Run a Scene

Pick the Scene type your story needs. Every Scene category carries its own action economy, time scale, and Sage toolkit — choose carefully, and the dice machine will do the rest.

Setting the Stage

Tick-scale · AP / RP / Fate Where the dice machine meets blood and steel. Cast the threats, weigh the odds, run the moment.

Concept

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Set Pieces

The moment of confrontation, made ready in advance. Assemble adversaries from the bestiary, balance the encounter against your party, then track Initiative, Ticks, and Conditions when steel meets bone.

Open Build Plan

Action

Round-scale · AP / Victory Conditions Pressure without bloodshed. Pursuit, deception, persuasion.

Beta

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Chase

Pursuit or flight — overland, urban rooftops, or through twisting forest. Round-scale exchanges of Pace vs. Pace, with terrain shifts and Maneuver tricks deciding who closes and who breaks line of sight.

Start Chase Beta

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Infiltration

Stealth, social cover, picked locks, and bluffed sentries. Tracks party Skulk Rating and Sage-prompted heat — when discovery breaks, the Scene flips to Combat or Chase mid-stride.

Start Infiltration Beta

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Social

Negotiations, court intrigues, interrogations, sermons. Tone-keyed Responses shift Disposition; Tension climbs toward Breakdown; the Face closes with Leverage in hand. Sage-facing tool.

Start Social Scene

Logistic

Turn / Hour / Day-scale · Time, Provisions The cost of getting there. Distance, supplies, sleep, scheming.

Beta

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Build an Exploration

Author the Scene. Name the Zone, place its Nodes, give each a State, typed Modules with Exploration Gates, a bespoke Node Event, and a curated Event Inventory. Wire Nodes with Nexus modules. Export a .setpiece or hand the scene straight to the Runner.

Build a Scene Beta

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Run an Exploration

Run a built Scene. Load a Zone, enter the party, set Spacing, Formation, Routine, and Lighting, then work the Press On / Rest / Search / Stop / Exit loop. Random Events fire on the Node's cadence; the canonical Risk → THREAT pipeline resolves Hazards and Skirmishes.

Run a Scene Beta

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Planning

The Scheme. Spend 1 Intelligence, declare which Scene Types lie ahead and rank them by Priority, then make a Cunning (Plan) Group Check. Each Degree of Success banks Scheme Intelligence onto unlocked Scenes; a Botch flips Counter-Intelligence on the Sage's side.

Start Planning