Hi, I'm ptychomancer, the other core Caves of Qud dev. Here are some patch notes.
These are the new & updated powers. Check them out in game for the stat requirements and costs.
- Short Blade Proficiency: You get +2 to hit with short blades.
- Bloodletter: Your short blade attacks that penetrate have a 75% chance to cause your opponent to bleed (0-1 damage per turn. toughness save; difficulty 20 + your agility modifier). The opponent saves to stop bleeding each round, and the save difficulty decreases by 1 each round. This effect can stack a number of times equal to 1 plus your agility modifier.
- Jab: When you wield a short blade in your offhand, you make offhand attacks twice as often. This bonus applies to organic hands (natural and mutated) but not robotic hands.
- Hobble: You make an attack with a short blade in your primary hand, looking for a weak spot in your opponent's armor. If you hit, you penetrate exactly once and hobble them (-50% movespeed for 16-20 rounds).
- Pointed Circle: Whenever you juke an opponent while wielding a short blade in your primary hand, you make a free attack. If you have Bloodletter, the attack's chance to cause bleeding is 100%.
- Rejoinder: Once per turn, when an opponent misses you with a melee attack, there's a 40% chance you make a free attack with a short blade you're wielding.
- Shank: Activated; cooldown 20. You make a melee attack with a short blade in your primary hand (preferred) or offhand. If you hit, the attack gets +2 penetration for each negative status effect your opponent suffers from.
- Reduced Juke's cooldown to 40 rounds.
- Reduced Juke's skillpoint cost to 200.
- Tumble now reduces Juke's cooldown to 20 rounds.
- Reduced Tumble's skillpoint cost to 150.
- Aggressive stance and dueling stance now bestow their bonuses on short blades you have equipped, as long as you have a long blade equipped in your primary hand.
- Eunuchs start with Hobble instead of Shank.
- beguiling a creature
- proselytizing a creature
- renaming a follower
- discovering the location of a historic site
- visiting a historic site
- recovering (some) historic relics