Bravo
A. +1 Affection, Bravado.
B. +1 Affection, Honour.
C. +1 Affection, Respect.
D. +2 Affections.
Bravado: You live your life by a code of daring luck. Whenever
luck doesn't go your way, you can sacrifice an Affection to flip things
around, ending up as good as it would have been bad or vice versa. Hits
become misses, fumbles become crits, reactions reverse themselves, failed
saves pass, a bum hand becomes a winner. Whatever you want from Luck,
in game or out. The effects of this class are reduced by one Template
per Affection sacrificed and not yet reclaimed.
Honour:
Everyone takes your promises and wagers very seriously, like you were a
knight or a paladin or something. They must Save to doubt your solemn
word. If you pledge something on an Affection, it will be lost if you
break your word, but can be reclaimed (even if you wouldn't otherwise
meet the requirements) by fixing the broken promise in a sufficiently
grandiose and dramatic fashion.
Respect: If someone
disrespects you, you must now Save or confront them as soon as possible.
If you humiliate them in the aftermath, they must Save before they can
disrespect you again, anywhere that you might find out about it. You are
allowed to argue to the GM over what you think counts as disrespectful
to you, but you have to keep track and be consistent about your picks:
if it counts for one person in one situation, it counts for another
person in another situation.
Affections: You begin play with one of the following and get new ones at every template. They are the marks of your lifestyle, totems of rebellion against the prosaic and predictable. Lady Luck is delighted by them and offers you favours. Or maybe you're just too caught up in how cool you are to notice the bad sides.
1. Trick Weapon. A concealed weapon, to start out with. You never fumble with it and if it has any attack penalties or other drawbacks, they don't apply to you. If you sacrifice this, you fumble, the drawback goes off and the weapon breaks. Even if you fix it, the magic is gone; it's just as stupid and unwieldy for you as anyone else now. Reclaim this Affection by finding a new Trick Weapon cooler than all your prior ones. Find out if it's enough when you first try to use it.
2. Daring Looks. Start out with a piece of fashion, face of makeup or hairstyle that makes you stand out. You're always the most prominent one in a crowd while wearing this. You never have trouble maintaining the Look, even in circumstances where it would normally get messed up. If you sacrifice this, something happens to turn your Look incurably cringe. The style will never fit right on you again. Reclaim this by spending a month's working wages on a new and more daring Look.
3. Fun on Drugs. Start with a supply of an illicit street drug of your choice. The usual consequences for taking it don't apply to you unless you want them to and you can always score enough for personal use without needing to pay. If you sacrifice this, you wake up the next morning as addicted as someone who uses as much as you do would normally be, with all the people you mooched from wanting you to pay them back. You can reclaim this by starting with a new illicit drug, but doing so doesn't cure your old addiction(s) or fix your reputation at all.
4. Finer Things. Start with nicer rations than anyone else in the party and the ability to eat a second lunch each day, healing from it whenever you do so. If you Sacrifice this, you loose your appetite for a week - no lunches heal you at all, second or otherwise. But you can reclaim it for free after that week is up. You are encouraged to pick a signature meal. (No extra points for choosing 'spinach'.)
5. Gang Members. Start with membership in a gang. Pick out some gang colors and symbols to rep. Whenever you roll a 7 on any reaction roll, the GM rerolls the result and invents a connection to your gang that didn't exist before. You can sacrifice Affections on behalf of your gang members if you choose to do so, but if you sacrifice this (for any reason) something comes up to see you ostracized from the gang. Reclaim this by proving your loyalty on a humiliating ordeal or by seizing control of the gang from whoever has tried to force you out of it.
6. Law Troubles. Start with a warrant for your arrest. Even token attempts to thwart a legal conviction will be highly effective when you do them - flimsy masks, stupid code names, hasty threats to witnesses, whatever. It all works, somehow. This doesn't keep you from getting arrested. Or beaten if you resist. But unless you confess or make no attempt to hide things at all, you'll be out on the streets within a week. If you sacrifice this, law enforcement pulls their heads out of their collective ass and builds an actual case. Reclaim this if you serve out your sentence and still care to be a Bravo afterwards for some reason.
7. Eager Minion. Start with a follower who looks up to you and is always loyal to you first, no matter what. They cannot fight well and have no particularly useful skills, but they'll come with you all the same no matter how dangerous. You can sacrifice Affections on their behalf and you can sacrifice them up to twice. The first time, the stars fall from their eyes and they realize what a scumbag you are. You can reclaim them by sacrificing any two other Affections. But if you do it again while you're still on the outs, they are gone for good.
8. Coolest Ride. Start with a cool vehicle or mount, faster than anyone else in the party. It will never get stolen, you can always find a place to keep it, it is always there when you need to make a sudden getaway and while riding it, you always win chases against anyone who is riding something completely boring. If you sacrifice this, you lose the next chase you're in in a dramatic fashion and lose the vehicle or mount in the process. Reclaim it by staging a rescue or by winning a race naturally (no Bravado use!) against someone with a cooler Ride.
