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    A Torch in The Dark - Rules Reference V 1.0

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    This document provides rules for risk rolls, delving into dungeons, encounters, consequences, resurrection, downtime actions, and character advancement in a tabletop roleplaying game. Risk rolls determine success or failure during encounters based on skills, items, stress, and corruption. Delving involves drawing encounter cards from a deck and completing them until reaching the dungeon's goal. Encounters can result in consequences like conditions, item loss, stress, or corruption. Downtime allows cleansing consequences through actions like resupplying items or recovering from conditions and stress. Character advancement occurs by gaining experience points from encounters to improve skills.

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    This document provides rules for risk rolls, delving into dungeons, encounters, consequences, resurrection, downtime actions, and character advancement in a tabletop roleplaying game. Risk rolls determine success or failure during encounters based on skills, items, stress, and corruption. Delving involves drawing encounter cards from a deck and completing them until reaching the dungeon's goal. Encounters can result in consequences like conditions, item loss, stress, or corruption. Downtime allows cleansing consequences through actions like resupplying items or recovering from conditions and stress. Character advancement occurs by gaining experience points from encounters to improve skills.

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    This document provides rules for risk rolls, delving into dungeons, encounters, consequences, resurrection, downtime actions, and character advancement in a tabletop roleplaying game. Risk rolls determine success or failure during encounters based on skills, items, stress, and corruption. Delving involves drawing encounter cards from a deck and completing them until reaching the dungeon's goal. Encounters can result in consequences like conditions, item loss, stress, or corruption. Downtime allows cleansing consequences through actions like resupplying items or recovering from conditions and stress. Character advancement occurs by gaining experience points from encounters to improve skills.

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    This document provides rules for risk rolls, delving into dungeons, encounters, consequences, resurrection, downtime actions, and character advancement in a tabletop roleplaying game. Risk rolls determine success or failure during encounters based on skills, items, stress, and corruption. Delving involves drawing encounter cards from a deck and completing them until reaching the dungeon's goal. Encounters can result in consequences like conditions, item loss, stress, or corruption. Downtime allows cleansing consequences through actions like resupplying items or recovering from conditions and stress. Character advancement occurs by gaining experience points from encounters to improve skills.

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    A TORCH IN THE DARK RULES REFERENCE

    RISK ROLLS DELVES


    When you risk it during an encounter, make a You delve into dungeons based on their order in
    risk roll based on your character’s skills & items. the Dungeon Guide. You complete a dungeon
    You keep the single highest die result. when you reach the goal and succeed.
    ◆ 1d for each relevant skill When you delve you draw 1 card at a time,
    consult the Dungeon Guide, and follow the
    ◆ 1d for each relevant item encounter prompt. When you have completed
    ◆ +1d for each companion with a relevant role the encounter, draw another card from the deck
    and set that card on top of the previous
    ◆ +1d if your push yourself (mark 1 stress) encounter card.
    ◆ -1d for each mark of corruption if you are
    facing a demon Face cards and Aces are unique encounters.
    When they are completed set them aside.
    If you get a 6, you succeed.
    If you get a 4/5, you succeed but must select any Jokers are demons where you must risk it 3
    consequence. times. They are non-unique encounters.
    If you get a 1-3, you fail. Mark 1 xp and select a You may stop a delve between encounters or if
    condition, corruption, or lose an item as a you resurrect. If you have not completed the
    consequence. You may make another risk roll goal, shuffle all the non-unique encounters
    but cannot use any skills you just used. back into the deck, and your next delve is in this
    If you get multiple 6’s, your CRIT. You succeed same dungeon. If you have completed the goal,
    and the encounter ends in your favour. shuffle all cards back into the deck and your
    next delve will be in the next dungeon.
    If you ever need to roll zero or negative dice, roll
    2d6 and take the lowest result.

    RESURRECTION
    CONSEQUENCES When your character dies you may resurrect.
    Conditions: Write a condition on your character Erase all conditions, stress, and corruption and
    sheet. If you have has many conditions as skills, permanently fill in 1 corruption box. If all your
    your character dies. corruption is already permanently filled, your
    character perishes.
    Expend an Item: Decrease an item’s load by 1
    and rewrite it on your inventory. You cannot
    expend a 1 load item. DOWNTIME
    Lose an Item: Erase an item from your When you enter downtime, mark 1 stash for
    inventory. If you have no items that provide each treasure in your inventory and then erase
    light, your character dies. all treasures marked this way. When you select a
    Stress: Mark 1 stress. If your character’s stress downtime action you get to roll 1d for each 1
    track is full, mark 1 corruption. stash you spend to roll for that action. Keep the
    highest result.
    Corruption: Mark 1 corruption. If you need to
    mark a 6th corrupton, your character dies. Cleanse: 1-3 remove 1 corruption, 4/5 remove 2
    corruption, 6 remove 3 corruption, CRIT
    Harm a Companion: If you have a companion remove 5 corruption.
    mark 1 harm next to their name. If you mark a
    2nd harm that companion dies. Recover: 1-3 remove 1 condition, 4/5 remove 2
    conditions, 6 remove 3 conditions, CRIT
    remove 5 conditions.
    ADVANCEMENT Rest: Remove stress equal to your highest
    When you mark as much xp as you have skills, result. On a CRIT remove all stress and 1
    you may immediately select another skill or corruption.
    rewrite a previous skill. Your character cannot Resupply: Buy or replenish items based on your
    have more than 10 skills. roll. 1-3 you get 1 item, 4/5 you get 2 items, 6 you
    get 3 items, CRIT you get 5 items.

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