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====== Welcome Page (Player Guide Introduction) ====== Overview of what the game is and what makes it different

What players need to know to start

Links to all major sections

Sidebar explanations (e.g., What Are Aspect Dice?)

• Welcome to the Rules
  • What This Game Is
  • What Makes This System Different
  • Why Use This System
  • How to Use This Guide
  • What's in the Guide
  • Handbook Table of Contents
• What is an RPG?
  • Core Components of an RPG
    • 1. Conflict Resolution System
    • 2. Character Definition
    • 3. Narrative Authority
    • 4. World Assumptions
    • 5. Resource Management
  • Optional Tools
  • Final Thought
• 🧠 Attributes
  • 🎲 Generating Attributes
  • 🎛️ Alternate Generation Methods
  • 🧮 Why Attributes Aren’t Used Directly for Rolls
• 🧬 Aspects
  • 🔢 Calculating Aspects
    • Examples
  • 🎲 Using Aspects in Play
  • 🧩 Variant Rule: Aspect Modifiers (for d20-style systems)
  • 💡 Why Use Aspects?
• 🕸️ Aspect Tables
  • 📘 Full Aspect List
  • 🎲 5e Skill Conversion Table
  • 🔁 Inverse Table: Aspects by Skill Group
  • 📚 Expanded Aspect Table with Original & Additional Uses
• Core Stats
  • 📌 Core Stat Summary
  • 🎲 How They're Used
  • 📈 How They Scale
• 🎲 Taking Actions with the D4 Dice Pool
  • ⚙️ Turn Structure and Action Load
  • ⚖️ Calculating Net Advantage
    • What is Advantage and Disadvantage?
  • 🎲 Resolving the Dice Roll
  • 🔚 Ending Your Turn
  • 🤝 Acting on Other Turns
  • 📝 Additional Notes
• D4 Math Tips
  • Fast Math by Matching Pairs
  • Why This Works So Well
  • Speed Tip: Group Visually
  • Optional: Use Matching Dice Colors
• 🎯 Aspect Checks
  • 🧪 Performing a Check
  • 🧮 Minimum Dice
  • 📈 Degrees of Success (or Failure)
  • 🤝 Optional Rule: Teamwork
  • 🎯 Sample Difficulty Classes
• ⚔️ Initiative
  • 🎲 Rolling for Initiative
  • ⚖️ Breaking Ties
  • 🌀 Initiative vs. Action Load
  • ⏸️ Holding Actions
  • 🎭 Variant Rule: Spotlight System
• 🧭 The Action Economy
  • ⚙️ What Counts as an Action?
  • 🌀 Action Load Recap
  • 🗂️ Types of Actions
  • 🔁 Acting on Other Turns
  • ⏹️ Ending Your Turn
  • ⚡ Gaining More Actions
  • 🧠 Tactical Planning
  • 📚 Reference Links
• ⚔️ Combat
  • 🗡️ Attacking
  • 🧮 Resolving the Attack
  • 🌩️ Area Effects & Resistance Checks
    • 🔥 Casting the AOE
    • 🛡️ Resistance Checks (Saving Throws)
  • 🎲 Optional: Risk Dice
  • 🧾 Interpreting Results
  • 🛡️ Evasion & Armor
  • 🧭 Movement & Positioning
  • 🤝 Teamwork in Combat
  • ⏱️ Turn Order
  • 🧘 Ending Combat
• 💥 Applying Damage
  • 📊 Damage Thresholds and Wounds
  • ⚙️ Setting Thresholds
  • 💔 Wound Severity Summary
  • ☠️ Damage Types
  • 🧪 Example: Damage vs Thresholds
  • 🩸 Hit Points and Dying
    • 🔥 Blaze of Glory
    • 🎲 Risk Fate
    • 💀 Live, but Scarred
  • 📌 Summary Notes
• 😰 Managing Stress
  • ⚖️ What Is Stress?
  • 📈 Gaining Stress
  • 🔥 Abilities That Use Stress
  • 💥 When Stress Is Maxed
  • 🧘 Reducing Stress
  • 🧪 Optional Rule: Absorb Damage with Stress
  • 🎯 Tracking Stress
  • 🔗 Related Pages
• 🛡️ Using Armor
  • ⚙️ How Armor Contributes to Defense
  • 🧪 Example Calculation
  • 📊 Typical Armor Values by Type
  • ⚖️ Armor Penalties
  • ✨ Magical & Special Armor
  • 🐉 Natural Armor
  • 🎯 Optional Rule: Called Shots
  • 📌 Summary Notes
  • 🔗 Related Pages
• 🥊 Unarmed Combat
  • 👊 Basic Unarmed Strike
  • 🤼 Grappling
  • 🌀 Shoves and Throws
  • 🦷 Natural Weapons
  • 🪨 Improvised Weapons
  • 🧘 Martial Arts Features
  • 📌 Notes
• 🤝 Team Actions
  • 💡 What Is a Team Action?
  • 🌀 Taking a Team Action
  • 🔁 Team Action Examples
  • 🕓 Timing and Declaration
  • 🧬 Coordination Bonuses
  • ✅ Summary
• 🧭 Domains
  • 🌀 What Is a Domain?
  • 📈 Domain Tiers
  • 🧩 Choosing Features
  • 🌍 Customizing the World
  • 🧬 Unlocking Additional Domains
  • 🧾 Feature Card Terminology
  • 🧱 Domain Card Design Philosophy
• Fury Domain
  • Tier 1 Base Card: Fury Initiate
    • Core Feature: Unarmored Resolve
    • Requirements to Advance to Tier 2 (complete 3):
  • Tier 1 Feature Cards
    • Frenzy (Combat – Active)
    • Refocus (Combat – Active)
    • Iron Body (Passive)
    • Take the Blow (Team Action – Reactive)
    • Unbreakable Endurance (Exploration – Passive)
    • Fearless Presence (Roleplay – Passive)
  • Tier 2 Base Card: Fury Adept
    • Core Feature: Hardened Focus
    • Requirements to Advance to Tier 3 (complete 4):
  • Tier 2 Feature Cards
    • Vengeful Intercept (Enhancement – Team Action + Combat)
    • Roaring Challenge (Enhancement – Roleplay/Combat Hybrid)
    • Second Wind (Standalone – Passive Recovery)
    • Relentless Drive (Standalone – Combat Active)
    • Burning Calm (Enhancement – Support Passive)
    • No Mercy (Standalone – Finisher Passive)
  • Tier 3 Base Card: Fury Expert
    • Core Feature: Unyielding Force
    • Requirements to Advance to Tier 4 (complete 4 of the following):
  • Tier 3 Feature Cards
    • Shield-Breaker Stance (Combat – Stance)
    • Worldsplitter (Combat – Active, Once per scene)
    • Unbreakable (Passive – Once per scene)
    • Chain Reaction (Triggered AoE – Tactical)
    • Redline (Passive – Resource Manipulation)
    • Juggernaut’s Path (Passive – Exploration/Combat Hybrid)
  • Tier 4 Base Card: Fury Master
    • Core Feature: Embodiment of Fury
  • Tier 4 Feature Cards – Fury Master
    • 💥 Titanbreaker Strike (Combat Finisher – Active)
    • 🌪 Whirlwind of Wrath (Combat AoE – Active)
    • 🛡️ Last Wall Standing (Defensive Passive)
    • 🦴 Crack the Soul (Control Passive)
    • 🗣 Name of Wrath (Social/Exploration – Legendary Presence)
    • 🔥 Redline Ascendant (Limit Break – Active)
• Incantor Domain
  • Tier 1 Base Card: Incantor Initiate
    • Core Feature: Elemental Attunement
    • Requirements to Advance to Tier 2 (complete 3):
  • Tier 1 Feature Cards – Incantor Domain
    • 🔥 Extend (Combat – Active)
    • 💥 Multiply Damage (Combat – Active)
    • 🌪 Cone (Combat AoE – Active)
    • 🛡 Elemental Barrier (Defense – Reactive)
    • 🎭 Sculpt Form (Utility – Active)
    • 🔁 Redirect Flow (Combat Utility – Reactive)
    • 🧱 Wall (Defense – Active)
    • 🔎 Sense the Element (Exploration – Passive)
  • Tier 2 Base Card – Incantor Adept
    • Core Feature: 💢 Blood Surge
    • Attribute Increase
    • Requirements to Advance to Tier 3 (complete 3):
  • Tier 2 Feature Cards – Incantor Domain
    • 💢 Detonate Core (Combat AoE – Active)
    • 💢 Elemental Resurgence (Recovery – Active)
    • 🛡 Shield Others (Defense – Reactive)
    • 💢 Writhing Form (Battlefield Control – Active)
    • 💢 Chain Reaction (Combat – Passive)
  • Tier 3 Base Card – Incantor Ascendant
    • Core Feature: 💢 Blood Surge – Stress
    • Requirements to Advance to Tier 4 (complete 3):
  • Tier 3 Feature Cards – Incantor Domain
    • 💢 Cataclysm Arc (Combat AoE – Active)
    • 💢 Elemental Avatar (Form – Active)
    • 💢 Elemental Seal (Control – Active)
    • 💢 Surge Cascade (Passive – Combo Enhancer)
  • Tier 4 Base Card – Incantor Master
    • Core Feature: 💢 Unleashed Blood Surge
    • Requirements to Complete the Domain (complete 3):
  • Tier 4 Feature Cards – Incantor Master
    • 💥 Titanbreaker Strike (Combat Finisher – Active)
    • 🌪 Whirlwind of Wrath (Combat AoE – Active)
    • 🌀 Elemental Cataclysm (Environment – Active)
    • 💢 Wrath Incarnate (Form – Active)
    • 🛡 Purge and Mend (Support – Active)
• Skirmish Domain
  • Tier 1 Base Card: Skirmish Initiate
    • Core Feature: Hit and Move
    • Requirements to Advance to Tier 2 (complete 3):
  • Tier 1 Feature Cards – Skirmish Domain
    • Distraction Feint (Team Action – Reactive)
    • Slip Through (Passive)
    • Darting Strike (Combat – Passive)
    • Ambush Setup (Combat – Conditional)
    • Quick Reflex (Reaction – Passive)
    • Scout’s Eye (Travel – Passive)
    • Streetwise Swagger (Roleplay – Passive)
  • Tier 2 Base Card: Skirmish Adept
    • Core Feature: Feint and Flow
  • Tier 2 Feature Cards – Skirmish Domain
    • Interrupting Step (Reaction – Defensive)
    • Set‑Up Strike (Combat – Combo)
    • Cliff Dancer (Movement – Passive)
    • Flicker Step (Travel – Stress Cost)
    • Watch Their Feet (Combat – Reactive)
  • Requirements to Advance to Tier 3
  • Tier 3 Base Card: Skirmish Expert
    • Core Feature: Enhanced Evasion
  • Tier 3 Feature Cards – Skirmish Domain
    • Shadow Spin (Combat – Combo)
    • Spotting Shot (Combat – Precision)
    • Cover Ally (Team – Reactive)
    • Forced Exposure (Combat – Tactical)
    • Edge of the Web (Utility – Travel)
  • ✅ Tier 4 Advancement Requirements
  • Tier 4 Base Card: Skirmish Master
    • Core Feature: Tactical Mastery
  • Tier 4 Feature Cards – Skirmish Domain
    • Flurry of Shadows (Combat – Burst)
    • Marked for Death (Combat – Combo)
    • No Escape (Combat – Tactical)
    • Blade Intercept (Team – Reactive)
    • Ghoststep Gambit (Utility – Travel Burst)
• Thaumaturge Domain
  • Tier 1 Base Card: Spellbook Savant
  • 🎓 Tier 1 Features – Thaumaturge Initiate
    • 🛡️ Arcane Countermeasure
    • 🧠 Scholarly Recall
    • 🗂️ Efficient Notation
    • 🧩 Magical Mnemonics
    • 🔍 Arcane Lens
  • 📘 Advancing to Tier 2
  • 🔮 Tier 2 – Thaumaturge Adept
    • 💠 Tier 2 Base Card: Arcane Reservoir
  • 🧪 Tier 2 Features – Thaumaturge
    • 🧵 Spell Lattice
    • 🤫 Silent Formulae
    • 🔄 Reserve Feedback Loop
    • 🔖 Dimensional Bookmark
  • 📗 Advancing to Tier 3
    • 🧲 Tier 3 Base Card: Reservoir Mastery
  • 🧪 Tier 3 Features – Thaumaturge
    • 🛡️ Arcane Supremacy
    • 🌿 Theoretical Universalist
    • 🧩 Metamagic Patterning
    • 🌀 Spellflow Buffer
    • 🔄 Reservoir Transfer
  • 📘 Advancing to Tier 4
    • 🧠 Tier 4 Base Card: Total Spell Theory
  • 🧪 Tier 4 Features – Thaumaturge
    • 🌀 Spell Rewrite
    • 🛡️ Redirect Flow
    • 🧱 Arcane Shielding
  • Any HP loss you or an ally you defend takes comes from this shield first.
    • 🧬 Adaptive Spell Structure
• WeaponMaster Domain
  • Tier 1 Base Card: WeaponMaster Initiate
    • Core Feature: Shatter the Limit
    • Requirements to Advance to Tier 2 (complete 3):
  • Tier 1 Feature Cards
    • Read the Land
    • Recognized Authority
• Spells
  • Spell Tags
  • Action Cost
  • Casting Mechanics
  • Cantrips and Free Spells
  • Upcasting
  • Domain Specific Rules
• Arcane Spells
  • ⚡ Bolt
  • ✨ Magic Missile
• Divine Spells
  • Blessing of Life
  • Blessing of Healing
  • Divine Strike
  • Blessed Ward
• Nature Spells
  • Snapping Vine
  • Herbal Healing
  • Vine Overgrowth
  • Thorny Overgrowth
• Resting
  • Quick Rest
  • Full Rest
  • Milestone Rest
  • Rest Summary
  • Optional Notes
• Character Progression
  • Domain Upgrades
    • Action Point Bonus
• 🧬 Character Creation
  • 🧝 Species
  • 🏋️ Body Type
  • 🧠 Attributes
  • 🧭 Domains
    • ✨ Spells
    • 🔍 Other Domain Features
  • 🧮 Core Stats and Aspects
  • At this point everything on your character sheet should be filled in except your damage thresholds.
  • 🎒 Starting Equipment
• Species
  • Species Features
    • Adaptable Nature 🟢
    • Amphibious 🟢
    • Aquatic Affinity 🔵
    • Breath Weapon 🔵
    • Climbing Adaptation 🟢
    • Construct Body 🔵
    • Dark Resilience 🔵
    • Enduring Focus 🟢
    • Fiendish Resistance 🟢
    • Flash Step 🔵
    • Giantkin Resilience 🟢
    • Graceful Movement 🟢
    • Hidden Step 🔵
    • Hypnotic Gaze 🔴
    • Infernal Legacy 🔵
    • Innate Magic 🔵
    • Integrated Plating 🔵
    • Keen Eyesight 🟢
    • Keen Senses 🟢
    • Lucky Footing 🟢
    • Martial Instinct 🟢
    • Nature Affinity 🟢
    • Natural Weapons 🟢
    • Necrotic Affinity 🟢
    • Powerful Build 🟢
    • Scaled Resilience 🟢
    • Serpentine Resilience 🔵
    • Small Frame 🟢
    • Stoneborn Toughness 🟢
    • Survival Instincts 🔵
    • Swift Stride 🔵
    • Unliving Form 🔵
    • Wings 🔴
  • Feature Design Principles
• Body Types
  • What Body Type Affects
  • Sample Body Types
  • Mechanical Simplicity
  • Species vs. Body Type
• Equipment
• Weapons
  • Meta: How Weapons Work
  • Weapon Properties
    • Action Cost
    • Aspect
    • Melee vs. Ranged
    • Ammunition
    • Two-Handed
    • Special
  • Weapon List
    • Battleaxe
    • Bow
    • Crossbow
    • Dagger
    • Dane Axe
    • Dart
    • Mace
    • Sling
    • Spear
    • Staff
    • Sword
    • Warhammer
• Armor
  • Shield
  • Padded / Gambeson / Vápntreyja
  • Leather
  • Chainmail / Brynja
  • Full Plate (Optional – High-tier or rare)
• Tools
• Adventuring Gear
• Conditions
  • Exhaustion
  • Prone
  • Restrained
• Magic Items
• Customizing Options and Rules
• Appendix A: Recipes
  • Species Recipes
    • Aarakocra / Owlin
    • Bugbear
    • Centaur
    • Dhampir / Vampire Spawn
    • Dragonborn
    • Dwarf
    • Elf
    • Fairy
    • Firbolg
    • Goliath
    • Gnome
    • Goblin
    • Halfling
    • Harengon (Rabbit folk)
    • Hobgoblin
    • Human
    • Kobold
    • Lizardfolk
    • Orc
    • Satyr
    • Tabaxi (cat people)
    • Tiefling
    • Tortle
    • Triton
    • Undead / Reborn
    • Warforged
    • Yuan-Ti
  • Class Recipes
    • Artificer (5e)
    • Barbarian (5e)
    • Bard (5e)
    • Blood Hunter (5e)
    • Cleric (5e)
    • Druid (5e)
    • Fighter (5e)
    • Monk (5e)
    • Paladin (5e)
    • Ranger - Magical (5e)
    • Ranger - non-Magical (5e)
    • Rogue (5e)
    • Sorcerer (5e)
    • Warlock (5e)
    • Wizard (5e)