The Fighters · The Banners
The Vanguard
Warrior · The Linebreaker
✦ Name pending — what should we call them?
The names in the book aren’t final — we’ll announce the chosen ones before launch. Yours could be it.
STR
16
+3
DEX
13
+1
CON
15
+2
INT
9
-1
WIS
8
-1
CHA
12
+1
Affinity Binding
Ward Voice
Bane the Cold Between
Proficiencies Athletics · Intimidation · Acrobatics
Warrior · The Linebreaker
Trained to shatter formations and carve the gap the squad pours through.
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The Ladder
What they learn
LV 1
Breach Move through a breakable obstacle as difficult terrain, not a wall.
LV 3
Cut the Angle Ignore one corner per chase/charge; reach a target others can't.
LV 6
Structural Opinion See the one weak point in any barrier or formation; attacks against it crit on 19-20.
LV 10
Nothing Surprises Me Immune to surprise; when ambushed you have already begun moving.
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For the Guide
How to run The Vanguard
VoiceBrash, forward, allergic to caution. 'Shortcut.'
WantsTo be first. To find the fast way through. To be surprised by nothing.
Do this nowThe Vanguard breaches — goes through the obstacle while everyone else is still turning around.
“And yet nothing ever surprises me. Explain that.”
The party's battering ram and its comic liability. The Vanguard solves problems by momentum and geometry — cuts angles, takes hypotenuses, ignores doors. Reckless in a way that is useful exactly often enough to never learn better.
Fights best beside — The Long Reach — The Vanguard opens the wound in the line; The Long Reach's reach keeps it open.
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