Play Cycle and Resource Tracking
5. Campaign Actions
1. Resolve Missions
● Play out the primary mission. Surviving Legionnaires gain xp as per
their playbooks.
● Marshal makes an engagement roll to resolve the secondary mission.
Specialists who survive this mission gain 2xp, assigned by the
Marshal.
2. Bookkeeping
● Commander applies mission rewards/penalties to pressure, time, and
intel
● Quartermaster applies mission rewards/penalties to update supply,
assets. If the Legion loses supply and have none, have the Marshal
mark -1 morale instead.
● Marshal applies mission rewards/penalties to morale, updates roster
if Specialists were gained, and applies -1 morale penalty for each
Legionnaire death incurred on missions.
● If the mission provides a points reward, the GM or Lorekeeper notes
that on the Skydagger Keep sheet.
● If a mission has additional xp rewards, the Specialists who survived
apply them.
3. Back At Camp
● GM or Lorekeeper selects a short Back At Camp scene to play out as
the troops return from their mission, based on the current morale
rating
6. The Legion Advances (optional)
4. Time Passes
● Commander: Add +1 time and +1 pressure
● Quartermaster: Use -1 food. If you have no food, the Marshal
reduces morale by -2
● GM or Lorekeeper: Tells tales of the dead, which may grant an effect
on the Legion
● Quartermaster performs campaign actions:
2 free at 8-10 morale, 1 free at 4-7, or none at 1-3 morale, spend
supply to get additional
1. Acquire Assets - Use to gain black shot, food, horses,
religious supplies, or supply carts. Depending on your
location, you may also be able to gain Laborers, siege
weapons, and alchemical concoctions. In rare cases you may
be able to gain Alchemists and Mercies.
2. Liberty - Clear 3 stress for every member of the Legion and
add +2 to morale
3. Recruit - Gain up to 5 Rookies
4. Rest & Recuperation - Every Legionnaire may mark a tick in
any harm row to heal.
5. Long Term Project - Initiate/advance a project developed in
concert with the GM.
● Quartermaster updates status of Alchemists, Laborers, and Mercies
● Spymaster dispatches spies:
1. Interrogate - Ask any intel question from any list when
missions are presented
2. Blackmail - Add +1d to the Quartermaster’s acquire assets
roll.
3. Help - Add +1d to a Quartermaster’s long-term project roll
4. Recover - Spy removes their wounded condition
5. Long-Term Assignment - Augment missions, expand network,
lay trap, recruit, research
● Commander decides if the Legion advances. If so, they roll pressure
and use the result to add time. (Quartermaster may lower pressure
by spending horses.) Reset pressure to zero. If the Legion does not
advance, they pursue further missions at the current location.
7. Mission Focus/Generation
● Commander chooses a mission type to focus on (assault, recon,
religious, or supply) based on what’s available in the current location.
The GM generates missions.

8. Mission Priority
● GM presents the available missions.
● Commander can ask the GM questions based on current intel.
Spymaster may have used the interrogate campaign action to ask
one or more additional questions from the entire list of options.
● Commander may spend an intel to replace one regular mission with a
special mission of the GM’s choice.
● Commander determines the primary mission and the secondary
mission.
● Marshal assigns a squad and up to two Specialists to each mission
and determines who’s in charge.
● All players take up their characters and reset their armor, Specialist
skill uses, and choose their load. They may spend utility load to bring
along something from a selection of extra items.
● Quartermaster may add to the engagement roll for a mission by
spending the appropriate supply (assault - black shot, recon - horses,
religious - religious supplies, supply - food) Specialists on that
mission should equip the proper extras for free.
● Commander may spend intel to add to the engagement roll for a
mission.
● Marshal assembles the dice pool and makes the engagement roll for
the primary mission.

9. GOTO​:​ Step 1.