRAGE
When you are in your Blood Rage, upgrade your damage die to d10.
 CLEAR SIGHT
When you’re in your Blood Rage, no matter how distorted your
perception gets, you can always tell friend from foe. You may still
lash out at an ally or bystander, however.
 FOR THE BLOOD GOD
You are initiated in the old ways, the ways of sacrifice. Choose
something your gods (or the ancestor spirits, or your totem, etc.)
value—gold, blood, bones, or the like. When you sacrifice those
things as per your rites and rituals, roll+WIS. On a 10+, the GM will
grant you insight into your current trouble, or a boon to help you.
On a 7-9, the sacrifice is not enough, and though they grant you
favor your gods take of your flesh as well. On a miss, you earn the ire
of fickle spirits.
 WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
When you cry out a challenge to your enemies, roll+CON. On a 10+,
they treat you as the most obvious threat to be dealt with and ignore
your companions: deal +2 ongoing damage against them. On a 7-9,
only a few (the weakest or most foolhardy among them) fall prey to
your taunting.
 MORE! ALWAYS MORE!
When you satisfy an Insatiable appetite to the extreme (destroying
something unique and significant, gaining vast riches, fame, etc.),
you may choose to mark XP and resolve it. Choose a new hunger, or
write one of your own.
BASIC MOVES REFERENCE SPOUT LORE
When you consult your accumulated knowledge about
something, roll+INT. On a 10+, the GM will tell you something
BERSERKER (D8) HIT POINTS ARMOR

HACK AND SLASH interesting and useful about the subject relevant to your
MAX (8+Constitution)
When you attack an enemy in melee, roll+STR. On a 10+, you situation. NAME: Assign these scores to your stats:
deal your damage to the enemy and avoid their attack. At your DWARF: Rogi, Varrak, Dain, Balgan, Torhad, Fragh, Luda, Jaril, 16 (+2), 15 (+1), 13 (+1), 11 (0), 9 (0), 8 (-1) When you roll a 6-,
option, you may choose to do +1d6 damage but expose yourself On a 7-9, the GM will only tell you something interesting—it’s on Gima, Hald An ability score of 18 gives a modifier of +3 mark XP.
to the enemy’s attack. you to make it useful. The GM might ask you “How do you know
HUMAN: Bjorn, Calder, Astrid, Hertha, Leif, Sigrid, Torben,
this?” Tell them the truth, now. STR WEAK CURRENT
On a 7-9, you deal your damage to the enemy and the enemy Markul, Ulf, Ragnar
makes an attack against you. ORC: Lorik, Kashnak, Fragar, Tragg, Rukor, Hragdush, Perchi, LEVEL
DISCERN REALITIES Kibuna, Gresha, Datinai (Strength) MAX
VOLLEY When you closely study a situation or person, roll+WIS. On a
When you take aim and shoot an enemy at range, roll+DEX. On 10+, ask the GM 3 questions from the list below. On a 7-9, ask LOOK
1. Take +1 forward when acting on the answers. DEX SHAKY
a 10+ you have a clear shot—deal your damage. Choose one or more for each:
 What happened here recently?
On a 7-9, choose one (whichever you choose you deal your  Hair: Shaved, Messy, Braided
 What is about to happen?
damage):  Eyes: Wild, Beady, Cruel (Dexterity) MAX
 What should I be on the lookout for?
 You have to move to get the shot, placing you in danger as  Decoration: Trophies, Ritual Scars, Runic Tattoos
 What here is useful or valuable to me?
described by the GM  Clothes: Crude Hide, Rugged Leathers, Half-naked
 Who’s really in control here?
 You have to take what you can get: -1d6 damage CON SICK
 You have to take several shots, reducing your ammo by one
 What here is not as it appears to be? DRIVE
What drives your ire? Choose one:
DEFY DANGER AID OR INTERFERE  CURSED: Spirits of wrath have burdened you with endless rage,
(Constitution) MAX
When you help or hinder someone you have a bond with, whether you deserved it or not—now you’re just trying to get by.
When you act despite a threat or suffer a calamity, say how you
roll+BOND. On a 10+, they take +1 or -2, your choice. On a 7-9,  RAZOR’S EDGE: Passion lends strength. Strength lends power.
deal with it and roll. If you do it… INT CONFUSED
you also expose yourself to danger, retribution, or cost. Power lends victory. Victory lends freedom.
 …by powering through, +STR
 …by getting out of the way or acting fast, +DEX  BARBARIAN: You’re not the weird one. This is just how you do.

SPECIAL MOVES REFERENCE

 …by enduring, +CON
 …with quick thinking, +INT
 …through mental fortitude, +WIS
 …using charm and social grace, +CHA
On a 10+, you do what you set out to do, the threat doesn’t
come to bear. On a 7-9, you stumble, hesitate, or flinch: the GM
will offer you a worse outcome, hard bargain, or ugly choice.
DEFEND
When you stand in defense of a person, item, or location under
attack, roll+CON. On a 10+, hold 3. On a 7-9, hold 1. So long as
you stand in defense, when you or the thing you defend is
attacked you may spend hold, 1 for 1, to choose an option:
 Redirect an attack from the thing you defend to yourself
 Halve the attack’s effect or damage
 Open up the attacker to an ally, giving that ally +1 forward
against the attacker
 Deal damage to the attacker equal to your level
PARLEY
When you have leverage on a GM character and manipulate
them, roll+CHA. Leverage is something they need or want. On a
10+, they ask you for something and do it if you make them a
promise first. On a 7-9, they need some concrete assurance of
your promise, right now.
(Intelligence) MAX
BACKGROUND
 There’s something about you that sets you apart: what you’ve
LAST BREATH done, where you’re from, or where you’ve been. The rest of the world WIS STUNNED
When you’re dying, you catch a glimpse of what lies beyond the is sometimes as alien to you as you are to it, and others can sense
Black Gates of Death’s Kingdom (the GM will describe it). Then it. Describe what strange thing sets you apart: a coldness to the (Wisdom) MAX
roll+nothing (Death does not care how cool you are). On a 10+, eyes, a sneer or smirk, or something else.
you’ve cheated Death—you’re in a bad spot, but you’re still When you would reach level
alive. Any intelligent, mortal creature who sees you instinctively knows 11, instead:
CHA SCARRED
you’re a force to be reckoned with and will treat you appropriately.  Retire to safety
On a 7-9, Death itself will offer you a bargain. Take it and In addition, when you Parley with anybody who has seen your Blood  Take on an apprentice
stabilize or refuse and pass beyond the Black Gates into Rage, you may use +STR instead of +CHA. (Charisma) MAX  Change entirely to a new
whatever fate awaits you. class
On a 6-, your fate is sealed. You’re marked as Death’s own and BONDS A debility gives you -1 to that stat’s modifier until
healed or resolved
you’ll cross the threshold soon. The GM will tell you when. Fill in the name of one of your companions in at least one:
_______________________ You carry dungeon rations (5 uses, 1 weight), a dagger (hand, 1 weight),
ENCUMBRANCE _______________________ and some token or trophy from where you’re from, where you’ve been, or
When you make a move while carrying weight, you may be
_______________________ what you’ve killed—describe it.
encumbered. If your weight carried is:
 Equal to or less than your load, you suffer no penalty _______________________ Choose your weapon:
 Less than or equal to your load+2, you take -1 ongoing until _______________________
 Vicious axe (close, 1 weight)
 Heavy two-hander (close, +1 damage, 2 weight)
you lighten your burden
 Greater than your load+2, you have a choice: drop at least 1 EXAMPLES: X is surprisingly tough for their kind—they have earned Choose one:
weight and roll at -1, or automatically fail my respect; I will push X to be harder, or I will break them; X is  Adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight) and dungeon rations (5 uses, 1
always making me angry—they should watch out; I have shared weight)
songs of glorious battle with X  Chainmail (worn, 1 armor, 1 weight)