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Gear Wear and Repair Guide

This document discusses how gear can become damaged through use and how it can be repaired. It provides the following key points: - Gear provides bonus dice to skill rolls, but each 1 rolled on a gear die reduces its bonus by 1, simulating wear and tear. If the bonus reaches 0, the item is broken. - Damaged gear can be repaired by spending hours crafting and making a successful roll, which recovers bonus points. Failing permanently reduces the bonus further. - Some rare artifacts add bonus d8, d10 or d12 dice that are never degraded by wear. These are categorized by power level. - The document provides an example of gear wear reducing a rope's

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Gear Wear and Repair Guide

This document discusses how gear can become damaged through use and how it can be repaired. It provides the following key points: - Gear provides bonus dice to skill rolls, but each 1 rolled on a gear die reduces its bonus by 1, simulating wear and tear. If the bonus reaches 0, the item is broken. - Damaged gear can be repaired by spending hours crafting and making a successful roll, which recovers bonus points. Failing permanently reduces the bonus further. - Some rare artifacts add bonus d8, d10 or d12 dice that are never degraded by wear. These are categorized by power level. - The document provides an example of gear wear reducing a rope's

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GEAR GETS WORN or even a D12, in addition to the normal Gear

When you use gear and push your roll (see Dice. Artifact Dice are never degraded by wear.
above), there is a risk your gear may be dam- Rare items of this kind are described in the
aged. For every l you roll with your Gear Dice Gamemaster’s Guide. Items that give you Ar-
when pushing the roll, the item’s Gear Bonus is tifact Dice to roll are divided into three cate-
decreased by one. It simply doesn’t work as well gories, depending on the type of dice they give:
anymore – a weapon dulls, a rope frays, the frag- ✥✥ D8: Mighty
ile pages of a book fall out and crumble to piec- ✥✥ D10: Epic
es. If the Gear Bonus reaches zero, the item is ✥✥ D12: Legendary
broken and cannot be used again until repaired. When you roll an Artifact Die, any result
Luckily, damaged gear can be repaired. It of 6 or higher counts as x. Really high results
takes a few hours of work and a successful roll count as several x. See the table below.
with the CRAFTING skill. If the roll is success-
ful, the Gear Bonus is recovered by one point
for every x, up to the starting value. If the roll
fails, the Gear Bonus is permanently decreased RESULT D8 D10 D12

to its current score. If the Gear Bonus has been 6 x x x

reduced to zero and the attempt at repair fails, 7 x x x


the item is permanently destroyed. 8 xx xx xx

9 – xx xx
EXAMPLE
10 – xxx xxx
To climb up to the next level of the tower,
11 – – xxx
Nirmena uses a rope. She thus gets to roll
two Base Dice (current Agility 2) and one 12 – – xxxx

Gear Die (the rope has a +1 bonus). She has


a bit of bad luck, fails the roll, and decides to
push. She makes the roll, but one of the Gear
Dice comes up a l. The rope is scraped The Forbidden Lands custom dice have the
against a sharp rock and nearly breaks. Its number of x engraved directly on the dice.
Gear Bonus is reduced to +1.

PRIDE
ARTIFACT DICE Once per game session, you can use your Pride
Usually, gear only adds extra D6 to your roll. (see page 32) when you have failed a skill roll.
However, there are master crafted artifacts You can activate your Pride even after you have
and magic items that adds an extra D8, D10, rolled the dice, and pushed your roll. When

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