Character Overview
Origin |
Provides background info, species, etc. |
Edges |
A general area you're skilled at. Gain a bonus +1d6 to roll if you can apply your EDGE to an action |
Skills |
Grant you +1 to +3 dice in a situation where they apply |
Languages |
You have 1 to 3 ranks in each language. More ranks is better |
Aspects |
Special abilities granted by traits, gear you carry, friends you have, pets that accompany you, etc . Aspects take damage and you can lose them and have to regain them! They may also add bonus dice to a roll |
Resources |
Stuff you've scavenged on your adventures. May sometimes offer bonus dice |
Milestones |
Goals for your character. Track these as they are how you advance your character |
Mires |
Negative traits or features about your character. Mostly for roleplay, but may cause penalties to rolls |
Action Rolls
Step |
Detail |
1. Build Dice pool |
Max size of pool is 6 dice. Gain dice from: |
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Edges - up to 1d6 bonus dice. You can only use one edge in an action |
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Skill or Language - 1d6 per dot you have in that skill/language. You can only use one skill or language in an action roll |
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Advantage - 1d6 per, max of 2d6 bonus |
Describe your action |
This has a narrative, non-mechanical effect |
Roll dice |
Roll the dice and find the highest individual number rolled |
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6 :Complete success (Triumph) |
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4-5 : Partial success (Conflict) - you succeed, but must make a tradeoff somehow (maybe burning a resource you used, for ex.) Normally this will mark or clear a tick on the related track |
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1-3: Failure (Disaster) - Introduces a narrative challenge/drawback, you do not tick or clear any boxes on tracks. |
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Doubles - TWIST! Along with whatever the die roll result would be, you also introduce an unexpected outcome (usually positive) that's related to the action and situation. Players can suggest the twist, but GM makes the final approval. IMORTANT - the player who rolled has no say in the TWIST. Only the other players and the GM can come up with the twist. |
When you take action, your roll for success
Note - if you have no relevant Edges, Skills, Languages or Advantages related to the action, but you still want to try, roll 1d6 and a Triumph (a 6 on the die) counts only as a Conflict.
Combat
No initiative! |
Just keep moving from player to player, whoever is ready to go, goes |
Focus |
A player's "round" (time they have focus) has no set time limit or action limit. They could react and act several times before passing to the next player |
Ranges |
Attacks are either Close Range or Long Range |
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If using a Long Range (LR) weapon to fight in Close Range (CR) combat, you cut one die from your action |
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When using a CR weapon (ex, throwing a handaxe) you cut one die from the Action |
Damage |
Damage is taken to your (and enemy) Aspects. Normal damage is 1 tick on the chosen aspect, |
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PCs do not die unless they choose to. They may be knocked out if that narratively makes sense based on the damage they've taken |
Loss of Resource |
Using some weapons, like smashing a glass bottle to use as a blade, means you lose the bottle's storage benefit |
Injuries |
Injuries do direct damage, rather than doing aspect damage. They may cause you to always cut a die, remove a skill, or have other negative effects |
Damage type resistance |
Reduce damage from that type by one tick |
Damage type weakness |
Increase damage from that type by one tick |
Damage Type Immunity |
Take no damage from that type |
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Character Notes
Bloodline = species |
Origin = the live they've lived before coming onboard |
Post = job within the crew |
Edges = how the PC typically solves problems. Be it by fighting, sneaking, using their instincts, etc. |
Skills = training or natural knowledge |
Languages = don't need to roll, but more points in it are more useful |
Aspects = abilities that make PCs unique. Might be gear, pets, physical attributes, etc. |
Mires - negative aspects of your PC |
One mire mark = mild narrative effect, two marks on same mire = significant narrative effect |
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When you perform an action that contradicts a Mire, you cut the # of dice = to ticks on the Mire |
* When to mark Mire |
Anything extremely horrific, stressful, crew death, you accidentally cause someone's death |
* When to clear Mire |
Encounter something wonderous, rest in a port, drugs, therapy, surgery |
Using Drives |
When you achieve something that advances or satisfies a drive, choose from: |
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Gain a whisper related to the Drive |
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Clear a Mark of Mire |
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Gain a Minor Milestone related to the Drive |
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Gain a Major Milestone if you completely satisfy the Drive |
Collecting Resources Rolls
6 |
You gain a darned near perfect version of the resource. Fresh ripe fruit, a brand new collection of tools, etc. |
4-5 |
Gain the resource, but with the "Negative" tag, it'll get the job done, but it ain't pretty (a bunch of bananas where a few are overripe to the point of rotten, while the rest are ok, but only have a few days left) |
1-3 |
Disaster - you can't find that resource, or you destroy it during collection |
Doubles |
Resource has an unusual benefit or bonus, determined by you or another player |
When your ship is out exploring, you can try to grab just about anything you see as a resource. This roll table is specific to gathering these resources. You may apply appropriate advantages, skills, etc, just as with typical action rolls to your dice pool for Resource gathering.
"Cutting" Dice
Cutting Overview |
Remove the highest die (or dice) from the rolled results. Ex, you roll 1,2, 4, 6 and decide to cut 1 die. Thus you must remove the 6. |
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You can cut more than one die depending on the situation |
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The GM may force you to Cut a number of dice based on the difficulty of the action you're performing. They typically tell you before you roll how many cuts you're taking so you have a chance to rethink your approach |
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The Player may Cut 1 die (max1) to be more precise in an action, especially combat. You could Cut 1 die to aim for a body part, for ex. |
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Player may Cut for Impact, but must declare this BEFORE the roll. Can only Cut 1 die for this. |
By cutting dice from the roll, you can boost the results. Cutting basically means removing some of your high dice rolled in exchange for better effects.
Cutting works sort of like bonus/penalty modifiers or boons/banes in other games.
Crew/Ship Sheet Overview
Ratings |
Various features of your ship. All start at 1 dot |
Design |
Each feature here effects your ship's ratings |
Fittings |
Customizations to your ship that you make over time |
Conditions |
Record ship damage here, along with any special conditions that effect the ship |
Undercrew |
An overview of the NPCs that keep your ship running - officers, various crew, helpful animals, etc. |
Stakes |
A collection of resources your crew spends to fix or upgrade your ship |
Cargo and Passengers |
Self explanatory |
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Tracks (aka "Clocks")
Tracks work just like Clocks from Blades in the Dark. You set a number of "ticks" on the track, which correlate to steps to completing something - be it a task, a fight, or whatever. |
The Track is named after the task you're trying to complete. Note, a task can be positive or negative, such as trying to "do something" or "prevent something" |
Tracks do not have to mark "time" specifically, they are typically marking steps to completion of a task. |
In some situations you may erase a tick on the track (usually when healing an aspect) |
Burned tracks - an extreme effect may burn a tick on a track, meaning you cannot easily remove that tick. Example is a leviathan biting through the ship's hull makes it harder to fix. Ask the GM for how to remove a specific burned tick |
Extra impact - most of the time, you mark or remove one tick, but in cases where the situation says it is a HIGH impact, you mark/remove 2 ticks, MASSIVE impact removes/adds 3 ticks |
Tracks may be open, HIDDEN (you don't know how far along you are) or SECRET (you have no idea how many ticks exist) |
Combat Roll Results
Attacking |
Defending |
6 Triumph - solid hit, do damage and possibly an effect |
6 Triumph, you are unharmed |
4-5 Conflict - you hit and do damage, but take some effect, lose a resource, take damage, etc. |
4-5 Conflict - you might take lesser damage, or have some other effect |
1-3 Disaster - you miss or do no damage AND take damage yourself, take an effect, lose a resource, etc. |
1-3 Disaster - You're hit HARD, take damage AND potentially take an effect, lose a resource, etc |
TWIST - you deal more damage or can explain extra success narratively |
TWIST - An unexpected narrative effect or you could do 1 damage as a counter attack |
Enemies do not roll for their attacks. The GM explains their attack and the player rolls a reaction on the Defending chart. Player should explain how they are defending (parrying, dodging, ducking, etc.)
Recovery and Creation Rolls
Acquisition |
Recovery |
Creation |
6: You gain a great condition version of the resource |
6: Triumph - heal TWO ticks of damage or an injury or ship damage or mire |
6: Recipient of creation gets a temporary bonus related to resources used |
4-5: Conflict - gain the item but it's sub-optimal, has the negative tag |
4-5: conflict - as above but heal only one tick |
4-5: Recipient gains a temporary 2-track aspect but using it has minor negative effects |
1-3: Disaster - failure to find resource or accidentally destroy it |
1-3: Disaster, take an extra single tick of damage to a related track |
1-3: You create a useless item |
TWIST (doubles): The resource you gain has a unique or positive tag, provided by you or another player at the table |
TWIST (doubles): You don't consume the resource you used for your recovery roll |
TWIST (doubles): Gain a small bonus result to the created item |
Montages
Task |
Exploration |
Great for when you split the party to go on separate mini-quests. Decide on what skills make the most sense to roll on in these situations. |
Acquisition |
Buying, looting, trading, or other ways of looking for resources. Roll on the Acquisition results table |
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Scavenging: Use scavenge, rattle, delve, or other relevant skills on the roll. Success grants you SALVAGE |
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Hunting: Tracking down and capturing SPECIMENS |
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Gathering: Look around for vegetation to use as SPECIMENS |
Recovery |
Healing: Requires an appropriate SPECIMEN |
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Repairing: Requires an appropriate piece of SALVAGE |
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Relaxing: Requires an appropriate WHISPER |
Creation |
Cooking: Requires 2 SPECIMENS |
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Concocting (potions): Requires 1 SPECIMEN and 1 SALVAGE |
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Crafting: Requires 2 pieces of SALVAGE |
These are extended scenes where you don't worry about time. Only one roll is made vs. the TASK you're attempting. You're not rolling on individual actions, but more abstract TASKS
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