Concepts - The Lost Dominion

Because Evil Hat is amazing, they let us basically cut and paste their rules. So if it doesn’t look like it was written for a MUSHing audience, well, it wasn’t. Please do consider throwing some money at them.

We’ve left in all the bits addressed to the GM because anyone on The Lost Dominion can run stories and the information might be helpful to them.

If you see anything that you think Staff should really address for use in a MUSH environment, please feel free to hit the “feedback” button at the bottom to make us aware of it.

THE EXAMPLE GAME

All of the rules examples refer to the same example game and setting. The name is Hearts of Steel, a tongue-in-cheek fantasy romp about a group of troubleshooters for hire. They traipse about the countryside and get into trouble at the behest of the various petty kings and fief lords who hire them.

The participants are Lenny, Lily, Ryan, and Amanda. Amanda is the GM. Lenny plays a thuggish swordsman named Landon. Lily plays the nimble, dashing, and dangerous Cynere, who also happens to love swords. Ryan plays Zird the Arcane, a wizard who, by contrast, has absolutely no love for swords.

Check out Evil Hat’s Game Creation to see how this game came about. They’ve included character sheets for the example PCs.

The Basics

An overview of:

Aspects
Skills
Stunts
Stress
Consequences
Refresh
Taking Action
Rolling the Dice
The Ladder
Interpreting Results
Fate Points
Invoking an Aspect
Declaring a Story Detail
Compels

Actions & Outcomes

It’s Time for Action!
Opposition
The Four Outcomes
- Fail
- Tie
- Succeed
- Succeed with Style
The Four Actions
- Overcome
- Create an Advantage
- Attack
- Defend

Aspects and Fate Points

Defining Aspects
Defining Fate Points
Types of Aspects
- Game Aspects
- Character Aspects
- Situation Aspects
- Consequences
- Boosts
What Aspects Do
Making a Good Aspect
If You Get Stuck
Invoking Aspects
Compelling Aspects
- Types of Compels
Using Aspects for Roleplaying
Removing or Changing an Aspect
Creating and Discovering New Aspects in Play
The Fate Point Economy
- Refresh
- Spending Fate Points
- Earning Fate Points

Challenges, Contests and Conflicts

Zooming In On The Action
Challenges
- Advantages in a Challenge
- Attacks in a Challenge
Contests
- Creating Advantages in a Contest
- Attacks in a Contest
Conflicts
- Setting the Scene
- Situation Aspects
- Zones
- Establishing Sides
- Turn Order
- The Exchange
- Full Defense
- Resolving Attacks
- Stress
- Consequences
- Conceding the Conflict
- Getting Taken Out
- Movement
- Advantages in a Conflict
- Other Actions in a Conflict
- Ending a Conflict
Teamwork
Weapons, Armor and Equipment

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