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next big job. Your missions have taken you exploring across Khorvaire, and you are well practised
in playing with both magic and with politics. In your last mission, party leader Captain ir’Dane
tragically died. Now, your Patron has come to ask for another favour…
1. Choose a race for your character: human, elf, dwarf,
halfling, half-elf, half-orc, gnome, shifter, changeling,
warforged, kalashtar.
2. Choose a class for your character: mage, soldier,
artificer, priest, rogue, swashbuckler, monk, druid,
hunter, inquisitive, psychic.
3. Choose your number, from 2 to 5. A high number
means you’re better at PULP (action, adventure,
exploration, war magic). A low number means you’re
better at NOIR (intuition; intrigue; investigation; subtle
magic).
4. Give your character a name.
You have: armour or an outfit appropriate for your role, a
melee weapon, a ranged weapon, travelling papers, one
dragonshard of your choice:
activate an eldritch device
call in a favour from a Dragonmarked House
bind an elemental, fiend or celestial
Player goal: Get your character involved in a high-action
pulp adventure, with mystery lurking in the background.
Character goal: Choose one or create your own: Discover
new lore, prove your nation is greatest, kill monsters, earn
status, become party leader, move on from war trauma, or
keep being awesome (you have nothing to prove).
Your Patron has called for your help, and may be willing to
use their own resources to aid your mission...but their
interference may come at a cost.
As a group, pick two assets for your Patron:
dragonmarked, ancient knowledge, friends in high places,
friends in low places, rich, war hero, compromising
material, secret weapon
Also, pick one liability: secretive, treacherous, elusive,
unreliable, overt, poor reputation, compromised
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by Keith Baker
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This game is licensed under a CC BY-NCSA 3.0 license.
, ready for your
Roll or choose on the tables below.
1. A Rival Nation 4. The Dreaming Dark
When you do something risky, roll 1d6 to find out how it 2. A Dragonmarked House 5. A Cult of the Dragon Below
goes. Roll +1d if you’re prepared and +1d if you’re an 3. The Emerald Claw 6. The Lord of Blades
expert. (The GM tells you how many dice to roll, based on
your character and the situation.) Roll your dice and
compare each die result to your number.
1. Attack/Invade 4. Steal/Manipulate
If you’re using PULP (action, fighting), you want to
2. Destroy/Corrupt 5. Unmask/Reveal
roll under your number.
3. Empower/Create 6. Defend/Exploit
If you’re using NOIR (intrigue, stealth), you want to
roll over your number.
1. City of Towers 4. Lyrandar flagship
If none of your dice succeed, it goes wrong. The
GM says how things get worse somehow. 2. Lightning Rail 5. Creation Forge
3. Mournland 6. Ring of Siberys
If one die succeeds, you barely manage it. The GM
inflicts a complication, harm, or cost.
1. Restart the Last War 4. Open a planar gate
If two dice succeed, you do it well. Good job!
2. Kill a monarch 5. Release the horrors of Khyber
If three dice succeed, you get a critical success! The
3. Expand the Mournland 6. Fulfil the Prophecy
GM tells you some extra effect you get.
If you roll your number exactly, you score an
Play to find out how they defeat the threat. Introduce the threat by
ACTION POINT. You get a special insight into
having the Patron show them evidence of its recent badness. Before a
what’s going on. Ask the GM a question and they’ll
threat does something to the characters, show signs that it’s about to
answer you honestly. Some good questions:
happen, then ask them what they do. “Lady Vol draws the shadows into
her staff and aims. What do you do?” “Kol checks over her shoulder and
What are they really feeling? Who’s behind this? How
beckons you into the shadows. What do you do?” Call for a roll when the
could I get them to _____? What should I be on the
situation is uncertain. Don’t pre-plan outcomes, and use failures to push
lookout for? What’s the best way to _____? What’s really
the narrative forward. The situation always changes after a roll, for good
going on here?
or ill. Ask questions and build on the answers. “Have any of you
You can change your action if you want to, then roll
encountered a Khyber Cultist before? Where? What happened?”
again.
HELPING: If you want to help someone else, who’s rolling,
say how you try to help and make a roll. If you succeed, At the end of the game, roll again on the Threat table and flip a coin. On
give them +1d. heads, describe a scene in which the original threat turns out to really be
the newly rolled threat all along. On tails, describe a scene in which the
Patron turns out to really be the newly rolled threat all along.