Actions

• Overcome to surmount obstacles with your skills
• Create an advantage to change a situation to your benefit
• Attack to harm the enemy
• Defend to survive an attack, stop a foe from creating an advantage, or oppose an effort to overcome an obstacle

Overcome

• Fail: Failure or success at a major cost
• Tie: Success at a minor cost
• Succeed: Meet the goal and story progresses
• Succeed with Style: Success and a boost

Create an Advantage

When creating a new aspect:

• Fail: Either don’t create an aspect, or create it but the enemy gets a free invoke
• Tie: Gain a boost instead of an aspect
• Succeed: Create a situation aspect with one free invoke
• Succeed with Style: Create a situation aspect with two free invokes

When learning or using an existing aspect:

• Fail: The enemy gets a free invoke on a known aspect, or can choose to unveil it for a free invoke
• Tie: Gain a boost related to an unknown aspect, or gain a free invoke on a known aspect
• Succeed: Gain a free invoke, revealing the aspect if unknown
• Succeed with Style: Gain two free invokes, revealing the aspect if unknown

Attack

• Fail: The attack is parried, dodged, or defended against successfully
• Tie: The attack barely connects; gain a boost based on the attack
• Succeed: Deal a hit equal to the difference between attack and defense rolls
• Succeed with Style: Deal a hit like a success, and you may reduce the shifts by one to get a boost

Defend

• Fail: The attack succeeds; take a hit, absorbing with stress or consequences
• Tie: Same as tied trigger action
• Succeed: Don’t take a hit, or deny the enemy’s action
• Succeed with Style: Don’t take a hit, deny the enemy’s action, and gain a boost

Skills

• Fight and Shoot can be used to make physical attacks
• Athletics can be used to defend against any physical attack
• Fight can be used to defend against melee physical attacks
• Provoke can be used to make a mental attack
• Will can be used to defend against mental attacks

The Ladder

• +8 Legendary
• +7 Epic
• +6 Fantastic
• +5 Superb
• +4 Great
• +3 Good
• +2 Fair
• +1 Average
• +0 Mediocre
• -1 Poor
• -2 Terrible
• -3 Catastrophic
• -4 Horrifying

Stress Tracks

• Superb (+5) or higher: 6 boxes, second mild specific consequence slot
• Good (+3) or Great (+4): 6 boxes
• Average (+1) or Fair (+2): 4 boxes
• Mediocre (+0): 3 boxes

Teamwork

• Highest level skill rolls
• +1 for each participant with at least Average (+1) in skill (uses action)
• Maximum total bonus is equal to the highest skill rating

Challenges

• Complicated circumstances with no opposition
• Series of overcome actions that tackle a bigger issue
• Pick a number of skills that can contribute, around number of characters
• Results of actions progress the narrative in different directions

Contests

• Two or more sides are in direct opposition, but without conflict
• Sides declare their intent, what they hope to get out of the contest
• Series of exchanges: one overcome action, with any allies creating advantages
• After each exchange: highest effort marks a victory
• Success with style with no opposing: marks two victories
• First side to achieve goal victories (commonly three) is the victor
• Tie for highest effort: no victories marked, and an unexpected twist occurs
• Failure to create an advantage: forfeits the overcome roll, or give the other side a free invoke instead