Cheat Sheet

The Ladder

Game Time

• Exchange: time for everyone to get a turn
• Scene: time to resolve a situation
• Session: a single sitting
  • For MUSH purposes, this is commonly a RP scene
• Scenario: an episode
  • On Inheritance Gambit, this equates to a week
• Arc: a season
• Campaign: the entire game in a particular setting
  • Inheritance Gambit is the name of our Campaign!

Skill Roll

• Roll four Fate dice and add to skill rating. Compare to opposition. For each step on the ladder greater than your opposition, you earn a shift.

Opposition Types

• Active: another character rolls against you
• Passive: a static rating on the ladder

Four Outcomes

• Fail: fail your action or succeed at major cost
• Tie (0 shift): succeed at minor cost
• Succeed (1-2 shifts): succeed with no cost
• Succeed with style (3+ shifts): succeed with additional benefit

Four Actions

• Overcome: get past an obstacle
• Create an Advantage: invoke an aspect for free
• Attack: harm another character
• Defend: prevent attacks or advantages on you

Mitigating Damage

• Fill in one stress box greater than or equal to the value of an attack, take one or more consequence, or fill in one stress box and take consequences – if you can’t do one of these three things, you’re taken out.

Consequences

• Mild: -2 to attack value
• Moderate: -4 to attack value
• Severe: -6 to attack value
• Extreme: -8 to attack and permanent character aspect

Recovery

• Mild: overcome Fair (+2), one whole scene
• Moderate: overcome Great (+4), one whole session
• Severe: overcome Fantastic (+6), one whole scenario

Aspect Types

• Game aspects: permanent, made during game creation
• Character aspects: permanent, made during character creation
• Situation aspects: last for a scene, until overcome, or until irrelevant
• Boosts: last until invoked one time
• Consequences: last until recovered

Invoking Aspects

• Spend a fate point or free invoke. Choose one:
  • +2 to your skill roll
  • Reroll all your dice
  • Teamwork: +2 to another character’s roll versus relavant passive opposition
  • Obstacle: +2 to the passive opposition
• Free invokes stack with a paid one and each other.

Compelling Aspects

• Accept a complication for a fate point.
  • Event-based: You have            aspect and are in            situation, so it makes sense that, unfortunately,            would happen to you. Damn your luck.
  • Decision-based: You have            aspect in            situation, so it makes sense that you’d decide to           . This goes wrong when            happens.

Refresh

• At the start of a new session, you reset your fate points to your refresh rate. If you ended the last session with more points, you keep the extra. At the end of a scenario, you reset to your refresh rate no matter what.
  • The MUSH will automatically reset your Fate Points to equal your Refresh every Monday at 10am.

Spending Fate Points

• Spend fate points to:
  • Invoke an aspect
  • Power a stunt
  • Refuse a compel
  • Declare a story detail

Challenges

• Each obstacle or goal that requires a different skill gets an overcome roll.
• Interpret failure, costs, and success of each roll together to determine final outcome.

Contests

• Contesting characters roll appropriate skills.
• If you got the highest result, you score a victory.
• If you succeed with style and no one else does, then you get two victories.
• If there’s a tie for the highest result, no one gets a victory, and an unexpected twist occurs.
• The first participant to achieve three victories wins the contest.

Conflicts

• Set the scene, describing the environment the conflict takes place in, creating situation aspects and zones, and establishing who’s participating and what side they’re on.
• Determine the turn order.
• Start the first exchange:
  • On  your turn, take an action and then resolve it.
  • On other people’s turns, defend or respond to their actions as necessary.
  • At the end of everyone’s turn, start again with a new exchange.
• Conflict is over when everyone on one side has conceded or been taken out.

Earning Fate Points

• Earn fate points when you
  • Accept a compel
  • Have your aspects invoked against you
  • Concede a conflict