Vescrutia: Legacy

These stats are how your character moves through Vescrutia and provide a gauge for how well they can do at any task they undertake.

Before we get to allocate our points, we have to understand the metrics and how what they measure comes across in our stories. Vescrutia's eight stats are as follows:

Stress - The medical health of the individual. Stress in any living creature strains its body, weakening its ability to do work until they expire. This stat governs how long and how much damage your characters are taking before they collapse from total exhaustion. Stress is used to calculate your character's HP.

Output - Output is directly related to the amount of Naten your character can call on at a given moment. This is indicative of the destructive power your able to produce with Naten by itself. The higher the range, the stronger and more destructive your Naten is. Passive Output enhances your Attack Edge.

Strength - Strength is the physical might of your character, how strong your character is without calling Naten to your aid. We all know how to increase ones strength, through training and conditioning and lifting heavy things. Passive Strength enhances your Attack Edge.

Durability - Ability to endure trials. Durability correlates to your athletic and physical endurance. How long you can exert your energy and endure sustained pressure without sustaining damage. Being able to withstand heavy pressure or an extended stretch of vigorous exertion is only possible with high Durability. Passive Durability enhances your Defend Edge.

Speed - Speed is how fast you can move your body in any capacity. Running, flying, and movement speed are all determined your Speed stat. Higher speed can help complete a number of tasks and can facilitate high speed dodging. Passive Speed enhances your Evade Edge.

Dexterity - Highly practiced techniques of finesse. Any task that requires practice and technique takes Dexterity. Changing a tire, shooting a bow, threading a needle, and acrobatic skills all require Dexterity at different levels. High Dexterity can help complete complex tasks or actions more easily. Passive Dexterity enhances your Deflect (Parry) Edge.

Awareness - Your perception and insight into the world around you. Awareness translates to the ability to perceive your surroundings, small details externally and subtle details internally. Low awareness can lead to missed details in your surroundings and a sense obliviousness. Higher awareness allows the character to perceive things invisible to the naked eye and become more sensitive to subtle energies. Passive Awareness increases the amount of Pool your character starts an encounter with, and also increases your Deflect (Parry) Edge.

Naten - The vital pool of Naten one could tap into. Everyone is born with specific blend and level of Naten, but it can always be trained and honed for deeper wells of Naten to pull from. Naten helps your characters increase their Pool and defends against supernatural damage. Passive Naten increases the total amount of Pool your Character can store. It also enhances your Defend Edge.

When you create a character in this world, you start at level 1. At level 1, your character has 28 points to allocate in a 'pyramid'. What's a 'pyramid', you ask? It looks something like this:

Stress: 7
Output: 6
Naten: 5
Speed: 4
Dexterity:3
Strength: 2
Durability: 1
Awareness: 0

You select a stat to receive 7 points, then one to receive 6, then one receiving 5, and repeat that until all your stats but one are above 0. The grid above just shows the most basic configuration, but the actual spread for your characters is totally up to you.

Next, your Tribe, like all Tribes, gives you an additional 4 points you can allocate freely to your stat block based on your interpretation of the Tribe's qualities.

Additionally, each faction you're character is a part of generated an additional 2 stat points each

So, for a character starting out at level 1 with their tribe and a single faction, they would have a total of 34 points to dole out before joining the adventure on Vescrutia.



How do you level up, you ask? Simple:

Characters gain +1 level per thread they complete, plus extra stat points for the following Crucial Events:

• +3 points per thread
• +2 points for combat
• +1 point for winning combat encounters using Edge Dice (does not stack in a single thread)
• +1 point for involving Vescrutia et al, (Horsemen, Villages, Core Plot things)
• +3 points for acting as Pointman within a thread with other characters

Your stats are reduced with it comes to Edge Dice and benefits. For every 10 points a character allocates, they gain a Passive Edge, or Passives, that can be added to Edge Dice. Passives round down to the nearest whole number, so that means:

0 - 9: +0
10 - 19: +1
20 - 29: +2
30 - 39: +3

And so on…