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 = Conflict: The Bistre Clash of Ideals =
-A [[SiderealMartialArts|Sidereal Martial Art]] by DeadManSeven.
+A [[SiderealMartialArts|Sidereal Martial Art]] by [[DeadManSeven]].
 === Introduction ===
 A dual-Form style. [[MartialArts/WolfAndRavenStyles | Wolf & Raven]] was one of the first fan-created styles I ever read, so hopefully I'm able to make something on an equal level of cool. This style deals, in part, with some of the minutiae of [[Combat/MailAndSteel | Mail & Steel]], so you might want to bust out your copy of the Players Guide to get the full use out of some of the Soldier-side Charms.
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                               Seeking Beauty
                                in  Conflict</pre>
-<I>(For a non-ASCII Charm tree, click [http://www.geocities.com/a1965917/BistreClashOfIdeals.html here].)</I>
+<I>(For a non-ASCII Charm tree, click [http://www.geocities.com/a1965917/BistreClashofIdeals.html here].)</I>
 ----<I>The Student Sutra of Peace: Once, there was a young Maiden, a Poet...</I>
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 ----<B><I>Forgotten Debts Repaid</I></B>
-:<B>Cost:</B> 10 motes, 1 Willpower
+:<B>Cost:</B> 6 motes, 1 Willpower
 :<B>Duration:</B> Instant
 :<B>Type:</B> Supplemental
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 :<I>revenge for the years of empty homes.</I>
-The Poet despises war, and the way she keeps peace is to be sure the warriors cannot fight; depriving the enemy of a means to fight back is the fastest way to achieve peace. For each success on the character’s attack, she drains a mote of peripheral essence from her opponent (provided he has an essence pool), and each level of damage he takes steals a point of temporary Willpower. If her opponent has less temporary Willpower than the number of health levels rolled, she adds a number of automatic levels of damage equal to the difference.
+The Poet despises war, and the way she keeps peace is to be sure the warriors cannot fight; depriving the enemy of the will to fight back is the fastest way to achieve peace. For each level of damage her opponent takes from her attack, she steals a point of temporary Willpower. If her opponent has less temporary Willpower than the number of health levels rolled, she adds a number of automatic levels of damage equal to the difference.
-<I>(Example: Silent Bells Wisdom stares down an Abyssal monk after a drawn-out fight, wanting to end the battle quickly. She splits her action two ways, and attacks twice, both strikes augmented by Forgotten Debts Repaid. Her first attack roll scores eleven successes, taking the last eight motes from the Deathknight’s peripheral essence pool (the extra three successes are wasted, for the purposes to draining essence), and adding it to her own. However, the Abyssal has essence remaining in his personal pool, and uses that to prevent all damage from the first attack; doing so leaves him with only two Willpower. Silent Bells Wisdom’s second attack manages to damage her opponent for three health levels; she steals his remaining two points of Willpower, and adds one extra automatic level of damage to the attack.)</I>
+<I>(Example: Silent Bells Wisdom stares down an Abyssal monk after a drawn-out fight, wanting to end the battle quickly. She splits her action two ways, and attacks twice, both strikes augmented by Forgotten Debts Repaid. Her first attack roll scores four successes for damage. However, the Abyssal relies on his unearthly resiliance to avoid harm, removing all post-soak damage in exchange for another scar in his pallid flesh; doing so leaves him without motes to use this technique again, and only two Willpower. Silent Bells Wisdom’s second attack manages to damage her opponent for three health levels; she steals his remaining two points of Willpower for herself, and adds one extra automatic level of damage to the attack.)</I>
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 The march is the Soldier’s meditation. She focuses on the way ahead of her, and steps to the same beat of her company. There is no destination and no origin, only her and the road; she may travel for days in the same rhythm. Her equipment becomes an extension of her form, not a burden to be toted from place to place, and her hunger and fatigue melt away as she outpaces them.
-While the character travels, she automatically succeeds on any Endurance rolls related to her travel, provided she has stopped and rested well the night before. She also grows accustomed to any heavy gear she carries, as well as any armour she wears. The day after One-and-The-Road Concentration has been used, the character’s Strength and Stamina are considered to be one higher, permanently, for the purposes of bearing her equipment. She also subtracts one from the mobility penalty and fatigue values of her armour, both down to a minimum of zero. However, all this equipment must be hers personally; each time this Charm is used, the character slightly alters her equipment, customising it through insignia, sigils, crests, graffiti, and other marks to show her ownership. Anyone else trying to carry her equipment will not gain any of the benefits she receives from this Charm, as they have not forged the Soldier’s bond between herself and her gear.
+While the character travels, she automatically succeeds on any Endurance rolls related to her travel, provided she has stopped and rested well the night before. She also grows accustomed to any heavy gear she carries, as well as any armour she wears. The day after One-and-The-Road Concentration has been used, the character’s Strength and Stamina are considered to be one higher for the purposes of bearing her equipment. She also subtracts one from the mobility penalty and fatigue values of her armour, both down to a minimum of zero. Both of these effects are permanent. However, all this equipment must be hers personally; each time this Charm is used, the character slightly alters her equipment, customising it through insignia, sigils, crests, graffiti, and other marks to show her ownership. Anyone else trying to carry her equipment will not gain any of the benefits she receives from this Charm, as they have not forged the Soldier’s bond between herself and her gear.
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 Mechanically, this Charm promotes a member of the character’s unit from a rank-and-file extra to a heroic mortal capable of assuming the lead of a unit in her stead. Her second’s hand-to-hand and ranged combat dice pools, their dodge pool, and their Charisma, Presence and Valor ratings all begin at 2, and she gains a number of points equal to [Essence*2] + [Martial Arts] + [Valor] to increase these ratings. Heroic Deeds Rewarded can be used during a mass battle to split units; if this is the case, the character divides troops and special characters as she chooses between her unit and any new units created, and then recalculates their Magnitude and Might based on the makeup of the units. Dividing units this way can still only be performed between long turns, but does not take the place of the unit’s movement action.
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 :<I>the Soldier faced the Poet’s blockade.</I>
-The Soldier is always at war, and must be ready at any moment to defend herself from those who would attack her. Even if she stands alone, she fights with the strength of an army, such is her skill. Attacks bolstered by the Relentless Soldier’s Assault leave pale ghostly impressions of the Soldier that linger for a few moments as she lands her blows. The phantom replicas will continue attacking the Soldier’s foes, shining with an internal white light that obscures their features. If the martial artist makes a successful attack (that need not cause damage), that same attack is repeated each following turn, for a number of turns equal to her [Martial Arts]. The accuracy and base damage of the attack remain the same, as well as any other extra effects from Charms, but the Soldier cannot further use any techniques she knows to alter the phantom attack.
+The Soldier is always at war, and must be ready at any moment to defend herself from those who would attack her. Even if she stands alone, she fights with the strength of an army, such is her skill. Attacks bolstered by the Relentless Soldier’s Assault leave pale ghostly impressions of the Soldier that linger for a few moments as she lands her blows. The phantom replicas will continue attacking the Soldier’s foes, shining with an internal white light that obscures their features. If the martial artist makes a successful attack (that need not cause damage), that same attack is repeated each following turn, for a number of turns equal to her [Martial Arts]. The accuracy and base damage of the attack remain the same, as well as any other extra effects from Charms, but the Soldier cannot further use any techniques she knows to alter the phantom attack. The replicas created through this technique will be able to follow the target should he move, but may attack only him.
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 Random comments:
 *For what rule set was this style designed?
 *The link to the non-ASCII tree is broken.
 *Presumably the dice added by Shadow-and-Sun Dance are cumulative? Is there an upper limit? Also, since there is no indication to the contrary, these are standard "dice added from charms", so help solars a bit more than sidereals.
 *Piper's Melody is a neat idea, but seems to be more about horror and fear than conflict. That is, seems to break the theme of the style a bit, but probably could be tweaked to fit.
 *Forgotten Debts is essentially free, particularly when using sutras. Actually, it may even have negative cost in that case.
 *Fear of What Was seems a bit weak for the cost. In the right circumstances, it is brutal, but those aren't common. Maybe if it affected more targets? Oh, wait. You're thinking the usual use for this will be to mess with valor rolls in Mail & Steel, I'm guessing. Hmmm.
 *One-and-the-Road seems a bit weak, particularly for sidereals. Solars have better ways of handling mobility/fatigue penalties in general and the health level cost of this charm. For most sidereals, taking that one health level will just replace the mobility penalty with a mechanically worse wound penalty.
 *Drummer's Tattoo is both cool and in theme. Treads a bit into solar territory, but screw it.
 *Heroic Deeds, also cool, seems like it permanently alters the mortal (or, since it is an instant reflexive, several at once), kind of a mini-exaltation, which seems like it messes with Fate enough to warrant some kind of Paradox cost.
 *The two forms have a very interesting parity. Very cool.
 *How does Tireless Poet's Guard interact with perfect attacks? Since it is not listed as perfect effect, I assume they get through (which is as it should be, IMO).
 *Wow. Relentless Solider is brutal, particularly as part of an uber-combo. Can these phantoms move? Does the target have to be the same?
 - [[Wordman]]

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 = Conflict: The Bistre Clash of Ideals =
-A [[SiderealMartialArts|Sidereal Martial Art]] by DeadManSeven.
+A [[SiderealMartialArts|Sidereal Martial Art]] by [[DeadManSeven]].
 === Introduction ===
 A dual-Form style. [[MartialArts/WolfAndRavenStyles | Wolf & Raven]] was one of the first fan-created styles I ever read, so hopefully I'm able to make something on an equal level of cool. This style deals, in part, with some of the minutiae of [[Combat/MailAndSteel | Mail & Steel]], so you might want to bust out your copy of the Players Guide to get the full use out of some of the Soldier-side Charms.
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 ::<I>The phantom has too attack the same target but can follow them around. I'll go put that in the Charm.</I>
 - [[Wordman]]
-::<I>I like replying to feedback (thanks!), and it's especially cool when comments on particular Charms aren't mechanical things, but just little notes to say they were cool. :) - DeadManSeven</I>
+::<I>I like replying to feedback (thanks!), and it's especially cool when comments on particular Charms aren't mechanical things, but just little notes to say they were cool. :) - [[DeadManSeven]]</I>

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 = Conflict: The Bistre Clash of Ideals =
-A [[SiderealMartialArts|Sidereal Martial Art]] by [[DeadManSeven]].
+A [[SiderealMartialArts|Sidereal Martial Art]] by DeadManSeven.
 === Introduction ===
 A dual-Form style. [[MartialArts/WolfAndRavenStyles | Wolf & Raven]] was one of the first fan-created styles I ever read, so hopefully I'm able to make something on an equal level of cool. This style deals, in part, with some of the minutiae of [[Combat/MailAndSteel | Mail & Steel]], so you might want to bust out your copy of the Players Guide to get the full use out of some of the Soldier-side Charms.
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                               Seeking Beauty
                                in  Conflict</pre>
-<I>(For a non-ASCII Charm tree, click [http://www.geocities.com/a1965917/BistreClashofIdeals.html here].)</I>
+<I>(For a non-ASCII Charm tree, click [http://www.geocities.com/a1965917/BistreClashOfIdeals.html here].)</I>
 ----<I>The Student Sutra of Peace: Once, there was a young Maiden, a Poet...</I>
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 ----<B><I>Forgotten Debts Repaid</I></B>
-:<B>Cost:</B> 6 motes, 1 Willpower
+:<B>Cost:</B> 10 motes, 1 Willpower
 :<B>Duration:</B> Instant
 :<B>Type:</B> Supplemental
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 :<I>revenge for the years of empty homes.</I>
-The Poet despises war, and the way she keeps peace is to be sure the warriors cannot fight; depriving the enemy of the will to fight back is the fastest way to achieve peace. For each level of damage her opponent takes from her attack, she steals a point of temporary Willpower. If her opponent has less temporary Willpower than the number of health levels rolled, she adds a number of automatic levels of damage equal to the difference.
+The Poet despises war, and the way she keeps peace is to be sure the warriors cannot fight; depriving the enemy of a means to fight back is the fastest way to achieve peace. For each success on the character’s attack, she drains a mote of peripheral essence from her opponent (provided he has an essence pool), and each level of damage he takes steals a point of temporary Willpower. If her opponent has less temporary Willpower than the number of health levels rolled, she adds a number of automatic levels of damage equal to the difference.
-<I>(Example: Silent Bells Wisdom stares down an Abyssal monk after a drawn-out fight, wanting to end the battle quickly. She splits her action two ways, and attacks twice, both strikes augmented by Forgotten Debts Repaid. Her first attack roll scores four successes for damage. However, the Abyssal relies on his unearthly resiliance to avoid harm, removing all post-soak damage in exchange for another scar in his pallid flesh; doing so leaves him without motes to use this technique again, and only two Willpower. Silent Bells Wisdom’s second attack manages to damage her opponent for three health levels; she steals his remaining two points of Willpower for herself, and adds one extra automatic level of damage to the attack.)</I>
+<I>(Example: Silent Bells Wisdom stares down an Abyssal monk after a drawn-out fight, wanting to end the battle quickly. She splits her action two ways, and attacks twice, both strikes augmented by Forgotten Debts Repaid. Her first attack roll scores eleven successes, taking the last eight motes from the Deathknight’s peripheral essence pool (the extra three successes are wasted, for the purposes to draining essence), and adding it to her own. However, the Abyssal has essence remaining in his personal pool, and uses that to prevent all damage from the first attack; doing so leaves him with only two Willpower. Silent Bells Wisdom’s second attack manages to damage her opponent for three health levels; she steals his remaining two points of Willpower, and adds one extra automatic level of damage to the attack.)</I>
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 The march is the Soldier’s meditation. She focuses on the way ahead of her, and steps to the same beat of her company. There is no destination and no origin, only her and the road; she may travel for days in the same rhythm. Her equipment becomes an extension of her form, not a burden to be toted from place to place, and her hunger and fatigue melt away as she outpaces them.
-While the character travels, she automatically succeeds on any Endurance rolls related to her travel, provided she has stopped and rested well the night before. She also grows accustomed to any heavy gear she carries, as well as any armour she wears. The day after One-and-The-Road Concentration has been used, the character’s Strength and Stamina are considered to be one higher for the purposes of bearing her equipment. She also subtracts one from the mobility penalty and fatigue values of her armour, both down to a minimum of zero. Both of these effects are permanent. However, all this equipment must be hers personally; each time this Charm is used, the character slightly alters her equipment, customising it through insignia, sigils, crests, graffiti, and other marks to show her ownership. Anyone else trying to carry her equipment will not gain any of the benefits she receives from this Charm, as they have not forged the Soldier’s bond between herself and her gear.
+While the character travels, she automatically succeeds on any Endurance rolls related to her travel, provided she has stopped and rested well the night before. She also grows accustomed to any heavy gear she carries, as well as any armour she wears. The day after One-and-The-Road Concentration has been used, the character’s Strength and Stamina are considered to be one higher, permanently, for the purposes of bearing her equipment. She also subtracts one from the mobility penalty and fatigue values of her armour, both down to a minimum of zero. However, all this equipment must be hers personally; each time this Charm is used, the character slightly alters her equipment, customising it through insignia, sigils, crests, graffiti, and other marks to show her ownership. Anyone else trying to carry her equipment will not gain any of the benefits she receives from this Charm, as they have not forged the Soldier’s bond between herself and her gear.
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 Mechanically, this Charm promotes a member of the character’s unit from a rank-and-file extra to a heroic mortal capable of assuming the lead of a unit in her stead. Her second’s hand-to-hand and ranged combat dice pools, their dodge pool, and their Charisma, Presence and Valor ratings all begin at 2, and she gains a number of points equal to [Essence*2] + [Martial Arts] + [Valor] to increase these ratings. Heroic Deeds Rewarded can be used during a mass battle to split units; if this is the case, the character divides troops and special characters as she chooses between her unit and any new units created, and then recalculates their Magnitude and Might based on the makeup of the units. Dividing units this way can still only be performed between long turns, but does not take the place of the unit’s movement action.
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 :<I>the Soldier faced the Poet’s blockade.</I>
-The Soldier is always at war, and must be ready at any moment to defend herself from those who would attack her. Even if she stands alone, she fights with the strength of an army, such is her skill. Attacks bolstered by the Relentless Soldier’s Assault leave pale ghostly impressions of the Soldier that linger for a few moments as she lands her blows. The phantom replicas will continue attacking the Soldier’s foes, shining with an internal white light that obscures their features. If the martial artist makes a successful attack (that need not cause damage), that same attack is repeated each following turn, for a number of turns equal to her [Martial Arts]. The accuracy and base damage of the attack remain the same, as well as any other extra effects from Charms, but the Soldier cannot further use any techniques she knows to alter the phantom attack. The replicas created through this technique will be able to follow the target should he move, but may attack only him.
+The Soldier is always at war, and must be ready at any moment to defend herself from those who would attack her. Even if she stands alone, she fights with the strength of an army, such is her skill. Attacks bolstered by the Relentless Soldier’s Assault leave pale ghostly impressions of the Soldier that linger for a few moments as she lands her blows. The phantom replicas will continue attacking the Soldier’s foes, shining with an internal white light that obscures their features. If the martial artist makes a successful attack (that need not cause damage), that same attack is repeated each following turn, for a number of turns equal to her [Martial Arts]. The accuracy and base damage of the attack remain the same, as well as any other extra effects from Charms, but the Soldier cannot further use any techniques she knows to alter the phantom attack.
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 Random comments:
 *For what rule set was this style designed?
 *The link to the non-ASCII tree is broken.
 *Presumably the dice added by Shadow-and-Sun Dance are cumulative? Is there an upper limit? Also, since there is no indication to the contrary, these are standard "dice added from charms", so help solars a bit more than sidereals.
 *Piper's Melody is a neat idea, but seems to be more about horror and fear than conflict. That is, seems to break the theme of the style a bit, but probably could be tweaked to fit.
 *Forgotten Debts is essentially free, particularly when using sutras. Actually, it may even have negative cost in that case.
 *Fear of What Was seems a bit weak for the cost. In the right circumstances, it is brutal, but those aren't common. Maybe if it affected more targets? Oh, wait. You're thinking the usual use for this will be to mess with valor rolls in Mail & Steel, I'm guessing. Hmmm.
 *One-and-the-Road seems a bit weak, particularly for sidereals. Solars have better ways of handling mobility/fatigue penalties in general and the health level cost of this charm. For most sidereals, taking that one health level will just replace the mobility penalty with a mechanically worse wound penalty.
 *Drummer's Tattoo is both cool and in theme. Treads a bit into solar territory, but screw it.
 *Heroic Deeds, also cool, seems like it permanently alters the mortal (or, since it is an instant reflexive, several at once), kind of a mini-exaltation, which seems like it messes with Fate enough to warrant some kind of Paradox cost.
 *The two forms have a very interesting parity. Very cool.
 *How does Tireless Poet's Guard interact with perfect attacks? Since it is not listed as perfect effect, I assume they get through (which is as it should be, IMO).
 *Wow. Relentless Solider is brutal, particularly as part of an uber-combo. Can these phantoms move? Does the target have to be the same?
 - [[Wordman]]