Sword School - Thieves' Honour

[Marr965]

Sometimes, a berk comes home and finds that their home has been burgled. This sucks for them. However, sometimes they come home and find that their home is being burgled, which sucks a lot more for them, because now they have to deal with a panicked burglar who's in the middle of trying to both stop the owner calling law enforcement and get away. Those souls who are the criminal side of the equation tend to find Thieves' Honour handy.

The key act of Thieves' Honour is Larceny, the act of stealing things, preferably without being noticed. It's also the ability to identify weak spots in security systems - including armour. There was no formal development process for this Sword School - it just sort of emerged from the collective panicked actions of members of the criminal fraternities caught in the act.

Level 1: Toad
Weapon (Improvised)	-	Use Improvised weapons in your martial manoeuvres.
Action (Shift)	-	Use Shift actions in martial manoeuvres. Any attack-related advantages applied to this special attack are instead applied to your next attack. That attack cannot be a special attack.
Level 2: Footpad
Shifty Eyes	-2	This special attack cannot be used unless an attack missed you last round.
Desperate Swipe	1	If you make this attack with a weapon readied this turn, you gain a free raise on the attack roll.
Level 3: Bandit
Skill (Larceny)	-1	As part of this attack, make a Larceny test against the Static Defense of the target. If it fails, the attack fails.
Crowd Dodge	2	If, as part of this martial manoeuvre, you both enter and leave a position where an enemy could make a melee attack on you, you gain +5 static defense until the beginning of your next turn.
Level 4: Ringleader
Mastery (Flee the Scene)	-	If your attack kills a non-minion enemy, you make immediately make a Shift action as a free action.
Surveillance Breach	2	Determine the heaviest armour the target is wearing, then add 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 to the Pen of this attack, depending upon whether that armour is natural, light, medium, heavy, extreme or power, respectively.
Level 5: Master Thief
Nerevar's Lockpick	8	If this attack causes critical damage, the target dies if they have no Hit Points.