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Wrestling

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  • Requires: ✦✧ Strength    
  • Origins:  All  
  • Start with:  ✪ Tackle

You’ve mastered the art of grappling. Foes would be wise to avoid getting into close combat with you.

You start with the following ability:

✪ Tackle

✦✧ Strength  Requires two free hands. Roll Attack to close distance and tackle a foe within your span. You must have two free hands to use this action.✦ Success: Make a free Grapple brace, adding your success margin on this attack to the subsequent brace roll.⬖ Struggle: Make a free Grapple brace. ⓧ Failure:  Miss! The foe dodges. This action is effectively an improved version of the Take hold attack, but only works to establish grapples (not shoves).

Ask the Guide:

  • Does that character seem physically fit?
  • Could I overpower them? 
  • What’s the best way to leverage my strength to get over or through? 

Abilities to Learn 

.5xp new ability  |  10xp with attribute increase

✪ Wrestling Moves

✦✦✧ Strength  Add +1 to the calculation for your Brace dice. In addition, you know the following three wrestling moves, which you can use against a foe you’re grappling.

Seize

Roll Brace  to force the foe you’re grappling into a vulnerable position.✦ Success: You inflict -1 guard. Until your next turn, your allies can add your Strength to their melee attacks against the foe you’re grappling. They can also make ranged attacks against the foe normally, without worrying about friendly fire.⬖ Struggle: You inflict -1 guard.ⓧ Failure:  No effect.  

Chokehold

Roll Brace against a foe you’re grappling. This technique only works on humanoid foes of flesh and blood.  ✦ Success: You inflict -1 guard and -1 stamina.⬖ Struggle: You inflict -1 guard.ⓧ Failure:  No effect.If you reduce the foe’s stamina to zero this way, they fall unconscious for one hour or until revived with medicine or magic.

Grip

Roll Brace as a reaction if you’re shoved or take lethal damage while grappling the foe. ✦ Success: You maintain your grapple.⬖ Struggle: You can take -1 stamina to maintain your grapple.ⓧ Failure:  No effect.

✪ Wrestler's Constitution

✦✦✧ Strength  Gain +2 max Life.

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