Parry

Trigger: When an enemy starts a Melee Exchange against you, choose Melee Full Guard and Boost it with at least 1 AD. Declare Parry as you commit your response, before rolling.

Cost: One use of Parry.

Effect: Add +1 to your Full Guard total.

Example: You roll a total of 2. Parry raises it to 3, enough to stop an attack with a total of 3.

Breach

Trigger: Start a Melee Exchange and Boost your attack with at least 1 AD. If the target chooses Full Guard, declare Breach before either of you rolls.

Cost: One use of Breach.

Effect: Add +1 to your attack total against that Full Guard.

Example: You roll 2 and the defender rolls 2. Breach raises your total to 3, so you win by 1. If the defender had rolled 3, your attack would still be stopped.

Footwork

Trigger: Once during your Activation, after a Melee Exchange you started has fully resolved. You must have Boosted your attack with at least 1 AD.

Cost: One use of Footwork and a 0-AD Reaction.

Effect: Move up to 6m without jumping, Sprinting or using your normal movement allowance. You can use Footwork whether you won or lost the Exchange.

Example: A doorway is 3m away when your sword Exchange ends. Use Footwork to reach it and save your normal movement for later in the Activation.

Steady Aim

Trigger: During your Activation, start a Ranged Exchange before you have moved voluntarily. Boost your attack with at least 1 AD and declare Steady Aim before the target chooses a response.

Cost: One use of Steady Aim. You commit to staying still for the rest of this Activation, including movement offered by other traits.

Effect: After Edge and all other applicable rerolls, you may reroll one of your dice still showing a Miss. Keep its new result.

If you are moved before the attack roll, you lose the reroll. Your use stays spent and your promise to stay still lasts until the Activation ends, even if you reroll no die.

Example: You have a Hit and a Miss after Edge. Reroll the Miss. A Hit raises your total from 1 to 2; a Critical raises it to 3. Another Miss leaves it at 1.

Quickload

Trigger: Immediately after a Ranged Exchange in which you fired a Loading weapon has fully resolved. You must have Boosted your attack with at least 1 AD. Keep hold of the unloaded weapon and be ready to begin loading it now. Your shot may have started the Exchange or been a Clash response.

Cost: One use of Quickload, plus the reduced loading cost below.

Effect: Reduce one loading Action's base cost by 1 AD, to a minimum of 0.

• If the weapon normally loads with one Minor Action, you may load it immediately as a Reaction.
• For a longer load, the discount applies to one loading Action you can legally begin now. Complete the rest of the weapon's loading procedure as usual.

Pay any remaining AD when the loading Action begins. Taking another Action or Reaction, or passing up this opportunity, loses the discount. You may use Quickload only once for this reload.

Example: Your bow normally takes a 1-AD Minor Action to load. After your boosted shot, Quickload lets you reload as a 0-AD Reaction.

Covering Fire

Trigger: When you commit a Ranged attack against a creature, Boost it with at least 1 AD and declare Covering Fire before rolling. You may use it when starting an Exchange or making a Clash response.

Cost: One use of Covering Fire.

Effect: If you win this Exchange, halve the target's Base Movement during its next scheduled Activation. Apply this only if it remains Active after harm and its Continuation Check.

The effect starts and ends with that Activation, even if the target cannot act. It leaves an Activation already in progress unchanged.

Apply the reduction before calculating movement. It does not stack with another Base Movement halving, including Slowed or encumbrance: use the lowest result once. Further uses aimed at the same Activation do not extend or repeat it. A successful use during the affected Activation can reduce the next one.

Example: A target with Base Movement 14 has Base Movement 7 during its next Activation. If you shoot it during its current Activation, its current movement is unchanged.

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During the target’s current turn, the Fighter wins a Ranged Clash with Covering Fire. Finish harm and any Continuation Check; the target must remain Active. Its normal Base Movement is 14 m.

1. Resolve the successful Covering Fire Exchange, including harm and any Continuation Check. The target must remain Active.
2. Its current turn stays unchanged: Base Movement remains 14 m.
3. During its next scheduled turn, called its Activation, Base Movement becomes 7 m. Apply that reduction before calculating movement.
4. That Activation ends, and so does this Covering Fire effect, even if the target could not act.

Result: Covering Fire does not reduce Base Movement immediately. It halves Base Movement during the target’s next scheduled Activation.

• Declare Covering Fire before rolling a Ranged attack, including a Clash response. Boost with at least one of your own Action Dice, pay normal attack and Boost costs, and spend one Covering Fire use.
• This changes Base Movement, not movement remaining. Later Activations use ordinary Base Movement unless another effect applies.
• If several such effects would halve Base Movement, use the lowest single result once. Further uses aimed at the same Activation do not extend or repeat it.
• A successful use during the affected Activation can reduce the next one.

Full rule: Covering Fire

Brace

Trigger: After Wound Conversion, one source of Physical harm would deal at least 1 Wound to you. Declare Brace before applying those Wounds.

Cost: One use of Brace and 2 AD as a Reaction.

Effect: Prevent 1 Wound from that source. Use Brace only once for that batch of Wounds.

Example: A blow would deal 2 Physical Wounds. Spend 2 AD and one use of Brace. You take 1 Wound instead.

Power Attack

Trigger: Commit a Physical Melee attack that uses Strength for damage, and Boost it with at least 1 AD. Declare Power Attack before rolling. When you start the Exchange, declare it before the target chooses a response.

Cost: One use of Power Attack.

Effect: If you win this Exchange, add +2 to the Strike Rating of that Strength-based hit against your declared target.

Example: Your attack has a Strike Rating of 5. Power Attack raises it to 7 when you win the Exchange.

Second Wind

Trigger: Once during your Activation, take a Minor Action while you already have at least one Used AD.

Cost: One use of Second Wind, 1 AD and one proactive Athletics use.

Effect: Refresh up to 2 Used AD automatically. You may refresh the die you just spent on Second Wind. This refresh works even while your refresh is impaired.

Example: You have two Ready AD and three Used AD. Spend one Ready AD, then refresh two Used AD. You finish with three Ready AD and two Used AD.

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You have two Ready Action Dice and three Used Action Dice. This example uses the ordinary 1 Action Die cost of Second Wind. Letters track the same five dice.

1. Begin with two Ready dice, A and B, and three Used dice, C, D and E. The requirement to already have a Used die is met.
2. Spend Ready die B to pay the ordinary Action Die cost. You now have one Ready and four Used dice.
3. In the next step of Second Wind, return up to two Used dice automatically, without rolling. Here, choose B, the just-paid die, and C.
4. Finish with three Ready dice, A, B and C, and two Used dice, D and E.

Result: You finish with three Ready dice—one more than you started with. Pay first; the later refresh cannot fund the earlier payment.

• Spend one use of Second Wind and one Action Die. This also uses one of your Athletics uses for this turn.
• Take its Minor Action once during your Activation, while you already have at least one Used Action Die.
• Second Wind returns up to two Used dice automatically even while Refresh is impaired. You do not roll.
• Your total dice body and current Vitality stay unchanged.

Full rule: Second Wind