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28 February 2023
- 20:0520:05, 28 February 2023 diff hist +2,973 N 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..."
27 February 2023
- 18:5918:59, 27 February 2023 diff hist +25 N Checks Redirected page to Skill Check current Tag: New redirect
- 18:3518:35, 27 February 2023 diff hist +1,899 N 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..." current
- 18:1918:19, 27 February 2023 diff hist +1,711 N 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..." current
- 18:1118:11, 27 February 2023 diff hist +1,669 N 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..." current
- 17:4317:43, 27 February 2023 diff hist +1,667 N 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..." current
- 17:3917:39, 27 February 2023 diff hist +1,573 N 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..." current
15 February 2023
- 19:0319:03, 15 February 2023 diff hist +1,683 N 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)...." current
- 18:5718:57, 15 February 2023 diff hist +1,522 N 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..." current
- 18:5318:53, 15 February 2023 diff hist +1,524 N 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..." current
4 February 2023
- 20:4220:42, 4 February 2023 diff hist +1,310 N 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..." current
- 19:4519:45, 4 February 2023 diff hist +4,420 N 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..." current
- 19:2919:29, 4 February 2023 diff hist +508 N 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..." current
- 19:2319:23, 4 February 2023 diff hist +3 Characters →Background current
- 19:2219:22, 4 February 2023 diff hist +2,711 N 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..." current
- 19:1219:12, 4 February 2023 diff hist +3,324 N 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..." current
- 14:2014:20, 4 February 2023 diff hist +240 N 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." current
3 February 2023
- 18:5618:56, 3 February 2023 diff hist +6,334 N 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..." current
- 17:4717:47, 3 February 2023 diff hist +14 Characters →Biographical Information
- 17:4517:45, 3 February 2023 diff hist +23 Facilitator No edit summary current
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- 17:4417:44, 3 February 2023 diff hist +29 N Template:Stub Created page with "'''This article is a stub.'''"
- 17:4317:43, 3 February 2023 diff hist +811 N 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..."
2 February 2023
- 16:1116:11, 2 February 2023 diff hist +8,168 N 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..."
- 15:3515:35, 2 February 2023 diff hist +236 Main Page No edit summary current