Rend skill

Skill 'rend'.

• Group: 'fightmaster'.
• Execution delay: 3 seconds.
• Costs: moves 25.
• Target: your opponent in a fight, or a character nearby.

Format: rend target

Rend is a heavy blow of a berserker with a sword or an axe in each hand. If the blow lands, it may tear the protective glow off the target: sanctuary, stardust or dark shroud. No magic saves the glow, only the body and the steel: the berserker's skill, his strength against the target's constitution or dexterity, the difference in level, the difference in size and the heft of the weapon. A glow that is part of a creature's own nature holds harder, and one given by a worn item never comes off. A glow that holds still dims, and every such blow makes it easier to dispel. Monsters and players face the same rule, and some monsters know this blow too.