Project Nemesis is a fan driven website for games that use the One-Roll Engine (like Nemesis, Wild Talents, Reign and Monsters) or Chaosium's Basic Roleplay System (BRP) (like Call of Cthulhu) and the Delta Green setting.
Also known as the Dancing Demon Head Discipline, Iron Face was
developed by strange tribes living in the Grave of Fools. The Truils
call them White Faces (wear skull make up from the white clay) and the
Ulds call them Skull Dancers. These people revere iron and steel,
engineering and metallurgy as the masculine equivalent of childbirth.
Blacksmiths are their priests. As such, every member of the tribe may
receive metal weapons and equipment based on their birth rank, gender
and rite of adulthood. But shields are seen as sacred tools as
necessary to survival in the Cold Barrens, so each and every child
receives a shield when they turn thirteen.
The Common Sword and Dagger Style -- or Common Style -- is a style
formulated for merchants, finding themselves more and more upwardly
mobile, after they figured they better learn the noble sport of
sword-craft. It was not difficult finding mercenaries to teach them to
hold swords like a thoroughbred officer.
This fencing martial path uses a single
one-handed sword used one handed. It is about quick foot work combined
with accurate slashes and quick thrusts. It seems to be a favourite
with jovial pirates, gentlemanly thieves and slumming aristos - as if
anyone could tell the difference.
The crossbow is the height of the Uld’s mechanised technology. It’s
power is fantastic but slow. But the Ulds are nothing except cunning
and the nation’s crossbowers are greatly feared by their neighbours’
soldiers.
The warrior-priests from the Monks of the Sky revere the sky full of
weather and storms. They see the sun, moon and stars, the rain and
clouds and lightning as sacred features and events. Because of this
devotion their holy symbol is a lightning bolt and their weapon is the
spear.
Melhanese Staff Fighting can only be performed with a long walking
staff, properly weighted. It is a very athletic discipline and benefits
greatly from high levels of dodge, parry, and weapon:staff in order to
get all of the synergistic effects as well as the basic benefits of the
talents. The intention of this path is to provide a very active,
cinematic fight scene with plenty of multiple actions driving the
narration. It was inspired by a Livejournal discussion regarding Star
Wars combat stunts using Reign.
The monks of the Resplendent Willow monastery practice a strange form
of pacifistic self-defense which they claim helps center the mind and
body. The monks say that excessive effort in one's actions degrades the
self, and that one should strive to achieve a state of "effortless
effort" in all things. Though the philosophy escapes many, the efficacy
of the techniques is undeniable. Their regimen combines intense studies
of body language and spatial awareness, meditative exercises, and the
occasional surprise beating to train students to avoid blows by the
barest of degrees. Practitioners learn to avoid strikes without the
frantic capering of the Insouciant Monkey school, but instead through
measured and well-timed avoidance, never moving more than they have to.
The jungles of Helluso and Milonda are home to several species of big
cats, which are viewed, depending on the person doing the viewing, as
symbols of fortune both good and bad. Regardless of personal views,
however, these creatures are universally respected as consummate
stalkers and hunters.