World Interaction

Here you can find all sorts of rules on how your characters can interact with their environment and the world that they occupy.

Rest

Your characters will need to rest and recharge eventually after a day full of adventure and conflict. They have a couple of options to do so.

A full rest takes ten hours, eight of which have to be spent sleeping. It restores all of your character’s Vitality and Willpower and half of their Narrative Momentum. Any Temporary Vitality that they might have is reset to 0. Your character can only take one full rest within 24 hours.

A half rest takes only five hours, four of which have to be spent sleeping. A half rest grants the same benefits as a full rest but can only be used once after a full rest before it stops having any effect. It only restores half of your character’s Vitality and Willpower and no Narrative Momentum. Having two half rests within 24 hours makes them count as a full rest.

A short rest is a half-hour break of light activity. It restores half of your character’s Vitality and Willpower. Any Temporary Vitality that they might have is reset to 0. Your character can only take one short rest after a full or half rest.

Resting in a resting place grants additional benefits when taking a full rest. See Buildings for more information.

Objects

Objects are almost anything that is not a creature or item. They can be anything from a chair or a box to a wall or the ground. Most objects do not do much on their own but they can be targeted by Abilities and attacks. They can also be destroyed. This opens up new tactical options, like making the ceiling of a room collapse on your enemies or making your own “door” by blasting a hole in the wall.

Objects have their own Vitality and Armor depending on their material. Those values can change depending on your setting and how powerful a normal character is. You can feel free to adjust them how you like so that they fit your game world. You can find examples you can use as guidelines on how strong materials should be in the following table.

Material	Vitality*	Armor*	Vitality**	Armor**	Vitality***	Armor***	Usual Properties
Crystal/Glass	40	0	20	0	80	0	Splintering
Energy	100	0	50	0	200	0	Regeneration
Ice	30	4	15	2	60	8	Splintering
Metal	50	10	25	5	100	20	Conductive
Organic/Earth	30	0	15	0	60	0	Flammable
Plastic	30	2	15	1	60	4	Flammable
Stone	50	8	25	4	100	16
Wood	30	4	15	2	60	8	Flammable

Objects fail all DRs and Skill Checks, and all attacks that target them automatically hit. Objects have an Initiative of 0. Objects have resistance against non-area-of-effect ranged weapon attacks and vulnerability against area-of-effect weapon attacks.

Objects can have the following properties.

• Hardened: Its Vitality and Armor are twice as high.
• Soft: Its Vitality and Armor are halved.
• Indestructible: It can only be damaged by very few means and has enough durability to survive something like an atomic bomb without any real damage.
• Hollow: Its Vitality is halved.
• Regeneration: It regains half of its Vitality at the end of each round
• Flammable: It catches fire if damaged through Heat or Shock damage, which gives it the Burning Status Effect. When the Burning damages it, it also damages any creature or object within 1 m of it by the same amount.
• Explosive: This object explodes if damaged through Heat or Shock damage. When it explodes, every creature and object within 2 m has to make a Constitution DR against 14. On a failure, they take 20 Heat damage (GM can adjust this damage). On a success, they take only half as much damage.
• Conductive: Every creature and object within 1 m of this object must make a Constitution DR against 14 when this object is hit by Shock damage. On a failure, they receive half of the Shock damage. Other conductive objects do not trigger this property if they receive this Shock damage.
• Freeze Burst: This object is vulnerable to Cold damage. It explodes if destroyed by Cold damage. When it explodes, every creature and object within 2 m has to make a Constitution DR against 14. On a failure, they take 30 Cold damage (GM can adjust this damage). On a success, they take only half as much damage.
• Splintering: It bursts into splinters if it is destroyed by Physical damage. When it splinters, every creature and object within 1 m has to make a Constitution DR against 14. On a failure, they take 10 Physical damage (GM can adjust this damage). On a success, they take only half as much damage.

Objects react differently to different types of damage. Here you can see their vulnerabilities, resistances, and immunities.

Material	Physical	Holy	Curse	Spirit	Heat	Chemical	Shock	Cold	Poison	Psychic	Reality
Crystal/Glass	Vulnerable				Vulnerable	Resistant		Resistant	Immune	Immune
Energy					Resistant	Immune	Vulnerable	Resistant	Immune	Immune
Ice					Vulnerable			Immune	Immune	Immune
Metal	Resistant				Resistant	Resistant	Immune		Immune	Immune
Organic/Earth						Vulnerable			Immune	Immune
Plastic					Vulnerable				Immune	Immune
Stone	Resistant				Resistant	Resistant	Resistant	Vulnerable	Immune	Immune
Wood					Vulnerable	Vulnerable	Resistant	Resistant	Immune	Immune

Movement

Any creature with at least one free hand can attempt to climb most surfaces. Their effective movement is halved while they do so. The GM can force a creature to make an Athletics or Nimbleness Check if they think the surface is hard to climb. On a failure, the creature cannot climb it. The GM can also decide that something is impossible to climb.

Any creature can normally swim. Their effective movement is halved while they do so. The GM can force a creature to make an Athletics check if they think that it would be difficult to swim, like if they were wearing heavy armor or they are swimming through rough waters. On a failure, they start sinking.

Any creature can jump up to 3 m + their Strength Bonus wide if they have a running start of 3 m and half as much if they do not. Their jump height is equal to a fifth of their jumping distance if they have a running start of at least 3 m and half as much if they do not. A creature that tries to jump further or higher than their Strength Stat allows has to make an Athletics or Nimbleness Check. The GM can freely adjust the standard jumping distance and height to make them fit the setting. A creature uses up their movement while jumping through the air as if they were moving normally. However, if they are still in the air when they are jumping and run out of movement, they still finish their jump, gaining negative movement equal to the distance that they moved. Negative movement carries over to your next turn, unlike positive movement. You can only jump if you have at least 1 m of movement left.

Strength Stat	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
Jump distance (with 3m running start)	0 m	1 m	2 m	3 m	4 m	5 m	6 m	7 m	8 m	9 m	10 m
Jump distance (without running start)	0 m	0,5 m	1 m	1,5 m	2 m	2,5 m	3 m	3,5 m	4 m	4,5 m	5 m
Jump height (with 3m running start)	0 m	0,2 m	0,4 m	0,6 m	0,8 m	1 m	1,2 m	1,4 m	1,6 m	1,8 m	2 m
Jump height (without running start)	0 m	0,1 m	0,2 m	0,3 m	0,4 m	0,5 m	0,6 m	0,7 m	0,8 m	0,9 m	1 m

Falling

If a creature falls more than 3 m, they receive fall damage. For every 3 m, they receive 1d6 Physical damage. The damage increases to a d10 for every 3 m if the creature is of the size category Big + or bigger. The damage is reduced to a 1d4 for every 3 m if they are of the size category Small. The creature does not receive any fall damage if they are of the size category Small – or smaller.

If a creature falls 30m or more, half the number of dice and replace them with dice that are twice as big. Add the new dice size every 6 m to the fall damage until you reach 60 m. Fall damage does not increase beyond 60 m.

Fall Distance

3 m

6 m

9 m

12 m

15 m

18 m

21 m

24 m

27 m

30 m

36 m

42 m

48 m

54 m

60 m

Small – and smaller

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Small

1d4

2d4

3d4

4d4

5d4

6d4

7d4

8d4

9d4

5d8

6d8

7d8

8d8

9d8

10d8

Medium, Big

1d6

2d6

3d6

4d6

5d6

6d6

7d6

8d6

9d6

5d12

6d12

7d12

8d12

9d12

10d12

Big + and bigger

1d10

2d10

3d10

4d10

5d10

6d10

7d10

8d10

9d10

5d20

6d20

7d20

8d20

9d20

10d20

If a creature or object falls on another creature or object the other creature or object also receives the fall damage. They can, however, decide to make either a Dexterity or Strength DR against 15. The DR is made with disadvantage if the falling creature or object is of a bigger size category than the creature they are falling onto. It is made with advantage if the falling creature or object is of a smaller size category. On a successful Dexterity DR, they can move to a free space next to where the creature or object fell and avoid the damage. On a successful Strength DR, they can catch the creature and prevent all fall damage to themselves and the falling creature or object and can either grab them, let them climb them, or put them in a free space next to them.

Exhaustion

The adventures of your character are rarely cozy. They sometimes have to push themselves beyond their limits. This may cause them to become exhausted. Some extreme situations can therefore cause them to gain levels of Exhaustion.

A creature gains 1 level of Exhaustion if 24 hours pass without having a half or full rest.

A creature gains 1 level of Exhaustion if 24 hours pass without them eating enough. Most creatures only need one full meal or one ration per day not to start gaining Exhaustion. The amount needed is doubled (multiplicative) for each size category above Medium and halved (multiplicative) for each size category below Medium.

A creature gains 1 level of Exhaustion if 24 hours pass without them drinking enough. The levels of Exhaustion they gain increase by 1 for each subsequent day that they do not drink anything. A medium creature needs about 1.5 liters or one full water container per day to prevent Exhaustion. The amount needed is doubled (multiplicity) for each size category above Medium and halved (multiplicity) for each size category below Medium.

A creature gains 1 level of Exhaustion if exposed to extreme hot or cold weather without proper protection for 1 hour if they fail an Endurance DR against 10. The DR increases by 1 for each passing hour they are exposed to the weather. Resistance and Immunity to Heat damage make a creature immune to the effects of extremely hot weather. The same is true for Cold damage and extremely cold weather.

A creature loses 2 levels of Exhaustion after a full rest on a day where they had enough to eat and drink.

A creature can hold their breath for 0,5 minutes times their Constitution Bonus + 1,5 minutes (minimum of 30 seconds total). After that time passed, they gain 2 levels of Exhaustion after each round that they cannot gain air. They lose the levels of Exhaustion that they gained this way if they can breathe for a full round.

The GM can adjust all of these numbers so that they fit better with the setting.

Light and Vision

Creatures can have different ways of experiencing and sensing their environment. Every creature has Normal Vision by default. Normal Vision is roughly equivalent to how most humans can see. It allows you to see within the normal light spectrum and worsens if it gets darker. Without light, it does not work.

There are other ways a creature can sense their environment. These alternative ways of perceiving are called Visions. Most Visions can be gained through Abilities and features.

Some Visions still work if you are blinded. Also, some Visions do not require a direct line of sight to work like Normal Vision. Here is a list of all Visions:

Name	Description	Requires direct line of sight	Affected by Blindness
Atomic Vision	You can see everything on an atomic scale.	Yes	Yes
Dimensional Vision	You can sense anomalies in the space-time continuum and pocket/parallel dimensions close to your current one.	Yes	No
Electromagnetic Vision	You can detect if something is emitting electromagnetic waves and what kind of waves they are.	No	No
Life Vision	You can sense the life force of biological creatures and roughly feel how strong their body and spirit are.	No	No
Night Vision	You can see in the dark but cannot see different colors if there is no bright light source.	Yes	Yes
Normal Vision	The default Vision that most creatures have. You can see the normal visible spectrum of light.	Yes	Yes
Omega Vision	You can sense the true form of every object and creature.	Yes	No
Psychic Vision	You can sense minds and psionic energy within range. The lesser the mind, the harder it is to detect.	No	No
Seismic Vision	You can sense anything that is touching the same solid object you are.	No	No
Smell Vision	Your sense of smell is so good that you can effectively “see” anything with a scent within range.	No	No
Sound Vision	You can detect any object or creature that makes a noise. You can also see silent objects or creatures if you emit a sound.	No	No
Supernatural Vision	You can detect supernatural energy and roughly identify what kind of energy it is.	No	No
Thermal Vision	You can detect heat signatures and minute differences in temperatures.	Yes	No
X-Ray Vision	You can see through objects and creatures.	No	Yes

Sometimes features and Abilities talk about a bright light source. This can be anything from a flashlight to the sun itself. Weaker light sources like a burning match or moonlight do not count as bright light sources.

Traveling

Your characters will probably have to do a lot of traveling. Here you can see suggested traveling times for different modes of transportation. Consider that difficult terrain like mountains and swamps might slow you down significantly or be unsuitable for specific vehicles and mounts.

Way of Travel	Per Hour	Per Day
On Foot (normal)	3-4 km	25-30 km
On Foot (stealthy)	2-3 km	20-25 km
Riding Slower Mount (donkey, camel, normal horse, …)	6-7 km	40-50 km
Riding Faster Mount (trained horse, …)	11-13 km	80-100 km
Car	80-120 km	800-1200 km
Sailing Boat	14-18 km	350-450 km

Scavenging for Food and Water

Your characters will not always be in a place where they can just buy their next meals. Sometimes they have to scavenge the land or go hungry.

A character can go searching for food in the wilderness. They have to make a Survival Check for every hour they spend searching. Depending on what environment they are in and the result of the Survival Check, they can find different quantities of water and food. This does not work if they are in an environment with nothing to eat or drink. In the following table, you can see how much they can find.

Survival Check result	Less than 3	3-6	7-9	10-12	12-15	More than 15
Lush (rainforest, hardwood forest, …)	0	1-2	3-4	5-6	7-8	9-10
Normal (grasslands, savanna, pine forest, …)	0	0	1-2	3-4	5-6	7-8
Desolate (desert, tundra, swamp, mountains, …)	0	0	0	1-2	3-4	5-6

The numbers represent enough water or food for one normal person. So if, for example, you rolled an 8 on the Survival Check in a normal environment, you would find either enough water for one person, enough food for one person, enough food and water for one person, enough food for two persons, or enough water for two persons. The GM decides what exactly you find.

Depending on the time of year, an environment can be more or less abundant with food. A pinewood forest could count as desolate in the winter, or a savanna could become lush during the rainy season.

Harvesting Material

Your characters can not only buy materials from merchants. The world is full of useful resources that can be harvested directly. Enemy weapons can be dismantled into parts; mighty beasts can be skinned for leather, and magical plants dot the lands waiting to be used for potions.

If you try to harvest materials, you will need to make a Skill Check. Different Skills can be used to harvest from different sources. Here is a List of suggestions on how you can use Skills, but the GM can add options that fit your setting.

Skill	Material Source
Computers	Anything that has digital or electrical components
Engineering	Weapons, Armor, Machine parts, Mining
Lockpicking	Dismantling Traps
Medicine	Medical or poisonous plants and substances, Body Parts
Natural Science	Anything that contains chemical substances, Experimental Tech, Power Sources
Raw Force	Mining
Supernatural	Magical Ingredients or Items
Survival	Plants, Creature Parts

How much material you can harvest depends on your environment or the average Tier of items that a creature has and its rank. The Tier of natural weapons, armor, and equipment is also taken into account. To salvage materials from a creature, you will require 10 minutes per creature. To salvage materials from the environment, you will require 1 hour. Here is a list of how many credits-worths of materials you get on average, depending on the Skill Check result (boss value is multiplied by their grade).

Source	Less than 4	5-8	9-12	13-16	More than 17
Tier 0 items (Minor, Normal, Elite, Boss)	0	(0, 10, 20, 30)	(10, 20, 30, 40)	(20, 30, 40, 50)	(30, 40, 50, 60)
Tier 1 items (Minor, Normal, Elite, Boss)	0	(50, 100, 200, 300)	(100, 150, 250, 350)	(150, 200, 300, 400)	(200, 300, 400, 500)
Tier 2 items (Minor, Normal, Elite, Boss)	0	(100, 200, 400, 600)	(200, 300, 500, 700)	(300, 400, 600, 800)	(400, 600, 800, 1000)
Tier 3 items (Minor, Normal, Elite, Boss)	0	(150, 300, 600, 800)	(300, 500, 800, 1000)	(450, 700, 1000, 1200)	(750, 1000, 1300, 1500)
Tier 4 items (Minor, Normal, Elite, Boss)	0	(200, 400, 800, 1200)	(400, 700, 1100, 1500)	(600, 1000, 1400, 1800)	(900, 1500, 1900, 2300)
Tier 5 items (Minor, Normal, Elite, Boss)	0	(250, 500, 1000, 1500)	(500, 900, 1400, 1900)	(750, 1300, 1800, 2300)	(1100, 1900, 2400, 2900)
Tier 6 items (Minor, Normal, Elite, Boss)	0	(300, 600, 1200, 1800)	(600, 1100, 1700, 2300)	(900, 1600, 2200, 2800)	(1500, 2500, 3100, 3700)
High Value (Enchanted Forest, High-Quality Mine, Alien Ship, …)	0	100	300	1000	3000
Medium Value (Forest, Mine, Volcanic area, Factory, …)	0	50	150	500	1500
Low Value (Grassland, Mountainside, Beach, Houses, …)	0	10	30	100	300

Diseases

Diseases are something that can always stick you and your allies. If you are exposed to infected materials or creatures or exposed to extreme conditions, the GM might rule that you have to make a Constitution DR. On a failure, you are infected with a disease. The symptoms might not imminently manifest, taking a few hours or days to surface.

Here are some examples of diseases that you might encounter.

Name	Effect
Cold	Make an Endurance Skill Check whenever you make a Skill Check, DR, or weapon attack or use an Ability (suggested value is 4). On a failure, you automatically fail the Skill Check, DR, or weapon attack or nullify the Ability that you used. Make an Endurance Skill Check every 24 hours (suggested value is 5). Taking it easy for the day grants you an advantage on those Endurance Skill Checks. If you succeed two times in a row, you are cured of the Cold.
Fever	You are constantly tainted while you have a fever. Make an Endurance Skill Check every 24 hours (suggested value is 7). Taking it easy for the day grants you an advantage on those Endurance Skill Checks. On a failure, you gain 1 level of Exhaustion. You are cured of the fever if you do not have any levels of Exhaustion for 24 hours after the first 24 pass.
Plague	Your maximum Vitality is reduced by 1d12 and by another 1d12 for every 24 hours that pass. You die if your Maximum Vitality drops to 0. Make an Endurance Skill Check after every 24 hours (suggested value 9). Taking it easy for the day grants you an advantage on those Endurance Skill Checks. If you succeed two times in a row, you will start to recover, gaining 1d12 to your maximum Vitality every 24 hours until you reach your normal maximum. Once you have reached your normal maximum Vitality, you are cured of the plague.

Buildings

Buildings are artificial constructs that offer a variety of benefits when used and cannot (usually) be moved. These can often be found in civilized areas, like cities, villages, space stations, etc. You can often rent them or pay for services that use those buildings.

Buildings can have four levels of quality, which are modest, normal, expensive, and luxurious. The higher the quality, the better the benefits it grants, but the more expensive it is to use or buy them.

You can find a list of all the buildings here, but here are two of the most important ones and how much it costs to rent them.

Resting places grant Temporary Vitality whenever you take a full rest in them. Hotels and Inns often rent out rooms that count as resting places. The price depends on the quality, but the GM can adjust them depending on the needs of the story. Modest quality costs 10 credits per night and restores 1d4 Temporary Vitality, normal costs 20 and restores 2d4, expensive costs 40 and restores 3d4, and luxurious costs 150 and restores 3d8.

	Modest	Normal	Expensive	Luxurious
Cost in Credits	10	20	40	150
Restored Temporary Vitality	1d4	2d4	3d4	3d8

Kitchens allow you to craft meals that restore Temporary Vitality once per rest depending on your Improvisation, Natural Science, or Super Natural Skill Level. Many places, like restaurants and taverns, offer such cooked meals that your characters can buy. Those meals not only satiate your nutritional needs but also provide a small boost for your adventures. As a GM, presume the following gains depending on the quality and how much such a meal costs (drinks not included).

	Modest	Normal	Expensive	Luxurious
Cost in Credits	2	5	15	50
Restored Temporary Vitality	1	3	6	16

Base Building

Sometimes, having a base is a tactical choice, or your characters want to have a place to call home. You could always buy such a place, but what if that is too expensive or there are no suitable buildings? In such a case, your character can build their own.

Building buildings works similarly to crafting items. You require materials and time to build them. The building time equals 1/50 of the material cost in hours. So a modest building station with a material cost of 500 Credits takes 500/50 = 10 hours to build. Multiple people can work on the same building, reducing the building time significantly. So four people working on that building station would reduce the building time to 2,5 hours.

Any feature that affects your general item crafting capabilities also affects you when building buildings. You can upgrade a building to a higher quality. You only need the difference in material cost and building time when doing so.

You require a minimum Skill Level in either Art, Engineering, History, Improvisation, Natural Science, or Supernatural to build buildings depending on the quality.

	Modest	Normal	Expensive	Luxurious
Skill Level	2	3	4	5

Examples of Prices

Sometimes your characters need or want to spend credits on something other than items and upgrades. Here you can find a list of prices that the GM can use to determine prices for all sorts of goods and services.

Goods and Services	Modest	Normal	Expensive	Luxurious
Art	20	100	1,000	10,000
Basic Tool/Equipment	25	50	100	300
Book	15	25	50	120
Clothes	25	50	200	1,000
Computer	200	400	1,000	3,000
Drink/Snack	1	2	5	25
Fortress/Base	200,000	400,000	2,000,000	50,000,000
Furniture	30	100	250	1,000
General Living costs (per day)	10	20	60	300
House/Villa	50,000	100,000	500,000	10,000,000
Jewelry	15	80	800	4,000
Lodging	10	20	40	150
Machine/Generator	200	500	1,200	4,000
Meal	2	5	15	50
Mount/Vehicle	500	1,000	3,000	20,000
Rent (per Month)	100	300	800	5,000
Sending Letter/Package	2	4	10	50
(Space-)Ship/Plane	5,000	10,000	25,000	200,000
Workshop/Lab	2,000	5,000	15,000	100,000

You might also want to hire people for different tasks. Here you can see examples of how much you normally pay a person for different jobs with different skill levels.

Hireling	per hour	per day	per month	per year
Untrained	4	32	832	9,984
Trained	12	96	2,496	29,952
Highly Trained	25	200	5,200	62,400
Master/Expert	50	400	10,400	124,800
Mercenary (Tier 1)	15	120	3,120	37,440
Mercenary (Tier 2)	35	280	7,280	87,360
Mercenary (Tier 3)	80	640	16,640	199,680
Mercenary (Tier 4)	180	1,440	37,440	449,280
Mercenary (Tier 5)	400	3,200	83,200	998,400

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