Blessing of Steel
Descrição
The sword is the soul of the samurai, and proper maintenance of one’s ancestral wargear is not just an important physical act, but also a sacred rite in its own regard.
Regras
- Ativação
As a downtime activity, you may make a TN 2 Smithing check using any ring to undertake the maintenance of your weapons and armor.
- Efeitos
If you succeed, apply one of the following based on the ring you used:
Air: Increase the deadliness of a weapon by 1.
Earth: Remove the Damaged quality from the item. If it did not have the Damaged quality, it gains the Durable quality.
Fire: The item gains one quality that it could logically possess. The GM is the final arbiter of what quality can be added this way, and they should inform the player of whether an option is possible before their character undertakes this downtime activity.
Water: Increase the base damage of a weapon by 1 and decrease its deadliness by 1, or increase the supernatural resistance of a set of armor by 1 and reduce its physical resistance by 1.
Void: Reduce the TN of the next check the character makes with this weapon by 1.
Only one of these effects can be applied to an item. Any effect applied this way persists until the end of the next scene in which the item is used.
Texto do livro
Shadowlands · Chapter 2: Honor Against Demons › New Techniques › Blessing of Steel · p. 114
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The sword is the soul of the samurai, and proper maintenance of one’s ancestral wargear is not just an important physical act, but also a sacred rite in its own regard.
Activation: As a downtime activity, you may make a TN 2 Smithing check using any ring to undertake the maintenance of your weapons and armor.
Effects: If you succeed, apply one of the following based on the ring you used:
Air: Increase the deadliness of a weapon by 1.
Earth: Remove the Damaged quality from the item. If it did not have the Damaged quality, it gains the Durable quality.
Fire: The item gains one quality that it could logically possess. The GM is the final arbiter of what quality can be added this way, and they should inform the player of whether an option is possible before their character undertakes this downtime activity.
Water: Increase the base damage of a weapon by 1 and decrease its deadliness by 1, or increase the supernatural resistance of a set of armor by 1 and reduce its physical resistance by 1.
Void: Reduce the TN of the next check the character makes with this weapon by 1.
Only one of these effects can be applied to an item. Any effect applied this way persists until the end of the next scene in which the item is used.