2026-06-13 08:17:57muragami:
Add Assistance rules for contests
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* ==! - Exclamation==: This is narrative code for 'and'. A Yes! result is 'Yes, and ...' where the player gets even more than they wanted in the end. No! is 'No, and ...' where not only did the player not get what they want, but an issue is now narrated (like 'Possibly, but no choice here').
* ==Hell No==: Where to start! Well, this result has gone sideways in a way where the character might be telling stories about the incident for years to come. Crowd source this kind of disaster of an outcome with the playing group, with the Director having final approval.
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### Paying Luck
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#### Paying Luck
If the contest has 0 Leverage, the player may pay 1 level of Luck to create 1 Leverage. The Director and player create a lucky circumstance that provides that for the contest.
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### Challenge Levels
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#### Challenge Levels
If the Director thinks the outcome is particularly unlikely, because the contest in the fiction is exceedingly difficult, for example, they may give it levels of challenge:
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For each level of challenge, the Director rolls a six-sided die; if it comes up 4+, the player's roll result is reduced by 1 (gets a -1 penalty).
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#### Assistance
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If the acting operative has the assistance of one other character or operative that makes sense to the Director, they get the ability to re-roll one die. If the acting operative has assistance that makes sense from multiple sources, they get the ability to re-roll one die and get a +1 bonus to the final result. If a contest ultimately really is the coordination of a bunch of operatives, it might fall into the [[Impromptu Job|Regulus/Job Resolution#Impromptu Jobs]] rules. In these cases, use those rules to resolve the matter.
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## Checks
Checks are situations that test a character’s ratings. [[Ratings|Regulus/Defining Characters#ratings-levels]] may come directly from a character sheet, or be something established in a [[Situation|Regulus/3R - Regulus Rules-lite Reference#Situations]] for a character. In either circumstance, the character will have a level rating, and we will use that for the check dice roll.
