Homebrew Disciplines for Martial Powers

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Homebrew Martial Power Disciplines

Ignition Edge
From the beginning of the age of men and mer, the natural force that lit the darkness and brought heat to mortal hands was fire. The first flames allowed mortals to delve into the science and magic of the mundane and mystical worlds. Those who researched it's secrets could use it's power for their own ends.

When civilizations came to be, war was known to man and mer, and somewhere between magic and bodily science the techniques of Ignition Edge can be found. There inside life one can describe the spirit as flame, and to channel the spirit could be to fan the flame. The first practitioner of this art was probably a mage-knight or an alchemist of a sort, and used their knowledge to create fiery martial prowess. Inspired by spell or concoction, mixing the proper inner elements creates the force of an explosion and the strength of raging flames.

Ignition Edge is an offensive style, which balances itself between medium ranged and close range offensive techniques. Flames can only burn when they are close, but flames can be hurled either by magic or through physical mediums. To describe a practitioner in motion one must imagine a blade and a gun in unison, gun striking and checking cautious foes and blade delivering the finishing blow.

While guns did not exist when this style was made, nor may they not exist in a world- it could be safe to assume this style could inspire their invention. Should they exist, guns make an easy medium for a number it's techniques.

Discipline Weapon Groups: Light Blades, One-handed Heavy Blades, Firearms, Thrown, Crossbow

Associated Discipline Skill: Perception

1st Rank Artes
Spark Flare (Strike): Channel a small bolt of bright flame from a range, damaging and dazzling a target.

Divergent Ember (Strike): Attack a foe in melee, use the opening to make a safe ranged attack either with flame or ranged weapon.

Ignite Arsenal, Lesser (Boost): Channel fiery aura through weapon(s), deal bonus fire damage with attacks.

Body Heat Control (Aura): Gain benefits of endure elements, discharge as immediate action to gain fire resistance and potentially ignite nearby creatures.

Ignition Sprint (Aura): Gain +10ft movement speed, gather momentum into heat to deal bonus fire damage with attacks after moving.

2nd Rank Artes
Projectile Charge (Strike): Explode into a charge which avoids opportunity attacks and deals bonus fire damage.

Explosive Javelin (Strike): Channel the power of a small explosion into an attack, possibly damaging adjacent creatures.

Scalding Breath (Strike): Pour fourth concentrated heat from your mouth or hand(s), potentially burning creatures in a cone.

Flickering Movement (Boost): Move like a small wildfire, evading punishment to move into position (square like withdraw, +4 Ddg to AC)

Burning Counter (Counter): Strike back at a foe who attacked you with a handful of flames.

3rd Rank
Scorching Flare (Strike): Create a more powerful bolt of bright flame from a range, damaging and potentially blinding a target temporarily.

Ignite Arsenal (Boost): Channel a stronger fiery aura through weapon(s), deal more bonus fire damage with attacks.

Diverget Flame (Strike): Attack a foe in melee, use the opening to make two safe ranged attacks either with flame and/or ranged weapon.

Combustion Leap (Boost): Focus inner flames around you and direct them to make you airborne.

Mobile Mirage (Aura): Channel heat around self to make it harder to attack you, discharge during your turn to have the mirage attack a foe.

4th Rank Artes
Burning Breath (Strike): Pour fourth a concentrated gout of flame from your mouth or hand(s), severly burning burning creatures in a cone.

Explosive Lance (Strike): Channel the power of an explosion into an attack, damaging and possibly knocking creatures in a radius.

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Mistral Current
The earliest men and mer, especially before the first flames; were vulnerable to the elements. The cold would come and smother them, and the lightning would crack the sky asunder. The diction of storms hallmarked the realms of Gods and the primordial forces. No wonder why mortals would seek to delve into their secrets and commune with the sky itself.

Evidenced by this style such pursuits eventually suceeded. Mistral Current practitioners learn how to take on the calmest of facades like a winter drift before striking with the ferocity of lightning. Moving back and forth between periods of calm methodology and vicious assaults keeps the practitioner less predictable, allowing them to take foes off guard.

Mistral Current could then be described as a mastery of a duality. To become both the storm cell and the eye, to move between these extremes as necessary is the goal of the Mistral Current practitioner. Patience and the capability to act on a moment's notice are paramount. As such it is a very adaptive style between defensive, offensive and some utility based techniques.

Discipline Weapon Groups: Double, One-handed Heavy Blades, Light Blades, Thrown, Bows

Discipline Associated Skill: Bluff

1st Rank Maneuvers

Feign Opening (Counter): You seemingly lower your guard, but instead you use the ruse to catch your foe unawares and set them off balance.

Static Current Blade (Strike): Strike forth with electric-charged attack, flat footed or flanked foe takes more damage.

Falling Snow (Aura): Focus inner energy to become like falling snow, protecting self from falling damage. Can discharge to negate a trip attempt or reroll an acrobatics check.

Whispering Drift (Boost): You make a feint attempt against a target, does not provoke attacks.

Magnetic Current Stance (Aura): Generate electric field that magnetically charges attacks, making it easier to hit metallic targets; deal extra damage if the foe is flat-footed or flanked.

2nd Rank Artes
Obscuring Shroud (Boost): Become like mist for one round, possibly avoiding detection or bypassing obstacles.

Windy Reaction (Counter): Temporary become like the air in response to an attack, as the Windy Escape spell.

Cackling Assault, lesser (Strike): Channel forth a hissing static charge, using it to attack through melee or from a range. May shaken a flanked or flat-footed target.

Chilling Hidden Edge (Strike): Channeling your inner forces, you coalesce water vapor into an evanescent ice weapon which strikes separately.

Storm Spider Cling (Aura): Harnessing static cling and similar forces you maneuver about surfaces as if under the influence of the Spider Climb spell.

3rd Rank
Jolting Current Blade (Strike): Strike forth with lightning-charged attack that may hit two adjacent foes, flat footed or flanked foe(s) take(s) more damage.

Whispering Glide (Boost): As whispering drift, but a successful feint allows 15 ft of safe movement to reposition self adjacent to target.

Storm Cell, lesser (Aura): Channel inner storm to strike with lightning speed, gaining an extra attack like the haste spell. Deal bonus electricity and cold damage to flat-footed and/or flanked foes.

Eye of the Storm, lesser (Aura): Gain resistance to cold and electricity, and a dodge bonus to AC.

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Euphotic Tide
The dawn of the material plane saw both land and sea. It is oft believed that from the sea the Gods spun life, and from that life came all manner of living creatures. The ocean is a massive force, but one that bends and ebbs by mysterious rules and carves at the very foundation of the world. Where sunlight bathes the ocean life thrives and adapts.

To take the sunlit ocean as a mentor, one embodies the adaptability and ever rolling force of the ocean waves. One embodies the light of life which springs from the heart, the blood and the desire to live. These are the teachings at the fore of the Euphatic Tide discipline.

Practitioners of Euphatic tide seek to take on a serenity in understanding the cycles of life, and inspire their movements by the flexibility of living water. They attune themselves to the forces of wave, light and life and channel their practice to protective effect. They temper their spirit into light and work their bodies like water, protecting themselves and their wards while using their foe's momentum against them.

Discipline Weapon Groups: Monk, Flails, Close, Light Blades, Polearms

Discipline Associated Skill:

Water Refracts Light (Counter): You adjust your body in an instant, adapting to your foe's attack to move with it. Once you see an opening, you move away safely.

Crashing Wave (Strike): You direct the force of your bodily momentum into the blow, dealing bonus damage and possibly moving around or through a foe's square(s).

Follow Undertow (Counter): You read the movement of your foe, using your momentum with their own to divert their attack and swap positions.

Walk the Waters (Aura): Gain ability to walk on water

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Tectonic Heft
The dawn of the material plane saw both sea and land. While life is oft said to be drawn from the sea, it was partially placed upon the firmament of the land. Life works the land, molds it, and changes it's properties for better or worse. While life may have come from the sea, the land is the medium by which much life accomplishes what it wishes. Stone, metal, earth and slate.

This style was inspired by craftsman, mainly blacksmiths. It's techniques were created to move and shape a battlefield and it's inhabitants much like the craftsman shapes his works. Bearing down on a hearty foe, knocking them down to size before finishing them. Heavy blows, penetrating defenses, shifting the earth in useful ways.

The practitioner of Tectonic Heft practices a patience not unlike a craftsmen. Every blow calls for precision and thought, before mentally pounding it into rote. To cripple a devastating foe, to block off escape routes and methods and to hit the keystone in their enemy's plans (or lack thereof). A proper projects is only completed when every step is done right.

Tectonic Heft is a moderately offensive style that focuses on penetrating defenses, dealing damage and inconveniencing foes. To sculp a battlefield where one's side hase the advantage, is the utility of the Tectonic Heft practitioner.

Discine Weapon Groups: Axes, Heavy Blades, Hammers, Polearms, Close

Discipline Associated Skill: Craft