Rube Vambrace

“Rube” Vambrace

Identity

Stalwart Guardian

Guardian’s Hope

Frontline Tank: Spend 3 Hope to clear 2 Armor Slots.

Unstoppable

Once per long rest, you can become Unstoppable. You gain an Unstoppable Die. At level 1, your Unstoppable Die is a d4. Place it on your character sheet in the space provided, starting with the 1 value facing up. After you make a damage roll that deals 1 or more Hit Points to a target, increase the Unstoppable Die value by one. When the die’s value would exceed its maximum value or when the scene ends, remove the die and drop out of Unstoppable. At level 5, your Unstoppable Die increases to a d6.

While Unstoppable, you gain the following benefits:

• You reduce the severity of physical damage by one threshold (Severe to Major, Major to Minor, Minor to None). • You add the current value of the Unstoppable Die to your damage roll. • You can’t be Restrained or Vulnerable.

Unwavering

Gain a permanent +1 bonus to your damage thresholds.

Iron Will

When you take physical damage, you can mark an additional Armor Slot to reduce the severity.

Hybrid Clank Human

High Stamina

Gain an additional Stress slot at character creation.

Efficient

When you take a short rest, you can choose a long rest move instead of a short rest move.

Wanderborn

Nomadic Pack

Add a Nomadic Pack to your inventory. Once per session, you can spend a Hope to reach into this pack and pull out a mundane item that’s useful to your situation. Work with the GM to figure out what item you take out.

Attributes

Agility +1

Strength +2

Finesse 0

Instinct 0

Presence +1

Knowledge -1

Secondary

Evasion 9

HP 7

Stress 7

Hope 2

Armor 6

Thresholds 11/21

Experiences

Strongman with the Carnival of the Two Masks +2, Never Again +2

Equipment

Torch, 50 feet of rope, Basic supplies (tent, bedroll, tinderbox, rations, etc.), Minor Health Potion, Handful of Gold, Nomad’s Pack, Totem from the Circus, Mace (1H, Str, 1d8+1), Round Shield (Secondary, 1H, Str, 1d4, +1 Armor)

Domains

Valor

Bare Bones

Level 1 Valor Ability

Recall Cost: 0

When you choose not to equip armor, you have a base Armor Score of 3 + your Strength and use the following as your base damage thresholds:

• Tier 1: 9/19 • Tier 2: 11/24 • Tier 3: 13/31 • Tier 4: 15/38

I Am Your Shield

Level 1 Valor Spell

Recall Cost: 1

When an ally within Very Close range would take damage, you can mark a Stress to stand in the way and make yourself the target of the attack instead. When you take damage from this attack, you can mark any number of Armor Slots.

Fluff

Details

He/Him. Elaborate tattoos. Wears the lower half of what was once a colorful stage costume. Shaved head but a long, red-brown moustache. Deep-set grey eyes. Stands like a mountain that sorrows.

Background

• Who from your community did you fail to protect, and why do you still think of them?

The Carnival of the Two Masks, of course. Gone now. Scattered or dead. But of them all, I still wonder what happened to joyful, laughing Tiny Marielle. That she could show such affection even to one with my ugly face… alas, a moment that will surely never happen again.

• You’ve been tasked with protecting something important and delivering it somewhere dangerous. What is it, and where does it need to go?

It’s the joined skulls of Two-Faced Malone. Greatest barker that there ever was, he enjoyed looking over the audience from on high. I don’t know what his kith was-- never was another like him. But when he died, he charged me to hang his skull from the top of the Sky-Root, and I will someday do this.

• You consider an aspect of yourself to be a weakness. What is it, and how has it affected you?

I fear it’s my heart. I weep too easily; I cannot harden that weak heart against the death that surrounds me, against the wails of those I could not, cannot save. For my heart to be as strong and hard as my metal arm would surely be a blessing.

Connections

• How did I save your life the first time we met?

• What small gift did you give me that you notice I always carry with me?

• What lie have you told me about yourself that I absolutely believe?