Scum (Bent)

backstabbing vermin of the slums

HP 7, Morale 8, No armor, Poisoned knife d4 + special Special: Poisoned knife. Test Toughness dr10 or become infected.

There are few fiends more fell than poverty or monsters more powerful than hate. In this stricken world, the slums and black alleyways are fecund scum, mothering countless abhorred miscreants. The PC with the highest Presence makes a dr14 test at the start of battle. Failure means a random party member is automatically hit with a cowardly backstab — normal damage +3.

Loot: Captured 50–120s (wanted, serious crime) — Dead 20–70s

Compare the Gutterborn Scum class — they grew up like Bent did and may sympathize, recruit, or simply gut the rest of them faster.