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Introduction

What is a roleplaying game?

The games ask their players to utilize skills to overcome challenges. Tabletop Role-playing games ask players to survive while gaining power and shaping worlds through puzzles, politics, environments, and combat. This can test a large a variety of skills in gameplay but most importantly, and largely unique to these types of games, imagination and creativity.
The role-playing aspect asks players to immerse themselves into fantastic worlds and act out a character they create. Acting out and/or describing the beliefs, characteristics, and the behaviors of an imaginary character.

What style of roleplaying game is Prae?

Players are artists who create their own reality within the game.
- Shigeru Miyamoto

Prae, adverb: before or in front

Designed for a more gritty realistic medieval magical fantasy world, player characters (PCs) in this game are expected to be characters put on the forefront of solving problems.
In Prae you take on the role of those who go before. Explorers, scouts, investigators, diplomats, revolutionaries, etc.
The rules of Prae act as boundaries and tools to guide the creativity in players, and to enable a world that is consistent. Like most TTRPGs Prae uses dice to guide the the play, however it is designed to give a significant amount of control and responsibility to the player. Player agency is an important part of the games design and as such they are responsbile for knowing the rules and using them well. The risks and impact of using skills are largely transparent to create consistency, a key factor in giving agency and responsility to you, the player.
Prae's skill system tries to simulate how individuals progress in real life, characters with high skill are not just more likely to score well they are very likely to consistently perform well on their skills. The social skills are designed to require and allow players to invest in relationship with other characters in the worlds to gain favors and trust.
The combat system is highly tactical and requires a miniatures, and a map, preferably a hex based one. Players are expected to engage in the game as much as the story and their character.

Responsibilities of GM and players

Players

Your job as a player is to create a character (Player Character or PC) that can assist in overcoming the obstacles that you will face while engaging in the games story. These will be generally be fighting monsters, influencing npcs, gaining information to solve puzzles or generally engaging with and overcoming aspects of the environment and story. Learn the rules of the game so you are aware how to take actions and the associated risk to them.

GM

Your job is hard, but hopefully the rules provided here and in the GM guide make your task a lot less daunting. You have to invent worlds and everything in them. Monsters, people, loot, obactles, and sometimes you will be and feel like the villian. Prae tries to provide a variety of tools to assist you in this task but you are free to modify and expand on them as you see fit. However, one goal of Prae that you should always keep in mind is consistentcy. The rules in this book and all others associated with Prae provide a context, a langauge for the players to make their choices and survive the dangers you put before them. While you often will you make changes to the expectation set forth by the content in these books do your best to communicate that you have done so. If you change the stats of a Howler go out of your way to describe how what they are encountering defies their previous encounters with them or the stories they've heard.

Core Mechanics and Rules

Rolling Dice

Taking action in the world will often require the use of your character's skills. To use a skill, roll a number of 10-sided dice (d10) equal the rank of the skill.
Take the value of any die rolled (normally the highest) and add all modifiers to get the result. The result succeeds if the result meets or exceeds the Target Number (TN) of the skill check.

10 dice is the maximum you can roll when using any skill or attack.

1 die is the minimum you can roll when using any skill or attack.

Critical Marks

When making a roll you also need to look for Critcal Marks. You get one Critical Mark per duplicate rolled and for each die that shows number within your Critical Range.
The default Critical Range (CR) is 10. Various effects can increase or decrease a Critical Range. If that range is decreased to above a 10 the roll can only get Critical Marks for duplicates.

Effect of Critical Marks

Skills: +1 modifier to the result per Mark
Strikes: +1 damage per Mark
Blasts: +1 Stored Power per Mark
Scolds: +1 Momentum to an ally per Mark
Contested checks: Tie breaker

Some rolls might have additional critical effects that trigger if a threshold of Marks are rolled. Each weapon has a potential critical effect when striking with it.

The sum of Critical Marks on a roll is referred to as Critical Score (CS)

Mana

Mana is the primary resource for characters and it relates to all the other resources in the game. Characters regain their mana once per day, during a long rest. In Traea mana is restored once per day if a character is sleeping between 3 and 4 am.

Round Down

Whenever dividing a number and the result is not a whole number, round down, even if the fraction is one half or greater.

Duplicate Effects

Effects from abilities with the same name don't stack

Specific Beats General

If a specific rule contradicts a general rule, use the specific rule.

Game Flow

Gameplay is an important part of Prae, and will dictate a lot of your time at the table. The decisions the players make and how well they play the game will not only determine their own survival but how they shape the world around them. Roleplaying is an important part of Prae but the game is largely designed to move between overcoming obstacles, gathering information, planning, and executing those plans. Over the course of play you're naturally flow between various types of play, one way to imagine this is Color, Content, and Conflict.
Conflict is where action is, blood start to rise, adrenaline gets pumping, danger fills the air, and hopefully the momentum of your words or movements carry the day against monsters, people, or even courtly intrique. Conflict focuses tightly on player decisions and generally there are challenges for players to overcome and meaningful failure. Something is a stake in a conflict, often lives.
Color is when focused on providing description, engaging roleplay, and character building. Risks are non-existent and the worst consequence of an action is delving into content. The GM will often tell you the actions of your characters and the world around you. Color helps you better understand the characters you're playing and immerse yourself in the world. Travel time will often lead the game flow into color.
Content is just about everything else. When information is gathered, decisions are made, questions are asked, plans are made, and story is progressed. Content lives between conflict and color and will often set the stage for how conflict is engaged. Skill checks are generally controlled or common if used at all.

Goals

The game consists if a series of goals that the players are trying to complete. As a newer player these goals will almost always be given by the GM or by proxy from an NPC. However, as you grow more comfortable in the game its likely that the players will be deciding more and more of their own goals and the GM will primarily be building out the circumstances and obstacles to achieving them.

Living Worlds

Prae is designed to help fantasy worlds feel real. Fantasy is filled with exploration, varieties of people, magic, and monsters. A realistic incorporation of these things will significantly shape worlds. Prae leans toward enabling settings that in a lower fantasy setting with grittiness and some realism rather than heoric or epic ones. Great things can and should be accomplished and individuals can find significant power but the passage of time is greatly influenced by society and culture rather than individuals. Yet difficult to manage resources and deadly monsters make for a world of grey rather than stark black and white.
Internal consitency both narratively and with the forces of existence help a world feel living. Consistency allows players to not only understand the impact their actions will have but also anticpate problems and recognize when something is out of the normal.

Characters

No world feels alive without characters. As a PC your job is to bring a character to life one that is up to the challenges of a world wrought with great forces.

To GM - Traea

To GM - Traea

Traea is my world setting for Prae but feel free to create your own. Here are some core aspects I've built into the world to to make it internally and logically consistent.

The gods are mostly inactive

Old stories tell of the An'Taah, the Children of the Sky Above and how they shaped the world. These beings of great power are said to have taken a more active role in the age(s) before the age of man. Most of the world still believes they are out there listening to prayers and pleas. Many still worship them, they seek guidance and follow the paths that were laid down a thousand years ago. The An'Taah now take on less of a hands on role than they did in the stories, if they are still there, if they were ever there. Conjuration is a powerful magic, maybe there were never other beings just ourselves from ages past better at manipulating the Fae.

Evolution is real - genes and memes

While all evidence suggests the An'Taah shaped the land, oceans, mountains, rivers, and brought life into the world. The forces of progress are still there, natural selection plays a important role in the progress of people and creatures. There is a truth out there and the more of it cultures can grasp and utilize the greater the obstalces they can overcome.

Magic is real and abundant, but limited and well defined

Magic is innate to all of humanity. All people have the potential to shape it into power if they choose to. Yet manifesting Fae draws the attention of monsters called Faen. The existence of magic affects all aspects of life, economics, politics, morality, and justice. How societies walk the balance of using this great power and paying its costs can vary greatly.

The world is harsh

The struggle to survive is ongoing, Faen are an ever present threat to humanity, and as humanity ventures out from the places of safety it has carved they constantly find themselves running in the ruins of those who didn't make it and Faen they unleashed.

Common source for humanity

The age of man began about 1,000 years ago, humantiy seems to have spread out from a single location and some cultural aspects of all humans still go back to that time. The value in exploration and title of Prae is one of them. Exploration is dangerous but also vital for building bridges between communites, unlocking the secrets of the past, or unlocking sleeping or hidden power.

Techonology and Timelines

What is known of the past suggests a much greater understanding of the forces that exist in the world. Humanity strives to learn some of those secrets but much is still left unknown. Many cultures have inefficiencies and made poor choices in the past that might look evil to a player, but most of the time there are just meant to represent the ignorance of the culture and its people. How far along you wish to play in the timeline of a world is up to you, but main timeline of Traea is designed to be roughly equivalent from the classical period to late antiquity depending on the region in the world, but with its own character due to magic and monsters that exist. Much of the world is finding some semblance of stability have enough resources to consider other groups of humans to be at least as large a threat as the Faen.

To GM - Your world of Prae

Active Gods?

If your gods are active what are they doing? Why haven't the uplifted life on your world, solved scarcity, or otherwise greatly enhanced techonological progress?

Who has access to magic?

Most fantasy worlds greatly restrict access to magic. Traea is quite different in that regard. If you want a world with restricted magic, why is magic restricted? If through bloodlines why didn't the magical bloodline beat out the non-magical one long ago? If through a great knowledge barrier what is stopping people from devoting a lot of time to teach everyone harness such a powerful resource, or are you just in a world not technology advanced enough for that to happen yet?

Source of humanity?

Where did humanity come from and what dark secrets lie in half forgotten past?

Techonogy and Timlines

In most fantasy worlds the challenges have to be great to stop the rapid progress. Characters are generally written and played with the knowledge of today but with a power we can only dream of. Where are you in your worlds timeline, and what gets in the way of techonological progress?

To GM - Explaing the dice in living worlds

In some RPGs players will often run across stories about characters that are very invested in a skill but yet frequently someone else in the party out performs them. When dice have a dice system has a high variance in results and many characters are rolling luck generally feels more important than how you built your character. A fighter rolls poorly on a test of strength, but the wizard rolled high and manages to lift the portcullis. The scholar rolls poorly trying to recall knowledge while the illiterate barbarian just happens to know the secret needed to open the door ancient tomb three continents away from his home. These events can break be silly and fun but they can also be immersion breaking and threaten the integrity of a living world.
Prae's skill system gives more reliability to skill use than some, characters who invest being good at a skill should consistently perform not only well but reliably as well or better than their lucky party members. However, there are still times where results are hard to explain. Sometimes they can be explained actually through luck, we even have a phrase in our non-fanastic world for it, beginner's luck. This can explain performing well on accident in various games like darts. Sometimes happenstancce just leads some NPC to really prefer the company of the gruff abrasive character instead of the sly witty one and now you might have more information into the values or general attitude of that NPC.
Othertimes luck or happenstance do not sufficiently explain the dice. Someone with no skill in Force or and 0 might lifting a portcullis while the might master of Force failed to do so. In such cases, which are hopefully rare, consider explanations of a magical world. As we have stories of mothers lifting cars to save the children, so to would magical worlds have stories of weird happenings with people accidentially and unreliably touching power within them they didn't know they had.
Other otions: Fate. Hidden helper. NPC error (if it doesn't take to much credit away from the player rolling), "the npc in charge of the portcullis made an err and was helping the scrawny wizard lift it up instead of try to hold it down".

Character Overview

Table top role playing games ask their players to solve problems and engage in the world with creativity and imagination. For players this starts with creating their character.

There are many ways to start imagining your character.

Archetypes: Wizard, fighter, cleric, etc.
Personality: extroverted charming drunkard, quiet and confident clergy, fun seeking explorer, etc
Character goals: Become the most reknown monster hunter in the world, learn the secrets of the gods, attain immorality, etc.

Prae, however, asks you to give special attention to skills when thinking your character.

Before you get to far along make sure to speak with your GM to make sure your character concept works within the broad scope of the game and setting.

Character Components

Skills

A character's experience starts long before the game does. The skills your character has learned relate to who they are, where they came from, and how they have overcome the obstacles of life.
When selecting skills consider the life your character that led them to beginning of the game.

See the Skills Overview and Using Skills sections for more detail.

Abilities

Each skill is tied to various abilities. Learning the Basic Rank of a skill allows a character to select abilities related to that skill. All skills have a atleast one Talent or Ritual, and a Trick and Arcana.

Trick: Special focus or reactions that sometimes use momentum or other resources
Arcana: Special actions that use Momentum or mana for short duration magical effects
Talents: Passive bonuses in combat and often an additional way your character can spend mana
Rituals: Long form spells

Additional info about abilities can be found in the Ability Overview and each skill's section.

Attributes

Characters have three primary attributes: Body, Mind, and Spirit. Each primary attribute has three secondary attributes.

Body: Might, Agility, and Brawn
Mind: Will, Wit, and Resolve
Spirit: Vigor, Empathy, and Faith

See the Attribute Overview and Determine Attributes sections for more details.

Way

Each character's life has led them to a Way. Often some sort of formal combat training, but not always, through this training the character learns an Attack and a style consisting of a Talent and Trick that represents the style of their training.

See the Ways Overview and Ways sections for more details.

Gear

What tools characters have access to is important getting jobs done, especially adventurers. How much any campaign or GM chooses to focus on management of gear can vary greatly, see the gear section and work with your GM to pick (or make) the rules appropriate for your group.

See the Gear.

Personality

Many things influence who person will become: biology, culture, community, family and experiences are some of them. In this are we will explore how much your character was influenced by those things, their innate temperament and how all of that relates to their values, common moods, what they consider to be immoral or tabbo and what they do to find joy and relax.

See the Personality Approaches.

Skills Overview

A character's history and capabilities relate closely to their skills. Starting skills relate to the experience of the character prior to the start of the game. Where they grew up, where and how they were raised, and what training they have undergone.
All skills have a Rank, a Modifier and a Passive value.

Skill Rank

Skill Rank represents a characters experience in using the skill. Skill Ranks have a value and a name. The value is the number of dice rolled when using that skill. The name is used to reference the value as well as to provide a narrative understanding of the characters capability. If a character has at least a Basic Rank in a skill can choose to learn the abilities associated with it.

• 1: Untrained	(roughly everyone has this level of skill)
• 2: Basic	(~1 in 4 people have this level of skill)
• 3: Trained	(~1 in 10 people have this level of skill)
• 4: Adept	(~1 in 1,000 people have this level of skill)
• 5: Expert	(~1 in 100,000 people have this level of skill)
• 6: Master	(~1 in 10 million people have this level of skill)

The frequency of a skill ranks for specific skills can change greatly based on culture, technological level of the world or a vartiey of other variables

Modifier

A skill's modifier is primarily a related attribute that represents the innate talent the character has in performing the skill, rather than their experience in using it. A mighty character will perform better on athletics feats, a witty one at deception, one that can project confidence at leadership, etc.
Modifiers are added to the value of the die to determine the result of the roll.

Attacks

Attacks function very similarly to skills. The primary difference is how they deal with critical marks.

Skills and Attack List by type and attribute modifier

Physical

Body - Strike (attack)
Might - Athletics and Force
Agility - Acrobatics and Sneaking
Brawn - Endurance and Poise

Mental

Mind - Blast (attack)
Will - Lore and Survival
Wit - Deception and Insight
Resolve - Awareness and Tinkering

Social

Spirit - Scold (attack)
Vigor - Compel and Rouse
Empathy - Charm and Handling
Faith - Diplomacy and Leadership

See the Using Skills sections for more detail.

Attribute Overview

The primary attributes: Body, Mind, and Spirit relate to the respective physical, mental and social prowess of the character.
Players choose the priority of these attributes, this priority determines their starting value, how many points can be used on secondary attributes, and affects how they increase as the character gains levels. The value of Body, Mind, and Spirit is the maximum value of each of the secondary attributes.
Each of the secondary attributes has some optional narrative components related to aspects of a character.

Body

Body's secondary attributes are Might, Agility, and Brawn each of which have some a relation to a characters physique.

Might
Relates to muscle tone of an individual. A character with a high Might and high Agility is likely to look like a martial artist or gymnast in terms of build. A character with a high Might and high Brawn have builds varying from sumo wrestlers, WWE wrestlers, or line-men on a football team.
Agility
Represents grace, speed, and precision of movement. A character with a high agility always seems to float when they walk, very fluid in their pace and movement. Characters with a high agility are likely to have little body fat.
Brawn
Embodies a characters muscle mass, height, weight, sturdiness, and stoutness. Characters with a high brawn are also less likely to feel and react to pain.

Mind

Mind's secondary attributes are Will, Wit, and Resolve each of which relate to aspects of personality and intelligence.

Will
Represents a character’s ability to exert their desires on their own behavior. High will allows a character to easily maintain focus and force themselves through doing difficult, boring, or tedious tasks. Characters with high Will tend to be disciplined and ordered, but can often struggle to adapt the their environment prefering it to change to suit their desires.
Wit
Relates to speed of mind. Snappy comebacks, quips, and sarcasm are some behaviors common in those with a high Wit. Changing tactics on the fly, comfort in adapting to an environment, quickly taking in lots of information to more accurately make informed decisions in snap situations, language games, rapid math problems, befuddling people in conversation are all common characteristics of someone with a high Wit. They generally thrive in and enjoy chaotic environments.
Resolve
Embodies the resilience of Mind. In many ways the other side of Will, while those strong in Will have great control over themselves, those strong in Resolve are rarely influenced by anything outside of themselves. High resolve often allows one to withstand mind-altering effects like alcohol, drugs, or social influence. The often express emotion with less intensity, even if they feel it just as strongly. They are inherently skeptical of forming new beliefs and do so only when confident with the evidence and logic of them. Without strong of confidence they avoid making definitive statements.

Spirit

Spirit's secondary attributes Vigor, Empathy, and Faith each of which relate expression, utilization, and understanding of emotion.

Vigor
Relates to emotional intensity, sometimes to the point of losing control of themselves to that emotion. Individuals with high Vigor are often gregarious and can have great influence on the emotional state on those around them. When someone with a high Vigor is having a good time most of the people around them are as well. When they are down or annoyed they can bring with them an cloud over the area around them and many will seek to avoid them.
Empathy
Represents ability to understand the emotional state of others, and how experiences affect others emotionally. This often results in a character with a high Empathy feeling the emotions of those around them. Although with the right knowledge this can lend to easily manipulating the attitude and mood of others.
Faith
Faith relates to confidence in owns self or beliefs. This confidence is often bound to have a significant impression on how others perceive them. However, it can often be misplaced and individuals with a high Faith are very resistant changing their minds.

See the Attribute Details section for more details.

Ability Overview

Abilities give your character additional capabilites. All abilities are associated with skills or Ways. Once a character has Basic rank in a skill they can learn its related abilities: Talents, Tricks, Arcana, or Rituals.
Talents give a passive effect combat, and an additional way to use mana.
Tricks are in small magical effects that give additional options in combat.
Arcana are magical effects characters can use, in combat they cost momentum, otherwise they can be used for 1 mana.
Rituals are long form spells that generally take minutes or hours to cast, so unlike the other ability types they generally aren't used in combat. Each mental skill has a related Ritual(s).

See the Rituals Section for details

Exploring Worlds

Not all who wander are lost
- JRR Tolkien

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
- T.S. Eliot

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
- T.S. Eliot

Prae: before or in front

Exploration has always been a key component of RPGs and can take on many forms - adventuring, scouting, infiltration, homesteading, diplomacy, investigating, and much more. Some games can spend their entire campaign explore a single city, while others might venture into wildlands, focus on a variety of cultures or conflicts. Skills and abilities are the primary tools players have to explore, and a characters health, mana, money, and relationships are the resources at their fingertips.

Travel

Characters travel, sometimes for an hour across a large city othertimes for days or weeks. Travel is tiring both physically and mentally. Physically generally due to aspects of the environment, long hours in route, and wanting to get to where you're going as fast as possible due to the boredom of the road and the very real threats that exist in the wilds. Mentally in part due to the boredom, the discomfort, and needing to constantly be alert enough to notice threats.
At the end of your travel day you gain a number of fatigue (day impaired) per hour you traveled - your passive endurance+poise. Most of the time you'll get can get a good nights sleep and your dreams will wash your fatigue away. Others you will need to carefuly budget your travel time based on additional fatigue you accrued during the day and the likelihood if getting a full nights sleep.
You live in a magical world, anyone with a conjure element ritual can spend a couple mana to create a sufficient amount of food and water for a small party each day. Magic affords various other luxuries on the trail as well. But remember your world is monstrous as well. Use of magic attracts the attention of Faen. How safe you travels are is largely in your hands, preparation to minimize reliance on interactions with Fae make for much safer journey.

Time

Tracking time is important to make world feel alive, no less so when traveling. Find a system that works for your group that helps deal with the paperwork of doing so. A calendar is very useful to track days, and it allows you be aware of upcoming events in the world while also helping the group imagine what is going on in the world around them on any given day.
During some days hours become important. When you want to track the routine of what characters in the world are doing throughout the day, meeting characters at certain times, certain events might happen through out the day, or when traveling between cities or around a large one the passage of time can and should dictate player choices, having a strip on the calendar that can track them helps track what different characters are doing with their time during the day.
To make the world really come alive the GM may want the world to remain in motion around the players. They may have a laid out plan of events that happen on certain days at certain times and you may not be able to interact with all of the events. You can track hours with a strip around the calendar divided into 24 blocks. You can even place character tokens there to represent where they are in their day as other players are acting in the world. Each player can also use dice to track how far along they are in the day.
Dice are also important for tracking time as the action ramps up. You can use dice to keep track of minutes and rounds when the scene calls for those resolutions of time. A Round of combat is 6 seconds, 10 rounds to a minute. Tracking the round number you are in can also be a nice to keep track of the momentum of the combat.

Traea Calendar

Travel and Pace

Characters travel speed is dependent on their pace, or the pace of what they are riding on. Pace represents a speed that is not leisurely but is also slow enough to be maintained for hours. A pace is 1 foot per second. With the base pace of 6 a character travels 6 feet per second or 4 miles per hour (6.5kpm).

Running

Characters can choose to run, how fast they can passively run depends on their athletics, and for every 10 minutes of running they must pass the related an endurance check or gain fatigue.

An expert in athletics and trained in endurance with a might of 2 can run a two hour marathon but gains two levels of fatigue.

Traveling in difficult terrain

Various aspects of terrain can make travel diffcult, swamps, dense forest, changing elevation, crowded streets, etc. Terrain is given a rating relative to how diffcult it is to travel through, an area with Difficult Terrain 2 requires two extra seconds to cover a 1 of distance. A character moving at a Pace of 6 effectively has a Pace of 2 while traveling in an area that is Difficult Terrain 2, reducing their speed of travel to a little less than 1.5mph (2.2kpm).

Travel Speed Table

Stealth

Scouting and noticing threats

Travel notes to GM, will go in gm guide eventually

How to handle travel

Most of the time no meaningful conflict with pop up for the party during travel. How to handle travel is something that has plagued ttrpgs for a long time, travel is boring, but its supposed to be dangerous and a such there should be some weight to it. However, random encounters eat your time at the table and rarely offer anything meaningful to the seesion.

Either give a few brief sentences of their journey or use travel to add color and content to your world. Give brief description of what the party sees on the road as they travel. You can describe the terrain, make note of the weather, mention how busy the roads are, maybe they pass someone of importance on their way, or share a campfire and make a new friend and hear a rumor. If they have a strong reputation and are recognizable someone might pay them tribute or spit in their face.

Travel and time

Time should give some important weight to travel even if you want to skip over describing and interacting with it. Living worlds move around the players even if they stand still. If the characters are traveling for months seasons pass changing what the town is doing when they return. People die in accidents, Faen raids, or fighting each other. Surprises happen, their favorite barmaid might get knocked up, or some rich old knight decides to retire in the small town. The passage of time and the color if your world changing can be enough to add sufficient weight to travel.

Navigation and Color

Getting lost is boring, and mechanically uninteresting, plus these characters are Prae. Unless navigation is a specific interest of your group and it can lead to meaningful gameplay or plot avoid letting players get lost. Instead navigation is an opportunity to add more color to your world. Most wilderness navigation over long distances is done by landmarks. Directions they get from NPCs are likely to look like a sequence of things they will see on their journey.

"Travel west until your out of the forest, travel along the forest until you get to the river. Up the river a ways you'll find a tree bigger than all the ones around it. Climb the tree and you should be able to see a arch made of rock about half a day away. From ther you'll have no trouble finding the ruins."

Use descriptions such as this to give color to the travel, while also allowing the player to repeat it back to npcs for directions or remember it so they can get back to where they were in the future.

Travel and Content

You can also dip into content, maybe they pass a merchant with a broken wagon that begs them to stop and help giving them a choice. If they do you might reward them with a bonus in attitude for them and possibly a bump in reputation as the traveling mechant shares their story of your kindness between the towns he visits.
Maybe some highwaymen try to jump them on the road, the underestimate the PCs so you do not need to engage in conflict to deal with the situation, you can just keep the game in cotent mode and let the players decide how they want to handle the situation.

Confict and Travel

Like everything else we to give the right amount of agency to the players. They are in a world where using mana attracts the attention of monsters, use that. The Wilds are filled monsters. Using mana while in the wilds is going to attract attention from those monsters. Parties that don't want to attract attention probably shouldn't be spending mana. Parties that are forced to spend mana probably want to high tail it away from that location, and triple check that they aren't being followed by a scouting Faen.
Unless something has the Faen particularly aggressive or the party use mana they are extremely unlikely to attract monsters. he characters grew up in this world, and they took a fairly dangerous profession. They hear stories, myths, rumors or even have direct experience with the best ways of how to avoid the attention of Faen. Let the characters be good at avoiding them.
They might evidence of Faen such as tracks, corpses, a path into the woods that radiates Fae, but assume the characters are capable of avoiding their direct attention. However, if they do use mana communicate that the stakes start to rise. You might want to stay in color at first, describe them noticing some biggish bad and effectively hiding until it wanders off.
Give them obstacles, even omes they can easily overcome with gear. Using gear commits them to something it turns a flexible slot (see gear section) into a a specific item. This is a small cost in resources but it could be a meaningful one. The goal is not just to tax the players flexible slots but allow for some creative problem solving so they are not taxed, give some context to the world and its obstacles, and to set a landmark for the obstacles they that can recognize and you or they can reuse in the future.

Content before Conflict while traveling

During travel it is important that you do not jump from color right into conflict. You want to be giving your player's agency, so enter into content. Instead of showing up right at the caves mouth, the all important clearing, tell them they feel they are getting close to the end of their journey and let them make decisions on how to proceed. Give them the opportunity to ask you questions, make some decisions, and choose how they want to approach or potentially avoid a coming conflict. They might want to scout the area to see if they find a different way into the ruins, set up camp and drop off some gear so they can pick stuff up in the dungeon, get a lay of the land so they know a bit more about what they are walking into etc.

Discoveries

Various things along the road might peak the party's interest enough to investigate. They might come across a recent fight with bloody boot prints leading off the trail. A paniced woman might run into them asking for help. While tromping through the woods they come across a ruined tower. Discoveries can offer color and content to the world.
It is important that discoveries are rarely bad, and for most of them you will want to remain in content as these are an aside from your main plot point anyway, even if they might lead into a main one in the future. The party is Prae, they are trained in combat, and unless that combat is a meaningful threat you don't need to play it out in a conflict.
They need to be rarely bad because you don't want your world to feel like touching it is the wrong choice for your players, they should want to and you should encourage them in interacting and learning about the world. If every ruined tower in the woods leads to a mimic why would anyone ever go near ruined towers.

Environment

Understanding the environment is often important to understanding the choices and impact of actions the players take in the world. Weather, time of year, time of day, speed of a river, height of a hill or wall, or visibility through the trees are just some importnat aspects of the environment for making decisions.

Temperature

Cold, hot, extra fatigue, ice, hot objects or gorund

Hazards

Fire: heat, smoke, spreading Quicksand: Tar pit/mud pit/swamp: Thin ice: Avalanche: Mud slide: Cave-ins: Pointy Plants: Bugs?

Vision and Light

Fog, Dim light, darkness, brightlight, obscured areas

Rain and wind

Visibility, from the rain or from sand and dirt being thrown around by the wind.

Height/Elevantion

Underwater

Movement, suffocating, visibility,

Food and Water

Difficulty in finding it

Poison and disease

Using Skills

As engage with the world you will often need to use their skills to gain information about, interact with, or overcome obstacles in the game world.
After announcing your intent to use a skill the GM give will give you the context of the check and then you'll want to determine the difficulty of its use. Until you roll you can change your mind about taking the action.

Context of checks

Context determines the risk associated with skill use. Prior to a player making a skill roll the GM makes a judgement on the context. Context is influenced by what is at stake, narrative tension, and cost of failure given the context of the trask. There are three options the GM will pick between to decide context: Controlled, Common, or Dangerous.
Controlled checks help inform the narrative, act as a tool to inspire creativity, and are used when there are varying levels of potential success but no meaningful failure. The result will always determine how much success there is, there is no cost to failure when making a controlled check. The minimum you can on a Controlled roll is your passive value.

Examples

Sneak used to determine the guard pattern of a noble's house
• Controlled if you safely observe the guards as they patrol
- Result determines how large of a hole you find in their watch

Lore used to recall what you've heard about the town of Nightstone
• Controlled if you've access to a scholar or book on the subject
- Result determines how much you about Nightstone.

5: Jim the Giant has been the guardian Faen for the village of Nightstone town for 30 years.

7: Jim is said to live 20 miles to the north of town

9: Roger is the townsman that created the pact with the Faen and his descendants today are still the representiatives in the town that maintain the peace

11: you happen to have the exact location of Jim's cave on your map.

13: you also happen to have the exact location of Al house in town on your map and his descendant in charge of the pact is named Felia.

Tinkering used to disable a trap
• Controlled when you don't have any immediate time pressure
- Result determines the time to disable and if you can recover the trap.

TN 4: 1 hour

TN 5: 50 minutes

TN 9: 10 minutes

TN 10: 5 minutes or 30 minutes and can recover the trap

TN 13: 1 mintue or 10 minutes and can recover the trap

Charm used to get the local barkeep to like you
• Controlled when time isn't a factor to your attempt.
- Resullt: How much of a change in attitude you can create.

TN 5: Increases attitude by 1

TN 8: Increases attitude by 2

TN 11: Increases attitude by 3

TN 14: Increases attitude by 4

GM notes
Controlled checks are a great way to help you shape narrative on the fly. If the a player is trying to study the guard patterns of a noble house a controlled sneak check can tell you how effective their defenses are relative to sneaking by them. If the player rolls well maybe the player made some great observations, or maybe something is causing their defenses to be particularily weak at this time, if so what could that be?

Information checks: The more obscure the information that harder the TN, asking about the mayor of a town that almost no one goes to is likely to be a very high TN. Knowing the leader of a prominent nation much lower.

Common checks are unsupsrisingly the most frequent context. Most of the time when you are trying to act on the world you'll do so in the common context. Common checks have meaningful but not disastrous or lethal failure. Success means you peform the action you are taking. If you fail the GM will make various judgement calls based on the skill used, circumstances surrounding the roll, and how much the roll failed by to determine the impact of the failure.

Examples of fail types

Examples similar to Controlled checks

Dangerous checks occur when the narrative tension is high or the circumstances or action is dangerous. Success is identical to Common checks. Failure is a Blunder. When you Blunder the result will be the opposite of what you were trying to do, create a significant problem, or both.

Examples similar to the checks above

Basic examples of Blunders per skill

Using skills passively

When making a Common check a player can always choose to use their passive value instead of rolling.

The passive value of a skill is: 2 + dice to be rolled + Mod

Passive value represents how the character can consistently perform without taking any risk or pushing themselves. In combat characters can use their skills with their passive value without needing to use their Focus.

Example

Determining Difficulty

In each skill's section there is a guideline for Determining Difficulty, this is to give you significant control over the risks you choose to take as a player. Prior to rolling check with the GM for any environmental or circumstantial modifiers to the diffculty your character would be aware of. Additionally there are times when information is hidden to you as a player that can affect difficulty, this may often be the case with social skills, don't over reach when you aren't entirely sure of the circumstances.

Here is a general list of what TN represents, in addition to TN a check might require a minimum level of skill rank to attempt.

5: Moderately easy, anyone Trained can passively succeed
9: Moderately difficult, until a character is Adept with the skill or has Attributes that lend themselves to success they will fail most of the time. Only those with very skilled and/or naturally inclined through attributes.
12: Very Difficult, only the top of the top can consistently perform at this level, about equivalent with the world record performers in our world. Passive success requires maximum Skill Rank and natural inclination.
14: Nearly impossible, most people would view it as ridiculously foolish to even attempt
15+: Success at this level is generally explained through magic. It can't be achieved without Critical Marks or some effect that gives a bonus modifier.

Chance of success

Highest Die

DICE

10

9

8

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

2

19%

36%

51%

64%

75%

84%

91%

96%

99%

3

27%

49%

66%

78%

88%

94%

97%

99%

4

34%

59%

76%

87%

94%

97%

99%

5

41%

67%

83%

92%

97%

99%

6

47%

74%

88%

95%

98%

99%

7

52%

79%

92%

95%

97%

99%

8

57%

83%

94%

98%

99%

9

61%

87%

88%

96%

99%

10

65%

89%

97%

99%

Expected Marks

Critical Range

DICE

10

9

8

7

6

5

4

3

2

0.4

0.6

0.8

1

1.2

1.4

1.6

1.8

2.0

3

0.9

1.2

1.5

1.8

2.1

2.4

2.7

3.0

3.3

4

1.5

1.9

2.3

2.7

3.1

3.5

3.9

4.3

4.7

5

2.2

2.7

3.2

3.7

4.2

4.7

5.2

5.7

6.2

6

3.1

3.7

4.3

4.9

5.5

6.1

6.7

7.3

7.9

7

4.0

4.7

5.4

6.1

6.8

7.5

7.2

7.7

8.4

8

5.0

5.8

6.6

7.4

8.2

9.0

9.8

10.6

11.4

9

6.0

6.9

7.8

8.7

9.6

10.5

11.4

12.3

13.2

10

7.1

8.1

9.1

10.1

11.1

12.1

13.1

14.1

15.1

Contested checks

Sometimes two or more characters directly oppose one another. They may be achieve the same thing or directly acting on the other. In these situations both characters make their checks and compare results to determine the outcome. The results of a tie depend on the nature of the contest.
In contests where participants are both trying to acheive the same thing, like a foot race, use skill ranks as tie breaker and if they still tie, they tie the contest.
In contests where one participant is acting on another a tie results in the situation being unchanged, generally this means the tie goes to the 'defender'.

Assisting in checks

When a character is making a check one other character can assist them if they have at least a Basic Rank in the skill and they can reasonably describe a way they can help. Assistance grants Boosted for the roll.

Ambuiguity/Versatility in checks

Sometimes it can be unclear which skill to use for the action a character is taking. In these situations talking about the specific outcome you are trying to achieve can add some clarity. If there is still ambiguity it is up to you as a player to decide which skill you are trying to use, but understand that the context or difficulty might change based on which skill you are using to address a situation.

I.e. Either Athletics or Acrobatics can be used for Jumping or Climbing checks.

The skills listed in this book do not represent everything that characters in the world can do. Rather the list of skills is meant to encompass common skills for those that go before. Crafting skills are one example of a type of skill that has omitted as adventuring life does not lends itself toward them, but many NPCs would have various training in skills not listed here.

Health

Life of those who Prae is dangerous and those who choose it frequently experience physical, mental and emotional stress, damage, or trauma.

HP and Damage

Hit points (HP) represent this combination of a characters physical durability, mental fortitude, and will to live. Whenever something takes damage subtract that damage from their HP.
Narratively it is common to represent damage to PCs above 0 health with shallow bruises and cuts, fear or doubt, or physical and mental exhaustion. Once a character reachs 0 HP they've taken sufficient damage to get take a serious injury.

Health Categories and Healing

Hit Points above 0 are divided into 3 categories: Unscathed, Marred, and Desperate. Each one representing a third of a characters health and starts with 10 HP. As a character increases in level each category increases by 2, for a total increase of 6 Maximium Hit Points per level.
Narratively health categories are an abstract representation of how well a thing is holding up but they also have a mechanical effect.
Some effects will restore hit points, healing the harm the character has received. Imagine healing as gaining renewed confidence, mentally shrugging off emotional impairments, a quick bandage, or even magically closing a wound, depending on the source of the healing. A character can not be healed above the maximum of their current health category.

Reinforcement

Reinforcing is similar to healing but has some notable differences. Instead of restoring hit points it acts a new health category called Reinforce that has its HP value and duration determined by the effect. This category can not be healed and healing goes to the players current health category. Any damage is taken from this category before a character's current one.

Wounds, Death, and Dying

Upon reaching 0 HP a character enters the Dying health category and gains an injury. While in this category they are Impaired, Bleeding, and can't be healed. While in combat, at the end of each of their turns, a dying character takes 1 Pure damage, this damage can be prevented by stabilizing the character with a Dangerous Survival Check with a TN 5 + amount negative/3. Blunder causes 1 damage.
A character is dead if reduced below the range of this Health category. The range ends at -10, decreasing by 2 for each character level above 1.

Types of Injuries

Injuries persist after a battle, and have lasting effect on the character. They do not have to be physical, they can be mental or emotional. Injuries can have stat based implications or be limited to the narrative. GMs are free to use either or both depending on the style of game they are running or the nature and circumstances of the wound.

Narrative Injuries

Injuries should be significant and lasting, especially if they are mostly narrative in nature. A missing hand, eye, ear, massive facial scar or a variety of other things can have great impact on the story and character while having conceivably little impact on game mechanics. The character player or GM can come up with ways the character could overcome or minimize their handicap.
The character could develop a hatred or fear of the type of creature that wounded them, or creatures associated with them (has a reaction to people of the same ethnicity for example). It could tie into the environment in which the injury happened (Ex. they become cautious or fearful of icy terrain). Nightmares, insomnia, a thirst for vengeance, overly cautious, overly aggressive or a variety of other personality quirks could manifest from the Wound. The Player and GM should work together to find one appropriate for the situation of the Wound and the reaction of the character.

GM NOTE, for DMG: It is fine to give a injury in the middle of combat that is later changed, you could have a monster rip an ear off a character, but have a character stitch it back together after the combat and the lasting wound be something more emotional.

Injuries with Mechanical Impact

If using this type of injury you will generally want to keep the severity a little limited. Broken bones and other temporary injuries are likely to serve the player and the story better than permanent impairments like removing body parts. To recover from an injury a player must spend a number of Recovery equal to the amount negative their HP was during a long rest. These don't all have to be during the same long rest.

I.e. If the player got to -7 HP the injury would take 7 Recovery to be overcome. These injuries can be physical, psychosomatic, or emotional in nature.

Examples of Wounds

Broken hand (-1 skill rank on all Physical skills)
Concussion (-1 skill rank on all Mental skills)
Bruised trachea (-1 skill rank on Social skills)
Broken Foot or sprained ankle (-Pace)
Vocal cord hemorrhage (Gagged)
Hyphema or a black Eye (Blinded)
Cervicogenic dizziness (Dizzy)
Various injuries (Impeded, Dull, Distracted, etc.)

Rest and Recovery

Resting is the primary means in which characters recover from damage they have taken or bad conditions they have accrued. Healing is limited to a characters current health category, resting is how characters regain health categories. To rest a character can not be in combat or any other situation of immediate threat or that requires vigilance.

Types of rest

There are three types of rest, the distinction is mostly related to the amount of time they take and how relaxed they are during the rest type.

A breather is a very brief rest, about a 1 minute, allowing characters to catch their breath and get some needed relief. During a breather characters heal to the top of their current health category and all Combat duration effects end.

A short rest takes at least 30 minutes and often accompanied with a meal. Ends all Rest duration effects. During a short rest a player can spend 2 Recovery to restore a Health Category, or 1 Recovery to remove a Fatigue. If accompanied by a Hearty Meal a Recovery is restored.

A long rest can be taken twice per day and requires that the character sleep for that duration. The first must be at least 6 hours and the second at least 9. Each long rest restores all Recovery, a Health Category, and removes all Fatigue. If a character is asleep between the hours of 3am and 4am they also regain all spent Mana.

* If a long rest is interrupted it is up to GM discretion to determine how much recovery took place and if it counts as one of the characters long rests for the day

Recovery

Recovery can be spent on a variety of ways that all have to do with the health of the character.

1 Recovery can be spent with a Focus action to Cleanse a combat condition
1 Recovery can be spent during a short rest to remove a Day condition, like fatigue
1 Recovery can be spent during a short or long rest to remove 3 Persistent Damage
2 Recovery can be spent during a short or long to restore a Health Category
Recovery can be spent during a long rest toward overcoming recoverable injury

Fatigue and Exhaustion

Characters can get fatigue through various things during the course of play. The two most common relate to failing an Endurance or Awareness check, see their sections for details. For each stack of fatigue is character is Day Impaired.
For each fatigue a character has beyond 6 they are exhausted. Exhausted is a chronic condition, one instance of exhaustion can be removed by taking two long rests during a day, a total of 17 hours of rest.

Relaxing - optional rule

This is mostly to add depth to character personaity. Players will need to pick 3 things that their character finds relaxing. Bath, fine dining, conversation, drinking, reading, a specific hobby (sewing, training, crafting), a specific type of entertainment (sport, theater, music). If a character spends 2 hours during a day doing one of these activities they gain 1 Recovery.

Todo: Stuff I need to say about Maneuvers, talk about attack and non-attack maneuvers. Talk about using a maneuver in non-combat situations. Talk about the versatility of maneuvers, if I still expect them to be versatile.

Social System

Words can be mightier than the sword
- said by many people, in lots of different ways

Pray: to make a request in a humble manner

In our world society is complex and systems that make the interacting with people feel real also requires some complexity. Clout and prominence and are social aspects that allow you to influence other people. With sufficient clout people listen to you, act on what you say, and care about your well-being. There are a variety of factors that relate to building, maintaining, and leveraging clout. In Prae clout is distilled into attitude, trust, and reputation. Prominence relates to status in society, individuals are expected to treat those of higher and lower prominence differently than those equal to their own.
Many campaigns - exploring the wilds, seeking out Faen or ruins - will utilize only a small part of the social system. While others - city based, heroic quests - will rely heavily on building relationships and reputation. Either way characters are often meeting new people and solving or causing problems for those people. Those interactions and actions will shape the social world.

Social System

The social world is complex and made up of many factors. Influence is the heart of social power. Influence natrually comes from people caring about you and trusting you, and it spreads through reputation. In addition to natural factors people over time have divided themselves into social classes. Political power is a tricky thing and once groups of people become sufficiently big people start to specialize in various needs the society has. The people filling those positions quickly become abstracted to titles and roles, and those that step into them might not be as adept at those that earned their position there. Nevertheless society ends up stratifying into classes with fairly hard lines on expectation and treatement between, even if their is variance on how and where societies make those divisions.

Influence

Influence amounts to the control that you have over the behavior of others. Influence is dependent on a variety of things. How much the target of your influence likes and trusts you, how their values align with the behavior you are trying to create, their mood, their debt to you, and your status relative to theirs.
These qualities are often, initially at least, obfuscated to the players. Although the qualities of NPCs can be learned through play. While mood can often be easily discerned, learning what a character cares about, who they like, or what they value can sometimes be quite an investment in time. Through circumstances, investigation, or observation these qualities can often be learned making it easier to influence specific characters or groups in the world.

Influence

Each of the social skills, and some others, relate to influencing characters.

Rouse stirs emotions moving mood away from calm
Handling quiets emotions moving their mood toward calm
Charm manipulates attitude, often used when asking for favors that have a cost
Diplomacy manipulates trust, often used when asking for others to take on risk
Compel leverages attitude to create behavior
Leadership leverages trust to create behavior

The easy of influencing is related to how much you know about a person, and how much time you spend with them. Time, however, is a luxury that isn't often available. As such they often need to Press the situation to meet their needs, something that can be quite dangerous.
When using a social skill a character can choose to Press or Invest (sometimes the context forces one or the other).

Favors and Debt

Society for people of equal status is relate to a continuing sequence of trading favors. Trust, community, and reliance are built this way. And you can earn favors that don't incur debt when people like you. There are different levels of favors and all favors value is relative to the person. The more powerful or productive the people who owe you favors the greater value those favors are. Favor amounts

Simple debt - 3 hours
Small debt - 1 day or less
Moderate debt - 1 week or less
Large debt - 1 month or less
Massive debt - 1 year or less
Life debt - Your status is increased relative to that person. They can't repay that debt but tribute may be common

Difference between trust and attitude

Mechanical

Attitude gives free favors. Using this too often can hurt attitude. The result of the favor can also do it, because what you ask people for.

Narrative

Status

Status iseither lower, equal or higher. Favors to a higher status are tribute Favors to a lower status are charity Favors to the same status are debt

Gifting

How cultures treat gifting to people of different status is largely dependent on those cultures, but generally gifting to people of equal status isn't a gift at all but a way to force debt on other people. You can't just give gifts outright you generally need a context. Invitations to things count as gifts.

Investing

Investing takes a number of successful checks equal to the current rank of attitude or trust you are trying to raise to. An attitude of 3 or higher is a like, an attitude of 6 through 9 is love. Represent the successful check investment in that social aspect as a decimal. Once it reaches the whole number it rolls over increasing the whole number by 1. Investing is working toward a lasting shift in a characters mood, attitude, trust or behavior. Only sometimes will this have an immediate effect. Investing is normally a controlled or common skill check, but can sometimes be dangerous. The number of successful checks it takes to have lasting change relates to the current intensity of the quality being influenced.

Example of dangerous Investing: You’re at a party surrounded by various political rivals and you are using diplomacy to invest in the trust of the host, without hurting the trust of anyone else.

Pressing is an attempt at creating an immediate change within someone and is generally much more difficult than investing. The effects of success or failure are only sometimes long lasting, although what is achieved due to the success can often have long lasting effect. Pressing is normally a dangerous check, but can sometimes be a controlled or common.

Example of controlled Pressing: Trying to influence the mood of a crowd from calm to angry after nobles executed a folk hero

Mood

Characters are always in a mood. Their mood represents the summary of their current emotional state and is the most apparent psychological aspect of another individual.
Most characters have a few moods they commonly find themselves in, kind of a baseline of their personality and worldview. These common moods act as kind of a guideline with how they interact with the world and how the world interacts with them.
Moods are fairly fundgible, moods can change week to week, day to day, hour to hour or in extreme cases minute to minute. Some moods more likely to be fleeting, such as pity or disgust, and others to linger and are hard to shake, such as hopeful or sad. A characters common moods are generally those that linger, but each character has likely experienced nearly all of moods over the coure of thier life.
Narratively mood is important as it helps to breath life into the personality of the characters in the world.
Mechanically mood is important as it affects TN when trying to influence someones attitue, trust, or behavior.

Mood is influenced through Rouse and Handling.

Mood Intensity

Each mood is emotional state which has a type and intensity. There are 4 levels of intensity for each type and generally the relate to another mood on a spectrum, with Calm being the 0 in the middle.

The effect of the mood on a roll is related to its intensity and if that mood will help or hurt the influence you are trying to have over them.

Trying to convince a brave town guard to help you fight back a giant would be easy, while trying to convince a scared shopowner would be hard.
Extremely Brave, +4
Very Brave, +3
Fairly Brave, +2
Slightly Brave, +1
Calm, 0
Slightly Scared, -1
Fairly Scared -2
Very Scared -3
Extremely Scared -4

Example Moods

Eustress | Distress
Elated | Dejected
Happy | Sad
Brave | Scared
Manic | Depressed
Proud | Ashamed
Schadenfreude | Pity
Happy about the success of others | Envy
Desire to protect | Anger
Enticed | Disgusted
Confident | Doubtful
Hopeful | Despair
Focused | Distracted/Flighty

Attitude

Attitude refers to a set of opinions, perceptions, emotions, and beliefs toward particular character, thing, idea, or event. They have a powerful influence over behavior and while generally persistant, can change. In short, it is how you care about and how you treat a subject.
During your upbringing you were told stories about the experiences of others and had your own, this likely shaped your initial attitudes toward things in the world. You might hate the rival tribe, or love a the knights of a far away kingdom based on tales you've heard.
Attitude does not prohibit moods, it is entirely possible for a character to love another but still get angry at them from their actions. If done frequently enough their attitude might decrease.
Attitude can also be temporarily altered by circumstance. A drunk villager who likes the the PC might act as if they hate them in their belligerence, however this doesn’t reflect a change in persistant attitude, just a brief change in behavior to reflect the circumstance.
Likewise a very charming PC might temporarily Press a NPC to change from a Dislike to a Like attitude. The PC might use this change to request a favor from the NPC, and depending on the favor might end up hating the NPC instead of just Disliking them after the pc's charming influence wears off.

Attitude Intensity

There are 5 ranks of attitude intensity: Love - Like - Apathy - Dislike - Hate.

Vague simple definition of these terms:

Love: caring about things well-being more than your own
Like: caring about things well-being
Apathetic: don’t care about a things well-being
Dislike: value harming things well-being
Hate: value harming thingswell-being even at the some cost to your own

Within each rank there are 3 degrees. Narratively these speak to the strength of the attitude. A character that has Love 3 for a cause is willing to die for it. Love 2 they are willing to risk death for it. Love 1 they might be willing to risk punishment or imprisonment fighting for it.
Mechanically they relate to TN for influencing attitude, and each degree must be acheived before rank can be improved.

Love: +1,2,3
Like: +1,2,3
Apathy: +1, 0, -1
Dislike: -1,2,3
Hate: -1,2,3

Influencing Attitude

Various things can change attitude. Direct interaction is the most straight forward way but it is also common for various deeds a player takes to influence how others feel about and perceive them.
Direct interaction is through spending time and utilizing the charm skill. The base amout of time to make a Charm roll to invest is 3 hours (see Charm skill for more details). The number of successes needed to change a degree of attitude by one relates to the rank of their current attitude toward you.
Apathy:3
Like or Dislike: 6
Love or Hate: 9

Example of influencing attitude.

Scenario: Poor, charming, sneaky street rat trying to seduce a princess.

Pirncess: Value's boldness. Likes flowers, jewerly. Dislikes poor people and Rodge a prince that is courting her.

The street rat sees the princess in the market one day and falls in love with her. Her initial attitude is one of dislike. However, our street rat is charming and persistant. Over the course several nights he breaks into the castle garden to speak with her. Impressed by his boldness (boosted to the charm roll) he gets her to like him and she opens up a little. He learns of her taste in flowers and jewerly and her dislike of Rodge. He continues his nightly escpades and manages to bring her tulips, a diamon necklace he 'found' (continuing his booted on charm rolls). Slowly she has come to like him. Finally, a chance opporutnity occurs in the market and the street rat humilates Rodge causing him to leave town in shame as his courtship wasn't effective anyway. Earning the love of the princess by saving her fathers pick in suitor, a man she dislikes.

All told if our street rat succeeded at every roll he would of spent about 100 hours charming her to get her to attitude to Like +3 and finally his deed of saving her from the prince would move him into Love +1.

Trust

Trust is ones perception on how reliable and effective another person or idea is. Through trust people come to rely upon each other, ideas, or institutions and in so doing allow those things to influence their beliefs and behaviors.

Trust vs Attitude

In many instances the relationships and behaviors are similar between someones attitude and trust, and most of the time if you have a very positive attitude of them you'll also have high trust in them, but not always.

Attitude relates to connection. Trust relates to how skeptical you are that a thing will do as you expect it to or that it says it will.

A character an hate another while trusting their word. Often this is the reality if forming treaties between two warning nations.

Like wise a character can love another while having no faith that they'll do what they say they will or be able to accomplish what they think they can. A parent with a rebellious child for instance.

Trust Intensity

Like attitude there are 5 ranks of trust, with 3 degrees each: trust - confident - wary - suspicious - distrust.

Vague simple definition of each

Trust: You almost always believe what they tell you and follow orders
Confident: Most of the time you believe what they tell you and will follow orders
Wary: Healthy skepticism toward their words and actions
Supicious: More likely to think they are unreliable and deceptive than not
Distrust: Near certain they will deceive or fail you

As players in Prae are often independent and adventuring, exploring, or investigating it is common they'll have few or no things they trust.

Influencing Trust

As trust and attitude can often mirror each other narratively mechanically they are also often mirroring each other.

Influencing trust is similar to influencing attitude except that it utilizes the Diplomacy skill isntead of the Charm skill.

The base amount of time to roll the check is 3 hours. The number of success needed to change the degree trust relates to their current trust level toward you.

Wary 3: Confident or Supicious: 6 Trust or Distrust: 9

Reputation

Over the course of play you're likely to develop a reputation. This reputation can spread through world of mouth or you might be given papers items to represent it.

Reptuation modifies a persons initial attitude and trust of you, assuming they care about your reptuation.

These modifcations are not always positive. If you save a caravan from raiders you might gain a better reputation with the nobles and mechants while getting a worse one with the peasants and resistance fighters that don't like how they are being ruled.

Based on your childhood and training work with the GM create an initial reputation for your character. What individuals or factions might value your despise you?

While your reptuation with those people or factions may not often or ever going to come up in the games story it helps you further think about the past of your character and from their past how they would deal with the challenges in the present.

Magical Worlds

Have faith in those who lead you into light. Bless them with your prayers for the obstacles on the path of righteousness can not be overcome without your aid.
- Sacra Devon

Pray: a request or thanks to one you are devoted to.

Magic flows through the worlds of Prae and it is a force that shapes these worlds. The existence of magic impacts how societies are strucutured and even fundamental forces of nature like evolution and physics. Prae provides rules on how magic is structured to help you imagine and account for the impact magic has on a world.
The amazing things magic make can create and empower are only a part of its impact, when building your own world of Prae imagine where magic comes from and its cost of use. On Traea using magic draws the attention of monsters called Faen and seems to relates to how they are created as well.
Fae is magical energy and it is measured in mana. A mana is a sufficient amount of fae to be felt and manipulated. Mana is used for various effects on various catetories of abilities from Talents (smaller magical effects) to Rituals (long lasting and potentially permanent spells).
The Pray ritual allows mana to be transferred between obects and creatures capable of holding it, and each day people alseep between 3 and 4 a.m. (referred to as various things, the witching hour, devil's hour, hour of the fae, etc.) regain the mana up to their capacity of 3. Due to its cost of use, replenishing and transferable nature mana is tied to the threats, economy, and social structure within the worlds of Prae. Imagining how society deals with this valuable resource is an important part of making the world feel alive.

Magic Overview

Magic is a vague term that encompasses a variety of concepts, but at its root magic is an interaction with a manipulatable energy called fae. Fae is found in all things and many living things rely on, utilize, or even seemingly create fae.

Types of Magic

Magic, which is to say, interacting with Fae is part of life. It can be tapped into in varying degrees. Reliable performance in utilizing a skills requires experience and tiny amount luck in our world. In Prae luck is a bit more prevalent, that increase in frequency of luck is often best understood as a character unreliably and accidentally tapping into Fae to achieve their task. When looking at rolls extreme results can be explained by this magical effect, and extreme results are often created by a roll with multiple Critical Marks. When a roll has Critical Marks isn't the only time you should imagine some magical effect, but it is a common one.
While skills can unreliably tap into the Fae the abilities a character has are direct interactions they've learned to do so. Talents all enable an additional use of mana for a discrete effect. Tricks are also often a discrete magical effect, but not always. Arcana taps into Fae a higher degree utilizing it for bursts of speed, conjurations that last for a couple minutes, and can even manipulate the behavior of others through Invocations. Rituals an create magical effects that last for hours and some can be sustained for days or even made permanent.

Categories of magic

How you interact with Fae is just as important as how much of it you are manipulating, and some interactions can only be done so in small degrees. There are no Invocation or Potence rituals for example. The categories of magic are determined by how you interact with Fae.

Conjugation: Connecting or transferring fae between creatures or objects.
Conjuration: Turning fae into matter.
Divination: Drawing fae into the mind to enhance the senses, including the fae sense, helping you anticipate things to come or discern patterns in the past.
Invocation: Subtly influencing the resonation of fae in creatures.
Potence: Drawing fae into the body to enhance speed, strength, or even restore vitality.

Using Mana

Each Player Character has a capacity of 3 Mana that generally restores daily. It can be used in various ways:

Gain Boosted with one skill for the remainder of the scene
Cast Rituals
Utilize the active aspect of Talents
Utilize a Arcana's effect while out of combat
During a rest exchange for 1 Recovery
While in combat it can be coverted to Momentum equal to a characters Mana Conversion attribute

Momentum

Momentum is an additional way that characters can utilize the Fae. Momentum is similar to adrenaline, it is additional energy the body is capable of manifesting when people are in dangerous situations, but it can't be consciously tapped into to enable magic otherwise.

Mana Vessels

In additional to people and many creatures, some objects can store mana and some of those objects can even release it for specific magical effects. On Traea these are generally special objects called Tears. See the Magic Item Overview section below.

Rituals

Rituals are longer for spells that take minutes or potentially hours to complete. Conjuration rituals are a series of precise and specific movements (similar to a Kata, Tai Chi, Qigong, Bagua, etc). Divination rituals are a deep meditation where the caster attunes to specific strings of Fae allowing them to more easily read and sense changes in them. Invocation augments to rituals create a sort of vibration in the Fae that can influence those that interact with the rituals.

Powering Rituals

At the start of the Ritual the caster determines all sources of Mana it will pull from. The caster can use their own mana or mana from contributors.

*Some Objects can store a large about of Mana but can only release it at smaller frequencies. In this case the caster can pull only as much as it can release during the duration of the Ritual.

Initial Cost to Cast

Half of the total cost to cast a Ritual, rounded up, is paid when starting a Ritual. The remainder is paid upon the completion of a Ritual.
The rest of the cost is paid on completion of the Ritual, if for whatever reason there is no longer sufficient mana to complete the Ritual -a contributor is killed or destroyed and the caster or other contributors can not add sufficient mana- it fails.

Narratively the energy spent to cast a Ritual is spread out over its cast time, this rule exists to try and make a fair representation of cost if a Ritual gets interrupted. GM has discretion to change this for specific situations to fit narrative needs. This rule can also be explained narratively by a mental commitment of mana to attempt the Ritual and interruption can be draining.

Ritual Contributors

Contributors can be either willing creatures or objects that can hold mana, like a Tear. To pull mana from a contributor they must be touching the caster or touching another contributor that chains to the caster. The maximum number of contributors a caster can pull from islimited by their related skill rank:

Basic: 5
Trained: 15
Adept: 50
Expert: 100
Master: 1,000

Unlike the caster a contributor does not need to actively be part of casting the Ritual. However, they must stay within 900 feet (~150 spaces, ~300 meters/yards) of the caster throughout its cast time to contribute the cost at the end of the ritual.
Cultures have developed various wants to keep participants in the area for the cast time large scale rituals. Communal meditation, song, meals, stories, etc. However, contributors are free to talk, move around, or even fight.

Pausing and Interrupting Rituals

Rituals require focus and engagement from their caster. If a combat starts while a character is involved in a Ritual they may choose to use their turn to continue the ritual.
Alternatively, they can use their Focus and either their Move or Action pause the ritual maintain time towards it cast but not progressing it. A Ritual can not be paused for more minutes than the casters related skill rank in the ritual.
If the caster can not or does not their Focus and Move or Action to maintaining the Ritual, or they leave the cast area for rituals that have one the Ritual starts to become interrupted. If a Ritual has been interrupted for more rounds than casters related skill rank the Ritual it ends unsuccessfuly and the mana already spent toward it is lost without effect.

Sustaining Rituals

Some Rituals will have the Sustainable keyword. This keyword allows the caster to sustain the effects of the ritual for its duration, essentially instantly recasting it, if they spend the the same amount of mana as the cost to cast the Ritual.
Sustaining a Ritual requires minimal thought or concentration and can be sustained as long as the player is conscious at the end of the duration (they can sleep, but most be awake at the end of the Duration to choose to sustain it). The caster does not need to be near the cast or affect area of the Ritual to sustain it.
If the caster had contributors in the Ritual they may be given mana from them if they are touching them or through other contributors chained through physical contact to them within 9 minutes of the end of the rituals duration.

Diminishing Costs to Sustain

Some Rituals have a diminishing sustain cost, this is communicated by adding a (D) at the end of the sustainable keyword. If a Ritual has a diminishing sustain cost reduce the cost needed to sustain it in half, rounded up, per 9 days of sustaining it.

Acceptance of Sustained Rituals

Some Rituals can reach Acceptance after being sustained for 27 days. At which point they are no longer subject to Evanesence and reality has come to accept their existence removing the cost to sustain.

Ritual Enhancements

Most rituals can be enhanced in various ways - how each ritual can be enhanced is listed in their description. At the beginning of a Ritual the caster can choose to apply these enchancements to the Ritual increasing various aspects of its power, but they generally require additional mana and a longer cast time.

Ritual Augments

Ritual Augments are very similar to an Enhancement, except that they modify the effect rather than make it more potent. Augments require additional skills to beyond the skill necessary to learn the ritual to apply. A ritual contributor can work with the caster to apply an augment if they have a required skill but the caster does not, to do so they have to cast the entire ritual as well rather than just be a passive participant.

Resisting Rituals

Some Rituals, generally Divination, can target specific beings for their effects. Beings that don’t want to be affected by the Ritual can choose to resist its effect once the Ritual completes. Rituals that can be resisted will include the cost required to resist its effects (this is generally a flat mana cost). Targets of these Rituals have a brief period of time, the last few minutes of the Ritual, where they can feel the a change in the Fae around them reaching for them.

Ritual Criteria

Some Rituals can have criteria on what they affect. These criteria cannot contain a proper noun or even most common nouns. Strings don’t recognize ideas or words that people use. Instead these criteria relate to physical structure and size of a thing.
Each criteria is either a vague noun or an adjective of that noun. Without careful consideration of criteria there is opportunity for mishap. If you're unsure of a critera is acceptable ask your GM.

Examples of Criteria:
Noun “Heart”
Noun “Hair”
Adjective of Hair “Brown”
Noun “Claws”
Adjective of Claws “18 inches”

Common Rituals

Harmoy and Pray rituals known by characters. Their maximum skill rank is considered their rank for these rituals when considering how man contributors they can have.

Tears or Magic Items Overview

Tears are special gemstones of various shapes and sizes capable of storing mana and tied to the elements. Tears are measured in four apsects. Clarity is one factor in determing a Tears mana capacity,tThe other is Carats or size. Tears particularly large can also radiate magical effects while containing Mana. Cut and Color determine innate ways the Tear can utilize the mana held within for various effects. Color represents the elements inherent to the Tear and how its mana might manifest. While Cut can shape how it does so.
Tears are fairly rare and most are about 1.5 inch spheres, muddy white in color and opaque. Such Tears are capable of storing 2 mana and have no innate way to manifest it. The rarest of Tears are as large as a house, almost transparent, with a deep color of a mixture of elements. Such Tears are almost never cut into in risk of damaging them. Some Tears have the right mix of properties the cutting them can add great value to them.
Large Tears of incredible value to society as they allow for storing of a significant amount of mana allowing for a great reducing in any waste of mana on a day to day basis. Nearly all cities are founded around large Tears that allow inhabitants to store mana and use it for large scale rituals to create food, shelter and other things to make life easier.

Conjuration

The most common type of Tears besides those just capable of holding mana can use that mana to conjure something. What they conjure is dependent on the cut and color of the Tear. A Tear that can conjure wood may be cut into the shape of a ladder, pole, chair, or other useful objects to easily create objects of value. Other Tears conjure fire, water, stone, plant fiber, bread, and salt or other spices. Such Tears can be incredibly valuable to society changing the economy or capability of especially in where larges groups of people can contribute their mana to these conjurations and are thus highly sought after.

Fusing and Enchantment

Rare Tears of a color close to that of the elements can be fused into objects and when activated they imbue those objects with the power of one of the elements. This has a wide variety of practical applications for those lucky enough to own them, but it also creates special value for Prae. These Tears can be fused to weapons and armor to enchant them.

Examples of simple fusions

Syphoning

Some Tears can be activate to leak power. This power can syphoned to increase the potency of Blasts. How the power manifests depends on the type of Tear and can add specific types of Strings to a Blast with the power they leak.

Examples of simple fusions

Shards

Some Tears never fully form and others get damaged, the Tear shards act similarily to Tears except that mana can not be put into them, once the mana that is inside of them runs out the magic inherent to them becomes inert.

Conjugations

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Conjurations

Conjuration is the process of weaving strings of fae together to form matter. Weaving fae is a series of precise and specific movements (similar to a Kata, Tai Chi, Qigong, Bagua, etc). These movements along with the casters will force fae into form. The more complex the conjuration the longer the more time and movement required.
Blasts are a quick movement over just a few seconds, while rituals are generally very slow and precise that take minutes or hours to complete.

Various movements and shapes are common within all weaving and tied to the four basic elements.

Earth or Gi, cube and square
Air or Ara, octahedron and diamond
Water or Inx, icosahedron and hex
Fire or Aros, tetrahedron and trianglish quadrilateral

Base elements are conjured in a crude and unpolished state. Creating a stone slab is a common use of conjuration but the shape and smoothness of the slab is very rough. As Weavers get more skilled in conjurations they can refine the shape and texture of the conjuration. Many Weavers even focus specifically on those things such that they can craft fine art, tools, or even weapons and armor from the fae.

When world building consider how conjuration would affect different cultures. While this book focuses largely on applications for adventure and combat their are numerous other refinements and applications for conjuration.

Evanesence

Recently conjured mana is subject to a force called Evanesence. This effect reverts conjured matter back into energy. Although it is possible to maintain a conjuration for a long period of time it is requires consistent effort. If enough effort and energy is put into sustaining conjured matter for 27 days it becomes Accepted and is no longer subject to Evaesence.

See the Rituals section for more details on sustaining

Dispelling

Prior to Acceptance, a conjurations can be dispelled by meeting the power of a conjuration with its opposite.

This is mostly relevant for out of combat uses of conjurations. If a character wants to us the Minor Conjure Element Arcana to create a stone wall blocking a doorway, its duration can be slightly decreased by Blasting it or greatly decreased by casting another Minor Conjure Element in the same location. This is a largely fluid rule as the Combat durations are variable and feed on Momentum

Restrictions

Fae is present in all creatures and is constantly being weaved between energy and matter. This makes it all but impossible to weave inside of a creature. It would be like trying to control the flow of a cubic foot of water in a ocean with just your hands.
Similarly it is impossible to conjure inside matter that is already substantive and dense. Conjuration does not allow alteration of already existing matter.

Illusions

Illusions are a particularly special conjuration. All conjurations are creation, the trick with illusions is in creating part or only most of something. This sort of shortcut allows much greater flexibility in what is being created, at the cost in completeness. Illusions rely on perception rather than substance to have an effect (see Illusory contours in out real world as a much less powerful example).
With illusions specific aspects of the thing you are creating are left out, allowing the Weaver to conjure something that seems greater than it is. However, when creatures recognize them for what them for what they are their effects are determined by the observer and not the conjuror. Interacting with illusion when you know it is one is similar to looking at an Ambiguous Picture (see Spinning Dancer illusion) when you know both images are there. You can see the world without the illusion, you can see it with it or even both at once. This allows the creature interacting with the illusion decide if and when they want the illusion to be able to affect them.
Illusions can cause damage, injuries, comas or even death (see Voodoo Death). Although all of them are psychosomatic and can be overcome, except death, by an understanding of the illusory nature of the effect.

Illusions always deal psychnic damage and thus never affect non-living things.

Resisting Illusions

The power of illusion does not come so much from the belief that it is real or not, but rather the lack of suspicion that it lacks completeness. Once that suspicion exists, consciously or not, creatures start to resist the illusion. Resisting an illusion is initially subconscious and comes from observations that it is not interacting with the rest of reality correctly.
Movements, sound, touch, smell, taste or fae sense tip off slight inconsistencies with real and what is illusory. The image itself might be slightly out of place, the caster might miss certain details of how the aristocracy wears clothing or the terrain surrounding the area of the effect might not make sense ecologically. Small variances create suspicion which generally results in individuals taking more direct interaction with illusions or more closely observing them and eventually being able to resist them.
NEEDS REWORK: Each time a creature interacts with an illusion or observes interaction with one this TN is decreased by 1-5 based on how suspicious the result of the interaction was, as determined by the GM. The default TN to resist an illusion is 6+|deceptionSkillRank|, creatures use Insight, Awareness or Lore to resist an illusion. Decrease this TN by 3 for creatures that have a primary sense other than sight. Once the TN is lower than a creatures passive Insight, Awareness or Fae they recognize the illusion for what it is. This allows them to see both the reality and the illusion and not confuse the two preventing any harm it might cause. Characters can choose to allow an illusion to continue to affect them if they can hold focus on it and actively work to decieve themselves. Deception TN relates to the initial TN of the illusion and how significant the illusion is.

I.e. As a character climbed an illusory rope into the the clouds it would become progressively more difficult to maintain the self-deception of the illusory rope.

Divinations

All creatures have a sense for Mana, they are made of it and use in daily to perform various tasks or exert extra effort.

Divination is a magic relating to that sense, enhancing it to see minute changes mana in the world around them or a fairly precise makeup of objects they are focused on.

All divinations are Rituals and while conjurations are about movement divinations are about stillness and focus allowing an opening the casters senses to a heightened perception of mana.

Invocation

Men of such obvious and exemplary charm must be lyers
- Said on the Rim

Invocations can be a subtle magic drawing a fine line magic and simple social influence, so thin that there might not be one. While other invocations leave no room to doubt their magical nature.
Invoking is a magic of influence, control and persuasion. Over the years invokers have been called many things by many cultures singers, preachers, enchanters, storytellers, clerics, bards, marketers, minstrels, witches, poets, but Lyers is the most universal.
Invoking affects the emotional state of its listeners by strumming or resonating the fae within them; changing mood, behavior or even beliefs of those it affected by the spell. It can even influence a creatures will to live or die.
Speech is the most potent means of Invocation. Although various means of creating sound such as instruments or even crude methods like humming, whistling, stomping, clapping or banging things together can invoke emotion and behavior. Invocations mostly relate to sound, but not entirely, skilled Lyers can invoke with body language alone.

Scolds and Praises

Scolds and Praises are invocations with the intent to change a creatures immediate emotional and mental state. They can be focused on a single individual or spread among many specific intonation change the impact of their effect.

Arcana

Arcana take more direct control of the behavior or emotions of those they affect. They are capable of emboldening your allies or demoralizing your enemies. Most Invocation are Arcana are overt in their magical nature but for some the targets will be unaware of their effect until they end.

Augments to Rituals

While there are no Invocation rituals various social skills allow augments to Conjurations.

Monstrous Worlds

As terrible as men are, there are also real monsters out there.
- Yagfae Jaklin

Prey: one that is hunted

Monsters roam the worlds of Prae. For as far back as anyone remembers they have preyed upon humanity. Fables passed down through the generations guess at their nature. Prae provides rules on how the the behavior and power various monsters called Faen.

Combat Overview

Combat is likely to be common over the course of play. While the goals of a combat can vary defending on the narrative all combat will be structured in the same way. Combat in Prae asks its players to pay attention to various aspects of strategy and tactics. Movement, foresight, planning, cooperation, and careful use of resources are all required to succeed and excel in combat.

Combat Structure

A typical combat has two sides, the PCs against NPCs controlled by the GM. Combat is then broken into rounds and turns. Each round is 6 seconds long and is made up of a turn for each character in the combat, once ever character has taken a turn start a new round.
While combat is turn based remember that it is simulating a real time combat and many of the mechanics should be imagined from that point of view. A character that is for a Round is only unable to see for a brief window of time, they still have a mental image of the battle field and other senses to rely on.

Intiative order

At the start of combat each character rolls initiative to determine the sequence of turns. The character with the highest result gets the first turn, then each other gets a turn sequentially.

The initiative roll is 1d10 + Initiative (the sum of agility, wit, and empathy).

If a tie occurs the the character with the higher initiative modifier goes first, if there is still a tie each character rolls a die to determine the order, highest die goes first.

A Turn

On each of their turns a character can perform, in any order, an Action, a Move and a Focus. Once per round they can also use one Reaction, and regain the ability to do so at the beginning of their turn.

In a broad narrative sense these actions normally describe and dominate what the player is doing with aspects of themselves during a round. Actions relate largely to what the upper half of the body is doing, Move to the lower half, and Focus to something the player is giving specific attention to.
Of course each of them will use some attention, lower body movement, upper body movement this just speaks to some specific things those aspects of their body will be doing during the round.

Communication in combat

You can communicate over the course of the round, but keep in mind that a round is only 6 seconds long. If you're trying to have a long conversation with an enemy it should occur over multiple rounds and may often require a variety of skill checks (using your focus) if you're trying to change the mood, attitude, trust, or behavior of an enemy.
However, when players are communicating between each other you can be more verbose. Your characters have probably been traveling, training, and talking for a while. Except that they have and developed some short hand for spoken language while also communicate through body language, and can anticipate the actions of their allies in a way you a players cannot. So you should feel more free to speak to your allies about tactics, on your own turn and theirs. Ideally no players turn takes much longer than a minute. Try and be prepared to act quickly or know what questions you want to ask others about their turns or for advice on yours.
As you get more experienced with the game and your group may choose to set a more strict and lower time limit on a turn. This will further challenge your master of the gaem, keep the flow of the game going, add to the intensity, and optimize your time at the table.

Combat Map

Combat is intended to be played on hex grid, but a square one will work just fine. A space on the grid represents about 6 feet, 2 yards, or 2 meters. Characters should be represented on the map by some sort of token like a miniature.
This grid helps players keep track character position which is important for determing not only the range of attacks, but various circumstantial benefits and penalities based on the relative position of creatures and environmental aspects of the combat map.

Actions

At any point during an Action you can pull out or stow one item that is easily accessible and on your person.

There are five options for Actions:

Make an Attack (Strike, Blast or Scold)
Use an Arcana and make an Attack
Defend: Gain Round Covered
Use Sneak to Hide (see Sneak)
Cleanse, condition removal

Cleanse
Action, or Focus and 1 Recovery

Effect: Remove a Short, Round, or Combat condition and all stacks of that condition from yourself

Moves

The standard Pace is 6. You can not take an Action or Focus during a Move. To move further you can Run or Sprint.

There are five common options in movement:

Pace: move up to your Pace 6 (30ft, 12 yards/meters)
Step: Slide 1
Run: move up to your Run, see Athletics, can Focus to roll
Sprint: move up to your Sprint, see Athletics, can Focus to roll
Prone: Stand up from or fall Prone

There are also a variety special kinds of movement like Jumping, Climbing, Swimming, Crawling, etc. See Athletics.

Focus

There are five common options of Focus, and more can be learned through abilities:

Make a Skill roll (except using Sneak to Hide)^[1]
Swap something in your hands with something stored on your body
Use equipment readily accessible to do something besides attack^[2]
Interact with something in your space or an adjacent one^[2]
Cleanse if used with a Recovery Point, see above
Use a Trick that costs your Focus

[1]Unless a character uses a Focus action they must use their passive for all skills checks.

[2]GM discretion can require additional or alternative actions depending on what the character is doing

Reactions

There are two common Reactions, and more can be learned through abilities:

Punish
Skilled Reaction
A learned Trick that cost your Reaction

Punish

Physical

Reaction: A creature moves out of a space you threaten without sliding, pushing, or pulling

Effect: Deal |body| Pure damage to them

Note: A creature can be Punished by more than one enemy that threatens them, but not the same enemy more than once in a turn

Skilled Reaction

Physical, Mental, or Social depending on skill

Reaction: Anything that results in you wanting to roll a skill check

Effect: Gain Round Impaired then roll a skill check

Delaying your Turn

At the beginning of your turn prior to anything else you can choose to delay your turn until a latter time in the initiative order. Change your initiative to a value of your choosing for the remainder of the combat.

Momentum

Various abilities require your character to use their Momentum to activate in combat. At the beginning of a characters first turn they gain their Initial Momentum and at the end of each of their turns they gain an additional Momentum. All Momentum is lost at the end of a combat.

Mana Conversion

At any point during a round a character can covert Mana to Momentum gaining Momentum equal to their Conversion.

Conversion is equal to 3 + (might + will + faith)/3.

See Attribute Details for more information on Mana.

Attacking

During most of your turns in combat you will use your Action to attack. To make an attack must first select a target within range roll a number of dice equal to your Rank in the attack, just like a skill, to make a Blast or Scold attack you must have at least a Basic Rank. Your modifier for that attack is related to the attack type: Body for Strike, Mind for Blast, and Spirit for Scold. If the result of the roll meets or exceeds the TN of the attack The result of the roll determines wether you hit or miss with an attack. When Striking or Scolding if you roll a 10 you hit regardless of the targets Guard.
The effects of some Arcana only happen "On Hit", while others happen even if you miss, "Effect".

TN of Attacks

If your attack is a Strike or Scold the target number of your attack is the targets Guard. If your attack is a Blast the TN is determined by the pattern of Blast you are trying to Conjure, see the Blast section.

Striking while wielding two weapons gives +1 to hit, if you hit you can choose which weapon you hit with

Damage of Attacks

Strike damage is your |body| + your weapon's damage if any.
Blast damage is 1 + 1 for each Hard String in your Blast pattern.
Scold damage depends on the number of dice you hit with, a target takes Psychic 3 damage for each die that hits it.

Damage types

All attacks deal a type of damage, most of these types are just keywords for other mechanics to reference.
All weapons have at least one damage type they can deal, if a weapon has more than one type the attacker can choose which type they deal. Weapon damage types are: Bludgeoning, Piercing, or Slashing.

Scolds deal Psychic damage.

Blast damage type depends on the element conjured:

Earth deals bludgeoning or piercing damage
Air deals bludgeoning or slashing damage
Ice/Water/Inx deals cold damage
Fire/Aros deals fire damage

Special damage types

Persistent damage reduces maximum HP
Psychic damage ignores armor, but can not damage things without a mind
Pure damage ignores armor

Threat, Melee Strikes, and Reach

Creatures threaten all spaces adjacent to them, those spaces are their threat area. Normally when striking with a melee weapon or unarmed creatures can only reach adjancet spaces. Some weapons or creatures have an increased reach, in such chases this does not increase their threat area. While threat and reach are similar they are two distinct areas.

Some conditions and circumstances remove a character’s ability to threaten:

Prone
Restrained, if it reduces Actions to 0
Blind
Dizzy
Gagged

Combat sense

While in combat it is hard to keep track of everything going on around you. As attention shifts to immediate threats or targets characters can lose track of what is going on around them.
Combat sense is made up of various sensory inputs - vision, hearing, smell etc - but also memory, expectation, and communication with allies. Normally characters are fully aware of all others on the battlefield, but a variety of circumstances can change this.
Characters can not normally hide from others in their combat sense, and it is more difficult to shoot at enemies if you are in their combat sense and at distant range.
All creatures in line of sight are in combat sense. While threatened a creatures combat sense is reduced to 3 spaces. All things in combat are either in your combat sense, out of your combat sense, or Hidden from you. Things that are out of your combat sense are not Hidden from you, but it allows them to attempt to hide from you.

Ranged Attacks

Ranged attacks include anything from shooting an Arrow, throwing a knife to a Blast or Scold. When considering what you can target with a ranged attack always consider the line of sight and line of effect requirements of the attack, and the specificed range relating to the weapon or type of attack you are making.

Projectiles

All projectiles need line of effect and in most cases line of sight. In some cases a player may choose to target a location rather than a creature bypassing line of sight, in such cases defer to your GMs discretion on chance to hit of anything in that line of effect.
Projectile attacks are Impaired by interposing creatures and objects.

All projectiles have 3 ranges close, distant, and arc:

Close targets you attack normally
Distant targets are Covered for each of your allies adjacent to them
Distant targets are Covered for every 2 spaces greater than close range if you are inside their combat sense
Arc targets can not be hit unless you are Hidden, they are stationary and will be for the air time of the attack with a minimum of a full round
If the Arc target is a crowd, defer to GM discretion for firing into crowds

Creatures with Slow do not count as stationary.

Bow and Sling maximum ranges

Close: 6 spaces
Distant: 12 spaces
Arc: 90 spaces

Small thrown weapon maximum ranges

Close: 4
Distant: 8 spaces
Arc: 30 spaces

Characters can throw weapons larger than small. Decrease the maximum ranges by 1,2,10 spaces respectively for each additional size

Blasts

Require line of sight to their target. Blasts target a space not an object or creature. The base range of a Blast pattern is 6 spaces but it can be improved by adding Long strings. Blasts are conjured at the target location and thus do not need line of effect. All Blasts are an Area of Effect even if they only affect one space.

Scolds

Have a range of three and require line of sight to every target. Targets that can't hear you have +1 Guard.

Movement

During their move a character can normally move up to their Pace, however movement can be bit complex and there are a variety of obstacles, circumstances, and threats that will affect how you can or might choose to do so. All of movement must be done at the same time. Moving out of a space an enemy threatens triggers Punish.

Pace base distance is 6.

Difficult Ground

Ground can become difficult through a large variety of things. It can be spaces that are actually difficult to move over such as: slopped, slippery, rocky ground, etc. However, mechanically it also refers to anything that slows down movement such as: climbing, swimming, crawling, etc.
Moving onto a space with Difficult Ground requires an additional movement for each stack of difficult ground. A space that is considered Difficult Ground 3 requires three additional movement, 4 total, to enter that space. Generally effects that create difficult ground stack with each other.

Occupied Spaces

Creatures occupy spaces related to their size. Creatures can move through spaces their allies occupy but it counts as difficult ground. Sliding allows you to move through an allies space normally or an enemies space as if it were difficult grund. However, can not end your movement in an occupied space.

Running, Sprinting, and other Special Movement

Your skill in Athletics determines how well you can run, sprint, or use other special movement. Your passive value can be used to give a baseline capability, but you may choose to use your Focus to make a common Athletics check to push yourself to greater distance. You must declare how far you are trying to go when making special moves, this will largely determine the TN of the check.

Passive distance with unskilled athletics and 0 might:

Running 8 spaces. If you run gain Round Impaired and Breached
Sprinting 12 spaces. If you sprint gain 2 Round Impaired and Breached
Swimming 1 space. If you swim gain 3 Round Impaired and Breached
Climbing 1 space. If you climb gain 2 Round Impaired and Breached
Crawling 1 space. You remain Prone

See the Athletics section for more detail on determining difficulty, and potential impairment.

Characters can not take more than one type of special movement per turn.

Jumping

Characters can jump once during each move in addition to any other special movement. Either Athletics or Acrobatics can be used for jump. Passive value is used unless a character has used a Focus to make a related skill roll this round.

Passive distance with unskilled athletics and 0 might is 1 space in length and 2 feet in height.

Forced Movement

Forcing an enemy movement generally represents capitalizing a mistake in enemy timing, balance, or emotional control. The distance they move relates to how long it takes to recover footing and resist the effect that is moving them. Normally it does not represent a force that they couldn’t resist if they were in full control and braced to resist.
Imagine forcing an allies movement as creating openings in enemies threat area, guiding allies to preferred locations (in real time this would not look like extra movement but rather coordinated movement), and sometimes giving them extra movement through encouragement or magical effects.
Some creatures have a Brace attribute, and creatures can use Poise to gain it. Characters with Brace can choose to reduce forced movement by up to their Brace value. Creatures of larger size and height gain two Brace for each size or height greater than 1.

Forced Movement does not trigger Punish. Forced Movement cannot move creatures onto or through impassable terrain, lift them or move them through solid objects.

Forced movement's distance is not affected by Difficult Ground. Forcing someone over difficult ground will require them to make a Poise or Acrobatics check at TN 5 + number of spaced forced over difficult ground

Types of forced movement

Push creatures or objects must move further away from the source for each space pushed.
Pulled creatures or objects must end up closer to the source for each space pulled or if they are already adjacent to the source they can be pulled to another adjacent space adjacent to the source.
Slide can move the creature or object in any direction.

Forced movement does not ignore difficult ground, to force a creature into a space that is difficult ground it requires sufficient amount of movement to do so. Forcing into a space with Difficult Ground 3 requires 4 distance of forced movement.

Forcing into hazards

If a creature is forced into a Solid Object they take 1 damage per remaining space they would of been forced. If this solid object is a creature force them with the same type half the remaining distance.
If a creature is forced into a space with a significant elevation drop they will make extra effort to maintain their footing, if their position prior to this movement was not adjancet to the drop in elevation they regain their footing. Otherwise this is a case where Skilled Reaction to make a Posie skill check to Brace is wise for the character to try and prevent falling.

Increasing elevation with forced movement

Normally effects can not force creatures into the air, however in some cases the GM might decide otherwise. For instance a character trying to get over a wall might try to make a powerful Blast of Air to help push themselves over. In such cases a good rule of thump is twice a characters size or height (which ever is greater) * elevation they are being pushed to for each space.

Flying

Some effects allow a creature to fly. If those effects are limited to a number of spaces it is best to imagine these as giant leaps through the air bounding off of objects in the path. This type of movement ignores difficult ground but can not end their movement in the air.
Need rules for creatures that can actually fly**

Obstacles, Size, and Height

Various obactles are likely to show up in and out of combat. The rules here are meant to be general and in play you're likely to find specific cases where they do not quite work. Use your best judgement as to how to handle those situations but make them consistent and predictable is a very important part of how the games plays and making sure all players at the table have agency over their actions.

Solid Objects

Objects are solid or not relative to an acting creature. An adult is generally a solid object to a child, but wouldn't be to an elephant. Size, height, material, and how set in an object is all play a part in determing how solid and object is to those acting on it.
The solidness of an object can become relevant with forced movement as well as how a character can choose to overcome various obstacles in the world.

Spaces, Size and Height

A Space is a 3 dimensional area of about 6 ft^3 area or 2 yards^3 or 2 meters^3. The exact dimensions of each space can vary slightly for the sake of story and simplicity.

Sizes

Size defines the combined footprint of an object. Each increase in size increases its diameter by 2. To figure out the total number of spaces in a creatures footprint at Size-1*6 spaces to the previous size. The shape of the creature does not have to be spherical this number just allows you to see how many space it does take up, adjust its footprint based on

Size 1/2: 1/2 space, 1 Yard or 1 Meter footprint
Size 1: 1 space, 2 Yards or 2 Meters, 1 space diameter.
Size 2: 7 spaces, 3 space diameter.
Size 3: 19 spaces, 5 space diameter
Size 4: 37 spaces, 7 space diameter
Size 5: 61 spaces, 9 space diameter
etc...

Height

Height is simply the height of an object. This can go to any resolution the GM wishes but most aspects of combat will refer to whole numbers only. Player characters have a height of 1 meaning they are about 6 ft tall. Narratively this could vary down to 4 and up to 8 while still having a value of 1 for height for combat consideration. For many situations defer to GM discretion for the impact of height on various actions and circumstance.

Sight and Height

Creatures can see over things of less height but not equal or higher height. Creatures can see over things of equal height is standing within reach of them. A character with a height of 1 next to a 6 ft fence (height 1) can see over it. To represent this in the world players can stand on their toes, hop or otherwise gain temporary height to see over things slightly taller than them but in the same category.

Obstacles and Cover

Cover is gained from obstacles if they are a solid object of at least half your size or height between you and the attacker or an solid object of your size and height partially between you and the attacker.

Total Cover

A target has total cover if an obstacle more than twice their size and height is between the attacker and the target. A target with total cover can’t be targeted directly by a strike or scold.

Concealment

Concealment is something that obscures the senses. Some obstacles will grant concealment and cover, like a stone wall. Others will only grant cover, like a glass wall. While yet others will only grant concealment, like fog.
Concealed is gained to a creature when all of their primary senses are obscured in relation to you. Most creatures primary sense is sight, so often when imagining concealment think of things that obscure vision. Sand storms, fog, darkness, bright lights, etc.
Concealment removes you a a creatures combat sense but you are not hidden to them, creatures know your general area and thus the space you are in. While concealed you can be attacked, Strikes are when doing so and you have +1 Guard vs Scolds.
While concealed you are not Hidden, Hidden requires you to be obscured to all of there senses, not just their primary ones.

Positional and Circumstantial Effects

Positioning is an important part of Prae's tactical combat. Pay special attention to how you can get positional bonuses and penalties as well as the terrain or other circumstances that you can use to overcome your foes.

Threat area

Creatures threaten all spaces adjacent to them. Threat by itself does not have an effect but other mechanics will reference threat or threatened spaces/areas (Such as Flanked, Punish, and Attitudes in combat: Dislikes). Properly positioning yourself to use your threat area can greatly change how effective you are in combat.

Flanked

If you are threatened by two enemies that are not adjacent to each other you are Flanked. While Flanked you are Breached.

Protected

While you are adjacent to an ally you give them Cover. Some other effect can give Protected but you can only gain 1 stack of Cover through Protected.

A creature can not give Protected if they are:

Prone
Blind
Dizzy
Gagged

Difficult Ground

Precarious terrain be it sloped, rockey, slippery, etc. This type of terrain that prevents sure footing making it hard to defend oneself or Blast. For more information on Difficult Ground see the Movement section.

-1 Guard
Impairs Blasts
Moving onto a space with Difficult Ground requires an additional movement for each stack of difficult ground

Interposing

Interposing creatures and objects are those between you and a target.

Attacks with a Line of Effect that are not AoE are Impaired for each interposing creature or solid object.

This will most commonly apply to ranged strikes

Prone

Various effects or player choices can cause your character to gain the Prone position. While Prone you do not threaten or protect, move at half speed and cannot climb. It takes a move action to stand from Prone.

Boosts Melee Strikes targeting you
Impairs Ranged Strikes targeting you
Impairs your Melee Strikes
Twice Impairs your Ranged Strikes, Scolds and Blasts

Hidden

The Sneak skill is the primary way to gain Hidden although some abilities or circumstances can give it as well. Whenever you attack you lose Hidden. While hidden enemies can not target you with attacks.

When Hidden you gain Boosts twice when making a melee Strike
When Hidden you gain Boosts when making a ranged Strike

Conditions

Conditions are effects that modify characters or the environment. All conditions have a duration. The conditions listed here are just the ones common enough to have their own name. There are many more that are specifically detailed by the abilities that create them.

Buffs

Covered: Strikes targeting you have -1 die, +1 Guard against Scolds, and +1 Armor against AoE
Boosted: +1 die to rolls
Haste: +1 Action
Quick: +1 Move
Focused: +1 Focus

Debuffs

Breached: Strikes targeting you have +1 die, -1 Guard against Scolds, and Vulnerable to AoE
Impaired: -1 die on rolls

Blind: Can not use Potence, Treaten, or Protect. -1 die on all attacks.
Dizzy: Can not use Conjurations, Divinations, Threaten or Protect. -1 die on all attacks.
Gagged: Can not use Invocations, Threaten or Protect -1 die on all attacks.

Stunned: Can not Act, Move, or Focus
Restrained: -1 Action
Slow: -1 Move
Dazed: -1 Focus

Burning: Take 1 Pure damage at the beginning of your turn
Bleeding: Take 1 Pure damage for each Action, Move, or Focus they take
Vulnerable: Increase each instance of damage you take by 1
Meek: Decrease damage you deal with attacks by 1
Poisoned: While poisoned all damage you take is Persistant

Stacking Conditions

Multiple instances of the same Conditions stack increase the potency of their effect.

If you have 4 stacks of Combat Burning you will take 4 Pure damage at the beginning of each of your turns.

If you give yourself Short Boosted and two Round Boosted you'll get 3 extra dice on the first roll you make and 2 on the second before the end of the your next turn.

Durations

Each condition has a duration, the durations listed here are the most common and have their own name.

Short: Until the first time the condition has an effect or end of creators next turn, whichever is first. ~3 seconds out of combat.
Round: Until the end of creators next turn. ~6 seconds out of combat
Combat: Until you can take a breather or between 30-120 seconds out of combat
Rest:: Until you can take a short rest
Day: The next time the character has a long rest
Chronic: No duration end

Attitude and Combat

Understanding the tactics and attitudes of creatures is an important for survival. A creatures attitude relates to who they prefer to attack and their tactics relate to how they move to get there. The more intelligent the creature the most sophsicated their combat tactics and attitudes. More details are provided in the accompanying Fables of Faen book.

Combat Tactics

A creatures tactics largely relate to how they use their move during their turn. Their tactics are largely influenced by their attitude as who they want to attack will largely impact how they want to move. However, other conditions of where and how they move or some other behaviors are determined by their tactics.

Common Tactics, see Fables of Faen for more details

Aggressive: Moves to Flank, when approaching a creature will assume allies want to Flank and will move to the a space that allows them to do so. Won't run or sprint unless they can't reach anyone with their Pace. If they have an attack preference they dislike but can't reach and they can be punished they will step toward them unless that breaks a Flank of an enemy
Defensive: Movest to Protect allies, when approaching a target they will move head on so allies can move adjacent and get Protected. Won't run or sprint unless they can't reach anyone with their Pace. They won't pursue fleeing enemies.
Flighty: Aggressive until Desperate then Defensive and will try and flee
Dumb: Move directly toward target with no consideration for flank or protection
Tactical: GM decides movement to be as effective as possible

Attitude

Attitude determines the attack preferences of creatures. Attitude is affected by the characteristics or other creatures and circumstances. These attitudes can cause a monster to ignore, hate, or dislike various targets.

Ignore: Only attack if no other enemies can be reached this round without being punished
Hate: Attack even if they will be punished to while moving to reach them
Dislike: Attack they can be punished for moving to do so, (enemies have to both be threatening the path of movement and have a reaction to punish)

Start at the top of a characters attitude list and read down until there is a enemy creature meets one of the criteria, that is who they will attack this round. All creatures lowest priority attitude is 'Dislike: Closest enemy'.

If two targets are valid use the next lower criteria to determine who they will attack. If you go through all attitude criteria and there are still more than one valid target roll a die to determine which one is the preferred target for the combat or leave it up to GM discretion.

Examples

Character Creation: Skills and Abililties

Check List

4 Childhood skill points (1 Physical, 1 Mental, 1 Social, 1 any)
3 Training skill points (No more than 2 can be in the same category)
3 more Training skill points used to increase any Basic to Trained Rank
Select Way
6 Abilities from skills with at least Basic training (1 Ritual, 1 Talent, 1 Trick, 2 Arcana, 1 any)
Select Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Attributes (Body/Mind/Spirit)
Primary and Secondary get a value of 2, Tertiary gets a value of 1
Distribute points into Sub-Attributes (3 for Primary, 2 for Secondary, 1 for Tertiary)
Select starting gear

Starting Skills

Each character starts out with 2 sets of skills:

Childhood
Training

Childhood

The group of skills represents things that your character enjoyed doing or was forced to do in great frequency before the age of ~12.
Try to think about what significantly influenced your character when they were a child. These should relate to games your character played, required study, work, what they needed to do to survive, significant hobbies they had, or things their parent/caretaker/mentor/friends taught them.
If your father was a soldier it is likely you grew up learning Strike, if your Mother was a scholar you might of grown up in a house full History books, or if you grew up on the street and you needed to hide and steal to survive maybe you learned Sneak or Deception.
In all likeliness there are few things that your player enjoys as much (or in some cases hates) as performing tasks related to these skills.

Increase each of the following to Basic skill rank:

1 physical skill
1 mental skill
1 social skill
1 skill of Player’s choice

Training

This group of skills represents how they grew from their childhood to where they are at the start of their adventure. Adventurers often have intense, extreme and even traumatic backgrounds. What circumstances led your character to the dangerous, risky, and often lonely life of an adventurer. What stretched them to become who they are today.
Your character could of received training any number of ways: A school, soldiers academy, been forced to fight as a young gladiator, born into a thieves guild, or simply trained themselves.
In most cases this will relate directly to their Way. Think of where your character would of been and what they would of been doing between the ages of ~12 and ~20. What was their path that led to where they are today, then pick a skills that relate to that experience.

Increase each of the following to Basic skill rank:

1 physical, mental, or social skill
1 skill of a different category than above
1 skill of Player’s choice

Then increase any three skills of Basic to Trained Rank.

Way

Characters will increase one of their attack skills to Trained based on their Way.

Starting Abilities

The abilities a character can choose are determined by their starting skills.
A character must have at least a Basic Rank in a skill to choose its abilities.
Character start with any one Talent, one Trick, two Arcana, one Ritual, and one additional ability of the player's choosing. Additionally a characters Way will teach them one Talent and a Trick.

Career

As characters progress past their Training the number of skills and abilities they know will increase, as will the maximum Rank of their skills.

See the Gaining Levels section.

Character Creation: progression

Throughout the course of play your character will overcome various obstacles improving their skills and abilities as well as learning new ones. This is represented by your character gaining levels.

Gaining Experience

Gaining Levels

At each level characters gain an additional attribute point to be spent on a specific priority of sub-attribites, a skill point, and 2 hit points per health categroy, as well as an increase to an attribute or a new ability. At levels 3, 7, and 10 the maximum Skill Rank also increases.

Level

Primary Att

Att Points

Abilities

Skill Points

Max Rank

Hit Points

TNL

1

2/2/1

3/2/1

1/1/2/1 +1

7

Trained

30/20/10

11

2

3/2/1

4/2/1

+1

8

Trained

36/24/12

12

3

3/2/1

4/3/1

+1

9

Trained

42/28/14

13

4

3/2/2

4/3/2

-

10

Adept

48/32/16

14

5

3/2/2

5/3/2

+1

11

Adept

54/36/18

15

6

3/3/2

5/4/2

-

12

Adept

60/40/20

16

7

3/3/2

5/4/3

+1

13

Expert

66/44/22

17

8

4/3/2

6/4/3

-

14

Expert

72/48/24

18

9

4/3/2

6/5/3

+1

15

Expert

78/52/26

19

10

4/3/3

6/5/4

-

16

Master

84/56/28

20

11

4/3/3

7/5/4

+1

17

Master

90/60/30

21

Other Progression

Strike

All physical attacks are a Strike regardless of if the character is using a melee weapon, ranged weapon, or their body to attack. The relative position of you, your target, and your allies has significant impact on how effective a Strike can be.

The base damage and modifier to Strike attacks is |body|.

Positions and Strikes

Target is Flanked: +1 die on Strikes
Target is Protected: -1 die on Strikes
Target is Prone: +1 die on Melee Strikes, -1 die on Ranged
Ranged Strikes are Impaired for each Interposing object or creature

Critical Marks and Strikes

Critical Marks increase the damage of your attack by 1.
Can trigger Critical Effects

Strike Fighting Styles

Each Rank of Strike, starting at Basic, allows a character to specialize in a style of fighting that when utilized increases the critical range of their Strikes.

Assassin: +2 CR if hidden, +1 if ranged
Dancer: +1 CR if you have Slid this round
Mover: +2 CR with melle if your space is at least 3 from where you started your turn
Shaker: +1 CR if target is Breached target
Smasher: +1 CR if target is not Protected
Steady: +1 CR if you haven’t moved this round
Vanguard: +1 CR if more enemies are adjacent to you than allies

Blast

Blasts

Blasts are a relatively simple and unique conjurations. Like all conjurations they weave strings of Fae together to for matter. They create a very small amount of an element that is conjured with some velocity and distance from the weaver. They are quick to evanesce often lasting no more than a few seconds.
To use a Blast attack the character must have at least Basic Rank in the attack, Blast's modifier is Mind.
When weaving a Blast the character must choose at least one element they are proficient with as a means to describe the effect.
The player can conjure the Element in whatever way they imagine to create the effect of the Blast. Blasts are not subject to Line of Effect but the caster does need Line of Sight on the target space.

See Magic and Conjuration sections for more details.

Blast Area

Blasts, unlike Strikes and Scolds, are a struggle against nature not an enemies Guard. They target an area and deal damage to all things in the area affected. By default the Blast Area has a diameter of 1 space or 6 feet.

All Blasts have the AoE (Area of Effect) Keyword. Cover gives +1 Armor against AoE attacks, including Blasts

Constructing a Pattern

Prior to Weaving a Blast a character must construct a Blast Pattern. A Pattern is the impact of the specific Blast they are trying to Conjure. Which aspects of the elements they are conjuring and how much of them.

Base Blast pattern:

Damage: 1
Range: 6 spaces (~36 feet, 12 yards, or 12 meters)
Blast Area: 1 space
TN to cast: 5

Weavers can choose to increase their Patterns potency and TN by adding Strings to their Blast. There is no limit to the variety of Strings that can be added nor the amount of each type.

String-Name (TN Increase): Bonus from adding this String

Hard (1): +1 Damage
Wide (2): +2 Blast Area diameter
Long (1): +1 Range
Soft (1): Store 1 power

After constructing their Pattern the caster makes a Blast roll and must meet or exceed the cast TN to complete and cast it.

If you only add Soft strings you may choose to to just store the power without needing to target a space and deal damage.

Critical Marks and Blasts

Marks do not add damage to Blasts, instead the caster stores power equal to their Critical Marks. Stored power can be spent prior to rolling a Blast to get +1 to hit for each Power spent.
If a character starts a turn with more than 9 stored power all of their power, except that gained from Critical Marks on Blasts this turn, is lost.

Elemental Proficiencies

Each Rank of this attack, starting at Basic, allows a character to become proficient in one basic elemental effect or an advanced ibe if they are already proficient in one of its basic elements. When making a blast choose one elemental effect, if you successfully cast the blast you can utilize that elements effect.

Basic Elements

Barrier (Earth): You or ally within range gains Short +2 Armor
Gust (Air): Push or Pull a creature in Blast Area up to 2, +1 per long string
Cold Snap (Water): Round Vulnerable to all creatures in the blast area
Ignite (Fire): A creature in balst area gains Combat Burning

Advanced Elements

Blast specializations are a combination of elements, a character must be proficient in one of the combined elements to learn a specialization.

Sand (Earth & Air): Round creatures in Blast Area are Blinded
Mud (Earth & Water): Round Blast Area becomes Difficult Ground 1
Cinder (Earth & Fire): Combat a space in Blast Area deals 3 pure damage to any creature that enters or ends their turn in it
Fog (Air & Water): Combat spaces in the blast area block vision through them but not into or out of them
Lightning (Air & Fire): Blast affects all spaces between you and the target space, width 1
Steam (Water & Fire): Round spaces in blast area deal 1 pure damage to creatures that enter them or ends their turn in them and blocks vision through them but not into or out of them

Impaired by

Difficult ground
Each enemy that threatens you
Light Armor
Shield
Heavy Armor, impairs twice

Scold

Scolds influence the emotional and mental state of targets, Invoking various emotions that impact the mind, create mental fatigue draining cognitive abilities, or even drive insane.
Sound and fine control of it such as with speech is vital to effectively using Invocations. While targets don't need to share the same language, they do need to be able to be close enough to resonate the strings and display intent to create a emotional and psychic influence. While it is more difficult to do so Scolding can be done through non-speech sounds and body language.
To use a Scold attack the character must have at least Basic Rank in the attac, Scold's modifier is Mind.

Targets and Hitting with Scold/Praise

Unlike other attacks each die of a Scold hits or misses independently. Each die can choose a target within 3 spaces, any number of dice can be allocated to the same target. Dice can be allocated to allies, doing so is referred to as Praising.
Each die hits and misses independently. Add |spirit| to each die to determine if they hit or miss. The TN to hit enemies is their Guard, each die that hits deals 3 Psychic damage. The TN to hit allies is 10, each die that hit an ally Heals them 3.

All damage done to each creature is considered a single instance of damage

Dev Note *I might remove the healing option or restrict it to a small portion of the attack pool of to prevent any pressure or expectation of being a pure healer.

Positions and Scold

+1 to hit Flanked enemies
-1 to hit Protected enemies
-1 to hit Flanked allies
+1 to hit Protected allies

Critical Marks and Scolds

For each Critical Mark give an ally 1 momentum

Scold Tones

Each Rank of Scold, starting at Basic, allows a character to specialize in a tone. Some of these tones slightly change how Scold works or give conditions that improve the effect of the Scold.

Cutting: Deal 1 damage on miss per die when Scolding
Stirring: Heal 1 damage on miss per die when Praising
Resonating: You can use one die to Praise yourself
Invigorating: +1/2 to hit with Praise if your target is Marred/Desperate
Frightening: Hit enemies gain Short Impaired
Daring: +1 CR when Marred, +2 CR when Desperate
Shattering: +1/2 to hit with Scold if your target is Marred/Desperate

Athletics

Athletics covers actions related to strength and speed of movement. Such as Climbing, Crawling, Jumping, Running, Sprinting, and Swimming.
Sustaining any athletic action for while can cause fatigue or eventually exhaustion see the endurance section for details. Active athletics checks are used for a round by round basis for sustained speed, such as travel speed while running always use the passive value.

Climbing

When determining difficulty for climbing the TN depends on what you are trying to climb and how quickly you are trying to move. Acrobatics can also be used for climbing.

Determining Difficulty

TN for climbing Rope or VO bouldering scale: 3

Base Movement: 1 space per move

+1 TN per additional space you want to move

Speed TN Chart

TN 5: 3 spaces

TN 7: 5 spaces

TN 10: 8 spaces (Speed climbing world record, 6 mph)

TN 14: 12 spaces

References
Climbing old castle walls
Quick 20' climb
World record speed climb Comparison of climb speeds on a speed climbing wall

Impaired by

Heavy armor

On rounds you climb you are Impaired 2 when making attacks or using skills other than athletics and endurance and Breached 2

Crawling

Moving while Prone is much slower than when on your feet, the TN depends on how quickly you are trying to move. Crawling may often give circumstantial bonuses, such as a boost to stealth. Acrobatics can also be used for climbing.

Determining Difficulty

Base TN: 3

Base Movement: 1 space per move

+1 TN per additional 2 feet you want to move (+3 per space)

Speed TN Chart

TN 5: 3 spaces

TN 7: 4 spaces

TN 10: 6 spaces

TN 14: 10 spaces

Jumping

The difficulty of a jump is determined by the distance and height of the job. A jump can be performed in during a move but does not allow a character to move further than they normally can. Acrobatics can also be used for jumping.

The TNs provided assume the character is moving and not stationary before jumping, most of the time this will be the case but momentum is not easily communicated in a turn based game. Reduce these distance by half if you are making a jump from a stationary position

Determining Difficulty

Base TN: 3

Base distance: 1 space (6 feet)

Base height: 2 feet

+1 TN per additional 3 feet of distance you want to add (2 per space)

+1 TN per additional foot of height you want to add

Distance TN Chart

This chart is for adding only distance to the jump

TN 5: 2 spaces

TN 7: 3 spaces

TN 11: 5 spaces (world record is ~ 30 ft)

TN 15: 7 spaces

Height TN Chart

This chart is for adding only height to the jump

TN 5: 4 feet

TN 7: 6 feet (1 space)

TN 9: 8 feet (world record is ~8 ft)

TN 13: 12 feet (2 spaces)

Impaired by

Jump or landing space is Difficult Ground

Heavy armor

Each level of encumbrance Impairs twice instead of once

Running

Running is a faster speed than normal pace but one that is meant to be sustainable and that can more easily deal with obstacles and terrain than sprinting.

Determining Difficulty

Base TN: 3

Base Movement: 8 spaces per move

+1 TN per 2 additional spaces you wan to run

Speed TN Chart

TN 5: 12 spaces

TN 7: 16 spaces

TN 9: 20 spaces (~13.5 mph, under a 2 hour marathon)

TN 12: 26 spaces (~18 mph, highest passive value)

Impaired by

Heavy armor

At least one space is difficult ground

On rounds you run you are Impaired when making attacks or using skills other than athletics and endurance and Breached

Sprinting

Trying to run as fast as possible.

Determining Difficulty

Base TN: 3

Base Movement: 12 spaces per move

+1 TN per 3 additional spaces you wan to sprint

Speed TN Chart

TN 5: 16 spaces

TN 7: 22 spaces

TN 11: 34 spaces (~27 Mph and ~Usain Bolt's speed)

TN 15: 46 spaces

Impaired by

Each space that is Difficult Ground

Light armor

Heavy armor Impairs twice

Each level of encumbrance Impairs twice instead of once

On rounds you run you are Impaired 2 when making attacks or using skills other than athletics and endurance and Breached 2

Swimming

The TNs listed here assume there is not a strong current or large waves.

Determining Difficulty

Base TN: 3

Base Movement: 1 space

+2 TN per additional space you want to swim

Speed TN Chart

TN 5: 3 spaces

TN 7: 5 spaces

TN 11: 9 spaces (6mph world record)

Impaired by

Light armor

Heavy armor Impairs twice

Each level of encumbrance Impairs twice instead of once

Speed of the waters current

On rounds you run you are Impaired 3 when making attacks or using skills other than athletics and endurance and Breached 3

Athletics Abilities

Peak Condition (Athletics)

Talent, Potence: Mana flows deep into your muscles and can be utilized for extreme bursts of speed.

You can take two reactions each round. You can spend 1 mana to move twice as far for 1 athletics check.

Mark (Athletics)

Trick, Potence: You focus on physically imposing any action your target might take against an ally.

Focus

Effect: A target creature within reach gains Short if their action doesn't target you or your space it is Impaired

Swift (Athletics)

Arcana, Potence: You can focus your mana and momentum into your body to greatly but briefly increase your celerity.

Action: 2/5 Momentum

Effect (2): Gain Short Quick or Focused

Effect (5): Gain Short Haste. You can't use this effect more than once per round.

Force

Force relates to utilizing strength safely. Proper technique to maximize force for lifting, pushing or pulling heavy things. TN for this skill is largely dependent upon circumstance. Here are some very rough numbers.

Dead Lift

Lifting an object of the ground to your hips.

Determining Difficulty

Base TN: 3

Base Weight lifted: 100lbs

+1 TN per additional 100 lbs

+1 TN per space the character wants to move with the weight during a turn

Weight TN Chart

TN 5: 300 lbs

TN 8: 600 lbs

TN 13: 1100 lbs (world record

Overhead lift from ground

Lifting an object of the ground to above your head with arms fully extended.

Determining Difficulty

Base TN: 3

Base Weight lifted: 100 lbs

+1 TN per additional 75 lbs

+1 TN space the character wants to move with the weight during a turn

Weight TN Chart

TN 5: 225 lbs

TN 7:375 lbs

TN 10: 600 (slightly above world record 'clean and jerk'

TN 14: 900 lbs (slightly above world record

Feats of strength

The amount of weight people can pull or push is difficult to quantify as it is very circumstantial, rope pulleys harnesses, friction, etc.

Use your best judgement at the table to decided difficulty. Here are some references of 'strong man feats.'

Harness fire engine pull
Carry and Drag
Keg Toss
Car walk

Failing a Force Check

Failure likely results in a character injuring themselves, sometimes severely. At the least the character likely pulls and muscle maybe resulting in Impeded for physical skills until it heals. This could also often do health categories of damage, sometimes multiple.

Force Abilities

Big (Force)

Talent, Potence: Mana flows deep into your bones making you a rather large individual, which helps when trying to moving or breaking things.

Reduce an targets brace by 2 if their size or height is larger than 1. You can spend 1 mana to shatter an object of your size and height or smaller that is not made of metal or stone.

Power Stance (Force)

Trick, Stance: You enter a stance that grants you power but lowers your guard.

Focus: Enter or leave a Power stance

Effect: While in in Power stance you have -1 Guard and +1 Critical Range.

Shove (Force)

Arcana, Potence: Focusing your momentum or mana into strength you can propel something you hit a great distance.

Action: 2/5 Momentum

Effect (2): Push a hit enemy up to 3, they gain Round Impaired

Effect (5): Push a hit enemy up to 6 and knock them Prone

Acrobatics

Athletics relates to body control and precision of movement. Balancing on objects such as stilts, ladders, ropes and thing ledges, overcoming obstacle without loosing a beat, and safely jumping from great heights are common uses of acrobatics. It can also used for climbing, crawling, jumping as well as the things below.

Balance

This includes everything from tight rope walking, keeping non-sturdy objects balanced, to bounding between creatures trying to support you.

Determining Difficulty

Base TN: 5

Base width of thing you're balancing on: 1 foot

Base movement while balancing: 3 spaces

+1 TN per halving of the width of the object being balanced on

+/-1 TN per to increase/decrease movement by 1 space

Balance TN Chart

TN 5: 1 foot

TN 7: 3 inches

TN 10: 4/10 of an inch

TN 14: 2/100 of an inch

Reference

Balance beam is 4 inches wide

Wide Philippe Petit walked on between world trade center buildings five eighths of an inch thick

Spider web 0.00015748 inches thick

Just because you can balance on a very thin thing doesn't mean the thing can support your weight

Impaired by

Heavy armor Impairs twice

Each level of encumbrance Impairs twice instead of once

Environmental (wind) or active attempts (yanking a rope) to ruin your balance Impair related to the force they create

Fall reduction TN

Through knowing how to properly impact the ground, and use momentum you acrobatics can let you jump from great heights safely. Acrobatics allows character to reduce the number of effective spaces fallen for calculating damage taken. Normal damage taken for falling onto a hard flat surface, like a stone pathway, is |number of spaces fallen|^2.

Determining Difficulty

Base TN: 3

Base effective height reduction: 1 space

+1 TN per additional 3 feet

TN greatly influenced by surface you are landing on

Fall Reduction TN Chart

TN 5: 2 spaces (12 ft)

TN 7: 3 spaces (18 ft)

TN 10: 4 spaces (27 ft)

TN 15: 5 spaces (42 ft)

Reference

Various parkour jump videos

Other Acrobatics TN

Various other actions for performance or other function or overcoming physical obstacles can relate to acrobatics. Use the general guideline and GM discretion for these.

Acrobatics Abilities

Tumbler (Acrobatics)

Talent, Potence: Your ability to tumble be it aerials, flyaways, handspring, or wall run you can seemingly fly through the air.

Decrease Punish damage you take by [|acrobaticsSkillRank|/2]. You can spend 1 mana when out of combat to fly for 30 feet.

Dodge (Acrobatics)

Trick, Potence: you expend extra energy to nimbly react reducing the impact of a blow.

Reaction: 2 Momentum, you take damage

Effect: Reduce damage by 4

Flourish (Acrobatics)

Arcana, Potence: Physical obstacles just become tools for your movement allowing you to seemingly momentarily fly as you bound between them.

Action: 2/5 Momentum

Effect (2): Fly and slide up to 3 then Attack. Gain Short Covered and +1 Guard.

Effect (5): Slide up to 6, 3 of which can count as flying. For this Combat gain 4 Flourish. During your turn you can spend 1 Flourish to gain Short Boosted or Round Covered. No more than 2 points can be spent in a single round.

Sneak

Make a sneak roll to perform a action they do not want others to be aware of or to hide. Much of the difficulty is going to be based on the targets Awareness which is likely to be hidden from you as a player. As such you are going to have to make a variety of decisions based on your own roll without knowing the exact TN.
A master of sneaking is not only quick and silent but they develop a keen understanding of where others are directing their attention and how to avoid attracting it.

Hiding

Using concealment and the fog of combat you can gaps in a creatures awareness to appear in places your opponent does not expect. Hiding is a short term effect, momentarily getting lost in a crowd, maneuvering around an enemy in combat so they lose track of you, ducking around a corner, etc. Hiding gives you a brief window of opportunity to surprise a target, dart between hiding places at the right moment, or try and sneak away through stealth.
Before you can attempt to hide declare which creatures you are trying to hide from. You must have moved this turn to a place outside of the combat awareness of all stated declared creatures.
Creatures you are Hidden from know you are around somewhere just not exactly where. They can attempt to find you with their awareness (a focus or skilled reaction to roll) if you enter their combat sense on their turn or during a round.
Hiding is risky you often need to lower your defenses, slow down, or as be patient to find a time and place to hide. As such using sneak to hide is always dangerous and a blunder leaves you round breached. On success gain Round Hidden to all declared creatures.

Unlike other skills using Sneak to Hide requires an Action not a Focus.

Determining Difficulty
As the TN is hidden determining difficulty will affect your result instead of the TN.

Base TN: 10 + highest awareness of all declared creatures

-1 modifier per additional declared creature

-2 modifier per space you ran

-3 modifier per space you sprinted

+1 modifier per space you have left that is outside if all targets combat awareness

+1 modifier per space you have left that has something interposing all declared creatures during your move

+1 modifier per space you have left that gave you concealment to all declared creatures

+2 modifier if rolling from a space that gives you concealment to all declared creatures

Impaired by

Heavy armor Impairs twice
Each level of encumbrance Impairs twice instead of once

Stealth

While in stealth creatures are unaware of your presence. The difficulty of maintaining stealth has a lot of factors. The awareness and alertness of creatures looking for you, your concealment, and how quickly you have to move to avoid detection. If you enter line of sight of an target they become aware of you.

Determining Difficulty
As the TN is hidden determining difficulty will affect your result instead of the TN.

Base TN: highest Awareness of creatures you are trying to stealth from

TN affected by their Alertness, see Awareness section

Base movement while stealthed: 3 spaces (~20ft)

-1 modifier per additional space you want to move

-1 modifier per creature you are within 6 spaces of

-1 modifier per space you enter that does not offer concealment

-2 modifier if you run

-3 modifier if you sprint

Impaired by

Heavy armor Impairs twice

Each level of encumbrance Impairs twice instead of once

Covering Tracks?

Subtle Communication

Sometimes you want to signal or otherwise communicate in full view of someone you do not want to notice the message. Doing so requires a sneak check

Determining Difficulty

Base TN: 5 + highest passive Awareness of creatures trying to hide communication from

Pick Pocketing

Taking an attended object without drawing attention. An ideal lift is not just successfully snatching an item it is doing so without being noticed for some time afterward, so the mark has no clue who could of lifted something from them. Passing someone in a crowd and snatching their wallet is a harder sneak check than lifting of someone that is comfortable being close to you for an extended period of time. You need a least one hand free to attempt.

Determining Difficulty

Base TN: 5 + highest passive Awareness of all creatures you are trying to hide your pick pocket from

-1 TN per 10 seconds you can be close to them without rising suspicion, up to 6

TN affected by their Alertness, see Awareness section

Increase TN 2 per quarter load of the item you are trying to lift

TN affected by position on the body for the item you are trying to lift

TN affected by how locked down an item is

Sleight of Hand

Moving unattended objects without observers noticing.

References

invisible gorilla, probably better to go in deception references
3 card monte
Stage pickpocket
Pick pocket
Pick pocket 2

Design Note

Pickpocket might need to be a advanced skill combination between deception and sneak? Or maybe across over like athletics and acrobatics have?

Sneak Abilities

Cloak of Shadow (Sneak)

Talent, Conjuration, Invocation, Potence: Some mix of unconscious or uncontrollable mix conjuration, illusion, and potence causes shadows to cling to you and the memory if meeting you easily fade into the shadows of the mind.

Increase your initial momentum by 2 if you start a combat starts while you are in stealth. You can spend 1 mana cause someone to forget an interaction with you until the next time you interact with them.

Vanish (Sneak)

Trick, Potence: You attempt a risky but quick attempt to vanish to an enemy.

Focus: 2 Momentum

Effect: Roll impaired sneak to attempt to hide against a single enemy if you are out of their combat sense.

Shadowed Strike (Sneak)

Arcana, Potence: When your presence is but a shadow in the minds of of an opponent you can enhance your precision to find vital areas to strike.

Action: 2/5 Momentum, Strike while Hidden only

On Hit (2): Increase damage by CS.

On Hit (5): Increase damage by CS. Slide 3. At the end if your turn if you are outside of your your targets combat sense roll Sneak in an attempt to Hide from them.

Endurance

Endurance relates to your skill in sustaining difficult actions and resist some ill effects on the body. The TNs are equal to the TN of the check you are trying to sustain. The frequency of the check is determined here by how exhausting the task is. Failure threatens to give fatigue, if the character takes action that requires an Endurance check before a long rest they become Fatigued (Day Impaired) and the TN of the Endurance check rests to its base.

Climbing, Crawling, Running, and Swimming

Determining Difficulty

Base TN: 1

Frequency: Every 10 minutes (100 rounds)

+1 TN per endurance check since a short rest

Jumping

Determining Difficulty

Base TN: 3
Frequency: Each jump you make in a row after the first

+1 TN per jump you have taken since a breather

Sprinting

Determining Difficulty

Base TN: 7

Frequency: Every round (6 seconds)

+2 TN per round of sprinting since a short rest

Resisting Effects

Various actions or effects may require you to take an endurance check, in those cases the effect will tell you the base TN, frequency of required checks, how the TN increases, and effect of failure.
Example with alcohol.

Determining Difficulty

Base TN: 3

Frequency: Every 1.5 ounces consumed

+1 TN 1.5 ounces consumed since your last long rest

Endurance Abilities

Tough (Endurance)

Talent, Potence: A ruff and tumble life has hardened you to various dangers.

Increase each Health Category by |enduranceSkillRank| HP. You can spend 2 mana to gain 3 recovery.

Vital Tenacity (Endurance)

Trick, Potence: Drawing from deep restorative energy you funnel it into your attacks.

Focus: 1 Recovery

Effect: Gain Combat +2 Critical Range

Surge (Endurance)

Arcana, Potence: Draw energy inward to invigorate yourself heal small injuries.

Action: 2/5 Momentum

Effect (2): Heal self 2 + CS

Effect (5): Heal self 6 + CS*3

Poise

Poise relates to your ability to maintain your footing. It is in a lot of ways the flip side of the Force skill. Various effects could create a force on you and poise is well you can resist that force. If boulder is rolling down a hill at you, your skill in Poise is how well well can dig your feet in and shift its trajectory or stop its momentum.

Brace

A frequent use of poise will to be resist effects that move you. This can be done passively or actively.

Determining Difficulty

Base TN: 5
Effect: Round may reduce any forced movement by 1
+2 TN per additional 1 space of reduce movement

Poise Abilities

Sure Footed (Poise)

Talent, Conjugation: Deft footwork allows you to move over small obstacles easily and carry additional weight without impediment.

Reduce the cost to move onto difficult ground by 1. Ignore Guard and Blast penalties while on difficult ground. You can spend 1 mana to hold an object of up to twice your size and height in place without danger to yourself regardless of its weight for |poiseSkillRank| rounds.

Shrug Off (Poise)

Trick, Potence: The mountain does not move

Reaction: You are reduced to a lower health category

Effect: Reduce damage into the new health category to 0 and you may Cleanse one condition you have of combat duration of less.

Pin (Poise)

Arcana, Potence: When you focus your momentum into this Aracana you can easily anticipate the movements of a enemy and act to prevent them.

Action: 2/5 Momentum

On Hit (2): A damaged enemy gains Short Impaired 2

On Hit (5): A damaged enemy gains Round Restrained and Impaired

Lore

Lore checks represent how much you have studied and how well you recall history, human symbols, understand and sense magic. Lore can not be used on the same thing more than once per character.

Fae Sense

Fae sense is a secondary sense for humans, feeling with it is similar to vision and sound, it sharpens based on distance and as the world is filled with magic the sense can get muddled and without giving specific attention to a location or thing details can get lost. Through study and effort it can be sharpened, represented by your rank in Lore.
Unlike the other senses Fae sense uses your Lore instead of Awareness. It is passively like all other senses (using the passive value of Lore). It is used to identify various magical effects, understand ongoing magical effects and magic items, and even feel the amount and type of magic recently used in an area.

Detect Sigils, Wards, and Conjured Senses

The TN to detect these rituals is almost always going be hidden information to players. The guide listed here is to help GMs understand what the players can sense but also help players be sure of what isn't around them based on their result.

Determining Difficulty

TN to detect: 7

Base distance from magic: 1 space

Increase TN by 1 for each space from magic

Increase TN by 1 for each Mask applied to the effect

Decrease TN by 2 if sustained over a month

Decrease TN by 2 if it was sustained for a year

Decrease TN by 1 for each year it has been sustained beyond the first

Decrease TN by 1 for each mana that spent on enhancements and augments during the ritual

Identifying effect of Magic

This allows character to identify what magic items can do, the effect of known Sigils and Wards. The senses on a Conjured Sense and trace it to its creator. It also allows for identification of Illusions.

Determining Difficulty

TN to detect: 12

Base distance from magic: 1 space

Increase TN by 1 for each space from target

Decrease TN by 1 for each minute you study the target

Detecting recent mana use

All mana used within 100 yards can be felt together, making it easier to detect, but each individual use of mana can be further investigated to get specific information about it.

Determining Difficulty

TN to detect: 12

Base distance from magic: 1 space

+1 TN per space from location

+1 TN per hour since the mana was used

-1 TN per mana used

History

Used to gain information about recorded historical events, historical people, and to infer information about current circumstances from the patterns of history.
These checks let you ask questions to the GM about a subject or circumstance that they must answer honestly. These questions can be a series of sentences describing specific information you want to learn. These questions must me about that thing or relationships to that thing.

Determining Difficulty

Base TN: 12

Base number of questions you can ask: 1

Increase TN by 2 to ask an additional question

Decrease the TN by 1 for every 20 years in the history the question is about

Symbols & Customs

Lets you discern symbols: Holy symbols, warning symbols, heraldry, customs, etc

Lore Abilities

Conjure Element (Lore)

Ritual, Conjuration, Sustainable (D)

Allows you to conjure matter

Retrospect (Lore)

Ritual, Divination, Resistible

Allows player to gain specific insight into a creature or object

Store Time (Lore)

Trick, Divination: You're adept at anticipating the future allowing you to reserve some energy.

Focus or Move

Effect (Focus): Gain Short Focused
Effect (Move): Gain Short Quick

Empowered Blast (Lore)

Arcana, Conjuration: Create and shape substantive amount of one of the base elements.

Action, must be Blast: 4/7 Momentum

Effect (4): On this Blast gain a hit bonus equal to the number of dice you are rolling +2.

Effect (7): Increase the bonus to twice the number of dice you are rolling +4.

Survival

Identification of Flora and Fauna

Base TN: 5

Identification of Faen

First Aid

Tracking

Hiding Tracks

Hunting

Survival Abilities

Locate (Survival)

Ritual, Divination, Resistible*

Allows you to locate things that fit specific criteria

Restoration (Survival)

Ritual, Conjuration, Restore

Restores health, removes fatigue and conditions

Shelter (Survival)

Trick, Conjuration: You conjure a thin earth shield to deflect some of the damage an ally receives.

Reaction: 2 Momentum, ally within 6 is damaged.

Effect: Reduce damage by 4

Stoneskin (Survival)

Arcana, Conjuration: You conjure a thin patches of stone over the vulnerable parts of you or your allies.

Action: 4/7 Momentum

On Hit (4): Ally or self gains Combat Reinforce 6

On Hit (7): Yourself and all allies within 6 gain Combat Reinforce 4

Deception

Deception is the art of making people believe what isn't true, it requires a cleverness to pull off reliably but there are limits to what you can get someone to believe. The most trust that have in you the easier it is to get them to believe outlandish things. This is used for lying, disguises, distraction.

Lying

Base TN their insight +3: Decrease TN by 1 for each level of trust they have in you. Increase TN by 2 if the lie is silly increase TN by 4 outlandish Increase TN by 6 if it is absurd Decrease TN by 4 if you construct a lie that makes then way to believe you

disguises

Base TN their insight +3: Decrease TN by 1 for each level of trust they have in you. Increase TN by 2 if the lie is silly increase TN by 4 outlandish Increase TN by 6 if it is absurd, a halfing trying to disguise themselves as a orc.

Deception Abilities

Phantasm (Deception)

Ritual, Conjuration, Illusion, Sustainable (D)

Allows you to conjure large and longer lasting illusions

Feint (Deception)

Trick, Mental: You Feint

Reaction: You declare an attack

Effect: -1 to hit, increase your Critical Range by 2.

Illision (Deception)

Arcana, Conjuration, Illusion: Create an illusion that can confuses the senses in various ways.

Action: 4-8 Momentum

Effect (4): Conjure an Illusion in a space adjacent to the caster. It acts on the turn of the caster. It has a Combat duration, however that duration can be reduced on an individual level if they recognize the conjuration as an illusion.

The base TN to detect the illusion is |deceptionSkillRank|. See detailed rules in Conjuration: llusion.

For each Momentum spent the Conjuror gets 1 Illusion point to spend on the effect.

Visual: The first point allows for a visual illusion up to size and height 1 and increases TN by 1. This illusion behaves visually and reacts visually to how the caster imagines it should. Subsequent points in this category allow for an increase in 1 size or height.

Touch: Requires at least one point in Visual. The first point allows for the the illusion to exert force on creatures that believe it is real and it increases TN by 1. It can hit them and they can hit it back. However, it can only interact with creatures through touch once per point spent in touch. If the caster chooses to make it attack it uses |deceptionSkillRank| dice to attack adding the casters Mind. If it hits it deals |deceptionSkillRank| Pure damage. See notes for more details

Sound: The first point allows for the illusion to create sounds up to 60 decibels (normal conversation volume) as the caster believes it should and increases TN by 1. It will passively make sounds, footsteps etc, but it can also be made to actively create sounds, speech etc. Further points invested in sound allow for an increase in sound volume by 5 decibels each.

Smell: The first point allows for the illusion to create scent in the space it is in and all adjacent spaces and increase TN by 1. The scent created can be pleasant to uncomfortable but can not harmful. Subsequent points in smell increase the radius of the smell by 1.

Taste: Requires Touch. Adds the taste the caster believes the illusion tastes like and increases TN by 1. Subsequent points in taste add 1 to TN. Increase

TN: each point increases TN by 1.

Insight

Ability to see through deception, assess moods, and stuff

Moods

Base TN 7: Increase by 1 for each intensity of their mood beyond calm. Increase by 1 for each familiarity you have with them.

Detecting deception

A lot of the difficulty of detecting lies is going to be hidden to the players. Base TN their deception +2. Decrease TN by 1 for each familiarity you have with them.

Detect intent

various aspects of communication can relate to intent, determining difficulty here is largely circumstantial.

Detect Values

Through deduction of behavior in conflict, someones jobs, and reactions in conversation you can try and discern someones values. The more information you have on them the easier it is to ascertain their values. However, you as a player will often need to deduce this yourself or go on specific information gathering missions or downtime to learn this information.

Insight Abilities

Portent (Insight)

Ritual, Divination

Allows the player to gain small insight into the result of actions

Weak Spot (Insight)

Trick, Divination:

Focus

Effect: Roll a d10, and target an enemy within 6. Combat target takes 1 additional damage when damaged by an attack that rolled the number on the d10.

Augury (Insight)

Arcana, Divination: With a quick breath and centering your mind you can gain sufficient insight to help allies improve their actions.

Action: 4/7 Momentum

Effect (4): Before you roll you and all of your allies within 6 gains Round Boosted or Covered. At the end of this round, swap the initiative value of any number of your allies or yourself that are within 6.

Effect (7): Before you roll you and all of your allies within 6 gains Round Boosted 2 and Covered. At the end of this round, swap the initiative value of any creatures that are within 6.

Tinkering

Picking Locks

TN of Lock with adjustment for time.

Contraption

Jerry rigging a thing together. Needs a specific purpose, spend resources. Roll Tinkering the first time you use it.

Repair?

Lets you repair somethings. Light but broad engineering. Picking locks, fixing things, jerry rigging things.

Tinkering Abilities

Sigil (Tinkering)

Ritual, Conjuration, Sustainable (D)

Allows you to create an effect on an area that creatures can trigger and get damaged from

Ward (Tinkering)

Ritual, Conjuration, Sustainable (D)

Allows you to create an effect on an area that notifies you when things enter it

Tweak (Tinkering)

Trick, Divination:

Reaction: 1+ Momentum, you miss an attack

Effect: Reroll 1 die for each Momentum spent

Minor Sigil (Tinkering)

Arcana, Conjuration: You conjure a short lasting sigil next to you.

Action: 4/7 Momentum

Effect (4): Target an unoccupied space within range. Construct a pattern for for a Blast but with a TN equal to the value of the this attack roll.

It detonates the targeted space, after 1 minute, or as a Focus you can trigger it.

Effect (7): As 4 meter and the creature closest to the trap when it goes off gains Round Restrained and Slow. In case of a tie you choose who is retrained.

Awareness

The passive value of Awareness is commonly referenced as it refers to your general ability to notice details. Checks for Awareness are similar to Endurance checks they are required to and in resist mental fatigue from remaining alert or actively investigating things. Failure threatens to give fatigue, if the character takes action that requires an Awareness check before a long rest they become Fatigued (Day Impaired).

Alertness

Your level of alertness determines a bonus modifier you get on passive awareness and affects how wide your line of sight is. Most of the time you will simply be at the 'Aware' start of alertness, however you can choose to enter a higher state, and some things might reduce your state.

Asleep - No line of sight, -4 passive Awareness. Alertness level during a long rest
Relaxed or Distracted - Line of sight only directly forward or toward the thing that is distracting you, -2 Passive Awareness. Alertness during a short rest
Aware - Line of sight is the space in front of you an the two adjacent to it forming a cone of vision. Alertness during a breather
Alert - Noticed something but not sure if it means anything, the classic "did you hear something>", +2 passive Awareness. Dim light does not conceal. 360 degree line of sight, looking around
Fully Alert - Aware of a threat and are actively trying to identify it, +4 Passive Awareness. Dim light does not conceal. 360 degree line of sight, looking around.

The more a character raises their Alertness between long rests the harder the checks become. Alert lasts for 10 minutes, Fully Alerts for a minute. At the end of these duration's a character must make their Awareness check.

Determining Difficulty

Base TN: 3

Frequency, Alert / Full Alert: 10 minutes / 1 minute

+1 TN per Awareness check since a long rest

Failure: If you take an action that requires an Awareness check before a long rest gain Fatigue (Day Impaired)

Investigating

Investigating is not simply looking something over. It is inspecting with caution, thought, and careful precision. The details are what is important when investigating and when you have any sort of pressure to do it quickly it causes mental strain. Investigation is used to find traps or secret doors, to listen through a door, look for hidden details, or similar tasks. This strain can cause fatigue and the more pressure you are under the more strain it will cause. The pressure on you is what determines the difficulty of the check. Pressure is a combination of time, clutter, and the area you are investigating. When you investigate something always learn what there is to learn, Awareness check determines if it was fatiguing. If the TN is below your passive Awareness you do not need to make a check.
Generally investigation applies to a single space or thing, although in some cases the GM may decide it makes more sense to investigate an area, such as a crime scene.
Sometimes in the middle of an investigation you'll get information and you will want to push to learn more. Example: If you listen to a door for voices and hear some you might want to push to try and make out what they are saying. If it is possible to make out what they are saying (up to GM discretion) the mental strain is increased as you try and listen more intently. You might then want to push again to see if you can identify one of the voices (again up to GM discretion). You only increase the TN for a push during an investigation if it was possible to push for more information.

Determining Difficulty

Base TN: 5

Base time spent to investigate: 1 minute

+2 TN per 15 second reduction in investigation time

+1 TN per Awareness check since a long rest

+1-10 TN depending on clutter in the area, ask GM about clutter this should be known bf

-2 TN per additional 5 minutes you spend investigating

-2 TN if you are looking for a specific thing (hidden creatures, trip wire, keys, etc.)

Failure: If you take an action that requires an Awareness check before a long rest gain Fatigue (Day Impaired)

References

Clutter

Awareness Abilities

Conjure Senses (Awareness)

Ritual, Conjuration, Divination, Sustainable

Allows you to imbue your senses to an object

Vigilant (Awareness)

Trick, Mental:

Focus

Effect: Gain Round Reinforce |awarenessSkillRank|

Darkness (Awareness)

Arcana, Conjuration: Inky black darkness fills an area.

Action: 4/7 Momentum

Effect (4): Centered on a space within line on sight and 6 spaces, a you conjure a 3 diameter sphere of darkness that blocks vision into, out of, and through it. Only conjured light can illuminate it and you can see through it normally.

Effect (7): The darkness has a diameter of 4 and you one enemy damaged by this attack gains Combat .

Compel

Compel is generally used to create a behavior in another. It leverages attitude to persuade someone to do something.

Pressing with Compel

TN Adjusters based on target Attitude: The more they like you the easier it is
Character: The more in aligns with their goals, values or character the easier it is
Mood: The more their mood lends itself to the action the easier it is
Immediate Consequence: The smaller the easier it is

Attitude adjustment:

They love you -4
They like you -2
The are ambivalent 0
They dislike you +2
They hate you +4

In character adjustment, aligns with their values, goals or otherwise aligned to character:

Very aligned -2
Slightly aligned 0
Not aligned +2
Slightly in contrast +4
Greatly in contrast +6

Mood, the GM will use their discretion on how mood relates to the roll:

Greatly aligned with -4
Slightly Aligned with -2
Not Aligned 0
Slightly in contrast with +2
Greatly in contrast with +4

Immediate consequence:

None: 0
Minor: +1
Medium: +2
Major: +4

Compel Abilities

Bully (Compel)

Talent, Potence: Like it or not you have a tendency to push people around, which can make it quite hard to keep friends.

Increase your Punish damage by 2. You have Boosted when compelling someone who has an attitude of Love, Like, or Apathy toward you. Decrease their attitude toward you by 1 degree afterward. You can spend 1 mana to prevent this decrease of attitude.

Deter (Compel)

Trick, Invocation:

Focus

Effect: One ally within three gains Round Protected, they do not threaten, can not punish, and are the lowest priority dislike.

Roar (Compel)

Arcana, Invocation: With a loud roar you compel everyone around you to retreat in fear.

Action: 3/6 Momentum

Effect (3): Before or after your attack push all creatures within three up to 2. One creature damaged by this attack gains Round Slow

Effect (6): Before or after your attack push all creatures within three spaces up to 3. One creature damaged by this attack gains Round Restrained

Rouse

Rouse is the skill relating to elevating moods and getting people to a place they are less likely to take, think about solutions to problems, and more likely to take extreme actions.

Like all social skills it can be used to Press or Invest, although, like Handling, as it deals with Mood is easier to Press than attitude, trust, or behavior. Circumstances often require pressing mood as few people in extreme moods have interest in chatting for an extended length of time to allow for an invest roll.
Base TN: 3
For each hour you want to reduce this by increase the TN by 1. (+3 TN to Press)
-2 TN if they trust you
-4 if they love you
+2 tn if they dislike you
+4 if they hate you
+1 per intensity of the mood you're trying to create
+2 if they are currently hostile
+X or -X circumstances, like it is a mood they are unlikely to experience or a good reason they shouldn't elevate.
+1 TN per additional tier for the number of people you're trying to affect

Rouse Abilities

Inspire (Rouse)

Talent, Invocation: Your mood can be contagious.

Adjacent allies have +1 Critical Range. You can spend 1 mana to give boosted or impaired to people you rouse for their next skill check.

Cheer (Rouse)

Trick, Invocation:

Focus

Effect: An ally within three spaces gains Short +1 critical range.

Actuate (Rouse)

Arcana, Invocation: With a shout of encouragement you rouse an ally to action.

Action: 3/6 Momentum

Effect (3): One ally within three gains Round Boosted and either Quick or Focused

Effect (6): One ally within three spaces gains Round Haste and Boosted

Charm

Charm relates to ones ability to delight others and utilizing that delight to manipulate the attitude. This influence can be brief just enough to get some information or given time can create and significant changes in someones reputation of you. While charm is primarily used to increase attitude it can also be used to decrease it.

Where reciprocity, jovial flattery, a ear to lend to woes, friendly contact, and empathy for feelings are some techniques to increase attitude, criticism (especially when inaccurate), unsolicited advice, disregard for feelings, expectation of favors and friendship or gifts can be used to decrease it.

Influencing attitude

Changing attitude generally takes time and requires more socializing than most other social skills. The obstacles are mood, reputation and time.

The higher someones mood the easier it is to increase attitude and harder it is to decrease it. The lower the easier to decrease it and harder to increase it.

Reputation will determine a characters initial attitude toward you and the more you want to influence it from that the harder it becomes. Various personality traits and previous experience will influence reputation and this is largely a matter of GM discretion.

The quicker you want to influence attitude to harder it is to do so. A suitor might court a lady for weeks, months or years to secure their adoration of a specific person. While another may push their luck in just a few minutes and risk decreasing attitude and trust.

Generally a hours of conversation in a exciting and comfortable environment will allow a charm roll for influence. If a character has the the opportunity to extend that by by a day or two it becomes easier, then easier again with a week or two, easier again with a month or two.

To attempt to charm in a less than a few hours will increase the difficulty, and again less than an hour and again for each quarter hour less.

Leveraging Attitude

Charm can be used to get greater favors than normal or decrease the chance attitude decreases from asking for favors. The TN of the check is largely up to GM discretion, refer to the general guideline for skill difficulty.

Failing a Charm check

Failing charm often simply means you don't create the influence in. However, depending on what you were trying to utilize the new attitude for you can decrease their impression or trust toward you. Lesser success allows you to play of the charm off in such a way that it will not influence attitude or trust.

Consequences/Changing an Impression

Based on how a character uses their influence on attitude it can create a lasting impression on attitude or trust.

Examples

A charming merchant can sweep through, delight an village and gain small favors, capture hearts, entice desires and loosen tongues or britches.

However, after the merchant moved on and the fire fades and villagers start to realize the were swindled giving much more than they got, the reputation of the merchant could decrease.

Charm Abilities

Likable (Charm)

Invocation Talent: I mean really...what's not to like?

Enemies ignore you the first round of combat. When you fail a social roll you can spend 1 mana to ignore the consequences.

Wink (Charm)

Trick, Invocation:

Reaction: 2 Momentum, ally within three spaces rolls an attack

Effect: Increase their Critical Range by 2 and they gain +1 Mark on the attack

Smile (Charm)

Arcana, Invocation: Your charm can be elevating or even stunning...when backed up with magic.

Action: 3/6 Momentum

Effect (3): An ally within three gains Short Boosted 2 and +1 Critical Range.

Effect (6): A damaged enemy gains Round Restrained, Combat Impaired, and dislikes you at their highest priority.

Handling

Handling is the skill relating to calming moods and getting people to a place they are more likely to talk with you, think about solutions to problems and less likely to take extreme actions.

Like all social skills it can be used to Press or Invest, although, like Rouse, as it deals with Mood is easier to Press than attitude, trust, or behavior. Circumstances often require pressing mood as few people in extreme moods have interest in chatting for an extended length of time to allow for an invest roll.

Base TN: 3
For each hour you want to reduce this by increase the TN by 1. (+3 TN to Press)
-2 TN if they like you
-4 if they love you
+2 tn if they dislike you
+4 if they hate you
+1 per intensity of the mood
+2 if they are currently hostile
+X or -X circumstances, like the presence of a thing that is creating the mood or a good reason they should calm down.
+1 TN per additional tier for the number of people you're trying to affect

Handling Abilities

Serene (Handling)

Talent, Invocation: Your presence has a calming effect no those around you.

Enemies ignore you for dislikes for 1 round after damaging you. When making social rolls you can spend 1 mana to consider your target's mood calm when determining difficulty.

Calm (Handling)

Trick, Invocation:

Reaction: An ally is hit

Effect: Reduce the Critical Score of the roll by 1

Lure (Handling)

Arcana, Invocation: You whisper calming words that draw others toward you.

Action: 3/6 Momentum

Effect (3): Pull one ally or damaged enemy within three spaces up to 3. A creature you damage with this attack gains Short Breached

Effect (6): Pull any number of allies or damaged enemies within 3 up to a total of 6. You may apply Round Slow and Breached to any creature you pulled

Diplomacy

Prevent worsening of attitude toward or a thing you are associated with. Can decrease attitude of a third party.

Diplomacy Abilities

Bind

Talent, Conjugation, Invocation: You have a knack for preventing the manipulations of others.

Adjacent enemies are Meek 1. You can spend 1 mana to Impair the a social skill of another for the remainder of the scene.

Negotiate (Diplomacy)

Trick, Invocation:

Focus

Effect: Gain Round Impaired. Target one creature within three, give them either Short Impaired or Boosted.

Cease (Diplomacy)

Arcana, Invocation: A plead to peace causes your enemies to hesitate.

Action, must be Scold: 3/6 Momentum

Effect (3): +1 to hit for this action. You may inflict Round Impaired to any hit target.

Effect (6): +1 to hit for this action per target. You may inflict Round Impaired to a target per die that hits them.

Leadership

Confidence, getting people not to question you, second think your commands, doubt you.

Can be used to incite or discourage behaviors, similar to encourage and intimidate, although not through influencing emotion but more through creating an perception of authority. It is also limited to behavior it can't influence moods. More than any other social skill body language and projected confidence are the tools of leadership. While speech is still often utilized and important a lot can be done without it.

Where the consequences of encourage and intimidate mostly relate to changes in attitude. The consequences of utilizing leadership relate to changes in trust.

Leadership Abilities

Awe (Leadership)

Talent, Conjugation, Invocation: The trust your allies place in you allows you lead them more effectively.

Allies affected by your Tricks get +1 Critical Range. You can spend 1 mana to give another creature Boosted to a skill for the remainder of the scene.

Designate (Leadership)

Trick, Invocation:

Focus: 1 Momentum

Effect: Target a space within three. Round allies attacking from this space gain Boosted and reduce the cost of an attack maneuver by 1 momentum

Direct (Leadership)

Arcana, Invocation: With a sharp command your allies slide into position.

Action: 3/6 Momentum

Effect (3): Slide any number of allies within three up to 3 total spaces. Give one ally 1 Momentum.

Effect (6): Slide any number of allies up to 8 total spaces. Give one ally 3 momentum.

Pray (Common)

Ritual, Conjugation

Cost: 1 Mana

Cast time: 6 seconds

Duration: Instant

Effect: The Weaver can transfer mana freely between one willing participant and themselves.

Enhancements

Reach (6 second cast time): Increase number of participants you can transfer between by 1.

Augments: TBD

Resist: N/A

Harmony (Common)

Ritual, Conjugation

Cost: 1 Mana

Cast time: 1 minute

Duration: 1 hour

Effect: The caster and the participants are in Harmony for a skill roll. This roll can be either a group action (climbing over a wall, sneaking past a guard) or a individuals action that other people can assist with (charming a drunk guard into giving up a password to enter a palace).
When taking a group action all ritual participants roll and share the highest result. Any impairment a character has is shared with everyone else (if the group is trying to sneak and one character has heavy armor all characters are impaired twice for this roll).
When making an individual roll each participant that can assist rolls their skill as well. The instigator of the roll can use the result of any roll.

Enhancements:

Extend (1 Mana, 10 minute cast time): The result can be used a second time within the duration. Increase duration by 2 hours.
Encompass (3 minute cast time): Can include an additional participant above your normal maximum.

Augments: TBD

Resist: N/A

Gameplay Notes

Any participant can use the individual harmonious roll, but the Weaver must allow them to use it when they try.

Narrative Notes

In the case of assisting those assisting should explain how they are doing so.

Conjure Element (Lore)

Ritual, Conjuration, Sustainable (D)

Cost: 1 Mana

Cast time: 10 minutes

Duration: 8 hours

Effect: Select an element and target an unoccupied space on the ground. Conjure the element in that space, choose its orientation.

Earth: Create a 6ft, 6ft by 2in stone slab in the space (something similar to sandstone).
Air: Create a 60mph wind and choose its flow through the space(s). Stops small projectiles from going through, counts as difficult ground.
Water: Create a 6ft, 6ft by 2in ice slab, and decrease the temperature in the space by 30°F(15°C). Does not block line of sight.
Fire: Fill the space with fire increasing the temperature of it to 130°F (55°C). Blocks line of sight and deals 3 Pure Fire damage to things that move into the space or starts their turn there.

Enhancements

Area (1 mana, 5 minutes): Increase the area of the effect by 1 space
Stack (1 mana, 5 minutes): Create the same effect in an already selected space
Shape (1 mana, 30 minutes): Shape the effect in one space as you choose
Speed (1 mana): Reduce the cast time by 5 minutes, minimum 1 minute
Potency (1 mana, 5 minutes): Increase the potency of an effect in an already selected space
- Air: Increase the speed of the wind by 60 mph.
- Water: Decrease the temperature in the space by 30°F (15°C). Creatures in space - gain Vulnerable.
- Fire: Increase the temperature in the space by 30°F (15°C) and increase damage dealt by 3.

Augments

Conjure Food or Water
Requires: Basic Survival
Additional Cost 5 minute cast time
Effect: You conjure 6 cubic feet of bread or water

Advanced Conjuration
Requires: 1 Recipe is known per skill rank in lore?
Additional Cost: 5 minutes per complexity of the recipe
Effect: The elements can be combined with each other and the tangible aspect of them to create various types of matter. See Advanced Conjuration and work with your GM to create things more complex than the base elements.

Resist/Counter: Conjuration of the opposite element can counter the effect prior to it's acceptance. The potency of the countered element needs 1 more than the number of days it has been sustained. There is sometimes a magical reaction to this counter, GM discretion.

Gameplay Notes

Element Notes:

• Earth: 12 HP per 2 cubic inches. Armor 4 and an additional 1 armor per stack.

• Air: Stacking allows for it to push creatures. 2 Stacks will push 1 a Size 1, height 1 creature. An additional stack is needed per increase in size or height.

Sustaining Conjurations:
Earth and Water conjurations can become Accepted.
Fire and Air conjurations cannot become Accepted but their cost to sustain will diminish down its third weeks cost. That mana is what sustains the fuel of the fire or force of the wind.

Retrospect (Lore)

The caster circles the target counter-clockwise for part of casting duration, stopping at various points to meditate. The speed and amount of circles completed relates the number of questions asked during the Ritual as are various times when the caster stops to meditate.

Retrospect (Lore)

Ritual, Divination, Resistible

Cost: 1 Mana

Cast time: 5 minutes

Duration: N/A

Effect: Retrospect centers around and targets a person or object. Upon completion of this ritual the caster can ask a yes or no questions about the history of the target for the GM to answer. They cannot relate to any other specific people or things unless they are also included in the Ritual [1].

The target of the ritual must stay in the area of the ritual for the entire cast time. The ritual focus can be part of a person or object but the questions are restricted [2].

Enhancements

Question (1 mana, 10 minutes) You can ask two additional questions

Augments: N/A

Resist/Counter: 1 mana to resist on Retrospect when you are the focus

Gameplay Notes

[1]: "Have you killed anyone?" is question that can result in an answer. "Did you kill George?" will not.

"Has a person with black hair passed by this door?" is a question that will result in an answer. "Has George passed through this door." Will not.
[2]: If I have the hair of a person I can ask questions about that person, however only as long as that hair was on a part of them. If the hair is 3 months old they caster can only get answers in relation to up to 3 months ago.

Narrative Notes

Imagine this as reading the trace evidence of Strings on the ritual target

Locate (Survival)

Ritual, Divination, Resistible*

Cost: 1 Mana

Cast time: 10 minutes

Duration: 30 minutes

Effect: You focus on your Fae sense allowing you to see traces and influences of objects in the area.
Upon completion of the Ritual you can list 3 criteria. You connection to the Fae tells you the direction and general distance of the closest object that meets those criteria, up to 2 miles, for the duration.

*Alternatively, if you have a piece of the thing you are looking for (page of a book, hair of a person) you can search for that thing specifically, doing so gives a slight tingle to the target and allows them to spend 1 mana to resist the rituals effects.

Enhancements

Refine (1 mana) Increase criteria by 6
Range (1 mana, 5 minutes) Increase search radius by 1 mile
Length (1 mana, 5 minutes) Increase duration by 30 minutes

Augments

Animal Messenger
Requires: Basic Survival and Leadership
Additional Cost: 1 mana 10 Cast Time, adds Invocation keyword
Effect: Animal Messenger: This augment requires a beast friendly to the caster to be a target of the ritual. Upon completion the animal moves toward the target of the Ritual for the duration. Upon arriving it will stay with the target for 5 minutes before the ritual on the animal ends and they start behaving normally. Often casters of this augment will attach a message to the animal for the target of the ritual. The animal will try for 1 minute to overcome any obstacles in its path and if it can not make progress in that minute the Ritual will end. If it can not reach

Whispering Wind
Requires: Conjure Element Ritual or Air Blast Proficiency
Additional Cost: 1 mana, 10m Cast Time, adds Conjuration keyword
Effect: The wind carries 20 words whispered in the air or an object up to one ounce to the target of the ritual at 10 miles per hour (each instance of Whispering Wind allow an additional ounce or 20 words and increases the speed by 5 miles per hour). The wind avoid obstacles that it can, however if there is no way for the object to be carried to the target (if the object and the air can pass under a door, around trees, over cliffs, etc it will) it will slow down then stop once encounters a barrier it can not get around (such as if grabbed).

Obfuscate Effect
Requires: Adept Sneak or Deception
Additional Cost: 1 mana, 10m Cast time
Effect: When targeting a specific creature they immediately forget the effect happened if they resist it or not

Resist/Counter: 1 Mana to Resist if you are specifically being located.

Gameplay Notes

Survival checks can help you, with the assistance of the GM, in learning aspects of creatures to help refine this search.

Narrative Notes

While Retrospect looks at the trace evidence on the target, Locate looks for the trace evidence left by it

Restoration (Survival)

Ritual, Conjuration, Restore

Cost: 1 Mana

Cast time: 5 minutes

Duration: N/A

Effect: Target a creature, they can remove one condition with a rest duration, |survivalSkillRank| persistent damage, or restore 1 Recovery

Enhancements

Restore Health (2 Mana, 10 minutes) Restore a health category
Remove Pain(1 Mana, 10 minutes) Remove a condition with a Day duration

Augments

Remove Curse
Requires: Expert Handling & Insight
Additional Cost: 18 mana, 8 hours
Effect Remove a simple curse or suspend a more complex curse for 24 hours. While suspended another restore ritual with this augment can be cast to further simplify a curse. If the complexity of a curse is reduced below simple in this way it is removed.

Bestow Curse
Requires: Expert Compel & Deception
Additional Cost: 18 mana, 6 hours
Effect: Apply a simple curse or increase the complexity of a curse you are creating in this ritual

Narrative Notes

Curse removal should be made easier or even made possible by doing specific things related to what caused the curse.
Bestowing Curses. This is a fairly open ended ability, I think it is rarely going to be used by adventures and the rules provided here are light to allow for a lot of creativity in how to use it. It can simply be a mechanical curse but feel free to make them quite interesting. See TV Tropes Curse page for ideas and examples. Just remember that this magic system is about creation, and curses that remove things or cause alterations (without creating something to do those things) are kind of outside of this magic system but if you as a GM are always free to do as you like (just be wary of breaking immersion and systemic cohesion for your players).
World Building: In theory this is about building up the structure of matter from the ground up. Which could in theory build a brain and body and reanimate or even clone an individual. In Gaia only those with a Godly skill level in Fae have refined enough ability to see and understand the complex pattern that makes up a brain, then only those with a Godly skill level in First-Aid have sufficient skill to restore elements of such a complex pattern. Although someone with both can, and in some cases have, created new life, there is still much science to be done to fully understand the impact of changes. While less knowlegable and skilled individuals have tried to restore people from the dead many attempts so far have has significant unintended effects, mostly with reconstructing the brain in the wrong way resulting in all sorts of changes accidental and often unrepeatable changes in personaility, creature ability and instincts. Think of Godly level Fae as the ability to do a genome sequence and a very detailed brain scan, then First-Aid is the ability to restore damaged aspects of a creature back to that. Tweaks can be made to DNA and brain structure in that process but only 2 godly level characters in the world have any experience with the implications of doing so and even they only just beyond playing with matches.

Phantasm (Deception)

The caster walks shapes relating to all of Strings but never completing those shapes.

Phantasm (Deception)

Ritual, Conjuration, Illusion, Sustainable (D)

Cost: 1 Mana

Cast time: 5 minutes

Duration: 6 hours

Effect: Target an area or thing encompassing 1 size and height or small. You create an visual illusion encompassing the target.

If targeting a thing: The illusion moves with the thing relative to their movements or effects that force them to move. However, it must maintain the same basic shape of the thing. No significant changes in size, height or shape.

Targeting an area: Create an image of an object, a creature or a change in the terrain

Enhancements

Expand (10 minutes): Increase size or height of the illusion by 1
Illusory Touch and Temperature (1 mana and 5 minutes per 3 spaces affected): When interacting or being interacted with through touch it now has some substance and is capable of causing harm to people who do not resist it after an interaction with it. Increase the TN to resist by 1 and physical interaction with the illusion will result in much smaller reductions in the TN and often none at all. Ignore reduction primary sense to TN for creatures that have a primary sense that relates to touch.
Hitting an illusory creature that has added illusory substance will feel like hitting a real creature. Any damage done will be replicated as the character that conjured it imagines it would including wounds.
Illusory Sound (1 mana and 2 minutes per per 3 spaces affected): The image now produces sound as the casters imagines it would including when it interacts with other things. This can include various sounds the image might make, including reactions to being hit, up to 90 words of speech played at specific times as determined by caster (but not in relation to an event). If targeting an area it can also produces any sounds the caster would like, but it can only be heard within the affected area. This sound can be loud enough to be quite unpleasant and intimidating, blocking out other sounds in the area but can not to cause harm. The source of the sound can be any part of the image created and once that source is located it can have significant decreases in TN if the source makes little sense relative to the image at the source. Increase the TN to resist by 1 and observing sound the image makes will result in much smaller reductions in the TN and often none at all. Ignore primary sense reduction to TN for creatures that have a primary sense that relates to sound (echo location).
Illusory Smell (1 mana and 1 minute per 3 spaces affected): By default each part of the image smells as the caster believes it smells, however the caster can modify it to smell anyway the imagine it too. This smell can be pungent enough to be unpleasant and intimidating, blocking out other smells in the area but can not cause harm. The source of the smell can be any part of the image created and once that source is located it can have significant decreases in TN if the source makes little sense relative to the image. Increase the TN by resist by 1 and observing the smell the image makes will result in much smaller reductions in TN and often none at all. Ignore primary sense reduction to the TN for creatures that have a primary sense that relates to smell.
Illusory Tate (1 mana and 1 minute per 3 spaces affected): By default it tastes as the caster would taste the image, however the caster can modify it to taste anyway they can imagine it too. The taste can vary enough to be unpleasant but not cause harm. This taste can be stronger than the thing normally tastes like, but the strong taste the thing would normally have the more likely there is to be suspicion. Each part of the image can and if it includes multiple objects or things likely does taste differently relative to what it is an image of. Increase the TN by 1 and observing the taste of the image will result in much smaller reductions in TN and often none at all. Ignore reduction to TN for creatures that have a primary sense of taste.
Enhanced Deception (1 mana, per 3 spaces affected) Increase TN by 2

Augments

Programmed Illusion, Adept Leadership (1 mana and 10 minutes per 3 spaces affected, Time Cost): The caster can have the illusion react to various stimulus.
Tinkering: Triggered Illusion (1 mana per 3 criteria added, 30 minutes): The conjuration of the illusion is delayed until a something that fits the criteria enters the affected area

Resist/Counter: See rules pertaining to illusions in the Conjuration section.

Illusions can be countered by casting a Ward ritual of equal or greater total Mana cost targeting the Illusion

Gameplay Notes

Unlike standard illusions Phantasms are given substance by the major and the mind of the perceiver. Until a phantasm is understood to be an illusion it has substance. Once a character knows it is an illusion they can try and deceive themselves having their mind give it substance while they interact with it.

Narrative Notes

World Building: How accustom people in your world are to illusions will impact how effective they are. The more common it is to have illusion to easier time the average person will have in detecting them

Portent (Insight)

Ritual, Divination

Cost: 1 Mana

Cast time: 20 minutes

Duration: 24 hours

Effect: Focuses the caster on small slight changes in energy, allowing them to feel the effect of actions around them right as they are about to happen. This results in the character witnessing something like a deja vu and allowing them to glimpse into the outcome of an events.

Gain 3 Portent to be spent into these 'glimpses into the future'. Lose all Portent points if you take a long rest. Each rank of insight allows for greater glimpses into the future:

Basic, 1 Portent: Re-roll any out of combat roll
Trained, 2 Portent: Undo an out of combat event no longer than 6 seconds for one character
Adept, 8 Portent:undo an series of events no longer than 2 minutes (or 1 combat)

You can only affect events or dice created by you or ritual participants. When changing events or dice for someone that assisted with the Ritual they must reasonably be able to receive a split second warning from you.

Enhancements

(1 mana, 10 minutes) Increase Portent points by 3
(1 mana) Reduce cast time by 15 minutes

Augments: N/A

Resistible: N/A

Gameplay Notes

Declare the use of Portent points after a roll or action resolves but prior to the next action or end of a characters turn. This can also be used to re-roll out of combat rolls and 'undo' actions after seeing the immediate consequence.

Narrative Notes

You as a player are choosing when to use your Portent, but the character is not, rather they are reacting to what insight presents itself.

Sigil (Tinkering)

Ritual, Conjuration, Sustainable (D)

Cost: 1 Mana

Cast time: 20 minutes

Duration: 12 hours

Effect: Target a surface no smaller than 6" by 6" (like a page of a book) and no larger than 6' by 6'. When triggered it explodes dealing 6 persistent damage with a diameter of 3 spaces (~18 feet).

Trigger Criteria: A living creature touches the Sigil, which can be restricted by one criteria the caster chooses.

Once triggered the sigil disappears.

Base TN to 'feel' a sigils presence, Lore: 8 (+1 per space away from it).
Base TN to find a sigil, Awareness or Lore: 7
Base TN to identify the effect of the sigil, Lore: 5

Enhancements

Explosive (1 mana, 1 minute): Increase damage dealt by 6
Charge (2 mana, 10 minutes): Allows the sigil to trigger an additional time before disappearing. The same creature can't trigger it again within 1 minute.
Wide (1 mana, 1 minute): Increase diameter of explosion by 1
Restrict (1 mana, 5 minutes): Add up to an additional 3 trigger criteria
Inspirit (1 mana, 1 minute): - 1 Point, Inspirit: Increase the TN to resist effects from Augments by 1 up to [|tinkeringSkillRank|+10]

Augments

Mask
Requires: Basic Deception
Additional Cost: 1 mana 5 minutes
Effect: Increases TN to detect by 3 and can decrease the size of the Sigil down to 1 inch (2.5cm) by 1 inch

Visual Trigger
Requires: Basic Awareness
Additional Cost: 1 mana
Effect: The Sigil can see things in front of it up to a distance of 2 spaces per 1 mana spent on this augment and trigger based on seeing things that fit its criteria.

Auditory Trigger
Requires: Trained Awareness
Additional Cost: 1 point, 20 minutes
Effect: The Sigil can hear things around it of it up to a distance of 2 spaces per 1 mana spent on this augment. Trigger criteria can be restricted by sound or forced to trigger with them, pick words or sounds as your criteria

Overwhelming Fear
Requires: Adept Compel
Additional Cost: 2 mana, adds Invocation keyword
Effect: Damage type becomes Psychic. Creatures in the area must sprint away from the Sigil for 1 round and are inflicted with Rest Breached. They must make a Tinkering skill check with a TN equal to [3+|compelSkillRank| + |tinkeringSkillRank|]. For each number they fail the check by they sprint away from the Sigil for an additional round.

Euphoria
Requires: Adept Charm
Additional Cost: 2 mana, adds Invocation keyword
Effect: Damage type becomes Psychic. Creatures in the area are inflicted with Round Stun and Rest Impaired. They must make a Tinkering check with a TN equal to [3+|tinkeringSkillRank| + |charmSkillRank|]. For each number they fail the check by they are stunned for an additional round or until they take damage.

Healing
Requires: Basic Survival
Additional Cost: 5 minutes
Effect: Instead of dealing damage the Sigil heals that amount to the creature that triggers it

Restorative
Requires: Trained Survival
Additional Cost: 6 mana, 1 hour
Effect: Instead of dealing damage it restores a health category to the creature that triggers it

Conflagrate
Requires: Blast Proficiency Fire or Conjure Element Ritual
Additional Cost: 1 mana per minute of effect + 1 per Wide enhancement
Effect: Fire ignites in affected spaces. It deals |tinkeringSkillRank| Pure damage to creatures and objects in that space or that move into it.

Rising Spire
Requires: Blast Proficiency Earth or Conjure Element Ritual
Additional Cost: 1 mana per minute of effect + 1 per wide enhancement
Effect: Stone rises to fill the area pushing creatures out of it, to a location of the creatures choice

Resistible: For augments that require a skill check to resist the effect 1 mana can be spent to automatically succeed on this check.

Gameplay Notes

Allies can help each other overcome social effects with leadership and counsel. Roll either of these skills contested by the TN, on success the ally gains Boosted on the skill check.
Base TN to detect with Awareness is [|tinkeringSkillRank|*2]. Increase this by 2 for Fae
The more powerful the sigil the easier it is to detect, additionally the world around the sigil changes slightly due to its power and duration. TN to detect is -1 for a sigil that lasts over 12 hours, -2 for over a week, -3 for a season and -4 for 2 or more years. For longer sustained or accepted sigils dust might settle less on the sigil, tree roots might grow tracing its pattern, etc.

Ward (Tinkering)

Ritual, Conjuration, Sustainable (D)

Cost: 1 mana

Cast time: 20 minutes

Duration: 24 hours

Effect: You conjure a magical web of sorts in a 3 diameter area (~18 feet). Whenever a non-gas enters the warded area the Ward warns you of the breach. It can be triggered 3 times before your connection to it fades and the effects of the ritual ends. Upon completing the ritual you can designate 6 criteria for things that will not trigger the Ward.

Enhancements

Strand (1 mana): Increase uses by 6
Restrict (1 mana): Increase non-triggering criteria by 12
Area (1 mana and 10 cast time): Increase diameter by 1

Augments

Mask
Requires: Basic Deception
Additional Cost: 1 mana
Effect: Increases TN to detect by 3

Stone Perimeter
Requires: Blast Proficiency Earth or Conjure Element Ritual
Additional Cost: 1 mana + 1 per Area enhancement Effect: The outside inch of the area, besides the bottom, becomes Sandstone with an Armor of 4 and HP of 12 per 8 inch area. The caster can choose not to apply this affect to any number of spaces

Fog Flurry Perimeter
Requires: Blast Proficiency Air or Conjure Element Ritual
Additional Cost: The outside 3 inches of the area becomes a flurry blowing a thick fog around it at 60 mph. This blocks vision, small projectiles, sound and spaces touching the perimeter become difficult ground

Darkness
Requires: Blast Proficiency Water or Conjure Element Ritual
Additional Cost: 1 mana + 1 per Area enhancement
Effect: The area is filled with magical Darkness. Only magical light of comparable strength can pierce the Darkness

Light
Requires: Blast Proficiency Fire or Conjure Element Ritual
Additional Cost 1 mana + 1 per Area enhancement
Effect: The area is filled with magical light. It will not illuminate outside of the area but everything in the area can be seen. Only magical darkness of comparable strength can shade the light

Resistible: Augments that allow a skill check can be by spending 1 mana.

Gameplay Notes

The very small strings of magic that make up the Ward can be detected with Fae or Awareness. Base TN for a the Ward that has a non-obvious augment effect is [|tinkeringSkillRank|*2+4] to creatures near it. This TN is reduced in half once they have passed through it.

Conjure Senses (Awareness)

Ritual, Conjuration, Divination, Sustainable

Cost: 1 Mana

Cast time: 20 minutes

Duration: 1 hour

Effect: While constructing the ritual the caster carefully imbues a conjured object with one of their senses (taste, touch, smell, sight, hearing and/or fae). The performer can spend up to 3 points while constructing the conjured ense. Each sense imbued to the object no longer works on the character's body until the ritual's duration is over, even if the object is destroyed. The object imbued must be inanimate and between the size of a coin and 8 inch diameter sphere. On completion of the Ritual decide a quarter inch by quarter inch area on the object each sense is attached to that determines facing of the sense.

The Awareness skill rank of the Conjuration is 1: Untrained.

1 Point: Add Sight
1 Point: Add Smell
1 Point: Add Hearing
1 Point: Add Taste
1 Point: Add Touch
1 Point: Increase TN to detect the Conjuration by 1
1 Point: Increase Awareness skill Rank of conjured senses. This can not exceed casters skill Rank.
2 Points: Maintain one conjured sense on the character

Enhancements

Greater Sense (1 mana): Add 3 points to the ritual.

Augments

Creature Sense, Adept Handling (1 mana, 30 minutes) Imbue a living creature instead of a conjured object. The creature must be a focus of the ritual and stay in the cast area for the entire cast time.

Resistible: N/A

Gameplay Notes

The size of it is somewhere between a inch wide coin and human head. It can not move itself, it has no muscle or other means of locomotion.
The handling augment often puts senses in the same place the creature has them (as clothes, fur, etc will otherwise hinder a sense), although it is not required. This could be used to see from the back of an allies head to potentially warn them of danger.
Requires an Awareness check to detect. TN 13, reduced by 1 for each point spent in the ritual. The more powerful the magic the easier it is to detect with Fae sense.

Narrative Notes

World Building: In theory this could be used to construct new senses, or expand them greater than they would be normally (infrared vision, hawk vision, dog sense of smell, etc). Conjuration is a magic of creation and if science advanced far enough to learn how different creatures had different sense a similar thing could be created. It would take some significant training of those Ritual performer to use them properly as their brain would be unused to getting that type of feedback.

Reason: Awaken

Mental, Conjuration, Sustainable (D)

Mana cost: ?

Cast time: ?

Duration: ?

Effect: This ritual allows for programming of objects to take specific actions. This is often related to simple basic movement and as such the object must be able to move. This a common use for this ritual would be to empower a Golem (that was conjured with the Conjure Elements ritual, or sculpted) to function. Objects have some basic understanding of how they look and are expected to behave, this is largely limited to movement. If a golem is told to �walk 30 feet forward every 10 seconds� it will now how to walk and you won�t have to program what �walk� means. This will be used to trigger other spells, make inanimate objects animate, speak or other things.

N/A

N/A

Resistible: N/A

Gameplay Notes

N/A

Narrative Notes

N/A

Attribute Details

This section covers the specific rules regarding attributes and character creation.

Attribute Priortiy

The first step is prioritizing your attributes.

Select Body, Mind, or Spirit to be your primary
- Primary attributes start with a value of 2, and has 3 attribute points to distribute to its sub-attributes
- Increase the value of your primary attribute to 3 at level two
- Increase the value of your primary attribute to 4 at level eight
- Gain an additional attribute point to distribute to a sub-attribute at levels 2, 5, 8 and 11
Select one of the remaining two to be your secondary
- Secondary attributes start with a value of 2, and has 3 attribute points to distribute to its sub-attributes
- Increase the value of your secondary attribute to 3 at level six
- Increase the value of one of your primary's sub-attributes at levels 3, 6, and 9
The last one is your tertiary attribute
- Tertiary attributes start with a value of 1, and has 1 attribute point to distribute to its sub-attributes
- Increase the value of your secondary attribute to 2 at level four
- Increase the value of your secondary attribute to 3 at level ten
- Increase the value of one of your primary's sub-attributes at levels 4, 7, and 10

The maximum value of sub-attributes is equal to the attribute they belong to.

Attributes

Body: Your general physical prowess. Modifier, and base damage for Strike Attack.

Might: Relates to physical strength and control

Modifier for Athletics and Force

Relates to Mana Conversion

Agility: Relates to physical speed and flexibility

Modifier for Acrobatics and Sneak

Relates Initiative and Initial Momentum

Brawn: Relates to physical resilience and stability

Modifier for Endurance and Poise

Relates to Recovery

Mind: Your general mental prowess. Modifier and base damage for Blast Attack.

Will: Relates to mental strength and focus

Modifier for Lore and Survival

Relates Mana Conversion

Wit: Relates to mental speed and flexibility

Modifier for Deception and Insight

Relates to Initiative and Initial Momentum

Resolve: Relates to mental resilience and stability

Modifier for Awareness and Tinkering

Relates to Recovery

Spirit: Your general social prowess. Modifier for Scold Attack.

Vigor: Relates to emotional strength and influence

Modifier for Compel and Rouse

Relates to Mana Conversion

Empathy: Relates to emotional understanding

Modifier for Charm and Handling

Relates to Initiative and Initial Momentum

Faith: Relates to emotional resilience

Modifier for Diplomacy and Leadership

Relates to Recovery

Hit Points are divided into categories.

Max HP: 30+6 per level
Unscathed: Top health category, range from Max HP to Marred
Marred: Second health category, range from 20+4 per level to Desperate
Desperate: Third health category, range from 10+2 per level to 1
Dying: Final health category, its range is 0 to -10-2 per level.

Recovery: Represents how well quickly your character can overcome injuries, conditions, and damage. Equal to 1 + (Brawn + Resolve + Faith)/3. See Rest and Recovery section.

Armor: Reduce all non-Pure damage by this value. This is primarily gained through equipped armor

Guard: Target Number needed to hit you, equal to 7 plus the greatest of Body, Mind, or Spirit

Pace: The base movement value of the character.

Initiative: Equal to Agility + Wit + Empathy. Physical speed, speed of thought, and the ability to anticipate the actions of others all make up how quickly someone act in the face of danger.

Initial Momentum: Equal to 3 + (Agility + Wit + Empathy)/3

Conversion: Equal to 3 + (Might + Will + Vigor)/3

Character Creation: Ways

Your Way

A character's Way refers to experiences or training the character encountered, often in their early adolescence, that taught them how to fight, explore, survive, and overcome obstacles.
Within a setting Ways are often tightely related to culture, institutions, or even personal experience. Mechanically they relate to a establishing a playstyle in combat. Narratively they are are often tied to a character's beliefs and traditions.
Upon choosing a Way you character gets training in attack Skills and two abilities - a Talent and a Trick.
Below are some common Ways to choose from or use as reference for working with a GM to design our own.

Way List

Striking Ways

Adjunct: Cooperative skirmisher that creates openings in enemy defenses for their allies
Battlerager: Risk taking warriors that often dive into mobs of enemies alone
Berserker: Sacrifices defense for offense
Blade Dancer: Use mobility to find openings in enemy defenses or defend themselves
Bravo: Striker that also uses their wit words to control the battle field and attack the pride of their enemies.
Iaidoka: Train in knowing when to strike and doing so with speed
Sentinel: Enhances Protection they give and durable against many opponents.
Shadow Strider: Dagger specialists that conjure shadows to protect them and conceal their movements.
Unfettered<: Unarmed specialist that hits pain points and utilizes Qi for blinding speed.

Blasting Ways

Bladeweaver: Empower their strikes with elements creating a rythme between striking and blasting
Bulwark: Specializes in Earth, conjures a small stone obstacles for protection
Channeler: Empowers areas that they can draw energy from in the near future.
Firefly: Specializes in Fire, those who play with fire often get burned.
Mage Cadre: Empowers and is empowered by allies, best in a small unit mages
Sculptor: Specializes in Water, draws power from their own essence.
Stormcaller: Specializes in Air, conjures a small whirlwind that threatens areas on the battilefield.

Scolding Ways

Breaker: Utilizes fear to catch enemies of balance and weaken their defenses.
Overseer: Avoids threatening situations and guides the position of allies.
Warden: Extends and enhances the Cover they give.

Way of the Adjunct

On the battlefield, a strong arm and skillful use of a weapon can save your life and batter your foes, but a sharp mind is capable of leading your allies to do so as well. Adjuncts are fighters that have trained with this as a guiding principle and when applied correctly, leads to fluid, cooperative assaults that break through even the most stalwart of defenses.
Adjuncts is most often found on the front lines, moving into opportune positions to assail foes while breaking enemies defenses.

Examples of Training

Soliders, Gladiators, Atheletes, Bandits, Caravan Guards.

Traea specifics

Druids, Savannah Tribes and Ring Tribes commonly train Adjuncts. They generally pair them with a Blade Dancers to optimize Flanking tactics in hunts and skirmishes.

Suggested skills

Acrobatics, Insight, Leadership

Attack: Strike

Expose

Potence: In coordination with your allies you can more easily break through enemy defenses.

Flanked enemies adjacent to you are Vulnerable

Battement

Potence: You've trained long and hard to bat aside enemy defenses to assist your allies

Focus

Effect: Target adjacent enemy gains Short Breached. Your attacks can not utilize this debuff.

Way of the Berserker

While other paths are honed through rigorous training, the Way of the Berserker is more often harnessed through primal instincts echoing within.

A Berserker scoffs at caution and focuses on frontline aggression. As blunt and direct as their fighting style may be, it often succeeds in putting more tactical foes off-balance or just dispatching them with sudden fury. These enraged warriors are at their strongest when surrounded by foes.

Example training

Solo Gladiators, Raiders, Barbarians, City Guards. Individuals with little regard for organized combat.

Traea specifics

They are common Free people in the Taiga, South Desert peoples, Forest Anarchists. Although they can be found all over the world, many places have individuals who have little trust of others, no formal or organized combat training or have many people relying on them that don't have combat experience and need to go it alone.

Suggested skills

Athletics, Lifting, Endurance, Survival, Intimidate.

Attack: Strike

Reckless

Spirit: Berserkers are noticed on the battlefield as the more dire the situation the more their grin wides and their spirit rises.

+1 Critical Range for each enemy that threatens you

Rage

Potence: You unleash the powerful force you've cultivated inside you.

Focus

Effect: Gain Round Boosted to Strikes and Round Breached

Way of the Blade Dancer

Stories tell of the original Blade Dancers twirling through ranks of enemies with grace and deadly purpose, felling scores without so much as a scratch upon themselves. While more modern Blade Dancing holds onto the moniker, there is little requirement to make use of the bladed weapons those of eld made use of; Bludgeoning and Piercing attacks are easily adapted to their style of fighting.

The mobility of these tactics is truly what defines it, allowing practitioners to expertly slide into favorable positions. A Blade Dancer is most effective when attacking in tandem with other aggressive allies as to split the defenses of their target.

Example training

Soliders, Gladiators, Atheletes, Bandits, Caravan Guards. Similar to Adjuncts individuals who have cooperative combat training.

Traea specifics

Blade Dancers are common in most places in the world. Populations aren't large enough in most areas to raise armies so combat happens on smaller scales where tactical training often results in gaining minute positional advantages.

Suggested skills

Athletics, Acrobatics, Dancing, Deception, Leadership.

Attack: Strike

Blade

Potence: You've trained to exploit any weakness in your opponents defenses.

+1 Mark with Strikes if your target is Breached, including if they gain it from being Flanked.

Dance

Physical: You deftly maneuver around the battlefield looking for openings in your enemies defenses or strengthening your own.

Focus

Effect: Either Slide 1 or gain Round +1 Guard

Way of the Sentinel

Sentinels hold the line. They are the staunch pillars of the battlefield that give structure to what would otherwise be chaos.
The Way of the Sentinel instructs those trained in it to maintain composure, shed blows and stymie the combined efforts of unified foes. They are the hardened vanguards trained to ensure survival in blood battles.

Example training

Bodyguards, Formation Soldiers, Elite Guards.

Traea specifics

Desert Tribe, 9 Holds,

Suggested skills

Endurance, Poise, Survival, Compel

Attack: Strike

Stern

Potence: Some one has to take a beating, and you've learned to be better at that than most.

Gain +1 Armor. Gain an additional +1 Armor each time you are damaged, remove this bonus at the beginning of each of your turns.

Secure

Potence: You've learned to better defend nearby allies as well as yourself.

Focus

Effect: Target an adjancet ally, until your next turn and as long as you are adjacent them they gain +1 Armor and Covered

Way of the Shadow Strider

Elusive and unpredictable, Shadow Striders undo their opponents with grim efficiency. Those trained in this way excel at shedding the perception of their opponents and execute that advantage with precise, unexpected strikes.

Patience is critical as the Shadow Dancer gracefully glides through the Awareness of their opponents, waiting for optimal opportunities to strike. These stealthy attackers are most effective when allies are able to draw attention away from them.

Example trainingTraea specifics

Shadow Dancers are fairly common within the Druid cells on Traea and they are found throughout all of them.

Suggested skills

Sneak, Acrobatics, Deception, Awareness

Description of Shadow Step effect

Until the end of their turn, the character becomes wreathed in shadowy tendrils that reach for the darkness they created. These tendrils make it difficult to see just where the character is allowing them to safely move toward the darkness they created.

Attack: Strike

Shadowed Grace

Conjuration/Potence: You move as one with the shadows, gracefully striding between them to obfuscate your exact location

While in dim light or darkness you are Protected and a +1 shield bonus to Guard. Increase Critical Range with daggers by 1.

Shadow Step

Conjuration/Potence: You briefly conjure dark shadows that reach to you with inky tendrils. You can choose to let them grasp and pull you

Focus

Effect: Round fill one space within 2 with shadows. The space counts a dim light and blocks line of sight through the space but not into or out of it. As a move action you can have the shadows pull you to their space, doing so dispels them.

Way of the Bulwark

Conjurers who follow the Way of the Bulwark have developed a sensitivity and understanding of the structure and form of the elements. Naturally, this gives them a specific attunement towards the element of Earth, and in society, they are often responsible for conjured advancements in transportation, construction, and fortifications.

In confrontations, a Bulwark provides opportunities for defense and can create obstacles in combat. Like other conjurers, they prefer maintaining distance from aggressive front liners and are most effective when other allies draw fire which they can help defend against.

Example training

Builders, Artist, Soldiers. Those that find the way of the Bulwark often have a history of long hard labor.

Traea specifics

Especially common with Ring Tribes.

Suggested skills

Endurance, Diplomacy, Lore, Survival

Attack: Blast, must learn Earth

One with the Earth

Conjuration: With each blast you earthen fae sticks to you giving extra protection from attacks.

After you Blast gain Combat Reinforce 1

Earth Ring

Conjuration: For a brief time you can manifest the earth allowing those around it to use it for protection, but doing so requires constant motion to maintain it.

Focus

Effect: Target an unoccupied space within 6. Round Conjure an Earth Ring in that space. Earth Rings provide Protected, +1 Shield bonus to Guard, and +1 Armor to creatures it Protects. Moving into or out of a space with an Earth Ring costs 1 additional pace. You can not Protect or become Protected while you have an Earth Ring conjured.

Way of the Channeler

Channelers are raw expressions of the energy that infuses everything. Gifted with the ability to channel magical power, they are capable of sudden, explosive bursts of conjuration. A Channeler is the most aggressive of conjurers, but due to the fickle nature of their techniques, they require exceptional foresight to take full advantage of it.

Conjurers that can make use of this Way are often innately gifted with it, or spend long hours in study. They are most effective when blasting from a distance and with canny allies that can coordinate around their loci of channeled power.

Example training

Aristocracy, Elders, Academics, War Mages

Traea specifics

Ruling class in some of the Holds. The outer Ring tribes. Iren. Other places where conjuring is common and studied.

Suggested skills

Lore, Poise, Tinkering.

Attack: Blast

Channel Power

Conjuration: You've learned to channel the power you've prepared making your Blasts significantly easier to execute.

+3 to hit with Blasts when targeting a space you've Powered

Draw Power

Conjuration: Drawing power from the Fae in a space with a bit of focus you can prepare a Blast with great potential.

Focus

Effect: Target a space within line of sight. At the end of your turn apply Short Powered to that space.

Way of the Stormcaller

Storm Calling is an aged tradition of Conjuring passed down through the generations. Mastery over weather initially developed as a means of survival in lands afflicted with harsh conditions but has evolved with man's ingenuity. Guiding hunting parties, calming turbulent seas on ship voyages, spurring tempests in the sieges of war; Storm Callers have found use in all of these roles.

More so than other Conjurers, training in this Way is a result of rigorous study making it attractive to learned, scholarly conjurers. In battle, Storm Callers make best use of their techniques from a distance where they can harass and control groups of enemies without any threat of retaliation.

Example training

Navigators, Sea Farers, Scholars, Wanderers.

Traea specifics

Iren, Ring Tribes, Destert Tribes.

Suggested skills

Lifting, Intimidate

Attack: Blast, must learn Air

One with the Wind

Conjuration: The fae speaks to you and the storm inside you listens to its guidance

After you Blast you can Slide 1

Whirlwind

Conjuration: For a brief time you can summon the force of the storm lashing out all those around it and suffocating those inside it.

Focus

Effect: Target an unoccupied space within 8, conjure a Whirlwind in that space that lasts for a Round. This whirlwind threatens its own and all adjacent spaces, its space is difficult ground but doesn't count as occupied. A creature that moves into a space takes |mind| pure damage. You can not threaten or punish while you have a conjured whirlwind.

Way of the Breaker

The Way of the Breaker epitomizes the oppressive and terrifying forces of Invocation. Breakers are imposing opponents that utilize fear to overcome enemy defenses.

As their name suggests, they are specialists at breaking through enemy ranks forcing them to scatter and disorganize. Their presence inspires caution and distress within their foes, but this is a double edged sword for it makes them likely targets of focused attacks. Tactically, their techniques are best used at mid range just behind the front lines, creating vulnerabilities in enemy defenses.

Example training

The nature of the Breaker lends them to be found in nearly all backgrounds. Although they are particularly common amoung Thugs, City Guards or used tactically in more organized militaries.

Traea specifics

They are common in most places in the world and almost non-existent in the Ring Tribes and the 7th Ring.

Suggested skills

Endurance, Compel,

Attack: Scold

Shatter

Invocation: Your invocations can not only inspire allies but shatter enemies.

You can use Marks to apply damage to hit enemies instead of give Momentum to allies.

Break

Invocation: The fervor of your invocation can drive even the most fearsome creatures back or break their defenses.

Focus

Effect: Target an enemy within 3. If Protected, push target 1, this push can not be reduced. If not Protected, target gains Round Vulnerable.

Way of the Overseer

DEV NOTE: like many of the striking roles Overseers are likely to have a background in some skirmish fighting. They focus on tactical positioning, teamwork and assisting allies while staying out of danger. This could have a more broad background relating to encouraging people. Cheerleaders?

Attack: Scold

Oversight

Invocation: Trust is important on the battlefield and allies will quickly learn to keep you safe and heed your word of dangers and opportunities.

While you are not Threatened allies within 3 spaces gain +1 Critical Range on attacks. With each Mark on your Scold you can choose to slide your ally 1 instead of giving them a momentum.

Guide

Social: Your effective management of can create openings in enemy defenses and help your allies to fortify their own.

Focus

Effect: Target an ally within 3 spaces, Slide them 1

Way of the Warden

Safety is often as much a feeling as a reality. Through influence and presence some individuals can help those around them feel secure allowing them to venture forward into controlled situations they may otherwise be scared of.

This presense is the specialty of the Warden. The can extend this presence to Cover allies even when they are not adjacent allowing them greater protection over the battlefield spreading their influence wider than most others.

Examples of Training

Traea Specifics

Suggested Skills

Attack: Scold

Ward

Invocation:

Allies you Protect have +1 Armor

Extend Presence:

Invocation:

Focus

Effect: Target ally within 3 gains Round Protected.

Way of the Bladeweaver

Example training

Traea specifics

Suggested skills

Lifting, Endurance, Compel

Attack: Strike & Blast

Empowering Strikes

Potence, Conjuration:

Ignore light armor penalties, while you had one hand free.

When you hit with a melee Strike, gain 1 Power and instead of Critical Marks adding damage you can choose to store Power with any number of them instead

Blade Weaving

Potence, Conjuration:

Focus: 0/1 Power

Effect: If used before a Strike, spend 1 Power, use your Mind instead of Body for your strike attribute and if you trigger a critical effect you can instead use a basic elemental effect that you know have.

If used after a Blast, gain Short for every 2 TN increased on the Blast gain +1 critical range on Strikes

Way of the Battlerager

Example training

Traea specifics

Suggested skills

Lifting, Endurance, Compel

Attack Skill: Strike

Spikey/Hardened

Potence, Stance: Some people just like to run into the mob, amazingly some make it out alive.

Spikey: Being adjacent to an ally a Battlerager neither gives or receives Protected. +1 CR for each enemy that threatens you. You deal Punish damage -1 to enemies that attack you.

Hardened: Gain Protected and reduce all forced movement by 2

Battle Stance

Potence, Stance:

Focus

Effect: If you have the Spikey Talent, on your next attack deal Punish damage to all creatures adjacent to you, Gain the Hardened Talent lose the Spikey Talent. If you have the Hardened Talent, Gain Round Boosted and Breached. Gain the Spikey Talent lose the Hardened Talent.

Way of the Bravo

Example training

Traea specifics

Suggested skills

Athletics, Lifting, Compel

Attack Skill: Strike and Scold

Flaunt

Potence: Really now, what is more important than style?

While you have one hand free and you aren't wearing heavy armor you have a +1 Shield Bonus to Guard. If you hit and deal damage with a Scold gain Short +2 Critical Range with Strikes against that target.

Flout

Invocation: You have a knack for saying just the right thing to piss people off

Focus

Effect: Make a Impaired 2 Scold attack. Each enemy you hit Short hates you at their highest priority.

Way of the Iaidoka

Beware of lone swordsman, they are usually alone for a reason.

Attack: Strike

Quick Draw

Potence: Bursts of speed allow you to catch your enemy unaware.

While you are not wearing heavy armor, and you are wielding a large weapon or dual wielding: When you roll initiative gain 1 Alacrity plus 1 Alacrity if you initiative exceeds 10. Each time you are missed you can spend your reaction to gain 1 Alacrity. Gain +1 CR for each instance of Boosted you have on a Strike.

Bide Time

Potence: You've learned how valuable patience can be when looking for the right time to Strike.

Focus

Effect:Gain Short Impaired on Strikes and 1 Alacrity or spend up to 2 Alacrity. Each Alacrity can be spent to gain Short Boosted or Round Covered.

Way of the Unfettered

Attack: Strike

Unburdened Power

Potence: There is something to be said for those who focus on inner strenth

While unarmed and unarmored, gain +2 Shield bonus to Guard and 1 Qi for each Critical Mark you get with a strike

Your unarmed strikes deal pure damage, and have the following critical effects:

Nerve Strike CE 2: A hit enemy gains Round Impaired

Impact CE 3: Push a hit enemy up to 2

Pressure Point CE 4: A hit enemy gains Combat Vulnerable

Qi Strike

Potence:

Focus:

Effect: Increase your critical range by 2 on your next strike this turn.

Or spend at least one Qi to make an unarmed strike with a number of dice equal to the Qi spent and heal CS. This strike does not generate Qi.

Way of the Firefly

Fire is a tricky element to control and those who try can quickly get burned. However, some weavers have found a way to tap into the flames to heal themselves and draw power from it. They can have a powerful impact on the battlefield if they don't burn to bright. As the secrets of the phoenix are still locked away.

Attack: Blast, must learn Fire

Burn Bright

Potence: Everyone thinks you are crazy.

Increase your CR with Blasts by 1 each stack of Burning you have

Inner Fire

Invocation, Conjuration: But they just do understand the flames like you do.

Focus

Effect:Gain Combat Burning and Short Boosted on Blasts. If you hit on your next Blast heal 1 for each TN above 10 on that Blast.

Way of the Sculptor

Water flows into shapes more easily than other elements. Those that focus on it can learn to more precisely sculpt the area of their blast.
But that's not all they learn, by tapping into the power contained within their own bodies they can channel their blood into power.

Attack: Blast, must learn Water

Shape

Conjuration: You learned to make the Fae flow.

With each Wide string choose a space in the blast area or adjacent to it. Spaces in the blast area are removed from it, spaces you choose adjacent to the Blast area added to it.

Carve

Potence, Conjuration: Carving into your own essence allows you to draw on reserves of power.

Focus

Effect: Take 1 damage, gain 2 power.

Way of the Mage Cadre

Feel like this needs to exist in the world, not sure how often a player would take it without making a full mage party.

Attack: Blast

Conduit

Conjuration

Adjacent allies can use your Power when Blasting. When an adjacent ally gains Power from a Critical Mark gain 1 Power.

Charge

Conjuration

Focus: 1 Power

Effect: Give an adjacent ally 1 Power and Short Boosted on their next Blast

Personality

Your character is Prae, those that go before. It's likely they are familiar with taking risks, challenging preconcieved notions or the status quo, but that is not all that they are.

Often your character's personality, beliefs, moods, and values will grow and change over the adventure, or even become apparent through their actions to you and the other players when it wasn't previously. This section is just to give a baseline, its mean to guide how you think about the character not prevent you from changing or adapting them as the game moves forward.

See social skills and system to get a better idea of values and moods. Refer to the campaign setting for influneces of race and ethnicity.

Values

What does your character value, what do they care about and what do they trust. Often for characters in Prae this will relate to ideas and experiences more than people. As they've chosen, or in some cases been forced to, live a life on the fringe where few people or few people worth caring about are.

Influences

When thinking about your values consider the part of the your character came from. It's general culture and their place within it. Which of that cultures values do the share and when the differ why?

Moods

The most common mood for all characters is generally calm. Besides that what are common moods your character experiences, how do the feel most days when they wake up or go to bed, are they easy to anger, often feel sorry for others, etc?

In tolkienesque worlds these are often tied to the races. Dwarves are often jovial or grumpy. Elves proud and depressed. Orcs angry and enegetic. Gnomes curious and silly.

Relaxing

Where does your character feel at peace? Is it out in the wilderness hunting game? At a tavern drinking with friends or strangers telling stories? A private dinner debating the finer points of politics? Alleviating rarely used items from those who have to many?

While many games don't have a lot of opportunity for down time on or off screen. Knowing how they would spend it can help greatly with bringing them to life and can even help drive the story forward by giving hooks to your GM to drop information, know where you might be when crisis arises etc.

As mentioned in the childhood section its likely this relates to some of the skills you picked there.

Gear

Proper preparation is an important part for any job, and more so for people expected to be at the forefront of solving problems. They value of arms and armor is apparent in a dangerous world, but simple items like rope can be just as important when trying to scale castle walls, dropping into a gorge or string and bells for creating a perimeter around your camp to warn intruders.

Load

Load is a concept that merges the bulk, weight, and in part the fragility of an item. A durable and dense item weighs about 10 pounds. The less dense or durable an item the more load it requires relative to its weight.

Meaningful Load

Some objects are insignificant enough that tracking their load is not worth the effort. Rings and Whistles are two common ones found on the Adventuring Gear List. That's not to say these objects have no weight or bulk and are not fragile but rather that individually those qualities are not meaningfuly prohibitive to carrying other things. Use your best judgement for determining load when carrying a lot of objects that do not normally have meaningful load.

The first two sets of clothes with one load or less take zero load.

Inventory Slots

Inventory slots represent the places you can safely store items on your person while keeping your hands free. They also further represent the fragility of items. Items that take a fraction of a load still need to be stored in a way to prevent them from being hurt or harming other items they are stored with. While paper is not particularly heavy or bulky it still takes up a load slot as if it isn’t given sufficient space and care it can easily be ripped, crumpled or stained.
Items with meaningful load require a minimum of 1 slot in your inventory, and take up to their load in slots. Items that take up less than 1 load and more than 0 can share that load with the same item (a torch takes up 1/4 of a load, you can have up to 4 torches that share 1 load, but if you carry least one Torch it will require 1 slot).

Kits

Kits are specially built containers that allow different items to combine their load into fewer slots. In the kit section below is a list of kits characters can purchase to more efficiently manage their inventory slots. There are also some kits listed in the adventuring gear section for items that are commonly found as kits. Some crafters might be able to make additional kits but quality work doesn't come cheap.

Encumbrance

Your character is encumbered if holding more than 9 slots of load, and an additional encumbrance for every two load above that to a maximum of 18. While encumbered their Focus is required to safely carry their gear, and for each encumbrance they are Impaired and have -1 Pace.
Additional restrictions can be placed by the GM based on how your load is distributed (I.e. if you need your hands to carry something it is unlikely you can climb a wall).

Money

Before you can purchase gear lets talk about money! As Mana is transferrable it will relate directly to currency. It is even likely to be one of the oldest currencies in your world. Money is also measured in terms of hours, with a Tok being the base curreny and equivalent to about an hour of basic labor.

These numbers are adjusted to base 10 to for simplicity of the player, but numbers on Traea are in base 12 and slightly different for actual characters on Traea.

10 Tok (t) = 1 mana. A Tok is roughly the number of working hours during the day and slightly more than a third of a Night (8 hours)
1 Night (g) = 3 mana. A Night is the amount of mana a person produces each night
1 Lunar (l) = 100 mana. A Lunar is roughly the amount of mana a person produces each month or lunar cycle (actually ~81 on Traea)
1 Solar (s) = 1000 mana. A Solar is roughly the amount of mana person produces each year or trip around the sun (actually 984 on Traea)

Cultures generally have coins or other representations for each type of money. Imagine these coins are about the size of a quarter and they take 1/400th of a load and 100 of them weigh 1 lb. All coins can share the same load and a coin pouch takes up 1 inventory slot. Various other small, durable, and low bulk items can fit in this slot and load as well (some jewelry, small Tears, etc).

You start with 90+6d10 Nights (g).

Gear Management

Fill in inventory slots with gear that your character is almost always carrying like weapons, armor, coin pouch, and kits. The remaining slot and are considered to be filled with gear of some sort. There are various times in the game where your character is likely to know more about the world and how to achieve their goals than you will as a player. One of those is preparation and gear, to represent that knowledge inventory slots are flexible.
At any time yo can replace a flexible slot with an item on the adventuring gear list that makes some sense that their character would anticipated a need for. Slots can regain their flexibility by finding a location that sells the item they added, discarding any remains of it, and payings its cost.
Picking up and storing gear for any significant amount of time will require you to drop the gear your flexible slot represents or become encumbered. While flexible slots are abstract they still represent gear and can be dropped, picked up, and found on your person. Some places you may require you leave your gear behind will require you to drop the abstract representation of gear that is a flexible slot.

Wield and Wear

Gear must we worn or wielded appropriately to have its intended effect. Some items can not be worn together (i.e. multiple cloaks, suits of armor or pairs of boots). Use your better judgement for what what can be worn, held and wielded together.

Alternative Gear Management

Different styles of campaign or different parts of the same one can call for very different resolutions of gear management.
In some games, or at parts during them, there can be value, challenge, and fun in making high resolution gear management an important part of the play, at which point the Surival alternative might be a good fit. Your group might out in the wilds with little opportunity to trade, shop, or earn money. They might be poor and oppressed and scraping by to get your next meal is part of the play.
While others might be could be around a large city filled with opportunities and resources and close attention to resources so the Simple alternative might make the most sense for your time at the tame.
Simple Gear
Tracked Load
Survival

Consumable gear

Generally when using the survival rules, and some times when using the others, it will important to track the usage of items that can be used up or are damaged when used. Chalk, Candles, Paper, Soap, Oil, etc. In these cases look at their description for how quickly they are used. If that is not listed in their description each time they are used beyond the first without returning to a town roll 1d10, on a 1 they are consumed.

Adventuring Gear List

Item

Cost

Load

Location

Bedroll

9g

1/2

Torso

Bell

3g

1/8

Torso/Waist

Blanket

6g

1/2

Torso

Book

10g

1/4

Torso/Waist

Caltrop (50)

5g

1

Torso/Waist

Candle

1s

1/5

Torso/Waist

Chain (10ft)

10g

1

Torso

Chalk

1s

1/5

Torso/Waist/Neck

Cord

5g

1/5

Torso/Waist

Crowbar

3g

1/2

Torso

Fishing Kit

9g

1

Torso/Waist

Grappling Hook

2g

1/3

Torso

Hunting Trap

8g

3

Torso

Ink Pen

2g

1/10

Torso/Waist

Lantern

6g

1/2

Torso/Waist/Hands

Lock

5g*

1/10

Torso/Waist

Lockpicks

10g

1/10

Torso/Waist

Makeup Kit

9g

1/2

Torso/Waist

Mess kit

18g

1

Torso/Waist

Mirror

5g

1/10

Torso/Waist

Paper

1s

1/10

Torso

Piton

1s

1/10

Torso/Waist

Portable Ram

20g

4

Torso/Waist

Rations (1 day)

1s

1/5

Torso/Waist

Rope (30ft)

10g

1/2

Torso/Waist

Sand timer

3g

1/4

Torso/Waist

Shovel

5g

1/2

Torso

Signal Whistle

10g

-

Neck

Signet Ring

10g

-

Hand

Soap

1g

1/10

Torso/Waist

Tent

20g

1

Torso

Torch

1c

1/4

Torso

Adventuring Gear Descriptions

Blurb about descriptions goes here

Bedroll: Reduce the number of hours you need to take a long rest by 1
Bell: ~70 decibels and can be purchased in various tones to allow for signaling and other communication. Larger bells can be purchased to increase the volume of the sound.
Blanket: Bonus in dealing with cold temperature or exposure, will add when those rules are added
Book: Empty, 6" by 8", 200 pages
Caltrop: 50 of them can be used to fill a space. The space is difficult ground and moving into the space deals 3 damage
Candle: A 1 inch radius by 12 inches tall candle. It burns for 8 hours giving off a soft light to their space and adjancet spaces. It can be scented to allow for signaling, pleasure, etc. Some scents might be impossible or increase the cost. Can also be colored and used for sealing wax.
Chain: 10 ft long, 1 inch thick. Force TN 15 to break.
Chalk: 1 in radius by 12 inches tall. Can be purhcased in various colors.
Cord: 20ft of 2mm silk cord, can be used for fishing line, trip wire, etc. Crowbar: Used to pry apart things, an important tool for taking various actions in the world
Fishing Kit: 20 ft of 2mm silk cord, fishing hooks, and a small fishing net.
Grappling Hook: Assist setting rope up in places you couldn't normally reach.
Hunting Trap: Diffcult ground for those who know the trap is there. Otherwise snaps and slows the first creature to enter the trap until it is removed and deals 1 HC of damage. Boosted when making survival rolls for hunting food.
Ink Pen & Pen Knife: Sturdy reed pen and includes a small pen knife to sharpen it
Lantern: Each side of the lantern has shutters allowing you to easily direct and control the brightness of the light. Lock: TN 7 lock, double in price for each increase in TN
Lockpicks: They open common locks
Makeup Kit: Small container that holds various shades of makeup and a mirror. If you have sufficient time to apply makeup gain boosted when make deception rolls for disguise.
Mess Kit: Small container that can be heated to cook food and contains a small plate, small cup, cutlery, and spices. Once per day an extra 30 minutes during a short rest and a ration can be spent to allow you eat a hearty meal.
Mirror: can be used to signal with light.
Paper: 18" by 18" piece of paper
Piton Pulley: Generally hammered into a wall to with rope to run through to assit in climbing safety. These also have a small pulley at the end.
Portable Ram: Boosted to Force checks when trying to knock down walls or doors
Rations (1 day): Standard ration, not a healthy meal
Rope (30ft): 1/2 inch thick
Sand timer: 2-10 minute sand timer, can be used to synchronize or keep track of timing. Larger onces can be purchased, the load increase accordingly.
Shovel: Used for digging
Signal Whistle: Used for auditory signaling, can be constructed to sound like a whole variety of things.
Signet Ring: Used to indentify yourself as an individual or part of a group, can be pressed into wax to show who the message is from.
Soap: Can be used to gain boosted to resist or overcome diseases?
Tent: Bonus when dealing with cold temperature and reduce the hours you need to sleep during a long rest by 1.
Torch: Emits light for an hour in a 40 ft area.

Liquids and their Containers

Item

Cost

Load

Location

Liquid Containers

Flask

1g

1/8* (full)

Torso/Waist

Vial

1g

1/4*

Torso/Waist

Waterskin

1g

1/2 (full)

Torso/Waist

Liquids

Ale

1c

1/10 (16oz)

Torso/Waist

Ink

1g

1/10 (16oz)

Torso/Waist

Oil

1g

1/10 (16oz)

Torso/Waist

Perfume

1g

1/10 (16oz)

Torso/Waist

Water

1g

1/10 (16oz)

Torso/Waist

Wine

1g

1/10 (16oz)

Torso/Waist

Kit

Cost

Load

Location

Camp Kit

55g

3

Torso

Bedroll

Blanket

2x Flask of Oil

Lantern

Tent

Cartographers Kit

25g

1

Torso

Book of Maps, with room for more

Ink Pen

Paper (10)

Sand timer (5 minute)

Small flasks of different colored ink (5)

Entertainers Kit

30g

3

Torso

Book of songs, poems, and fables

Clothes, Common

Clothes, Fine

Clothes, Official

Clothes, Travelers

Flask of Perfume

Makeup Kit

Explorers Kit

50g

3

Torso

Bedroll

Blanket

Flask of Oil

Lantern

Piton (10)

Rope (30ft)

Signal Whistle

Torch (4)

Liquids Kit

5g

1

Torso

Flask of Ale

Flask of Wine

Vial of Oil

Waterskin

Magistrate Kit

99g

3

Torso

Book of Laws

Book of Names

Candle x3 (often used as sealing wax)

Chain (10ft)

Clothes, Fine

Flask of Ink

Ink Pen

Lock

Mess Kit

Signet Ring

Soap

Tent

Rangers Kit

60g

6

Torso

Bedroll

Blanket

Caltrop

Fishing Kit

Hunting Trap

Signet Whistle

Waterskin

Scholar Kit

35g

2

Torso

Book x3 (various lore, with room for more)

Candles (5)

Flask of Ink (2)

Ink Pen

Paper (10)

Signet Ring (personal)

Scout Kit

90g

3

Torso

Bell

Book

Candle (wax often used to take imprints)

Caltrop

Chalk

Cord

Crowbar

Grappling Hook

Ink Pen

Lockpicks

Mirror

Rope (30ft)

Sand timer (5 minutes)

Signet Whistle (bird or screaming sounds)

Signet Ring x3 (of decently large groups, like city guards or a church)

Traveler Kit

25g

3

Torso

Bedroll

Blanket

Clothes, Travelers

Flask of Oil

Lantern

Rations (5)

Clothes

Item

Cost

Load

Location

Clothes

Common

1g

1/4

Torso/Waist

Cold Weather

1g

1/2

Torso/Waist

Fine

1g

1/2

Torso/Waist

Hot Weather

1g

1/8

Torso/Waist

Official

1g

1/2

Torso/Waist

Travelers

1g

1/2

Torso/Waist

Weapon Rules

Weapons have three mechanical characteristics.
Load which determines damage.
Class which determines a damage keyword.
Type which determines Critical Effect.

Load like all gear determines how much space it takes up on your person. Additionaly it relates to how much damage weapons deal.

If the load is less than 1/2, it is a small weapon and deals 3 damage.
If the load is 1/2 or greater but less than 1, it is a medium weapon and deals 4 damage.
If the load is 1 it is a large weapon, requires two hands to wield, and deals 5 damage.

[1]Load 1 is the largest weapon a size 1 creature can weird effectively, but various monsters will use larger weapons.

[2]Small weapons, with a load less than 1/2, are often less effective in combat their benefit relates to being easier to throw and hide.

Class relates to a damage type keyword, by itself this has no mechanical effect. However, some things are more resistant or vulnerable to different damage types. Class types: Bludgenoing (B), Slashing (S), Piercing (P)

Type relates to the weapons Critical Effect although within each type there is still a large variety of shapes and styles of weapon. Various cultures or groups will have specific looks or apsects to how they forge weapons.

Ranged Weapons require two hands to use. Ranged weapon load can be combined with the load of their ammo and containers that hold ammo.

Critical Effects

Type

Critical Effect

Axe

Rend (2): Short Breached to a hit target

Club

Smack (2): Short Impaired to a hit target

Dagger

Slit (3): +2 damage, +6 if Hidden

Hammer

Knock (3): Push a hit target up to 3

Spear

Spring (2): Slide up to 2

Sword

Flow (3): Gain Short Boosted

Bow

Flow (4): Gain Short Boosted

Sling

Knock (4): Push a hit target up to 3

Bolas

Entangle (4): Short Slow to a hit target

Shield

Breathe (2): Combat Reinforce 2

Weapon List

This list here is just to give an general idea of weapons and their properties its not an exhaustive list. However, you should be able to find a weapon mechanically similar even if stlyishly differing.

Weapon List

Weapon

Cost

Load

Class

Type

Ammo

Arrow (10)

1g

1/4

Bolt (10)

1g

1/2

Small Weapons

Dagger

1s

1/5

P

Dagger

Gladius

1g

1/3

S/P

Straight Sword

Hatchet

1g

1/3

S

Axe

Hammer

1g

1/3

B

Hammer

Cutlass

1g

1/3

P

Backsword

Stiletto

1g

1/5

P

Thrust Sword

Nunchaku

1g

1/3

B

Chain

Tonfa

1g

1/3

B

Club

Ranged

Bolas

1g

1/4

B

Bolas

Shortbow

1g

1/4

P

Bow

Short Sling

1g

-

B

Sling

Medium Weapons

Battleaxe

1g

2/3

S

Axe

Flail

1g

2/3

B

Chain

Long Sword

1s

1/2

S/P

Straight Sword

Mace

1g

2/3

B

Club

Rapier

1g

1/2

P

Thrust Sword

Sabre

1g

1/2

S

Backsword

Short Spear

1g

2/3

P

Spear

Warhammer

1g

2/3

B

Hammer

Ranged

Long Bow

1g

1/2

P

Bow

Long Sling

1g

-

B

Sling

Large Weapons

Estoc

1g

1

P

Thrust Sword

Falchion

1g

1

S

Backsword

Greataxe

1g

1

S

Axe

Greatsword

1s

1

S/P

Straight Sword

Kanabo

1g

1

B

Club

Maul

1g

1

B

Hammer

Meteor Hammer

1g

1

B

Chain

Spear

1g

1

P

Spear

Armor and Shields

There are two types of armor: Light and Heavy.

Armor List

Item

Cost

Load

Location

Armor

Light

12g

1

Torso

Heavy

24g

2

Torso

Shield

1g

1

Torso

Light Armor is designed to provide some defense and impair as little movement as possible.
Bonus

+1 Armor

Impairs

Blast
Sprinting and Swimming

Examples of Light armor:
Lamellar, Brigandine, Breast plate, chain shirt

Heavy Armor focuses more on defense than mobility, and generally covers head to toe.
Bonus

+2 Armor

Impairs

Ranged Strikes
Jumping, climbing, and jogging

Impairs Twice

Blast
Sprinting and swimming
Prevents use of Acrobatics and Sneak Tricks and Arcana

Examples of Heavy Armor:
Scale, Ring, Splint, Laminar, Plate, o-yoroi

Shields
Bonus

+1 Shield bonus to Guard

Impair

Impairs Blast

Large shields
Bonus

+1 Shield bonus to Guard to you and peple you Cover

Impair

Impairs all Attacks