Skills (pg 60) Rolls (pg 23)

STRENGTH:
Awe: Instill respect, wonderment, admiration, fear.
Athletics: Swim, run, leap, climb. Get Physical.
Awareness: Be on guard, react to the unexpected, avoid ambush.
Hunting: Identify/follow tracks, pursue, trap, hunt with pets.
Song: Recite poems, sing songs, play instruments.
Craft: Make/Mend by hand. Start a fire.
HEART:
Enhearten: Inspire, be charismatic esp. w/ crowds.
Travel: Guide the company, stave off fatigue, ‘road smarts’
Insight: Discern motives and state of mind.
Healing: Set bones, use herbs and salves.
Courtesy: Common norms, ancient courtesies, manners.
Battle: lead troops, maintain order, know the rules of battle 1. Define action and goal – consequences for success and failure. Select the appropriate
ability
WITS:
2. If owning appropriate magical talent or artefact, player can spend 1 Hope for Magical
Persuade: Convince via eloquence and reason
success – succeeding no matter the result. Roll Skill dice for extra success.
Stealth: Hide, move quietly, or shadow another
3. Roll Feat Die (d12)
Scan: Examine closely or attentively for details, find secrets
Explore: Find the path, endure weather, make camp  If Favoured, roll two Feat dice and keep the best result
Riddle: Speak guardedly, use deduction/reason  If Ill-Favoured, roll two Feat dice and keep the worst result
Lore: Know Lore unusual for your background 4. Roll Skill Dice (d6s) equal to the rating of the ability in question.
 Can get bonus Skill dice for favorable circumstance, useful item, great RP

Shadow (pg 137)

SOURCES:
(Reduce Shadow gained by 1+1/Success Icon with Test.)
Dread: witness or experience works of the Enemy; test VALOUR
Greed: When taking tainted treasure; test WISDOM
Sorcery: Foul magics wielded by evil Sorcerers; test WISDOM
Misdeeds: Perpetrate violence, threats, murder, torment, etc.
 If Hope>Shadow, can Harden Will to remove all
shadow in exchange for Shadow Scar
 If Shadow ≥ Hope score, become Miserable
 If Shadow = Max Hope, all rolls are Ill-Favoured. Must
experience Madness. After Madness, set Shadow to 0
and advance one step on Shadow Path, gaining a Flaw.
 Can spend Hope for 1d (or 2d if Inspired – usually from Distinctive Feature)
 Can get Support; one other player spends 1 Hope to give 1d
 Lose skill dice for unfavorable circumstance or other penalty
5. Compare to TN for the relevant stat
 A result of 12 (G-rune) on the Feat Die automatically passes!
 A result of 11 (Eye of Sauron) is a result of 0. Fail automatically when Miserable
 Sum of dice matching or beating the TN is a successful roll.
 If Weary, Skill dice results of 1,2, and 3 count as 0.
 On a passed test, use 6s on Skill Dice (called Success Icons) for Superior Results
(pg. 19)
 Cancel a failure (when involving multiple heroes)
 Score an additional success (in endeavours and councils)
 Gain insight – extra info, not necessarily related to the task at hand
 Go quietly – achieve goal quietly and without attracting attention
 Make haste – complete the task quickly (roughly half the time)
 Widen Influence – affect more subjects (one group/individual per)
 Conditions
MISERABLE: Shadow ≥ Hope. Auto fail on Eye
WEARY: Load+Fatigue ≥ Endurance. 1-3 = 0 on d6s
WOUNDED: On failed PROTECTION roll. Recover
slowly and at risk of dying.
Endurance
Damage is dealt to Endurance. At 0, fall unconscious,
wake up after one hour with 1 Endurance.
Become Weary if Endurance drops below Load+Fatigue
Resting
(pg 71)
SHORT REST:
 1/day, usually around lunch. ~1hour
 Recover STRENGTH score Endurance unless
Wounded
 Can spend Fellowship points to gain Hope
PROLONGED REST:
 1/day, usually a night’s sleep.
 Recover all lost Endurance if not Wounded
 If Wounded, recover STRENGTH score
Endurance
 If at 0 Hope, restore 1 hope.
 If in a sheltered and safe refuge, lose 1 Fatigue
Wounds (pg 101)
FIRST AID:
When Wounded, roll die for Severity (duration in days)
Reduce Severity by 1 +1/Success with HEALING (once)
If Wounded twice, become Dying. Fall unconscious and
bleed out in 1 hour. Successful HEALING to save.
Combat (pg 93)
SURPRISE
Surprise can be determined fictionally or by roll. Surprised= no Volley, no first Close Quarter round.
When ambushing all players roll Stealth When ambushed, roll Awareness to act or Battle, Hunting, or
other applicable skill
OPENING VOLLEYS
Depends on fiction. Usually 1
volley. Ranged/Thrown. Double
Parry value of shields if aware.
CLOSE QUARTERS COMBAT
1. Choose Stance
2. Engagement
3. Action Resolution
ENGAGEMENT
If #Enemies > #Players, Lore-master assigns 1 enemy to each PC in Close Combat, then assigns the rest
If #Players>#Enemies, PCs in Close combat each choose enemies to engage
ACTION RESOLUTION
PCs act first, then Enemies. PCs act from Forward through to Rearward Stance.
PCs take one Main Action: and one Secondary Action:
 Make an Attack/Combat Task  Advance or Retreat while fighting
 Move across battlefield, carry friend.  Try to locate someone on the battlefield
 Recover Position after knock-back  Draw a Weapon
 Pick up a weapon/helm/shield  Drop a piece of gear (weapon/helm/shield)
 Retreat (free in Rearward Stance or Unengaged, requires successful hit in Defensive stance)
ATTACK ROLLS
1. Roll appropriate Combat Proficiency. PCs roll vs STRENGTH TN, Monsters vs target PARRY.
2. Spend Extra Success Dice based on War Gear:
 Heavy Blow (Any Weapon): Add STRENGTH damage plus 1 for 2-handed weapon
 Parry (Any Close): Increase Parry for round: +1 (Axe/Brawling), +2 (Sword), +3 (Spears)
 Pierce (Bow/Spear/Sword): Add to Feat Die +1 (Swords), +2 (Bows), +3 (Spears)
 Shield Thrust (Shield): If STRENGTH > ATTRIBUTE (target) give 1d penalty to enemy
3. Damage is dealt to Endurance (according to Weapon damage).
 Once per round, Players can halve Endurance loss by being knocked back.
 Piercing Blows (Rolling 10/12 on Feat Die): PROTECTION roll vs. Injury Rating or WOUND
 Fellowship
Phase (pg 119)
STRUCTURE:
1. Set Duration: Week-season. Yule (winter) is usually long
2. Choose Destination: Warp to a nearby known safe haven.
During Yule, Companions often return to respective homes.
3. Perform Updates:
 Training:
 Up to one rank per skill with Skill Points
 Up to one rank per Combat Proficiency and one rank
in VALOUR or WISDOM with Adventure Points
 Spiritual Recovery
 Recover HOPE equal to HEART (full if Yule)
 Remove SHADOW based on actions
4. Passage of Years (Yule Only)
 gain extra Skill Points equal to WITS
 Lore-Master shares words of recent events
5. Choose Undertakings: One per phase, or one per PC in Yule.
Additionally, get one free Undertaking (related to callings)
and each PC can freely swap Useful Items.
Undertakings:
 Gather Rumors (Warden): A new lead, or ask for info
 Meet Patron (Messenger): usually for help or advice
 Ponder Maps (Scholar): +1 to Journey d12s for phase
 Strengthen Fellowship (Captain): +1 Fellowship
 Study Items (Treasure Hunter): learn magic qualities
 Write Song (Champion): Songs counter WEARY
Yule Only Undertakings:
 Heal Scars: 5 Adventure Points, remove Shadow Scar
 Raise Heir: 1-5 Treasure and Adventure Points, add to
heir’s Previous Experience (if new heir, give a name).
 Recount Story: Replace a Distinctive Feature with one
demonstrated in the story (about yourself).
Journey:
1. Assign Roles. If more or fewer than 4 players, double up or take multiple. One Guide.
 Guide: In charge of all decisions concerning route, rest, and supplies. Rolls TRAVEL
 Hunter: In charge of finding food in the wild. Rolls HUNTING
 Look-out: In charge of keeping watch. Rolls AWARENESS
 Scout: In charge of setting up camp, opening new trails. Rolls EXPLORE
2. Set Journey Path
 Company must know approximate location of the destination, and draw a path on
the map, taking geography into account
 Loremaster draws the Company’s itinerary as a path traversing a number of hexes
equal to those required to reach the destination (not counting the starting hex).
3. Make Marching Tests:
 Guide makes TRAVEL rolls to determine frequency of events
 Success: Event take place in 3 hexes + 1 per Success Icon
 Failure: Event takes place in 2 hexes in Summer/Spring, 1 in Winter/Autumn
 Loremaster describes events (randomly determined) targeting one Role
 One character of the Role must roll the relevant skill, one other can help
 Hard terrain gives 1d penalty, roads give 1d bonus
 Each event also causes every member of the Company to gain Fatigue
4. End the Journey
 Any character with a mount reduces their total Fatigue by the mount’s Vigour
 Each character can further reduce Fatigue by TRAVEL roll (1+1/Success).
 Duration = # of hexes +1/hard terrain hex. Double speed on open terrain if entire
Company mounted. Company can Force March (double speed, 1 extra Fatigue/hex)
Council: