The world In Ash City is not meant for the everyday man. Brutal and unforgiving. People will struggle to even live a normal life; trying to avoid the eye of gangs that hold down their territory, the cross fire of less than moral private security, mysteriously disappear to be a play thing of the elites, or be suppressed permanently by the government for just trying to live. Every roll you make is against someone else just trying to get by and whoever rolls higher is the winner at the cost of the other.
So unlike most rpgs your not rolling against a number that the DM or book came up with. Your rolling against a Dice. One one One. Two(or more) dice enter one dice leaves.And giving that losing typically leads to a bad time. Make sure all your ducks are in a row before rushing into a room of baddies, that way you don't come back out in body bags.
Look through the list of challenges figure out who you want to be then get over to attributes to plan your path.
Attributes
Combat Challenges:
Combat challenges are how you hit the enemy. They are also the only challenges that aren't going to be under the challenge section of your character sheet as the dice you use varies.
Each skill starts at a d4. Upgrading the correct skill will upgrade the dice in the below order.
D4 > D6 > D8 > D10 > D12
Unarmed Combat:
Smacking with the ole flesh weapons.
Light Melee combat:
Slice em and dice em with some knifes
Heavy Melee Combat:
Smash their heads in. Splat Splat mother fucker.
Throwing Weapon Combat:
When you want to stab them up close but they are far away.
Pistol Combat:
Its not the size of the package its how easy it is to hide by your junk.
Shotgun Combat:
When you want to shoot everyone in that general direction
Urban Rifle Combat:
when you don't want to be special just effective.
Long Range Rifle Combat:
See them waaaay before they see you.
Heavy Weapon Combat:
When you dont want to reload.
Explosive:
Leave a mess and let everyone know.
Action Based Challenges:
Action Based challenges are challenges that can be done in combat as well as out of combat.
All action based challenges are rolled with a D10.
Athletics:
Run name for a bunch of trees together, ruuuun.
Awareness:
If your not paying attention you might end up with a knife in your back.
Dodge:
If you dont want to use cover, you better be pretty good at this.
Driving:
Think your good with cars do you? Lets see how fast you can take that corner.
Pain tolerance:
Eh its just a flesh wound.
Stealth:
If you dont want to use cover and you dont want to dodge you better not get seen.
Non Combat Based Challenges:
Non combat based challenges are usefully for understanding the world and solving things where violence wont.
All Non Combat based challenges us a D20.
Computers:
Need to get into those hidden files labeled this is not porn?
Deception:
The truth often doesn't get you out of a bad situation....
Disguise:
Being yourself is overrated, be someone who doesn't look like you.
Diplomacy:
Sometimes sweet words cant get you what you want so a nice logical trade will have to do.
General Knowledge:
Its not common sense if that's what your thinking. due to how dense the population is what is general knowledge in one block is different from another.
History:
Everything has a past, and the past can let you see the future or something idk read a book you nerd.
Intimidation:
Listen you don't have to break his legs, but if you look like your going to they might tell you something juicy.
Intuition:
That gut feeling whenever someone is trying someone is trying to charm or deceive you. Intimidation:
Law:
Listen your not a cop but your pretty close, prolly should know how to solve crimes or something.
Medicine:
Some holes need plugs and not in the sexy way.
Persuasion:
A bit of honey catches all the flies.
Perception:
Spotting the unseen is important when your a dirty peeper you pervert.
Search:
Blues clues but on a much harder level.
Repair:
Fix your shitty shit temporally, you could prolly buy a new one but its most likely expensive and just as shitty
Unnatural:
Listen its a skill you may or may not need. It depends if you believe things go bump in the night.
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