Mechanics and Rules

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• All dice are d10s
• All dice are rolled as a pool
• Pools: add Attribute + Skill dots as number of dice to roll
• Target Number: the number on the die you have to equal or exceed for it to be a success
  • Default Target Number is 8 (this can become lower for higher Tier characters)
• Difficulty: the number of successes you need to overcome a challenge
• Threshold Successes: extra successes above the Difficulty value
  • Enhancements add to successes if you at least equal the Difficulty
  • Spend Threshold Successes to overcome Complications
  • Spend Threshold Successes on Stunts
• Failure: If your successes total less than or equal to the Difficulty of a roll
  • Upon Failure, you will receive a Consolation
• Botch: A special Failure. No successes, and at least one 1 on the die
  • The only Consolation you can get from a Botch is Momentum.
  • You receive 3 Momentum on a Botch.
• 10-Again: keep rerolling 10s for added successes until you stop getting 10s
• All challenges require at least 1 success
  • Not all challenges require rolls though

• Contested Rolls: Roll against opponent, ties go to defender
• Complications: an unforeseen consequence to overcoming a challenge. buy them off with extra successes.
• Enhancements: extra successes added to a rolled result from equipment or circumstances
  • If a player rolls at least one success, they receive bonus successes equal to any applicable Enhancement
  • Enhancements should not go above 3 total without good reason
  • Enhancements above 3 should absolutely come with Drawbacks
• Drawbacks: using an Enhancement sometimes comes with a drawback.
  • Getting drunk might ingratiate you to partygoers, but your fine motor control has gone to garbage
• Mixed Actions: calculate die pool for each action and roll smallest pool. Successes are applied to meet Difficulty and Complications of all involved challenges.
  • You can fail at one and succeed at another
  • You can apply Enhancements to Mixed Action rolls
• Teamwork: Assisting character rolls their die pool. Successes become Enhancement bonus to main roller.
• Scale: situational and dramatic events that call for bonus successes. Size, Force, Speed, Leadership, etc can contribute to scale bonus successes.
• Momentum: A resource players can spend (a single pool, shared by all players) to affect the game
  • Capacity: twice the number of players
  • Uses:
    • Activate Knacks
    • Add dice (per Momentum point spent) to a pool for an important roll
    • Add Interval (additional attempts) at a Complex Action

• Time
  • Turn: A few seconds to a minute
  • Round: The length of time it takes for all participants to have a turn
  • Scene: As in a movie scene or a book scene; one single, coherent, related sequence of events
  • Act (Session): A game session
  • Episode: A small story that gives the characters a breather when it finishes
  • Arc: A full storyline from beginning to end
  • Season: A complete and conclusive story driven by some great threat or goal that is resolved with a climax
  • Series: A entire continuity of a game's story. A campaign.
• Distance
  • Range Bands
    • Close: Melee
    • Short: Reach
    • Medium: Handguns, Thrown
    • Long: Rifles, Bows
    • Extreme: Precision Equipment or Magic
    • Out of Range: The Horizon, +2 Difficulty

• Legendary Title: A descriptive title which defines the circumstance in which a Scion may invoke a Feat of Scale, “Queen of the Assassins”
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  • Each Calling has a list of associated keywords that can be used to build a character's Legendary Title
  • When invoking the title, the player may spend one Legend to increase Scale by one for that action as a Feat of Scale
  • When attempting an action covered by a Calling keyword that is not in your Legendary Title, spend one Legend and two Momentum to increase Scale by one for that action.

• Receive a Consolation when you fail a challenge (roll). Here are the types:
  • Fateful Encounter: Failure reveals another approach
  • Chance Meeting: Failure introduces a new character that can help (for a price)
  • Unlooked-for Advantage: Failure results in a level 1 Enhancement to a future (different) challenge
  • Momentum: Receive 1 for a failed roll, +1 if the roll used a Specialty, +2 if the roll was a *Botch*

• Stunts: can be purchased with Threshold Successes after all Complications bought off.
  • Link back to the success of the character's action
  • Affect a different Skill or Attribute combo than just used
  • Should be narrated out by player as to how they alter the scene
  • Three types of Basic Stunts: complication stunt, enhancement stunt, difficulty stunt
    • Complication Stunt: create a complication for adversaries
    • Enhancement Stunt: Provide an Enhancement you can use for another related action
    • Difficulty Stunt: increases Difficulty for adversaries in a related response action
  • One Type of Special Stunt: If you've used a Path to enhance a roll and have Threshold Successes left over
    • Twist of Fate: tell the ST to change the story - The peon's gun runs out of bullets, police suddenly arrive, etc

• Complex Actions: resolving a challenge that involves lots of separate tasks
  • Intervals: Linked challenges that make up a Complex Action
  • Milestone: Gain one when you meet the Difficulty of an Interval
  • Once a minimum number of Milestones are met, your Complex Action is complete/a success
  • Milestones can be awarded w/o rolls if appropriate
  • If under no time pressure, you can fail as many Intervals as you like while slowly accruing Milestones
  • Teamwork can be used for Complex Actions
    • Can collaborate on Intervals, or
    • Can have different characters perform different Intervals simultaneously (if it makes sense)
  • Can have opposed Complex Actions
    • Whoever gets to the Target Number of Milestones first wins, or
    • Whoever has the most Milestones by the Interval limit wins