Qualities

QUALITIES provide a PLAYER to more narrowly define the capabilities of their CHARACTERS within the BODY, MIND, and SPIRIT ASPECTS. Those narrow capabilities also provide PLAYERS with a way to improve their CHALLENGE and SAVE rolls during gameplay.

WHAT DO QUALITIES DO FOR MY CHARACTER?

Aside from providing a rough guideline as to how capable a CHARACTER, QUALITIES provide MODIFIERS which allow a PLAYER to TWEAK their CHALLENGE or SAVE results after they’ve been rolled. Understanding what they are and how to use them is key to advanced play.

The ASPECTS of BODY, MIND, and SPIRIT each have three QUALITIES, and those qualities each represent the character’s specific ability to exert POWER, PRECISION, and PERSEVERANCE within each ASPECT. Those qualities are defined below, and related to each ASPECT:

QUALITIES AND THEIR ASPECTS
ASPECT POWER PRECISION PERSEVERANCE
REPRESENTS “How Forcefully” “How Accurately” “How Long”
BODY Strength Agility Endurance
MIND Knowledge Wisdom Devotion
SPIRIT Presence Intuition Faith
HOW DO I ASSIGN VALUES TO MY QUALITIES?

To assign values to your Character’s QUALITIES, you distribute all of the points in an ASPECT POOL amongst that ASPECT’s QUALITIES, with the following guidelines:

  • The value of a QUALITY can range anywhere from 0 to the full value of its related ASPECT.
  • The sum of an ASPECT’s QUALITIES must equal the full value of the ASPECT itself.

The higher the value of a QUALITY, the higher its MODIFIER will be. MODIFIERS are used when resolving CHALLENGES and SAVES, so QUALITIES with higher values are likely to make the CHARACTER more successful when using them.

HOW DO QUALITIES INFLUENCE MY CHARACTERS' ABILITIES?

The value of a QUALITY determines its MODIFIER, and that MODIFIER can be applied to any one die rolled during a CHALLENGE or SAVE. The table below determines how the MODIFIER is determined:

QUALITY RANGE ABILITY MODIFIER DESCRIPTION
0 -2 Debilitated: difficulty doing even common tasks
1 -1 Weak: inconsistent results for everyday tasks
2 - 3 0 Normal: the average individual
4 - 5 +1 Competent: above average, professional
6 - 8 +2 Gifted: notable ability
9 - 11 +3 Strong: a natural talent, consistently effective
12- 15 +4 Mighty: powerful talent and natural affinity
16- 19 +5 Heroic: regularly capable of impressive feats
20- 24 +6 Legendary: only one in a generation is so talented
25- 29 +7 Paragon: the apex of natural ability, embodied
30+ +8 Supernatural: even the Immortals take notice of your talents
PEET ASSIGNS HIS QUALITIES

Brett’s character, Sneeky Peet, has a BODY Aspect of 9, which he rolled earlier. Now he needs to divide those 9 points into the Body’s aspect’s three qualities: Strength, Agility, and Endurance.

BODY has three Qualities:

  • STRENGTH, indicating Bodily Power,
  • AGILITY, indicating Bodily Precision, and
  • ENDURANCE, indicating Bodily Perseverance.

Brett decides that Sneeky Peet isn’t very strong, but he’s very agile, and he doesn’t get winded too easily, so he assigns his 9 BODY Aspect points accordingly:

ASPECT
LEFT		 QUALITY POINTS
ASSIGNED		 MODIFIER
9 STRENGTH 1 -1
8 AGILITY 5 +1
3 ENDURANCE 3 0

Brett will repeat this process for Peet’s MIND and SPIRIT Qualities.