Rules Reference

Requires a minimum Strength score to wield effectively. If your Strength is too low, you suffer disadvantage on attacks and become Slowed.

The GM can spend Complication to cause you to accidentally graze a nearby ally, dealing graze damage.

On a hit, you can spend Opportunity to immediately inflict an injury on the target.

Allows you to use the Brace action without needing nearby cover.

Easier to hide and keep in secure settings. Grants advantage on tests to disguise, conceal, or retain this weapon.

The GM can spend Complication to break this weapon after an attack is resolved.

Can arc shots over cover and obscuring terrain. Targets cannot benefit from Brace against this weapon.

Stores ammunition equal to [X]. Spend 1 ammo per ranged attack; reload as a free action. GM can spend Complication to reduce ammo to one shot.

Gain advantage on the attack if you moved at least 10 feet in a straight line toward the target this turn.

Costs only 1 focus (instead of 2) to Strike with this weapon when wielded in your offhand.

This weapon's damage ignores the target's deflect value entirely.

You can draw this weapon as a free action using Interact.

Can be thrown as a ranged attack with short/long range brackets. Disadvantage beyond short range; weapon is lost until recovered.

Must be wielded in two hands. Uses both hands when attacking.

This weapon has special rules detailed in its description or the Weapons table.

Requires a minimum Strength score equal to the number in brackets, or you become Slowed and gain a disadvantage on Speed-based tests.

The GM can spend Complication to cause your uncontrolled motion to injure a nearby ally for 2d6 impact damage.

This unobtrusive armor can be worn in public without drawing attention or penalizing social tests.

This armor has special rules detailed in its entry in the Armor table.

You slowly take damage over time from an ongoing harmful effect.

When you fail a test, you can add an Opportunity to the result, then remove this condition.

Your senses are disrupted. You can't use reactions, your senses count as obscured, and Perception tests gain a disadvantage.

Gained when a Knight Radiant swears an Ideal. You gain an advantage on all tests and your Investiture refills each turn.

One of your attributes temporarily increases. Cumulative -- multiple attributes can be Enhanced at once.

You feel fatigued. Apply a penalty to all test results; the penalty reduces by 1 after each long rest.

You are engaged and intent on your task. Abilities that cost focus have their cost reduced by 1.

Your movement rate becomes 0. You can't move or be moved by other effects.

You are lying flat on the ground. You are Slowed and melee attacks against you gain an advantage.

Your movement rate becomes 0. You gain a disadvantage on all tests other than those to escape.

Your movement rate is halved. If Slowed mid-movement, halve remaining movement (rounded up).

In combat, you lose reactions and gain two fewer actions. Out of combat, you move and react slower.

You lose reactions, can't take a fast turn, and gain one fewer action. Removed after your next turn.

Your movement rate becomes 0. You can't move, communicate, or interact, and you're unaware of your surroundings.

Hide behind nearby cover to impose a disadvantage on all attacks against you, lasting until you attack or move.

Carefully step 5 feet away from an enemy without triggering Reactive Strikes.

Use your reaction to attempt to evade an incoming attack.

Use a skill to seek the upper hand, granting an advantage on your next test against that enemy with a different skill.

Make an Athletics test to restrain a character within reach until they escape or you lose consciousness.

Quickly interact with a reachable object as a free action — open doors, draw weapons, pick up items. Usable multiple times per turn.

Move up to your movement rate. Crawling, climbing, swimming, or stealth movement makes you Slowed. Usable multiple times per turn.

Prepare a triggered response: choose a trigger and an action to use when it occurs before your next turn.

Attack a target's Physical defense with an unarmed attack or weapon. Usable multiple times per turn with different hands; offhand costs 2 focus.

Spend an action to use a skill creatively on the battlefield — search, hide, treat wounds, and more.

A defensive value from armor that reduces incoming impact, keen, and energy damage, but not spirit or vital damage.

Slashing and piercing damage from bladed weapons and arrows, reduced by the target's deflect value.

Blunt force damage from hammers, maces, falls, and crushing, reduced by the target's deflect value.

Damage from fire, lightning, extreme cold, and other elemental forces, reduced by the target's deflect value.

Damage that affects the soul directly, bypassing physical armor. Primarily dealt by Shardblades and not reduced by deflect unless Invested.

Internal damage from poison, disease, and similar effects that is not reduced by deflect.

Attack a target within your reach (usually 5 feet) with a melee weapon. Some weapons extend reach with Melee [+X].

Fire at targets within short/long range. Attacks beyond short range or within an enemy's reach gain a disadvantage. Firing near allies raises Complication stakes.

A positive outcome on a d20 roll of 20 that can be spent for extra benefits, including triggering weapon effects like Deadly.

A negative twist on a d20 roll of 1 that the GM can spend for narrative consequences, even on a successful test.

Roll an additional d20 and use the higher result. Multiple advantages stack; advantages and disadvantages cancel one-for-one.

Roll an additional d20 and use the lower result. Multiple disadvantages stack; advantages and disadvantages cancel one-for-one.

The core resolution mechanic: roll 1d20 + skill modifier against a DC or defense. Meet or exceed to succeed.

Your hit points. When reduced to 0, you suffer an injury and become Unconscious. Base health = 10 + Strength + bonuses.

A resource spent to activate special abilities and talents. Maximum = 2 + Willpower + bonuses. Recovered during rests.

The magical energy of Radiants, drawn from Stormlight in spheres. Used to fuel surges and Radiant abilities.