Short Blade

Short Blade

	Short Blade
	50 sp
	0 Agility
	ShortBlades

You are skilled with small one-handed knives and blades.

Short Blade is the base skill for the Short Blade skill tree. All daggers and short blades use this skill. If a short blade performs a critical hit, it will inflict Bleeding on the target if they are able to bleed.

Skills in the Short Blade skill tree

Skill	Cost	Stat	Prerequisites	Description
Short Blade Expertise	0	0 Agility		You get +1 to hit with short blades. Also, the action costs of attacking with a short blade in your primary hand is reduced by 25%.
Jab	100	17 Agility		Whenever you make an offhand attack with a short blade, you immediately make another attack with that same weapon. Flurry attacks do not trigger this.
Bloodletter	150	17 Agility		Your short blade attacks that penetrate have a 75% chance to cause your opponent to bleed (0-1 damage per turn. toughness save; difficulty 20 + your agility modifier). The opponent saves to stop bleeding each round, and the save difficulty decreases by 1 each round. This effect can stack a number of times equal to 1 plus your agility modifier.
Hobble	150	21 Agility		You make an attack with a short blade in your primary hand, looking for a weak spot in your opponent's armor. If you hit, you penetrate exactly once and hobble them (-50% movespeed for 16-20 rounds).
Pointed Circle	100	23 Agility	Juke	Whenever you juke an opponent while wielding a short blade in your primary hand, you make a free attack. If you have Bloodletter, the attack's chance to cause bleeding is 100%.
Rejoinder	250	25 Agility		Once per turn, when an opponent misses you with a melee attack, there's a 40% chance you make a free attack with a short blade you're wielding.
Shank	250	27 Agility		Activated; cooldown 10 (primary) or 20 (offhand). You make a melee attack with a short blade in your primary hand (preferred) or offhand. If you hit, the attack gets +2 to penetration rolls for each negative status effect your opponent suffers from.

Weapons That Use the Short Blade Skill

• bronze dagger
• carbide dagger
• crystalline jile
• crysteel dagger
• desert kris
• ♂ etched cleaver
• flawless crysteel dagger
• folded carbide dagger
• folded carbide wristblade
• force knife
• fork-horned helm
• fullerite dagger
• gaslight chisel
• gaslight kris
• girshling fangs
• incandescent fangs
• iron dagger
• obsidian kris
• rank fangs
• steel butcher knife
• steel dagger
• steel kukri
• steel potter's knife
• steel utility knife
• vibro dagger
• zetachrome dagger
• zigzag fangs