
Everyone is always trying to optimize their combat potential by wearing armor or perhaps outfits that allow them to move more freely. Those types are always talking about “practicality”. Those lot are all posers. Real warriors prioritize looking badass instead of wearing those ugly outfits because it “has better stats” or “is more practical”.
(by mindfaze0)
- Racial Requirement: Any Race
- Transformation Type: Enhancement Power
- Prerequisite(s): Your Top Layer Apparel Category is Standard Clothing, and you possess the Swaggering Wager Talent.
- Stress Test Requirement: 14
- Tier of Power Requirement. 2+
- Aspects: Enhanced Save (Morale), Dedicated, High Speed (LV1), Strainless, Exhausting
| AG | FO | TE | SC | IN | MA | PE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +1(T) | +1(T) | – | – | – | +1(T) | +1(T) |
Drip or Drown: You’ve got an absolutely stunning set of clothes on, and you make a point to make it the star of the show.
-[Automatic]: If your Top Layer of Apparel is destroyed, you immediately leave this Transformation.
-[Passive]: You cannot doff your Top Layer of Apparel and you do not gain any benefits of any Middle Layer or Bottom Layer Apparel.
-[Permanent, 1/Encounter]: As an Instant Maneuver, you may spend 3 Swagger to use the Transformation Maneuver to enter this Transformation.
-[Permanent, Option]: Upon gaining access to this Transformation, select and gain access to one of the following effects while in this Transformation:
- Armored Fabric [Passive]: Your Top Layer of Apparel gains the benefits of the Armor Apparel Category while in this Transformation.
- Light Cloth [Passive]: Your Top Layer of Apparel gains the benefit of the Combat Clothing Apparel Category while in this Transformation.
-[Permanent, Choice]: Depending on your choice for the Option effect of Drip or Drown, apply the following effects:
- Armored Fabric [Permanent, Passive]: Upon gaining access to this effect, select a Special Apparel Quality from the following list to apply to your Top Layer of Apparel while in this Transformation: Enchanted, Power Enhancement, Reinforced Fiber (see below).
- Light Cloth [Permanent, Passive]: Upon gaining access to this effect, select a Special Apparel Quality from the following list to apply to your Top Layer of Apparel while in this Transformation: Assassin’s Craft, Master’s Garb, Mobile Fiber (see below).
Aura Farm: You accumulate and weaponize your stylish aura as you show your foes that they’d be toast if you just tried a little harder.
-[Passive]: When you score a Critical Result on a Combat Roll, increase the Dice Score by 2(T).
-[Triggered, 1/Round]: When you are under the effect of a restriction from Swaggering Wager and successfully dodge an Opponent’s Attacking Maneuver, you may forgo that Dodge Roll to instead use the Parry or Direct Hit option of the Defend Maneuver without spending a Counter Action. If you succeed in not taking any Damage from that Attacking Maneuver, gain 1 Swagger.
-[Triggered, 1/Round]: When you are under the effect of a restriction from Swaggering Wager and hit an Opponent with an Attacking Maneuver who had attempted to dodge or use the Parry option of the Defend Maneuver against it, you may reroll your Strike Roll against their previous Dice Result. If you would still successfully hit them with the new Dice Result, gain 1 Swagger. If your Opponent had previously scored a Critical Result on their Dodge or Strike Roll, and you would still hit, gain 2 Swagger instead.
-[Triggered, 1/Encounter]: When using the Combat Recovery Maneuver, if you trigger the Exploit Maneuver and successfully avoid taking damage from the Attacking Maneuver, gain 1 Swagger, and you may activate the second effect of this Trait if applicable, even if the effect has already triggered this round.
-[Triggered, 1/Round]: When you successfully avoid an Opponent’s Attacking Maneuver, you may use one of the following effects depending on how you avoided their Attacking Maneuver:
- Dodge: If you are within the Opponent’s Melee Range, move to a different Square within their Melee Range. If you are not currently within their Melee Range, you may spend 1 Swagger to move to a Square within their Melee Range.
- Parry option of the Defend Maneuver: If you are within the Opponent’s Melee Range, make a Might Clash against them, and spend up to 3 Swagger. Increase the Dice Result of your Might Clash by 1(T) for each stack of Swagger spent this way. If you succeed, move that Opponent a number of Squares in a straight line away from you in any direction equal to 1 plus their Melee Range.
-[3/Round]: As an Instant Maneuver, you can spend a number of Swagger Stacks to gain up to two of the effects listed below.
- 1 Swagger: Use the Hype Maneuver as an Out-of-Sequence Maneuver.
- 1-3 Swagger: For each Swagger spent, increase the Dice Score of all Critical Results you score by 2(T) until the start of your next turn.
- 2 Swagger: Increase the Natural Result of your next Combat Roll by 2.
- 3 Swagger: Set the Critical Target of two Combat Rolls of your choice to 7 until the start of your next turn.
Burst Limit
Peep the Fit: As soon as you enter this transformation, you hit an insanely fire pose that shows off your outfit in all its glory.
-[Triggered/Transform]: Use the Hype Maneuver as an Out-Of-Sequence Maneuver. If you do, gain 1 Swagger and you may spend Swagger through the Swaggering Wager Talent. Spending Swagger this way does not count against the round usage limit.
Special Apparel Qualities
Reinforced Fiber: Your outfit is capable of defending against the greatest of attacks with only tiny scratches.
–Effects: If you would use the Direct Hit option of the Defend Maneuver against an Attacking Maneuver, you may reduce this Apparel’s Break Value by 1 to reduce the Damage Category of that Attacking Maneuver by 1, and gain 2(bT) Damage Reduction for the duration of that Attacking Maneuver.
Mobile Fiber: Your outfit makes your movement much easier, allowing you to better evade your attackers.
–Effects: Treat your base Tier of Power as being 2 lower (min. 1) when calculating the effects of Diminishing Defense while wearing this Apparel.