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Ro'Lok's Guide to Violence

Created by Gemhammer Games

Warfare, warriors, and weapons! A tome of combat and weaponry for 5th Edition. Includes all-new mechanics for building custom keeps, vehicular combat, large-scale battles, performance combat, siege weaponry, an updated crafting system with unique materials from the multiverse, and much, much more!

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Stretch Goal Unlocked: Advanced Arms
over 2 years ago – Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 12:46:53 PM

Congratulations! We've unlocked a new Stretch Goal. Advancedl Weapons and Armor categories have been added to Ro'Lok's Guide to Violence, along with feats and backgrounds that grant proficiency in this new equipment.

Magical Guardian and the Warlord
over 2 years ago – Sun, Nov 07, 2021 at 08:06:10 PM

Good Evening Wonderful Internet People,

Sorry for the later than expected update, it's a busy time here at Gemhammer, but I said I'd update this weekend, and here it is. As we mentioned in our last update we ran a poll on social media to see which new class in Ro’Lok’s Guide to Violence we’d update about first. The results were a tie between Magical Guardian and the Warlord Class. Since that’s the case we’ll be giving you a sneak peek about both! We’ll go over some of the lore and features of each, however these will not be the full list of features available to each class. 

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Magical Guardian

These rare and powerful warriors must be among Lord Ro’Lok’s most beloved devotees. Deep in a secret vault beneath Ro’Lok’s T'under Dome, I found countless documents chronicling the adventures of these fabled warriors, and shelves of small idols depicting the most prominent of them. Due to the large number of document and depictions, it seems the most revered of these warriors is Ononakuchan, heroine of the sacred texts of “Super Sōdaina mahō no densetsu no shōjo Ononakuchan DX”.

-Jermaine

Ononakuchan the sacred Waifu of Ro'Lok

The magical guardian classic is based on transforming magical heroines, such as those of the “Sailor” or “Card Captor” variety. Ro’Lok has a deep secret love for his vast collection of manga and magical girl figurines, which his naive but fanatical herald has mistaken for the records and effigies of actual warriors. As a result of both divine magic, and godly blessings, the powers of the fictional characters has been brought to life across the planes. Those who take up the teachings of the Magical Guardian gain powerful magical abilities allowing them to transform into powerful heroes at a moment’s notice.


The magical guardian is a skill based class while not transformed, but while in their transformation they are a strong magical fighter.


Magical Focus.

Magical Guardians each have a special item unique to them which grants them their powers and abilities. They choose the form of their focus when they take up the role of a Magical Guardian and receive slightly different benefits depending on the form they choose.

Bangle - Grants proficiency to Constitution checks and saving throws.

Crown - Grants proficiency to Charisma checks and saving throws.

Ring - Grants proficiency to Dexterity checks and saving throws.

Rod - Grants proficiency to Wisdom checks and saving throws.

Sword - Grants proficiency to Strength checks and saving throws.

Wand - Grants proficiency to Intelligence checks and saving throws.

At later levels, the Magical Guardian’s choice in the form of their focus will grant additional benefits and abilities.


Cute Animal Companion.

Magical Guardians have a guardian spirit that supports them both in and out of combat. Magical Guardians can cast the find familiar spell at will and without material components to give their guardian form. However, the form of their familiar must be that of a Cat, Chipmunk, Fox, Rabbit, Raccoon, Sugar Glider, Squirrel, or Weasel.


Transformation Magic.

When danger is near, you can call upon the power of your Magical Focus to transform into your Guardian State. As an action you transform, causing your mundane cloths and gear to melt away and are replaced with your guardian garb.

While Transformed you gain the following benefits.

Magical Armor. Your AC = 13 + Charisma + Proficiency

Magic Weapon. You summon a magical weapon, which takes for the form of any simple weapon you choose. You are proficient in this weapon and gain +1 on attacks and damage rolls with this weapon. The weapon disappears when your transformation ends.

(we're currently testing some additional perks for magical transformation, but we don't want it to be too  powerful too early, so we're exploring some options for the feature as it levels up.)


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The Warlord.

“The outer regions of R’Lok’Alypse are lawless lands where powerful warriors vie for supremacy. These warlords come from a wide variety of backgrounds and each one employs their own unique fighting stye in attempting to gain or maintain a foothold on the planes of Ro'Lok'Alypse.”

-Jermaine

The Warlord is our build-your-own-fighter class. This class makes prodigious use of our alternative feat system, being able to take feats at an expanded number of levels and having access to combat style feats as they level up.


Feats.

As started the Warlord will be able to spec into the complex trees of feats we’ve developed for our alternative feat system. This will allow your  character to build into several of the trees of feats, which would otherwise be impossible. If you wanted a fighter entirely built around using our new combat shields and throwing weapons, then you could easily build into both of those trees where other characters wouldn’t  have the opportunity to do so. At level 1 Warlords select a feat, a fighting style, and a specialized weapon proficiency in a single weapon. At every level thereafter, the warlord can select from specific feats, be it general feats or combat style feats.


Fighting Style and Combat Style Feats.

Fighting styles are nothing new to 5th edition. Many of the vanilla martial characters adopt a fighting style at some point. In Ro'Lok's we're using fighting styles as a prerequisite for a special category of feats called Combat style feats. At specific level, the warlord can choose from these feats provided they have the appropriate combat style, and meet all other prerequisites.  For example, a Warlord might choose an Archery fighting style. At later levels, they might choose the Ricochet Round combat style feat which, has the prerequisite of having the Archery Fighting Style. The Ricochet Round Feat would then allow the Warlord to to shoot  their range weapons around corners or behind cover, provided there is something for them to bounce their shot off of, but at the cost of severely reduced range. This will also allow them to take the Bank Shot feat later on, which has the Ricochet Round Feat as a prerequisite, which will allow for additional range, and bounces on their ricochet shots.


That's all for tonight. If you have any questions or comments let us know below and we'll be quick to get back to you. If you're interested in more of our upcoming classes, be sure to vote in our next twitter poll, which is currently live and can be found here...

Twitter Poll

Till next time!


-Conor

Incoming Class Update and Lords of the Ro'Lok'Alypse Round Two
over 2 years ago – Thu, Nov 04, 2021 at 02:56:10 PM

Hey there wonderful internet people!


With only 10 days left in the campaign, we're eager to hit as many stretch goals as we can so that we can put as much content onto the book as possible. So please, please, please share this project with your friends, fellow games, and friendly local game stores to help us reach as many people as possible before the end of the campaign. 


New Class Previews

Last week we ran a poll on our social media to determine which class to preview here on our Kickstarter page. The results was a tie between Magical Guardian and the Warlord class. This weekend we'll be providing a rough overview of both classes, the lore and inspiration behind them, as well as their features. Be sure to keep an eye out for those this weekend!


Lords of the Ro'Lok'Alypse: Round 2

Lords of the Ro'Lok'Alypse continues with round 2 tomorrow at 8pm bst, 3pm est, 6am aest. Be sure to check out our next two teams as they face off to see who moves on to the final round.

Vorpal Tales

Twitch.tv/vorpaltales

The Wylder Project

Twitch.tv/chroniclesofthefay


Backer Kit

One final thing, we've received a number of questions about pledge manager and if people will be able to add items to their order after the fact. I just wanted to make sure it was clear to everyone we'll be using backer kit as a pledge manager, and we intend to keep it open for preorders and adding items to your order as long as possible. If you have any questions about this feel free to reach out to us here. Thanks!

Stretch Goal Unlock: Uncommon Artifacts II
over 2 years ago – Wed, Nov 03, 2021 at 07:21:36 PM

Congratulations! We've unlocked a new Stretch Goal. 10 additional uncommon magic items will be added to Ro'Lok's Guide to Violence.

Stretch Goal Unlock: Subclass Surge!
over 2 years ago – Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 02:59:00 PM

Congratulations! We've unlocked a new Stretch Goal. A new subclasses for Brawler and Barbarian will be added to Ro'Lok's Guide to Violence!