Grudgesand Spite

Your pain is not a wound to heal but a weapon to keep sharp. You do not seek closure. You keep a list, and the list is the engine — every name on it is a debt owed to you, and the debt itself is what you spend.

Balance brought forward 11,000 Experience

Terms Requires the [Hatred] advancement drawback, below.

Drawback

Advancement Drawback

[Hatred]

Whenever you take a notable act of vengeance against those who wronged you, you gain an additional level-up requirement, [Hatred], which must be met before you next gain a level. It layers onto your mode's normal track exactly as [Atonement] and [Pride] do.

[Hatred] is earned by precise retribution — dismantling an oppressor's holdings, reputation, or people. Killing whoever is nearest does not qualify. The GM rules whether an act counts.

Owed

Posted from Settlement · Resolved

The List

Accounts Receivable

Grudges

You hold a Grudge against a creature that has wronged you. You may hold a number of active Grudges equal to 3 + your Intelligence modifier, increasing by +1 for every 5 character levels.

Naming a Grudge takes a moment of quiet and a creature you can name or describe unambiguously. You may name a Grudge against a creature you have never met if you know what it did. The first time you name a Grudge against a given creature, the GM tells you one true thing about it: its name, its current general location, or one thing it fears. Forgiving a Grudge and naming a new one against a creature you have already named grants nothing further. Once per day you may spend one minute in concentration on a single active Grudge; if its target is on your plane, you learn the direction to it — though not the distance — for one hour. An unwilling target may negate this with a Will save (DC 10 + half your character level + your Intelligence modifier).

A Grudge stays active until one of:

Resolved

you take the act of vengeance the Grudge exists for. The GM rules when a Grudge is satisfied; satisfying one is the usual way to earn [Hatred]. A resolved Grudge leaves a Scar: a permanent +1 profane bonus on saving throws against compulsion effects, to a maximum of +4, and a permanent +1 insight bonus on one skill or ability check of your choice, chosen when the Scar forms and thereafter applying against that creature's surviving allies, holdings, and works. You may hold a number of Scars equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum 1); at your cap, forming a new Scar means letting an old one close. Scars do nothing against the Command Phrase, which allows no save.

Paid in full

Forgiven

you deliberately dismiss it. This is free, takes a minute, and is permanent: you may never re-name a Grudge you have forgiven against the same creature for the same wrong.

Written off

Dormant

you ally with the creature. A dormant Grudge still counts toward your cap and fuels your pool, but while it sleeps its target is not a creature you hold an active Grudge against for Spite purposes, and it is not a valid subject for the once-per-day concentration. It wakes as a live Grudge the moment they wrong you again; while dormant you may not name a second Grudge against them.

Carried forward

Ended

the creature dies by a hand other than yours. For a death you engineered — a trap you laid, allies you directed at the target — the GM rules whether the Grudge is Resolved instead; if it is not, it is Ended.

Closed by another

The List

Feeds Folio 03 · Spite Folio 01 · [Hatred]

The Pool

Funds on Hand

Spite

Your active Grudges fuel a reservoir of vindictive energy called Spite.

Your Spite pool equals the number of active and dormant Grudges you hold. It refreshes to full at the start of every encounter, and once per hour outside one. Forgiving a Grudge removes its point immediately; a newly named Grudge adds its point at the next refresh.

Spend1 Spite · not an action

Spend 1 Spite (not an action) to gain a +1 profane bonus to a single skill check, ability check, attack roll, saving throw, or caster/manifester level check. Every point you spend on a roll against a creature you hold an active Grudge against counts as 2. You may spend several points on one roll to increase the bonus. The total profane bonus from Spite on a single roll may not exceed your character level. Declare before the roll. You may spend Spite on an ally's roll when that roll is made against a creature you hold an active Grudge against; otherwise Spite is spent only on your own rolls.

Burn1 Spite · free action

Burn 1 Spite (free action) to gain 1 positive level per point burned. These last a number of minutes equal to the total Spite burned. Each point burned imposes a cumulative −1 penalty to your maximum Spite pool. One burned point returns after each night's rest, and every burned point returns at once the moment you resolve a Grudge or gain a character level.

Positive levels are Pathfinder's mirror of negative levels: each grants +1 on attack rolls, saving throws, skill and ability checks, +5 temporary hit points, and +1 effective caster level. They do not grant hit dice, class features, or actual levels.

The Pool

Drawn against Folio 02 · Grudges Taking on the tooling

Prior Claim

Encumbrance on the Estate

Reprogramming

Your Maker. Choose with your GM who made you a tool and by what means — captors and their conditioning, a workshop that assembled you, a cult that raised you, a curse set on you in the cradle. Name it once; every clause below that says your Maker means that choice.

(Default: captors and their conditioning. You were made into a tool before you were a person, and the tooling is still in you.)

This package always includes Reprogramming.

Mental Residue. You take a −4 penalty on contested Charisma checks and on saving throws against compulsion effects.

Command Phrase. Your Maker put a specific phrase in you, set at character creation with the GM and known to at least one living creature. A creature that speaks your Command Phrase where you can hear it places you under an extraordinary dominate person effect. This allows no saving throw and persists until the commanded task is complete or you are freed by outside intervention.

The phrase is a fact about the world, not a spell — it is extraordinary, so it is not subject to spell resistance, does not radiate magic, and is not suppressed in an antimagic field. Countering it means removing the speaker, the knowledge, or your ability to hear it.

More Machine Than Man. While you are under dominate person or a similar control effect and the order you are following relates to crafting or killing, you gain:

Effect	Value
Str, Dex, Con, Int, Wis	+2 morale each
Charisma	reduced to 1
All saving throws	+1 morale
All movement speeds	+10 ft
Charisma-based skills	unusable, except Intimidate, which you make using your Strength modifier and which gains +4 circumstance

Bonuses typed per §1.8. Morale means they do not stack with a second morale source. Spite spends are profane and stack with these.

Taking on the tooling. As a swift action, spend 1 Spite to enter this state deliberately for 1 minute. Self-triggered, you gain every line of the table. For the duration you may take only actions that advance a craft you are working or the death of a creature you can see, and the state runs its full minute — except that once no creature you can see is hostile to you, you may end it as a full-round action.

Prior Claim

Payable in Folio 03 · Spite