The common giant is an enormous, ugly man with bulging eyes, an oversized, squarish head, and a shapeless gash of a mouth full of crooked teeth. He stands about 20 feet tall and wears a crude garment stitched together from bear skins.
These statistics are for a typical giant of the sort found throughout the British Isles. Such giants have been known to form alliances with hedge wizards or faeries. Unlike many magical creatures, giants need to eat, drink, and breathe, and get old and die.
Vis: 3 Corpus in skull
Review notes:
Check soak in final edition as it doesn't compute the same (adapt armor quality).
Fighting hand-to-hand without weapons, or with the sorts of improvised weapons you just pick up, including knives. Brawl is also the Ability used to dodge attacks if you have no Martial Abilities.
\nSpecialties: punches, grapples, knives, dodging. (General)
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\nSpecialties: any one weapon. (Martial)
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Score | Fluency | Description |
0 | Point and grunt | With one or more experience points, you know “please”, ”thank you”, and a few other words. |
1 | Basic questions and answers | “Where is the church?,” “Do you sell food?” Constant mistakes, and an atrocious accent. People must speak slowly and often repeat themselves, and you cannot string a conversation together. |
2 | Basic conversation | You can sustain a short conversation on a common topic. You still make many mistakes, and often fail to catch what others say. |
3 | Haltingly functional | You can hold a conversation on everyday topics, although it takes time, you make many mistakes, and your accent is still bad. |
4 | Functional | You can hold a conversation on non-technical topics, and make few mistakes. People do not normally need to repeat themselves. This is the minimum level required to study from a book. |
5 | Fluent | You still have an accent if this is not your native language, but it is weak. You speak as well as most natives. This is the minimum level required to write a book. |
6 | Elegant | You choose your words well, and have no accent if this is not your native language. |
Two dialects of the same language generally have a –1 penalty. If your character is not specialized in a dialect, you should specify a dialect without specializing in it, and take the penalty when conversing with people who speak a different dialect. If you speak a \"standard\" version of the language, that is a dialect that differs from all other dialects.
When two people speak to each other, the lower Ability score determines how well they communicate. Characters who speak related languages can communicate at a penalty to their scores (assigned by the storyguide) depending on how closely related the two languages are.
Note that Latin and Hebrew are not living languages in most of Mythic Europe. However, characters who live in places where they are (such as some covenants) may learn this Ability without any special Virtues.
Characters with this Ability are illiterate unless they also have a score in Artes Liberales (page 62).
This Ability also covers artistic compositions in the language, and telling existing tales with verve and passion. Knowledge of stories is covered by the appropriate Lore Abilities.
Specialties: poetry, prose, specific dialects, expansive vocabulary, specific technical vocabulary, slang, storytelling. (General)
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Specialties: any one weapon. (Martial)
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You have been trained to fight, and may have spent some time campaigning, perhaps on one of the Crusades. You may acquire Martial Abilities during character creation, and gain an additional 50 experience points which must be spent on Martial Abilities.
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You are prone to anger over the smallest issues, and your rage when you are thwarted in something major is terrible to behold.
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A heavy, two-handed club.
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