This means that Burning becomes more dangerous, as you only have two Limits to Adjust rather than 3, though you always have the possibility of Fuelling Advantage Points instead. If you Adjust the Limit past the Threshold, you can never Adjust it again when Burning Points. Here is the single draft character sheet so you can see what I am talking about. Injury and Exhaustion will increase only when Burning, or if you get Failure Points (more on those later). Your Corruption can go up and down for moral and immoral tasks.

The more you Burn, the more you will need to Adjust Limits to compensate. The game system (I am currently terming it the Burn System) works on the concept of making Choices to either Burn (spend) Points to complete tasks or Fuel (refresh) them for use later, to gain extra Points (Advantage Points) for more impressive feats or to Adjust (usually decrease) your Limits. The more Points you spend, the more you have to combat a Total, but the less you have for later, the more you incur negative effects for spending those Points (Exhaustion and Injury), and the more ground the GM has to throw Penalties at you for your continued description. They are now pretty much nailed, so I am making this blog to introduce (or re-introduce) to the basics of Die By the Sword.įor those reading this and entirely unfamiliar with this concept that I have only been hard testing for about six weeks, the basic principle is that you spend from Points to create Totals to defeat Target Numbers.

I have been posting bits and pieces about this on my Facebook and Twitter, but have still been nailing the core mechanics. So once again, I am diving into the world of “diceless role-playing games that are actually closer to more narrative-influenced mechanics dice-based games than they are most diceless games” with Die By the Sword.

Die by the sword game