THE DICTATOR CLASS DICE: D4

A LITTLE EMOTIONAL NUDGE

YOUR NAME: When you have your D4 and could get an edge from subtle emotional manipulation,
roll it as part of your dice pool and increase any other dice’s result by its value.

STATS 

All stats start at 2, plus 2 points assigned as you wish.
Get an extra point on levels 3, 6, 9 and 12 (max 4).

Str Dex Con Int Wis Cha

Guard =Dex Health =Con Willpower Defence

Resets at the start Lose Guard =Wis+Int Set by Gear
of each fight before Health

EQUIPMENT PICK ONE YOUR LOOK PICK ONE

You read a sad story. You cry. Do you
think that’s sinister, as if someone has
artificially taken over your emotions?
Of course not. That’s just what art is.
Anyone who’s ever met a Dictator
† A dagger and a ranged weapon. You are wearing (Defence 0):
Bow, pistol or something else. † Austere, severe angular outfits
† A rapier. † Flamboyant costume, straight out of
Use Dex instead of Str for its dice a stage show
pool. Special: recover 1 Guard. † Spectacular eveningwear
† Magical death touch. † Something else: 
May use Dex instead of Str for its dice
pool. This weapon is concealed and
cannot be taken from you.
DICTATING EMOTIONS
SELECT YOUR EMOTION PALETTE
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would disagree. to be your focus: these are the SERENITY

emotions you manipulate.

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good reasons.
THE PERFORMANCE
To use The Voice, pick the emotion(s) and roll a Cha dice
THE CORE MECHANIC pool plus your D4. Lose 1 success for each target past the INTENSITY OF EFFECT
1 GET 1 DIE PER first. The D4 shows the effect’s Intensity, and each successes 1 Enough to influence them.
STAT POINT lets you add or subtract 1 from it. The final Intensity affects 2 They feel it intensely.
2 ADVANTAGE: +1 the Audience according to your goal – Control or Attack. 3 They feel it as intensely as
DISADVANTAGE: -1 most people will ever feel it.
3 ROLL THE DICE 6 5 4 3 Control: Manipulate them with the emotion and steal their 4 More intense than love for a
agency. +1 Disadvantage per Intensity on actions opposing soulmate.
4 KEEP ALL 4+ DICE 6 5 4 3 the compulsion, +1 Advantage on actions that support it. 5 All-consuming obsession.
Complete control if Intensity exceeds Willpower. 6+ Supernaturally intense.
5 LOSE 1 DICE PER 6 5 4 Attack: Make them feel so hard it hurts. They take +1 Likely lethal.
DIFFICULTY Disadvantage per Intensity on attacks, and are killed or If Intensity < Willpower, targets may
6 SUCCEED IF ANY incapacitated if Intensity exceeds Willpower. resist with a Wis roll at a Difficulty
DICE REMAIN of 1/2 Intensity.
7 SPEND 6+s FOR 6 5 Pass your D4 to a player whose character you’re influencing. On a Crit Fail, you’ve broken them;
SPECIALS the influence is permanent.
To affect anyone else with your powers, you must reclaim
your D4. This is instant and ends that compulsion.
 DICTATOR ADVANCEMENTS
THE GREAT THE POWER
DICTATOR BEHIND THE
THRONE
AN AN

AN ARTIST’S PROGRESS
ARTIST’S ARTIST’S
PROGRESS PROGRESS

Get a new Emotion Wheel spoke and pick one: IT’S NOT WHAT
YOU KNOW
IT’S NOT WHAT
YOU KNOW
† Know Your Audience. Pick a group and an emotion. When CARVING
you use that emotion to affect the group, set your dice to 4 OUT THEIR EMOTIONAL PORTRAIT
OF THE ARTIST
HEART CAPITAL AS A MONSTER
before rolling. The group should be no more than 25% of the AN ARTIST’S
people you could meet; if it’s particularly small, the GM PROGRESS

may also grant +1 Advantage when targeting them. AN

ARTIST’S
† You, Choir. Lose 1 less success when targeting a crowd for THE GANG PROGRESS
every time you take this option. IT’S NOT WHAT
YOU KNOW
† We, Choir (Pick Once). When using The Voice on willing
AN
people, suffer no penalties for group size. ARTIST’S
† Tell, Don’t Show. Under certain circumstances, your Voice’s PROGRESS
ONE STEP IT’S NOT WHAT
Tell no longer manifests. What are those circumstances? AHEAD YOU KNOW
† Signature Piece. Choose a spell from the Master’s Grimoire AN
ARTIST’S
(p. 370) with 15 or fewer risk. Whenever you have your D4, THE GIG PROGRESS FANBASE
you may cast the spell by rolling a Cha pool START
boosted as per A Little Emotional Nudge.

IT’S NOT WHAT YOU KNOW PICK ONE:

† A Working Artist (Pick Once). Once per adventure, declare
who owes you a favour and say what you did to earn it.
† Henchperson (Pick Once). You have a loyal, highly skilled
henchperson, designed via the Secondary Characters Rule
(p. 280) with one fewer stat point. If the henchperson is
killed or lost, you can replace them between missions.
THEY ARE BOUND TO YOU BY: PICK ONE:
† A critical fail emotion. † They resent their condition.
† A promise. † Their friends resent their
† A need that you fulfill. condition.
† Improve Henchperson. If you have a henchperson, pick one:
• If they have less stat points than the group, add one.
• Choose a new ability or skillset for the henchperson from
the Secondary Character Rules.
† Agent. You have a specialist or informant ready to help.
1/session, you can get information about a situation from them.
ONE STEP AHEAD
1/session, you may declare that a pre-existing plan is going
to come into effect and define it in a flashback scene. Pick a
single moving part to detail: an unexpected ally, a prepared escape
route, a hidden piece of important equipment. Then roll your
D4. On a 1, the GM adds an extra cost to the plan. On a 4, it
works too well and the GM adds a complication.
THE GIG
If you have a captive audience and time to prepare and perform
a dramatic ritual, set your D4 to 4 on your performance roll.
FANBASE
Usually, your victims resent your influence once it’s removed.
Now, your victims instead feel euphoric and grateful for the
experience until they next sleep. After that, they start to long
for you to use the voice on them again.
THE GANG
You have a small group of acolytes. None of them will have any
stat above 2, but they’re useful and hang on your every word
even when you’re not using The Voice.
EMOTIONAL CAPITAL
The Dictator has enough influence in a major settlement that
they can leverage almost complete control. Any time you want
the city to do something, describe which contact you use to
achieve it, and the GM will tell you what you’ll have to owe
them. If you agree, the city acts as you choose.
CARVING OUT THEIR HEART
When you use The Voice, declare this ability before rolling to
make the influence permanent, unremovable even by you. This
ability does not work on any of the Personas, and will void the
protection gained from Live at The Witch Trials if word gets out.
PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A MONSTER
You can grow the claws to back up the personality. When you
take this advance, define the monster lurking inside you (see
p. 38). You can redefine your monster any time your self image
of your “monster” changes. Pick four traits your monster has:
† It’s invulnerable to one † It can use The Voice on
common form of harm. anyone who makes eye
† Its attacks have Special: contact, silently and with
this hit causes 2 Wounds. a glance.
† It’s invulnerable to † It can fly.
emotional control. † It can pass through objects.
† It can attack at range. † It can disguise its
† Its Health is 2× Con. monstrous nature.
When you transform, re-arrange your stats as you wish, set
Defence to 1, and say what awful thing the monster wants to
do. You remain in this form until you do that thing, are knocked
unconscious, or take a full action and pass a difficulty 2 Wis roll
to talk yourself down. While in this monstrous form you may
add D4 to any dice pool, as per A Little Emotional Nudge.
THE POWER BEHIND THE THRONE
You have complete control of a major part of one of the Great
Powers. Describe how you’ve compromised it.
THE GREAT DICTATOR
You can target any number of beings with Willpower 4 or less
with your performance, so long as they can clearly perceive it.
If those in power learn you have this ability, lose the protection
gained from Live at The Witch Trials.
AT LEVEL 4: LIVE AT THE WITCH TRIALS.
Your name has attracted a bounty and hunters. What have you
done which most frightens people? Pick why you’re still alive:
† You have a powerful patron. Who is it? Why are they
protecting you?
† You’ve joined a licensed organisation. What are your duties?
What limits does it place on you?
† The Hunters have chosen to ignore you. Why?
† Something else:
THE FOOL CLASS DICE: D6
You can add your D6 to your dice pool any time you’re acting in a foolish,
YOUR NAME: daring or cavalier fashion. In any dice pool which includes the Fool’s D6, you gain:
Special: Roll another D6 and add it to the present dice pool.

STATS 

All stats start at 2, plus 2 points assigned as you wish.
Get an extra point on levels 3, 6, 9 and 12 (max 4).

Str Dex Con Int Wis Cha

Guard =Dex Health =Con Willpower Defence

Resets at the Lose Guard =Wis+Int Set by Gear
start of each fight before Health

EQUIPMENT PICK TWO FLUKES

Always look on the bright side of life,
as the song goes. It’s true.
If a Fool’s laughing, you’ll get out of this
hell alive. If you get a laugh, your enemies
won’t be laughing for much longer. Don’t
take things too seriously, and it won’t get
too serious. At least, for the Fool.
The Fool’s the swashbuckler, a romantic
rogue, the life and soul of the adventuring
party. The rest think they’re irresponsible,
but the Fool’s abilities mean the only
responsible thing to do is be irresponsible.
Screw everyone else if they can’t take a joke.
Fools rush in... and their friends have
to deal with the consequences.
PLAY A FOOL IF YOU WANT TO….
• Bound into action with a grin,
† A fine and noble longsword.
Get 1 Advantage talking with regal sorts
(and those impressed by them).
† A rapier.
Use Dex instead of Str for its pool.
Special: recover 1 Guard.
† A cutlass.
Get 1 Advantage talking to underworld
sorts and impressionable romantics.
† Martial arts.
May use Dex instead of Str for its pool
while fighting with no weapons.
† A pistol or other ranged weapon.
† Concealed throwing weapons.
Knives, throwing stars, etc.
YOUR LOOK PICK ONE
You are wearing (Defence 1):
† Light fabrics, exposed skin, a big grin
† Black leather, a deck of cards and fast
fingers
† A long cloak balanced between
elegantly-wasted and scruffy
† Something else: 
Choose one face of your D6 and draw
a circle on it. When you roll your D6, it
has special results:
• Circle: describe the fluke of luck that
benefits you. The GM can then choose
to modify it – the more advantageous
you make it, the more they’ll likely
tweak it. Then erase all but one circle,
and add a cross to a different face.
• Unmarked: add a circle to a different
face, unless all sides are full.
• Cross: something unfortunate
happens to you or (more likely) the
people around you. Erase all crosses.
If you don’t want
to deface a die,
use this net

knowing your luck will protect you. YOUR TRADE PICK ONE
• Get out of any situation by the skin † Swashbuckler. Choose another If you do something that is particularly
of your teeth, even if it means mak- option from your equipment list and foolish or entertaining, the GM may give
ing a few sacrifices. gain any trinkets you think you need you an additional circle on your dice.
to look the part.
• Deal with the chaos when pushing † A Trickster Wizard. Can cast minor IF ALL ELSE FAILS
your powers too far inevitably bites magical spells (max Risk of 5). See what If you’re in a dire situation, hand the GM
everyone on the ass. you can talk your GM into and use your D6. The GM will describe the un-
Cha as your dice pool. Check out the feasibly good luck that rescues you (and
THE CORE MECHANIC Appendix (p. 370) for some magic spells. possibly your friends) from danger.
1 GET 1 DIE PER † A Rogue. Add concealed throwing
STAT POINT weapons and thieves’ tools to your While the GM has your D6, they can
2 ADVANTAGE: +1 equipment. describe an entirely unfair event on a
DISADVANTAGE: -1 † A Bard. Add a musical instrument similar or lower scale of awfulness and
3 ROLL THE DICE 6 5 4 3 of your choice and a book of fine folk then give you back your D6. If you de-
songs to your equipment. liberately cause a spectacular or amusing
4 KEEP ALL 4+ DICE 6 5 4 3 † A Con Artist. You have access to fake disaster, take your D6 back.
dice, marked cards or similar con-
5 LOSE 1 DICE PER 6 5 4 artist equipment.
DIFFICULTY † A Hustler. Add a bag of assorted
6 SUCCEED IF ANY trading wares of questionable origins
DICE REMAIN and variable value to your equipment.
7 SPEND 6+s FOR 6 5
SPECIALS
 FOOL ADVANCEMENTS
HOLY FOOL DON’T GIVE
A FUCK

CLOWN SCHOOL
Along the way, a Fool picks up a few specialised tricks in how KNACK OR SPELL KNACK OR SPELL
to use (and abuse) their luck. Pick one each time you take this. CLOWN SCHOOL CLOWN SCHOOL

† LOVE FOOL. Once per session, you get the mininum number
of successes needed to achieve a task, so long as you do for
it for love. Your actions should involve a protestation of CLOWNSHOW PUSHING IT KING FOR A DAY
adoration, especially as you don’t have to be in love until KNACK OR SPELL
this very moment. Once you’ve fallen in love, roleplay this
until the narrative leads you to get over it.
IT’S A STUPID
† FOOLS RUSH IN. If you start a combat with Guard, you can PLAN... BUT IT JUST
CLOWN SCHOOL MIGHT WORK
lose it all to take a single action before anyone else. KNACK OR SPELL
† FOOL’S PREP. Once per session, declare an item you need. If
you add a cross to your dice, you get it immediately.
† OH, IGNORE THAT FOOL. Add a cross to your dice to make
someone drastically underestimate or ignore the Fool in a CLOWN SCHOOL
KNACK OR SPELL KNACK OR SPELL
situation when they really shouldn’t.
† FOOL’S GOLD. Add a cross to your dice to know what dumb,
surprising thing someone you’re talking to really wants. JACK OF MORE
† NEVER TELL ME THE ODDS. In any normal game of chance, TRADES CLOWN SCHOOL CLEAN SLATE

you never lose. If your opponents are cheating (magical or START

otherwise), add a cross to your dice to win anyway.
† FOOL’S CHARM. Add a cross to your dice to make someone
trust you for just a moment, or to have everyone laugh off a
social faux pas you just made.
† LUCKY RABBIT’S FOOT. There’s something foolhardy you can
do to increase your luck. Once per encounter, choose one
of the following actions and add a circle to your dice:
• Take a drink at a dramatic moment.
• Joke at someone who seems more powerful than you.
• Break into a rousing song.
• Say a catchphrase at the exact right moment.
• Collaborate with GM to create your own.
KNACK OR SPELL
Choose either a Knack or a Spell:
• A Knack: Choose one thing you’re good at. Whenever you do it,
you get an Advantage. See p. 46 for guidance and examples.
• A Spell: Choose any spell from the Spells Appendix (p. 370)
with no more than 15 risk. Roll a Cha pool to cast it.
CLEAN SLATE
Between scenarios you may delete all circles and crosses from
the dice, and add a single circle. When you do so, describe
what your Fool does to blow off steam.
JACK OF MORE TRADES
Select a second Trade, and gain all bonuses/equipment from it.
IT’S A STUPID PLAN… BUT IT JUST
MIGHT WORK
1/session, add a cross to the Fool’s dice to automatically pass
a single roll with the minimum number of successes required.
The roll has to follow your plan to the letter, and the plan has
to be highly unlikely and maybe even foolish. If it doesn’t make
the table think “That’ll never work,” it isn’t foolish enough.
PUSHING IT
As in It’s A Stupid Plan… But It Just Might Work, you must de-
scribe and then follow a foolish and unlikely plan and then add
a cross to your D6. Unlike that advance, then you roll it.
If you don’t roll a cross, the plan succeeds with the minimum
number of successes required.
If you roll a cross, the plan goes desperately wrong. The GM
will describe how. It could include serious loss of resources or
the incapacitation (or even death) of friendly characters.
KING FOR A DAY
You can take over a whole Great Power in the world: an Empire,
a kingdom, a guild or similar. Describe how you managed to
take power momentarily, and describe what endeavour they
will undertake. This dominion lasts for the current adventure.
Your first use is free. To use this again, you must first add a
cross to your dice that can never be erased.
CLOWNSHOW
1/session, you can say “This is turning into a total clownshow”.
For the rest of the encounter, any time anyone fails a roll, it has
the same effects as if you had rolled a cross: an unfortunate
event happens to them (or those near them). Friends, enemies,
everyone. It should be stressed: the Fool is not immune to this.
HOLY FOOL
Whenever you act with kindness and altruism, you can add your
D6 to the pool. If you ever take Don’t Give A Fuck, lose this ability.
DON’T GIVE A FUCK
You’re never directly affected negatively by any unfortunate
fallout of your abilities, (e.g. Flukes, If All Else Fails, Pushing It).
Any bad luck will only ever hurt people around you.
If you ever take Holy Fool, lose this ability.
AT LEVEL 6: LUCKY BREAK
The Fool gets a lucky break! The GM offers you something you
really want or need. The location of an enemy, a secret route to
a difficult destination, Nirvana’s fourth album from a dimension
where Cobain lived…
They then describe the likely consequence if you agree. Your
enemy will know where you are, a friendly stronghold will come
under threat, you’ll anger the vengeful god of Grunge….
If you take the risk, roll the Fool dice:
• If you roll a circle, you get it for free.
START
• If you roll a cross, you don’t get it, and get the consequence.
• If you roll anything else, you get both what you want and
the consequence.
THE  KNIGHT CLASS DICE: D8
EMOTIONALLY ENGAGED
YOUR NAME: When you’re feeling your sacred emotion (at 1 or above on your scale),
you may add your D8 to any attack made with your Arcane Weapon.
STATS 

Str Dex
Guard =Dex Health =Con
Resets at the Lose Guard
start of each fight before Health
EQUIPMENT PICK ONE
You get your Arcane Weapon,
and pick one to explain your
striking resilience to harm:
† You’ve got an uncanny
danger sense.
† Your scarred flesh is
incredibly resistant to pain.
These orders of Knights are the world’s † You have the finest
greatest warriors, each devoted to one of armour, and keep it in
the eight sacred emotions. Whether it be good condition.
joy, hate, or fear: if they feel it, they can † Something else: 
use it to fuel the power of their sentient,
arcane weapons. YOUR LOOK PICK ONE
You are wearing (Defence 1):
When consumed by their sacred † Worn leather, a long cloak
sensation, they’re incomparable warriors, and a scowl.
capable of miraculous feats. Nothing † Gladiator gear, all skin,
can stand against their blades–armies, spikes and black leather.
mountains, not even ideas. They can † Covered head to foot, with
defeat anything. a full helm showing only
Except the passion which drives them. your eyes.
† Something else: 
PLAY AN EMOTION KNIGHT IF YOU
WANT TO…. YOUR SACRED EMOTION
• Be the most powerful fighter in the As an Emotion Knight, your
land, capable of fighting armies powers are driven by you
single-handedly. feeling a specific, Sacred
• Develop a bond with a signature Emotion. Choose a word
weapon born of your psyche. from the list below that best
• Process your tumultuous emotions fits that emotion and write it
by using them as incendiary fuel for into the blank space at the top
your powers. of this sheet.
† Rage, Anger, Annoyance
† Ecstasy, Joy, Serenity
THE CORE MECHANIC † Vigilance, Anticipation,
1 GET 1 DIE PER Interest
STAT POINT
† Loathing, Disgust, Boredom
2 ADVANTAGE: +1 † Grief, Sadness, Pensive-
DISADVANTAGE: -1 ness
3 ROLL THE DICE 6 5 4 3 † Amazement, Surprise,
Distraction
4 KEEP ALL 4+ DICE 6 5 4 3 † Terror, Fear, Apprehension
† Admiration, Trust, Accep-
5 LOSE 1 DICE PER 6 5 4 tance
DIFFICULTY
6 SUCCEED IF ANY All three of the words on the
DICE REMAIN
same line are aspects of your
7 SPEND 6+s FOR 6 5 Sacred Emotion. You feed off
SPECIALS
them all.
All stats start at 2, plus 2 points assigned as you wish.
Get an extra point on levels 3, 6, 9 and 12 (max 4).
Con Int Wis Cha
Willpower Defence
=Wis+Int Set by Gear
THE ARCANE WEAPON
All the Emotion Knight’s special abilities are channeled
via their Arcane Weapon. All Arcane Weapons, whatever
their form, are sentient, communicate with their owner
(audibly and with short-range telepathy), and can sense
strong sources of their owner’s sacred emotion in their
vicinity. Pick one from each to customise yours:
YOUR WEAPON IS: ITS PERSONALITY IS:
† Sharp. Sword, † Aggressively determined to
machete, rapier pursue its Sacred Emotion
† Heavy. Greataxe, † A critical voice, doubting
hammer, gauntlet the Knight’s worthiness
† Esoteric. Chain, † The adorable opposite of
trident, whip what you’d expect from it.
† Something else. † Something else.
ITS MAIN TRAIT IS:
† Brutal. Special: if this hit Wounds, it deals 2 instead.
† Fast. Special: if this hit removes a Guard from your
foe, remove 2 instead of 1.
† Elegant. Uses Dex instead of Str for its pool.
Special: recover 2 Guard.
YOUR EMOTIONAL SCALE
You track the intensity of your Sacred 0
Emotion on this scale, using your D8
as a counter. Depending how intensely
your character is feeling this emotion 1: Strong
in the fiction, move the counter up or Emotionally Engaged:
down the scale – you or the GM can Can use Venting
shift it as appropriate. You gain an abilities and Stances.
advantage when you act in line with the 2: Intense
emotion, and one disadvantage per level Can use Creative
of intensity when you oppose it. The Violence to defeat:
a mob, a blockade,
GM can suggest compulsions from the
a village, a strength.
emotion – if you want to resist these,
3: Overwhelming
roll Wis at difficulty of half intensity.
Can defeat: an army,
a town, a mountain
Creative Violence range, a weakness.
At 2+ on the scale, you can expend all 4: Lost
your intensity to defeat a foe that fits a Can defeat: despair,
noun at your current intensity or below a city, your true love.
(to begin with, you can’t access the nouns
at levels 4-6). When you do this, roll 5: Consumed
your D8; if it beats your current intensity, Can defeat: a
country, a religion.
you succeed. If not, you do it but you or
someone close to you suffers Wounds
6: Inhuman
equal to the result and the GM adds
Can defeat: a god,
complications to your success. Either hope, yourself.
way, reset your intensity to level 0.
 EMOTION KNIGHT ADVANCEMENTS DUAL WIELD MASTER OF THE
ORDER

Emotion Draining
NEW STANCE: NEW VENTING
You learn to channel your Arcane Weapon’s hunger to siphon ANY ABILITY
their Sacred Emotion from a target character. The GM ascer- NEW VENTING NEW STANCE:
tains how strong an emotion the target was feeling. If it’s 0, this ABILITY ANY
ability has no effect; otherwise, this is the maximum level of
ADVANCE ADVANCE
emotion that can be siphoned. If the target is willing, the Emo- CREATIVE CREATIVE
tion Knight gains that level of emotion and the target loses it. SINGLE-MINDED VIOLENCE VIOLENCE
The character can resist with Cha roll (difficulty 0): NEW STANCE:
ANY
• For each success, a level of emotion is transferred from them to
the Emotion Knight. Their behaviour changes proportionally.
• On a failure, the target’s emotion stays the same and the EMOTION SECOND
VAMPIRE ACTIVE STANCE
Emotion Knight gains no levels of emotion.
NEW VENTING
• On a critical failure, the target can never feel emotion ABILITY
towards that source ever again. However, the Knight gets all
the emotion the target presently feels.
NEW STANCE:
ANY
New Stance: TYPE NEW STANCE: NEW STANCE:
Pick a new stance of the indicated type. SOCIAL COMBAT

New Venting Ability EMOTION

ADVANCE
CREATIVE
Pick a new venting ability. KNIGHTMARE DRAINING VIOLENCE

Knightmare
After a bad night’s sleep with a dream born of your Sacred
Emotion, you will wake to find a magical steed beside you.
Every time you have a bad (k)night’s sleep, say what you
dreamed about. Some dreams have been known to be prophetic.
WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE? WHAT GIFT DOES IT HAVE?
† A towering warhorse with ACTIVATES WHEN YOU ARE
burning eyes EMOTIONALLY ENGAGED
† A three-humped camel † It can fly
with a knowing expression † It is faster than any horse.
† A cowardly cat who really † It can move through walls
doesn’t want to be here like a ghost.
† Something else † Something else
Advance Creative Violence
For each time you take this ability, your maximum level
of Creative Violence is increased by 1, and your Willpower
is treated as 1 higher for the puposes of resisting being
overwhelmed by your Sacred Emotion.
Second Active Stance
Stances are common among many martial arts, and a warrior
chooses which stance to position themself carefully. One stance
at any time. That’s how it works. However, Emotion Knights are
the greatest warriors in the land. When this advance is chosen,
the Emotion Knight may have two stances active simultaneously.
Each stance can be changed independently exactly like normal.
Emotion Vampire
The Arcane Weapon’s hunger can get out of control, and some
Emotion Knights choose to chase that. When you use Emotion
Draining on a being who has either submitted or is incapable of
resisting, an Emotion Knight can choose to feed on the target’s
potential to feel that emotion. Gain a single level of the emotion
while removing the victim’s ability to ever feel this emotion again.
If the victim is currently feeling this emotion, gain an additional
level of the emotion alongside those you would normally drain.
This is primarily an ability for Antagonists and villains.
Characters who see this power in use will fear and hate its
user in the same way they would a Dictator.
START
Single-Minded
When your emotion has you, you’re very difficult to divert. In-
crease the difficulty to mentally dominate you by your present
emotional level. This includes a Dictator’s abilities.
Master of the Order
You are accepted as the worldwide Master of your Order of
Knights. If you’re using the Great Game rules, they count as at
least one faction, and perhaps more. If you gain Dual Wield, you
immediately forfeit this advance.
Dual Wield
Choose a second emotion and gain a second Arcane Weapon
with its own personality. You now track this emotional scale
separately. If you have an Emotional Stance from this new
emotion, you can only activate that stance if its emotion is
above zero. If you have two Emotion Satnces, you may change
one to an emotion stance from your new emotion. You can
never select the advance Master Of The Order.
AT LEVEL 8: A KNIGHT’S CONFIRMATION
You are called to confirm your choice and enter your order.
Your Weapon is taken from you. You are taken to a ceremonial
place—a dungeon, a labyrinth, a cave system—and you find
your way through it. In the centre, your Weapon… and one for
each of the other seven emotions. Gain the following:
• Retrieve your Weapon… or pick one of the other seven.
• Pick a new stance or venting ability. Swap any abilities
related to a given emotion.
You’re now a member of this league of knights. If there is an
order in the fiction already, use it. If there isn’t, create one in
START
collaboration with the GM. This order may call upon you to
perform tasks. You may be able to ask them for help. This is a
reciprocal relationship.
 VENTING ABILITIES
If you are emotionally engaged, you can vent. This reduces your emotional scale by one and triggers the vent ability.
† Decapitation Strike: Target and attack
a single individual and ignore Guard.
† Combat Frenzy: Apply the results of
this attack to all enemies within me-
lee range of the Knight’s position.
† Duel: Target a single individual. They
cannot attack anyone else until you say
so, or until you’re no longer a combatant.
STANCES
Stances are passive abilities. If you have more than one, you can change them with an action in combat, or at-will outside of combat.
COMBAT STANCES
† Bodyguard: Choose someone within
arm’s reach. If they are attacked, you
can choose to be attacked instead.
† Ranged Attack: You can attack with your
Arcane Weapon out to medium range.
† Riposte: When an opponent’s attack
fails to hit you, make an immediate
attack in response as an extra action.
† Parry: All attacks on you suffer one
disadvantage.
† Quick on the Draw: If someone is in
melee range with you, give up your
move action to attack them before
they attack you.
† I’ll Die When I’m Dead: You can act
normally when you’ve taken enough
damage you should be unconscious.
You continue to fight until you die.
† Slashing Blade: You can split successes
in an attack between multiple targets
without suffering a Disadvantage.
† Pacifier: You can attack and inflict
non-fatal injuries without suffering a
disadvantage.
† Show-Off: Your fighting style is
undeniably more beautiful than
anyone else’s. Your attacks have:
Special: Choose an opponent to be
startled by your grace. The next attack
on them gains an advantage.
† Personal Attacks: Discover how your
Sacred Emotion could be used to hurt
the target - whatever that means.
† Personal Knowledge: Gain knowledge
of who or what a target feels your
emotion most strongly towards. For
example, a Terror Knight could vent
to discover a target’s worst fear.
SOCIAL STANCES
† Intimidating Gaze: You can be a scary
fucker. If there’s a question of “who’s
the most murderous person in the
room?” The answer is “You.”
† Common Touch: The “Common Folk”
of the kingdom automatically think
you’re one of them. What does
“Common Folk” mean? You tell us.
EMOTION STANCES
ECSTASY/JOY/SERENITY
† Painfree: You no longer suffer any
physical pain.
† Life and Soul of the Party: Your infec-
tious enthusiasm makes others want
to spend time with you.
ADMIRATION/TRUST/ACCEPTANCE
† Hero-Worship: Choose one person to
idealise. When supporting them in
an action, you give two Advantages
instead of one.
† Trusting Face: You radiate such simple
good-heartedness that people will
give you the benefit of the doubt
unless there’s a strong reason to do
otherwise.
TERROR/FEAR/APPREHENSION
† Flight: When fleeing, you always escape
any pursuer who doesn’t have a su-
pernatural ability to hunt you down.
† Reading the Danger Room: When in
this stance, at any time, you can ask
the GM “What should I be most
frightened of here?” and they must
answer honestly.
AMAZEMENT/SURPRISE/DISTRACTION
† Eeek! When surprised, you jump out
of your skin. You instantly teleport a
short distance.
† Innocent: People cannot read you
in any way other than a wide-eyed
adorable innocent.
PICK ONE
† Distance Strike: You can attack any-
thing, at any distance, as long as you
know exactly where they are.
† Emotional Reserve: When hit, you may
reduce your emotion level instead of
losing Health on a 1-for-1 basis.
† Hardcase: Vent to make anyone
human-sized think that if you fought,
you would win.
PICK ONE
† The Look Of Eagles: If someone is
looking for a leader, they look to you.
Everyone will assume you’re in charge
due to your natural authority.
† Who The Hell Are They? In any room, you
instantly attract everyone’s attention.
† Infectious Charm: All of your jokes
land with at least one person present.
GRIEF/SADNESS/PENSIVENESS
† Catharsis: When Emotion Draining, you
also heal 1 Wound from your target
for each level of emotion drained.
† Pity Me: People pity you as they would
a whimpering puppy.
LOATHING/DISGUST/BOREDOM
† Con’t Stand Me Know: Everybody who
can see you finds you loathsome; they
behave appropriately. Their attacks
against you have one disadvantage.
† My Mind Is A Fortress: You are so
wrapped up in hatred (of self and
others) the difficulty of any emotional
manipulation is increased by 2.
RAGE/ANGER/ANNOYANCE
† Warface: Anyone foolish enough to
meet your gaze regrets it. All your
attacks gain Special: they metaphori-
cally shit themselves and lose a Guard.
† Berserk: As long as you are in this
stance, your health is increased by
your Wis.
VIGILANCE/ANTICIPATION/INTEREST
† You Watch The Watchmen: You know
any time you’ve been spotted or are
about to be ambushed.
† Guardian: You can declare one person
under your protection. You know
wheneverSTART
they are threatened, and
gain an advantage when acting on it.
THE NEO CLASS DICE: D10
Gifts of the Fair
YOUR NAME: You can add your D10 to your dice pool any time
you’re assisted by an activated Gift.

STATS 

All stats start at 2, plus 2 points assigned as you wish.
Get an extra point on levels 3, 6, 9 and 12 (max 4).

Str Dex Con Int Wis Cha

Guard =Dex Health =Con Willpower Defence

Resets at the Lose Guard =Wis+Int Set by Gear
start of each fight before Health

EQUIPMENT YOU START WITH: YOUR LOOK PICK ONE

Adventurers love gold. With their pro-
pensity for taking anything that isn’t nailed
down makes them all thieves… which
makes the classical fantasy prejudice
against rogues a little odd. They’re all at
it. Why do rogues get the glances?
But anyone who’s ever met one knows
why people are suspicious about the Neo.
There’s a special kind of gold, and the
Neo’s magical technology needs to be acti-
vated by this every day. If they can’t find
enough then all their gifts mean nothing.
They can’t skip between shadows, dance
through the sky or punch a hole through
a Fallen’s head from half a mile away.
Adventurers all want gold, but no-one
needs it like a Neo.
PLAY A NEO IF YOU WANT TO….
• Be the chromed-up cyberpunk rogue
in the fantasy adventuring party.
• Select from an armoury of magic-
cybernetic gifts you can personalise
to your heart’s content.
• Hunt desperately for the next score
to fuel your powers.
• A dagger (or any pointy thing
which stabs)
• Another close weapon (short sword,
a second dagger, or something else)
• A ranged weapon (pistol, a rifle, or
something else)
FAIR GOLD
Keep track of how many Fair Gold you
possess. They’ll disappear at dawn.
Fair Gold is the techno-magical fuel
which powers your gifts. It takes the
form of small coins, most commonly
found in the corpses of Fallen, but you
will find other sources. Your AI will tell
you if any Fair Gold is nearby.
A single piece of Fair Gold will activate
one of your gifts (and its upgrades) until
the following Dawn, including any of its
upgrades. Each Neo has a slot on their
body where they can insert the coin –
normally the neck, but you may vary.
NEOTECH
You always have an AI system and basic
ability to access the Fair Field—an in-
visible technological data network. Your
AI system is capable of talking with you
and performing basic tasks relating to
your gifts and upgrades.
You are wearing (Defence 0):
† Black leather, studs and chrome,
white leather, bleach and catsuits
† Billowing black cloak and sinister
scarlet eyes
† Exposed metallic exoskeleton and
vat-grown muscle
† Something else: 
GIFTS OF THE FAIR
The Neo has access to otherworldly cy-
berpunk technology—robotic limbs, loyal
automatons, smart weapons, and more—
known as gifts. When creating your Neo,
select one techno-magical gift from the
Gifts sheet, and one of its upgrades.
Gifts all have narrative effects in addition
to mechanical ones; they allow you to per-
form suitable associated tasks. A jetpack
lets you fly. A teleporter lets you teleport.
You can only take a single upgrade
marked Defensive unless an advancement
says otherwise. If not stated otherwise,
Upgrades can be picked multiple times.
OVERCHARGE
You can use extra Fair Gold to simulate
an upgrade in a one-off fashion. To
overcharge an activated gift, describe
your desired effect. The GM sets a cost
(in gold) to achieve this effect.

THE CORE MECHANIC To use your Neotech to hack Fallen, One gold is enough to temporarily
1 GET 1 DIE PER computers, automated systems and remove a Gift’s limitations, extend its
STAT POINT anything technological, roll a dice pool capacities or ape an Upgrade.
2 ADVANTAGE: +1 based on your Int. Each success lets you
DISADVANTAGE: -1 bypass a particular problem your target Two gold is enough to improve the gift
3 ROLL THE DICE 6 5 4 3 is causing. The dice pool has Special: in several ways.
actively subvert the system to perform
4 KEEP ALL 4+ DICE 6 5 4 3 one action. Three or more gold let you perform
truly spectacular feats.
5 LOSE 1 DICE PER 6 5 4
DIFFICULTY Spend the gold, and roll your D10:
6 SUCCEED IF ANY
DICE REMAIN • If the result is odd, it works perfectly.
7 SPEND 6+s FOR 6 5 • If it’s even, it mostly works but
SPECIALS something goes amiss.
 CHOSEN OF DEUS EX

NEO ADVANCEMENTS
THE FAIR MACHINA

NEW GIFT
UPGRADE UPGRADE
UPGRADE UPGRADE
You acquire another gift of the Fair. How did you get it?
Choose one: gain a new Gift, or Upgrade an existing Gift. HACK-
ROMANCER NEW GIFT THE BIG SCORE
UPGRADE UPGRADE

You’re getting better at harnessing your gifts. Pick an extra

upgrade on one of them.
SICK-ASS RIDE NEW GIFT
UPGRADE
GOLD SOURCE
At the start of each day, you receive one Fair Gold via a reason-
ably safe method. What is it? NEW GIFT
UPGRADE NEW GIFT
SICK-ASS RIDE
You can create, summon or otherwise generate a vehicle that
can transport the rest of the party, and a couple of friends. GOLD SOURCE NEW GIFT PAWN SHOP

When in this form, you travel as fast as a horse. START

WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE? WHERE DOES IT COME FROM?
† 1950s sci-fi, all chrome † You summon it
† 2010s heavy-duty serious tech † It emerges from your body
† 2070s bleeding-edge cyberpunk † You transform into it HACKROMANCER
† Something else † Something else The Neo gains the ability to create a beacon that gathers Fallen.
When the beacon is activated with a piece of Fair Gold, it is as
When you pick this ability, you can choose one of the follow- if the heavens opened and a biblical flood of Fallen fell upon
ing upgrades. Any time you choose an upgrade from now on, the land. You do not control these Fallen.
you can upgrade your SICK-ASS RIDE instead.
DEUS EX MACHINA
† It can travel underwater. † It can reach orbit. You have gained access to a god-machine, capable of miraculous
† It can travel in a vacuum. † It can fly at the speed of the feats. It can do one impossible thing, but not before it’s fuelled by
† It can carry another party’s fastest airborne creature in an impossibly rare material. When activated, it will achieve what
worth of people. the world. Every time you it does, and then consuming its fuel and shut down.
† The engine is silent. take this, double its speed. WHAT FORM IS IT? WHAT POWERS IT?
† A deserted, confused † Fair Gold purified and distilled
PAWN SHOP spaceship. by a difficult, obscure method.
The Neo has an extradimensional contact who has an interest † A mecha suit missing † A bottled aspect of a god.
in certain objects. They’ve agreed to buy them in exchange for a limb. † The possibility of one of your
Fair Gold; a fair price for services rendered. † A naive pet AI-god. dreams ever being real.
WHO IS THIS CONTACT? WHAT DO THEY WANT? † Something else † Something else
† A single Fair, turned eccentric † An exquisite meal they’ve
from the loss of their other half never eaten before CHOSEN OF THE FAIR
† A demon prince with a † A secret that would ruin You gain a special relationship with the Fair, and are able to
crooked halo someone’s life come to an understanding with them—at least, as much as
† A time-traveller in some † Skulls of unusual species, but anyone can understand the Fair. Reselect your gifts and up-
manner of public convenience. only once for any single species grades in a burst of apotheosis. You gain the ability to summon
† Something else † Something else the Fair once a session with a strange ritual.

THE BIG SCORE AT LEVEL 10: AN INTERESTING DECISION

You have become aware of how to rip off an entity for Fair
Gold. You gain 2 gold every morning as long as you keep up
the con or racket. Once a session, the GM can tweak the plot
to explore the difficulties of maintaining the enterprise.
If your Big Score is discovered, you lose the gold income until
you can re-establish the scheme - or start a new one.
WHAT’S THE CON?
† You’re skimming Fair Gold from the local Neo guild
† You’ve convinced a cult that their god wants them to offer
up Fair Gold
† You’ve found the back door to a Reality Mine
† You’re running a fake protection scheme, where people
think they’re paying off a Mayfly Dragon.
† You’re running a pyramid scheme where people think they’re
buying their very own eternal-life-guaranteed pyramid.
† Something else
You are confronted by two of the Fair. They explain that you’re
a creature of both worlds, perfectly balanced between the two.
As such, the Fair will give you an interesting decision – to ac-
cept a gift or not. One Fair says that if they take the gift, if they
leave Die and return to reality, there will be no consequences.
The other says that if they take the gift, if they leave Die and
return to reality, they will suffer a consequence as a result of
this decision.You may then choose to accept the gift or not.
It is an interesting decision.
If you accept, gain access to a single gift with an upgrade of
your choice. If not, you get nothing. Whatever your choice,
you gain the ability to have a second Defensive upgrade.
If you return to Earth, roll a D10. IfSTART
it’s even, the first Fair was
correct and you suffer no consequences. On an odd number,
the second Fair was correct, and you suffer a consequence
from having accepted this gift.
 NEO GIFTS
 Gun  ACTIVATED
The Fair have gifted you with an arcane
firearm. Works as a normal ranged weapon
without being activated.
Explosive. Your ranged attacks gain:
Special: apply an extra individual hit to
another target in the vicinity.
Homing. Your ranged attacks gain:
Special: this individual hit—not the whole
attack—bypasses Guard.
AI-Assisted Targeting. The gun’s attacks
ignore all environmental Disadvantages.
Phasers to Stun. The gun’s non-lethal attacks
ignore all Disadvantages.
Trick Shooting. The Gun can fire precisely
enough to act as a form of telekinesis: you
can knock on windows, ring doorbells, open
doors and perform other feats of accuracy.
Tracking. Its attacks gain Special: the target
can be reliably traced for 24 hours.
Sniper. You can shoot as far as you can see.
Sentry Gun. The gun can be left behind to
guard a stationary position, and obey a simple
set of orders. When it’s next activated, it
instantly appears in the Neo’s hands.
 Light Field Projector  ACTIVATED
You can generate an utterly convincing visual
illusion or make yourself practically invisible.
Reactive Combat Invisibility (Defensive).
Gain +1 Defence.
Invisibility Field. You may make one other
human-sized creature invisible.
Enhanced Invisibility. In addition to sight,
your sound, smell, psychic aura and trace
magical energy are also concealed.
Distance Projection. Your illusion continues
when you leave an area.
Active Update. You can project an illusion
onto yourself in real-time as a disguise.
Immersion Enhancement. Your illusion can
create sounds, smells and physical feedback
akin to a 4D cinema experience.
 Force Field  ACTIVATED
You’re able to create and reshape an energy
field in your vicinity. This force field has Health
equal to your Int.
Active Defense Protocol (Defensive). Your Guard
is now equal to your Int plus your Dex.
Autonomous Field. You can create a force
field in your vicinity which will remain after
you leave the area. It can take damage equal
to your Int before collapsing. Attacking and
damaging this force field has Difficulty 1.
Kinetic Redirection. All attacks on anything
protected by your force field gain:
Mandatory Special: Restore 1 Health to the
active forcefield.
Buddy-Help™ Protocol. The rest of the party
are protected with a supplementary micro-
force field. They gain +1 Guard.
 Energy Weapon  ACTIVATED
You have a searing energy weapon. If you wish,
you may use Dex for its dice pool instead of Str.
Works as a normal blade without being activated.
Phantom. Your close combat attacks gain:
Special: this individual hit—not the whole
attack—bypasses Guard.
Searing. Your close combat attacks gain:
Special: ignite opponent, doing 1 hit per
round until extinguished.
Neurosleep. Your close combat attacks gain:
Special: target is hit by a sedative. If they are
hit by a sedative a number of times equal to
their Con, they fall unconscious.
Returning. When thrown, the weapon
returns to the Neo.
Cleave. Your close combat attacks gain:
Double-Special: apply this whole attack to
another target within range.
Fatality! Your close combat attacks gain:
Special: if this attack kills an opponent,
describe a particularly horrific death sequence.
All opponents capable of being horrified in
the area suffer 1 Disadvantage when fighting
you for the rest of the encounter.
 Pet  ACTIVATED
You have an awesome cybernetic pet. When
summoned, it’s also autonomous and capable
of following instructions. Its Defence is the
same as yours. Any Wound inflicted on your
pet is transferred to you. When Wounded, it
dematerialises and reappears beside you.
Distracting. If your pet assists you in an
attack, you gain Special: remove 2 Guard.
Tracker. If given a sample of a target, the pet
can lead you to it.
Alert. The pet alerts you to any ambush
before it happens – you always start with
full Guard.
Gold Hunter. Your pet can be sent to scavenge
fair gold, and will return with the gold
after the next encounter (longer if the GM
wishes). Roll your Int pool and find 1 Fair
Gold on a success, with: Special: gain an
extra gold.
Protective. If an attack would kill the Neo
and the pet is present, the pet can sacrifice
itself to negate the attack. The Pet deactivates,
disappearing in a shower of light, and must
be reactivated to bring it back.
 Wetwork  ACTIVATED
Your body and blood have been upgraded.
You heal quicker, tire slower, can perform feats
of physical strength and endurance, and have
active control of your body’s systems.
Reflex Boost. You always act first in any
initiative order.
Speed Boost. All your actions gain:
Special: take an extra move. You can’t be
attacked during this move.
Instant Reflexes (Defensive). Gain +1 Defence.
Horsepower. You can move twice as fast or
far as normal.
Regeneration (Defensive). Heal 1 Health per
round. Fully heal between combats.
Resurrection Protocol. If you die, roll a Con
pool at the end of the combat with:
Special: return to life.
 Full AI Enhancement  ACTIVATED
You augment your AI to access its full
potential. When you’re hacking, include your
D10 in the roll.
Information Database. Choose the AI’s
specialist subject. The smaller the area, the
more complete the knowledge.
Hacking Protocol Interface. If you manually
interface with a system, you’re immune to
any physical feedback on a failure.
Subpersonality. Your AI simulates a single
known person, living or dead, who can be
interrogated and questioned.
BioHacking Extension. Choose one group of
creatures; you can hack them like Fallen.
Fallen Leash. You can control a hacked
Fallen indefinitely, as if you’d rolled a
Special every round. You can control one
Fallen at a time for each time you’ve taken
this upgrade.
 Cybernetic Enhancement  ACTIVATED
A powered exoskeleton grows over and
through your body, rendering you an
armoured fighting machine capable of feats of
supernatural strength and resilience.
Hardcase (Defensive). Gain +1 Defence.
Energy Gun. You have a built-in gun.
Pick one Gun upgrade. You cannot add
further upgrades.
Energy Weapon. You have a built in energy
weapon. Pick one Energy Weapon upgrade.
You cannot add further upgrades.
Sensory Array. Your senses expand into a
generalised radar in the locale, and you can
see through obstacles.
Reactor. You have a reactor in your
exoskeleton. When activated, it gains three
charges used in the place of Fair Gold for the
sole purpose of overcharging your other gifts.
Sealed. You can survive in hard vacuum
and other outlandish environments. You no
longer need to eat. If you do ingest poison
somehow, it doesn’t affect you.
Jetpack. You can fly at the speed of the
fastest airborne creature in the world. Each
time you take this, your speed doubles.
 Blink Teleporter  ACTIVATED
You can chain together short-distance teleports,
about as far as you could jump with a run up.
Combat Shift Protocol (Defensive).
Gain +1 Defence.
Optic Triangulation. You can teleport
anywhere you can see.
Duo Port. You can teleport one other person
with you.
Telefrag. You can use your teleportation
offensively by teleporting something inside
your target. Your melee attacks gain:
Special: target suffers 1 Wound.
Shift-TK. You can teleport small nearby objects.
Retrieve Protocol. Once a day, you can attune
to any object you can lift. It can then be
teleported to you, from any distance.
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THE GODBINDER CLASS DICE: D12
GUIDANCE
YOUR NAME: You can add your D12 to your dice pool any time a god’s power is influencing
it, whether Scripture or Miracle. If it rolls a 1 on a Scripture, gain God Debt.

STATS 

All stats start at 2, plus 2 points assigned as you wish.
Get an extra point on levels 3, 6, 9 and 12 (max 4).

Str Dex Con Int Wis Cha

Guard =Dex Health =Con Willpower Defence

Resets at the Lose Guard =Wis+Int Set by Gear
start of each fight before Health

EQUIPMENT PICK ONE YOUR LOOK PICK ONE

† Two-handed hammer, heavy You are wearing (Defence 0):
protection (Defence 1) † Heavy-metal holy crusader, looking
† Quarterstaff (Special: recover 1 Guard), for trouble
robes or loincloth † Beatific holy seer, looking for peace
† Worn leather gear, dagger or † Wild tattoos, frenzied eyes, looking
knuckledusters, a set of knives in a for drugs
carefully concealed hiding place † Urbane street magician, looking for
the gold in someone’s pocket
† Something else: 

You don’t believe in gods. CONTRACT WITH GOD

They exist, obviously. You owe the Fire
God for that time he burned that fortress,
and you’ve got that favour from the God
of the Wild when you saved her rainforest.
But believe? That’s a strong word.
You don’t believe in gods. You believe
in tools. Useful tools.
Because if you think about it, the
difference between “cleric” and “demon-
ologist” is the same as the one between
“freedom fighter” and “terrorist.”
Choose one of the gods from the Gods sheet: this is the god you have a special rela-
tionship with. What’s their name? You have the first level of a relationship with the god,
with all the benefits described in its entry.
SCRIPTURE
All Godbinders gain access to three basic spells – Scriptures shared between all gods:
<Noun> Blast Heal Detect <Noun>
Attack a target in Heals 1 Health to a character Determines if any of the
medium range. within a short distance. Max 1 <noun> is within a short
use per character per encounter. distance.
<Noun> can be any noun related to the god; for example, The God of The Wild could fire thorn-blasts and detect wildlife.

PLAY A GODBINDER IF YOU WANT TO….
• Unleash the power of a pantheon of
your own design on the world.
• Barter with your gods for anything
you want… for a price.
• Deal with the awful costs of
the deals.
THE CORE MECHANIC
1 GET 1 DIE PER task is completed.
STAT POINT
To cast a Scripture, roll a Wis dice pool plus your D12 with a Difficulty of 0
(see Guidance). If you succeed, the Scripture works as described in its entry.
GOD DEBT
God Debt determines whether you owe a god, or a god owes you. For each god, you
can accrue up to 5 God Debt. You may also be in credit to a god up to -5 God Debt.
God Debt can be called at any time it’s positive, with the god requesting a task of you:
If accepted and completed, If accepted and failed, If refused, the Godbinder
the God Debt is removed the God Debt stays the suffers 1 Wound for every
and the God is satisfied the same as the God is not point of God Debt the
yet satisfied. God chooses to remove.

2 ADVANTAGE: +1 You can remove God Debt by acting in a manner according to the god’s desires. A
DISADVANTAGE: -1 Godbinder may be proactive and suggest particular acts to the gods.
3 ROLL THE DICE 6 5 4 3
MIRACLES
4 KEEP ALL 4+ DICE 6 5 4 3 At any point, you can speak to a god and Costs might include…
request a Miracle. If the god is willing, • Taking on God Debt
5 LOSE 1 DICE PER 6 5 4 they’ll give you a cost in exchange for • Performing a specific task for them
DIFFICULTY the Miracle. If you agree, the Miracle immediately
6 SUCCEED IF ANY happens. If not, it doesn’t. If you break • Owing them an open ended favour
DICE REMAIN a promise made here, the spurned god • Making a specific promise you will
7 SPEND 6s FOR 6 5 immediately gets God Debt according to fulfil in the future
SPECIALS the scale of the Miracle.
 GODBINDER ADVANCEMENTS
HEAD OF A NEW
RELIGION COVENANT

CHOOSE LEVEL IN GOD NEW LEVEL NEW LEVEL

Add a level in an existing or new god. Describe how you IN GOD IN GOD
bettered or founded your relationship with this god. NEW LEVEL IN NEW LEVEL IN
GOD GOD
MYSTERIOUS WAYS
Choose one: GOD
HERETIC NEW GIFT BANKING
† Godly Commandment. One of your gods gives you a specific
NEW LEVEL IN
repeatable task to fulfil. You and your GM collaborate to GOD
decide what this is. Every time you fulfil this task, reduce
your God Debt by one. MYSTERIOUS NEW LEVEL
† Good Works. Between adventures you automatically reduce WAYS IN GOD
your God Debt by one. Describe the act of devotion or NEW LEVEL IN
GOD
servitude you did to do so.
† Uncovering Scripture. You uncover a lost Scripture of a god.
NEW LEVEL
Look in the Master’s Grimoire (p. 370) for a spell whose IN GOD
Risk is no higher than your levels in the god multiplied by MYSTERIOUS NEW LEVEL IN
5. This can now be cast as Scripture for that god. Decide: WAYS GOD
was this scripture lost, hidden or destroyed, and why?
HIGHER NEW LEVEL GOING
GOING ROGUE SCRIPTURE IN GOD ROGUE
When a god calls in debt and you don’t pay, you may break START
contract with them rather than suffer the punishment. Instead:
• Double your debt to that god; if you ever make contact
with that god again, the god will call in the increased debt
for 1 Wound per debt remaining, as per usual. This will HEAD OF RELIGION
likely kill you. You’re the head (official or otherwise) of a god’s worship. If there’s a
• You lose access to all the Scriptures for that god, and are suitable cult in the fiction, use it. If not, there’s a new cult; collabo-
unable to use Good Works or Godly Commandments to reduce rate with the GM to define it. Any Believers from Wicked or Divine
the God Debt. Any God Debt reduction will solely come will convert to your faith. You may move any or all of your levels
from the narrative. in gods to the god whose religion you are now in charge of. Any
• The god will do the godly equivalent of sending bailiffs. A unpaid debt to each god is kept and paid off as per Going Rogue.
GM may spend the player’s debt to have unfortunate events
related to the god’s area of power occur - one debt per The religion is a faction in the Great Game. If you make the
event. This will target you and likely anyone or anything cult act in a way that’s against the tenets of its religion, roll a
you hold dear. Wis dice pool, with Difficulty equal to your total levels in other
gods. If you took Heretic, increase this Difficulty by 2.
If the debt is paid off, the relationship returns to normal, and
you regain all you powers. If you take A New Covenant, immediately forfeit all this power.

GOD BANKING A NEW COVENANT

Between sessions you can broker a deal between two of your
gods, and move debt from one to the other. Describe how this
deal works.
HERETIC
Choose one of your gods. You now understand a fundamen-
tal truth about this god that all other believers in the religion
deny. What is it?
Gain two Trust in that god. All believers of the mainstream
faith view you with suspicion at best and hatred at worst.
WICKED OR DIVINE
You’ve been working in the realm of the gods for a while and
gained a reputation - for better or worse. Choose one:
† Divine. You become known as a holy figure. You are widely
respected by those who believe in this religion and have a
specific group of Believers. What is your teaching? How did
people come to know of it? What do they call you?
† Wicked. One of your gods gives you a debt-bonded servant.
Choose an existing NPC (or steed) to fill the role, or collab-
orate with GM to invent someone new using the secondary
character rules (p. 280).
You make a new god. Collaborate with the GM to create its
nature. It can be a whole-cloth creation based on your person-
ality, an NPC who ascends to the position, or something else.
You gain a level in the new god and may immediately move
any of your existing levels into this new god. Collaborate with
the GM to select or design its three Scriptures. Any Believers
from Wicked or Divine will convert to this new faith.
AT LEVEL 12: YOUR HERESY IS NOTED.
At level 12, your heresy is noted. A god who you have no levels
in gets jealous. How can you not care about me at all? Why
don’t you slip into my DMs! Your other gods glare. Don’t you
dare pay them attention.
You may re-arrange all the levels you have in your gods. To work
out how each god feels about your decision, go down this list.
Entries further down the list overrule those higher up.
1. If a god’s level is higher than when they started, they’re happy.
2. If a god’s level is lower than when they started, they’re
unhappy. Gain one God Debt.
START happy.
3. If a god’s level is the highest, they’re
4. If a god’s level was highest and now they’re not, they’re
unhappy. Gain one God Debt.
5. If a god’s level is zero, they’re furious. Gain two God Debt.
 GODS
THE GOD OF LIGHT
LEVEL  DEBT  TRUST 
The classic god of healing and protection,
though “caring” need not mean “kind”. 
1 Healing Light: Heal a target within a short
distance. 1 Health healed per success, up to
your level in this god.
Special: 1 extra Health healed.
Special: inflicts a disadvantage on anyone
attacking the target for the rest of an encounter.
Special: target gains an advantage to any
attack made against creatures of darkness for
the rest of the encounter.
2 Bless: For each success you roll, bless
a nearby target. For this encounter, all
attempts to attack the target(s) suffer a Disad-
vantage, and their attacks gain:
Special: if this hit Wounds a creature of dark-
ness, it deals 2 Wounds instead.
3 Divine Light: Ranged attack, single target,
far range.
Special: blind target for rest of the encounter,
inflicting at least 2 disadvantages on anything
requiring sight.
Special: if this hit Wounds, it deals 2 instead.
THE UNDERWORLD GOD
LEVEL  DEBT  TRUST 
Some death gods are loving. Some are hateful.
They each have a place for us all.
1 The Skeletons: For every success, sum-
mon one stop-motion skeleton or similar
bone-construct per level in this god. All their
stats are 2, and they have Health 2, Guard
0 and Defence 0. They follow your orders,
but are otherwise non-sentient. Casting the
Scripture again will destroy all skeletons from
a previous casting.
2 The Reaper: Summon a weapon of bone
and death. Decide its look. A scythe is
traditional, but you can define it how you
wish each time you cast this spell.
Choose whether it attacks in melee (with
either Str or Dex) or ranged (with Dex, Int or
Wis). Gain an advantage on all attacks with
this weapon and on any attempts to
intimidate living beings.
Special: if this hit Wounds, heal 1 Health to any
target.
Special: if this hit Wounds, it deals 2 instead.
3 The Bell Tolls: Requires a bell or similar
object. Once per encounter, ring it to roll
a Wis dice pool and use it to attack everyone
within earshot except the Godbinder.
Special: the target is struck by a vision of how
they’ve wasted their life. They are stunned for
a round of combat as they wrestle with the
existential horror.
Gain 1 Trust for every level above 3. Each point of Trust lets you avoid marking a God Debt 1/session.
THE GOD OF EXCESS
LEVEL  DEBT  TRUST 
A god of inebriation, delight, sensuality and
pure, impure hedonism.
1 Party Hard: Target feels a supernatural
high. For every level in this god, you can
affect an extra target. Describe how this high
makes everyone feel and choose one of the
following effects (applied to all targets):
• Attacks on them gain a Disadvantage as
their pain is numbed.
• Their close combat attacks get an Advantage
from an adrenaline rush.
• They can see the unseen and other realms.
All actions of those targeted gain Mandatory
Double-Special: “I don’t feel so good any more.”
They become sick and lose this spell’s bonus, suffer-
ing a Disadvantage for the rest of the encounter.
2 Blackout Drunk: Make all mortal hu-
man-sized or smaller individuals within
close range of a point fall asleep. Roll your Wis
pool and compare successes to each target’s
highest Stat. If you match or exceed the target’s
score, they fall asleep. Targets may be awoken
by any normal means. When they are roused,
they suffer a Disadvantage on all actions
during the encounter from the headache.
3 Higher State of Consciousness: Alter your
mental bounds of perception and roll a
Wis pool. On a success, for this encounter:
•
•
You’re intangible
You’re invulnerable to physical attacks
•
and can fly
You can attack psychically using Wis
• All rolls gain Special: Ask the GM a
question and they will answer you, if
possibly in an overtly faux-profound way.
THE GOD OF THE WILD
LEVEL  DEBT  TRUST 
A god of animals, plant life and all things
druidic.
1
Furious Briars: Create an area of aggressive
plant life which attacks all enemies within
close range of you every round for the rest of
the encounter, dealing 1 damage per success
up to your level in this god. You can move
freely through the area.
Special: immobilize target, Str test to break free.
2 Summon Beast: Summon a beast that
lives in the habitat you’re presently in. It
obeys you for an encounter. The beast’s stats all
begin at 2. For every success you roll, increase a
stat by 1, up to your level in this god.
3 Animal Form: Transform into a hulking
beast of your choice. You gain temporary
Health equal to the successes rolled. If your Str
is lower than your Wis, your Str is temporarily
increased to match. You can revert at will.
THE FIRE GOD
LEVEL  DEBT  TRUST 
A god of immolation, passion, destruction
and perhaps invention.
1 Fire Blast: Ranged attack, single target,
medium range.
Special: ignite foe, inflicting 1 hit per round
until extinguished.
Special: this attack also affects an extra close
target (up to your levels in this god).
2 Living Inferno: Transform target into a liv-
ing inferno for the length of an encounter.
Target is immune to flame damage and their
attacks gain: Special: ignite foe, inflicting 1 Hit
per round until extinguished.
3
Phoenix: Requires a dead body to cast.
From it bursts an enormous flying bird,
wreathed in a fire which only harms your ene-
mies. Once it starts to fight, it lasts til the end of
the encounter. The phoenix can carry the party
and a few others. The phoenix has Str 3, Dex
3 and Health 3, and its attacks have Special:
ignite foe, inflicting 1 Hit/round til extinguished.
THE ELDRITCH GOD
LEVEL  DEBT  TRUST 
A god beyond our imaginations, wrapping its
cold tentacles around existence. Its believers
tend to end up dead. Be careful.
1 Sacrificial Knife: Summon an unholy blade
of eldritch design. To use, inflict 1 Wound
on yourself and gain a number of Advantages
equal to your level in the god on your attack.
Special: if this hit kills a living target, remove
one debt to the Eldritch God.
2 Frenzy of the Abyss-Touched: Begin chant-
ing an awful liturgy. Everyone that joins
in gets the following effects:
• Gain an advantage on all attacks
• Gain temporary Health equal to their own
Con
• Lose all Guard
Special: remove one debt to the Eldritch God
and give a participant one debt to the god,
which the Eldritch God can call on as per usual
Godbinder rules.
3 Summon Abomination: With a fresh corpse
killed with the Sacrificial Knife, you can
summon an abomination which remains until
dawn (or until you dismiss it) For every success
in your dice pool when summoning, you can
describe an aspect of its appearance and that
aspect’s implicit capabilities.
It has Str 4, Con 4 and Health 4.
Its attacks have Double-Special: the target’s
mind temporarily collapses, they fall to the
floor in a catatonic state.
Its actions and the summoning roll have
Mandatory Triple-Special: it breaks free of the
Godbinder’s control.
START
 GODS
THE FATE GOD
LEVEL  DEBT  TRUST 
The embodiment of destiny. Perhaps solemn.
Perhaps far more mischievous.
1 Prophecy: You get sharp visions of future
events. Roll a Wis dice pool and count the
successes. For every level in this god you have,
add Special: add 1 extra success. You can spend
each success to add either an Advantage or
Disadvantage to any roll for the rest of the
encounter. When you do so, describe the fate
you saw and how your sudden action tried
to avert it. You can spend no more than your
level in the god on any one roll. You lose all
unspent successes if you re-cast this spell.
2 Tragic Fate: Ranged attack, single target,
medium range. You give a vivid psychic
vision of an awful fate that awaits the target.
In addition to doing damage, for the rest of
the encounter they suffer a Disadvantage on
all actions from sheer existential horror. You
can only use this on any given target once
per encounter.
Special: you know what the vision was.
3 Avatar of Destiny: You commit yourself
to the web of fate, for better or worse.
For the length of the encounter, your every
action is what must happen, to best effect. If
your Wis is higher than your Dex, your maxi-
mum Guard is now equal to your Wis and you
set it to full. All your attacks gain:
Special: this hit causes 2 hits.
Special: recover 2 Guard.
Mandatory Double-Special: you suffer a
calamity and fall to 0 health. Describe how.
THE TRICKSTER GOD
LEVEL  DEBT  TRUST 
For the smartest person in the room, the
smartest god in the pantheon. Trouble.
1 The Last Place You Look: Roll a Wis pool
and gain +1 temporary Guard for each
success, up to your levels in this god. For each
level in this god you have, add:
Special: gain an extra temporary Guard.
If you recast the spell, lose all temporary Guard.
2 Distraction: A catastrophic illusion
startles everyone in a close area.
Everyone except you suffers 1 disadvantage.
Special: a specific individual can safely leave,
unobserved.
3 Backstab: Must be cast whilst hold-
ing a symbolic, prepared dagger. If a
target is unaware of your presence or has an
unguarded back for you to stab in, your next
attack gains:
Special: this hit bypasses Guard
Double-Special: all the hits in this attack
bypass Guard
Special: any enemies are now unaware of
your presence
Special: you gain knowledge of one secret of
the target.
Special: one person close to target will betray
them in a significant and painful way in the
next week.
Gain 1 Trust for every level above 3. Each point of Trust lets you avoid marking a God Debt 1/session.
THE WAR GOD
LEVEL  DEBT  TRUST 
There are no atheists in trenches.
1 Enchanted Weapon: Choose one weapon
you are holding. It gains an advantage on
attacks until the end of the encounter, as well
as the following specials.
Special: a ridiculously powerful-looking blast
happens when you make the attack.
Special: angelic choirs sing as you strike.
Special: you look absolutely amazing when
you do this.
2 The Right Stuff: Once per encounter,
gain combat wisdom by rolling a Wis
pool and counting the successes. For every
level in this god you have, add Special: add
1 extra success. For the rest of this encounter,
you can spend these successes to add one of
the following Specials to any allied target’s
roll after they roll:
Special: add 1 extra success to this roll.
Special: recover 1 Guard.
Double-Special: recover 1 Health.
3 Godly Frenzy: Let slip the gods of war. Gain
temporary extra Health equal to your
level in this god. All your attacks gain:
Special: if this hit Wounds, it deals 2 instead.
Mandatory Triple-Special: if possible, this
attack hits a friendly target.
THE FORGE GOD
LEVEL  DEBT  TRUST 
God of craft, technology and all those who
work by their hands and their mind.
1 My Robot Friend: Summon a human-sized
construct friend, redolent with your
Forge God’s aesthetic, who can follow orders
for the length of an encounter. Casting this
again dispels your pre-existing Robot Friend.
For each level you have in this god, gain
Special: you can pick an extra upgrade for
your robot friend.
ROBOT FRIEND
All Stats are 2. It has Guard 2, Health 2, Will-
power 4, Defence 0.
Abilities: Cannot fight.
For each level you have in the god, pick an
upgrade (each can be picked more than once):
• +1 Str (max 4) • It can fight.
• +1 Con (max 4) • It’s invulnerable to a
• +1 Defence (max 4) hazard (fire, cold, etc).
2 Divine Hammer: Summon a magical
hammer for the length of an encounter.
Ranged attack, single target, medium range.
Uses Str. Special: knocks over target.
You can target your robot friend to heal instead
of harm – each hit heals 1 Health.
3 My Robot Fiend: Expands My Robot Friend
with new options:
• It can fly.
• Once an encounter, it can unleash a blast
that attacks everyone in a room at once.
Special: ignite foe, doing 1 hit per round
until extinguished.
• It’s the size of a giant. Set its Health to
double its Con.
• It is an expert in a particular topic.
THE STORM GOD
LEVEL  DEBT  TRUST 
The elements unleashed, raging, and some-
what paternalistic.
1 Lightning Blast: Ranged attack, single
target, long range. Can attack one target
per level in this god.
Special: deeply frazzled, the target suffers 1
disadvantage on their next action.
2
Stormdancer: If you’re beneath a cloudy
sky, you and the party are transformed
into lightning bolts and propelled in the sky.
You return to the earth at a place of your
choosing, anywhere beneath the same sky.
Special: the GM answers one question about
the land beneath you as you travelled.
Mandatory Special: one person’s hair stands
vertically for the rest of the day.
3
Summon Lightning: When in an area
with a storm, you can attack with a
huge lightning strike.
Special: if this Wounds, it deals 2 instead.
Special: an additional nearby target is hit.
Double-Special: if this Wounds, it deals 2
Wounds instead.
THE SEA GOD
LEVEL  DEBT  TRUST 
A god of the ocean, in its stillness and its rage.
1 The Drowning: Ranged attack, single tar-
get, medium range. Fill the target’s lungs
with water. This spell can hit as many targets
as you have levels in this god.
Special: this hit bypasses Guard and, if the
target needs to breathe air, they suffer
2 disadvantages on their next turn.
2
Scale Armour: You can summon the
fish-scale armour of the knight of the sea.
Describe the armour when you summon it.
The armour remains until the next dawn; if
you want to dismiss it before then, gain one
God Debt. To summon this armour, roll a Wis
pool. For every success, pick one:
• If your Defence is 0, increase Defence to 1
• Survive indefinitely beneath water and
walk on water
• Your attacks gain Special: electrocute
target—they suffer one Disadvantage on
their next action
• Pitch a minor water-based ability to the
GM. Talk to a specific fish species? Follow
squid pheromones? Eat plankton? The
GM gets to say yes or no.
3 The Great Flood: Waves crash into the
surrounding area as if from nowhere,
and the water level rapidly begins to rise.
Roll a Wis pool to summon the flood. On a
success, the flood is here. You can walk on
the water, or move through it without penal-
ty; everyone else suffers one Disadvantage to
all actions. Special: raise the water further—
everyone suffers a 2nd disadvantage.
START
Every turn the water remains, choose one effect:
• Attack everyone in the water with
murderous fish
• Attack a single target with murderous fish
THE MASTER CLASS DICE: D20
GM VERSION MASTERY
Your Master has Mastery: they can add their D20 when casting spells.
YOUR NAME: If they do, the dice roll has the 20-special (activated on a 20):
20-Special: this success counts as two successes.

STATS 

All stats start at 2, plus 2 points assigned as you wish.
Get an extra point on levels 3, 6, 9 and 12 (max 4).

Str Dex Con Int Wis Cha

Guard =Dex Health =Con Willpower Defence

Resets at the Lose Guard =Wis+Int Set by Gear
start of each fight before Health

EQUIPMENT PICK ONE YOUR LOOK PICK ONE

† Quarterstaff. Special: recover 1 Guard. You are wearing (Defence 0):
† An elegant handgun. † Wizard robes straight out of a 1980s
Special: if a hit Wounds, it does 2 kids fantasy cartoon.
Wounds against unarmoured foes. † Killer suits straight off a 1980s corpo-
† A huge tome. Advantage on tasks rate bad guy.
involving research, heavy enough to † Fetish-wear straight out of a 1990s
be an improvised club. vampire LARP
† Something else:  † Something else: 

Who rules? HARDCORE CHEATING MY WORLD, MY RULES

The Master is the magic user as a reality The Master’s control of the rules is such
manipulator. Sometimes you change the they can actively break them. This is
laws of physics. Sometimes you change called Cheating: altering the game in a
the laws of the game. Sometimes you special way. You can only safely use these
change the laws of fiction. abilities by spending Cheat Tokens.
The Rules rule, and you rule the Rules. At the start of each session, gain Cheat
And you never, ever cheat. Tokens equivalent to the number of
Ever. other players in the game. When a com-
bat begins, check the number of players
Oh, this is the GM section. We can be
who are opposing the Master. If you have
honest.
more Cheat Tokens than players who
You cheat all the time. are opposing you, reduce your Cheat
Tokens to that number.
To cheat, spend a Cheat Token (and in
PLAY THE MASTER IF YOU WANT TO…. combat, use an action), then pick an effect:
• Facilitate the game. • A miraculous event: Teleport to es-
• Break the rules of space, time and cape. Create a temptation that fulfills
narrative to cast powerful magic a desire. Summon a hugely powerful
• Cheat reality to get what you want at monster. Create a fortress. Regain
great risk your mastery. Bend a rule.
• Undo the effects of what has just hap-
pened: Uniquely, this can be done as an
THE CORE MECHANIC instant response (i.e. if you are killed,
1 GET 1 DIE PER you regenerate from the harm.)
STAT POINT
2 ADVANTAGE: +1 If you have no cheat tokens remaining,
DISADVANTAGE: -1 you can still Cheat, but are risking your
3 ROLL THE DICE 6 5 4 3 existence. Hide your D20 in one of two
identical hiding places (e.g. your hands).
4 KEEP ALL 4+ DICE 6 5 4 3 Another player picks a hiding place.
5 LOSE 1 DICE PER 6 5 4 • If they choose incorrectly, you get
DIFFICULTY away with it and the effect happens.
6 SUCCEED IF ANY • If they find it, the Powers That Be
DICE REMAIN notice you. These are the judges of
7 SPEND 6+s FOR 6 5 all reality, and they do not approve of
SPECIALS Masters cheating. Your Master will not
survive their attention.
The Master has control over the nature of
reality in the world they’re visiting—both
the rules of the world, the rules of the game
and the rules of narrative. This means they
can easily perform magical effects equiva-
lent to anything a powerful wizard can do.
Like any NPC, the Master can perform
any spell you think reasonable and likely,
based upon character conception. They
can fly, throw fireballs, turn invisible, heal
people, create incredible firework displays
and generally be a wizard. The exception
to this is any magical effect potent enough
to match the Hardcore Cheats.
Any attack they make can have
Special: ignite opponent, inflicting 1 hit
per round until extinguished.
MASTER ADVANCEMENT
If your game is including advancement,
Masters advance whenever players do.
The only advance in the basic Master is
to gain a statistic point any time the rest
of the group does. They gain no other
abilities. They’re already brutally power-
ful thanks to the cheat tokens.
 CLASS DICE: D20
THE MASTER RULES MASTERY
PLAYER VERSION You start each session with Mastery. While you have it, you can
YOUR NAME: add your D20 when casting spells. If you do, the dice roll includes
the 20-special (activated on a 20):
20-Special: this success counts as two successes.

STATS 

All stats start at 2, plus 2 points assigned as you wish.
Get an extra point on levels 3, 6, 9 and 12 (max 4).

Str Dex Con Int Wis Cha

Guard =Dex Health =Con Willpower Defence

Resets at the Lose Guard =Wis+Int Set by Gear
start of each fight before Health

EQUIPMENT PICK ONE YOUR LOOK PICK ONE

† Quarterstaff. Special: Recover 1 Guard. You are wearing (Defence 0):
† An elegant handgun. † Wizard robes straight out of a 1980s
Special: If a hit Wounds, it does 2 kids fantasy cartoon.
Wounds against unarmoured foes. † Killer suits straight off a 1980s corpo-
† A huge tome. Advantage on tasks rate bad guy.
involving research, heavy enough to † Fetish-wear straight out of a 1990s
be an improvised club. vampire LARP
† Something else:  † Something else: 

This is a game. Yes, you see a world MY GAME, MY RULES HARDCORE CHEATING
around you… but you know there’s rules Select three rules from the Rules In Full Rules can be bent, stretched and manip-
behind it. And someone running it. Ideal- section overleaf – elements of reality ulated into achieving all kinds of effects,
ly, one day it’s going to be you. Until then, that you can manipulate with magic. You but there’s a greater magic at your control.
you’re creeping around the edges of the have power over these rules, and you do You can break the laws of the universe
game, seeing what you can get away with. not suffer Risk when you add them to entirely; you can cheat. But such blatant
Most people look at you and think spells that you have crafted. disregard for reality comes with a steep
“wizard”. Pfft! Wizards cast spells. You cost if discovered by the Powers That Be.
mess with the rules to get what’s possible To cast a spell, combine as many rules Every Master has a style or a preference
and outright cheat when you need the as you need to get the effect you desire. that determines the kind of cheats they
impossible. The world is a game. That Then, calculate Risk: can perform. What’s yours?
means it’s your plaything. • For every rule you don’t control, add † Gamist Master. You’re into messing
5 Risk. with the rules written in this book.
Until someone notices you. • For every effect doing slightly more Example: characters don’t die when
than the standard rule, add 1 Risk. their health reach 0.
PLAY THE MASTER IF YOU WANT TO…. • For every effect doing massively more † Simulationist Master. You’re into
• Re-arrange rules to create your own than the standard rule, add 5 Risk. messing with the physical laws of the
custom magic spells. world. Example: cause gravity to shift,
• Outright cheat when you need If a spell has more than 20 Risk, it can- summon a storm in a deserts.
something literally impossible. not be cast. Otherwise, if the spell has † Narrativist Master. You’re into messing
• Beg for your life from judgemental any Risk, roll an Int pool including your with the story. Example: exactly the
extradimensional beings when you Mastery D20. right stranger turns up at the right time.
get caught.
• If the D20 result is greater than the To cheat, say what you want to do and the
Risk, you suffer no consequences for GM will describe a punishment if you’re
THE CORE MECHANIC casting the spell. caught. If you wish to continue, take two
1 GET 1 DIE PER • If the D20 result is equal to or less containers (e.g. your hands) and secretly
STAT POINT than the Risk, the Master is caught in hide the D20 in one of them. The GM
2 ADVANTAGE: +1 their Rules Lawyering by the Powers guesses which container the D20 is in:
DISADVANTAGE: -1 That Be. They lose their Mastery, • If they miss the D20, you get away
3 ROLL THE DICE 6 5 4 3 and they can no longer add a D20 to with it and the effect happens.
rolls. If they’ve already lost Mastery • If they find it, the Powers That Be
4 KEEP ALL 4+ DICE 6 5 4 3 this session, the Powers That Be notice you. A trial will begin.
deliver punishment – bodily harm,
5 LOSE 1 DICE PER 6 5 4 vile curses, ironic undoings, instant A trial is a short role-played scene. The
DIFFICULTY death, and worse. See overleaf for Powers That Be appear before you, fully
6 SUCCEED IF ANY more details. aware of the bad thing you’ve done.
DICE REMAIN Prepare to beg for your life, make excus-
7 SPEND 6+s FOR 6 5 es or justify yourself quickly. Good luck.
SPECIALS
 THE ARCANA THE HAND-
MASTER ADVANCEMENTS BOOK

FURTHER FURTHER
NEW RULE MASTERY MASTERY
NEW NEW
Your understanding of the fundamental forces that underpin RULE RULE
reality grows ever deeper. Pick a new rule.
REALM

READING THE RULES THE GUIDE MASTERY

NEW
THE MANUAL

When you enter an environment that is under the power of another RULE
Master (or similar reality-controlling force), you’re aware of it. A DUN-
TO THE GEON OF
• You may roll an Int pool to ask the GM one question per DUNGEON! ONE’S OWN
success about the nature of the realm you’re in. NEW
RULE
• You may roll an Wis pool to ask the GM one question per SLOW
success about the nature of the Master. AND
A fail alerts the Master to your presence. On a critical fail you hit STEADY
NEW NEW
a trap: the Master may attack you with a spell of their choice. RULE RULE

SLOW AND STEADY FURTHER

MASTERY
READING
THE RULES
FURTHER
MASTERY
Between adventures, you may perform a Hardcore Cheat with-
out being caught. This cannot be at the Outrageous level. START

FURTHER MASTERY
Pick one of these abilities, or gain a New Rule.
† A Great Rule. Choose one of your rules. You can now use it
as “slightly more than the rule” as if it were the normal defini-
tion of the rule – you can push it a little without gaining Risk.
† Extra Mastery (Pick Once). You have two stacks of Mastery,
and so can lose Mastery once and still retain your Mastery
abilities and ability to cast spells with Risk. Both stacks
refresh at the start of each session.
† Multimaster. You shake off the petty fetters of GNS theory.
The first time you take this, pick a second Master type – you
may now perform Minor cheats in that domain. If you take
this again, raise the tier of cheats you can perform in that
domain by one, or unlock a third domain starting at Minor.
A DUNGEON OF ONE’S OWN
The Master creates their own dungeon in a pocket dimension.
Choose how it’s accessed…
† Via a real doorway.
Pro: no-one can enter unless invited. Con: fixed in place.
† Via a small magical object (lamp, coin).
Pro: Portable. Con: Can be taken from you.
† Via a series of magical words or methods.
Pro, Con: Can be accessed by anyone who knows the method.
You have Mastery over the dungeon, and can use Realm
Master cheats within it. You are free to design the layout of the
dungeon, with a number of rooms up to your level. It takes up
no more space than can fit on a physical sheet of graph paper,
with each square forming a 10 foot cube. You can make a
digital version of your dungeon, but you must have a piece of
physical graph paper to show how big it can be. Every time you
go up a level you can add a room, and between adventures you
can delete a room and draw up to your level total.
REALM MASTERY
You may now become Master of a region of Die. If an area has
no Master, simply claim it. If it already has a Master, you must
force them to surrender it. You can expand your dominion
indefinitely if they’re able to claim more terrains. Within your
region, you gain access to the Realm Master Hardcore Cheats.
Also, pick a FURTHER MASTERY ability.
TO THE DUNGEON!
You may teleport anywhere in any realm you have mastery
of, or to any place whose Master has given you permission to
travel there. Define what your teleportation looks like. You can
bring a party- worth of people with you.
WRITING THE RULES
These abilities fundamentally change the world. To take them,
you must be a Realm Master (either from Realm Mastery or
a Dungeon of One’s Own), and should work the nature of your
Realm into whatever you create.
† The Handbook: Work with the GM to add a whole new sort
of adventurer to the world. What do they do? What is their
reputation? To whom do they owe allegiance? And, most
importantly, why are they thought of as heroic? Roll your Int
pool with the D20: their greatest band of heroes has one
member per success. They can be sent off to perform mis-
sions as per the compressed adventure rules (p. 279).
† The Manual: Work with the GM to add a whole new mon-
strous species to the world. What do they look like? What
do they want? To whom do they owe allegiance? And, most
importantly, why are they thought of as monsters? If there’s an
empty region in the map of DIE, this is their homeland. If
not, they emerge into your realm. They are a Great Power.
Roll your Int pool with the D20: there is one major faction
within this Great Power per success. Define them.
† The Guide: Work with the GM to add a whole new realm to
this world. What is it known for? What are the landmarks?
What can be found there? And most importantly, why do people
never go there? Select an empty region on the map of Die to
be its home. Roll your Int pool with the D20: for each success,
define one thing which can be found in this realm. When
you define it, also define what prevents people taking it.
† The Arcana: Work with the GM to add a whole new form
of magic to the world. What is this source of power? How
do people access it? What can it do? Does it have any iconic
magical creatures? And, most importantly, what has prevent-
ed its discovery until now? If you wish, work with the GM
to create a new rule to represent this new form of magic.
You now possess this rule. Roll your Int pool with the D20:
select one extra Rule per success. Your Risk thresholds on
these rules are one step down from normal: “massively
more than the standard rule” adds 1 Risk, and “slightly
more than the standard rule” is free.
AT LEVEL 20: GRANDMASTER
DIE advancement assumes you willSTARTend a campaign well
before the Paragons reach level 20… but if you do, this is the
monster lurking there for a Master. When you reach level 20,
you become all powerful for exactly one second. What do you do?
You are then consumed by DIE, forever.
 MASTER RULES
RULES THAT CHANGE WHAT HAPPENS
† Damage: Barrage. Damages target.
Double Special: this hit inflicts 2 hits.
† Damage: Chain. Damages target.
Special: This attack can hit another
target in the vicinity.
† Damage: Curse. Damages target.
Special: target suffers a Disadvantage
on their next action.
† Damage: Debilitate. Damages target.
Special: target suffers a disadvantage
on next action.
† Damage: Duration. Damages target.
Special: ignite opponent, doing 1 hit
per round until extinguished.
† Damage: Paralyse. Attack.
Special: if Willpower is 4 or below,
immobilize target. Requires a Con test
to break free.
Double Special: if Willpower is 6 or
below, immobilize target. Requires a
Con test to break free.
† Damage: Precise. Damages target.
Special: this hit bypasses Guard.
† Damage: -Bane. Select a category of
creature, like undead, demons or cops.
Damages target and adds Special: this
hit causes two hits to [category].
† Heal. Target heals 1 Health.
Special: heals 1 additional Health.
† Invisibility. The target becomes invisible.
The spell ends if the target makes
hostile actions.
† Counterspell. An ongoing temporary
magical effect or spell is cancelled.
NEGATIVE RULES
These rules make an ability more
powerful, at a cost. For each added to the
spell, pick one:
• Add Special: this success counts double
• Reduce the Risk by 5.
† Component. The spell requires a hard-
to-come-by, thematically-relevant
component to work.
† Blood Cost. Causes 1 Wound to the
caster, or a bound and prepared target,
when cast.
† Taint of Damnation. Suffer at least one
disadvantage on any social check for
the rest of the adventure.
† Secrets. You must share one secret with
someone who doesn’t know it. This
secret must be meaningful to them, or
cause a significant cost to you.
† Enhance . Adds an Advantage on
the defined task/stat.
† Hinder . Adds a Disadvantage on
the defined task/stat.
† Illusion. Causes a single human-sized
object to appear as something other
than it is.
† Manipulate Mechanism. Make a single
mechanism perform a single action.
† Detect . You notice the presence
of a single noun (magic, death, gold,
sadness) though uncanny means.
† Create Wall. Create an object that must
be destroyed before it can be passed
over. The health of the object is equal
to twice the successes rolled when
creating it. It crumbles to nothingness
within an hour.
† Create Obstacle. Create a patch of diffi-
cult ground or awkward terrain. Those
who wish to traverse must succeed in
a stat roll of the caster’s choice.
† Sleep. Make an attack which does
no damage, but has the capacity to
send targets to sleep until awoken by
jostling or a loud noise.
Specials: if the target has 4 Willpower
or less, they fall asleep.
Double-Special: if the target has 6
Willpower or less, they fall asleep.
20-Special: the target falls asleep.
† Understand . Choose a noun:
a language, animal, the dead, something
else. You can comprehend the target.
RULES THAT CHANGE WHO IS TARGETED
† Range. The effect is able to reach as far
as medium range.
† Area. Affect all within melee range of
the target area.
† Duration. Lasts for an encounter.
† Selectivity. Allows you to remove
yourself from the effects of a spell.
† Create Creature. Summon a being with
actual physicality. It can either follow
limited, simple commands of two
words or fewer (“Get him!” “Shield
me!” “Eat this!”) or act autonomously
according to its own instincts (but is
out of your control).
SUMMONED CREATURE TRAITS
Stats: All at 2.
2 Guard, 2 Health, 4 Willpower, 0 Defence
† Create Intelligence. Add an active
intelligence to your creation - it’s sapient
now. It is capable of acting on its own
discernment, and it’s about as smart
as a person is, but not necessarily in
exactly the same way. It has its own
personality. Without Create Creature this
rule creates a disembodied intelligence
which you could probably keep in a jar.
† Exchange to . Select two
stats. Move a point from the first to
the second.
† Intangibility. Allows the target to move
through objects.
† Levitation. Allows an object to move
freely in all directions.
† Speed. Allows an object to move at the
speed of a horse.
† Telepathy. A target can communicate
their thoughts, vision and similar
sensory information with caster.
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 MASTER CHEATS
GAMIST CHEATS SIMULATIONIST CHEATS NARRATIVIST CHEATS
MINOR Change a minor game rule for an Highly unlikely events happen. Summon an established element
Standard Punishments: encounter. into narrative.
Lose Mastery, Examples: Players can choose to inflict Examples: A once-in-a-decade Example: The famous thief
community service non-fatal injury with no consequences. storm hits a coastal town. You find everyone’s been talking about
When a character moves, they can an oasis in a desert. arrives on the scene.
move two range bands not one.

MAJOR Change a major game rule for an
Standard Punishments: encounter.
1-2 Wounds, ongoing Examples: Players don’t die if they
curses until task end a fight on 0 Health. You can
completed regain Mastery at a time other than
the start of a session.
Extremely unlikely events happen. Establish a new fact about some-
thing in the existing narrative.
Examples: A record-breaking tidal Example: The famous thief
wave hits a coastal town. A rain- arrives on the scene… and loves
storm in a desert. helping out dimension-skipping
adventurers.

OUTRAGEOUS Overturn or create a limited exception
Standard Punishment: to a major existing game rule,
Death especially those used by a Paragon.
Examples: Dictators cannot use
their Voice. Advantages no longer
add a dice to the dice pool.
Break fundamental laws of physics. Introduce a whole new element to
the fiction of your own design.
Examples: A record-breaking tidal Example: “Hey – there’s this
wave hits an inland town. Sand is awesome thief in this world, and
edible. they love helping out dimension-
skipping adventurers. And they’re
standing just over there!”

REALM MASTER CHEATS A LIST OF PUNISHMENTS

Most Masters wish to gain magical
dominion over a portion of the world
they’re in–a dungeon, a realm or even
the whole world for those who would
wish to be Grandmaster. Only one
Master can have mastery over any given
area, so it’s a regular cause of battles
between them.
If a Master achieves mastery of an area
via the Realm Mastery advance, they gain
access to these cheats when in that area,
in addition to any others they know:
A MIRACULOUS EVENT.
• Examples: create a temptation that
fulfils a desire. Summon a monster.
Create a fortress. Regain your
Mastery. Bend a rule.
• Possible punishment: Death.
PREVENT ANY SINGLE EVENT THAT HAS
JUST HAPPENED.
• Examples: Stop your own death.
Twist things so that you didn’t fall
asleep at the wheel and kill them.
Change an RPG manuscript to
include significant meta-textual
references even after several editors
tried to remove most of them.
• Possible punishment: Compulsory
instant death, no exceptions.
An array of punishments, of broadly increasing severity, that you may have to suffer:
• Losing Mastery: The basic punishment.
• Community Service: A specific task a
player must complete or face further
punishment. Deal with a problem.
Confess your secret evils to an
unknowing friend. Wear a sign saying
that you have messed with reality and
promise never to do it again.
• Suffering Wounds: Don’t just consider
this an annoyance. Remember: pain
is pain.
• Curses: Some in-game disadvantage,
either mechanical or a narrative, or
both. Temporary reduction of stats or
loss of access to powers, accompanied
by suitably uncanny visual effects. You
see a Master with a forked tongue, and
you know what happened to them.
• The Cheat Not Happening: Making
whatever they were going for simply
not happen. Very much insult to injury.
• An Ironic Inversion or Expansion of
the Cheat: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
is a classic for a reason. You want a
fireball to fill a room? The fireball fills
the whole city. Return your friend to
life? Now your nemesis crawls from
the grave. You wished to hear The
Specials play one more gig? You’re
dealing with a Ska revival.
• Quests: Like Community Service, but
more long-term. A big, difficult-to-
achieve thing.
• Instant Death: Anything which is
active 100% game-breaking cheating
will likely get this. Of course, death is
part of the game in DIE too.
• Death and Collateral Damage: Some
cheats are so loathsome the Powers
That Be will not allow it to stand.
Cheating which attempts to bring down
the whole structure of DIE is likely to
reach this level. At this point, expect
those around you and your friends
to be hit too, especially if they were
going to gain from your cheating.
• Hell: Trapping you in an eternal hellish
pain which destroys you mentally
and physically and leaves no room
for resurrection or escape. Death is a
mercy. Sometimes, if a Master is bad
enough, there’s no mercy.

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THE FALLEN
YOUR NAME: You are an undead monster.
If you kill one of the other player characters, you become alive again.

STATS 

All stats start at 2, plus 2 points assigned as you wish.
Get an extra point every 3 levels.

Str Dex Con Int Wis Cha

Guard =Dex Health =Con Willpower Defence

Resets at the Lose Guard =Wis+Int Set by Gear
start of each fight before Health

NOT JUST A MONSTROUS FACE FALLEN CLAWS

Fallen are monsters, but some are interesting monsters.
Your new form gives you a new ability. Choose one:
 FLIGHT
You are able to soar through
the sky at a sprinting pace.
Decide what this looks like:
† Wings
† Thrusters
† Enormous blood-
coated springs
UNLIFE AFTER DEATH † Something else
You have died in the realm of Die. You
are a monster - perhaps one similar to
one of the ones you’ve been fighting.  SIZE CHANGING
You thought they were little more than You can swell to four times
undead zombies. Now you know better. your height or shrink to a
tenth of your size.
You are different from some of them in one Decide what this looks
key way: you are sentient, holding onto and/or sounds like:
your consciousness and your free will.
† Cracking gristle and
For now. bone
† Folding and unfolding
You lose access to any special abilities fractal limbs
granted by your class, but keep your stats † An incongruous
and equipment. Your vote to go home no slide-whistle
longer counts, because you’re dead. † Something else
 INTANGIBILITY
You are able to move
spectrally through objects
that bar your path. (This
THE CORE MECHANIC gives you no specific bonus
1 GET 1 DIE PER to resist damage.)
STAT POINT Decide what this looks like:
2 ADVANTAGE: +1
DISADVANTAGE: -1 † Classic spectral
3 ROLL THE DICE 6 5 4 3 † A burst of digital noise
† Transformation into
4 KEEP ALL 4+ DICE 6 5 4 3 burrowing worms
† Something else
5 LOSE 1 DICE PER 6 5 4
DIFFICULTY
 UNCANNY SENSES
You can perceive things
far beyond normal human
capabilities. Decide which
type of thing you can sense:
† Strong emotions
† Heartbeats and
breathing
† Narrative
† Something else
 SHAPE CHANGING
You can change your form
to appear to be something
else… until you attack.
Decide what your tell is,
no matter your form:
† Your voice remains an
awful undead crackle
† You smell like the
rotting flesh you are
† All animals view you
with fear and suspicion
† Something else.
While your old weaponry
might look the same, it’s
changed. Many Fallen
abandon the pretence, lose
their weapons, and attack
with claws sprouting from
their body. All attacks you
make gain:
Special: If this attack causes
a Wound, then the target is
poisoned. They lose 1 Health
per round until they pass a
Con test.
If you provide the killing
wound to another Paragon,
you immediately come to
life and regain all your class
abilities. Pass the Fallen
sheet to the player you’ve
just killed. They’re Fallen
now. You instinctively
know this to be true.
You are hungry for and
jealous of what your
peers possess. As far as
you know, this is the only
certain way a Fallen can
return to their living status.
SECOND DEATH?
You’re dead. At least the
worst has happened, right?
If you die again, you will
rise again at the end of
the encounter. You have a
nagging feeling there are
only so many times this
can happen before you lose
something fundamental.

6 SUCCEED IF ANY
DICE REMAIN

7 SPEND 6+s FOR 6 5

SPECIALS