Roll d100 equal to or under the relevant Skill or Characteristic. Success Levels compare the tens digits of target and roll, with circumstances modifying the result. Opposed Tests compare the sides' Success Levels.
Best For
Groups who want a career-driven grim fantasy campaign where social pressure, investigation, travel, and consequential combat make precarious adventurers feel rooted in the Old World.
Highlights
Success Levels make ordinary and opposed Tests express degree of outcome as well as success or failure. Careers connect a character's status, equipment, and advancement to their work and history. Between-adventure procedures give downtime lasting consequences for a character's finances, opportunities, and advancement.
Considerations
Combat links hit locations, critical wounds, Conditions, armour, weapons, and psychology. Career progression uses eligibility, status, trappings, and tracked advances instead of entirely freeform choices. Magic and religion add role-specific procedures on top of the shared Test system.
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