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You gain not only their face that your may now "wear" but also that person's height and weight, voice and all their memories, though none of their secrets. This ability may only be used to impersonate humanoids that are the same size as you. At 6th level, you can take 10 minutes and expend 3 ki points to channel your ki, along with alchemical substances, to take on the persona of someone that you have killed. The Faceless Men's greatest ability is not only to be able to imitate another, but to steal their entire persona. So at 6th level, you gain the ability to wear another’s face. I mean, this is why you took the subclass in the first place! There was no way you get the ability off the bat either. While it’s an incredibly powerful skill, it made no sense to have to wait to level 11th to gain it. Wearing Another's Face is the core of the Faceless Men. I added the ability to use a scimitar and rapier based solely on my love for Arya, who uses a rapier throughout the series. Arya may have always used a dagger or her rapier, but I am sure that Jaqen H’ghar used his hands on more than one occasion to kill his enemy. The part we both agreed upon was that it only applies to your unarmed strikes. It may not be as powerful as the Rogue’s sneak attack, but it does provide the subclass to inflict extra damage right off the bat. It scales well, as the maximum number of Ki points you can expend increases at 11th level to 4 ki points and at 17th level to 5 ki points.
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That’s a good amount of extra damage at lower levels. The extra damage uses your Martial Arts die and for every ki point you expend, you roll that number of dice, to a maximum of 3 ki points. Starting at 3rd level, when you hit a creature with an unarmed strike, you can expend a number of ki points to directly attack your target's weak spot and deal additional damage. I replaced a monkish sneak attack with something Stephen came up with which we call the Assassin’s Blow. I hope you’ll understand why I went this route.įor those that don’t want my thought process behind the Faceless Men:įor best results in GM Binder, use a Chrome Browserīeing that the Faceless Men are a league of assassins, one would want to give them something akin to rogue sneak attack… but I was discouraged from doing so and the argument presented made total sense. What finally convinced me that Monk was the way to go was after reading through the Training and Asceticism section of the Monk (PHB, pgs. In the novels, the Faceless Men also are a league of assassins, but their abilities go beyond that of a normal assassin. Assassins take contracts for money and have been known to kill indiscriminately. The Faceless Men killing has meaning, as they serve the God of Many Faces and the kills are basically a tribute to him. I didn’t want to get into the whole blood magic thing, as that opened a rabbit hole I didn’t want to go down. In the books, the ability to steal someone face is done through a combination of blood magic and alchemy. My justification is that the Faceless Men have abilities that transcend what a normal assassin could do, but I didn’t want to use magic. The biggest question was how Ki fit into the Faceless Men subclass. Who couldn’t envision her doing what a Monk does. Plus, we’ve all seen Arya do some pretty cool shit through the final seasons. Evasion, Stillness of Mind, Purity of Body - check, check, and check.
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Slow Fall - yep, seems like something they could do.
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I thought that many of the of the abilities that a Monk gets fit for the Faceless Men. I landed on Monk, and the choice was met with cheers and jeers. Sure, I take quite a great deal from the Mantle, but there are a few subtle changes that, to me, make all the difference. The Bard’s Mantle of Whispers comes close, but the flavor of it came up short. The assassin’s disguise abilities wouldn’t do justice to the Faceless Men. Rogue was the easy choice, but as I thought more about it, I didn’t want to remake the Assassin. To start, I had to decide what class to begin with. Then I got a request to make a subclass from one of our Patrons (Thanks Stonie) and I was excited to give it a whirl. The season 5 plot involving the Faceless Men and Arya was my favorite part of GoT. It can also live on in D&D with the Faceless Man subclass. Game of Thrones may be over, but it will live on in the minds and hearts of its legions of fans. *The article below contains spoilers for GoT seasons 1-8.