Chance and Complications

Chance is a small pool of charges. You have as many charges as your EXP. After you fail a Trait Check you can spend charges to succeed anyway. The price is a Complication: something gets harder or more costly later.

1. Make your Trait Check and fail.
2. Look at the degree of failure: Low costs 1 charge, Moderate costs 2, Critical costs 3.
3. If you have enough charges and want to use them, spend them. The check now counts as a success.
4. The Game Master picks a Complication.

If you are Adept in the Trait you just rolled and have 2 charges left, you can spend them to make an ally's failed check succeed instead.

A Complication is a hindrance. It should make the next few minutes more interesting, not end the game. The Game Master chooses, and the table can suggest.

• Additional Trait Check (e.g. Sneak to stay hidden, Resist to prevent extra trap damage)
• Higher Threshold for an important Trait Check later in the day
• Trivial or Harmful injury
• Extra hostile Foes or a Skirmish
• Additional trap or ambush, or a foiled attempt
• Infamy increase
• Foe behaviour changes towards the Persona
• Temporary loss of an ally (imprisoned, threatened, unconscious, bribed)
• Limited access to new Equipment or higher vendor prices
• Temporary imprisonment
• Limited or conflicting information gathered
• Information gained on the Persona in return (secret alliance, weakness, ability)

• Complication generatorRoll a Complication if the table is stuck.

Tip. Chance is for the moments that matter. A Persona that spends it on every miss has nothing left when the boss arrives.