![]() ![]() Negative dice have Failure, Threat and Despair. Positive dice have Success, Advantage and Triumph. The positive dice have 3 symbols on them and the negative dice have 3 symbols that are the opposites. Once the dice pool has been created, all of the dice are rolled together and the results interpreted. The final step in dice pool creation is to add any Boost or Setback dice required. Kim's pool for the roll is 3 Proficiency, 1 Ability, 1 Boost, 1 Difficulty and 2 Setback dice. But Kim has spent some time before the shot taking carful aim, which gives her 1 Boost dice. In our example, we'll say that the enemy running towards Kim has activated a form of camouflage suit, which adds 2 Setback dice to her roll. The next stage of dice pool creation is to add Difficulty dice and upgrade any to Challenge dice if required.īoost and Setback dice are added throughout the game, and can be because of the actions of other players, equipment or in game effects. Kim's pool now has 3 Proficiency, 1 Ability and 1 Difficulty dice. Kim is shooting at a target at short range, so we add 1 Difficulty dice to our pool, which isn't upgraded to include any Challenge dice. These Difficulty dice can be upgraded to Challenge dice (which are red) through actions and abilities available to the NPCs and adversaries the players may face. ![]() A 5 dice Formidable check would be shooting at a moving, invisible target at extreme range. Shooting a target at point blank range, with your weapon pressed against your opponent would add 0 dice to the pool, short range would add 1, medium 2, long 3 and extreme 4. A number of Difficulty dice, between 1 and 5 are added depending on the difficulty of the task. The next stage is to add Difficulty dice (which are purple). This gives Kim 3 Proficiency dice and 1 Ability dice in her pool. So 1 of Kim's 4 Ability dice are upgraded to Proficiency dice (which are yellow). The next phase of the dice pool creation is to upgrade a number of dice to the lower number of Skill/Aptitude, which in our case is 1. Kim would take 4 Ability dice (which are green). The highest number is used to create the pool, which in this case is 4. To create the dice pool, players look at the number they have in both the skill and aptitude. In our example Kim would be using the Ranged skill, which comes under Agility. To create the positive side of the dice pool, players work out which Skill they will be using, and which aptitude it comes under. We're going to use the same example throughout our dice pool description here, and that is our character Kim, who is trying to shoot at an enemy running towards her. The positive dice are Ability, Proficiency and Boost and the negative are Difficulty, Challenge and Setback. There are 6 types of dice used in games, 3 positive and 3 negative. To make a test roll in the Genesys system, a dice pool is created. We'll go into more detail about the dice and how the system works throughout this article. ![]() The difference with this and a stat based RPG system is that you can easily interpret scale of failure or success. Maybe you achieve the task, but are injured during the process, or maybe you fail the task and reveal a weakness to an enemy. ![]() Maybe you fail the task, but you find out something useful. What that means is that when the dice are rolled, there are a variety of different ways to interpret them. The Genesys system is a narrative driven RPG system. These three decks aren't an essential for purchase, as GMs could easily make up the stats and details contained in the decks, but they do make for easy reference if you need details of a non-player character (NPC) on the fly. Each pack contains 20 cards with the stats and information for different adversaries players may come across during games of Shadow of the Beanstalk. Runners, Mercs and Criminals, Androids, Drones and Synthetics and Citizens of New Angeles. Shadow of the Beanstalk also has 3 Adversary Decks available for GMs. ![]()
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