Adventurers And Heroes

An unarmed psionic warrior who controls the battlefield through rapid movement and a disruptive Null Field that dampens magic and saps enemies' power. They build Discipline from motion and conflict, spending it on stronger strikes, shoves, and defences. Positioning is everything — plenty of speed, used to catch the right foes inside the field.

Heroic Resource: Discipline

• Gain Discipline equal to your Victories at the start of combat, and 2 more each turn.
• Gain 1 more the first time each round that an enemy in your Null Field acts, or the Director spends Malice.
• The Null Field is a 1-aura zone that weakens every enemy inside it; spend Discipline to enhance it (slide foes, pin them in place, or sharpen your own abilities).
• Null Speed adds your Agility to your movement; Psionic Martial Arts uses your Intuition to grab and knock foes around.

Subclasses

• Chronokinetic — master of time: can't rewrite it, but time touches you less. Slip between multiple places and disengage with ease.
• Cryokinetic — master of absolute cold, with ice abilities strong at slowing and debuffing enemies.
• Metakinetic — master of the body: change shape, harden your skin like iron, hit harder, and push further.

A relentless holy warrior who marks an enemy with Judgment and spends Wrath to punish them — wearing down their defences while shielding allies with their own vitality. The uncompromising edge of the faith: a force for good, or for whatever cause they serve.

Heroic Resource: Wrath

• Gain Wrath equal to your Victories when combat begins, and 2 more at the start of each turn.
• Once each round, gain Wrath when your judged target damages you — and again when you damage it.
• Judgment marks one creature; spend Wrath to debuff and punish it. The mark is your vendetta, not the party's — it doesn't reward others for piling on.
• "My Life for Yours" — spend your own Recoveries to restore an ally's Stamina.

Subclasses

• Exorcist — hunter of evil and seeker of truth. Teleports toward the judged, senses hidden enemies, and drags the truth into the light.
• Oracle — a sorcerer-knight who leans on magic over zeal: foresight to root out corruption, damage dealt through Judgment, and visions of an enemy's own death.
• Paragon — a shining example who punishes the wicked and pulls enemies toward them to face judgment.

Domains

Every Censor swears to a single divine domain for extra effects: a death god lets you speak with the dead, a war god lets you bless your weapon, and so on.

A battlefield commander who marks enemies and empowers allies — granting advantages, coordinated attacks, and extra damage while directing the fight. The closest thing to a "mundane" hero: heroic through skill and command rather than the supernatural, and a solid combatant in their own right.

Heroic Resource: Focus

• Gain Focus equal to your Victories at the start of combat, and 2 more each turn.
• Gain 1 more when your marked creature is damaged, and 1 more when an ally uses a heroic ability within 10 squares of you.
• Mark an enemy and everyone gets an advantage attacking it; spend Focus to grant your allies extra benefits when they pile on.
• A weapon master who wields two kits at once and combines the best of both. Their signature abilities come from those kit choices — and they assist outside combat too, from negotiation to know-how.

Subclasses

• Vanguard — the tankier lead: parry to cut incoming damage, and reap rewards for fighting from the front.
• Insurgent — a guerrilla fighter, sneaky and dirty: feed allies extra damage through triggered actions.
• Mastermind — a master strategist overseeing the field, using triggered actions to stop an enemy in their tracks and set allies up for attacks.

A psionic caster who bends minds, motion, and moments through sheer will — reading thoughts, moving people and objects, even nudging time. Fragile but hugely versatile: the most support-leaning class after the Conduit, and something of a glass cannon. Think Jean Grey, or a Jedi exerting their will on reality.

Heroic Resource: Clarity

• Gain 1d3 Clarity at the start of each turn, and more when the first ally is force-moved in a round.
• Unlike other classes, you can overspend — using more Clarity than you have and dropping into the negative. That's strain: you take damage and risk other consequences, depending on the ability used.

Subclasses

• Chronopath — bends time (think Dr Strange): "Again" lets someone reroll a dice roll; "Flashback" lets an ally repeat an action they already took, for free.
• Telekinetic — raw force (think Magneto): blast enemy weapons away, take less damage, and clamp down with a "force choke".
• Telepath — minds (think Professor X): speak mind to mind, nudge thoughts, project awe to frighten enemies or hearten allies. The most support-minded of the three.

A cunning rogue who blends stealth and magic, gaining Insight each turn and striking from hiding. More than just a backstabber — magical, yes, but still a thief, a swashbuckler, an assassin or ambusher at heart. Repositions fast, manipulates timing, and pays less for their abilities when fighting from the shadows.

Heroic Resource: Insight

• Gain 1d3 Insight at the start of each turn, and more when you spend a surge to deal damage.
• While you have an edge (advantage), your heroic abilities cost 1 less Insight — which rewards a true rogue's game of flanking and hiding.
• "Hesitation is weakness" lets you take your turn now and go before an enemy — not an extra turn, just first.

Subclasses (Colleges)

• Black Ash — shadow magic: teleport (including out of danger) and, in time, bend the ash to other tricks like fire damage. Built to stay constantly on the move.
• Caustic Alchemy — poisons, explosions, and mechanisms: "coat the blade" to convert surges into poison damage, drop a smoke bomb to vanish, and slip out of harm through triggered effects. Rewards preparation.
• Harlequin Mask — the illusionist: impersonate enemies, misdirect them, appear as a harmless animal or a specific foe, then trigger the trick. A deceiver and a trickster.

A dramatic hero who fuels their abilities with Drama — earned from bold moves, big swings, and the high points of a fight. Supports allies with inspiring routines and risky appeals to the Muses. Not quite a fighter, not quite a tactician — here to make a good story. Closest to a bard, and especially distinctive in its subclasses. A bit of a marmite class.

Heroic Resource: Drama

• Gain Drama equal to your Victories at the start of combat, and 1d3 more each turn.
• Drama spikes when the scene does: three or more heroes acting on the same turn, the first hero winded, a natural 19–20 in sight, and a hero's death (worth a hefty +10) all pour Drama in.
• Stockpile enough and even death isn't final — fall with 30 Drama banked and you spring back to life with 1 Stamina.
• You can appeal to the Muses for more Drama, but a bad appeal hands the Director Malice. Your routines work like auras, kicking in at the start of a round to speed up allies or let them heal.

Subclasses

• Duelist — swordplay and acrobatics: riposte when attacked, and make yourself the star of the show to power up your abilities.
• Virtuoso — the classic musician: change the world through music, strike a chord to daze foes, and more.
• Auteur — the most controversial: rewrite "the way things happened," stepping in now and then to change something — like where everyone started — retroactively.

A divine channel who fuels their magic with Piety — gained steadily, or gambled on a risky prayer. The party's main healer and support, blending two chosen domains into a subclass all their own, with solid damage when it's needed. The other holy class, but where the Censor punishes, the Conduit sustains.

Heroic Resource: Piety

• Gain Piety equal to your Victories at the start of combat, and 1d3 more each turn.
• Before you roll, you may pray (no action). On the roll: a 1 angers the gods (gain 1 Piety but take unavoidable psychic damage), a 2 gains 1 Piety, and a 3 gains 2 Piety plus a domain effect of your choice.
• Healing Grace lets allies spend Recoveries to heal; spend Piety to add effects on top, like removing a condition.

Subclasses (Domains)

Instead of one fixed path, you pick two domains from your deity's portfolio — say Storm and Fate — and the pair becomes your subclass. Each domain gives an extra way to earn Piety and its own effect (Storm hurls lightning; Fate hands someone an enhanced roll). As you level, you choose new abilities from across your two domains, leaning further into one or splitting the difference.

A brutal frontline warrior who feeds on the fight — building Ferocity by dealing and taking hits, then spending it on throws, leaps, and smash-through-anything force. The raging barbarian, happiest in the thick of it and hurling enemies around by main strength.

Heroic Resource: Ferocity

• Gain Ferocity equal to your Victories at the start of a fight, and 2 more each turn.
• Gain 1 more the first time an enemy damages you each round — staying in the fray pays.
• At 5+ Ferocity you become Empowered for the rest of the encounter, adding bonus effects to your abilities. The tension: spend now, or hold and stay powered up.
• No bespoke maneuver — just better versions of the standard ones, plus Mighty Leaps (you always succeed at jumping, and can leap as a maneuver).

Subclasses

• Berserker — the classic juggernaut: throws people through walls, charges through obstacles, and redirects force (try to move them, and they move you instead).
• Reaver — a sneakier ambusher who fights with cunning and agility over raw strength: advantage to hide and reposition, and a triggered dive out of harm's way.
• Stormwight — a shapeshifter who channels the primordial storm; picks an element and a beast-form kit, transforming to take on its powers.

The classic mage — a spellcaster who shapes the elements through Essence, drawn each turn and from elemental damage flying nearby. Their signature is persistent magic: spells and effects that linger on the battlefield, kept alive through careful management of Essence.

Heroic Resource: Essence

• Gain Essence equal to your Victories at the start of an encounter, and 2 more each turn.
• Gain 1 more the first time each round that you — or anyone within 10 squares — takes damage of any type that isn't untyped or holy.
• Persistent magic: many spells can be sustained from turn to turn for a reduced Essence cost rather than recast, so you're always balancing what you keep running against what you start fresh.
• Practical Magic is your utility maneuver — a little teleport, a little damage, or shove people around.

Subclasses

• Earth — create and reshape terrain, toughen your allies, and grow more durable yourself when knocked about.
• Fire — damage and area effects: melt items, burn holes through walls, and add extra push to forced movement.
• Green — nature, growth, and healing: talk to plants and animals, shapeshift into them, and mend allies (though not amped up like the Conduit's healing).
• Void — see through illusions (and share that sight with allies), and teleport around the field.

A battlefield controller who overwhelms encounters by commanding squads of summoned minions. They trade personal action economy for control, attrition, and denial — shaping the map with bodies, formations, and forced responses. You rarely deal damage yourself; your army does it for you.

Heroic Resource: Essence

• Gain Essence equal to your Victories at the start of combat, and 2 more each turn.
• Gain 1 more the first time each round that a minion dies within your Summoner's Range — yours or the enemy's.
• Sacrifice your own minions to reduce the cost of summoning and abilities. Losses aren't a setback; they're fuel.
• Essence resets at the end of the encounter.

Core Mechanics

• Control up to 8 minions, organised into two squads, and command them within your Summoner's Range.
• Issue orders per squad, not per minion. Minions block space, absorb hits, redirect damage, and set up your allies.
• You're expected to lose minions — their deaths feed your engine — and can let them strike in your place. Formations and quick commands reshape the flow of the fight.

Subclasses (Circles)

• Demon — aggressive pressure and self-destruction; corruption and punishment for getting close.
• Undead — attrition, durability, and zone denial, with triggers on death.
• Fey — mobility, forced movement, and swarms; positional control.
• Elemental — terrain effects, area control, and elemental punishment.