Player Moves

• roll+str

Attack an Enemy in Melee.

• roll+dex

When you take aim and shoot at an enemy at range

• if powering through, +Str
• if getting out of the way or acting fast, +Dex
• if enduring, +Con
• if using quick thinking, +Int
• if using mental fortitude, +Wis
• if using charm and social grace, +Cha

When you act despite an imminent threat or suffer a calamity, say how you deal with it and roll. If you do it

• roll+con

When you stand in defense of a person, item, or location under attack

• roll+Int

When you consult your accumulated knowledge about something

• roll+Wis

When you closely study a situation or person

• roll+Cha.

When you have leverage on a GM Character and manipulate them, roll+Cha. Leverage is something they need or want. 

• roll+bond with player

When you help or hinder someone.

• roll+nothing

When you're dying you catch a glimpse of what lies beyond the Black Gates of Death's Kingdom (the GM will describe it). Then roll (just roll, +nothing-yeah, Death doesn't care how tough or cool you are).

When you make a move while carrying weight you may be encumbered. If your weight carried is:

• Equal to or less than your load, you suffer no penalty
• Less than or equal to your load+2, you take -1 ongoing until you lighten your burden
• Greater than your load+2, you have a choice: drop at least 1 weight and roll at -1, or automatically fail

When you settle in 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.

• roll+wis

When you’re on watch and something approaches the camp.

• each involed player rolls+Wis.

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

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.

Once bonds have been updated look at your alignment. If you fulfilled that alignment at least once this session, mark XP. Then 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.

When youhave downtime (hours or days) and XP equal to (or greater than) your current level+7, you can reflect on your experiences and hone your skills.

• Subtract your current level+7 from your XP.
• Increase your level by 1.
• Choose a new advanced move from your class.
• If you are the wizard, you also get to add a new spell to your spellbook.
• Choose one of your stats 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.

• roll+ (1 for each 100 coind spent)

When you return triumphant and throw a big party, spend 100 coins and roll +1 for every extra 100 coins spent.

• roll+cha 

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,

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.

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

• roll+cha

When you return to a civilized place in which you’ve caused trouble before

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.

When you share a drink with someone, you may parley with them using CON instead of CHA.

Choose one weapon—you can always treat weapons of that type as if they had the precise tag.

When you defy danger and use your small size to your advantage, take +1.

Once per battle you may reroll a single damage roll (yours or someone else’s).

• roll+str

When you use pure strength to destroy an inanimate obstacle.

You ignore the clumsy tag on armor you wear.

This is your weapon. There are many like it, but this one is yours. Your weapon is your best friend. It is your life. You master it as you master your life. Your weapon, without you, is useless. Without your weapon, you are useless. You must wield your weapon true.

Choose a base description, all are 2 weight:

• Sword
• Axe
• Hammer
• Spear
• Flail
• Fists

Choose the range that best fits your weapon:

• Hand
• Close
• Reach

Choose two enhancements:

• Hooks and spikes. +1 damage, but +1 weight.
• Sharp. +2 piercing.
• Perfectly weighted. Add precise.
• Serrated edges. +1 damage.
• Glows in the presence of one type of creature, your choice.
• Huge. Add messy and forceful.
• Versatile. Choose an additional range.
• Well-crafted. -1 weight.

Choose a look:

• Ancient
• Unblemished
• Ornate
• Blood-stained
• Sinister

When you deal damage, deal +1d4 damage.

• roll+cha

When you consult the spirits that reside within your signature weapon, they will give you an insight relating to the current situation, and might ask you some questions in return

When you make your armor take the brunt of damage dealt to you, the damage is negated but you must reduce the armor value of your armor or shield (your choice) by 1. The value is reduced each time you make this choice. If the reduction leaves the item with 0 armor it is destroyed.

Choose one extra enhancement for your signature weapon.

When you discern realities during combat, you take +1.

When you parley using threats of impending violence as leverage, you may use STR instead of CHA.

When you hack and slash an enemy, your next attack against that same foe deals +1d4 damage.

Get one move from another class. Treat your level as one lower for choosing the move.

You gain +1 armor.

When you have access to a forge you can graft the magical powers of a weapon onto your signature weapon. This process destroys the magical weapon. Your signature weapon gains the magical powers of the destroyed weapon.

Replaces: Merciless

When you deal damage, deal +1d8 damage.

Replaces: Armor Mastery

When you choose to let your armor take the brunt of damage dealt to you, the damage is negated and you take +1 forward against the attacker, but you must reduce the armor value of your armor or shield (your choice) by 1. The value is reduced each time you make this choice. If the reduction leaves the item with 0 armor it is destroyed.

Requires: Seeing Red

roll+CHA

When you enter combat.

Spend your hold to make eye contact with an NPC present, who freezes or flinches and can’t act until you break it off.

Replaces: Scent of Blood

When you hack and slash an enemy, your next attack against that same foe deals +1d8 damage.

Requires: Multiclass Dabbler

Get one move from another class. Treat your level as one lower for choosing the move.

Replaces: Iron Hide

You gain +2 armor.

roll+WIS

When you go into battle.

When you look over an enemy’s weaponry, ask the GM how much damage they do.

When you hack and slash on a 12+ you deal your damage, avoid their attack, and impress, dismay, or frighten your enemy.

The sap of the elder trees flows within you. In addition to any other attunements, the Great Forest is always considered your land.

As your people learned to bind animals to field and farm, so too are you bound to them. You may always take the shape of any domesticated animal, in addition to your normal options.

You sing the healing songs of spring and brook. When you make camp, you and your allies heal +1d6.

• roll+Wis

When you call upon the spirits to change your shape

You learned your magic in a place whose spirits are strong and ancient and they've marked you as one of their own. No matter where you go, they live within you and allow you to take their shape. Choose one of the following. It is the land to which you are attuned-when shapeshifting you may take the shape of any animal who might live in your Land.

• The Great Forests
• The Whispering Plains
• The Vast Desert
• The Stinking Mire
• The River Delta
• The Depths of the Earth
• The Sapphire Islands
• The Open Sea
• The Towering Mountains
• The Frozen North
• The Blasted Wasteland

Chose a tell-a physical attribute that marks you as born of the soil-that reflects the spirit of your land. It may be an animal feature like antlers or leopard's spots or something more general: hair like leaves or eyes of glittering crystal. Your tell remains no matter what shape you take.

You don't need to eat or drink. If a move tells you to mark off a ration just ignore it.

The grunts, barks, chirps, and calls of the creatures of the wild are as language to you. You can understand any animal native to your land or akin to one whose essence you have studied.

When you spend time in contemplation of an animal spirit, you may add its species to those you can assume using shapeshifting.

Choose one move from the ranger class list.

When you are in an appropriate animal form (something dangerous) increase your damage to d8.

• roll+Wis

When you spend time in a place, making note of its resident spirits and calling on the spirits of the land. You will be granted a vision of significance to you, your allies, and the spirits around you.

So long as your feet touch the ground you have +1 armor.

When you mark an animal (with mud, dirt, or blood) you can see through that animal’s eyes as if they were your own, no matter what distance separates you. Only one animal at a time may be marked in this way.

When you take damage while shapeshifted you may choose to revert to your natural form to negate the damage.

You see the spirits in the sand, the sea and the stone. You may now apply your spirit tongue, shapeshifting and studied essence to inanimate natural objects (plants and rocks) or creatures made thereof, as well as animals. Thing-talker forms can be exact copies or can be mobile vaguely humanoid-shaped entities.

When you shapeshift choose a stat: you take +1 ongoing to rolls using that stat while shifted. The GM will choose a stat, too: you take -1 ongoing to rolls using that stat while shifted.

• roll+Wis

When you call on the primal spirits of fire, water, earth or air to perform a task for you.

When you deal damage, take 1 balance. When you touch someone and channel the spirits of life you may spend balance. For each balance spent, heal 1d4 HP.

When you shapeshift, roll 1d4 and add that total to your hold.

You are able to study the essence of specific individuals to take their exact form, including men, elves, or the like. Suppressing your tell is possible, but if you do, take -1 

Replaces: Red Of Tooth And Claw

When you are in an appropriate animal form (something dangerous) increase your damage to d10.

When you take this move, the next opportunity that you have safety and time to spend in an appropriate location, you may attune yourself to a new land. This effect occurs only once and the GM will tell you how long it will take and what cost you must pay. From then on, you are considered to be born of the soil in both lands.

When you are under open skies when the sun rises the GM will ask you what the weather will be that day. Tell them whatever you like, it comes to pass.

Requires: Thing-talker

You see the patterns that make up the fabric of the world. You may now apply your spirit tongue, shapeshifter and studied essence moves to pure elements—fire, water, air and earth.

Requires: Formcrafter

You may choose one...

• increase your armor by 1
• deal an additional +1d4 damage

while in an animal form. Choose when you Shapeshift

Whenever the unclean magic wielded by mortal men causes you to Defy Danger, treat any result of 6- as a 7–9.

When you shapeshift, you may create a merged form of up to three different shapes. You may be a bear with the wings of an eagle and the head of a ram, for example. Each feature will grant you a different move to make. Your chimera form follows the same rules as shapeshifter otherwise.

Choose one move from the ranger class list.

When you enter an important location (your call) you can ask the GM for one fact from the history of that location.

When you first enter a civilized settlement someone who respects the custom of hospitality to minstrels will take you in as their guest.

roll+cha

When you weave a performance into a basic spell, choose an ally and an effect:

• Heal 1d8 damage
• +1d4 forward to damage
• Their mind is shaken clear of one enchantment
• The next time someone successfully assists the target with aid, they get +2 instead of +1

Choose an area of expertise (durring charactor creation):

• Spells and Magicks
• The Dead and Undead
• Grand Histories of the Known World
• A Bestiary of Creatures Unusual
• The Planar Spheres
• Legends of Heroes Past
• Gods and Their Servants

When you first encounter an important creature, location, or item (your call) covered by your bardic lore you can ask the GM any one question about it; the GM will answer truthfully. The GM may then ask you what tale, song, or legend you heard that information in.

When you speak frankly with someone, you can ask their player a question from the list below. They must answer it truthfully, then they may ask you a question from the list (which you must answer truthfully).

• Whom do you serve?
• What do you wish I would do?
• How can I get you to ______?
• What are you really feeling right now?
• What do you most desire?

When you return to a civilized settlement you’ve visited before, tell the GM when you were last here. They’ll tell you how it’s changed since then.

When you heal with Arcane Art

• heal +1d8 damage

When you grant bonus damage with Arcane Art,

• grant an extra +1d4 damage.

When you unleash a crazed performance

• choose a target who can hear you and
• roll+CHA.

When you shout with great force or play a shattering note choose a target and roll+CON.

When you successfully aid someone you take +1 forward as well.

Your Arcane Art is strong, allowing you to choose two effects instead of one.

When you Hack & Slash,

• take +1 armor forward.

When you parley with someone, on a 7+ you also take +1 forward with them.

Get one move from another class. Treat your level as one lower for choosing the move.

Get one move from another class. Treat your level as one lower for choosing the move.

Replaces: Healing Song

When you heal with Arcane Art, you heal +2d8 damage.

Replaces: Vicious Cacophony

When you grant bonus damage with Arcane Art, you grant an extra +2d4 damage

When you meet someone you’ve met before (your call) after some time apart you take +1 forward against them.

When you first meet someone who’s heard songs about you, roll+CHA.

Replaces: Eldritch Tones

When you use Arcane Art,

• you choose two effects.
• You also get to choose one of those effects to double.

When you hear an enemy cast a spell the GM will tell you the name of the spell and its effects. Take +1 forward when acting on the answers.

When you use Charming & Open you may also ask “How are you vulnerable to me?” Your subject may not ask this question of you.

Replaces: Duelist’s Parry

When you Hack & Slash, you take +2 armor forward.

Replaces: Bamboozle

When you parley with someone,

Get a move from another class. Treat your level as one lower for choosing the move.

Magic is as natural as breath to you. Detect Magic is a cantrip for you.

Choose one cleric spell. You can cast it as if it was a wizard spell.

You have mastered several spells and inscribed them in your spellbook. You start out with three first level spells in your spellbook as well as the cantrips. Whenever you gain a level, you add a new spell of your level or lower to your spellbook. You spellbook is 1 weight.

When you spend uninterrupted time (an hour or so) in quiet contemplation of your spellbook, you:

• Lose any spells you already have prepared
• Prepare new spells of your choice from your spellbook whose total levels don't exceed your own level+1.
• Prepare your cantrips which never count against your limit.

• roll+int

When you release a spell you've prepared.

You may end any ongoing spell immediately and use the energy of its dissipation to deflect an oncoming attack. The spell ends and you subtract its level from the damage done to you.

When you draw on a place of power to create a magical effect, tell the GM what you're trying to achieve. Ritual effects are always possible, but the GM will give you one to four of the following conditions:

• It's going to take days/weeks/months
• First you must ____
• You'll need help from ____
• It will require a lot of money
• The best you can do is a lesser version, unreliable and limited
• You and your allies will risk danger from ____
• You'll have to disenchant ____ to do it

Choose a spell. You prepare that spell as if it were one level lower.

When you cast a spell, on a 10+ you have the option of choosing from the 7-9 list. If you do, you may choose one of these as well:

• The spell's effects are maximized
• The spell's targets are doubled

When you spout lore about something no one else has any clue about, take +1.

When another player's character comes to you for advice and you tell them what you think is best, they get +1 forward when following your advice and you mark experience if they do.

Add a new spell from the spell list of any class to your spellbook.

When you have time and safety with a magic item you may ask the GM what it does, the GM will answer you truthfully.

When you use strict deduction to analyze your surroundings, you can discern realities with INT instead of WIS.

As long as you have at least one prepared spell of first level or higher, you have +2 armor.

roll+Int

When you attempt to counter an arcane spell that will otherwise affect you, stake one of your prepared spells on the defense.

When you see the effects of an arcane spell, ask the GM the name of the spell and its effects. You take +1 when acting on the answers.

Requires: Prodigy

Choose one spell in addition to the one you picked for Prodigy. You prepare that spell as if it were one level lower.

• Replaces: Empowered Magic When you cast a spell

  on a 10-11 you have the option of choosing from the 7-9 list. If you do, you may additionally choose one of the following effects.

  On a 12+ you get to choose one of these effects for free:

  • The spell’s effects are maximized
  • The spell’s targets are doubled

Requires: Enchanter

When you have time and safety with a magic item in a place of power you can empower that item so that the next time you use it its effects are amplified, the GM will tell you exactly how.

Replaces: Logical

When you use strict deduction to analyse your surroundings, you can Discern Realities with INT instead of WIS.

• On a 12+ you get to ask the GM any three questions, not limited by the list.

When you use magic to control a person’s actions, they have no memory of what you had them do and bear you no ill will.

Replaces: Arcane Ward

As long as you have at least one prepared spell of first level or higher, you have +4 armor.

Requires: Counterspell

When an ally within sight of you is affected by an arcane spell, you can

• counter it as if it affected you.
• If the spell affects multiple allies you must counter for each ally separately

When you have time with a willing or helpless subject you can craft an ethereal tether with them. You perceive what they do and can discern realities about them or their surroundings, no matter the distance. Someone willingly tethered to you can communicate with you over the tether as if you were in the room with them.

When you deal damage to a creater, you can shunt a spell’s energy into them—end one of your ongoing spells and add the spell’s level to the damage dealt.

When you have time, arcane materials, and a safe space, you can create your own place of power. Describe to the GM what kind of power it is and how you’re binding it to this place, the GM will tell you one kind of creature that will have an interest in this.

When you attack with a ranged weapon, deal +2 damage.

You are a professional. When you spout lore or discern realities about criminal activities, take +1.

• roll+DEX

When you spend a moment to survey a dangerous area.

Spend your hold as you walk through the area to ask these questions:

• Is there a trap here and if so, what activates it?
• What does the trap do when activated?
• What else is hidden here?

• roll+DEX

When you pick locks or pockets or disable traps.

• roll+DEX or just deal your damage on a surprized, or defenceless enemy.

When you attack a surprised or defenseless enemy with a melee weapon, you can choose to deal your damage or roll+DEX.

When someone tries to detect your alignment you can tell them any alignment you like.

You've mastered the care and use of a poison. Choose a poison from the list below; that poison is no longer dangerous for you to use. You also start with three uses of the poison you choose. Whenever you have time to gather materials and a safe place to brew you can make three uses of the poison you choose for free. Note that some poisons are applied, meaning you have to carefully apply it to the target or something they eat or drink. Touch poisons just need to touch the target, they can even be used on the blade of a weapon.

• Oil of Tagit (applied): The target falls into a light sleep
• Bloodweed (touch): The target deals -1d4 damage ongoing until cured
• Goldenroot (applied): The target treats the next creature they see as a trusted ally, until proved otherwise
• Serpent's Tears (touch): Anyone dealing damage to the target rolls twice and takes the better result.

When using a precise or hand weapon, your backstab deals an extra +1d6 damage.

When you use trap expert you always get +1 hold, even on a 6-.

When you make a show of flashing around your most valuable possession, choose someone present. They will do anything they can to obtain your item or one like it.

You’re never caught by surprise. When an enemy would get the drop on you, you get to act first instead.

After you’ve used a poison once it’s no longer dangerous for you to use.

You can apply even complex poisons with a pinprick. When you apply a poison that’s not dangerous for you to use to your weapon it’s touch instead of applied.

When you have time to gather materials and a safe place to brew you can create three doses of any one poison you’ve used before.

When you’re outnumbered, you have +1 armor.

• roll+cha

When you put out word to the criminal underbelly about something you want or need.

Replaces: Cheap Shot

When using a precise or hand weapon,

• your Backstab deals an extra +1d8 damage
• all other attacks deal +1d4 damage.

Replaces: Cautious

When you use use Trap Expert you always get +1 hold,

• even on a 6-.
• On a 12+ you get 3 hold and the next time you come near a trap the GM will immediately tell you what it does, what triggers it, who set it, and how you can use it to your advantage.

Replaces: Underdog

You have +1 armor. When you’re outnumbered, you have +2 armor instead.

When you Defy Danger

• on a 12+, you transcend the danger.
• You not only do what you set out to, but the GM will offer you a better outcome, true beauty, or a moment of grace.

When you take time to make a plan to steal something, name the thing you want to steal and ask the GM these questions. When acting on the answers you and your allies take +1 forward.

• Who will notice it’s missing?
• What’s its most powerful defense?
• Who will come after it?
• Who else wants it?

Replaces: Brewer

When you have time to gather materials and a safe place to brew you can create three doses of any poison you’ve used before. Alternately you can describe the effects of a poison you’d like to create. The GM will tell you that you can create it, but with one or more caveats:

• It will only work under specific circumstances.
• The best you can manage is a weaker version.
• It’ll take a while to take effect.
• It’ll have obvious side effects.

When you’re in too deep and need a way out, name your escape route and

roll+DEX

When you have time and materials you can create a disguise that will fool anyone into thinking you’re another creature of about the same size and shape. Your actions can give you away but your appearance won’t.

You can throw any melee weapon, using it to volley. A thrown melee weapon is gone; you can never choose to reduce ammo on a 7–9.

When you pray for guidance, even for a moment and ask “what here is evil?” the GM will tell you, honestly.

When you dedicate yourself to a mission through prayer and ritual cleansing, state what you set out to do:

• Slay , a great blight on the land.
• Defend from the iniquities that beset them
• Discover the truth of .

Then choose up to two boons:

• An unwavering sense of direction to .
• Invulnerability to (edged weapons, fire, enchantment, etc.)
• A mark of divine authority.
• Senses that pierce lies.
• A voice that transcends language.
• Freedom from hunger, thirst, and sleep.

The GM will then tell you what vow or vows is required of you to maintain your blessing:

• Honor (forbidden: cowardly tactics and tricks)
• Temperance (forbidden: gluttony in food, drink, and pleasure of the flesh)
• Piety (required: observance of daily holy services)
• Valor (forbidden: suffering an evil creature to live)
• Truth (forbidden: lies) • Hospitality (required: comfort to those in need, no matter who they are)

When you touch someone, skin to skin, and pray for their well-being,

roll+CHA

When you give an NPC an order based on your divine authority

roll+Cha.

You ignore the clumsy tag on armor you wear.

Dedicate yourself to a deity (name a new one or choose one that’s already been established). You gain the commune and cast a spell cleric moves. When you select this move, treat yourself as a cleric of level 1 for using spells. Every time you gain a level thereafter, increase your effective cleric level by 1.

When you take damage you can grit your teeth and accept the blow. If you do you take no damage but instead suffer a debility of your choice. If you already have all six debilities you can’t use this move.

While on a Quest you deal +1d4 damage.

You get +1 armor while on a Quest.

Take +1 to order hirelings.

When you heal an ally, you heal +1d8 damage.

When you speak aloud your promise to defat an enemy,

• you deal +2d4 damage against that enemy and -4 damage against anyone else.
• This effect lasts until the enemy is defeated.
• If you fail to defeat the enemy or give up the fight, you can admit your failure, but the effect continues until you find a way to redeem yourself.

When you lead the charge into combat, those you lead take +1 forward.

When you Defend you always get +1 hold, even on a 6-.

When you Hack & Slash, choose an ally. Their next attack against your target does +1d4 damage.

Requires: Divine Favor

When you see divine magic as it happens, you can ask the GM which deity granted the spell and its effects. Take +1 when acting on the answers.

Replaces: Smite

While on a Quest you deal +1d8 damage.

Replaces: Charge!

When you lead the charge into combat, those you lead take +1 forward and +2 armor forward.

Replaces: Staunch Defender

When you Defend you always get +1 hold, even on a 6-. When you get a 12+ to defend instead of getting hold the nearest attacking creature is stymied giving you a clear advantage, the GM will describe it.

When you Quest you choose three boons instead of two.

Replaces: Setup Strike

When you Hack & Slash, choose an ally. Their next attack against your target does +1d4 damage and they take +1 forward against them.

Replaces: Holy Protection

You get +2 armor while on a Quest.

Replaces: Voice Of Authority

Take +1 to order hirelings. When you roll a 12+ the hireling transcends their moment of fear and doubt and carries out your order with particular effectiveness or efficiency.

Replaces: Hospitaller

When you heal an ally, you heal +2d8 damage.

When you suffer a debility (even through Bloody Aegis) take +1 forward against whatever caused it.

Your faith is diverse. Choose one wizard spell. You can cast and be granted that spell as if it was a cleric spell.

You are one with stone. When you commune you are also granted a special version of Words of the Unspeaking as a rote which only works on stone.

roll+Wis

When you hold your holy symbol aloft and call on your deity for protection

You serve and worship some deity or power which grants you spells. Give your god a name (maybe Helferth, Sucellus, Zorica or Krugon the Bleak) and choose your deity’s domain

• Healing and Restoration
• Bloody Conquest
• Civilization
• Knowledge and Hidden Things
• The Downtrodden and Forgotten

Choose one precept of your religion:

• Your religion preaches the sanctity of suffering, add Petition: Suffering
• Your religion is cultish and insular, add Petition: Gaining Secrets
• Your religion has important sacrificial rites, add Petition: Offering
• Your religion believes in trial by combat, add Petition: Personal Victory

When you petition your deity according to the precept of your religion, you are granted some useful knowledge or boon related to your deity’s domain. The GM will tell you what.

When you spend uninterrupted time (an hour or so) in quiet communion with your deity, you:

• Lose any spells already granted to you.
• Are granted new spells of your choice whose total levels don’t exceed your own level+1, and none of which is a higher level than your own level.
• Prepare all of your rotes, which never count against your limit.

• roll+Wis

When you unleash a spell granted to you by your deity.

Choose one spell. You are granted that spell as if it was one level lower

When you heal someone they take +2 forward to their damage.

When someone takes their last breath in your presence,

• they take +1 to the roll.

When you cast a spell you ignore the first -1 penalty from ongoing spells.

Cure Light Wounds is a rote for you, and therefore doesn’t count against your limit of granted spells.

When you cast a spell, on a 10+ you have the option of choosing from the 7–9 list. If you do, you may choose one of these effects as well: 

• The spell’s effects are doubled
• The spell’s targets are doubled

When you Commune

• you get 1 hold and lose any hold you already had.
• Spend that hold when you or an ally takes damage to call on your deity.
• they intervene with an appropriate manifestation (a sudden gust of wind, a lucky slip, a burst of light) and negate the damage.

When you take damage and embrace the pain, you may take +1d4 damage (ignoring armor). If you do...

• take +1 forward to cast a spell.

When you sacrifice something of value to your deity and pray for guidance, your deity tells you what it would have you do. If you do it, mark experience

When you wear no armor or shield you

• get 2 armor.

When you heal someone else of damage,

• add your level to the amount of damage healed.

When you undertake a perilous journey through wilderness whatever job you take you succeed as if you rolled a 10+.

When you make camp in a dungeon or city, you don’t need to consume a ration.

Roll+WIS

When you follow a trail of clues left behind by passing creatures.

Roll+DEX

When you attack a defenseless or surprised enemy at range, you can choose to deal your damage or name your target

You have a supernatural connection with a loyal animal. You can’t talk to it per se but it always acts as you wish it to. Name your animal companion and choose a species
Wolf, cougar, bear, eagle, dog, hawk, cat, owl, pigeon, rat, mule

When you work with your animal companion on something it’s trained in…

• …and you attack the same target, add its ferocity to your damage
• …and you track, add its cunning to your roll
• …and you take damage, add its armor to your armor
• …and you discern realities, add its cunning to your roll
• …and you parley, add its cunning to your roll
• …and someone interferes with you, add its instinct to their roll

You may take this move only if it is your first advancement.

Somewhere in your lineage lies mixed blood and it begins to show its presence. You gain the elf starting move if you took the human one at character creation or vice versa.

You can speak with and understand animals.

When you spout lore about a monster you use WIS instead of INT.

When you strike an enemy with two weapons at once, add an extra 1d4 damage for your off-hand strike.

When you keep still in natural surroundings, enemies never spot you until you make a movement.

When you allow your animal companion to take a blow that was meant for you, the damage is negated and your animal companion's ferocity becomes 0. If its ferocity is already 0 you can't use this ability. When you have a few hours of rest with your animal companion its ferocity returns to normal.

When you volley you may spend extra ammo before rolling. For each point of ammo spent you may choose an extra target. Roll once and apply damage to all targets.

Choose another training for your animal companion.

Dedicate yourself to a deity (name a new one or choose one that's already been established). You gain the commune and cast a spell cleric moves. When you select this move, treat yourself as a cleric of level 1 for using spells. Every time you gain a level thereafter, increase your effective cleric level by 1.

When you undertake a perilous journey you can take two roles. You make a separate roll for each.

When you set the watch for the night, everyone takes +1 to take watch.

Replaces: Wild Empathy

You can speak with and understand any non-magical, non-planar creature.

Replaces: Familiar Prey

When you Spout Lore about a monster you use WIS instead of INT.

• On a 12+, in addition to the normal effects, you get to ask the GM any one question about the subject.

Replaces: Viper's Strike

When you strike an enemy with two weapons at once, add an extra 1d8 damage for your off-hand strike.

When you know your target's weakest point your arrows have 2 piercing.

Replaces: Follow Me

When you Undertake A Perilous Journey you can take two roles.

• Roll twice and use the better result for both roles.

Replaces: A Safe Place

When you set the watch for the night, everyone takes +1 to Take Watch.

After a night in camp when you set the watch everyone takes +1 forward.

When you hunt and track, on a hit you may also ask one question about the creature you are tracking from the Discern Realities list for free.

Choose a move from another class. So long as you are working with your animal companion you have access to that move.

Your animal companion is a monster, not an animal. Describe it. Give it +2 ferocity and +1 instinct, plus a new training.

When you Make Camp next to a large, open flame, regain all of your HP.

Non-magical heat and fire cannot harm you.

When you conjure a weapon of pure flame,

roll+CON

You may treat your INT as your STR or DEX in regards to making attacks with this weapon. The weapon always begins with the fiery, touch, dangerous, and 3 uses tags. Each attack with the weapon consumes one use.

When you take damage, and that damage is odd (after armor) the flames within you come to your aid. Roll 1d4 and either add that many uses to your burning brand (if active), take that result forward to summon your burning brand, or reduce the damage by that amount, your choice.

When you gaze intensely into someones eyes, you may ask their player “what fuels the flames of your desire?” they’ll answer with the truth, even if the character does not know or would otherwise keep this hidden.

When you bend a flame to your will,

roll+WIS

You may use your hands in place of tools and fire to craft metal objects. Mundane weapons, armor and metal jewellery can all be formed from their raw components. You may unmake these things, as well, but to do so without time and safety might require that you Defy Danger first.

When you stare into a source of fire, looking for answers,

roll+WIS

On a hit, the GM will tell you something new and interesting about the current situation.

When you channel the flames of fate, you may treat a missed roll as a 7-9 or a 7-9 result as a 10+. This may be a roll you or another character has made. Tell the GM something you’ve lost; an emotion, a memory or some innate piece of your being.

• You may not use this move again until you’ve used Burns Half As Long.

You gain this move when you gain Burns Twice As Bright

When you sacrifice a victory to the flames of fate, treat any roll of 10+ as a miss.

Add the following tags to your options for Burning Brand:

• messy
• forceful
• reach
• near
• far

When you introduce a new idea to an NPC,

roll+CHA

Gain the Wizard move Ritual.

The GM will always tell you what you have to sacrifice to gain the effect you desire.

When you draw on a place of power to create a magical effect, tell the GM what you’re trying to achieve. Ritual effects are always possible, but the GM will give you one to four of the following conditions:

• It’s going to take days/weeks/months
• First you must ____
• You’ll need help from ____
• It will require a lot of money
• The best you can do is a lesser version, unreliable and limited
• You and your allies will risk danger from ____
• You’ll have to disenchant ____ to do it

roll+WIS

When you tempt a weak mind with your inner fire,

• On a 10+ their will is suppressed, they’ll follow you and do as you desire, so long as nothing startles or surprises them.
• On a 7-9, the effect is only strong enough to distract or confuse them.
• On a miss, they become agitated and upset, your fire having sparked their hidden desires

When you would take your last breath, don’t. Instead, you may erase one of your Bonds.

This is permanent and lowers your total available Bonds forever. You are alive and have 1d6 hp. If you have no more Bonds, take your last breath as normal.

roll+CHA

When you bolster the courage of others.

roll + CHA

When you insult an NPC.

When you summon fire with any of your moves, you can replace it with the black fires of hell itself.

This fire does not burn with heat and ignores armor, scorching the soul itself.

Those creatures without souls cannot be harmed by this type of flame.

roll+CHA

When you fuse a willing person’s soul to yours.

This fusion, once performed, cannot be undone by mortal means.

Requires: Firebrand

You may apply the effects of your Firebrand move to a group of people - a dozen or so - all at once.

roll+WIS

... and tell the GM what you’re sacrificing,

when you open a channel to the burning planes and call a firestorm, 

The sky opens up and fire pours like rain from it within an area about equal to a small village. Everyone and everything in the area takes damage as appropriate.

You may be elf, dwarf, halfling, or human, but you and your people are not from around here. At the beginning of each session, the GM will ask you something about your homeland, why you left, or what you left behind. If you answer them, mark XP.

You ignore the clumsy tag on armor you wear.

• Choose to start with this move, or Unencumbered, Unharmed. 

So long as you are below your Load and neither wear armor nor carry a shield, take +1 armor.

• Choose this move, or Full PLate and Packing Steel to start with 

You take +1 ongoing to last breath rolls. When you take your last breath.

roll+Con

When you cry out a challenge to your enemies.

Others may content themselves with just a taste of wine, or dominion over a servant or two, but you want more. Choose two appetites. While pursuing one of your appetites if you would roll for a move, instead of rolling 2d6 you roll 1d6+1d8. If the d6 is the higher die of the pair, the GM will also introduce a complication or danger that comes about due to your heedless pursuits.

• Pure destruction
• Power over others
• Mortal pleasures
• Conquest
• Riches and property
• Fame and glory

Take a move from the Fighter, Bard, or Thief class list. You may not take multiclass moves from those classes.

While you wield a weapon it gains the forceful and messy tags.

Choose an additional appetite.

When you perform a feat of strength, name someone present whom you have impressed and take +1 forward to parley with them.

At the end of a session, if during this session you have crushed your enemies, seen them driven before you, or have heard the lamentations of their kinfolk mark XP

You’ve travelled the wide world over. When you arrive someplace ask the GM about any important traditions, rituals, and so on, they’ll tell you what you need to know.

When you prove yourself superior to a person in power, take +1 forward with their followers, underlings, and hangers on.

Your hirelings always accept the gratuitous fulfillment of one of your appetites as payment.

You may take a debility to immediately break free of any physical or mental restraint.

When you Hack & Slash, on a 12+ deal your damage and choose something physical your target has (a weapon, their position, a limb): they lose it.

When you take damage you can choose to take -1 ongoing until you sate one of your appetites instead of taking the damage. If you already have this penalty you cannot choose this option.

When you Discern Realities add "What here is weak or vulnerable?" to the list of questions you can ask.

When you defy a danger caused by movement (maybe falling off a narrow bridge or rushing past an armed guard) take +1.

As long as you have less than your CON in current HP (or 1, whichever is higher) take +1 ongoing.

Requires: Appetite for Destruction

Take another move fromt he Fighter, Bard, or Thief class list. You may not take multiclass moves from those classes

roll +CHA

When you enter the battle with a show of force.

When you take this move and spend some uninterrupted time reflecting on your past glories, you may mark yourself with a symbol of your power (a long braid tied with bells, ritual scars or tattoos, etc.) Any intelligent mortal creature who sees this symbol knows instinctively that you are a force to be reckoned with and treats you appropriately.

When you satisfy an appetite to the extreme (destroying something unique and significant, gaining enormous fame, riches, power, etc.) you may choose to resolve it. Cross it off the list and mark XP. While you may pursue that appetite again, you no longer feel the burning desire you once did. In its place, choose a new appetite from the list or write your own

When you Defy Danger, on a 12+ you turn the danger back on itself, the GM will describe how.

Whenever the unclean magic wielded by mortal men causes you to Defy Danger, treat any result of 6- as a 7–9.

roll+WIS

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,

• 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 your gods take of your flesh as well, but still grant you some insight or boon.
• On a miss, you earn the ire of the fickle spirits.