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Steel Compendium: Draw Steel Rules

Level 1

Level 1¶

Adding and Subtracting Actions

Although you and your companion share your action economy, you are treated as separate creatures for effects that grant or remove main actions, maneuvers, and move actions. For instance, the talent's Applied Chronometrics ability grants an extra maneuver. If both you and your companion are targeted by the ability, you both gain extra maneuvers.

Basics

Starting Characteristics: You start with a Might of 2 and an Intuition of 2, and can choose one of the following arrays for your other characteristic scores:

Beastheart Abilities

Choose one signature ability from the following options. Signature abilities can be used at will. (Quick Build: Come On!)

Beasthearts and Magic Treasure

Your companion can't use every consumable, but with your help, they can benefit from an edible or drinkable consumable, such as a Healing Potion. While using a kit, your companion can also benefit from a consumable that enhances a weapon, such as a Lachomp Tooth. When you use one of these kinds of consumables while you are adjacent to your companion, you can grant the benefit to your companion instead of yourself. You must take the action type required to use the consumable; no action is required of your companion.

Companion Rules

Companion

You gain the companionship of a wild animal who travels with you. Your companion isn't your pet. Rather, they've forged a mystical bond with you—one that allows you to share your companion's senses and primal instincts.

Ferocity

You and your companion tap into a predator's bloodlust that grants you a Heroic Resource called ferocity.

Heart of the Beast

Both you and your companion can use the following ability.

Kit

You and your companion both gain the benefits of the kit, with the following exceptions:

Rampage

While your ferocity sharpens your killer instinct, it can also drive your companion into a rampage, causing them to strike friends and foes alike in a blood-soaked battle frenzy. As their rampage builds, they become something more than a mortal companion, embodying a primordial spirit of destruction.

Wild Nature Maneuver

Your wild nature grants you a maneuver, as shown on the Wild Nature Maneuvers table. Each maneuver can be used only by the beastheart.

Wild Nature Triggered Action

You and your companion both gain the benefits of the kit, with the following exceptions:

Wild Nature

Your bond with your companion has awakened ancient, predatory instincts in you that fuel your battle prowess. But you aren't bound by your primal passions. As you decide which of your instincts to ignore and which to hone to deadly sharpness, you choose a wild nature from the following options, each of which grants you a skill. (Quick Build: Punisher.)