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-//I've hired some more laboratory assistants, all of whom have been instructed to wear matching waistcoats and answer to the name "Griswold."//+//I've hired some more laboratory assistants, all of whom have been instructed to wear matching red waistcoats and answer to the name "Griswold." That lovable scamp Griswold is not to be given cheese before noon, as it upsets his delicate constitution.//
  
-Anybody with a weapon-using class knows how to use them competently, but a Striker makes attacks with next-level precision. This is useful but also somewhat situational, making Striker a great class for adventurers that consider themselves primarily warriors but a more mediocre one for adventurers that prefer solving problems other ways.+Swarm is a weird archetype mostly suitable for the referee to run large groups of weak enemies with minimal fuss, but there's no reason why a player can't take levels in it if it's available and they want to be able to say "my guy is actually 15-20 nameless chumps that mill around in the background and die all the time".
  
-^[[#Striker]] ^^Attack with uncanny accuracy. | +^[[#Swarm]] ^^You're a bunch of creatures. | 
-|{{fa>caret-right?24}} |[[#Blind-Fight]] |Ignore concealment. | +|{{fa>caret-right?24}} |[[#Horde]] |Increased swarm size. | 
-|{{fa>caret-right?24}} |[[#Deadeye]] |Deadly accuracy with projectiles. | +|{{fa>caret-right?24}} |[[#Multiattack]] |Attack multiple targets at once. | 
-|{{fa>caret-right?24}} |[[#Flyswatter]] |Hit smaller targets easily. | +|{{fa>caret-right?24}} |[[#Redshirts]] |Benefit from constituent deaths. | 
-|{{fa>caret-right?24}} |[[#Gapmaker]] |Exclude targets from area attacks. | +|{{fa>caret-right?24}} |[[#River]] |Move freely around obstacles. | 
-|{{fa>caret-right?24}} |[[#Giantkiller]] |Hit larger targets easily. | +|{{fa>caret-right?24}} |[[#Split]] |Divide into weaker individuals. | 
-^[[#Enterprises]] ||Striker School |+^ ^^^
  
-====== Striker ======+====== Swarm ======
  
 ^ ^^^ ^ ^^^
-^{{ra>fireball-sword?48|Offense}} ||{{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**True Strike:** If you make an attack that fails for any reason (cover, concealment, size differences, special attack effects, etc) you can choose to make it succeed instead. \\ \\ {{fa>minus-circle?24&align=left}}**Supply Cost:** Making an attack succeed that would have otherwise failed costs 1 Supply or one use of a Mojo Catcher item. \\ \\ {{fa>minus-circle?24&align=left}}**No Impossibilities:** You can only use Striker to make an attack succeed if it had a remote possibility of success in the first place. Attacking something behind total cover or outside of your normal range still won't work, Striker or no. Stacking failure chances above 12 don't make an attack impossible because all attacks always hit on a 12, therefore you can use Striker to make a hit land that you'd normally need to roll a 12 for. |+^{{ra>gear-hammer?48|Utility}} ||{{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**I Am Legion:** While you generally act like a single big creature, you're actually a whole bunch of smaller creatures working in concert (like a cloud of locusts, band of goblins, or crew of comedy pirates). Exactly how many isn't important and might vary from scene to scene or even moment to moment, but despite your numbers you're not too much more effective than any single other creature. \\ \\ {{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**Single Mind:** You have a single inventory (any extra items carried by your constituents outside of your inventory inevitably get lost, gambled away, forgotten, or consumed), a single stock of Flesh/Energy/Attention (all constituents live and die together), and pool of accumulated XP (all constituents level up and learn new abilities together). All effects treat you as an individual, not as a crowd. Multi-target attacks hit and affect you just once. If you get a condition, everybody in your swarm gets it. When you recover, everybody recovers. That kind of thing. \\ \\ {{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**Single Consumption:** When you use resources (Provisions, Supplies, Mojo) to feed yourself, power an ability or whatever just 1 point will completely satisfy the cost for every one of your constituents somehow. You can also use just one keystone to level up. Any other situations where each party member must pay a price (using a toll bridge, maybe) also allow you to pay it just once despite actually technically being more than one creature. \\ \\ {{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**Big, But Actually Small:** You occupy space, carry weight and crew vehicles as a single creature two sizes larger than you actually are, but act as your true size for purposes of size-based attack failure (both incoming and outgoing). You can pass through any gap or passageway that is accessible to a creature of your true size. \\ \\ {{fa>minus-circle?24&align=left}}**Bottlenecking:** When passing through a space too small for your effective size but not too large for your actual size (like, say, doorways) you take an impairment to movement speed as your constituent creatures all get in each other's way. |
 ^ ^^^ ^ ^^^
  
-====== Blind-Fight ======+====== Horde ======
  
 ^ ^^^ ^ ^^^
-^{{ra>fireball-sword?48|Offense}} ||{{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**Zatoichi:** You completely ignore failure chance from concealment within 2 meters, and treat all concealment out to a range of 5 meters as being one step less severe than it actually is (complete concealment acts as partial concealment, partial concealment is ignored.) \\ \\ {{fa>minus-circle?24&align=left}}**You Can't Actually See Though:** Ignoring failure chance from concealment is not the same as ignoring concealment. You still can't perform any vision-based activity effectively in total concealment, it just doesn't hinder you from fighting effectively. |+^{{ra>gear-hammer?48|Utility}} ||{{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**Huge Swarm:** There are a LOT of you. You occupy space, carry weight and crew vehicles as a creature three sizes larger than your true size instead of two sizes larger. | 
 +|{{fa>caret-right?24}} ^{{fa>star?24|Alternative}} |{{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**The Worm That Walks:** You can choose to occupy space, carry weight and crew vehicles as a creature four sizes larger than your true size instead of two sizes larger. This lasts until the end of the current session. \\ \\ {{fa>minus-circle?24&align=left}}**Thousand Hungry Mouths:** Bumping your effective size up four categories costs 3 Provisions. |
 ^ ^^^ ^ ^^^
  
-====== Deadeye ======+====== Multiattack ======
  
 ^ ^^^ ^ ^^^
-^{{ra>fireball-sword?48|Offense}} ||{{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**Sniper:** You can use all projectile weapons to perform assassination strikes, which instantly kill their target. Assassination requires a target to be completely clueless that they are in danger from you and for their level to be equal to or less than your own. | +^{{ra>fireball-sword?48|Offense}} ||{{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**Split Focus:** When you make any attack, you can choose two targets/​areas of effect instead of the normal single one. Both must be valid targets (within range, etc). Your attack hits both, but has a special failure chance of 3. Roll just one die for multiattacks. |
-^ ^^^ +
-^{{ra>fireball-sword?48|Offense}} ||{{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**Point-Blank:** When using a projectile weapon to attack any target within 5 meters, you deal +2 damage. |+
 ^ ^^^ ^ ^^^
  
-====== Flyswatter ======+====== Redshirts ======
  
 ^ ^^^ ^ ^^^
-^{{ra>fireball-sword?48|Offense}} ||{{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**No Escape, Runt:** All failure chances from attacking targets smaller than yourself are reduced by 12 (to a minimum of 0). \\ \\ {{fa>minus-circle?24&align=left}}**Tinies Only:** Failure chances from other sources (including from attacking targets larger than yourself) are unaffected by Flyswatter. |+^{{ra>eye-shield?48|Protection}} ||{{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**We Go Through These Guys Fast:** Members of your swarm seem to be dying constantly (and tragi-comically). Every time you take any damage at all (even if it's just to Attention) it kills a few of you, though there mysteriously always seem to be more. This serves as an effective warning, making your allies look briefly to their own defense. When you take damage, all further attacks against any allies within 10 meters of your location have a special failure chance of 3 until the beginning of your next turn. \\ \\ {{fa>minus-circle?24&align=left}}**So Long, Ensign:** You do not personally benefit from this effect, only your allies (and only when you get hurt). | 
 +^ ^^^ 
 +^{{ra>eye-shield?48|Protection}} ||{{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**Cannon Fodder:** When you take serious damage, you can offload the consequences to some of your less-important drones. Every time you lose a point of Flesh, you can choose to retain it and temporarily lose access to a Swarm ability instead. Pick one Swarm ability you know and mark it somehow; you can't use or otherwise benefit from that ability at all. \\ \\ {{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**Keep This One Though:** If you choose to lose access to the Redshirts ability in order to save a point of Flesh, you lose the ability to add protection to your allies when you take damage but you can keep sacrificing other Swarm abilities freely. \\ \\ {{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**Reswarm:** You regain access to any lost Swarm abilities at the end of the session. |
 ^ ^^^ ^ ^^^
  
-====== Gapmaker ======+====== River ======
  
 ^ ^^^ ^ ^^^
-^{{ra>fireball-sword?48|Offense}} ||{{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**Shotgun Surgeon:** When using any Area attack, you can intentionally leave one target unharmed that would otherwise have been hit. |+^{{ra>footprint?48|Movement}} ||{{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**Living Flow:** You don't take any impairment to movement speed when passing through gaps accessible to creatures of your true size.  |
 ^ ^^^ ^ ^^^
-|{{fa>caret-right?24}} ^{{fa>star?24|Alternative}} |{{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**Multi-Gapped:** You can choose to exclude any number of targets from an area effect that would have otherwise been hit. \\ \\ {{fa>minus-circle?24&align=left}}**Supply Cost:** Excluding two or more targets from an area effect costs 1 point of Supply/Mojo Catcher use. |+^{{ra>footprint?48|Movement}} ||{{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**Engulf:** You can freely move through and share spaces with other creatures, including enemies. \\ \\ {{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**Beset:** When using attacks against enemies that you've engulfed, you gain a backstab bonus (+2 damage) if applicable since you're striking them from all angles at once. |
 ^ ^^^ ^ ^^^
-====== Giantkiller ======+ 
 +====== Split ======
  
 ^ ^^^ ^ ^^^
-^{{ra>fireball-sword?48|Offense}} ||{{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**Leprechaun Fu:** All failure chances from attacking targets larger than yourself are reduced by 12 (to a minimum of 0). \\ \\ {{fa>minus-circle?24&align=left}}**Biggies Only:** Failure chances from other sources (including from attacking targets smaller than yourself) are unaffected by Giantkiller. |+^{{ra>gear-hammer?48|Utility}} ||{{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**Scatter Bitch, It's The Five-O:** You can break into a whole bunch of individual creatures as an action. Doing so produces one creature of your true size per level you have. All your constituent creatures have your full loadout equipped and can be controlled individually. \\ \\ {{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**Recombination:** You can remake your normal swarm-self around any individual creature created by Split as an action. This removes all other Split creatures (they either run back to rejoin the crowd or die somewhere off-screen and are seamlessly replaced). At least five of the original number of Split creatures must be alive in order to remake the swarm, else you've got to just struggle along as individuals. Swarms automatically reform at the end of the session so long as even a single individual member survives. \\ \\ {{fa>minus-circle?24&align=left}}**Weak, Confused Bastards:** Your constituents are much less effective alone than they were together: each has exactly 1 point of Flesh/Energy/Attention, can take only 1 action per round and has a special failure chance of 6 with all attacks. | 
 +|{{fa>caret-right?24}} ^{{fa>star?24|Alternative}} |{{fa>plus-circle?24&align=left}}**Reformation:** You can remake your normal swarm-self even if there are less than five Split individuals remaining. \\ \\ {{fa>minus-circle?24&align=left}}**Recruiting Fee:** Reforming a broken swarm with few individuals costs 1 Provisions. |
 ^ ^^^ ^ ^^^
  
-====== Enterprises ====== 
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-^Striker School |The settlement hosts an institution that teaches the secrets of this class for a small fee. Keystones of this class can be purchased here: the first such keystone per session costs 1 Supply, the second 2, the third 3, and so on. | 
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