When you move in a potentially dangerous way, such as climbing a wall, swimming to shore, running over rough terrain, or leaping a chasm, make a terrain check. 

If you roll an unmarked slot with a light item (or no item), you succeed in moving unharmed to where you intended, but mark the slot.

If you roll a slot which is marked or contains a heavy item, you fall, stumble, sink or otherwise struggle with the movement. You fail to reach your destination and the judge can decide if your fall prone, take a wound, of suffer another consequence.

Falling

When a character falls or an item the weight of a human falls on a character, for each 10ft fallen, roll and inventory check and take a wound in the rolled slot if it is a body slot.

When you try to actively avoid being noticed, such as when sneaking up behind a distracted guard, stealthily moving while behind cover, or picking a pocket, make an inventory check.

The criteria for success depend on the senses of the creatures trying to notice you.

Sound

Most of the time creatures can hear you trying to sneak. The main exceptions are those with deafness, magical silence, or certain monsters without hearing. To succeed against a hearing creature, you must roll an item that is not noisy. If your vicinity is already ambiently noisy, you should receive advantage.

Items are considered noisy if they make substantial sound from being moved, like a tambourine or a chainmail shirt. Rigid items (metal, glass, or stone) that are bundled together or stored in adjacent slots count as noisy due to clanking together. 

Scent

While most creatures have some form of smelling, it is not usually developed enough to quickly and accurately determine the source of scent. However, many animals (like dogs) and other beasts have more refined senses of smell. To succeed against such a creature, you must roll and item that is not smelly.

Sight

Most creatures that see will simply see you if you are not behind cover or in total darkness. You generally cannot go unseen while in plain sight, but you might smuggle a weapon past some guards without being noticed specifically or disguise a goblin as a child. You likely would have advantage on this save in low lighting conditions.

Smuggling Items: As long as the item fits in your inventory and is covered, it will go unseen unless the save rolls the particular slot or slots it occupies, 

Disguising People: Tell the judge how you disguised the person. If, in the judge’s opinion, the location rolled looks the same on the two creatures (either inherently or given the disguise), the save is passed.

Taste

This isn’t going to come up and if it does, it would be weird.

Other Senses

Some creatures have other senses, such as tremorsense, echolocation, infravision, or aurasensitivity and will need the judge to adapt the success criteria to fit them.

When you are attacked, decide if you want to try evading, parrying, or neither. Then, roll a defense check to see which slot is hit. 

Evading

Only blasts and grabs can be evaded and you cannot evade if you are restrained, immobilized, or unconscious. When you evade, if the item rolled in your defense check is not heavy, you succeed in evading and avoid a wound. Otherwise, you fail and are hit in the slot rolled.

If you are out in the open and there is no cover available in your zone, you must fall prone in order to evade.

Blocking

When you are hit with an attack, you might still be protected by your items.

• If the item hit is heavy armor, a shield, or otherwise capable of protecting against the attack, you block the attack and take no wound.

• If the item hit is light armor,  a weapon in your grip, or contains an item capable of lessening the blow, you take a treated wound, (which does not cause the bleeding condition) in the slot hit.

• If the item is not armor and can't protect you, you take an open wound (which causes the bleeding condition) in the slot hit. The item in that slot might be broken or harmed as well.

• If the slot hit is and empty grip slot or a 12 is rolled on this check, the judge chooses which slot is hit.

Parrying

There are two ways an attack can end up being parried.

• Attacks that were blocked by a shield or melee weapon being wielded in a grip slot are automatically considered parried. 

• If a body slot (1-5) is hit with a melee attack, and you are wielding a melee weapon or shield that could block the attack, roll 1d6 for a weapon or 2d6 for a shield. If a slot rolled is the slot hit, you parry the attack and take no wound.

Counterattacking

If you parry a melee attack and you are wielding a melee weapon, you can counterattack your attacker. Otherwise, roll an inventory check to see where you are hit.

• Grabs include tackles, grapples, shoves, touch attacks, etc. They have a range of reach. They are evadable and can be parried or blocked by weapons.

• Melee attacks are any attack with a melee weapon. They have a range of reach. They are not evadable, but can be blocked by armor, shields, melee weapons, and cover. If a melee attack is parried, by an opponent with a melee weapon, they can counterattack.

• Missiles include thrown weapons or shot projectiles. Thrown weapons have a range of near while bows have a range of far. They are not evadable, but can be blocked by armor or shields. Missile attacks suffer from disadvantage unless you aim and don't move as setup that turn.

• Blasts include dragon's breath, explosions, splashes, etc. They vary in range. They are evadable, but can only be blocked by shields. Some blasts can hit multiple slots at once.

Weapons must be held. in the grips to be used.

• Small weapons can be held in 1 grip.

• Medium weapons can be held in 1 or 2 grips.

• Bulky weapons can only be wielded if 2 grips.

Dual Wielding

When wielding a small weapon and another weapon at the same time, if you have advantage on an attack, you may forgo the advantage to attack twice, once with each weapon. If both attacks are against the same target and would provoke counterattacks, they instead provoke only 1 counterattack.

When a character is choked, drowing, or otherwise unable to breath, mark the head slot with an "A". As long as the head slot is so marked, the character cannot breathe, speak, or cast spells.

Each round that the asphyxiation continues, the condition worsens. When all body slots (1-5 in humans) have been marked with asphixiation, the character falls unconscious. If you must mark a slot as asphyxiated, but cannot, your character dies.

Removing the source of the asphyxiation immediately removes all "A" marks.

Physical open wounds cause bleeding (external or internal). When you take an (open) wound, immediately mark it with a "B". For each open wound in your inventory, the bleeding worsens in combat on your turn /  while adventuring at the end of each try / while traveling at the end of each watch.

When bleeding worsens, you must mark an inventory slot that is of a lower number than the wound causing the bleeding. If you must mark a slot as bleeding, but cannot, your character dies.

Fiends, evil magics, and dark divinities can cause corruption, which then spreads. If corropted, mark the slot with a "C".  When exposed to additional corruption, make a check, if the slot rolled is corrupted, the corruption worsens. 

Slots with corruption become visibly deformed, grotesque, or otherwise corrupted. Corrupted body parts might begin to act on their own accord. If all body slots are marked as corrupted, you turn evil unless and until the corruption is removed.

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When characters are forced to march long distances, run for an extended period of time, carry heavy burdens, or otherwise overexert themselves, they take exhaustion, marking the appropriate slot with an 'E' or worsening previous exhaustion. 

If all slots are marked with exhaustion, the character falls unconscious. If you must mark a slot with exhaustion, but cannot, the character dies.

When a character rests for 5 trys, they can remove 1 slot of exhaustion.

When the contents of a flammable slot are ignited, mark the slot with a 'F'. Each round, all slots containing flammable items that are adjacent to a slot marked with fire, also ignite. 

A slot that is on fire for 1 full round takes an treated wound and any flammable item in it is destroyed; if that slot is still aflame after another round passes, the slot becomes untreated. 

Rolling on the ground can put out some dry fires. When you devote a whole turn to rolling on the ground, roll 3d12 and put out the fire in the slots rolled. Dousing with water or otherwise smothering the fire puts it out, removing the condition.

When a character is exposed to extreme cold, mark the foot or hand slot (4 or 5 in humans) with an 'H'. 

Each 5 trys that exposure to the cold continues (or 10 if propperly dressed), the condition worsens and the slot previously marked takes a treated wound (from frostbite). When all body slots (1-5 in humans) have been marked with hypothermia, the character falls unconscious. If you must mark a slot with hypothermia, but cannot, your character dies.

Warming the character removes one "H" mark per try, but does not undo the frostbite.

Malnourishment represents hunger, thirst, or a lack of nutrition. 

Characters that don't eat enough for a week, or don't drink enough for a day should mark a slot with an "M" beginning in the lowest torso slot (#3 for humans).

Each additional week without sufficient food or each day without sufficient drink worsens the condition. When malnourishment worsens, you must mark an inventory slot that is of a lower number each time. If you must mark a slot as malnourished, but cannot, your character dies.

See Toxins under Concoctions in the Loot page

For example, a large library in a wizard’s mansion might have 5 zones: “Bookshelves by the door”, “Hearth and chair”, “Bookshelves and statue on the opposite wall”, “Staircase to lower level”, “Lower level with table strewn with alchemy equipment”. The “door zone” and the “zone on the opposite wall” might be separated by, and each adjacent to, the “hearth” and “staircase” zones, but the “lower level zone” would only be adjacent to the staircase zone.

• If the party just explores a room quietly, thats 1 try and no particuarlly impacted senses. The judge rolls 1d10 and the party sees an encounter on a 0. [10% chance of encounter]

• If the party fights a combat, that takes about 1 try and probably effects 1 sense (sound of the battle). The judge would roll 1d10 and the party would see an encounter on a 0 or 1. [20% chance of encounter].

• If, in combat, someone throws a bomb, the explosion causes a loud sound, bright flash, smokey or sulfuric smell, and a shaking feeling in the dungeon (4 senses). The judge would roll 1d10 and the party would seen an encounter on a roll of 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4. [50% chance of encounter.]

• If the party rests for 30 min. just to catch their breath, thats 5 trys, so the judge would roll 5d10 and the partywould see an encounter on a roll of 0 on the d10 [40% chance of encounter]

• If the party rests and cooks a meal over a fire, that’s about 5 trys for the rest and 2 senses (smell of the food, sight of the light from the fire) for the cooking. The judge would roll 5d10 and the party would see an encounter on any roll of 0, 1, or 2 on the d10. [83% chance of encounter]. Camping out in a dungeon is a bad idea.

• Search a Room (1 try): Each character must specify exactly what they inspect.  Be careful not to trigger any traps! To search simultaneously, each character needs their own light source.

• Converse with an NPC (1+ trys): Includes negotiating, bargaining, recruiting, interviewing, interrogating, etc. Some conversations may longer at the judge’s discretion. 

• Picking a Lock (try): Most skills, like lockpicking, are assumed to take 1 try.

• Fight a Combat (1 try): See the combat section for details.

• 30 min Rest (5 trys): Relax, shoot the breeze, play a game, (but nothing too strenuous), or just catch your breath - unmark 1 slot of fatigue. If you eat food and water and have no untreated wounds, unmark 1 slot of bleeding as well.