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--- legacy:characters:background:swashbuckler [2025/04/21 19:15] – created tailkinker
+++ legacy:characters:background:swashbuckler [2025/09/02 09:42] (current) – [Features] tailkinker
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 To play a Swashbuckler is to embrace spectacle in everything you do. Your character might laugh in the face of danger, flirt with death (and with everyone else), and never miss a chance to turn a routine encounter into a memorable scene. The Swashbuckler background isn’t about arrogance---it’s about conviction: that looking good while doing the impossible is the highest form of art.
-===== Attributes =====
-When you select this background, add seven points to your Agility score and five points to your Charisma score.
-In addition, you may distribute eight points among any of your other attribute scores.  No single attribute may receive more than four points.
 ===== Features =====
-**Stamina**:  A Swashbuckler begins play with 25 stamina, plus an amount equal to your Strength bonus.
+**Stamina**:  A Swashbuckler begins play with 15 stamina, plus an amount equal to your Strength bonus.
 **Recovery Dice**:  When you select Swashbuckler as your background, you gain two eight-sided dice (2d8) as Recovery dice.  This is in addition to any Recovery dice you gained due to your ancestry.
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 Place one training rank in the Performance skill.  Choose either Blades or Unarmed Combat, and place one training tank that the chosen skill.  In addition, choose any two additional skills from the following list:  [[legacy:skills:Acrobatics]], [[legacy:skills:Athletics]], [[legacy:skills:Blades]], [[legacy:skills:Deception]], [[legacy:skills:diplomacy|Diplomacy]], [[legacy:skills:Insight]], [[legacy:skills:Intimidation]], [[legacy:skills:sleightofhand|Sleight of Hand]], [[legacy:skills:Society]], [[legacy:skills:unarmed|Unarmed Combat]].
 Place one training rank in each of the selected skills.
+===== Élan =====
+You don't just act---you captivate.  You gain the [[legacy:traits:elan|Élan]] and [[legacy:traits:Reliable Finisher]] traits.
 ===== Traits =====
 Choose one of the following traits, and add it to your character.  In addition,
-the following traits are available to your character as Basic traits, regardless of their base class.
+the following traits are available to your character as Apprentice-tier traits.
+  * [[legacy:traits:Destabilizing Finisher]]
+  * [[legacy:traits:draw_them_in|Draw Them In]]
+  * [[legacy:traits:expert_weapon_training|Expert Weapon Training]]
+  * [[legacy:traits:fleet|Fleet]]
+  * [[legacy:traits:lightning_reflexes|Lightning Reflexes]]
+  * [[legacy:traits:unarmed_disarm|Unarmed Disarm]]
+  * [[legacy:traits:unarmed_training|Unarmed Training]]
+  * [[legacy:traits:Vivacious Steps]]
+The following traits are available to your character as Journeyman-tier traits, starting at level five.
-The following traits are available to your character as Expert traits, regardless of their base class.
+  * [[legacy:traits:Brutal Finisher]]
+  * [[legacy:traits:Dual-Hand Finisher]]
+  * [[legacy:traits:precision_strikes|Precision Strikes]]
+  * [[legacy:traits:Stunning Finisher]]
+The following trait is available to your character as a Master-tier trait, available at level nine.
+  * [[legacy:traits:Chained Finisher]]
 ===== Starting Equipment =====