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--- legacy:characters:background:swashbuckler [2025/04/21 19:28] – 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 30 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 ten-sided dice (2d10) as Recovery dice.  This is in addition to any Recovery dice you gained due to your ancestry.
+**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.
 **Defences**:  Add two training ranks to your Reflex defence.
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 ===== Élan =====
-You don't just act---you captivate.  You gain the Élan and Reliable Finisher traits, detailed below.
+You don't just act---you captivate.  You gain the [[legacy:traits:elan|Élan]] and [[legacy:traits:Reliable Finisher]] traits.
-You gain Élan by performing a daring or stylish action that impresses, surprises or entertains.  When you perform any action that has the Élan property and roll a **success**, you gain Élan.  Many of the universal [[legacy:rules:actions:Actions]] have the Élan property.
-Élan is binary;  either you have it or you do not.  While you have Élan, you gain the following benefits:
-  * You gain a +1 bonus to your Speed;
-  * Your attacks inflict +1 damage per die of damage rolled;
-  * You gain a +1 bonus to your passive Reflex defence.
-Some special actions will cause you to lose Élan.  In addition, if your location becomes Uncertain, you lose Élan.
-===== Reliable Finisher =====
-Time Required:  6 seconds.\\
-Required:  You must have Élan to select this Finisher.
-You take the time to line up the perfect attack against your foe.  Make a melee or unarmed weapon attack.  Regardless of whether or not the attack **hits** or **misses**, the target takes 2d8 damage of the same type normally inflicted by your attack.
-Once you use this Finisher, you lose Élan.
 ===== 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 =====