Swords Nitpick

[TheMouse]

This is why one of the character ideas i had in order to play a knight of the cross without breaking cannon was having the Spear of Longinus reforged as a roman gladius with a red blade.

The word you're looking for is, "Canon." I'm only being a pedant because...

Some lunatic could totally have used the metal from the spear of Longinus to forge a cannon with which to fight the forces of darkness. Think they're frightened of glowing holy swords? Imagine how frightened they'd be of a glowing holy cannon used to fire blessed grapeshot made of iron, silver, salt, and other such baneful substances.

Knight of the Cannon? I like that because of the pun.

[luminos]

I've always felt that champions of Buddhism/Eastern Martial Artists should have a slightly different set of powers, based around a high Discipline score, rather than a high Conviction score.  Just a feeling about the flavor of that sort of archetype, and the portrayal of that tradition in fiction.  YMMV.

Give them powers based on a feeding dependency of chi/ki, that way their discipline determines how much of their powers they can safely use.

[exploding_brain]

What would they need to feed on to recover their chi/ki?

[luminos]

What would they need to feed on to recover their chi/ki?

"Feeding" would be meditation or something. 

[blues.soldier]

On a similarly related note... if you want to play a Knight of the Cross/Sword and keep the canon intact, it would be simple to have a blade forged with a piece of the True Cross in the handle. That, in my GMs brain, would be more than enough "oomph" to power a Sword of the Cross. In that manner, you could build a PC as a Knight of the Cross and not mess with the canon. After all, there are THIRTY Nickelheads. Makes sense that the Powers of Good would even the odds a little.