MARTIAL TREES

Structure

Each martial tree has 5 tiers costing 1 martial point each:

• Initial: 1 passive + 1 tactical ability
• Upgrades 1-3: Enhance your tactical ability
• Ultimate: Mastered version of your signature move (requires all 3 upgrades)

Tree Limits:

Level	Max Trees
1-2	2
3-5	3
6-8	4
9-10	5

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BODY TREES

1. BRAWLER (Body), Unarmed Control

Pin Down (Action plus passives)

Your unarmed strikes are true weapons (magical at Tier 3+) and you have

advantage on Body checks to grapple. As an action, make a contested Body

check against a creature in reach. On a success it is pinned: it cannot move,

its attacks have disadvantage, and attacks against it have advantage.

Deed (Tier 1), Iron Grip: *Your hands close like manacles. What you

seize, you keep.* Catch a swinging blade, snatch an arrow, clamp a fleeing

ankle.

• Tier 2: Enemies have disadvantage on checks to escape your grapples.
• Tier 3: You can grapple creatures one size larger than you. Creatures

you have pinned cannot regain Vigor.

• Tier 4: +1 crit range with unarmed strikes, and +1 AC while unarmed.
• Tier 5 (Ultimate), Ground and Pound: You can grapple creatures of any

size. As an action (2 Stamina), make two unarmed strikes against a creature

that is pinned or prone.

2. BERSERKER (Body), Rage Warrior

Rage (Maneuver, 1 Stamina)

You rage for one minute: +1 crit range on melee attacks, +10 feet speed, and

your Body modifier as a penalty to AC. Rage continues automatically while you

attack each turn.

Deed (Tier 1), Blood Surge: *Pain becomes fuel. Every wound feeds the

fire.* When you should fall, you rise. One more action. One more strike.

• Tier 2: While raging you have advantage on Body saves.
• Tier 3: While raging, when you take a wound, regain 1 Vigor.
• Tier 4: Rage costs 0 Stamina. When you drop an enemy while raging,

regain 1 Vigor.

• Tier 5 (Ultimate), Death Frenzy: Once per rage (3 Stamina): until your

next turn, your melee hits deal +1 wound and hits against you deal

+1 wound.

3. WRESTLER (Body), Advanced Grappling

Takedown (Maneuver plus passives)

You have advantage on Body checks to grapple and to escape grapples. As a

maneuver, make a contested Body check: on a success the target is knocked

prone and pinned. While you have a creature pinned, you may use your action

to Throw it 10 feet: it takes 1 wound and lands prone.

Deed (Tier 1), Earth Shaker: *You take them down so hard the ground

remembers.* Put them through a wall, into their ally, off the ledge. The

impact has consequences.

• Tier 2: Enemies have disadvantage on checks to escape you. Throw

distance becomes 15 feet.

• Tier 3: You can grapple creatures one size larger. A creature thrown

into a hard surface or another creature takes +1 wound, and a struck

creature must make a Body save or fall prone.

• Tier 4: You can move at half speed while pinning a creature.
• Tier 5 (Ultimate), Stunning Throw: You can grapple creatures of any

size. When you Throw (2 Stamina), the creature is also stunned until the

end of its next turn.

4. GUARDIAN (Body), Shield Defender

Interpose (Reaction, 1 Stamina, plus passives)

You gain +1 AC while wielding a shield, and your shield is a weapon. When an

ally within 5 feet is hit, you may grant them +4 AC against that attack,

which can turn it into a miss.

Deed (Tier 1), Unbreakable Wall: *Behind you, they are safe. Before you,

nothing passes.* Plant yourself. You are the wall.

• Tier 2: Interpose reaches allies within 10 feet.
• Tier 3: When your Interpose turns a hit into a miss, the attacker must

make a Body save or be knocked prone.

• Tier 4: Your shield bonus becomes +2 AC. Interpose costs 0 Stamina.
• Tier 5 (Ultimate), Punishing Guard: You can Interpose twice per round.

When it turns a hit into a miss, immediately make a free shield strike

against the attacker if they are in reach.

5. TITAN (Body), Two-Handed Devastation

Sweeping Strike (Action plus passives)

You gain +1 crit range with two-handed weapons (stacks with Heavy). As an

action, attack two enemies within 5 feet of each other, rolling each attack

at disadvantage. Requires a two-handed weapon.

Deed (Tier 1), Sundering Blow: *What your weapon strikes, breaks. Not

wounds. Breaks.* Doors, shields, columns. The break is absolute.

• Tier 2: Sweeping Strike no longer has disadvantage.
• Tier 3: When you drop an enemy with a two-handed weapon, move 10 feet

without provoking.

• Tier 4: Sweeping Strike can hit three enemies.
• Tier 5 (Ultimate), Earthshaker: As an action (2 Stamina), strike the

ground: all enemies within 10 feet make a Body save or take 1 wound and

fall prone; on a success they stay standing and are unharmed.

6. GLADIATOR (Body), Arena Fighter

Showboat (Maneuver plus passives)

You have advantage on attacks against creatures larger than you or of higher

level than you. As a maneuver, choose one enemy within 30 feet that can see

you: it must make a Heart save or have disadvantage on attacks until your

next turn.

Deed (Tier 1), Crowd's Champion: *The audience demands a spectacle. You

deliver.* Do something theatrical enough and reality plays along.

• Tier 2: Showboat targets two enemies.
• Tier 3: When you score a critical hit or drop an enemy, allies within

30 feet gain advantage on their next attack.

• Tier 4: An enemy that fails its Showboat save can target only you until

your next turn.

• Tier 5 (Ultimate), Death or Glory: As an action (2 Stamina), make an

attack. On a hit it deals +1 wound and all allies within 30 feet regain

1 Vigor. On a miss you fall prone and every adjacent enemy may immediately

make an opportunity attack against you.

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MIND TREES

7. SWORDMASTER (Mind), Tactical Duelist

Precision Strike (Passive suite)

You gain +1 AC while wielding a one-handed melee weapon with no shield. When

you hit with a melee attack, you may move 5 feet without provoking.

Deed (Tier 1), Perfect Cut: One stroke. One moment. One outcome. The

blade finds exactly what you need: the gap in armor, the thread, the strap.

• Tier 2: Once per round, when you hit, also strip 1 Vigor from the

target.

• Tier 3: You cannot be flanked. When an enemy misses you in melee, you

may move 5 feet without provoking.

• Tier 4: After your precision strip triggers, you may move 10 feet

instead of 5.

• Tier 5 (Ultimate), Flowing Strike: When you drop an enemy, immediately

make one attack against another enemy in reach (once per round). Enemies

you hit have disadvantage on their next attack against you.

8. TACTICIAN (Mind), Battlefield Support

Assist (Reaction)

When an ally within 30 feet makes an attack roll, add your Mind die to it.

Deed (Tier 1), Battlefield Clarity: *You see the whole board. Every

piece. Every possibility.* Give one perfect command and your insight becomes

reality.

• Tier 2: Assist can also be used on an ally's saving throw.
• Tier 3: When an attack you Assisted hits, it also strips 1 Vigor.
• Tier 4: You may Assist twice per round.
• Tier 5 (Ultimate), Seize Initiative: Once per combat (3 Stamina), when

initiative is rolled, you and all allies within 30 feet act in any order

you choose this round.

9. ALCHEMIST (Mind), Combat Alchemy

Synthesize (Action)

Create and immediately use any alchemical item of Tier 1. The item cannot be

saved for later. Your thrown alchemical items have 60 feet range. Alchemical

damage and healing follow the Wounds Conversion table (Part 4).

Deed (Tier 1), Volatile Genius: *Sometimes the best formula is

improvisation.* Mix what shouldn't be mixed. Spectacular, unpredictable,

unrepeatable.

• Tier 2: Synthesize Tier 2 items. Share Dose: a potion or oil you

use on yourself also affects one adjacent ally.

• Tier 3: Synthesize Tier 3 items. Your area items gain +10 feet radius.
• Tier 4: Synthesize Tier 4 items. You can use non-damaging items as a

reaction for 1 Stamina.

• Tier 5 (Ultimate), Chain Reaction: Synthesize Tier 5 items. Once per

combat, synthesize and use two different items with one action.

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SENSE TREES

10. SHIFTER (Sense), Primal Warrior

Beast Form (Passive suite)

You have magical natural weapons. In the first tactical phase, choose an

aspect for the combat: Bear +2 Body, Cat +2 Cunning, Wolf +2 Heart, Owl

+2 Mind, Badger +2 Sense.

Deed (Tier 1), Primal Surge: *The beast within answers when you need it

most.* Claws to climb, gills to breathe, fangs to bite. The shift fades when

the need passes.

• Tier 2: Your form grants a mastery: Bear, once per round when an

adjacent enemy misses you, strip 1 of its Vigor or bank your Body die on it

(as the Body rule); Cat, you cannot be flanked; Wolf, +1 to hit

enemies adjacent to your allies; Owl, enemies acting after you in the

round have disadvantage on ranged attacks against you; Badger, when a

melee attack misses you, the attacker's next attack has disadvantage.

• Tier 3: +1 crit range with natural weapons. Once per round you may

shift form as a free action.

• Tier 4: Bestial Maneuver (Maneuver, 1 Stamina): Bear makes a

pinning attempt, Cat moves 10 feet without provoking, Wolf gains advantage

on its next attack against a flanked enemy, Owl adds its Mind die to an

ally's initiative, Badger regains 1 Vigor.

• Tier 5 (Ultimate), Full Transformation: As a maneuver (2 Stamina), for

one round your aspect bonus becomes +4 and your natural weapon attacks have

advantage.

11. ASPECT WARRIOR (Sense), Primal Channeler

Channel Aspect (Passive suite, uses the Druid Attunement system)

At the start of combat choose one aspect, active until combat ends: Stone

+1 AC; Flame your hits strip 1 additional Vigor; Wind +10 feet speed;

Beast +1 to attack rolls. Each round an aspect is active you gain +1

Attunement in it; at 6+ make Claiming checks per the Druid rules. Discord:

while attuned to more than one aspect, take -2 on Claiming checks per extra

aspect and gain +1 crit range while two or more aspects are active.

Deed (Tier 1), Nature's Claim: *The wild answers to those who protect

it.* Roots grasp, stone shifts, wind howls. Not summoned. Commanded.

• Tier 2: New aspects: Tide, move through enemy spaces freely;

Root, you cannot be knocked prone, grappled, or restrained.

• Tier 3: Two aspects may be active at once.
• Tier 4: Aspects improve: Stone +2 AC; Flame also +1 crit range; Wind

+15 feet and ignore opportunity attacks; Beast +2 to attack; Tide, enemies

you pass through lose 1 Vigor once per round each; Root, roll your Heart

die twice for Vigor regen and keep the best.

• Tier 5 (Ultimate), Elemental Burst: Three aspects at once, and the

Star aspect unlocks: advantage on all saving throws. As an action

(2 Stamina): enemies within 15 feet make a save or take 1 wound (2 wounds

if you have three aspects active); gain +3 Attunement in each active

aspect and make a Claiming check.

12. STALWART (Sense), Unbreakable Willpower

Sheer Determination (Triggered, 1 Stamina, plus passives)

You are immune to fear while conscious and have advantage on Sense saves.

Once per combat, when you would take the wound that drops you, stay standing:

negate it.

Deed (Tier 1), Immovable: They cannot move what refuses to move. The

giant's swing meets a wall. You are the fixed point around which chaos

swirls.

• Tier 2: Also immune to charm. When Sheer Determination triggers, regain

1 Vigor.

• Tier 3: Also immune to stun. Sheer Determination works twice per

combat.

• Tier 4: Once per combat, negate one wound (before it fills a slot).
• Tier 5 (Ultimate), Refuse Death: Also immune to paralysis, and the

Tier 4 negate works twice per combat. Once per day (3 Stamina), when you

would die, stabilize with one open slot and stand up.

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HEART TREES

13. COMMANDER (Heart), Inspiring Leader

Inspiring Presence (Passive aura plus Maneuver)

Allies within 30 feet who can see or hear you gain +1 to morale checks. As a

maneuver, Direct: one ally within 30 feet uses their reaction to move 10

feet, make one weapon attack, or both.

Deed (Tier 1), Rallying Cry: Your voice carries the weight of legends.

Broken lines reform. Fleeing allies turn. When a Commander speaks, the battle

listens.

• Tier 2: The aura also grants +1 to hit.
• Tier 3: Rally (Action, 1 Stamina): allies within 30 feet regain

1 Vigor.

• Tier 4: Allies within 5 feet are immune to fear, and your Rally also

lets each ally reroll their next failed save this round.

• Tier 5 (Ultimate), Coordinated Assault: Once per combat (3 Stamina), as

an action choose one enemy: up to three allies immediately use their

reactions to attack it.

14. CHAMPION (Heart), Honorable Duelist

Challenge (Free action plus passives)

You gain +1 to hit while exactly one enemy is within 5 feet of you. Once per

round, choose one enemy within 30 feet: it must make a Heart save or be able

to target only you until the end of its next turn.

Deed (Tier 1), Marked Prey: This one is yours. Everyone knows it. Lock

eyes with a single enemy. They cannot ignore you. They cannot flee you.

Between you and your mark, nothing else exists.

• Tier 2: On a failed save you also have advantage on attacks against it.
• Tier 3: Your single-combat bonus becomes +2 to hit. A challenged enemy

cannot willingly move away from you.

• Tier 4: Mark: an enemy that fails its save is marked for the whole

combat: it cannot leave your reach, has disadvantage against others, and

you have advantage against it.

• Tier 5 (Ultimate), Irresistible Challenge: Your Challenge needs no save

against enemies of your level or lower. When you drop a marked enemy,

remove 1 of your wounds.

15. PALADIN (Heart), Holy Warrior

Divine Smite (Free action, 1 Stamina, plus passives)

You gain +1 crit range against profane enemies. Once per turn when you hit

with a melee attack, spend 1 Stamina to smite: the hit deals +1 wound against

a profane creature, or strips all the target's Vigor otherwise.

Deed (Tier 1), Divine Moment: *For one heartbeat, you are the instrument

of something greater.* Light erupts. Darkness recoils. Purify, banish,

terrify, or absolve.

• Tier 2: Lay on Hands (Maneuver, 1 Stamina): touch a creature; it

regains 2 Vigor (over its cap, up to cap + 1) or removes 1 wound if you

spend 2 Stamina instead.

• Tier 3: Your smite deals +1 wound against any target, once per combat.
• Tier 4: You are immune to disease, and allies within 5 feet have

advantage on saves against fear and charm.

• Tier 5 (Ultimate), Smiting Judgment: When you smite a profane creature

of your level or lower (3 Stamina), it must make a Heart save or be

destroyed.

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CUNNING TREES

16. ASSASSIN (Cunning), Precision Striker

Sneak Attack (Passive plus Action)

While you have advantage on an attack or the target is surprised, your crit

range improves by 1.

Deed (Tier 1), Killing Stroke: The death that was always waiting. A

turned back. A dropped guard. Your strike lands exactly where it does the

most damage.

• Tier 2: Your attacks ignore Vigor against surprised targets.
• Tier 3: The sneak crit bonus becomes +2. Study Target (Action,

2 Stamina): choose an enemy; your next hit against it this combat is

automatically a critical hit.

• Tier 4: ALL your attacks ignore Vigor entirely.
• Tier 5 (Ultimate), Death Strike: When you hit a surprised enemy of your

level or lower (3 Stamina), it must make a Body save or die.

17. SKIRMISHER (Cunning), Mobile Fighter

Hit and Run (Passive suite)

You gain +5 feet speed. When you hit with an attack, you may move 5 feet

without provoking.

Deed (Tier 1), Ghost Step: You were there. Now you're not. Simple.

Between two guards. Past a closing door. Out of the explosion.

• Tier 2: Opportunity attacks against you have disadvantage.
• Tier 3: +5 feet speed (total +10) and you ignore difficult terrain.

Evasive Maneuver (Reaction, 1 Stamina): when an attack hits you, move

up to 15 feet without provoking.

• Tier 4: When you move 20+ feet before attacking, gain +1 to hit and

your hit strips 1 extra Vigor.

• Tier 5 (Ultimate), Devastating Charge: When you move 20+ feet before

attacking, you may also make one attack against a different enemy you

passed during that movement (once per round).

18. OPPORTUNIST (Cunning), Reactive Striker

Punish Openings (Passive suite)

Your opportunity attacks also trigger when an enemy within your reach attacks

one of your allies, or moves within your reach, in addition to the normal

leaving-your-reach trigger. When you are out of reactions, you may spend

1 Stamina to make an opportunity attack anyway.

Deed (Tier 1), Perfect Opening: *Every mistake is a gift. You never

refuse gifts.* See an opening that doesn't exist yet, and create it.

• Tier 2: You have 2 reactions per round.
• Tier 3: Your reach increases by 5 feet.
• Tier 4: Enemies hit by your opportunity attacks have their speed

reduced to 0 until the end of their turn. When an opportunity attack hits,

you may make another against a different enemy in reach (costs a reaction).

• Tier 5 (Ultimate), Max Reflexes: You have 3 reactions per round. As a

maneuver (3 Stamina), your opportunity attacks cost no reactions this

round.

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FATE TREES

19. FORTUNATE (Fate), Luck Manipulator

Fortune's Favor (Passive suite)

When you roll a natural 1 on an attack, reroll it. When you score a critical

hit, regain 1 Stamina.

Deed (Tier 1), Impossible Luck: *Coincidence is just fate pretending to

be random.* The chandelier falls. The floor gives way. It just happened.

• Tier 2: Bend Luck (2 Stamina, once per round): turn your miss into

a hit, or a hit against you into a miss.

• Tier 3: +1 crit range. You have advantage on initiative.
• Tier 4: When you spend Fate to reroll and the new roll is a critical,

it deals +1 wound.

• Tier 5 (Ultimate), Twist of Fate: Once per combat (2 Stamina), choose

one this round: all saves your allies make have advantage, or all saves

enemies make have disadvantage.

20. DESTINED (Fate), Unkillable Hero

Fate Intervenes (Triggered, 1 Stamina, plus passives)

While dying, your d20 rolls succeed on 19-20. Once per combat, when you would

take the wound that drops you, negate it.

Deed (Tier 1), Fate's Mandate: What is meant to happen will happen. The

blow that should kill misses. The rope holds. The story was always going this

way.

• Tier 2: When Fate Intervenes triggers, regain Vigor up to your cap.
• Tier 3: When your death timer would expire, you stabilize instead of

dying (you remain unconscious).

• Tier 4: You are immune to instant death effects. Inevitable

(Maneuver, 1 Stamina): your next attack this turn automatically hits (no

roll, so no critical).

• Tier 5 (Ultimate), Death Denied: If you die in combat, you return to

life one day later with one open wound slot, as long as your corpse remains

intact.

21. INQUISITOR (Fate), Bane of Profane

Holy Wrath (Passive plus Action)

You gain +1 crit range against profane creatures. Once per turn when you hit

a profane creature, it must make a Fate save or be unable to approach you and

have disadvantage on attacks against you until the end of its next turn.

Deed (Tier 1), Banishment: *Profane things do not belong in this world.

You remind them.* A ghost recoils. A demon flinches. The undead remember what

death means.

• Tier 2: Turn Profane (Action, 2 Stamina): profane creatures within

30 feet make a Fate save or flee for 1 minute; creatures above your level

have advantage on the save.

• Tier 3: Creatures that fail your Turn Profane also take 1 wound.
• Tier 4: The crit bonus becomes +2 against profane creatures, and your

weapons count as magical against them. Creatures that fail Turn Profane by

5+ are destroyed if they are half your level or lower.

• Tier 5 (Ultimate), Consecrate Ground: As an action (3 Stamina), create

a 30-foot zone centered on you for 3 rounds: profane creatures inside have

disadvantage on attacks and cannot regain Vigor.

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PART 4: MYSTIC TREES

MAGIC UNDER THE WOUNDS SYSTEM

The spell, prayer, litany, jutsu, and discipline entries in this book are

written natively in wound currency. This table is the design standard they

follow, and the conversion reference for anything you import from other KING

material:

Spell Damage

Spell Tier	Single target	Area
1–2	1 wound	condition or 1 Vigor stripped from each
3	2 wounds (save: 1)	1 wound each (save negates)
4–5	2 wounds (save: 1)	1 wound each, 2 on a failed save

Prayers use their stack count as the tier. Alchemical items use item tier.

Psion disciplines use discipline tier. Where older text lists dice, they

describe how the effect wounds; roll nothing.

Healing

• Healing that listed 10 or less Vitality: the target regains 1 Vigor.
• restore that listed more than 1 Vigor, or that names mending flesh

and bone: remove 1 wound.

• Revival and resurrection effects: unchanged.
• Effects that reduced maximum Vitality: seal one wound slot instead

(the slot reopens when the effect ends).

Everything Else

• "X Vitality" barriers, summons, and constructs: give them wounds by role

(Part 7): flimsy = 1, sturdy = 2, fortress = 4.

• Damage over time: 1 Vigor stripped per round; a wound only on a failed

save when first applied.

• Self-damage costs ("take X damage"): lose 1 Vigor, or take 1 wound if the

listed number exceeded 10.

• Save DCs: always the caster's tier DC (11/13/15/17/19).

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> IMPORTANT: Martial Trees and Mystic Trees are mutually exclusive. You must choose one path.

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> - Each Mystic ability costs 1 martial point + 1 skill point

> - This leaves only 1 skill point per level for Skill Trees (compared to 2 for martial characters)

> - Skill Trees are available to both martial and mystic characters

MYSTIC STRUCTURE:

All 6 Mystics follow the same point structure but have completely different mechanics:

12 Abilities: 1 martial + 1 skill point each (12 martial + 12 skill total)

3 Ultimates: FREE choices at 4, 8, and 12 abilities

At Level 10: 12 martial + 20 skill points available

MYSTIC SCALING:

Each Mystic uses their Mystic level (abilities purchased in that tree, 1-12) for their mystic abilities, unless otherwise specified.

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