Long Blade

Long Blade

	Long Blade
	100 sp
	0 Agility
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You are skilled with long thrusting and slashing blades.

Long Blade is the base skill for the Long Blade skill tree.

Skills in the Long Blade skill tree

Skill	Cost	Stat	Prerequisites	Description
Long Blade Proficiency	0	0 Strength		You gain access to two stances. Aggressive stance: With a long blade in your primary hand, your long blade and short blade attacks gain +1 to your penetration roll but -2 to hit. Defensive stance: While wielding a long blade in your primary hand, you gain +2 DV.
Lunge	200	17 Agility		Activated; cooldown 15. Aggressive stance: Lunge through an empty space at an opponent and attack with +2 to your penetration roll. You must move through the empty space. Defensive stance: You make an attack at an opponent then lunge backward 2 spaces. Dueling stance: Attack an opponent with +1 to your penetration roll. The attack is guaranteed to hit and penetrate at least once.
Dueling Stance	200	17 Intelligence		You gain access to dueling stance. While wielding a long blade in your primary hand, you get +2 to hit with long blades and short blades.
Swipe	200	17 Strength		Activated; cooldown 15. Aggressive stance: You make an attack against all adjacent opponents. Defensive stance: You push all adjacent creatures back 1 space and attempt to trip the ones that are opponents (strength save; difficulty 30). Dueling stance: You make an attack at an opponent and attempt to disarm them (strength save; difficulty 25 + your Agi modifier). The attack is guaranteed to hit and penetrate at least once.
Improved Dueling Stance	100	21 Intelligence		Your to-hit bonus in dueling stance is increased to +3.
Improved Defensive Stance	100	23 Agility		Your DV bonus in defensive stance is increased to +3.
Improved Aggressive Stance	100	23 Strength		Your penetration bonus in aggressive stance is increased to +2, but your to-hit penalty is increased to -3.
En Garde!	300	29 Strength 23 Agility • 23 Strength 29 Agility		Activated; cooldown 100. For the next 10 rounds, Lunge and Swipe have no cooldown.