Companions were a single line on the Ranger's edge; now they are a real
subsystem, rollable or pickable, with art, tokens and a place on the sheet.
- New compendium "companions" (VANITY · Animal Companions): 10 beasts as full
NPC actors with painted core artwork, droppable as tokens — wolf, hawk, owl,
raven, hound, lynx, serpent, stag, great bat, ram. Each keeps the printed
baseline (Grit 3, attacks at 3 dice) and differs in dodge (2-4d), senses and
one distinctive trick, plus which companion action it favours.
- New d10 roll table, "The Bond — Animal Companions".
- Ranger sheet: the companion block is now a card — art, name, kind, attack,
dodge, Grit (with a DOWNED flag), its trick, and one-click Help / Harry /
Guard (each posting what it does to chat) plus Attack and Dodge rolls.
"Roll the Bond" rolls the d10 and binds the beast straight onto the sheet.
- template.json: companion gains kind, img, dodge, trick.
- Rules updated in both places: §9a in the Draft 13 source (so the in-world
journal carries it) and a new Bond section in the player rulebook, which is
regenerated to HTML + PDF (39pp).
- Version -> 0.9.6; README/FOUNDRY/system description updated (13 compendia).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The complete VANITY system: d6 Stumble engine, the two Bane tables (d66
Twist the Knife + 2d6 Reckoning) with red dice, character/NPC sheets,
17 conditions as token markers, illustrated spell cast cards, the Forge
tools (hero/monster/NPC/hoard/encounter/stage/carouse/commission/Vain
Crown), and 11 compendia. Manifest install ready.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
tevansandClaude Opus 4.8