Investigator
About this class
Domains
Codex
Sage
Starting stats
Hope feature
Class features
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Hunch
Once per session, when you find yourself in a situation where you suspect that something is wrong, ask the GM: “What is something here that everyone else is missing?”
Class items
- Old map or old compass
Character questions
Background prompts
- What mystery have you never been able to solve?
- Who taught you to seek answers when everyone else had stopped looking?
- What truth did you discover that you were never meant to know?
Connection prompts
- Who in the party do you trust to follow a clue with you, no matter where it leads?
- Which party member never believes your theories, even when you're right?
- Whose past do you think is connected to something you are investigating?
Subclass cards
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Enigma Hunter
Foundation
SPELLCAST TRAIT: Instinct
Read The Signs: When you observe a person, place, or object for the first time, make a Spellcast Roll (12) and you may ask the GM one of the following:
What here is out of place?
What happened here recently?
What detail should I pay attention to?
The GM answers truthfully.
Keen Eye: When you make an Instinct Roll to investigate or observe something, you can mark a Stress to gain Advantage on the roll.
Enigma Hunter
Specialization
Study Your Prey: When you observe an adversary for the first time, mark a Stress and you can choose one of the following:
Learn its highest Trait.
Learn its lowest Trait.
Learn one of its attacks or features.
Learn one weakness or vulnerability it has.
The GM answers truthfully.
Calculated Strike: Once per scene, when you make an attack against an adversary whose weakness you have identified, you can gain +2 to the attack roll.
Enigma Hunter
Mastery
Fatal Insight: When you make an attack against an adversary whose weakness you have identified, if your Hope Die rolls a 12, you can treat the roll as a Critical Success.
Additionally, once per scene, when you use Calculated Strike, you may choose to gain +3 instead of +2 to the attack roll.
Loreseeker
Foundation
SPELLCAST TRAIT: Knowledge
Field Of Study: At the beginning of each session, choose one Field of Study:
Creatures
History
Magic
Nature
Places.
When you make a Knowledge Roll related to your chosen Field of Study, you gain +1 to the roll.
Loreseeker
Specialization
Cross-Reference: Once per scene, when you succeed on a Knowledge Roll, you may choose one ally who can hear you. Explain how your knowledge applies to the current situation. That ally gains +2 on their next action roll that directly benefits from the information you shared.
Loreseeker
Mastery
Living Archive: When you make a Knowledge Roll, you may use one relevant Experience without spending Hope.
Once per session, when you succeed on a Knowledge Roll with Hope, you may also give +2 to the next action roll of each ally who can hear your explanation.
Investigator
Domains
Codex + Sage
Starting Evasion
10
Starting Hit Points
6
Class Items
- • Old map or old compass
Investigator’s Hope Feature
Exploit Weakness : Spend 3 Hope to gain a +2 bonus to your next attack roll against a target whose weakness or behavior you have identified.
Class Features
Hunch
Once per session, when you find yourself in a situation where you suspect that something is wrong, ask the GM: “What is something here that everyone else is missing?”
Investigator Subclasses
Choose either the Enigma Hunter or Loreseeker subclass.
Enigma Hunter
Spellcast Trait
Instinct
Foundation Features
Read The Signs: When you observe a person, place, or object for the first time, make a Spellcast Roll (12) and you may ask the GM one of the following:
What here is out of place?
What happened here recently?
What detail should I pay attention to?
The GM answers truthfully.
Keen Eye: When you make an Instinct Roll to investigate or observe something, you can mark a Stress to gain Advantage on the roll.
Specialization Feature
Study Your Prey: When you observe an adversary for the first time, mark a Stress and you can choose one of the following:
Learn its highest Trait.
Learn its lowest Trait.
Learn one of its attacks or features.
Learn one weakness or vulnerability it has.
The GM answers truthfully.
Calculated Strike: Once per scene, when you make an attack against an adversary whose weakness you have identified, you can gain +2 to the attack roll.
Mastery Feature
Fatal Insight: When you make an attack against an adversary whose weakness you have identified, if your Hope Die rolls a 12, you can treat the roll as a Critical Success.
Additionally, once per scene, when you use Calculated Strike, you may choose to gain +3 instead of +2 to the attack roll.
Loreseeker
Spellcast Trait
Knowledge
Foundation Features
Field Of Study: At the beginning of each session, choose one Field of Study:
Creatures
History
Magic
Nature
Places.
When you make a Knowledge Roll related to your chosen Field of Study, you gain +1 to the roll.
Specialization Feature
Cross-Reference: Once per scene, when you succeed on a Knowledge Roll, you may choose one ally who can hear you. Explain how your knowledge applies to the current situation. That ally gains +2 on their next action roll that directly benefits from the information you shared.
Mastery Feature
Living Archive: When you make a Knowledge Roll, you may use one relevant Experience without spending Hope.
Once per session, when you succeed on a Knowledge Roll with Hope, you may also give +2 to the next action roll of each ally who can hear your explanation.
Background Questions
Answer any of the following, or create your own.
- • What mystery have you never been able to solve?
- • Who taught you to seek answers when everyone else had stopped looking?
- • What truth did you discover that you were never meant to know?
Connections
Ask one of the following, or improvise.
- • Who in the party do you trust to follow a clue with you, no matter where it leads?
- • Which party member never believes your theories, even when you're right?
- • Whose past do you think is connected to something you are investigating?
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