{"id":738,"date":"2019-03-21T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.torchbearerrpg.com\/?p=738"},"modified":"2019-04-11T09:15:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T13:15:22","slug":"the-power-and-the-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.torchbearerrpg.com\/?p=738","title":{"rendered":"The Power and the Word"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Priestess of Delphi (1891) <\/a>by John Collier  <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Hello friends! Note that I\u2019ll be at PAX East next Thursday, so there likely will be no post next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Fury of the Lords of Life and Death<\/em> is a potent prayer given to first-level clerics. But perhaps it doesn\u2019t quite fit the concept of your character? Just for you, here are seven alternative prayers for your cleric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Choose one blessing. Your cleric knows this blessing in place of Fury of the Lords of Life and Death<\/em>. Your cleric may use this blessing once per phase. Breadth determines who gets the advantage dice. Each blessing has a duration of one turn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Blessings<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Dowsing Rune<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

With a prayer to the Water Witch, the invoker ties a blindfold about the eyes and uses a forked stick to feel the way to water.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dowsing Rune Effect<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Grant advantage to Survivalist tests for locating potable water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Factors<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Advantage (start counting at 2): <\/strong>+1D, +2D, +3D
Breadth (start counting at 1; self is free): <\/strong>Other person, small group<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gift of Hospitality<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Spilling a libation of mead to the ancestors and spirits of hearth and home, the invoker lays a blessing upon the hearthfire.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gift of Hospitality Effect<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Grant advantage to Cook tests when cooking for friends, family and guests (who have properly invoked the Rites of Hospitality). Strangers must first be made friends or acknowledged as guests or the blessing automatically fails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gift of Hospitality Factors<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Advantage (start counting at 1): <\/strong>+1D, +2D, +3D
Breadth (start counting at 1; self is free): <\/strong>Other person
Diners (start counting at 1): <\/strong>Family and friends, guests<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heike\u2019s Cunning Needle<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Calling upon the Jotunn Heike, who surreptitiously uses her needle to unweave threads from the Skein of Destiny, the invoker causes locks to spring open and bonds to come undone. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heike\u2019s Cunning Needle Effect<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Grant advantage to Criminal tests for picking locks and slipping bonds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heike\u2019s Cunning Needle Factors<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Advantage (start counting at 2): <\/strong>+1D, +2D, +3D
Breadth (start counting at 1; self is free): <\/strong>Other person, gang, guild<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inspiring Aura<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

With a shout, the invoker calls upon the Lady of Valor to steel hearts and minds.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inspiring Aura Effect<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The subjects of this invocation gain advantage to Will tests to resist fear and terror or recover from the Afraid condition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inspiring Aura Factors<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Advantage (start counting at 2): <\/strong>+1D, +2D, +3D
Breadth (start counting at 1; self is free): <\/strong>Other person, two people, small group, warband<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Merciful Balm<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

With a gesture and word, the invoker begins to glow with the inner light of Hyresti, Lord of Mercy; no spirit of disease or plague can stand before Hyresti\u2019s gentle light.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Merciful Balm Effect<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Grant advantage to Healer tests to treat fevers and illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Merciful Balm Factors<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Advantage (start counting at 2): <\/strong>+1D, +2D, +3D
Breadth (start counting at 1; self is free): <\/strong>Other person, enemy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poison Tongue<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Smearing honey on lips and tongue, the invoker\u2019s words begin to drip with sweet poison. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poison Tongue Effect<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Grant advantage to Manipulator tests when goading someone to betray their family, friends, followers or those to whom they owe loyalty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poison Tongue Factors<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Advantage (start counting at 2): <\/strong>+1D, +2D, +3D
Breadth (start counting at 1; self is free): <\/strong>Other person<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winter\u2019s Winding Path<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Intoning a prayer to the Lady of the Winter Hunt with eyes closed, the invoker allows their skis to take them where they will.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winter\u2019s Winding Path Effect<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Grant advantage to Pathfinder tests when in the wilderness and lost places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winter\u2019s Winding Path Factors<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Advantage (start counting at 2): <\/strong>+1D, +2D, +3D
Breadth (start counting at 1; self is free): <\/strong>Other person <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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