Book:Glossary

Narrative Terms

• Session - One meeting of the players and GM to roleplay. A session might be a regular Thursday night occurence which lasts for a couple hours after work, or an all day Saturday affair. Sessions can be as long or short as the players and GM decide.
• Adventure - An undertaking of the players' which follows their characters along a particular storyline with a set beginning and prospective ending. Adventures usually span a number of sessions.
• Campaign - A saga consisting of a number of adventures, and by extension, quite a few sessions.
• Player Character (PC) - refers to the characters that the players create and use in the game. PC's are also referred to as "heroes," "characters," or "the party."
• Game Master (GM) - The narrator/director of the game. The GM is responsible for controlling the characters not controlled by the players (NPCs), acting as judge and referee with regards to rules, and coming up with the story.
• Non-player Character (NPC) - Any character not directly controlled by the players.

Characters

Aspects of a character include:

• Nature
• Race
• Size
• Attributes
• Skills
  • Weapon style
  • Magic element
  • Spirit motion
• Trumps
• Faults
• Special Powers

Collectables:

• Inventory
• Magic spells
• Spirit arts
• Expoints (XP)
• Fluency
• Occupation

"Runtime" Aspects:

• Fate Points – max of 5; depleted by Cheating Fate
• Health Points (HP) – max; depleted by damage, restored by healing
• Magic Points (MP) – max; depleted by casting spells, replenishes every day
• Spirit Points (SP) – max; depleted by performing spirit arts, replenishes every day
• Action Points (AP) – max; depleted by taking actions in combat, replenishes every round

Other things:

• Disposition toward another creature
• Conditions – you can lose or gain them
• Death Marks – you can accrue Death Marks: six is fatal
• Knockout – you can accrue Knockout: up to five stages

Rolling Terms

• Skill check
  • Difficulty Level (DL)
  • Critical Failure
  • Critical Success

Specific Rolls:

• Attack Roll
• Evasion Roll
• Guard Roll
• Damage Roll
• Casting Roll
• Focus Roll

Life and Death

• Knockout Track
• Death Mark
• Stamina Drain
• Damage
  • Continual Damage
  • Tainted Damage
• Healing
  • Continual Healing
  • True Healing
• Conditions
• Nature
• Disposition

Incidents

• Illness
• Contaminant
  • Concoction
  • Infectious disease
  • Poison
  • Symbiote

Combat

• Weighted Damage
• Reaction Order
• Wide-eyed
• Tactic

Inventory

• Equipment
  • Degradation
  • Modifications
• Concoctions

Magic

• Casting magic spells
  • Essence
  • Intensity
  • Casting Attribute
• Elementals
• Counterspell
• Dispel
• Rituals

Spirit

• Performing spirit arts
  • Concentration
• The Five Ways

Common Game Terms

• Mage/Mages/Magi - Magi are beings capable of using magic and casting spells. The terms Mages and Magi are interchangeable.
• Bard/Skald - A scholar of the arts of entertainment: poetry, music, oratory, visual arts, etc. Skalds are concerned with preserving the stories of today for entertainment tomorrow. They are often found observing or taking part in events of great importance.