Stats and Check Dice
Using Check Dice
Check Rolls: If rolling a check against an action choose the check which applies. Willpower does not apply against detecting movement, but perception does. Always use the check which applies most directly to an opposing action. If two or more checks are used the highest check determines the outcome, they are not added together.
Examples
Willpower (resist) can be used to resist domination, charms, presence and possession.
Intelligence (outsmart) can be used to 'Dismiss' phantasms and illusions.
Intelligence vs. LoD of puzzles and mysteries to gain hints to help you out.
Dexterity (react) vs. Dexterity (react) for agility and reflex checks.
Movement vs. Movement for speed checks.
Strength vs. Strength for tests of muscle.
Intelligence (outsmart) vs. Intelligence (outsmart) to gain knowledge from someone.
Charisma (persuade) vs. Willpower (resist) for persuasion to gain information from someone.
Movement = Yards for distance covered.
Dexterity (react) vs. Dexterity (react) against attacks coming out of haste or in hand to hand contests of agility.
Perception (notice) vs. Stealth (sneak) against hide in shadows.
Stealth (sneak) vs. Perception (notice) when trying to go unnoticed.
Check Standards
Rate chart for Checks:
01-04 Poor rating
05-09 Substandard rating
10-14 Average rating
15-19 Good rating
20-24 Impressive rating
25-29 Exceptional rating
30-39 Preternatural rating
40-49 Supernatural rating
50-199 Titainic rating
200 - + Divine rating
Rate Chart with Examples
01-04 Poor rating (frogs and rice rats)
05-09 Substandard rating (hawks and human children)
10-14 Average rating (weak humans and average humans)
15-19 Good rating (athletic humans and immortal youngbloods)
20-24 Impressive rating (powerful humans and average vampires)
25-29 Exceptional rating (legendary humans and average demons)
30-39 Preternatural rating (powerful immortals)
40-49 Supernatural rating (legendary immortals)
50-79 Mythic rating (demigods and devils)
80-200 - + Divine rating (dragons and gods)
Dexterity of 200: you can balance, on a dime, on its edge, on the tip of your big toe.
Adjusting and Using Checks
Each level 1 character gets a set amount of free points to split between checks in each field. Any check can be leveled up by buying them with experience points. Refer to the bestiary for your character type and add any check bonuses you have to checks.
GM calls for check rolls when a character is in trouble or when checks are being challenged for gains or losses. Checks are also used as a defense against certain types of powers.
When a Power is opposed by Checks
.......... Intelligence boosts all magic rolls by +1 HB per ace.
.......... Same applies to Feats, Special Abilities, and Inborn Powers
.......... Intelligence boosts all magic rolls by +1 HB per ace.
.......... Same applies to Feats, Special Abilities, and Inborn Powers
Check Bonuses: when applying a check as a bonus take +1 per five levels above ten. Add bonus to Dice check relates to such as check hit dice, increase in chance factor, or vs. LoD.
.......... A high dexterity for example would give a bonus to making a difficult jump, climb or dodge. Action could call for a hit, chance or vs. LoD roll as GM or SG calls.
Checks
Physical Checks
Level 1 characters start with 60 points to split between checks
Strength: How well someone can perform acts of strength. Adds damage to weapons and hand to hand combat. Determines base Bow Range at +1 yard per strength point. (might)
Stamina: How much physical stress someone can take. -1 per vigorous action or AR used in attacks. Spells also cost stamina to use for mages. When stamina is at 0, character passes out from extreme fatigue. (resist fatigue)
Stealth: How quiet, hard to see, and sense someone is. Roll against senses. (sneak)
Dexterity: How agile and well balanced someone is vs. trips, falling, or opposing dexterity. Use for dodging, jumping, climbing, or leaping. (balance and react)
Movement: How fast someone is. Movement vs. movement. (distance and speed)
Mental Checks
Level 1 characters start with 50 points to split between checks. Mental checks can also be gained through Challenges which test mental faculties. +1 gained per successful challenge, -1 lost on a failed challenge.
Willpower: this check determines a character's conviction, decides how mentally strong a character is, how well they stand up to stresses which challenge their convictions, courage, emotions, and survival. Willpower vs. Willpower against Mental attacks, Domination, Presence, and Charms or any check which influences actions or emotions. (resist)
Intelligence: Adds damage to magic, and gives +1 HB per ace to MA when magic is challenged by a check roll. Use intelligence to gain hints for puzzles and mysteries, to gain knowledge, to outsmart, and to 'Dismiss' illusory powers such as phantasms, dementia and quantum alter-realities. Insanity results in an intelligence penalty. Poor choices can result in a loss of intelligence where as good choices can result in an intelligence gain. (outsmart)
Charisma: How charming, attractive, persuasive, influential, and likeable a character is. Charisma vs. Intelligence when trying to influence reasoning. Charisma vs. Willpower when trying to influence or manipulate emotions and alter convictions. (persuade)
Perception: acts as instincts and alertness and determines how well one can sense things about others and their environment. Perception vs. Stealth, Deception, Enigmas, etc. (notice things)
Alertness Rolls: Perception acts as alertness and instincts, and is rolled against Stealth maneuvers. Abilities such as Sixth Sense and Danger Sense can also be rolled against Stealth.
Vital Stats
These stats are all based on checks and bonuses. These are a character's most important stats.
Health Points {HP}: strength x stamina + bonuses = health
Action Rate {AR}: +1 added action per five movement points above 10. Everyone starts with 1 AR per turn.
Regeneration Level {RL}: base regen of +1 mortal, +3 quasi inmortal, +5 immortal, +10 deity, + any race bonuses
Fortitude Level {FL}: +1 per 10 points of strength, + any race bonuses
Resurrection Difficulty {RD}: +1 per death, with check penalties of -2 to Strength, Stamina, Willpower and Intelligence per death! Resurrection Difficulty of +10% per +1 RD point. Cut check penalties and RD in half to -1 to same checks and +.5 per transient death. If difficulty reaches 100%, a high difficulty campaign is required for resurrection.
Health Points {HP}
.......... Health Points determine a character's overall health and how much damage they can take. Health points are lost as damage is taken and character dies (or in some immortal cases is comatose) when health falls to 0.
Action Rate {AR}
.......... Determines how many actions a character gets per turn.
.......... Example: A movement rate of 15 has +1 AR, which means character gets 2 actions per turn.
Regeneration Rate {RR}
.......... Set Regen from Character Building menu, attributes, and link 'Bonuses, HP and Regeneration'. Otherwise refer to your character type on bestiary. If no regen level is given your mortal actor's regen level is; 1, quasi immortal regen is 3, immortal regen is 5, deific regen is 10.
.......... Regeneration defines how rapidly a character can recover from injuries. Everyone heals but many immortal types have a far more rapid healing rate than mortals. Roll regeneration at the beginning of every turn after damage has been taken, add +1 HP per success, +2 HP per ace to Health.
Fortitude Rate {FR}
.......... Fortitude defines how tough and hard to injure a character is. Subtract fortitude and Armor Class (AC) from damage.
.......... Fortitude is the result of robust muscle, thick skin, hard skin, a carapice, or supernatural resilience against damage.
Resurrection Difficulty {RD}
.......... All played characters get unlimited resurrections albeit resurrections can become VERY difficult to come by as each time a character is resurrected from a WoD (way of death), it results in a -1 check penalty to Strength, Stamina, Willpower and Intelligence. These check penalties are permanent until leveled up again. Each transient deaths result in a -1 check penalty to these same checks. Keep track of how many times a character has been resurrected by adding +1 for each death, and +.5 for each transient death. These points determine how difficult subsequent resurrection will be by adding 10% resurrection difficulty (RD) per +1 point! And +5% RD per .5 point!
.......... WoD: All characters have at least one, and usually more, ways of death.
____ Mortals die from fatal injuries, old age, and disease.
____ Some quasi-immortals die as mortals do but recover so rapidly that they are considered almost immortal.
____ Most immortals have a geis (a special way of death) which whether simple or complicated makes them harder to kill. Killing some immortals is a puzzle in and of itself.
____ If an immortal is killed temporarily in a manner that does not involve their way of death, their death is transient and no difficulty restrictions are placed on their method of resurrection.
.......... Resurrections are not easy to come by and invariably result in a quest for a friend or relative of the deceased, or in rare cases, for the very spirit of the deceased to find a way to resurrect their dead or destroyed body. GM calls routines for resurrections if a player does not have a valid resurrection quest outlined, which the GM must approve.
.......... If a character dies TOO many times, they may not find anyone who wants to resurrect them. This can make that 90% RD stand for a LONG time, until someone can be found by their spirit or champion who is willing to raise them.
.......... Character is a low level spirit (+1 level per 50 HP of healthy living form) when they die, GM calls what kind. If character was extremely powerful in life, this can make their spirit rather more powerful than most disembodied spirits. If spirit gets destroyed while disembodied, this adds +2 to RD. GM can also call for special story oriented death conditions.
.......... If Soul of Deceased is trapped, resurrection can only occur with Special knowledge by high level character to retrieve or find a loop hole around a trapped soul. Souls of NPC or retired characters only can be trapped without hope of retrieval.
Check Penalties and Bonuses
Mortal Physical Age Penalties
Adjust checks normally for race and health and subtract penalties.
1-8 months: -12 on all
9 months to 3 years: -10 on all
4 years to 9 years: -8 on all
10 years to 15 years: -6 on all
16 years to 18 years: -4 on all
19 years to 35 years: none
36 years to 40 years: -1 on all
41 years to 50 years: -3 on all
51 years to 60 years: -5 on all
61 years to 70 years: -7 on all
71 years to 80 years: -8 on all
81 years to 90 years: -9 on all
91 years to 100 years: -10 on all
101 + years: -12 on all
Note: if a mortal has a longer life span; figure where they
would fall relative to this age chart. for example, if they have a life
span of 300 years, and were 200 hundred years old, they would fall in the
61-70 year mark.
Other Check Penalties
Insanity: insanity results in loss of -1 on all mental checks per level of insanity during an episode when mental rolls are used. Checks return to normal when episode is over. If state of insanity is constant, losses are permanent.
Mental Impairment: subtract -1 per level of impairment from mental and physical checks which are impaired.
Failed Intelligence Checks: if an intelligence check fails, or a character makes a drastically bad choice during a challenge of Mentality, subtract -1 intelligence. These losses are permanent until check is regained through a successful challenge. GM can call check losses whereever a major failure of intelligence occurs.
Large Size: Large things have less stealth, dexterity, and movement if they are heavy. -1 stealth, dexterity, and movement per +10 pounds above 100 pounds per +1 feet in height or length. Lean things are not heavy, even if very large. Tall or huge things (such as large dragons or giants) cannot maneuver in forests with low branches and tight trees, or in most caves and structures with low ceilings and narrow corridors.
Intoxicants: GM calls level of intoxication from alcohol, poisons, toxins or substances. -1, -1 per ace to affected checks. These losses are temporary. If abuse is constant, losses are permanent until character ceases to depend on the intoxicant affecting them. If character has an ability which counteracts this penalty, it does not apply.
Poisons: GM calls effects and level of toxin from poisons, pollutants, chemicals or venoms. -1, -1 per ace to affected checks. Some may do damage, aggravated damage or progressive damage as called. These losses are temporary until a cure is found, and if an antidote is not found, some poisons (but not all) can be deadly. Some poisons can result in permanent loss of physical or mental functions. If a character is immune to the called poison this penalty does not apply.
Check Bonuses
Size and Movement: +1 Movement gained per +1 feet
above 6 feet in height or length. This applies to tall things that are lean, proportionate, or normal weight for their size. This bonus does not apply to creatures that already have movement stats. Use for creatures or
characters that morph size.
Haste: When using haste against haste, or haste in
non-combat situations, haste adds +1 movement per success to normal movement roll. In combat; Hasted actions add +1 AR per ace.
Quickness: for normal mvm bonus gain +1 AR or HB per 5 mvm above 10 when using mvm in place of skill to resolve an action.
Stealth: Hide in Shadows adds +1 stealth
per success to Stealth but all other shadow powers cloak character within the Shadow Realm and do not
stack with Stealth. Shadow Walk either fails or succeeds. +2 HB added to hit dice on successful stealth rolls during an ambush.
Magic: relative checks add +1 HB per Ace to MA hit roll if power is being opposed by checks when a spell hits.
