Combat Styles

General Combat Styles

Big Knife Fighter

"Big Knife" means a large dagger, something like a Bowie knife or a large seax. The fighting style is somewhat like a street brawler with knife skills.

Traits

Knife Fighter Prowess: Permits the user to treat both their Unarmed and dagger blocks and parries as ‘Medium’ sized.
Throw Weapons: The dagger/knife used in the style can also be thrown at no penalty to skill, but the damage roll is halved.

Vattmarch Viking Fighters often pair an axe and a large knife, or rarely a shield. Also rarely a sword. It should be noted that wearing swords and shields would draw unwanted attention in all but the most backwater settlements... perhaps not so much in the Vattmarch, but even there in larger towns or cities it's not something you'd expect to see.

Weapons

Axe
Dagger
Shield
Long sword
Long bow or short bow

Traits

Shield Wall
Intimidating Scream

Hippo Wrangler

Weapons

Axe or Dagger
Pistol or Shotgun
Whip or Net

Traits

Hippo Rider: Ignore Ride skill cap when shooting while riding a moving hippo.

City Combat Styles

Backstreet Brawler

A street brawler with skills. Anything goes - bite, scratch, broken bottles, hidden guns.

Weapons

Dagger
Club
Unarmed
Hideaway pistol

Traits

Impromptu or Improvised Weapons: Treat any remotely club-shaped object as a club; most (reasonable) objects can be used at Unarmed Skill level attack for +1 damage over Unarmed
Sucker Punch: On an Unarmed attack, you get Surprise if the opponent fails an Opposed Roll of their Perception against your attack roll