Faces of the Mists: Homebrew Rules
updated February 5, 2022
General Gameplay
Supplies / Supply Points
Players can invest gold coins into Supply Points. While you
are in a General Store or Trading Post, you may purchase
and trade Supply Points. Usually, 1 Supply Points costs 1
gold piece.
Unless you are near a trading post, you cannot trade supply
points with each other once it's in your inventory.
Supplies gives the player an opportunity to buy an item
even if the player is far far away from the nearest store. The
catch is, the player must spend Supply points equal to three
times the cost of the item.
For instance, a potion of healing costs 50 gp. When using
supplies, the cost would be 150 Supply Points.
Supplies will also replace rations in our game, so if you gain
rations in character creation, convert them to gold. For every
day of travel and for every time the party takes a long rest,
deduct 1 Supply Point. This represents the food consumed
and the equipment used to make camp. You may also spend
supply points to feed another creature/s.
Advance Initiative
The party rolls initiative at the end of every combat and at the
start of a session if no initiative has been set yet. The
Initiative rolled will be applied for the next combat encounter.
This is so when combat does come, the party can
immediately begin the encounter, saving time and preserving
the intense pace of the game.
Advantage Stacking
When a creature is granted multiple advantages and
disadvantages, these effects can be stacked on top of each
other instead of ignoring them as dictated by RAW. For every
Advantage or disadvantage stacked, the roll adds a +2 or -2
respectively.
Thirteen (Monk), Nyrvan (Bard), and Gregory (Fighter) are
fighting an Owlbear. Nyrvan is first in initiative, He casts Faerie
Fire. The Owlbear failes its Dexterity Save and is now
highlighted in blue light. Gregory Shoves the creature and it
fails the saving throw again. The Owlbear is now Prone and
under the effects of Faerie Fire, granting 2 Advantages.
Thirteen attacks with their Martial arts and rolls with
Advantage +2.
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Versatile Saving Throws
When prompted to make a saving throw, the player can
instead choose to react with a skill check with disadvantage,
replacing the saving throw.
DC Rest System
This is a homebrew rest system made by The Dungeon
Coach (DC). Designed to make rests feel grittier but not as
gritty as the variant rule "Gritty Realism".
Short Rest
Short rests take 10 minutes instead of 1 hour. However,
players are limited to only 2 short rests. Once all short rests
have been used, they can't do so again until they take a long
rest. Other than that, rules for short rests stay the same.
Players can spend hit dice to regain hit points
Long Rest
Long rests take the same amount of time as RAW, but it has a
different system in regaining hit points. At the end of the long
rest, players spend hit dice just as they would in a short rest.
They also gain hit dice equal to half their player level rounded
down, they can spend these extra hit dice to regain HP or
they can use it to replenish their hit die pool.
Full Rest
Full Rests resets everything: HP, Hit Dice, Spells, Exhaustion
etc. Players must be in a safe and secure location and must
spend at least 24 hours or more depending if they
accumulate exhaustion or a sickness to gain the benefits of a
Full Rest.
Long Rests during travel
When Players travel for more than 4 hours, they
cannot gain the benefits of a Long Rest until they
spend 1 full day in a single location, whether they
stay in a settlement or make camp. Doing so in a
hostile environment runs the risk of a random
encounter.
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 Simple Encumbrance
Weight
instead of tracking strict realistic weight, we use a simplified
method. by default, any item that can't be carried in a
backpack, or if it can but is really heavy (like a rock or an
ingot of metal) is 1 Weight. Anything that can be stored in a
backpack is 0.1 Weight (in Starfinder, this is referred to L). If
an average person needs two hands to carry this item or use
it effectively, it is 2 Weight. If an average person can't carry
this item even with two hands, it can't be stored in your own
inventory. ask the DM how much it weighs when storing it on
a mount.
Supplies. Supplies don't count to your Carrying Capacity.
But you cannot use Supplies to gain an item if that will make
your character go above 0.1 of your Carrying Capacity.
Coins. For every 100 coins, add 0.1 Weight. Effectively 1
coin is 0.001 Weight
Armor. Light Armor and Shields are 1 Weight. All other
Armors are 2 Weight
Carrying Capacity
Your carrying capacity is equal to your Strength score.
Encumbered. If you carry more than your Strength Score,
you are encumbered, which means your speed drops by 10
feet.
Heavily Encumbered. If you carry more than your
Strength Score+10, you are instead heavily encumbered,
which means your speed drops by 20 feet and you have
disadvantage on ability checks, attack rolls, and saving
throws that use Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution.
Converting lbs to weight
When converting something in RAW from
"Pounds" to "Weight", 15 Pounds is equal to 1
Weight. However, to preserve the simplicity of the
rules, reserve this for when determining the
carrying capacity of creatures and the weights of an
object that's heavier for an average person to carry
Examples of Item Weight
Item Weight
100 coins 0.1
Tinderbox 0.1
Dagger 0.1
Iron Ingot 1 Complex Questions are the best in finding the most reliable
Shortsword 1 answers. Not only is there no chance to find an untrue result,
Hempen Rope 1 an advantageous opportunity. These questions are best for
Greatsword 2 topics that require expert knowledge on a topic.
Chainmail 2 Question
Knowledge Check
At any time, players can consult their knowledge on any of
their skills on any topic or subject they have in mind. This is
rolled like a normal ability check, except the player has
freedom to choose which skill they want to consult. Once
they make a knowledge check with a certain skill, they can't
do so again after some time has past. The time depends on
the context of the check.
Once they roll a Knowledge Check, the DM compares it
with the DC. The players may ask a number of Questions
depending on the result of the check.
Regardless of the result of the roll, the player can ask at
least 1 simple question. The players will not be aware if their
check is a failure or a success. The only way to know for sure
is if the roll is above 5 points of the DC, in which they can ask
more than one simple question.
Knowledge Check Results
roll result
Failure/Success 1 Simple Question
Success+5 2 Simple Questions
Success+10 3 Simple Questions
Success+15 4 Simple Questions
Success+20 5 Simple Questions
Simple Questions. These are exactly what they are: simple,
uncomplicated, and sometimes unreliable. These consists of
questions on topics that are common knowledge or basic
concepts such as the general laws of nature or fundamental
elements of a system. Simple questions have a 20% chance
to have answer that is false, vague, or generally unhelpful.
The DM rolls this in secret. The chance increases by 5% for
every point below the target DC (Maximum of 15). Even with
a low Knowledge Check, there is still a chance of their
question being true, and vice versa on a high check.
Difficult Questions. When the result of a Knowledge
check grants a player multiple Simple Questions, they can
spend 1 Simple Questions to ask 1 Difficult Question.
Difficult Questions are much more reliable than simple
questions. There is no chance for this question to have an
untrue result. Certain questions that requires some nuanced
understanding on a topic falls under this category.
Complex Questions. When the result of a Knowledge
check grants a player multiple Simple Questions, they can
spend 3 Simple Questions to ask 1 Complex Question.
there is a 20% chance that the answer can result to a boon or
Cost
Simple Question N/A
Diffficult Question 2 Simple Questions
Complex Question 3 Simple Questions

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Leveling up requires downtime Help Action
In order for a character to level up, they must have enough When using the Help action in combat, the creature you're
Experience points and spend 7 days of downtime. aiding gains advantage on their first attack roll before the end
of your next turn. Additionally, you must make an ability
Drinking Potions check based on how you are helping, on a success the
Drinking potions costs 1 action. If the potion provides creature you are aiding adds a 1d10 to their damage roll on
healing, you may gain the maximum amount of HP the potion top of the advantage. On a failure, you must choose either
can give by spending 10 minutes with a healer's kit to apply granting advantage or additional damage
the potion with maximum efficiency, the potion is used up Volleys
once applied this way.
Before rolling for ranged damage, you may choose to fire
Combat volleys. This gives yourself a penalty to damage for any of the
following effects. Penalties may be stacked on top of each
Partial Successes other for additional effects. If the damage roll is higher than
or equal to the penalty, the effect carries out and the penalty
When a player makes an attack roll and misses, if the roll is is applied. If not, deal damage without the penalty.
not below the target's AC - 10, the player can choose to hit
instead. Doing so exposes the player to a danger, counter damage
attack, or gives the target a free action simultaneous to the name penalty effect
player's attack.
If the player's roll is less than or equal to the Target's AC - Distracting
-5
-2 damage to target's first attack
5, the first attack from the counterattack towards the player volley until the start of your next turn
gains advantage. Disruptive
-10
-5 damage to target's first attack
volley until the start of your next turn
Massive Hits Covering target takes -1 damage until the
-5
When a creature lands a hit with an attack roll, and the roll is volley start of your next turn
not a critical hit but the result is equal to or more than the +5 damage on the next attack
target's AC+10, that is a Massive Hit. against this creature until the start
Harrying
If the attack is made with a weapon or cantrip, The volley
-4 of your next turn. This bonus
creature deals bonus damage by adding an additional applies after any penalties made by
damage dice. Volleys
If the attack is made with a spell that uses a spell slot, the
creature can reroll half of its damage dice rounded down
(minimum of 1) and take the highest
Massive Critical
When a creature lands a hit with an attack roll, and the roll
lands on a natural 20, that is a Massive Critical.
If the attack is made with a weapon or cantrip, the
creature deals bonus damage equal to the maximum
result of the damage dice.
If the attack is made with a spell that uses a spell slot, the
creature deals bonus damage equal to the average
damage.
Prone
Standing up from Prone provokes opportunity attacks from
attackers within 5 feet of you and costs half of your
movement or 15 feet, whichever is lower.
Ganging up
When a creature is surrounded by 3 or more attackers, melee
attacks against that creature gains advantage, while ranged
attacks against the creature gain disadvantage. Missed
ranged attacks have a 25% chance of hitting a surrounding
creature

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Artistry
Culture
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