Pirate

Shimali Manux trains every Salt Breaker to fight in the cramped quarters below deck, and you've learned how to use these techniques with your crew. During your daily preparations, you can name up to five crewmates you will be working with that day. If an enemy is within reach of you and at least two of your crewmates, that enemy is Off Guard against you.

You're particularly skilled at wielding the weapons used traditionally by pirates. You gain either the Combat Climber or Underwater Marauder skill feat, even if you do not meet its prerequisites. You have familiarity with the following weapons: Hatchet, Rapier, Scimitar, and Whip—for the purposes of proficiency, you treat any of these weapons as simple weapons. Your GM may add additional martial weapons to this list as appropriate for your world or region.

At 5th level, whenever you get a critical hit with one of these weapons, you get its critical specialization effect.

You run and climb across ropes and rigging almost as easily as on the ground. You gain a climb Speed of 15 feet, but only when climbing ropes and similar objects. Whenever you succeed at an Athletics check to Climb or an Acrobatics check to Balance, you get a critical success instead. You aren't Off Guard while Climbing or Balancing on a rope or similar object.

Repeated entries in Firebrand bragging and flyting contests have taught you how to twist pretty words into concealed insults. When you succeed at your check to Coerce a creature, the target's attitude toward you improves by one step, to a maximum of friendly, and they don't become unfriendly 1 day later.

Trigger An ally misses or critically misses an enemy you can see with their attack.

A common saying among Firebrands is, "There's always a fool who thinks they can do it better—and they're often right." You verbally commit to using an action on your next turn to make a melee Strike against the same enemy your ally has missed. If your attack hits, you deal additional damage equal to twice the number of damage dice.

You frighten a foe into moving where you want them, traditionally demanding they walk the plank.

Attempt to Demoralize an opponent. On a success, in addition to the normal effects, you can also force the target to Stride up to its Speed immediately. You choose the path the target takes, but you can't force it to move into an obviously harmful space (such as into hazardous terrain or a space where it would fall) unless your check was a critical success. As normal for forced movement, this movement doesn't trigger reactions.

The target then becomes temporarily immune to Walk the Plank for 10 minutes.

Requirements A rope is within your reach, or you have a rope or grappling weapon in your hand.

The Salt Breakers learned to use whatever they could during the Vidric Revolution, and they quickly mastered the art of making a rope into a useful tool in combat. You take hold of a nearby rope, throw a rope from your hand, or fire a grappling weapon at a solid surface—and then swing up to twice your Speed. If you end your movement next to an enemy, attempt an Athletics check to Grapple that enemy, tying them up in your rope.