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 This system is being playtested in the [[Barony of Valcaryn]] game.  This system is being playtested in the [[Barony of Valcaryn]] game. 
 +{{https://i.pinimg.com/736x/4d/22/5f/4d225f266f0be5541951900fe3e8e69b.jpg}} 
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 ===== Character Generation ===== ===== Character Generation =====
  
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 See [[Background Packages]]  See [[Background Packages]] 
 +
 +==== Select Asset Levels ====
 +
 +After deciding what assets your character has, from backgrounds or just adding them in, spend the points in each category from the distribution package you've selected buying levels in each Asset. 
 +
 +Here's a scale to show what each level of an asset means:
 +^Asset Level^Stat^Lifepath^Skill^Distinction^Gear^
 +|0|Disabled|No experience|None|Unhelpful|Common|
 +|1|Feeble|Familiarity|Familiarity|Noted|Servicable|
 +|2|Below Average|Apprentice|Novice|Recognized|Quality|
 +|3|Average|Journeyman|Intermediate|Established|Fine|
 +|4|Good|Veteran|Proficient|Prominent|Excellent|
 +|5|Exceptional|Seasoned|Advanced|Influential|Superior|
 +|6|Great|Master|Masterful|Significant|Masterwork|
 +|7|Formidable|Expert|Expert|Extreme|Refined|
 +|8|Remarkable|Adept|Renowned|Eminent|Potent|
 +|9|Amazing|Elite|Extraordinary|Iconic|Famed|
 +|10|Legendary|Legendary|Peerless|Apex|Fabled|
 +|11+|Super-human|Super-human|Super-human|Myth-marked|Mythic|
 +
 +Note that 10 is not a limit for player characters, they may take more than this level, if they can explain what special circumstances lead to the asset in question being super-human. 
 +
  
 ==== Starting VIM, FATE, and Medals ==== ==== Starting VIM, FATE, and Medals ====
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 === FATE === === FATE ===
  
-Players always start with 10 FATE points, which are used to manipulate character destinies. +Players always start with 5 FATE points, which are used to manipulate character destinies. (Considering this rule: FATE may be used wherever VIM is used if the character is lucky rather than putting effort into something, but this is an inefficient use of FATE.)
  
 === Medals === === Medals ===
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 Players and the GM begin each session with 2 Medals, which are given by the player or GM to other players to reward them for any reason. Upon receiving a Medal a player increases their FATE by one. Medals may not be accumulated from session to session, you start each session with 2 Medals, so "use them or lose them."  Players and the GM begin each session with 2 Medals, which are given by the player or GM to other players to reward them for any reason. Upon receiving a Medal a player increases their FATE by one. Medals may not be accumulated from session to session, you start each session with 2 Medals, so "use them or lose them." 
  
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 ===== Resolution ===== ===== Resolution =====
  
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 The basic process is as follows: The basic process is as follows:
   - GM asks if Medals are awarded   - GM asks if Medals are awarded
-  - Players involved may acceed+  - Players involved may avoid conflict by spending FATE equal to the level of any goals assets they wish to obtain. The conflict may still occur fictionally, but good fortune means that the characters are left unscathed and with their goals.  
 +  - Players involved may acceed (they may ask how dangerous the conflict is)
   - If at least one player has not acceeded, each that has not draws cards based on assets they can bring to bear, and how they're approaching the conflict and puts them in the resolution deck.   - If at least one player has not acceeded, each that has not draws cards based on assets they can bring to bear, and how they're approaching the conflict and puts them in the resolution deck.
   - The GM places dangers in each player's resolution deck based on how perilous the conflict is.     - The GM places dangers in each player's resolution deck based on how perilous the conflict is.  
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 ==== Acceeding ==== ==== Acceeding ====
-If the conflict is not some event that is directed at the character that they need to avoid, but just a possible goal, a player may decide to simply fail the conflict and thus avoid paying any VIM to engage in it. If there are dangers, the player may only acceed if they are willing to accept the results of ALL of the dangers that them GM is going to assign to the deck (simply draw all of the danger cards, and assign all of the repercussions that result). +A player may decide to simply fail to achieve any goals for the conflict (including avoiding damage) and thus avoid paying any VIM to engage in it. If there are dangers, the player may only acceed if they are willing to accept the results of ALL of the dangers that them GM is going to assign to the deck (simply draw all of the danger cards, and assign all of the repercussions that result). As the player gets no cards for their resolution deck, they may not convert any to cautions, though they still get whatever passive caution cards they would normally get. 
  
-If multiple players have their character participating in a conflict, then they can avoid taking consequences if they acceed if at least one player has their character address the conflict, in which case they take on all of the risk from the dangers present. +If multiple players have their character participating in a conflict, then those acceding may avoid consequences, if at least one player has their character address the conflict, in which case they take on all of the risk from the dangers present. In certain circumstances, one player may interpose themselves in the way of all of the consequences, and take them all by aceeding to the conflict's dangers (you don't have to run faster than the bear if somebody turns around and just stands in it's way).  
  
 ==== Deck Building ==== ==== Deck Building ====
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 === GM === === GM ===
-The GM adds cards from the “danger deck,” the number of which are based on how dangerous the situation is rated in his estimation. Once the GM has added the danger cards to each resolution deck, deck building is complete. +The GM adds cards to the resolution deck as follows. 
 + 
 +== Shuffle Card ==  
 +One shuffle card is added to every deck.  
 + 
 +== Dangers == 
 + 
 +The GM adds cards from the “danger deck,” the number of which are based on how dangerous the situation is rated in his estimation. Once the GM has added the danger cards to each resolution deck, deck building is complete. Any conditions that the character has that negatively impact the character's ability to perform in the conflict add one danger card to the deck per level of that condition.  
 + 
 +== Fatigue == 
 +Players whose characters have fatigue when a conflict starts will have additional dangers added to the resolution deck, one per fatigue.  
 + 
 +A player with no VIM may pay for things normally paid for with VIM by accumulating fatigue instead.  
 + 
 +If a player ends a round with more fatigue than the character's constitution score, the character is out of action, and the conflict ends for that character, with all remaining dangers being drawn and played at that point (benefits drawn are simply discarded).  
 + 
 +== Interrupt == 
 + 
 +If the conflict is the sort that takes enough time that something may interrupt the conflict, then the GM places this card in the deck. 
    
 ==== Pace ==== ==== Pace ====
  
 The pace of a conflict is decided by the GM, but is normally 3, unless the characters involved are all agreeing to go much more cautiously or recklessly than normal, and the situation would allow for this. This determines how many cards will be drawn from the resolution deck each round, though this may vary due to some cards drawn. The pace of a conflict is decided by the GM, but is normally 3, unless the characters involved are all agreeing to go much more cautiously or recklessly than normal, and the situation would allow for this. This determines how many cards will be drawn from the resolution deck each round, though this may vary due to some cards drawn.
- 
-If the resolution deck is depleted when drawing, put the discarded cards back into their respective decks, and then draw up a new resolution deck using the same method as the first deck was drawn up, and continue drawing from the new deck until a number of cards equal to the pace has been drawn for the round. When this happens, the player must play one VIM to have their character continue the conflict (exhaustion sets in).  
- 
-*Alternate rule to try: If not enough cards can be drawn, treat this as if an Interrupt card has been drawn. 
  
 ==== PvP ==== ==== PvP ====
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 ==== Card Types ==== ==== Card Types ====
  
-Below are the various cards that are in each of the decks.+Below are the various cards that are in each of the decks.  
 + 
 +=== The Shuffle Card === 
 + 
 +When this card is drawn, at the end of the round, that resolution deck is shuffled. 
  
 === Benefit Deck Card Types === === Benefit Deck Card Types ===
  
-When any benefit card type is drawn that is not an Advance, if the player chooses to use any of it's functions instead of turning it into an Advance (which costs one energy), the player gains one Fate.+The benefit deck includes the following card types. 
  
 == Boon Card == == Boon Card ==
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 == Position == == Position ==
  
-The character takes a stride that positions them more favorably towards a goal. Place the card in front of the player to represent this advanced position. Fictional descriptions of multiple position cards can be narrated as the position being advanced further, or an advance being made along an alternate axis. Alternatively, use this card to discard any other position card in play.+The character takes a stride that positions them more favorably towards a goal. Place the card in front of the one of the involved players to represent this advanced position for that player's character*. Fictional descriptions of multiple position cards can be narrated as the position being advanced further, or an advance being made along an alternate axis. Alternatively, use this card to discard any other position card in play. 
 + 
 +*You'll note that you can advance other player's character's positions, not just your own, which will often look like "help." 
  
 == Cement/Position == == Cement/Position ==
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 == Caution == == Caution ==
  
-Caution cards are not put into the deck, but are kept in the player's tableau. They can be played before each round as the player decides, and each one played may eliminate one danger card that comes up in that round. +Caution cards are not put into the resolution deck, but are kept in the player's tableau. They can be played before each round as the player decides, and each one played may eliminate one danger card that comes up in that round. Cards that are unused are discarded at the end of the draw. 
  
 === Danger Card Types === === Danger Card Types ===
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   * Something odd or unpredictable happens, which is a detriment. When relatively wild assets like magic or untested technology are being employed, the strangeness will usually be as a result of the asset behaving outside normal parameters.   * Something odd or unpredictable happens, which is a detriment. When relatively wild assets like magic or untested technology are being employed, the strangeness will usually be as a result of the asset behaving outside normal parameters.
   * The conflict is getting away from the character, and they are not able to quit it.    * The conflict is getting away from the character, and they are not able to quit it. 
 +  * The character becomes somehow helpless, and must address this situation before advancing any other positions. 
  
 == Danger == == Danger ==
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 == Interruption == == Interruption ==
  
-Something happens to cause the conflict to cease immediately, and it cannot resume until the interruption can be dealt with. +Something happens to cause the conflict to cease immediately, and it cannot resume until the interruption can be dealt with. Sone positions may be retained if the fiction allows, but others will dissolve based on the nature of the interruption. 
  
  
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-=== Orthogonal Goals ===+=== Mutually Exclusive Goals ===
  
-If the goals of each side are opposing and mutually exclusive (it's not possible for both to happen), then this is an orthogonal goal. This will be the case most of the time. In this case, the goals are achieved when one side can create a complication or cement an asset to represent the goal being met. If both sides manage to do this at the same time, then the smaller is subtracted from the larger goal, and the remainder of the larger shows the magnitude of the asset. +Most of the time the goals of each side are opposing and mutually exclusive (it's not possible for both to happen). In this case, the goals are achieved when one side can create a complication or cement an asset to represent the goal being met. If both sides manage to do this at the same time, then the smaller is subtracted from the larger goal, and the remainder of the larger shows the magnitude of the asset created. 
  
-=== Parallel Goals ===+=== Inclusive Goals ===
  
-If both sides are able to accomplish their goals, then it's possible both sides manage to accomplish their goals, and each gets them if they have accomplished them before the conflict ends. +If both sides are able to accomplish their goals, then each gets them if they have accomplished them before the conflict ends. Note that if players have their characters disengage with their goals complete, unless they have also done something to stop the opposition, the opposition will likely achieve their goal in short order. 
  
 ==== Failure ==== ==== Failure ====
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