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====== Mechanics and Rules ======

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===== The Dice Basics =====
  * 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

===== Extra Dice Basics =====
  * **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**

===== Mundane Systems =====

  * **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

===== Supernatural Systems =====

  * **Legendary Title**: A descriptive title which defines the circumstance in which a Scion may invoke a **Feat of Scale**, "Queen of the Assassins"
    * H p192
    * 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.
===== Consolations =====

  * 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 =====
  * **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 =====
  * **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

^ Milestones ^ Investigation  ^ Race  ^
|  2   | An awkward case  | A short-distance course  |
|  3   | A carefully hidden secret weakness  | A three-lap chariot race  |
|  4   | A treasure hunt with four keys  | A rough and varied derby  |
|  5+  | A multilayered conspiracy  | An incredible marathon  |



===== Difficulty ===== 

^ Difficulty Table ^^ Example - Pursuit  ^
|  1  | Minor | You escape a pursuer  |
|  2  | Notable | You evaded a coordinated pursuit from trained cops  |
|  3  | Significant | You outran a police car on foot  |
|  4  | Major | You got away from a charge of the Wyld Hunt  |
|  5  | Extreme | You slipped from the clutches of a vengeful Fury  |

===== Complication =====
^ Complication Table ^^ Example - Negotiation  ^
|  1  | Minor | You upset him  |
|  2  | Notable | He's worked out what you're really after  |
|  3  | Significant | You owe him one  |
|  4  | Major | An invisible spy overheard the discucssion  |
|  5  | Extreme | His seriously pissed at you; watch out  |


===== Enhancement ===== 

^ Enhancement Table ^^ Example - Melee Attack  ^
|  1  | Minor | A finely balanced rapier  |
|  2  | Notable | An enchanted macuahuitl  |
|  3  | Significant | A genuine Masamune blade  |
|  4  | Major | A dagger made from the head of a Gungir  |
|  5  | Extreme | Excalibur  |


===== Drawbacks ===== 

^ Drawbacks Table  ^
| Add a **Complication**  |
| Increase the **Difficulty** of another action  |
| Antagonists get a free **Enhancement** bonus against you  |


===== Degree of Success ===== 

^ Degree of Success ^^ Example - Generic  ^
|  0   | Normal | You succeeded; no more, no less  |
|  1   | Competent | You showed particular expertise or luck  |
|  2   | Excellence | You performed admirably; the Gods are smiling  |
|  3   | Amazing | Your feats leave others in awe  |
|  4+  | Divine | You'll be talked about for decades at least  |