Equipment and Itemization

Weapons

In general:

• Weapon damage has been normalized across proficiency levels.
• Weapon size only factors into the Simple Weapon Mastery and Single Weapon Fighting feats.
• Weapons all possess 20/x2 critical range and multiplier.
• Weapon Proficiency: Exotic, Weapon Focus, and Weapon Specialization feats have been removed. See the 'Combat Style' line of feats for their replacements.

These changes were made to encourage weapon variety, rather than some weapons being flatly inferior to others. Combat Styles replace the individual weapon-specific feats, and work with all applicable weapons.

Simple Melee
Name	Damage	Critical Range	Critical Multiplier	Damage Type	Size	Other
Dagger	1d6	20	x2	Piercing	Tiny	Finesse
Handaxe	1d6	20	x2	Slashing	Small	Finesse
Kama	1d6	20	x2	Slashing	Small	Finesse
Mace	1d6	20	x2	Bludgeoning	Small	Finesse
Sickle	1d6	20	x2	Slashing	Small	Finesse
Club	1d6	20	x2	Bludgeoning	Medium
Heavy Mace	1d6	20	x2	Bludgeoning	Medium
Quarterstaff	1d8	20	x2	Bludgeoning	Large	Finesse
Spear	1d8	20	x2	Piercing	Large	Finesse

Simple Ranged
Name	Damage	Critical Range	Critical Multiplier	Damage Type	Size	Other
Throwing Dagger	1d6	20	x2	Piercing	Tiny
Sling	1d6	20	x2	Bludgeoning	Small
Light Crossbow	2d8	20	x2	Piercing	Small
Shortbow	1d6	20	x2	Piercing	Medium

Gauntlets
Name	Damage	Critical Range	Critical Multiplier	Damage Type	Size	Other
Gauntlets	1d8	20	x2	Bludgeoning	Small	Finesse, Requires Improved Unarmed Strike
Great-Gauntlets	2d6	20	x2	Bludgeoning	Large	Finesse, Requires Improved Unarmed Strike

Martial Melee
Name	Damage	Critical Range	Critical Multiplier	Damage Type	Size	Other
Kukri	1d8	20	x2	Slashing	Tiny	Finesse
Shortsword	1d8	20	x2	Piercing	Small	Finesse
Light Hammer	1d8	20	x2	Bludgeoning	Small	Finesse
Whip	1d8	20	x2	Slashing	Small	Finesse, Cannot be used in Off-Hand
Battleaxe	1d8	20	x2	Slashing	Medium
Light Flail	1d8	20	x2	Bludgeoning	Medium
Longsword	1d8	20	x2	Slashing	Medium	Finesse
Rapier	1d8	20	x2	Piercing	Medium	Finesse
Scimitar	1d8	20	x2	Slashing	Medium	Finesse
Warhammer	1d8	20	x2	Bludgeoning	Medium
Morningstar	1d8	20	x2	Piercing	Medium	Cannot be used in Off-Hand
Bastard Sword	1d8	20	x2	Slashing	Medium
Katana	1d8	20	x2	Slashing	Medium	Finesse
Dwarven Waraxe	1d8	20	x2	Slashing	Medium
Greataxe	2d6	20	x2	Slashing	Large
Greatsword	2d6	20	x2	Slashing	Large
Halberd	2d6	20	x2	Slashing	Large
Heavy Flail	2d6	20	x2	Bludgeoning	Large
Maul	2d6	20	x2	Bludgeoning	Large
Trident	2d6	20	x2	Piercing	Large

Martial Ranged
Name	Damage	Critical Range	Critical Multiplier	Damage Type	Size	Other
Shuriken	1d8	20	x2	Piercing	Tiny
Throwing Axe	1d8	20	x2	Slashing	Small
Heavy Crossbow	2d10	20	x2	Piercing	Medium
Longbow	1d8	20	x2	Piercing	Large

Mystic
Name	Damage	Critical Range	Critical Multiplier	Damage Type	Size	Other
Casting Gauntlet	1d4	20	x2	Bludgeoning	Small	Finesse
Tome	1d4	20	x2	Bludgeoning	Medium
Mystic Staff	1d6	20	x2	Bludgeoning	Medium

Armor

In general:

• Arcane spell failure from armor does not exist.
• The combination of Base Armor AC + Dexterity Modifier Bonus cannot exceed 10.
• Shields all grant +2 AC and weigh 6.0 lbs, regardless of type. The types exist for cosmetic categorisation only.

Light Armor
Name	Base AC	Max Dex Modifier	Armor Check Penalty	Arcane Spell Failure	Weight
None	0	10	0	0%	1.0 lbs
Padded Armor	1	+9	-1	0%	5.0 lbs
Leather Armor	2	+8	-2	0%	10.0 lbs
Studded Leather Armor	3	+7	-3	0%	15.0 lbs

Medium Armor
Name	Base AC	Max Dex Modifier	Armor Check Penalty	Arcane Spell Failure	Weight
Chain Shirt	4	+6	-4	0%	20.0 lbs
Chainmail Coat	5	+5	-5	0%	25.0 lbs
Breastplate	6	+4	-6	0%	30.0 lbs

Heavy Armor
Name	Base AC	Max Dex Modifier	Armor Check Penalty	Arcane Spell Failure	Weight
Splintmail Coat	7	+3	-7	0%	35.0 lbs
Half Plate	8	+2	-8	0%	40.0 lbs
Full Plate	9	+1	-9	0%	45.0 lbs

Shields
Name	Base AC	Armor Check Penalty	Arcane Spell Failure	Weight
Buckler	2	0	0%	6.0 lbs
Large Shield	2	0	0%	6.0 lbs
Tower Shield	2	0	0%	6.0 lbs
Shield Gauntlet	2	0	0%	6.0 lbs

AC Types

Any AC an item grants, including its Core Bonus, is applied as one of the AC types below, decided by the kind of item it is. AC of the same type does not stack, including Dodge from equipment/spells - only the largest applies - so the type an item uses determines what it competes with. Dodge AC from sources other than equipment and spells stacks as usual.

AC Type	Item Types
Armour Enchantment	Armour, Helmet
Natural	Amulet, Ring
Deflection	Belt, Bracers
Dodge	Boots, Cloak

Scar-touched Items

The items and equipment produced by Forging Seeds are generated with random positive and negative properties, and can be tailored to your character using XP and Orbs.

An example scar-touched item.

Examining a scar-touched item opens its item panel, displaying its Power, Disruption, Capacity, Weight, and every property the item holds. From this menu you may mould the item to fit your needs.

Power, Disruption, and Capacity

Power is the item's overall strength. It determines the item's Core Bonus, raises the strength of its Intrinsic properties, qualifies for Extrinsic properties the item is allowed to hold, and feeds its Capacity.

Disruption represents the item's latent instability. It fills Disrupted slots with negative properties, and subtracts directly from Capacity. On a freshly generated item, Disruption can never exceed 2/3 of Power.

Capacity is the available budget for extra Extrinsic slots and properties:

Capacity = Power - Disruption - (10 x each extra Extrinsic slot created)

Raising Power raises Capacity, lowering Disruption raises Capacity, and creating an additional Extrinsic slot costs 10 Capacity for as long as that slot exists.

Slots

Every scar-touched item has three separate kinds of slot. They do not compete with one another.

Slot type	How many	Notes
Intrinsic	1 to 3, successively rarer	Chosen at the highest rank the item's Power allows, and they upgrade automatically as Power rises. They cannot be changed or removed.
Extrinsic	1 to 4 free at generation, successively rarer	The mutable properties. Created at generation or filled with an Orb of Potential or an Orb of Extrinsics, and may be removed from the item panel. Each additional slot costs 10 Capacity.
Disrupted	0 if Disruption is 0, otherwise [1 + Disruption/10]	Filled with negative properties drawn from the Disrupted table.

A new Extrinsic slot can be created while the item has at least 10 spare Capacity. An empty Extrinsic slot can be destroyed to return that 10 Capacity, down to a minimum of one slot.

The number of Extrinsic slots an item was generated with is shown separately from its current total, both on the item panel and in the item's own description. Slots you create or destroy never change it.

Core Bonuses

Every item has a Core Bonus equal to one point per 10 Power, to a maximum of +5. It occupies no slot and costs no Capacity.

• Weapons (main hand, off-hand, ranged, and mystic) always have Enhancement Bonus.
• Everything else takes either AC or an ability score. The type is rolled at generation, with an equal chance of AC or of any one of the six ability scores.

An Orb of Coring lets you select the Core Bonus type on any non-weapon item, rather than leaving it to the roll. The choices are AC, Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma.

Capstone Bonus

Every equipped item of 50 Power or more contributes +1 attack bonus, to a maximum of +5. The kind of gear does not matter, so any five capstoned pieces will do.

Only worn and wielded equipment counts.

Item XP

Scar-touched items hold experience of their own, split in two:

• Available XP is the pool consumed to empower the item. Filled by transferring your own XP into the item from its panel, or from an Orb of Escrow.
• Invested XP is the total XP spent on the item thus far. An Orb of Transfusion can retrieve this, at the cost of destroying the item.

Raising Power and lowering Disruption are done from the item panel, and both are paid for out of the item's Available XP. Your own XP is never spent directly — it has to be moved into the item first, and the item then spends its own.

Action	XP cost
Raise Power by 1	Power3 / 10 - e.g. Power 20 requires 800XP, Power 40 requires 6,400XP, and Power 80 requires 51,200XP.
Lower Disruption by 1	(100 - Disruption)2 - e.g. Disruption 40 requires 3,600XP, Disruption 20 requires 6,400XP, and Disruption 5 requires 9,025XP.

Raising Power carries a 50% chance of also adding a point of Disruption. Lowering Disruption past a multiple of 10 removes a Disrupted slot, and with it one of the item's negative properties, chosen from the most potent Disruption bracket present, at random if several tie. Negative properties that survive are also re-graded downwards to match the item's new Disruption.

Item Generation

Forging Seeds come in three tiers, and every item cracked out of one is rolled from that tier.

Tier	Seed	Power	Disruption	Resulting Capacity
Low	Minor	7 + 3d4 (10-19)	5 + 1d6 (6-11)	4-13
Medium	Medium	17 + 3d4 (20-29)	8 + 1d8 (9-16)	7-20
High	Major	27 + 3d4 (30-39)	11 + 1d10 (12-21)	10-27

Disruption is then clamped to at most two thirds of the rolled Power.

Cracking a seed produces one item, weighted as follows: 70% a piece of equipment drawn from the itemisation templates, 10% armour, 10% a weapon, 5% a throwable, and 5% a scroll.

Rarity

Each property roll first draws a rarity, and that draw sets the ceiling of what the roll may reach for.

Rarity also gates what an Orb of Extrinsics can reach, according to its own rarity.

Selection Logic

When a slot is filled, the system:

1. Rolls a rarity, as above.
2. Picks a property type at random from every type that is legal for that item slot, whose minimum Power the item meets, whose cheapest rank the remaining Capacity can afford, whose rarity is within the roll, and which the item's repeat rules still allow.
3. Picks a rank of that type at random from the ones the item can afford. Intrinsic slots are the exception: they always take the highest affordable rank.
4. Deducts the rank's Capacity cost, and moves on to the next slot.

Because the type is chosen before the rank, a family with fifty entries is no more likely to appear than one with three. Skills and saves do not crowd out the rest of the table.

Repeat rules are set per property type, and come in three strengths:

• Not repeatable - one property of that type on the item, full stop.
• Repeatable, one per subtype - one bonus per skill, per save, per damage type, and so on. Different subtypes may all appear.
• Repeatable, but not at the same rank - the same subtype may appear more than once, provided the ranks differ.

Two further constraints apply: Increased Charges can only be rolled onto an item that already has a spell, and likewise Reduced Charges only onto an item that has one to reduce.

Disrupted properties are chosen the same way, keyed to Disruption instead of Power, except that once a type is chosen the system always takes the highest Disruption bracket the item qualifies for.

Charges

Casting a spell from an item costs charges equal to that spell's innate level.

An item's maximum charges are the sum of the innate levels of every Cast Spell property on it, plus any Increased Charges, minus any Reduced Charges, floored at zero. An item with a level 3 spell and a level 2 spell therefore holds 5 charges.

Charges are restored:

• Fully, by resting while the item is equipped.
• By half, when you stabilise.

Stacking Caps

Maneuver DC and Spell DC bonuses are each capped at a net +5 across all your equipment, after any Disrupted penalties have been subtracted. Everything else stacks normally.

Item Names

A scar-touched item is named for its Capacity at the time of the last change, in the form <Adjective> Scar-Touched <item> [+Power/-Disruption].

Capacity	Adjective
8 or less	Crude
9-14	Common
15-21	Superior
22-29	Exceptional
30 or more	Masterpiece

Orbs

Craftable Orbs

These are brewed at the crafting bench. Every one costs 10 scrap plus the ichor listed.

Orb	Ichor	Effect
Orb of Potential	1 Red, 1 Green, 1 Blue	Rolls a new Extrinsic property into a free slot, within the item's spare Capacity. Requires an empty Extrinsic slot.
Orb of Transference	2 Blue, 1 Red	Absorbs all properties, Power, and Disruption from an item, to be transferred onto another of the same type.
Orb of Coring	1 Red, 1 Green, 1 Blue	Lets you select the Core Bonus type of a non-weapon item: AC, Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma.
Orb of Transfusion	1 Red, 1 Green, 1 Blue	Extracts the XP (Available and Invested both) and the Power/Disruption combination from an item, destroying it, and transfers either the XP or Power/Disruption combination into another item. Overwriting Power and Disruption returns the target's Invested XP to its Available XP. Consumed once it transfers.
Orb of Conversion	2 Red, 1 Green	Converts forging seeds into XP: 10XP per Minor, 20XP per Medium, and 30XP per Major, up to 78,000XP. Uses one charge per 10XP converted. You may gain at most 5,000XP from conversion orbs before you must diminish a scar to use one again. Must be used near the Well.
Orb of Escrow	2 Green, 1 Blue	Lets you choose a level to drop down to, and banks the XP you earn while lowered. The banked XP can then be poured into a piece of equipment. Ending the escrow restores you to the level you started from.

Orbs of Extrinsics

An Orb of Extrinsics lets you pick and apply any valid Extrinsic property the item can support. They come in rarity 1, 2, and 3 variants, and the variant sets how deep into the rarity tiers you may reach.

They cannot be brewed. Instead, declining the result of an Orb of Potential grants a Shard of Extrinsics. Collect 100 Shards and they coalesce into a single Orb of Extrinsics.

Retired Orbs

The Orb of Infusion, Orb of Stability, and Orb of Abrogation have been retired.

Property Tables

Properties

Each rank costs the listed Capacity, and cannot appear until the item reaches the listed Power. All are Rarity 1 unless noted.

Property	Rank	Capacity	Min Power	Repeat	Item Slots
Skill Bonus	+1	1	1	Once per skill	Head, Chest, Boots, Arms, Cloak, Ring, Neck, Belt
	+2	2	10
	+3	3	20
	+4	4	75
	+5	5	85
Saves vs Specific	+1	1	1	Once per save type	Varies by save, see reference
	+2	2	10
	+3	3	20
	+4	4	60
	+5	5	80
General Saves	+1	7	10	No	Will: Head. Fortitude: Chest. Reflex: Cloak
	+2	12	20
	+3	17	65
	+4	22	85
Ability Score	+1	10	1	No	Ring, Neck
Bonus HP	1/2 HD	4	10	No	Head, Chest, Boots, Arms, Cloak, Belt
	1 HD	8	20
	1 1/2 HD	12	40
	2 HD	16	70
Stability	+1	2	1	No	Head, Chest, Boots, Arms, Cloak, Ring, Neck, Belt
	+2	4	10
	+3	6	20
Damage Immunity	5%	4	10	Once per damage type	Varies by type, see reference
	10%	8	20
DR Threshold	10%	6	10	No	Head, Chest, Neck, Belt
	15%	13	30
	20%	20	50
	25%	27	70
Stamina	10%	10	10	No	Chest, Boots, Belt
	15%	20	30
	20%	30	50
	25%	40	70
Dash Speed	5%	10	1	No	Boots, Cloak
	10%	20	30
	15%	30	60
	20%	40	80
Weight Reduction	80%	2	1	No	All except Off-Hand
	60%	4	10
	40%	6	20
	20%	8	30
Class Resource Capacity	10%	14	10	Once per resource	Chest, Neck, Belt
	15%	28	30
	20%	42	50
	25%	56	70
	30%	70	90
Generation	10%	15	15	No	Arms, Ring, Neck
	15%	30	40
	20%	45	65
	25%	60	90
Well Water Charges	+1	15	15	No	Chest, Belt
	+2	30	45
	+3	45	75
Extra Maneuvers	+1	4	1	No	Boots, Arms, Ring, Neck, Belt
	+2	8	20
	+3	12	40
	+4	16	60
	+5	20	80
Extra Metamagic	+1	4	1	No	Boots, Arms, Ring, Neck, Belt
	+2	8	20
	+3	12	40
	+4	16	60
	+5	20	80
Maneuver DC	+1	10	1	No, capped at +5 net	Boots, Arms, Ring, Neck, Belt
	+2	16	20
	+3	21	40
	+4	25	60
	+5	28	80
Spell DC	+1	10	1	No, capped at +5 net	Boots, Arms, Ring, Neck, Belt, Mystic Weapon
	+2	16	20
	+3	21	40
	+4	25	60
	+5	28	80
Bonus Spell Slot	L1	6	1	Once per class and level	Boots, Arms, Ring, Neck, Belt
	L2	12	10
	L3	18	20
	L4	24	30
	L5	30	40
Cast Spell	L1	6	1	Once per spell	Varies by spell
	L2	12	10
	L3	18	20
Increased Charges	+1	2	1	No, and requires an existing spell	All except Off-Hand
	+2	4	10
	+3	6	20
	+4	8	40
	+5	10	60
	+6	12	80
Rune Damage	1d8	3	1	No	Melee, Ranged, Mystic Weapon
	1d10	6	10
	1d12	9	20
Oil Damage	1d6	2	1	No	Melee, Ranged Weapon
	1d8	4	10
	1d10	6	20
Massive Criticals	1d10	8	1	No	Melee, Ranged Weapon
	2d10	10	10
Sneak Attack	+1d6	10	1	No	Melee, Ranged Weapon

Bonus Spell Slot is available to Bard, Cleric, Druid, Sorcerer, and Wizard at levels 1 to 5. Paladin and Ranger have levels 1 to 3 only, at a stiffer Power requirement: L1 @ 1, L2 @ 20, and L3 @ 40.

Percentage Damage Bonuses

Appear on Arms, Melee Weapon, Ring, and Ranged Weapon; the spell-related lines also appear on Mystic Weapon.

Applies to	Bonus	Capacity	Min Power	Rarity
Attacks	5%	30	15	3
	10%	40	35
Spells	5%	30	15	3
	10%	40	35
All	5%	40	15	3
	10%	50	35
Spells (AoE)	5%	15	15	2
	10%	30	40
	15%	45	65
	20%	60	90
Spells (Persistent AoE)	5%	15	15	2
	10%	30	40
	15%	45	65
	20%	60	90
Spells (Single Target)	5%	15	15	2
	10%	30	40
	15%	45	65
	20%	60	90
Retaliation	5%	15	15	2
	10%	30	40
	15%	45	65
	20%	60	90
Cleave Attacks	10%	5	10	1
	15%	10	30
	20%	15	50
	25%	20	70

Disrupted Properties

Negative properties are drawn from this table according to the item's Disruption. Unless a slot restriction is noted, they can land on anything.

Property	Rank	Min Disruption	Repeat	Item Slots
Increase Weight	+5lbs	1	No	All except Ranged Weapon
	+10lbs	10
	+15lbs	15
Skill Penalty	-2	1	Once per skill	Head, Chest, Boots, Arms, Cloak, Ring, Neck, Belt
	-4	10
	-6	15
Saves vs Specific Penalty	-2	1	Once per save type	All
	-4	10
	-6	15
General Save Penalty	-1	1	Once per save	All
	-2	10
	-3	15
Damage Vulnerability	5%	10	Once per damage type	All
	10%	15
Reduced HP	1/2 HD	10	No	All
	1 HD	15
Reduced Stability	-1	1	No	All
	-2	10
	-3	15
Reduced Charges	-1	1	No, and requires an existing spell	All
	-2	10
	-3	15
Reduced Maneuvers	-1	10	No	All
Reduced Metamagic	-1	10	No	All
Reduced Maneuver DC	-1	10	No	All
Reduced Spell DC	-1	10	No	All

Note that the positive save and immunity properties are restricted to particular slots, but their negative counterparts are not.

Reference Tables

Skills

Skill bonuses may target any skills, and all non-weapon slots can carry any of them.

Saves

Which Saves vs Specific bonus an item can roll depends on its slot.

Slot	Specific Saves	General Saves
Head	Mind Affecting, Psychic	Will
Chest	Necrotic, Sonic	Fortitude
Boots	Force, Lightning	.
Arms	Acid	.
Cloak	Cold, Fire	Reflex
Ring	.	.
Neck	Fear, Radiant	.
Belt	Disease, Poison	.

Damage Immunity

Slot	Damage Immunity
Head	Psychic, Radiant, Sonic
Chest	Acid, Force, Lightning
Cloak	Cold, Fire, Necrotic

Generation

Generation properties come in the form of Healing, Temporary HP, and DR Absorption.