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How to Make Effective Skill Tests

This document outlines a testing system with the following steps: 1. Determine an appropriate base for the test using relevant skills, abilities, or instincts. 2. Add bonuses for helpful gear or traits. Traits provide a flat bonus or allow rerolls on failure. 3. Spend persona to add your nature rating to the roll. 4. Receive assistance bonuses from others with relevant skills. 5. Half successes for learning skills. 6. Roll dice and spend resources like fate or persona for rerolls before determining the final result. 7. Record the test outcome and spend any bonuses or penalties to nature from rolling outside your instincts.

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How to Make Effective Skill Tests

This document outlines a testing system with the following steps: 1. Determine an appropriate base for the test using relevant skills, abilities, or instincts. 2. Add bonuses for helpful gear or traits. Traits provide a flat bonus or allow rerolls on failure. 3. Spend persona to add your nature rating to the roll. 4. Receive assistance bonuses from others with relevant skills. 5. Half successes for learning skills. 6. Roll dice and spend resources like fate or persona for rerolls before determining the final result. 7. Record the test outcome and spend any bonuses or penalties to nature from rolling outside your instincts.

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MAKING TESTS

1. Start with the Base:


a. If you have the skill, you must use the skill as your base
b. If you want to learn the skill, use the skill’s root ability ​Health​ ​Or​ ​Will​ ​(depends on skill)
c. If you want to trust your instincts, use ​Nature
i. Determine if this obstacle is or is not in your Nature
2. Do you have relevant gear? Add +1D to your pool.
3. Do you have a relevant trait? If ​yes​, then ​EITHER
a. Use the trait for yourself
i. If level 1 or 2, add +1D to your pool
ii. Level 3 traits add +1s to total
b. Use the trait against yourself
i. Independent (-1D to pool, earn 1 Check on players turn)
ii. Versus
1. Same as Independent
2. (+2D to opposition, earn 2 Checks on player turn)
4. Do you want to spend 1 Persona to add your Nature ability to the roll? If ​yes, see [C.i]
a. Add your ​CURRENT NATURE RATING​ to your pool
5. Can anyone help you?
a. Anyone that can help you gives you +1D to your pool.
i. The same skill being used
ii. Appropriate relevant helping skill (ex: Harvester for Baker)
iii. Relevant wise (shields helper from failure condition)
6. If you are ​Learning the Skill​, half your total number of successes rounding down.
7. Roll the Dice
8. Before the final result, you may
a. Requires spending ​Fate
i. Open all 6’s
ii. Re-roll 1 failure​ (​ Requires relevant wise)
b. Requires spending ​Persona
i. Re-roll all failure dice (​Requires relevant wise)
9. Accounting
a. Mark test for advancement or if learning pip skill you’re learning
b. Mark spent persona/fate/positive trait
c. If rolled or tapped Nature:
i. If successful roll and test was outside Nature, reduce nature by 1
ii. If failure, reduce nature rating by margin of failure

Footnotes:
SKILLS HELP SKILLS, ABILITIES HELP ABILITIES
Skill Helpers

Administrator Archivist, Orator

Apiarist Scientist, Loremouse, Insectrist, laborer

Archivist Cartographer, administrator

Armorer Smith, scientist, laborer

Baker Scientist, laborer

Boatcrafter Carpenter, scientist, laborer

Brewer Scientist, laborer

Carpenter Scientist, laborer

Cartographer Archivist, pathfinder

Cook Baker

Fighter Hunter

Glazier Scientist, laborer

Haggler Persuader

Harvester Weather watcher, laborer

Healer Scientist, laborer

Hunter Loremouse

Insectrist Loremouse, laborer

Instructor Skill being taught

Laborer Relevant skills

Loremouse Hunter, scientist

Manipulator Persuader

Militarist Administrator

Miller Scientist, laborer

Orator Manipulator

Pathfinder Scout, hunter, weather watcher

Persuader Manipulator

Potter Glazier, baker, laborer

Scientist Laborer

Scout Pathfinder, hunter

Smith Armorer, laborer

Stonemason Laborer

Survivalist Hunter, weather watcher

Weather watcher Scientist

Weaver laborer

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