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AN ELITE ORGANIZATION OF THE STRANGE
BY BRUCE R. CORDELL
SWORDBREAKERS
Table of Contents
Credits
Writer/Designer
Bruce R. Cordell
Developer
Monte Cook
Creative Director
Shanna Germain
Editor & Proofreader
Ray Vallese
Cover Artist
Matt Stawicki
Graphic Designer
Bear Weiter
Cartographer
Hugo Solis
Artists
Patrick McEvoy
Grzegorz Pedrycz
Joe Slucher
Matt Stawicki
Tiffany Turrill
Monte Cook Games
Editorial Board
Scott C. Bourgeois
David Wilson Brown
Eric Coates
Gareth Hodges
Jeremy Land
Laura Wilkinson
Marina Wold
George Ziets
Introducing the Swordbreakers
Manifest Zeal (for the GM)
Swordbreaking (for player characters)
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4
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© 2014 Monte Cook
Games, LLC
The Strange
and its
logo are trademarks of
Monte Cook Games, LLC
in the U.S.A. and other
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Games characters and
character names, and
the distinctive likenesses
thereof, are trademarks of
Monte Cook Games, LLC.
Dedicated to our Kickstarter backers Andrew Cotgreave,
Brian Hickey, Federico Franceschi, and Andrew Brereton
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INTRODUCING THE SWORDBREAKERS
INTRODUCING THE SWORDBREAKERS
Swordbreakers: An Elite Organization of the Strange
gives
players and game masters a close look at a select group
of NPCs active in various recursions, but especially
Ardeyn.
As a GM resource,
Swordbreakers
introduces a crack
team of NPCs for players to ally with, fight, or even
aspire to join, along with the history, goals, and short
description of the group’s main base. In addition, this
Fractal also includes several adventure seeds, a location
(Swordbreaker Keep), and artifacts (the
Soul Gem of Zeal
and its various
fragments,
plus boots of the Strange).
As a player resource,
Swordbreakers
potentially provides
a special focus (Embraces
Swordbreaker Zeal),
patrons
(or sometimes allies) in the form of the NPCs, and an
affiliate organization for those who want to expand their
horizons. It’s up to the PCs. Will their characters oppose,
ally with, or join the Swordbreakers?
Throughout this adventure, you’ll
see page references to various
items accompanied by this symbol.
These are page references to
The
Strange
corebook, where you can
find additional details about that
item, place, rule, NPC, or creature. It
isn’t usually necessary to look up the
referenced items in the corebook; it’s
an optional way to learn more about
the situation and provide additional
information to your players. The
exception is if a cypher or creature
stat is referenced, in which case
you’ll want the corebook nearby.
Soul Gem of Zeal,
page 10
Swordbreaker Zeal
fragment, page 15
Embraces Swordbreaker
Zeal, page 14
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MANIFEST ZEAL (FOR THE GM)
Prime Element,
page 201
Ardeyn, page 160
Recruited out of an already-elite team called the
Prime Element
on Earth, Swordbreakers are among
the best of the best. They can acclimate to almost
any recursion, environment, or situation. But their
primary mission is facing threats that arise in the
recursion of
Ardeyn.
To that end, the Swordbreaker Alpha Team spends
most of its time in the Land of the Curse, operating
out of a fortress called Swordbreaker Keep. (The
Swordbreaker Bravo Team is made up of recursors
who include the PCs, but only if the characters join
the organization.)
Symbol:
Exploding sword
Motto:
Bravery, Honor, and Sacrifice
SWORDBREAKER ALPHA TEAM
The four principals of the group, plus their
commanding officer, are detailed below. Each
member of the Alpha Team focuses on one or two
areas where they particularly excel, though they’re
all deadly with weapons, cunning, and, because
they work as a team, hard to kill.
“Really, you didn’t already know that?
How . . . interesting.”
—Federico Franceschi, Swordbreaker
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MANIFEST ZEAL (FOR THE GM)
ANDREW COTGREAVE “GREAVES”
Andrew Cotgreave, commonly called “Greaves”
by his teammates, is a former Navy SEAL. Andrew
is a brash man of few regrets and fewer friends.
Mostly, only other Swordbreakers have warm
feelings for him (and not all of them, and none
of them all the time). Despite his sometimes
harsh bearing, flaring temper, and fiery language,
Greaves is a man of honest feelings and the kind
of person you want in your corner. As your friend,
Greaves will never let you down. As your enemy,
he will never stop looking for you until you’ve paid
for whatever you did to piss him off in the first
place.
Like any sane resident of Ardeyn, Greaves is
concerned about Lotanic cultists, but he has a
special dislike for
dragons,
who once served as
the mounts for Lotan’s ancient army. Even though
most dragons in Ardeyn have no obvious remaining
connection with what burns in the
Heart Core,
Greaves retains a nigh-unstoppable hatred for the
creatures that seems unlikely to ever be tempered.
In Ardeyn, Greaves is particularly adept at hunting
and killing dragons, which puts some of the fear of
him
into dragons that dragons normally instill in
others.
wounds he received, most people would have
given up. But Condar vowed to live. He crawled
10 miles back to base in what can only be called a
superhuman effort. He’s a man of his word, and
not just to himself. If Condar promises something,
he won’t stop until he does what he swore he’d do.
Condar Freed’s indomitable will is what first
allowed him to fend off the fear that besets
most people who deal with ghosts, spirits, and
necromancy. Despite the real possibility that a
bodiless spirit could “sour” and become wrathful
or demonic, he recognizes that those who have
passed into the spirit realm should be protected,
respected, and, when possible, saved from a fate of
irredeemable evil.
In Ardeyn, Condar Freed gains the ability to
command spectral spirits.
Greaves Summary:
foul-mouthed, loud,
doesn’t (seem to) give
a rip
If Greaves were a PC, in
Ardeyn his focus would
usually be Slays Dragons,
unless he Embraces
Swordbreaker Zeal.
Slays Dragons, page 77
Dragon, page 267
Heart Core, page 186
Embraces Swordbreaker
Zeal, page 14
CONDAR FREED STATS
ON EARTH
Level:
5
Attacks with pistol as level 6, tasks
related to engine repair and
explosives as level 6
Health:
20
Long-range pistol attack for 4 points of damage
IN ARDEYN
Level:
5
Health:
20
Accompanied by level 3 spirit
accomplice that serves as an
asset to any one attack or defense task each
round
Shamshir (scimitar) attack for 4 points of
damage
Carries Swordbreaker Zeal fragment
Condar Summary:
quiet unless provoked,
intense, given to staring
impolitely
If Condar Freed were
a PC, in Ardeyn his
focus would usually be
Shepherds the Dead,
unless he Embraces
Swordbreaker Zeal.
ANDREW COTGREAVE STATS
ON EARTH
Level:
5
Tasks related to planning combat
tactics as level 6
Health:
25
Armor:
1
Long-range pistol attack that inflicts 6 points of
damage
IN ARDEYN
Level:
5
Health:
25
Armor:
2
Lance attack that deals 7 points of
damage (10 points to creatures more than
twice as large as him)
Carries Swordbreaker Zeal fragment
Shepherds the Dead,
page 76
FEDERICO FRANCESCHI
Federico Franceschi is a hacker/tech genius.
Seriously, he’s the smartest man you’ll probably
ever meet. His memory is supernatural, he grasps
difficult concepts with ease, and his wit is beyond
compare. In fact, some would say he’s so cutting
that he’s cruel. That goes double for people who
demonstrate a willful ignorance regarding any topic
important to Federico. Some say he deserved to
win a national “computer hacker” championship,
but his open contempt for the event organizers
got him disqualified from the final match. He plays
it off when the topic comes up, but the slight is
something that bothers him to this day.
More than just his wit is cutting—Federico is a
master with the blade. His great intelligence gave
Federico Summary:
cutting humor, knows
more than you
If Federico were a PC,
his focus in Ardeyn
would usually be Wields
Two Weapons at Once,
unless he Embraces
Swordbreaker Zeal.
CONDAR FREED
Condar Freed is a mechanic/demo specialist. Only
his closest friends know that he was born Brian
Hickey. But like so many other things, he resolved
to leave his old life behind. He became Condar
Freed in mind, body, and will. It’s his resolute
nature that saved him when he was injured by an
IED on a patrol across Syria. Given the terrible
Wields Two Weapons
at Once, page 82
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