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2183, edge helpfiles 4 - berserkers
Posted by Fjarn on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
'ADEPT OF BLOODLETTING'

Berserkers with this edge are skilled in shedding their own blood for fun and profit. Their bloodletting is more effective and damages them less; their bloodsteep lasts longer and damages them less.

SEE ALSO: EDGES, BLOODLETTING, BLOODSTEEP


'AGILE COWARD'

A skrugga with this expensive edge possesses a higher maximum dexterity than other orcs. The attribute would still need to be raised to this new maximum via trains or equipment as normal.

SEE ALSO: EDGES, SKRUGGA, DEXTERITY


BACKBREAKER

A berserker with this edge uses the spinebreaker move more effectively. They also may recover more quickly from a failed spinebreaker.

SEE ALSO: EDGES, SPINEBREAKER


'BLOODMAGE'S CUNNING'

A mundunugu with this expensive edge possesses a higher maximum intelligence and wisdom than other orcs. The attributes would still need to be raised to this new maximum via trains or equipment as normal.

SEE ALSO: EDGES, MUNDUNUGU, INTELLIGENCE, WISDOM


'BRUTALIZER OF THE HANDICAPPED'

An orc with this edge possesses a special talent for beating up on blind opponents, penetrating their defenses more reliably than normal.

Warriors with the Maelstrom of the Veils legacy are unhindered by this edge.

SEE ALSO: EDGES, BLIND


'BULLY'S CONFIDENCE'

When a berserker with this edge demoralizes others, he also inspires himself.

SEE ALSO: EDGES, DEMORALIZE


'BULLY'S HEIST'

A berserker with this edge may attempt to steal from opponents he has demoralized or spinebroken. Failed attempts to steal from these victims may initiate combat.

SEE ALSO: EDGES, STEAL


'COMPACT FRAME'

A berserker with this edge may bash gnome-sized opponents so long as his own size is unaltered.

SEE ALSO: EDGES, BASH


'DEMON IN THE WOODPILE'

Occasionally, somewhere in the cesspool of bastardy that is a typical orcish family tree is a demonic ancestor or two. In an orc with this edge, this abyssal blood has begun to awaken and manifest. The benefits of this latent heritage are potent: a sizeable resistance to sleep and knockout effects as well as unholy damage. Unfortunately, while berserking, such an orc is also liable to be consumed with demonic bloodlust and uncontrollably strike some targets that a normal orc would not.

SEE ALSO: EDGES


'DESECRATED HIDE'

A berserker with this edge has so descended into filth and idle blasphemy that his very skin is desecrated, turning aside blessed weapons with greater ease. If the berserker has recently fashioned a desecration totem, this effect is much stronger.

SEE ALSO: EDGES, DESECRATION, BLESS


'DISEASE CARRIER'

While all berserkers possess an exceptional resistance to disease from a life lived in excrement and squalor, some have adapted to instead act as carriers for contagious diseases, resisting them less ably but equally ignoring many of the deadly affects of such afflictions.

SEE ALSO: EDGES, PLAGUE, CRIMSON SCOURGE


'FLAILING FALLBACK'

A berserker with this edge can throw elbows and knees as they frantically fall back from melee.

SEE ALSO: EDGES, KNEE, ELBOW, FALLBACK


FURIOUS

A berserker with this edge has a more potent fury of the clan than normal.

SEE ALSO: EDGES, FURY OF THE CLAN, BERSERK


'GIFTED SCAVENGER'

A berserker with this edge employs scavenging to greater effect.

SEE ALSO: EDGES, SCAVENGING


GLUTTON

A berserker with this edge can continue to eat when any other would be too full.

SEE ALSO: EDGES


GOADMASTER

A berserker with this edge may attempt to demoralize entire groups at once.

SEE ALSO: EDGES, DEMORALIZE


GRAVENAP

A mundunugu berserker with this edge can often take to the earth in a gravesleep and recover more quickly than normal.

SEE ALSO: EDGES, GRAVESLEEP


GRIMWRIGHT

Although most berserkers spent their youths at Camp Grinning Skull engaged in more violent pursuits, those who were regulars at the Arts and Crafts hut may find that the experience has given them an edge in producing all manner of gruesome orcish handicrafts.

SEE ALSO: EDGES, EXSANGUINATE, DESECRATION, SET SNARES, FASHION WAR BANNER, PILLAGE, FETISH


'HEAVY FOOT'

A berserker with this edge has spent a lot of time kicking things, including people. This yields slightly greater damage when kicking, punting, delivering cheap shots, and trampling. Additionally, their trampling strikes may also drain a bit of the victim's movement.

SEE ALSO: EDGES, KICK, PUNT, CHEAP SHOT, TRAMPLE, MOVEMENT


LASHER

A berserker with this edge enjoys an exceptional success rate with the lash skill. His lashes often inflict greater damage and demoralize his opponents.

SEE ALSO: EDGES, LASH


LUG

A mamlauk with this expensive edge possesses a higher maximum strength than other orcs. The attribute would still need to be raised to this new maximum via trains or equipment as normal.

SEE ALSO: EDGES, MAMLAUK, STRENGTH


'MASOCHIST'S ENDURANCE'

A shig-ru with this expensive edge possesses a higher maximum constitution than other orcs. The attribute would still need to be raised to this new maximum via trains or equipment as normal. Additionally, their wounds heal slightly faster than normal.

SEE ALSO: EDGES, SHIG-RU, CONSTITUTION


'MASTER OF BLOODLETTING'

Berserkers with this edge have learned to turn their skill at shedding their own blood to more efficiently draining the blood of others. The skins made by their exsanguinate are filled with additional blood.

SEE ALSO: EDGES, EXSANGUINATE, 'ADEPT OF BLOODLETTING'


'OPPORTUNISTIC BASTARD'

A berserker with this edge may deliver additional blows when murdering an opponent who cannot see them coming.

SEE ALSO: EDGES, BLINDNESS, MURDER


'OPPORTUNISTIC CARNIVORE'

A berserker with this edge uses savage feeding more effectively, additionally gaining some sustenance in the process.

SEE ALSO: EDGES, SAVAGE FEEDING


'PIT FIGHTER'

An orcish brawler with this edge can deliver elbow strikes which bloody the victim's nose, knee strikes which wind the victim, and kicks which hobble the victim. Additionally, they have a chance to deliver a defensive elbow strike during close combat.

SEE ALSO: EDGES, ELBOW, KNEE, KICK, BRAWLING


'PRIMAL TERROR'

Although orcs are usually more prone to fear effects than many characters, some orcs have adapted to the constant state of primal terror that floods their writhing brains. Rather than try to feebly resist fear poisons and magics, these orcs effectively ride the wave of terror, weathering the fear more ably.

SEE ALSO: EDGES


'SAVAGE CUNNING'

A berserker with this edge has a small chance to avoid traps and snares. This chance improves greatly in terrain favored by orcs.

SEE ALSO: EDGES, TRAPS, SNARE, SET SNARES


'SAVAGE TRAPPER'

A berserker with this edge can set snares more frequently and to greater effect than normal.

SEE ALSO: EDGES, SET SNARES


SHIELDBREAKER

A berserker with this edge utilizes shield cleave to greater effect. Additionally, they are skilled in capitalizing upon the surprise of a successful shieldcleave; their opponents find it demoralizing, and they may sneak in an additional hit if wielding an axe in both hands or dual wielding axes.

SEE ALSO: EDGES, SHIELDCLEAVE


SLAVER

An orc with this edge will notice that the slaves taken of normal races that orcs usually enslave tend to be stronger. They will also be able to enslave races other orcs cannot.


'SLIPPERY COWARD'

A skrugga with this edge evades blows more effectively when badly hurt. Additionally, he is also less likely to draw parting blows as he flees from combat.

SEE ALSO: EDGES, SKRUGGA, TAKE COVER, EVADE, PARTING BLOW


'STANDARD BEARER'

A berserker with this edge fights more effectively while holding a war banner.

SEE ALSO: EDGES, FASHION WAR BANNER


'SUPERIOR LEVERAGE'

A berserker with this edge is more effective with two-handed weapon offensive techniques of all kinds.

SEE ALSO: EDGES, SLICE, THRUST, CHARGE, PIERCE, PIN, POLEARM, SPEAR


'SURVIVAL INSTINCT'

A berserker with this skill survives when others perish, delivering more fierce last stand blows, fleeing combat more ably, and parrying strikes more ably when very wounded.

SEE ALSO: EDGES, LAST STAND, FLEE, PARRY


TERRITORIAL

Having spent their whole lives having to fight other orcs for everything they possess, a berserker with this edge is exceptionally effective at keeping lesser looters from the shinies of his freshly-fallen prey.

SEE ALSO: EDGES, CORPSEGUARD


'THICK SKULL'

A berserker with this edge has an unusually thick skull, which can better protect them from attacks which strike their head, as well as being useful in delivering headbutts.

SEE ALSO: EDGE, HEADBUTT


UNDERSIGHT

Some orcs have adapted further to life in caves, learning to see farther in the subterranean realm.

SEE ALSO: EDGES, SCAN


'VITAL STRIKES'

A berserker with this edge has a knack for hitting people in the soft spots. This instinct can be used more effectively on blinded opponents.

SEE ALSO: EDGES, AIM, OPPORTUNITY STRIKE


'WILL OF THE SLAVE' A berserker with this edge gains more benefit from forcing a march, and his body suffers from the effort for less time.

SEE ALSO: EDGES, FORCED MARCH