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Tired today. Just a quick update on the traits appendix for Covenant’s playtest rules. See what I wrote today below the fold.
- Restraining: Wrestling, grappling, physically preventing other characters from moving
- Suggested Uses:
- Advising others on how how to restrain characters
- Knowing how to restrain a character
- Grabbing a character
- Holding down a character
- Tying up a character
- Negative Uses: None
- Suggested Uses:
- Resistance: Shrugging off damage to oneself
- Suggested Uses:
- Advising other characters on how to resist
- Knowing how to resist
- Preventing a condition from affecting your character
- Resisting damage to one’s honor or social standing
- Resisting physical or mental damage
- Resisting persuasion or control
- Negative Uses: None
- Suggested Uses:
- Riding: Riding, controlling, and fighting from a mount
- Suggested Uses:
- Advising others on how to ride a mount
- Attacking from the saddle
- Guiding a mount over rough or hazardous terrain
- Keeping control over a skittish or spirited mount
- Knowing how to ride a mount
- Preventing a mount from throwing you
- Preventing attacks from hitting your mount
- Recognizing a mount’s capabilities and shortcomings
- Training a mount
- Negative Uses: None
- Suggested Uses:
- Sabotage: Damaging items, machinery, robots, and vehicles
- Suggested Uses:
- Advising others on how to sabotage
- Attacking an item, machine, robot, or vehicle with a weapon
- Damaging an item, machine, robot, or vehicle with chemicals, abrasives, or whatever is available
- Degrading the performance of an item, machine, robot, or vehicle with a weapon
- Knowing how to damage or degrade an item, machine, robot, or vehicle with a weapon
- Using explosives on an item, machine, robot, or vehicle
- Negative Uses: None
- Suggested Uses: