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Pioneers

Travelers, Explorers, Inventors

Party Sheet PDF

XP Triggers

  • Discover, or make progress towards discovering, something new or lost. "Something new or lost" could include a location, method, spell, device and so on.

Starting Upgrades

  • Training: Insight
  • Party: Provisions

Special Abilities

Intrepid

Each PC may add +1 action rating to Survey, Hunt or Tinker (up to a max rating of 3).

Pack Rat

Each PC's load limits increase by 1.

Generally, this means the load limits will be 4 light, 6 normal, 7 heavy. This stacks with the Mule experience ability, making the load limits 6 light, 9 normal, 10 heavy

Ready For Anything

Once per quest, one party member can invoke a flashback without incurring any stress, rep, coins, or provisions.

Helping Hands

A party member can spend one downtime activty assiting another party member during their downtime activity, granting +1 result.

Synchronized

When you perform a group action, you may count multiple 6s from different rolls as a critical success.

Contacts

  • Ghiis, a cartographer
  • Fylaeth, an academic
  • Zolgokmi, a collector
  • Emberstride, a ship captain
  • Qos, a medium

Party Upgrades

  • Pioneers Rigging: 2 free load of supplies or alchemical items.
  • Backup Provisions: Your party always starts a downtime phase with at least 2 provisions.
  • Research Assistants: You gain a group of research assistants, granting your party a +1d to gather information or acquire an asset relating to something new or lost, or progress on a long-term project. This costs two upgrades to unlock, not just one.
  • Seen It All: Each PC gets +1 trauma box. This costs three upgrades to unlock, not just one.

Quest Ideas

  1. Rumors of an ancient city in the frozen north have existed since time immemorial, but now a drunkard at the local tavern claims to have a map detailing its location.
  2. After multiple recent undead attacks, the city government has announced a sizable reward for anyone able to assist in shoring up the city's defenses against these creatures.
  3. A recent project to expand a private crypt has come to a sudden halt as a few of the workers have gone missing.
  4. A cursed artifact must be destroyed, but it's bound to a dangerous and hidden location which is the only place it can be destroyed.