Otaku Battle Maiden School: Otaku Battle Maidens

Reprinted w/out permission from Way of the Unicorn

Benefit: +1 Reflexes

Beginning Honor: 2 + 5 boxes

Outfit

  

None given

Use L5R RPG Unicorn bushi

Skills

Battle, Defense, Horse Archery, Horsemanship 2, Kenjutsu, any High or Bugei skill

Note

All Otaku females join this school. Females of other Unicorn families must take the Different School advantage to join (with special cost of 3 points), while females from other clans are not allowed. This is because all females in this school must have a direct blood tie to the original Otaku (and given a thousand years to intermarry, most Unicorn females can demonstrate at least some distant relation to the founder). No males are permitted to join this school; many Otaku males end up at the Shinjo bushi school.

Techniques

Rank 1

  

Her fiery ancestral blood yearning to be free, the Battle Maiden is one with Otaku when riding, preferably fast. Whenever the Battle Maiden makes a skill roll while mounted, she may keep an extra die.

Rank 2

  

The Battle Maiden has learned to strike first, and strike hard. After everyone rolls for initiative, the Battle Maiden may switch the values of her initiative roll and her TN to be hit for the rest of the combat round.

Rank 3

  

The Battle Maiden has learned to avoid damage by rolling with the impact. Subtract her School Rank from the total damage done by each strike that lands successfully.

Rank 4

  

The Battle Maiden has learned the secret of the continuous strike. This has two advantages. First, when making a lancing attack, she may angle her pole-arm to make two attacks in a single round.
Secondly, if a Battle Maiden happens to kill an opponent with any attack (even is she is not mounted), she may attack another foe at the end of the round. Each attack the Battle Maiden makes in a given round can have a second attack associated with it, but if she kills her enemy with the second attack, she does not get a third.

Rank 5

  

The Otaku believe their ancestor looks upon them as they charge into battle, bestowing her blessings on her most favored. During any combat, the Battle Maiden may re-roll dice that roll less than her appropriate Trait. This may only be done once per Round.