As we approach Honor’s Fall, we’re excited to tease the new National blueprints that we’re releasing. We can’t thank the print team - Jeff Dahl, Jeff Thelen and our own Damien Burke - for their months of work bring you these prints.
Requiem is hard on religion… we know this. So when we put in our request for blueprints for Honor’s Fall, we wanted to make sure we got players of priests and other faithful something good. And they gave it to us - at Honor’s Fall, you’ll see the first of a new sort of print: Benedictions.
What Is It?
The Ritual of Consecration is the first Benediction, and it’s going to be the base on which many other Benedictions can be used. It consecrates an area, and that area will allow the use of other Benedictions you’ll see later. However, the cool part of that consecrated area is that when you or anyone else of your faith use a basic faithful skill, it targets 3 people instead of just one!
Design Insights
Benedictions were play-tested along with augments late last year, and are beginning to see release. This particular one creates a particular area, and the ritual can be tailored to the user’s particular faith. One of the intents was to give you a mechanical effect for your holy spaces, so if you create a church or a shrine, you get a benefit for using your faith skills there.
Why We Think It’s Cool
If you’ve ever received a blessing of Faithful Spirit from a priest of your faith, it’s pretty cool: you ignore the next blinding or mangle before the next 12s. However, for the user, it’s a bit of an investment: they’re spending 5 mind to make sure one person has that gift of physical endurance. Now, a holy person can protect 3 people, making it something we can see used regularly before a fight. We look forward to the cool spaces you all create and the scenes you have in them.
