• Shooting: ability with fired or thrown

MEAT weapons Resources…

• Resistance: shrug off poisons, diseases, are derived from Stats and are tracked by a

MECHANICS magical effects, environmental effects, etc.

Pretty much this is your Saving Throw die.
Resource die, which diminishes (steps
down by 1) on a roll of 1 or 2:

Ratings • Action: tumbling, jumping, evading, Wounds are equal to Might + Mettle/2
Stat Stat/Skill/Difficulty Rating controlling falls, climbing, jumping, Power equals Mettle + Mind/s
D2 Minimal swimming, open stuck doors, bending bars. Fatigue is equal to Mettle + Mind/2
D4 Minor • Awareness: find secret doors and traps, Fate equals Mind + Mien/2
D6 Average avoid ambushes, find hidden things, hear
noise, notice, search. When you reach 0 you are out of that
D8 Major
• Craft: create or repair items; select an Resource and must Rest to replenish it.
D10 Greater
D12 Mighty area of expertise from a profession such as
D14 Heroic metal-working or bee-keeping or
hobby/natural skill such as playing an
FOlKS
D16 Epic Humans get +1d to player’s choice of Stat
instrument or singing.
D18 Legendary as well as
• Dungeoncraft: determine direction,
D20 Mythic Elves
depth, avoid traps, survival underground
• Lore: select a field of study: Dwarves
Skills… ・ Arcana Halflings
Brutes
All skills start out at d4; you have 12 dice ・ Architecture & Engineering
to assign to skills to improve them. You ・ History & Lore
cannot improve a skill beyond a d12 with a ・ Languages
• Medicine
Saves
starting character. Improving skills costs You make a Save when you attempt to
an amount equal to the die type in Hero ・ Religion
resist harmful attacks and effects. You
points. • Mischief: hiding, moving silently,
make a Save roll by rolling your
stalking, disguise, pick-pocketing, delicate
appropriate Stat and beating the GM’s
Skills in red are combat skills. tasks, opening locks.
difficulty die roll.
• Speech: persuasion, deception, haggling,
• Defense: block, parry, dodge, evade lying, gathering information
attacks. Modified by armor and shield. • Woodcraft: nature & survival, animal Weapons
• Casting: esoteric knowledge of runes, handling, foraging, tracking, orienteering, Light: inflict 1 Hit, Initiative is Easy
incantations, and the casting of spells. travel Medium: inflict 1 Hit
• Fighting: ability with hand held Heavy: inflict 2 Hits, Initiative is Hard
weaponry

Armor
Armor adds to your Defense skill.
Light: +1d
Medium: +2d
Heavy: +3d, Move reduced by 5,
Shield: +1d
Encumbrance
Folks have 10 plus their Body die in Slots.
Items are classified as:
Tiny: 10 fill 1 slot
Small: ½ slot
Medium: 1 slot
Large: 2 slots
Heavy: 3 slots
Bulky: 5 slots
Gifts
Adroit: pick a light weapon; all rolls
involving its use are Easy.
Armsman: +1d to melee attacks
Contact: no bonus ; the player should
describe a contact which provides useful
services at no or reduced costs
(information, material, etc). the gm has to
agree on the description.
Diehard: rolls on the Out of Action or
Injury tables are Easy.
Expertise: Choose a specific skill; tests are
Easy when making rolls against it.
Focus: add +1d to hit. Fatigue check.
Lightfingers: tests involving picking
locks, disarming traps, pickpocket, etc. are
Easy.
Marksman: +1d to ranged attacks
Mettle: Wound tests are Easy.
Mien: social rolls are Easy.
Mighty: you can use a two handed weapon
with one hand. Must be of large size.
Mind Mastery: casting and mental saves
are Easy.
Move Faster: +5 to base Move
Rage: add +1d to damage. Fatigue check.
Shadow: tests involving moving quietly,
hiding, and disguise are Easy.
Magic
All magic requires saying two words of
power: an action and a realm. Every caster
starts out knowing three words of power,
but must know at least one action and one
realm.
The Four Actions
Enhance (augeo): strengthen, heal,
enlarge, repair, sharpen, etc.
Diminish (infirmo): weaken, damage,
injure, reduce, break, dull, deteriorate, etc.
Communicate with (defero): sense, read,
seek, inform,
determine, understand, etc.
Control (tempero): shape, hold, command,
form, direct, dictate, etc. (Control can only
be learned after all other actions have been
learned.)
The Five Realms
Body (corpus): bodies of living things,
plants.
Mind (mentus): the thinking, feeling and
conscious part of an entity.
Spirit (animus): essence or soul. (spirit can
only be learned after you have at least three
realms and three actions.)
Energy (navitas): fire, liquid water, air,
magic, electricity, and (optionally) time.
Matter (materia): solid, mindless material
like stone, ice, metal, wood, leather, paper,
etc.
Spellcasting
The magic-user picks a combination of two
words of power, one action and one realm,
and describes the wanted effect.
e.g. Billiam the sorcerer wants to combine
infirmo (diminish) with navitas (energy) to
extinguish a fire that has started in the inn
his group was sleeping in. The fire is still
small, so the gm agrees that the player can
roll for it.
Casting rolls are a Power test. Failures can
endanger the magic-user or characters
around.
If the spell is offensive, your roll against
the character ac (strictly greater). On a
success, opponent decreases one degree of
health, 2 on a Bonus.
Rolling a Malus on the Power die reduces Combat
the die by a step. Once you run out of Splintered Shield, Shattered Sword Is conducted by making an opposed roll
Power you must Rest. You recover 1 die If you are carrying a shield, you can absorb against your opponent using Attack mode
per hour of Rest. all damage caused by a single blow. (melee, ranged, spell) vs Defense.
Alternatively, you can block the blow with
your weapon (not just a sword) – your
Improving shield or weapon is destroyed in the
Bonus and Malus
Bonus is rolling max value on a Skill roll.
Spend Hero points to: process. Possible examples:
Buy a Stat: expensive, easier to improve a
• Gain another attack
skill Difficulty adjustments • Inflict +1damage
Buy a Skill
Standard: normal die roll • Succeed in grand fashion
Buy a Gift
Easy: 2 dice, take best • Make your opponent’s next roll Hard
Improve a Skill
Hard: 2 dice, take worst • Shatter a shield or sunder armor
Buy a Spell
• Ignore armor
Time, Movement, and Range
MECHANICS Time is measured as:
Malus is rolling a 1 on a Skill roll.
3 Game Difficulties: Round = 10 seconds (enough time for
Basic: TN 4 opposing sides to exchange actions) Possible examples:
Expert: TN 8 Turn = 6 Rounds • Break your weapon
Heroic: TN 12 Breather = 10 minutes • Inflict an Injury to yourself
Break = 30 minutes • Add a complication
Rolling a 1 is called a Malus. Nap = 1 hour • Give your enemy a bonus attack
Rolling max value on a die is called a Rest = 4 to 8 hours • Damage or destroy an item
Rolls are against Active or Passive Target • Diminish Resources or Gear
Numbers. Base Move is set at 25’ per round, x2 if
running, x3 if sprinting.
Active rolls are opposed Stat rolls against Out of Action Table
NPCs, monsters, or players. Range is Close, Near, Far, and Distant. 4-6 Knocked Out
Close = within 5’ 3 Bleeding Out
Passive rolls are Stat rolls against a die Near = within 10’ 2 Injury
assigned to a TN that is rolled by the GM. Medium = within 30’ 1 Mortal Wound
Long = within 50’
Rollover for die rolls is not measured, you Far = within 100’ Injury Table
simply succeed/fail on rolls. Distant = beyond 100’ 6 Grazed
5 Shaken
Actions 4 Stunned
3 Bleeding
2 Maimed
1 Slain