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Cool cool. Poke me if I need to check something out and I'll spacing out instead of posting.

Hey guys, while we give @Fly another day or so to catch up, you can edit your post and draw a card to get an idea about what might happen next :D

By the way, I'll be away next week, so the game may slow down a little bit.

OK, now's the time for the stupid question no. 1 :D How do I draw a card? I've read the gameplay, think I get it. But when I edit the post and insert "1" in the field "Decks" (which I suppose, should equal drawing one card) nothing happens

Yeah, cards are not very used on GP, so it's a bit tricky.

You need to write how many cards you want. The the card will show (face down) once you post. You will have to click on it to show it to me (and the others)

Done and done. Intel / tribal races. Which, i suppose, you will weave into the story now?

So we drawing just the one or two cards?
Also once drawn for the die 1d2 with no resources, 1d4 with I guess the resource from our house yes?

So if I roll a 1, Challenge failed and there's now a threat, resource is permanently lost for the house right?

Resource is lost from the hero, so if you have an hero rolling 1d8, it will be 1d6. Basically you need to add another one from the house to get the hero back to 1d8.

One card now, but I’m not sure what your number roll was

I got a one XD Shouldn't have let fifth take the challenge. Haha! just need to write it up.

I meant to say the "number" roll, not the numbers of the roll :D

So you drew a card, 10 of Diamonds, which is some Resource challenge with Djinns, Elementals, Nagas, Dragons.

You rolled 1d4 to randomize the creature and got 1, so Djinns. You merger 2d2 for you starting hero and rolled Challenge outcome - (1d4)
and also got 1. But then there is the

Number - (1d6)
( 3 ) = 3

which I'm not sure what it means

1d6 type of Djinn in the form of a black shadow dog. Still thinking up how it horribly went wrong involving mercury...

Ahah. I’ll post the next cues tomorrow. I was re-reading the great intros and had most ready, just missing the cards from mormegil,MagnificentFly and raven_179. But I can pick the first for everyone as well as this is the example round to get some experience with the rules (and next week will be much much slower for me) :)

hey guys, I'll be away for about a week or so and my post rate will be very likely affected. I'll still try to keep up on my mobile :D

I didn't manage to finish up the next posts before the flight, but I'll do them as soon as I get the time!!!

No worries, we’re all learning it and the expectation is 1-2 posts per week anyway:)
I just gave you these as starting resources. Should be enough to not have to worry about them too much for now
Yeah, the post probably has some mistakes/typos and, as Remnant mentioned, it would have been a good idea to have an example, but we’re working it out as we go now :D

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So, Hero is a term from the original game and is basically any named PC (important character). So anyone you name and send to solve a problem is basically an hero. It’s a good idea to have your character sheets submitted to track your list of heroes by the way!

To simplify the mechanics and focus on the narrative freedom, everything is abstracted as "resources" (materials, heroes, armies, towns, money, you name it!). Each "resource" is basically equivalent to two sides of a die (1d2).

The way you check the success of the heroes you sent is by rolling the hero die. This is basically the resources invested in the hero. The more resources a hero has, the more likely it is to succeed. So resources basically "add sides" to the hero die (for example, representing a larger army). Since your hero is 1d2 at "creation" (that’s the minimum) you can upgrade it to 1d4 (using 2 resources)

The reason why is because you can only supply each of your heroes with 1 resource per challenge so they struggle as they slowly grow, which is nice for the narrative.

I hope is is a bit clearer now and it gets better once we run through the first scenario :D

Ok for example my hero Vali has 10d2 worth of resources I will roll a d10 in the hero die? Also there's a character sheet for this game? where do you find it or how do you make it?

There isn’t any character sheet for this game. You need to make a custom one. It is mostly to record important information for easier access, like the resources each hero hasSo, your house has 10 resources available (10 coins or 10d2). These need to be supplied to your heroes, but notice that the heroes themselves are "resources". So if you send Vali to the lead the group, it is a hero with a hero die (1d2 from skill). Then you can supply him with 1 resource so Vali has 2d2 (2 resources). Now this is 2 sides twice, so four sides or a 1d4 which is your new hero die. After that you have 9 resources available and Vali with a hero dice of 1d4 (for the main skill).

The trick here is that you can only supply each hero once per challenge, so the progression is slow (unless you receive help from another hero/player)

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So in summary, you have a pool of resources which you can slowly distribute between your main characters.

Exactly, they are global resources available to you, so you can just say something like Gareth found some other survivors or the ships had some supplies. We could split the resources from the start, but if you can "put" these resources anywhere, you have more freedom for the narrative :) In extreme, you could even say that all resources were with Gareth if you want

Only one hero can take on challenges, so one would that the lead, at least mechanistically. Not every named character as to face challenges and you can group a few together, like a general and an advisor would always go together in the same army. The idea is to have a few leading character for the story but you can have also have supporting characters :D In the case it the twins, if both are used at some point, you could have one help the other (be could lend 1d2 to the other), but since we’re are at the start, let’s just count them as one hero to keep things simple. Just remember that the hero main skill is defined by their "first mission" so if you one one twin to be more the swords and the other more words, you can do that, mechanistically, by calling the right one for the right challenge.

I've got Queen of Spades for my challenge, which is an Intel on Opposing Lord's Town. I technically have two hero units (Gareth/Gallavant and the Twins), so I could choose who will have to deal with that challenge and how its resolution would benefit or hinder the main mission (getting Gallavant to the mainland), correct? And successful resolution of the challenge would yield a "resource" die to the hero who resolved it, yes?
Does this mean that I can have one of my hero units have a skill in Logistics which can be used once as a resource die?

I don't know how to make a custom character sheet...lol I'm even having trouble with the default sheets for 5e as it is...I'll just describe what happens after I make a roll...I still have to make a roll (1d4) to gauge for success of my hero in my challenge right?

To make a character sheet, go to Characters at the top of the page, then at the bottom, there will be New Character section. Under New Character there will be two fields: Label and System.
Label is for the name of the sheet, for example, mine is called House Novaro (The Price of Loyalty).
System is for choosing which sheet template you want to use, at the bottom of the list there will be Custom.
Click Create and you will see an empty text-box which you can fill however you like.