i'll be your shield, bro (GlitterGLOG class: GALLANT)

 

GALLANT

 by le fruste mangaka

 

“My cause is totally righteous, dude!”

Starting Equipment: 

-a longboard, snowboard, surfboard, or similar board of transit (2 slots);

-melee weapon of your choice (varies);

-dripped-out heavy armor (4 slots);

-3 rations worth of travel-safe hot dogs, mini pizzas, and/or canned beer (3 slots);

-a worthy cause (a place in your heart)

Dripped-Out Armor: You’ve basically got light armor over your heavy armor, so it’s a +4 armor. No one other than a gallant is confident enough to pull this off effortlessly, so this functions as normal heavy armor for other classes.

 

Level 1: bro code, staunch attunement, hang in there
Level 2: righteous steed, +gallantry
Level 3: the tony hawkman effect, +gallantry
Level 4: keep hanging on, +gallantry

Bro Code: Whenever you gain a level in gallant, you make a new vow. This should be fairly specific and something you could conceivably fail at – “I will uphold justice” or “I will be merciful” aren’t great vows, but “I will never damage an old car” or “I will not kill” are. When you break a vow, you lose a gallant level and that vow the next time you complete a rest, unless you have atoned. When you uphold your vow at cost to yourself, you gain an additional use of Hang In There for the day.

Staunch Attunement: At character creation, choose two damage types from Cold, Wet and Righteous. Whenever you use an ability with Attuned damage, you deal damage of those two damage types. You also deal an extra 1 point of typed damage using items with your Attuned types.

Hang in There: Restore 1d6 Guard to a target within one square. You may use this ability [GALLANT LEVEL]x2 times per rest.

Righteous Steed: The board from your starting equipment becomes a magic item, and returns to you in two days if it is lost or destroyed, including if you already lost it. It is obviously Glittery and functions as if under its own power. You may also use your faithful steed as a medium Blunt reach weapon. It won’t mind.

Gallantries: You have to support your cause somehow, but not everyone agrees in what way is best. At every level after the first, you can select a Gallantry that not every gallant has access to – see the list below.

The Tony Hawkman Effect: When you are not wearing your full armor and do not visibly have your righteous steed, you may designate yourself as unrecognizable to authority figures. In combat, you may designate everyone else as targets of diminished import by dramatically donning your helmet or drawing your righteous steed. For at least the actions immediately after revealing your identity, enemies will target you in lieu of your allies. 

Keep Hanging On: Hang in There now restores 1d6+4 Guard and you can choose to roll again if you roll 1 or 6 by expending an extra usage. You can keep rolling indefinitely as long as you have the uses for it. The +4 Guard is applied once after all dice are rolled.

When you retire a level 4+ gallant, you may bequeath your righteous steed to a worthy recipient. They are not proficient with it as a weapon and cannot make use of its more esoteric powers, but it does serve as a tower shield that grants its user Creepy Resist 4 and only weighs as much as a heavy shield, since it’s made of wood.

 

 

 

by makkon 

 

Gallantries

Choose one of these every time you gain a gallant level after the first.

Get Down, Dude!: (Loud) You may intercept an attack meant for a character that is within your movement range. Move to the square that character occupied, move them one square in any direction that makes sense, and take the attack as if you were the original target in all ways. You cannot use this ability without shouting its name, in and out of game.

Bodacious Bulwark: Once per scene, if you are wielding your righteous steed, you may swing it to the side to block an incoming attack directed at a character within your melee range. Roll melee damage with any appropriate bonuses and reduce the character’s damage taken by that amount, and then reduce it by 4 more if it’s Creepy damage.

Swipe Out: You may sweep your righteous steed across the three or six spaces in front of you in one motion, making a single standard attack roll applied to all targets. Targets take one less damage for each target of the attack.

Stay Sharp: You modify your righteous steed, such as by sharpening its fin or barbing its wheels, such that it may deal Sharp damage. You choose whether your steed deals Sharp or Blunt damage every time you attempt an attack.

Keep It Cool: Rations and similar items kept on your person are kept cool or frozen and prevented from contracting mold, bacterial contaminant, or even magical spoilage. You also gain a travel cooler and can fit 5 rations in it. You may only select this gallantry if your Staunch Attunements include Cold.

Hydrate or Die-drate: Whenever you complete a long rest, you create a radical elixir that counts as a ration and restores 1d6 Guard when imbibed. You may only select this gallantry if your Staunch Attunements include Wet.

Sword and Board: Your righteous steed now deals Righteous damage in addition to its other damage types, and it also deals extra damage. It deals +[GALLANT LEVEL] damage, and also benefits from your Staunch Attunement. You may only take this if your Staunch Attunements include Righteous.

 

by Paul G

The Big One: (Loud, flashy) Once per long rest, you may use your righteous steed to make an attack powered by a rushing wave of water, dealing 5d6 Cold and Wet damage in a three-square-wide space in front of you and pushing all targets aside by one square. You must have at least two squares of space between you and the target to ride the big one. You may only select this gallantry if your Staunch Attunements are Cold and Wet.

Bros In the Hot Tub: The range of Hang in There increases to three squares. It also now creates soothing steam that cures mental conditions and anything that taking a bath could solve, like being on fire or not being Immaculate. You may only select this gallantry if your Staunch Attunements are Wet and Righteous.

Chill, Bro: Once per long rest, you may encase a foe you touch in Glittering ice for [GALLANT LEVEL-1] rounds, preventing all physical action for as long as the ice entraps them. The ice has Resist 5 against all damage except Hot and Blunt, and has 10 Guard. You may only select this gallantry if your Staunch Attunements are Cold and Righteous.

 

Notes

the gallant is intended to be a foil to the specter, the light knight to its dark knight with the opposite elements to match. the gallant is definitely the most support-oriented core class there is, but it's also martially capable because like, listen. i love playing healers but in my humble onion, i think heal monkeys are fucking boring a lot of the time. 

 

also, i think it's cute that the chivalrous gallant with its defensive abilities is kind of the ideal protector for the utility-focused princess. 

 

this entire "paladins are bros" bit spiraled out of me calling radiant damage "righteous".

 

thanks as always to my coconspirator gigi gutsygills for her help with this class.

this is who i really am (GlitterGLOG class: SPECTER (antipaladin but awesome))

 

SPECTER

ph4nt()m__K1SS, nyandroid specter -- made in Hero Forge by yours truly. 

 

“Wakarimasu ka who you are facing right now?”

No More Heroes 3 OST - ITADAKIMASU Sushi Shop Theme

You're dead to your peers, a revenant walking. The foolish mortals watched you patrolling the mall, black coat billowing behind you with a hand on the hilt of your blade, and they scoffed like you were lost. Whatever -- those sheep wouldn't know cool if it hit them with an exploding bike. You're a badass and you know it; and now that the plan's on fire and the cops are at the door, well... it's time to make sure everyone else knows it too.

Starting Equipment:
-ONE OF: a katana (medium sharp),
 a kusarigama (medium reach sharp),
 a fistful of shuriken (light sharp),
 OR a sansetsukon (+1 medium reach recoil blunt) (1 slot for katana or shuriken, 2 for kusarigama or sansetsukon) (you do not yet have proficiency with this weapon);
-the last two cans from a six pack of limited-edition Abomination energy drinks with a video game mascot on them (1 slot);
-a billowing trenchcoat (medium armor) (2 slots) OR a hooded cloak (light armor) (1 slot);
-1 ration worth of nacho cheese tortilla chips (1 slot)

Limited Edition Abomination: Restores one action point when consumed. When consumed by a specter, also grants one Cool Point. Other editions of Abomination do not grant Cool Points. Encountered in the wild, such as by a collector, you’re likely to find it in a six pack that
takes up three inventory slots and costs a small fortune.

Level 1: wicked sick, dark attunement, master forgive me
Level 2: path of the twisted fucking cycle, +1 forbidden technique
Level 3: welcome to my twisted mind, +1 forbidden technique
Level 4: getting serious, +1 forbidden technique

Wicked Sick: You gain a Cool Point for doing something dangerous and badass. You lose a Cool Point for doing something uncool. The table decide by committee whether an action is badass, uncool or normal. Willfully endangering innocents or allies usually isn’t badass. There is no upper or lower limit on the number of Cool Points you can have, and you lose a specter level if you complete a rest with negative Cool Points.

Dark Attunement: At character creation, choose two damage types from Hot, Dry and Creepy. Whenever you use an ability with Attuned damage, it deals those damage types. You also deal an extra 1 point of damage using items with your Attuned types.

Master, Forgive Me: Go all out, just this once. You may spend a Cool Point to immediately make three attacks, and choose a target within range for each one. You may choose the same target more than once.

Path of the Twisted Fucking Cycle: You gain a twisted fucking cycle, which is unconcealably magical and wicked sick. It occupies 20 inventory slots if you’re physically carrying it. You can summon it in an area you could ride it in as an action. When riding adjacent to foes, your attacks gain a +[SPECTER LEVEL] damage bonus. The extra damage dealt is Attuned damage. You may leap off your cycle to have it barrel forward without you and explode to deal 5d6 Attuned damage, though this leaves you unable to summon it again until next nightfall.

Forbidden Techniques: Each specter manifests power in their own way – at every level after the first, you may select a forbidden technique to distinguish yourself from your peers.

Welcome to my Twisted Mind: Add +[SPECTER LEVEL] to your goal when resisting any mental effects inflicted by another creature, and if you succeed they must save or suffer the effects.

Getting Serious: When an ally falls to or below 1 Guard, you may use Master, Forgive Me immediately without consuming a Cool Point. You must either use the ability immediately or not at all. Summons or temporary mobs can only trigger this ability once per scene, but you can avenge your twisted fucking cycle if someone else destroys it.

When your dark work is done and you relinquish the mantle of the level 4+ specter, you may bequeath your twisted fucking cycle to a worthy successor, as determined by you. This successor should be appropriately wicked, but as a specter you decide what is cool.

Forbidden Techniques
Choose one of these every time you gain a specter level after the first.

Teleports Behind You: You may spend a Cool Point to reposition yourself behind an enemy as a reaction to an enemy’s attempt to attack you, canceling the attack.

Nothing Personnel: Every nightfall, you may summon [SPECTER LEVEL]+1 minions. They each have one point of Guard, zero in every stat, and your attack modifier. The nothing personnel take damage from sunlight.

Crystallize the Pain: Once per rest, you can grab an attack out of the air. You take full damage, and create a fist-sized pain crystal containing the attack as a 1-slot item. You can throw a pain crystal to permanently shatter it, unleashing the attack stored within.

Bad Girls And Bad Boys: In dungeons (broadly defined) that you visit, the same hot adversary in black leather can sometimes be found aiding the dungeon’s boss. They are opposed to you but will not allow you to fall if they can help it. They have specter levels equal to your total character levels, up to level five. For level 5, they gain the last applicable forbidden technique.

Searing Sigil: (Flashy) You may expend a Cool Point to inscribe a wall or large object with a personal, wicked sick sigil that glows dimly until you activate it. Upon activation, the sigil is expended, dealing one point of Hot damage to characters within one tile, and you explode through the wall with the sigil on it in a cloud of fire, riding your twisted fucking cycle. You may choose to destroy the wall. You may only select this forbidden technique if your Dark Attunements include Hot.

Shrivel: (Scary) You may spend a Cool Point and touch a target to deal [SPECTER LEVEL]d4 Dry damage. This does an additional [SPECTER LEVEL]d4 damage to targets with significantly Wet properties. You may also use the ability to destroy potions and other watery items; this is a SPARKLY contest if the items in question are equipped and you can destroy up to [SPECTER LEVEL] equipped items. You may only select this forbidden technique if your Dark Attunements include Dry.

Something to Fear: (Scary) When you take at least 4 damage in a single hit, you may spend a Cool Point to inflict one round of fear on the attacker. You may spend two Cool Points to grant an ally an immediate use of this ability by leveraging your reputation. The ally must be within 6 squares and their attacker must be able to see you or otherwise know of your association. You may only select this forbidden technique if your Dark Attunements include Creepy.

Burning Rubber: (Flashy) While riding your twisted fucking cycle, you can leave a trail of flame behind you. It burns intensely enough to ignite particularly flammable things and deal 1 Hot and Dry damage to any character who enters it. As a bonus action, you can spend a Cool Point and intensify the flames to deal [SPECTER LEVEL] more. You may only select this forbidden technique if your Dark Attunements are Hot and Dry.

Call To Below: You may spend a Cool Point to rip open a portal to Below, summoning a demonic biker-knight who will fight alongside you, or can service your twisted fucking cycle efficiently and competently. Your thrall will stay for [SPECTER LEVEL]+2 rounds. If it is slain, it will return home and will not respond to your call until the following nightfall. You may always avenge your thrall with Getting Serious, even if you avenged a different character or summoned ally this scene. You may only select this forbidden technique if your Dark Attunements are Creepy and Hot.

So Long Suckers!: (Loud, flashy) As an action, rev up your twisted fucking cycle and create a huge cloud of dust. When the dust clears, a decoy of you appears to be flipping off the nearest opponent, distracting onlooking enemies as you maneuver yourself elsewhere. This only works on each opponent once per scene. You may only select this forbidden technique if your Dark Attunements are Creepy and Dry.

CREDITS

thank you to phlox for bringing us the darke renegade, to whom the specter owes a great deal of its lineage, as well as the inspiration for the crystalize the pain ability.

thank you to my friend and collaborator gigi gutsygills for helping me bring this class to fruition -- don't tell the others, but the specter's kind of our baby.

 

thank you to my friends card and strong for being real life specters

 

 NOTES

i thought it would be really funny to make the edgelord class be one of the core classes, and the more we developed it the more we realized it perfectly fit the tone of the setting. also, we've done a joker's trick by making the core class that most lends itself to being a dark and brooding type not only be an affectionate parody, but also by giving it a bunch of support abilities. being a team player is wicked sick, bro.

 

the specter is intended as a foil to the gallant, the dark knight to its light knight.

shed your skin, don’t be afraid to evolve (GlitterGLOG class: WITCH)

It just wasn't fair. It wasn't fair that you lived in a world teeming with unmatched biodiversity, with quintillions of animals in every beautiful shape, and here you were stuck with just one.

There was a time you would have lamented this injustice, cursed your obdurate flesh. But you've learned, since then, that a little larceny can even the scales.

You are envy realized, a lesson in fluidity, a tribute to evolution, and you can turn into a goddamn moose whenever you want so they'd better not fuck with you.

 

witch

“Let no shape bind you. Transcend the limits of your given form. Go apeshit.”

Starting Equipment: 

-one taglock from an animal of your homeland (see below) (1 slot);

-a skinning knife (light sharp) (1 slot);

-a ragged outfit (light armor) (1 slot);

-big stompy boots (1 slot);

-3 rations worth of jerky, nuts, and candy (3 slots)

Big Stompy Boots: Helps you walk through difficult terrain, negating the extra step cost. If a witch is wearing big stompy boots, they move through squares of difficult terrain for zero steps.

Level 1: envious, wildshape
Level 2: baleful polymorph, shed skin

Level 3: ever-shifting, sheep’s clothing

Level 4: chimeric

Envious: You have a collection of taglocks taken from beasts, whether living or dead. You decide what each one looks like – perhaps a jangling necklace of bone, a taxidermied insect, or a braided scrap of hair. These items are what allow you to wildshape – You may only become a beast if you have an appropriate taglock. You can gain new taglocks by taking them from beasts, though if they are alive and unwilling you will likely be met with resistance. A witch’s Glitter spoils a corpse that a taglock has been taken from, rendering it unable to be harvested for food, additional taglocks or most other purposes. Only a witch knows how to harvest and use taglocks, but they can be traded between witches. Most taglocks are 1-slot items.

Wildshape: Use one of your taglocks to shapeshift into the corresponding animal as a one-point action, trading your physical abilities for its own. You keep your own attributes, but for each witch level you can increase any combination of your STRONG, STURDY, SLICK, attack, or defense by 1. You lose all your nonmagical abilities and gain all of the nonmagical abilities of the animal you become, and trade all your tags for its tags, plus the magical and person tags. Your wildshapes are obviously unnatural in a way associated with your identity, such as by retaining your hair color, your eyes, or some aspect of your aesthetic.

Baleful Polymorph: As a two-point action, you can use one of your taglocks in an attempt to polymorph a single creature you are touching. This works without fuss on a willing target, but an unwilling target saves SPARKLY, and if they fail they are transformed into the animal corresponding to the taglock you used -- which becomes inert and unusable until you rest -- for 1d4+1 turns. The target retains their current Guard, memories and mental faculties and can still speak, but in all other respects is an animal now. You may also sacrifice the taglock you used to make the transformation permanent until dispelled.

 

Shed Skin: When you take damage while wildshaped, you may choose to revert to your natural form to negate the damage. The corresponding taglock becomes inert if you do this, and you may not use it until your next long rest.

Ever-Shifting: You can wildshape as a reaction. Additionally, you can forgo your reaction to wildshape on your turn instead of spending an action point.

Sheep’s Clothing: When wildshaping, you can choose to become a natural-seeming animal instead of adjusting your attributes. You are able to pass for a normal animal unless you blow your cover, though thorough inspection may still give you away. While using Sheep’s Clothing you may drop the disguise and immediately adjust your attributes accordingly as a free action.

Chimeric: When you wildshape, you may use two taglocks to create a merged form of those animals, gaining the chimera tag and all of the tags and abilities from both. If you Shed Skin while in a chimeric form, revert to your natural form as usual but choose which of the two taglocks becomes inert. In the Glitterverse, you might be able to convince people this chimeric form is a naturally-occuring monster, so you can use Sheep’s Clothing and Chimeric at the same time.

When you retire a level 4+ witch, you may choose to give up one of your taglocks – Maybe you give it to an ally, or hide it away somewhere. That single taglock can be used to Wildshape whether or not its wearer is a witch themself.

 

devnotes

 i dont like the way many rpgs do druids. aside from the fact that the image codified into stock fantasy is drawn from conquering cultures' misconceptions of historical druids far more than it is actual celtic practice, i think the gygaxian model is just messy and unfocused. this is why i split their kit into three separate classes with tighter focuses -- the princess is a beastmaster who speaks to animals, the witch is the shapeshifter who becomes animals, and the botanist harnesses plants.

 

i borrowed a lot from princess in yellow's own shapeshifting witch, but i decided to make them feel more earthly and physical by having their shapeshifting require fetishes taken from animals -- which also makes them a tiny bit like a psuedo-prepared class, needing to manage their inventory of taglocks before setting off. shed skin borrows from dungeon world's druid, but i've overhauled its cost to fit my model better.

 

this is actually the first class i ever finished statting up for the glitterglog, and i'm especially fond of it. what do yall think? 

your head, your hands, brimming with violence (GlitterGLOG class: ARMSMASTER)

armsmaster

“To become over-familiar with one weapon is as much a fault as not knowing it sufficiently well.”

 

Your crew rely on weapons. You know weapons. You wield them like you're conversing with them, drinking in the language of violence that each one speaks until you know every nuance. Until your eyes swim with projections of mace-swings and spear-strikes and you look right through that busted-ass sword and see exactly how you're gonna fix that piece of shit better than new.

Starting Equipment:

-any three standard weapons of your choice (you lack proficiency with one of them, it’s brand-spanking new) (varies)

-your choice of medium or heavy armor (2 slots for medium, 3 slots for heavy)

-a kit of smithing tools (1 slot)

-a half-empty bottle of Rust-X (1 slot)

-2 rations worth of canned stew (2 slots)

Smithing Tools: You need this to apply upgrades from your notches ability.

Rust-X: Can be used to remove all notch upgrades from a weapon. One bottle is good for 10 uses. You can get more at any good hardware store.

Level 1: quick learner, notches

Level 2: wepoans unleashed

Level 3: *shing*
Level 4: iaijutsu

Quick Learner: You become proficient with a weapon type after you make your first attack with it, whether or not you hit. Choose one additional weapon proficiency at character creation. Jitterblasters, rattleblasters, and blasting rods are still exempt from this ability. 

Notches: Each time you defeat an enemy, you add a notch to your weapon. When you reach a total of 10, 20, 30, or 50 notches with a weapon type (such as ten KOs with hammers), you may unlock a new upgrade for that weapon, and apply it to any weapon of that type in your crew. Each upgrade may only be applied once, but if the weapon it is applied to is lost, you may upgrade another weapon of the same type with the same upgrade. You may apply multiple upgrades to the same weapon. You may select from the following upgrades:

+1 Damage

+1 Crit range

+Status effect on crit negotiated with GM.

+Special passive utility ability negotiated with GM.

You may only select each type of upgrade once per weapon type, until you have 50 notches. Your 50th notch can be a repeat.

For instance, an armsmaster with 20 notches on flails who put all his upgrades on one flail could have a crit range of 2 and the ability to stun an opponent for one round on a crit with that flail. You can work with your GM to determine how specific each weapon type has to be.

Multiple armsmasters in one crew track their notches separately, so if another armsmaster hands you a used, it'll have no notches for you -- though you can still benefit from their upgrades.

Wepoans Unleashed: At any time you may draw any type of weapon from an unspecified location. This weapon is added to your character sheet and is normal for its type in all ways. You may do this once for every armsmaster level you have beyond first. If you do not use the ability before leveling up, it does not stack.

*shing*: You may immediately switch weapons once per round, even when it is not your turn, but not in the middle of an action (e.g. after a to-hit roll but before a damage roll). You are encouraged to mime drawing the weapon in real life when doing this, even if nobody can see you.

Iaijutsu: You may attack immediately after switching weapons with *shing*. This still requires you to have an available attack action.

When you retire any armsmaster of any level, you may first apply all of your unused upgrades immediately, plus one free upgrade if level 4+.

 

design notes

the original GLOG fighter and consequently many of its derivatives already carry a strong flavor of being a multidisciplinary weaponmaster. it's my favorite part of its class identity, so when we were trying to nail down the focus of our core fighter, i decided to make that its entire gimmick. the armsmaster isn't just a murder machine, though -- our tweaks to notches are intended to encourage an armsmaster to also be a team player by giving them the ability to distribute their upgrades across the crew's weapons. you learn to use a sword good enough and you can tune up one of your buddy's swords. did we do a good job? let us know.

you sing the song of swarms (GlitterGLOG class: PRINCESS)

the princesses of yore

In the Days of Yore, the gentle voice -- the ability to speak to animals and to understand them in turn -- was understood among humans and mawas to be a manifestation of the divine right of kings. The gods had gifted their chosen few and their descendants the right to rule, and what clearer proof of this could there be than authority over beast as well as man?

And so kings and their heirs were accompanied always by beastly retainers. King Vokrem of Albalon famously kept an albino alligator at the feet of his throne. After a hunting expedition, he returned to court with the predator in tow and explained that he had intended to take a trophy of the beast, but it prostrated itself at his feet and he knew then that it was a gift sent to him by Prosperity.

There are no native alligators in Albalon. It died within the year, and then he mounted its head over his throne.

Anyway, about 150 years ago in Langshoka, stolen books from the library of House Yuga were copied and circulated, containing instructions on teaching the gentle voice. There was always suspicion that the royals had been lying, of course -- people are generally smart -- but this outright confirmed it. The gentle voice was not an inborn, gods-given gift. The practice was demanding, but this magic could theoretically be learned by anybody, regardless of station. And so there were those who did. The mawas called their beast-whisperers pawang, and trusted them to ward off predators from their jungle homes.

When the humans of Albalon eventually discovered the same secret, the revolutionaries who had stolen the teachings hitherto reserved for the heirs defiantly branded themselves the princesses, heedless of gender. They sent birds and rodents into the castles to harass their inhabitants, until enough of them were caught and killed that the survivors quietly disbanded.

 

the princesses of today

 “Go get mommy a chai, okay, Bingus?”

Starting Equipment: 

-frippery (not armor) (1 slot);

-casual wear (light armor) (1 slot);

-crown (improvised light sharp) OR fan (improvised light blunt) (1 slot);

-a walkman (1 slot);

-1 ration worth of bougie-ass gimmicky trendy food (1 slot);

-3 rations worth of animal feed (don’t eat this) (3 slots)

Frippery: Any outfit of sufficiently pointless ostentation that is impractical for combat scenarios. Functional armor can’t count as Frippery. Some of your class powers depend on you wearing frippery.

Level 1: royal retainer, gentle voice, primp and preen

Level 2: damsel in distress, +another retainer and another gentle voice

Level 3: royal summons, +another retainer and another gentle voice

Level 4: royal treatment, +another retainer and another gentle voice

Royal Retainer: You are accompanied by a relatively docile animal (like a songbird, a doe or a chameleon, for example). It thinks of you as a trusted friend and is eager to follow your suggestions, but it will run away for the rest of the day if it takes too much damage. Whenever you gain a princess level, you may select another relatively docile beast that is sufficiently different from your other royal retainers. A human’s dog becomes a bonus retainer.

Gentle Voice: You can speak to certain beasts and understand them in turn. Beasts do not think like sapient creatures and aren’t likely to care about or be able to tell you about much outside their beastly purview, but they like princesses and typically will at least hear you out. You can always speak to beasts sufficiently similar to your royal retainers, and also learn to speak with an additional category of animal every level.

The table decides what counts as an animal “category”, but some examples include “frogs and toads”, “river fish”, “boneless fish”, “bees, ants, wasps” or “social insects.”

Primp and Preen: If you are wearing Frippery and out of combat or danger, you may spend a short while to become Immaculate. While Immaculate, you look as composed and put-together as possible under the circumstances, and intelligent creatures must Save to target you. You cease to be Immaculate the first time you take damage.

Damsel in Distress: (Loud) If you’re wearing Frippery, you can swoon and call for help to redirect an incoming attack to an adjacent ally who would be a valid target, who then rolls defense against this attack with damage resistance equal to your SMOOTH. 

Royal Summons: (Loud) Once per scene, you can issue a royal summons with your gentle voice and attract a more-or-less friendly beast of a type that lives nearby. You do not get to choose what type of animal it is, and it can be a somewhat more dangerous animal than your retainers are allowed to be.

Royal Treatments: At level four, you may select an upgrade to one of your existing abilities.

Royal Retainer becomes King Among Beasts: You may select a significantly more rowdy and dangerous beast as an additional royal retainer, such as a walrus, a moose, or a fucking dinosaur. This animal is absolutely willing to throw down the moment you give the signal. Like a normal retainer, it will return to you the next day if it flees.

Gentle Voice becomes Tongue of the Trees and Tides: You may speak to any beast, and can perfectly imitate the sound of any of your retainers and one animal from each previous gentle voice. 

Primp and Preen becomes Demanding Presence: While you are Immaculate, you gain a +2 bonus to the goal for intimidating, browbeating, diplomating, and otherwise telling people what to do. The goal to target you when Immaculate also decreases by 2.

Damsel in Distress becomes Kill for Me: In addition to its normal use, you may once per scene command an ally to make an preemptive counterstrike against an enemy that intends to attack you. If your ally can see and hear the enemy, before the enemy is able to move into position your ally moves and makes a standard attack against the target adding your SMOOTH as a damage bonus. If Kill for Me connects, the enemy’s turn is canceled.

 

Royal Summons becomes Swarmsong: When you issue a royal summons, you may instead summon an auditorium of animals to wash over your foes, either dealing 5d4 Sharp and Wet damage to all targets you designate, or removing a single character from the scene, and causing other miscellaneous carnage.

The GM may decide that local animals deal different damage types, like Creepy if there are a lot of poison animals.