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Monster Skills

Breath Weapon (END)

Skill Rate: Staggered

Uses: Using and improving a creature€s natural breath weapon. Attack rolls with breath weapons are made using the Breath Weapon Skill. A character can only take ranks in this skill if he has a natural breathe weapon (or can shapeshift into a creature who has a breathe weapon, or similar). Creatures generally add their endurance score to breath weapon damage. In all other ways, breath weapons are treated as normal weapons. You obviously cannot parry with a breath weapon.

Breath weapons generally come either in Line (0.5 square wide, 2 squares long) or Cone shapes (1 square long, 1 square wide and tall at the end), but can only be used every few rounds (usually every 5 rounds).

Techniques :

  1.   Line/Cone Swap: If your original breathe weapon was a cone shaped, you can instead breathe a line of the same scale. Likewise, if it was a line shape, you can breathe a cone of that scale.
  2.   Increase Scale: Increase the scale of your breath weapon by +1.
  3.   Increase Intensity: You can increase the damage of your breath weapon by one die, but it takes twice as long to recharge.
  4.   Extreme Intensity: [Requires Increase Intensity, 5 ranks in Breath Weapon] Your breath weapon always deals one die larger damage. This stacks with Increase Intensity, if you use it.
  5.   Quick Recharge: You can recharge your breath weapon in half the time (round up to the nearest full round).
  6.   Whirl: Your breath weapon (whether line or cone) can become a sphere centred on you of the same scale as the original breath weapon.



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