Trainings

Trainings are core skills needed to be able to do certain things. Weapon arts, wearing armor, and learning spells are all Trainings. Trainings do not stack like proficiencies do.

Armor Training is a skill regarding wearing armor. Even Mages can wear armor. Getting training for it can be a pain.

Spell Training is what allows you to use the different Degrees of Complexity for spells. In order to access a certain degree of Complexity, you must have the Spell Training to do so.

Weapon Training is the skill with a weapon.

Armor Training

Armor Training is needed to be able to properly wear any armor.

Standard

Light

Medium

Heavy

Shield

Lacking Armor Training has the following effects:

Reduces the effectiveness of the Armor Class by 1,

May Disadvantage all rolls made involving motion or action in that armor,

Speed is reduced by -1, in addition to any Armor impact listed in the Armor description,

A penalty to their Mana score as listed for each kind of Armor.

Training penalties apply to all actions worn while wearing armor one is not trained in, and those are listed in the Armor tables.

Armor	Strength Required	Penalties for Lacking Training
		Movement Penalty	Speed Penalty	Prof Penalty	Mana Penalty
Light Buckskin Armor	—	—	—	-1	-1
Padded Cloth Armor	—	Disadvantage	—	-1	-2
Glazed Leather Armor	—	—	—	-2	-2
Duric Pocket Armor	—	—	—	-2	-2
Heavy Buckskin Armor	—	—	-3	-2	-2
Hide Armor	—	—	—	-2	-2
Korinthian Leather	STR 8	—	—	-2	-1
Hyborian Beast Armor	—	—	—	-3	-3
Kahokian Woven Armor	—	—	-2	-3	-2
Qiviran Lacquered Armor	STR 9	Disadvantage	-3	-3	-2
Studded Hide Armor	—	—	—	-3	-3
Studded Leather Armor	—	—	—	-3	-3
Aztic Scale Mail	STR 9	Disadvantage	—	-4	-4
Chain Tunic	STR 11	Disadvantage	-1	-5	-5
Exilian Chain Vest	STR 10	—	—	-5	-3
Lyonian Light Plate	STR 12	Disadvantage	-5	-6	-5
Scale Mail	STR 10	—	—	-4	-5
Seascale Mail	STR 9	—	—	-4	-5
Bead Mail	STR 10	Disadvantage	-5	-5	-4
Chain Mail Suit	STR 11	Disadvantage	-5	-5	-6
Piecemeal (Scale)	2 + Piecemeal	See Piecemeal	See Piecemeal	-4	-5
Piecemeal (Chain)	2 + Piecemeal	See Piecemeal	See Piecemeal	-5	-5
Plate Pieces	See Piecemeal	See Piecemeal	See Piecemeal	-5	-7

Piecemeal Armor does not provide much in the way of tangible benefits but can offer a lower degree of protection of certain types while providing an aesthetic benefit. There is no full plate armor on Wyrlde.

Don & Doff

Armor also takes time to put on and take off.

Category	Don	Doff
Standard	1 Minutes	1 Minute
Light Armor	2 Minutes	1 Minute
Medium Armor	3 Minutes	2 Minutes
Heavy Armor	5 Minutes	3 Minutes
Shield	1 Action	1 Action

Don. This is the time it takes to put on armor. You benefit from the armor’s AC only if you take the full time to don the suit of armor.

Doff. This is the time it takes to take off armor. If you have help, reduce this time by half.

It seems The Pale gets upset when you think it cannot protect you.

Spell Training

Lacking Spell Proficiency means that the spell will always fail. Just because one has access to a particular Complexity of spells doesn’t mean they have mastered the underlying principles. That mastery requires training. That is what these Proficiencies represent.

Simple	Rudimentary	Intermediate	Advanced	Expert

Weapon Training

Lacking Weapon Training puts a character at Disadvantage. Weapon Trainings are for certain groupings of weapons. These groupings are Simple, Common, Adept, Expert. and Specialist,

Simple	Common	Adept	Expert	Specialist
Melee	Melee	Melee	Melee	Melee
Ranged	Ranged	Ranged	Ranged	Ranged

Simple weapons are very simple weapons that are generally available to anyone and do not require much facility to use.

Common weapons are weapons that are used in concert and in collaboration with others. These are basic soldiering weapons, used by watches and guardsmen and soldiers.

Adept weapons are those that require dedication and fortitude to mastering, meant for battle and combat on an individual level, requiring training that is outside the collective sphere, and are challenging to use and unusual to see.

Expert weapons are for those who have given their lives to the mastery of these difficult to find teachers for, requiring extensive study and ongoing practice, intricate and challenging to learn weapons that require specific skills to use.

Specialist weapons are weapons that require an unusual amount of focus and training to use them as they rely on unusual weapon natures or skills in the use of them.

Simple	Common	Adept	Expert	Specialist
Arm Melee	Arm Ranged	Leg Ranged	—	Mobility

Bodied weapons are items such as assistive aids or weapons that have been set into the body as a replacement part. Bodied weapons start with arm-based melee weapons, which are the simplest to learn, and move towards ranged attack leg-based weapons, which are the most difficult to learn.

Weapon Specializations

Those who have access to Adept, Expert, or Specialist weapons can also choose to have a Weapon Specialization.

Axe	Bow	Firearm	Hammer
Knives	Rod	Sling	Spear
Stave	Swords	Thrown

Specialization allows one to gain an additional proficiency bonus of+1 to all rolls (attack and damage) in a particular kind of weapon, according to the Eleven Weapon Types, when they use a weapon from that type.

Eleven Weapon Types

The 11 Weapon Types are: Axes, Bow, Firearms, Hammers, Knives, Rods, Slings, Spears, Staves, Swords, and Thrown. This categorization addresses the distinct natures of each of the major weapon groups. Every major weapon falls into one of these categories, all of which have sub-categories.

Axes

Battle Axe	Broad Axe	Hand Axe	Hatchet
Throwing Axe

Some argue that items such as Mashetay and Kampis should be included here, but their facility requires a different skill set than the always dangerous selection of Battle, Hand, Hatchet, Thrown, and related Axes. Axes are extremely easy to harm oneself with. As a result, they are rarely taught to soldiery – less often than Rod work, even.

Bows

Field Bow	Hand Crossbow	Heavy Crossbow	Horse Bow
Light Crossbow	Longbow	Medium Crossbow	Short Bow

The Bows of Wyrlde are organized into different categories based primarily on size, as the construction and nature of Bows has improved only somewhat since the era of the God’s War, when they began to be taken up again. Prior to that, the major weapons were described as similar to firearms of today, but capable of greater range, accuracy, and impact, using some form of energetic bullet.

Bows of Wyrlde are uniformly complex recurve bows with a rectangular cross section through the complex laminate constructions. They are often made using a unique rosin native and derived from a combination of plant, mineral, and animal ingredients known as Bowyer’s Resin that gives the ability for them to be made in molds, and provides a strong uniformity and ease, as well as speed, of manufacture, assuming the 33 different laminate parts are available. Construction of a single bow is said to take ten to fourteen days for each one, and because of the rarity, they are expensive. It gets even more interesting when you realize that the nigh unbreakable bowstrings are formed using a similar process.

It takes a single action to unstring a bow, but it takes five minutes minus one minute for each degree of mastery to string a bow. The complex recurve, the immense tension, and the bowstring all combine to make the act of stringing a bow a risk, and there are many a story of an Apprentice who has received a ruined arm or a broken bone and even a few deaths from failure to do so properly.

Longbows are intended for long range shooting and sized by both the height and draw of the Archer. Short Bows are shorter range shooting and sized by the draw of the Archer. Horse Bows are intended for mounted use and are smaller than shortbows, sized by both the shoulder width and draw of the Archer. Field Bows are all of a uniform size between Longbows and Shortbows, but are not custom designed as others are, representing a general average; typically, 3½ feet in length.

Crossbows on Wyrlde come in four forms: Hand, Light, Medium, and Heavy. Using the same overarching principle, they are set with stocks that are not unlike that of a rifle, a trigger with guard, and a spring-loaded bolt quiver that can hold up to six bolts of the appropriate type, plus one that can be set in place and locked down.

A hand bow requires 1 action to load and uses a simple lever to pull the string. A Light or Heavy crossbow uses a winch to wind the string. The bolts are larger with each sort and do more damage as a result. It is not possible to ready a Light or Heavy crossbow simply by pulling the bowstring. Crossbows use a similar construction for their arms to regular bows; it is said that it is the stock that is more likely to break that the bow.

Firearms

Hand Cannon	Longtom	Pistol, Doradan	Rifle, Doradan
Scattertom	Snuffer

Firearms are a fairly localized feature of Dorado, with some smuggling and efforts appearing in Lyonese and Durango.

Hammers

Club	Doric Mace	Great Club	Light Hammer
Maul	War Mace	Warhammer

Hammers include Maces, Mauls, and Warhammers of assorted types, and other blunt force weapons of destruction.

Staves

Axe Glaive	Battle Flail	Halberd	Hammer Glaive
Harpoon	Pick	Pike	Pitchfork
Quarterstaff	Scythe	Spear Glaive	Thresher
War Flail

Poles include Polearms, essentially any weapon over 6 feet in length that is not one of the previous but may attach elements of all of them. Lances, Pikes, Halberds, and so forth. A stave can be as long as 10 feet and includes Polearms. Sibolan Glaives are a form of stave, despite their size.

Rods

Brass Knuckles	Fighting Fan	Fighting Rod	Fighting Stick
Morning Star	Sap

Rods include both flails and fighting rods, with regular Quarterstaffs and staffs, as well. Clubs are popular among many beings. Rods are two to five feet in length.

Slings

Sling

Sling, Soldier’s

Slingshot

Slingstaff

Slings are typically long, narrow strips of material with two ends that have some way of being held and released, and a cup into which can be placed one to three small ceramic, stone, glass, or similar beads, roughly a quarter inch in diameter. It is then spun hard and fast, and one end of the strings is released, freeing the sped up shot towards the target. Skill and practice provides extreme accuracy and sling shot is used frequently by some for delivery of glass spheres containing some liquid.

Spears

Javelin	Lance	Sharp Stick	Short Spear
Spear	Trident	War Spear

Spears are three- to seven-foot-long poles topped by a point. They include Tridents and Horseforks and may have a leaf shaped or straight blade at the end, perhaps even a crescent blade. A Javelin is a short spear, with either a leaf shaped blade or a sharp, metal capped point on the end of it. Spears with a crossbar a few inches below the head are called Boar spears, because they prevent the beast from forcing its way up the shaft.

Spears are most often used with a shield on Wyrlde, and the shield will frequently have a notch and a curtain if it is a military unit. The notch is meant to rest the spear in, point out, butt of the spear braced against the earth while the spearman crouches overlapping their shield with the rest of their unit, such that the curtains will foul arrows and the spears can be thrust through against foot forces or held against cavalry charges.

Thrown Weapons

Bola	Net	Rock	Throwing Dart
Throwing Disk	Throwing Needle	Throwing Spike	Throwing Wedge
Whip	Blowgun

This includes items such as blowguns, darts, spikes, needles, caltrops, and other ranged weapons.

Knives and Daggers

Athame	Dagger	Dirk	Doric Knife
Fighting Knife	Hand Knife	Hyborian Knife	Kadaga
Karn	Karzh	Korl	Sharambit
Sickle	Throwing Dagger

The single most common weapon on the planet, Knives are the defacto weapons of choice for most. Knives and Daggers are included in this Group. A Dagger is a double edge weapon, a Knife is a single edged weapon. Wyrlde’s smiths are quite intentional in their use of the terms – they are not interchangeable. Something I still get a chuckle out of because I remember the time that Ara asked for a knife and got a dagger that was hilarious looking.

Dagger or Knife	Length (cm)	Cutting Edges	Tip	Curve	Notes
Athame	20 to 40	Two	Pointed	Wavy	Akashik
Dagger	20 to 40	Two	Pointed	None
Dirk	20 to 35	None	Pointed	None	Piercing dagger
Fighting Knife	30 to 40	One	Pointed	None	Used in pairs
Hand Knife	13 to 22	None	Pointed	None	Piercing knife
Kadaga	20 to 30	Two	Pointed	None	push dagger, braces wrist, protects fingers. Akadian
Doric Knife	25 to 40	One	Pointed	None	Slashing Knife
Korl	20 to 40	Two	Rounded	Recurved	Unknown make. Rare.
Sharambit	12 to 18	One	Pointed	Tight	Curved, resembles a claw, edged on inner curve
Throwing Dagger	10 to 20	Two	Pointed	None	Flat, thin, leaf shaped
Karn	25 to 45	Two	Angled	None	Lemurian Make
Karzh	20 to 40	One	Angled	Slight	Exilian make.

Swords

Backsword	Balan	Bloodsword	Broadsword
Cutlass	Greatsword	Kampi	Kopesh
Kukris	Longsword	Mashetay	Rapier
Saber	Scimitar	Shortsword	Smallsword

Swords are edged weapons for slashing and piercing. They are one of the most common sorts of weapons and are tightly controlled – the sale of them without a writ from both a Guild and a Noble is illegal, and these are tracked so that the realm knows how many men-at-arms it can call upon in a crisis.

The sword is the predominant weapon on Wyrlde, and is a symbol of wealth, power, knowledge, and skill. Every major realm has some form of sword that they have developed over the last several centuries.

There are 16 kinds of swords found on Wyrlde.

Blade	Length	Blade (curve, edge, tip)	Hand	Origin	Comments
Kampi	16 – 20 in 40 to 50 cm	Tapered blade broader and thinner at the point than at its base Single-edged, Angled tip.	1	Lemuria	A protruding spikelet along the flat side of tip
Kukris	16 – 20 in 40 to 50 cm	Recurved Single edged along inside of curve	1	Hyboria	Can be thrown. Also called a war sickle
Mashetay	16 – 20 in 40 to 50 cm	Broad, wider at tip than base Single edged blade	1	Exilia	Flexible
Smallsword	16 – 20 in 40 to 50 cm	Flat, Triangular or Round blade Straight Edged, pointed tip.	1	Agartha	Light, very thin and flexible. Designed for thrusting
Bloodsword	16 – 20 in 40 to 50cm	Flat, wide bladed, thick back Single-edged, angled tip.	1	Qivira	Wielded in pairs.
Shortsword	16 – 26 in 40 cm to 65 cm	Straight, tapering from the base or leaf shaped blade, double edged	1	Sibola
Balan	16 – 32 in 40 to 80 cm	Leaf-shaped, single-edged, light curved, tip is slightly wider than base.	1	Kahokia
Kopesh	20 – 24 in 50 to 60 cm	Curved, single edged along inside curve.	1	Bermuda	A peculiar hook like backside used to trap an opponent’s arm or pull an opponent’s shield out of the way
Backsword	22 – 33 in 55 to 85 cm	Single edged sword, with edge on the back upper third near tip	1	Durango	Thicker on the offside Facilitate thrusting attacks
Scimitar	24 – 32 in 60 to 80 cm	Convex curved blade single-edged along outer curve.	1	Lyonese
Saber	24 – 35 in 60 to 90 cm	Forward curved, single-edged, recurving at double edged tip	1	Dorado
Longsword	25 – 36 in 65 to 95 cm	Straight, double edged sword, either tapering from base or straight.	1	Antilia
Cutlass	27 – 35 in 70 to 90 cm	Broad, straight, slightly curved upper third, single edged	1	Aztlan	Slashing sword
Rapier	33 – 45 in 85 to 115 cm	Narrow, Straight, Two cutting edge, Tapering to a point	1	Sea Realms	Blade is either flat or diamond in profile.
Broadsword	37 – 49 in 95 to 125 cm	Wide, straight, heavy double-edged sword with rounded tip.	1 or 2	Duat	Slashing.
Greatsword	49 – 60 in 125 to 155 cm	Wide, straight, double edged, rounded or flat point.	2	Thule	Slashing