Guide: Rolls & Outcomes

Rolls & outcomes

Every action that can change the world calls for a roll.

The engine picks the right roll type for your verb or skill, then adds it all up:

result = die + stat modifier + skill bonuses + item bonuses − target defenses

Every roll uses a d100; only the bar it must clear changes. Combat must clear 100, everyday checks clear 50. The result lands in one of four bands: critical success, success, miss, or critical failure, and the narrator ties whichever band the dice picked back into the story.

Here's a trick most players never notice: every event card carries a roll badge, and it's clickable. Click it to see the die, every modifier on both sides, the threshold, and anything the action spent. Try three real ones:

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Roll breakdowns The real in-game roll UI: click a summary to expand it.

A landed blow (combat) A heavy melee hit clears the combat bar. Every attack (fist, blade, or spell) must beat 100.

Physical Attack Melee Success

A check that fails (non-combat) A foraging attempt falls short of the easier, non-combat bar of 50, and the node’s level makes it harder.

Skill Check Survival Failure

A costly spell (resource-heavy) A magical strike barely clears the combat bar (100), and it drains mana, dipping into a fallback reserve when mana runs low.

Magical Attack Direct Damage Success

Click any roll summary above to expand the full modifier breakdown.

Notice there are no per-item rows: a sharper weapon or sturdier armor shows up inside the stat lines. A better blade raises your Strength number; it isn’t listed as its own modifier. The only environmental line is Location Difficulty, which scales with the node’s level.

Area of Effect Roll Types

Some roll types (flagged AoE in the roll-type compendium) strike several targets at once, and they can go wrong in a way single-target attacks can't: fail the targeting roll and you can hit your own friends.

First, a targeting roll. Succeed and only hostiles are caught, up to that roll type's cap.
Then, a damage roll per target. Each struck target rolls against its own defenses. On a failed targeting roll, up to the cap of anyone present can be struck, friend or foe.

Naming a target (fireball goblin) makes them a guaranteed focal point, struck even on a failed roll. Each AoE type caps how many it can hit; the compendium lists every cap.