Bear Discipline

Brutes, toughs, heavies, thugs: Adepts of the Bear would laugh at their opponents' puny attacks if they weren't so busy destroying them. The Discipline of the Bear offers training in Charging, Strength, Toughness, and Sundering. Adepts of the Bear may choose prowess in Might, Toughness, and Resistance.

Rank 1

Improved Charge	Making a successful charge grants a +1 dice bonus.
Mighty Lift	Lift, move, push, pull, and throw heavy loads 2x normal capacity at no penalty.
Tough Hide	Prevent 1 non-lethal damage per attack for Rank rounds. This ability may be activated once per encounter as a reaction to a source of non-lethal damage. 1 Mana.
Sunder Objects	Deal double damage to inanimate objects.

Rank 2

Resolute Charge	Passive: Gain +2 Speed when making a charge attack. Active: Ignore speed penalties from moving through threatened areas during a charge. This effect may be applied to Charge Maneuvers by paying its cost in addition to any costs for the Maneuver. 1 Mana.
Break Bonds	Automatically free yourself from any mundane bonds, chains, locks, or ropes. Gain a Rank bonus at breaking free from magical bonds such as Entangle or Web. 1 Mana.
Improved Vigor	Passive: Gain +1 Vigor
Sunder Armor	Passive: A critical success on a melee attack permanently reduces the target’s armor bonus by 1 point until repaired.

Rank 3

Reactive Charge	Active: If you get charged, as a reaction you may immediately charge the assailant with a basic melee attack. Your attack is resolved first. This attack does not count against your normal action limits for the round. Only once such attack may be made per round. 2 Mana
Surge of Strength	Grants one Strength-based action 9-again. 2 Mana.
Ward	The bear adept is surrounded with a protective aura.
Sundering Strike	Direct an attack at an opponent's weapon or shield. If successful the item is destroyed and additional damage is dealt to the target. If the character also possesses Sunder Armor reduce the required successes for Sunder Armor on this attack by 1. This reduction increases to 2 at Rank 5.

Rank 4

Scattering Charge	Passive: When you charge at a target past adjacent hostile targets make a Strength + Athletics OR Unarmed Combat + Bear opposing their Strength + Athletics OR Dexterity + Acrobatics. If they fail they are knocked prone requiring a Move action to regain their feet. Active: You may pass through hostile targets spaces granting a +2 to your roll to knock them prone. Any successes on your opposed roll are dealt as non-lethal damage. 3 Mana.
Roaring Strike	With a violent roar the adept swings their weapon with such ferocity it sends a rippling shockwave through the air to strike one or many targets.
Living Monolith	The adept's muscles harden becoming a wall of ironlike armor, and they become immune to knockback or knockdown.
Sunder Power	XXXX

Rank 5

Thundering Charge	Active: Instead of choosing a single target to charge you may pick a point within a double movement. You charge straight to the chosen point. Your weapon roll for the charge attack applies to any targets who are in reach during your charge to a maximum of Rank targets. Additionally environmental features (doors, chairs, tables, trees) in a direct line take weapon rolls which do not count against the maximum targets. This attack may not be combined with other Maneuvers such as those granted by Fighting Styles. 4 Mana.
Strength Power	XXXX
Elemental Resistance	The adept builds a natural resistance to the elements which can be enhanced for a time.
Explosive Sundering	The adept's sundering attempts send deadly shrapnel into their foes.