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Admin: /* Carouse */

2025-10-09T23:35:01Z

Carouse

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	===Carouse===		===Carouse===
	Make friends		#Make friends with someone
			#Get a group to react to you
			#Impress someone
			#Gain an audience / get invited to something

Admin: /* Convince */

2025-10-09T23:33:05Z

Convince

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	===Convince===		===Convince===
	Talk someone into something		#Talk someone into doing something
			#Talk someone out of something
			#Convince someone about something (true or not)
			#Talk your way past an obstacle

	===Carouse===		===Carouse===
	Make friends		Make friends

Admin: /* Encounter Types */

2025-10-09T23:29:40Z

Encounter Types

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	==Encounter Types==		==Encounter Types==
	Roll or Pick for each Encounter:		Roll 1D12 or Pick for each Encounter:
	#Fight - Fight something		#Fight - Fight something
	#Finesse - Overcome thru dexterity		#Finesse - Overcome thru dexterity

Admin: /* How to start a Game */

2025-10-09T23:29:09Z

How to start a Game

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	=How to start a Game=		=How to start a Game=
			*Have everyone set the Tone
			*Have everyone make Characters
			*Have everyone make the Party
			*Have everyone make the Map

	Explain the core mechanics:		Explain the core mechanics:
			*This is a Adventure Storytelling Game
			*Safety Tools
	*The Roll		*The Roll
	*Spending Fortune		*Spending Fortune & Telling Stories
	*Making Saves		*Making Saves & Harm
	*Backgrounds & Talents		*Backgrounds & Talents
	*Forces & Places		*Forces & Places
	*Magic & Items		*Magic & Items

	~~Then:~~
	*Have everyone make Characters
	*Have everyone make the Party
	*Have everyone make the Map
	*Have everyone set the Tone

	Generate three quests randomly from the Forces, Places, and Party generated from above.		Generate three quests randomly from the Forces, Places, and Party generated from above.

Admin: /* Endure */

2025-10-06T05:02:49Z

Endure

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	===Endure===		===Endure===
	~~Endure~~ something ~~hard~~		#Survive some ongoing effect
			#Push through some difficulty
			#Outlast someone or something
			#Tolerate a terrible situation

	===Convince===		===Convince===

Admin: /* Attune */

2025-10-06T04:59:54Z

Attune

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	===Attune===		===Attune===
	~~Do or understand~~ magic		#Understand some complex magic
			#Unlock some magical secret
			#Connect with the sprit of a Place
			#Obtain a required magical ingredient

	===Endure===		===Endure===

Admin: /* What to Do */

2025-10-06T04:54:06Z

What to Do

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	#Have a Power or Place Do Something Important		#Have a Power or Place Do Something Important
	#Move a Clock forward (or back!)		#Move a Clock forward (or back!)
	#Introduce a new Threat		#Introduce a new Threat or Force
	#Cause Harm		#Cause Harm


	=How to start a Game=		=How to start a Game=

Admin at 04:57, 30 July 2023

2023-07-30T04:57:20Z

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	If the Party returns to a Place they haven’t been in a while, narrate and/or ask the Players what has changed in the world while they were away.		If the Party returns to a Place they haven’t been in a while, narrate and/or ask the Players what has changed in the world while they were away.

			=Generating Quests=
			Quests can be picked from this list, rolled randomly from this list, or just made up.

			First pick or roll for what's happening:
			#Loot something important
			#Save a something or someone
			#Kill a monster or monsters
			#Discover an important secret
			#Explore Farther, blaze a new trail, or find way back to safety
			#Break a curse or end some magical effect
			#Travel somewhere through a dangerous area
			#Escape from a bad situation

			Then pick or roll for a location:
			#A Place the Characters have been before
			#A new Place the Characters haven't been before
			#Where the Characters happen to be now
			#A Place where one of the Characters has a history
			#A Place where the Characters aren't supposed to go
			#A Place that was part of a past Quest

			Then pick or roll for who they are doing it for:
			#For themselves or entirely for their own benefit
			#For an existing Force in the game
			#Against an existing Force in the game
			#For a new Force that will now be created

			A Trivial Quest is just a single Encounter, a Standard Quest is 2-3 Encounters, a Serious Quest is 3-5 Encounters, and a Heroic Quest is 5 or more Encounters.

			=Generating Encounters=

			Encounters should have a rough focus on a specific Attribute that’s the ‘easiest and obvious’ way to solve its challenge. It could be overcome in another way, it just would be harder to do so.

			Asking for a Player to make a Roll using that Attribute is a great way to start the encounter as well.

			==Encounter Types==
			Roll or Pick for each Encounter:
			#Fight - Fight something
			#Finesse - Overcome thru dexterity
			#Wreak - Break something
			#Sneak - Sneak past something
			#Notice - Find something hidden or notice something
			#Study - Research something
			#Craft - Make something or figure out something
			#Lore - Already know something
			#Attune - Do or understand magic
			#Endure - Endure something hard
			#Convince - Talk someone into something
			#Carouse - Make friends

			==Encounter Ideas==
			===Fight===
			#Fight something that's between them and where they are trying to go
			#Fight something that's chasing them from behind
			#Fight something that surprises them with a sudden challenge
			#Fight something that's surrounded them to gang up on them, thinking they have the advantage

			===Finesse===
			#Get past some sort of danger from a physical challenge to get to where they want to go
			#Win some sort of physical contest or game to get a needed item
			#Run, Climb, jump, etc. to get to where they are trying to go
			#Escape from some immediate sudden physical danger

			===Wreak===
			#Break something that's between them and where they are trying to go
			#Break something that they need to keep from someone else
			#Break something to free something important
			#Break something to stop something from happening

			===Sneak===
			#Sneak past something to get to where they want to go
			#Sneak away from something that surprised them
			#Steal something without anyone noticing
			#Place an item without anyone noticing

			===Notice===
			#Notice how to safely get to where they are trying to go
			#Notice something hidden that's keeping them from their goals
			#Notice that someone or something is trying to fool them
			#Notice some important detail that will help them with their current quest

			===Study===
			#Study to find a way to get to where they are trying to go
			#Study something that's happening to find out what to do next
			#Study something to avoid an immediate danger
			#Study something to figure out how to stop something from happening

			===Craft===
			#Craft something to get past an immediate danger
			#Craft something needed to help solve the quest
			#Figure out how to change something
			#Figure out how to fix something

			===Lore===
			#Know something to get to where they are trying to go
			#Know something important about surviving the current danger
			#Know a weakness to an opponent
			#Know something that will impress someone important

			===Attune===
			Do or understand magic

			===Endure===
			Endure something hard

			===Convince===
			Talk someone into something

			===Carouse===
			Make friends

Admin: /* How to start a Game */

2023-07-21T01:03:29Z

How to start a Game

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	Then:		Then:
	*Have everyone make ~~characters~~		*Have everyone make Characters
	*Have everyone make the Party		*Have everyone make the Party
	*Have everyone make the Map		*Have everyone make the Map

Admin: /* How to start a Game */

2023-06-24T18:01:53Z

How to start a Game

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	*Backgrounds & Talents		*Backgrounds & Talents
	*Forces & Places		*Forces & Places
	*Magic		*Magic & Items

	Then:		Then: