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legacy:characters:background:swashbuckler [2025/04/23 16:13] – [Traits] tailkinkerlegacy: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. 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.
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-===== Attributes ===== 
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-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 ===== ===== 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. **Defences**:  Add two training ranks to your Reflex defence.
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 Choose one of the following traits, and add it to your character.  In addition, 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:Destabilizing Finisher]]
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   * [[legacy:traits:unarmed_disarm|Unarmed Disarm]]   * [[legacy:traits:unarmed_disarm|Unarmed Disarm]]
   * [[legacy:traits:unarmed_training|Unarmed Training]]   * [[legacy:traits:unarmed_training|Unarmed Training]]
 +  * [[legacy:traits:Vivacious Steps]]
  
-The following traits are available to your character as Expert traits, regardless of their base class.+The following traits are available to your character as Journeyman-tier traits, starting at level five.
  
   * [[legacy:traits:Brutal Finisher]]   * [[legacy:traits:Brutal Finisher]]
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   * [[legacy:traits:Stunning Finisher]]   * [[legacy:traits:Stunning Finisher]]
  
-The following trait is available to your character as a Mastery trait, regardless of their base class.+The following trait is available to your character as a Master-tier trait, available at level nine.
  
   * [[legacy:traits:Chained Finisher]]   * [[legacy:traits:Chained Finisher]]
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 ===== Starting Equipment ===== ===== Starting Equipment =====
  
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