Dice Pool

Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones. Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

See Alea Iacta Est for more of a description

Assembling the Pool

Gain Heroic Dice from Skills (up to 3), Reputations (up to 1), and Advantage (up to 2).¹

Gain Perilous Dice based on how dangerous the action is.

Rolling the Pool

• Roll.
• Do you want to roll for Inspiration? If so, roll, evaluate if you get Turmoil here.
• Check Doom
• Apply Cut
• What’s the final highest die? 6 ⇒ Victory, 4-5 ⇒ Struggle, 1-3 ⇒ Disaster
  • And check for Madness if relevant.

Footnotes

1. There may be some variants, when working with Estates and the like, that swap out what you can apply instead of a Skill or Reputation. TBD ↩