Ancestries

Clanks are sentient mechanical beings built from a variety of materials, including metal, wood, and stone.

Purposeful Design: Decide who made you and for what purpose. At character creation, choose one of your Experiences that best aligns with this purpose and gain a permanent +1 bonus to it.

Efficient: When you take a short rest, you can choose a long rest move instead of a short rest move.

Drakona resemble wingless dragons in humanoid form and possess a powerful elemental breath.

Scales: Your scales act as natural protection. When you would take Severe damage, you can mark a Stress to mark 1 fewer Hit Points.

Elemental Breath: Choose an element for your breath (such as electricity, fire, or ice). You can use this breath against a target or group of targets within Very Close range, treating it as an Instinct weapon that deals d8 magic damage using your Proficiency.

Dwarves are most easily recognized as short humanoids with square frames, dense musculature, and thick hair.

Thick Skin: When you take Minor damage, you can mark 2 Stress instead of marking a Hit Point.

Increased Fortitude: Spend 3 Hope to halve incoming physical damage.

Elves are typically tall humanoids with pointed ears and acutely attuned senses.

Quick Reactions: Mark a Stress to gain advantage on a reaction roll.

Celestial Trance: During a rest, you can drop into a trance to choose an additional downtime move.

Faeries are winged humanoid creatures with insectile features.

Luckbender: Once per session, after you or a willing ally within Close range makes an action roll, you can spend 3 Hope to reroll the Duality Dice.

Wings: You can fly. While flying, you can mark a Stress after an adversary makes an attack against you to gain a +2 bonus to your Evasion against that attack.

Fauns resemble humanoid goats with curving horns, square pupils, and cloven hooves.

Caprine Leap: You can leap anywhere within Close range as though you were using normal movement, allowing you to vault obstacles, jump across gaps, or scale barriers with ease.

Kick: When you succeed on an attack against a target within Melee range, you can mark a Stress to kick yourself off them, dealing an extra 2d6 damage and knocking back either yourself or the target to Very Close range.

Firbolgs are bovine humanoids typically recognized by their broad noses and long, drooping ears.

Charge: When you succeed on an Agility Roll to move from Far or Very Far range into Melee range with one or more targets, you can mark a Stress to deal 1d12 physical damage to all targets within Melee range.

Unshakable: When you would mark a Stress, roll a d6. On a result of 6, don't mark it.

Fungril resemble humanoid mushrooms.

Fungril Network: Make an Instinct Roll (12) to use your mycelial array to speak with others of your ancestry. On a success, you can communicate across any distance.

Death Connection: While touching a corpse that died recently, you can mark a Stress to extract one memory from the corpse related to a specific emotion or sensation of your choice.

Galapa resemble anthropomorphic turtles with large, domed shells into which they can retract.

Shell: Gain a bonus to your damage thresholds equal to your Proficiency.

Retract: Mark a Stress to retract into your shell. While in your shell, you have resistance to physical damage, you have disadvantage on action rolls, and you can't move.

Giants are towering humanoids with broad shoulders, long arms, and one to three eyes.

Endurance: Gain an additional Hit Point slot at character creation.

Reach: Treat any weapon, ability, spell, or other feature that has a Melee range as though it has a Very Close range instead.

Goblins are small humanoids easily recognizable by their large eyes and massive membranous ears.

Surefooted: You ignore disadvantage on Agility Rolls.

Danger Sense: Once per rest, mark a Stress to force an adversary to reroll an attack against you or an ally within Very Close range.

Halflings are small humanoids with large hairy feet and prominent rounded ears.

Luckbringer: At the start of each session, everyone in your party gains a Hope.

Internal Compass: When you roll a 1 on your Hope Die, you can reroll it.

Humans are most easily recognized by their dexterous hands, rounded ears, and bodies built for endurance.

High Stamina: Gain an additional Stress slot at character creation.

Adaptability: When you fail a roll that utilized one of your Experiences, you can mark a Stress to reroll.

Infernis are humanoids who possess sharp canine teeth, pointed ears, and horns.

Fearless: When you roll with Fear, you can mark 2 Stress to change it into a roll with Hope instead.

Dread Visage: You have advantage on rolls to intimidate hostile creatures.

Katari are feline humanoids with retractable claws, vertically slit pupils, and high, triangular ears.

Feline Instincts: When you make an Agility Roll, you can spend 2 Hope to reroll your Hope Die.

Retracting Claws: Make an Agility Roll to scratch a target within Melee range. On a success, they become temporarily Vulnerable.

Orcs are humanoids most easily recognized by their square features and boar-like tusks that protrude from their lower jaw.

Sturdy: When you have 1 Hit Point remaining, attacks against you have disadvantage.

Tusks: When you succeed on an attack against a target within Melee range, you can spend a Hope to gore the target with your tusks, dealing an extra 1d6 damage.

Ribbets resemble anthropomorphic frogs with protruding eyes and webbed hands and feet.

Amphibious: You can breathe and move naturally underwater.

Long Tongue: You can use your long tongue to grab onto things within Close range. Mark a Stress to use your tongue as a Finesse Close weapon that deals d12 physical damage using your Proficiency.

Simiah resemble anthropomorphic monkeys and apes with long limbs and prehensile feet.

Natural Climber: You have advantage on Agility Rolls that involve balancing and climbing.

Nimble: Gain a permanent +1 bonus to your Evasion at character creation.

Earthkin are descended from earth elementals. They are humanoids whose bodies are a combination of flesh and earth.

Stoneskin: Gain a +1 bonus to your Armor Score and Damage Thresholds.

Immoveable: While your feet are touching the ground, you cannot be lifted or moved against your will.

Skykin are descended from air elementals. They are humanoids whose bodies are a combination of flesh and air.

Gale Force: Mark a Stress to conjure a gust of wind that carries you or an ally up to Very Far range. Additionally, you can always control the speed at which you fall.

Eye of the Storm: Spend 2 Hope to grant a +1 bonus to either your or an ally's Evasion until you next take Severe damage or you use Eye of the Storm again.

Tidekin are descended from water elementals. They are humanoids whose bodies are a combination of flesh and water.

Amphibious: You can breathe and move naturally underwater.

Lifespring: Once per rest, when you have access to a small amount of water, you can mark 2 Stress to heal a Hit Point on yourself or an ally.

Emberkin are descended from fire elementals. They are humanoids whose bodies are a combination of flesh and fire.

Fireproof: You are immune to damage from magical or mundane flame.

Ignition: Mark a Stress to wreathe your primary weapon in flame until the end of the scene. While ablaze, it gives off a bright light and grants a 1d6 bonus to damage rolls against targets within Melee range.

Aetheris are humanoids who possess radiant auras and glowing eyes. They are the descendants of celestials from the Hallows Above.

Hallowed Aura: Once per rest, when an ally within Close range rolls with Fear, you can make it a roll with Hope instead.

Divine Countenance: You have advantage on rolls to command or persuade.

Gnomes are small humanoids most easily recognized by their dense musculature, long arms, and large facial features.

Nimble Fingers: When you make a Finesse Roll, you can spend 2 Hope to reroll your Hope Die.

True Sight: You have advantage on rolls to see through illusions.