MARTIAL ARTIST
Play the Martial Artist if you want to use a variety of fighting styles to eliminate your foes.
FOUNDATION FEATURE
Stance Fighter: You can channel your inner resolve to shift into martial stances that grant you special benefits in combat. Take the Martial Stances sheet and choose two martial stances from Tier 1. Each time you level up your character, choose an additional stance from your tier or lower.
SPECIALIZATION FEATURES
Keen Defenses: When you’re targeted by an attack, you can spend a Focus to gain a bonus to your Evasion equal to your tier against the attack.
Focus Cannon: Spend a Focus to make an Instinct Roll against an adversary within Far range. On a success, deal d20+3 magic damage using your Proficiency.
MASTERY FEATURES
Limit Breaker: Once per rest, you can perform an unbelievable feat of athletic prowess, such as running across water, leaping between distant rooftops, or scaling a building without needing to roll. When you do, gain a Hope and clear a Stress.
Flow State: You can mark a Stress instead of spending a Focus to shift into a different stance. Additionally, you can spend a Focus instead of marking a Stress to start a combo strike.
MARTIAL STANCES
When you choose the Martial Artist subclass, take the Martial Stances sheet to track which stances your character knows. You can also track which stance you have active and your current Focus.
STANCES
Stances are special body positionings that enable Martial Artists to attack, react, or defend in combat. Each stance grants your character a different ability, bonus, or feature while active. You choose two stances from Tier 1 when you first take the Martial Artist’s subclass foundation card. Mark the circle next to each to indicate that your character knows and has access to them. Mark a new stance from your tier or below each time you gain a level.
FOCUS
Focus represents your character’s poise, clarity, and control. Once per rest during a moment of calm, you can clear your mind and refocus your martial instincts. Clear your Focus track, then roll a number of d6s equal to your Instinct and gain Focus equal to the highest result rolled. You can hold a maximum of 6 Focus.
SHIFTING INTO STANCES
You can spend a Focus to shift into a martial stance and gain its effects. You can shift only into stances you’ve marked as known. When you shift into a stance, it’s considered your active stance until you drop out of it. You can’t shift into or have more than one active stance at a time. Until you shift into a stance, you are not considered to be in a stance or to have an active stance.
DROPPING OUT OF STANCES
If you are already in a stance when you shift into a different stance, you automatically drop out of the previously active stance. You also drop out of your active stance when you take Severe damage or mark your last Hit Point. Otherwise, you drop out of your active stance at the end of the scene. When you drop out of a stance, you lose any ongoing benefits it provides.
STANCE FEATURES
The following section lists all martial stances by tier.
TIER 1
Favored: Gain a bonus to damage rolls equal to a trait of your choice.
Invigorating: On a successful attack, roll a d4 . On a result of 4, gain a Focus.
Quick: When you make an attack, you can spend a Focus or mark a Stress to target another creature within range with that attack.
Reliable: Gain a +1 bonus to your attack rolls.
TIER 2
Aggressive: Gain a −1 penalty to your Evasion. On a successful attack, roll an additional damage die and discard the lowest result.
Anchored: Gain a +2 bonus to your damage thresholds. While in this stance, you can’t be moved against your will.
Defensive: Attack rolls targeting you from within Melee range have disadvantage unless the attacker marks a Stress to negate the disadvantage.
Otherworldly: On a successful attack, you can deal physical or magic damage.
TIER 3
Grappling: On a successful attack within Melee range, you can spend a Focus or mark a Stress to temporarily Restrain the target or throw the target up to Close range.
Scary: On a successful attack, the target must mark a Stress.
Stable: You can spend a Focus instead of an Armor Slot to reduce damage.
Vigilant: When you are targeted by an attack, you can mark a Stress to gain a d6 bonus to your Evasion against the attack.
TIER 4
Crushing: When you deal Severe damage, you can spend a Hope to force the target to mark an additional Hit Point.
Exacting: When you roll a 1 on a damage die, you can treat it as the highest value on the die instead.
Honed: Spend a Focus before you make an attack roll to gain a +1 bonus to your Proficiency for that attack.
Isolating: Gain advantage on attack rolls when there are no other creatures within Very Close range of you or your target.