Your traveller

Weapon abilities

The six abilities of the sword and of the bow, and what each costs.

How abilities work

A weapon skill opens an ability at each of 50, 100, 150, 200, 250, 300. The abilities of the weapon in your hand sit on the squares of the combat panel, on keys 1 to 6. Press one and it becomes your next attack; Esc clears one that is waiting.

An ability is an attack. It is rolled, turned by a guard and lessened by armor as any blow is, unless its text says otherwise. It spends its own stamina in place of the attack's, and each has its own wait before it can be used again. A slow or a stagger lasts 50% as long on a traveller as on a creature.

Sword

Key	Ability	Opens at	Stamina	Ready again in	What it does
`1`	Lunge	50 Blade	12	8 seconds	A thrust that reaches a meter past the blade and strikes a quarter harder.
`2`	Riposte	100 Blade	12	12 seconds	Only within 2 seconds of a blow your guard turned. No preparation, half as hard again, and it cannot glance.
`3`	Pommel	150 Blade	16	15 seconds	Half the preparation and half the damage. Staggers for 1.5 seconds: the target begins no blow, and one it is preparing is broken.
`4`	Sweep	200 Blade	16	20 seconds	A wide cut, 70 degrees either side of the target, that strikes up to three within reach for eight tenths of the damage each.
`5`	Feint	250 Blade	20	25 seconds	No damage. For 4 seconds your blows on the target cannot glance, and its guard does not turn them.
`6`	Bell stroke	300 Blade	24	40 seconds	600 milliseconds to prepare. Strikes two and a half times as hard and breaks a guard.

Bow

Key	Ability	Opens at	Stamina	Ready again in	What it does
`1`	Aimed shot	50 Bow	15	8 seconds	Twice the preparation. Strikes half as hard again and cannot glance.
`2`	Pinning shot	100 Bow	15	12 seconds	Seven tenths of the damage. The target moves and turns at half speed for 4 seconds.
`3`	Snap shot	150 Bow	20	15 seconds	Half the preparation and seven tenths of the damage, loosed without stopping.
`4`	Point blank	200 Bow	20	20 seconds	Only within 5 meters. Strikes a fifth harder and staggers for 1.5 seconds.
`5`	Bodkin	250 Bow	25	25 seconds	Strikes a fifth harder and passes all armor.
`6`	Long shot	300 Bow	30	40 seconds	1.5 seconds to prepare. Reaches 42 meters and strikes two and a half times as hard.

Wand

The wand has no abilities in this build. It attacks and makes power attacks as the other weapons do, and it casts. See Spells.