Enrico Onorati

You cannot be surprised or ambushed in combat. You always get an action on any round you are being attacked and suffer no penalty for being caught off guard. Additionally, if you have a weapon available, you need not spend an action or suffer a penalty to ready it.

If you are not surprised or being ambushed, you have a free action you may take on the first round of combat before anyone else. This is in addition to your normal action that round, which takes place as usual.

The Ginaz School is not merely a weapons training course, instead training its candidates in all aspects of combat. Hand-to-hand combat is but the foundation, expanding to military philosophy, logistics, small- to large-unit tactics, munitions deployment, piloting, and even military engineering. At the onset of any skirmish or warfare conflict, the Swordmaster may observe the situation, the intended foes, and the field where the conflict will occur. As an action, they may attempt an Average (D1) Battle test, prior to and apart from any test related to the actual conflict itself. Any Momentum gained with this test becomes a separate pool that may be spent freely during that conflict, but only by the Swordmaster

When making an attack while using any sword in combat, you may substitute any one d20 in your dice pool for a result of 1, without rolling, as if spending a point of Determination. This may also be used in addition to any Determination spent, or any re-rolls for another Talent, if desired.