Dancer Rules: Character development

Game rules

Checking on the Coriolis Discord, I read that the publishers are OK with players recreating tables, figures and data from the RPG source material where the only purpose is the facilitation of playing their game and I hereby promise this is my only intent with this article. Here I've taken the Year Zero Engine to modify the Coriolis rules for my own games - Doctor Weather

To see what my aims and guiding principles are for my rules changes, please see the Dancer Rules overview.

Talents

Aim: increase connection to the narrative
In-game events are a source of character development
Where an in-game event has a significant impact on a character, they can spend XP on a related talent:

• They rolled a lot of successes to defeat a creature or problem - they can now reliably repeat their action if the same circumstance happens again
• They've put a lot of in-game time into something and learned all the nuances of it
• A role-played moment was really meaningful

Examples

• Kerman rolls 4 successes resisting the poison of a giant rock monster; after this he could buy a talent to gain bonus dice to reflect his resistance to it - perhaps mirroring the Resistant talent rules - gaining a bonus 6 dice to resist the same, and maybe even related, poisons in the future
• Masruq spends several days schmoozing the court in Juldizin Demalisi; after this he could buy a talent to reflect his developing influence in the court and surrounding city, perhaps mirroring the rules for the Faction Standing talent

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Contents

• Talents

Related

• Dancer Rules overview
• Dancer rules: Combat
• Dancer rules: Gear and equipment
• Dancer rules: Portal jumps without stasis
• Dancer rules: Praying to the Icons
• Dancer rules: Skills
• GM style overview
• House rules summary