There's No Trick To It - Magician (GLOG Class)

Just a classic wizard.

Class: Magician

You might be a High Magician in a star-spangled robe and pointed hat who studied in the storied halls of academia, or the son of a village witch who learned your mother's craft for she had no daughter to pass it on to, or a fur-clad shaman with a spirit's face painted on your own who drags mysteries out of the primal dark. However you came by it, you have knowledge of the secret ways that move the world that mortals were never meant to know.

Equipment: Robes & Hat, Satchel, Staff, Dagger, Lantern, 2 x Bonus pieces of equipment based on starting Magic Art (see below).

+1 to Saves per Template
A: 2 Magical Arts, Magesight
B: Familiar or Implement, +1 Magical Art
C: Ritualist, +1 Magical Art
D: Secret of Secrets, +1 Magical Art

∆: Archmage
Know at least 5 Magical Arts, find one of the five Pillars of Creation, and etch your personal mark onto it.
Create a new Magical Art, negotiated with your DM. Further negotiations can take place after it's created if it proves too strong or too weak - new magic has a tendency to "settle" over time.

A: Magical Arts
You begin with knowledge of two of the known Magical Arts; others may exist - probably in strange and foreign parts - but you will have to find them first if you want to learn them. You gain a bonus item from each of your starting Magical Arts. At each subsequent Template, learn a new Magical Art and gain the Advanced form of one Art you already know.

A: Magesight
You can perceive the presence of the supernatural. Just ask the DM if something is magical, and they are obliged to tell you the truth of the matter. With a Turn of careful examination, you can also determine in general terms what a given magical effect's purpose is, e.g. "Stepping into this circle will teleport you elsewhere.". This manifests for you in symbolic terms; a sword enchanted such that it bursts into fire in combat might appear to have a large salamander sitting on its blade, while an enchanted shirt of mail being unfurled might sound like a distant army roaring in victory to your ears. Magesight explicitly cannot reveal the presence or nature of illusions and curses, which by their very nature conceal and deceive.

B: Familiar
You have summoned a minor tutelary spirit to aid you in your magical practice. This spirit can switch between two forms: one a mundane animal no larger than a fox, the other a knee-high, horned, winged, homunculus with luridly coloured skin. It has a flight speed equal to its Movement speed in its homunculus form and whatever abilities are common to its species in its animal form. They have 1HD, +1HP/Level of the magician, AC12, 6' Movement (plus flight in homunculus form). Familiars can fight, using whatever natural weapons their animal form has or wielding small (d4) weapons in their homunculus form. Familiars can speak any tongue their summoner can, and in animal form can speak in animal noises that only their summoner can understand. Familiars are absolutely loyal to their summoner, though they often affect argumentative or grating personalities to teach their mage humility. Besides this, they can perform several useful services in return for a bit of their summoner's life force;

• For d6 Hit Points, they can answer 1 question as if consulting a Sage NPC for a short-term study.
• For 2d6 Hit Points, they can perform any Magical Art the magician knows or has observed being used, without any component required.
• For 3d6 Hit Points, they can transform into a monstrous guardian form, gaining additional HD, attack bonus, AC, and damage equal to their summoner's Templates, plus natural weapons that deal a base 2d6 damage. This is either a Dire version of their animal form or that of a fire-snorting cloven-hooved demon. The transformation lasts until the next Dawn or until dismissed by the magician's command, whichever comes first.

A familiar cannot be killed while its summoner lives, but can be dispersed. If reduced to 0HP they disappear and reform the next day at dusk.

B: Implement
You have a bound tool of your craft; a wand, blade, chalice, ring, or lantern is traditional, but others exist. It takes up one equipment slot or inventory space, depending on its form. As long as you have it on your person, you can perform Magical Arts without any reagent or other tool up to [Templates] times per day, just using the occult authority bound up in your implement. Your implement also has a significant magical ability based on its form. Negotiate this with your DM, some examples are;

• A wand that allows you to telekinetically manipulate objects at a distance as if you were standing at the position you point it at.
• A chalice that allows you to store a magical effect by drawing it into itself as an effervescent liquid. Save or the effect spills onto you if it is not your creation. The liquid magic can be poured or drunk to transfer the effect. 
• A ring that can make one magical effect at a time permanent - the effect it is perpetuating can be changed, which ends the previous effect.
• A blade that can damage incorporeal beings and counts as having a magical plus equal to the Magician's Templates for purposes of determining whether it can harm beings with supernatural resilience. In addition, you never fumble with an implement blade.
• A lantern that can illuminate the presence of invisible beings within its brightly lit area (typically a 30" radius).

C: Ritualist
You can now formulate rituals that enact modified or exaggerated versions of the effect of your Magical Arts. A ritual casting can bend or break the rules of the Magical Arts or combine multiple Arts into one, but must still fall within the general purview of the Arts you know. A ritual enactment of Elementalism could summon a known element from nowhere, for example, or bind an elemental to an extended service. For each modification you add, the DM can specify one of the following requirements;

• Ritual must be enacted in a place of innate magical power.
• Ritual requires expenditure of a lot of money, often in the form of large quantities of Granulated Azoth (500gp x Total Requirements).
• Ritual can only be performed once every week/month/year/decade, or only at a specific time or celestial confluence, such as a full moon, a planetary alignment or a seasonal equinox.
• Ritual requires the assistance of a particular person or category of person, like an Alchemist or a bearer of royal blood.
• Ritual has a X:6 chance of backlashing in some kind of Monkey's Paw fashion (each increase of X:6 counts as one Requirement).

This is also how you can create magical items. Single-use items typically add only a single requirement; items with daily uses add 1-3 per use, and permanent items at least 5.

D: Secret of Secrets
You can now perform the single greatest act of magic a mortal can enact, the legendary Wish. A Wish can do almost anything, but it is neither totally omnipotent or wholly convenient. A Wish for wealth or a specific magic item is usually answered with a vision revealing where such a treasure can be found and legally claimed, rather than instantly dropping it into the magician's hands. Likewise, a Wish for an enemy to die will usually reveal the location of a weapon or ally capable of slaying them. Wishes for deliverance from peril are usually answered more immediately; deathtraps break down, avalanches part to leave the magician unharmed, and deadly poisons mysteriously burn themselves through the victim's system without any lasting harm. Wishes are very quick and can be used as interrupts outside of initiative order, even as part of another action - Wishing for a powerful enemy to fail their save against your magic is entirely valid. You can only perform one Wish per level safely, so once you reach this level you have four Wishes. For each Wish you cast above this number, reroll your HD until you roll lower than your current HP and take that as your new HP total. Certain beings of demigodlike stature may be able to bestow additional free Wishes as a reward for services rendered.

Grimoire of the Known Magical Arts

Unless otherwise specified, using a magical art must be declared at the beginning of the round and is enacted at the end. A magician who is injured before then has their magic interrupted, wasting any uses of material components.

• Elementalism
  Bonus Item: Tin of Granulated Azoth (10 pinches)
  Pick one of the four classical elements; others exist, like gravity and light, but for now, you only know the secret name of one. Sprinkle a pinch of Granulated Azoth on your tongue and whisper that name, and it will respond. Issue a command up to [Templates] words long and it will obey automatically. A target of the command can be specified by gesture. For every additional word you want to add, take another pinch of Azoth and make a Save vs. Poison with a penalty equal to the number of extra pinches. On a failure, the command still takes effect, but you are incapacitated for 1 Turn per additional word. On a critical failure, the element goes haywire in some way that is detrimental to everyone around. The element has to actually be present for you to command it; this Art doesn't summon it up. Creatures affected by elemental manifestations you command are entitled to a Save, and any manifestation that would deal damage is limited to d6 per [Template] of the magician, Save for half damage. It takes a week of downtime and 100gp of ritual tools (mostly lots of different examples of the element in question) to learn a new element; each research roll has a progressive 1:6 chance of success (so 2:6 on the second attempt, 3:6 on the third, etc).
• Advanced Elementalism: You can now call up elementals, sentient manifestations of the element you speak to. The summoned elementals have HD equal to your [Templates] and can be increased by consuming extra Azoth as above. A summoned elemental will obey you for 1 Turn before dispersing back into a mundane manifestation of its element.
• Conjuration
  Bonus Item: Stick of Wizard Chalk (10 uses)
  Visualise a mundane item of up to [Templates] equipment slots large and draw a circle big enough to fit it with Wizard Chalk, using up chalk equal to its size. It appears within the circle and can be used as normal, but vanishes after 1 Turn if you stop holding it. The item conjured is generally a generic version of whatever is visualised, but you can also place a rune on a specific item (costing 1 use of Wizard Chalk) and later conjure it into the circle.
• Advanced Conjuration: You can now create teleport circles by marking a target location with a special magical circle, expending one use of Wizard Chalk. At a later time, you can scribe a new circle, either expending as many uses of Wizard Chalk as the time in rounds you want it to stay open or else keeping it open with your own body by standing within the circle, and anyone stepping into the circle is transported to a previously created magical circle of your choice.
• Divination
  Bonus Item: Ephemeris
  By means of consulting your Ephemeris, or if not available, the entrails of a domestic animal at least as large as a goat, you can determine if a specified course of action to be undertaken in the next hour will yield weal, woe, both, or neither. Woe indicates the action of monsters, traps, or hazards, and Weal indicates that the action will lead to a treasure, boon, or useful information. You can divine the future no more than d3+[Templates] times per day.
• Advanced Divination: In place of an entreaty to reveal weal or woe, you can now present up to [Templates] possible actions and divine which of them would be the best. It is possible that none of them yield any positive or negative result, in which case the auguries will reveal this.
• Transmutation
  Bonus Item: Tin of Granulated Azoth (10 pinches)
  Sprinkle a pinch of Granulated  Azoth on a target non-living object no larger than [Templates]x5' cubes and focus your will upon it. For every [Template] you possess, you may alter one of its physical properties, such as opacity, hardness, elasticity, insulation, permeability, colour, taste, or combustibility, to match that of a sample of another material that you have a sample of to hand. Magical materials such as mithril, adamant, and enchanted objects cannot be transmuted, but their physical properties can be bestowed upon transmuted targets if the magician has them to hand. The transmutation lasts 1 Turn per [Template] you possess. It is possible to increase the number of properties altered by adding additional Azoth, but this has the risk of making the reaction unstable: make a Save vs. Blasts with a penalty equal to the number of additional pinches of Powdered Azoth added; on a failure, the magician and everyone in a 10' area suffers (d6xPinches of Azoth) damage as it blows up in their face. 
• Advanced Transmutation: You can now transmute form as well as substance. The transmuted object can be reshaped into anything of approximately the same mass and holds its shape for up to the magician's [Templates] in Turns if the material it is made from is not normally capable. For example, a mass of water could be formed into a statue or the like, and would collapse into a puddle when the time elapsed, while the same statue formed of stone would remain in the same shape.
• Enchantment
  Bonus Item: Flask of Lotus Wine (10 sips)
  Take a sip of lotus wine, let it coat your vocal chords, and make eye contact with another thinking being - they will find themselves thinking your thoughts. You can issue a command up to [Templates] words long, and the target will obey it if they fail their Save. The target of the command can be specified with a gesture. The commands are obeyed for as long as it takes to execute them or one Turn, whichever is shorter. Suicidal commands permit the Save to be made twice, picking the best result, but if it still fails, they are executed. You can increase the number of Words by taking an additional sip of lotus wine, each of which adds an additional word to the command. After doing so, make a Save with a penalty equal to the additional sips or experience a loss of identity, having to obey your own command as if your victim issued it to you! Enchantment transcends the language barrier and may even affect creatures without a language - but not creatures without eyes.
• Advanced Enchantment: You can now keep up to [Templates] creatures bound in semi-permanent thrall to you, rather than issuing a specific command. Additional lotus wine can be drunk to penalise the target's Save by -1 per additional sip, but you too must also make the Save with an equal penalty and on a roll lower than your victim's are bound to serve them until freed, such is the magical Law of Dichotomy - there can be only masters and slaves! Thralls obey your commands without question, but receive a Save if they are forced up against blatantly suicidal odds.
• Illusionism
  Bonus Item: Flask of Lotus Wine (10 sips)
  Drink a sip of lotus wine and allow your vision to fuzz and unfocus, imagine a change in the world, and the magic will make it appear. You can make the image of almost anything you can imagine, but illusions can only be additive - you can change something's appearance or create the image of something new, but you cannot remove anything from the world. Others do not normally get a Save to see through illusions unless they directly interact with them. Illusions can deal psychosomatic damage, but cannot reduce a victim to below 0hp and stable unconsciousness. The maximum damage an illusion can inflict is d6 per [Template] of the magician and permits a Save to negate. It is possible to make an illusion more compelling by increasing the dose of lotus wine, which allows the magician to visualise their illusion more clearly at a risk of becoming lost in it; for each additional sip of lotus wine taken penalises all Saves by -1, but the magician must Save vs. Illusion with an equal penalty or become confused for 1 Turn per sip, acting randomly each round; d6: 1-2. Stand and stare into the middle distance. 3-4. Attack the nearest moving thing. 5. Use a random Magical Art. 6. Covered in spiders! Attack self.
• Advanced Illusionism: Your illusions can now be subtractive, such as making people or objects invisible or creating zones of silence.
• Transformation
  Bonus Item: Pouch containing three sparrows' feathers, a mouse's skull, a tuft of horse's mane, and a bear's claw.
  Place a piece of an animal in your mouth, breathe deeply three times, and on the third inhalation, it vanishes as you become the creature it came from. The transformation lasts up to your [Templates] in Turns if the creature you are becoming has HD equal to or below your own; otherwise, it lasts [Templates] rounds. You can attempt to extend this duration by making a Save vs. Illusions each Turn or round after the duration has expired. On a failure, you become lost in the beast-mind and cannot return to your own form until you next sleep. You can transform into monsters and magical creatures, but in this case, its heart or heart-analogue must be consumed. Note that some creatures may have hearts so large that shapeshifting into other, larger forms may be required first just to consume them! A monster form's supernatural powers may be employed a maximum number of times in total across all abilities equal to your [Templates] in a single transformation.
• Advanced Transformation: Place the reagent in your mouth as usual and exhale three times forcefully in the direction of another, and they shall take on the animal's form instead of you. This can be a blessing or a curse, depending on the circumstance - an unwilling victim is entitled to a Save to avoid your transmogrifying breath. 
• Abjuration
  Bonus Item: Stick of Wizard Chalk (10 uses)
  By drawing a line or circle with Wizard Chalk you can define an area that hedges out a single specified phenomenon, such as sound, light, heat, radiation, or a specific type of magic. It can also contain a specified type of creature, which must make a Save to move through the barrier or else be axiomatically incapable of passing the chalk line, or able to use any of its powers beyond it. The area covered is either 10" wide for a line or 5" radius for a circle per use of Wizard Chalk expended. These wards can technically last forever, but can be easily removed by anyone they don't specifically ward against.
• Advanced Abjuration: You can now expend additional Wizard Chalk to increase the number of phenomena that a ward hedges out, at a rate of 1:1. 
  

Other Magical Arts that might be found in foreign parts may include Necromancy and Diabolism, which are said to employ black candles made of human tallow, Body Control, which turns the power of the black lotus inwards, and Maleficia, which uses inscribed tablets of stygian lead to inflict terrible curses.

The Magic Shop
Unless otherwise stated, each item takes up 1 equipment slot.

Ephemeris - 250gp
A book of tables and charts showing calculations of the position of various astronomical bodies over time. Needs to be replaced with an updated version every quarter at the seasonal Equinoxes. 

Dried Monster Hearts - 10gp x HD of Monster

Salted and preserved in clay-sealed jars under anaerobic conditions. Availability of any given species is not guaranteed, and is based on a cottage industry of processing the kills adventurers bring back.

Goat - 1gp
A common example of Capra Hircus, the silver standard in sacrificial animals. Takes up no equipment slots, but must be herded or led around by a string.

Granulated Azoth, 10 pinches - 100gp
Resembles table salt but with a faint silvery metallic tint. Acts as a bridge between consciousness and the world of matter that is normally deaf to mortal concerns. Tastes salty, metallic, and oddly limey, with an electric spark. 

Lotus Wine, 10 sips - 100gp
Slightly viscous, inky-purple fluid created by fermenting the macerated roots of the Black Lotus. Allows the drinker's mind to escape the cage of its skull and project itself upon the outside world. Mildly dissociative in small doses, highly hallucinogenic in larger.

Wizard Chalk, 10 uses - 100gp
Sulphur-yellow and similar to a tailor's wax chalk, which leaves long-lasting and waterproof marks. Acts as a medium to define boundaries between the physical and magical worlds.

Misplaced Samurai - Cloak-and-Sword Class

 Just getting on the semi-regular GLOG bandwagon for single-level Cloak-and-Sword classes, this one comes from the future.

Class: Sword Dancer
Start with all-encompasing swathes (Medium Armour), a ritual sword (d4: 1. Mandau 2. Kaskara 3. Daab 4. Chokuto) and a five-point code of honour that you cannot be compelled to break by any force.

+1 to Attack and Defence when you have an audience.

Vessel: You can replicate any act of swordsmanship you have ever witnessed, as long as your body is fully covered. This ability has a usage die of d6, and is refreshed by spending four hours performing a ceremonial play that tells the tales of heroic deeds. 

Speaker: You can see ghosts through your mask and can allow them to speak and act through you while in your swathes, if you permit this you are allowed to ask the ghost a favour in return which it must abide by. This favour can be "don't attack my friends" if you're feeling suspicious.

Empty: You can at any time choose to be invisible as long as you are surrounded by people, trees or long grass.

Actor: Your alignment is whatever you want it to be in the moment, this allows you to wield any intelligent swords without complaint.

Stage: While you wear your swathes you can detect all illusions (you can't see though them, you just know what is and isn't an illusion) and can selectively choose to treat them as real to you - walking over an illusionary bridge, cooking food on an illusionary fire, wresling an illusionary sword off a phantom soldier, etc. While you treat them as real, the illusionist who cast them cannot alter their parameters.  

Yojimbo: If someone pays you to defend them or kill another, you have a number of +1's to apply to Defence or Attack equal to the amount of GP paid divided by 10. Each +1 can only be used once, but can be stacked as many times as you like.

Wanderer: Any Esprit rolls of 2-5 that your group makes with anyone who might be described as a noble or warlord are made with promises of ample compensation in return for your service. 

Shed: If you choose to doff your swathes and stand naked beneath the sun with only a sword in your hand, you have only 1hp but cannot be harmed by anything but a sword.

Legend of the 5 Rings Samurai - GLOG

I love Legend of the 5 Rings, or more accurately I love its setting of Rokugan. It is not an attempt at authenticity to feudal Japan, rather it's a gloriously technicolour pan-asian mishmash running entirely on vibes. Real samurai were mostly horse-archers during the time they were militarily significant but Rokugani samurai have a cult of the sword because that's what Kurosawa and anime taught us. I love it because it's inauthentic, imaginative and wide-eyedly romantic. It also happens to be eminently GLOG'able due to its School system. Here I render a few of my favourites, in the fashion of Deus-ex-Parabola's 5e conversions.

Samurai
You have a number of Void Points equal to the highest of your Wis or Xha modifiers (in a proper Rokugan game I'd probably replace the usual six attributes with the five elements, but this will do for purposes of general OSR compatibility) plus your School Rank (i.e. your Templates in Samurai Schools, you don't get any Void Point increase from following strange dishonourable ways of other classes). You can spend Void Points to add +d6 to any weapon attack or skill roll taught by your School, if you have trained in multiple schools (rare, but it does happen) you can use this on them all, some School techniques give other options for spending Void Points. The maximum number of Void Points that can be spent in any one round is equal to your School Rank. You get any used Void Points back after you sleep a full night.

Samural Schools are categorised as either Bushi, Shugenja, Ninja or Courtier, plus occasionally some weird ones like Artisan. For now I will just be covering Bushi, who are Fighting Men and as such never fumble with conventional weapons. Maybe I'll do Shugenja if people like this.

I will not fail.

Crab Clan: Hida Avenger
You are a warrior in a clan that hasn't been off a war footing in over a thousand years. You guard a wall that seperates the Empire from a literal incursion of hell into the material plane. Not for you is learning how to elegantly kill a man in one stroke after staring at eachother for five minutes or how to attain oneness with the universe through meditation on the sword. You drilled in full armour until you collapsed from exhaustion, then recovered your stamina listeing to lectures on military philosophy, siege tactics and monster recognition, and when that was done you drilled again. Eventually you did not collapse, and you were ready.

Skills: Athletics, Tactics, Shadowlands Lore, Intimidation.
Weapons: Sword, Bow, Hammer, Mace, Greataxe
Starting Equipment: Light or Heavy Armour (your choice) with slate grey lacquer, hardwearing clothes, katana & wakizashi, one heavy weapon or polearm that is part of the School's weapon groups, furoshiki, a finger-sized bar of jade, 3 koku (about 10gp each).

+1 Attack and +2 HP per Template, the Crab Clan are tough and seasoned soldiers.

A: Way of the Crab, The Mountain Does Not Move
B: Two Pincers One Mind
C: Hida's Rage
D: The Mountain Does Not Fall

A: The Way of the Crab
The crab is not encumbered by his shell, neither are you. You can do everything except stealth in heavy armour as well as you could without, even swimming. When wielding a heavy weapon, any damage rolls below your School Rank+1 are treated as being equal to it.

A: The Mountain Does Not Move
You reduce all damage by your Con modifier or 1, whichever is higher. This is counted against each attack made against you, and even applies to psychic or spiritual damage.

B: Two Pincers One Mind
You can make two attacks per round when wielding your School's weapons. Any penalties to your attack rolls - such as from hostile spells, exhaustion, difficulty or darkness - are reduced by 2 points.

C: Hida's Rage
At this rank, you have learned to channel a portion of the legendary berserker fury of the Clan's founder. You may allow any enemy in close combat with you an attack of opportunity against you, in return you get an additional attack against them this round.

D: The Mountain Does Not Fall
Spend a Void Point to ignore being stunned, dazed, fatigued, subject to magically induced emotions, or the need to sleep for 8 hours (obviously, you don't regain any Void Points if you don't sleep).

For the coward there is no life.
For the hero there is no death.

Crane Clan: Kakita Duellist
You remember that crack up page about killing a man with one stroke? That's these guys. The Kakita family are descended from (and bear the name of) the literal greatest swordsman who ever lived - and by the Kami did he know it. The Crane are however at heart not a warlike clan, their power is in the realm of politics, fashion and money - damn near every Empress in history has been a Crane and they practically designed Rokugani high culture from the ground up - art styles, poetry, cuisine, dress sense, all the things that make a Rokugani distinct from the gaijin beyond. As such, you weren't trained for the battlefield but for the court - to win honour duels on behalf of a Doji courtier according to the precepts of Kakita's foundational text, The Sword. Does this make you any less deadly than the Lion or the Crab? Oh, goodness, no. Not at all.

Skills: Etiquette, Heraldry, Any three artforms of your choice; ikebana, poetry and painting are popular.
Weapons: Sword, Bow, Spear.
Starting Equipment: Light armour with sky-blue lacquer, fashionable clothes, katana & wakizashi, any 1 other weapon, furoshiki, hair bleach, 10 koku.

+1 to Attack and +1 to Defence per Template, the Crane are precise and careful.

A: Way of the Crane, The Speed of Lightning
B: The First and Last Strike
C: Strike From The Void
D: Strike With No Thought

A: Way of the Crane
You act as a "third side" during initative, rolling on your own with a modifier equal to your School Rank. If your initiative is higher than your opponent, you may add the difference to your damage rolls.

A: The Speed of Lightning
You are immune to ambush, and still act as normal during a surprise round.

B: The First and Last Strike
Kakita taught that any fight could be won with a single blow - and should be. You may choose to hold your attack back to the end of the round during the spellcasting phase, if you do then your attack can be interrupted - if you take damage you must Save or lose your attack. If you succeed, however, your damage is doubled - including the bonus damage from Way of the Crane, if any. This is typically done in a iaijutsu strike where you unsheathe your sword, strike, flick it clean and resheathe it in the same motion - a fighting style both wildly impractical and unbearably cool.

C: Strike From The Void
You can now spend Void Points on damage with any School weapon. Not everyone knows this, but when you do so your weapon counts as having a magical plus equal to your School Rank for purposes of bypassing supernatural resistance.

D: Strike With No Thought
A true student of the sword needs no technique, he simply acts as the sword demands. You get an attack of opportunity against anyone entering melee with you, a number of times per round equal to your School Rank.

Defy Definition

Dragon Clan: Mirumoto Niten
If Kakita was the stamp from which all people judge a swordsman, Mirumoto was the guy who completely broke the mold. Win every fight with one strike? Then why am I wearing two swords? He thought. Like all Dragons, he had a bad habit of flying in the face of all established wisdom and somehow still winning regardless. So was the Niten style created, wielding both katana and wakizashi simultaneously, emphasising fluidity and practicality over stance and technique. The Mirumoto are also the Kakita's primary rival for title of best duellists in Rokugan. Combats between the two families are usually tense and have surprising outcomes - it was Mirumoto's son Hojatsu who finally defeated Kakita, though he too died in the act.

Skills: Athletics, Magic Lore, Meditation, Theology.
Weapons: Sword, Bow, Any one weapon group of your choice.
Starting Equipment: Light armour with green lacquer, tough clothing, katana and wakizashi, any one weapon, furoshiki, copy of Niten, 5 koku.

+1 to Attack and Saves per Template, the Dragon are uncanny and perceptive.

A: Way of the Dragon, Calm Amidst Thunder
B: Strong And Swift
C: Furious Retaliation
D: Heart of the Dragon

A: Way of the Dragon
When wielding the katana and wakizashi simultaneously you may riposte any attacks that roll 1+School Rank on the d20, immediately making a counterattack and adding your School Rank to your damage on a hit.

A: Calm Amidst Thunder
When you fight an opponent in simultaneous initative with you and your damage would kill him, his damage is not applied to you even if it would hit. You may also make a double attack when wielding the katana and wakizashi simultaneously, but if your damage does not kill your target they get a free attack of opportunity against you.

B: Strong And Swift
Niten is not a set of instructions to follow, but a map to be explored - in a thousand years of study, there is always something new to find. You may now attack twice per round when wielding School weapons. Furthermore, attempts to perform special maneuvers like trips, pushes, disarms and the like are made with a bonus equal to your School Rank.

C: Furious Retaliation
You gain advantage on all attacks against anyone who has dealt you damage within the last round.

D: Heart of the Dragon
The Dragon is everywhere and nowhere, his claws and teeth and scales are all around you. You may now spend Void Points to gain additional attacks on a one-for-one basis. You can do this even outside of your turn in response to an attack against you, in which case you count as being in simultaneous initative with your attacker.

Duty, Honor, Leadership

Lion Clan: Akodo Bushi
The Lion are among the most traditionalist clans in Rokugan and their fighting style shows it. While other schools teach elaborate specialised techniques and compare their swordsmanship to painting or caligraphy, the Akodo family drill the foundations of kenjutsu and military theory into their students again and again in a fashion more like hammering nails than high art. Who cares about complicated tactics and showy "secret techniques"? Just strike exactly as you intended, repeat until dead - a tactic that works every time. The Lion's way is the way of victory, and if you have any doubt as to the efficacy of their simple, traditional ways, just ask to whom the Emperor has trusted the bulk of his legions to command - perhaps it would be better to call it the Lion's share. 

Skills: Athletics, Tactics, History, Heraldry.
Weapons: Sword, Bow, Spear, Polearms.
Starting Equipment: Light Armour with yellow lacquer, conservative clothing, katana and wakizashi, any one weapon, furoshiki, tessen, 5 koku.

+1 to Attacks per Template, +1 to Damage on A, C. +1 to Defence on B, D. Lions are fierce and natural warriors.

A: Way of the Lion, Strength of Purity
B: Fangs of My Fathers
C: The Hand of Destiny
D: The Final Lesson

A: Way of the Lion
You critical hit range expands to 19-20, this stacks with any other effects that expand critical hit range. If the system you're playing in doesn't usually have double damage on natural 20 attack rolls, you still do - tell the DM I told you so.

A: Strength of Purity
The wicked man fears the blade held in the hand of the righteous. You add your Xha modifier to damage against creatures of supernatural evil, chaotic humanoids and foreigners (unless the Emperor permits their presence on Rokugan).

B: Fangs of My Fathers
You can make two attacks per round when fighting with your School weapons. The first blow is yours, the second from you ancestors - it still does minimum damage on a miss (1 per damage die plus your Strength and Damage modifier, usually), even to targets that have magical resistance to your attacks.

C: The Hand of Destiny
All things are predestined, there is no such thing as luck. At the start of the day you recieve a number of d20 rolls equal to your School Rank - note down the results, these can be used to replace any of your own attack rolls or the attack rolls of anyone else within 10' of you. If you wish you may spend Void Points during your morning meditations to gain additional rolls.

D: Akodo's Final Lesson
There are no failures. Your attacks now deal a minimum of your School Rank damage, even on a miss. Furthermore, you have advantage on your next attack made after a miss.

Choosing between two evils
is still choosing evil.

Phoenix Clan: Shiba Yojimbo
The Shiba are unusual in many ways, unlike all the other kami-descended families they are subservient to the Isawa clan who are descended from a human hero - arguably the greatest mortal man in history, having single-handedly elevated the practice of magic from simple divinations and blood rites to the elemental glory of the shugenja's art but merely a man all the same. In a clan that espouses pacifism as the highest ideal they train for war. With the Phoenix way of war focusing on the judicious application of their unmatched magical power, the bushi of the Shiba clan concentrate on defending their vulnerable shugenja cousins so they can invoke their spells in safety. Intensely spiritual, devoting as much time to mastery of the self through the no-mind technique, the Shiba produce warriors with the aspect of monks and the purity of fire.

Skills: Athletics, Etiquette, Magic Lore, Theology.
Weapons: Sword, Bow, Spear, Mace.
Starting Equipment: Light Armour with red lacquer, austere clothing, katana and wakizashi, any 1 other weapon, furoshiki, oil lamp, 5 koku.

+1 to Attacks and Void Points per Template. Phoenix are focused and spiritually strong.

A: Way of the Phoenix, A Single Life
B: One With Nothing
C: Everywhere and Nowhere
D: The Purity of Fire

A: Way of the Phoenix
Mastery of "no-thought" sharpens your sensitivity to the Void. Your Void Points now count as d8s, and return to your pool on a roll equal to or below your School Rank.

A: A Single Life
Understanding your place in the universe makes it easy to sacrifice your life for another. You can attune yourself to another person by spending a Turn in shared meditation with them, thereafter until the next dawn you may intercept any attacks directed against them using your own Defence as long as you remain within 10' of them. At a cost of a further Void Point you can also intercept hostile spells and other effects that require a Save.

B: One With Nothing
Whenever a spellcaster (even an enemy) in your immediate area loses a Magic Die to a roll of 6, you gain a Void Point - these can exceed your maximum but are lost at the next dawn if unspent. When you lose a void point on a roll of 8 a spellcaster of your choice in the immediate area gains a Magic Die.

C: Everywhere and Nowhere
Flowing with the Void, the bushi can now attack twice per round with any School weapon. You can strike incorporeal beings as if they were solid, and your weapons count as having a magical plus equal to your School Rank for purposes of damaging supernatural enemies. If you spend a Void Point this becomes an actual magical plus to attacks and damage for a number of rounds equal to the d8 roll.

D: The Purity of Fire
Your spirit burns so brightly it is nearly inextinguishable, surely all heavens and earth will fall before a warrior with such purity does. When you are subject to an attack that deals multiple damage dice, or multiple successful attacks in a single round, you may spend a Void Point to reduce the damage you take by a number of dice equal to your School Rank to a minimum of 1.

I can swim.

Scorpion Clan: Bayushi Ambusher
The Bayushi clan's version of the Frog and Scorpion aesop has a different ending. If the Crane are the Emperor's left hand, and the Lion his right, then the Scorpion are his under-hand. The Kami Bayushi was less idealistic when it came to human nature than the rest of his brothers and sisters, and knew that an empire ran by people devoted to honour would inevitably fall to those without. So he chose to play the villain to spare the others the shame of having to dirty their hands, recruiting thieves, spies and assassins into his new clan. The shadow-people of the Empire, to do the things that tarnished their own honour so that others didn't have to. To be mistrusted, so others would have an example of what not to live up to. No clan is more maligned, has fewer allies or more enemies.

And yet, they still keep swimming.

Skills: Athletics, Etiquette, Stealth, Dissembling.
Weapons: Sword, Spear, Dagger, Chain.
Starting Equipment: Light Armour with black lacquer, dark clothing, katana and wakizashi, any 1 other weapon, furoshiki, personalised mask, 5 koku.

+1 to Attacks and Surprise Rolls per Template. Scorpions strike fast and from the shadows.

A: Way of the Scorpion, Pincers & Tail
B: Strike At The Tail
C: Above & Below
D: Pincers Hold & Tail Strikes

A: Way of the Scorpion
Tied initative always breaks in your favour, when initative is in your favour you gain a bonus to your Defence and Attack rolls equal to your School Rank.

A: Pincers & Tail
You have a Tail Die of d6, which is dealt as unmodified automatic damage to the target in combat with you that has the lowest HP. This represents a multitude of probing jabs, kicks, thrown stones, pommel-clonks and shivvings you deal alongside your usual attacks to cull the weak. If this damage kills a foe, it may be rolled again against the next-weakest a number of times equal to your School Rank.

B: Strike At The Tail
If an opponent is stronger than you then first, take away his strength. When you successfully perform a maneuver to trip or disarm an opponent, you may immediately make an extra attack against them.

C: Above & Below
When you attack, do so from unexpected angles. You may now attack twice per round, futhermore your Tail Die increases to d8.

D: Pincers Hold & Tail Strikes
When you hit the same opponent with both your attacks, you may make a third. If you spend a Void Point on this third attack, the opponent who survives must Save or be stunned for 1 round by the psychic venom of your attack.

One cannot capture the wind

Unicorn Clan: Shinjo Horsemen
The Kirin Clan spent eight centuries outside Rokugan, scouting the surrounding lands for external threats. When they returned, riding from the West through the Shadowlands like an invading army, it caused one of the biggest upheavals in the Empire's history, as their ancient territories held in trust by other clans were once again ceded back to their old masters. What's more, though they had done their best to preserve their Rokugani traditions, time and extremity had led to the now Unicorn Clan having picked up a number of odious foreign customs like eating meat, leatherworking, and some decidedly unconventional fighting styles.

Skills: Athletics, Riding, Gaijin Lore, Hunting.
Weapons: Sword, Spear, Bow, Polearms.
Starting Equipment: Heavy Armour with purple lacquer, rugged clothing, katana and wakizashi, any 1 other weapon, furoshiki, quality riding horse, 10 koku.

+1 to Attacks per Template, +1 to Initative on A, C. +1 to Defence on B, D. Unicorn warriors strike like the wind and are gone before foes can retaliate.

A: Way of the Unicorn, Dance of the Blade/Yomanri
B: Four Winds Strike
C: One Spirit
D: Dancing With The Fortunes

A: Way of the Unicorn
Most Unicorns learn to ride before they can even walk. On horseback you add your School Rank to Defence and Damage. Your steed uses your Defence score.

A: Dance of the Blade/Yomanri
You learn one of the techniques the Unicorn picked up on their long sojourn;

• Dance of the Blade: In response to an attack against you, once per round you may make your own attack roll; if it exceeds your foes' roll their damage is reduced by d6.
• Yomanri: Traditional Rokugani archery holds that the loosing of an arrow should be instinctual, meditative, letting the arrow find its way. Gaijin think it's better to just aim. You can delay an archery attack until the end of the round, like declaring a spell. If you do, and are not interrupted by an attack, your shot automatically hits.

B: Four Winds Strike
You may now attack twice per round. You may make a move action between attacks without provoking an attack of opportunity.

C: One Spirit
The bond between you and your steed is now on an almost spiritual level. You can bond with a horse by investing a Void Point in the animal, which remains invested for as long as you choose to maintain the bond. While invested, your steed responds to even complex commands with human-like intelligence and you can perform impressively improbable feats of horsemanship like mounting your steed while it is galloping full speed or fighting proficiently while hanging sideways on the saddle. Your bonded steed will never fumble an athletic feat like jumping a fence and the damage multiplier for charging with a lance increases to x3 while riding it.

D: Dancing With The Fortunes
Unicorns are famously lucky, they had to be to survive 800 years of self-imposed exile. Once per round you can spend a Void Point to reroll a die (any die, including damage) rather than gain a bonus to your roll, even critical failures. 

There Is No Skill In What I do - Church Assassin (GLOG Class) (Bandwagoning)

The GLOG is going through a bit of a bandwagon again, this is mine.

The Erĝeshmál are a rumour, albeit a persistant one - a hidden cabal of fanatic-assassins whose origin stretches back to the very beginning of the Latterine Church, when the message of the Latter Prophet was scorned and its followers subjected to all manner of persecution and humiliation. The Erĝeshmál (from the Sassálid "fangs of prophecy") protected the faithful from organised pogroms and official censures through covert assassination, guided by a whisper network of hidden Latterines in the servants' chambers of a thousand palaces and, it is claimed, by inspired visions. This is history though, and the Latterine Church waxes strong across the surface of the World - there is no more reason for borderline heresies the likes of the Erĝeshmál to exist; with half the world's crowns bowing to the Deiarch on her throne in Súnelamar, what use would she have for a few silent knives in the dark?

Class: Church Assassin
You are a member of a hidden cabal of killers whose hands are guided by prophecy. You have never studied the blade, no-one taught you how to scale castle walls or pick locks, how to hide in plain sight or the secret evil ways by which men can be seperated from their souls quickly and efficiently. You need know none of these dreadful, sinful things that uproot the rightful order of creation. You spent your time in prayer, supplication and denial so that when the time came that you were needed angels would guide your hands far more surely than any training.

Starting Skill: None.

Equipment: Beggar's rags (as normal clothing, +1 to Reaction Rolls to be ignored), bronze alms bowl, bronze kitchen knife (light weapon in your hands, d3 in another's (see "Needful Things" below)), rosary (strung on garotte wire, +1d4 to grappling damage), d6 silver pieces and d6x10 copper pieces.

Every Template gives +1 Portent Die

A: Needful Things, Portents
B: The Call, +1d6 Critical Damage
C: On Angel's Wings
D: The Appointed Time, +1d6 Critical Damage

A: Needful Things
You are not proficient in any weapons or armour. However, you can wield any object of appropriate size as a light or medium weapon, even if it isn't intended as one. You can also expend a Portent of Success to automatically find any mundane equipment item somewhere in your immediate surroundings, no matter how unlikely. Items acquired this way will somehow be lost or stolen by the end of the day.

A: Portents
Your movements are clumsy, artless and imprecise, yet somehow your knife finds its way past the thickest armour and the most practiced defences while your foe's most deft blows are somehow turned by sudden stumbles and distractions, as if some unseen puppeteer guided you.

At the start of the day roll a number of Portent Dice (d6s). Each die that rolls a 1-3 grants you a Portent of Failure, while each that rolls 4-6 grants a Portent of Success. Rolls of 1 and 6 explode, granting their Portent of Failure/Success as normal and being rerolled for another.

You may expend a Portent of Failure to cause someone within your line of sight to fail a roll of your choice, as an interrupt. You must have some way of influencing them, even if as little as a whistle or a thrown pebble at the right moment.

You may expend a Portent of Success to automatically succeed at some roll you or another within line of sight are required to make. As above, you must have some way of influencing the target if it is not yourself. When used for attack rolls this counts as a Critical Hit.

B: The Call
When setting out on a mission, dungeon delve, quest or what-have-you you may pray for guidance. Ask the DM "Is there someone here who the gods wish me to kill?", and he will answer with a vision of their face and rough location - enough to narrow it down to within one quadrant of a given dungeon floor. If you kill them you may regain all your expended Portents.

C: On Angel's Wings
When someone attacks you and misses, either naturally or because of a Portent of Failure, they suffer d6 coincidental damage as they sprain their ankles, stumble into your weapon, crack their head on nearby objects or some other such improbable bungle. If their failure was a result of a natural 1, they instead take your Critical Damage.

D: The Appointed Time
This is what you have been preparing for, the reason you were placed upon the World.

First of all, you apprehend the true name Dust, and may teach it to sorcerers if you wish, they will expect to have to do you a great service in return. Aiding and abetting sorcerers is a sinful act, but you may assume special dispensation in service of a greater good.

Secondly, you are immune to sorcerous commands directed at yourself - your actions are not your own, so the word of Man has no control over you.

Finally; once, ever, you may declare a single target within your line of sight your destined kill. If there is any possibility of you even being able to deal them damage, the next time you successfully attack them they die. The archvillain can be right in the middle of his big climactic speech before his assembled minions and you run out of the crowd and clock him in the temple with a rock and he falls down dead. No save, no nothing; dead dead DEAD. Furthermore, their soul becomes entangled with your own - they cannot be ressurected, reincarnated or the like without you being physically present at the ritual, and if you die before then their soul is carried off to final judgement with you, never to be reborn again. If, however, they are not able to be harmed by any weapon or resource you currently have access to - you've wasted your chance.

Clerics as Prophets (Esoteric Lorebuilding)

 Clerics are odd ducks. Their classical image of the mailed crusader with a religious proscription against wielding bladed weapons deliberately evokes medieval warrior-priests of the Archbishop Turpin and Odo of Bayeux vein. But while those fellows were members of a powerful Church with clear heirarchy and vast political power, the adventuring cleric is free to roam the backroads and wildnerness, associating with thieves, bandits and witches, and if they run afoul of the authorities they can expect to be treated like any other homeless vagabond. The various incarnations of the Cleric from OD&D to 5E have expounded on their power to call down miracles and avaunt unquiet souls, but conspicuously absent has been any reference to the political power of the church or temple they represent. This is strange on the face of it, priests have always wielded a lot of social clout - but our adventuring cleric is unmoored.

There's plenty of ways I could develop subsystems and add class abilities, but I don't like changing something when I can just recontextualise it instead. And for the adventuring cleric, one little tweak to how clerics are conceptualised makes everything about its design make perfect sense;

Clerics aren't priests, they're prophets.

You have no political power or support from a wider Church as a cleric because there isn't one. Oh, there's religions out there, sure - whole heirarchies of temples, pontiffs and priests - and you're not part of it.

Bearer of the Word

As an adventuring cleric you're a revelation, a new Word coming out of the wilderness to shake the foundations of the earth. If the wider religious heirarchy hears about you they're probably not going to welcome you with open arms; they're probably going to either laugh at you or ignore you. Once you start getting more notoriety they're going to denounce you as a heretic, maybe try to get you burned at the stake if your message is a bit too radical. Once you hit Name level and start gathering real power, they're going to start sweating bullets and quietly packing the silverwear into easily-moved trunks. Either way, they're not going to help you.

Terrible Purpose

But adventurers? Freethinkers and desperadoes, living by their wits and determination. The kind of folk who decide to make a profession out of wresting handfuls of grave goods from nameless horrors deep beneath the earth aren't the sort to look askance at a fellow for worshipping strange gods and preaching radical heresies, not when he can heal with a touch and cast back the unquiet dead by force of will. Sinners one and all - the ones who need to hear your Word the most.

Shake the Foundations

When a player wants to be a cleric I now tell them to invent the name of their god and the tenets of their faith themselves and that nobody before them in the current mileu has ever heard of it. This might be because they're a foreigner, a missionary from a mysterious land far, far away (with accompanying odd customs), or they're the first to hear the voice of a nascent god in the wilderness. As they grow in notoriety and perform great deeds, so too does the power of their god over the land swell - this is why their god can't just grant them miracles on command; their power is finite and constrained - the cleric's god is at first little more than a whisper on the wind, but quickly grows to titanic proportions.

Inner Mysteries

The spell list of all clerics is broadly similar because the divine itself has a certain essential nature - that of bringing Order out of chaos. Curative spells like cure light wounds and restoration just return broken parts of creation back to their intact state, but really that's all any clerical spell does. All clerical spells are essentially just glimpses into the world as it should be, sinless and unfallen. In the world as it should be water would refuse to drown, bar the way or even moisten the robes of the righteous - that's how a cleric casts water walk, by reminding the waters of their duty. Command and Gease/Quest? People should obey a servant of the gods. Flame strike? That's just the sun and stars fulfilling their intended purpose as weapons against the forces of darkness.

Of course there are gods of Chaos and Darkness, too. Sometimes they're just the guys who cast the reversed versions of Cleric spells and command rather than turn undead by default, but in my home games clerics are exclusively the servants of Order. The gods of Chaos have their priests, of course - they're just represented by Magic-Users.

Again, this is not an excercise in changing the class - it's an excercise in not changing it, keeping it exactly as written without any need to make the game world change to fit the way clerics are actually played. That said, if players want to add one or two spells per level of their own devising to their clerical spell list to flesh out their ethos I'm more than happy - I'm ecstatic in fact.

Lightbringer

I HAVE LASER BEAMS COMING OUT OF MY HEAD - (GLOG Psychic Paths)

The common man has infinite options available to them, and like the diffuse rays of the sun their will presses itself only lightly upon the World. The true master prunes his will, aligns and collimates it, as a lens focuses light into a narrow point - and the World burns beneath it.

These being possible advancement paths for Locheil's psychic. Go read it first or little of this will make much sense.

MY FOCUS IS EXCHANGE

A: My Paradigm is... I will never go back on my word.

From it I gain the Power... Dis For Dat

I can trade anything for anything. The exchange doesn't have to be balanced, because value is subjective, but everyone involved has to agree it's worth their while. A rich man could buy a year of a bum's lifespan for a million bucks. A soldier could sell his marksmanship skills in exchange for a would-be terrorist's previously peaceful life. More prosaically, people within my Crown can swap places with eachother freely.

B: My Paradigm is...  I will never steal.

From it I gain the Power...  Here For There

I can trade the places of anything inanimate or consenting within my Crown, including myself. If I exchange the places of things that are of radically different mass they both create sonic booms, which can stun and deafen anybody nearby - including myself.

C: My Paradigm is...  I will never work for free.

From it I gain the Power...  Fuck You, Pay Me

Anyone who wishes to attack me or force me to do something I do not wish to must pay me for the privilege. The minimum payment is one gold piece, but each seperate act requires an individual payment - if the gnoll who wants to gut me throws a platium piece they get one attack, not ten. Payment can be in goods as well as legal tender, but the one-for-one rule still applies.

D: My Paradigm is...  I will never accept charity.

From it I gain the Power...  Equivalent Exchange

I can transform objects I own into other things. If exchanging goods for goods, some bastard cosmic exchequer taxes the transaction, meaning I can only transform it into something of half its market value or less. If exchanging legal tender (including gold and gems) for goods though, the transformation occurs at the market price. I can also combine the value of things with identical characteristics, like merging two 50' ropes into one 100' rope or a pile of small diamonds into one big diamond with the combined value of them all (this particular ability makes me incredibly popular with wizards). All coins are considered to have 'identical characteristics' for this purpose, so that giant mound of copper coins I found at the bottom of the last dungeon can be quite easily squidged down into a more manageable pocketful of platinum.

MY FOCUS IS ORDER

A: My Paradigm is... I will never enter a home unwelcomed.

From it I gain the Power... Inviolable Domain

I can exclude a broad or narrow category of things from the area of my Crown, one at a time. They simply cease to exist within it. Whatever I choose applies to me as well, but I can game it through specificity - if I choose projectiles then any bullets in my gun will dissappear, but if I narrow it down to bullets and use a crossbow, I'm good. The excluded things go back to existing once they leave the area of my Crown or I change it to exclude something else.

B: My Paradigm is...  I will never vandalise a work of art.

From it I gain the Power...  Crystalise

I can convert dead or inorganic matter within my Crown into a changeless crystalline form that is immune to the passage of time and back again. Living organic matter can be encapsulated within it but not converted. Beings that have been so encysted (they should probably get a Save to avoid it) remain alive, not aging and requiring no nourishment nor air and could be chipped out but outside my Crown crystalised material returns to its normal state in about 10 minutes in any case. Crystalised air has equivalent physical resilience to ice, but feels warm like polystyrene to the touch. Anything I Crystalise is vulnerable to a Shatter spell.

C: My Paradigm is...  I will never break a written contract.

From it I gain the Power... Indivisible

No part of my body can be separated from the whole, nor can my effects be removed from me against my will. I can still be poked full of holes and have my organs lacerated and bones broken, but I will never die of blood loss or being beheaded. Likewise I cannot be disarmed or pickpocketed, any attempt to do so finds the item held as firm as an immovable rod.

D: My Paradigm is...  I will never damage a work of artifice.

From it I gain the Power...  Pyramid Power

Things that spend time within my Crown subtly get better over time, slowly moving toward their ideal form. Entropy itself flees before my Crown; rust returns to healthy iron, cracks meld together, dirt sloughs like water from waxpaper, dull blades become sharp. The effect extends to living things; diseases halt in their progression and in time reverse their course, wounds never fester and heal at thrice the normal pace and never leave scars, people even age backwards or forwards at an accelerated pace until they reach the age where they are at their physical peak, though it is rare for someone other than myself to be within my Crown long enough to see such an impact. Given enough time, objects and even people might even become better than they were at their best; blades cut atomic-thin, silk ropes become as tough as carbon fibre, skin and muscle as clean and defined as marble statuary.

MY FOCUS IS IDOLATRY

A: My Paradigm is...  I will never take up arms.

From it I gain the Power... Stone Shadow

I can transform my body into a statue carved from solid stone of my choice. I can then step outside of the statue, leaving it behind - it is real and permanent, even if it leaves my Crown. If I grapple someone and leave them trapped in a stony headlock they're probably not getting out without help or a hammer and chisel. Given enough time I can create relatively stable walls or other structures out of interlocking statues of myself, mortared together with naught but handholds and embraces.

B: My Paradigm is...  I will never refuse an offering of food, drink or incense.

From it I gain the Power...  White Jade Shintai

By my will, as many statues created through Stone Shadow as I have levels can be declared Idols. Each Idol has its own Crown, I can see and hear through all my Idols and count as standing in their place for purposes of Telekinesis, Telepathy and Manifestation. At will I can dissappear from where I stand to step out of them. When I do so I cannot leave the area of the Idol's Crown, but I really have moved places and can take back anything I find there with me when I return. If I wish to declare a new Idol once I have reached my limit, one of my previously created Idols of my choosing crumbles to dust.

C: My Paradigm is...  I will never mistreat social outcasts or show unearned respect to the mighty.

From it I gain the Power...  Army of God

I can animate the statues created through Stone Shadow and control them as if they were my own body while they are within my Crown. All the animated statues are as subject to my Paradigms as I am, and so may not bear weapons, but their fists are still made of stone.

D: My Paradigm is...  I will never desecrate a sacred place.

From it I gain the Power...  Smoke of Sacrifice

I gain power from people who worship at my Idols. Any item left within my Idol's Crown as a sacrifice transforms into smoke and is inhaled by the Idol. I can summon to hand anything they sacrifice, and gain one point I can apply to any number on my character sheet for every magnitude of worshippers I have (10, 100, 1000, etc.). Finally, if someone prays before my Idol for a blessing I can bestow them a Power that fulfils their wish, along with a Paradigm of my choosing - as many such blessings as I have Templates can exist at any one time.