Nef Posted December 21, 2017 Report Share Posted December 21, 2017 Happy New Year Wyrdos! There is no better way to celebrate a new year than with a new preview! Today we take a look at the Guild Lawyer. The Guild Lawyer is an advanced pursuit in the upcoming Guild supplement, Above the Law. As one might expect, Guild Lawyers are, well... lawyers who are employed by the Guild. Mixed in with the standard legal questions of Malifaux's bar exam are a number of moral and ethical questions that don't have any sort of actual legal answer. Instead, they serve to highlight prospective lawyers whose mindset is sufficiently cruel enough to serve the Guild's purposes. Such characters are brought to the office of Lucius Mattheson and offered a contract guaranteeing them employment in exchange for their souls. Nobody who has refused to sign the contract has ever made it out of Mattheson's office alive. Once a lawyer has joined the ranks of the Guild, they gradually begin to realize that their contract with Mattheson has given them some degree of control over the laws of reality. For instance, they can use their Objection! talent to force a character to redo an action they just performed or force characters they are speaking with to tell the truth, no matter their personal inclinations. Skilled lawyers can even make powerful Closing Arguments, which have a chance of Paralyzing and debuffing every enemy in a wide area around the Lawyer... at the cost of making her Slow for the rest of the scene. By far the most interesting and powerful talent available to Guild Lawyers is Sign Your Life Away. It allows the Lawyer to draft up a contract that forces anyone who signs it (whether they do so voluntarily or not) to fulfill the terms of the contract, no matter what they might be. With a simple signature, someone might be forced to turn over their entire fortune to the lawyer, assassinate a troublesome pest, commit suicide, or even to fall in love with a specific person. Destroying the contract nullifies the agreement, so most Guild Lawyers are very particular about just where they store their paperwork. Always read the fine print! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnomezilla Posted January 2, 2018 Report Share Posted January 2, 2018 Weird. When did this get unveiled? If it’s a New Year’s preview... *looks at background color shift from Gnomezilla’s 2017 faction to 2018 faction* *worries...* ...is that changing color for anyone else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da Git Posted January 2, 2018 Report Share Posted January 2, 2018 Love the Lawyers! Such upstanding members of "truth" and "justice"! But why is the background yellow? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goodtest Posted January 2, 2018 Report Share Posted January 2, 2018 Wow! Above the Law enlarges the playstyle so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrflamme Posted January 2, 2018 Report Share Posted January 2, 2018 12 hours ago, Gnomezilla said: Weird. When did this get unveiled? If it’s a New Year’s preview... *looks at background color shift from Gnomezilla’s 2017 faction to 2018 faction* *worries...* ...is that changing color for anyone else? The Outcast infection is taking hold! Quickly, set your second Emissary on the pyre as a sacrifice! ...just do it outdoors and with proper respiratory protection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnomezilla Posted January 2, 2018 Report Share Posted January 2, 2018 5 minutes ago, Pyrflamme said: The Outcast infection is taking hold! Quickly, set your second Emissary on the pyre as a sacrifice! ...just do it outdoors and with proper respiratory protection. I’m sure the local Sonnia will happily volunteer to set my emissary on fire...again. Can the lawyers use Objection! on friendlies too, to force reflips on flips they failed the first time, or is it strictly a debuff? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mason Posted January 2, 2018 Report Share Posted January 2, 2018 1 hour ago, Gnomezilla said: Can the lawyers use Objection! on friendlies too, to force reflips on flips they failed the first time, or is it strictly a debuff? You can totes use it on friendies. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnternalVoid Posted January 3, 2018 Report Share Posted January 3, 2018 Man, this made me think of a player I have not gamed with in some time as he would go into that office and try to play hardball with Lucius over the contract. Likely to have his character never seen again but he would have thought he could get away with it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Masquer Posted February 3, 2018 Report Share Posted February 3, 2018 Mimic characteristic included? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mason Posted February 5, 2018 Report Share Posted February 5, 2018 On 2/3/2018 at 11:10 AM, Masquer said: Mimic characteristic included? Nope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnomezilla Posted February 5, 2018 Report Share Posted February 5, 2018 3 hours ago, Mason said: Nope. You get that by successfully binding yourself with a legal contract to acquire the status, duties, responsibilities, and perquisities associated with the classification of mimic [see footnote].* *this probably has nothing whatsoever to do with canon or game mechanics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoneM Posted February 7, 2018 Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 The mask should definitely be on the stick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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