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The core rules chapters ability scores, proficiencies and ability checks, the main components of every creature. How these are used in encounters is what drives failure and success. They conceptualize both player characters and monsters in these encounters.

Basics of Play

Playing roleplaying games has a lot of different parts, but generally the most fundemental steps are the following.

The GM sets the scene, describes what's in their vicinity and any particulars of the space around.
A player then answers and follows the description laid out by the GM. He can choose to do something that seems possible, or ask for clarifications.
What follows is these two repeating steps, as a conversation between the GM and players makes a narrative continue. Players can act individually or as a group, all depending on their goals at that moment.

During the game, two major things will probably come up. Firstly, rolling dice. Whenever something has a risk of failure, a dice roll will be present. This always comes in the form of either an Ability Check; these can come in the form of either an Attack Roll, a Contested Check or a Skill Check, or a Random Roll. Depending on the difficulty set by the GM and the roll result, the conversation continues.

The second important piece is combat or turn-based phases. This is when time partly stops, letting each player in turn act what they want to do during the coming six seconds or whatever the scene requires.

While this is the basic description of the gameplay, one has to remember that there are many rules to follow and how to fill a character sheet. The rulebook tells each player what they must do and what their duties are, as well as what they have to remember and write down. It also speaks on what authority lies with them and what lies with the GM.

What's important to remember is, no one should control the story in its overall structure. The story should be the work of this conversation, and while premises may be set up on what characters, monsters and even the world may look like, the GM and the players tell the story together. Its a collaborative game, the grown up version of playing in the woods as kids imagining slaying dragons, just with more rules.

Dice

The dice used for these rules are 4-, 6-, 8-, 10-, 12- and 20-sided dice, each described with a 'd' before to refer to it as a die.

Sometimes odd numbers are rolled and sometimes a d100 is called for, these are solved by rolling the die worth double the amount of sides or rolling two d10s.

The rules should always tell you what die to roll, and as such, you only need access to at least these 7 dice (two d10)

Ability Scores

Proficiencies

Ability Checks

An ability check tests a character’s or monster’s innate talent and training in an effort to overcome a challenge, and is the main subject of tension for the game. The GM calls for an ability check when a character or monster attempts an action that has a chance of failure. When the outcome is uncertain, the dice determine the results.

For every ability check, the GM decides which of the eight ability scores is relevant to the task at hand and the difficulty of the task, represented by a Difficulty Level. The more difficult a task, the higher its DL. To make an ability check, roll a d20 and add the relevant ability modifier. If the total equals or exceeds the DL, the ability check is a success—the creature overcomes the challenge at hand. Otherwise, it’s a failure, which means the character or monster makes no progress toward the objective or makes progress combined with a setback determined by the GM.

Almost every ability check also includes bonuses and/or penalties that are added to the roll. These bonuses are usually covered by the four main types of ability checks that are rolled: Attack Roll, Spellcasting Check, Proficiency Check and Contest Check. These are covered below.

Difficulty Level

Difficulty Level	DL	Description
Routine	0	Anyone can do this basically every time
Simple	3	Most people can do this most of the time
Standard	6	Typical task requiring focus, but most people can usually do this
Demanding	9	Requires full attention; most people have 50/50 chance to succeed
Difficult	12	Trained people have a 50/50 chance to succeed
Challenging	15	Even trained people often fail
Intimidating	18	Normal people almost never succeed
Formidable	21	Impossible without skills or great effort
Heroic	24	A task worthy of tales told for years afterward
Immortal	27	A task worthy of legends that last for lifetimes
Impossible	30	A task that normal humans couldn’t consider (but doesn’t break laws of physics)

Attack Rolls

An attack roll is a roll to determine whether an attack made by a character or creature is successful in hitting its intended target. When a character or creature declares it is making an attack, the following steps typically occur:

1. Determine the possibility of attacking:

When you make an attack, the attack must:

Be within range.

Have a targetable concealment level.

When you make an attack, whether by weapon or spell, the target must be within a specified range. For melee attacks this range is usually between 1 to 3 meter, decided by their size (Light & One-Handed = 1 meter, Two-Handed = 2 meters, Great = 3 meters), while ranged attacks either has a specified maximum range, or two ranges. When an attack has two ranges, the lower number is the normal range and the higher number is the long range. Any attack at long range is done at disadvantage, and you are unable to attack above the long range or maximum range. Any ranged attack made within 2 meters of an opponent is made with disadvantage, as long as the creature is able to sense and target you, see concealment, and doesn't have disadvantage against you if they were to make an attack.

2. Roll a d20:

The attacker rolls a twenty-sided die.

Advantage. If the attacker has one advantage or three advantages on the attack roll, the attacker rolls two or three d20s respectively, and takes the higher of the two or three.

Disadvantage. If the attacker has one disadvantage or three disadvantages on the attack roll, the attacker rolls two or three d20s respectively, and takes the lower of the two or three.

3. Attack Modifiers:

To the result of the d20 roll, the attacker adds relevant modifiers. These modifiers include:

Proficiency Bonus. The character or creature adds their proficiency bonus if applicable. Spellcasting always adds their proficiency bonus.

Ability Modifiers. Strength is used for melee cleaving, splitting and bludgeoning attack rolls. Dexterity is used for melee slashing and piercing attack rolls, as well as ranged attack rolls (including throwing). Intelligence, Wisdom or Charisma is used for spellcasting rolls.

Bonus Modifiers. Any additional bonuses from magical weapons, class features, or other situational effects.

Multiple Advantages. At your 2nd, 4th

The defender adds relevant temporary bonuses or situational effects to their AL, for example cover bonuses.

Cover Bonus. There are three degrees of cover. If a target is behind multiple sources of cover, only the most protective degree of cover applies; the degrees aren't added together. For example, if a target is behind a creature that gives half cover and a tree trunk that gives three-quarters cover, the target has three-quarters cover.

Type of Covers

Cover Details

Half Cover
+2 bonus to AL and Reflex saving throws.

A target has half cover if an obstacle blocks at least half of its body. The obstacle might be a low wall, a large piece of furniture, a narrow tree trunk, or a creature, whether that creature is an enemy or a friend.

Three-quarters Cover
+5 bonus to AL and Reflex saving throws.

A target has three-quarters cover if about three-quarters of it is covered by an obstacle. The obstacle might be a portcullis, an arrow slit, or a thick tree trunk.

Total Cover
Can't be targeted directly by an attack or a spell, although some spells can reach such a target by including it in an area of effect.

A target has total cover if it is completely concealed by an obstacle.

4. Compare the Total to the target's Armor Level (AL)

The total result is compared to the Armor Level of the target. If the attacker's total is equal to or greater than the target's AC, the attack hits. If it's lower, the attack misses.

Critical Success & Critical Failure

If the attack exceeds or fails the AL by 10 or more, the attack counts as either a critical success or a critical failure. Additionally, when rolling a natural 20 or a natural 1, the attack results in an increased or decreased degree of success or failure respectively. This usually results in a critical success or critical failure.

5. Roll for Damage

If the attack hits, the attacker typically rolls dice to determine the amount of damage dealt. The type and number of dice rolled depend on the weapon, spell, or attack being used.

6. Damage Modifiers

To the result of the damage roll, the attacker adds relevant modifiers. These modifiers include:

Ability Modifier.
Melee cleaving, splitting and bludgeoning damage rolls uses Strength.

Melee slashing and piercing damage rolls uses Dexterity.

Ranged thrown damage rolls uses the corresponding melee damage ability modifier.

Ranged drawn and loaded damage rolls uses Draw Strength

Spell damage rolls do not usually add any damage from their ability modifier.

Immunities, Resistances, Susceptibilities and Vulnerabilities. Depending on the creature's defenses against the damage type caused, the damage may be negated (immunity), halved (resistance), increased by half (susceptibility) or doubled (vulnerability).

Critical Success & Critical Failure

If the attack is a critical success, i.e. a critical hit, the damage is doubled after all positive modifiers have been applied.

Spellcasting Checks

A spellcasting check is a roll to determine whether a spell cast by a character or creature is successful. All spells has a description which includes information about its Name, Spell Level, Casting Time, Distance, Incantation Components, Duration, Effects, Critical Effects and Power Increase.

When a character or creature declares it is casting a spell, the following steps typically occur:

1. Select the Spell

Choose a Spell: Review your prepared spells and select the spell you wish to cast. Ensure you meet the following criteria:

Prepared: Ensure your character has prepared the spell you wish to cast and has access to a focus if required.
Spell Range: Be within range of its intended effect.
Spell Points: The caster has enough spell points to perform the spell.
Incantation Components: Be able to perform all incantation components of the spell.
Other: Follow any special restrictions of the spell.

If the spellcast is an attack roll, follow the rules for attack rolls.

1. Roll a d20:

The spell caster rolls a twenty-sided die.

Advantage. If the caster has one advantage or three advantages on the spellcasting roll, the caster rolls two or three d20s respectively, and takes the higher of the two or three.

Disadvantage. If the caster has one disadvantage or three disadvantages on the spellcasting roll, the caster rolls two or three d20s respectively, and takes the lower of the two or three.

2. Spellcasting Modifiers:

To the result of the d20 roll, the caster adds any relevant modifiers. These modifiers usually include:

Proficiency Bonus. The character adds their level-based proficiency bonus.

Ability Modifiers. The character adds their Intelligence, Wisdom or Charisma modifier, depending on their spells origin.

Bonus Modifiers. Any additional bonuses from magical items, class features, or other situational effects.

Multiple Advantages/Disadvantages. At your 2nd, 4th and above advantage or disadvantage, you add +2 or -2 to your roll for each subsequent advantage or disadvantage you have.

3. Compare the total to a measure of success

a. If the spell cast is a spell attack - Compare the total to the target's Armor Level (AL).

The total result is compared to the Armor Level of the target. If the attacker's total is equal to or greater than the target's AC, the attack hits. If it's lower, the attack misses.

b. If the spell cast requires a contested check - Compare the total to the target's contested check.

The target must roll a contested check determined by the spell.

The total result is compared to the of the target. If the attacker's total is equal to or greater than the target's AC, the attack hits. If it's lower, the attack misses.

c. If the spell cast needs to meet a DL - Compare the Total to the target's Armor Level (AL)

The total result is compared to the Armor Level of the target. If the attacker's total is equal to or greater than the target's AC, the attack hits. If it's lower, the attack misses.

Critical Success & Critical Failure

If the attack exceeds or fails the DL by 10 or more, the attack is affected by either a critical success or a critical failure. Additionally, when rolling a natural 20 or a natural 1, the attack results in an increased or decreased degree of success or failure respectively. This usually results in a critical success or critical failure.

4. Roll for Damage

If the attack hits, the attacker typically rolls dice to determine the amount of damage dealt. The type and number of dice rolled depend on the weapon, spell, or attack being used.

Critical Success & Critical Failure

If the attack is a critical success, i.e. a critical hit, the damage is doubled after all positive modifiers have been applied.

5. Damage Modifiers

To the result of the damage roll, the attacker adds relevant modifiers. These modifiers include:

Ability Modifier.
Melee cleaving, splitting and bludgeoning damage rolls uses Strength.

Melee slashing and piercing damage rolls uses Dexterity.

Ranged thrown damage rolls uses the corresponding melee damage ability modifier.

Ranged drawn and loaded damage rolls uses Draw Strength

Spell damage rolls do not usually add any damage from their ability modifier.

Immunities, Resistances, Susceptibilities and Vulnerabilities. Depending on the creature's defenses against the damage type caused, the damage may be negated (immunity), halved (resistance), increased by half (susceptibility) or doubled (vulnerability).

Critical Hit.

Contest result = d20 roll + 1st ability score modifier + 2nd ability score modifier + other bonuses + penalties

Contested Score	Combined Ability Score Modifiers	Summary
Reflex	Dexterity Perception	Your physical reaction time and how quickly and gracefully you can avoid physical effects.
Fortitude	Strength Constitution	Your physical ability to withstand and shrug off effects and afflictions of the body.
Sanity	Intelligence Constitution	Your mental ability to withstand and shrug off effects and afflictions of the body.
Will	Wisdom Charisma	Your mental reaction time and how quickly and gracefully you can avoid mental effects.

ReflexFortitudeSanityWill

Reflex

Reflex is the Contested Score used to measure your physical reaction time and how quickly and gracefully you can avoid physical effects. This includes most traps, weather conditions and attacks. The reflex score is calculated as
your Reflex score = your Dexterity modifier + your Perception modifier + any other bonuses/penalties

Fortitude

Fortitude is the Contested Score used to measure your physical ability to withstand and shrug off effects and afflictions of the body. This includes most poisons, extreme weather conditions and contests of endurance. The fortitude score is calculated as
your Fortitude score = your Strength modifier + your Constitution modifier + any other bonuses/penalties

Sanity

Sanity is the Contested Score used to measure your mental ability to withstand and shrug off effects and afflictions of the body. This includes most afflictions, curses and psychic attacks. The sanity score is calculated as
your Sanity score = your Constitution modifier + your Intelligence modifier + any other bonuses/penalties

Will

Will is the Contested Score used to measure your mental reaction time and how quickly and gracefully you can avoid mental effects. This includes most charm effects, curses and spell effects. The will score is calculated as
your Will score = your Wisdom modifier + your Charisma modifier + any other bonuses/penalties

Ability Score		Summary
Dexterity	(DEX)	Readiness, grace, quickness and reflexes. Dexterity affects initiative, Armor Level (AL) and gives bonus to certain Attack and damage rolls.
Perception	(PER)	The interpretation of sensory information. Whether by sight or other senses. Perception affects Passive Perception, Initiative.
Strength	(STR)	Bodily power and the extent to which you can exert raw physical force. Strength affects Carrying Capacity, Encumbrance, movement speed, throwing distance, melee Attack rolls and much more.
Constitution	(CON)	Health, stamina, and vital force. Constitution affects hit point gain per level and movement Endurance. Constitution may affect some innate powers, like racial features.
Intelligence	(INT)	Mental acuity, accuracy of recall, and the ability to reason. Intelligence affects the effectiveness of the Arcane and Cunning themes, by for instance Spellcasting. Additionally, it increases number of proficiencies.
Wisdom	(WIS)	Reflects attunement to the world around you and represents perceptiveness and intuition. Wisdom affects the effectiveness of the Divine, Primal and Occult themes, by for instance Spellcasting.
Charisma	(CHA)	Your force of personality and your general ability to interact with others. Charisma affects the effectiveness of the Innate theme, by for instance Spellcasting. Charisma also affects power of some innate capabilities like racial spells.
Luck		Your fate's skewness to either fame and fortune or squalor and despair. Luck affects all rolls made against or for you that isn't an ability check. Rolls such as loot tables, Wild Surges and weather are included.

Ability Score	Ability Modifier
1	-5
2	-4
3	-4
4	-3
5	-3
6	-2
7	-2
8	-1
9	-1
10	0
11	0
12	+1
13	+1
14	+2
15	+2
16	+3
17	+3
18	+4
19	+4
20	+5
21	+5
22	+6
23	+6
24	+7
25	+7
26	+8
27	+8
28	+9
29	+9
30	+10

Exceeding Carrying Capacity By	Detriment
1/3	You are Encumbered. Your speed is reduced by 1/3.
2/3	You are Heavily Encumbered. Your speed is reduced by 1/2. You have disadvantage on ability checks, attack rolls, and saving throws that use Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution.
1	You are Extremely Encumbered. Your speed is reduced by 2/3. In addition to previous effects, you are unable to use any Movement Actions.
3/2	You are Over Encumbered. Your speed is reduced to 0. In addition to previous effects, you must succeed on a Strength (Brawn) check of DC `10 + X for each 1/10 over your Carrying Capacity` each turn. On a failure, you either drop the object or objects you're holding if you can, or get crushed and knocked Prone by it, taking damage determined by what's appropriate by the DM.

Action	DL	Active Time	Speed
Walk	-	∞	1x
Dash	14	10 minutes (100 rounds)	2x
Run	18	1 minute (10 rounds)	3x
Sprint	22	6 seconds (1 round)	4x

Level	Proficiency Bonus
1	+1
2	+1
3	+2
4	+2
5	+3
6	+3
7	+4
8	+4
9	+5
10	+5
11	+6
12	+6
13	+7
14	+7
16	+8
17	+8
18	+9
19	+9
20	+10

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+Playing roleplaying games has a lot of different parts, but generally the most fundemental steps are the following.
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+# The GM sets the scene, describes what's in their vicinity and any particulars of the space around.
+# A player then answers and follows the description laid out by the GM. He can choose to do something that seems possible, or ask for clarifications.
+# What follows is these two repeating steps, as a conversation between the GM and players makes a narrative continue. Players can act individually or as a group, all depending on their goals at that moment.
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+During the game, two major things will probably come up. Firstly, rolling dice. Whenever something has a risk of failure, a dice roll will be present. This always comes in the form of either an Ability Check; these can come in the form of either an Attack Roll, a Contested Check or a Skill Check, or a Random Roll. Depending on the difficulty set by the GM and the roll result, the conversation continues.
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+The second important piece is combat or turn-based phases. This is when time partly stops, letting each player in turn act what they want to do during the coming six seconds or whatever the scene requires.
-=== [[Contest Scores]] ===
+While this is the basic description of the gameplay, one has to remember that there are many rules to follow and how to fill a character sheet. The rulebook tells each player what they must do and what their duties are, as well as what they have to remember and write down. It also speaks on what authority lies with them and what lies with the GM.
-===== [[Reflex]] =====
+What's important to remember is, no one should control the story in its overall structure. The story should be the work of this conversation, and while premises may be set up on what characters, monsters and even the world may look like, the GM and the players tell the story together. Its a collaborative game, the grown up version of playing in the woods as kids imagining slaying dragons, just with more rules.
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-===== [[Sanity]] =====
+The dice used for these rules are 4-, 6-, 8-, 10-, 12- and 20-sided dice, each described with a 'd' before to refer to it as a die.
-===== [[Will]] =====
+Sometimes odd numbers are rolled and sometimes a d100 is called for, these are solved by rolling the die worth double the amount of sides or rolling two d10s.
+The rules should always tell you what die to roll, and as such, you only need access to at least these 7 dice (two d10)
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-:: [[Mason’s tools]]
-:: [[Navigator's tools]]
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-:: [[Tattooist's Tools]]
-:: [[Tinker’s tools]]
-:: [[Thieves’ Tools]]
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-:: [[Thieves' cant]]
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-===== [[Skills]] =====

Ability Score	Ability Modifier
1	-5
2	-4
3	-4
4	-3
5	-3
6	-2
7	-2
8	-1
9	-1
10	0
11	0
12	+1
13	+1
14	+2
15	+2
16	+3
17	+3
18	+4
19	+4
20	+5
21	+5
22	+6
23	+6
24	+7
25	+7
26	+8
27	+8
28	+9
29	+9
30	+10

Level	Proficiency Bonus
1	+1
2	+1
3	+2
4	+2
5	+3
6	+3
7	+4
8	+4
9	+5
10	+5
11	+6
12	+6
13	+7
14	+7
16	+8
17	+8
18	+9
19	+9
20	+10

Tier	Language Skills
Trained	Listening and Speaking
Skilled or higher	Reading and Writing

Helian	Is the current 'lingua franca' of the southern regions of Airetam. It is prominent in both Arahaz and Eberalen, reaching from the western elven mountain ranges of Miskunn to the eastern reaches of Ascaria and it's desolate white deserts and plains.
Eiselar	Is the most widely used language in the eastern continents. Rough and thick, its ancestry probably originates from the mistfalls and beyond. A speech born by the relationship between this plane's inhabitants and the astral dwellers on the other side.
Zhenri	Zhenri is the trade language used in the isles and continents strewn throughout the Weeping Sea, north of the center of Airetam.

Littlish	Spoken by most smaller folk, Littlish has evolved as a sort of travel language for those always trying to fit in in larger cultures, larger being literally the larget peoples. Its most frequent users are ratlings, mousefolk, halflings and gnomes, but also some dwarves.
Giant	Giants generally speak with tremendous force, which have in turn turned their language into its opposite. While they can speak loud and booming, most often they speak in whispers. This language was for a long time an exclusive language for the giant species, but has since spread to both highlander and human populations in certain regions.

Draconic	One of the oldest surviving languages, mostly due to the extremely long life span that dragons possess. Draconic is an unchanging language where new words are a once in a century sort of thing, it is also the language most closely related to the arcane weave and its manipulation. This leads the language to a rather rigid structure and form with few synonyms and an almost non-existant realm of poetic prose.
Dwarvish	Dwarvish is slang for the rough Helian dialect that evolved and is spoken in the inner regions of the plane. Its name is obviously connected to the slang term for Homo Robustus, Dwarves, and is almost entirely spoken by them. The language is rough and coarse, filled with short abbreviations, proverbs and cursing.
Elvish Æztriska (High Elven)	Is the traditional and historical language of the elves. Its rigidity and structure hinders most any growth of language, and new words are seldom added. This proves to be both successful in keeping understanding and knowledge between the ages, but also a difficulty when explaining new phenomenon.
Villriska (Wild Elven)	Is a rough and ... The language is very dependent on the region and is highly individual and communal. Depending on the region it might be coarse and rough or cordial and friendly.
Kalasharr	Kalasharr is a rather uncommon language, even within kalasharr tribes. The language developed mostly as a way to keep track of hierarchies, those being their biological ones. This is mainly through not having gendered nouns, but rather hierarchical ones.

Cost (gp)	The cost of the armor.
Weight (lbs)	The weight of the armor.
Armor AL (Armor Level)	The added AL to your Armor Level from your armor.
Dexterity Reduction	The reduction of Dexterity score from wearing the armor.
Don/Doff Times	The time it takes to put on or take off the armor. Any time below 6 seconds requires only a free item interaction.
Skill Impediment	The stacking skill disadvantage from wielding more armor. For each level of skill impediment, you gain disadvantage with the following skills, starting with and in order from: Sleight of Hand Acrobatics Stealth Athletics Perception

	Cost (gp)	Weight (lbs)	Armor AL	Dex. Reduc.	Don / Doff Time	Skill Imped.	Other Effects
Light	5	4	+1	+0	12 / 6 seconds	No	-
Medium	50	10	+1	+0	30 / 15 seconds	Yes	Disadvantage on contests against exhaustion effects due to extreme heat.
Heavy	150	18	+1	-1	6 / 2 minutes	Yes	Disadvantage on contests against exhaustion effects due to extreme heat.

Quality	Cost (gp)	AL	Don / Doff Time
Simple	1x	+0	1x
Martial	5x	+1	2x
Masterwork	25x	+2	2x

Special Languages
Druidic
Thieves' Cant

Damage Type	Armor Penetration
Slashing	0
Cleaving	1
Piercing	1
Splitting	2
Bludgeoning	3

Quality Type	Great	Two-Handed	One-Handed	Light
Simple	D10	D10	D6	D4
Martial	D12	D12	D8	D6
Exotic	Exotic weapons are rare and all have specific stats

Quality Type	Great	Two-Handed	One-Handed	Light
Simple	D8	D8	D4	D2
Martial	D10	D10	D6	D4
Exotic	Exotic weapons are rare and all have specific stats

Ability Score	Ability Modifier
1	-5
2	-4
3	-4
4	-3
5	-3
6	-2
7	-2
8	-1
9	-1
10	0
11	0
12	+1
13	+1
14	+2
15	+2
16	+3
17	+3
18	+4
19	+4
20	+5
21	+5
22	+6
23	+6
24	+7
25	+7
26	+8
27	+8
28	+9
29	+9
30	+10

Level	Proficiency Bonus
1	+1
2	+1
3	+2
4	+2
5	+3
6	+3
7	+4
8	+4
9	+5
10	+5
11	+6
12	+6
13	+7
14	+7
16	+8
17	+8
18	+9
19	+9
20	+10

Framework	Cost (gp)	Weight (lbs)	Armor AL	Dex. Reduc.	Don / Doff Time	Skill Imped.	Other Effects
Stuffy	2x	2x	+1	-1	-	Yes	Advantage on contests against exhaustion effects due to extreme cold. Disadvantage on contests against exhaustion effects due to extreme heat. Weight tripled when soaked.
Slim	3x	0.5x	+0	-	0.5x	No	Indistinguishable from common clothing.

Damage Types	—
Range	Ranged (75 ft., 150 ft., 225 ft., 300 ft.)
Maneuvers	Point Blank, Volley
2h Maneuvers	Distant Shot

Damage Types	—
Range	Melee
2h Maneuvers	Restraining Attack, Disarming Attack, Tripping Attack

Range	Ranged
Maneuvers	Tripping Attack, Restraining Attack

					Thunder
					Air
					Void


		Lightning						Storm
			Fire				Mist
				Dust		Fog
					Elemental Sphere


		Metal			Crystal			Ice
	Earth				Mud				Water
Magma					Acid					Steam

Knowledge					Ambition					Passion
	Mind				Spirit				Soul
		Illusion			Dream			Tranquility
					Awakening Sphere


				Order		Death
			Reason				Nature
		Creativity						Life


					Inertia
					Body
					Motion


			Divine

			Planar
Chaos			Dimension			Good
	Balance		Ethereal		Morality
		Law		Evil


			Occult


	Falsehood	Veracity		Illumination	Light
		Truth		Dark
			Fate
Arcane			Time			Primal
			Luck

Spell Level	Point Cost
0 ^(Cantrip)	-
1st	2 SP
2nd	3 SP
3rd	5 SP
4th	8 SP
5th	13 SP
6th	21 SP
7th	34 SP
8th	55 SP
9th	89 SP

Latest revision as of 20:34, 5 September 2024

Basics of Play

Dice

Modifier

Armor Level

Attack Rolls and Damage

Dexterous Initiative

Ranged Attack Distanc

Precision Modifiers

Passive Intuition

Perceptive Initiative

Attack Rolls and Damage

Encumbrance

Strength Feats

In Combat Ruling

Example

Temporary Hit Points

Spellcasting with Intelligence

Tiered Proficiency Bonuses

Instinctive Initiative

Passive Intuition

Spellcasting with Wisdom

Attractiveness

Spellcasting with Charisma

Lucky

Random Rolls

Proficiency Bonus

Level-based Proficiency Bonus

Simple Proficiency Bonus

Tiered Proficiency Bonus

Tiered Proficiencies and Intelligence

Tiered Proficiency Gain per Level

Proficiency Generalization

Synergistic Tools

Language Proficiency

Language Generalization

Humanoid Languages

List of Languages

Common

Minor

Racial

Special

Armor Proficiency

Armor Level

Armor Category

Light Armor

Medium armor

Heavy Armor

Armor Table

Armor Quality

Frameworks

Light Armor Frameworks

Medium Armor Frameworks

Heavy Armor Frameworks

Shield Framework

Size

Light Weapons

One-handed Weapons

Versatile Weapons

Two-Handed Weapons

Great Weapons

Quality

Damage Types

Slashing

Cleaving

Piercing

Splitting

Bludgeoning

Ammunition Dependent

Armor Penetration

Armor Penetration Calculations

Noting ACs on your sheet

Attack Distance

Melee

Thrown

Ranged

Melee Weapons

Simple Weapons

Martial Weapons

Weapon Damage

Elemental
Sphere

Awakening
Sphere

Ability Score	Ability Modifier
1	-5
2	-4
3	-4
4	-3
5	-3
6	-2
7	-2
8	-1
9	-1
10	0
11	0
12	+1
13	+1
14	+2
15	+2
16	+3
17	+3
18	+4
19	+4
20	+5
21	+5
22	+6
23	+6
24	+7
25	+7
26	+8
27	+8
28	+9
29	+9
30	+10

Level	Proficiency Bonus
1	+1
2	+1
3	+2
4	+2
5	+3
6	+3
7	+4
8	+4
9	+5
10	+5
11	+6
12	+6
13	+7
14	+7
16	+8
17	+8
18	+9
19	+9
20	+10

V	Verbose	You must be able to speak to cast the spell.
S	Somatic	You must be able to physically move your hands to cast the spell.
M	Material	You must have the required material to cast the spell.

	Simple	Martial	Masterwork
Conductivity [Medium] Spell bonus	-1	+0	+1
Memory [Low] Number of Memory spells	8	16	24
Width [High] Number of Width spells (Max. spell level)	16 (1)	32 (3)	48 (5)

	Simple	Martial	Masterwork
Conductivity [High] Spell bonus	+0	+1	+2
Memory [Medium] Number of Memory spells	12	24	36
Width [Low] Number of Width spells (Max. spell level)	0 (1)	0 (3)	0 (5)

	Simple	Martial	Masterwork
Conductivity [Low] Spell bonus	-2	-1	+0
Memory [High] Number of Memory spells	16	32	48
Width [Medium] Number of Width spells (Max. spell level)	8 (1)	16 (3)	24 (5)

Divine Domain	Channel Divinity	Description
Acid	Acidic Meltdown	As an action, you touch a creature or an object within reach. A creature must make a Reflex check, taking `5 × your level` in acid damage on a failed check and half as much on a successful one. An object takes `5 × your level` in acid damage. Additionally, if the target carries or wears corrodable armor or weapons, it must make a Reflex check. On a failed save, one piece of armor or weapon of your choice takes a permanent and cumulative -1 penalty. Armor reduced to an AL of 10 or a shield that drops to a +0 bonus is destroyed. Weapons reduced to -5 to hit and to damage are destroyed.
Air	Shockwave Invocation	You channel a forceful blast of wind. As an action, a creature within 5 meters of you must make a Fortitude check, taking `3 × your level` as bludgeoning damage and is pushed `5 × your level` in meters on a failed save, or half as much on a successful one.
Crystal	Arcane Bulwark	As a reaction, when you take damage from a spell or other magical effect from a creature within 3 meters of you, halve the damage. Streams of ethereal magic then arcs out from your body, and the creature who damaged you takes force damage equal to `2d10 + your level`.
Dust	Dust to Dust	You augment your offensive spells, the better to unleash the infinite chaos of the Abyss on your foes. When you cast a spell that deals damage to one or more creatures, you may add `your divine spellcasting modifier` to the damage. Any creature reduced to 0 hit points by this spell is disintegrated into a fine grey dust, along with anything it is wearing or carrying (except for magic items). The creature can be restored to life only by means of a true resurrection or a wish spell. Any Large or smaller nonmagical object or a creation of magical force that would be hit by the spell is also disintegrated.
Earth
Fire
Fog
Ice	Ice Prison	As an action, you can brandish your holy symbol, facing a creature you can see within 10 meters of you. It must make a Fortitude save or the ice forming around it will encase it for 1 minute. While encased in this way a creature is incapacitated and its speed becomes 0, it is also immune to all damage while trapped. At the end of each of its turn it can try to repeat the Fortitude save, breaking free of the ice on a success.
Inertia
Lightning
Magma
Metal	Divine Forging	As an hour-long ritual, you present your holy symbol, you can craft a nonmagical item that include some metal: a simple or martial weapon a suit of armor 30 pieces of ammunition a set of tools or another metal object At completion, the object is created. Additionally the following rules apply. It must be worth equal to or less than 50 gp per level. You must have the required metal to create the object, and any additional non-metal parts required.
Mist
Mud
Steam
Storm
Thunder
Water

Divine Domain	Channel Divinity	Description
Ambition
Apathy
Body
Creation	Bring to Life	Bring to Life
Death	Touch of Death	Your touch can increase entropy and wither the life from living things. As an action, make a melee spell attack against a creature within your reach. On a hit, that creature takes `1d4` necrotic damage. If one of these dice rolls a 3 or a 4, roll two additional dice of one size larger (d6, d8, d10, d12, d20), rolling again if these dice rolls their maximum value, and so on. This attack's initial damage increases to `2d4` at 5th level, `3d4` at 11th level and `4d4` at 17th level
Displacement
Dream	Slumber	Slumber
Emotion
Illusion	Invoke Duplicity	Invoke Duplicity
Knowledge
Life	Preserve Life	As an action, you present your holy symbol and evoke healing energy that can restore a number of hit points equal to `5 × your character level`. Choose any creatures within 10 meters of you, and divide those hit points among them. This feature can restore a creature to no more than half of its hit point maximum. You can't use this feature on an undead or a construct.
Mind
Nature
Sanity
Soul
Spirit	Drain Spirit	Drain Spirit
Tranquility

Divine Domain	Channel Divinity	Description
Arcane	Create Tear	Create Tear
Astral
Chaos
Dark
Divine
Evil
Falsehood
Fate	Seer's Omen	Seer's Omen
Good	Truce	Truce
Law
Light	Radiance of the Dawn	As an action, you present your holy symbol, and any magical darkness within 10 meters of you is dispelled. Each hostile creature within 10 meters of you must make a Fortitude contest. A creature takes radiant damage equal to `1d10 + your divine spellcasting modifier`, per point of proficiency bonus on a failed check, and half as much damage on a successful one. A creature that has total cover from you is not affected.
Luck	Chaos of Battle	Chaos of Battle
Occult	Blood Puppet	Blood Puppet
Planar	Arcane Abjuration	Arcane Abjuration
Primal
Truth

Primal Domains	Primal Leylines
Anima	Soul Body
Caelum	Heat (Energy) Cold (Inactivity)
Elementus Terra	Land Water Wind
Fauna Flora Fungi	Life Death
Rainforest Desert	Heat Cold (🤷‍♂️?)