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💀Flygrants him flying speed for a short time, letting him pass over obstacles in his path.

💀Flight of the Damnedconjures flying spectral entities that pass-through obstacles and cause harm to all they hit.

💀Mage Handcreates a ghastly, phantasmic hand that completes tasks such as holding and blocking the use of Pallets.

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💀Dispelling Spherecreates a moving AOE sphere that reveals Survivors and disables their Magical Items.

Naturally, a new killer demands balance with a new survivor, and in this case there are two: The bards Aestri Yazr, an elf, and Baermar Uraz, a human. My first reaction was why a bard, but in hindsight it makes sense: Bards aren’t likely to start too many fights (at least not on purpose) and unlike, say, an angry dwarf with an axe, they’re typically not going to be too inclined to try their luck throwing hands with a lich. They are, however, consummate survivors, which is exactly the role they’re meant to play here.

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Dead by Daylight promo art: Two bards standing side by side, playing lutes

Roll a 20, however, and you’ll score a critical success that will get you either the Eye of Vecna, enabling you to vanish briefly after exiting a locker, or the Hand of Vecna, which can be used to teleport between lockers. But they demand a price: Each use costs a health state, so you’ll need to pick your shots very carefully.

Oh, and if you roll a 1? That’s a critical failure. You’ll see what happens when it happens.

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