Core Rules are cards that tell you how to play the game.
Any player may challenge a PC's action if success or failure are both interesting.
When your PC is challenged, you must generate a hit to meet it, like flipping a character card. If you don't meet a challenge, your PC's intentions are thwarted or complications arise.
The challenge must suggest consequences for failure. "Or else nothing happens" is not a challenge. The same action cannot be challenged multiple times.
Use challenges to tune the difficulty of a situation. A risky combat scene might pose several challenges. A simple social encounter might pose only one challenge.
Start the game by reading this text aloud:
"I'd like your help. Your help to make this game fun for everyone. If anything makes anyone uncomfortable in any way, just lift this card up, or simply tap it. You don't have to explain why. It doesn't matter why. When we lift or tap this card, we simply edit out anything X-Carded."
Continue reading:
"And if there is ever an issue, anyone can call for a break and we can talk privately. I know it sounds funny but it will help us play amazing games together and usually I'm the one who uses the X card to protect myself from all of you! Please help make this game fun for everyone. Thank you!"
To create a new PC, pick three cards: Focus, Role, and Origin. You can choose cards at random, or select them yourself.
These cards describe the traits that you want to spotlight during the game. Just because someone else has the Courage card doesn't mean your character isn't courageous, only that it's not going to be the quality you're focusing on.
To create a new PC, pick three cards: Focus, Role, and Origin. You can choose cards at random, or select them yourself.
These cards describe the traits that you want to spotlight during the game. Just because someone else has the Courage card doesn't mean your character isn't courageous, only that it's not going to be the quality you're focusing on.
You can take a condition to get a hit. Describe how. You can flip a front-side condition to worsen it and get a hit. Describe how. Players who challenge you can suggest conditions to meet it.
The condition is fictionally true and limits your actions. Other players can pose a challenge if a condition would interfere with something you do. Discard any conditions that no longer apply in the fiction.
Individual condition cards describe how to clear them.
Conditions are a way to achieve success at a cost.