They always gain Magic Resistance from the Saber class, and were a hero famed for their prowess with a melee weapon. I'll try and keep things as close to normal as possible, but that's going to be difficult in places. 144, with bits from the Servant perk on p. These are ranked from D to EX (and pluses beyond that), with corresponding levels of power.īreakdown Of The Classes (p. Most Servants come with Noble Phantasms, the weapon, weapons, or notable accoutrements they used in life. In fact, having multiple Servants, or Servants and Masters in the same party strikes me as a bad idea, simply because I'm not a fan of PVP, which would be an unavoidable part of a Holy Grail War campaign. This power imbalance does not strike me as a fun time around a basement table. If a Master enters the fray and begins doing shit, they are either killed horribly (Emiya, Rin), in danger of being killed horribly (Rin), injured horribly (Emiya if you choose better), or complete and total hax (Emiya on rare occasions, Caster's Master). This is mostly because in-canon, Masters spend most of their time watching their Servants fight.
Now the thing is, I haven't done any math on the example characters (And in fact the book makes this hard by not providing point totals), but I'm pretty sure the mortal Masters are built at a lower power scale. Player servants will probably be built at the Epic Hero power level, as defined in Chapter Two. For instance, the Einzberns summoned Hercules using a piece from the foundations of one of his temples. This may apply only to NPC Servants and Masters, because the other option is making half the players wait until the other half has mostly made their magi before they can start building.Īctually summoning a Servant requires some artifact relating to their life or heroism, or a similar mindset to the hero itself. The process of creating a Servant involves a summoning ritual, which must be completed before you know how many points you can spend on a Servant. Short answer: It depends on how good a magus the Master is.
So How Many Points Do I Get To Make My Servant? (p. Previously I would just go straight through and handle things as they came, but this section will be improved by my skipping around.
The sections on Servants are scattered around the book, with the actual points available at the very end of the last section on page 169. I'll be covering only Stay Night and Zero here. There is also Fate/hollow ataraxia a sequel involving a time loop and Avenger, Fate/Tiger Colosseum and Fate/unlimited codes a pair of fighting games, Fate/EXTRA a Persona-like RPG, and Fate/Apocrypha, which was a cancelled multiplayer game with a lot of interesting servants. There have been two separate stories involving the Holy Grail War: Fate/Stay Night, and a prequel, Fate/Zero. Villainous spirits are also summonable, but this is due to shenanigans. All that matters is that their exploits elevated them to the status of hero in the people's minds. Servants may be drawn from any mythology and any time. They also operate a bit like Final Fantasy summons, consuming their Master's magical energy in order to battle, use their strongest attacks, and even exist. Servants, as mentioned before, are the spirits of legendary heroes summoned into a class-based RPG structure and intended to battle like Pokemon. So, let's move to Servants.īefore we go much further, it should be noted that 'Servant', 'Master', and the names of each Servant's class are gratuitous English in the games, much like how an English-speaking translator will use nakama, baka, keikaku, various honorifics, or Naminé-sempai is so gaijin she komo dachi tomo teriyaki sukimura sakura the Rearu Fork Brues.
Rest assured, the plot synopses are great untapped veins of purestrain with inclusions of. In the interest of protecting anyone who may not have, and desires to later, play Tsukihime and/or Fate/Stay Night (They are legitimately entertaining visual novels, even if the sex scenes have induced a Pavlovian reaction of laughing uncontrollably in me), I'll skip the plot synopses and only touch lightly on the character stats. The book apparently assumes a reader is familiar with Unisystem, which I'm not.įate Part 5: More Servant Shenanigans Than A Game of Maid
So, the last bit on Fate was a bit truncated because the cognitive dissonance of being told what to roll without having first been told how to roll it got to me. So while the mechanic itself may not be entirely Japanese in origin, it is at least co-opted for being in proximity to other Japanese things, and thus awesome by the Law of Contagion.ĭ66 also shows up like, once in Fate, too. I think the guy doing Magical Burst was one of the translators for Maid. Magical Burst, having come later than Maid, took the d66 mechanic from Maid, by all accounts (Read: One guy said it here, I accepted it as the most likely option).