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• 00:30, 5 April 2024 Zadammac talk contribs created page Sponge (skill) (Created page with "{{Stock Skill}} {{Stub}} '''Sponge''' is a Stock Skill built into the Tarnished Tale rules itself. If using the default Combat rules or the Variant: Tactical Grid Combat rules, Sponge is one of the skills used to respond to Attacks. A successful sponge check is required to take advantage of the '''Damage Reduction (DR)''' property of a piece of armour when worn. Certain armour items may require you to have a minimum sponge score in order...")
• 00:24, 5 April 2024 Zadammac talk contribs created page Initiative (Skill) (Created page with "{{Stock Skill}} {{Stub}} '''Initiative''' is a Stock Skill built into the Tarnished Tale rules itself. If using the default Combat rules or the Variant: Tactical Grid Combat rules, Initiative is used to resolve character turn order, and in the Tactical Grid System is used to test if a character can make an Attack of Opportunity. Initiative has other uses wherever it is necessary to determine which of two players can act first if all other elements in a situ...")
• 00:16, 5 April 2024 Zadammac talk contribs created page Dodge (Skill) (Created page with "{{Stock Skill}} {{Stub}} '''Dodge''' is a Stock Skill built into the Tarnished Tale rules itself. If using the default Combat rules or the Variant: Tactical Grid Combat rules, Dodge is one of the skills used to respond to Attacks. It can also be called for to resolve situations such as traps or other hazards where a test is needed to determine if a character can remove itself from danger immediately. '''Use Untrained''': Yes '''Base Sc...")
• 00:14, 5 April 2024 Zadammac talk contribs created page Block (skill) (Created page with "{{Stock Skill}} {{Stub}} '''Block''' is a Stock Skill built into the Tarnished Tale rules itself. If using the default Combat rules or the Variant: Tactical Grid Combat rules, Block is one of the skills used to respond to Attacks. '''Use Untrained''': Yes '''Base Score''': Agility Score (not Agility Check) * 1.5 (Rounding Up) '''Maximum Score''': 99 In its stock variety, the block skill confers no Traits. However, your setting may ha...")
• 15:27, 20 October 2023 Zadammac talk contribs created page Attacking (Created page with "{{Work in Progress}} Whether using the ordinary combat rules or the Variant: Tactical Combat rules, resolving attacks is done in more or less the same way (tactical combat does add some complexity in terms of computing boons and banes). Attacking is fundamentally a skill contest between an Attacking character and one or more defending characters. == Step 1. Declare an Attack == A character who wishes to attack does one three things: * Attacks, using these rule...")
• 20:04, 19 October 2023 Zadammac talk contribs created page Variant: Tactical Combat (Created page with "{{Work In Progress}} The '''Tactical Combat''' Variant Ruleset upgrades the combat system from being largely narrative-driven to using a visual map-and-tokens system to represent player characters and other entities in the space of the world. This allows for a more granular and complex style of combat, which is highly desirable in games where combat is a primary focus. Tactical combat uses the same action rules as regular combat, as well as familiar concept...")
• 13:17, 27 July 2023 Zadammac talk contribs created page Accessibility (Created page with "{{Stub}} '''Accessibility''' is an important concept in the design of Tarnished Tale as an RPG engine. This goes beyond the usual understanding of accessibility as being "features which make something useable by persons with disabilities", and into the deeper core of making the game as broadly playable as possible. In general we have the following principles as a result: * No gameplay rule should require a player to have a specific physical or mental ability. Care shou...")
• 13:08, 27 July 2023 Zadammac talk contribs created page Howl Basin (Created page with "#REDIRECT [https://howl-basin.zadammac.ca]")
• 13:05, 27 July 2023 Zadammac talk contribs created page Combat (Created page with "{{Work In Progress}} '''Combat''' is a core mechanic in many roleplaying games. Depending on your setting and the sort of gameplay your group prefers, you may wind up in combat during the run of a Tarnished Tale adventure, as well. Like much the rest of the rule set, Combat is modular and subject to modification. You are encouraged to discuss which rules for combat you will use (and possibly, if using multiple styles, when you will use them) with your play group, b...")
• 12:10, 27 July 2023 Zadammac talk contribs created page Settings (Created page with "Category: Glossary A '''setting''' is the full worldbuilding treatment used by a group that is playing Tarnished Tale. Settings may be obtained from public or commercial sources, or even designed from whole cloth by the play group, and can be modified as suits the needs of the group in accordance with Rule Zero. The primary setting designed around Tarnished Tale and used as its play-testing testbed is the Furry Alt-Western Setting called "Howl Basin". Work...")
• 12:07, 27 July 2023 Zadammac talk contribs created page Aptitudes (Created page with "'''Aptitudes''' are a score all characters have in the Tarnished Tale system. They represent the realized potential a character had in seven areas of capability at the time of character creation. The Aptitudes a character possessed remain available as "brute skills" and inform various other properties the character has. The Seven Aptitudes are, briefly: * Strength, representing raw physical strength; * Agility, representing finesse and fine motor control; *...")
• 14:59, 26 July 2023 Zadammac talk contribs created page Rule Zero (Created page with "The central point of the Tarnished Tale RPG system, or its "Rule Zero", can be stated as the following: <blockquote>The purpose of the game is for the players to work toogether to have the most fun possible, as they collectively define it.</blockquote> This is intended to emphasize a variety of salient and important parts about TTRPG play in general, namely that: * No one player (including the Facilitator, is "in charge" of a session, episode, chapter, or campaign;...")
• 19:52, 6 March 2023 Zadammac talk contribs created page Character generation (Created page with "'''Character Creation''' is a Player's step-one for participating in Tarnished Tale, whether the group is doing a one-shot adventure or a longer series of scenarios strung together into a coherent campaign. This page describes the full character creation process, which is suitable for the creation of Player Characters and major NPCs. For minor NPCs, it is likely better to use an abbreviated creation process or work from existing characters as much as humanly possible. [...")
• 19:39, 6 March 2023 Zadammac talk contribs created page Character (Redirected page to Characters) Tag: New redirect
• 18:23, 6 March 2023 Zadammac talk contribs created page Abilities (Created page with "{{Glossary}} '''Abilities''' are effectively traits that grant players special actions. A perfect example of these are the spells obtained through Magic Skills. Unlike ordinary traits, Abilities are usually obtained through a special mechanic rather than simply being taken one at a time through landmark advancement. It's up to the setting developer to include a description of how to obtain the ability in the ability description.")
• 18:20, 6 March 2023 Zadammac talk contribs created page Landmark advancement (Created page with "'''Landmark Advancement''' is the process by which a character advances in their capabilities through means other than simple growth of skills. This is largely reflected in the growth of other Pools such as Hit Points. == When to do Advancement == Landmark advancement is meant to take place during major intermissions in the narrative of an ongoing campaign. It's not appropriate for use in single-shot play session, but instead should be handled between scenar...")
• 17:36, 6 March 2023 Zadammac talk contribs created page Facilitators (Redirected page to Facilitator) Tag: New redirect
• 17:34, 6 March 2023 Zadammac talk contribs created page Skill advancement (Redirected page to Skills#Skill Advancement) Tag: New redirect
• 17:27, 6 March 2023 Zadammac talk contribs created page Skills (Created page with "'''Skills''' are the primary mechanical representation of specific character capabilities. In a sense, almost every element of the game can be expressed either as a Skill-based operation or by way of analogy to such things. The most common of these mechanics are ''skill checks''. A skill is essentially a score on your character sheet that expresses your degree of competency at a certain subset of knowledge or expertise; the higher the number, the better at that capabili...")
• 15:02, 6 March 2023 Zadammac talk contribs created page Magic (Redirected page to Systems of Magic) Tag: New redirect
• 20:21, 28 February 2023 Zadammac talk contribs created page Pool (Redirected page to Pools) Tag: New redirect
• 20:05, 28 February 2023 Zadammac talk contribs created page Hit Points (Created page with "category: glossary '''Hit Points''' (variant: hitpoints, HP) are a Pool derived from Endurance which are essential to characters in Tarnished Tale. Your pool of hitpoints, specifically the relation between your '''Current HP''' and your '''Max HP''', is the gameplay-mechanical representation of your current liveliness and available capacity to take additional physical punishment (thus HP's basis in Endurance). The rules below describe '''Standard Hit P...")
• 18:59, 27 February 2023 Zadammac talk contribs created page Checks (Redirected page to Skill Check) Tag: New redirect
• 18:35, 27 February 2023 Zadammac talk contribs created page Pools (Created page with "{{Stub}} Category: Pools '''Pools''' are a type of derived statistic associated with characters, based on Aptitudes the character has (and, in some cases, further modified). Pools serve XXX major roles in the game: * Giving a numerical value for the character's player to manage that represents their limits, especially in the form of Hit Points, and; * Giving setting designers a means to modify the game engine easily for use with their setting (a role...")
• 18:19, 27 February 2023 Zadammac talk contribs created page Willpower (Created page with "'''Willpower''' is one of the seven Aptitudes, the basic statistics that paint a character in the broadest possible brush strokes (from a mechanical perspective). As an aptitude, it is meant as a coarse representation of the character's capacity for intuitive or non-linear thinking - this is best contrasted against the other three "mental" aptitudes, Analysis (the capacity for applying hard logic and direct deduction) and Presence (their capacity to direc...")
• 18:11, 27 February 2023 Zadammac talk contribs created page Intuition (Created page with "'''Analysis''' is one of the seven Aptitudes, the basic statistics that paint a character in the broadest possible brush strokes (from a mechanical perspective). As an aptitude, it is meant as a coarse representation of the character's capacity for intuitive or non-linear thinking - this is best contrasted against the other three "mental" aptitudes, Analysis (the capacity for applying hard logic and direct deduction) and Presence (their capacity to direct...")
• 17:43, 27 February 2023 Zadammac talk contribs created page Presence (Created page with "'''Analysis''' is one of the seven Aptitudes, the basic statistics that paint a character in the broadest possible brush strokes (from a mechanical perspective). As an aptitude, it is meant as a coarse representation of the character's capacity to exercise mental faculty toward social goals - this is best contrasted against the other three "mental" aptitudes, Intuition (the capacity for leaps of logic and non-linear deduction), Analysis (their capacity to...")
• 17:39, 27 February 2023 Zadammac talk contribs created page Analysis (Created page with "'''Analysis''' is one of the seven Aptitudes, the basic statistics that paint a character in the broadest possible brush strokes (from a mechanical perspective). As an aptitude, it is meant as a coarse representation of the character's capacity for logical deduction and "linear" thought - this is best contrasted against the other three "mental" aptitudes, Intuition (the capacity for leaps of logic and non-linear deduction) and Presence (their capacity to...")
• 19:03, 15 February 2023 Zadammac talk contribs created page Hardiness (Created page with "'''Hardiness''' is one of the seven Aptitudes, the basic statistics that paint a character in the broadest possible brush strokes (from a mechanical perspective). As an aptitude, it is meant as a coarse representation of the character's capacity to sustain physical effort - this is best contrasted against the other two "physical" aptitudes, Agility (their capacity to direct that effort with finesse) and Strength (their capacity for peak physical effort)....")
• 18:57, 15 February 2023 Zadammac talk contribs created page Agility (Created page with "'''Agility''' is one of the seven Aptitudes, the basic statistics that paint a character in the broadest possible brush strokes (from a mechanical perspective). As an aptitude, it is meant as a coarse representation of the character's capacity to direct their physical efforts precisely - this is best contrasted against the other two "physical" aptitudes, Strength (their capacity for peak physical effort) and Hardiness (their capacity to sustain that effor...")
• 18:53, 15 February 2023 Zadammac talk contribs created page Strength (Created page with "'''Strength''' is one of the seven Aptitudes, the basic statistics that paint a character in the broadest possible brush strokes (from a mechanical perspective). As an aptitude, it is meant as a coarse representation of the character's capacity to apply physical effort - this is best contrasted against the other two "physical" aptitudes, Agility (their capacity to direct that effort with finesse) and Hardiness (their capacity to sustain that effort over t...")
• 20:42, 4 February 2023 Zadammac talk contribs created page Connections (Created page with "{{Stub}} category: glossary '''Connections''' are effectively a special subset skill with a highly temporary score that represent a character's overall reputation with a particular faction, whether that's a given family, a professional organization, a bandit clan, an entire nation - the variety is limited only to the imagination of the Facilitator and the setting developers. Connections are present to allow the Facilitator to handwave certain social interaction...")
• 19:45, 4 February 2023 Zadammac talk contribs created page Occupations (Created page with "A character's '''Occupation''' is how they earn their living. For NPCs its probably a good description of their day to day life, but for many player characters its a toss up as to whether or not they actually still practice their profession. Occupation is the main mutable statistic outside of skills themselves for this very reason. A character's occupation specified during character generation has an enormous impact on their starting wealth and their skills...")
• 19:29, 4 February 2023 Zadammac talk contribs created page Skill points (Created page with "{{stub}} category: glossary A '''skill point''' is a point from a pool of such points created during character generation which the player can spend to raise their skill scores above their base values, at a cost of one skill point per point of score. There are certain rules to how these can be spent; see the character generation rules for details. Skill points not spent during character creation are lost. Skills are not advanced this way after character cre...")
• 19:22, 4 February 2023 Zadammac talk contribs created page Background (Created page with "'''Backgrounds''' are character properties chosen during character creation that describe the origins and early life of the character, and offer a mechanical adjustment of their initial starting conditions based on what would be appropriate for their origin. They are one of three key pieces of biographical information that have a direct mechanical impact, the other two being heritage(if used by the setting) and occupation. A character's background is i...")
• 19:12, 4 February 2023 Zadammac talk contribs created page Traits (Created page with "'''Traits''' are special properties of characters that modify their existing statistics or grant them wholly new abilities, usually on the basis of a character meeting certain prerequisites to use them. The most common sort of traits are heritage traits (in settings that use heritages), which are taken during character generation. Characters continue to accumulate traits as part of landmark advancement at a set rate, usually one new trait per level. == T...")
• 14:20, 4 February 2023 Zadammac talk contribs created page Immutable (Created page with "{{stub}}category: glossary A character property is said to be '''immutable''' when normal gameplay mechanics cannot change it. This is chiefly true of heritage and background, but may apply to other traits as they are acquired.")
• 18:56, 3 February 2023 Zadammac talk contribs created page Heritage (Created page with "Category: Glossary Category: Setting Developer Tools A '''Heritage''' is a character property describing, essentially, the accidents of their birth. It is one of several portions of the Tarnished Tale ruleset that are optional for setting designers, existing as a mechanism of convenience to provide for a way to model different lineages into the game. A fantasy setting like Wisteria, for example, may include the usual fantasy peoples such as Elves, Dwarves, G...")
• 17:44, 3 February 2023 Zadammac talk contribs created page Template:Stub (Created page with "'''This article is a stub.'''")
• 17:43, 3 February 2023 Zadammac talk contribs created page Facilitator (Created page with "{{Stub}} In Tarnished Tale, the '''Facilitator''' is the player who acts as the primary storyteller. They have access to the behind-the-scenes details of the current adventure and fill the role of all Non-Player Characters needed, including the environment itself. They may also be the adventure or setting developer. The term Facilitator is preferred over similar terms used in other game engines (such as ''gamemaster'', ''keeper'', etc) for two primary reasons: * The te...")
• 16:11, 2 February 2023 Zadammac talk contribs created page Characters (Created page with "A '''character''' in Tarnished Tale is essentially any entity capable of taking action directly in the world. Very broadly, this can be further subdivided into '''Player Characters''' (PCs) controlled by individual players or '''Non-Player Characters''' (NPCs) controlled by the Facilitator. While the character rules are the most heavily altered by the application of a setting, in general, they'll be the same for any Tarnished Tale system game, and they're going to be...")