Author’s Diary for February 28, 2020: Traits Appendix (Part Five)

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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
• 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
• 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
• 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