Initiative

Bad guys in the middle initiative system. This means that players will make a Dex Test. As a reminder this is rolling a d20 and trying to get lower than your own dex attribute.

If you succeed you go before the NPCs. If you fail then you are going to go after the NPCs.

This is repeated after every moment or turn in combat. So initiative order will vary constantly as the combat goes on.

Turns / Rounds

There is a nice distinction of Moments vs Minutes. Moments are the turns you take in combat. Minutes are out of combat time to perform tasks.

Action Economy

You will get 1 Action and 1 Move. Your movement will shift you 1 degree on the distance track. Distance being: Close, Nearby, Faraway, and Distant

Can replace Action with another Move

Actions will most likely just be attacks, but technically they could be any sort of rp you would like to perform. You would just be making attribute tests in order to do them.

Attack Mechanic

Players will make a Strength attribute test to try and attack with melee weapons, and try to make a Dexterity attribute test to try and attack with a ranged weapon.

Damage that is done is determined by the class. If they happen to have a large weapon they are able to do an extra d4 to attack and damage.

Critical hits do double damage to the enemy

Defensive Mechanic

Players will be rolling to not be hurt by attacks. The GM is not going to roll any dice. If the player is being attacked by a melee attack they perform a Strength test. If its a ranged attack they roll a Dexterity test.

Armor System - Different armor has different Armor Values (AV). If you have Leather armor you have 2 AV for instance. This means, any time during an encounter you can use 1 of these dice to reduce all damage from an attack you don’t defend against. Each die is considered broken until you are able to repair it. This is done by rolling that d6 and trying to get higher than the AV number. This shows that Plate has more ability to absorb hits but is harder to repair (makes sense).

Shields and Helms get +1 AV dice each. You can have as high as 6 AV dice, but do these things have drawbacks? Only that if you are not proficient in it you add to the roll of attribute tests.

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Modifications to Resolution

Utilization of the Advantage, and Disadvantage mechanic. You will roll an extra die and either take the higher or the lower of the two.

Correction. The Rules state that if you role Advantage the player chooses whichever result they want on two dice. Disadvantage is then going to be the GM choosing which result on two dice.

This distinction is important. It means the GM might lean towards the side of drama. They might choose for you to succeed. This focuses more on the narrative nature of the game technically then just the dice doing what they want.

This could be with any dice. Usage Die, Random Encounter Die, etc

Conditions

Conditions are referred to as hindrances in this game. There are only 4: Weakened, Distracted, Stuck, Paralyzed.

• Weakened - disadvantage to all skill checks
• Distracted - can’t perform actions but can move
• Stuck - can’t move but can perform actions
• Paralyzed - can’t do move or actions

Environment

Movement is abstracted. You can utilize grids, but for the most part they just utilize Close, Nearby, Faraway, and Distant

You can convert these to actual grid distances: 5ft, 30ft, 60ft, more than 60ft.

Time or Scenes

This is cleaning broken down into the concepts of moments and minutes

• Moments are used during combat and represent split seconds - when everyone is attempting to act at once, often against one another.
• Minutes are used when exploring and adventuring. They represent a dozen or so real minutes - when time is not of the essence

Rest Mechanic

If you rest for an hour you can roll your broken armor die, and you can roll 1 hit die.

If you can rest a full day without doing strength or dexterity checks then you can roll all your hit dice and get all those hit points back.

Interesting to consider a full day of rest being 12 hours without making a Strength or Dexterity attribute test

Resource

The Usage Die or the (Ud) is a cool concept for consumables. Anytime you have to use something you roll its Ud, and on a 1 or a 2 you step the dice down. So you have arrows Ud8. If you rolled it after use and got a 1 or 2 it would become a Ud6. If you roll a 1 or 2 with a Ud4 then you would be out of that item. Rolling for ammunition is done after combat.

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Health & Dying

Every character will have Hit Dice and Hit Points. They roll their Hit Dice to determine their Hit Points and will roll new Hit Dice when they level up.

On-going Damage - interesting that the amount of ongoing damage is same as the creatures Level. Not the casters? But the person who is taking damage?

If you are knocked out in combat you have to first hope that your side wins. If they win you roll a d6 on a chart to see what happens. A 6 means death, the other results all add other potential negative modifiers but you do gain hit points back (1d4).

Monsters - all use d8s for their HDs

Characters are able to memorize a number of spells equal to their level, and the spell level can only be up to their current level also.
Casting a spell just happens. But after you cast the spell you need to make an attribute test and add the spell’s level to the roll. If you fail you are going to lose that spell from your memory. If you are casting that spell more than once then subsequent rolls are made with disadvantage. So much cleaner than spell slots

You can also cast spells directly from books or scrolls, but these have a chance to misfire, and are harder to cast. Arcane is intelligence and prayers are Wisdom