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Core Rules

Core Rules

What Anyone Can Do

Call HEAL 1 to yourself or an ally after 10s of medical roleplay.
Wield one weapon.
Use a buckler to block damage.
Use a dagger in their offhand.
Have 6 hits.
Wear armor to gain 2 more hits, if they wish.
Have 4 psyche.
Regain all hits between encounters.
Die 4 times per character lifetime without being rendered unplayable.
Have enough to live on. (You can be anything from dirt poor to comfortable depending on player preference.)
Source a set of standard equipment between adventures.
Execute an unresisting target by spending 10s of appropriate roleplay killing them.

Death and Dying

When someone reaches 0 body hits, they enter their death count.
This is also known as 'bleeding out'.
After 60 seconds of bleeding out, the person dies.
You cannot speak, move, concentrate, or make calls when bleeding out.

Player characters belong to a group of individuals known as the Blessed who are resistant to death.
When a player character dies, so long as they wish to persist, their body reforms elsewhere.
In play, this means that a player character may rejoin the party after a couple of encounters at GM discretion.
(OC, we will be looking to do what is most appropriate and makes the most fun for all involved).
A player can respawn in this way up to four times.

Psyche

Psyche measures your strength of will and mental wellbeing.
A character starts off with 4 maximum psyche and can gain more through buying skills.

Psychic Combat

Psychic combat represents your strength of will and ability to resist spiritual effects.
These combats are always fought with matched weapons.
In psychic combat, your hits are equal to your maximum psyche.

If you win, gain one psyche.
If you lose, lose one psyche and gain an effect at GM discretion.

Zero Psyche

If at any time, a player has 0 psyche, they fall unconscious until the end of the encounter.
They then wake up on 1 psyche and gain a negative effect.
This effect will tend to last for the rest of the adventure.

Concentration

Some skills require the user to concentrate for a duration of time.
Concentration is broken by effect calls.
Damage calls do not break concentration, but bleeding out (starting your death count) does.
If Concentration is broken the timer is reset to 0 and the user must begin concentrating again.

Medical Roleplay

Requires the healer to use both hands.
Requires the healer to concentrate.
Requires the patient to stay still.
Requires the patient to not make any offensive calls.
Pauses the death count of the patient.

The Golden Rule

When referring to rules on this wiki, specific rules override general ones.

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